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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, Bryce Dessner, David T. Little, and others 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 The History of Popular Music ______Apr 28–May 1 Kyle Abraham/ Abraham.In.Motion When the Wolves Came In

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Mar 5–6, 2016 Academy Faculty Karin Ellis-Wentz Academy Associate Bridget Holmes Joffrey Academy Student Services Administrator Sarah Mazzulla Academy Production Manager Cara Scrementi ______of Dance WINNING WORKS SPONSOR OFFICIAL PROVIDER OF PHYSICAL THERAPY The Edward and Lucy R. Minor Winning Works Family Foundation VIDEO PRODUCTION SPONSOR PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH MCA STAGE

The Joffrey Ballet is grateful for the support of its Winning Works Sponsor, The Edward and Lucy R. Minor Family Foundation, and to its Official Provider of Physical Therapy, Athletico. With special thanks to its Video Production Sponsor, Big Foot Media. Generous support for MCA Dance is provided by David Herro and Jay Franke. ______THE JOFFREY BALLET Joffrey Academy of Dance, Official School of The Joffrey Ballet, is the only training program owned, operated, or endorsed by The Joffrey Ballet. The Joffrey Ballet is not affiliated with any other dance training or school program, including the Joffrey Ballet School in New York. The Artistic Director Ashley Wheater Joffrey Academy, located in the Exelon Education Center at Joffrey Tower in Chicago, Illinois, is the only school that follows the organizational mission, training syllabi, and artistic vision of The Joffrey Ballet. No other program, including those holding the Joffrey name, is sanctioned by Executive Director Greg Cameron The Joffrey Ballet. For more information, please contact Academy Reception at 312-784-4600. ______JOFFREY STUDIO JOFFREY ACADEMY Shun Nakajima Joffrey Academy of Dance Facebook: thejoffreyballet COMPANY TRAINEES Natasha Nunamaker Joffrey Tower Ayuko Ogino 10 E Randolph St Youtube: TheJoffreyBallet Israel Garcia Chenge Christina Dennis Valentina Reneff- Chicago, IL 60601 312-784-4600 Twitter/Instagram: @joffreyballet Derek Drilon Anika De Vore Olson joffrey.org/joffreyacademy Jackson Ferreira Olivia Duryea Mayu Sakai Taiyu He Taylor Fikes Katya Schloemann Yuka Iwai Amara Galloway Yuki Shimaoka Jameson Keating Saskia Gregson- Rachel Skipor Akari Morimatsu Williams Lydia Slack Promise Smith Akilah Harris Eva Solnick Saori Yamashita Yoka Hirayama Mizuki Tajima Mikaela Johnson Angelica Taylor Stella Kim Tess Voelker Gina Lee Macyn Vogt Ingrid Lewis Lindsey Wales Claudia Aligue Mascaro Elisabeth White Mirra McFadden Zoe White ______JOFFREY ACADEMY OF DANCE OFFICIAL SCHOOL OF THE JOFFREY BALLET Academy Artistic Director Alexei Kremnev Academy Artistic Director Anna Reznik Academy Managing Director Karine Provost JOFFREY ACADEMY Music Composition Death and the Maiden is based on a ARTISTS UP CLOSE OF DANCE Kiasmos poem of the same name written WINNING WORKS 2016 by German poet Matthias A Program of World Premieres Rehearsal Assistant Claudius, which inspired Franz MCA Stage’s series of artist- Shannon Alvis Schubert’s String Quartet no. 14, centered talks, workshops, also known as “Death and the and open studios allows COCO + IGOR Lighting Design Maiden.” the public to engage with Jason Brown The poem describes a tragic yet artists in intimate settings Choreography seductive conversation between and Conception Costume Design the two characters, portraying and it provides a closer Alexei Kremnev Gabriel Brandon-Hanson the agony and the comfort of look at the creative process. death and the vulnerability and Join us today. Music Composition Assistant Costume Designer awareness of life. Igor Stravinsky and Gabriel Yared Jesus Marc Herrera ______FIRST NIGHT URGENCE Rehearsal Assistant Cast MAR 5 Anna Reznik Derek Drilon, Olivia Duryea, Amara Choreography Following the evening Galloway, Taylor Fikes, Taiyu He, Christian Denice performance,­ audience Lighting Design Yuka Iwai, Mayu Sakai, Eva Solnik, members are invited to stay Jason Brown Tess Voelker, Zoe White Music Composition for a conversation with Armand Amar Costume Design Chapter 1, chapter 6: the title speaks Alexei Kremnev and Gabriel Brandon-Hanson for itself. What began as an Rehearsal Assistant