2022 Events Archives - Chicago DanceMakers Forum https://chicagodancemakers.org/shows-category/2022-events/ Chicago Dancemakers Forum catalyzes the growth and artistic fulfillment of Chicago’s dancemakers. Thu, 08 Jun 2023 18:37:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/chicagodancemakers.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/cropped-CDF_FacebookProfile.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 2022 Events Archives - Chicago DanceMakers Forum https://chicagodancemakers.org/shows-category/2022-events/ 32 32 183242534 Elevate Chicago Dance 2022 https://chicagodancemakers.org/show-item/elevate-chicago-dance-2022/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=elevate-chicago-dance-2022 https://chicagodancemakers.org/show-item/elevate-chicago-dance-2022/#respond Thu, 13 Oct 2022 18:57:01 +0000 https://chicagodancemakers.org/?post_type=show-item&p=9522 The post Elevate Chicago Dance 2022 appeared first on Chicago DanceMakers Forum.

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Image Captions and Credits: Rahila Coats, Jenn Freeman, Zachary Nicol, and Anna Martine Whitehead – FORCE! Forceanopera at Pivot Arts Festival 2022, Edge Theater. Photo by William Frederking.

ID: Four Black femmes in denim and t-shirts roll over and across one another, their arms, legs, and puffs going in many directions. One person is lying atop a railing. Another person is blurred looking in from the foreground.

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]]> https://chicagodancemakers.org/show-item/elevate-chicago-dance-2022/feed/ 0 9522 Improvisers’ Dance Jam at Big Marsh https://chicagodancemakers.org/show-item/dance-jam/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dance-jam https://chicagodancemakers.org/show-item/dance-jam/#respond Sat, 24 Sep 2022 19:22:17 +0000 https://chicagodancemakers.org/?post_type=show-item&p=8837 Chicago Dancemakers Forum partners with M.A.D.D. Rhythms, We Are Collective, and [UN]Common Grounds for a day of improvisational dance practices. Free event. Open to all. 

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Image Captions and Credits: A collage of four dance images.

1: [Un]Common Grounds, Photo by Omar Cardenas [ID: A genuine moment of Artists being in space with one another and finding ways to make it work with the respective differences. Four are dancing in a seated position, some are standing and engaging in different, joyful ways. They are outside on a concrete area of a park.]

2: We Are Collective, Photo by Phylinese Brooks; Featured: Nik LaMacck (he/him) and Reign Drop Winker (they/them), Co-Founders of We Are Dance Collective [ID: One white male dancer and one white non-binary dancer connect hand to head in an open field of green grass in the warm sunlight. He is wearing a brown, green, and yellow printed long sleeve button down, brown dance pants, and boots. They are wearing a white, blue and green vertically striped short sleeve button down shirt and printed blue dance pants, and black boots.]

3: Natural Encounters 2019, Photo by Enki Andrews; Featured: Ayako Kato [ID: A group of dancers in action outdoors in a marsh parkland, surrounded by trees and tall grasses.]

4: M.A.D.D. Rhythms, Courtesy of the Company; Featured: (l-r front) Donnetta “LilBit” Jackson, Andrew Carr, (l-r back) William J. Wims, Izaiah Harris [ID: A group of six tapdancers in action outdoors in the evening.]

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]]> https://chicagodancemakers.org/show-item/dance-jam/feed/ 0 8837 Pivot Arts – Day of Dance https://chicagodancemakers.org/show-item/pivot-arts-day-of-dance/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pivot-arts-day-of-dance https://chicagodancemakers.org/show-item/pivot-arts-day-of-dance/#respond Sun, 12 Jun 2022 16:10:57 +0000 https://chicagodancemakers.org/?post_type=show-item&p=9279 The post Pivot Arts – Day of Dance appeared first on Chicago DanceMakers Forum.

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Meet other local dancemakers and discuss relevant topics that you want to explore during the Year of Chicago Dance (2022). Chicago Dancemakers Forum is offering a series of artists-to-artists teas that are collectively facilitated by those in attendance, unstreamed, and unrecorded. To address isolation and support resource sharing, these open conversations among peers are formatted around affinity groups. Held via Zoom on Fridays at 3pm CT, unless otherwise indicated.

Schedule:

March 4: OPEN TO ALL CHICAGO DANCEMAKERS

March 11: Black Chicago Dancemakers

For Chicago dancemakers who identify as Black, African, Afro-Caribbean, or African American.

March 18: Chicago Dancemakers + Immigration

For Chicago dancemakers who Identify as Immigrants, Refugees, or Migrants or are closely connected to issues of immigration.

March 25: Early Career Chicago Dancemakers

For Chicago dancemakers who Identify as being Early-Career or Emerging Artists.

April 1: Chicago Dancemakers Over 50

For Chicago dancemakers 50 years of age or older.

April 8: Parent/Caregiver Chicago Dancemakers

For Chicago dancemakers who are parents and/or caregivers.

