Freedom From and Freedom To
Massive improvisational cross-medium happenings, combining dancers and musicians from across Chicago.
Next Event:
Elastic Arts
April 12, 2025
2579 N Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL 60647
7pm
■ 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.
