Mystical Bootcamp
Aurora Tabar and Sara Zalek directing
Bryan Saner, collaborator and dancer
Charlie Univerz, collaborator and musician
Mystical Bootcamp is a ritual performance journey into the vortex. Inspired by shamanism, Mary Wigman, magic, animals, the Occupy movement, Kazuo Ohno, calisthenics of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Yvonne Rainer, and biodynamic agriculture, we investigate how creating a performance can be an act of healing. We invite the audience into a shamanistic complex in which audience, performers, and performance space together create a field of magic. Sara will lecture on biodynamic preparations. Aurora will conduct a dance of American nationalism. Bryan will become a crow and Charlie will create sonic vibrations. With dance, masks, and ritual drama as our tools, we invoke a transformation.
Chicago Aissawa
Moroccan style Healing Acoustic Trance Music.
Drums, Flutes and Horns
This is a group ranging form 10-15 people who get together on a weekly basis to learn and play Aissawa music together. We are there every Thursday night from 7-9 pm, come by to jam or dance. Headed by Quentin and Heather Shaw, of DRUMFACE
Directed by:
Ginger Krebs
Featuring: Jose Hernandez, Adam Rose, Bryan Saner, Aurora Tabar, Sara Zalek
Myth and Continent considers how the proliferation of virtual imagery may affect our relationships - to our physical bodies, to the bodies we distinguish as “other,” and to the “body” of the land we address as landscape. How might diminishing physical space be linked to our growing capacity for extension in virtual space? The performance explores restriction - its risks and revelations – and celebrates the miraculous human capacity for creative reinvention in response to almost any kind of constraint. Movement for the piece has been inspired by the repetitive pacing of zoo animals, romantic ideas about the landscape, road trips, road rage, office cubicle culture, and the voluntary confinement of spiritual seekers, practitioners of yoga, etcetera.