Rooted in a deep legacy of Indigenous storytelling through song and dance, Frank Waln, with Samsoche Sampson & OPLIAM, reimagine traditional dances and instruments to create a performance that expresses their healing and resistance in a way the world has never seen before.
Read MoreBarber uses interdisciplinary practice to articulate testimonies within and surrounding Black America.
Read MoreRaquel Monroe and Esther Baker-Tarpaga perform a working draft of Two, too, a continued exploration of their interdisciplinary dance work with the artists collective Propelled Animals.
Read MoreCourtney Mackedanz is a multidisciplinary artist living in Chicago. Her projects infuse critical research, creative writing, and playful object making, with experiments in collaboratively devised performance.
Read MoreAram Atamian is a US born diasporan Armenian artist and educator living and working in Chicago and Yerevan.
Read MoreArt Union Humanscape (AUH) duo, Ayako Kato (dance) & Jason Roebke (double bass) creates a sonic and kinetic landscape meditatively superimposed with silence and stillness. Their ritualistic performance is grounded on experimental performance and the aesthetics of furyu, Japanese for “wind flow,” as it relates to cyclical transformation, human motion in nature, and cosmic ephemera.
Ambe’r Johnson is a Philadelphia native that relocated to Chicago to pursue a B.A in dance from Columbia College Chicago. Ayanna London is a multi-disciplinary artist who utilizes dance, music, multi-media art, and storytelling as spiritual devotion and cultural education.
Read MoreThe duo’s performance will explore the rural ear inside of urban soundscapes and the urban ear inside of rural soundscapes, manifesting how the body listens and responses to its environment.
Read MoreNdgo Blk is a Chicago-based vocalist, rapper, and producer who centers Black, urban narratives.
Read MoreUsing the full lyrics of our National Anthem, poet and singer Marvin Tate and violinist Johanna Brock will create an improvised musical soundscape, reflecting upon the current ongoing pandemic and exploring the transmission of information through sound, words, and light.
Read MoreSon Monarcas is a Latin Folk Fusion ensemble led by Mercedes Inez Martinez and Irekani Ferreyra based in the Chicago neighborhoods of Garfield Park and Pilsen.
Read MoreCharles was born and raised in Chicago, and raised in the Beverly neighborhood as a crossover musician, composer, and dancer. Angel Bat Dawid is a Black American composer, improviser, clarinetist, pianist, vocalist & DJ.
Read MoreAaliyah Christina improvises dances and writes poetry/prose about power/love, mental health, and her Blackness. She is based in Washington Park of South Side Chicago, IL with roots in Louisiana and influences from Maryland.
