Event Information
Description
Formidable Dreams EXPANDED CINEMA
@Silent Funny 4106 W Chicago Ave
Performances by:
Elaine Lemieux (vocals and movement)
Hanna Brock (violin, vocals and movement)
Sara Zalek (vocals and movement and design)
Jason Soliday (handmade instruments and movement)
Jeff Schroeder (guitar and effects)
Costumes by: Sky Cubacub, REBIRTH GARMENTS, Here Heather Vernon
Created by Sara Zalek and Eugene Sun Park, this event is an immersive experience of projections, live performance, and sound as we begin to edit the series of short films about an androgynous trickster hero, often out of time, who travels through watery environments where present, sudden memory, and dream states co-mingle.
Eugene Sun Park is Executive Director of FULL SPECTRUM FEATURES NFP, a Chicago-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to increasing diversity in the media arts by producing, exhibiting, and supporting the work of women, LGBTQ, and minority filmmakers. This work is made possible by DCASE and Chicago Dancemakers Forum (CDF), Sara Zalek is a 2015 CDF Lab Artist, and was supported by residencies at the Dance Studio at the Chicago Cultural Center and Light Box, Detroit.
Organizer Sara Zalek
Organizer of Formidable Dreams
Sara Zalek is fierce advocate and business instigator for artists. They currently produce and curate performance related to Butoh and Avant-Garde art making, in an attempt to share an embodied imagination.
Sara has collaborated in hundreds of unique performance works and creates solo performance installations. Their work has been featured at venues nationally, including Chicago Cultural Center, Millennium Park, Hamlin Park, Links Hall, Defibrillator Gallery, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Dance Theatre Workshop (NY), Merce Cunningham Studio (NY), Headwaters Theater (PDX), and have received CAAP grants in 2007 and 2009 for performance works, DCASE and Cheney grants for works in 2014, 2016 and 2017. Sara has been a Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist, has worked with High Concept Labs, Pentacle, Out of Site Chicago, DCASE, and 3Arts to continue their mission of cross-pollinating audiences, artistic collaborations, and performance in the public realm. They have produced critically acclaimed Post-Butoh Festivals in 2104, 2015, 2017, and 2019.
