Protected By Invisible Fence is a new movement-based performance by director and choreographer Ginger Krebs, responsive technology and sound designer Ryan Holsopple, and collaborating dancers Christina Chammas, Ping Du, Lauren Kunath, Stephanie Stoumbelis, Bocheng Zhang and Yuxuan Zhong. We’ll share several segments of material, developed over the last month or two, and invite viewer’s reactions and associations.

So far, the project asks, with humor,

how our behavior is orchestrated by unseen, technological forces
how we internalize the drive to optimize (our health, our productivity…) and
how, in the midst of the compulsion to craft our brand identities on social media, we might nurture our interior lives.

There will be quick, precise footwork patterns from sports (agility ladders) that move bodies across the room like cartoon characters on a conveyor belt, gestures that transform from administering care (diagnostic procedures like palpation, “yoga for your eyes”) to self-correction (forcing oneself to sit up straight and pay attention), and bureaucracy manifested as a waltz.

Ginger Krebs is a choreographer, performer, visual artist and leader of collaborative ensemble performances, based in Chicago. Her work has been presented recently in Chicago at Steppenwolf’s 1700 Theater, The Dance Center of Columbia College, and Elastic Arts. She has been awarded residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California, The Bogliasco Foundation in Genoa, Italy, the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) at Florida State University-Tallahassee, MacDowell and Ucross, among others. Her work was recognized with an Artist Fellowship Award in Performance-Based Arts by the Illinois Arts Council in 2019, a MAP Fund grant in 2015, and a Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist Award in 2014. She is an Adjunct Full Professor at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the departments of Performance and Contemporary Practices.

www.gingerkrebs.com

Ryan Holsopple is a designer and programmer that works in theater, dance, and exhibitions. Recent interactive design and performance works have been presented at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art (Chicago), Chicago Laboratory for Electro Acoustic Theater [CLEAT], Elastic Arts (Chicago), Theater for a New Audience, Brooklyn, NY. Ryan has collaborated with Annie Dorsen on Prometheus Firebringer, Yesterday Tomorrow, The Great Outdoors, and Infinite Sun. Other collaborations include work with Ginger Krebs, Mallory Catlett, Tom Fruin, Radiohole, Jim Findlay, Joe Silovsky, Sarah Michelson, Bill Morrison, PRISM Saxophone Quartet, Pavel Zuštiak, and 31 Down Radio Theater. Ryan performed with Richard Foreman’s Ontological-Hysteric Theater productions of Maria Del Bosco and Panic! (How to be Happy). Ryan is the recipient of a Bessie Award for Outstanding Visual Design for Mallory Catlett’s This Was the End (The Chocolate Factory Theater).

Location

Stagg Court, 4th floor

12 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603, USA

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Tags: Bocheng Zhang, Chicago, Chicago Athletic Association, Christina Chammas, GINGER KREBS, Lauren Kunath, Loop, Ping Du, Protected By Invisible Fence: A Dance Performance, Ryan Holsopple, Stephanie Stoumbelis, Yuxuan Zhong