House of DOV presents the World Premiere of Circle of Apathy on Saturday, June 20 at 6PM and Sunday, June 21 at 2:30PM at Ragdale, 1260 North Green Bay Road, Lake Forest, IL, 60045; and on Saturday, June 27 at 7pm and Sunday, June 28 at 3pm at the Gorton Center, 400 East Illinois Road, Lake Forest, IL, 60045. Tickets for Ragdale start at $15 (children 12 and under are free) and can be purchased here. Tickets for Gorton Center start at $20 and can be purchased here for the June 27 performance and here for the June 28 performance.

In Circle of Apathy, the new dance project from House of DOV featuring live music from Family Junket, the ensemble explores the cycles of growth and disintegration intrinsic to nature and works together to build physical structures which increase in precarity as the group strives toward expansion.

“Through creative process, we’ve sought to understand our own place within the greater ecology of our landscape, and to experience the human body as a metaphor and microcosm of the natural world,” says Drew Lewis, creative director of House of DOV.

Family Junket’s five musicians blare dense soul with moments of ambience: voices wail, altered by a vocal pedal; saxophone, flute and violin harmonize over precomposed loops; djembe, drum kit and percussion punctuate echoing acoustic piano. House of DOV’s seven dancers push against seemingly immovable forces, find new hand and footholds, and creep forward like a vine up a brick wall. A woman walks through an increasingly dense wood until the brush closes around her entirely. When all paths disappear from sight, a figure steps blindly forward, trusting that there will be a stepping stone beneath their foot.

Drew Lewis, Creative Director, Choreographer
Rahila Coats, Assistant Director, Vocalist
Max Lazarus, Music Director, Keyboard, Saxophone, Flute, Guitar, Synth
Adeline Else, Lighting Design
Dancers: Adeline Else, Isabella Limosnero, Hannah Marcus, Mya McClellan,
Charles Pierson, Milo Sachse-Hofheimer, Isabelle Taylor
Family Junket: Hasani Cannon, Percussion; Scott Daniel, Violin; Jonah Lazarus, Percussion