THURSDAY, JANUARY 2ND 12PM-2PM
Indian Boundary Cultural Center - 2500 W Lunt Ave
Come witness us working on the fourth and final iteration of Tend before it's presented in Sheboygan, Wisconsin this January. This will be our final Chicago rehearsal of this work, you are welcome to come and go and peek in on our process anytime between 12-2pm. From 12-12:30 we'll have a short movement score that we will do together and from 12:30-2pm we will run the piece.
+++ All of our appointments have been filled for the rehearsal but if you are interested in sitting for an appointment please fill out the audience interest form and we can put you on the waitlist or we would love to book you for our performances at The Kohler!
INTRODUCTORY DESCRIPTION
Tend imagines a world where your monthly, weekly, or yearly dance appointment is a legitimate need. Matched with a dancer/technician for an hour long appointment, the interactive performance envelopes the guest in a highly structured choreographic journey designed to respond to interests and needs that emerge on the day of the visit. Weaving together consensual touch, conversation, music, and movement, Tend offers a much-needed opportunity to rest, recharge, reflect, and foster connection.
ARTISTIC INQUIRY DESCRIPTION
Tend is a service-based performance experience fulfilling a socially requisite and biologically exigent allogrooming need. Structured as a one hour appointment, the self-care informed dance and music scores simultaneously envelopes the audience while leaving space to allow your nervous system to settle, contemplate the inherent power differentials in human interaction, and allow the somatic possibility of conflict resolution in true social grooming form. Colliding necessity, extravagance, and irrelevance, it imagines a world where your monthly dance appointment is a legitimate need, a necessary line item in your personal budget. A haptic, phatic, and kinetic service providing a much-needed place to rest, recharge, reflect, reconcile. An environment supporting small talk, catching up, grooming bodies and relationships in turn.
In short, come ready to chat, be touched/touch, and watch a performance made especially for you.
+ REST SCORE :: 12-12:30PM
A somatic movement-based score created collaboratively by Julia Antonick, Jonathan Meyer, Gina Hoch-Stall, Helen Lee, and Chih-Hsien Lin. The cycle begins with a supine rest when participants can enter into the sequence of somatic prompts intended to regulate the nervous systems of individuals and the group as a whole. Expect to participate in simple, gentle movements of your body, which are verbally described and physically demonstrated by the score leader. All are bodies welcome to participate in this score, no previous training is required. All audience members with to without appointments are welcome to participate.
+ TEND OPEN REHEARSAL APPOINTMENTS :: 12:30 - 2PM
All are welcome to come and view this appointment-based performance from afar, but we also have 5 seats available for those interested in applying to sit for Tend and work with a technician as part of this performance.
Interested in applying to sit for Tend in for this Open Rehearsal? Fill out this form.
+ To see who the technician for each appointment is, select a date + time in the TICKETS tab, and click MORE INFO under the ticket type title.
+ If you would like to learn more about the technician with which you've scheduled your Tend appointment: click here.
+ All touch that will happen during the appointment will go through a process of informed consent by checking in verbally upon arrival. If at any time during the service, there is less touch wanted, you are welcome to communicate this verbally or by draping a specified blanket over yourself during the show. If you are desiring to come experience the show from the position of someone not being touched know there is space for audience members to view without appointments.
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* We welcome all people with disabilities to our events. If you require a specific access service to fully participate or have any questions about accessibility, contact Julia Antonick at [email protected]. Please be in touch as soon as you know you would like to join us so we can make sure we have the accommodations ready for you on the day you will attend.
** We welcome people of all ages to our events. While this class is geared toward adults, children are welcome to come with their caregiver.
*** TRIGGER WARNING: In addition to the fact that the name “Indian Boundary” denotes a line created to ethnically cleanse the area, there is also imagery within the fieldhouse that may be triggering to many, in particular to Native Americans and Jews. We want to notify people in advance as a trigger warning, and to affirm Khecari’s anti-racist stance. To read more about this click here and scroll down to PLACE to read more about this and for Khecari's always-in-progress land statement.
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Photos by Kristin Weinberg, pictured are Enid Smith, Lin Shook, Frank Woo, and Jane Heron.