Dance Nomi Dance Company DANCE TOP 5Movement for a Cause 1Dance For Life. Auditorium Theatre.Dance For Life Unites Eclectic Companies Seven Chicago companies,to Keep Dancers Healthy large and small, share the stage in annual fundraiser for aBy Sharon Hoyer good, little-publicized cause: healthcare for artists. August 18 Dancers, like all professional athletes, seats in the Auditorium Theatre, to $650 for AUGUST 2018 Newcity suffer their share of injuries. Like all humans, prime seats and a gala reception. But for 2 SummerDance they also suffer ailments, maladies and audience members looking to get a survey of Celebration. Millennium diseases unrelated to their craft. And like the Chicago professional dance landscape, Park. A Series of free social many, many artists and low-to-middle-in- “Dance For Life” is one of the few showcases dances accompanied by live come Americans, rarely do they have health of its kind. The Big Three of Chicago dance music in the parks culminates in insurance. And so, each year since 1991, the companies—the Joffrey Ballet, Hubbard a day of workshops, professional Chicago dance community has come Street Dance and Giordano Dance—anchor performances and ample together to put on a benefit concert for The the program each year, but less prominent opportunities to cut a rug. Dancers’ Fund, an emergency medical fund companies audition to join the bill as well, August 25 for dance artists and support staff. What making for a nicely rounded sampling of began as an assistance fund for dancers styles and flavor. This year’s program includes 3 SHareOUT! MCA. This suffering from HIV-AIDS has, over the Hanna Brictson and Dancers, Cerqua Rivera mini-festival of short works decades, broadened the umbrella to cover all Dance Theatre, Chicago Dance Crash and supported by the Chicago medical needs and the one-night-only for the first time, Nomi Dance Company. Dancemakers Forum features“Dance For Life” concert has collectively new short works by local raised over $5.5 million for the AIDS Laura Kariotis, Nomi founder and artistic choreographers who will perform Foundation and The Dancers’ Fund. director, is excited to bring their work to the in the MCA theater. August Auditorium. “We’re honored to be amongst 24-September 1The cause is reason enough to throw down these companies and choreographers we’ve for a ticket for the August 18 performance, admired so long,” she says. Nomi just 4 Consider It Not So Deeply. which range in price from $15 for the cheap celebrated their ten-year anniversary with a Ruth Page Center for the Arts. Madison-based choreographer Marlene Skog explores the psyche of Shakespeare’s female characters in this new evening-length contemporary ballet. August 31, September 1 5 SummerDance Dance Downs. Austin Town Hall Park and Millennium Park. Shkunna Stewart and The Era Footwork Crew host a free series of historic black Chicago dance showcases. August 18, 25 51
new work by Giordano Dance’s Joshua Blake Deahr calls the CDC piece Carter, a piece that received a warm isa structured freestyle. reception, and Kariotis felt was strong “Dancers have heard the enough for the “Dance For Life” program. For track before,” she says. “We the all-female company, Carter created a set up certain stipulations, piece inspired by his mother, entitled “Kim.” like who goes first in sections where we take “It’s apropos for this time,” Kariotis says. “It turns, if we travel in a circle, describes how women have to work harder if people pass over and then men in many industries. It celebrates the under one another, who is passion and strength of women. The dancers above or below. It gives a were inspired by it and we got great feel to the piece and keeps feedback from the ‘Dance For Life’ folks, who people safe, but all the want to support women directors.” moves within it are freestyle. For us, it’s fun to come up Another small and rising woman-led with different ways to company participating in the show this year is approach it and as it evolves Chicago Dance Crash, a nine-member a theme and message start company that fuses breakdance, hip-hop to develop.” and acrobatics in a distinctive signature approach to choreography. This is CDC’s Two other smaller compa- second time on the Dance For Life bill—they performed in the program two years ago— nies will perform: Hanna Chicago Dance Crash but this is the first time a freestyle number will Brictson and Dancers, a appear in the annual concert, alongside With these seven companies, whose longstanding repertory pieces by legends like troupe originally associated with Visceral Lou Conte (Hubbard Street) and Ray Mercer specialties range from pointe to head spins, (Giordano Dance). Dance Chicago, and Cerqua Rivera Dance the “Dance For Life” program promises to be “It’s a risk for such a big prestigious show to Theatre, which gives equal spotlight to take on a company like this,” says CDC original music and the jazz combo that plays not only a worthy fundraiser, but one of the artistic director Jessica Deahr. “They’ve been most eclectic dance concerts of the year. taking more chances and breaking bounds of live alongside the dancers on stage. Cerqua just having polished contemporary. I think they like the energy it contributes to the show.” Rivera will perform a piece created for them by celebrated Chicago choreographer At the Auditorium Theatre, 50 East Congress, Sherry Zunker, with original composition by (312)341-2300. Saturday, August 18 at the company’s co-founder Joe Cerqua. 7:30pm. Gala reception at 5pm. Performance Brictson will bring “My Darling,” a piece tickets $15-$75, gala tickets plus perfor- driven by a pure love of music and mance $300-$650. Tickets at chicagodanc- movement. ersunited.org. ELMHURST ART MUSEUMNewcity AUGUST 2018 For the first time in 20 YEARS the full exterior of the McCormick House will be on view Mies’s McCormick House Revealed: New Views and Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle: Untitled Film (Red) JUN 10 - AUG 26, 2018 ® 52
