choreography

created with support from the Links Hall Co-Mission Residency

Co-MISSION Festival of New Works (45 minute premiere) June 22/26 2025 at Links Hall

Choreographer: Dani Oblitas Dancers: Dani Oblitas, Sandy Perez, Anniela Huidobro Castro Live Music Composition: Craig Ymson, Aster Reyes, Lorenze Cordova Costumes: Bokeum Jeon Lighting Design: Giao Truong Photos: Ricardo Adame

Media

Transilience Festival Gender Fucked Productions July 10/2025

FACT/SF Summer Dance Festival ODC Theater San Francisco, CA August 22/23/24

Lighting Design: Del Medoff Photos: Robbie Sweeny presented with support from Foundation of Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant Fund

Outlaw of the Arts Festival by We/Are Collective Chicago Danztheater Ensemble August 30/2025

un/rerooted

2025

Shortened version made for ODC Theater FACT/SF Summer Dance Festival in San Francisco, California

Un/Rerooted is a meditative performance rooted in herbal plantitas to guide our spirit and identity from a place of disconnection to our ancestors and homeland– an exploration of borders, community, and connection with our ancestral land and roots. How can we reconnect with ourselves, our identity, and our spirit to rebuild cultural connections and community? What was lost (individually and collectively) and how do we find it again? What rememberings do we hold within ourselves where the body becomes a site of resistance and memory? The six performers embark on a journey of isolation, ritual, gates, connection, and migration to find these answers for themselves and as a collective. Using a combination of improvisational scores, tasks, and set material for both the movement and sound artists, each performance lives in its own container– only existing within that moment in time.

Marvelous Monday by Modern Marvels Dance Company June 10th/2025

DUSK at Links Hall June 28th/2025

Going Dutch Festival Elgin, IL November 8th/2025

Dancers: Dani Oblitas, Ava Faber

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echoes of the unseen

2025

echoes of the unseen explores the shifting perceptions of the outside world that unveils the complexities of the self. Drawing from themes of mythology, monsters, queerness, and the tension of perceived hostility, this work questions how our identities are shaped by the gaze of others, and how we, in turn, shape our own narratives.

created with support from the Links Hall Co-Mission Residency

Simantikos Choreography Kick-off December 7th 8pm Ruth Page Center of the Arts

Co-MISSION Work-in-Progress Showing December 13th 7pm at Links Hall

Co-MISSION Festival of New Works June 2025 at Links Hall

Choreographer: Dani Oblitas Dancers: Dani Oblitas, Sandy Perez, Anniela Huidobro Castro Music Composition: Craig Ymson, Aster Reyes, Lorenze Cordova Lighting Design: Giao Truong Photos: McCall McClellan

un/re/enrooted

2024-2025 creative process at Links Hall

skipping stones- a one hour project

October 2024

October 10th and 11th at The Color Club Chicago, IL Short Stack Film Festival

Since 2015, Project Bound Dance has hosted The One Hour Project, an exercise in collaboration and concision that connects Chicago choreographers and videographers and invites them to shoot the footage for a 60 second dance film in just 60 minutes.

Choreographer/Director: Dani Oblitas Dancer: Tuli Bera Videographer: KT Williams

P.O.W.E.R. Collective Cypher June 2021 Madison, WI

October 2023 The Color Club Chicago, IL Short Stack Film Festival Selected Film

blended is a dance film about trying to find a sense of peace in the midst of the chaos around us

Choreographer/Director: Dani Oblitas Dancer: Dani Oblitas Videographer: Keen Zarate

blended

raked explores the connection between food justice and resilience for those who work on the land

In a time of broken seeds

seeds sold broken,

As we plant she planted — she is planting still,

Text from Mino Miinikaan/Good Seeds by Heid E Edrich

Choreographer: Dani Oblitas Dancers: Ella Schmidt, Bramlee Johnson, Abby Olson, Yael Estrada-Nava, Linnea Cheek Lighting Designer: Stephan D Schroeder