WINTER/SPRING SEASON

Jan 23–24 eighth blackbird Hand Eye ______Jan 28–30 Toshiki Okada/chelfitsch God Bless Baseball ______Feb 4 and 6–7 Ingri Fiksdal, Ingvild Langgård & Signe Becker Cosmic Body ______Feb 11–14 Faye Driscoll Thank You For Coming: Attendance ______Feb 18–27 Tim Etchells/Forced Entertainment The Notebook, Speak Bitterness, and (In) Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare ______Mar 5–6 Joffrey Academy of Dance Winning Works ______Mar 25–26 eighth blackbird featuring Will Oldham (Bonnie “Prince” Billy) Ghostlight ______Mar 31–Apr 3 Blair Thomas & Co. Moby Dick ______Apr 7–10 Teatrocinema Historia de Amor (Love Story) ______Apr 12 and 14–16 Taylor Mac A 24-Decade History of Popular Music ______Apr 28–May 1 Kyle Abraham/ Abraham.In.Motion When the Wolves Came In Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Apr 28–May 1, 2016 Lighting Design Dan Scully Costume Design Reid Bartelme Kyle Abraham/ Dancers Christian Allen Abraham.In.Motion Matthew Baker Tamisha Guy When the Thomas House Catherine Ellis Kirk Wolves Came In Penda N’diaye ______Artistic Director Kyle Abraham Connie Shiau ______Interim Executive Director Joe Stackell HALLOWED Tour and Production Manager Dan Stearns Choreography Kyle Abraham in collaboration with Company Manager Hillary Kooistra Abraham.In.Motion The Company Christian Allen Music Bertha Gober Matthew Baker Cleo Kennedy Vinson Fraley Jr. Set Design Glenn Ligon Tamisha Guy Lighting and Video Design Dan Scully Thomas House Costume Design Reid Bartelme Catherine Ellis Kirk Dancers Tamisha Guy Penda N’diaye Catherine Ellis Kirk Jeremy “Jae” Neal Jeremy “Jae” Neal ______Connie Shiau INTERMISSION ______WHEN THE WOLVES CAME IN THE GETTIN’ Choreography Kyle Abraham Choreography Kyle Abraham in collaboration with in collaboration with Abraham.In.Motion Abraham.In.Motion Music Nico Muhly Music Robert Glasper’s inter­- pretation of We Insist! Set Design Glenn Ligon Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite Set Design Glenn Ligon ARTISTS UP CLOSE Lighting and Video Design Dan Scully MCA Stage’s series of artist-centered talks, workshops, and open Costume Design Karen Young studios engages the public with the artists in intimate settings and provides a closer look at the creative process. Join us today. Dancers Matthew Baker ______(Apr 28 and 30) FIRST NIGHT Vinson Fraley Jr. APRIL 29 Audience members are invited to stay following the performance Tamisha Guy for a Q&A with Kyle Abraham and members of the company. ______Catherine Ellis Kirk MCA TALK APR 30, 1–3 PM Jeremy “Jae” Neal DORCHESTER ART + HOUSING COLLABORATIVE (DA+HC) 1456 EAST 70TH STREET Connie Shiau Kyle Abraham engages community members in Open Dances, a forum curated by Barak adé Soleil, resident choreographer Dancers Matthew Baker for Rebuild Foundation, that offers opportunities for neighbor- (Apr 29 and May 1) hoods on the South Side to experience visiting and local Vinson Fraley Jr. movement-based artists. The focus of Kyle Abraham’s visit, “learn dance,” expands on the unique movement expression Catherine Ellis Kirk he articulates through a signature technique, opening it for different interpretations by different bodies who may not Jeremy “Jae” Neal normally practice dance, but are invested in how their bodies move. The event is free and open to all ages. Penda N’diaye ______Thanks to Meredith Dincolo and the staff of the Pre-Professional Connie Shiau Programs at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago for connecting ______the community with Kyle Abraham earlier in the week through Running time is one hour and twenty minutes, including a a master class hosted at Lou Conte Dance Studios. fifteen-minute intermission. The MCA gratefully acknowledges the generosity of the youth, Billy Brooks, and Waliy Eleim at the Better Boys Foundation and the community, Barak adé Soleil, and the Rebuild Foundation staff at Dorchester Art + Housing Collaborative in welcoming Kyle Abraham. Very special thanks to the students and their teacher Generous support for MCA Dance is provided by David Herro and Jay Franke. Support for Melinda Wilson at Curie Metropolitan High School, the students When the Wolves Came In is provided by Lois and Steve Eisen and the Eisen Family Foundation. and their teachers Sarah Ford Thompson and Ted Seymour at When the Wolves Came In was commissioned and produced by New York Live Arts through its Resident Commissioned Artist Program, with lead support from the Andrew W. Mellon Chicago High School for the Arts (CHiArts), and the students Foundation. When the Wolves Came In is supported in part by the New England Foundation for and their teacher Regina Beach at Rowe-Clark Math & Science the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The work was developed in part through a production Academy for engaging with Abraham.In.Motion company residency at On the Boards with support from the National Dance Project and with funding members and Kyle Abraham in dance classes and conversations. from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Support was also provided to New York Live Arts for the commissioning of this work by MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Sets for When the Wolves Came In were donated by Glenn Ligon. This performance of When The Wolves Came In is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. To find FROM THE ARTIST out more about how NEA grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov. “I Told Jesus” by Bertha Gober from the recording entitled Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Thank you for joining us for this presentation of When the Wolves Black American Freedom Songs 1960–1966, SFW40084, courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Came In. Created during my tenure as a Resident Commissioned Recordings. Pro copyright 1997. Used with permission. Artist at New York Live Arts from 2012–14, this program “City Called Heaven” by Cleo Kennedy from the recording entitled Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960–1966, SFW40084, courtesy of Smithsonian draws inspiration from jazz legend Max Roach’s seminal album, Folkways Recordings. Pro copyright 1997. Used with permission. We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite. This album, originally intended for release in 1963 to mark the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, was released in the fall of 1960 due to the severity sparked by the sit-ins in Greensboro, NC, and Jul 21–23, 2016 the urgency of the growing civil rights movement in the United at MCA Stage States and South Africa. As overarching commentary: I keep going back to Roach’s response when asked about the song, “Freedom Day”: “Freedom itself was so hard to grasp . . . we don’t really understand what it Chicago Human really is to be free.” At this point in my life, I am very well aware of the freedoms I possess. But as a Black Gay American man, I am equally aware of my limitations and those that exist for so Rhythm Project many in a polyphobic society of our current times.

Kyle Abraham Photographer: Carrie Schneider

I began working on When the Wolves Came In after a visit to the Hector Pieterson Museum in Soweto, South Africa. While there, I became fixated on the power of perception, and the ways that the thirteen-year-old Pieterson’s death in an anti-Apartheid protest shines a spotlight on questions of personal choice and collective rights in the struggle for freedom. For Michael Brown, Tyler Clementi, Eric Garner, Islan Nettles, and the countless other faceless and nameless women and men facing violence and discrimination, these questions still have terrible resonance. JUBA! Masters Max Roach’s album timelessly tackles these very same issues and questions; his jazz work figures as an evaluation of rights perceived through his experience and expressed through his art. of Tap and As a dance work, this program was created to live in a skin well aware of the cyclical hardships of our history, and the very Percussive Dance present fear of an unknowable future. Tickets at mcachicago.org —Kyle Abraham, September 2014 Artistic Director ABRAHAM.IN.MOTION IS A ABOUT Kyle Abraham PROUD SUPPORTER OF THE COMPANY ______DANCERS RESPONDING TO AIDS ABRAHAM.IN.MOTION The mission of Kyle Abraham/ BOARD OF DIRECTORS Abraham.In.Motion (AIM) is to create an evocative Chair DANCERS RESPONDING TO inter­disciplinary body of work. Stephen Simcock Born into hip-hop culture in AIDS HELPS ENSURE the late 1970s and grounded Artistic Director (ex-officio) in Abraham’s artistic upbringing Kyle Abraham THAT THOSE MOST IN NEED in classical cello, piano, and the visual arts, the goal of the Board Members RECEIVE THE CARE company, or “the movement” Cheryl Bergenfeld as Abraham refers to it, is Chris Calkins AND COMFORT THEY WOULD to delve into identity in relation Glenn Ligon to a personal history. The work Bebe Neuwirth OTHERWISE DO WITHOUT. entwines a sensual and Carrie Schneider provocative vocabulary with Eric Shiner a strong emphasis on sound, Gilda