Former dancer and choreographer Ginger Farley and architect Julie Hacker FAIA will run a one-day workshop to explore the intersection between dance and architecture. A small group of dancers and architects will be invited to participate with the goal of extending the dialogue between the two disciplines.

Ginger Farley has been a dancer, dancemaker, teacher, and advocate for live art since 1978. An early member of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, she later directed her own company, The 58 Group, with colleague Cameron Pfiffner. Farley now leads the Chicago Dancemakers Forum, practices dramaturgy, and mentors emerging artists. She is a member of the Performance Programs Committee at the MCA, the advisory committee for the School of Theater and Music at UIC, space and programming committees at Links Hall, the advisory board for Arts in Sacred Places, and serves on the Board of Directors at Arts Alliance Illinois.

Julie Hacker is a practicing architect and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture. She is a graduate of Wesleyan University, where she majored in psychology and minored in dance, with a strong interest in choreography, which she pursued in New York after college. She returned to Chicago and received her Masters in Architecture at the University of Illinois Chicago, where she was the recipient of the Chicago Women in Architecture Award. She has been a practicing architect for the last 28 years. Her firm Stuart Cohen & Julie Hacker Architects specializes in residential work and has been published nationally and internationally. The work of her practice is the subject of a recent book, Transforming the Traditional, published in 2009.

Please Note: This is a closed event. If you are interested in participating in future workshops, please contact us at mkhimm@grahamfoundation.org.

Image: Kari Job and Jay Franke in a performance by the 58 Group at HotHouse, 2000. Photo: Brian Hill.