Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago & Chicago Puppet Fest present:
Berlin’s cutting-edge collective brings this celebrated kaleidescope aerial arts piece, combining art installation, contemporary circus, object theater, textile arts, live music — and lots and lots of wool. A trust-filled performance of connectedness and obsessive organic magic, where the division between object and body become indistinguishable, teems in a massive, hand-knit visual feast.
Dates/Times:
Thursday, January 23 at 7:30 pm
Friday, January 24 at 1 pm + 7:30 pm*
Saturday, January 25 at 4 pm*
*Crochet Par-Tay: Immediately following the Friday night and Saturday show — a gathering for crochet enthusiasts to share their most recent work, talk about the show and meet fellow crochet-ers. There will be cookies!
Location: Dance Center Columbia College Chicago, 1306 S. Michigan Ave.
Cost: $35/$30 students & seniors; $15 Columbia College students
Ages: All Ages
Running Time: 60 mins
ADA Accessible? Yes
Maraña, a cross-continental collaboration, creates avant-garde puppet theater that examines that connections between humans and the natural world. With a focus on movement and transformation, their work combines puppetry with visual art for a deeply immersive experience. Their festival piece, Organismo, explores themes of life and change through experimental techniques that engage the senses.
The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago has become a premier institution for contemporary dance and movement in the city. Known for fostering artistic innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration, the Dance Center is nationally recognized for its commitment to supporting emerging and established artists. Over the years, it has become a hub for performances that explore the intersections between movement, theater, and visual arts, offering audiences a chance to see groundbreaking work from diverse perspectives. This partnership celebrates the synergy between the two powerful forms of storytelling—dance and puppetry—offering audiences a unique experience that challenges their perceptions of both disciplines. The Dance Center’s commitment to innovation and artistic excellence makes it the ideal venue for such transformative performances.
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The Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival advances the art of puppetry by presenting sophisticated programs vital to the cultural life of Chicago. Engaging and inspiring the largest and most diverse audiences for puppetry possible, the Festival is the biggest event dedicated to puppetry in North America and traditionally offers more than 100 activities annually including performances, workshops, artist instensives, free neighborhood events and symposia to audiences up to 14,000 over 11 days each January. The organization is also home to other key initiatives, including the Chicago Puppet Studio and Chicago Puppet Lab, that nurture the development of puppeteers and deepen the field locally, nationally and internationally with the ultimate goal of promoting peace, equality, mutual understanding, and justice locally and globally.
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