facilitated by Camila Rivero Pooley

DEMBOW is a dance practice that revolves around exploring different latin american aesthetics.

In this class you will not only dance but push up your stamina, stretch dynamically and engage with others through social choreography. We are continuing the series focusing on reggaetón + trap~

SUN 05/05 from 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
THU 05/09 from 7pm - 8:15 pm
FRI 05/10 from 7pm - 8:15 pm
MON 05/27 from 7pm - 8:15pm

Open to all levels, no previous experience is required

Sliding Scale : $0 - $25 [ Venmo @camila-riveropooley OR Zelle 312-937-2587 OR cash]

RSVP HERE

Facilitated by Tuli Bera

RSVP HERE

I've been holding space for myself to revisit Ballet as a movement practice. It's been a way for me to stay grounded. I acknowledge this form that lives in my body is here to stay-- the question is how is it staying/living rent-free? Sometimes I enter the space with a mindset to "get better" at doing Ballet because a homie wants to be able to nail a triple turn! And, sometimes I approach Ballet as a somatic practice where I let go of notions of "success" but want to be connected to myself through a form that feels like home.

I am opening up my studio time to anyone interested in joining me. Maybe you have an urge to check in with your [emotional/physical] relationship with Ballet in a low-stakes setting. Or, maybe you don't have a relationship at all and want to see what initiating one looks like. Perhaps it's somewhere in between. Either way, I am here to hold space with you!

The practice will begin with a full-body warm-up. We will figure out what we want to work on/process for anyone who joins. There is also an option to share desires via the RSVP form.

facilitated by Camila Rivero Pooley

DEMBOW is a dance practice that revolves around exploring different latin american aesthetics.

In this class you will not only dance but push up your stamina, stretch dynamically and engage with others through social choreography. We are kicking off the series focusing on reggaetón + trap~

04/01 + 04/15 + 04/29 [Mondays]
07:00 pm - 08:00 pm
Open to all levels, no previous experience is required
Sliding Scale : $0 - $25 [ Venmo @camila-riveropooley OR Zelle 312-937-2587 OR cash]

RSVP HERE

Facilitated by Tuli Bera

RSVP HERE

I've been holding space for myself to revisit Ballet as a movement practice. It's been a way for me to stay grounded. I acknowledge this form that lives in my body is here to stay-- the question is how is it staying/living rent-free? Sometimes I enter the space with a mindset to "get better" at doing Ballet because a homie wants to be able to nail a triple turn! And, sometimes I approach Ballet as a somatic practice where I let go of notions of "success" but want to be connected to myself through a form that feels like home.

I am opening up my studio time to anyone interested in joining me. Maybe you have an urge to check in with your [emotional/physical] relationship with Ballet in a low-stakes setting. Or, maybe you don't have a relationship at all and want to see what initiating one looks like. Perhaps it's somewhere in between. Either way, I am here to hold space with you!

The practice will begin with a full-body warm-up. We will figure out what we want to work on/process for anyone who joins. There is also an option to share desires via the RSVP form.

Hosted by Human Up!

Gay Crochet is a monthly Queer craft club started by Arden Lapin in May 2022. The goal is to have a fun and low-stakes place to work on a craft, skill-share, and enjoy the company of new people. Come one come all!

bim bom studios is wheelchair accessible
air purifiers will be running

Facilitated by Tuli Bera

RSVP HERE

I've been holding space for myself to revisit Ballet as a movement practice. It's been a way for me to stay grounded. I acknowledge this form that lives in my body is here to stay-- the question is how is it staying/living rent-free? Sometimes I enter the space with a mindset to "get better" at doing Ballet because a homie wants to be able to nail a triple turn! And, sometimes I approach Ballet as a somatic practice where I let go of notions of "success" but want to be connected to myself through a form that feels like home.

I am opening up my studio time to anyone interested in joining me. Maybe you have an urge to check in with your [emotional/physical] relationship with Ballet in a low-stakes setting. Or, maybe you don't have a relationship at all and want to see what initiating one looks like. Perhaps it's somewhere in between. Either way, I am here to hold space with you!

