Local Disturbances: The Return, and The Class

Rather than make endless excuses about why this blog completely ground to a halt over a year ago, I'll post an entry like that never happened. (...whistling nonchalantly)

I'm teaching a site-specific performance class at the Neo-Futurarium in July. Of two thousand and nine, yes, shut up.

Here are details:

LOCAL DISTURBANCES: SITE SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE
SATURDAYS FROM 1-4PM
JULY 18-AUGUST 29
(7 WEEKS)

Aimed at performers, artists, writers, and anyone else who’s interested in creating performances inspired by, and existing within, particular spaces or places around the city. We will investigate how to work with and against the geographies and histories of a site to create a performance within it (or even about it). We will use the sounds, sights, smells, tastes, limitations, excesses, frustrations, joys, boundaries, freedoms, secrets and lies of Chicago places and spaces to make people look twice at their surroundings and pay attention to their everyday routines. We will explore a continuum of performance—from pieces that rely on the performer to initiate and sustain them to pieces in which the performer is utterly absent.

All classes are $250.

All classes will meet at the Neo-Futurarium, 5153 N. Ashland Ave., Chicago, IL 60640.
Class size is limited to 15 on a first-come first-serve registration.

To register, email Neoclasses@gmail.com to express your interest. Then send a non-refundable registration check for half of the amount ($100) made out to "The Neo-Futurists" to The Neo-Futurarium at 5153 North Ashland Ave., Chicago, IL, 60640. Full payment is due at the first class.