{"id":873,"date":"2012-02-22T01:45:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T01:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/?p=873"},"modified":"2014-01-04T23:48:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T23:48:24","slug":"synapse-arts-collective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/2012\/synapse-arts-collective\/","title":{"rendered":"Synapse Arts Collective"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> Photo by Kelly Rose \/ Savage Rose Photography<\/p>\n

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Why not keep dance available for the public year round?<\/p>\n

Artistic director Rachel Damon, of Synapse Arts Collective, is dedicated to providing dance through site-specific set works at affordable admission prices, even free!<\/p>\n

Synapse Arts Collective is a Chicago-based performance group that\u00a0focuses on developing new works and artists through a laboratory process involving improvisation, mulit-media collaboration, and feedback. Fearless in their approach to dance and what dance can be, the group demands engagement from their viewers by challenging them to receive and think critically about the topics being presented.<\/p>\n

Coming up on March 8-10, 2012, Synapse is collaborating with The\u00a0Space\/Movement Project and Erica Mott, also bold and like-minded\u00a0artists, for one phenomenal event at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago. \u00a0In this program each artist presents work that asks the audience to view the art of contemporary dance with a different approach.<\/p>\n

Space\/Movement Project plays with the idea of occupying the stage with a series of line dances to communicate the different present day human\u00a0interactions, the quirkiness and misunderstandings of them all. Rachel\u00a0Damon, in collaboration with musician Frank Rosaly, take the viewers on a\u00a0mood swing roadtrip from a playful community of four dancers to savage-like intensity that naturally breaks into individuality. Damon chose to enhance the ever shifting environment by supporting her movement with a\u00a0changing landscape of water, sound, and motion.<\/p>\n

Erica Mott concludes the\u00a0performance by presenting a piece of five male dancers that balance\u00a0between the ideas of masculinity and territoriality. A sound score\u00a0encompassing Icelandic and New Mexican environmental field recordings,\u00a0plus on-stage gramophones singing country classics and Viking metal, calls\u00a0for no mundane song and dance. \u00a0All three artists utilize the dynamics of\u00a0space-creating a shared space, transforming landscapes and environments,\u00a0and engaging the audience in an unrivaled experience.<\/p>\n

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