The artist's year-long residency at the Driehaus Museum centres on a recurring dance piece in the recently renovated Murphy Auditorium
Seven dancers, dressed in flowing pants and tank tops in muted tones, are moving like a kind of 14-legged caterpillar, inching their way around a 12-sided mirrored bench at the centre of the stately Murphy Auditorium. The venue, which was built by the American College of Surgeons on Chicago's Near North Side in 1926, features exquisite details like ornate cast-bronze doors by Tiffany Studios honouring famous doctors and stained-glass windows by the Willet Company. The precise elegance of the Gilded Age architecture contrasts sharply with enormous care and effort evident in the dancers' gripping, reaching and pulling movements.
