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January 2009 WORKSHOPS and community events |
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Links Hall’s workshops are dedicated to nurturing the
unique creativity of your own expression, through the exploration
and practice of contemporary methods with passionate, intelligent,
and informed artist-instructors.
For more information or to register for any of the following
workshops contact Erica or at 773.281.0824 or emott@linkshall.org
Links Hall is located at 3435 N. Sheffield Avenue, Chicago.
CTA Trains/Buses: Red Line to Addison or Belmont, Brown line
to Belmont, Clark Bus to Clark/Newport.
Driving: parking is a challenge, there are meters and residential
codes apply. Pay lots are available up to $20. Please call
us for directions,
suggestions.
Links Hall is a second floor walk-up; there is no elevator
or escalator.
CLASS POLICIES
Classes are usually open to all participants with at least
beginning/intermediate skills in body/mind awareness (such
as those developed through dance, yoga, martial arts, etc.)
Please wear bare feet and comfortable clothing for movement
classes, and arrive at least 5 minutes prior to all classes
to sign in and change. Refunds only in cases of illness or
injury.
Visit the Study
Groups and Jams page for independent dance and movement
classes that occur regularly in the studio.
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JAN 10 Butoh Workshop with Nicole LeGette
JAN 17 Workshop with Goat Island Performance Group
JAN 20 Anti Gravity Surprise Inauguration Party
JAN 26 Move on Mondays with
The Moving Architects
JAN 29 Open House Community Event
FEB 1 Festival Closing Event
WORKSHOPS
When Does It or You Begin
(Memory as Innovation)
Butoh Workshop with Nicole LeGette
Topography of the Subtle Senses
Saturday, January 10, 11am-3pm
$35 Buy tickets now!
Nicole LeGette, photo by Rachel Finan
Experience an intensive workshop in butoh dance technique using themes and text from clairvoyant poet Hannah Weiner as inspiration. Facilitated by Nicole LeGette, the only artist in Chicago dedicated to performing, presenting, and teaching butoh, a provocative, rigorous dance form that originated in 1960’s Japan.
Workshop with Goat Island Performance Group
Led by Karen Christopher and Bryan Saner
Saturday, January 17, 10am-4pm
$70 Buy tickets now!
Goat Island Performance Group, photo by Nathan Madell
Learn Goat Island’s strategies for working collaboratively and investigating ideas for performance presentation, which span a 20-year history of international teaching and performance.
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COMMUNITY EVENTS
Anti Gravity Surprise
Inauguration Party with Book Launch & Panel Discussion
at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington
Tuesday, January 20, 6pm
Free, part of the January Festival
Public art group Anti Gravity Surprise celebrates the inauguration by launching the interactive workbook Tell Us What You Think. Pick up a free copy and listen to members of four local collectives talk about collaboration and group projects that they have helped to inaugurate in Chicago -- Mess Hall, the Dill Pickle Food Co-op, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, and the Chicago Women's Health Center. Come and share your ideas about a group project that you'd like to inaugurate.
Throughout the festival, look for free copies of Tell Us What You Think. Write in your own thoughts, pass it on to a friend or stranger, and track your book’s travels on the Internet at www.antigravitysurprise.org. |
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Open House hosted by Laurie Jo Reynolds, artist
Thursday, January 29, 7-9pm
(Logan Square)
$10 – Reservations and advance ticket purchase required
Part of the January Festival
Buy tickets now!
In homage to Hannah Weiner’s 1969 Street Works series, participate in readings, performance, and conversation in the homes of a Chicago poet and artist. As part of this historic series, Weiner invited the public into the homes of NYC writers and artists: Vito Acconci, Bernadette Mayer, John Perrrault, Abraham Lubelksi, Marjorie Strider, Arakawa, and into her own home as well, stating "We sat around kitchen tables or on the floor and talked and smoked or had a party. I met new friends."
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Tour of Depressing Places
by Laurie Jo Reynolds and Jeanine Oleson |
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Festival Closing Event
1968/2008:
The Inheritance of Politics and The Politics of Inheritance
Sunday, February 1, 3-5pm
Japanese American Service Committee of Chicago
4427 North Clark Street
Free, part of the January Festival
Readings and discussion with writers in celebration of the latest magazine release of AREA Chicago, a publication and event series dedicated to researching, supporting, and networking local social, political, and cultural movements.
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ALSO IN JANUARY:
Move on Mondays with The Moving Architects
Monday, January 26, 7-9pm
Learn more about Move on Mondays
Explore new forms of movement with different instructors each time on the fourth Monday of every Month at Links Hall. January facilitator: Erin Carlisle Norton from The Moving Architects. Norton, Artistic Director of The Moving Architects, leads a modern dance class influenced by Bartenieff Fundamentals, Laban Space and Effort studies, postmodern techniqes, and improvisation. The layering of these technical and expressive elements are explored through floor, standing, traveling, and final phrase combinations.
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The Moving Architects, photo by Peter McCullough |
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