winning choreographers,­ exploration in movement became a Ronn Stewart Mariana Oliveira and Assistant Costume Designer reflection of a life story. Thanks to Christian Denice, moderated Jesus Marc Herrera all the dancers involved. It could not Lighting Design by Peter Taub, MCA have happened without you. Jason Brown Makeup Design ______Director of Performance Jill Glaser DEATH AND THE MAIDEN Costume Design Programs. Gabriel Brandon-Hanson Cast Choreography Derek Drilon, Olivia Duryea, Jackson Mariana Oliveira Assistant Costume Designer Ferreira, Taylor Fikes, Israel Garcia Jesus Marc Herrera Chenge, Taiyu He, Yuka Iwai, Music Composition Jameson Keating, Akari Morimatsu, Franz Schubert Cast Shun Nakajima, Ayuko Ogino, Mayu Israel Garcia Chenge, Jameson Sakai, Tess Voelker Rehearsal Assistant Keating, Shun Nakajima, Natasha Shannon Alvis Nunamaker (Saturday), Mayu Coco + Igor is a creation about Sakai, Katya Schloemann (Sunday), artistic genius and the passion of Lighting Design Yuki Shimaoka, Promise Smith, two twentieth-century icons, Coco Jason Brown Mizuki Tajima, Elisabeth White, Chanel and Igor Stravinsky. The Zoe White, Saori Yamashita relationship between Stravinsky and Costume Design Chanel parallels the innovative Gabriel Brandon-Hanson Centered on the emotions that spirit of Stravinsky’s The Rite of arise during times of crisis, Spring and the creation of Chanel’s Assistant Costume Designer Urgence explores not only the signature perfume, Chanel No. 5. Jesus Marc Herrera urgency and despair in heart- The work combines contrasting rending moments of chaos and elements of avant-gardism and Video and Projection Design profound loss, but also the hope conser­vatism to explore the journey Philip Davis and strength of humanity of two creative powerhouses who and the communities within it achieved artistic triumph. Cast and our innate ability to perse­vere ______Anika De Vore, Derek Drilon, Olivia and survive. CHAPTER 1, CHAPTER 6 Duryea, Jackson Ferreira, Taylor ______Fikes, Israel Garcia Chenge, Taiyu Running time is approxi­mately Choreography He, Jameson Keating, Stella Kim, sixty minutes with no intermissions. Jeffrey Cirio Ingrid Lewis, Shun Nakajima, Yuki Shimaoka, Eva Solnik, Tess Voelker ABOUT THE Apr 28–May 1 ARTISTIC STAFF at MCA Stage ASHLEY WHEATER The Joffrey Ballet Artistic Director Kyle Abraham/ Born in Scotland and raised in England, Ashley Wheater was trained at The Royal Ballet Abraham.In.Motion School. Wheater began his professional career with The Royal Ballet, and danced at the London Festival Ballet, The Australian Ballet, The Ashley Wheater. Photo: Jim Luning Joffrey Ballet and San Francis- co Ballet. of dance, presenting him the “Game Changer” award. In In 1997, he became Ballet 2010, Wheater, representing Master at San Francisco Ballet, The Joffrey Ballet, was named and in 2002, Assistant to the Lincoln Academy Laureate, Artistic Director. In 2007, the highest honor presented Wheater was appointed by the State of Illinois. Artistic Director of The Joffrey The Chicago Tribune selected Ballet. New work is the Wheater as 2013 “Chicagoan lifeblood of a company, and of the Year” for his contri­ he has introduced numerous butions to dance. In 2014, premieres to the repertoire. Wheater accepted the In 2008, the Boeing Corpora- Chicago Spirit of Innovation tion recognized his commit- Award for The Joffrey Ballet. ment to community outreach In 2015, Wheater received the and diversity in the world University of Chicago Rosen- berger Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Creative and Performing Arts. ALEXEI KREMNEV Academy Artistic Director Described as “a choreographer, yes—but also a soulful trans­ Sam Pratt, Catherine Ellis Kirk cendentalist and pioneer of Photo: Tim Barden physicality, musicality, and emotion in dance” (“Huffington Post”) Alexei Kremnev is the When the Wolves Founding Artistic Director of the Joffrey Academy and the Joffrey Studio Company. Came In He began his career in Moscow at Bolshoi Ballet Tickets at mcachicago.org Alexei Kremnev. Photo courtesy of Academy, Russian Academy The Joffrey Ballet of Theatrical Art (GITIS), and Moscow State Academy of Theatre Series and Winning Her performances have Hubbard Street Dance Chica- Choreography (Degree in Works at The Joffrey Ballet. received rave reviews in the go. Recent dance