Corinne Imberski & Wilson Tanner Smith
Corinne Imberski is a Chicago (Albany Park) based dance performer, choreographer, improviser, and educator.
Wilson Tanner Smith is a Chicago (Albany Park) based cellist, composer, improviser, and performance artist whose music is characterized by the use of limited materials and simple forms, and the idea that much that can be found through patient looks into the small and subtle.
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Corinne Imberski
Corinne Imberski is a Chicago (Albany Park) based dance performer, choreographer, improviser, and educator. She has staged and performed her work for over 30 years at venues grand, small, and impromptu. Corinne’s most recent work, "Roof Series 2020-2021," is an ongoing video project created as a response to life in quarantine and crisis. Corinne is a recipient of the 2020 Meier Achievement Award and a Co-MISSION Summer Residency at Links Hall, Chicago. As a choreographer, she finds her inspiration from music, visual art, the natural world, and literature. Endlessly fascinated by the rhythms and tensegrity of the human body and mind, her work combines physical movement with gestural narratives that appear at the intersection of abstraction and vulnerability. Often an exploration of duality, her work aims to reconcile opposing forces in an effort to find balance and resiliency, and a chance for connection. Visit corinneimberski.com for more information.
Above photo of Corinne Imberski by Daiva Bhandari
Wilson Tanner Smith
Wilson Tanner Smith is a Chicago (Albany Park) based cellist, composer, improviser, and performance artist whose music is characterized by the use of limited materials and simple forms, and the idea that much that can be found through patient looks into the small and subtle. His work probes the nature of communication/communion: its levels, means, impossibilities. He performs solo and collaboratively across mediums of music, movement, and theatre, including past work with dancer/choreographer Ayako Kato, the Kristina Isabelle Dance Company, Facility Theatre, and the Hubbard Street Professional Program, along with musicians Keefe Jackson, Julian Otis, and Ryan Packard at venues including Links Hall/Constellation, Elastic Arts, Experimental Sound Studio and the Ragdale Foundation. Forthcoming in 2021 is an album of solo cello improvisations, “Everything at Once,” released through his cross-disciplinary performing arts project, BIVOUAC.
Above photo of Wilson Tanner Smith by James Forni
About the Performance
"the shadow comforts the body" explores the duality and twin-ness of body and shadow; a concept that is echoed in the interdependence of dance and music. The corporeality of the performers can be seen as shadows of each other—at times existing in tandem, and at other times becoming distorted, exaggerated, or illusory as they morph with the changing light, movement, and sound. This work also investigates how shadows can be the emotional manifestation of something that has left an indelible mark on our being, the lingering reverberations of moments that have passed. "the shadow comforts the body" is a meditation on what we choose to reveal and what remains hidden elusively in shadow, and how we can come closer to sensing oneness—a merging of shadow and body.
