BABES WITH BLADES THEATRE COMPANY
THEATRE THAT LEAVES A MARK
Babes With Blades Theatre Company uses stage combat to tell stories that elevate the voices of underrepresented communities and dismantle the patriarchy. Through performance, script development, training and outreach, our ensemble creates theatre that explores the wide range of the human experience, and cultivates broader perspectives in the arts community and in society as a whole.
RECENT PRODUCTIONS
NEWS FROM BWBTC
It is in large part due to the generosity of people like you that Babes With Blades Theatre Company is able to continue to expand the artistic community's perceptions and expectations of which stories are viable for the theatre and which roles are appropriate for women. Your donation will be used to support our programming the sets and props we construct for our productions, the costumes we build, the swords we fight with, and the actors and designers we pay for their hard work.
It is in large part due to the generosity of people like you that Babes With Blades Theatre Company is able to continue to expand the artistic community's perceptions and expectations of which stories are viable for the theatre and which roles are appropriate for women. Your donation will be used to support our programming the sets and props we construct for our productions, the costumes we build, the swords we fight with, and the actors and designers we pay for their hard work.
FRIENDS OF THE BABES
BWBTC's 2022-2023 programming is partially supported by grants from the Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, The Paul M. Angell Family Foundation, The Illinois Arts Council Agency, and a CityArts Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events.
We are a proud member of the Edgewater Theatre District and the League of Chicago Theatres.
Land Acknowledgement Statement
Babes With Blades Theatre Company (BWBTC) is located on the traditional homelands of the Council of the Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations. Many other tribes such as the Miami, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac, and Fox also called this area home. This region that we now commonly refer to as “The Chicagoland Area”, has long been a center for Indigenous people to gather, trade, and maintain kinship ties. Today, one of the largest urban Native American communities in the United States resides in Chicago. Members of this community continue to contribute to the life of this city and to celebrate their heritage, practice traditions, and care for the land and waterways. If you are joining us from outside of Chicago, you can discover who's traditional homelands you inhabit by going to Whose.Land
(Assistance in forming this statement were guided by The Art Institute of Chicago in collaboration with the American Indian Center for Chicago. https://www.artic.edu/about-us/identity/land-acknowledgment)
As you are viewing our website as a part of your internet experience, please join us in taking a moment to consider the legacy of colonization embedded within technologies, structures, and ways of thinking we use every day. We are using equipment and high-speed internet not available in many Indigenous communities. Even the technologies that are central to much of the art we make leave significant carbon footprints, contributing to changing climates that disproportionately affect Indigenous peoples worldwide. Please join BWBTC in acknowledging all of this as well as our shared responsibility to make good of this time, and for each of us to consider our roles in reconciliation, decolonization, and allyship.
(This statement was inspired and adapted from Adrienne Wong, SpiderWebShow https://howlround.com/intersection-digital-technology-and-live-performance)