Oct 31-Nov 2 RTG Dance
Nov 3 Poonie's Cabaret
Nov 7, 9:30am Julia Mayer, Coffee Dance
Nov 7-9 New Blood II
Nov 8, 3pm Beverly Nelson
Nov 14-15 Julie Mayo/Colleen Leonardi
Nov 21-22 Tim Miller’s Charged Bodies Residency

Sometimes indulging in arresting non sequiturs, her work has a madness about it that is just about right for our times -Dierdre Kelley, The Globe and Mail

Poonie’s Cabaret
Monday November 3, 8pm
$5 donation (or pay what you can) Buy tickets now!

Hosted and curated by Jyl Fehrenkamp, Poonie’s Cabaret features artists working in many different creative realms—dance, music, contact improvisation, puppetry, performance art, voguing, drag, burlesque, cheerleading, etc. Cabaret proceeds go to the Duncan Erley Coming Out of the Closet Fund for artists whose work explores healing, gay activism, and spiritual and sexual transformation.
Featured artists: Archana Kumar, Cameron Esposito, Jonathan Meyer & Julia Rae Antonick, LIVE ANIMALS, Aurora Tabar, STD (aka Suzy Grant, Tina Gillis & Donnell Williams)

Julia Mayer
Coffee Dance
Fridays, November 7 & 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

New Blood II
Friday November 7 & Saturday November 8, 9pm
Sunday November 9, 7pm
Free

This second annual event features new time-based works by School of the Art Institute of Chicago students that blur the boundaries between theatre, movement, audio, video, and the visual arts. Performances at Links Hall begin at 9pm Friday and Saturday, following the opening of an exhibition of 60 SAIC undergraduate students’ work at Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State Street, 7th floor.

Julie Mayo/Dim Sum Dance & Colleen Leonardi
CITIES OF THE HEAD
Friday & Saturday, November 14 & 15, 8pm
$15 Buy tickets now!

Mayo and Leonardi are choreographers from different cities, Chicago IL and Columbus OH respectively. They explore their ongoing exchange about dance-making and its relationship to the present moment. Concepts of place and displacement, and directness and duplicity merge in work imbued with a deep sense of imagination, play, rigor, and thoughtfulness. With collaborators Eliza Diener-Brazelle and Ashley Valo.

Mayo has a rare mix of rigor and openness, always inventive and surprising -Choreographer Stephanie Skura

Leonardi takes the time to find out what the personality of the work is.....her dances are intricate, satisfying like a textured cloth you can't help fingering. - Bebe Miller

Sign up for the workshop Intro to Skinner Releasing Technique™.

Tim Miller’s Charged Bodies Residency Program
Awilda Rodriguez Lora, Sentell Harper, & Rebecca Kling
Friday & Saturday, November 21 & 22, 8pm
$15 Buy tickets now!

The results of a four month mentorship by Tim Miller of three Chicago-based performance artists, self-identified as queer or addressing queer-related themes in their work. Using studio space at The Center on Halsted and resources provided by Links Hall, the three artists have developed new solo pieces under Miller’s guidance. Tim Miller will also perform a 15 minute excerpt from a new work in progress.