Faye Driscoll’s newest work Weathering is a multi-sensory flesh sculpture made of bodies, sounds, scents, liquids and objects. Ten people (dancers/singers/crew) enact a glacially morphing tableau vivant on a mobile raft-like stage surging through the Anthropocene. Their voices generate a score that crescendos and resonates as they clutch, careen and cleave, in a space too small to contain them, spilling off the edges. The audience embanks the performers, close enough to smell the sweat and feel the steam of the central, spiraling scenes. The symphonically active, luminously living work is a breathing, leaking, choreography of micro events within a momentum thrusting from just beyond the perceivable. Driscoll and her team of collaborators ask: How do we feel the impact of events moving through us which are so much larger? Yet are animating and activating our bodies all the time? How do we get closer to the impact? Can we slow down enough to feel the dust, hurt, howl, absence, spill, plume?

Faye Driscoll’s newest work Weathering is a multi-sensory flesh sculpture made of bodies, sounds, scents, liquids and objects. Ten people (dancers/singers/crew) enact a glacially morphing tableau vivant on a mobile raft-like stage surging through the Anthropocene. Their voices generate a score that crescendos and resonates as they clutch, careen and cleave, in a space too small to contain them, spilling off the edges. The audience embanks the performers, close enough to smell the sweat and feel the steam of the central, spiraling scenes. The symphonically active, luminously living work is a breathing, leaking, choreography of micro events within a momentum thrusting from just beyond the perceivable. Driscoll and her team of collaborators ask: How do we feel the impact of events moving through us which are so much larger? Yet are animating and activating our bodies all the time? How do we get closer to the impact? Can we slow down enough to feel the dust, hurt, howl, absence, spill, plume?

Faye Driscoll’s newest work Weathering is a multi-sensory flesh sculpture made of bodies, sounds, scents, liquids and objects. Ten people (dancers/singers/crew) enact a glacially morphing tableau vivant on a mobile raft-like stage surging through the Anthropocene. Their voices generate a score that crescendos and resonates as they clutch, careen and cleave, in a space too small to contain them, spilling off the edges. The audience embanks the performers, close enough to smell the sweat and feel the steam of the central, spiraling scenes. The symphonically active, luminously living work is a breathing, leaking, choreography of micro events within a momentum thrusting from just beyond the perceivable. Driscoll and her team of collaborators ask: How do we feel the impact of events moving through us which are so much larger? Yet are animating and activating our bodies all the time? How do we get closer to the impact? Can we slow down enough to feel the dust, hurt, howl, absence, spill, plume?

Faye Driscoll’s newest work Weathering is a multi-sensory flesh sculpture made of bodies, sounds, scents, liquids and objects. Ten people (dancers/singers/crew) enact a glacially morphing tableau vivant on a mobile raft-like stage surging through the Anthropocene. Their voices generate a score that crescendos and resonates as they clutch, careen and cleave, in a space too small to contain them, spilling off the edges. The audience embanks the performers, close enough to smell the sweat and feel the steam of the central, spiraling scenes. The symphonically active, luminously living work is a breathing, leaking, choreography of micro events within a momentum thrusting from just beyond the perceivable. Driscoll and her team of collaborators ask: How do we feel the impact of events moving through us which are so much larger? Yet are animating and activating our bodies all the time? How do we get closer to the impact? Can we slow down enough to feel the dust, hurt, howl, absence, spill, plume?

Faye Driscoll’s newest work Weathering is a multi-sensory flesh sculpture made of bodies, sounds, scents, liquids and objects. Ten people (dancers/singers/crew) enact a glacially morphing tableau vivant on a mobile raft-like stage surging through the Anthropocene. Their voices generate a score that crescendos and resonates as they clutch, careen and cleave, in a space too small to contain them, spilling off the edges. The audience embanks the performers, close enough to smell the sweat and feel the steam of the central, spiraling scenes. The symphonically active, luminously living work is a breathing, leaking, choreography of micro events within a momentum thrusting from just beyond the perceivable. Driscoll and her team of collaborators ask: How do we feel the impact of events moving through us which are so much larger? Yet are animating and activating our bodies all the time? How do we get closer to the impact? Can we slow down enough to feel the dust, hurt, howl, absence, spill, plume?

