| EVENT REPORT 03.31.09 8:01 AM |
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Inspired by Munch's Moody Artwork, Collaboraction Benefit Aims to Unnerve, Then Delight
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Photo: Alan Rovge |
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Usually, hosts strive to put guests at ease. At Saturday night's Carnaval, a kickoff for Collaboraction's 2009 Sketchbook festival of plays, the theater group aimed to disconcert. As guests filed into West Grand Studios, a sound stage attached to Collaboraction's new administrative offices, performers clad all in black ambled up to individual attendees, staring at them through lace veils for uncomfortably long periods of time, and sometimes feigned fits of inconsolable weeping.
The happening took visual cues from Edvard Munch's brooding artwork—currently on display at the Art Institute of Chicago— and represented Collaboraction's take on Carnaval, which executive artistic director Anthony Moseley described as a "globally visceral celebration." Collaboraction's specialty, Moseley said, "is to take rituals [such as Carnaval] and deconstruct them," putting them back together with "our own alphabet, tools, passion, and neuroses."
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| TREND SPOTTED 11.26.08 10:00 AM |
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Disco, Rock, and '80s Pop Influence Entertainment, Menus, and Decor
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 | Dancers showed off their moves at a M.A.C. Cosmetics' Gold Fever event in Toronto.
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Aussie Hair Cair, Tiffany, Macy's, Cyndi Lauper, MC Hammer, Collaboraction, YouthAIDS, Diffa, Absolut, Diesel |
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| EVENT REPORT 10.15.08 1:29 PM |
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Collaboraction Goes Rock 'n' Roll for Beggars' Banquet Benefit
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 | A faux rock star at Beggars' Banquet
Photo: Kirstie Shanley |
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Saturday night's Beggars' Banquet, held at the Park West, raised funds for local arts organization Collaboraction. Dubbed "Back in Black," the event was inspired by rock stars and everything that surrounds them—from groupies and tattoos to trashed hotel rooms and paparazzi.
Seth Bockley, Collaboraction's creative director, oversaw the nearly year-long planning process, which involved searching for a venue, signing on co-chairs, finding a host committee, and landing sponsors. "In all, there are about 10 core planners and then a team of about 75 volunteers—performers, greeters, artists, organizers, and production crew—that make the event happen," he said.
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