Events

Chicago Dancemakers Forum Salon with Sarah Shelton Mann and Erica Mott

Chicago Dancemakers Forum Salon with Sarah Shelton Mann and Erica Mott


Tuesday, April 19th, 2011, 6pm-8pm
Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL 60642
Admission free but space is limited. Please RSVP to [email protected].

Current Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist Erica Mott and choreographer Sara Shelton Mann will address the intersections and divergences in their unique approaches to and employment of objects in performance. Erica will discuss her use of puppetry and creative re-use angle, pulling from the … Read more


Discarded Materials and Disregarded Spaces- A Performance Lecture and Dance Film Event by Erica Mott

Wednesday, March 2nd,2011 at 7:30pm

Double Double Land, 209 Augusta, 2nd floor, Toronto

Admission Free and open to the public

Award winning Chicago-based performance deviser and half of the transnational performance art duo, re[public] in/decency, Erica Mott, presents the short dance film Revised and Revisited followed by a performance lecture on creative re-use of discarded materials and disregarded spaces in performance. Toronto based performance artist/activist, Coman Poon,  and Erica … Read more


Hexes and Heroes Preview

Object manipulators Erica Mott and Meredith Miller team up for a double-bill at Links Hall, January 28-30. Sid Smith writes a preview for SeeChicagoDance.com in which both women discuss the mood and impetus behind their work. SeeChicagoDance Newsletter The Victory Project Download as a PDF.

“I’ve rigged the nozzle so that there’s lipstick inside that comes out,” Mott said. “The idea is to explore the mundane and the fantastic and … Read more


Erica performs with La Pocha Nostra in San Francisco

Erica performs with La Pocha Nostra in San Francisco

CORPO-ILICITO REMIX: THE POST HUMAN SOCIETY 6.9 by La Pocha Nostra
Saturday, January 15th, 2011 at 8pm at SOMArts in San Francisco
$10 advance donation, $12 door donation. No one turned away for lack of funds. Purchase online here.

Labeled as “the most influential Latino experimental arts troupe in the past 10 years,” La Pocha Nostra continues to surprise audiences with their shocking interactive ritual performances questioning power relations

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How to Survive While in Exile at Rhubarb Fest

How to Survive While in Exile at Rhubarb Fest

re[public] in/decency have been invited to perform the third incarnation of their performance installation How to Survive While in Exile. at the 32nd Annual Rhubarb Festival of Contemporary Performance in Toronto February 16th-19th.… Read more


Erica and Meredith Miller perform Hexes and Heroes at Links Hall

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 January 28th-30th, … Read more


Erica performs with La Pocha Nostra at La Curtaduria in Oaxaca, Mexico

Erica performs with La Pocha Nostra at La Curtaduria in Oaxaca, Mexico

Erica performs with La Pocha Nostra at el Museo de Ferrocarril in Oaxaca, Mexico August 13th, 2010.

In conjunction with the International Summer Performance Institute, Erica will train and perform with renowned performance artists Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Roberto SiFuentes, and Michelle Ceballos as well as ten Mexican and ten international performance artists. The culmination of the two week residency will be an evening length production including site-specific performances devised by Mexican, … Read more


Excerpts from Stridulate in France

Erica performs at Roy Hart International Arts Center, Malerargues, France July 27th, 2010.

Erica will be performing excerpts from the collboratively generated performance, Stridulate under the direction of Rachel Damon and Dan Mohr. This performance will take place in conjunction with the Singing After Roy Hart Symposium convening music and performance artists from all over the world. As an invited artist, Erica and fellow Stridulate ensemble members, Rachel Damon … Read more


Open studio performance at Chicago Pop-Up Gallery

Open studio performance-in-progress on Thursday June 3rd 6-8pm. Chicago Pop-Up Gallery, 220 S Wabash.… Read more


On Love and the Lack Thereof

On Love and the Lack ThereofA 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.