The practice will begin with a full-body warm-up. We will figure out what we want to work on/process for anyone who joins. There is also an option to share desires via the RSVP form.

facilitated by Amanda Maraist

registration is closed.

we'll be investigating both the raucousness and tenderness of "moshing" as an elongated improvisational score. thinking about cooperatively reaching:

-joy
-anger
-catharsis
-play
-hive mind
-essential care + safety

we'll practice pausing and sharing our experiences verbally with each other throughout.

kneepads, long sleeves, long pants recommended.
no dangly jewelry

-all workshops are free

-air purifiers running

-this is a pro-consent, pro-care, pro-adventure, pro-rest, pro-listening and pro-you space. come as you are.

EVERYTHING, ALWAYS: IMPROVISATION, GROUP WORK, & INSTANT COMPOSITION EXPERIMENTAL WORKSHOP

facilitated by Maggie Vannucci

$20
SIGN UP HERE.
*Must sign community consent/care form to participate

WHAT IS IT?
A space to improvise through three mediums-- “set” material, Passing Through, and instant composition. Time to feel your way through, deepening your somatic work. So much choice and agency in what you want to do while practicing improvising within a group creating a composition in real time.

This Workshop…
-has some ‘dance class’ elements but with the agency to pick your energy output
-is a space where improvisation is group-oriented -we say yes to our desires…truly seeing others in the space and reacting to their ideas in real-time
-explores group dynamics and performativity in a low-pressure environment

WHO’S IT FOR?
Intended for anyone interested in group lead improvisations, some previous experience with improvisation or a somatic practice is helpful but not necessary for participation. Feel free to email me if you have any questions.

Deep Dive:
This 3-hour workshop will experiment mostly with Bartenieff-inspired phrase work and instant composition scores. Starting with Bartenieff’s 8 principles to activate choice and deep desire within a “set” phrase. There will be space to experience as much or as little as you need while working with the principles This “set” portion will support awareness, articulation, interpretation, and instinctive choice-making while moving with your body and other bodies. We’ll then play with Passing Through, an improvisational practice from Flying Low technique, enlivening more instinctual/instantaneous choice-making. We’ll end with a few rounds of instant composition in small-ish groups, the timer and the four walls being our only true container. Dividing the room into “space holders” and “performers” brings our desires and curiosities to each decision while working with the group to build and break the worlds we create in real-time.

*Each participant must sign a consent form of workshop guidelines to ensure as safe a space as possible for all involved.

Facilitated by Tuli Bera

RSVP HERE

I've been holding space for myself to revisit Ballet as a movement practice. It's been a way for me to stay grounded. I acknowledge this form that lives in my body is here to stay-- the question is how is it staying/living rent-free? Sometimes I enter the space with a mindset to "get better" at doing Ballet because a homie wants to be able to nail a triple turn! And, sometimes I approach Ballet as a somatic practice where I let go of notions of "success" but want to be connected to myself through a form that feels like home.

I am opening up my studio time to anyone interested in joining me. Maybe you have an urge to check in with your [emotional/physical] relationship with Ballet in a low-stakes setting. Or, maybe you don't have a relationship at all and want to see what initiating one looks like. Perhaps it's somewhere in between. Either way, I am here to hold space with you!

The practice will begin with a full-body warm-up. We will figure out what we want to work on/process for anyone who joins. There is also an option to share desires via the RSVP form.

facilitated by Amanda Maraist

registration is closed.

we'll be investigating both the raucousness and tenderness of "moshing" as an elongated improvisational score. thinking about cooperatively reaching:

-joy
-anger
-catharsis
-play
-hive mind
-essential care + safety

we'll practice pausing and sharing our experiences verbally with each other throughout.

kneepads, long sleeves, long pants recommended.
no dangly jewelry

-all workshops are free

-air purifiers running

-this is a pro-consent, pro-care, pro-adventure, pro-rest, pro-listening and pro-you space. come as you are.

monthly sound series curated by Hunter Brown + party perfect records.

