The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago has announced its 2006-2007 performance season, a huge array of music, dance, theater and multidisciplinary performance. Bookings include the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange (Sept. 29 to Oct. 1), performing “Ferocious Beauty: Genome,” a new multimedia work inspired by the potential of genomics, the relationship between gene structure and biological function, to alter the human condition; The Builders Association & dbox (Oct. 12-14), performing “SUPER VISION,” a multimedia theater production exploring digital age anxieties, revealing the hidden realms of technological surveillance and the ways identities are shaped and reshaped as “data bodies”; the RESFEST Digital Film Festival (Oct. 19-22); New Music Chicago performing “Sonic Impact” (Oct. 28-29); the virtual-reality game “Can You See Me Now?” by the British Group Blast Theory (Nov. 2-5); Chicago Human Rhythm Project’s “Global Rhythms” (Nov. 17); and solo cellist Maya Beiser performing “Almost Human” (Dec. 2-3). Court Theatre will present its “Uncle Vanya” in the MCA space, Jan. 11-Feb. 11, 2007. Spring MCA bookings include the Melbourne-based dance troupe Chunky Move (March 1-3, 2007), Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group performing “The Tale: Npin Nckutchie and the Tail of the Golden Dek” (March 15-18, 2007); Contempo and the Dave Douglas Quintet (April 7, 2007) and the Martha Graham Dance Company (April 19-21, 2007). The Hip-Hop Theater Festival also returns in the spring. . . . Presenters at Monday night’s non-Equity Jeff Citations include Mike Vieau, Molly Brennan, Darrelyn Marx, Heather Graff and Rich Peterson, Nicole Rene Burchfield, Gregor Mortis, Gregg Opelka, Tommy Rapley, Frances Limoncelli, Joe Foust, Andre Pluess, Nick Sula, David Zak, Cassie Wooley, Michele DiMaso, Terry Hamilton, Nick Bowling, Kevin Bellie, P.J. Powers and Jon Steinhage.
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Compiled by Chris Jones
