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April 12
Mon at 7:30pm
Tickets $12 / $10 Students
Featuring Chicago Underground musicians ZELIENOPLE and improvisational dance artists Lisa Gonzales and Jennifer Kayle.
curated by Links Hall Artistic Associates, Rachel Damon & Dan Mohr
Musicians & dancers collide in improvised performance.
"The concept behind collision_theory represents the best of the up-and-coming in live performance, and the talent involved is a testament to the vibrancy and collaborative spirit of Chicago’s arts scene."
--NewCity Chicago
ZELIONOPLE is a Chicago-based three piece Zelienople have been around for quite a while now, and in that time have become staples in the underground music architecture. Percussionist Mike Weis has appeared on recent recordings with alt-folk legend Scott Tuma; Weis, Tuma and guitarist/vocalist Matt Christensen form the band Good Stuff House. Multi-instrumentalist Brian Harding completes the trio, which has forged its most essential work to date with Give It Up—a record which succeeds as a perfect summation of their progress in the last few years.
Lisa Gonzales is an independent choreographer and improviser. She moved to New York City in 1999 where she was based until 2004 and presented work in such venues as Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace at St. Mark’s Church and Joyce Soho among others. She has also shown her work in spaces around the United States and internationally in Taiwan, Russia, Finland and The Dominican Republic. She credits many artists with whom she has worked as being influential to her own art making including Peter Schmitz, Penny Campbell, Susan Sgorbati, Andrea Olsen, Deborah Hay, Angie Hauser, Chris Aiken, Paul Matteson, K.J. Holmes, Amy Chavasse, Deana Acheson, Pam, Jen and Katherine of the Architects, musicians Michael Chorney and Arthur Brooks, and others. She currently lives in Chicago and is full-time faculty at Columbia College Chicago.
Jennifer Kayle is currently Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa, and an independent choreographer, dancer, and improvisational artist. This year, Kayle is co-creating “Virtually Yours,” a meditation on the poetry and politics of crossing the border, performing at Highways, Los Angeles (June), and The Centro Leon in Santiago, Dominican Republic (May). In 2009, she performed with Katherine at The Body/Word Festival in St. Petersburg Russia, and in 2008, premiered works in Chicago, Colorado, and in her first Joyce SoHo season in New York City. Other venues include the Minnesota Fringe Festival, Jacob’s Pillow’s “Inside/Out,” Big Range Dance Festival (Tex.), venues in Russia, Finland, Puerto Plata, D.R., and in the repertories of companies such as New ARTiculations (Tucson) and The Dance COLEctive (Chicago). Recent teaching adventures include Bates Dance Festival/Young Dancers Workshop 2009, co-creating an interdisciplinary improvisation course for dancers, musicians, and actors at U.Iowa, and co-teaching with Lisa at Links Hall, Chicago, and the Fort Wayne Dance Collective in Indiana. Recent teaching and compositional experiments include dancing with the “body of objects,” composing relationships between objects, dancers, and the surrounding architecture, (spaces that are “installed,” pre-existing or accidental). Jennifer is grateful to all her teachers, and also to continue her main improvisational research with The Architects, including composer/musician Michael Chorney, and designer Kathy Couch.
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