Faye Driscoll’s newest work Weathering is a multi-sensory flesh sculpture made of bodies, sounds, scents, liquids and objects. Ten people (dancers/singers/crew) enact a glacially morphing tableau vivant on a mobile raft-like stage surging through the Anthropocene. Their voices generate a score that crescendos and resonates as they clutch, careen and cleave, in a space too small to contain them, spilling off the edges. The audience embanks the performers, close enough to smell the sweat and feel the steam of the central, spiraling scenes. The symphonically active, luminously living work is a breathing, leaking, choreography of micro events within a momentum thrusting from just beyond the perceivable. Driscoll and her team of collaborators ask: How do we feel the impact of events moving through us which are so much larger? Yet are animating and activating our bodies all the time? How do we get closer to the impact? Can we slow down enough to feel the dust, hurt, howl, absence, spill, plume?

Faye Driscoll’s newest work Weathering is a multi-sensory flesh sculpture made of bodies, sounds, scents, liquids and objects. Ten people (dancers/singers/crew) enact a glacially morphing tableau vivant on a mobile raft-like stage surging through the Anthropocene. Their voices generate a score that crescendos and resonates as they clutch, careen and cleave, in a space too small to contain them, spilling off the edges. The audience embanks the performers, close enough to smell the sweat and feel the steam of the central, spiraling scenes. The symphonically active, luminously living work is a breathing, leaking, choreography of micro events within a momentum thrusting from just beyond the perceivable. Driscoll and her team of collaborators ask: How do we feel the impact of events moving through us which are so much larger? Yet are animating and activating our bodies all the time? How do we get closer to the impact? Can we slow down enough to feel the dust, hurt, howl, absence, spill, plume?

Lucky Plush Productions presents Right Here, created by Melinda Jean Myers in collaboration with Lucky Plush ensemble members and composer/musician Lex Leto. This new dance-theater work explores how the body holds opposing states of motivation and apathy, abundance and loss, and hope and despair during a climate crisis. Through visual storytelling and shared choreographies, the ensemble seeks a roadmap for greater awareness and collective action.

Lucky Plush Productions presents Right Here, created by Melinda Jean Myers in collaboration with Lucky Plush ensemble members and composer/musician Lex Leto. This new dance-theater work explores how the body holds opposing states of motivation and apathy, abundance and loss, and hope and despair during a climate crisis. Through visual storytelling and shared choreographies, the ensemble seeks a roadmap for greater awareness and collective action.

Lucky Plush Productions presents Right Here, created by Melinda Jean Myers in collaboration with Lucky Plush ensemble members and composer/musician Lex Leto. This new dance-theater work explores how the body holds opposing states of motivation and apathy, abundance and loss, and hope and despair during a climate crisis. Through visual storytelling and shared choreographies, the ensemble seeks a roadmap for greater awareness and collective action.

Friday and Saturday, April 26-27, 7:30 p.m.        

Tickets: $50 Festival 2-Week Pass, $30 Single Ticket or Choose Your Own Donation Amount
Note: $25 of the Festival Pass is a tax-deductible donation.
FREE for Columbia College Chicago Students

Award-winning Chicago artists showcase the vibrancy of Chicago’s dance ecosystem over a two-week festival that pushes concert dance in new ways. Dancemaker and poet J’Sun Howard (BFA Dance ‘19), kinetic philosopher Ayako Kato (USA Artist Fellow), pop-fringe creator Erin Kilmurray (BA Dance ‘08) with Kara Brody (Lucky Plush), and artist/activist SJ Swilley (Red Clay Dance Company) engage audiences on a journey through Grant Park and the Dance Center itself.

Friday and Saturday, April 26-27, 7:30 p.m.        

