One night only, show//ing is an event to share three dances by choreographers Elise Cowin, Hadley Smith, and Hope Goldman.
Deets:
One night only! September 30th!
Two shows at 7p and 9p!
OuterSpace Studios (only accessibly by stairs)
Talk lead by Joanna Furnans, time tba!
Free admission! $10 suggested donation!
There will be wine!
More info about the work and choreographers:
'Dual Duo Dyptich Ass Out Redux Ad Infinitum' by Hadley Smith
This is a duet that grew out of a solo and it will grow some more but who knows how yet. I'm in it, and Emily Bock is in it, and when we made it we talked a lot about uncertainty, precarity, waiting without knowing. There is something of that in the physicality of the work that I would like to pull out more. Also, time, or, being out of time as in out of step with patterned rhythmic time.
Hadley Smith is a choreographer and dancer who lives in New York and hangs out in Chicago. She earned a BA in Dance from Barnard College in 2009 and a MFA in Dance from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana in 2016.
'Up to the Elbows' by Elise Cowin
In Up to the Elbows, my body contends with six soft sculptures, the total of which equal my weight. The beginnings of this solo grew out of my fascination with inventions for personal, wearable flying machines from the early 20th century, as well as reading Don Quixote. Strapping on wings and running down the side of a hill is a quixotic attempt at flight, and Cervantes's novel speaks to the ways fiction and fantasy collide with and shape everyday reality. I'm interested in how various technologies impact the body, as well as how we might look back to failed inventions without irony, acknowledging that eccentric attempts can result in prescient, pathetic, beautiful, absurd, or triumphant ends.
Elise Cowin is a choreographer and performer based in Chicago. Most recently, she has shown work at High Concept Labs, Mana Contemporary, Defibrillator Gallery, Sullivan Galleries, the Studebaker Theater, and The Bridge in Chicago, as well as Palazzo Albrizzi in Venice. She holds her BA in Dance from Goucher College and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
'Star Distances' by Hope Goldman in close collaboration with Julie Boruffand Tia Monet Greer
We have worked for a long time to create this duet. I lead Julie and Tia in movement invention and then shaped it to make this dance. They are the integral stars of this piece.
Hope Goldman is a dance artist who's been living and making in Chicago for 6 years. She received her MFA from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana and a BFA from the University of South Florida.