Squire Founded in 1991 by human behavior, and all things ______visual in an effort to create ABRAHAM.IN.MOTION STAFF former Paul Taylor Dance an avenue for personal Interim Executive Director investigation—and­ exposing Joe Stackell Company members that on stage. AIM is represent­ed by dancers from Tour and Production Manager Denise Roberts Hurlin and various disciplines and Dan Stearns diverse personal backgrounds. Hernando Cortez, DRA Combined together, these Company Manager individualities create move- Hillary Kooistra relies on the extra­ordinary ment that is manipulated and molded into something Finance Manager compassion and efforts fresh and unique. Lucy Mallett of the performing For more information, to get Choreographic Associate involved, or to purchase your Matthew Baker arts community to fund AIM merchandise, please visit abrahaminmotion.org. Rehearsal Director a safety net of social Tamisha Guy services for those in need. Generous support for Kyle Abraham/ Rehearsal Assistant Abraham.In.Motion is provided by the Howard Jeremy “Jae” Neal Gilman Foundation, New York Community Trust, New York State Council on the Arts, and Together, we can make Princess Grace Foundation. Education Assistant Support the creation of new work and Connie Shiau a difference for those less community outreach! Contributions may be made payable to Kyle Abraham/Abraham. In.Motion, PO Box 986, New York, NY 10113. Marketing and Development fortunate than us. Abraham.In.Motion is a non-profit tax- exempt organization, and all donations are Associate fully deductible to the extent allowed by law. Catherine Ellis Kirk For booking information, contact Sophie DONATE AT Myrtil-McCourty, President of Lotus Arts Management, at [email protected] Marketing Assistant or visit lotusartsmgmt.com. Penda N’diaye DRADANCE.ORG/DONATE Festival at New York’s City New York City Ballet Principal ABOUT Center, Dublin’s Project Arts Dancer Wendy Whelan as THE ARTISTS Center, the Okinawa part of Restless Creature. Prefectural Museum & Art He also choreographed a new KYLE ABRAHAM Museum located in Okinawa, commissioned work, entitled is a current City Center Fellow Japan, the Andy Warhol Counterpoint, for Hubbard and was a 2013 MacArthur Museum and Kelly Strayhorn Street Dance Chicago and the Fellow who began his Theater in his hometown Chicago Dancing Festival. dance training at Light Opera of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In December 2015, Abraham Academy and the Creative premiered a new work for and Performing Arts High In addition to performing and the Juilliard School and School in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl­ developing new works for his his second commission for the vania. He continued his dance company, Abraham.In.Motion, Alvin Ailey American Dance studies in New York, receiving Abraham recently finished Theater. In 2011, OUT a BFA from SUNY Purchase touring The Serpent and The Magazine labeled Abraham the College and an MFA from Smoke, a new pas de deux for “best and brightest creative NYU Tisch School of the Arts. himself and acclaimed Bessie talent to emerge in New York Award–winning and former City in the age of Obama.” In November 2012, Abraham TOP, RIGHT, was named the newly Artists Ford Fellow. Abraham AND BOTTOM appointed New York Live Arts received a prestigious When the Wolves Came In Resident Commissioned Bessie Award for Outstanding Catherine Ellis Kirk, Artist for 2012–14. Just one Performance in Dance for Jordan Morley Photo: Jerry and month later, Alvin Ailey his work in The Radio Show, Lois Photography American Dance Theater which made its Chicago debut LEFT premiered Abraham’s Another and was presented by MCA When the Wolves Night at New York’s City Stage in 2014. He received Came In Connie Shiau, Center, to rave reviews. a Princess Grace Award for Tamisha Guy That same year, Abraham was Choreography in 2010. Photo: Jerry and named the 2012 Jacob’s The previous year, he was Lois Photography Pillow Dance Award recipient selected as one of Dance and the 2012 United States Magazine’s “25 To Watch,” and received a Jerome Travel and Study Grant in 2008. His choreography has been presented throughout the United States and abroad, including in Montreal, Germany, Jordan, and Ecuador. Most recently his work has appeared at On The Boards, South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center, the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (RedCat), Philly Live Arts, Portland’s Time Based Arts