EXPANDABLE HABITATS
A WORKSHOP IN BUTOH DANCE WITH TANYA CALAMONERI (NYC)
saturday and sunday, november 11& 12, 11am-4pm
$75
locus studios, 2114 west grand avenue, enter via the back alley

space is limited. no prior dance experience needed.
registration deadline is november 10th
contact: nicole, 773.387.8418, nlegette22@hotmail.com
www.blushingpoppy.org

Bridging Japanese Butoh movement techniques, Noguchi gymnastics, and Contemporary Western Dance, the physical training exercises focus on efficiency of movement, increasing articulation and awareness, endurance, and exploding to the edges. We will work extensively with imagery to invoke quality of movement and to inform extended improvisations. Each class will include scored exploration to allow students space to incorporate the teaching with their own dance. Discussions of Butoh history and philosophical concepts will provide context. This is an intensive body-mind workout, so be prepared to dive in!

Tanya Calamoneri is a performer, choreographer and teacher working in the areas of contemporary dance, Japanese butoh, contact improvisation and yoga. She developed a curriculum to teach butoh dance through graduate work at New York University and is a primary collaborator in Fifth Floor, SO.GO.NO., and CavEnsemble. Tanya is a co-director at the arts service organization, The Field. She has studied with several butoh masters (Hijikata lineage) and has trained with the leading exponents of action theatre.

BUTOH RITUAL MEXICANO WITH DIEGO PINON
AUTUMN INTENSIVE 2006
tuesday, october 3, 7-9pm: artist talk (free)
wednesday, october 4, 6-10pm: class
thursday, october 5, 6-10pm: class
saturday, sunday, monday, october 7-9, 10am-6pm: class
locus, 2114 west grand avenue, enter via the back alley

"Pinon's vision of Butoh challenges us to empty our ordinary judgements, expectations, habitual actions and needs, to allow the emergence of a deeper self. An essential step is the development and opening of the energetic centers of the body, propelling us to awaken and explore all of our qualities-both simple and outrageous. On this path we rediscover our inner spaces, push the infinite limits of our bodies, approach the origin of our impulses, and touch our subtle vibrations: to experience, if only for a moment, our inexplicablematter--the human soul--both beautiful and ugly. Through this process, the dancer creates an artistic performance, deeply exposing who they are while creating an energetic exchange with the audience. We can transform our dance and our daily life."

REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS OCTOBER 1st, 2006.
$50 non-refundable deposit holds your spot. Balance due by Oct 4th.
Open to all: No dance experience necessary: Space is limited
send $50 deposit payable to Spareroom PO Box 470712, Chicago, IL 60647

Please indicate which plan and include your name, phone number, and email address.(sorry no credit card payments-please use cash, check, or money order)

Plan A) Wed. class=$50/4 hrs.
Plan B) Thurs. class=$50/4hrs.
Plan C) Wed. & Thurs. classes=$80/8hrs.
Plan D) Sat./Sun./Mon. intensive=$235/24 hrs.+
Plan E) Wed. & Sat./Sun./Mon.=$265/28hrs.+
Plan F) Thurs & Sat./Sun./Mon.=$265/28hrs.+
Plan G) Wed. & Thurs. & Sat./Sun./Mon.=$300/32hrs.+

The artist talk, classes, and intensive will be held at 2114 W. Grand Avenue, #3A
Please contact Nicole 773/387-8418 nlegette22@hotmail.com, www.blushingpoppy.org

BIBLIOMIX
PAGES AND SOUNDS SPUN LIVE

thursday, october 12, 7:30 to 8:30pm
locus, 2114 west grand avenue, enter via the back alley
$1 donation, more if you've got it, free if you're broke

Music Mix by DJ Rotten Milk

Text Mix by Greg Gillam

Vocals by Joel Chmara, Mary Fons, Kurt Heintz and Katherine Zwick.

