Dance Union

Apr 14

Saturday, 5/12 Dance-in-a-Box

On Saturday May 12, 8PM, The Dance Union presents a wild and ingenious experiment - Dance-in-a-Box! Months ago, 4 brave and talented Chicago dancemakers were each presented with a box of carefully assembled source-material by May curator Liz Joynt Sandberg to use in the creation of a new work, or to transform an existing work. Join us for an evening of investigation and discovery as we get the first glimpse at what they have created!

Angelica Palomo and Emily Haines along with musicians Gabriel Palomo and Ron Ciesla offer Riding the Zuvuya Wave - improvisational movement inspired by the desire to dance, live music and objects from a box - two bodies riding the Zuvuya wave. Zuvuya is an aztec word which means the connection between the past present and future.

Kimbery Schomburg presents City on the Make - a three-part piece that was developed and inspired by her Dance-In-a-Box contents. There are three related themes: gender identity, Chicago history and environment, and public art. Although there are elements of each theme in each part of the piece, each part has a stronger pull toward one of the themes. During the process of creating choreography, Schomburg visited Chicago landmarks to create movement on location and used historical events to inspire movement.

Ni’Ja Whitson brings held. hold. harvest. Hands that do magic, record trauma, nurture and work act as disembodied griots, tracing legacies of black identities. This experimental performance work explores the simultaneous fear and fascination of the black body by traversing criminalization and romanticism through queered gender and time. The hands function as storytellers, object, and undoer in the telling of dehumanization. Work-in-progress showing. For more on Ni’Ja, like her on facebook and follow her on twitter: http://www.facebook.com/NiJa.Whitson / @NiJaWhitson.

Lindsay Reich and Sarah Gottlieb offer The Oyster, a work in progress that challenges, indulges, and reflects upon the subject of spectacle and feminity. For more on Lindsay’s work, visit www.lareichdance@weebly.com

Lighting design by Francesca Bourgault. A discussion will follow.

Saturday May 12, 8PM at the Fasseas White Box Theater at The Drucker Center, Menomonee Club for Boys and Girls MAP

1535 N. Dayton St. Chicago, IL, 60642 (Parking available)

Admission: $12 general, $10 students/seniors, and $20 for Tickets for Two (available only 7 pairs through FunFueled). Tickets are available at the door or: FunFueled.com

Menomonee Club for Boys and Girls is located near the intersection of North Avenue, Clybourn and Halsted. CTA: Red Line North/Clybourn Station (2 min. walk); Halsted #8 Bus to Blackhawk St; or North Ave #72 Bus to Halsted St.

This project is supported in part by the Menomonee Club for Boys and Girls.

Photos: Kimbery Schomburg by Andy Schomburg and Ni’Ja Whitson by flybird photography

Feb 15

Saturday, March 3, 2012: Simply Showing

On Saturday, March 3, Dance Union presents Simply Showing. The evening will feature dance by four divergent choreographers/groups: Amy Lynne Barr, Marie Casimir, Double DJ, and Liz Joynt Sandberg. The only criterion for the artists is to bring a dance of their choice to share (new, reprised, experimental, in-progress, etc…). The evening concludes with a discussion. DANCE UNION creator and curator Ayako Kato is joined by guest curators Liz Joynt Sandberg and Suzy Grant for the Spring/Summer series

Lighting design by Garvin Jellison. A discussion will follow.

Fasseas White Box Theater at The Drucker Center, Menomonee Club for Boys and Girls, 1535 N. Dayton St. Chicago, IL, 60642 (Parking available)

Saturday, March 3rd at 8pm.

Admission: $12 general, $10 students/seniors, and $20 for Tickets for Two. Tickets are available at the door or: http://fanfueled.com/Event/Details/1996-dance-union-simply-showing

Marie Casimir offers dawn / avanjou, a text-based movement piece exploring the rituals and hybridizations between Catholicism and Haitian Vodou as a cultural mark of colonization.

