- MODERN WORKSHOP WITH KRISTINA FLUTY:

12pm - 1:15pm & 2pm - 3:15pm

Kristina Fluty has been teaching and dancing in Chicago for the last two decades. Her main creative home since 2003 is Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak, and she is currently completing the inaugural Spiral Body Techniques teacher certification with Shanahan. She is an Associate Professor at The Theatre School at DePaul, where she teaches movement to actors. Her dance class prioritizes pleasure and honoring/embracing how you move right now. It is also anchored by Fluty's certification in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis and her many years of Feldenkrais personal study.

Class will likely begin on the floor with gentle developmental movement phrases, then evolve out into dancing with delicious complexity, spatial clarity, and ease.

Please note this class takes place up 3 flights of stairs with no elevator access. Fully accessible events will be marked on the event schedule. See the WAYFINDER for more details.

Make a $20 donation to save your spot!

Note: You choose how to use your over $20 donation perk:
Modern Workshop with Kristina Fluty
OR
seat at the Studio Series Showcase.
Read the detail's of each activity, and make a choice!

- STUDIO SERIES SHOWING:

1:30pm - 3pm

Studio Series Showing is open for everyone - space permitting.
Save a seat and enjoy the performance comfortably!

To kick off our 20th-anniversary celebration, we invited past collaborators of Synapse to our studios, hosting different artists every month throughout 2024. Each artist spent their time in the studio as they wished — researching, remaking, creating, and engaging in conversations with peer artists. A stipend was provided to support their process.

At the Birthday Bash Studio Series you will see works by:
* Chrissy Martin
* IS/LAND Performance Collaborative
* Reign Drop
* Camila Rivero Pooley

- SYNAPSE SIGNATURE PERFORMANCES: Textile Dance, Crosswalk Dances, and a BIG Freeze Dance Game!
Plus, a very special showing from Synapse Arts Performance Troupe. Open for everyone!

- INTERACTIVE TOURS:

1:15pm - 2pm, 2:15pm - 3pm & 3:15pm - 4pm

Join us for a fun tour through 20 years of Synapse Arts at our interactive museum event! Led by a Synapse Artist. The "Gunder House" is the North Mansion on the Berger Park grounds, which is separate from the community center that most patrons will be familiar with.

Guests must navigate 4 stairs to access the building - see the WAYFINDER.

The Gunder House includes all-gender restrooms. A full playground, cafe, and lakefront path are all directly outside the building.

- DANCE FILMS ALL AFTERNOON!

With historic and premiere works by Maggie Bridger, Rahila Coats, Rachel Damon, Aaron Grier, Jones College Prep residency students, Jordan Kunkel, Jean Paul Masuda and more!
Full screening schedule will be available soon.

- POLAROID PHOTO BOOTH

Feeling a bit nostalgic?
We’re preparing a Polaroid Photo Booth at the Birthday Bash!
Strike a pose with your friends, try fun costumes on, smile and get yourself a photo to remember that you were a part of our special celebration! ($5 minimum donation)