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, 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 Feb 11–14, 2016 ABOUT THE WORK

Faye Driscoll describes her body of work as rooted in an Faye Driscoll obsession with the problem of being somebody in a world of somebodies and with the conflict and comedy born in Thank You for Coming: our interactions with others. Thank You for Coming: Attendance is the premiere of a series of works in which she extends performance’s sphere Attendance of influence in order to create a communal space where the co-emergent social moment is questioned, heightened, Conception and Direction Faye Driscoll and made palpable. Choreography Faye Driscoll in collaboration with the performers ______Each iteration of Thank You for Coming: Attendance, Play Performers Giulia Carotenuto [working title] and Space [working title] accentuates the perceptual complexity of social experience to prove that we Sean Donovan do not exist in a vacuum and are made for the creation Alicia Ohs of interdependent societies, whether it is the creation of a connected body, a connected story, or a connected space. Toni Melaas Brandon Washington Driscoll, along with a company of performers and collabora- tors who will be involved in making and supporting the Nikki Zialcita* ______creation, asks, how do we perceive ourselves as participants in Visual Design Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin the cocreation of our reality and can we collectively, through performance, create a new vision of society? Sound Design/Original Composition Michael Kiley Lighting Design and Amanda K. Ringger The performers pass through morphing states of physical Production Manager entanglement and scenes of distorted familiarity. In this magnified reality of observation, invitation, and inter­ Artistic Advisor Jesse Zaritt dependence, audience members and performers increasingly Choreographic Assistant Nadia Tykulsker find themselves becoming one. Costume Construction and Alteration Sarah Thea Swafford Ultimately each work in the series will exist in vibrant, dis­ Tour/Stage Manager Alessandra Calabi sonant relationships to one another, while forming an On-Site Production Manager Randi Rivera ambitious exaggeration of scale, duration, and community. ______The performance runs approximately seventy-five minutes with no intermission.

*Original cast member Generous support for MCA Dance is provided by David Herro and Jay Franke. Thank You For Coming: Attendance is made possible by the 2013–14 Danspace Project Commissioning Initiative, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Creative Capital. It also received support from the Jerome Foundation, 92Y New Works in Dance Fund, a Headlands Alumni New Works Award, with the assistance of New York State Council on the Arts, and is made possible through the sponsorship of The Field. Thank You For Coming: Attendance received a production residency at Danspace Project’s venue, St. Mark’s Church, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Thank You For Coming: Attendance is commissioned by Mass Live Arts through a multiyear residency and presentation commitment. Faye Driscoll received residency support from Park Avenue Armory, as well as with Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Extended Life Dance Development program made possible in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The MCA presents Faye Driscoll, Thank You For Coming: Attendance as a part of IN›TIME Festival, which celebrates contemporary performance in partnership with the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, defibrillator, the Illinois Humanities Council, Links Hall/Constellation, 6018North, Poetry Center, Roosevelt University, Threewalls, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. with artists such as Mark collective Ildi! Eldi and postmodern/pop musical/ ABOUT Dendy, Douglas Dunn, Sankai Juku of Japan and death metal fantasy; THE ARTISTS Catherine Miller, and Kate toured with the companies 837 Venice Boulevard (2008, Fisher. In 2011, as a company to France, Holland, Romania, Bessie Award), an auto­ ALESSANDRA CALABI member of Palissimo, Poland, Russia, Panama, biographical work that takes is an interdisciplinary artist directed by Pavel Zustiak, she Canada, Thailand, and place in a theater within a from Milan, Italy, who helped create Strange Cargo, Japan. He creates theater home; There Is So Much Mad works at the intersection of the final work of Zustiak’s and mixed-media works in in Me (2010), an exploration performance, politics, and trilogy The Painted Bird. She collaboration with Sebastián of ecstatic states; You’re Me critical theory. She is a recent has taught and performed Calderón Bentin as Donovan (2012), a duet distorted graduate of the New School as a member of Monica Bill & Calderón. Original works by props, paint, and manic for Social Research, where Barnes & Company in include the site-specific costume shifts; and Thank she completed a master’s engagements at the Joyce bilingual piece, Se Vende You For Coming, a series in degree in philosophy. She is Theatre, Skirball Center for (2008), for the FAE Festival progress. the stage manager and a the Performing Arts, and main collaborator of Andrew The Kennedy Center in Schneider’s Obie award– Washington DC. She joined winning YOUARENOWHERE. Faye Driscoll Group in She is also a member of 2012. Most recently she has the