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DECEMBER 2008 PERFORMANCE |
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DEC 1 LinkUp Residency Artists
DEC 5 Julia Mayer - Coffee Dance
DEC 5-7 Julia Rae Antonick & Jonathan Meyer - Project #4
DEC 12-14 POETRY Magazine - What Use Had I for Hands
DEC 19-21 BRAT, Emily Haines, Susan Aldous, & Blanca Aviles -
HomeBody
DEC 20-22 Hamid Drake and Michael Zerang,
18th Annual Winter Solstice Percussion Concerts
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LinkUp Residency Artists
At Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington
Monday, December 1, 6pm
Free
LinkUp Residency Artists Christian Bambara, Szewai Lee, and Renata Sheppard show dance, theatre, and performance work developed during their six-month residency at Links Hall.
More info on LinkUp
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Julia Mayer
With special guest Marc Riordan
Coffee Dance
Friday, December 5, 9:30am
Free, BYOC (bring your own coffee)
Once a month, Julia Mayer opens her weekly Friday morning solo movement practice to the public. Since 2006, Coffee Dance has attracted curious, insightful audiences who value the opportunity to start their day investigating dance and performance in an intimate setting, flooded by daylight. Each performance lasts approximately 20 minutes, with the opportunity for discussion afterward.
An evocative window into a dancer’s inner life -Chicago Tribune
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Julia Rae Antonick & Jonathan Meyer
Project #4
Friday December 5 & Saturday December 6, 8pm
Sunday December 7, 7pm
$12 ($10 students, low-income) Buy tickets now!
Taking material from previous partnering and improvisation-based collaborations, two dancers/choreographers explore the energy between rebellion and rest, change and stability. With original live music from Joseph St. Charles, and drop-in performances by local dancers each night. Co-presented by Khecari Dance Theatre.
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POETRY Magazine
What Use Had I for Hands: A Theatrical Interpretation of Five Poems by Dana Levin
Friday December 12 & Saturday December 13, 8pm
Sunday December 14, 7pm
Free
In this annual POETRY Presents series, a collection of poetic works by living author Dana Levin that have previously appeared in POETRY Magazine are interpreted for the stage. Conceived and directed by Valerie Johnson, devised and performed by the ensemble. Please join us for a post-show discussion with poet Dana Levin following the Saturday, December 13 performance.
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BRAT, Emily Haines, Susan Aldous, & Blanca Aviles
HomeBody
Friday December 19 & Saturday December 20, 8pm
Sunday December 21, 7pm
$15 ($10 students, seniors) Buy tickets now!
A man was asked his thoughts on being categorized as an African choreographer and he said, My body is my country, not wanting his works to be restricted by geographic confines. In this evening of new dance works, budding choreographers explore their bodies/countries, connecting their personal and physical place in the world. Post-show reception Saturday.
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Hamid Drake and Michael Zerang
Eighteenth Annual Winter Solstice Percussion Concerts
Saturday-Monday, December 20-22,
$20
Advance tickets for this event available ONLY through Bookworks, 3444 N. Clark St,
773-871-5318
This hour-long ritual performance utilizes a wide array of percussion instruments from North Africa, the Middle East, and East India, as well as western orchestral instruments. Drake and Zerang are veterans of Chicago’s world music, new music, and jazz scenes, and have performed together nationally and internationally.
They have an extraordinary understanding of one another—the sort of working friendship in which music has created a deeper kind of communication than conversation ever could. -Chicago Reader
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