Amy Lynne Barr’s solo work mixes humor, poignancy, and extreme physicality; engaging the audience viscerally, Amy creates work that is intellectual in conception and creation.

Liz Joynt Sandberg uses improvisational dance to address burning questions about secret ingredients, how to grow a lush and vibrant garden, and offers tips for navigating the recipes of Martha Stewart in Best Wishes.

Darlings of the queer performance circuit, Double DJ will share their love and fascination of all-girl musical groups, simultaneously entertaining and calling into question the perception of gender.

Menomonee Club for Boys and Girls is located near the intersection of North Avenue, Clybourn and Halsted. CTA: Red Line North/Clybourn Station (2 min. walk); Halsted #8 Bus to Blackhawk St; or North Ave #72 Bus to Halsted St.

This project is supported by a grant from the Puffin Foundation and in part by the Menomonee Club for Boys and Girls.

photos by Lee Klawans, Cheryl Mann

Nov 10

Sat, 12/3 Dance & Theme/Non-Theme II

Read Review by Sid Smith on SeeChicagoDance

Featuring almost two opposite characteristic results through Jonathan Meyer and Jyl Fehrenkamp, the evening focuses on exhibiting sincere and intelligent approaches to construct dance works and how the dance artists, as a creator and performer, establish the manners to fulfill the goal of their choreography.

Lighting design by Francesca Bourgault. Dialogue will follow with choreographers and dancers.

8 pm (door opens at 7:45 pm)

North Studio @ The Drucker Center,
Menomonee Club for Boys and Girls map
1535 N. Dayton St. Chicago, IL 60642
(2 min. walk from CTA Red Line North/Clybourn Sta.)

Tickets: $12 General, $10 Students/Seniors, $20 Tickets for Two (through Brownpapertickets & 7 pairs only!)

Tickets available at the door or FunFueled.com

*Parking is available. Ask Menomonee front desk in case it’s full. Other location will be assigned.

Featured works:

Spim by Jonathan Meyer

photo by Jason Page

This work is a study in somatic response to pre-cognitive awareness, an attempt simultaneously to attend to and play with the sensory-perceptual response cycle.

a boating incident (group) andCorey (solo) by Jyl Fehrenkamp

photo by Andrew Nawrocki

a boating incident isset to the yacht rock of Christopher Cross, 5 performers create a playful dance fantasy. Corey is Fehrenkamp’s brief eulogy for once-teen-heart-throb Corey Haim, who died in 2010.

Dance Union is supported in part by Menomonee Club for Boys and Girls and Puffin Foundation.

Oct 14

ALive Installation Project at Defibilliator from Fri,10/14-Sat, 10/29

Please click HERE for details about the project and Defillibiator.

a WALL runs down the middle of DEFIBRILLATOR.

Paired and paralleled side-by-side with a wall between them, two artists present a three-hour performance installation in order to explore the boundaries between dance and performance art.

> October 14 & 15 @ 7PM (Week 1)
dancer: MICHELLE KRANICKE <> performance artist: GIM GWANG CHOEL (Korea)
> October 21 & 22 @ 7PM (Week 2)
dancer: AYAKO KATO collaboration with Edyta Stepien <> performance artist: SANDRINE SCHAEFER (BOSTON)
> October 28 & 29 @ 7PM (Week 3)
dancer: RACHEL BUNTING <> performance artist: LEE BLALOCK

Produced by DANCE UNION and DEFIBRILLATOR

Artist Talk on Sat, 10/15, 2pm at Defibilliator.

Oct 12

Sat, 11/5 Dance & Costume

Viewing works in different creative stages, artists and audience will have opportunity to wonder about the function and effect of the costume and how it interplay with the dance/movements themselves to begin with and/or finalize the piece. Post-show dialogue will follow.

Lighting by Davin Carroll

8 pm (door opens at 7:45 pm)

Fasseas White Box Theater @ The Drucker Center,
Menomonee Club for Boys and Girls map
1535 N. Dayton St. Chicago, IL 60642
(2 min. walk from CTA Red Line North/Clybourn Sta.)

