Chicago Cultural Center Presents

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Chicago Cultural Center Presents is an ongoing performing arts series that showcases both emerging and established music, theater, dance and multi-disciplinary artists at the Chicago Cultural Center and other venues. Dedicated to capacity building in the arts, the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events hires the artists and provides performance space as well as technical and marketing support.

Ailie Cohen Productions present: Cloud Man

Tuesday, May 7, Wednesday, May 8, Thursday, May 9, Friday, May 10, 10am

Saturday, May 11, 11am & 3pm

Wednesday, May 15 & Thursday, May 16, 10am

Saturday, May 18, 2 & 7pm

Storefront Theater, 66 E. Randolph St., Chicago, IL 60601

Featuring a blend of puppetry, storytelling and sumptuous visuals, Cloud Man is a 45-minute show suitable for children aged 4 to 7 years.

Trickster-P Company presents .h.g.

Friday, May 10, 6–9pm

Saturday, May 11, 10am–1 pm & 3–6pm

Sunday, May 12, 12 Noon–3pm

Monday, May 13, 10am–1pm

Chicago Cultural Center (Dance Studio)

.h.g. is an extraordinary re-telling of “Hansel and Gretel” for an audience of one. Setting off on your journey with only a set of headphones and a torch, listen and respond as you proceed through a series of rooms and passageways, each a world of its own. .h.g. invites the audience into a sensory experience of the more intriguing, darker side of the story, and in the process re-imagines what fairy tales, and theater can be.

Ayako Kato/Art Union Humanscape

Let Be – evening of experimental dance, music and video

Friday, May 31, 6:30pm

Saturday, June 1, 6:30pm

Sunday, June 2, 2pm

Chicago Cultural Center (Dance Studio)

Contemplate and enjoy the art of being, to experience the moments of letting yourself just be. The evenings introduce the form of contemporary and cutting edge dance, music and video improvisation with award-winning performers from Chicago. Witness how they free themselves caught in the moment, and release from it again.

The East-West Collective

Monday, June 17, 2013

Chicago Cultural Center (Preston Bradley Hall), 6:30pm

Melding the sensibilities of traditional Asian folk music with the sounds of avant-garde jazz and the forms of contemporary new music and improvisation. Featuring musicians from China, France and California. First time performance in Chicago.

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The applications for Cultural Center Presents and In the Works are now closed. Thank you to all who applied!

Successful applicants will be notified by March 1st, 2013.