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My Fellow Americans
an evening-length dance theater work by Peter Carpenter

My Fellow Americans explores the shifting identity of Ronald Reagan from the perspective of the "special interest groups" that his rhetoric and policies consistently admonished.

one night only
Tuesday May 11th
7:30 pm.
FREE!
Seating is first come, first serve.

McCormick Auditorium, Northwestern University
1845 Sheridan Rd
Evanston, IL (map)
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Choreography: Peter Carpenter
Performers: Peter Carpenter, Lisa Gonzales, Suzy Grant, Atalee Judy and Donnell Williams.

My Fellow Americans promises to be a work of targeted, potent, and ultimately devastating juxtapositions. At stake is a targeted historical revision designed to interrogate the discrepancy between his optimistic political speeches and the negating effects his policies had on the Americans who deviated from his conception of morality. These juxtapositions are conceived in terms of madness: The madness of AIDS-induced dementia, the madness of Alzheimer's at the end of Reagan's life, the madness of the thousands of institutionalized Americans turned out onto the street to become the largest wave of homelessness since the Great Depression during Reagan's presidency, the madness of Cold War paranoia, and the madness of a thousand points of light.

My Fellow Americans received financial support for its creation from the Chicago Dancemakers Forum, The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs Dance Bridge Program, and a Columbia College Chicago Faculty Development Grant.