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		<title>Enduring Questions: Liz Lerman and Dance Exchange investigate the beginning of time</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/11/02/enduring-questions-liz-lerman-and-dance-exchange-investigate-the-beginning-of-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 09:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Hoyer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Edith Warner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Kane]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Liz Lerman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sharon Hoyer The terms investigation, exploration and research show up a lot in artist statements and program notes these days, but few artists use the words as comprehensively as Liz Lerman, former artistic director of the DC-based Dance Exchange. Lerman’s enthusiastic curiosity has led her to collaborate with numerous minds in the fields of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preview: Eiko and Koma &#8220;Regeneration&#8221;/MCA Stage</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/09/20/preview-eiko-and-koma-regenerationmca-stage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Hoyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED The MCA is currently presenting a compelling retrospective on the forty-year artistic journey of Eiko and Koma—movement artists born in postwar Japan, trained by Butoh founders Tatsumi Hijkata and Kazuo Ohno, emigrated to the U.S. in the seventies, who create stark, intensely present work on subjects of nature and corporeality. Photography and documentation are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rehearsing the Rehearsal: Jenny Magnus and Curious Theatre Branch prepare &#8220;Still in Play&#8221; at the MCA</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/09/14/rehearsing-the-rehearsal-jenny-magnus-and-curious-theatre-branch-prepare-still-in-play-at-the-mca/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monica Westin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By  Monica Westin Under Peter Taub’s direction, the Museum of Contemporary Art comes full circle this year with its development residency for Curious Theatre Branch: The MCA’s performance program began decades ago with informal performances by Chicago avant-garde mainstays like Goat Island and Curious. After expanding to include, and occasionally focus most on, global and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gestures toward the infinite: Eiko and Koma go &#8220;Naked&#8221; at the MCA</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/06/20/gestures-toward-the-infinite-eiko-and-koma-go-naked-at-the-mca/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Hoyer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Dance Shows]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kazuo Ohno]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A large canvas curtain pressed with black feathers cordons off a section of clean white gallery space. Holes are rent throughout the curtain, inviting visitors to step close and peer through. What they see is a large nest—or perhaps island—of earth, twigs and feathers and strewn atop the angular limbs of artists Eiko and Koma. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Door Opens: What happens after Goat Island</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/02/08/a-new-door-opens-what-happens-after-goat-island/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 18:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie Jean Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dusan Makavejev]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ingmar Bergman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Valerie Jean Johnson After twenty years collaborating in the internationally renowned performance ensemble Goat Island, one might expect the company’s co-founders Lin Hixson and Matthew Goulish to take a break; perhaps a nice, long vacation. On the contrary—just as Goat Island was embarking on the tour of its final performance, &#8220;The Lastmaker,&#8221; Hixson and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roll of Thunder: Taiko Legacy returns to the MCA</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2010/12/14/roll-of-thunder-taiko-legacy-returns-to-the-mca/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Hoyer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amy Homma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JASC Tasukasa Taiko]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching a thunderous, highly choreographed taiko performance, you might be inclined to think you are witnessing an ancient Japanese rite, an homage to emperors and Shinto goddesses passed down from masters through wide-eyed generations, like karate or sushi making. In truth, taiko performance—at least the way Americans most often see it played, as an ensemble—is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deconstructing War: Superamas brings their metatheater to the MCA Stage</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2010/09/28/deconstructing-war-superamas-brings-their-metatheater-to-themca-stage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monica Westin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Philippe Riera]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The MCA&#8217;s new Global Stage series, part of a remarkably strong lineup of performance at the museum&#8217;s theater this year, begins with Vienna-and-Paris-based company Superamas’ show &#8220;EMPIRE (Art &#38; Politics),&#8221; a postmodern performance using theater, dance and recorded film that combines a re-enactment of a Napoleonic battle, a film-release party in New York and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Astronaut&#8217;s Birthday/Redmoon-MCA Stage</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2010/09/14/review-the-astronauts-birthdayredmoon-mca-stage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Donovan Foote]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Maugeri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Lasko]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tony Fitzpatrick]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a brilliant sort of &#8220;Eureka!&#8221; moment revealed early in the staging of &#8220;The Astronaut&#8217;s Birthday,&#8221; Redmoon&#8217;s spectacle produced in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art, and that is the realization that the array of symmetrical windows composing the facade of the museum&#8217;s Josef Paul Kleihues building make a perfect set of panels for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sci Fi High: Redmoon creates &#8220;The Astronaut&#8217;s Birthday&#8221; on the MCA&#8217;s facade</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2010/09/07/preview-the-astronauts-birthday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monica Westin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Frank Maugeri]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tria Smith]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Next week Redmoon Theater will unveil their latest collaboration with MCA Stage, &#8220;The Astronaut’s Birthday,&#8221; a performance about an astronaut’s journey home to earth that will turn the MCA’s front façade into comic-book- and 1950s-sci-fi-inspired frames that incorporate hand-illustrated shadow puppets, live actors and projections. We spoke with Redmoon Artistic Director Frank Maugeri about retro [...]]]></description>
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		<title>True Lies: John Jasperse collaborates in search of beauty</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2010/04/05/true-lies-john-jaspere-collaborates-in-search-of-beauty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie Jean Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ammar Eloueini]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hahn Rowe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joe Levasseur]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Valerie Jean Johnson Dancer, choreographer, director, designer, artistic director—when I ask John Jasperse how he balances the many roles he plays within his eponymous dance company, he laughs, pauses and slyly replies, “You don’t wanna know.” The truth of the matter is that Jasperse wouldn’t have it any other way. In the twenty-plus years [...]]]></description>
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