BIBLIOMIX is a new monthly combination of print and music, with a "textual mix tape" (selected by a curator from favorite books and magazines) read by performers to a live DJ soundtrack. Each month will feature a different curator with a variety of musical and vocal talents, and a bibliography of sources will be available after each performance.

BUTOH PRACTICUM

tuesdays 8-10pm
saturdays 10am-12noon (please note we will not meet during the workshop with Diego Pinon)
locus, 2114 west grand avenue, enter via the back alley
$5 suggested contribution

blushing poppy body revolution's butoh practicum continues through october.

ON THE EDGE – AN EVENING OF ARTISTIC JOURNIES

friday, july 14, 7:30pm
the spareroom, 2416 west north avenue

Please join us for "On The Edge- An Evening of Artistic Journies!" Come experience the Chicago Premiere and only Chicago performance of Anthony Wills Jr.'s "The Happiness of Schizophrenia," before it moves to the New York International Fringe festival and beyond.

This event will also feature a space-transforming installation by Billy Roberts as well as excerpts from David London's one man theatrical magic show, ...Art of Dreams. On top of all this amazing performance, we will have an exciting new exploration author and member of Chicago's very own Doug Travis and the Nympho-mannequins, C.T. Ballentine.

Further, this show is a benefit. That's right... not only do you get to see some amazing work, but you get to help people too!

Please come support Spareroom the artists who continue to push the limits of time arts in Chicago.

$10 Suggested Donation, but everyone welcome.

Please e-mail david@artofdreams.net or thehappinessofschizophrenia@gmail.com for more information

THE FAIRGROUNDS: A BENEFIT FOR THE SPAREROOM

friday, june 9, 7:00pm
elastic arts foundation, 2830 n. milwaukee
$10

RED ROVER SERIES
{readings that play with reading}

EXPERIMENT #7: POETRY ORIGAMI
friday, march 31, 8:00pm
the spareroom, 2416 west north avenue
$3 suggested donation

FEATURING:
Catherine Daly

CATHERINE DALY will invite the audience to make poetry objects and present her project "Paper Craft" - a series created with scissors, paper, glue, staples, wire, texts written by women, reference materials, and propaganda from the dollar store.

 

Catherine has been writing for 22 years. She played red rover on an asphalt church parking lot "playground" and also in an ice rink variation. As a boy, her father was a drummer in the Shannon Rovers. After living in Illinois, France, Florida, Connecticut, India, Massachusetts, and New York, she now lives in Los Angeles. She is the author of DaDaDa (Salt Publishing, 2003), Locket (Tupelo Press, 2005) and the forthcoming Secret Kitty (Ahadada), Paper Craft (Moria eBooks), To Delite and Instruct (blue lion), and Chanteuse/Cantatric (factoryschool). More info at http://www.catherinedaly.info.

Catherine will be touring around the midwest and presenting her work in: Milwaukee (Woodland Pattern Book Center on April 1), Madison (A Room of One's Own Bookstore on April 2), Lake Forest (&Now Festival from April 5-7), and Chicago (Myopic Books on April 9).

Red Rover Series is curated by Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin
Got ideas for reading instructions & experiments?
Email us at redroverseries@yahoogroups.com

Red Rover spring break
April & May
(go smell flowers)

Coming in June
Experiment #8
with Luis Valadez

THE OTHER AFTER:
backstage at the theater of creation

BY 3 CARD MOLLY
saturday and sunday, march 25 and 26, 7:00pm and 8:30pm
the spareroom, 2416 west north avenue
$10 suggested donation
SEATING IS LIMITED! RSVP: aniagreiner@yahoo.com or 773.878.8114

The Other After is a performance experience that explores ideas of evolution, intelligent design and space travel while telling the tale of two little girls who mysteriously disappear from their picnic in the woods.

