JODY OBERFELDER DANCE PROJECTS presents three new works March 1-3 at Abrons Arts Center on the Lower East Side. THROB is a conceptual and physically demanding work inspired by the biological workings of the heart. Informed by conversations with cardiologist Dr. Holly Andersen, Oberfelder cultivates the heart for metaphorical meanings, associations, and physiological information. During the performance, heart monitors help access the intimate physicality of the dancers by measuring the heart fluctuations produced by physical exertions and emotional confluence. A sound designer, Weston Minissali, plugs the dancers actual heart rates, at specific moments in the performance, into a synthesizer, which compliments an original soundtrack by composer Andy Akiho.
Also on the program is RE: DRESS, a solo performed by Jody Oberfelder, set to music by Clogs, and the premiere of SUNG HEROES, a quartet which places each dancer in a cinematic lens, working through his or her own—and others’—emotional narratives to connect to the superhero within. Music is by The Section Quartet. Collaborators for the evening include lighting designer Kathy Kaufmann, costumes by Katrin Schnabl and dancers Lonnie Poupard, ChristinaNoel Reaves, Jake Szczypek and Jessica Weiss.

Throb Trailer # 1
Throb Trailer # 2

Time Out Chicago’s Jessica Herman writes on KATRIN SCHNABL:
“I want to address what I call memory trace, my made-up memory of the space,” says Schnabl, a fashion designer and School of the Art Institute of Chicago professor who often works as a costume designer. Reusing cotton and linen garments from her own line, she’s created a netlike structure linking the inside of the house to the outside. “[The garments are] going to be exposed to the elements. It’s deliberate in a sense that as the place is decaying, and my idea of how the memory is changing, the structure is invited to react and change.”

To read full fall feature click on:
Time Out Chicago “Dimensional Lines - Art & Dress”

Photo: Nicole Radja, TOC

Whence
a khecari work by Jonathan Meyer and Christopher Preissing

This unique sound-movement event is the culmination of the second series of collaborations between composer Christopher Preissing and choreographer Jonathan Meyer. Whence blends various texts with over 12 channels of processed field recordings, vocalists Carol Genetti, Louise Cloutier, Mimi Wallman, and Stacia Spencer, sound sculptures, and performance crowd. Featuring soloist Jonathan Meyer, and inhabiting a stunning 15,000 square foot warehouse space, this work is a journey through an aged wooden world, and the insecurities and passions that have sustained and hindered Meyer in his relationship to dance over the past 20 years.

choreography, dance, lighting design: jonathan meyer
music composition, vocal and sound direction: christopher preissing
vocal quartet: carol genetti, louise cloutier, mimi wallman, stacia spencer
performance crowd: genevieve lally knuth, tiffany sevilla, julia miller, linda solotaire, jessi t walsh, greg o’drobniak, sid yiddish, chad clark, maggie mascal, right eye rita, salome chasnoff, sid samberg, heather wilcox, elisa sutherland, cyndie carlson
clothing design: katrin schnabl

Fridays - Sundays, September 9-11 & 16-18, 8pm

Lacuna Artist Loft Studios
2150 S. Canalport, 2nd floor [Enter through southwest door]
Chicago, IL

Tickets $18 general or $12 low income
Two for one tickets on opening night, September 9.
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*Please dress for a dusty environment.
**This show contains nudity and may not be appropriate for all audiences.

dimensional lines: art + dress September 11 – November 6, 2011 Opening Reception Sunday, September 11, 1 to 4 pm
Gallery Hours: Mon. – Thurs. 10 am – 9 pm; Fri. – Sat. 10 am – 4 pm; Sun. 1 – 4 pm First floor galleries are handicapped accessible. Limited, free parking is available.

Curator Gillion Carrara Contributing Curator Fraser Taylor
The Art Center has asked a group of Chicago-based artists and designers who are at the forefront of their disciplines to collaborate on an exhibition that will bring art, dress and site together. This unique, site-specific installation will present corporeal and conceptual relationships between the work of artist Fraser Taylor and Conrad Hamather, Melissa Serpico Kamhout, Beata Kania,
Anke Loh, Kristin Mariani, Katrin Schnabl, and Kristina Sparks within the Art Center space.
Notable writers Sandra Michels Adams, Alex Aubry, Caroline Bellios, Margaret Hawkins, along with distinguished poet Stuart Dybek, will contribute text. Scenic and lighting designers, Mary Griswold and Geoffrey Bushor will add to the ambience.

Schnabls’ large-scale garment-based installation originates from the central sun-room of the Evanston Art Center main floor gallery space on the south side and weaving from the inside out through the yard past the central trees to the north bench overlooking the beach. The trailing net-like structure is built from garments, and through garment making processes. It navigates building and land, fluidly connects the indoor with the outdoor spaces, is present at once inert, yet activated, and through scale and duplication evokes associations of memory and history, a fictitious, yet modern ‘remembrance of things past’.

