"From the Arctic to the Middle East" (performance, chapter II) - Clinard Dance Theater (02/16/2011)

"From the Arctic to the Middle East" (Broken Narratives by an American Flamenco Dancer) - Chapter II. Performed at Harold Washington Library, Cindy Pritzker Auditorium, 400 S. State Street, February 16, 2011.

Clinard Dance Threatre presents the newest work of Artistic Director, Wendy Clinard as part of the Harold Washington Library, Dancing in the Library series. Wendy has collected and arranged written scraps of natural and human histories taken from recent travels, books, and random encounters set to original music composed by Steve Gibons and film projections by Marco G. Ferrari. Musical and dance genres include contemporary, flamenco and Arabic, while videos are based in natural and urban abstract vignettes.

Each chapter asks about the individual's place in the buried generations of humans and eternity. The disparate sections, true stories, facts, ideas, sounds and movements merge to create a complex picture of our world challenged by the larger contexts we live amongst.

The work will be five chapters total and each chapter is built in three month cycles (the approx time per chapter is 15mins). In April 2010 we shared chapter 1 at the Chicago Cultural Center as well as a reformatted version in July 2010 at Chopin Theatre. This past October 2010 we shared a new second chapter in the Harvest Dance Festival at Ruth Page Art Center. We will continue building in this manner, chapter by chapter, until it is a complete work with a projected full premiere in Fall 2011.

For more information please visit www.clinardance.org.
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© Marco G. Ferrari, 2011

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