VIDEO: Upcoming OnEdge performances

OnEdge

DCASE Enewsletter - Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events

All #OnEdge performances are free!

Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis 60 minutes before each performance. For specific venue & accessibility questions,

please contact each venue directly.

The Triumph of Fame

by Marie-Caroline Hominal

February 23-25; 5-10pm

at Dfbrl8r

Note: All advanced reservations are filled. Please arrive at the venue anytime between 5-10pm on performance nights to be placed on a waiting list.

Swiss-based performer Marie-Caroline Hominal strips down the codes of theatrical artifice in an intimate one-on-one encounter with an audience member scheduled every 20 minutes.

A Ride on The Irish Cream

by Erin Markey

February 24 & 25; 8pm at

American Theater Company

Anchored inside the memory of a Michigan backyard on the bank of the Kawkawlin River, a live band and swath of carpet become the space for the thrills and terrors of a relationship between Reagan (Markey), a vainglorious self-made girl, and Irish Cream (Becca Blackwell), her family's pontoon boat/horse.

minor matter by Ligia Lewis

March 3 & 4; 6pm at the

Chicago Cultural Center

Berlin-based choreographer Ligia Lewis uses dance, visual arts and the theater to pose questions concerning otherness and empathy in this second installment of a racially-conscious trilogy. In a time of anti-blackness, minor matter saturates the black box space with the elusiveness of black expression.

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