Tickets: $12 General, $10 Students/Seniors, $20 Tickets for Two (through Brownpapertickets & 7 pairs only!)

Tickets available at the door or http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/206775

*Parking is available. Ask Menomonee front desk in case it’s full. Other location will be assigned.

Featured works:

Hoo-Ha by Darrell Jones

Photo by Dan Merlo

Since 2007, Darrell Jones have worked with collaborators, JSun Howard and Damon Greene, to codify, deconstruct and experiment with recognized voguing vocabularies. This process includes studying traditional voguing techniques and the influential disciplines that contribute to the widening voguing aesthetic. In this excerpt of Hoo-Ha (twister pumps breakdown) you will get a glimpse into their new explorations around Ritual Feminized Performance, a term Jones has coined todescribe the broad canon of movement forms they are presently engaged in.

Pier by enidsmithdance

Photo by Matt Glavin

Pier is an abstract movement interpretation of artist Andrew Rauhauser’s icescape oil paintings. To view these paintings, visit:

www.arauhauser.com.

Incidents II (work in progress) by Ayako Kato/Art Union Humanscape

Interweaving improvisational and compositional approaches, the piece explores to represent microcosmic reality through physical experience to testify the identical essence in dual notions from east and west: “absence of absolute” and “absolute.”

Dance Union is supported in part by Menomonee Club for Boys and Girls and Puffin Foundation.

Sep 15

Sat, 10/8 Dance & Video

By paralleling “video in dance” and “dance in video,” the evening will focus on how both forms can expand their artistic potential of one another. In the post-show dialogue, the members of the audience will be able to hear the inner story of video artist Petra Bachmaier, Luftwerk working with Hedwig Dances and Carl Wiedemann working with BONEdanse about the collaboration process and decision making: namely artistic chemical aspects of working together with dance. Lighting by Francesca Bourgault.

8 pm (door opens at 7:45 pm)
Fasseas White Box Theater @ The Drucker Center,
Menomonee Club for Boys and Girls map
1535 N. Dayton St. Chicago, IL 60642
(2 min. walk from CTA Red Line North/Clybourn Sta.)

Tickets: $12 General, $10 Students/Seniors, $20 Tickets for Two (through FanFueled & 7 pairs only!)

Tickets available at the door or

*Parking is available. Ask Menomonee front desk in case it’s full. Other location will be assigned.

Featured Works:

Space Within (work in progress) by Hedwig Dances

The creative team of sculptor Barbara Cooper, choreographer Jan Bartoszek and video artist Petra Bachmaier give their second public showing of a work-in-progress entitled Space Within. Based on the concept of sanctuary, Space Within builds on a primal need in human beings for transcendent space. Developing upon this idea of inner space, the work explores the dichotomies between folding/unfolding and concealing/revealing.

Danse Skitz by BONEdanse + A Poetic Improvisation live solo by Atalee Judy

Practicing random acts of dance, BONEdanse created their weekly Summer series of short online videos called Danse Skitz all filmed at site specific locations around Chicago. Committing to a regimen of weekly site specific shoots, the 12 Danse Skitz range from dirty gravel full of bird droppings, to sandy beaches. BONEdanse scoured the city of Chicago for inspiring locations to perform, improvise, and make a tiny little mark that “art was here”. BONEdanse Artistic Director, Atalee Judy reflects, ” I really scaled down the preparation & set-up for each Skitz to give into the fact that when you’re shooting guerrilla style, you just have to make it happen on the fly. I intentionally set myself time limits and kept my expectations low to let those happy accidents, and the stuff out of my control, abound.”

BONEdanse features Danse Skitz performances by Janna Barta, Anita Fillmore, Atalee Judy & Mindy Meyers.