April 15: Queer Chicago Dancemakers

For Chicago dancemakers who Identify as Queer or part of the LGBTQIA+ community.

April 22: OPEN TO ALL CHICAGO DANCEMAKERS

April 29: Hispanohablante Chicago Dancemakers

Una conversación en español para todos los artistas de baile de Chicago de habla hispana. [For Spanish-Speaking Chicago Dancemakers.]

May 6: Chicago Dancemakers with Disabilities

For Chicago Dancemakers with Disabilities, Chronic Illness/Injury, or Mental Illness.

May 13: Asian Chicago Dancemakers

For Chicago Dancemakers who identify as Asian; South, East, or Southeast Asian; Pacific Islander or Indigenous; and/or part of the AAPI community.

 

IMPORTANT NOTE: These gatherings are intended for all Chicago dance artists who identify with each identity/affinity group in order to build community among those artists. These are not educational opportunities for allies; if that is what you seek, please contact Chicago Dancemakers Forum staff for resources on allyship.

REGISTER

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Artists share new works and experiences developed as part of Chicago Dancemakers Forum’s Lab Artists Program.
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APRIL 2023
Kinnari Vora
Antarabhava

Kinnari Vora / Ishti Collective’s new work Antarabhava explores humanity’s impermanence, portraying ways that society can accept death to live presently while highlighting different cultural practices of grieving and healing. Loosely based on the Tibetan Bardo philosophy, Antarabhava (translated to “the phase in between) will be an interactive experience, including Ishti’s Indian contemporary dance work, communal healing rituals, and sensorial aspects of food, scent and live music all intended to help people explore different ways to live and grieve.

Performance information to be announced.
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JUNE 10, 2023
Kia S. Smith
Memoirs of Jazz In The Alley

South Chicago Dance Theatre (SCDT) will make their Auditorium Theatre debut on June 10, 2023 as the finale of the Made in Chicago series. The company will present the world premiere of Kia S. Smith’s Lab Artist project, Memoirs of Jazz In The Alley, a celebration of Chicago’s jazz history and the legacy of renowned saxophonist Jimmy Ellis.

In Person: Saturday, June 10, 2023 at Auditorium Theatre
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AVAILABLE NOW
Fabulous Freddie Prodigy
The Chronicles of Fabulous Freddie Prodigy

Fabulous Freddie Prodigy presented a living document performance, “The Chronicles of Fabulous Freddie Prodigy – Coming Out & Coming Together: A Home Warming Party Performance” in October. The event was held at and sponsored by 21c Museum Hotel Chicago. “Coming Out & Coming Together: A Home Warming Party Performance” invites you to experience his embodied home-made-whole as he takes the audience into an autobiographical journey chronicling his life as a young Black Gay man coming into self-claimed greatness through his three super hero variant identities. This multi-practice and multi-media performance enlists dance, video projection, sonic soundscape narratives, and wearable art to weave a story of healing, heroism and humor into a fabulous epic tale of alchemizing surviving into thriving and shining.

An album of original tracks from the project is available for purchase, streaming, and download on Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music, and similar platforms. Search for “Vibe Variants.”
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AUGUST 25, 2022
Star Dixon
Freedom Grooves Cypher

2022 Lab Artist and 2022 Dancemaker-In-Residence at Rebuild Foundation, Star Dixon presents the Freedom Grooves Cypher. This open jam is welcome to all with a special invitation to Chicago’s Tap Dancers, Drummers, African Dancers, & Afro Beat Lovers. Sounds by @mikeabrantie Special performance by Star and @foreign_yems. FREE EVENT.

In Person: Thursday, August 25, 5-9pm, Retreat At Currency Exchange (305 E Garfield)
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OCTOBER 1-2, 2022
Marcela E Torres
Fire Drilling

Marcela E Torres will be premiering their Lab Year project “Iyapokatzin; the venerable tobacco smoke” at Pilsen’s El Paseo Community Garden (944 W. 21st) on Saturday, October 1 at 7PM and Little Village’s Malinalli Garden (S. Ridgeway Ave. & 28th St) on Sunday, October 2 at 7PM. This choreographic work honors the history of tobacco from a Mexican perspective through Torres’ years of research and devotion to tobacco as a deity. Iyapokatzin is a Nahuatl (Uto-Aztecan language) word and its English translation “venerable tobacco smoke” highlight the intentions of this ritual. This production with collaborator Izayo Mazehualli combines performance with sculpture, taking place at the sites of Torres’ outdoor adobe monument  Xochiotia, and features live music by Chicago DJ LA Spacer.

In Person: Saturday, October 1, 2022 at 7 PM El Paseo Community Garden (944 W. 21st St., Chicago, IL)

Header Image: Chicago Dancemakers Forum 2022 Lab Artists (Star Dixon, Diamond Hardiman, Marcela E Torres, Kia S. Smith, Fabulous Freddie Prodigy, and Kinnari Vora), Photo by Matt Marion.

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