“The performers dance, in the sense that there is choreography to movement, but the movement might be very ordinary. And it’s created in a long progression or sequence of movements, it can be energetic, it can be slow. There’s a lot of meaningful use of props, all of which really come from a long process of research and exploring curiosity. So, in many ways it’s a visualization of a long process of asking questions and attempting to find answers.” - DCASE’s John Rich describing a Goat Island performance.
One component of DCASE’s Goat Island project is a performance series that includes nine theaters artists and performance groups from all over the world responding to Goat Island’s nine existing works.
DCASE transformed the Chicago Cultural Center’s Sidney R. Yates Gallery into a re-imagined version of Goat Island’s rehearsal space, which was a Lincoln Park-based church gym.