Commissura is a premiere from Julia Rae Antonick, a Chicago-based independent dancer and choreographer known for her integration of such disparate forms as contact improvisation, modern dance, and Indonesian dance. Antonick brings filigree to physics and yields a profoundly physical, subtly nuanced choreography. Commissura represents the culmination of Antonick’s research project, Duologue, which explores what it means to be a duet artist. This project was funded in part by the Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist Grant and the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.

Dance performed by Antonick, Ben Law, Jessie Marasa, Jonathan Meyer
Music composed and performed by Joe St. Charles and Dan Mohr
Styling and garment design by Katrin Schnabl
Lighting design by Francesca Bourgault
Production and stage management by Suzy Grant

Y March 3rd - 5th, 2011
Thursday - Saturday, 8:00 PM
Overdier Hall: 1545 W. Morse
3rd Floor (wheelchair accessible)
Tickets $12 or $8 at the door or: brownpapertickets

Y is the first evening-length solo Jonathan Meyer has created and performed for Khecari. Retrospective in its source, Jonathan is grappling with his shifting relationship to dance through projecting fictionalized characters grounded in his past.

Photos by Jason Page

Composer Christopher Preissing has created original music, which will be performed live with a vocal ensemble. Katrin Schnabl, who created costumes for Tacit, will costume this piece.

Swimming Pool Project Space is proud to present “Swimsuit Edition: A Visceral Body curated by Lisa Majer”. The exhibition will be a one-night show coupled with a 13 month exhibition calendar. It opens on Friday, February 25th, from 7-10pm, offsite from the storefront space, at 120 N. Green Street, apartment 5E, in the west loop.

“Swimsuit Edition: A Visceral Body - Relating to deep inward feelings rather than to the intellect…. The artists, designers, performers, and thinkers in this edition elicit profound primal sensations through their craft. From the base to the sublime, from the personal to the social, from introspective to active, and from seductive to confrontational, the sensations and sensationalism of the works are ports of entry as points of departure.”
—Lisa Majer

Artists featured:
Eli Borrowman
Rae Langes
Katrin Schnabl
Carrie Gundersdorf
Danielle Paz
Amy Honchell
Jaime Lynn Henderson
Jessie Mott
Shannon Faseler
Kristina Sparks
Steve Reinke
Jim Sorfleet
Carolina Wheat
SweetDevil Red

The Swimming Pool Project Space is bringing the catalogue back from near extinction and hanging it on the walls of fans, gallerists and collectors. Lisa Majer has compiled artists and designed a Swimsuit Issue for the finale one night show at the all new Swimming Pool. It is dedicated to 13 artists, each presenting a month for 2011 and into 2012. The opening night brings a group show and features the release of the printed, functional, mini-catalogue.

Usually, an exhibition catalogue comes to the gallery as a resource for a special event. It is a remnant of a particularly thoughtful curatorial expression ready to sit on a coffee table or bookshelf waiting to be read in order to prove its relevance. Not many museum or gallery goers choose to purchase the copy, however, it continues to be a permanent reminder of an experience. The viewing of art between specific white walls, recorded and clarified. The catalogue may include elaborate essays outlining the curatorial vision of the show, and images within and without the show in order to provide context for the viewer. Or perhaps it’s meant to explain its arrangement and vision more explicitly leading the reader to the water hole and intravenously delivering the liquid ‘knowledge’. Here, we’ve decided to simply expose the figure for your own wall.

The timelessness of print coupled with the impermanence of an opening, are together now. These images are capturing a moment. You too can capture a moment with your pen, your memory of the day, your reminder for the future or for the eventual past. The momentum of the Pool’s closing wraps around the year of the Rabbit and draws you to make marks and enjoy the sights.

As the year of the lucky bunny scampers in, we look forward to the fortune and fashion before us. This compilation is a celebration of exposure, a letting loose and letting it all hang out attitude. There are few secrets involved with a swimsuit. We are not and haven’t ever attempted to cover up anything. Rather, the Pool wants to perpetually present art whether at a risk or in the raw. Emerging from the water and allowing the lens of the bright sun to capture our environment, our bodies or our dedication to presenting art in a space or on a wall. We choose to suspend images in your home’s space by collapsing time. As the Pool takes its last stand in Chicago, we hope you will remember our humor, our playfulness and our dedication to enjoying the moment in art. For after the moment’s no longer, the Swimsuit Issue will linger. We trust it is going to be a remarkable year to remember.
—-Carolina Wheat

Friday thru Sunday, November 19-21, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
110 East 23rd Street @ Michigan Avenue

Kick-off the holiday shopping season with a curated designer showcase of accessories for the body featuring jewelry, scarves, bags, gloves, wraps and other great gifts.
Guest designers include:

Alice Berry Studio
Art + Culture Editions
Gillion Carrara Chicago Metalsmith
Jack Cave
Nick Cave
Abigail Glaum-Lathbury
Anke Loh
Kristin Mariani
Anne Novotny
Katrin Schnabl
Tommy Walton

A collaboration with
Jennifer Monson, Chris Cogburn, Kate Cahill, Maggie Bennettt and Katrin Schnabl,
October 1-10, 2010

SIP (Sustained Immersive Process)/Watershed an investigation into the NYC Regional watershed viewed as a meta-choreography of the historical, geological, and cultural layers of the interaction of built and natural phenomena of water in the region.