designs Pedagogy and Choreography). He has created sixteen original New York Times, Los Angeles include RPM Productions’s Day Either as a Principal Artist, works at the Joffrey. Times, Dance Magazine of the Gypsy (a co-design Choreographer or Teacher and La Danse de Paris. Reznik with Julie E. Ballard), Alexei he has performed, choreo- ANNA REZNIK, Academy has won numerous awards, Kremnev’s Windy Sand, graphed, and taught inter­ Artistic Director, including a Special Diaghilev Jennifer Archibald’s Our North, nationally with the Moscow is the founding Artistic Director Prize, Silver Medal at the Abdul Latif’s A Year From Now Festival Ballet (Russian of the Joffrey Academy of 1996 Lifar International Ballet Ago, and Stephanie Martinez’s National Ballet), England’s Dance and the Joffrey Studio Competition as well as the Non è Normale with the Joffrey Northern Ballet Theatre, Company, and in a very short top prizes at the 1996 Nureyev Academy. Upcoming designs Bolshoi Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, time she has brought a International Ballet Competi- include a World Premiere new Cincinnati Ballet, BalletMet, worldwide reputation to the tion and the 1996 Maya work with Lucas Crandall and and in the worldwide galas Academy as one of the most International Ballet Competi- Hubbard Street Dance Chica- with The Stars of the Ballet. innovative and fast-growing tion. Reznik was featured go. He is a member of the He is the Laureate of the dance organizations. She nationwide in the PBS Holiday adjunct faculty of the Theater Leonide Massine Award, the began her career in Moscow Specials Love is Here to Stay School at DePaul University. Nureyev International and at the world famous Bolshoi and A Family Thanksgiving. In Lifar International Ballet Ballet Academy (Degree of 2002, Reznik was recognized GABRIEL BRANDON- Competition. Kremnev has Ballet Artist) and the Bolshoi as one of the most influential HANSON, Costume Design, been praised for his extraordi- Institute of Choreography people in the arts in Cincinnati. is honored to have begun his nary ability to work with a (Degree in Pedagogy). Reznik She has been praised for her career at The Joffrey Ballet. young generation of dancers, toured throughout the world extraordinary ability to work During his tenure with the as well as for his original and as a Principal Artist with with today’s young generation Joffrey Academy he has creative choreography. In the Moscow Festival Ballet of dancers. Her thorough designed and constructed 2004-2006 his choreography (later the Russian National knowledge of the most current hundreds of costumes, both was presented at the Bolshoi Ballet), England’s Northern teaching methods and styles classical and contemporary. He Theatre in Moscow and in Ballet Theatre, Cincinnati has produced many dancers studied ballet and costuming 2015 at the Lincoln Center Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, Ballet- who have been accepted into at Northern Illinois University in New York. He received the Met, Tulsa Ballet Theatre and some of the most prestigious and Faubourg School of Ballet, Outstanding Choreographer Russian and European Stars dance companies worldwide he is currently in San Francis- Award at Youth America of the Ballet. including the American Ballet co, designing and producing Grand Prix (YAGP) in 2006, Theatre, New York City Ballet, ODC’s, Dance Downtown Gala. 2007, and 2009. His works Dresden Semperoper, Staatsop- have been successfully er Berlin, The Joffrey Ballet, CHOREOGRAPHERS performed in collaborations Zurich Ballet and many others. with the Chicago Symphony In 2007 Reznik received the ALEXEI KREMNEV Orchestra and Cleveland Outstanding Teacher Award Please see artistic staff section Orchestra. Under his leader- at Youth America Grand Prix for bio. ship the Joffrey Academy was (YAGP). As Artistic Director, named Outstanding School Reznik led the Joffrey Acade- JEFFREY CIRIO every year they participated my to become Outstanding started his ballet training at (2010, 2012, 2015, and 2016). School at YAGP in 2010, 2012, Central Pennsylvania Youth In 2013, Kremnev received the 2015 and 2016. In 2013, Ballet and went on to train at Achievement Award in Culture Reznik received the Achieve- Boston Ballet. He has won from the Chicago Sister ment Award in Culture numerous ballet