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.
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Barber uses interdisciplinary practice to articulate testimonies within and surrounding Black America.
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Raquel 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.
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Corinne Imberski is a Chicago (Albany Park) based dance performer, choreographer, improviser, and educator. Wilson Tanner Smith is a Chicago (Albany Park) based cellist, composer, improviser, and performance artist
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Myra Su is a puppetry artist based in Hyde Park, Chicago. Her work includes experimentations with shadow puppetry, 2D paper puppets, crankies, bunraku, and video animation.
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MurdaMommy is a dancer, musician, actor, and innovator in the film, fashion, and gaming industries. Jorita "Cuenique" Smith is a mixed-medium artist from Chicago's Southside, Grand Crossing Neighborhood.
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Courtney 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.
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Shi-An Costello (aka coshian) is a composer, pianist, sound artist, and a proud Asian American born and raised in Chicago.
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Aram Atamian is a US born diasporan Armenian artist and educator living and working in Chicago and Yerevan.
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Wendy Clinard founded Clinard Dance in 1999. Rooted in flamenco, her productions are the result of years of work, of sustained, collaborative inquiry into a huge range of ideas.
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Laksha Dantran is a professional Indian classical Bharatanatyam artist in Chicago.
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Chicago-based burlesque artist Jenn Freeman also known as Po’Chop uses elements of dance, storytelling, and striptease to create performances and inspire students and collaborators across the country.
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Keyierra Collins is a Chicago-based dancer, teaching artist, choreographer, and 2020 3Arts Walder Foundation awardee. Collins graduated from Columbia College Chicago earning a BA in Dance where she studied various dance forms including West African, modern, jazz, ballet, hip-hop, and improvisation.
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Sandra Delgado is a Colombian-American writer, actor and producer born and raised in Chicago. She is best known for her play La Havana Madrid, which enjoyed sold-out runs at Steppenwolf and Goodman Theatre, and most recently in a co-production with Teatro Vista and Collaboraction.
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Greg Ward is a saxophonist and composer that was born in Peoria, IL. Jumaane Taylor, a Chicago native, has been tap dancing since the age of seven and made his professional debut in 2001 with the tap company M.A.D.D. Rhythms.
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Art 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.
Dee Alexander’s true heart and soul are experienced in their purest form through her performance of Jazz music. Pianist Miguel de la Cerna has been immersed and inspired since his start in the stew of jazz, blues, gospel, R&B soul of the south side that is known and celebrated throughout the world.
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Multi-reedist and pianist Ari Brown is a dynamic and important member of the Chicago avant-garde jazz scene and his technique and traditional jazz chops are highly expressive across his instruments. Kirk Brown, keyboards/music production/sound designer, has been involved in the music industry for over 25 years.
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Saxophonist, improviser, and composer Dave Rempis has been an integral part of the thriving Chicago jazz and improvised music scene since 1997. Chicago master drummer / percussionist Avreeayl Ra is a renowned musician always in demand among visiting jazz artists in Chicago.
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For an artist whose career is almost entirely improvisational, TALsounds has refined a stunning style of music that sounds as meticulous as it does surprising.
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