The Wrecking Project

April 12-14

Thurs - Sat at 8pm

Curated by Links Hall Artistic Associates Julie Mayo and Kate Corby

The Wrecking Project is part of a Links Hall Artistic Associates festival celebrating works from other Midwest choreographers including The Purple State in November 2011, Generation Bitch: Gender Identity and Expectations of 21st Century American Women in January 2012, and Arte No Es Fácil (January-March 2012). 

The Wrecking Project brings together nine choreographers (three trios) to work with wrecking as a creative methodology and present original works next to their wrecked versions illuminating the fluid nature of authorship and the provisional nature of meaning-making. There will be one trio per evening over three nights of performance.

In the mid- 1990’s choreographer Susan Rethorst began working with ‘wrecking’ as a choreographic methodology. For Rethorst this method involved inviting another choreographer midway through her process to take it over. Inspired by Rethorst’s concept, but altering it slightly, Mayo and Corby have invited a group of rigorous dance-makers with distinctive sensibilities to wreck, or re-imagine, another choreographer’s finished work.

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