To view all the 12 Danse Skitz go to www.bonedanse.com or our YouTube Video Channel at: youtube.com/ataleebreakbone

Company/Artist Bios:

HEDWIG DANCES is a contemporary dance theater ensemble celebrating its 27th year under the artistic direction of its founder, award-winning choreographer Jan Bartoszek. Named after Ms. Bartoszek’s paternal grandmother, Hedwig Dances’ bold, interdisciplinary collaborations combine poetic choreography with sculptural artifacts, projected images and haunting original music. The resulting dances resonate with complexity and depth and provoke emotion, connection and wonder. As the dance company-in-residence at the Chicago Cultural Center, Hedwig Dances reaches out into the community through public performances, collaborations and dance education. www.HedwigDances.Org

Jan Bartoszek is the founder and artistic director of Hedwig Dances. Her artistic credentials include eight choreography fellowships from the Illinis Arts Council and one from the NEA, decades of creating high quality dance, mentoring of numerous artists and a leadership role in making dance a vital force at the Chicago Cultural Center.

Barbara Cooper works fluidly between sculpture and drawing. She received her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Cooper recently completed public art commissions for the Avalon Library in Chicago and the Chicago Transit Administration, and the Rhode Island Airport in Providence. A Chicago resident, Cooper has received three Illinois Arts Council Fellowships.

Petra Poul Bachmaier and her husband Sean Gallero formed their company luftwerk to envision and create multi-sensory video and projection experiences. They engage in designing environments that allow for video imagery to become sculptural, and in transforming a space into a moving canvas of fleeting images, where internal realities and external fields playfully overlap. Ms. Bachmaier graduated with a BFA in performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received her MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg, Germany.

BONEdanse is an experimental dance company based in Chicago who creates challenging and stimulating dance theater that excavates the tropes found within the human experience. Founded in 1997, BONEdanse (AKA Breakbone DanceCo) is celebrating 14 years of their highly theatrical multimedia works that make strong statements which challenge those who perceive dance as an aesthetic reprieve to one of a powerful reactionary movement rebellion. With a BA in Dance Performance & Choreography with Honors in Outstanding Achievement from Columbia College Chicago, founder/artistic director Atalee Judy is recognized for bold, unconventional works charged with a punk rock intensity and an honest use of gravity. She is the recipient of two Illinois Arts Council Fellowships, a Chicago Dancemakers Forum Grant, the Chicago Dance Music Alliance’s Elizabeth F. Cheney Dance Achievement Award, and since 2003, she has served as an Artist-in-Residence with The Chicago Moving Company at Hamlin Park. She has toured extensively in the US as well as internationally to Europe, Russia, Canada & Mexico.

Dance Union is supported in part by Menomonee Club for Boys and Girls and Puffin Foundation.

Photo: Hedwig Dances by Jan Bartoszek, BONEdanse by Chrystyne

Jul 24

Sat, 9/10 Why Improvise & Why not?

The evening will feature two music & dance improvisation duos: Jennifer Monson, dance & Fred Lonberg-Holm, cello, as advocators and highly-respected practitioners of improvisation over decades and Frank Rosaly, drums & Ayako Kato, dance, as the followers of the genre for the past decade. Through performance and post-show dialogue, the event releases questions to reaffirm unlimited potential of improvisation by revealing the complexity and simplicity of their approaches. They will present quartet in the end.

Lighting by Francesca Bourgault.

8 pm (door opens at 7:45 pm)
Fasseas White Box Theater @ The Drucker Center,
Menomonee Club for Boys and Girls map
1535 N. Dayton St. Chicago, IL 60642
(2 min. walk from CTA Red Line North/Clybourn Sta.)

Tickets: $12 General, $10 Students/Seniors, $20 Tickets for Two

Available at the door or Brown Paper Tickets

*Parking is available. Ask Menomonee front desk in case it’s full. Other location will be assigned.