DesignPhoto: Henning Koppel, Torben Ørskov & Company. Salad Serving Set, designed about 1965. The Art Institute of Chicago.Crate & Barrel's Cradle retail presence in the high-end tabletop market that popularized what came to beGeorg Jensen and the Rise of Danish Modern known as “Danish Modern,” as an alternative contemporary expression of the moreBy Philip Berger hard-edged, techno-industrial International style of the Bauhaus and beyond. SpecialGiven the fervid popularity of mid-twentieth best Danish modern is beyond style in its events and exhibits in its U.S. stores exposed AUGUST 2018 Newcitycentury architecture and design—and the unassertive timelessness,” which is at the Scandinavian design of all types—furniture,astonishing collector market in furniture and core of the message in Georg Jensen: textiles and other accessories —to Americanaccessories it has spawned—it’s difficult to Scandinavian Design for Living, through audiences for the first time.believe that there actually was a period when September 9 at the Art Institute.the style was considered passé. “Whatever The catalog essays, by AIC curator ofhappened to Danish Modern?” the esteemed The exhibit tells a compelling story of the architecture and design Alison Fisher, and bycritic Ada Louise Huxtable asked in the New influence the Jensen company exerted on art historians Maggie Taft and Thomas C.York Times in December 1980. “Where has the Scandinavian aesthetic from the early Thulstrup, offer a wealth of detail about theall the furniture gone that was such a tidal twentieth century and especially its central Georg Jensen company, which its epony-wave of good taste and good design in the role in shaping the overall course of mous founder established as a jewelry1950s?” Clearly that time of disfavor was post-World War II contemporary design. workshop in 1914 but eventually expandedbrief. Just peruse leading online market- Other European design talent—and even to include offerings of silver flatware andplace 1stdibs.com or the catalogs for the some Americans—played significant roles, holloware, and later a wide range ofWright or LA Modern auction houses or even but much of what we think of today as housewares. The materials focus on how theyour local Craigslist postings: Few acronyms “Mid-Century Modern” has its roots in company and its designers (there were many,produce the kind of results that MCM does. Denmark. The show (or really, the essays in including Jensen himself, who died in 1934)Prevailing taste today vividly embodies Hux- the accompanying catalog) makes the channeled craftsman traditions into a sleeklytable’s assertion in the same article that “the argument that it was in large part Jensen’s streamlined aesthetic and disseminated it worldwide. But we also glean fascinating details: That the overall predilection for teak furniture and accessories stemmed from 53
DESIGN TOP 5 Photo: Harald Nielsen. Pitcher, model 606, designed 1930, produced 1925–32. Promised gift of a private collection.Newcity AUGUST 2018 1 Untitled Film (Red). Denmark’s longstanding trade relationship disappointment that the show didn’t display Elmhurst Art Museum. Last with Thailand, and that Finn Juhl, who any jewelry. There are probably two reasons chance to visit the museum’s designed many of Jensen’s retail stores, for this: the Bard Graduate Center mounted a highly anticipated restoration of enjoyed great acclaim from consumers for his large, well-received show of Jensen jewelry in the original facade of Mies van furniture, was scorned by his design peers 2015. But also, this show is about the der Rohe’s McCormick House who thought his work was too sculptural (he house’s influence on popularizing the modern (1952) and experience Iñigo was apparently obsessed with British design aesthetic—with an emphasis on Manglano-Ovalle’s \"Untitled Film sculptors Barbara Hepworth and Henry functionalism and simple utility; jewelry by its (Red). Through August 23 Moore) and not sufficiently functional. very nature, is largely non-utilitarian. It’s unclear whether this was a curatorial choice 2 Retro on Roscoe. While the exhibit offers spectacular or an oversight, but it certainly jibes with the 2000 W. Roscoe. Featuring examples of the silversmithing arts, it’s hard show’s emphasis on domestic lifestyle rather music across three stages, with to display silver pieces in a manner that than fashion or fine art. artisan vendors, local street food doesn’t present them as unattainable and an antique car show objects in an airless environment. Maybe it’s It’s no coincidence that the lead patrons of showcasing over fifty antique, the nature of silver or the choice of gray the show are Carole and Gordon Segal, the classic and muscle cars. August flannel paint for the walls of the Rice Wing founders of Crate & Barrel, and not simply 10-12, $10 suggested donation galleries or the simple stillness of shiny because they have an extensive collection of objects in glass cases, but there’s some- vintage Jensen items. Probably more than 3 Arte Diseño Xicágo. thing inert and airless about the exhibition any (retailer) in America, Crate & Barrel was National Museum of overall. There is nothing soft or inviting responsible for the mainstreaming of Mexican Art. An exhibition about anything in the show, which may well Scandinavian design sensibilities across the focusing on the influence of speak to the lack of warmth in modern spectrum of home furnishings. Mexican travelers, immigrants design—even in its Danish Modern iteration. and artists in Chicago’s art And while there is a passing reference to the and design scene. Through One of the toughest things about exhibiting store (and a great picture of the original Wells August 19 utilitarian objects is the inability to gauge their Street store facade) in the catalog, the utility. When you go to a store to look at curator’s essay doesn’t connect those dots. 4 Northalsted Market tabletop items, you want to pick them up and While you understand she’s overcompensat- Days. Boystown on experience how they feel. Obviously this flies ing to avoid the appearance of patronization, Halsted Street from Belmont to in the face of everything a museum is about, it would be fully justified. After its expansion Addison. The largest street so there’s a built-in level of frustration in beyond Chicago in the late 1970s, Crate & festival in the Midwest is a viewing a show of this type. But at the same Barrel came to exemplify accessible good summer party with an all-day time there are certain objects in the show— taste with increasingly sophisticated lineup of live music and DJs on Allan Scharff’s Ibis pitcher or Henning consumers. While the goods it sold may have four stages, 200+ unique Koppel’s covered fish platter—that are such come from all over the world, its brand—mar- vendors, arts, crafts, food and exquisite forms you can hardly even conceive rying minimalism with warmth and comfort— drink, and colorful crowds that of using them for their avowed purposes. is directly descended from “Danish modern.” are not afraid to stand out. So for their contribution not simply to making August 11-12, $10 suggested Intriguingly, two people I spoke to at the this exhibition happen, but for the company’s donation show—both, perhaps not coincidentally, role in supporting good taste in America, they women of a certain age— each expressed deserve to be patronized. 5 Vintage Garage. 5051 N. Broadway. This month’s theme is “Vintage Wedding” and the garage-based market, home to thousands of vintage, retro and one-of-a-kind clothes, jewelry, accessories and gifts, promises to spice up anyone’s special day. August 19, $5 54
