Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Freedom From and Freedom To
Freedom From and Freedom To is an exploration and celebration of artistic circumstance. Movement and sound improvisors from all around Chicago gather in front of a live audience, where they are grouped by chance. Each group performs an improvised set. Freedom From and Freedom To fuses diverse artistic backgrounds and practices to create unique and fleeting worlds.
TICKETS $15
ABOUT FREEDOM FROM AND FREEDOM TO
Dancers and musicians from diverse artistic backgrounds enter the space.
Their names go into a hat.
An audience member draws a group of names.
The chosen artists bring us into an improvised interdisciplinary world.
Freedom From and Freedom To events are improvisational performance environments which interrogate movement and sound. We use an ensemble of movers and sound-makers that are remarkably diverse in their crafts and backgrounds. Freedom From and Freedom To integrates relationality by engaging audience participation. The audience is invited to randomly draw a combination of artists who will perform together. Some of the participants have never engaged with each other before, which creates a challenging and often rewarding opportunity for world-making.
Freedom From and Freedom To is founded and curated by Cristal Sabbagh. Elastic Arts, home to Freedom From and Freedom To, is a 501c(3) non-profit organization fostering artistic exploration from a versatile Chicago venue by programming and presenting multifaceted performance and exhibition.
Elastic Arts fosters a community of music, art and performance in the Avondale/Logan Square neighborhoods of Chicago and beyond through developing, hosting, producing, and promoting creative, independent, and local music concerts, exhibitions, and multi-arts performances.
FEATURED ARTISTS
Visit the Links Hall website to read the featured artists’ bios.
DANCERS
Mya
Nejla Yatkin
Helen Lee
Ed Clemons
Maya Odim
Juice
Cristal Sabbagh
Aaliyah Christina
MUSICIANS
Scott Rubin
Luc Mosley
Najee-Zaid
Allen Moore
Jessica Morrison
Arif Smith
Jefferey Thomas
Paige Brown
