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AMERICA dances on Saturday, Nov. 10
It’s my favorite email to write every year—dance at CHF! This Saturday, Nov. 10 we are featuring two very different and very wonderful dance programs. The Seldoms, photo by Brian Kuhlmann First up, at 12 noon at Francis Parker School, are Carrie Hanson and the Seldoms. The Seldoms is steadily gaining a national profile for their awesome dancing as well as their sophisticated treatment of complex subject matter. Artistic Director Carrie Hanson is quite masterful at calling... Continue Reading >>
Posted Friday, November 02 by Julia Mayer
The City as Text
Bloomingdale Trail architect's rendering Reading Blair Kamin’s Monday post about the Bloomingdale Trail—in which he reflects on the city’s recent announcement about funding for the Trail—got me thinking about the many conversations I had about the Trail last year that culminated in Walter Hood’s amazing lecture “Industrial Past, Green Tomorrow” at last November’s Festival. Meetings with the Friends of Bloomingdale Trail and the Trust for Public Land and everyone’s favorite... Continue Reading >>
Posted Tuesday, March 13 by Julia Mayer
Stages, Sights & Sounds Redux
44 programs in 13 days! It’s been a bit of a blur—and many of my colleagues stayed up much later and had more frontline responsibilities than I did. But we’re a small shop and everyone in our 16-person office pitched in. I’m exhausted and incredibly proud of the work CHF just brought to Chicago. Here are some of my personal highlights: Week 1 —Monday, May 2: Hanging lights for Baobab from the catwalk above the stage at the Barber Theater. So great to get out from behind my... Continue Reading >>
Posted Tuesday, May 17 by Julia Mayer
Taking on Technology
Human experience is inextricably linked to technology. At its root is the impulse to craft a better, easier, more informed life. From the creation of the first stone tools to the development of the printing press, from the blast furnace  to the assembly line to the microprocessor, technology is the expression of human ingenuity and the catalyst for the next big idea. Today tech permeates everything: our professional lives, our personal relationships, our... Continue Reading >>
Posted Tuesday, February 08 by Julia Mayer
Hayes's Anatomy
One of my strongest visual and olfactory memories of my graduate studies in dance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was the afternoon that my “anatomy & physiology of dance” class visited the UIUC College of Medicine’s cadaver lab.   Up until that day, we’d been studying anatomy in books and putting to test that book-knowledge in the dance studio. Probably more than many med students, we dancers were eager to palpate the origins and insertions of as many muscles as we... Continue Reading >>
Posted Friday, August 20 by
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