Thursday and Saturday, November 5 and 7, 2009, at 7:30 pm

Sunday, November 8, 2009, at 3 pm

In parades & changes, replays, French choreographer Anne Collod boldly reinterprets Parades and Changes, a seminal work of the 1960s avant-garde and the most famous production by American post-modern dance legend Anna Halprin. Halprin composes the work by writing individual sets of instructions to tell the dancers what to do, but letting them decide how to do it. In the Chicago debut of her re-creation, Collod performs with a group of other established choreographers and dancers who perform several parades and rituals, including ritual dressing and undressing, which caused the original work to be banned for nudity when it premiered in New York City in 1965. Parades and changes, replays pays tribute to Halprin’s enduringly modern motifs, along with a digitally re-mastered score by composer Morton Subotnick, a pioneer in developing electronic music in the early 1960s, performed live by electronic composer Sébastien Roux.