Beyond This Point

Rehearsing for Saturday's show with Fulcrum Point New Music Project and Fonema Consort 🎺🥁🎹

Join us at Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center for a FREE concert celebrating the life and work of Javier Álvarez, Mexican composer and electronic music innovator.

Reserve your seat:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fulcrum-point-in-collaboration-with-fonema-consort-beyond-this-point-fuego-ceremonial-homenaje-tickets-1048313392577?

Thanks to Nolan Ehlers for joining the BTP crew on drum set 🥁

Chicago show this Saturday!

We're glad to join Fulcrum Point New Music Project and Fonema Consort for "Día de los Mu***os: Fuego Ceremonial: A night celebrating the music of Javier Álvarez." Join us Saturday, Nov. 2, at the historic Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center.

Admission is FREE. Reserve your seat:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fulcrum-point-in-collaboration-with-fonema-consort-beyond-this-point-fuego-ceremonial-homenaje-tickets-1048313392577?

Fulcrum Point In Collaboration with Fonema Consort & Beyond This Point -- Fuego Ceremonial: Homenaje Un evento explosivo que celebra la colaboración entre Fulcrum Point, Fonema Consort y Beyond This Point en un homenaje ceremonial lleno de f

"Musician Minus Instrument" sees us exploiting all sorts of objects and situations...

IKEA lamp ✔
Knife, scissors, and rubber chicken ✔✔✔
Flourescent lights ✔
2 thumbs ✔✔

Get curious with us Friday night, 10/18, at International Museum of Surgical Science as we explore musical virtuosity in the absence of traditional instruments. Tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/musician-minus-instrument-beyond-this-point-tickets-1010093686407

What does a musician become without their instrument? Find out on October 18...

Can a musician use their skills in other ways, and still make music? What does musical virtuosity become if we don't have 88 keys, 4 strings and a bow, or a polished brass tube through which to experience it?

Join us to explore these questions in a concert that both breaks and expands what it means to be a musician and a performer, using “instruments” that run the gamut from a loose jack cable to an IKEA desk lamp to our own bodies and voices.

October 18 at the International Museum of Surgical Science.
Get your tickets:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/musician-minus-instrument-beyond-this-point-tickets-1010093686407?aff=oddtdtcreator

Saturday! Free! Family friendly! 🏖

Join us from 1-4pm at Lane Beach for a groovy soundscape-y dance-y beach-y good time, presented by 6018North. Catch us in the first half of the event, performing music by Andy Akiho, Juri Seo and more.

See you there!

Two (quite different) Chicago shows coming up soon 🏖🔬Mark your calendars!

September 28, 1pm 🏖FREE!
We join "Water Music on the Beach", an afternoon of performances celebrating Chicago and Lake Michigan, presented by 6018North at Lane Beach (5915 N. Sheridan). We are the first to perform, so join us at 1:00 and stick around to hear the other acts.
More info: http://www.6018north.org/current-upcoming-projects #/water-music-on-the-beach

October 18, 7:30pm 🔬
We perform our program "Musician Minus Instrument" at the International Museum of Surgical Science. What is a musician, exactly, without their instrument? Explore with us 🧐
Tickets available now: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/musician-minus-instrument-beyond-this-point-tickets-1010093686407?aff=oddtdtcreator

We're honored to be one of 53 Chicago-area organizations receiving support from the Ga***rd & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation this year! Many thanks to GDDF for this integral support, and congratulations to all the grantees!

Read more:

Gerber/Hart, Deeply Rooted among Donnelley Foundation grant honorees - Windy City Times Chicago, IL (July 24, 2024)—The Ga***rd and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation (GDDF) is pleased to announce support for 69 groups in its 2024 spring/summer grant cycle. The Board of Directors has approved over $3.6 million in funding to organizations working in the Chicago region and the Lowcountry of ...

We've got big plans for "Reclaimed Timber"...

Come hang out Sunday afternoon and hear all about them!

Have a drink with us at Marty's Martini Bar, July 14 between 2-5pm 🍸 Proceeds support all our performance, education, and collaborative projects. Help us keep building immersive performances like this one ⬇️ just by chilling with us on a Sunday afternoon 🌞 See ya at Marty's!

