Throughout the year Pivot Arts offers new works development opportunities to artists. 2019-2020 projects included SUPERFLUXUS by Seth Bockley and Drew Paryzer, a theatrical escape room which turned into on-line gaming experience for the pandemic and GRACE by Chloe Johnston, a mixed media exploration of video game culture and history.

Friendship

Theater

July 12 – 13

In Friendship, playwright and director Katherine Dean Horton crafts a tender portrait of teenage friendship unfolding over one summer at a New England sleepaway camp. Through a tactile narrative that incorporates the act of making traditional friendship bracelets, the piece explores how relationships are formed, remembered, and left behind—with humor, heart, and emotional resonance for teens and adults alike.

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Great Zodiac

Puppetry

July 19 – 20

The Great Zodiac Animal Race (Year of the Snake version), a solo puppetry performance that blends traditional shadow techniques with Japanese kuruma ningyō figure work. Originally commissioned by the Art Institute of Chicago, the show retells the zodiac myth through Asian pictograms and Lee’s own childhood recollections of Lunar New Year celebrations in Hawai’i. A joyful work for all ages, it fuses ancestral storytelling with contemporary visual invention.

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Sunset 60 Minutes

A multidisciplinary performance influenced by the diaries of Jan Fabre and inspired by queer legacy and survival. This genre-defying piece blends choreography, voice, soundscape, and symbolic design to explore identity, inheritance, and the metamorphosis of artist into art. The sun and moon become a central presence in a world where gender, memory, and embodiment collapse into ritual transformation.

Theater

July 20

Sunset 60 Minutes is a multidisciplinary performance influenced by the diaries of Jan Fabre and inspired by queer legacy and survival. This genre-defying piece blends choreography, voice, soundscape, and symbolic design to explore identity, inheritance, and the metamorphosis of artist into art. The sun and moon become a central presence in a world where gender, memory, and embodiment collapse into ritual transformation.   SUNSET 60 MINUTES Sunday, July 20th  2:00 PM CST & 7:30 PM CST Wirtz Center Chicago 170 N Lakeshore Drive, Chicago, IL 60611 YOUR VISIT TO THE WIRTZ CENTER CHICAGO Parking will not be available for this performance. SP+ Parking is available at 474 East Huron Street in addition to paid street parking. Additional direction information is available at the Wirtz Center website: https://wirtz.northwestern.edu/chicago-directions/ Doors open thirty (30) minutes prior to start of program and the run time for this performance is estimated at ninety (90) minutes. Please email admin@pivotarts.org with any questions or concerns.

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FORCE! An opera in 3 acts

New Work-in-Progress

June 16 7:30 pm

Come dialogue with the artists and get a sneak peek of FORCE!, a new opera in development, depicting a group of women and femmes of color who, while waiting to get into a prison, find a memory-erasing mold leaking from the waiting room toilet—and realize their futures may depend on entering the prison behind the waiting room wall.

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What's Next: Works-in-Progress

Dance

June 12 4:00 pm

Pivot Arts is proud to present highlights from the Chicago Dancemakers Forum lab artists with a showing of works-in-progress at 4pm followed by reception and a 7pm screening of dance films.   

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