WEEK THREE
Friday & Saturday, January 18 & 19, 8pm
Sunday, January 20, 7pm
$12 ($10 students, seniors)

Michael Serwich (Los Angeles) - Small Budget Big Top
Blayne Greiner - Evolution (circumvented)
Alamoo - Boundary Waters
Christopher C. Salveter - One Hundred More Than One Hundred Times
Make New Species - Hansel and Gretel: A Cautionary Confection

Miss Satanica (collaborator) has literally worked in the sideshow industry eating fire and rolling in beds of broken glass in such revues as The Girly Freak Show, Lucha Va Voom, and Tease-O-Rama. She has many television and movie credits including roles on Carnivale and Deadwood. She has worked under the guidance of esteemed directors Sean Penn and Tim Hunter. She is a published author of short stories including the essay Hooker Booker which is included in The IPPY nominated anthology Best Sex Writing 2005. During the day she builds puppets at world renowned Chiodo Brothers Animation Studio (Team America, Killer Klowns from Outer Space).

Michael Serwich is a performer who lives in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles with his lovely girlfriend, two cats, a very gay bat and a nosey sheep. He regularly performs circus and puppet routines throughout LA. He has recently performed with The Bob Baker Marionette Theater, Rasputin's Marionettes, and Andre de Lorde's Grand Guignol Theater. He is pleased and honored to return to the Illinois Prairie where he lived and learned for many years.

Blayne Greiner
Evolution (circumvented)
This solo, object-based performance examines evolution, communication, and the nature of creation using as evidence the existence of one human being and the methodology of a far-seeing mental patient. www.derhutgeist.com

Blayne Greiner graduated with honors from Columbia College Chicago with a BA in theater. Under the tutelage of Brian and Stephanie Shaw, Blayne fostered a love of individual performance (informed by non-verbal narrative and dadaism) and performed in Vage/Scale as part of the INFANT festival in Novi Sad Serbia. He has also puppeteered, performed on the tenor banjo as Der Hut Geist, and is part of the teacher training program at Moksha Yoga Center.

Alamoo
Boundary Waters
Inspired by cultural nomads, shamanic rituals, childhood reality, and ancient ideas of beauty this collaboration between Annie Coleman and Sonya Seifert uses dance and music to explore the liminal space between madness and sanity. The artists create works that evoke a pre-historical period when dance and music were considered inseparable and essential.

Annie Coleman is the composer for Lamoo LLC. Annie, a multi-instrumentalist, is the co-founder of The Golden Horse Ranch Square Dance Band and former member of the band Reds and Blue. She is currently working with Jacob Ross on their yet to be named band.

Sonya Seifert is the lead choreographer of Alamoo Productions. She is also a member of the Ro-He Middle Eastern dance troupe and Rebecca Rossen's Tanz Team. Much of this piece has been inspired by her current research into Shamanism and dance. She is delighted to be collaborating with her old Triangle of Trend partner, Annie Coleman.

Christopher C. Salveter
One Hundred More Than One Hundred Times
This piece includes songs, projected images, and text exploring the lives of Wari indigenous people from the Amazon who practiced "compassionate cannibalism," eating only elders who died of natural causes; and Isse Sagawa, a one time cannibal who ate his girlfriend in the 1970s while studying avant garde literature in Paris.

Christoper C. Salveter works in the field of Deconstruction, turning old buildings into reuseable material with a company called Reuse People. Chris is also a member of the band Low Skies, and soon he will release the record Before Midnight Scholar with his band Judson Claiborne. He studied visual art at Columbia College Chicago and at Florescent Valley in St. Louis.

Make New Species
Hansel and Gretel: A Cautionary Confection
In this intimate, miniature musical exploration of the children’s classic, the siblings are re-imagined as voracious brats, and the witch as a sinister educator extolling the processes of the human digestive system. Set at a beautiful dining room table, Hansel and Gretel is an intimate miniature musical exploration of innermost organs and childrens’ devouring desires. Make New Species is Seth Bockley and Angela Tillges. Composer: Jeff Thomas

Angela Tillges (Designer, Co-Director) is a designer, director and educator. She is currently the Neighborhood Arts Program Director at Redmoon Theater, where she works to integrate the tools of spectacle theater into classroom curriculum. Featured design credits with Redmoon include art direction for Once Upon A Time, and installations for Looptopia and From Nothing. She has also worked in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Public Schools, Walkabout Theater, and Collaboraction.

Seth Bockley (Writer, Co-Director) is a director, writer and performer. He is a recipient of the 2005-2007 TCG New Generations Grant, which supported an intensive artistic apprenticeship to Redmoon Theater's artistic directors Jim Lasko and Frank Maugeri in the fields of site-specific theater and art direction. He is a member of Walkabout Theater and an associate with Collaboraction. He is currently writing Boneyard Prayers, Redmoon's next mainstage puppet show. Seth recently completed a six month LinkUp Residency at Links Hall.

Jeff Thomas (Composer) graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a Bachelors of Music, studying composition with Gustavo Leone and Ilya Levinson. He currently lives and works in Chicago as a composer and musician working with Redmoon Theater and Maestro-Matic Studios. Some of his work can be heard in the short film Girls Room (dir. Maria Gigante, nominated for MTV Movie Award 2007), and Lemmings, (dir. Ron Fleischer, Winner of ‘Chicago Award’ at the Chicago International Film Festival 2005). He also regularly performs with the ‘circus-punk’ marching band Mucca Pazza, and organizes and leads the Hideout Makeout Party Band.