Khecari

After our deep dives into the artistic processes and presentations of “as though your body were right”& “Tend”, Khecari has entered into a planned YEAR OF INCUBATION to make way for something new in our studio process and admin practice.

Every seven years or so we settle into an incubation period. It is a necessary place of rest and reset. Of focus and diffusion. We pare down administrative operations to minimal life support systems and press pause on the demands of our production calendars.

We prioritize the core of our mission: being in the studio daily, engaging in research, conversing, improvising, and choreographing.

We want to stay engaged with you in this period of incubation but most likely won’t be showing up on this platform. If you would like to come visit us, please do.

If you would like to dream with us and plan for something fresh, let’s talk. But we probably won’t be spending our energy on hustling up a crowd, just following spontaneous connection and genuine interest.

In a field that has always been under-resourced and imbalanced in our country and grows more so each day, in a culture that demands the arts justify themselves with utility, superiority complexes, or economic relevance, there is a nearly inexorable pull back to admin, fundraising, promotion, product production and perfection. During our Year of Incubation, we will do our best to resist that gravity. We will do our best to make time to speculate and ruminate, to wander and watch, to protect these hatchlings as they find their way towards… what they will.

We are all learning, hopefully, to caretake ourselves and each other in such adverse times. In an age that can feel like a clarion call to armoring, to distancing, let us protect the fecund germens of our vulnerability and somatic interconnectedness.

HOW TO ENGAGE WITH US DURING OUR INCUBATION ::

AUDITION TO JOIN OUR NEW PROJECT
Wednesday Dec 3 | 12PM-2PM

EMAIL US AT [email protected] TO SCHEDULE A VISIT WITH US AT IBCC
Mondays-Fridays | 10:30AM-2PM

ATTEND A CLASS at IBCC
Contemporary Modern Dance
Tuesdays | 4:30-5:30PM

Somatics
Thursdays | 5:30-6:30PM

Creative Movement For Kids
Fridays | 3:15-3:55PM & 4-4:45PM

Khecari's Year of Incubation - https://mailchi.mp/1dcc267ecc8f/announcing-khecaris-year-of-incubation

Fall Classes | Power In Numbers | Audition Through Process | Ragdale | CfNF chat https://mailchi.mp/1aa775d98d48/september2025

https://mailchi.mp/649c334b4675/fundraiser-update-rsr-fall-classes Thanks to our donors we raised a third of what we need we need to close our budget during our fundraising party!

PARTY :: RECAP :: JAM :: RESOURCE SHARE :: SHOWING - https://mailchi.mp/b3f0477b1b78/party-recap-jam-resource-share-showing

Open Call & Eligibility

2026 Khecari Resource Share Residency

As Chicago Park District Arts Partners in Residence, Khecari trades public dance programming for studio use. As part of our Redress initiative (www.khecari.org/redress), we have been sharing this space resource and our equal pay hourly rate with BIPOC/ALAANA* artists in our community every year during Khecari's winter studio break. Anyone who identifies as BIPOC/ALAANA* and is interested in this residency opportunity should fill out and submit this eligibility and interest form below. We will determine the recipient by lottery.

DUE SEPT 15TH

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1WwEqKBdkXDLNOOta1GzSEDaXD4Y5Fy8Gdjs-ANzSf0E/edit

KHECARI RESOURCE SHARE RESIDENCY ABOUT THE RESIDENCY Khecari has had the pleasure to be the dance company in residence at Indian Boundary Cultural Center since 2012. This arrangement called "Arts Partners in Residence" is a barter between the park district and us with no monetary compensation coming to the company as part of the re...

Our Fall Movement Classes at Indian Boundary Park Cultural Center are now open for registration.
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From August through November, we will be hosting a mix of 4 and 8 week classes, including a variety of Adult Contemporary Modern Dance classes, Somatics, Creative Movement for Kids and a Kids' Dance Jam Pop-Up. Visit the link in our bio to learn more about these series and to register. Looking forward to being in the studio together again soon!
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Photo Credits:
Slides 1-7 : Photography by Kristin Wienberg featuring Chih-Hsien Lin and dancers from our 2024 Audition. (Dancers, DM us if you'd like to be tagged in this post!)
Slides 8-9: Photos courtesy of Lizzie Leopold
Slide 10: Photo courtesy of Robin Davis

I remember filling out the application to be a resident artist at Links Hall in 2003 sitting at a café in Paris, escaping a turbulant stint in Brooklyn, some sunny years in Los Angeles, and having just finished performances with cie Felix Ruckert in a pool in Brussels. Popping from one thing to the next, I got the acceptance from Links and found a place to throw down roots. It's hard to feel these roots from the initial plant dissolving, but I know that the many artists who have had a home at Links have created new places and spaces and dances and communities and experiments and collectives and the essence of Links Hall will live on in that canopy.

We'll be at DUSK tomorrow doing our last dance at Links at 2pm. See you there. (I might need a hug)

Reminder that our Open Rehearsal is being held tomorrow, June 17th, 2025 from 1 - 2 PM at Indian Boundary Cultural Center. Come see what we have been working on and witness this sweet stage of our artistic process. RSVP via the link in our bio.
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Photography by Ryan Bourque featuring Edson Cabrera, Michel Rodriguez and Julia Antonick

https://mailchi.mp/0767e7de85be/up-next-week-june-1718-save-the-date-august-10th You have three opportunities to be in community with us this summer - take a peek into our artistic process during our Open Rehearsal - June 17th, join us for a panel at the Dance/USA conference June 18th or join us for our fundraising party August 10th!

Join us next Tuesday June 17th at Indian Boundary Park Cultural Center from 12:30-2PM for an Open Rehearsal of some new work we are developing! RSVP for this free event here :: https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/khecari/open-rehearsal-june-17th

We have back to back events in June hope to see you at one or both! Open Rehearsal June 17th 12:30pm :: Dance/USA Panel June 18th 11am - https://mailchi.mp/a3a8155d3181/back-to-back-events-in-june-open-rehearsal-danceusa-panel