The University of Chicago Theater and Performance Studies

ONLINE RESOURCES:

Chicago Artist Resource Site

PerformInk--Chicago trade paper

League of Chicago Theatres

University /Resident Theater Association (URTA)

United States Institute for Theater Technology (USITT)

Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)

Theater Communications Group (TCG)

The Arts Council exists to foster the arts at the University of Chicago. It understands the Arts as integral to the University's educational objectives, to the cultural vitality of the campus, to the University's role in the city of Chicago and to its national and international reputation.

Recent Artspeaks events involving Theater and Performance Studies:

El Mexorcist 4: An Evening of Spoken Word Roulette

In this performance, Guillermo Gómez-Peña denounces the anti-immigration hysteria and assaults the demonized construction of the U.S.-Mexican border. Using acid Chicano humor, hybrid literary genres, multilingualism and activist theory, Gómez-Peña reflects on identity, race, sexuality, pop culture and the impact of new technologies in the post-9/11 era. His performance moves cultural borders to the center, marginalizes the alleged mainstream and redefines his audience as “foreigners” or “minorities.”
For more information:http://www.pochanostra.com/projects/

Walker will reflect on her work in a presentation and dialogue with Amy Dru Stanley, Associate Professor, Department of History, who's research and teaching focus on capitalism, slavery and emancipation, and the historical experience of moral problems.

Known for exploring the raw intersection of race, gender and sexuality, Kara Walker unleashes the traditionally proper Victorian medium of the silhouetted figure. Her installations create a theatrical space in which her unruly cut-paper characters fornicate and inflict violent acts upon one another. With one foot in the historical realism of slavery and the other in the fantastical space of the romance novel, Walker’s nightmarish fictions simultaneously seduce and implicate its audience. A 1997 recipient of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Achievement Award and a 2008 United States Artists Fellow, Kara Walker’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Walker lives in New York where she is on the faculty of the MFA program at Columbia University.
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/walker/index.html