Artists:

Jennifer Monson has been pursuing an original approach to experimental dance forms in NYC since 1983 when she graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. In that time she has created a wide body of work that incorporates well-developed collaborative relationships with many artists including Zeena Parkins, DD Dorvillier, Yvonne Meier and David Zambrano. Her solo work has been presented at many venues in the US, Australia, Europe, Latin America and Tanzania. Major works years include The Pigeon Project (2000); The Glint (1998); Sender (1997); La Mer (1995); Tackle Rock (1993); and Ursa’s Door (1990). Her project BIRD BRAIN (2000-2006) includes the theatrical work Flight of Mind (2005) and four migratory tours: Gray Whales (Spring 2001); Ospreys (Fall 2002); Ducks and Geese (Spring 2004); and Northern Wheatears (Fall 2009). She recently completed iMAP/Ridgewood Reservoir, a year-long research and performance practice in an abandoned reservoir in NYC.? ?Monson has received several awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship (2003), a Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art Fellowship (1998), National Endowment for the Arts Choreographer’s Fellowships (1989, 1992, 1993-95, 1995-97), and the New York Foundation for the Arts Artists Fellowship (1989,1998). She has been awarded two New York Dance and Performance Awards (“BESSIE’s”) for Sender and for sustained achievement in the dance field in 1997 and for BIRD BRAIN in 2006. Monson is founder and artistic director of iLAND-interdisciplinary Laboratory of Art Nature and Dance. www.ilandart.org

Fred Lonberg-Holm is an improvisor and composer living in Chicago. Principle projects include his Valentine trio, Seval, Stirrup, and the Lightbox Orchestra. He is also a member of The Peter Broetzmann Chicago 10tet, Joe McPhee’s Survival Unit III, Friction Brothers and Fast Citizens. Improvisors he has worked with include Clare Cooper, Charlotte Hug, Andrea Neumann, Shelly Hirsch, Carrie Shull,Jaimie Branch, Carrie Biolo, Birgitte Uhler, Rachel Wadham, Mary Halverson, Joelle Leandre, Joanne Powers, Zeena Parkins, Judy Dunaway, Lotte Anker as well as a number of guys. He has recorded solo records for the Emanem and FlyingAspidistra labels. Over the years he has been credited for work on dozens of jazz, rock, pop, contemporary classical and country records, including those by The Boxhead Ensemble, Wilco, Freakwater, Vandermark 5, US Maple, Guillermo Gregorio, God Is My Co-Pilot, Anthony Coleman, Kaki King, Jim O’Rourke, Bobby Conn, The Flying Luttenbachers, ZU…http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fred-Lonberg-Holm/33236290444?ref=ts

Frank Rosaly, a drummer and composer currently living in Chicago, is a staple of the Free Music and Free Jazz scenes. Currently active in many projects throughout Chicago, as well as New York and in Europe, Rosaly has been navigating a fine line between the vibrant improvised music, indie-rock, experimental and jazz communities for the past decade. He contributes much of his time to performing with groups too numerous to mention in full, but have included Matana Robert’s Chicago Project, Rob Mazurek’s Mandarin Movie, The Rempis Percussion Quartet, Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten Quintet, Jeff Parker/Nels Cline Quartet, Josh Abrams Remindring, Fred Lonberg-Holm’s Valentine Trio, and performances with the likes of Ken Vandermark, Michael Zerang, Von Freeman, Peter Brotzmann, Anthony Coleman, and many, many others. While not attending to his national and international touring demands, Rosaly organizes the Ratchet Series, a weekly showcase of creative music at the Skylark in Chicago, and dedicates himself to his own compositions. www.frankrosaly.com

