LinkUP Resident Artists Showcase

Event Type
Performance
Event Description
LinkUP is Links Hall's six month residency program supporting Chicago based independent artists and collaboratives in the research, development and presentation of new innovative work in movement based arts.
Co-produced by Isabel Diepa, Alana Parekh, Joshua Hoglund and Anna Trier.

Tickets: $12 online; $15 door

Isabel Dieppa focuses on storytelling through physical theatre, mixed media, and dance. Through her work Isabel seeks to bring people to the table to discuss the problems we have as a society and find a solution.

Alana Parekh is a mystic who allows her body to act as a vessel for the creation of art. The idea of reincarnation and intuition are key components of Alana's creative process, as well as a sense of humor. Alana is most interested in using humor as an access point to relay information about the current psyche of our world 

Isabel and Alana are developing a collaborative and comedic multidisciplinary dance theater performance that aims to expose and ignite a conversation about the environmental, racial, sexual, professional and societal implications of female body hair. Research for this project includes interviewing the general public and gender studies educators about their opinions and history with body hair, gathering statistics about the environmental (water usage, plastic production, etc.) and economic effects associated with various hair removal methods (waxing, shaving, laser etc.), learning about the history of hair removal across cultures, and generating movement and generating movement and theatrical dance scenes as a way to organize all of this information into a performance. Their LinkUP Mentor is Nibia Pastrana Santiago.

Joshua Hoglund re-members stories in performance and makes a spectacle out of the mundane and overlooked. His performance is a dance-lecture about how faces and emotions are co-emergent, and how kissing provides a slippery supposition between two faces; a respite from communication, where sensation's precedence over perception blurs subjective boundaries. His LinkUP Mentor is Patrick Durgin. 

Josh, together and his collaborators: Elise Cowin, Christine Shallenberg, Ryan Wright with Evan Hill (dramaturge), are investigating: When we kiss, where do our faces go? When you feel an emotion, what happens to all the other potential emotions that might have been? In this performance I will kiss you. I hope we kiss. To be running breathlessly but to have not yet arrived is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope. Now that we are here, now that we are face to face, how might we get to a kiss? 

The performance is a dance-lecture about how faces and emotions are co-emergent, and how kissing provides a slippery supposition between two faces; a respite from communication, where sensation's precedence over perception blurs subjective boundaries.

 

Dance Styles
Multi-disciplinary
Modern / Contemporary

Location

Links Hall

3111 N. Western Ave. at Constellation
Chicago, IL 60618
(773) 281-0824