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***Thank you for filling out this application. Upon our review of it, we will give you access to the ticketing site along with our recommendation on whom you should book with so that you can reserve your appointment. Please feel free to be brief with all your answers, we don't want this application to take up too much of your time.***

Julia Antonick's "Tend" is a haptic, phatic, and kinetic service providing a much-needed place to rest, recharge, reflect, reconcile. It will be installed in the Yates Gallery of the Chicago Cultural Center, with performances running from June 15 - July 18, 2024. Appointments are available at 12:30pm, 1pm, 1:30pm, 2pm, 2:30pm, 3pm, 3:30pm, & 4pm on Thursdays & Saturdays (the ticketing site will have exact times and dates). The installation elements of the piece, including photography and video, are viewable any time the Cultural Center is open.

THIS IS HOW IT WORKS:: You book an hour-long appointment for yourself with one technician, who will offer dance performance, conversation, and touch. You can come alone if you prefer, or bring one friend, who will have a vicarious experience of the show (dance and talk but not touch). The friend ticket is complementary with the client ticket. Each appointment will overlap with other people's appointments, offering both client and friend additional layers of vicarious experience.

There will be time to communicate with your technician before your service begins if there is anything you want addressed or avoided that comes up closer to the appointment. We will be sure to ask you upon arrival if there are any parts of your hands, arms, shoulders, neck, upper chest, head, knees and feet that we should not touch or put weight on. This dance will be tailored to you and we will care-take you to the best of our ability.

"Tend" currently has six technicians that you can book your appointment with: Tina Diaz, Gina Hoch-Stall, Helen Lee, Chih-Hsien Lin, Enid Smith, and Maggie Vannucci. Please read about them at www.khecari.org/tendbios so that you can let us know who you would like to work with. The ticketing site will specify who is performing at each time slot so that you may choose whom you book your appointment with. However, we may need to make last-minute changes because of someone calling in sick. We will inform you ahead of time in this event, but cannot guarantee that you will see the technician you intended to be with. If you have a specific reason that you cannot be paired with someone else or we can't secure a new technician to fill in, we will give you a refund. Thank you for your support as we prioritize a healthy service space for you and the performers.

Given the constantly changing nature of public health, we will be making assessments closer to date, and will inform all ticket-buyers ahead of the show of any health/safety protocols we may decide to implement. However, it is necessary that the dance performer of this work will be touching you.

With all of this in mind, and knowing that viewing space is extremely limited, we are asking you to write a bit about your interest in attending so we can recommend a technician to you based on their expertise or your potential chemistry.  Again, please feel free to write as much or as little as you see fit.

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Email *
Name & pronouns *
Cell phone number (in case we need to contact you last minute) *
Emergency contact name *
Emergency contact phone number *
Please tell us a little bit about why you want to come to this show so that we can match you with a technician that you might really connect with. If you have an technician that you want to work with, please tell us who and why. *
Are there any particular places in your body you feel stuck and in need of touch? (We only plan to be in contact with your hands, arms, shoulders, upper chest, neck, head, knees and feet so you can speak to those areas only if you like, but if you want to share more please do.) *
Are there any particular places in your body you feel protective of and would rather not be touched? (We only plan to be in contact with your hands, arms, shoulders, upper chest, neck, head, knees and feet so you can speak to those areas only if you like, but if you want to share more please do.) *
Seating and interaction will be quite close and intimate: imagine being in a salon and the relationship you have with your stylist and other clients in a shared space. Assuming the presence of a conscientious technician and front desk host attentive to your needs, do you have any concerns? *
Given personal and national traumas and the importance of protecting one's own boundaries, do you feel like this is a good time for you to undertake this viewing? We will have a January 2025 performance in Sheboygan, WI, but may not have another Chicago performance after this one. We understand that some folks may have specific needs for who is touching them that is not being met by the current cast of technicians. If you have a specific request for what that need is, we would love to gather that interest as we continue our developing this work. We will be excited to reach back out to you to welcome you into this environment if we're able to find a match that doesn't currently exist. *
Do you have any conditions you want us to know about that might effect your experience attending this work? *
Anything else you would like us to know?
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