Some omitted May updates: We joined young people from the #NoCopAcademy campaign for a screening of SoapBox Productions’ NCA documentary at DePaul University’s downtown campus. Sponsored by 14 East Magazine, we followed the film with a panel discussion alongside Caullen Hudson, Karina Martínez, and Citlali Pérez, discussing how notions of “public safety” have shifted in…
Read MoreFebruary 2023
As part of our participation in the Lab Artist Program, we were lucky to have a photo shoot last month with William Frederking, a photographer who has been documenting dance in Chicago for over three decades. Our portraits will join his archive at The Newberry, and will also be used for promotion by ourselves and…
Read MoreDecember 2020
We had a special experience at the MacDowell residency, and can now see a path through to the completion of our piece World After This One, which we hope to find a way to present to the public in 2021. We were lucky to share the residency with old friend Kay Ulanday Barrett, and new…
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We’re writing to you with limited internet access from MacDowell in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Our original fellowship here in May was postponed due to COVID-19, and the campus has now reopened with new social distancing measures. We are here focusing on our in-progress performance World After This One. We recently finished the script for this…
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Benji Hart 