Mariah Eastman Presents CAFE CORTADO — Preview

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WHEN:

June 24, 2021

WHERE:

Streaming via Mariah Eastman website

TICKETS:

$15

Cafe Cortado focuses on the perseverance of PiniPico Brazilian Café and Sputnik Coffee Company by combining dance with Chicago coffee shops. PiniPico Brazilian Café opened amidst the start of the pandemic, while Sputnik had a reliance on grocery deliveries to get through.

Event organizers describe it by saying, “From the bright red walls of Sputnik Coffee Company to the diagonal patterns of PiniPico’s seats – Eastman designs phrases to complement what already exists. Her dance vocabulary is a mix of modern and contemporary and she uses gesture phrases as the basis for her movement. She also creates to showcase her dance spaces.”

Eastman uses a combination of livestream performance, interviews and dance film. Spanning from the Southside to the Northside, Eastman and videographer, Jordan Kunkel, travel to the second location for the 2nd livestreamed section while the audience views the pre-recorded material.  Interviews are given by Candice Smith Dias (PiniPico Brazilian Cafe) as well as Vova and Greesha Kagan of Sputnik Coffee Company.  Five dancers perform in the piece; Keila Hamed Ramos, Abigail Roberts, Julia Schaeffer, Ashley Chung and Angela Risi. Film/Video collaborators include Jordan Kunkel, Lesley Reed and Timothy Tsang.

 

Dancer: Keila Hamed-Ramos 

Dancer: Angela Risi 

Dancer: Abigail Roberts 

Dancer: Julia Schaeffer

Dance Film Videographer: Lesley Keller - Reed

Live Stream Videographer: Jordan Kunkel 

For more information, visit the Mariah Eastman website

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