*Probably* no flaming shots at Marty's....
But we'll bring our matches just in case. 🔥

Come hang with us and support our work, Sunday July 14! Drop by Marty's Martini Bar between 2 and 5pm and have a drink with us; proceeds benefit all our performances and collaborative projects. See you there! 🍸

We were just in Walla Walla playing Reclaimed Timber in a winery....but the only thing on our minds was having martinis back in Chicago with you!

Come hang out with us at Marty's Martini Bar on Sunday, July 14! From 2-5pm, proceeds from the bar support all our artistic work. Easiest way to support us on a Sunday afternoon 🍸See you on the 14th!

🔥⚡️THIS WEEK⚡️🔥
https://cccc.uchicago.edu/concerts-events/chimefest-beyond-point

We're honored to be part of the 2024 CHIMEFest at the University of Chicago!

We're bringing some of the greatest hits from our LIT program, and adding on a piece by UChicago's own David Bird!

Among other things, we'll be gracing the Logan Center penthouse with:

• Not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4(!) MIDI drum pads
• Several hundred matchsticks (most of them will be lit, all of them will be amplified)
• A semi-sentient IKEA lamp
• The sound of a triple human/fluorescent light circuit (electrons will be flowing in many different directions)

Pieces by Kaj Duncan David, Stefano D'Alessio, Juliana Hodkinson, Simon Løffler, and David Bird.

Moreover, filling out the CHIMEFest program immediately after our concert will be Strasbourg-based ensemble lovemusic. We heartily encourage you to stick around and enjoy their show as well!

Admission is free! Just show up, put your butt in a seat, and enjoy!

🪵🪵IT'S PLANKSGIVING!!!🪵🪵
https://givebutter.com/plank

No, we’re not trying to bring back that most painful of 2011 fads and no, there’s no exercise involved….

We’re closing out 2023 with our own twist on the most thankful of holidays!

In keeping with our most wide-reaching production to date (Reclaimed Timber), we’re honoring the humble yet mighty plank of wood. Our goal is to give t̶h̶ ̶planks this year and raise $2,000 for all of our optimistic and starry-eyed endeavors which take live performance into the Beyond.

And we have perks! Your tax-deductible donation to BTP by the end of the year can get you sweet sweet swag that we know you’ll cherish forever.

Matchbox cuicas, paper lanterns, studio tours....all can be yours!

Check them out and make your donation at
👉👉https://givebutter.com/plank👈👈

2023 reminded us that we really have come so far from our humble beginnings nearly a decade ago– What started in 2014 with some performances of Mauricio Kagel’s Dressur has turned into mounting 360-degree productions that involve anything from live video, to surround sound, to 5000 LEDs, to amplified matchsticks.

Since emerging from the pandemic, BTP has premiered 3 original productions in Chicago (LIT, Dreams…and why not?, Black Box Music), and we’ve taken our work from coast to coast– all while keeping the majority of our programming either completely free to access, or under $10 per person.

2023 also reminded us that there’s still so much we have yet to do! In the pipeline for 2024 and onward we have more performances of Reclaimed Timber, many thousands more matches to strike right here in Chicago, and the beginnings of more original productions that continue to find the unexplored territories between music, theater, gesture, performance, and installation. We’re immensely excited and grateful to continue bringing you the most compelling, inventive, and engaging experiences we can!

Your donation to BTP not only supports the "rubber-meets-road" details of the work we do (buying gear, renting venues, paying ourselves and our collaborators a living wage, etc). Your support inevitably ends up expanding the world of live performance and what it can mean, create, and achieve for our society.

When asked why we do what we do, we’re partial to James Baldwin’s idea that the purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.

We humbly ask you to join us in our ongoing quest to uncover these hidden questions.

Plankfully yours,

John and Adam

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🚨Upcoming shows next week🚨

• 2/1, 7pm - Rhizome DC
• 2/3, 8:30pm - The Voxel
• 2/4, 8:30pm - The Voxel
• 2/5, 3pm - UMBC

www.beyondthispoint.org for info and tickets

We'll be packing up our guitar pedals, our bubble wrap (used as an instrument, not as a packing material...natch), and our IKEA desk lamp, putting Charm City into the GPS and hitting the open road for a whirlwind few days in the mid-Atlantic.

