Third Coast Percussion
Saturday, November 22, 2025
Sunday, November 23, 2025
A powerful collaboration between Chicago’s Third Coast Percussion and Movement Art Is (Lil Buck & Jon Boogz), blending contemporary percussion with Memphis Jookin and popping to explore resilience, duality, and human connection.
Third Coast Percussion
Metamorphosis with choreography by MAI (Movement Art Is: Lil Buck & Jon Boogz)
Chicago’s Third Coast Percussion and dancer-choreographers Lil Buck and Jon Boogz (together known as Movement Art Is) began this project remotely during the COVID-19 lockdown, a time that gave a special resonance to ideas of shared human experience. The result is a groundbreaking collaboration that weaves contemporary percussion music with distinct and powerful dance styles.
Featuring music by Jlin, Tyondai Braxton, and Philip Glass, Third Coast Percussion’s dynamic score blends with the choreographers’ dance styles: Lil Buck’s fluid, balletic Memphis Jookin and Jon Boogz’ sharp, surreal popping. The percussion quartet and two dancers to be announced create a stunning meditation on dualities in human nature—fluidity and rigidity, struggle and triumph, individuality and connection.
At its heart, the work dramatizes the growth, resilience, and self-expression of two young Black men, offering an intimate journey that is as thought-provoking as it is visually and musically compelling.
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Performance Dates & Times
Saturday, November 22 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, November 23 at 3:00 PM
At this time, the performance is sold out. Please revisit this page regularly, as ticket availability may change.
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Founded in 2005, Third Coast Percussion has performed hundreds of concerts across the country, presents an annual concert season at home in Chicago, teaches musicians of all ages and experience levels, and has commissioned dozens of new works by composers including Glenn Kotche, Chris Cerrone, Donnacha Dennehy, Timo Andres, David T. Little, Ted Hearne, and Augusta Read Thomas.
Artist Website: www.thirdcoastpercussion.com
