THE SALTS, QUICKDRAW, CITIZENS and More Set for The Inconvenience's 2015 Season
By: BWW News Desk Feb. 25, 2015
The Inconvenience is proud to officially announce its 2015 Season. This year, The Inconvenience returns to their fundamental, collaborative roots by producing a variety of multidisciplinary programming aimed at investigating artists' engagement with the community. The Inconvenience looks forward to bringing you a year full of exciting art, with this, its 2015 Season.
The Salts
Created, Choreographed and Directed by Erin Kilmurray in collaboration with Molly BrennanSound and Music by Misha Fiksel
May 21-31, 2015 - Thursday - Saturday
Collaboration Room 300 - Flat Iron Arts Building, 1579 N Milwaukee Ave. 3rd floor, Chicago, IL, 60622
The Salts is a dance project influenced by rock-n-roll and proto-punk performance, and the environment they create. Working as an ensemble, Erin Kilmurray and her dancers will create a collection of short, pop-song length dance pieces, Molly Brennan and Misha Fiksel will collaborate to fuse the world together. This project will push the boundaries of dance presentation into a more popularized form that encourages a visceral relationship to the audience. The pieces will be performed in lo-fi nightlife settings leading up to a full run of The Salts, which will be at a location to be announced shortly. In addition to the main performance, The Inconvenience will invite local dance choreographers to join as 'opening acts' to round out the event.
Curated and Hosted by Mary Williamson in association with LocallectiveComing Summer 2015
QuickDraw is a one-night, gallery-based, music and visual art event. Premiere Chicago visual artists square off head-to-head, challenged to create a series of works in parallel with short sets from Chicago based-bands in this live art making, punk rock extravaganza. Mary Williamson will host the evening, spurring on the competition and encouraging the audience to voice their support for the works they like best.The Fly Honey Show 2015
Created, Curated and Directed by Erin KilmurrayHosted by Mary WIlliamson
August 13-29, 2015 - Thursday thru Saturday
Chopin Theatre, 1543 West Division St. Chicago, IL 60642
For the past five years, The Fly Honey Show has played to sold-out, standing room only audiences in the red-hot-heat of Chicago summer. This fully produced variety event (returning to the basement of The Chopin Theatre) draws inspiration from cabaret acts, classic burlesque and risqué contemporary dance to present a piece firmly rooted in female-empowerment, mass celebration and gender positivity. This year the show strips down to the core of our mission: gathering a determined cast of outspoken and empowering artists, inviting us to celebrate the skin we're living in.There will be Limited Seating for The Fly Honey Show 2015, and tickets go on sale soon!
Curated by Josh AltmanProduced by Missi DavisDirected by Gus MenaryFeaturing new work from company member and Resident Playwright Ike Holter, with an exciting list of other Chicago-based playwrights and directors, to be announced!Fall 2015
We need to react. A sense of duty either calls is to action or is left to fester. No matter the result, the instinct to take responsibility makes us Citizens. The Inconvenience presents a collection of six new, short-form pieces that celebrate the individual impulse to take ownership amidst the friction of change. Citizens will spotlight how our actions elevate our sense of belonging; the joy of triumph, the frustration of failure, and the messy effort to make it happen. The six Chicago-based playwrights and creators are currently being assembled to compose the pieces and explore what it means to be a citizen of the city.
ABOUT THE INCONVENIENCE - The Inconvenience is a community of interdisciplinary artists who create collaborative events by mixing music, theatre, dance, fine art and celebration. Through producing, curating, and original development, these events activate audience and artist perspective, and ignite social dialogue.
The Inconvenience began in 2008 with eight friends in a loft and has now grown to seventeen members producing and creating events around Chicagoland. A multidisciplinary company that seeks to cross-pollinate the arts in innovative and exciting ways, our structure functions in four departments that are deeply collaborative: Dance, Art, Music and Theater. The Inconvenience produces works that challenge perspective and ignite social dialogue by creating and curating, and we are proud of our commitment to collaboration. In our four year existence, we have produced over 30 events, collaborated with over 500 artists, partnered with over 20 neighborhood and arts organizations, and presented to an annual audience of over 20,000 people.
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