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| Member Since | 8/7/2006 | | Band Website | dogandponychicago.org/current | | Band Members | Sorin Brouwers has been active in Chicago's music and theater communities for over 10 years. Hes worked as an actor, director, sound designer and composer for numerous theater companies. Hes also written for and performed/toured in several rock and fusion bands. Hes currently concentrating on his latest rock endeavor, Cellar Steps, which will release Strange Vacation, the first of three EPs in a ridiculously expansive song suite, at the end of August.
Cheryl Farney is an actress, director, and administrator. She has six years of professional administrative and development experience, and has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Goodman Theatre, Spoleto Festival USA, the Chautauqua Theatre Company, Geva Theatre Center and Young Audiences of Rochester. Cheryl holds
a BA in Theatre and Latin from the College of Wooster in Ohio.
Carolyn Hoerdemann is an artist and an educator who likes to play with others, but has enjoyed working on some sound and video pieces solo style. She has a BFA from The Theatre School at DePaul where she now teaches and an MAAE from The School of the Art Institute. Carolyn is a member of X wing and director of Visibility Counts. She will be in Alice in Bed, by Susan Sontag at the Trap Door Theatre this winter directed by Dado. Thank you D&P for letting me play with sound!
Jenny Lawton is an award-winning reporter and producer for Chicago Public Radio, where her work can be heard on several programs, including 848 and Hello Beautiful. She has also worked on arts coverage for WTTW Channel 11, sound designed for Oakton Community College, and choreographed for Momenta Dance Company. She most recently was the Movement Coordinator for Dog & Ponys Osama the Hero. Jenny is the curator of SoundCity, and a founding member of D&P.
Margaret Noble creates audio recordings, installations and performances. From 2002 to 2005, Margaret performed as an electronic music DJ in the underground club community of Chicago. In 2004, she began performing and curating for a monthly sound arts showcase at Sonotheque called Spectacle. She is currently in the MFA program for sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work includes performances with experimental instruments, digitally generated sounds and collaborations with acoustic musicians.
Krissy Vanderwarker is the Co-Artistic Director of Dog & Pony and most recently directed Osama the Hero. For Dog & Pony, she also co-directed Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake) and directed As Much As You Can in Chicago and at the New York International Fringe Festival. She was Assistant Director on Purple Heart at Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Sky Girls at Northlight Theatre. She holds a BA in Religion and Art History from Northwestern University, where she founded Sit and Spin Productions.
Katherine Zwick is the owner of Bishoujo The Kitten. A graduate of Northwestern University (2001), Katherine is a former National Slam Poet, a U.S. Constitution buff, an international trademarks paralegal, a public relations writer, a card-carrying member of the ACLU, an event planner, a composer (guitar, electronic, piano, voice) and a volunteer for the National Organization for Women. Bishou says hello (meow, alternately).
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SOUNDCITY:
an audio portrait of Chicago
LAUNCH PARTY!
WHEN: This Sunday, Aug. 13 @ 10 AM
WHERE: Ping Tom Memorial Park in Chinatown, 300 W. 19th St.
HOW: The adventure begins Thursday, Aug. 11 on the website www.myspace.com/dogandponysoundcity where audio files and bike maps are accessible via the web as downloadable mp3s and image files respectively. We'll have some maps and CDs at the launch too. At the launch, we will hop on bikes or lace up our kicks and tour the southern and western sites, with the option of carrying on to the sites further north on your own.
WHY: Because you've never done something like this before! Coffee, donuts and water will be served. Come out for some free art and even meet the artists themselves. (Admission is free with a suggested $10 donation.)
ABOUT THE PROJECT: SoundCity is an interactive theater piece that features the streets of Chicago as the stage. This audio tour draws attention to movements and participants in Chicago's political history by telling the story of the places where they existed. Local artists created eight audio portraits of such landmark sites as the Hull House, Tree Studios, Meigs Field/Northerly Island, 21st Bridge and Chess Records. Audience members use a map to guide them to the locations included in the production.
The Portraits:
CHESS RECORDS by Cheryl Farney
Hear the history of this legendary recording studio and the women that passed
through its doors.
NORTHERLY ISLAND - by Jenny Lawton & Krissy Vanderwarker
Sounds recall the controversial demolition of Meigs Field and transformation into
Northerly Island.
HULL HOUSE by Katherine Zwick
Run by Jane Addams, this legendary home for the unwanted is celebrated as a haven for so many and a symbol of feminist power.
TREE STUDIOS - by Carolyn Hoerdemann
Constructed in 1894 and intended as a home for artists, the Tree Studios were a unique cultural oasis, home to many significant artists, and the nation's oldest-known artist studios.
21st STREET LIFT BRIDGE & CROSSING by Sorin Brouwers
21st Street and the Chicago River
Also known as Alton Junction, 21st Street Crossing is perhaps Chicago's most historically significant rail location and at one time, its busiest.
ASHLAND STREET COORIDOR By Margaret Noble
Ashland Avenue from Lake Street to Grand Avenue
1. CTA Green Line stop Ashland & Lake:
Stand under the bridge on the west side of Ashland. Then walk north on Ashland.
2. Dead Pigeon Grid:
Directly next to the alley between Carrol and Fulton Streets are two pigeons,
which have been trapped on inside of the building, perhaps for years.
3. Wild Foliage Alley:
At Arbour Place just before Metra bridge, follow the Metra tracks west.
4. Underneath the Metra Bridge:
Pause here, before crossing Kinzie.
5. Grand & Ashland
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