Grasp Grip

May 19 & 20, 8:00pm | May 21, 3:00pm

Experimental Station | 6100 S Blackstone Ave

Tickets by Donation | Suggested Donation $25, $20 industry

Local dancemakers The Space Movement Project (“TSMP”) and recently launched The Rooted Space Company partner to present an evening of new works. TSMP presents their improvisational work-in-practice “Refraction” and The Rooted Space premieres their evening-length contemporary work “Let the Record Show”

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The Space Movement Project’s “Refraction” is an ongoing improvisational score cultivated over six years in practice. Performers continually submit to the roles of witness and mover; allowing a landscape of textural shifts to manipulate both their impulses and experience. The work features an original sound design developed in collaboration with Chicago-based musician Patrick Stonehouse. Featuring Chicago-based artists Kimberly Baker, Elise Butterfield, Stefany Cotton, Sofía Gabriel, Anne Kasdorf and Leah Raffanti.

Choreographed by The Rooted Space Company co-director, Stefany Cotton, “Let the Record Show” is an immersive, multi-sensory full-length work. Within its inaugural process, the emerging company has unearthed familiarity in the unexpected and shared experiences that translate to a journey of hilarity, poignancy, and discovery. Featuring Chicago-based artists Stephanie Anderson, Mia Barnett, Tina Diaz, Ella Dorman, Ashley Johnson, and Stephen Patterson.