For the first of two summer performance residencies, the Chicago Cultural Center welcomes Khecari and their project Tend. Throughout the exhibition’s run the artists will be activating the gallery with performances from 10am–5pm twice weekly.

Tend is a service-based performance experience fulfilling a biologically important social need. Structured as a one-hour appointment, the self-care informed dance and music scores simultaneously envelope the audience while leaving space to allow your nervous system to settle, contemplate the inherent power differentials in human interaction, and allow the somatic possibility of conflict resolution in true social grooming form. Colliding necessity, extravagance, and irrelevance, it imagines a world where your monthly dance appointment is a legitimate need. A haptic, phatic, and kinetic service providing a much-needed place to rest, recharge, reflect, reconcile.

Khecari creates dance works furthering the transformative power of live bodies witnessing live bodies and advocates for the essential role of art within society, of dance within the arts, and of all artists working within the dance ecosystem. Supporting the artistic inquiry of choreographers Julia Rae Antonick and Jonathan Meyer, Khecari presents the work they create in collaboration with artists in dance, music, design, and other media, to offer live performed art that challenges, engages, and focuses the power of attention.

To participate as an audience member, please fill out the Audience Interest Form

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Meet the technicians for the performances.

Performances will take place on the following days, between the hours of 10am–5pm:

• June: Saturday, June 15  |  Thursday, June 20  |  Saturday, June 22  |  Thursday, June 27  |  Saturday, June 29
• July: Saturday, July 6  |  Monday, July 8  |  Thursday, July 11  |  Saturday, July 13  |  Thursday, July 18

Gallery Talk:

Wednesday, July 10, 12-1pm
Join us for a gallery talk with Tend choreographer and director, Julia Antonick and architect and designer, Heather LaHood. This talk will be moderated by DCASE Curator, Elise Butterfield.