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Amanda has been performing in Chicago for about 5 years, having moved from Texas after graduating college. She currently performs with Khecari in addition to other project based works. Her personal work is motivated by authentic movement experiences, nostalgia, coincidences & accidents, human touch, irreverence, illustration and place.

Burrow, Tousle

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Performance: Amanda Maraist, Kara Brody
Sound: Chrissy Martin

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Amanda Maraist, Kara Brody, Chrissy Martin

with music

Live sound score by Chrissy Martin

vimeo.com/amandamaraist

Christina Chammas is a native of Detroit, Michigan where she received her BFA from Wayne State University. In 2016, she relocated to Chicago and has since performed in works by Andrea Cerniglia, Amanda Ramirez, Kimberly Baker, and Enid Smith. In 2017, she performed in the Chicago premiere of Erin Markey’s performance art musical, “A Ride on the Irish Cream.” Christina joined Dropshift Dance in 2018, under the artistic direction of Andrea Cerniglia. Her choreographic works have been performed at the Going Dutch Festival, DanceChance, Research Project, and ASSEMBLE by Kristi Faulkner Dance. She is currently on staff at Dovetail Studios and Lucky Plush Productions.

Strand: February

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Christina Chammas

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Christina Chammas

with music

Peter, Paul and Mary
Meen

I am a dancer, choreographer, and arts activist living in Chicago and finishing up a b.a. in dance and a b.a. in advertising at Loyola University Chicago. I am currently focused on producing and performing work that touches the humanity of people and communicates the simultaneous personal and communal stories that we all carry. My overarching goal throughout my career is to use dance to enhance the communities around me, specifically those that would not typically have access dance or possess the knowledge to feel included and represented in it. This has manifested in my career in many ways; I am a performer, choreographer, producer, and teacher, as well as a festival curator, arts administrator, program designer, and adaptive dance practices researcher. I hope to be an artist that fills Chicago with as much art as she can handle.

Mind of Movement

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Sarah Fluegel

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Sarah Fluegel

with music

“the Best Paper Airplane Ever” by Lullatone, “J’Attendrai” by The Music Tapes

I’d like to thank Amy Wilkinson for encouraging me to pursue this research project and for always being a beacon of light in my life.

My personal website can be found at: https://sjfluegel.wixsite.com/sarahfluegel

Emerging from a fascination with healing processes of the bodymind interface, Lauren Rose Milburn creates intimate environments for collective care practices and offers videodances as artifact. Her work draws from activist strategies for body liberation through sequencing of movements that are simultaneously meaningful and mundane. trillium is a collaboration project with movers Jean Edrada, Janelle Knippen, and Maura Reagan. Tiger + Man created the music titled, “Jessica.”

trillium

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Lauren Rose Milburn

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Jean Edrada, Janelle Knippen, and Maura Reagan

with music

Jessica written by Tiger Darrow and Andrew Orkin
Performed by Tiger + Man

https://vimeo.com/laurenrosemilburn

Hello Jello! Lindsey Lee (she/her/they/them) is a contemporary modern dancer, burlesque performer, yogi, and grilled cheese enthusiast. They’ve been a freelance performer and solo choreographer for 5 years now after graduating from Columbia College Chicago in 2014 with a BA in Dance. They have created their own work for Queer, Ill and Okay in 2012, as well as a solo act for Beast Women Fall Series at The Prop Thtr under their burlesque persona, Lavender Vyxn. They continue to perform and collaborate with many shows and projects around Chicago for both stage and night life.

Undeclared

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Lindsey Lee

with music

Sometimes I wish I were a boy- Lesley Gore
Empathy- Crystal Castles
Love that Girl- Raphael Saadiq

Follow me on Instagram: lavendervyxn

Originally an East Coaster, Mel Rivkin has lived in Chicago for a year and a half now. She holds a B.A. in Judaic Studies and a Theater Minor from Binghamton University, and an MSW from the University of Michigan. She ties her studies of Judaism and Social work into her movement, and reconnected initially with dance during her time at Binghamton University. Mel has taken modern and kandyan dance classes through Binghamton University’s Theatre Department.

The Other Mechitzah, Pt. 1

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Mel Rivkin

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Mel Rivkin

with music

Next to Nothing, DA! and Skeletonbreath, Skeletonbreath

Aja, an omni media creator, generates immersive visual experiences. Michelle seeks to bridge the senses through sound waves and movement. Together, Aja and Michelle work to pave new pathways for fusing and bending artistic genres.

Thoughts Are Forces: Side A, a “Space Lab” Video Performance

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Aja Andrometa & Michelle Stearn

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Part 1: Aja Andrometa & Michelle Stearn
Video performers: Michelle Stearn, Queen Nefertittie, Sarah Stearn, Nailah Bradley, Carolina Contreras

with music

“Windows of Water” by K-Aorta

As a first-generation Indian-American her work focuses on and questions the duality of her cultural upbringing and dance herstory. She received her BFA in Dance from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has been in works by Jennifer Archibald, Earl Mosley, Endalyn Taylor, Johanna Meyers, A Canary Torsi, Timothy Buckley and Megan Young. For about 2 years now she has worked closely with Project Ishti led by Kinnari Vora and Preeti Veerlapati. Aside from her personal practice and various movement collaborations she works as Aerial Dance Chicago’s program coordinator and is a volunteer dance writer for Picture this Post.

Untitled

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Tuli Bera

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Tuli Bera

with music

found sound from Kolkata, IL