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Earthly Tongues
Ruth Page Theater
1016 North Dearborn, Chicago, IL
Friday & Saturday, May 16 & 17, 8:00 pm
Sunday, May 18 at 3:00 pm
Tickets: $22; $15 students/seniors
For info or tickets call 773-871-0872 or
Online
Hedwig Dances launches its 24th season with the premiere of Earthly
Tongues, a new work by artistic director Jan Bartoszek. Earthly
Tongues mines the rich terrain of ancestry and memory. With hearty
doses of humor and pungency, the dance examines what we know,
what we don’t know and what we fantasize about our collective and
individual origins. Collaborating on the work are Stone (original music
score); Petra Poul Bachmaier of luftwerk (video); Margaret Nelson
(lighting); and, Tatjana Radisic (costumes).
The evening also includes Bartoszek’s 2002 work, Ache of the Arc, a
quintet performed on a set of ladders and walls. Ache of the Arc
contrasts the human capacity for extraordinary kindness and
profound cruelty and probes the disorientation, panic and
apprehension sown by fear. The dance includes sound design and
music by Chris Johnson, set by Bernard Chin, costumes by Alison
Heryer, and lighting by Margaret Nelson .
Dancers: Victor Alexander, Justin Deschamps, Joseph Ensign,
Maray Gutierrez, Kirsty Mackellar, Jen Meek, Zach Zube.
Ruth Page Theater
1016 North Dearborn, Chicago, IL
Friday & Saturday, May 16 & 17, 8:00 pm
Sunday, May 18 at 3:00 pm
Tickets: $22; $15 students/seniors
For info or tickets call 773-871-0872 or
Online
Hedwig Dances launches its 24th season with the premiere of Earthly
Tongues, a new work by artistic director Jan Bartoszek. Earthly
Tongues mines the rich terrain of ancestry and memory. With hearty
doses of humor and pungency, the dance examines what we know,
what we don’t know and what we fantasize about our collective and
individual origins. Collaborating on the work are Stone (original music
score); Petra Poul Bachmaier of luftwerk (video); Margaret Nelson
(lighting); and, Tatjana Radisic (costumes).
The evening also includes Bartoszek’s 2002 work, Ache of the Arc, a
quintet performed on a set of ladders and walls. Ache of the Arc
contrasts the human capacity for extraordinary kindness and
profound cruelty and probes the disorientation, panic and
apprehension sown by fear. The dance includes sound design and
music by Chris Johnson, set by Bernard Chin, costumes by Alison
Heryer, and lighting by Margaret Nelson .
Dancers: Victor Alexander, Justin Deschamps, Joseph Ensign,
Maray Gutierrez, Kirsty Mackellar, Jen Meek, Zach Zube.
Hedwig Dances is supported by grants from the Mayer and Morris Kaplan Family Foundation; The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation,
the Arts Works Fund for Organizational Development, a donor advised fund of the Chicago Community Foundation; The MacArthur
Fund for Arts and Culture at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation; Alphawood Foundation; Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley
Foundation; a grant from the Chicago Wallace Audience Engagement Network, a collaboration between the Wallace Foundation and
the Chicago Community Trust; CityArtsII; The Illinois Arts Council (a state agency); and many generous individuals. Hedwig
Dances also gratefully acknowledges the assistance of The Chicago Cultural Center.
the Arts Works Fund for Organizational Development, a donor advised fund of the Chicago Community Foundation; The MacArthur
Fund for Arts and Culture at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation; Alphawood Foundation; Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley
Foundation; a grant from the Chicago Wallace Audience Engagement Network, a collaboration between the Wallace Foundation and
the Chicago Community Trust; CityArtsII; The Illinois Arts Council (a state agency); and many generous individuals. Hedwig
Dances also gratefully acknowledges the assistance of The Chicago Cultural Center.
Jennifer Meek in Earthly Tongues
Photo by Eileen Ryan
Photo by Eileen Ryan
Petra Poul Bachmaier of luftwerk (video)
Petra Poul Bachmaier and her husband Sean Gallero formed their company luftwerk to envision and create multi-sensory video and projection experiences.
They engage in designing environments that allow for video imagery to become sculptural, and in transforming a space into a moving canvas of fleeting
images, where internal realities and external fields playfully overlap. They have shown their work in the United States and Germany. Bachmaier graduated
with a BFA in performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received her MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg, Germany.
Margaret Nelson (lighting design)
Margaret Nelson has received two Ruth Page Dance Achievement Awards for Lighting Design and Major Contribution to the Dance Community, and a Joseph
Jefferson Citation for Lighting Design at the Organic Theatre. Her design projects and production management have taker to every state of the USA and six
continents. She has taught Light Master classes from Northwestern University to Duluth, MN to Montevideo, Uruguay. Current projects include acting as
Production Stage Manager and/or Lighting Designer for Goat Island Performance Project, for their national and international tours, and working with assorted
Ch8icago dance companies. Most recent projects include her 10th year with Dance Chicago and Dance for Life, the 2006 Chicago Human Rhythm Project,
Lighting Design and Production Management for the New World, New Art, Asian Arts in America Festival at Navy Pier, and lighting Dance Africa at the
Auditorium Theatre for WTTW. Her company, Lumen Siccum Productions, was created to provide design and technical support to small and mid-sized dance
companies and to make improved production affordable to all.