D&iDnirningkingThe last Judgement, by Rogier van der Weyden, photo F.Vauban©BeauneTourisme I’ll Be Damned hovering above, weightless, seated on a rainbow, toes resting gingerly on a golden orb. The divine satisfaction of eating and drinking well There’s a whole lot going on in this painting: By David Hammond angels flying and blowing trumpets, a celestial congregation of saints and other holy people, I’ll Be Damned. Let’s Eat! making a deathbed confession and receiving peanut gallery witnesses to the main event of AUGUST 2018 Newcity absolution. To encourage those redemptive resurrected souls trooping off right and left. September 1971. The harvest-ready vineyards last words, it was usual to decorate such The artwork’s focal point is the severely in Burgundy’s Côte d’Or glow golden in the penultimate abodes with paintings of final judgmental regard of the Archangel, whose morning light, as they have for centuries. abodes, blissful heaven and, most importantly, wings sweep behind him, mottled, almost We’re bumping and rattling along in a French burning hell, the better to inspire the deathly ill reptilian. His poker face reflects his unrelent- school bus, and, yes, they’re yellow in France, to reflect on their sins and repair their souls ingly sober nature, at the very top of the Great too. Bleary-eyed, we struggled awake before before death comes a-knockin’. Chain of Being, deciding by divine direction dawn to trundle off to Beaune, scheduled to where each of the risen souls will spend eterni- stop by several wineries and then on to the Arriving at the Hospices, our group wanders ty. Michael, unlike the forgiving Gabriel, is an Hospices de Beaune, a fifteenth-century from room to room until we come upon a avenging angel, so he’s the one holding the almshouse. None of us really seems to know shadowy chamber. At some point, everyone scales of justice with surgical care in his much about where we’re going. One of our leaves the room and I’m left standing in fingertips: if your soul is heavy with sin, the group thinks we’re going to Bonn, West half-light in front of the big painting dominating scales dip and you take a short trip to a long, Germany. Kids. the space. It’s “The Last Judgment” by the hot eternity; if your soul is virtuous, you rise to Flemish artist Rogier van der Weyden. eternal salvation. It’s a simple equation, Hospices, despite the name, were less a depicted in paint. hospital and more a waiting room for those An electric chill runs through me. destined to step into eternity sooner rather The saved ascend stage left, Christ’s right than later. Few of the poor who were once There, without room for equivocation, coldly (the good side), and the damned descend to housed here would have been physically staring are the impassive eyes of the his left (the bad side). There are many more “healed” in any modern sense of the word. Archangel Michael, whose gaze rests in damned than saved souls, so the odds are They could, however, cure their own souls by vertical alignment with those of Christ, not in our favor. Goddamn if most of us are not damned. I felt like I could easily fall in line with those gnawing their hands and slinking down to Hell. 55
DINING & DRINKING Although I was surely convinced of my veal and sliced carrots in gravy, blanquette TOP 5 damnation standing before this work of de veau, a Burgundian classic. The green powerfully propagandistic religious art, I was beans are greener than I’ve ever seen, and 1 Battle of the Blenders. at this time in my life relatively innocent, they might have been the first fresh ones The Pink Squirrel. practically almost a virgin. I did not then, some of us had ever tasted, noodle-thin in Bartenders face off to see who and do not now, identify as a Christian. the French tradition, cooked lightly, just a little can whip up the most deliriously crunchy. Of course, there are bottles of local boozy milkshake. August 6 The painting—created specifically to hang red wine, probably Pinot Noir, though the in this space—is like a schematic of the bottles are unmarked. There’s a large round 2 Chicago Hot Dog Fest Christian world view, a spiritual justice of soft-ripened cheese, and of course crusty Chicago History Museum. machine that maintains cosmic balance by French bread, the most fabulous bread in the Chicago’s most-accomplished exactly measuring the relative purity of souls. world, the platonic ideal to which all other wienermeisters prepare red It’s inevitable. It’s science. No negotiating wheat breads are insubstantial shadows. hots in regional and ethnic here. No ambiguity. No plea bargains. There styles while the bands play on. used to be time, but now time has passed. I’m thinking these foods set before me are Free ($5 suggested This is the end of time. You weren’t purified the most delicious things I’ve ever eaten; contribution) August 10-12 before your death? Oh. Sorry. You’re totally the veal moist and succulent, coming off in screwed. Forever. strings on the fork, and the cheese with a 3 Tastemaker Chicago. creamy tang that kisses the tastebuds much Revel Fulton Market. Overall spreads a glowing fireball, billowing out, more deeply than the Kraft extra sharp Chat with and savor the chow an all-encompassing holy mushroom cloud, cheddar served in my Midwestern home. of a battalion of ass-kicking shimmering gold and red in chromatic The wine proves an ideal accompaniment, Chicago chefs, including resonance with the colorful Burgundian balancing their richness, cleansing the palate Newcity Big Heat winners like vineyards we passed earlier that morning. between bites and getting the mouth ready Abe Conlon, Matthias Merges, Reminiscent of the dimensionless golden for more. And more. Jonathan Zaragoza and Jason backgrounds of Byzantine and Early Hammel. $55. August 17-18 Renaissance painting, this auric thermonuclear Finishing the last crust of bread, which I thunder-blast brings into the present day the sponge around the veal pot, I quaff my last 4 Air and Water Show actions portrayed in the painting. It seems to full mouthful of wine and realize this is my Viewing Party. Signature me at this moment that artists—the antennae eucharist: tasty food. Eating well is perhaps Room. A massive buffet with of our race—saw our end coming long before not the surest way to secure a spot in drinks, and the vantage to look Enrico Fermi ever broke the atom under the vaunted heaven but it may as well be the down upon large and loud old Stagg Field at the University of Chicago? way to live our best lives on earth. military aircraft as they roar below the windows of the 96th At this time in the early seventies, we were Eat, drink and be merry has become a policy floor of the Hancock Building. dead-center in the Cold War era. A few years of mine