Fri April 8 - 7:30PM , Sat April 9 - 7:30PM
Hedwig Dances presents the double-bill FIELD THEORY on two dates only: Friday, April 8, and Saturday, April 9, at 7:30 each evening, at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois. Tickets will be available for purchase online on February 15, 2022. A post-performance conversation in the theater with the choreographers will follow the performance on Friday, April 8.
Both dances take their inspiration from major modernist design movements of the 20th century. The concert title, FIELD THEORY, refers to three formulas within three sciences, which all speak to various aspects of relationships – inner and outer – between the person and his/her environment (psychology); between social actors and social orders (sociology); and in Chicago architecture, we have only to look at architect Walter Netsch’s innovative and versatile approach which he called Field Theory. Netsch’s designs were his unique and lasting contribution within the brutalism architectural design movement.
Jan Bartoszek creates LightPlay, a dance that explores transparencies and the shifting perceptions arising from cascading layers of movement and fluctuating light forms. LightPlay continues Bartoszek’s exploration of the Bauhaus and is inspired by the work of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. In this dance, Bartoszek delves deeper into abstraction and visual metaphor. She is collaborating with Erica Ricketts on an original score for the work.
In Raw Concrete, Rigo Saura takes his inspiration from Brutalism, the architectural style which emerged in the 50’s, growing out of the century’s modernist movement. Saura’s conceptual approach is to create a raw, disordered, unadorned style, using the body as the base, sourcing movement from its most vulnerable state. Saura is collaborating with Spain-based Alex Melo of Malamuzamusic, in the creation of an original score for the work.