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CHIRP Podcasts
First Time First Blood - Atalee Judy
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Atalee Judy is a professional stuntwoman with Chicago-based Asylum Stunts who began her career as a highly physical professional dancer and choreographer who developed an extreme release technique style of movement in 1998 that she coined The Bodyslam Technique. It's a codifed system of Falling Techniques taught to dancers to utilize better integration in/out of the floor.
She got her Bachelor of Arts in Dance Performance from Columbia College, and ran a successful dance company called Breakbone DanceCo. from 1997-2013. Atalee now designs & produces her own casual wear clothing line called BONEware Clothing made from upcycled rock t-shirts (etsy.com/shop/BONEware).
She is known for her work on The Good Fight (2016), Jacketman (2015),The Sacrifice (2014), Divergent (2014), Playland (2010), The Artsiders (2007).
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Artist Interviews Fake Limbs
CHIRP volunteer Melanie Kruvelis sat down with local band Fake Limbs in the CHIRP studios to chat about meeting at a barbecue, what it's like to be tall at shows, and their impressive lyrical vocabulary.
produced by Melanie Kruvelis (@internetmelanie)
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News Sonnenzimmer
In this three-part interview, CHIRP's Dylan Peterson visits the studio of Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi to talk about the art, history, and philosophies of Sonnenzimmer. Butcher and Nakanishi discuss their origins and working relationship as visual artists, the audio/visual/literature project Graphic Arts Future, and the importance of Chicago as a setting for creative work.
Sonnenzimmer's solo show Vector Sculptures runs until May 21st at Elastic Arts in Chicago, with a live discussion on April 21st with curator Jordan Martins.
produced by Dylan Peterson (@tdvsbl)
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Artist Interviews Eleanor Friedberger
Before her show at the Empty Bottle, Eleanor Friedberger sat down with CHIRP's Amanda Roscoe Mayo to talk about not missing Chicago while simultaneously feeling nostalgia for it, being obsessive about plan-making, and thinking about Van Morrison while she's singing.
produced by Amanda Roscoe Mayo (@AmandaRMayo)
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First Time First Blood - Eden Robins
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In the grand tradition of underemployed artists, Eden Robins has been: a singing waitress, a dildo salesman, a dental assistant, an abortion clinic receptionist, and a Swahili teacher, and is currently a comedy writer for big pharma. She usually writes fiction, some of which you can find online, and she is the co-host of the Chicago live lit series Tuesday Funk, as well as half of the weekly podcast Should I Worry About This?. She blogs rarely at monkeythumbs.com and tweets with some frequency @edenrobins.
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