since the time I stood in front of van $175. August 18-19 before, President Nixon had sent B-52 der Weyden’s “Last Judgment.” A superficial bombers loaded with nuclear bombs on a response? Perhaps. But about tomorrow, 5 Le Diner en Blanc. Secret mission to circle the polar cap and scare the who knows, many of us may begin doing location, TBA. Thirtieth Soviet Union. This was in line with Nixon’s time in a fire-fueled eternity. Just the thought anniversary of this massive “Mad Man” self-portrayal as an out-of-control of it makes me hungry. outdoor picnic. Bring picnic maniac who just might push the button at any basket, table, chairs, and moment. Ultimate annihilation was not an Years after this descent into damnation and yourself, all in white, s’il vous impossible-to-conceive outcome. All in my rise into deliciousness, I was served the plait. August 23 generation grew up in duck-and-cover fear of blanquette de veau at Le Francais in Wheeling, instant incineration by Soviet missiles. Many of the restaurant some say put Chicago on the 56 us still quake when we hear the sirens blare or culinary map. It was prepared to perfection, the beep-fuzzy buzz of the CONELRAD alert, but it didn’t match the dish I’d had years the soundtrack of Armageddon. earlier in Burgundy. No dish ever will.Newcity AUGUST 2018 I’m deep into this eschatological panorama May 2018. At The Press Room, I’m meeting when I hear my name: “Monsieur Ah-mon. with representatives of the Bourgogne wine Monsieur Ah-mon!” The group is headed out region. One of the group, Virginie Valcauda, to eat. lives in Beaune. She tells me she recently took her young son to see the Hospices de We arrive at what looks like a modest auberge Beaune. The boy, she remembers, was with no signage. We enter through a crude frightened by the painting of the Last and creaking wooden door and trudge up a Judgment. That evening, when she was long staircase to the second floor. On the tucking her son into bed, he whimpered, landing, we pass the water closet, a small “Please, mommy, don’t ever take me to that room with a hole in the bumpy cement floor, place again.” the kind of lavatory you’d encounter now mostly in developing countries. This is a Me, I sleep beneath a small framed picture of humble space, much older than just old-timey. van der Weyden’s “The Last Judgment.” This The chairs are worn wood, hard, functional, painting, for me, is no mere medieval though comfortably ancient. We take our memento mori but more a reminder that we places around a large table, waiting to be fed. should eat and drink as much good stuff as we can during our brief span under the sun A round French motherly woman in a worn and above the soil. A delicious meal may very smock ambles up to our table and puts down well bring us as close a place to heaven as a large cast-iron pot. It’s filled with chunks of most of us could ever hope to be.
FILM TOP 5 Keire and Zack Film1 Black Harvest Film Adulthood Festival 2018. Siskel.The twenty-fourth edition The Grace of Bing Liu’s of the showcase of “Minding the Gap” independent cinema offers eighteen features and By Ray Pride thirty-four shorts, and includes an appearance “Minding the Gap” is a diamond: shocking, and electrifyingly present, embodied by his by Rusty Cundieff with sharp, slicing, gorgeous, glinting, cutting subjects, coolly observed in footage that one of his pioneering 1990s can appear deceptively raw. All is cinema. movies. August 4-30 deep, deeper.2 The Captain. In Bing Liu’s masterful, momentous debut “When Bing had the original concept of traveling AUGUST 2018 Newcity Music Box. Char- documentary, a friend muses, “When you’re a around the country and talking to all these black fact-based drama set kid, you just do, you just act, then somewhere skateboarders about their relationship with their in waning weeks of the Third along the line, everyone loses that.” Under fathers it was like, immediately, okay, there’s Reich is a tonally insolent the main titles, the camera rushes forward, something here, we see that potential and we thrill dissecting the timeless, a montage of shots from behind three young will stick with it,” co-executive producer and fathomless urge to follow. men skating the unpopulated center city of Kartemquin Films artistic director Gordon Quinn Rockford, about ninety miles northwest of told me earlier this year. “The key is, it’s in your Opens Friday, August 3 Chicago. The music is dreamy. There’s a hint gut, you sense there’s something happening of melancholy. Jump cut, jump cut, the here, he’s in it for the long haul. We knew right3 The Meg. Jason sequence suggests the physicality of escape from the start Bing wasn’t going to get bored Statham versus a in their lives, and a time-slipping-forward crush with this and walk away. It just took him a while seventy-foot shark. “Jaws” that we are unprepared to witness. The three to find the story and the through-line and then vs. “Crank”? Opens sway as they control the pavement: supple, get to the finish line. We’re in the Midwest here, Friday, August 10 languorously elegant, arriving from daily grace we’re in Chicago. So Bing is making a film in to a plain and ordinary neighborhood. Rockford, he’s not commuting from LA. He’s in4 BlackKkKlansman. the community where he’s making the film. He’s Spike Lee’s latest Bing’s friends are twenty-three-year-old Zack, at committed. The diversity we look for, it’s not comic vehemence is odds with his girlfriend after the birth of their son, gender and race, it’s also diversity of location, shepherded by producers and seventeen-year-old Keire, who is searching that we’re part of the country.”Jordan Peele and Jason for his racial identity after his father dies. With Blum, bringing 1970s twelve years of footage back to their shared teen Liu himself describes his accomplishment in period crimes into the years, Liu appraises a specific weight the friends direct yet still opaque terms: “In the course of modern moment. Opens each carry, the repressed emotions despite editing the film, I realized that Zack, Keire and Friday, August 10 escape into the acrobatic, balletic physicality I were all harboring toxic experiences buried of skating: the bruising, daunting heirloom of under the weight of years of societal and5 Crazy Rich Asians. volatile childhoods. Issues of class, race and personal repression, and we all chose our own Comedy of color masculinity disperse across the landscape of ways of dealing with that pressure. The film has rushes the stage to high “Minding the Gap,” the issues both submerged given me a sense of clarity about myself and expectations. Opens Wednesday, August 15 57
