Event Details
On July 24th and 25th at 7:00 pm, Chicago Dance Crash will present expo/sd, a world premiere concert at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts.
The upcoming performance will feature a new work by choreographer Annie Franklin. “Six Ways to Fall” explores vulnerability as a spectrum of human experience. Through six interconnected sections (physical, emotional, social, relational, identity, and existential) the work examines the many ways we surrender ourselves to the world and to one another. Blending street dance, contemporary movement, improvisation, and partnering, the dancers navigate moments of exposure, trust, isolation, connection, and acceptance. Rather than seeking perfection, the work embraces uncertainty, intimacy, and the courage of being seen, revealing vulnerability as both deeply personal and profoundly universal.
The concert will also feature a new repertory work, “A 4 Bar Loop”, by Crash resident choreographer and alum Elijah Motley. This dynamic quartet explores identity, drawing from Motley’s personal experience as a Black man raised in the South. Growing up surrounded by reminders and stories of racial discrimination shared by his grandparents, Motley reflects on the tangible progress made in civil rights, its regressions, and ultimately asks: “Are we any different now?”
Finally, choreographer Cameron McKinney will premiere a new duet “NOBLE CAUSE”. Inspired by the ideological conflict between a glory-obsessed sailor and a nihilistic boy in Yukio Mishima’s novel The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea, NOBLE CAUSE transforms Mishima’s stark imagery of lost ambition into a visceral meditation on disillusionment and self-authored purpose.
Seating will be very limited for this weekend-only showing and, as with all freestyle-driven productions, both performances will be entirely different. Join Chicago Dance Crash in July as we celebrate three world-premiere works in expo/sd.