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Veteran choreographer Shirley Mordine is never content with the small idea. Her evening-length piece, Edgemode, looks at social and spiritual changes in the contemporary world; the first part, premiered a year ago during the Spring Festival of Dance, uses the metaphor of migration to address societal changes, while the second and third parts focus on the individual. Essentially, she says, she’s asking what we must do to survive. Winner of a 1994 Ruth Page Award for her artistic achievement, Mordine and her company (which she’s directed for 26 years) present Edgemode Friday and Saturday at 8 in the auditorium of the Harold Washington Library, 400 S. State. Tickets are $16 to $18. Call 271-7928.
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Pussy Tourette has his, um, her eyes on RuPaul’s crown. The celebrated San Francisco drag queen has some dance hits to her credit–“French Bitch,” “Brigitte,” and “Kiss”–and is now in the process of charming almost anyone who sees her live act. Tourette performs late tonight at Berlin, 954 W. Belmont. The show starts at 1; the cover’s $5. Call 348-4975 for more.
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The folks at Barbara’s say Thom Jones’s new book Cold Snap “takes us from down-and-out in America to death and disease in Rwanda, introducing us to hard-luck fighters steeling themselves for battles they’ve already lost, doctors who fall in love with their illnesses, and a strung out advertising writer who uses the hand of the devil to do the work of God.” Jones talks tonight at 7:30 at the New Town Barbara’s, 3130 N. Broadway. Call 477-0411.
