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Salon Talk with Julia Rhoads Monday, March 30 7-9 pm Silverspace Studio 1474 N. Milwaukee Avenue, #3 Light refreshments will be served. BYOB – Wine is welcome! Presented by Chicago Dancemakers Forum and Silverspace, Julia Rhoads will be discussing her current work for Lucky Plush Productions through which she is investigating ideas of ownership, materiality, copyright, and originality as they apply to the dance field in the digital age. As media becomes increasingly easy to reproduce and propagate worldwide, questions around these concepts as they relate to movement and the body are vital to raise. You will also be the first to witness the unveiling of Lucky Plush’s 10th anniversary website www.StealThisDance.com! Don’t miss it!! PLEASE RSVP to silverspacedance@gmail.com www.StealThisDance.com STEAL / BUY / SHARE In conjunction with our 10th anniversary project Punk Yankees, Lucky Plush Productions has launched the website StealThisDance.com, a play on Abbie Hoffman's Steal this Book (1971). The site is intended to stimulate discussion and interaction around questions about intellectual property and the value of dance. On the site:
Go to www.StealThisDance.com now! Spring to Dance May 23, 2009 @ 6pm Lee Theater Touhill Performing Arts Center University of Missouri, St. Louis One University Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63121 Ticket Office at 314.516.4949; toll free at 866.516.4949, or visit www.springtodance.com. Lucky Plush Productions will present an excerpt from our upcoming work Punk Yankees at the festival that celebrates the “best of Midwest dance – and more!” In the Middle, Somewhat Replicated June 12 & 13 @ 8pm June 14 @ 7pm Tickets $15 general, $10 students/seniors For tickets go to www.linkshall.org Chicago-based Lucky Plush Productions and Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts from the SF/Bay Area (www.smithwymore.org) are coming together in a semi-collaborative venture that feeds both companies’ independent explorations into the intersections of dance, digital media, and intellectual property. From remote locations, these two companies will create a new shared dance via "the middle, and somewhat replicated" space of YouTube. Punk Yankees October 22, 23* & 24 October 29, 30 & 31 All shows at 8pm except the benefit performance on October 23, which will begin at 7pm. For our 10th anniversary concert, Lucky Plush Productions will address the phenomenon of sampling and appropriation by creating an evening-length work that is primarily composed of samples and re-appropriations. The show is part of a long-term project examining complicated questions of authenticity and ownership of dance in the digital age. The proliferation of highly networked systems of exchange for moving images (such as You Tube and related sites), obscure the relationship between intellectual property and dance making. Lucky Plush is interested in provoking the paradoxes inherent in this topic: how “theft” in the dance field is both embedded in a long history of appropriation and a completely new phenomenon taking place on the internet, and how “stealing” choreography can be both irresponsible and transformative. Don’t miss the premier of this provocative new work that is fundamentally imbued by new technologies and approaches to dance. Be sure to visit our ongoing virtual stage for the topic, www.StealThisDance.com. Punk Yankees is supported in part by the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation. Additional funding to Lucky Plush Productions is provided by the Alphawood Foundation, Arts Work Fund, The Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, The Grover Hermann Foundation, Mayer & Morris Kaplan Family Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Peter G. & Elizabeth Torosian Foundation, and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. Ticket information coming soon. |
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