NEWS: Movement Matters Inaugural Performance Series Lineup Announced

THE NEW MOVEMENT MATTERS PERFORMANCE SERIES WILL PREMIERE
AT THE RELEASE PARTY FOR BRIDGE V22N1 OCTOBER 18!!

GUILD ROW SOCIAL CLUB
Tue, October 18, 2022
4:00 PM CDT Early Admission
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM General Admission
At 7PM, to culminate the release of Bridge Volume 22 Number 1, the inaugural Release Party will Host Premiere of New Movement Matters Dance & Performance Series & Live Filming of work by Joanna Meccia, Amanda Saucedo & Juliann Wang

The long-running Bridge Movement Matters series, which investigates work at the intersection of dance, art, performance, politics, policy and issues related to the body, is launching a new periodic performance series this October 18. Bridge has hosted a variety of Movement Matters programming now for seven years, including artist's roundtables, symposia and panels, but this will be our first outing as a performance series. Curated by Michael Workman and Juliann Wang, we hope you will come show your support for the series launch, which seeks to define new intersecting spaces between dance, movement and performance art.

Following on recent collaborations such as 2021’s Source Recursions, this new showcase will host new and revised work by:

JOANNA MECCIA will present an excerpt from her choreography, Imaginary Futures. Image: courtesy Alex Rathbone.

Performers
Colleen Bass
Kimberly Galloway
Joanna Meccia
Heather Zimny

Choreographer Bio
Joanna Meccia is a dance artist, choreographer, and director, with an interest in exploring the human experience through multi-disciplinary dance experiences. Her choreography has been supported by grants from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs (2018), and Activate! Chicago (2018), and performed in theaters such as the Athenaeum Main Stage, Stage773, Links Hall, as well as Chicago Public Schools and public spaces. In addition to producing her own work, she has been commissioned for companies including the Trifecta Dance Collective, Project606 Dance, and Esoteric Dance Project, and most recently for New Dances (2020) by Thodos Dance Chicago and Dance Works Chicago. Currently she is developing a new work blending film and live dance through Dovetail Studio’s 3for3 Artist Residency When she isn’t choreographing, Joanna can be found performing with the Dance Avondale Collective and teaching dance in Chicago-land.

AMANDA SAUCEDO will present a solo, Untitled, with music: Si Tu Supieras Companero - Rosalia

Artistic Statement
This piece explores the multitude of emotions that can arise during a challenging experience. Saucedo began this work during the first Covid quarantine. Initially it was a depiction of the struggle between wanting to dance and being restricted (at home). However, it began to morph into a piece of work that played on an internal struggle of the artist- battling between two different worlds. Two dance styles are fused together: Modern and Flamenco.

Choreographer Bio
Amanda Saucedo, of Mexican-Ukrainian descent, is a native of Chicago. She began her dance training with a Mexican Folkloric company while later studying Ballet, Modern and other styles. She continued on with Spanish dance, serving as a Company Dancer and Teaching Artist with Ensemble Espanol Spanish Dance Theater for nearly 15 years performing nationwide as well as internationally in Spain. Amanda has performed alongside local Chicago artists, dance companies, and arts organizations at renowned venues such as The Auditorium Theater, Harris Theater, and participated in festivals such as Jacob's Pillow, Dance St. Louis and Chicago's Dance for Life. She continues to dance and teach in the community while partaking in collaborative work in hopes to inspire and share her art with others.

JULIANN WANG will present a solo, Untitled.

Choreographer Bio
Juliann Wang is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist, designer and performer whose work employs a multidimensional creative practice. Juliann received an MFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and BFA from The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. Her work reflects current shifts in culture, functioning as a narrative background for discussions of the personal versus society in the complex place of shared experience. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including Susquehanna Art Museum, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, The Cleve Carney Museum of Art, Sullivan Galleries at Art Institute of Chicago, Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection at Art Institute of Chicago, Giertz Gallery at Parkland College, Cetys University in Baja California (México), 808 Gallery at Boston University, Hyde Park Art Center, 33 Space in China, etc. Juliann also has created and collaborated in numerous performances throughout Chicago such as the Chicago Cultural Center, Anderson Japanese Garden, Mana Contemporary, 6018 north Gallery, Hyde Park Art Center, and others. She is a DCASE Individual Artists Program Grantee for 2021, 2022. Currently, she is an artist in residence at High Concept Labs.