Clinard Dance Flamenco Classes
Flamenco Classes and Workshops
Clinard Dance Theatre
1747 S. Halsted, Rear
312-399-1984
Clinard Dance Theatre offers Flamenco dance classes from beginner through professional levels. Our intimate studio environment and small class sizes support a more personalized learning experience.
Founder and Artistic Director Wendy Clinard has been performing and teaching the art of Flamenco for the past 15 years. Her classes offer a comprehensive flamenco foundation taught with sincerity and respect.
Our studio and selected classes participate monthly in Chicago Arts District’s 2nd Fridays
Register for all classes and workshops online, phone or email Clinard Dance Studio and bring payment to the first class.
February 1-28, 2010
February Class Schedule
Mondays Fundamentals 6:30-8pm $72 monthly
Tuesdays Basics 6:30-7:30pm $60 monthly
Tientos 7:30-8:30pm or both for $110
Wednesdays Multi-level 10-11:30am $72 monthly
Multi-level 6:30-7:30pm $60 monthly
Guajiras with manton 7:30-8:30pm or both for $110
Saturdays Multi-level 10-11am $60 monthly
Solea 11am-12noon or both for $110
Fundamentals 12-1:30pm $72 monthly
performance workshop 4 sundays in February
Tangos 10-11:30am $125*
This class will perform for the 2nd Friday Arts District Opening held
March 12, with performance at 8pm.
*Note: the class fee includes live accompaniment during the performance.
For general classes, drop-ins are welcome for $20 per class.
“Bomba Women Dancing & History”
Instructor: Ivelisse “Eve” Diaz
Class Focus: Cuembé and Seis Corrido , Beginners & Intermediate
January 31- March 14, Sundays @ 11am-1pm, Ages 12 and up
Bomba has become a strong form of self expression. It has become a way of living for many. In this class students will be introduced to the history of bomba as well as be introduced to two bomba rhythms: Cuembé, a very sensual rhythm and Seis Corrido, a very lively rhythm. Students will learn foot work, skirt techniques and defining piquetes. A little about the instructor… Ivelisse Diaz was born and raised in Chicago. She is a bomba dancer, singer and percussionist. She became a Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center volunteer as a child. She was a member of Grupo Yuba for 16 years. She teaches bomba in schools and travels across the United States. She is also a bomba dance and hip hop instructor at the SRBCC. As part of the Saturday Scholars student exchange program sponsored by Bank One, she traveled to Ghana and exposed students from different countries to bomba. In 1996, she participated in Dance Africa in Chicago with Grupo Yuba, sharing the stage with groups from the United States, Brazil and South Africa. Ivelisse has dedicated her life to promoting, teaching and encouraging others to learn about and experience Puerto Rican culture. Ivelisse, now a member of Buya; also collaborates with other groups, such as Nuestro Tambo, AfriCaribe, Paracumbe and Bomberas De La Bahia. She incorporates contemporary dance genres into bomba to help younger audiences connect with bomba.
For more information please contact
mirely.rodriguez@srbcc.org or visit our website at www.srbcc.org.
REGISTER NOW!
Registration ends Friday January 29th
Among Tender Roots: Laura Anderson Barbata
Photograph by Stefan Falke
Among Tender Roots: Laura Anderson Barbata
Melissa Potter, curator
Exhibition dates: January 15 to April 9, 2010 (exhibition extended!)
Opening reception: Thursday, February 11, 6–9 pm
reception sponsored by Arte y Vida Chicago
Best known for her series of collaborative community-directed projects, Laura Anderson Barbata’s work finds expression in the service of cultural exploration and group participation. Ms. Barbata works within a wide variety of cultures to create art that has great meaning and relevance for her collaborators.
Ms. Barbata was born in Mexico City and currently divides her time between New York and Mexico. She has exhibited widely, having shown her work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, among many other locations.
Among Tender Roots documents Barbata’s collaborations with communities through books, handmade paper, printworks, sculpture, video, installation, and photographs.
Lecture: Wednesday, March 17, 7pm
Presented by the Columbia College Chicago Department of Interdisciplinary Arts, the Center for Book & Paper Arts, and the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media.
Columbia College Chicago
CCC Book + Paper Center
1104 south Wabash Avenue.,
2nd floor, inner gallery.
Rastros y crónicas: Mujeres de Juárez
“Rastros y crónicas: Mujeres de Juárez”, es una crónica que refleja a través del arte, el drama de los crímenes que suceden en la ciudad fronteriza mexicana.
Desde 1993, más de 500 mujeres han sido asesinadas en Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México. En esta exposición artistas mexicanas y méxico-americanas se reúnen para dar una perspectiva personal de un asunto tan inquietante. “No podemos permitir que nuestra generación o futuras generaciones ignoren u olviden la perdida de tantas vidas en Ciudad Juárez” mencionan Dolores Mercado and Linda Xóchitl Tortolero, curadoras de la exhibición, presentada en el National Museum of Mexican Arts.
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Producida por: Stephanie Manriquez
Entrevista por: Gisela Orozco
Duración: 7.30min
Un Último Suspiro es el reflejo de una desigualdad social y sexista dentro de un contexto y en un área determinada, en este caso dentro de Ciudad Juárez, MX.; donde los femicidios y desapariciones de mujeres quedan impunes a causa de una desvalorización y la falta de respeto hacia esta misma.