We have shows lined up in quite the suite of venues – from the staple of the Capital's DIY scene, to a new and shiny black box performance lab, to the vaulted ceilings of a university concert hall. We'll be reprising some works from our recent production LIT, as well as some of our long-time favorite works from Tonia Ko, François Sarhan and Mark Applebaum.

We're also very excited to work with the percussion studios at Towson University, Peabody Preparatory, and Peabody Conservatory for some masterclasses and workshops.

If you're in the DMV area, pick a date, check out a show, and come say hi!

Tonight and tomorrow, Nov 4 + 5!
Dreams, and why not?
https://bit.ly/3ezJvuW

Henry Glacon Sarhan and Jennifer Torrence successfully snuck their subversive ideas and perverse skills past the O'Hare CBP agents a few days ago.

In the past 72 hours, they have helped us transform Steppenwolf's 1700 Theater into an oasis, a haven, a bastion....of what exactly we're still not entirely sure.

Misappropriated Bed, Bath, and Beyond merchandise?

Frank discussion on the nature of analogies?

Burt Bacharach?

It's a veritable Schrödinger's Cat of contemporary music. Both and neither. All options at once. Until you look at it.
Come open the box and find out what's inside!

We’re honored to be presenting “Dreams, and why not?” with the support of FACE Foundation, Villa Albertine, and Consulate General of France in Chicago.

Thank you for making this happen!

Beyond This Point presents François Sarhan | Villa Albertine The percussion-based collaborative performance art ensemble Beyond This Point is proud to present "Dreams, why not?", a show conceived by French composer and director François Sarhan.

🚨New Production Alert🚨

"Dreams, and why not?" premieres next week!

Get your tickets here: https://bit.ly/3ezJvuW

Nov 4 + 5 as part of Steppenwolf Theatre Company's LookOut Series at Steppenwolf 1700 Theatre

Written and created by Henry Glacon Sarhan

Performed with special guest Jennifer Torrence

The frontier between a lecture and a performance is anything but rigid. Equal parts earnest and nihilist, Dreams, and why not? consciously and continuously breaks the border between reality and fiction, between facts and fabrications—both musical and performative. Starting from a simple presentation of musical instruments and their possibilities, things drift toward a world where songs last one second, the instruments merge with the body and the lecturer loses control over the lecture.

Come see and hear!

Whatever you got going on Sunday afternoon….cancel that. You need to be at Marty's Martini Bar having a drink with us!

2pm-5pm. See you there!

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Hello, friends!

Will you be in Chicago for the 4th? Yes?? Great!

Stop by Marty's Martini Bar in Andersonville for a patriotic pregame the day before!

All proceeds from the martinis ordered at Marty's between 2pm-5pm on Sunday July 3rd get donated to Beyond This Point!

Invite your friends! Invite your acquaintances! Invite your family! Invite your enemies! (they deserve a drink, too!)

The final showing of LIT is starting in just under 90 minutes. If you are looking for a fun night of lights and fire, head over to The Edge Theater for our 7:30pm performance.

Tickets are Pay What You Want
https://beyondthispoint.ticketleap.com/lit/?fbclid=IwAR25LGpP_pa5ptdvUoTOkBWXsGNZgXKYxOHq_3JxKa2tY03s9RDPzsVzzuc

Kyle Flens, Rebecca McDaniel, Adam Rosenblatt, John Corkill

We had an incredible opening night! Two more shows left for today and tomorrow at The Edge Theater both showing at 7:30pm. Come join as for an evening of lights, electronics, and fire! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

https://beyondthispoint.ticketleap.com/lit/?fbclid=IwAR25LGpP_pa5ptdvUoTOkBWXsGNZgXKYxOHq_3JxKa2tY03s9RDPzsVzzuc



Kyle Flens, Rebecca McDaniel, Adam Rosenblatt, John Corkill, Clay Mettens

Just finished our second night of Tech at The Edge Theater. Looking forward to sharing our first of three shows starting this Thursday!

Tickets are Pay What You Can
https://beyondthispoint.ticketleap.com/lit/



Kyle Flens, Rebecca McDaniel, Clay Mettens, Adam Rosenblatt, John Corkill