
Chicago Athletic Association presents
Grit
Chicago Athletic Association presents
Multi-disciplinary
Performance
60Running Time
The piece resists polish in favor of immediacy and lived decision-making. Repetition erodes individual dominance, revealing relational dependencies born of exhaustion. Material objects — tape, platforms, microphones, loop pedals, clothes, and towels — are introduced as malleable architectures that divide space and bodies, establishing systems that demand effort to maintain.
Fluidity, through sweat, spit, water, texturizes the arc from confrontation toward pliability, as performers soften into each other’s seeping bodies and hierarchical dominance gives way to something more fluid.
Grit is both a performance and a practice. A space where bodies test the limits of effort and discover what remains when force is no longer sustainable. It is a work that unfolds through friction and failure, inviting performers and audiences into a shared experience of negotiation, vulnerability, and becoming.
Chicago Athletic Association
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Chicago, IL 60603