how, while there’s no one-size-fits-all solution, refracted, shaped, reveled, reflecting. If a town’s a ghost town, like Rockford is some ways of coping aren’t sustainable.” “Minding the Gap” is dazzling sculpture. drawn here, it holds ghosts, it’s not only that it’s deserted or abandoned. Among the Bing, a story director and a director of There is a shot in sparkling sunlight on a ghosts are billboards that prompt chiropractic photography for Steve James’ documentary porch deck as a cell phone with an image of treatment or advertise virtues of the Boys & miniseries, “America to Me,” is first seen a fetus in the womb is brandished, the sunlight Girls club. Every image, to the frame, echoes through a fisheye lens, gawky, grinning adding glare that makes the screen’s image relationships from hopeful, crunchy childhood through braces. “Are you ready for some less precise yet a familiar and heartening to fraught present. Across years, Bing, Keire fucking intense action?” he says, miming form. What have we in the seconds of each and Zack are held by their fathers’ ghosts. clapsticks with two fingers. “Take one!” of the shots of this brief passage? A potential The ghosts go back, then sound down (Casual profanity is the rule throughout.) new generation viewed by a dazed present generations. When are the ghosts, like the town, finally abandoned? Keire’s skateboard is sketched with the words “This device cures heartbreak,” echoing “This machine kills fascists” written on Woody Guthrie’s guitar. “Minding the Gap” describes heartbreak, anatomizes heartbreak and suggests necessary stages of recovery from generational heartbreak that cannot but break your fucking heart. There are few perfect films and fewer that are pure. Where the purity of “Minding the Gap” lies is up to each grateful viewer. “Minding the Gap” opens in theaters and streams on Hulu beginning Friday, August 17. “America to Me” debuts August 26 on Starz. ReviewBing Liu/Photo: Ray Pride “Why are you filming everything?” pal-peer- generation, just as Zack has spoken of The Captain subject Zack says to camera, and not likely keeping smoke and weed out of the house Clothes can make the man. Appearances areNewcity AUGUST 2018 for the first or last time. “Because I want to in the coming months, 312 longneck in hand. readily crafted to deceive. Robert Schwentke’s make a montage,” Bing replies. “Are you going Watch this film a second or third time and ruthlessly proficient, based-on-fact black-and- to be putting me smoking weed in the thing?” that scene holds the furious weight of white “The Captain” (Der Hauptmann) begins Zack says, hitting it. potential trainwreck. Only a few moments near the end of World War II with twenty- earlier, another of the trio said, in the offhand- one-year-old Willi Herold (Max Hubacher), Formally gorgeous, with its fleet and fluent ed plainspeech of the movie, “I feel like life a German conscript, a deserter who hopes camerawork, “Minding the Gap” is also might be moving too fast. We have to fully only to escape the inevitable defeat, finding lastingly, emblematically, shatteringly steeped grow up and it’s gonna fuckin’ suck.” an abandoned Nazi officer’s uniform. Now in sorrow. Can a male child of toxic masculinity fairytale-trim in his misbegotten raiment, he’s stop learned behaviors dead before another, These images punch above their informational taken for military material and assembles his then another generation arrives? class because they reflect back, they reflect own ragtag band of followers, with whom he forward. Liu cites Spike Jonze’s pioneering takes a camp holding other German deserters. This is a sublime longitudinal work, with skate videos; Harmony Korine’s “Gummo”; Schwentke’s dance is delicate yet urgent. Willi supportive collaborators providing the time “Kids” and Richard Linklater’s “Waking Life” also shoulders on the mantel of malice, even and determination necessary to fashion and “Slacker” as movies he looked toward depravity. “Our goal is not to justify or forgive elemental rhythms. The dense yet translucent while contemplating “Minding the Gap.” But Herold’s actions by contextualizing them— editing of “Minding the Gap” is what pushes of course, another Linklater piece resonates: or, worse, by introducing a moral relativism— it toward heartbreak. (Joshua Altman shares “Boyhood,” with its years-long production, but to understand the frame of reference editing credit with Liu.) Multiple viewings evoke parallels Liu’s own. It’s cheery, almost, when which made these actions possible and so ache more and more, as the movie works on one of Bing’s friends tells him, “I always arrive at the general through the specific,” so many levels of emotion, of time lost, of thought it was cool how you can put all Schwentke has written. “In psychological time regained, in each gesture, image, turn these different moments into like one long terms, the inhabitants of the Third Reich were of phrase. This is not a puzzle made plain, video and you’d make it seem like it was as normal as people in all other societies at but a narrative carved from passing instants: the best time ever.” all other times. The spectrum of perpetrators was a cross-section of normal society and no specific group of people proved immune to the temptation [to] ‘inhumanity with impunity.’ They are us. We are them. The past is now.” Each hostile gesture, each harsh act suggests not just timelessness but cruel timeliness. The cold precision of Schwentke’s filmmaking is augmented by the brute malice of Martin Todsharow’s score. (Schwentke’s credits include larger-scale, English-language movies like “Flightplan,” “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” “RED” and “R.I.P.D.”) 118m. (Ray Pride) “The Captain” opens Friday, August 3 at the Music Box.58
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Lit Photo: Liliane Calfee LIT TOP 5 Waiting for the 1“Tacky Goblin.” Apocalypse Volumes Bookcafe. T. Sean Steele celebrates Ling Ma Discusses “Severance” the international release of a Chicago favorite, “Tacky By Toni Nealie Goblin,” an absurd look at becoming a grown-up. A dystopian tale of millennial adulthood with stuck in nostalgic grooves of familiar songs, an immigrant story nested inside, “Severance” family dinner rituals and favorite clothes. Shen August 4 dwells on the nature of work, capitalism, memory Fever closes factories, malls and office towers, dispersing fleeing survivors into the countryside. 