Festival, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Danspace Project, Dance Theater Workshop, Bates Dance Festival, Harlem Stage, Fall for Dance THE COMPANY VINSON FRALEY JR. SUNY Purchase College, hails from Atlanta, Georgia. where she double majored in He began his training at the dance and arts management. CHRISTIAN ALLEN age of fourteen under the Guy completed summer grew up in Cambridge, direction of Lynise and Denise programs with Complexions Massachusetts, where he Heard. He also was immersed Contemporary Ballet, Spring- began dancing at the age of in a wide range of art crafts board Danse Montreal, and five with JAM’NASTICS INC.: while attending DeKalb School Nathan Trice and performed a hip-hop company based of the Arts. In 2015 he works by William Forsythe, in Cambridge. His formal graduated from Tisch School of Pam Tanowitz, Mark Morris dance training began in high the Arts at New York Universi- and Martha Graham etc. school, where he studied ty. Fraley has worked with Upon graduating, Guy danced ballet, modern, and improv­ many choreographers and with the Martha Graham isational dance. After grad­ educators, such as Bill T. Jones, Dance Company. She joined uating he went on to study Rashaun Mitchell, Cora Bos Kyle Abraham/ Abraham.in. at SUNY Purchase College, Kroese, Gus Solomons Jr., Motion in 2014. She was Conservatory of Dance. Cindy Salgado, Sean Curran, selected as Dance Magazine’s Over the course of receiving and many more. ‘Top 25 to Watch’ for 2016. his BFA, he has performed repertory by Gregory TAMISHA GUY CATHERINE ELLIS KIRK Dolbashian, Adam Barruch, is a native of Trinidad and was born and raised in Dallas, When the Wolves Came In Gabrielle Lamb, Shannon Tobago. She began her formal Texas. She studied dance at Sam Pratt, Catherine Ellis Kirk Gillen, Roy Assaf, Aszure dance training at Ballet Booker T. Washington High Photo: Tim Barden Barton, Merce Cunningham, Tech, the New York City Public School for the Performing and Trisha Brown, and Bill T. School for Dance under the Visual Arts and received her trained in dance with Jones. This is Allen’s first tour direction of Eliot Feld. Later BFA from NYU Tisch School Denise Wall. He has a BFA in with Kyle Abraham/Abraham. she attended Fiorello H. of the Arts. Kirk has completed dance from, SUNY Purchase In.Motion. LaGuardia High School and summer programs with College. While in school he Movement Invention Project, studied dance abroad in Taipei, MATTHEW BAKER San Francisco Conservatory Taiwan, for four months. hails from Ann Arbor, Michigan, of Dance, the Gaga Intensive House lives in Brooklyn, where where he began movement in Tel Aviv, and Springboard he works as a freelance dance exploration as a gymnast Danse Montreal, and holds artist. He has worked and and soccer player. He crossed a yoga certification through performed with companies state lines to receive his Mind Body DancerTM Training. Aszure Barton & Artists, BFA in dance from Western She has performed in works Loni Landon Dance Projects, Michigan University. Once by Fernando Melo, Ohad LoudHoundMovement, the in New York he worked with Naharin, Sharon Eyal, Peter YC, TOES for Dance, and Zoe| Keith Thompson, and as Chu, Andrea Miller, Robert Juniper. He has performed creative assistant to Mark Battle, Alex Ketley, and Helen works by Lar Lubovitch, Merce Dendy, before joining Keigwin Simoneau. She has performed Cunningham, William Forsythe, + Company (K+C) in 2009. with the companies Danaka Doug Varone, Twyla Tharp, In 2012 he coupled with Kyle Dance, Chihiro Shimizu Fernando Melo, and many Abraham/Abraham.in.Motion and Artists, and Sidra Bell more. In October 2015, House for Pavement and enjoyed Dance New York and is choreographed and premiered creating and performing for currently dancing for UNA his own work to see. [arena] both AIM & K+C through Projects and Kyle Abraham/ reaction to you in New York. He 2014 when he began working Abraham.In.Motion. performed in the YC’s Industrial as Choreographic Associate. Ballet by artistic director and Baker was the recipient of THOMAS HOUSE choreographer Kate Wallich, When the Wolves Came in a Distinguished Alumni Award Connie Shiau was born and raised in Virginia which premiered March 2016. from his Alma Mater 2014. Photo: Tim Barden Beach, Virginia, where he Trance by Frank Chavez, and Dance Sport by Harrison McEldowney. Since relocating to New York, Neal has worked with SYREN Modern Dance, Christina Noel Reaves, Catapult Entertainment, Katherine Helen Fisher Dance, Nathan Trice, and now Abraham.In.Motion.

