Presenting the first iterations of two new Khecari works::
as though your body were right by Jonathan Meyer
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Tend by Julia Rae Antonick
These pieces are conceived as a performance diptych and are able to be experienced independently or as a double feature.
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as though your body were right is an invitation to confront the bodiliness of being human. It is a shared experience of the vulnerability of being a body, and of the power of being a body. It is a peeling back of one aspect of being human, the social skin that guards and protects all that is contained therein; the child, the infant, the animal, the organic mass, the incomprehensibly vast community of cells. It is a query to the wisdom of the cells, to offer some gleam of how to be one among many in a system that is vaster, more powerful, and more merciless that we can comprehend.
Performances of as though take place Thursday - Sunday evenings, 7pm - 8:30pm at Make Do (2210 W. Morse). Make Do is wheelchair accessible, excepting the bathroom which is down 6 steps. To request accessible restroom accommodations, please contact us at least 10 days before you will be attending the performance.
There is a rotating cast performing the dancer and puppeteer role each night. Performers are:
Dancers: Amanda Maraist, Jonathan Meyer, Sara Zalek
Puppeteers: Arden Lapin, Margo O'Connell
To see who is performing each night, select a night in the TICKETS tab, and click MORE INFO under the ticket type title.
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Tend is a service-based performance experience fulfilling a socially requisite and biologically exigent allogrooming need accompanied by performance of self-care informed movement distractions focused to organize the nervous system, resolve conflicts, and contemplate power differentials all in the motile architecture of a reflective, airy, enveloping, and luminescent convalescence banquette. 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 experience movement.
For Tend, audience members select an hour long appointment for which to attend the performance. Thursday and Saturday appointments are available between 1pm - 6pm. Tend performances take place at the Nature Play Center at Indian Boundary Park (2500 W. Lunt). If you are interested in attending this performance as well, please fill out the audience application for Tend.
Audiences may attend one or both pieces. Both works intend to significantly challenge the audience and simultaneously practice radical care for each attendee, inviting people into a safer space to delve into inherently uncomfortable but rewarding material. As is customary with most Khecari performances, all prospective attendees will need to fill out an audience application to ensure open communication and informed consent for the work they intend to experience.
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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 Cristina Tadeo 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.
Pictured in the photo by Ian Vecchiotti is Jonathan Meyer with a puppet designed by Tom Lee.