2 “Sick.” Women and dislocation. It’s funny, cynical and surreal. & Children First Bookstore. Former Ling Ma, who teaches fiction at the University of Chicagoan Porochista Chicago, discussed her debut novel with Newcity Ma worked for Playboy magazine and was Khakpour discusses “Sick: from her Ravenswood apartment—coincidentally caught in a slow, painful process of layoffs in A Memoir” with essayist the same apartment from which she began her 2009. She says her job frustrations played out Megan Stielstra. August 1 debut novel before moving to Cornell University in an apocalyptic short story which eventually grew into this book. “Working a job with not a 3 Danny’s Sunday in Ithaca for her MFA in 2012. Series. Danny’s lot of power is no fun, but being able to destroy Tavern. Celebrating dancing girl press with Kristy Bowen, Her protagonist Candace Chen lives in New things through fiction is,” Ma says. She traced Valerie Wallace, Shanita Bigelow, Cecilia Pinto, Lina York, producing Bibles for trade publisher her anger back to its source and wrote what she Ramona Vitkauskas, Liz O’Connell-Thompson and Spectra. After Candace’s Chinese immigrant describes as a “meditation on work.” That earlier Sam Gennett. August 19 parents die, she drifts through work and romance ninety-page piece—“Chinese Bible”—won the 4 Great Science 2015 Graywolf SLS Prize, awarded to a best Writing. American with the disaffection and emotional coolness Writers Museum. NPR’s frequently ascribed to millennials coming of age novel excerpt from an emerging writer. It forms Science Friday celebrates post-internet. The city, the nation and the world the prologue of “Severance,” beginning in aptly great science writing, withNewcity AUGUST 2018 Biblical language, “After the End came the authors Terry Tempest are felled by Shen Fever, a mysterious fungal Williams and David disease originating in Shenzhen, where Spectra Beginning. And in the Beginning, there were Quammen. August 16 eight of us, then nine—that was me—a number prints its Bibles. Shenzhen is famous for its 5 “She’s Not the that would only decrease.” The survivors, who Type.” Women and 1980s transformation from a market town into Children First Bookstore. communist China’s first Special Economic Zone, are brand strategists, property lawyers, human Author and blogger resource specialists and personal finance Elaine Soloway, mother of now housing more than eleven million people. “Transparent” writers Jill and consultants, can’t do anything, so they have to Faith Soloway, launches In “Severance,” this wunderkind of capitalism Google “how to survive in wild” and “how to her fourth book. August 2 produces capitalism’s nemesis—a spore that turns victims into zombie-like “creatures of habit, build fire.” As Candace says of her apocalypse, mimicking old routines and gestures,” endlessly “The End begins before you are ever aware of it,”60
which speaks as much to called “NY Ghost.” As the last IN THE FORMER BOOKMAN’S ALLEY SPACE AT 1712 SHERMAN AVE, EVANSTONrelationships and jobs as it does person staffing her office and one of the last people remaining in 224.999.7722to the end of the world as we New York, she captions her finalknow it. photo, “If New York is breakingLike her character, Ma is the down and no one documents it, isdaughter of Chinese immigrants. it actually happening?” It’s funny“The story embodies my migrant and frightening at the same time.nightmares. Especially underthe one-child policy. What would “I’ve written without quotation marks for dialogue,” says Ma, SUMMER FUN AThappen if you are an only child BOOKENDS & BEGINNINGS who feels that this contributesand you have lost your ability Saturday August 4, 4 pm: to the dreamy quality. She was Meet Waldo at our Prize Party for kids who completeto speak your first language?” influenced by Terrence Malick, the “Where’s Waldo in Evanston” scavenger hunt.It was her mother’s worst fear, There’s still time to participate! whose films she finds hauntingso she sought to actualize that ALL MONTH LONG: and poetic. “How do I mash Buy Three, Get One Free offer for all the booksnightmare in her fiction. up two completely different on the PBS Great American Read 100 ListSome of the sharpest observa- aesthetics—the campinesstions of the book relate to cultural of the zombie B-movie anddifferences between Chinese and something that’s poetic—American outlooks. For example, those two things should not beBalthasar, the operations director together, right?” She imagined a B-movie voiceover, but oneof the Chinese printing factory, that was also heightened likeasks why Eric Carle’s “The VeryHungry Caterpillar” is so popular in Malick’s “Days of Heaven.”with American children. Candace She was also influenced by Bring in this coupon for 10% off yoursuggests it teaches counting skills, watching eight years of “Mad 10% purchase on any Tuesday in August.but Balthasar comments on the Men.” “That’s how I learned to Tuesdays! • Store members always get 5% in rewards credit •insect’s greed. “He eats all the plot, to thematically layer ratherfood and doesn’t share. What than making things happen.”lesson does that teach children?To eat with no… conscience?” Ma The book’s kernel retells thehighlights the contrast between perilous journey of Mormons to For more events and news visit us at Salt Lake City and the parallelindividualism and collectivism, WWW.BOOKENDSANDBEGINNINGS.COMbut notes the big change in China migration of Candace’s parents Where you can also order from us 24/7since she left in 1990 and now. from Fuzhou. The Chens“Previously, you waited in line in encounter a land of plentystores for supplies, whereas now and are outsiders. In order to Live at The Book Cellar assimilate, it is best to acceptthere are huge supermarkets they are not going back andwhere you can touch the wares they must adopt local customsbefore you pay.” In her novel, StoryStudio Chicago Presents! James Campion and trappings, even if they don’tCandace’s parents mirror the August 2, 7pm “Accidentally Like A Martyr”Ma’s own experience. Meanwhile, understand them. It’s through August 17, 7pmCandace shops as if there is no repetition they make meaning— Osama Alomar a concept upended by Shen Juliet McDanieltomorrow and reminds us that “The Teeth of the Combafter 9/11, “President Bush told Fever’s symptoms of repetition. and Other Stories” “Mr. & Mrs. American Pie” As typical immigrants, they work August 3, 7pm August 18, 6pmus to go shopping.” hard and perform “their American- Ellen Shubart Essay Fiesta!Dealing with memories is one of ness, perfecting it to a gleaming “What’s With Chicago” August 20, 7pm hard veneer to shield over their August 9, 7pmMa’s themes. “In order to keep Eugene Meyer Chinese inner selves.” Their The Kates!! Standup Comedymoving forward it’s better not “Five For Freedom” pastor preaches an immigration August 10 and August 25, 7pm August 22, 7pmto revisit the past. In order tosurvive, we have to compartmen- narrative about second chances, Tell Me A French Story Lori Rader Day hardship, belonging and havingtalize our various selves,“ Ma Storytime in French and English “Under the Dark Sky” faith. The voice is omniscient, August 11, 10:30am August 23, 7pmexplains. In distancing herselffrom her immigrant self, Candace because, Ma explains, cynical, Rockwell Theater Bandits Brian Abramslives lives at arm’s-length. She sits snide narrator Candace hasoff, observing rather than feeling. trouble getting close to the Staged Reading “Obama: An Oral History” emotional weight of her parents’ August 11, 6pm August 24, 7pmIn an earlier short story, “Los struggle. 