3 card molly (Liz Winfield and Ania Greiner) takes the audience on a backstage tour of a “theater of creation” that includes a visit to the design workshop, a meeting with the great designer, and a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the staging area for an alternate future of mankind. The Other After was created specifically for the 1,700 square-foot space of the Spareroom. All of the text, choreography, installations, sound and set design were created by Ania Greiner and Liz Winfield.
With special guests Jessica Hannah, Diandra Jones, and Joseph Ravens.

Come prepared to walk, stand, sit, and maybe even join a picnic.
Visit www.3cardmolly.org for more information.

THE DISCRETE SERIES
presents poets BRENDA HILLMAN, LAURA SIMS and ANTHONY HAWLEY
friday, march 24, 7:00pm
the spareroom, 2416 west north avenue
$5 suggested donation

Brenda Hillman was born in Tucson, Arizona in 1951. After receiving her B.A. at Pomona College, she attended the University of Iowa, where she received her M.F.A. in 1976. She serves on the faculty of Saint Mary's College in Moraga, California, where she teaches in the undergraduate and graduate programs; she is also a member of the permanent faculties of Napa Valley Writers' Conference and of Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Her seven collections of poetry -- White Dress (1985), Fortress (1989), Death Tractates (1992), Bright Existence (1993), Loose Sugar (1997) and Cascadia (2001), Pieces of Air in the Epic (2005)-- are from Wesleyan University Press; she has also written three chapbooks, Coffee, 3 A.M. (Penumbra Press, 1982 ), Autumn Sojourn (Em Press, 1995), and The Firecage (a+bend press, 2000). Hillman has edited an edition of Emily Dickinson's poetry for Shambhala Publications, and, with Patricia Dienstfrey, has co-edited The Grand Permisson: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood (2003). Among the awards Hillman has received are Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. She resides in the San Francisco Bay Area; she is married and has a daughter.

Laura Sims's first book of poetry, Practice, Restraint, recipient of the 2005 Fence Books Alberta Prize, was published in November. She was recently awarded a JUSFC / NEA Creative Artist Exchange Fellowship to spend six months in Japan in 2006. She has published two chapbooks: Bank Book (Answer Tag Press) and Paperback Book (3rd Bed), and her poems have appeared in the journals First Intensity, 26, How2, 6X6, and 3rd Bed, among others. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where she teaches creative writing and composition.

photo by Steve Hawley

Born in 1977, Anthony Hawley grew up in New England and was educated at Columbia University. He is the author of the chapbooks Afield (Ugly Duckling Presse) and Vocative (Phylum Press), and his poems have appeared in various publications including The Canary, Denver Quarterly, The New Republic, The Paris Review, 26, and Volt. He currently lives in Nebraska with his wife and daughter and is on the faculty of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.. *The Concerto Form* is his first full-length collection.

The Discrete Series is an approximately monthly event presenting local and national writers reading from their work. For more information about this or
upcoming events, email kerri@lavamatic.com.
Or visit www.lavamatic.com/discrete

THE DISCRETE SERIES
presents poets TOM RAWORTH and JOEL CRAIG
friday, march 3, 7:00pm
the spareroom, 2416 west north avenue
$5 suggested donation

Tom Raworth was born in London in the last century, likes spicy food, lived in Chicago in the 1970s and the 1990s and is always glad to be back here, had Collected Poems published in 2003, and has a show of collages and prints at Woodland Pattern in Milwaukee at the moment.

Joel Craig lives in Chicago, Illinois, working as a graphic designer and deejay. His poems have appeared in Spoon River, Fence, Iowa Review and others; and he is currently finishing a book-length manuscript entitled "The White House." Joel co-founded and animates The Danny's Reading Series in Chicago, and he recently guest-edited poetry for an issue of Make.