competitions Cities International (CSCI). from the Chicago Sister Cities worldwide, including a gold Kremnev’s artistic vision has International (CSCI). medal at the Helsinki Interna- been essential in the creation tional Ballet Competition. He and success of the Gala of JASON BROWN, Stage was also awarded the coveted the International Ballet Stars Anna Reznik. Photo courtesy of Manager/Lighting Designer, Princess Grace Award. Cirio in Cincinnati, Children’s Ballet The Joffrey Ballet is the Director of Production at joined Boston Ballet in 2009 residency environment. In its created works for LEVELdance inaugural year, Cirio Collective Chicago and a collaborative performed “MiniM” at piece for DanceWorks Chicago Vineyard Arts Project and and Interlochen Center Cape Dance Festival. for the Arts in Interlochen, Michigan, and he has collabo- CHRISTIAN DENICE rated with Frank Chaves began his professional dance on work for Odyssey Dance career at Odyssey Dance Theatre, Odyssey II, Expan- Theater in Salt Lake City, Utah, sions Dance Company, and and spent the next three years River North Dance Chicago. at River North Dance Chicago Denice’s choreography has in Chicago, Illinois, under been featured at Jazz Dance the direction of Frank Chaves. World Congress and has In Chicago, Denice worked been performed throughout Jeffrey Cirio. Photo: Liza Voll with such choreographers as the United States and Europe. Robert Battle, Sidra Bell, Lauri He is the 2015–2016 winner Mariana Oliveira. Photo: Dante V. Dauz and rose quickly through the Stallings, and Frank Chaves. of the University of South ranks, becoming a principal He has guest performed Florida’s Echo Choreographic Performing Arts, and dancer in 2012. He has with the Montgomery Ballet, Competition, and had a McCallum Theatre, among performed numerous classical, Greensboro Ballet, and two-week residency at the others. Now a resident of neoclassical, and contempo- Company E. Recently, Denice university where he restaged Los Angeles, she was recently rary roles for Boston Ballet lived in Montreal, Quebec, his 2011 work, “raum.” invited to present her works and has appeared in world- where he danced for Les at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance wide galas with Stars of Ballets Jazz de Montreal and MARIANA OLIVEIRA Festival Inside/Out Series. American Ballet at Vail had the privilege of perform- is the choreographer and Oliveira has been nominated International Dance Festival ing works by Andonis artistic director of the Union as one of the finalists of and with United Ballet Foniadakis, Cayetano Soto, Project Dance Company. the McCallum Theatre’s Company in Mongolia and Wen Wei Wang, and Barak Originally from Brazil, she eighteenth Choreography Japan. Cirio danced at the Marshall. In addition to started her career as a ballet Festival, and has also been 2014 Kennedy Center Honors dancing, Christian teaches dancer, and at the age of nominated for the 2015 World in Washington, DC, in honor of and choreographs nationally seventeen, she had the Choreography Awards in Patricia McBride. He joined and internationally. He has opportunity to travel to the Concert Dance Category. American Ballet Theatre in London to study at the Royal 2015 as a soloist. Cirio’s latest Academy of Dance. While work has been in choreogra- living in the UK, Oliveira was phy; he was commissioned to a trainee dancer at the create two pieces, of “Trial” National Dance Company of and “fremd,” for Boston Wales under the direction Ballet. Cirio has also created of Roy Campbell-Moore. pieces for Ballet Academy At nineteen, she was invited to East and Central Pennsylvania perform with the Cuban Youth Ballet. In 2015, Cirio, Classical Ballet of Miami. along with his sister, Lia In 2007, Oliveira moved to Cirio—a principal at Boston New York, and two years later Ballet—formed a new compa- she founded the Union Project ny: Cirio Collective. The Dance Company. She has collective began as a summer developed works in New project to bring dancers and York, Miami, Los Angeles, and choreographers together to Brazil, which have been create and perform without performed in venues including the fear of failure in a Christian Denice. Photo: Steven Trumon Gray Lincoln Center, Tribeca Apr 7–10 JOFFREY at MCA Stage STUDIO COMPANY AND Teatrocinema JOFFREY ACADEMY TRAINEES

