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Thursday, March 13 2008
Ben Allison & Man Size Safe @ Chicago Cultural Center - FREE
The Chicago Department for Cultural Affairs presents the third in their 11 FREE avant-garde music shows taking place between February and May. This performance, taking place at the Claudia Cassidy Theater of the Chicago Cultural Center (77 East Randolph Street), features bassist Ben Allison and his quintet, Man Size Safe. 7 p.m., free admission (can't stress it enough).
JACK in the Dark @ University of Chicago
Georg Friedrich Haas is a living Austrian composer of "spectral" music, a highly experimental, computer-assisted method of composition that defies simple description. The JACK Quartet, an ambitious group of recent Eastman School of Music alumni, will perform a 45-minute Haas work from 2003 entitled In iij. Noct., String Quartet No. 3 in complete darkness and surrounding the audience. All music was meant to be heard this way, but the extra brain power gained by the darkness may be especially welcome for this particular program. FREE, Presented by the U of C Renaissance Society, 5811 S. Ellis Avenue, Bergman Gallery, Cobb Hall 418, Chicago 60637, (773) 702-8670, info@renaissancesociety.org
Mojito 101 @ Carnivale
Carnivale mixologist Victor Baheza teaches a class on how to make mojitos, including the classic mojito and raspberry mojito the restaurant is known for. Appetizers will be served. This event runs from 6:30 to 8:30 pm and costs $25. Carnivale is located at 702 W Fulton Market. Call 312-850-5005 for more information.
Barbarella--Cinema Slapdown @ Film Row Cinema
Is the 1968 Roger Vadim-directed, Jane Fonda film trash or treasure? Ron Falzone referees a debate between Sharon Ross and Beau Basel Beaudoin after a (free) screening at 7 PM. Yes, FREE. 1104 S. Wabash, 8th Floor. For more information, call 312-344-6708.
Full Circle Danztheatre Festival @ Hamlin Park Fieldhouse Theater
Nine companies and artists interpret this year's festival theme, Milestones. Kate McIlvain, Shabam! Productions, The Core Project, Shahina, Christy Munch, Soul Theatre, Perceputal Motion, Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble, and Wannapa Pimtong-Eubanks will perform. This is "where dance, theatre, art, and film collide," and the subject matter ranges from a Baptist church, to a night in a bar, to political correctness, to West Side Story Redux. See the entry in our A/C section for more details. $15 ($10 students), March 13 and 14 at 7:30 at the Hamlin Park Fieldhouse Theater, 3035 N. Hoyne. 773-486-8261
AMEBA @ Ruth Page Center for the Arts
AMEBA is Chicago's acrobatic and aerial dance company that uses suspended fabrics, ropes, bungee cords, swings, and rope ladders to choreograph images in the air. On March 6-8 and 13-16, they will present On the Edge, a collection of new works expressing "a variety of instances where our human nature brings us to the edge." $15-20. The Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn. Tickets available through AMEBA's website. NOTE: They are also offering an in-theater aerial dance workshop. ($50, March 15 only, see their website for more details.)
