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The 2025&nbsp;On Stage&nbsp;series kicks off with&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://mcachicago.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c24ba7c5a91cefd699dc985e1&amp;id=8e695f6411&amp;e=7d7a84135f" target="_blank">Elisa Harkins’s&nbsp;Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ</a> on January 31 and February 1. This dreamy, intense performance blends Indigenous languages and pop, reshaping the way we experience music.&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://mcachicago.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c24ba7c5a91cefd699dc985e1&amp;id=fc34c1081c&amp;e=7d7a84135f" target="_blank">Tickets are on sale now!</a> See more and save! Get&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://mcachicago.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c24ba7c5a91cefd699dc985e1&amp;id=eda4b8bd53&amp;e=7d7a84135f" target="_blank">tickets for $20 each</a>&nbsp;when you see all&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://mcachicago.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c24ba7c5a91cefd699dc985e1&amp;id=0a955c3abc&amp;e=7d7a84135f" target="_blank">On Stage&nbsp;performances</a>—$40 in savings! The four featured performances delve into colonial histories and cultural roots, offering profound insights into art and society today.

On Stage: Lineages

Dreamy and intense, this performance by artist and composer&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://mcachicago.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c24ba7c5a91cefd699dc985e1&amp;id=58e96bb6ed&amp;e=7d7a84135f" target="_blank">Elisa Harkins</a>&nbsp;fuses tradition with the contemporary to transform how pop music looks and sounds. <a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://mcachicago.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c24ba7c5a91cefd699dc985e1&amp;id=3c513277e9&amp;e=7d7a84135f" target="_blank">Buy Tickets</a>

Elisa Harkins, Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ

<a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://mcachicago.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c24ba7c5a91cefd699dc985e1&amp;id=bb77a6f481&amp;e=7d7a84135f" target="_blank">Anne Collod</a>&nbsp;examines the foundations of modern dance, including the gender roles and colonialist perspectives that inspired two dance icons: Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn. <a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://mcachicago.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c24ba7c5a91cefd699dc985e1&amp;id=8438a2a205&amp;e=7d7a84135f" target="_blank">Buy Tickets</a>

Anne Collod, Moving alter-natives

BOND CHAPEL | 1025 E 58TH ST TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://renaissancesociety.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=28258b64874e626df0979c0de&amp;id=dfecfa6586&amp;e=375d06b725" target="_blank">HERE</a>&nbsp;Making their US debut as a duo, Pat Thomas (piano and electronics) and Mariam Rezaei (turntables) are radical composers unbound by genre. Informed by jazz, free improvisation, dub, footwork, avant-garde electronics, noise and chamber music, they create a new kind of electro-acoustic music. One of the greatest pianists the UK has produced, Thomas is fluent in the languages of jazz, modern composition, funk, reggae and calypso. His style can range from thunderous clusters and angular vamps to radiant lyricism and delicate inside piano explorations. As an electronic musician, Thomas has fused drum ‘n bass with Webern and P-Funk (1997’s&nbsp;New Jazz Jungle: Remembering), crossed J Dilla with Morton Feldman (2024’s&nbsp;This Is Trick Step) and created a wildly inventive series of albums using IRCAM’s Time Stretch programme. Using specially prepared samples, Rezaei will employ a range of techniques, including free juggling, turntable sines (controlling sine waves using the pitch slider), needle dripping and needle weaving -&nbsp;—two new methods she debuted on&nbsp;her 2024 album&nbsp;FRACTURED. The former involves composing music made specifically for needle dropping on multiple decks at once. The latter is a way of using a digital vinyl system to loop music live using two decks, with nothing predetermined.Presented in partnership with the&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://renaissancesociety.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=28258b64874e626df0979c0de&amp;id=9e2c5155e4&amp;e=375d06b725" target="_blank">Frequency Festival</a>. <a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://renaissancesociety.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=28258b64874e626df0979c0de&amp;id=a526ceab35&amp;e=375d06b725" target="_blank">Learn more</a>. Left: Mariam Rezaei. Right: Pat Thomas, photo by David Laskowski.

Mariam Rezaei & Pat Thomas

Looking into his personal archive of performance,&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://mcachicago.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c24ba7c5a91cefd699dc985e1&amp;id=9e23f9d136&amp;e=7d7a84135f" target="_blank">Miguel Gutierrez</a>&nbsp;explores how the past can be a blueprint for a more rigorous honesty in the present. <a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://mcachicago.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c24ba7c5a91cefd699dc985e1&amp;id=c0ed978b22&amp;e=7d7a84135f" target="_blank">Buy Tickets</a>

Miguel Gutierrez, Super Nothing

An exorcism in theater,&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://mcachicago.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c24ba7c5a91cefd699dc985e1&amp;id=286f74e1c9&amp;e=7d7a84135f" target="_blank">KLII</a>&nbsp;explores the nature of evil and what is required to unroot the legacies of catastrophic events. <a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://mcachicago.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c24ba7c5a91cefd699dc985e1&amp;id=c571ec463a&amp;e=7d7a84135f" target="_blank">Buy Tickets</a>

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