The Discrete Series is an approximately monthly event presenting local and national writers reading from their work. For more information about this or
upcoming events, email kerri@lavamatic.com.
Or visit www.lavamatic.com/discrete

RED ROVER SERIES
{readings that play with reading}

EXPERIMENT #6: ABSENCES
sunday, february 26, 7:00pm
the spareroom, 2416 west north avenue
$3 suggested donation

FEATURING:
Nathalie Stephens
Jeff Marlin
and "in absentia"
Lise Beaudry
kari edwards
Brane Mozetic
Benny Nemerofksy Ramsay

 

NATHALIE STEPHENS writes in English and French, and sometimes neither. Writing l'entre-genre, she is the author of several published works, most recently L'Injure (l'Hexagone, 2004), Paper City (Coach House, 2003), and Je Nathanaël (l'Hexagone, 2003). L'Injure was a finalist for the 2005 Prix Alain-Grandbois and the Prix Trillium (2005); the short fiction, Underground (TROIS, 1999) was a finalist in 2000 for the Grand Prix du Salon du livre de Toronto. Stephens has performed and guest lectured internationally, notably in Barcelona, Norwich, Ljubljana, and New York. She is the recipient of a 2002 Chalmers Arts Fellowship and a 2003 British Centre for Literary Translation Residential Bursary. Some of Stephens's work has been translated into Basque, Bulgarian, and Slovene. She has translated Catherine Mavrikakis and François Turcot into English and Gail Scott and R. M. Vaughan into French. On occasion, she translates herself. She lives between. Stephens has new work forthcoming this year from Coach House (Touch to affliction) and Book Thug (a self translation of Je Nathanaël).

JEFF MARLIN is an artist and graphic designer currently living in Chicago. A prolific painter, his work explores the relationship between the body and the machine through various forms of translation that involve human interference. Most recently, his artwork has been featured on the covers of books for Flood Editions, No Press and LVNG magazine, and is forthcoming for Canada's avant-garde press, Coach House Books.

LISE BEAUDRY's photographic work has been exhibited in several Canadian cities, the U.S., Romania, and France during Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie. In 2002, her first video: Le Tourbillon won her the Best Upcoming Toronto Video/Film make at the Inside Out Film Festival as well as the Audience Award at the Dublin Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. This short has now toured to 26 festivals in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. In 2003, she co-founded Alleyjaunt--local art in local garages--a Toronto alternative annual art event transforming the back alley garages surrounding Trinity Bellwoods Park into venues that showcase visual art, installations, performance, film and video.

KARI EDWARDS is a poet, artist and gender activist. edwards is the winner of New Langton Art's Bay Area Award in literature (2002), author of obedience, (Factory School Press, 2005), iduna (O Books, 2003), a day in the life of p. (subpress collective, 2002), a diary of lies - Belladonna #27 (Belladonna Books, 2002), and post/ (pink) (Scarlet Press, 2000). Work can also be found in Scribner's The Best American Poetry (2004), Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action (Coffee House Press, 2004), Narrativity: Investigations by Writers (Coach House, 2004), Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others (Hawoth Press, 2004), Experimental Theology, Public Text 0.2. (Seattle Research Institute, 2003), and Blood and Tears: Poems for Matthew Shepard (Painted Leaf Press, 2000).

 

BRANE MOZETIC is a noted Slovenian poet, fiction writer, essayist, translator, editor, and gay activist. He edited the gay journal Revolver and he has headed the Roza Club, a political group concerned with gay/lesbian issues. At present he is the editor of two literary collections (Aleph and Lambda) and the director of Center for Slovenian Literature. Mozetic has more than a dozen books to his credit, and his books have been translated into English, French German, Italian, Croatian, and Spanish. A volume of his poetry in English translation, Butterflies, was published by Spuyten Duyvil in 2004; his book of short stories, Passion, appeared in 2005 with Talisman Publishers.

