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Chicago Dance Makers Forum 2010 Lab Artist Erica Mott and the Chicago Park District will present The Victory Project Trilogy, October 6-9, at Northerly Island Visitor Center.
The Victory Project Trilogy features movement developed through intensive research and training in Mott’s unique interdisciplinary methodology. Influenced by Bunraku puppetry, Jacques Lecoq, Phillip Zarilli, and Euginio Barba of Teatro Odin, Mott developed a hybrid choreography highlighting the energetic relation between dancer, site, and object.
The project started as a series of conversations with female veterans of the Korean, Vietnam, and Gulf War in addition to interviews with women living during World War II. Deeper historical and theoretical research followed in an attempt to address the complicated relationships between the female form and notions of victory.
Movement will be by Joy Davis, Silvita Diaz-Brown, Suzy Grant, Karen Faith, Melissa McNamara, and Erica Mott, and award-winning Chicago composer Ryan Ingebritsen adds a shifting soundscape generated directly from the dancers’ movement and mixed live.
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