* Joffrey Studio Company Photos: Matt Glavin Anika De Vore, San Diego, CA

Israel Garcia Chenge*, Mexico Derek Drilon*, Vancouver, WA

Photo: Montserrat Quezada A. Historia de Amor

Tickets at mcachicago.org Christina Dennis, Madison, WI Olivia Duryea, Haslett, MI Jackson Ferreira*, Brazil Saskia Gregson-Williams, United Kingdom Yoka Hirayama, Japan Jameson Keating*, Santa Barbara, CA

Taylor Fikes, Columbia, MD Akilah Harris, Chicago, IL Yuka Iwai*, Japan Stella Kim, South Korea

MIKAELA JOHNSON TK

Amara Galloway, Fairfax, VA Taiyu He*, China Mikaela Johnson, Australia Gina Lee, South Korea Ingrid Lewis, Oak Park, IL Akari Morimatsu*, Japan Ayuko Ogino, Japan Katya Schloemann, Sacramento, CA

Claudia Aligue Mascaro, Spain Shun Nakajima, Japan Valentina Reneff-Olson, San Francisco, CA Yuki Shimaoka, Japan

GINA LEE TK

Mirra McFadden, Alburquerque, NM Natasha Nunamaker, Suwanee, GA Mayu Sakai, Japan Rachel Skipor, West Chicago, IL LYDIA SLACK MACYN VOGT TK TK

Lydia Slack, Grand Rapids, MI Mizuki Tajima, Japan Macyn Vogt, Newburgh, IN Zoe White, Australia

Promise Smith*, Vineland, NJ Angelica Taylor, Huntington Beach, CA Lindsey Wales, Rye, NY Saori Yamashita*, Japan