Kieran Daly
Hunter Brown
- solo - solo - duo -

8PM
$15 at the door (cash, venmo + zelle)
NOTAFLOF
BYOB
air purifiers running

facilitated by Camila Rivero Pooley

DEMBOW is a dance practice that revolves around exploring different latin american aesthetics.

In this class you will not only dance but push up your stamina, stretch dynamically and engage with others through social choreography. We are kicking off the series focusing on reggaetón + trap~

04/01 + 04/15 + 04/29 [Mondays]
07:00 pm - 08:00 pm
Open to all levels, no previous experience is required
Sliding Scale : $0 - $25 [ Vemno @camila-riveropooley OR Zelle 312-937-2587 OR cash]

RSVP HERE

Facilitated by Tuli Bera

RSVP HERE

I've been holding space for myself to revisit Ballet as a movement practice. It's been a way for me to stay grounded. I acknowledge this form that lives in my body is here to stay-- the question is how is it staying/living rent-free? Sometimes I enter the space with a mindset to "get better" at doing Ballet because a homie wants to be able to nail a triple turn! And, sometimes I approach Ballet as a somatic practice where I let go of notions of "success" but want to be connected to myself through a form that feels like home.

I am opening up my studio time to anyone interested in joining me. Maybe you have an urge to check in with your [emotional/physical] relationship with Ballet in a low-stakes setting. Or, maybe you don't have a relationship at all and want to see what initiating one looks like. Perhaps it's somewhere in between. Either way, I am here to hold space with you!

The practice will begin with a full-body warm-up. We will figure out what we want to work on/process for anyone who joins. There is also an option to share desires via the RSVP form.

Facilitated by Tuli Bera

RSVP HERE

I've been holding space for myself to revisit Ballet as a movement practice. It's been a way for me to stay grounded. I acknowledge this form that lives in my body is here to stay-- the question is how is it staying/living rent-free? Sometimes I enter the space with a mindset to "get better" at doing Ballet because a homie wants to be able to nail a triple turn! And, sometimes I approach Ballet as a somatic practice where I let go of notions of "success" but want to be connected to myself through a form that feels like home.

I am opening up my studio time to anyone interested in joining me. Maybe you have an urge to check in with your [emotional/physical] relationship with Ballet in a low-stakes setting. Or, maybe you don't have a relationship at all and want to see what initiating one looks like. Perhaps it's somewhere in between. Either way, I am here to hold space with you!

The practice will begin with a full-body warm-up. We will figure out what we want to work on/process for anyone who joins. There is also an option to share desires via the RSVP form.

John Vanderslice
presented by Undertow

$25
BYOB
masks required
air purifier running

tickets must be purchased in advance
click here to purchase

Over the course of his 30-year career as an influential songwriter, record producer, and studio owner, John Vanderslice has carved out a singular place for himself in the landscape of American indie rock. Between 2000 and 2014, JV released 10 records on Barsuk, Dead Oceans, and Secretly Canadian, and collaborated as a producer and musician on records by Spoon, the Mountain Goats, Okkervil River, Death Cab for Cutie and Tune-Yards. In April 2018, Vanderslice decided to leap back into his solo career with full force, hunkering down for over 50 days in his San Francisco studio Tiny Telephone in a process that yielded The Cedars—Vanderslice’s most ambitious record to date. The Cedars (Native Cat Recordings 2019) approaches the craft of songwriting from every direction but the front, in a non-linear process driven by drum machines, synthesizers, and an unpredictable palette of sonic textures. In an act of getting both figuratively and literally lost in the woods, Vanderslice finds himself favoring chaos and deconstruction over well-worn paths of familiar sounds and instrumentation.