Tatjana Radisic (costume design)
Tatjana Radisic's recent costume design credits include productions at Goodman Theatre, Redmoon, Court, Blair Thomas and Company, Creede Repertory
Theatre Company and Opera Theatre North, among others. She is an artistic associate at Redmoon and a member of the Costume Society of America and
Association of Applied Arts in Serbia. She has exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the U.S. and has received numerous professional awards. She
recently completed work on her first film, Up on the rope, with Opal Pictures and was featured as one of New City’s 50 leading characters of Chicago Theater in
2004.
Stone (composer)
Stone (aka Winston Damon) began composing music for dance and theatre at age 16. Since then he has toured internationally (Asia, the Americas, Europe,
Africa, Istanbul) with a wide assortment of musical and performing arts ensembles. After years of performing his originals as a one-man-band (playing drums,
percussions, bass keys, tuba, trombone, flute, didgeridoo and electric cello strapped on like a guitar), he started his group “Ulele” in 1994 as an extension of
his solo work. Ulele’s first release “Seed” was on the top 10 independent releases on numerous DJ’s lists in 1996. Ulele continues to play in Chicago. Stone
has also performed with Nicholas Tremulis’s Orchestra and Mucca Passa.
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Petra Poul Bachmaier and her husband Sean Gallero formed their company luftwerk to envision and create multi-sensory video and projection experiences.
They engage in designing environments that allow for video imagery to become sculptural, and in transforming a space into a moving canvas of fleeting
images, where internal realities and external fields playfully overlap. They have shown their work in the United States and Germany. Bachmaier graduated
with a BFA in performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received her MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg, Germany.
Margaret Nelson (lighting design)
Margaret Nelson has received two Ruth Page Dance Achievement Awards for Lighting Design and Major Contribution to the Dance Community, and a Joseph
Jefferson Citation for Lighting Design at the Organic Theatre. Her design projects and production management have taker to every state of the USA and six
continents. She has taught Light Master classes from Northwestern University to Duluth, MN to Montevideo, Uruguay. Current projects include acting as
Production Stage Manager and/or Lighting Designer for Goat Island Performance Project, for their national and international tours, and working with assorted
Ch8icago dance companies. Most recent projects include her 10th year with Dance Chicago and Dance for Life, the 2006 Chicago Human Rhythm Project,
Lighting Design and Production Management for the New World, New Art, Asian Arts in America Festival at Navy Pier, and lighting Dance Africa at the
Auditorium Theatre for WTTW. Her company, Lumen Siccum Productions, was created to provide design and technical support to small and mid-sized dance
companies and to make improved production affordable to all.
Tatjana Radisic (costume design)
Tatjana Radisic's recent costume design credits include productions at Goodman Theatre, Redmoon, Court, Blair Thomas and Company, Creede Repertory
Theatre Company and Opera Theatre North, among others. She is an artistic associate at Redmoon and a member of the Costume Society of America and
Association of Applied Arts in Serbia. She has exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the U.S. and has received numerous professional awards. She
recently completed work on her first film, Up on the rope, with Opal Pictures and was featured as one of New City’s 50 leading characters of Chicago Theater in
2004.
Stone (composer)
Stone (aka Winston Damon) began composing music for dance and theatre at age 16. Since then he has toured internationally (Asia, the Americas, Europe,
Africa, Istanbul) with a wide assortment of musical and performing arts ensembles. After years of performing his originals as a one-man-band (playing drums,
percussions, bass keys, tuba, trombone, flute, didgeridoo and electric cello strapped on like a guitar), he started his group “Ulele” in 1994 as an extension of
his solo work. Ulele’s first release “Seed” was on the top 10 independent releases on numerous DJ’s lists in 1996. Ulele continues to play in Chicago. Stone
has also performed with Nicholas Tremulis’s Orchestra and Mucca Passa.
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Spring to Dance Festival - St. Louis, MO:
Lee Theater, Touhill Performing Arts Center,
1 University Blvd., St. Louis , Missouri
Friday, May 23, 2008, 6 pm
Tickets: $10
For tickets and additional information visit: www.springtodance.com
The first dance festival of its kind held in the Midwest - this gathering of internationally
renowned and emerging midwest-based dance companies will take place in St.
Louis, Missouri on May 22-24, 2008.
Hedwig Dances will perform an excerpt of Jan Bartoszek's 2006 work, Short Stories,
which the company premiered at the Joyce SoHo Theater in New York City. Come
see this and dozens of other innovative dance works ranging in style from ballet to
contemporary jazz on this coming Memorial Day weekend.
Lee Theater, Touhill Performing Arts Center,
1 University Blvd., St. Louis , Missouri
Friday, May 23, 2008, 6 pm
Tickets: $10
For tickets and additional information visit: www.springtodance.com
The first dance festival of its kind held in the Midwest - this gathering of internationally
renowned and emerging midwest-based dance companies will take place in St.
Louis, Missouri on May 22-24, 2008.
Hedwig Dances will perform an excerpt of Jan Bartoszek's 2006 work, Short Stories,
which the company premiered at the Joyce SoHo Theater in New York City. Come
see this and dozens of other innovative dance works ranging in style from ballet to
contemporary jazz on this coming Memorial Day weekend.