Description
Clearing, Made of Dream is a celebration of the coming of spring – a subject dear to Chicagoans. The movement recalls the actual way spring settles on the cold Midwestern soil: first heartbreakingly slow, then erupting in a riot of color. Choreographer Jan Bartoszek collaborates with visual artist Cheryl Anne Levin, costume designer Christy Munch, and composer/vocalist Lynn Book, to design a world of fecund promise.
Production
Choreographer: Jan Bartoszek
Composer/Vocalist: Lynn Book
Costume Design: Christy Munch
Set Design: Cheryl Anne Levin
Lighting Design: Ken Bowen
Cast
Amy Alt, Ann Boyd, Chia-Yu Chang, Laurie Kammin, Holly Quinn
Performance(s)
A Field Gathering
April 21-23, 1994
Dance Center of Columbia College
Chicago
With the help of several talented collaborators [Clearing, Made of Dream] sketches a primeval outdoor space: Cheryl Anne Levin’s set consists of branches drawn into sheaves, tissuey fabric suspended like ragged clouds or old spiderwebs, and a circular room of similar fabric hanging in strips; Christy Munch’s rough, layered, homely costumes make the five figures in the dance look like medieval peasants; Ken Bowen’s warm lighting makes them seem carved and solid as hewn wood; and Lynn Book’s wonderful music, full of human sounds (breathing, humming, singing) and aural odds and ends (water gurgling, perhaps an old typewriter clacking, cloth ripping), seems the script for a story too mysterious for words.
— Laura Molzahn, Chicago Reader
Special Thanks
PRODUCTION PARTNERS
The Dance Center of Columbia College
DC Two Co-Presentation
FUNDERS
Hedwig Dances is supported, in part, by grants from the Chicago Tribune Foundation; The Joyce Foundation; the Sara Lee Foundation; the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency; and, the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. Hedwig Dances gratefully acknowledges assistance received from Business Volunteers for the Arts/Chicago.
Special thanks to:
Eileen Ryan, Kathrene Wales, Nancy Mattei, the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the staff at Arts Bridge