Public events will be held October 1 - 3 and 7 - 10. There will be four, 40-minute events daily in the mornings and late afternoons. Performance locations include two sites on Governors Island, the Nature Walk at Newtown Creek Sewage Treatment Plant, under the Manhattan Bridge, 164th Street at the Hudson River, and 59th Street at 12th Avenue. See detailed schedule below.

The audience for SIP/Watershed is limited to 8 people per event. Reservations are required. To reserve space, send an email to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) with a first and second choice event time.  The iLAND staff will reply confirming the event time, location and details for each reservation. Admission is free. 

iLand website

SIP/Watershed Event Locations and Times:

Friday, Oct 1
8:30am and 9:30am 59th St and 12th Avenue
4:30pm and 5:30pm 164th Street and the Hudson River

Saturday, Oct 2
10:30am and 11:30am Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center, Governors Island
4:00pm and 5:00pm Yankee Pier at Governors Island

Sunday, Oct 3
10:30am and 11:30am Yankee Pier at Governors Island
4:00pm and 5:00pm Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center, Governors Island

Oct 7
8:30am and 9:30am Nature Walk at Newtown Creek Sewage Treatment Plant
4:30pm and 5:30pm Nature Walk at Newtown Creek Sewage Treatment Plant

Oct 8
8:30am and 9:30am 164th Street and the Hudson River
4:30pm and 5:30pm 59th St and 12th Avenue

Oct 9
10:30am and 11:30am Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center, Governors Island
4:00pm and 5:00pm Yankee Pier at Governors Island

Oct 10
10:30am and 11:30am Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center, Governors Island
4:00pm and 5:00pm Yankee Pier at Governors Island

Combining the fields of dance, music, architecture and design artists, Jennifer Monson, Chris Cogburn, Maggie Bennett, Kate Cahill and Katrin Schnabl create a collaborative process that interweaves their forms through listening, framing, embodying, moving, diagramming, building and transforming. In this project they foreground the creative process through various activities and research that are immersive and intensive. These shared experiences include a trip to the headwaters of the Hudson River in the Adirondacks; visits with stream restoration projects in the Catskill Mountains around the Ashokan reservoir, NYC’s water source; walking/dancing/sounding along the rim of Manhattan, experiencing tidal and current shifts, sewage out puts, rainwater culverts, marine life and littoral biodiversity, and other human activities such as fishing, making-out and boating; We will share our individual practices and develop new ones out of our interactions with the places and systems we encounter.

There is a performative and public aspect implicit to our research process that permeates the public sphere, facilitating awareness of how everyday activities connect to and effect the larger systems we are a part of. The performances will take place at the liminal times of the day (2 hours after sunrise and before sunset).

Katrin Schnabl collaborates on costume design for contemporary dance works by Julia Rae Antonick & Jonathan Meyer.

July 8-10, 2010
8:30 pm
Overdier Hall, 1545 W Morse (at Ashland)

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Inhabiting a shadow-world collaging magic show, 19th-century politesse, Rube Goldberg absurdism, and social dance decorum, Tacit examines the unspoken agreements that facilitate and constrict duet dance forms, theatrical performance, fantasy, and gender relationships. This show also features an unusual presentation format, with choreography by Julia Rae Antonick and by Jonathan Meyer and co-created by both, all co-existing as separate and overlapping vignettes within the larger world of the show. This work arises from the on-going duet collaboration between Julia and Jonathan, their last year of intensive studies in tango and swing dance forms, and their continued conversation about understanding and naming their various roles as independent artist, dancer, duet artist, collaborator, and dance company choreographer.

Tacit also features dancers Marc Macaranas and Cara Sabin, and original music from long-time collaborator Joseph St. Charles. Photography by Dan Merlo.

Choreographer Anne Sophie Fenner premiered the evening length Passage Bleu in Zurich, Switzerland this week.  Additional shows are July 8th and 9th at the Rigitheatre.  The costumes for ‘Inflorescence’ and the title section were designed by Katrin Schnabl.

Photos from the Zurich Opening

The Chicago History Museum presents the three finalists on a video introduced by costume curator Timothy Long.
FashioNext on ChicagoMag
FashioNext video on YouTube

LIMB # 22 will be installed at PAVILLION CHICAGO from June 3-20, 2010
Opening event: June 3rd, 5-9 pm

PAVILLION
2055 N Damen Avenue,
Chicago IL 60647
773.645.0924
Deborah Colman

LIMB -the installation is now on view at RubinChapelle NYC through 5/31/10.

It is an ongoing adventure to explore the shell with two dancers, and witness the animation of the space.  This sequence is danced by a single performer:
slow motion reverse flicking