Watching “Produce” is like peering into a teeming arts test tube. This in-the-round showcase, termed a “gateway drug” to experimental dance and music by Art Intercepts producer Lauren Warnecke, is an eyeful. Each of the eight groups participating this year, the program’s third, offers a glimpse of its work; then emcees Warnecke and Anthony Ingram step in to mix, match, and make up the rules as they go. Hosting must be like orchestrating a huge, unruly dinner party: when I went, there were about 45 people in the room, pretty evenly divided between artists and audience. But Warnecke and Ingram were at ease, entertaining, and ingenious in their suggestions (augmented by audience ideas) for these on-the-spot collaborations.
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Fri-Sat 8/9-8/10, 7:30 PM
Signal Ensemble Theatre
1802 W. Berenice
773-341-8940artintercepts.org
$8
