Freedom From and Freedom To

Massive improvisational cross-medium happenings, combining dancers and musicians from across Chicago.

January 30 & 31, 2026 at 7:30pm:

Lookout! at
Steppenwolf
1650 N. Halsted St.
Chicago, IL 60614

TICKETS

Friday Jan. 30th:

Dancers

  1. Tuli Bera

  2. Solomon Bowser

  3. Cristal Sabbagh

  4. Sharkey Zalek

Musicians

  1. Caroline Jesalva

  2. Julian Pujols Quall 

  3. Eli Sabbagh

  4. Najee-Zaid

Saturday, Jan. 31st

Dancers

  1. Aaliyah Christina

  2. Ed Clemons

  3. Kate Laughlin

  4. Amanda Maraist

Musicians

  1. Paige Brown

  2. Bill Harris 

  3. Julian Otis

  4. Scott Rubin

■ WHAT WE DO

Cross-Medium Improvisation

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. We fuse diverse artistic backgrounds and practices to create unique and fleeting worlds.

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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.

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Our 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.

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