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choreography

created with support from the Links Hall Co-Mission Residency

Simantikos Choreography Kick-off December 7th 8pm Ruth Page Center of the Arts

Co-MISSION Work-in-Progress Showing December 13th 7pm at Links Hall

Co-MISSION Festival of New Works June 2025 at Links Hall

Choreographer: Dani Oblitas Dancers: Dani Oblitas, Sandy Perez, Anniela Huidobro Castro

Music Composition: Craig Ymson, Aster Preyes, Lorenze Cordova Lighting Design: Giao Truong Photos: McCall McClellan

un/re/enrooted

2024-2025

skipping stones- a one hour project

October 2024

October 10th and 11th at The Color Club Chicago, IL Short Stack Film Festival

Since 2015, Project Bound Dance has hosted The One Hour Project, an exercise in collaboration and concision that connects Chicago choreographers and videographers and invites them to shoot the footage for a 60 second dance film in just 60 minutes.

Choreographer/Director: Dani Oblitas Dancer: Tuli Bera Videographer: KT Williams

P.O.W.E.R. Collective Cypher June 2021 Madison, WI

October 2023 The Color Club Chicago, IL Short Stack Film Festival Selected Film

blended is a dance film about trying to find a sense of peace in the midst of the chaos around us

Choreographer/Director: Dani Oblitas Dancer: Dani Oblitas Videographer: Keen Zarate

blended

raked explores the connection between food justice and resilience for those who work on the land

In a time of broken seeds

seeds sold broken,

As we plant she planted — she is planting still,

Text from Mino Miinikaan/Good Seeds by Heid E Edrich

Choreographer: Dani Oblitas Dancers: Ella Schmidt, Bramlee Johnson, Abby Olson, Yael Estrada-Nava, Linnea Cheek Lighting Designer: Stephan D Schroeder

raked

2019

centers self-conflict and healing while navigating intergenerational trauma and the exhaustion that accompanies navigating all white spaces

Choreographer: Dani Oblitas Dancer: Dani Oblitas Lighting Designer: Stephan D Schroeder

weary like the sea

2019