Photo by Ernesto Galan
Photo by Nathan Bajar
Photo by Ari Marcopoulos
Photo by Thais Aquino
Photo by Stephanie Berger
Photo by Eric Politzer
Photo by Maria Baranova
Okwui Okpokwasili, Poor People’s TV Room. Photo by Ian Douglas.
(Boston, MA—Aug 26, 2022) Member tickets are now available for the ICA’s new performance season. Highlights include Liz Gerring, Jason Moran + Alicia Hall Moran, Bill T. Jones, Okwui Okpokwasili, and much more!
Fri, Sep 30 | 8 PM
L’Rain
$17 ICA members + students / $22 general admission
Brooklyn-born-and-based musician, experimentalist, and multi-instrumentalist Taja Cheek, aka L’Rain, blends genres including gospel, jazz, and neo-soul with an array of keyboards, synths, and hauntingly delicate vocals.
Fri, Oct 21 + Sat, Oct 22 | 8 PM
Liz Gerring Dance Company with the JACK Quartet: Harbor
$20 ICA members + students / $30 general admission
Liz Gerring Dance Company debuts “Harbor,” a world-premiere performance combining movement, poetic illumination, and a newly commissioned string quartet by Pulitzer Prize–winning composer John Luther Adams performed by JACK Quartet.
Fri, Nov 18 + Sat, Nov 19 | 8 PM
Jason Moran and Alicia Hall Moran: Family Ball
$25 ICA members + students / $35 general admission
This world premiere performance by pianist and composer Jason Moran and mezzo-soprano and composer Alicia Hall Moran scrutinizes the intricacy of human partnership, presenting it in raw form through music and song.
Fri, Feb 10, 2023 | 8 PM
Suzanne Bocanegra: Honor
$15 ICA members + students / $25 general admission
This performance by conceptual artist Suzanne Bocanegra masquerades as an artist talk but reveals Bocanegra’s current fixation with one of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s greatest tapestries. Honor features celebrated film and theater actor Lili Taylor in the title role of “The Artist.”
Fri, Feb 24, 2023 | 8 PM
HYENA
$15 ICA members + students / $25 general admission
Composer Georg Friedrich Haas’s HYENA features a remarkable score accompanying the autobiographical story of Haas’s wife, the writer Mollena Lee Williams-Haas. Williams-Haas narrates, with music by Boston’s Sound Icon Ensemble led by Jeffrey Means.
Fri, Mar 10 + Sat, Mar 11, 2023 | 8 PM
Sun, Mar 12, 2023 | 2 PM
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company: Curriculum II
$30 ICA members + students / $40 general admission
A timely new work by Tony-winning Bill T. Jones, choreographed with Janet Wong and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, Curriculum II explores the historical and persistent connection between race and technology and the pursuit of what is human.
Fri, Apr 21 + Sat, Apr 22, 2023 | 8 PM
Sam Green: 32 Sounds
$15 ICA members + students / $25 general admission
This immersive documentary from filmmaker Sam Green explores the elemental phenomenon of sound, performed in its “live cinema” form, featuring live narration by Sam Green and live original music by JD Samson.
Fri, May 12 + Sat, May 13, 2023 | 8 PM
Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born
$20 ICA members + students / $30 general admission
Keep an eye out for more information on this world premiere from a team of “Bessie” Award winners: writer, performer and choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili, and director, designer and filmmaker Peter Born.
Since its founding in 1936, the ICA has shared the pleasures of reflection, inspiration, imagination, and provocation that contemporary art offers with its audiences. A museum at the intersection of contemporary art and civic life, the ICA has advanced a bold vision for amplifying the artist’s voice and augmenting art’s role as educator, incubator, and convener for social engagement. Its innovative exhibitions, performances, and educational programs provide access to contemporary art, artists, and the creative process, inviting audiences of all ages and backgrounds to participate in the excitement of new art and ideas. Spanning two locations across Boston Harbor, the ICA offers year-round programming at its iconic building in Boston’s Seaport and seasonal programming (May-September) at the Watershed in an East Boston shipyard.
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Acknowledgments
The ICA is supported in part by grants from the Barr Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Mellon Foundation, the Mass Cultural Council, and the Reopen Creative Boston fund, administered by the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture.
Support for FAMILY BALL is generously provided by Kathleen McDonough & Edward Berman.
Honor, an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra, was commissioned in part by UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance, which also hosted a creative development residency in November 2019.
This performance of HYENA is a coproduction of the Boston University Center for New Music and the ICA/Boston.
Support for the ICA’s presentation of Curriculum II is generously provided by Jean-François and Nathalie Ducrest and The David Henry Fund for Performance.
Curriculum II is commissioned and produced by New York Live Arts with commissioning support from Peak Performances at Montclair State University (MSU) and the American Dance Festival. Curriculum II premiered with Peak Performances at MSU in June 2022.
32 Sounds is commissioned by Stanford Live, Stanford University; The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi; Ferst Center for the Arts at Georgia Institute of Technology; Green Music Center of Sonoma State University; Arizona Arts Live at University of Arizona; and developed through a creative residency at MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts.
This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Support for the upcoming Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born premiere is generously provided by Leslie Riedel and Scott Friend.