Reframing Bodies presented by Kelly Bowker and Dancers

Want to hear thoughts about my work from someone other than me? Here it is- the review of my latest choreography in an evening I curated!!

Chicago Stage Standard

Dance Review by Sarah Osterman Myers, July 12

Rating 3 Stars Out of 4

GetInlineRevolutionary dance is often born in unlikely performance settings. Take the Judson Dance Theater of the early 60s for example; they performed at the Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village, New York City, and while the venue was seemingly unobtrusive, the work within was experimental enough to form the basis for postmodern dance.

Sitting before dancer Francisco Avina, listening to him recall the night he contracted HIV, it’s hard not to feel like a witness to today’s trailblazing equivalent of the Judson-era work. His performance of A.r.T (Anti Retroviral Therapy) is one of six works in Reframing Bodies presented by Kelly Bowker and Dancers at the Fasseas White Box Theater. The space itself is a gym turned performance space, but with some Bread and Roses Production lighting design and acoustic guitar by Teddy Ribbens, it transformed…

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