Photo by Ricardo Adame
“We all flocked and trusted, and followed each other, leading ourselves,
leaning
and following in a way leaves and plants do in the wind. …
And we thought about why we dance,
why we are spiritual, why we move and for what and for whom we move.”
— “Through Dance, For Dance, We Dance: Offering and Receiving: A Reflection About ETHOS III, A Performance at Palmisano Park” Review by Maya Odim (Elevate 2022 Festival Writer), Chicago Dancemakers Forum Blog, 28 December, 2022
Watch EHTOS III: LUCA/Res Communis 5 minute excerpts
Watch Full Length “ETHOS III: LUCA/Res Communis”
Program
& ETHOS Journey Map & Time Schedule
Read more about ETHOS Project
Visit: Virtual Performance Map created by Mallory Qiu
11 am - 1:30 pm & 3 pm - 5:30 pm @ Palmisano Park
2850 S Halsted, Chicago (CTA: Orange Line, Halsted Sta.; Halsted #8 Bus to 27th St. or 29th St.)
Free Admission
Dance Installation & Performance Running Time: 150 minutes
Reservations encouraged (yet, not crucial) and open around mid-September with information on accessibility at chicagodancemakers.org
Presented by Elevate Chicago Dance Festival in partnership with the Chicago Park District; Produced by High Concept Labs in Joint Residency with the Monira Foundation at Mana Contemporary
“A compelling combination that simultaneously embraces both the molecular and the cosmic; ‘ETHOS’ is a feat made possible through an abundance of integrity evident in Kato’s work that embodies a gentle power and divine beauty paralleled only by nature itself.”
—Allen, Sophie. “In communion with nature, 'ETHOS' a moving reminder about stewardship.” on Inception: ETHOS Episode II, See Chicago Dance, 14 October, 2021
LUCA/Res Communis: ETHOS Episode III at Palmisano Park is part of the ETHOS project by Ayako, that sets art practice in natural environments. Episode III draws on the land’s history as the quarry that built modern Chicago, acknowledges the past, present, and future Indigenous people living among us, and is created in collaboration. It is organized as timed dances, land and water acknowledgements, and a culminating circle. Visitors choose to be guided by docents, or roam on their own.
Titled after the “Last Universal Common Ancestor”, and the common elements necessary for human life on Earth (air, water, soil), it follows To the Shore: ETHOS Episode I (2019), which used the setting of the beachfront and Colvin House at North Sheridan Road, and Inception: ETHOS Episode II (2021), set on the beach and prairieland behind the South Shore Cultural Center.
ETHOS Guidance Performers: Susana Ollin Kuikatl Tekpatzia Bañuelos (Aztec Nahua, vocal-music artist and storyteller, Aztec Dance Chicago), Joseph Lefthand (of Cheyenne-Arapaho, Taos, Zuni descent, performer), Danielle Gallet (water storyteller), Ambrosio Martinez (music, Aztec Dance Chicago).
ETHOS Team LUCA Dancers: Tuli Bera and Darling Squire (Team LUCA Co-Leaders), and Sophie Allen, Silvita Diaz Brown, Angela Gronroos, Carla Gruby, Lydia Jekot.
Costume by: Darling Squire
Directed and choreographed by: Ayako Kato.
LUCA/Res Communis: ETHOS Episode III is generously supported by High Concept Labs, the Chicago Park District, the Reva & David Logan Foundation, 3Arts, Artist Communities Alliance, Montalvo Arts Center, the Chicago Moving Company, the Chicago Art Department, and an Individual Artists Program Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events.