Open Dance Project's '1968: The Whole World is Watching' (photos by Matthew Hollis)

AUGUST 19, 1968. CHICAGO. The Democratic National Convention is underway. Inside the International Amphitheatre, and on the streets outside the Conrad Hilton hotel, all hell is about the break loose. The events leading up to a four-day-long confrontation between thousands of young protestors and thousands of equally young police officers, national guardsmen, regular army troops, and city workers is the subject of Open Dance Project’s new dance theater performance 1968: The Whole World is Watching, conceived and directed by ODP artistic director Annie Arnoult.

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