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The Dance Center's "Science, Technology And Dance" Series  |
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The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago continues its spring 2010 series "Science, Technology and Dance," which explores the ways choreographers are working with new technologies and scientific ideas, with the multimedia performance company Troika Ranch. Performances are March 4–6 at The Dance Center, 1306 S. Michigan Ave.
The program features the first performance of Troika Ranch's newest, evening-length work, loopdiver, following its fall 2009 premiere. Co-founders Mark Coniglio and Dawn Stoppiello recently completed a two-year development process to create this work, using motion capture and Coniglio's Isadora software(TM) (a programming environment that provides interactive control and real-time manipulation of digital media). loopdiver is the result of a process of creating movement and multimedia elements from intricately interwoven loops of prerecorded movement, text and digital materials (video, sound and light). In this riveting performance, technology maintains absolute precision and perfection while Troika Ranch dancers are undermined by their humanness, struggling to escape the simultaneously dreamlike and maddening prisons of externally imposed repetition.
RESIDENCY ACTIVITIES
As part of Troika Ranch's residency, there will be a post-performance discussion with the artists on Thursday, March 4. Technology Director/Artistic Co-Director Mark Coniglio will conduct a per-performance talk Friday, March 5 at 7 p.m., free to ticket holders. Executive Director/Artistic Co-Director Dawn Stoppiello will lead a free "movementPROCESS" workshop exploring Troika Ranch's methods for creating choreography Saturday, March 6 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Dance Center. She also will lead a DanceMasters class Tuesday, March 2 at 6 p.m. at the Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago Ave. DanceMasters is a series of community master classes presented by The Dance Center's division of Community Outreach and Education (COE), in partnership with the Lou Conte Dance Studio of the Hubbard Street Dance Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art. Classes are for dancers at the intermediate level or higher.
ABOUT TROIKA RANCH
Established in 1994, and based in New York City and Berlin, Germany, Troika Ranch produces live performances, interactive installations and digital films, combining traditional elements with advanced technologies. The artists' mission is to create artwork that best reflects and engages contemporary society. The name Troika Ranch refers to Co-Artistic Directors Mark Coniglio and Dawn Stoppiello's creative methodology, which involves a hybrid of three artistic disciplines—dance/theatre/media (the Troika)—in cooperative interaction (the Ranch). During the 1990s, Troika Ranch was among the pioneers in the field that came to be known as Dance and Technology. They performed internationally and were greatly sought after as guest artists, teachers and lecturers. Troika Ranch's artistic statement begins, "Interaction is the word that singularly defines the driving force of our artistic practice. Whether it is between audience and performer, performer and image, movement and sound or human and machine, interaction as an idea fundamentally shapes our work from its inspiration to its presentation."
THE DANCE CENTER
The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, named "Chicago's Best Dance Theatre" by Chicago magazine and "Best Dance Venue" by the Chicago Reader, is the city's leading presenter of contemporary dance, showcasing artists of regional, national and international significance. Programs of The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago are supported, in part, by Alphawood Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, The MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at Prince, The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, The New England Foundation for the Arts, The Boeing Company Charitable Trust, Arts Midwest, The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, The Irving Harris Foundation and The Mayer & Morris Kaplan Family Foundation. Additional funding is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Special thanks to Friends of The Dance Center. All programming is subject to change.
The Dance Center's "Science, Technology and Dance" series concludes with Wayne McGregor | Random Dance March 18–20. The 2009–10 season also includes Chicago companies JUMP RHYTHM Jazz Project February 18–20 and Hedwig Dances April 1–3.
FUNDING
The Dance Center's presentation of Troika Ranch is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
TICKET INFORMATION
The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago presents Troika Ranch Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 4–6 at 8 p.m. at The Dance Center, 1306 S. Michigan Ave. Tickets are $24–28. The DanceMasters class on Tuesday, March 2 at 6 p.m. at the Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago Ave., is $15; space is limited. The movementPROCESS workshop on Saturday, March 6 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at The Dance Center is free and open to the public; some movement experience is necessary. For tickets or more information, call (312) 369-8330 or visit colum.edu/dancecenter.
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