collaborative arts group become a member of Fixed Agency, the 2014 Third Rail Projects and per- artists-in-residence at the formed in Then She Fell. Brooklyn Navy Yard and the creators of Private(i), SEAN DONOVAN an immersive, mixed-reality is a performer and writer. adventure about state He received a BFA in theatre surveillance. Recent stage from New York University management credits include Tisch School of the Arts’ 17 Border Crossings (BAM Experimental Theatre Wing. Next Wave) and LongYarn As a performer, he has (The Bushwick Starr). worked with Faye Driscoll, As a performer she has Miguel Gutierrez, Jane worked with Pascal Rambert Comfort and Company, the (A (micro) history of world Builders Association, Witness Faye Driscoll Group, Thank You For Coming: Attendance economics, danced), Palissimo Relocation, 600 Highway- Photo: Maria Baranova (Painted Bird: Bastard), men, Jennie Marytai Liu, Andrew Schneider (FIELD), John Jesurun, and others. in Panama; The Climate and Zishan Ugurlu (LaMaMa He has appeared at BAM, Chronicles (2011), presented Driscoll’s work has been ETC). the Kitchen, Danspace at the Incubator Arts Project; commissioned by and Project, PS122, New York Live and 18 ½ Minutes (2013) presented at the Walker GIULIA CAROTENUTO Arts, La MaMa, the presented at JACK. He is a Art Center, Wexner Center is originally from Rome, Italy. Chocolate Factory, HERE Arts current artist-in-residence at for the Arts, Institute for She received a BFA in dance Center, the Joyce Theater, HERE Arts Center. Contemporary Art/Boston, performance from Chapman the Duke, Baryshnikov Danspace Project, HERE Arts University in Southern Arts Center, Incubator Arts FAYE DRISCOLL Center, the Kitchen, Dance California, before moving Project, and the Ohio is a Bessie Award–winning Theater Workshop, American to New York in 2008. Theatre. He has trained and choreographer and director. Dance Festival, Fusebox Carotenuto has performed performed with the French Her works include Wow, Festival, UCLA, Counter- Mom, Wow (2007), a PULSE, and the Yard. She has received funding from Cynthia Hopkins, Taylor Mac, mance of dance and live and Nancy Bannon, among The MAP Fund (2014), Jennifer Miller, and NTUSA. music premiered at HERE others. Her performance NYSCA (2013–15), The She was one of the only Arts Center, and The Empty engagements have included Jerome Foundation (2012– dance artists exhibited in Air and Animina (2013), two New York State Theater at 14), Greenwall Foundation Younger Than Jesus, the soundwalk pieces available Lincoln Center, BAM Harvey, (2008–10), and Lower inaugural exhibition of the as iPhone applications, which New York Live Arts/DTW, Manhattan Cultural Council New Museum’s triennial, employ GPS to determine Danspace Project, the (LMCC) (2013–15), and she and her work was included what listeners hear based on Kitchen, PS122, La MaMa, was awarded a Bogliasco in NYC Makers: The MAD their location. His 2003 Alvin Ailey Theater, HERE Fellowship (2014), Guggen- Biennial, the first biennial release “Kuerner Sounds” Arts Center, the Duke, heim Fellowship (2013), at the Museum of Arts and was commissioned by the Baryshnikov Arts Center, Creative Capital Award Design. In 2015, Driscoll Brandywine River Museum and the John Jay Auditorium. (2013), French-US Exchange toured You’re Me at Theatre for its tour of the Kuerner Her theater credits include in Dance (FUSED) Grant Vanves in France, with Farm, known as a career- Agamemnon, featuring (2015), Foundation for support from FUSED. long inspiration to painter Olympia Dukakis, with the Contemporary Art Grant Andrew Wyeth. Kiley is now Aquila Theater Company, (2013), NEFA’s National MICHAEL KILEY working with the Play and L’Histoire du Soldat, Dance Project Production and is a Philadelphia-based Company on Ludic Proxy, directed by Will Kerley and Touring Award (2010/2014). composer, sound designer, which premieres 2016. Faye Driscoll and conducted performer, and educator. His work has received by Maestro Lorin Maazel, She has been an artist-in- Past collaborators include support from the Indepen- at the Castleton Festival. residence at Mass Live Arts, SubCircle, Lars Jan, Dan dence Foundation, the Her SAG Film credits include the Performing Garage Rothenberg of Pig Iron Pennsylvania Council on the Across the Universe, directed Presents, Baryshnikov Arts Theater Co., Luciana Arts, the American Com­ by Julie Taymor, and The Center, and Park Avenue Achugar, Magda and Chel- posers Forum-Philadelphia Hottest State, directed by Armory, and a choreographic sea, and Nichole Canuso Chapter, FringeArts Ethan Hawk, and her music fellow at Maggie Allesee Dance Company. He creates (Live Arts Brewery Fellow- video–credits include “Fire National Center for Choreo­ his own work under the ship), the PEW Center to the Ground” for The graphy (MANCC). She has moniker The Mural and The for Arts and Heritage, and National and “Secret Room” collaborated and continues Mint (TM&TM). His TM&TM the Wyncote Foundation for Joan Osborne. to collaborate with theater creations include As the through the Painted Bride. and performance artists, Eyes of the Seahorse (2010), ALICIA OHS (AYO) including Young Jean Lee, an interdisciplinary perfor- TONI MELAAS is active as a dance and is a dancer and a teacher of community builder. A grad­ Faye Driscoll Group wellness practices through uate of New York University Thank You For her company Hatch NYC. Tisch School of the