BENNY NEMEROFSKY is a Montréal-born artist working predominantly in video, text and sound. Since 2000 his work has brought together song, self-reflexive performance and lyrics from pop music as vehicles for examining the singing voice, the untranslatability of emotions into language and the ways in which emotional expression changes shape when mediated by technology and popular culture. Nemerofsky Ramsay's work has screened in festivals and galleries across Canada, Europe and East Asia and has won prizes at the Hamburg Short Film Festival, the Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest and the Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (all in Germany), the Toronto Inside Out Film and Video Festival as well as First Prize at the Globalica Media Arts Biennale in Wroclaw, Poland. He currently divides his time between Canada and Europe. More info at http://www.bennybenny.ca

Red Rover Series is curated by Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin
Got ideas for reading instructions & experiments?
Email us at redroverseries@yahoogroups.com

Coming in March:
Experiment #7 with Catherine Daly

ETCETERA 2006
Experimental Theatre Chicago presents its fifth annual festival of short experimental, progressive and interdisciplinary performance.

thursday, february 9 through sunday, february 12
8:00pm, doors at 7:30
the spareroom, 2416 west north avenue
$10 donation
312.388.7660

all nights
See Me. Hear Me., by Experimental Theatre Chicago
A durational improvisation exploring the desire to be identified and recognized, starring five actors who will manipulate light, clothes and signs to create images and interactions hinging on the intersection of perception and coincidence. A world premiere from ETC artistic director Jaclyn Biskup.

thursday/saturday
KANTOR! KANTOR! (SOLO!), by The Engaged Theatre
A scene from Jacob Juntunen's KANTOR! KANTOR!, an assemblage of text, performance and poetry based on the life and works of Polish director/playwright Tadeusz Kantor.

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, by Experimental Theatre Chicago
A lively theatrical adaptation of T.S. Eliot's poem by ETC artistic director Jaclyn Biskup.

I Am You, by Liminal Spaces
An exploration of genetics, loyalty and the ethics of medical advancement using puppetry, movement, dance and heightened text. Written and directed by Sheila Regan.

unembodied, by Erica Mott
A butoh inspired exploration of the female form between life and the after. (Thursday only)

Disarrangement/Dysphoria: Ditties, by Experimental Theatre Chicago
Found art, both profound and delightful from ETC company member Shannon Latimer.

friday/sunday
Sweet Little Vernor Is Eating Himself, by Director & Actor Inc.
A short play by ETC company member Taavo Smith. An exploration of sorrow. A grown man playing with dolls.

Untitled, by Salamander Word Ensemble
New music and poetry composed in collaboration between a poet and musician.

Chapter 15, by Experimental Theatre Chicago
An aural collaboration based on the notoriously chaotic script embedded in James Joyce's masterpiece Ulysses.

Shut Eye, by Diandra Jones
Composed of movement and sound explores the human ability to "carry on" andmanage a good night's sleep.

Yellow Bicycle Handle + Bread Baby, by Susan Karsnick
A pair of stream-of-consciousness solo pieces starting at bread and the wisdom of childhood.

BUTOH CLASSES WITH MASTER ARTIST KATSURA KAN
Blushing Poppy Productions is very pleased to offer 5 classes with master Butoh artist Katsura Kan, this January at Spareroom. His methods encourage us to push beyond our personal barriers and to connect with deeper levels of our consciousness and identity. Kan says, "This body is a ship which carries the ancestral soul from the past to the future." This workshop guides participants through a variety of Butoh techniques: silent walking, stillness and the exploration of "non-human" types of movement.

Classes :
sundays january 8, 15, 22, 11am-3pm; wednesday january 25, 6-10pm; thursday january 26 6-10pm.
the spareroom, 2416 west north avenue

Space is limited. No dance experience necessary.

Special rates for registrations made by January 5 :
1 class $40 / 2 classes $75 / 3 classes $105 / 4 classes $130 / 5 classes $150

After Jan 5th, all classes are $50 each.

Please send checks made payable to The Spareroom, PO Box 470712, Chicago, IL 60647

To register or for more info, contact Nicole . 773/489-3734 . blushingpoppy@gmail.com