Chicago Artist Spotlight Festival Week 1
ETHOS IV: Degrowth/Cycle/Rebirth
This outdoor/indoor ambulatory performance traverses roughly 1.2 miles from Chicago’s lakefront into the Dance Center in a collaboration with biologist and storyteller Billie Warren, a member of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi; Dave Spencer and his indigenous drum group, dance artists Asimina Chremos, Rosely Conz, and Carl Gruby, and artist/writer/performer Andy Slater.
The performance experience involves the audience moving from place to place in Grant Park and at the Dance Center (week 2). Please wear footwear that allows you to move comfortably and dress to spend at least one hour outdoors.
If you need accommodations to participate, please email columbiatickets@colum.edu or call 312-369-8330.
Ayako Kato is a kinetic philosopher/poet and contemporary choreographer/dancer originally from Yokohama, Japan. In 2023, she received a United States Artist Fellowship and enshrined in the Hall of Fame in Dance by Newcity Stage Magazine’s Players: Who Really Performs for Chicago (recognized in 2014, 2018, 2020). Called “moving everyday sculptures, artfully cast in naturalness” (Luzerner Zeitung, Switzerland), her project, Ayako Kato/Art Union Humanscape, started 1998, is in deep collaboration with live music and grounded on the principles of fūryū, Japanese for “wind flow”, cyclical transformation and human motion in nature.
Photos by William Frederking
The Chicago Artist Spotlight Festival is made possible in part by Alphawood Foundation, a grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.
Ayako Kato’s ETHOS IV: Degrowth/Rebirth/Cycle is made possible in part by A. Montgomery Ward Foundation.
SJ Swilley is supported by the Chicago Dancemakers Forum 2023 Production Residency Program.
