Friday-Saturday, April 17-18, 7:30 pm
Sunday, April 19, 3 pm

Tickets $40, MCA members $32
Buy Tickets Online
or call the MCA Box Office, 312.397.4010

Special Opening Night Celebration
Friday, April 17, 6 pm
Tickets, $100, feature an intimate pre-performance dinner and include a ticket to Orpheus and Eurydice. Proceeds benefit performance programs at the MCA.
Purchase Tickets Online, contact Andrea Miller at 312.397.3868 or email amiller@mcachicago.org

 

Orpheus and Eurydice is the newest ballet by the internationally acclaimed Montreal choreographer Marie Chouinard. Drawing from the realm of Greek myths, she explores the birth of language, the powers of language and its links to the body, and the tie between language and death. Always provocative, this vigorously sensual performance celebrates the human body as a carrier of life, and carves out a place for us to discover the poetics of the body in immediate, intelligible and ever-surprising ways.

About the Artist
Dubbed the high priestess of the avant-garde, Chouinard unites the sensual and cerebral in her stark, iconoclastic, visually stunning works. Her provocative intelligence, idiosyncratic humor, sexuality, and meticulous construction have garnered her awards around the world. The international reputation of the Compagnie Marie Chouinard, which was formed in 1990, stems from her prior practice as a solo artist. Between 1978 and 1990, she created over fifty choreographic productions, action-performances, vocal works, installations and films, in which she refined her lifelong interest in formal research and the human body. Throughout her career, her works have been perceived as provocations, but they also are pathways towards freedom and compassion, where humor is possible and Eros omnipresent.


Savage and infinitely refined... terrifying, exhilarating, mysterious, immediate.
- Village Voice

A hurricane of unbridled imaginativeness.
- New York Times

Running time: 75 minutes, no intermission
* Recommended for mature audiences
* No late seating permitted
* This performance includes stroboscopic effects (length: 15 seconds)

Artists Up Close

First Night post-show talk

with Compagnie Marie Chouinard
Friday, April 17

Workshop: Compagnie Marie Chouinard: Creative Process and Repertory
Saturday, April 18, 11 am - 1 pm
$15, $10 with Orpheus and Eurydice performance ticket
Buy Tickets Online, or call the MCA Box Office, 312.397.4010
Company members Carol Prieur and Lucie Mongrain introduce elements of Chouinard's work in this unique workshop for intermediate-advanced and professional dancers and choreographers. The workshop emphasizes Chouinard's concept of the course of energy through the body, its manifestation in movement, and capacity to communicate with viewers. Employing the voice, breath, undulations of the spinal column, facial expressions, as well as physicality, workshop participants learn to awaken an innate intelligence to explore new realms of creativity and versatility as artists.

Special Offers

Students
Single tickets are just $10 with valid student ID (subject to availability).

Subscribers
Save up to 20% and receive flexible exchange privileges* when you purchase tickets to three or more shows.
*Tickets may be exchanged up to 48 hours prior to the performance (subject to availability).

Groups
Save 20% when you buy 10 or more tickets for a performance.

Our flexible payment plan makes reservations easy and risk-free. Call 312.397.4010 to make a reservation for your group. Ask about private meet-the-artist and reception opportunities.

MCA members
Only MCA members enjoy discounts on performance tickets, at Puck's, and in the MCA Store, plus unlimited free access to the museum and so much more! Join today and become a part of the art.

For more information or to purchase tickets, call 312.397.4010 or visit www.mcachicago.org.

MCA Stage ushers
See the show for free! MCA Stage ushers take tickets, direct theater patrons to their seats, escort disabled patrons, and provide other assistance as directed by the house manager. For more information, call 312.397.4072 or e-mail mcaperformances@hotmail.com.


MORE SAVINGS
$10 Parking
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.

The MCA garage is automated and may be without an attendant. Garage parking is limited. Please allow half an hour for parking before curtain time.

Museum admission
Redeem your performance ticket stub to receive free museum admission, valid during regular museum hours up to seven days from the performance date.