Ayako Kato is a dancer and choreographer who hails from Yokohama, Japan. Kato’s experimental dance aims at realizing the absence of absolute/the mare absolute moment of being through human anatomy, energy and image. She established Art Union Humanscape (AUH) with double bassist Jason Roebke in 1998 and has been collaborating with musicians and artists extensively in the U.S., Japan and Europe. In December 2011, she was selected as one of 14 indispensable female artists, The Dynamic Women of Chicago Dance in 2010 in Time Out Chicago. Fall 2010, AUH++, an expanded version of the group, performed in the opening program of Chicago Jazz Festival at Jay Pritzker Pavilion of Millennium Park. Summer 2010, Kato also premiered fifty-one minute dance-piano duo Dear BACH - Goldberg Variations with pianist Ayako Yoshioka in Tokyo, Japan. In 2009, her recent video collaboration, Maria’s List, was featured at WTTW Image Union and she was also selected for “People to Watch” in dance in Chicago Reader. She has been studying anatomy and Ideokinesis with Irene Dowd since winter 2007, largely supported by CAAP grant (2009 - 2011). Since fall 2010, she is an artist in residence at Hamlin Park Fieldhouse Theater as part of Chicago Moving Company’s Dance Shelter Program. She is an organizer of the dance series Dance Union, formally Epiphany Dance Experiment, since November 2008. www.artunionhumanscape.net

Dance Union is supported in part by Menomonee Club for Boys and Girls and Puffin Foundation.

Photo: Jennifer Monson by Alex Escalante, Fred Lonberg-Holm by Vanita Joe Monk, Frank Rosaly by Josh Tillinghast, Ayako Kato by Yuriko Ohkubo

Jun 20

Sat, 7/9 Simply Showing

On Saturday, July 9th, Dance Union presents Simply Showing. The evening will feature freshly emerging choreographers and introduce their new approaches to dance works.

Featured Artists:

Quiet Groove by Karla Beltchenko

Quiet Groove is inspired by the silent barrier and protective shield winter brings to the soul. The women and music of Motown inspired the movement aesthetic of the work.

Does Anybody Recognize Me? by Liz Joynt Sandberg

A little boy is at the movies with his parents. He leaves the theater while the movie is playing to go to the bathroom and when he returns, he realizes that he has no idea where his family is sitting in the crowded space. He can’t find them. It occurs to him all of a sudden - a terrific and bold idea - that he could walk down the aisle and yell “Does Anybody Recognize Me?” This monumental shift - instantaneous - brilliant - flexible - is the start of something radical. A new way that starts with being exactly where we are and conferring boundless trust to each other that we will be seen - recognized and made in a place.

Lips of Their Fingers (excerpt) by Lizzie Leopold

Lips of Their Fingers grows out of the historic tradition of pantomime in dance. With a musical score that includes the Beastie Boys, Lips brings new meaning to the phrase “body language.”

Untitled by Jennifer Lorraine

Former RTG Dance member Jennifer Lorraine exhibits a collaboration piece with local designer Anne Novotany.

Lighting design by Francesca Bourgault.

A discussion will follow.

8 pm (door opens at 7:45 pm)
Fasseas White Box Theater @ The Drucker Center,
Menomonee Club for Boys and Girls
1535 N. Dayton St. Chicago, IL 60642
(2 min. walk from CTA Red Line North/Clybourn Sta.)

Tickets: $12 General, $10 Students/Seniors, $20 Tickets for Two

Available at the door or Brown Paper Tickets

*Parking is available. Ask Menomonee front desk in case it’s full. Other location will be assigned.

Dance Union is supported in part by Menomonee Club for Boys and Girls. www.menomoneeclub.org

Photo (from the top): Karla Beltchenko by Eddie Eng, Think Dance Collective by Matthew Joynt, Leopold Group by Arn Klein

May 4

Sat, 6/4 Dance & Theme/Non-Theme

On Saturday, June 4th, Dance Union presents Dance & Theme/Non-Theme. The evening will offer viewers to ponder how having theme/non-theme interrelated with the creative processes and how each dance work out-come looks different. And we question: what theme means to dance.

Featured Works:

Lunch (a work-in-progress) by Winifred Haun

Lunch uses images and movements of people standing in line at a lunch counter/cafeteria to explore (in an abstract way) how and why we all get our lunch. The work is for 7 dancers and features miniature furniture that the dancers manipulate and toss around.

