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| Meniscus | Event Type: PerformanceThursday, July 10, 2008 8:00pm - Friday, July 11, 2008 8:00pm <Meniscus is a butoh-based work for four dancers, two musicians and a small herd of animated objects. The performance takes place in a church, and like the church’s architecture, negotiates tensions between the restricted but verifiable horizontal plane, and the soaring but insubstantial promise of altitude. Surfacing throughout are themes of buoyancy, ventriloquism, aqua aerobics, shallow sea ecology, science fiction, disappearance, and prayer.> more... |
| Where Seeds Have Grown | Event Type: ClassSunday, May 18, 2008 2:00pm - 4:00pm Tuesday, May 20, 2008 5:30pm - 7:30pm Hey folks! There's only 2 workshops left to take advantage of this great FREE opportunity to learn & expand as an artist! Please feel free to come through and bring a friend! Where Seeds Have Grown May 18, 2:00-4:00 : Alejandro Madrid & capoeira music UIC professor of Latin American Studies Alejandro Madrid leads a guest lecture. Alejandro is a musicologist and cultural theorist whose research focuses on the intersection of modernity, tradition, globalization, and identity in music and expressive culture from Mexico, the U.S.-Mexico border, and the circum-Caribbean. His current research interests include transnational history and method, performance studies, and postnational theory. Following his discussion, will be a music class to explore modes of percussion & storytelling in the Afro-Brazilian and the modern African-American diaspora. more... |