April 2010 PERFORMANCE

 
 
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The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek
Our Big Voices in a Wooden Room
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THREE
Banners & Cranks: A Festival of Cantastoria
Banners & Cranks: Without the Fluff
Banners & Cranks: Off the Cuff
 
 
 
 

The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek

April 1-3

Thr, Fri & Sat at 7:30pm
Tickets: $12 / $10 Students and Industry

20% Theatre Company presents

The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek

by Naomi Wallace, directed by Elizabeth Schwan-Rosenwald

20% explores how gender defines societal roles and success in its spring production of The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek. The script details the heart-breaking story of a young man and woman desperately negotiating the gender values of their small town, and their own conception of selfhood.

 
 
Our Big Voices in a Wooden Room
Photo by Kris

April 9-11

Fri & Sat at 8pm / Sun at 7pm
Tickets $10

Our Big Voices in a Wooden Room

presented by Beau O’Reilly

featuring The Crooked Mouth String Band: Beau O’Reilly, Matt Test, Troy Martin and Jenny Magnus and Curious Theater Branch

Celebrating the release of The Crooked Mouth String Band’s new CD of acoustic story-driven songs for banjo, loud voices, ukulele, snare drum and cane and featuring the complete cast of Curious Theater Branch in That Librarian from Skokie.

 
 
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April 12

Mon at 7:30pm
Tickets $12 / $10 Students

Collision Theory

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.
 

 
 
Three

April 16-18

Fri & Sat at 8pm / Sun at 7pm
Tickets $10

THREE

presented by Against The Grain Dance Project

Artistic Director Kara Rosengren and choreographer Andrea Deline both premiere new works alongside Rosengren’s Journey through a Phase (2008) when Against the Grain returns to Links Hall for its spring engagement.

 
 
cantastoria

April 23-May 9

Fri & Sat at 8pm / Sun at 7pm
Tickets $15 ($12 online) / $10 Students ($8 online)

Banners & Cranks Silkscreen Posters $10 each or all 5 for $40
Poster Ticket $16 (includes a silkscreen festival poster)
Off the Cuff Weekend Pass $20 (good for the second weekend)
POSTER PASS $30 (good for all three weekends plus a silkscreen festival poster)

Banners & Cranks:
A Festival of Cantastoria

curated by Links Hall Artistic Associate Dave Buchen and Clare Dolan

Three weekends exploring the performance of paintings through song and story.

Don’t miss the Cantastoria exhibit curated by Clare Dolan and Dave Buchen at Packer Schopf Gallery April 16 – May 8.

 






































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