http://stealthisdance.com/wordpress a project of Lucky Plush Productions Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:55:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en GRAND PRIZE 2011 MITSUBISHI ECLIPSE GS SECOND PRIZE $2,500 CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW! $25 each or 5 tickets for $100 Only 3,000 tickets are available. Winner will be drawn on October 2, 2010 at Mollie's Public House, 31 Forest Ave., Riverside, IL 60546. Winner need not be present to win and is responsible for all ... http://stealthisdance.com/wordpress/?p=986 Join us at the Steppenwolf Garage Theatre for our performance of Endplay, a vibrant dance piece inspired by one of Samuel Bechett's short dramas! Conceived and directed by Julia Rhoads, Endplay uses  Beckett's Come and Go as a point of departure. The piece highlights a group of characters whose rituals and ... http://stealthisdance.com/wordpress/?p=982 Chicago's Julia Rhoads/Lucky Plush Productions, one of Dance Magazine's "25 to Watch" in 2010, showcases excerpts from Punk Yankees, a provocative and entertaining dance theater work that combines live performance, video, and the internet to ask questions about authenticity, originality, and the ownership of dance in the digital age. Sunday, January ... http://stealthisdance.com/wordpress/?p=966 “Who owns a dance?” was posted at gwutrda.blogspot.com the morning I returned from a panel discussion hosted by The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago that investigated questions about intellectual property and the arts. In the week since posting, ideas about choreography, copyrights and creative thinking have been the focus of conversations ... http://stealthisdance.com/wordpress/?p=964 Late October brings us Lucky Plush Productions and Julia Rhoads’s new work, Punk Yankees. Now a decade old, Lucky Plush has already taken an important seat in the 21st century re-shaping and flowering of the Chicago dance scene. Rich kinetic/visual environments, dance films, site specific installations, and numerous evening-length performance works produced by Lucky ... http://stealthisdance.com/wordpress/?p=961 October 16, 2009 BY HEDY WEISS, Theater Critic Chicago Sun Times During a recent phone conversation with choreographer Julia Rhoads, her children -- two girls, ages five and three, and a boy who is just one -- were making happy noises in the background. In the foreground, however, were the probing thoughts ... http://stealthisdance.com/wordpress/?p=947 Last month we invited you to submit your choreography videos for our contest So You Think You Can Choreograph? We would like to thank all those who submitted their work: Anna Normann, Adam Gauzza, Leigh Ann Boatman, Adam Rose, Ania Greiner/3 Card Molly, Jaema Joy Berry, Marc Macaranas, Anjaly ... http://stealthisdance.com/wordpress/?p=935 [caption id="" align="alignright" width="128" caption="Reality / Saudades M"][/caption] Reality / Saudades M, Our latest video is an experiment as part of our upcoming Punk Yankees concert - the culmination of a year long study of "sampling" dance. Here we sample Ayman Harper and Mario Zambrano. Watch our sampling Watch the source material (by Harper/Zambrano) Tell ... http://stealthisdance.com/wordpress/?p=891 [caption id="" align="alignright" width="100" caption="Join the project!"][/caption] Submit your work and the public will decide! The choreography with the highest number of votes will appear in Punk Yankees, our evening-length work premiering in October at The Dance Center of Columbia College. Click here for details. Grand Prize:  2 tickets to the Punk Yankees benefit performance, ... http://stealthisdance.com/wordpress/?p=774 [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="192" caption="Elena (Adam Rose)"][/caption] We are proud to present CHEER-TOH, our latest Fusion, this time blending elements of cheerleading and Butoh into a distinct performance by Antibody Dance's Elena (Adam Rose). Visit our Fusion section to watch this video, which also features a music mash-up by Chicago's own Yea Big, ... http://stealthisdance.com/wordpress/?p=651