How On Earth at EXPO CHGO

Saturday, April 15, 2023
Dancers / performers in front of and within a large installation made of black papers creating a large wave. Their movements are complimented by their shadows on the walls and ceiling of the parking garage / turnabout environment.

15

April
Chicago Dancemakers Forum + Natural Resources Defense Council
HOW ON EARTH: Artists Address Climate Change @ EXPO CHICAGO
Featuring: Irene Hsiao and We Are Collective

Chicago Dancemakers Forum partnered with National Resources Defense Fund last month to commission responsive works to Jennifer Wen Ma's installation "Turn of the Tide" at EXPO Chicago. Video documentation of these works by We Are Collective & 2020 Lab Artist Irene Hsiao is available online, including this collaboration between Irene and Marvin Tate & Hunter Diamond and this performance of "CRUDE" by We Are Collective.

Saturday, April 15 at 3PM & 4PM CDT.
Additional pop up dance performance by Irene Hsiao took place spontaneously throughout the day.
FREE. Navy Pier - 600 E. Grand Ave; outside the entry 2 turnabout just east of the Sable Hotel entrance
Original dance works responding to "Turn of the Tide," a site specific immersive art installation created for EXPO CHICAGO by the artist Jennifer Wen Ma. We Are Collective will premiere CRUDE, "Through vigorous movement we find the line between the unfiltered and the refined. CRUDE is an exploration of catastrophe in the macro and the micro. When a community accepts toxicity, what can we do to stop it?"
Dancers / performers in front of and within a large installation made of black papers creating a large wave. Their movements are complimented by their shadows on the walls and ceiling of the parking garage / turnabout environment.
Dancers / performers in front of and within a large installation made of black papers creating a large wave. Their movements are complimented by their shadows on the walls and ceiling of the parking garage / turnabout environment.
Dancers / performers in front of and within a large installation made of black papers creating a large wave. Their movements are complimented by their shadows on the walls and ceiling of the parking garage / turnabout environment.
Dancers / performers in front of and within a large installation made of black papers creating a large wave. Their movements are complimented by their shadows on the walls and ceiling of the parking garage / turnabout environment.

Image Captions and Credits: Irene Hsiao and We Are Collective, Photos by Taylor Emrey Glascock