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Music Julia A. Miller, Elbio Barilar / Photo: Dan Kasberger Photo MUSIC TOP 5 Owners 1 Jay-Z and Beyoncé. Soldier Field. of Record This qualifies more as a royal progression than a musical event, but Delmark’s New Management there’s no discounting the ample gifts Looks Beyond the Legacy of each, however much their personal lives tend to distract. August 10 and 11 By Robert Rodi 2 Chick Corea Trio. City Winery. The very day I’m writing this is the last & Jazz Mart). Established in 1953, Delmark One of the most towering figures day that CDs will be on sale at Best is the country’s oldest label exclusively in jazz, the brilliant, restless composer- pianist-bandleader is still evolving, Buy. The format has reached the end of devoted to jazz and the blues, and as such and at a pace artists half his age can’t begin to match. August 23 its long arc, as its predecessors before it: most of us would probably agree it’s worth the cassette, the 8-track tape, the vinyl LP saving. Miller (president and CEO) and 3 Dawn Upshaw. Ravinia Park. and the 78 shellac platter—some of which Barilari (vice-president and artistic director) The cut-crystal-voiced soprano are still around, but as lifestyle accessories are the ones who are making that happen. sings “Narrow Sea,” a new work by Pulitzer-winning composer Caroline rather than music-industry units. The latest Neither is primarily a businessperson— Shaw, plus George Crumb’s “Winds of Destiny”—both under a summer sky. audio technology, edging out digital downloads, is streaming, the rise of which meaning that their chief goal in taking August 27 over Delmark isn’t related to a ledger to dominance presents a startling mile- 4 Jackie Venson. Schubas. sheet. They’re musicians, with long Austin-based singer-songwriter stone: for the first time, recorded music and blues guitarist Venson has one is not a product, but a service. You don’t histories of composing, performing and of the most arresting voices on the teaching. Running Delmark is, for them, current scene… and she shreds her buy it; you subscribe to it. chords like she’s riding a cyclone. as much calling as profession. “We August 29 Record labels are accustomed to confront- treasure Delmark’s history,” Miller says. “We understand what it means for Chicago 5 Angelique Kidjo. Ravinia Park. ing epochal upheavals. Faced with a Africa’s reigning diva, Kidjo and American music.” Both are also blends genres, styles and influences Wild West landscape for two decades, like a boss. She’s touring her latest they’ve continually adjusted the way they Delmark fans of long standing; for Miller, album, an ecstatic cut-by-cut the label was invaluable when she was reimagining of Talking Heads’ do business, gearing up for a gun battle iconic “Remain In Light.” August 6 in music school, “attending concerts of every time a new challenger rides into town. The survivors have managed to hold Otis Rush and the AACM artists.” The Uruguayan-born Barilari, by comparison, onto a scrap of both market share and dignity, but they’ve also got the scars that found Delmark his point of entry to artists like Sun Ra and Junior Wells. go with it. What kind of people, though,Newcity AUGUST 2018 would step into this fray? Meaning, who willingly and even eagerly comes from the I asked them about the challenges they’re safety of the sidelines to take over a record facing, financial and artistic. As to the label at this moment? former—how about that boom in digital streaming? Turns out Miller and Barilari, Meet Julia A. Miller and Elbio Barilari, as consumers themselves (and longtime the intrepid partners who purchased habitués of Koester’s store) have faith Chicago’s Delmark Records in May from that jazz and blues lovers are sufficiently its iconic founder, Bob Koester, who retired different in buying habits to support a label that produces physical records. And I can at eighty-six (though he continues to run see their point; jazz music lovers have, his West Side record store, Bob’s Blues62
in my experience, almost a full-band fanfare, which always also been jazz music launches guitarist Hesse into a collectors. There’s a kind of dizzying, summery sprint, while proprietary compulsion to own a drummer Hall clatters after him copy of “A Love Supreme” that like a relentless paparazzo. has no analogue for ABBA’s A minute-and-a-half in, the band“Greatest Hits.” As CDs, like vinyl, flares back up, this time more become a niche market, it works contemplatively; and accordingly to your advantage if your identity Hesse’s succeeding solo, while is that niche. At the same time, equally nimble, is more contained, the new Delmark owners are like the simmering percolations of committed to engaging reality a lab experiment. This dynamic by increasing Delmark’s digital continues throughout the track: distribution, including streaming a declarative theme; an extended, and downloads. improvised coda.On the artistic front, there’s the “Chorale” begins with a fanfare as well, but a more somberquestion of whether they see one—almost funerary. No swingthemselves as custodians of here, but the voices of the hornsKoester’s vision or captains oftheir own. As might be expected, twine in an accelerating requiemespecially since Delmark has its that becomes an ecstatic whorlown recording studi), the answer before wilting back into theto that is: both. “We are bringing original theme. “Impossiblenew life to [the] legacy and also Charms,” by comparison, hits you with a cheerful wave fromexpanding the catalogue with the sax, then a jaunty round ofnew artists.” The first two handshakes from the rest ofreleases from Miller’s andBarilari’s Delmark—dropping the the band. The playing brims withsame month as their purchase of friendliness and fellowship; onethe label—point in both of those solo is interrupted by a kind of bright, staccato “Yo dat” fromdirections. “Tribute to Carey the rest of the band. The wholeBell,” a celebration of the bluesharmonica virtuoso by his sons, track breathes an ambling,Lurrie Bell & The Bell Dynasty, is wherever-the-day-takes-us-is-an invigorating invocation of the just-great positivity.label’s treasured past. Thesecond release, Geof Bradfield’s “Anamneses,” the longest track, is the most ruminative, but it“Yes, and… Music for Nine builds, with uncanny deliberation,Improvisers,” is more for- into stately majesty.ward-looking and, accordingly,more intriguing. It’s the debutalbum for the Chicago sax man “Forro Hermeto” closes the album on another upbeat