POP UP PRACTICE: GROUP WORK

+ 2025 RESIDENCY PROJECT FAQS

WHAT IS THIS?

A FREE workshop to help kickstart the creative process + emergent dance piece being researched and developed during my Chicago Cultural Center Dance Studio Residency this spring with sound collaborator DJ Ariel Zetina.

WHEN: Sunday 3/16 @ 12:30 -  2:30P 

WHERE: LINKS HALL - 3111 N Western Avenue

WHAT ELSE: Its FREE! But you have to register!


WORKSHOP DETAILS:

WHAT + WHY is this happening?

  • The why is multifaceted – The workshops are to come together and dance. Full stop.

  • It’s also to help me meet new (to me) dancers or connect with familiar dancers in new ways. 

WHO is this workshop for? 

  • ALL FOLKS who have a dance practice of their own and are also willing to play around with something new.

  • ALL FOLKS who are interested in exploring, or have personal connections with the project’s theme, curiosities, questions, cultures. (See below : What is this project?")

  • ALL FOLKS who want to get a good sweat in, connect with themselves and others, and/or learn more about me and this upcoming research and development process.

  • ALL FOLKS OF ANY ADULT AGE! Are you 25? 35? 45? 55+? Please, come through. This work requires a pluralism of perspectives which requires a wide range of embodied experience, personhood, and period of life.

  • ALL FOLKS who are comfortable and experienced with diving into collaborative environments with a lead artist / with an emphasis on conversations and investigating themes collectively. The work is as expansive as are the relationships.

2025 RESIDENCY / PROJECT DETAILS:

Process/ Residency period: March - June 2025

What is this project?

During my residency, I will be continuing my exploration in (among other things):

Grief + celebration, nightlife + vigil, disorientation + desire, queer liminality, community design, choreographic ecosystems, ephemerality + bodies generating energy + wondering what gets left behind, archive + documentation + witnessing, things that flourish best in the dark, these fucking haunting-ass-times we are in, fantastical + deconstructive making, and collective power.

KEY DATES, ARTIST FEE, ETC__ 

Public Events @ The Cultural Center:

Open Studio: Tuesday, April 8 in the evening

WIP Showing: Monday, June 9  in the evening

Rehearsals vary, though are listed broadly below:

  • Fridays 10A-2P; Sundays 12-3P in APRIL

  • Fridays 10A-1P. Mondays 5P-8P in MAY

  • Mon June 2 (PM), Wed June 4 (PM), Fri June 6 (AM)

Artist Fee : $20/hr at 50-70 hours, schedule + availability pending.

REAL TALK: There’s only capacity to hire a few people for the full residency cohort. HOWEVER! The vision is to eventually grow this group to be larger in scale, so it’s really great to know who is interested + down for the (maybe not so distant) future!