Cycles

"Cycles" features works by four Chicago dancemakers: Gabriela Chavez, Ginger Farley, Carrie Hanson, and Rigo Saura.

Presented by The Seldoms, Ginger Farley, and Hedwig Dances at The Ruth Page Center for the Arts on July 12th and 13th, 2024.

All at Once

Choreography: Carrie Hanson (Artistic Director, The Seldoms)
Performance: Haley Marcin
Music: Silent Relay by Tim Daisy

In making this solo with origins in a 2005 solo made with Joanna Rosenthal Read, Hanson and Marcin attempted to apply principles of cubism to dance, interested in the shaping and torque of the body as the dancer tries to reveal multiple facings and perspectives at once. “All at Once” draws particularly from Pablo Picasso's 1907 painting, Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon, and works also to challenge and deny the gaze, recovering some agency of the figure. Hanson was moved to return to the solo during the 50th Anniversary of Picasso’s death, and the solo was performed recently at the Art Institute of Chicago in proximity to his paintings.

between

“Bardo means gap….There are all kinds of bardo experiences happening to us all the time.…birth and death apply to everybody constantly, at this very moment.” The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Fremantle & Trungpa)

Dance: Adeline Else, Jeff Hancock, Rigo Saura
Music: Shannon Budd and Ryan Ingebritsen
Choreographic Direction: Ginger Farley
Design: Jeff Hancock

With source material from Tibetan Buddhism, adult developmental psychology, Brahms, fiction, the natural world, and lived experience, this dance explores the experience of being between embedded or coalesced states. “between” originated as a solo dance created with, and performed by Jeff Hancock, with music by Ryan Ingebritsen, commissioned by Joanna Rosenthal Read and Same Planet Performance Project in 2005. The new dance contains vestigial elements from the previous one.

All movement invention is specific to, and made by those who are dancing it.

Many thanks go out to Jan Bartoszek, Tommy DeFrantz, Joanna Furnans, Carrie Hanson, Joseph Houseal, Shawn Lent, Althea Northage-Orr, Joanna Read, Molly Shanahan, Bob Shapiro, and all of the beautiful artists whose work you see and hear during this performance.

ciclos

Choreography: Gabriela Chavez with the dancers
Performance: Damon D. Green and Haley Marcin
Music:

ciclos is a movement dialogue to understand feelings of numbness and anger within the experience of grief, toward acceptance and redefining ourselves. A tender and quiet duet, ciclos is a score celebrating vulnerability as strength.

KUBA

Choreography: Rigo Saura (Artistic Associate of Hedwig Dances and Links Hall 2023 Co-Mission Artist)
Music, Costume and Stage Design: Rigo Saura

KUBA is an exploration of Saura’s cultural roots. Weaving Latin and Afro-Cuban history together, Rigo’s work is set against a backdrop of historical motion pictures of 50s everyday life in Cuba. He focuses on improvisational movement and repetition, emphasizing vibrant Afro-Cuban movement and contemporary dance practices in relation to music, dramatization in relation to and the internalized experience of his roots. Saura’s work proposes a reflection upon the relationship between Cuba and the United States of America in the 50s and a personal inheritance of his country of origin.

Lighting Design and Stage Management for Cycles by Julie E. Ballard.

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