See Performance Archive for video and images from the following performances

solo performance

Peng's Journey Around the Nest / September 6, 2009 / Epiphany Dance Experiment / Chicago, IL / solo performance featuring voice by Christopher Zalek and sound by Rustel Weis

Stories from the Road / September 19, 2009 / I just go / An event of art works in relation to Tehshing Hsieh / Elastic Gallery / Chicago, IL

Flying Things / June 2008 / Links Hall / Chicago, IL / solo performance featuring video by Michelle Tupko, music by Sean O'Connell and Charles Malave

Mother is Crying / September 2006 / Tojo Gallery / Chicago, IL / solo butoh performance

SAIC BFA Exhibition/ April 2006 / Gallery 2 / Chicago, IL / installation, performance

Dreaming Mermaid / October 20, 2005 / Master Nowheres Lost Carnival / Chicago, IL / costume, set, butoh performance with musician/artist Laura Emelianoff

Gather / September 2005 / Urban, Rural, Wild / I Space / Chicago, IL / video performance in gathering suit for Nance Klehm

On Becoming Dirt / April 2005 / Thaw / Spareroom / Chicago, IL / durational clay performance

2012 collaborations

LinkUp Residency / October 2011-March 2012 / Links Hall / Chicago, IL / collaboration with Aurora Tabar

2011 collaborations

Myth & Continent / June, July 2010 / Links Hall, Hamlin Park / Chicago, IL / performance collaboration

Hug / Weekly / Hug Series / Downtown, in changing locations / Chicago, IL / durational performance and blog with Aurora Tabar

2010 collaborations

Habit(at)S / April 17 and 24, 2010 / Our Homes / Chicago, IL / home/dances created and performed with Aurora Tabar

Hug / February 18, 2010 / Benefit for Haiti / Links Hall / Chicago, IL / durational performance with Aurora Tabar

2009 collaborations

Trio / October 21, 2009 / Movement Research / Dance Theatre Workshop, NY, NY / collaboration with Aurora Tabar and Carole McCurdy / presented as a dance performance

Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting / May 17, 2009 / Epiphany Dance Exeperiment / Chicago, IL / collaboration, movement and sound making improvisastions with artists Charlie Malave, Rich, Nicholas Davio, Michelle Tupko, Lily Emerson, Aurora Tabar, Andy Braddock, Carole McCurdy

The Thorn and the Rose / Saturday, May 28 & 29, 2009 / Whitewolf Sonic Princess / BlackForest Theatre Company / Peter Jones Gallery / Chicago, IL / collaboration, music and video performance with Carla Hayden and James Moeller, Blackforest Theater

2008 collaborations

Diego Piñón / Butoh Ritual Mexican Dance Offering / December 21, 2008 / Tlalpujahua, Michoacan / butoh collaboration with Diego, Aurora Tabor, Andy Braddock, Michelle Tupko, and several Mexican dancers

The Rehearsal for the Destruction of Atlantis: A Dream Weapon Ritual by Jack Smith / Adapted / directed by Aurora Tabar, Michelle Tupko / November 1 / Swimming Pool Project Space / Chicago, IL

Art on Track / August 30, 2008 / Peter Jones Gallery / Orange Line, Chicago, IL / collaboration with Elephant Foot, Tim and Lily Emerson

Meniscus / July 10, 11, 2008 / Ginger Krebs / Episcopal Church/Chicago, IL / collaboration, butoh

Humechanical Nightmare / Looptopia, May 2 at Federal Plaza / May 9th and 16th 2008 / Douglas Park, Flower Hall / Lucid Street Theater / Chicago, IL

IN>TIME / March 8, 2008 / Chicago Cultural Center / Chicago, IL
-->Dragonfly for video by Jeremiah Barber
-->Performance in a pod for installation by Katherine Behar

Trade Show / March 14, 16 2008 / POD Exhibition Gallery Space / 1915 S. Halsted / Chicago,IL

2007 collaborations

Double Walkers: Transfigurations Thru Fashion / December 7, 2007 / Hyde Park Art Center / Chicago, IL / performer

Chicago Calling / October 26, 2007 / Peter Jones Gallery / Chicago, IL / collaboration with Paige Haxton

Ghost in the Machine / August 28, 2007 & September 1, 2007 / Co-Prosperity Sphere / East Bank Storage Facility / Chicago, IL / direct collaborative dance installation/performance
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Ten Nights Dream-EVE / June 2007 / Links Hall / Ayako Kato, Art Union Humanscape

Something About a Bird / May 20, 2007 / TOJO Gallery / Chicago, IL / Hand-Harvested/Summ'ner

Succulent February 7, 2007 / Locus / Chicago, IL / works in progress showing by Locus / Spareroom members

2003-6 collaborations

Taiko Drummers / 12.06 /Chicago Cultural Center / Chicago, IL / ensemble butoh performance by Nicole LeGette

What Kind of Sky Do You Like? / 11.06 / Chicago Cultural Center / Site Unseen/Chicago, IL / ensemble butoh performance by Ginger Krebs

Cycles / 10.06 / Being to Being / East Bank Storage / Chicago, IL / collaboration with Markus Launsburry, video, installation, dance

Eighth Night / 7.06 / Chicago Cultural Center/ Chicago, IL / performer in DanceBridge project by Ayako Kato

House of T.I.N.A. / 4.06-8.05 / Lazerhappy Gallery, Chicago Art Department, Rocket Dog Gallery/Chicago, IL/Maimi, FL / collaborative butoh burlesque performance

ReMake/ReMix Workshops / 12.04 - 5.06 / Mess Hall / Chicago, IL / collaborative sewing workshop

What to Forget / 06.05 / Cultural Center & Millenium Park / Chicago, IL / collaborative butoh performance

Bread Project / 05.05 / Center for Green Technology / Chicago, IL / collaborative investigative installation

C-41 Embedded/06.04/Merce Cunningham Performance Space / Washington Square Park / NY,NY / performer

Twitch / 06.03 / Medicine Hat / Portland, OR / collaborative performance piece

Artist statement:

My practice consists of a continuous renegotiation of roles and perspectives. I aim to express the emotionally difficult, to challenge my sensibility, upheave my aesthetic, my identity, my vision with information taken in through the senses, through exhaustive examination and through direct experience. I do this through process oriented arts, presented in sculpture, installation, and performance.

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sara at saratonin.com
503-317-4501
Chicago, IL

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