Facilitated by Tuli Bera

RSVP HERE

I've been holding space for myself to revisit Ballet as a movement practice. It's been a way for me to stay grounded. I acknowledge this form that lives in my body is here to stay-- the question is how is it staying/living rent-free? Sometimes I enter the space with a mindset to "get better" at doing Ballet because a homie wants to be able to nail a triple turn! And, sometimes I approach Ballet as a somatic practice where I let go of notions of "success" but want to be connected to myself through a form that feels like home.

I am opening up my studio time to anyone interested in joining me. Maybe you have an urge to check in with your [emotional/physical] relationship with Ballet in a low-stakes setting. Or, maybe you don't have a relationship at all and want to see what initiating one looks like. Perhaps it's somewhere in between. Either way, I am here to hold space with you!

The practice will begin with a full-body warm-up. We will figure out what we want to work on/process for anyone who joins. There is also an option to share desires via the RSVP form.

facilitated by Camila Rivero Pooley

DEMBOW is a dance practice that revolves around exploring different latin american aesthetics.

In this class you will not only dance but push up your stamina, stretch dynamically and engage with others through social choreography. We are kicking off the series focusing on reggaetón + trap~

04/01 + 04/15 + 04/29 [Mondays]
07:00 pm - 08:00 pm

Open to all levels, no previous experience is required

Sliding Scale : $0 - $25 [ Vemno @camila-riveropooley OR Zelle 312-937-2587 OR cash]

RSVP HERE

Facilitated by Tuli Bera

RSVP HERE

I've been holding space for myself to revisit Ballet as a movement practice. It's been a way for me to stay grounded. I acknowledge this form that lives in my body is here to stay-- the question is how is it staying/living rent-free? Sometimes I enter the space with a mindset to "get better" at doing Ballet because a homie wants to be able to nail a triple turn! And, sometimes I approach Ballet as a somatic practice where I let go of notions of "success" but want to be connected to myself through a form that feels like home.

I am opening up my studio time to anyone interested in joining me. Maybe you have an urge to check in with your [emotional/physical] relationship with Ballet in a low-stakes setting. Or, maybe you don't have a relationship at all and want to see what initiating one looks like. Perhaps it's somewhere in between. Either way, I am here to hold space with you!

The practice will begin with a full-body warm-up. We will figure out what we want to work on/process for anyone who joins. There is also an option to share desires via the RSVP form.

EVERYTHING, ALWAYS: IMPROVISATION, GROUP WORK, & INSTANT COMPOSITION EXPERIMENTAL WORKSHOP

facilitated by Maggie Vannucci

$20
SIGN UP HERE.
*Must sign community consent/care form to participate

WHAT IS IT?
A space to improvise through three mediums-- “set” material, Passing Through, and instant composition. Time to feel your way through, deepening your somatic work. So much choice and agency in what you want to do while practicing improvising within a group creating a composition in real time.

This Workshop…
-has some ‘dance class’ elements but with the agency to pick your energy output
-is a space where improvisation is group-oriented
-we say yes to our desires…truly seeing others in the space and reacting to their ideas in real-time
-explores group dynamics and performativity in a low-pressure environment

WHO’S IT FOR?
Intended for anyone interested in group lead improvisations, some previous experience with improvisation or a somatic practice is helpful but not necessary for participation. Feel free to email me if you have any questions.

Deep Dive:
This 3-hour workshop will experiment mostly with Bartenieff-inspired phrase work and instant composition scores. Starting with Bartenieff’s 8 principles to activate choice and deep desire within a “set” phrase. There will be space to experience as much or as little as you need while working with the principles This “set” portion will support awareness, articulation, interpretation, and instinctive choice-making while moving with your body and other bodies. We’ll then play with Passing Through, an improvisational practice from Flying Low technique, enlivening more instinctual/instantaneous choice-making. We’ll end with a few rounds of instant composition in small-ish groups, the timer and the four walls being our only true container. Dividing the room into “space holders” and “performers” brings our desires and curiosities to each decision while working with the group to build and break the worlds we create in real-time.

*Each participant must sign a consent form of workshop guidelines to ensure as safe a space as possible for all involved.

three nights of WIP performance sharings from movement-based artists currently rehearsing at bim bom.