Eva Solnick, New York, NY Tess Voelker, Moorestown, NJ Elisabeth White, Sanger, CA THE JOFFREY Head Carpenter Director of Facility THE JOFFREY BALLET BALLET STAFF Bryan Schoettle Operations John Kurtz Artistic Director Head Props Ashley Wheater Gregg Moeller Senior Accountant This season, The Joffrey Ballet celebrates its 60th Company Lakesha Kuye Executive Director Sound Engineer anniversary. Classically trained to the highest standards, The Greg Cameron George Paulin Controller Joffrey Ballet expresses a unique, inclusive perspective on dance, ______Terry McDonough ARTISTIC Assistant Electrician proudly reflecting the diversity of America with its company, Marybeth Cave Board Manager and audiences, and repertoire which includes major story ballets, Director of Artistic Executive Assistant Operations/Ballet Master Flyman to the Executive Director reconstructions of masterpieces and contemporary works. Gerard Charles Steven Lange Christine O’Brien ______Ballet Master/ DEVELOPMENT Development and The Company’s commitment to accessibility is met through Principal Coach Finance Administrative an extensive touring schedule, an innovative and highly Nicolas Blanc Chief Development Officer Assistant Sarai Hoffman Alison Plott effective education program including the much lauded Academy Ballet Master of Dance, Official School of The Joffrey Ballet, Community Suzanne Lopez Director of Major Gifts Director of Human ______Julia Doherty Resources Engagement programs and collaborations with myriad other MUSIC Amy Wicklund visual and performing arts organizations. Manager of Events Music Director Chelsea Lyman Payroll and Accounts Scott Speck Payable Coordinator Founded by visionary teacher Robert Joffrey in 1956, guided Assistant Director Erin Winkler by celebrated choreographer Gerald Arpino from 1988 until Company Pianist of Individual Giving ______2007, The Joffrey Ballet continues to thrive under inter- Grace Kim Jerry Ochoa ACADEMY Senior Pianist/ Director of Development Academy Artistic Directors nationally renowned Artistic Director Ashley Wheater and Music Administrator Anne Puotinen Alexei Kremnev Executive Director Greg Cameron. Paul James Lewis Anna Reznik Assistant Director Cover Conductor of Institutional Giving Academy Managing To learn more, please visit joffrey.org. Russell Vinick Petrina Suiter Director ______Karine Provost COMPANY Women’s Board ADMINISTRATION AND Coordinator Academy Faculty JOFFREY ACADEMY OF DANCE PRODUCTION Courtney Tan Karin Ellis-Wentz ______Director of Production MARKETING Academy Associate Claude Binder Bridget Holmes The rigorous Trainee Program of the Academy of Dance has Chief Marketing Officer an internationally recognized reputation for excellence and gives Company Manager Brian Smith Student Services Blair Baldwin Administrator students the skills needed to launch their careers in the profes- Director of Sales Sarah Mazzulla sional world. Academy alumni have danced with companies Artistic and Production and Patron Services Administrative Assistant Colene Byrd Academy Production around the world, including The Joffrey Ballet, American Ballet Erin Brown Manager Theater, New York City Ballet, Dresden Semperoper, Zurich Ballet, Marketing Manager Cara Scrementi Principal Stage Manager Vicki Crain ______and many others. Katherine Selig COMMUNITY Marketing Director ENGAGEMENT Stage Manager Sarah Fiala The Joffrey Studio Company is a scholarship program of the Amanda Heuermann Director of Community Joffrey Academy that is composed of ten outstanding students at Director of Special Projects Engagement Head of Wardrobe Herbert Migdoll Erica Lynette Edwards the cusp of their professional careers. The individualized training Ellie Cotey and performance opportunities provided by the Joffrey Studio Patron Services and Community Company offer exceptional insight into the life of a professional First Assistant Marketing Associate Engagement Manager dancer and push students to realize their full artistic and technical Gregg Benkovich Casey Peek Elizabeth Salmonowicz Second Assistant Patron Services Associates Community Engagement potential. Kate Shattock Natalie Del Ricco Program Coordinators Allison Diamond Michael Smith Lead Stitcher Connor Pickett Evelyn Sanchez For more information on the Academy Trainees of The Joffrey Debra Schoell ______Linda Swayze Ballet, the Joffrey Studio Company, or other programs at FINANCE AND Stitcher OPERATIONS the Academy of Dance, Official School of The Joffrey Ballet, Barbara Luchsinger please visit joffrey.org/academy. Deputy Director and Head of Hair and Makeup Chief Financial Officer Alicja Klosek Kathleen Hechinger Head Electrician Director of Technology Brady Jarvis Paul Key The MCA’s newest FOUNDING MEMBERS THANK YOU affinity group,Enact , OF ENACT: Dr. Bruce and Sally Bauer Lead support for the 2015-2016 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 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 Maya Polsky Season Sponsor MCA experience by offering you Elizabeth Price and Lou Yecies backstage access to artists and Carol Prins and John Hart/ insider information about our The Jessica Fund Preferred programs and the current state of Mr. and Mrs. John Seder Hotel Partner the field. Ms. Patricia F. Sternberg Ellen Stone Belic Each year, Enact members choose— Richard and Ann Tomlinson through discussion and voting—one performance to sponsor, thereby increasing the impact MCA Stage programming has on the community. ADDITIONAL BENEFITS OF ENACT MEMBERSHIP INCLUDE:

� Members-only programming throughout the MCA Stage season � Pre and post-performance discussions with artists � Behind-the-scenes access to select rehearsals � An annual preview of the upcoming season � Recognition as the Enact Sponsor of a select program All benefits of Circle Donors � MUSEUM OF Enact dues: $1,000 annually CONTEMPORARY ART Circle Donor contribution: From CHICAGO $1,500 annually 220 E Chicago Ave For more information, contact * Enact Chair us at [email protected]. ** Enact Cochair Chicago, IL 60611 As of February 2016 As an internationally renowned institution Anne Kaplan, Chair of devoted to contemporary culture, the Museum the Board of of Contemporary Art Chicago presents the Trustees most thought-provoking visual art and Madeleine Grynsztejn, performing arts of our time. MCA Stage is a Pritzker Director vibrant series presenting theater, dance, and Teresa Samala music by leading artists from the United States de Guzman, Deputy and around the world in the MCA’s three- Director hundred-seat Edlis Neeson Theater. Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf MCA Stage’s groundbreaking performances are Chief Curator an integral part of the MCA’s artist-activated, audience-engaged programming. Along with PERFORMANCE the museum’s exhibitions and educational PROGRAMS initiatives, they encourage a broad and diverse Peter Taub, Director community to experience and discuss the work Yolanda Cesta Cursach, and ideas of living artists. Associate Director John Rich, Manager Isabel Dieppa, PARKING Coordinator Validate your ticket at the coat check for $12 Richard Norwood, parking in the MCA garage (220 East Chicago Theater Avenue) or the Bernardin garage (747 Production North Wabash). Discounted parking is limited Manager to six hours on the date of performance. Meghan Claire Coppoletti, Intern LOST AND FOUND Udita Upadhyaya, Intern To inquire about a lost item, call the museum at 312-280-2660. Unclaimed articles are held HOUSE MANAGEMENT for thirty days. Kevin Brown, Associate Phill Cabeen, Associate SEATING Quinlan Kirchner, Please switch off all noise-making devices Associate while you are in the theater. BOX OFFICE Patrons are seated at the management’s Matti Allison, Manager discretion. Food and open beverage containers Phongtorn Phongluantum, are not allowed in the seating area. Assistant Manager Molly Laemle, REPRODUCTION Coordinator Unauthorized recording and repro­duction Lucas Baisch, Associate of a performance is prohibited. Stephanie Branco, Associate GENERAL INFORMATION Nora Carroll, Associate 312-280-2660 Emma Dwyer, Associate Wright Gatewood, BOX OFFICE Associate 312-397-4010 Julie Kriegel, Associate Laura Volkening, Associate VOLUNTEER FOR PERFORMANCES 312-397-4072 Program notes compiled by [email protected] Yolanda Cesta Cursach MUSEUM HOURS Tuesday: 10 am–8 pm Wednesday–Sunday: 10 am–5 pm Closed Mondays, New Year’s Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas