Anatomy for Interiors | Photo Credit Ruby Que
Chicago Dancemakers Forum Elevate Chicago Dance 2022 presents
Anatomy for Interiors
Chicago Dancemakers Forum Elevate Chicago Dance 2022 presents 30 local dancemakers and dance companies from October 13 - 16 as part of the Year of the Chicago Dance.
The festival will take place across four days in six locations and feature staged works, dance on camera, virtual reality, augmented reality, works-in-progress sharings, installation performance, outdoor experiences, and industry conversations.
Corey Smith: Anatomy for Interiors
October 16, 4:00 pm
Big Marsh Park, 11559 S Stony Island
Free shuttles will be provided: 1:00pm from either The Harris Theater (205 E Randolph St) or 95th St/Dan Ryan Red Line Station (14 W 95th)
Performance by HCL Residency Artist Corey Smith and collaborators
Presented by Elevate Chicago Dance Festival in partnership with the Chicago Park District; Supported by High Concept Labs and the Monira Foundation in Joint Residency at Mana Contemporary.
HCL Residency Artist Corey Smith presents a performance, Anatomy for Interiors, as part of 2022 Elevate Chicago Dance. The performance is Co-developed and performed with Lia Kohl and Jasmine Lupe Mendoza.
Corey Smith introduces, “When Jasmine and Lia and I all met together for the first time, we met inside and brought chairs to sit in. A chair is a funny thing — it is useful, it is everywhere, it is almost entirely forgettable. A chair also, vitally, makes a room feel like a room. What does a chair have? A chair has an invitation for a body. And that’s important — that bodies feel invited. (The sheer hostility and frustration of being in a place with no seating! What inhumanity!)
We have been investigating these sorts of invitations, the provocations of a seat, a wall, a light, a table. We have constructed a performance inside an interior that is barely there — a large corrugated metal pipe in Big Marsh Park. It’s an outline of a space, a tunnel, the faint suggestion of something. We are bringing ourselves and our radios, mirrors, and outfits to see what we can do with this invisible room.
What does a room have? A room has us and you.
Please accept our invitation to sit with us for some time, to listen and watch, to make a space. We’d be delighted to have you.”
Anatomy for Interiors | Photo Credit Ruby Que
About the Artist
Corey Smith is a Michigan native and has compiled a body of work in the past seven years of performances, books, video pieces, essays — all thinking through Midwestern identity. He has toured his original work widely, including to Links Hall, the Detroit Fringe Festival, and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Emil Bach House. He has performed and contributed sound design and composition in work by Every House Has a Door, Rough House Puppet Theater Company, the Suburban Piano Quartet, director Lindsey Barlag-Thornton and many others that has toured to Bath Fringe Festival, Steppenwolf Theater, Co-Prosperity, galleries and other sites. Corey has received an artist in residency at Light Box Detroit, the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Iowa Lakeside Laboratory, and Grin City and was twice awarded the City of Chicago Individual Artist Program grant. His longstanding project, The New Prairie School, has been featured by Architectural Digest. He holds an MFA in Performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He completed his undergraduate degree in Music Composition at the University of Michigan, where he studied under Kristin Kuster, Bright Sheng, Evan Chambers, and Holly Hughes.