Tickets: $50 Festival 2-Week Pass, $30 Single Ticket or Choose Your Own Donation Amount
Note: $25 of the Festival Pass is a tax-deductible donation.
FREE for Columbia College Chicago Students

Award-winning Chicago artists showcase the vibrancy of Chicago’s dance ecosystem over a two-week festival that pushes concert dance in new ways. Dancemaker and poet J’Sun Howard (BFA Dance ‘19), kinetic philosopher Ayako Kato (USA Artist Fellow), pop-fringe creator Erin Kilmurray (BA Dance ‘08) with Kara Brody (Lucky Plush), and artist/activist SJ Swilley (Red Clay Dance Company) engage audiences on a journey through Grant Park and the Dance Center itself.

Links Hall Gathering, Performance, Fundraiser

Freedom From and Freedom To, led by Cristal Sabbagh, invites a pair of movement and sound improvisors from across Chicago to gather in front of a live audience, where they are grouped by chance. Artist Kinnari Vora dives into ritual with her piece Kissing The Earth, an offering to the ancestors who lived and breathed and at the same time are alive within us.

Lucky Plush Productions is in residence at Trillium Arts in Mars Hill, NC September 10-September 15. This performance is a work-in-process of what has culminated in this past week’s research and development process.

Right Here is a dance-theater-rock-musical that explores how the body holds opposing states of motivation and apathy, abundance and loss, and hope and despair during a climate crisis. Through visual storytelling and shared choreographies, the ensemble seeks a roadmap for greater awareness and collective action. 

We’re back at Thalia Hall with an all-new four-night production, marking our 13th season and most powerful show yet. Cabaret, burlesque, camp, theater, variety, and nightlife performances converge on stage and off in a high-velocity spectacle that pulses with radical joy and self-love, leaving audiences and performers more empowered than they came.

Each night features a rotating cast of nationally lauded musicians, comedians, dancers, drag artists, DJs, and more, all backed by a nine-piece band and featuring original music by Chicago artists. This year’s lineup includes Ariel Zetina, Bambi Banks-Couleé, Adam Ness, Eunji Kim, Christian Aldana, Mira La Morena, and more.

We’re back at Thalia Hall with an all-new four-night production, marking our 13th season and most powerful show yet. Cabaret, burlesque, camp, theater, variety, and nightlife performances converge on stage and off in a high-velocity spectacle that pulses with radical joy and self-love, leaving audiences and performers more empowered than they came.

Each night features a rotating cast of nationally lauded musicians, comedians, dancers, drag artists, DJs, and more, all backed by a nine-piece band and featuring original music by Chicago artists. This year’s lineup includes Ariel Zetina, Bambi Banks-Couleé, Adam Ness, Eunji Kim, Christian Aldana, Mira La Morena, and more.

We’re back at Thalia Hall with an all-new four-night production, marking our 13th season and most powerful show yet. Cabaret, burlesque, camp, theater, variety, and nightlife performances converge on stage and off in a high-velocity spectacle that pulses with radical joy and self-love, leaving audiences and performers more empowered than they came.

Each night features a rotating cast of nationally lauded musicians, comedians, dancers, drag artists, DJs, and more, all backed by a nine-piece band and featuring original music by Chicago artists. This year’s lineup includes Ariel Zetina, Bambi Banks-Couleé, Adam Ness, Eunji Kim, Christian Aldana, Mira La Morena, and more.

We’re back at Thalia Hall with an all-new four-night production, marking our 13th season and most powerful show yet. Cabaret, burlesque, camp, theater, variety, and nightlife performances converge on stage and off in a high-velocity spectacle that pulses with radical joy and self-love, leaving audiences and performers more empowered than they came.

Each night features a rotating cast of nationally lauded musicians, comedians, dancers, drag artists, DJs, and more, all backed by a nine-piece band and featuring original music by Chicago artists. This year’s lineup includes Ariel Zetina, Bambi Banks-Couleé, Adam Ness, Eunji Kim, Christian Aldana, Mira La Morena, and more.