Chicago Cultural Center Dance Studio Residency: Ginger Krebs
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Friday, June 6th, at 6PM
For this final work-in-progress of their residency, Ginger Krebs and collaborators offer further insight into the research fueling their new performance, Protected By Invisible Fence, and share some of the movement material they’re developing.
American Sign Language InterpretationASL is provided for this event.
Ginger Krebs (she/her) began as an artist by making sculptures but an interest in networks and relationship dynamics led her to want to enact systems through movement – and so she’s been making dances since 2005. Her dance draws from vernacular movement that non-dancers can relate to. Its physicality and self-effacing humor celebrate Midwestern working-class virtues. Often the movement is inherently funny without having an obvious joke to “get.” Ginger’s performances are preoccupied with power, and haunted by the ways power hides behind the mirages of capitalist ideology while enforcing visibility on other bodies. The dancers respond to spatial constraints, behavioral rules, and to the fundamentally exposed condition of live performance. The humble material that results becomes complex, layered choreography that updates 1970’s formalism by complicating it with power and desire while celebrating the ingenious ways that people survive and defy violence and exploitation.
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