IDENTITY PERFORMING ARTS Presents Spring Concert 2025 

“Instinct”

A captivating performance of four distinct works on April 26 & 27

Ann Barzel Theater

Visceral Dance Center, 3121 N Rockwell St, Chicago IL 60619

Tickets $30

Saturday, April 26 and Sunday, April 27 at 7 pm

Tickets Link

https://www.identityperformingarts.org/spring-and-summer-season-2025

 For more information, call 312.600.3076 or visit

https://www.identityperformingarts.org/

About the Program:

Join us for the premiere of choreographer Ginny Ching-Yin Lo’s newest work Instinct—her 17th original choreography for Identity’s 8th season of dance performances.

Inspired by Lo’s observation of our innate animalistic nature, Instinct shows bodies on stage that crawl, scratch and scan the landscape for survival, to the sounds of jungle drumming that abruptly changes to cello orchestration. 

This program also features the return of River Squalor, premiered in fall 2024 - a quartet of dancers who move on stage as if flowing with the water, as if nothing else matters beyond their joy. This work was inspired by Lo’s experience of seeing children gleefully playing with abandon in a squalid river, forgetting their dire surroundings. 

Muted, described by See Chicago Dance as “dancers gripped through an intriguing shadowy world of silence” is paired with Voices, offering how silence can be a powerful way to be heard.

Being heard allows us to soar beyond mere agreements and foster genuine connections.   

About Ginny Ching-Yin Lo and Identity Performing Arts:

Identity is a Chicago-based not-for-profit contemporary dance company established in 2016 by founder and artistic director, Ginny Ching-Yin Lo. Lo choreographs dance that represents her lived experiences as a Chinese-American artist and woman of faith; her works are a testament to the beauty that comes from staying true to all of the pieces of her personal history and identity. The commitment to sharing identity through dance allows the members of our Chicago community who share those experiences to feel seen, cherished, and represented. Lo has performed in the U.S., China, France and Germany with her original works.  

She has been creating dance works perpetually since starting the company with 3 dancers to 

9 dancers currently that allows her to expand her artistry and experimenting various choreographic works. Although she has her signature style, she strives to create beyond her comfort zone because of her curiosity and interest in new concepts, inspired be her personal experiences.  

The company's first live concert debuted in fall, 2021 and is one of the resident companies of Visceral Dance Center since 2022. Identity has performed locally, nationally in the Seattle International Dance Festival and internationally in Hanover, Germany. Identity hosted its own Elpis Dance Festival annually for the past three years in Chicago. All works created for and performed by Identity dancers express the beauty of our individual identities, interconnected in unity.