Links Hall: Performance

	october 2009 PERFORMANCE


			October 2-3 Begins Friday, October 2 at 6:30pm with programming continuing Nonstop through Saturday, October 3 at Midnight Festival Pass $30 Includes all performances, late night Poonie’s Cabaret, independent film and dance for the camera series, sunrise Gong Wash Meditation, classes, lecture demonstrations, readings and fabulous parties. Links Hall’s 30^th Anniversary Celebration Experience 30 hours of continuous performance. Celebrate 30 years of performance arts innovation. more>>
			October 4 Sun at 7pm Tickets $15 Hard Headed Heart: A Chicago Neighborhood Tour a trio of solo shows performed in one magical evening presented by Blair Thomas and Company This fall 2009 Blair Thomas & Company will present Hard Headed Heart, Blair Thomas’s trio of award winning solo puppet for diverse adult audiences. St. James Infirmary - based on the traditional New Orleans folksong, this show is performed with rod marionettes, a motorized paper scroll and a one-man pit band. The Puppet Show of Don Cristobal - a script by Federico Garcia Lorca. This play is a bawdy telling of the traditional trickster Cristobal's wooing and marriage to the delectable Dona Rosita and performed with wooden hand puppets and a drum kit. The Blackbird - based on Wallace Steven's “13 ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” this is a shadow puppet show performed on a set of 4 rolling paper scrolls lit by lamplight.
			October 9-11 Fri, Sat & Sun at 8pm Tickets $10 / $5 Students Dramatic Twerp with Sean Ewert directed by Stephen Murray featuring Joe Feliciano In Dramatic Twerp, Sean Ewert's exploration into high school in the 1980s without the internet, cell phones or a gay social club on campus, he borrows from the forensic dramatic interpretation model to create a queer memory journey. It is indeed easier and safer to perform in someone else's story or text - at some point you must stop editing your life, blow open your closet and speak your own words.
			October12 Mon at 7:30pm Post show opening night reception. Tickets $12 / $10 students featuring Asimina Chremos and Pillars and Tongues curated by Links Hall Artistic Associates, Rachel Damon & Dan Mohr "As an improvising artist in both music and movement, the events of collision_theory have long been a fantasy of mine. In dance contexts, music is often relegated to an ancillary, 'wallpaper' status. Curating the series affords me an opportunity to see artists whom I admire from both disciplines performing together on a level plane—and to share that experience with a unique audience of dance, music, and improvisation enthusiasts alike. This is very exciting." ~ Dan Mohr
			October 16-18 Fri & Sat at 8pm / Sun at 7pm Fri & Sun tickets $15 online / $18 at the door Saturday tickets $30 with benefit after party The Tasting Room presented by The Moving Architects with guest artist Ayako Kato The Tasting Room is a new evening of dance works presented by The Moving Architects with choreography by Artistic Director Erin Carlisle Norton and guest performer/choreographer Ayako Kato. The concert will feature the premier of Standing Girl with Raised Right Elbow, a tightly carved solo performed and executed by Norton, as well as The New, an angular group piece with a mod flair and 1960s surf rock soundtrack. Ayako Kato's new solo work impression seeks to illuminate new understandings of "the other" through the human body and its myriad movements. Traveling from stage to site-specific locations, the evening will also include the cinematic premiere of Nortons quartet This Sandy Cube by Videographer Jocelyn Kelvin.

			October 19 Monday at 8pm $5 Suggested Donation (or pay what you can) Poonie’s Cabaret featured artists: David Lakein, Silvia Diaz, Tina Gillis, J’Sun Howard special guest star: Ashley Thornton and welcoming back: Lez BoBo the Clown, Jessica Hudson and the Poonie’s Cabaret Singers. hosted by Jyldo Poonie’s Cabaret is Links Hall’s venue for improvisation and works in progress. Featuring artists working in many different creative realms - dance, music, contact improvisation, puppetry, performance art, theatre, voguing, freestyle rapping, drag, burlesque, cheerleading, stand-up comedy, etc. Poonie’s Cabaret was created by Selene Carter and is named in loving memory for Poonie Dodson, a much-loved Chicago dancer/choreographer who died of AIDS in the early 90s. Audience members are asked for a $5 donation. Proceeds from the cabaret go to the Links Hall Duncan Erley Coming Out of the Closet Fund, which is periodically awarded to artists whose work explores the realms of healing, gay activism, and spiritual and sexual transformation. Jyl Fehrenkamp is the host/curator of Poonie’s Cabaret.
			October 23-25 Fri & Sat at 8pm / Sun at 7pm Tickets $20 / $15 Students Hedwig Dances 25th Anniversary Season featuring Victor Alexander, Alitra Cartman, Justin Deschamps Jessie Gutierrez, Maray Gutierrez and Michel Rodriguez Stampede Midwest premiere by Cuban-born choreographer Marianela Boan Moi, Aussi World premiere by choreographer and company member Michel Rodriguez Rein, Bellow including an original score by composer Philip Hamilton and set/costume designs by Young and Thomas.

			October 30-November 1 Fri & Sat at 7pm / Sun at 4pm Tickets $20* Love Does Not Hurt... A theatrical multi-media experience. Empowering—engaging—unapologetically speaking healing and love into existence. presented by AquaMoon love does not hurt… is a synergetic, intergenerational and multimedia performance. It speaks out against violence against womyn by speaking healing and love into existence. This mind, body and soul experience not only gives womyn images of empowered girlhood and womonhood, but also offers boys and men a non -misogynistic vision of themselves. love does not hurt… offers balance, love, truth and an open line of communication among and between the sexes, and is in commemoration of Domestic Violence Awareness and Let’s Talk Month. After each performance there will be a community discussion. * Proceeds go towards AquaMoon’s girls and womyn-centered programming.