Esta audio pieza realza las voces de aquellas que gritan sin ser escuchadas, cientos de muertas y miles de desaparecidas suspiran al final de un laberinto sin salida, horrorizadas por la maldad de sus captores; refleja la ignorancia e insensibilidad de las autoridades y por último el sentimiento de incertidumbre para sus familias.
Algunas de las artistas que presentan sus obras son: Esperanza Gama, Karen Musgrave, Patricia Acosta, Pilar Acevedo, Rosario Guajardo, Stephanie Manriquez, entre otras. La exhibición estará abierta al público hasta el 4 de Julio, 2010.
National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 West 19th St.
312.738-1503
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
From his humble childhood to the presidency of Mexico, the story of Benito Juárez (1806–72) is legendary. An indigenous Zapotec Indian, he was born in a small mountain village in the rural state of Oaxaca. At age twelve, Juárez left home for Oaxaca City, where he studied in the seminary before entering the Institute of Arts and Sciences to study law.
His political views were profoundly influenced by the ideals of the European Enlightenment, particularly the rule of law and self-government. Beginning in the late 1840s, Juárez set out to reform Mexico according to these ideals, a relentless pursuit framed by war. Juárez’s determined efforts transformed Mexico into a modern republic, making him a beloved national icon.
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico is a ground-breaking exhibition, co-curated with the National Museum of Mexican Art. Over 25 national treasures from Mexico never before exhibited in the United States will be on display, including a bronze death mask of Juárez, an oversized painting of Juárez by Jorge Gonzalez Camarena, and his signature top hat and suit. Benito Juárez is presented in tandem with Abraham Lincoln Transformed; the two exhibitions are key elements in the Museum’s Lincoln Bicentennial year.
image: “Benito Juarez,” by Jorge Gonzalez Camarena, 1968
October 10, 2009 through April 12, 2010
The Chicago History Museum
1601 North Clark S.
312.642.4600
Angel Otero: Touch with Your Eyes
The deeply personal and passionate paintings of Angel Otero have made a mark on the cultural scene over the past few years. Otero, having just completed his MFA degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago this spring, was one of only four awardees nationwide to receive the prestigious Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the visual arts this year, which will support his work over a two-year period in New York.
This exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center will be Otero’s largest solo show to date; it will bring together some 12-15 new works from the artist’s studio and private collections as evidence of his masterful use of materials, as well as revealing his ideas that stem from growing up in Puerto Rico and training in Chicago.
Jan 23, 2010 – March 28, 2010
Chicago Cultural Center
78 E. Washington St.,
Sidney R. Yates Gallery
FREE
The National Wet Paint Exhibition
The National Wet Paint Exhibition is an outlook and an overview of emerging contemporary artists across the United States currently working in the medium of painting. Wet Paint refers to the idea that this is a fresh group of artists. They are MFA (Masters of Fine Arts) candidates and recent MFA recipients working primarily in the medium of painting.
2010 marks the first decade of the 21st Century. Under the watchful eye of a technology driven society, online social networking and cyber interaction communities, emerging artists have been evolving and redefining one of the oldest mediums of art, painting.
The National Wet Paint Exhibition consists of 52 paintings by artists selected from a national call which resulted in 255 submissions. The exhibition takes place in the 6000 sq/ft main gallery of the Zhou B Art Center in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood. The Zhou B Art Center is a private, non-government funded art center designed to facilitate the exchange of contemporary art between Chicago and the international art community. The 87,000 square feet art center offers innumerable possibilities for exploring the arts in a charismatic location and collectively form an extravagant art center fusing culture and creativity.
All the works in the exhibition will be permanently available online at www.VisualArtToday.com. The National Wet Paint Exhibition was curated and organized by Sergio Gomez, independent curator at the Zhou B Art Center.
Exhibition Dates: January 15 to February 28, 2010
Zhou B. Art Center | 1029 W. 35th Street
Hugo Fontela Art Exhibit “Gulf of Mexico Days”
Hugo Fontela Art Exhibit “Gulf of Mexico Days”
Between the coast of the Mexican Gulf and his New York Studio in Soho, Hugo Fontela (Asturias, Spain 1986) has been developing his new artistic projects. In this show, the Spanish artist, settled in New York five years ago, introduces us to works of art that set aside the urban scenery to go deeper into a more tropical, naturalistic and oriental painting; These pure paintings, where the dead palms stuck along the beaches of Florida gain absolute prominence in big canvas and delicate pieces, will bring to Chicago the best and newest work of this young artist.
Hugo Fontela – This young, Asturian painter is considered to be one of the most prestigious among current Spanish artists. Fontela earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts at the School of Art of Oviedo. In 2004, he joined The Art Students League of New York. Fontela has received numerous awards, such as the Award of Extraordinary Merit in the Arts, which is granted to the most outstanding of pupils, and in November, 2005, he was given the BMW Award in Painting, one of the most prestigious in Spain.
Instituto Cervantes Gallery
31 W Ohio
FREE & open to the public
Until February 1, 2010
