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17-629: In 1996, Peter Taub was appointed as the MCA director of Performance Programs. Before joinging the MCA, Taub was the executive director of the Randolph Street Gallery . His first year of programming included Latin-jazz trumpeter Jerry Gonzalez , experimental reedist Douglas Ewart , and local free-improv artist Liof Munimula. Throughout its 15-years, the MCA stage has featured global wide theater, dance, music, multimedia, and film performances. In addition to working with local community organizations for

34-512: A dance city. In 2008, the MCA Stage hosted the Chicago-debut of New York-based Elevator Repair Service and its performance of Gatz , a seven-hour reading and reenactment of F. Scott Fitzgerald 's The Great Gatsby . A Chicago critic writes, "Those lucky enough to catch Gatz were treated to a perspective-altering experience. When the show finally hit New York in 2010, it was the talk of

51-454: A multimedia public art spectacle inspired by science fiction and comic books that was projected onto the MCA façade as audience members watched from the MCA plaza. The production used new technologies, live performers, and hand-illustrated shadow imagery to display the 80-foot tall production. New York-based theater company Elevator Repair Service performed Gatz at the MCA in the company's Chicago debut. The performance—a verbatim retelling of

68-719: The Boston Globe as "a force of nature", "a cello goddess" by The New Yorker and "the reigning queen of the avant-garde cello" by The Washington Post . Beiser is a 2015 United States Artists Distinguished Music Fellow and the Inaugural Mellon Distinguished Visiting Artist at the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology. Maya Beiser was born 31 December 1963 in Gazit , a kibbutz in Israel. Her mother

85-728: The Congo , Poland , Mexico , Ireland , and beyond. Under Taub’s leadership, the MCA Stage developed an ensemble-in-residence program as well as the MCA Composers Stage series, which is devoted to supporting the new and experimental music scene, and the MCA Global Stage series, which features international theater companies. Taub has commissioned new works for the MCA by artists including Meg Stuart /Damaged Goods, The Builders Association, William Kentridge / Handspring Puppet Company , and Ernest Khabeer Dawkins, among others. In 2007,

102-497: The Japanese American dance artists Eiko & Koma performed Time is Not Even, Space is Not Empty as the first combination exhibition and performance project Taub curated for the MCA. The exhibition consists of three performances: Naked, The Caravan Project, and Regeneration; as well as a gallery presentation. In September 2010, the MCA and Chicago-based Redmoon Theater co-produced the project The Astronaut’s Birthday ,

119-565: The MCA commissioned cello and video work by Maya Beiser , and it commissioned a work by Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group . MCA Stage 2011 commissions include Lucky Plush Productions The Better Half and Curious Theatre Branch Still in Play: A Performance of Getting Ready . Time is Not Even, Space is Not Empty by the Japanese-American dance artists Eiko & Koma is the first exhibition and performance project Taub curated for

136-650: The MCA staff, Taub was the executive director of the Randolph Street Gallery . Taub has more than 20 years experience in developing visual and performance art exhibitions and community outreach programs. Taub earned a BA from Princeton in cultural history and photography and later went on to receive an MFA in photography and sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago . He has participated in policy committees and boards for various Chicago-based cultural organizations. Taub says that when curating shows for

153-412: The MCA, he does not look for linear narratives: "I think that the episodic, fractured narrative really is closer to our multitasking world....I try to have work on our stage that is similarly multifaceted." The MCA Stage —the museum’s performing arts program founded in 1996—features performers ranging from Chicago-based artists such as eighth blackbird and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago to artists from

170-522: The MCA. The 2011 exhibition consists of three performances— Naked , The Caravan Project , and Regeneration —and a gallery component. The MCA Stage has hosted notable dance performers, such as the Trisha Brown Dance Company, most recently in 2011, celebrating the company’s 40th year, Bill T. Jones (2008), and Merce Cunningham (2007); Taub is noted as key player in Chicago’s growth as

187-856: The San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in 2014 and was presented at BAM Next Wave Festival in 2015. In July 2017, she performed a reimagining of David Bowie 's album " Blackstar ", arranged for her by the composer Evan Ziporyn with the Barcelona Symphony and Catalonia National Orchestra and Ziporyn conducting. In August 2018, Beiser premiered Mark Anthony Turnage cello concerto "Maya" at The Proms in London's Royal Albert Hall . Maya Beiser's discography includes fourteen solo albums, multiple studio recordings and film music collaborations. She has collaborated with film composer James Newton Howard and

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204-556: The basis of her album of that name. Her production, Elsewhere: a CelloOpera, which premiered at Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2012, is an imaginative retelling of the Biblical legend of Lot's wife, created with theater director Robert Woodruff, with original text by Erin Cressida Wilson and music by Missy Mazzoli . All Vows , a show that reimagines rock classics such as Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog" and Nirvana's "Lithium", premiered at

221-541: The co-presentations of performing arts, the MCA stage is also known as the "most active interdisciplinary arts presenter in Chicago". The performance program developed "Artists Up Close", which is a series of post-show talks, panels, discussions, and artist-led workshops designed to engage the audience with the artists. The 2009 season saw 80 performances' featuring dance, music, theater, and cross-disciplinary forms, as well as 40 Artists Up Close discussions or workshops. In 2011,

238-568: The town, but Chicagoans had already beentheredonethat, thanks to the MCA." MCA Stage Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Maya Beiser Maya Beiser (born 31 December 1963) is an American musician , cellist , performing artist and producer who lives in New York City. Beiser was raised on a kibbutz in Israel by her French mother and Argentine father, and graduated from Yale University School of Music. She has been described by

255-535: The unabridged version of F. Scott Fitzgerald ’s The Great Gatsby —took six hours as performers reenacted the story. Peter Taub Peter Taub (born 1958) was the director of performance programs at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and is now an independent freelance curator. Taub served as the head of the MCA’s performing arts program since its conception in 1996 until his departure in 2016. Prior to joining

272-648: Was French, her father Argentinian. As a child, she played the piano before switching to the cello. At age twelve, she was discovered by the violinist Isaac Stern and embarked on a solo career. Beiser graduated from Yale University School of Music in 1987. She collaborated with composers Louis Andriessen , Steve Reich , David Lang , Tan Dun , Brian Eno , Philip Glass , Osvaldo Golijov , Michael Gordon , Michael Harrison , Julia Wolfe , Mark Anthony Turnage , visual artists Shirin Neshat , and Bill Morrison , dancer Wendy Whelan and choreographer Lucinda Childs . Beiser

289-478: Was a speaker at the 2011 TED conference in Long Beach California . Her TEDtalk performance has been watched by over a million people and translated to 34 languages. Beiser has conceived, performed and produced three multimedia concerts for Carnegie Hall : World To Come; Almost Human , a collaboration with visual artist Shirin Neshat and composer Eve Beglarian  ; and Provenance , which forms

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