Contretemps Contemporary Ballet
Beating Against Time
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Heat Lightning - CCB's Premiere
Help Launch Contretemps Contemporary Ballet - a company for dancers whose bodies and identities have been historically excluded from ballet. Anti-racist, anti-patriarchal, pro-worker.
Chicago, IL, US
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Heat Lightning is the premiere performance of Contretemps Contemporary Ballet, created by Director MaryAnn McGovern. Heat Lightning is an alternative outdoor performance that illuminates the problematic nature of post-truthism. A dance within an installation, Heat Lightning weaves together visual metaphors for a world whose fate hangs in the balance. The movement vocabulary will demonstrate the physical sensations that arise when we reflect on living in post-truth America.
Due to Covid restrictions and in order to provide a safe and welcoming performance space, the work will be set in the parking lot of the Drucker Center in Lincoln Park. Performances are August 14, 21, and 28 at 8PM.