RSVP HERE.

-3/29
-5/17
-7/19

3/29 LINEUP
-Kellyn Jackson + Mo Hayden
-Fever Dream Dance Collective (A. Else, Anna Caffarelli)
-Chrissy Martin

$10 or PWYC, NOTAFLOF. all funds go to the artists.
BYOB
masks required, we’ll have some on hand to share.
air purifier running

post-performance discussion and facilitation by Chrissy Martin

ABOUT THE WORKS ::

Kellyn Jackson + Mo Hayden | This duet is an excerpt from Sounds from the Inside of an Onion. It's a negotiation, a duality, a challenge, a question. There will be contact. The audience will be involved.

Chrissy Martin | This is a solo work, an excerpt that is part of a larger piece I am developing with Owen Lowery as trace/play, a performance duo that uses AI bodymapping to create visual and sonic processing of a solo moving body. I am working on dancing while talking, intermittently using non-languaged vocal noise, and skirting between set choreographed movement/scripted language and improvised movement/speech.

Fever Dream Dance Collective | Swinging from extremes of independence and codependence, Side by Side explores the journey of souls deeply intertwined. Side by Side is informed by Crimson and Anna’s relationship as a long term queer couple. They experience life together, consistently taking in the same set of information and stimuli on parallel life tracks. This produces intense feelings of mundanity, interconnectedness, conflict, and euphoria. They investigate this concept through tableaus of mundane shapes such as sleeping and rising, performing synced abstract gestural tasks, engaging in aggressive partnerwork, and spinning in dizzying joy.

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with support from Cook County Small Business Bureau, all participating makers and facilitators will be compensated $160 each for the evening. funds gathered at the door will be split among the artists.

facilitated by Amanda Maraist

BODIES WORKING

y'all... this is a body work class. we all want it, we all need it. i'm coming at this from a care work perspective. this is NECESSARY in so many ways to a healthy mover and a healthy movement. we're going to care for + with one another with hands on touch, giggles, gurgling stomachs, and all the rest. i'll lead us in pairs / trios / etc. through work that touches on Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen's Body Mind Centering and techniques learned from my old mentor, Shelley Cushman. we'll practice pausing and sharing our experiences verbally with each other throughout.

-all workshops are free
-air purifiers running
-this is a pro-consent, pro-care, pro-adventure, pro-rest, pro-listening and pro-you space. come as you are.

**this worksop is at capacity for participants

facilitated by Mo Hayden

doors open at 7pm
contemplative dance practice begins at 7:30pm
we go until 10pm

TO RSVP: email mo.hayden.mo@gmail.com

This event was crafted with contact improvisation in mind, but contact is not needed for a duet to emerge. This is an invitation to dive into movement research. CDP is a meditation movement practice that we will use as a warm up. First, solo meditation - then solo movement. Then, group movement. From there we will flow into assigned duets (or trios when numbers require). The event will end with a brief harvest. Bring a notebook!

air purifiers running
we will mask upon request (If you would like to request that the group be masked, email Mo)
masking is always welcome, but not required otherwise.

Facilitated by Tuli Bera

RSVP HERE

I've been holding space for myself to revisit Ballet as a movement practice. It's been a way for me to stay grounded. I acknowledge this form that lives in my body is here to stay-- the question is how is it staying/living rent-free? Sometimes I enter the space with a mindset to "get better" at doing Ballet because a homie wants to be able to nail a triple turn! And, sometimes I approach Ballet as a somatic practice where I let go of notions of "success" but want to be connected to myself through a form that feels like home.

I am opening up my studio time to anyone interested in joining me. Maybe you have an urge to check in with your [emotional/physical] relationship with Ballet in a low-stakes setting. Or, maybe you don't have a relationship at all and want to see what initiating one looks like. Perhaps it's somewhere in between. Either way, I am here to hold space with you!

