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The Process is a podcast for Chicago dancemakers and performers to discuss the process of a work the
09/09/2024
10/30/2023
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On November 4th, .process.podcast and will host THE WRITER'S ROOM at .
This community conversation on the future of performance, dance, and writing in Chicago will be guided with the help of special guests:
Benji Hart () is an interdisciplinary artist, author, and educator whose work centers Black radicalism, q***r liberation, and prison abolition. Their words have been published or are forthcoming from Oxford University Press, Beacon Press, Motto Books, Pluto Press, Time, Teen Vogue, The Advocate, The Funambulist Magazine, and elsewhere.
Tara Aisha Willis, Ph.D. () is a dance artist, dramaturg, scholar, and curator. Currently a Lecturer in Theater and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago, she served as MCA Chicago’s performance curator for six years, and has written for Getty Research Institute, Danspace Project, Center for Book Arts, The Black Scholar, Wendy’s Subway, Brooklyn Rail, Movement Research Performance Journal, University of Illinois Press, and Soberscove Press.
Maggie Bridger (), she/her, is a sick and disabled dance artist, fiber artist, and scholar whose work focuses on reimagining pain through the creative process. Her writing has been published in the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, and will be included in the upcoming volume Dancing on the Third Coast.
Gervais Marsh () is a writer, curator, and scholar from Kingston, Jamaica, whose work is deeply invested in Black life, concepts of relationality and care. They received a PhD in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, and recent curatorial projects include All of Living is Risk at the South Side Community Art Center and Contours of the Interior at VisArts Center. Their writing can be found in numerous art publications, and they have taught university courses focused on Black Feminist theory, praxis and performance, and Black q***r studies.
RSVP and learn more including accessibility details at the link in our bio.
08/18/2023
“I feel like my life slowly ballooned into this beautiful, beautiful world."
Alyssa Gregory, a dancer and arts administrator who works to showcase the richness of the South Side’s dance community while advocating for fellow artists' needs. Originally from northern Virginia, Gregory has found home in the city’s dance community and is a regular performer with . She’s also the communications manager at , and host of dance-based podcast “The Process,” which pulls back the curtain on the work that goes into a dance production.
Check out her segment of “This Is What Chicago Sounds Like” now at the link in our bio!
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Excited to share that The Process has been awarded a Performance Residency grant through !
We have some big exciting plans for Season 2 and cannot wait to share them with you.
-Alyssa Gregory*
Nora describes their process as:
Both my solo work and ensemble processes often have a central curiosity about the specific personhood of the individuals in the room, and how their histories and personalities play out in the ways they move and talk to each other. There is a lot of talking in my process and my work - stories, confessions, and ramblings that interweave with movement improvisation and offer a narrative counterweight to abstract movement - and that reflect the continual process of improvising and then debriefing our improvisations that makes up a lot of my rehearsal process. In movement improvisation, I think a lot about how to strip away the feeling of “not-enough-ness” and the internalized criticism of our own movement that a lot of folks carry, and how to instead encourage a feeling that the ways we move are already okay and valid as they are. I also focus a lot on what I see as the continual experience of coming out to oneself, and coming into oneself, that can be a forever process for a lot of q***r and trans people. In my solo work, I am generally seeking to understand that unfolding for myself and then find funny and vulnerable ways to share it with my audience. And in my ensemble work, I am really interested in how that unfolding process can be facilitated or refracted by our relationships with others. Finally, I’m currently obsessed with framing my work in the low-stakes, high investment language of entertainment forms like reality TV. The Real Dance is a project in which I’m doing all of the above: creating containers for dancers to take us down the rabbit holes of themselves and their movement improvisation, often centering q***r interrelationality and coming-out-coming-into-ness, and ultimately keeping it easy but super intimate in the ways audiences are invited into the final product.
Learn more about Nora and their process when Volume 3 drops on October 29th.
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