Hedwig Dances, the Chicago-based up to date dance firm, presents its fortieth Anniversary Gala + Efficiency on Friday, June 20th at Chicago’s Museum of Modern Artwork. This particular, milestone fundraising Gala honors 40 years of the corporate’s legacy and affect in Chicago dance historical past.
The night begins at 6pm with a pre-performance wine reception. A welcome at 6:30pm by Inventive Director Jan Bartoszek is adopted by a efficiency of her first choreographed items. The keynote handle, delivered by Paul Sacaridiz, Govt Director of The Ragdale Basis, is to observe and precedes the dinner buffet. The dinner buffet contains choose soul warming fare, Mexican delicacies, and Japanese confection menu objects from the MCA’s in-house restaurant and bar, Marisol.
A silent public sale can be held as soon as the night begins, in addition to a paddle increase that can start at 8:15pm. All proceeds go in direction of fundraising efforts to assist the corporate’s programming, performances and dancers, in addition to their upcoming tour of META | MOR | PHOS as a part of the Bauhausfest 2025 in Dessau, and performances in Leipzig and Magdeburg, Germany.
The efficiency can be staged within the theater on the Museum of Modern Artwork, accessible by way of the Griffin Entrance on the north nook of the museum at Pearson Avenue and Mies van der Rohe Manner.
The fortieth anniversary efficiency options 4 dances which can be interspersed with Video Sections reflecting Hedwig Dances aesthetics and achievements over the previous 40 years.
Since Time Started, an excerpt from “Dances of Many Lands I” (1981) is an ode to bounce. For this manufacturing, Hedwig firm members collaborated with Bartoszek to re-imagine the work.
Lunette, an excerpt from “Candy Child, Child Suite” (1993) portrays an intimate night time scene between a mom and baby framed by a transferring window. This vignette conveys the overwhelming joys and fears of early motherhood.
After the Fall, Want (1999) is a recent reflection on the biblical first couple Adam and Eve and the Greek fable of Pandora’s Field. The dancers shift from sympathetic co-dependents to feral challengers, enacting the essence of human duality. With highly effective lifts that require equal elements management and abandon, the trail of this dance presents solely transient glimpses of unison and sudden reversals of partnering.
Level, Line, Airplane an excerpt from Futura (2018) is a colourful exploration of how dance shapes and is formed by structure and design. Using a set of 8-foot-long crimson poles, the dancers create a transferring spectacle of daring geometry and wealthy theatrical motion that probes Bauhaus artist Wassily Kandinsky’s concepts of “Level, Line and Airplane.”
Particular person tickets for Hedwig Dances’ fortieth Anniversary Gala & Efficiency are priced at $300 and embody the pre-show reception, efficiency and buffet dinner/bar entry; efficiency solely tickets can be found at $85 and embody the pre-performance reception and a glass of wine. Tickets are on sale now at bit.ly/HD40-GALA or by way of HedwigDances.com.