The Gettin’ CONNIE SHIAU Vinson Fraley Jr, Tamisha Guy grew up in Tainan, Taiwan. Photo: Jerry and Lois Photography She was accepted into the dance conservatory at PENDA N’DIAYE SUNY Purchase College in is a native of Denver, 2008, after training at the high Colorado, and began her school program at Taipei dance training at Cleo Parker National University of the Arts. Robinson Dance, later becom- She has worked with Gallim ing an apprentice with the Dance, Kevin Wynn Collective, company. N’diaye continued and Adam Burrach Dance. her studies at NYU Tisch Shiau is a recipient of the 2014 School of the Arts where she Reverb Dance Festival Best received her BFA in Dance Dancer Award and received in 2010. There, she worked Honorable Mention for the with Solomons Jr., Robert 2014 Jadin Wong Award Battle, Doug Varone, Ron for Emerging Asian American K. Brown, and Kyle Abraham, Dancer. She joined Kyle among others. N’diaye Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion has studied at the Alvin Ailey in 2013 and has assisted School, Deeply Rooted Productions, Springboard Danse Montreal, and the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance in Salzburg, Austria. TOP The Gettin’ N’diaye apprenticed with David Photo: Tim Barden Dorfman Dance and later RIGHT joined DanceIquail! and Forces The Gettin’ of Nature Dance Theatre. Tamisha Guy Photo: Jerry and This is N’diaye’s second season Lois Photography with Kyle Abraham/Abraham. in.Motion. JEREMY “JAE” NEAL was born and raised in Michigan and received his training from Western Michigan University. There, he performed in professional productions of Strict Love by The Gettin’ Doug Varone, Temporal Photo: Ian Douglas Hallowed Jeremy Jae Neal, Ligon received a bachelor of intersections of dance, theater, Catherine Kirk arts from Wesleyan University music, and video. In addition Photo: Jerry and Lois Photography in 1982 and attended the to working with Abraham. Whitney Museum Independent In.Motion, he has recently Study Program in 1985. collaborated with Jane His text-based, conceptual Comfort and Company, Pavel works have been featured Zuštiak/Palissimo, LeeSaar in solo shows at the Hirshhorn The Company, Scott Ebersold, Museum and Sculpture Garden, Paul H. Bedard/Theater Washington, DC; the San in Asylum, Tara Ahmadinejad/ Francisco Museum of Modern Piehole, and Tami Stronach. Art; the Walker Art Center, He has worked in venues Minneapolis; the Studio such as BAM, the Joyce, New Museum in Harlem; and the York Live Arts, La MaMa, Power Plant, Toronto. Abrons Arts Center, HERE, Kyle Abraham in setting new costumes for the New York City A major retrospective of his Dixon Place, and 3LD in New repertory work at Princeton Ballet, American Ballet work, Glenn Ligon: AMERICA, York; he has also worked University and Point Park Theater, Justin Peck, Marcelo opened at the Whitney internationally—from France to University. Gomes, Andrea Miller, and Museum of American Art in Korea and many places in Kyle Abraham. New York in 2011 and traveled between. He is a graduate of nationally. NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. CREATIVE TEAM ROBERT GLASPER (COMPOSER, THE GETTIN’) DAN SCULLY (LIGHTING KAREN YOUNG grew up in Houston, Texas, DESIGN) (COSTUME DESIGN, REID BARTELME playing piano in church at is a New York–based lighting THE GETTIN’) (COSTUME DESIGN, WHEN the age of twelve to accom­ and projection designer creates costumes for dance, THE WOLVES CAME IN AND pany his mother who was who has been designing for performance, and contempo- HALLOWED) a gospel, jazz, and R&B singer. Kyle Abraham/Abraham. rary artworks that have began his professional life as He graduated from the In.Motion for more than ten been seen in theaters and a dancer. He worked for ballet Houston High School for the years, including for the museums internationally. companies throughout North Performing Arts and New full-length works Pavement, Notable recent projects include America and Canada and later School University in New York, Live! The Realest M.C., and the costume design for Wendy in his career worked for freely integrating formal music Bessie Award–winning Whelan’s Restless Creature modern dance companies in studies at