MCA Chicago - Upcoming Exhibitions:
John Jasperse Company
CALIFORNIA
Friday, March 18 and Saturday, March 19, 7:30 pm
Sunday, March 20, 3 pm
Tickets $22, MCA members $18
This intriguing new work by one of the most acclaimed young American choreographers challenges how we focus our perceptions and hopes. John Jasperse returns to the MCA with a layered and suggestive dance that shifts between chaos and order, set amidst a massive floating sculpture by Chicago based architect Ammar Eloueini and includes music by Jonathan Bepler. Using California as a state of mind defined by both promise and crisis— the gold rush and the dot-com bust, the land of plenty and of fault lines— he delves into what it means when things go wrong, and when what we expect to happen, doesn’t.
Land of sunshine, starlets, and silicone. If these are the only things you picture when you think of California, you should check out the John Japserse Company's production CALIFORNIA at the MCA Theater. Through amazing experimental dance, Jasperse presents the fact and the fiction, the life and the lie that is the Golden State. Internationally celebrated choreographer John Jasperse returns to the MCA with a new dance inspired by California, the mythical American Shangri-la defined both by promise and crisis. Underneath a massive floating sculpture by Chicago-based architect Ammar Eloueini, Jonathan Bepler (composer of Matthew Barney's Cremaster films) and his ensemble perform live onstage with four grand pianos and special sound effects
