Daria Martin: Sensorium Tests
Dates: 7/4/2009 - 10/18/2009
Location: Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, IL
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Times: 9:00AM-9:00PM
Phone: 312-397-4034
Address:
220 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL
Description:
As part of its participation in the 3M Consortium Project with the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, the MCA has commissioned a work by the London-based American artist Daria Martin. Her elusive enigmatic films combine the intense ritualistic performativity with a rigorous yet detached photographic approach. Her 16mm film, Minotaur, runs approximately 10 minutes and pays tribute to the work of dancer Anna Halprin, one of the key pioneers of postmodern dance and movement along with Trisha Brown, Simone Forti, and Yvonne Rainer. Halprin's life and work has had a profound influence on Martin in the implicit sensuality of the protagonists in her films and in their demonstration of a heightened awareness of the body and its relationship to other objects and the surrounding space.
LeapFest 6
Dates: 5/12/2009 - 5/30/2009
Location: Stage Left Theater
Chicago, IL
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Times: 7:30pm
Email: john@stagelefttheatre.com
Phone: Stage Left Theater
Address:
3408 North Sheffield
Chicago, IL
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The sixth edition of Stage Lefts prolific new play festival brings audiences whats next in Chicago theatre. LeapFest 6 will include five new, socio-political plays in rotating repertory. The plays will be announced in early 2009. The festivals first five years have so far graduated ten plays to world premiere productions in Chicago and beyond, with three of these receiving the Jeff Award for Best New Work.
Chicago Chamber Musicians: Strange News
Dates: 5/8/2009 - 5/8/2009
Location: Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, IL
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Times: 9:00AM-9:00PM
Phone: 312-397-4034
Address:
220 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL
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Inspired by news reports of child soldiers in Africa, Norwegian composer Rolf Wallin created this musical documentary together with director Josse de Paauw for actor, ensemble, surround sound, and video screen. Despite the harrowing stories that the artists captured through interviews in Uganda and the Congo, the work offers a glimmer of hope in the ceremonies of song and dance through which these brutalized children are re-integrated into society.
Take your time: Olafur Eliasson
Dates: 5/1/2009 - 9/13/2009
Location: Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, IL
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Times: 9:00AM-9:00PM
Phone: 312-397-4034
Address:
220 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL
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Take your time: Olafur Eliasson is the first comprehensive survey in the United States of works by Olafur Eliasson, whose immersive environments, sculptures, and photographs elegantly recreate the extremes of landscape and atmosphere in his native Scandinavia, while foregrounding the sensory experience of the work itself. Drawn from collections worldwide, the presentation spans over fifteen years of Eliasson's career. His constructions, at once eccentric and highly geometric, use multicolored washes, focused projections of light, mirrors, and elements such as water, stone, and moss to shift the viewer's perception of place and self. By transforming the gallery into a hybrid space of nature and culture, Eliasson prompts an intensive engagement with the world and offers a fresh consideration of everyday life.
Compagnie Marie Chouinard: Orpheus and Eurydice
Dates: 4/19/2009 - 4/19/2009
Location: Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, IL
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Times: 9:00AM-9:00PM
Phone: 312-397-4034
Address:
220 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL
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Always innovative and often provocative, artist and choreographer Marie Chouinard's newest work is a dramatic ballet for 10 dancers. Based on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, Chouinard's version features elements of experimental theatre, dramatic lighting, and powerful body movement in Chouinard's signature style - intense, adventurous, and sensuous.