The practice will begin with a full-body warm-up. We will figure out what we want to work on/process for anyone who joins. There is also an option to share desires via the RSVP form.

facilitated by Amanda Maraist

BODIES WORKING

y'all... this is a body work class. we all want it, we all need it. i'm coming at this from a care work perspective. this is NECESSARY in so many ways to a healthy mover and a healthy movement. we're going to care for + with one another with hands on touch, giggles, gurgling stomachs, and all the rest. i'll lead us in pairs / trios / etc. through work that touches on Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen's Body Mind Centering and techniques learned from my old mentor, Shelley Cushman. we'll practice pausing and sharing our experiences verbally with each other throughout.

-all workshops are free
-air purifiers running
-this is a pro-consent, pro-care, pro-adventure, pro-rest, pro-listening and pro-you space. come as you are.

**this worksop is at capacity for participants

Make Silly workshops are intended to center our most absurd selves through rigorous play. Exercises explored relate to a wide range of clown, mime, movement and voice techniques.

facilitated by Dinah Berkeley
to RSVP, email dinahberkeley@gmail.com

Dinah (they/them) is a multi-disciplinary artist, theatre-maker and educator. They have studied various clown pedagogies with Stephen Buescher, Christopher Bayes, Julia Proctor, Virginia Scott, Matt Chapman, and several others. They are an active member of Broken Box Mime Theatre (BKBX) company, since 2014, and have been writing, devising, performing and directing clown and mime for close to a decade now.

bloc sound + party perfect records presents::

Carol Genetti
Kieran Daly
Jack Langdon

8PM
$15 at the door (cash, venmo, zelle)
NOTAFLOF
BYOB
air purifiers running

Hosted by Human Up!

Gay Crochet is a monthly Queer craft club started by Arden Lapin in May 2022. The goal is to have a fun and low-stakes place to work on a craft, skill-share, and enjoy the company of new people. Come one come all!

bim bom studios is wheelchair accessible
air purifiers will be running

A work-in-progress showing of Sara Zalek + Elaine LeMieux’s joint research, Moov Voice. They have been steadily meeting with their bodies and voices, listening & moving together for Years. This is their intimate together space with no Big Plan for performance, yet they wonder how they might show up to inspire you, question them, and propel some direction to move into performance with their work.

This work is in deep study and connection to Pauline Oliveros, Ione, David Darling, Meredith Monk, Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, W.A. Mathieu; “The Listening Book”, memories of our fathers, 432hz, solidarity with Palestinians, First Nation, BIPOC, othered peoples, our grief, and the joy of embodying resonance.

Limited space, to RSVP email sara@saratonin.com.

Featuring other artists, TBA.

for FOLK workshops
facilitated by Amanda Maraist

PRESENT BODY

we're high-tuning attention to our bodies with capital "D" DETAIL and capital "I" INTENTION. i'll facilitate warm ups that expand on work from The Conscious Body, Ayako Kato, Jesse Zarritt and Deborah Hay. we'll *drop in* to an elongated improvisational practice with prompts sprinkled throughout that are geared toward solo body authentic movement, and later - authentically mobilizing as a group body. we'll practice pausing and sharing our experiences verbally with each other throughout.

-all workshops are free
-these are structured, facilitated improvisations
-air purifiers running
-this is a pro-consent, pro-care, pro-adventure, pro-rest, pro-listening and pro-you space. come as you are.
-workshops are geared toward movers with experience working somatically as an individual and within a group

TO RSVP: click here

Make Silly workshops are intended to center our most absurd selves through rigorous play. Exercises explored relate to a wide range of clown, mime, movement and voice techniques.

facilitated by Dinah Berkeley
to RSVP, email dinahberkeley@gmail.com

Dinah (they/them) is a multi-disciplinary artist, theatre-maker and educator. They have studied various clown pedagogies with Stephen Buescher, Christopher Bayes, Julia Proctor, Virginia Scott, Matt Chapman, and several others. They are an active member of Broken Box Mime Theatre (BKBX) company, since 2014, and have been writing, devising, performing and directing clown and mime for close to a decade now.