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!