upcoming
Purdue Contact Gathering
University students and professors from across the Midwest gather at Purdue University for a weekend long workshop featuring local and regional contact improvisational professionals. This is a space to gather, learn, play, and build community around a shared pratice.
Freedom From and Freedom To
Freedom From and Freedom To is an exploration and celebration of artistic circumstance. Movement and sound improvisors from all around Chicago gather in front of a live audience, where they are grouped by chance. Each group performs an improvised set. We fuse diverse artistic backgrounds and practices to create unique and fleeting worlds.
American Dancing Bodies Symposium
Chrissy Martin and Nora Sharp will present “Disrupting/Belonging” together in the theater at the Dance Center of Columbia College. Chrissy will present her research “Neuroemergent Insurgence: Disrupting Methodology, Valuing Emergence, and Embodying Inquiry in Practice and Performance” in a non-traditonal, participatory format including lecture, performance, and workshop. She will present along Nora Sharp’s interactive presentation “Slouching Towards Technique: Gender dysphoria, physical correctness, and sense of belonging in dance class.”
Thursday, October 19th, 2-3:20pm
The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago
1306 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60605
$0-$30 through eventbrite
Sojourn Village at Rooms to
The collaborative members of Sojourn, Emily Liptow, Chrissy Martin, and Brian Schultis along with experiemental sound artist bbob drake will perform a durational movement and sound installation during the Rooms to Let Festival in Slavic Village. This event is free and open to the public.
Saturday July 8- Sunday July 9, 2023
Rooms To Let Festival
Cleveland, OH
Sojourn 33
Join improvisational movement and sound artists Emily Liptow, Chrissy Martin, Brian Schultis, and Chien An-Yuan for an evening sojourn, a short stay, at the beautiful repurposed church and art gallery Convivium 33. We’ll begin by doing some simple exercises together to heighten our collective listening and enliven the space. Then, we welcome you to witness our improvisation: an intimate, playful and daring movement and sound practice, to which we’ve committed our lives, and which we share here to celebrate the moving body and voice, the sacredness of interpersonal attunement, and energy and potential of this unique corner of the city.
Who: Emily Liptow, Chrissy Martin, Brian Schultis, and Chien An-Yuan
What: Sojourn 33: A collaborative, experimental improvisational movement and sound performance
When: Saturday, June 3rd, 2023. Show at 7:30pm, doors open at 7.
Where: Convivium 33, 1433 E. 33rd St. Cleveland.
$20 Suggested Donation / no one turned away for lack of funds.
Also available at door, cash only.