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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-