FLAK is about trigger points and invisible fault lines that exist in our culture. Through the work, SPPP examines the deterioration of social infrastructures when histories are challenged and futures are assumed. Do we have the capacity to cope when cracks appear? Can we pave new ways forward through deference, or do our allegiances to sects doom us to failure?
DingBat expresses states of resiliency and perseverance, where instead of breaking, we find ways to exist in a world that can be too complex and absurd to understand.
DingBat is performed in the round at the Garage by Sam Crouch, Sydney Osborne, Chloe Michels, Anna Caffarelli, Patrick Burns and Juli Farley. Same Planet’s creative Jacob Snodgrass on lighting design.
An evening of new works choreographed by Joanna Read (Same Planet Performance Project), Zephyr Dance (Michelle Kranicke), and Sartori (Tom Brady). Each choreographer is developing work that engages with the architectural installation designed and built by SITE/less architect David Sundry.
April 21, 22, and 23 at 7:30pm.
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Featured Artists: Joanne Barrett, Tom Brady, Patrick Burns, Juli Farley, Michelle Kranicke, Chloe Michels, Monica Newsam, Richard Norwood, Joanna Read, Vin Reed, Enid Smith, Molly Fe Strom
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Venue:
SITE/less
1250W. Augusta Blvd.,
Chicago, IL 60642
After nearly a year-long hiatus, Same Planet returns to the studio to devise movement for future projects, inviting guest artists to participate in the company’s creative process. Over six weeks, an emerging Chicago based dance artist will participate in an experimental incubator with the ensemble, culminating with video documentation of the material generated over the course of the residence. The Work Room provides those in Chicago with an active interest in project-based dance the opportunity to garner experience working alongside Same Planet while expanding the company’s network and audience through new relationships with rising dance talent. Rather than returning to the company’s usual process of producing one evening-length dance examining a larger topic for a year, The Work Room encourages “quick and dirty” collaboration, creating with and for the bodies present in the room. The company will host four individual guest artists for six-week paid residencies, leaving each session with a surplus of material for future stage performance adaptations and a network of prospective ensemble members.
BAD BUNNY (2020) In Read’s world premiere she tangles with the boundaries of consent. Five dancers are cast in a forest of large abstract trees, encountering consent as wild territory. BAD BUNNY places the dancers in the human and animal worlds, exploring ideas of boundaries and permission, accepting of terms and conditions, known and unknown.
In its Chicago premiere, commissioned by SPPP, Baldwin's AMMONITE (2020) continues addressing the steady destruction of the natural world. Baldwin creates an "ecosystem" of broad emotional spectrum, using movement and sound and drawing understandings of relationality from the natural world.
MOONFACE (2019) is a dance that morphs as it evolves, playing with the idea of shifting expectations within a relationship. The dancers examine the changing forms of relationships—that two individuals can be at once bound to one another and, in another moment, utterly unrestrained and independent.
LIE THROUGH MY SKIN (2018) Read’s work exposes the roots of shame from ancient texts and cultural lore and traces it’s influence on our personal narratives. Four dancers place themselves in the roles of the shamed and shamer. Confronted with pride and powerlessness their movement reveals both the oppressive and empowering truth we share negotiating shame. Lie Through My Skin probes shame’s crafty undermining of potential, privilege, and power.
HONEY (2016) pours slowly taking audiences from casual intimacy into the allure of narcissistic pleasure. Using 1970’s disco as a source of inspiration, Honey plays within a queer space open to excess, risk, freedom, and fantasy. Disco becomes the gateway drug, transitioning the dancers into modern movement fueled by memory.
STRIPPED (2015)
A dance that explores how technology can affect the lived (social) experience. Stripped creates environments that vacillate between past, present, and future, and reminds us of what is at stake when the pervasive use of technological objects replaces human connection. The absence of technology within the work illuminates its ubiquitous presence in our everyday lives.
Read’s work explores psychic and kinetic impulses in the context of disorientation, using weather condition of invisibility-the inability to discern any horizon or shadow, known as a “whiteout” - as a metaphor for the ungrounded socio-cultural situation in which we live. WHITEOUT addresses the capacity of the human body under duress. This dance features video projections from Petra Bachmaier of LUFTWERK.
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