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Called the most extreme organ trio ever, Simulacrum is yet another wild new offering from composer and alchemist John Zorn, who continues to explore new worlds and new ensembles into his sixth decade. With dramatic through-composed pieces (meaning pieces in which each stanza takes on a new style) that unfold with a cinematic logic, this genre-bending music defies classification, touching upon metal, jazz, minimalism, atonality, noise, and more. Passionately performed by an unusual all-star trio of John Medeski on organ, Matt Hollenberg on guitar and Kenny Grohwoski on drums, this powerful and fascinating music highlights the MENTAL in experimental!
 

First Republic Bank is proud to sponsor the ICA’s 2015–16 Performance Season.

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Presented in conjunction with Leap Before You Look:
Black Mountain College 1933–1957

Between 1949 and 1954, composers John Cage and Pierre Boulez exchanged a series of remarkable letters that are the basis for this exceptional concert featuring soloists of the renowned Paris-based Ensemble Intercontemporain. The group will perform a selection of works written during the composers’ correspondence including Boulez’s “Second Piano Sonata,” “Livre pour quatuor,” and “Douze notations,”and Cage’s “String Quartet in Four Parts,” “Six melodies for violin and keyboard,”“Music of Changes,” and “Sonatas and Interludes.” While teaching at Black Mountain College in 1952, Cage introduced students to the works of the young French composer, whom he viewed as a major figure in contemporary composition and sympathetic to his own musical developments. Many of the Cage compositions to be performed by Ensemble Intercontemporain premiered at the College and illustrate his emerging compositional practices, which he discussed at length with Boulez. Selections from the letters will be read during the concert, offering a unique look at the work and practice of these hugely influential masters.

First Republic Bank is proud to sponsor the ICA’s 2015–16 Performance Season.
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Entanglements and scenes of distorted familiarity with physical rigor and humor.

Free preshow talks with David Henry, Director of Performing and Media Arts at the ICA, 30 minutes prior to curtain.

The first work in Faye Driscoll’s Thank You For Coming trilogy, Attendance continues the chorographer’s interest in how people perceive themselves in relationship to others. Intimately staged in the round, the work creates a heightened reality of observation and interdependence as five performers (along with Driscoll and composer Michael Kiley) morph through physical entanglements and scenes of distorted familiarity with physical rigor and humor. Audience and performers become one as a beautiful shared identity emerges.

This performance is supported, in part, by the David Henry Fund for Performance.

First Republic Bank is proud to sponsor the ICA’s 2015–16 Performance Season.

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Access for Boston’s dance community is supported in part by the Pratt-Hall Fund.

Free preshow talks with Debra Cash, Boston Dance Alliance Executive Director, 30 minutes prior to curtain. Free postshow Q&A with the company Oct 16.

Known for its expansive vision, versatility, and technical prowess, Doug Varone and Dancers create kinetically thrilling dances that reflect the complexity of the human spirit. From the smallest gesture to full-throttled bursts of movement, Varone’s work can take your breath away. Doug Varone and Dancers return to Boston for the first time since 2011 with three Boston premiere works: ReComposed (2015), The Fabulist (2014), and The Lux (2006).

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Free preshow talks with Debra Cash, Boston Dance Alliance Executive Director, 30 minutes prior to curtain. Free postshow Q&A with the company Nov 20.

Tony-winning tango artists Fernanda Ghi and Guillermo Merlo and musician Alfredo Minetti bring a unique approach and unconditional passion to This Is Tango Now. Twelve stellar dancers and musicians blend tango and flamenco in the world premiere of CARMEN … de Buenos Aires, a breathtaking new production of the beloved opera with an original score based on Bizet’s beloved melodies.

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Under the direction of Silas Riener, Boston Conservatory students perform excerpts from early Cunningham dances including Dime A Dance, Springweather and People, Septet, Nocturnes, and Minutiae, accompanied by pianist Stephen Drury. For the November, December, and January performances, the students will be joined by Riener, who will perform the recently reconstructed Cunningham solo Changeling, and joined by Drury performing music by Christian Wolff and John Cage.

NOTE: This performance takes place in the gallery with limited seating, available first come, first served. Some viewers will remain standing.

A defining feature of the education and experience at Black Mountain College was the integration of all art forms—music, dance, film, theater, and visual arts—with the liberal arts. Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957 includes a grand piano and a 20 x 20 foot sprung dance floor within the galleries so that dance and music performances may take place alongside paintings and sculptures in a nod to the college’s radical interdisciplinarity. Performances will be presented throughout; see icaboston.org/bmc for details.

A defining feature of the education and experience at Black Mountain College was the integration of all art forms—music, dance, film, theater, and visual arts—with the liberal arts. Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957 includes a grand piano and a 20 x 20 foot sprung dance floor within the galleries so that dance and music performances may take place alongside paintings and sculptures in a nod to the college’s radical interdisciplinarity. Performances will be presented throughout; see icaboston.org/bmc for details.

Commissioned by the ICA, and directed by Richard Colton, dancer and choreographer Polly Motley performs The Glyph, a whimsical work choreographed by dancer and teacher Katherine Litz at Black Mountain College in 1951. Like Cunningham, Litz pursued movement based on the logic of the body in space rather than an allegory of inner emotions. Pianist Yukiko Takagi performs Lou Harrison’s accompanying score.

A defining feature of the education and experience at Black Mountain College was the integration of all art forms—music, dance, film, theater, and visual arts—with the liberal arts. Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957 includes a grand piano and a 20 x 20 foot sprung dance floor within the galleries so that dance and music performances may take place alongside paintings and sculptures in a nod to the college’s radical interdisciplinarity. Performances will be presented throughout; see icaboston.org/bmc for details.

Former Cunningham dancer Silas Riener performs Changeling, a 1957 solo newly reconstructed in collaboration with Jean Freebury. A select group of Boston Conservatory dancers, under Riener’s direction, perform excerpts from other renowned Cunningham dances. Changeling, an early Merce Cunningham solo choreographed using chance procedures, had its premiere in 1957 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and was last performed in Tokyo in 1964.

NOTE: This performance takes place in the gallery with limited seating, available first come, first served. Some viewers will remain standing.

A defining feature of the education and experience at Black Mountain College was the integration of all art forms—music, dance, film, theater, and visual arts—with the liberal arts. Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957 includes a grand piano and a 20 x 20 foot sprung dance floor within the galleries so that dance and music performances may take place alongside paintings and sculptures in a nod to the college’s radical interdisciplinarity. Performances will be presented throughout; see icaboston.org/bmc for details.

Pianist Elaine Rombola will perform selections from John Cage’s famous “Sonatas and Interludes,” which premiered at Black Mountain College. Arrive early to see her prepare the in-gallery piano to Cage’s specifications by inserting screws, erasers, paper clips, and other objects into the strings.   

A defining feature of the education and experience at Black Mountain College was the integration of all art forms—music, dance, film, theater, and visual arts—with the liberal arts. Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957 includes a grand piano and a 20 x 20 foot sprung dance floor within the galleries so that dance and music performances may take place alongside paintings and sculptures in a nod to the college’s radical interdisciplinarity. Performances will be presented throughout; see icaboston.org/bmc for details.