This is A Damage Manual (an excerpt) by BONEdanse Excavation

BONEdanse performs This is a Damage Manual a trove of lessons culled from instruction manuals and old vinyl Self Help records. Dancers Janna Barta, Anita Fillmore, Atalee Judy & Mindy Meyers offer bits of wisdom, questionable advice, and anecdotes to create moving dichotomies. Dance Critic Laura Molzahn remarks “clever, entertaining dance theater has always been Judy’s métier, and here she lets fly her dark sense of humor. Judy uses audio selections from what sound like 50s-era self-improvement records to underscore the humor and heartbreak of human striving. The movement transforms them from super-serious to silly and bizarrely upbeat.”

Meandering at Dusk by Carleen Healy

After different improvised and choreographed projects for the past 8 years, Carleen Healy and Julieann Graham who have been occasionally working together will perform improvisation.

A discussion moderated by Julia Mayer follows.

Lighting design by Francesca Bourgault.

8 pm (door opens at 7:45 pm)
Fasseas White Box Theater @ The Drucker Center,
Menomonee Club for Boys and Girls
1535 N. Dayton St. Chicago, IL 60642
(2 min. walk from CTA Red Line North/Clybourn Sta.)

Tickets: $12 General, $10 Students/Seniors, $20 Tickets for Two

Available at the door or Brown Paper Tickets

*Parking is available. Ask Menomonee front desk in case it’s full. Other location will be assigned.

Dance Union is supported in part by Menomonee Club for Boys and Girls. www.menomoneeclub.org

Photo (from the top): Winifred & Dancers by Cheryl Mann, BONEdanse by Carl Wiedemann, Carleen Healy by Nick Grutz

Feb 10

Sat, 3/5 Words/Text & Movement

On Saturday, March 5th, Dance Union presents Words/Text & Movement. The evening exhibits what types of relationships between movements and words/text exist.

Featured Works:

See What You Believe (excerpt) by Molly Jaeger

See What You Believe is the feedback loop between imagination, text & movement: the presence of the body in motion inspires voice and spoken text cuts through movement in an exploration of the role of language in shaping perspective. The full length piece will debut at Links Hall in April as part of the Link Up residency.

What can I say by ology dance/Melissa Mallinson

The piece was created by choreographer Melissa Mallinson in collaboration with a local poet. Developed through an exchange of text and videos of choreography over the course of several months, this work explores identity, self-consciousness, struggle and support.

Every Handshake, Every Kiss, Every Birth, Every Word (excerpt) by Szewai Lee

The piece is a dance theater project that is inspired by Alan Lightman’s Einstein’s Dreams, a collage of fictional stories about worlds with differing experiences and interpretations of time. The work depicts facing the inevitable changes in life and recalls how we deal with loss, accept the unexpected and capture drifting moments in time.

The Power of Cheese by David Lakein

Over the last decade, the phrase “the power of cheese” has frequently popped up in his improvised performances. There seems to be an ardent drawn-to-each-other attraction; the words appear to have some as-of-yet unknown importance in his life. The piece is the inaugural installment of Les Études Profondes, his new solo performance series.

A discussion moderated by Lisa Gonzales will follow.

Lighting design by Francesca Bourgault.

8 pm (door opens at 7:45 pm)
Fasseas White Box Theater @ The Drucker Center,
Menomonee Club for Boys and Girls
1535 N. Dayton St. Chicago, IL 60642
(2 min. walk from CTA Red Line North/Clybourn Sta.)

Tickets available at the door: $12 General, $10 Students/Seniors

*Parking is available. Ask Menomonee front desk in case it’s full. Other location will be assigned.

Dance Union is supported in part by Menomonee Club for Boys and Girls. www.menomoneeclub.org

Photo (from the top): Molly Jaegar by Molly Jaeger, ology dance by Kristie Kahns, Szewai Lee by Amanda McAlister, David Lakein by Geoffray Bourdais