The Victory Project
This year Erica received support from the Chicago Dancemakers Forum to create new performance work synthesizing her work with movement and objects. This project includes study and collaboration with award-winning director Sara Shelton Mann. Erica will be writing about her process in collaboration with writer and performer Justin Cabrillos as well as teaching her unique process in object manipulation and choreography (established over an extended period… Read more
Erica and Meredith Miller perform Hexes and Heroes at Links Hall
Performance in progress showing of pieces choreographed and performed by Erica Mott for the Victory Project.
Duration 35 minutes (full evening 75 minutes)
Performance will take place January 28th-29th at 8pm and 30th at 7pm , 2011 at Links Hall, Chicago.
Puppeteer and performance artists, Meredith Miller and Erica Mott present works in progress around themes of heroism and self destruction in a shared billed at Links Hall… Read more
Cowboys and Vikings
A dual channel video and performance installation containing landscape performances and interviews composed and choreographed by Erica Mott.
Installation Duration 3 hour loop video.
Performance Duration 45 minutes.
Performances in process.
While in residency at NES Artist Center in Skagastrond, Iceland, home to Iceland’s self proclaimed ‘country western king’, Erica began creating a series of landscape performances called the Cowboys and Vikings Project. Inspired by historical research on… Read more
Revised and Revisited
A solo performance combining dance, found text, and objects written and performed by Erica Mott
Duration Performance 50 minutes. Installation Durational 50 minutes-12 hrs.
Performed December 17-19, 2009 at Links Hall in Chicago
Revised and Revisited traces Mott’s memory and absence of memory of her ancestry. Through her body, she traces her family’s journey to America through present incorporating the movement based rituals that have kept them together and… Read more
On the Practice of Dying
A solo performance written and performed by Erica Mott.
Duration 20 minutes.
Versions of this solo piece were performed August 13-16, 2009 and February 12-14th, 2010 at Links Hall in Chicago.
Initially curated by two-time Obie Award-winning artist and playwright Holly Hughes and performed at additional festivals including SELF(ish) solo fest, On The Practice of Dying traces Mott’s medical family history, theories of genetic inheritance and her inability to… Read more
On Love and the Lack Thereof
A solo clown performance created and performed by Erica Mott
Duration 60 minutes full length, 20 minute excerpted work.
Various versions of the solo performance have taken place between 2007-2010 in Chicago and Toronto.
This solo theatrical piece in the style of a European clown drama, celebrates the art of sacrificial love and all the propaganda which sells it to us. Obsessed by the glamour of romance and death from a broken heart, our heroine takes us on a journey of falling in and out of line over and over and over again. Transformation is the only constant as she carves a high fashion world of seduction out of the trash dumpster in which she resides. Incorporating puppets, dance and song, the spectator receives wisdom on love from very unlikely sources. Created in collaboration with John Turner (Mump and Smoot) and Paola Coletto Kaplan.
The inPrint Project
A sculptural dance performance choreographed by Erica Mott with movement by Erica Mott, Rachel Damon, Elisa Foshay, Anida Yoeu Ali, and Cristol Sabbagh.
Originally performed June 8th-10th, 2007, at Links Hall Chicago with opening performances by local and national artists and a Symposium on Contextualizing Art and Community. Additional performances at the Minneapolis Fringe Festival, Minneapolis MN August 14th-20th, 2007.
Developed with the generous support of the Department of Cultural Affairs’ DanceBridge… Read more
DIS*CARD*
A solo buffoon and butoh inspired site-specific performance by Erica Mott.
Duration 25 minutes
Versions of this solo piece were performed at the PAC/Edge Performance Festival in Chicago April 1st-10th, 2005 and Lurie Gardens Celebration in Chicago July 10th, 2005
What do we throw away and what do we collect? And what do we have when we collect what’s thrown away? Told through movement and buffoonery, Dis*Card* was inspired… Read more