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SpinOff Kate Corby & Dancers presents Digging (photo credit Yi-Chun Wu)

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Contemporary dance made in the Midwest

A FREE month-long series of work by emerging and mid-career Midwest-based choreographers and dance companies—featuring Chicago and world premieres, excerpts and works-in-progress.

 


Headliner Shows

 

BodyCartography Project (Minneapolis, MN) · Super Nature (Chicago premier)

Body CartographyOctober 10–13; Thursday–Saturday at 7:30pm, Sunday at 2pm

  • Full of artifice and animal appetites, Super Nature engages the wild, the domestic and the civilized aspects of human nature to create a radical ecological melodrama.
  • Storefront Theater

 

BodyCartography Project (Minneapolis, MN) · Super Nature Installation (a performance for an audience of one)BodyCartography Project (Minneapolis, MN) · Super Nature Installation (a performance for an audience of one)

October 11–12; Friday–Saturday, 12-5pm

Every House Has a Door (Chicago, IL) w/ Joan of Arc · Testimonium (world premier) Every House Has a Door (Chicago, IL) w/ Joan of Arc · Testimonium

October 18–20, 24–27; Thursday–Saturday at 7:30pm, Sunday at 2pm

  • Testimonium responds to the poet Charles Reznikoff’s unfinished masterwork Testimony, alternating between inventive task-based movement, courtroom transcript recitation and original songs performed live by Chicago rock band Joan of Arc.
  • Storefront Theater


Kate Corby & Dancers (Madison, WI) · Digging (world premier)

October 24–27; Thursday– Saturday at 6:30pm, Sunday at Noon

Kate Corby & Dancers presents Digging (photo credit Yi-Chun Wu)

  • This collaborative work explores meditation and uses the practice as a catalyst for creative exploration.
  • Chicago Cultural Center · Dance Studio

 

Nejla Yasemin Yatkin Dance (NY2Dance) (Chicago, IL) · Oasis (Chicago premier) 

October 31–November 3; Thursday– Saturday at 7:30pm, Sunday at 2pm

Nejla Yasemin Yatkin Dance (NY2Dance) presents Oasis

  • Centered on a juxtaposition between the desert and the oasis, the piece exists in multiple realities; magical elements blend seamlessly with the real world, existing in the same stream of thought.
  • Storefront Theater

 

 

Red Clay Dance (Chicago, IL) · TransAtlantic Project (work in progress)Red Clay Dance (Chicago, IL) · TransAtlantic Project

October 6; 2pm

  • A year-long collaboration between Red Clay Dance and Keiga Dance Company from Uganda; this is an early look at the work they are creating together. Full work to premier in April 2014.
  • Chicago Cultural Center · Dance Studio
 


Esoteric Dance (Chicago, IL) · Chiaroscuro

Works-in-progress excerpts from three Chicago-based contemporary dance companies.

 

The Seldoms

Where Power Goes (excerpt)

This dance theater work explores the paradoxes surrounding political power, ethics and social change through the historical lens of a brilliant politician and legislator, Lyndon Baines Johnson.

 

Esoteric Dance

Chiaroscuro  (excerpt)

Chiaroscuro delves into the fascinating and compulsory emotional contrast of light and dark and the ultimate effect that it has on a composition as a whole

 

Kristina Isabelle

The Floating City (excerpt)

A surreal exploration of shifting environments creating a moving landscape of time and relationships inspired by the writings of Haruki Murakami.

 

Chicago Cultural Center

October 13

12pm

RSVP: esotericseldomskristinaisabelle.eventbrite.com

 

 

DCASE Theater & Dance
The Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) presents 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, DCASE hires the artists and provides performance space as well as technical and marketing support.

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Dates:
Sunday, October 6-Sunday, November 3, 2013

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Locations:

Chicago Cultural Center
Dance Studio, 1st Floor & Chicago Rooms, 2nd Floor
78 E. Washington St.
Chicago, IL 60602
Storefront Theater
66 E. Randolph St.
Chicago, IL 60602

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