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Cie Heddy Maalem: Le Sacre du Printemps. Photo by Ben Rudick, courtesy of Jacob's Pillow.
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Funded in part by the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Additional funding provided by the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and MetLife Foundation.  |
Sunday, October 19, 3 pm
Tickets $25, MCA members $20
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Heddy Maalem's explosive interpretation of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps, inspired by the dense city of Lagos, Nigeria, features 14 dancers from West Africa, who are trained in both contemporary dance and the traditional dance forms of their countries of origin - Mali, Benin, Nigeria, Togo, Mozambique, and Senegal. Maalem's dynamic and energetic dance is bookended with atmospheric film projections.
Running time: 60 minutes, no intermission
Screening: New Dance in Africa
Tuesday, October 14, during museum hours in the Kanter
Wednesday-Sunday, October 15-19, second-floor lobby
Free
Visitors are invited to enjoy a screening of New Dance in Africa, a compilation produced by the MCA featuring interviews with Heddy Maalem, and the short films Black Spring (2002) and Do We Need Cola Cola to Dance? (2007).
Maalem received the Best Choreography for the Camera prize at the 2003 New York Dance on Camera Festival for Black Spring, his ongoing exploration of how one regards African bodies in movement. organized a team of three Nigerian and two French artists to film in Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa, Mozambique, Kenya and Cameroon. Do We Need Cola Cola to Dance? is a work-in-progress documentary created by company dancer Qudus Onikeku and the Young Kings Project that sets dance in unexpected public spaces.
First Night postshow talk
Friday, October 17
Join Peter Taub, Director of Performance Programs, for a stimulating talk with Maalem and collaborators following the performance.
Roundtable: Vitalities: The body and modern dance
Saturday, October 18, 2 to 4 pm
Free
Enter in conversation with Maalem, Susan Manning (Dance scholar, Northwestern University); David Bunn (former Head of the Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand) and Jane Taylor (Skye Chair of Dramatic Art, University of the Witwatersrand) to learn about the rich tapestry of new dance being made in post-colonial Africa. Drawing from the creative inspiration Maalem gained from time spent in Lagos, Nigeria, the discussants share viewpoints about real and imagined challenges resulting from cultures brought together in modern dance choreography and performance.
Students
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MCA Stage patrons receive $10 discounted parking at the MCA garage (220 E Chicago Ave) and Olympia garage (161 E Chicago Ave), located within two blocks east of Michigan Avenue and operated by InterParking. To receive $10 parking, MCA Stage patrons are asked to show their garage ticket to theater coat check staff who will issue a discount validation voucher. The $10 parking voucher is limited to six hours on date of performance.
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