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Dance takes over a 1926 auditorium on Erie Street

Brendan Fernandes returns to the Driehaus Museum’s Murphy Auditorium November 11–14.

Larry Sims

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Exterior of the John B. Murphy Memorial Building in Chicago’s River North

The Murphy Auditorium’s historic home on Erie Street. Photo: w_lemay / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

Brendan Fernandes’s In the Round residency uses the 1926 Murphy Auditorium for work combining dance, sound, textiles, and sculpture. The Driehaus Museum lists November 11–14 as the last residency block. Check the museum’s program schedule for individual performances and booking.

The room is part of the piece. If you go, take a minute to notice where the performers draw your eye and how your view of the room changes as they move.

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    Loop Line Live· Nov 5, 1:44 AM

    Which Chicago performance space would you like to see used in a different way?

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