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First Name (Required: even if you are representing an organization you must use your name): Lucky Plush Productions

About Me (human/individual)/interests, work..short bio/ THis is the most important. It is the only way to know that you are not a SPAMBOT!Be generous!: Julia Rhoads is a choreographer who has been described as “Chicago’s resident surrealist” in the Chicago Sun Times, and “adept at both provocative and humorous material” in PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. In 1999, she founded the dance theater company Lucky Plush Productions, and has since created over 25 original works with the company including performance installations, 2 dance films and 6 evening-length interdisciplinary productions. Rhoads’ distinct integration of dance with theater and visual design has located Lucky Plush in a wide range of venues, from warehouse peep shows to being the first Chicago dance company to be presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Her work has also been presented by Dance Chicago, PAC/edge performance festival, the Rhinoceros Fringe Theater Festival, Tic Toc Performance Festival, Ladyfest Midwest, the Ruth Page Dance Series and site-specific locations such as the Lurie Garden in Chicago’s Millennium Park, The Great Hall at Chicago’s Union Station, Sleeping Bear Dune in Glen Arbor Michigan, and the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival in Fairbanks, Alaska.

As an independent artist, Rhoads’ work has been presented in venues and universities across the U.S including commissions for Alaska Dance Theater, Mordine & Company Dance Theater, and twice for River North Chicago Dance Company. She has also directed and choreographed for theater, performance and film companies including Redmoon Theater, Walkabout Theater, Hyperdelic, and the interdisciplinary collective M5. Rhoads is formerly a company member of the San Francisco Ballet, a performer and artistic associate of XSIGHT! Performance Group, and she has been a guest artist with Beppie Blankert Danceworks, the Itinerant Theater Guild, and Baubo Performance Project.

Rhoads has received a Cliff Dwellers Foundation Award for Choreography, two Illinois Arts Council Fellowships for Choreography, a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, a Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist Award, a fellowship from the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, and Lucky Plush Productions was featured on the Cover of Time Out Chicago for the article “5 reasons to love dance in Chicago” (11/03/05). Rhoads earned a BA in History from Northwestern University and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute Chicago, and she is currently a part-time faculty member in the theater department at Columbia College Chicago. For more information about Lucky Plush Productions, visit www.luckyplush.com.

Personal/professional Website:: http://www.luckyplush.com

Organization Website:: http://www.luckyplush.com

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