NHQ EVENT: Just Shake Ya Rump

Photo credit: Archer Ballroom c. NYE 2010. Photo © Flickr user Dan Marker-Moore.

Join us as we celebrate the birthdays of NHQ’s Angeline Gragasin and Daniel Postilnik this Saturday, March 13, 2010 at the Archer Ballroom. Featuring live entertainment by ANTIBODY DANCE, VALIS, and DJs BITFUNK and BODYWALLET! All we wanna do is zooma zoom zoom zoom and a boom boom, ya hurr?

@ the ARCHER BALLROOM
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Doors 8:30PM

With special guests:

9:30pm: ANTIBODY DANCE
performing the Chicago debut of VACA SACRA

VACA SACRA a performance by ANTIBODY DANCE
Choreographed by Adam Rose in collaboration with Silvita Diaz Brown and Craig Donavin. Sound design by Adam Rose.

Characters:
La Monja (the Nun): Silvita Diaz Brown
El Vaquero (the Cowboy): Craig Donavin
El Hombre de Negocios (the Businessman): Adam Rose

“Vaca Sacra” is a work for three dancers who embody a nun, a cowboy, and a businessman. The sound design and choreography steal elements from Mexican and American culture to describe neither, instead creating a separate world from distorted fragments of each. The result is something like a southwest noir. The Antibody mirrors processes of cultural exchange and fragementation initiated by the global market, devouring cultures in order to feed itself. In this destructive and creative process, occult connections emerge, between Hollywood and Bollywood, Christianity and cannibalism, Baroque master/slave relationships and contemporary politics. The climax of the work is an invocation of Kali danced by the figure of a nun holding a skull.

10pm: VALIS
ftg. members of Clique Talk
Dark ‘n Sticky Synthpop