Illinois Humanities and Thalia Hall Present
STORING THE WINTER
Miguel Gutierrez & Mind Over Mirrors
Tuesday, April 19th @ 8:30pm (7:30pm Doors)
Thalia Hall (1807 S Allport Ave, Chicago)
$15/ticket (all ages)
Illinois Humanities is proud to partner with Thalia Hall to present the Chicago premiere of the collaborative music and dance piece, ‘Storing The Winter’ featuring Miguel Gutierrez and Mind Over Mirrors. This performance will be the first of its kind in Thalia Hall. Miguel Gutierrez and Mind Over Mirrors will be situated on the main floor with the audience encircling them, offering up 360 degrees of viewing options for attendees, featuring lighting design by Lenore Doxsee.
On Monday, April 18th, Miguel Gutierrez and Jaime Fennelly (Mind Over Mirrors) will join David Ravel of Alverno Presents in a free conversation about their collaborative partnership at Beauty Bar (1444 W Chicago Ave). More information can be found here.
ABOUT THE WORK
Miguel Gutierrez and Jaime Fennelly (aka Mind Over Mirrors) met in the pine forests of the American South in summer of 2001. Taking refuge in the top story of a run down Bushwick, Brooklyn warehouse that Fall, they sonically and viscerally hammered away for the next four years at the mountains of detritus that had been left there before them, sculpting their own assemblage of self-sabotage actions up and down the Eastern seaboard and Europe. Eight years gone, reconfigured with their collective shovel dug deep, they are Storing the Winter. ‘Storing the Winter’ has been performed at Issue Project Room, NYC (2012), American Realness, NYC (2013), TAP Theater, Poitiers, FR (2013), Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR (2014), Charlotte Street Foundation at La Esquina, Kansas City, MO (2014)
PRESS
“‘Storing the Winter’… proved to be my best discovery of the festival.” – Alastair Macaulay, The New York Times
“What makes Fennelly’s work rise above homage is his use of Indian pedal harmonium, which cuts through his web of tape delays and synths and gives ‘Storing the Winter’ a singular timbre.” – Marc Masters, Pitchfork
“Returning to pure dance again, Gutierrez becomes more bound and internal. An evolution, a rite of passage. ‘Storing the Winter’ works in the realm of the energetic and kinetic.” – Julie Potter, culturebot.org
“The sonic drapery that Mind Over Mirrors hangs is a perfect canvas for someone who uses their body to make visual art. It’s a wide-open vista on which a dancer can paint all kinds of colors… the pair want to explore ‘the all-consuming corporeality of sound,’ which is nearly a perfect phrase for the effect Mind Over Mirrors’ music has on me.” – Marc Masters, culturebot.org
If you require accommodations to fully participate in this event, please email info@ilhumanities.org at least 72 hours prior to the event.