Tuesday, February 12, 6:00 pm
Choreography: Margi Cole, Artistic Director, with Ken Daley, Columbia College
Margi Cole is not the first fan of the Brontë sisters to make a pilgrimage to Haworth, their isolated home on the Yorkshire moors. But what she came away with is unique: inspiration for Written on the Body, a dance about the three Victorian women who published under male pseudonyms. See the company perform movements from the piece, and join Margi Cole in conversation with Brontë scholar Ken Daley about masculine and feminine duality in the works and lives of Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Brontë.
The DanceCOLEctive will perform Written on the Body February 21, 22, and 23 at Columbia College Dance Center. In March, the company begins a national tour. For tickets and information, call (312) 344-6600 or visit www.colum.edu/dancecenter.
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| The Seldoms - photo credit: William Frederking |
Thursday, March 20, 6:00 pm
Choreography: Carrie Hanson, Artistic Director
Text and dramaturgy: Doug Stapleton, Artistic Associate
Sound design: dancer/actor Liz Burritt and composer Corbett Lunsford/Mysteriam
Video collage: painter Jackie Kazarian with Doug Stapleton
The Seldoms, a Chicago-based dance and performance company, presents a preview of Monument, a new work inspired by a landfill that can be seen from space. The largest manmade object in the world is an "accidental monument." Through choreography, sound, and image, the Seldoms' new contemporary dance work considers the acts of preservation, creation, and destruction in balancing short term concerns with long-term prosperity and survival. What are the tensions between our dual identities as consumer and citizen, between private goods and the public good? And what are the personal, social, and environmental effects of our collective and individual acts of production, consumption-and disposal?
Admission to the preview and discussion is free. No reservation is required.
Monument will premiere at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, April 3, 4, 5, and 10, 11, 12. For tickets and information,
visit www.theseldoms.org or call (312) 328-0303.
The Newberry Library
Center for Public Programs
60 West Walton Street
Chicago, IL 60610-7324