SYNAPSE NEW WORKS
Lincoln Park Cultural Center
1PM, FREE

Synapse Arts presents dance projects by New Works Artists in Residence; KIKI King and Amanda Maraist, alongside work by Camila Rivero Pooley in a shared event that flows between outdoor and indoor spaces.

All spaces are fully accessible and wayfinding details are here.

CO-MISSION FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS
Links Hall
7PM, $16-$42

This event is part of Links Hall’s 2025 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works, two groundbreaking weekends of new performance and public events.

Representing some of the most talented makers in Chicago from dance, performance art, installation, and performance as social practice, six artists present works developed while in-residence at Links during the 2024-2025 season. Featured artists include: Links Hall Residents Dani Oblitas, Selena Lasley, Kevin Michael Wesson, and Amanda Maraist; and Fellows Jaquanda Saulter-Villegas & Jacinda Bullie and Tuli Bera.

CO-MISSION FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS
Links Hall
7PM, $16-$42

This is the last show at Links Hall before the space closes its doors for good.

This event is part of Links Hall’s 2025 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works, two groundbreaking weekends of new performance and public events.

Representing some of the most talented makers in Chicago from dance, performance art, installation, and performance as social practice, six artists present works developed while in-residence at Links during the 2024-2025 season.

Tuli Bera is a Chicago-based performer, choreographer, producer, and dance educator. Their artistic voice is an emulsion of their technical prowess and honest expression of identity. Since moving to Chicago in 2016, they have committed to creating public experiences that foster authentic self-exploration. Bera is informed by various styles of dance, which have led them to feel most comfortable as an improviser. They lead with curiosity and lean into transforming as they navigate through, collaborate, and create within the Chicago arts landscape. To learn more about Tuli, you can visit their website: www.tuli.space

Haruhi Kobayashi is a Chicago-based sound artist and vocal performer from Tokyo. Originally a J-pop singer-songwriter, she now explores the themes of identity, tradition, love, fear, and humanity while seeking to liberate sound from its fixed meanings. Her work intersects experimental pop, classical composition and avant-garde songwriting through voice, bass, and electronics. She invites audiences to engage with both familiar and unexpected sonic textures. She is currently a High Concept Labs Artist in Residence.

From Ohlone land known as Gilroy, CA, Isabella Limosnero (they/them) works as a GYROTONIC® instructor and freelance multidisciplinary artist, using dance as their primary medium. Since moving to Potawatomi; Kickapoo; Myaamia; Očhéthi Šakówiŋ; and Peoria land, known as Chicago in 2021, Limosnero has had the privilege to work with Project Bound, Momentum Sensorium, LittleFire Artist Collective, House of Dov and was Khecari’s Resource Share Resident in 2023.

Ali Lorenz (they/she) is a transdisciplinary artist person based in Chicago. Originally from the PNW, their experimental + task-based work has been presented by Queer Spectra Arts Festival, Short Stack Film Festival, We Are Collective, and Deseret Experimental Opera. Ali works as a company member with Project Bound Dance in addition to being an independent/freelance artist. They hold a BFA in Modern Dance from the University of Utah and have almost 50 houseplants.

Chrissy Martin is a transdisciplinary performance artist and educator with roots in contemporary dance forms, contact improvisation, Afro-Caribbean dance, postmodern experimental music, vocal jazz, and physical theater. Chrissy blends these forms to rigorously examine her intersecting queer and neurodivergent identities. Martin is an avid member of the global contact improvisation community and has facilitated and taught workshops across the Midwest. Chrissy’s integrated movement style is deeply informed by a lifelong somatic practice. She has taught dance and somatics at Cleveland State University, Columbia College Chicago and DePaul University, and is currently an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University. 

Scott Rubin is Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist and improvising violist whose work interrogates relationships between sound and movement through analog and digital means. His recent projects have involved collaborations with musicians and dancers, often incorporating interactive acoustic/electronic improvisation, expanded performance practices, motion-sensing data, and live video. In these projects, he engages themes of intimacy, control, and the sublime.