note, but thisand composer, and introduces one all crisp and businesslike—his “multi-movement” genre, there’s a job to be done, andwhich interlaces tightly scored goddammit, these nine playerssequences for a full ensemblewith sparer, improvised passages are gonna do it, with all the skill, self-assurance and élan at theirby smaller clutches of players, command—which is a consider-to create an always surprising able amount. I especially lovecall-and-response. The players the little spiraling measures at the(who in addition to Bradfield beginning, like firecrackers set offinclude Anna Webber and to celebrate both the start of theGreg Ward on woodwinds, tune and the end of the disk.Russ Johnson and Marquis Hillon trumpets, Joel Adams ontrombone, Scott Hesse on guitar, “Yes, and… Music for Nine Improvisers” was in the worksClark Sommers on bass andDana Hall on drums and percus- before Miller and Barilari boughtsion) are never less than engaged, Delmark, but in its ambition andand more often than not, down- its breadth, in the self-assured way it embraces both fully-chart-right exuberant. AUGUST 2018 Newcity ed sequences and pure improvi-The album’s first cut, “Prelude,” sation, it’s an ideal first releaseopens with an undulating swing in for the new owners. Like them,6/4 that provides the springboard it’s both forward-looking andfor a cartwheeling, hopscotching dedicated to time-honored traditions. Which is exactly whatsax solo. It’s an utterly joyous, will be required to navigate thefour-and-a-half minute romp challenges ahead. I look forwardthat serves as a perfect amuse- to seeing how it goes… but evenbouche for what’s to follow. The more so, to hearing how it goes.second track, “In Flux,” hits with 63
Stage Walter Briggs, Kasey Foster, STAGE TOP 5 and Lanise Antoine Shelley / Photo: Liz Lauren Lost At Sea 1 ConFest 2018:Newcity AUGUST 2018 Revolutionary Acts. A Review of 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas Consortium of Asian American at Lookingglass Theatre Company Theaters & Artists. Hosted by Victory Gardens, Silk Road Rising By Kevin Greene and The Theatre School at DePaul The upcoming 2018-19 theater season seems promising where theatrical adapta- University, this convention provides tions of literary works (or, rather one work in particular) are concerned. In the meantime, a space for Asian American theater Lookingglass offers a tale that would seem well-suited to the dexterous theater company. practitioners and their allies from However, those looking for edge-of-the-seat adventure are sure to be disappointed by this across the country to connect and talky version of Jules Verne’s classical science-fiction adventure. Even at the apparently build the relationships that help keep hurtling speed of the Nautilus, this adaptation feels its every league. the community vibrant and alive. 64 August 13 through August 18 2 Nightmares and Night- caps: The Stories of John Collier. Black Button Eyes Productions. In this world premiere adaptation, an ominous host weaves together Collier’s comic tales of love, loss and the mysterious. Opens August 18 3 Vietgone. Writers Theatre. Playwright Qui Nguyen’s wildly creative, irreverent style flips stereotypes on their head, remixing history and culture into a sexy, funny and energetic fantasia as he imagines how two soul mates might have found each other in a turbulent time. Opens August 22 4 A Shayna Maidel. TimeLine Theatre Company. Barbara Lebow’s 1984 play explores family, faith and forgiveness in the pursuit of a better future. Opens August 29 5 Chicago Fringe Festival. The annual theater festival returns to Jefferson Park for its ninth year. August 30 through September 3
Each new seafaring story at belief system for his own Lookingglass has the admitted- problematic behavior. ly unfair but no less distinct Additionally, rewriting Professor disadvantage of not being Arronax as a woman nods to“Moby Dick.” “20,000 Leagues” the boy’s club of both science harkens more closely to Mary and literature, although her Zimmerman’s adaptation of gender (and general compe- Robert Louis Stevenson’s tence) is used more often as“Treasure Island.” Both works punchline for the tired joke of reflect the inherent challenges male ineptitude. of adapting literary works to the stage, especially when Considering its sweeping such works are meant to feed vision, at its core “20,000 the imagination as opposed Leagues” is a basic morality to simply serve as its limited tale: a character appears substitute. To Verne’s already evil and corrupt only to later epic vision, adapter-director disclose a backstory of trauma David Kersnar and Althos Low and offer an eleventh-hour act (multihyphenate artist Steve of self-sacrifice. But does this Pickering’s nom de plume) really redeem Nemo? The attach an unnecessary framing text seems to think so, as the device and a Lazy Susan-style closing moments find a group narration, all of which leads to of men pledging their alle- a multiplication of explication. giance to the regretful, dying Walter Briggs, Kasey Foster, and Lanise Antoine Shelley / Photo: Liz LaurenNo doubt this show is meant Captain, who they met only Music.to be a “fun for the whole hours earlier after he led them Dance.family” entertainment, the on a journey of four years Movies.summer equivalent of “A to a metal sarcophagus full Theater.Christmas Carol,” although of riches they decide not to Festivals.it is neither all that fun or take despite the Captain’s Family Fun.very entertaining. Not even permission. For all its technicalLookingglass’ enviable riches, “20,000 Leagues” Free events, in the parks,Pandora’s box of tricks (or contains only a few quid’s all summer.their non-figurative equivalent: worth of subtext, a paltryharnesses) can lift this gleaning for the effort and Night Out in the Parks brings world-class performances to Chicago’s neighborhood parks!adaptation off its many dusty expenditure. Like its oceanicpages. It is, however, occa- setting, the sheer expanse of 2,000 130 77 AUGUST 2018 Newcitysionally interesting. In the the production causes all thesecond half, as we begin treasure therein to be both EVENTS ARTISTS COMMUNITYto learn more about Captain small by comparison and AREASNemo’s identity as a former difficult to locate.subject of British colonial rule, View our upcoming Night Out events atwe gain insight into his Lookingglass Theatre Company, www.NightOutInTheParks.com or accessmoral relativism, why he them in the free My Chi Parks™mobile app.makes allowances within his 821 North Michigan, (312)337-otherwise uncompromising THE OFFICIAL REWARDS STAY CONNECTED. 0665, lookingglasstheatre.org, PROGRAM OF THE CHICAGO @ChicagoParks #InTheParks PARK DISTRICT $20-$80. Through August 19. www.ChiParkPoints.com 65
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