the schools with The Radio Show. His recent and Third Rail Projects’s Then New York, including Shen Wei pop, hip-hop and rock. Glasper work includes Rocky She Fell. She teaches at Dance Arts and the Lar released two acclaimed (Broadway), Jedermann the Rhode Island School of Lubovitch Dance Company. acoustic jazz trio albums on (Salzburger Festspeile), Design. In addition, she has He has performed in works by Blue Note Records before The Orchestra Rocks! (Carnegie designed for dance companies Jack Ferver, Liz Santoro, he captured his unique duality Hall), and Another Night the Martha Graham Burr Johnson, Douglas Dunn, with 2009’s Double-Booked, (Alvin Ailey). He has worked Dance Company, Brian Brooks, Christopher Williams, and which juxtaposed his acoustic regionally for Trinity Rep., Armitage Gone! Dance, Kyle Abraham. He is a gradu- trio and his hip-hop– GEVA, Asolo Rep., Cleveland American Ballet Theater, ate from the fashion design infused band Robert Glasper Playhouse, Hudson Valley Morphoses, Dusan Tynek, Pam program at the Fashion Experiment. His RGX 2012 Shakespeare Festival and Tanowitz, and Keigwin & Institute of Technology and breakout, Black Radio, Two River Theater Company, Company, among many others. has designed costumes for, most won Best R&B Album at the and MFA-NYU/Tisch. Her design for video art notably, Christopher 2013 Grammy Awards. includes: David Michalek’s Slow Wheeldon, Lar Lubovitch, Pam His album Black Radio 2 was DAN STEARNS (PRODUCTION Dancing, Matthew Barney’s Tanowitz, Jillian Peña, released by RGX in 2013. MANAGER) Cremaster 5 and Cremaster Jack Ferver, and Liz Santoro. is a lighting designer, scenic 1, Toni Dove’s Lucid Possession, In collaboration with designer GLENN LIGON (SET DESIGN) designer, and production and Eve Sussman’s 89 Seconds Harriet Jung, he has designed lives and works in New York. manager interested in the at Alcazar. The MCA’s newest FOUNDING MEMBERS THANK YOU affinity group, Enact, OF ENACT: Dr. Bruce and Sally Bauer Lead support for the 2015–16 season of MCA Stage is provided by gives longtime Julie and Shane Campbell Elizabeth A. Liebman. performance fans and Patricia O. Cox Shawn M. Donnelley* Generous support for MCA Dance is provided by David Herro and Jay Franke. newcomers alike the and Christopher M. Kelly opportunity to meet Lois** and Steve Eisen and Additional generous support is provided by Caryn and King Harris; Shawn M. The Eisen Family Foundation Donnelley and Christopher M. Kelly; Lois and Steve Eisen and The Eisen Family artists, discuss ground- Ginger Farley and Bob Shapiro Foundation; Ginger Farley and Bob Shapiro; the Martha Struthers Farley breaking directions David Herro and Jay Franke and Donald C. Farley Jr. Family Foundation; Mary E. Ittelson; Sharon and Lee Sarai Hoffman and Stephen Pratt Oberlander; Maya Polsky; Carol Prins and John Hart/The Jessica Fund; with leading curators, Cynthia Hunt and Philip Rudolph Ellen Stone Belic; Amphion Foundation, Inc.; Leigh and Henry Bienen; Mark and choose key Mary E. Ittelson Light; Melynda Lopin; Maecenas; Herbert R. and Paula Molner; Elizabeth Anne L. Kaplan Price and Lou Yecies; and Ms. Patricia F. Sternberg. performers to sponsor. Anne and John Kern Lisa Yun Lee The MCA is a proud member of the Museums in the Park and receives major Join Enact, a group of MCA Circle Elizabeth A. Liebman support from the Chicago Park District. Donors dedicated to supporting and Susan Manning and Doug Doetsch learning more about the renowned Herbert R. and Paula Molner programs on the MCA Stage. Sharon and Lee Oberlander Foundation Membership in Enact enhances your Karen Peters and Charles Frank Season Sponsor MCA experience by offering you Maya Polsky backstage access to artists and Elizabeth Price and Lou Yecies insider information about our Carol Prins and John Hart/ Preferred programs and the current state of The Jessica Fund Hotel Partner the field. Mr. and Mrs. John Seder Ms. Patricia F. Sternberg Each year, Enact members choose— Ellen Stone Belic through discussion and voting—one Richard and Ann Tomlinson performance to sponsor, thereby increasing the impact MCA Stage programming has on the community. 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