The Chicago Human Rhythm Project announced today that it had secured more than $500,000—including $275,000 from the MacArthur Foundation—from various funders to establish a new movement-arts center.
A lot of our artists wanted to work with sweets this time,” says Ania Greiner, codirector of F&P (Food/Performance). “There’s gonna be a lot of sweets. There are a few savories. But the first event was all savories.”
“In Darfur,” by Winter Miller, was ripped from the headlines—of 2004. Unfortunately that doesn’t matter: Sudan’s horrific civil conflicts continue and may intensify despite a wobbly peace agreement reached in 2006.
“The Merry Widow” is about the basic things in life, says choreographer Ronald Hynd: “Sex, money, commitment, and love. They don’t have to go in that order. That was rather crass, the order I put it.”