Arts’ Coming: Attendance Photo: Maria She has worked with Faye Experimental Theatre Wing, Baranova Driscoll intermittently over Ohs currently dances with the past thirteen years. Faye Driscoll and Sally Silvers She has performed with and has performed with Netta Yerushalmy/Dancing Andrea Geyer and niv People, Alexandra Beller/ Acosta, Sondra Loring, and Dances, Shen Wei Dance Arts, Laura Arrington, among Gerald Casel Dance, Melissa others. She has presented Briggs Dance, and David work at BAX, Dixon Place, Dorfman Dance, and has Movement Research at worked with choreogra- Judson Memorial Church, phers-directors Satoshi Haga CATCH, and Dance New Amsterdam (as the former of Music and Drama, and of the devised theater BFA from the University of Dance Space Center). production management at company the TEAM, with Florida. In New York he She has curated work for Universidad San Pablo (CEU) whom they have created has performed with Ryan Movement Research’s Spring in Madrid, Spain. Rivera is five award-winning plays: McNamara, Burr Johnson, Festival and produced and the stage manager and RoosevElvis, Waiting For Jen McGinn, Neta Pulver- directed various works in lighting director for theater You . . . , Mission Drift, macher, Lauren Bakst, San Francisco from 2008 to company Half Straddle, Architecting, and Particularly Megan Kendzior, Daria Faïn, 2011. For more than ten traveling both internationally in the Heartland, which have Germaul Barnes, Robin years she has worked with and domestically with their toured to the Shed at the Becker, and Dana Katz. youth and collectively work since 2012. Additional National Theater, London; organized a CSA farm, credits include working the Barbican Centre, JESSE ZARITT taught yoga, and developed with Keigwin + Company, London; the Public Theater, has performed solo work in health and wellness strate- Sidra Bell Dance NY, the New York; PS122, New Russia, Korea, Germany, gies at the Audre Lorde Chocolate Factory, Phantom York; the Walker Art Center, New York, Japan, Mexico, Project, an organizing center Limb Company, and Doug Minneapolis; Culturegest, and Israel. He was a 2012–13 for LGBTQ people of color. Elkins Choreography. Lisbon; and the Hong Kong resident artist in the Studio She has worked with Faye Arts Festival. Series Program at New York AMANDA K. RINGGER Driscoll since 2009. Live Arts, during which he has lived in New York Vaughan has designed created a duet in collabora- since 1997 and has designed NICK VAUGHAN AND JAKE scenography for more than tion with choreographer/ lighting nationally and MARGOLIN (NICK & JAKE) seventy productions for performer Jumatatu Poe. internationally for Faye are Houston-based instal­ theater, opera, and dance, Zaritt’s solo Binding received Driscoll, Doug Elkins, Cynthia lation artists. Their solo which have been seen three 2010 New York Oliver, Molly Poerstel, exhibitions include A throughout the United States, Innovative Theater Awards: Jennifer Archibald, Julian Marriage: 2 (West-er) (the Canada, the UK, Portugal, Outstanding Choreography, Barnett, Nora Chipaumire, Invisible Dog Art Center); Romania, China, Japan, and Outstanding Solo Perfor- Alexandra Beller, Deborah A Marriage: 1 (Suburbia) Oman. While he was the mance, and Outstanding Lohse, Laura Peterson, (HERE Arts Center; MCLA’s resident designer of Lorin Performance Art Production. Donnell Oakley, Kota Gallery 51, North Adams, Maazel’s Castleton Festival He has taught at the Univer- Yamazaki, 10 Hairy Legs, Massachusetts; Sleeping he designed thirteen produc- sity of the Arts, Bard College, Darrah Carr, and cakeface, Weazle, Boston); Art/Slant tions, including a full cycle American Dance Festival, among others. She received Presents: Nick & Jake (Chica- of Benjamin Britten’s cham- Hollins University, and a BA from Goucher College go); and Preparations for a ber operas. He frequently Pomona College, as well as in Baltimore, Maryland, and Marriage (Future Tenant collaborates with choreo­ at festivals in Japan, Korea, an MFA in lighting design Gallery, Pittsburgh). Their grapher Yoshiko Chuma and and Russia. He was a mem- from Tisch School of the Arts collaborations with choreo­ designed the last two ber of Shen Wei Dance Arts at New York University. graphers include creating installments of Chuma’s Company (2001–06) and She received a 2009 Bessie the environments for Yoshiko ongoing Page Out of Order Inbal Pinto Dance Company Award for her collaboration Chuma’s Shredded (Gallery series. For Palissimo, directed (2008). From 2009 to 2013 on Faye Driscoll’s 837 Boule- 128) and Pavel Zustiak’s by Pavel Zustiak, Vaughan he performed in work by vard, presented at HERE Arts. Palissimo production S(even) created sets and costumes Faye Driscoll and Netta (New Hazlett Theater, for five works, including Yerushalmy. RANDI RIVERA Pittsburgh). They were twice Le Petit Mort and The Painted is a native New Yorker. official finalists for the NYFA Bird (Amidst). She holds a BA in Theater Fellowship and are recipients from Hamilton College, of grants from the MAP BRANDON WASHINGTON studied technical theater at Fund and mediaThe founda- is a native of Chesapeake, the Royal Welsh College tion, inc. They are members Virginia, and received a 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 Elizabeth gives longtime Julie and Shane Campbell 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. 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