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Power Ouch! is a four-night festival of body-based performance examining the ways violence shapes our lives and our experiences. The program features dance, installation, and performance art: work that looks like self-defense and like battle, that grapples with complex forces—resisting, yielding, mobilizing—to offer a solid blow against oppression.
Eryka Dellenbach in Make the Brutal Tender. Photoby Muyasaar Kurdi
Cat Mahari in The solo mixtape series Violent/Break: Vol II. Photos by Cat Mahari and Sabrina Chan
Marcela Torres in Agentic Mode. Photo by Jesse Meredith.
Holly Arsenault’s Punch Piece 11
Aurora Tabar and Carole McCurdy are curating Power Ouch! at Links Hall in Chicago. Participating artists include Holly Arsenault, Carly Broutman, Eryka Dellenbach withHanna Elliot and Nola Sporn Smith, Cat Mahari, Marcela Torres, and Rob Welcher with Jeff Hancock and Joseph Hutto. Read more about the artists and their work on their Facebook page.
Participating artists include Holly Arsenault, Carly Broutman, Eryka Dellenbach withHanna Elliot and Nola Sporn Smith, Cat Mahari, Marcela Torres, and Rob Welcher with Jeff Hancock and Joseph Hutto. Read more about the artists and their work on their Facebook page.
Consider making a donation to support Power Ouch! 100% of proceeds directly support the artists. Any donation, large or small, will help them get to their goal of $4,000. You can donate on their Facebook campaign.
FESTIVAL SCHEDULE Thursday, February 14, 2019 @ 7 pm Cat Mahari Eryka Dellenbach, Hanna Elliot, and Nola Sporn Smith
Friday, February 15, 2019 @ 7 pm Cat Mahari Carly Broutman Eryka Dellenbach, Hanna Elliot, and Nola Sporn Smith
Saturday, February 16, 2019 @ 7 pm Jeff Hancock, Joseph Hutto, and Rob Welcher Marcela Torres
Sunday, February 17, 2019 @ 7pm Jeff Hancock, Joseph Hutto, and Rob Welcher Carly Broutman Holly Arsenault
All performances at Links Hall 3111 N Western Ave Chicago, IL 60618
$15 general admission/$12 students and seniors Visit linkshall.org to buy tickets
Power Ouch! is made possible through support from Links Hall as part of their 40th Anniversary Season
Body Resonance The body as a receptacle of time. A dance of metamorphosis inevitably appears.
The main focus of this workshop is a conscious research in the unification of our body/mind/soul, so that we can deeply enjoy the intrinsic process of metamorphosis through the spirit of dance. Through a continuous exploration of our past collective memories, we can strike a vein of abundant creative resources, enriching the essence of our life.
Body resonance is a key to opening up the doors of an ever-changing world inside and outside ourselves, which helps the body to unfold its secrets, holding them up until they shine and tremble. Everything is in resonance with each other. Through a dialogue with our body, we can learn to be moved by inner and outer forces, thus realizing we are a part of the Universe.
@ Japanese Culture Center, 1016 West Belmont Avenue
2018 Workshop Dates:
Thursday/ Friday April 19/20, 12-5pm
Saturday April 21, 1-7pm
Sunday April 22, 5:30-9:30pm
Workshop Content:
*Release exercises, inspired by Noguchi Taiso (Gymnastics), Taichi and Yoga
*breathing exercises
*dynamic training for the flow of energy
*Butoh-related work to activate our universal memories (sensitization, combination of image and movement with antenna exercises such as figure of 8, water ball, animal, insect, snake, witch and fairy, the creatures inside us, hanging body, walking, dialogue with a partner etc)
*structured improvisation, free association
Yumiko Yoshioka Dancer, choreographer, teacher, art director
Born in Tokyo, residing in Germany since 1988
Saturday, April 29
Japanese Culture Center
1016 W. Belmont Ave, Chicago
Doors open 7pm
Donations kindly accepted
RSVP here: https://battle3.eventbrite.com/
“The spoils of war have included the defeated populations, which were often enslaved, and the women and children absorbed into the victorious country’s population.”
“The Spoils of war have included the defeated populations, which were often enslaved, and the women and children absorbed into the victorious country’s population.” (Wikipedia) A time where loot and lives were taken and often worn in the name of some country, some warlord, some king, still exists in us.We deeply know violence and oppression, it lives and breathes in our bodies. Is it possible to transform our trauma, for our pain to become our teacher?
To reframe our Return, what victory do we celebrate? Do we not still embody old paradigms of winners and losers, the oppressors and the oppressed? For these suspended moments, we might release this tension, to find any small space for empathy to rise.
Do we know how to live without war? Without claiming our own lives more important than the lives of others? We accept the truth of our answer.
This night, we attempt to embrace both Ourselves and the Other, our shadow and our light. In preparation for the next.
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