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Chavi Bansal’s Vimoksha Dance Company presents an evening of three powerful interdisciplinary works. Touched by Water, with original music by Heiko Dijker (Netherlands) and Ustad Sabir Khan (India), explores gender disparity in India. Salt Soaked, with an original score by Inga Chinilina, is a visceral choreographic portrayal of immigration stories that weaves together audience-contributed memories. The company’s third piece is a new work-in-progress inspired by Moksha Patam, a 13th-century board game attributed to the poet-saint Jñāndeva, that was created as a tool to teach Vedantic moral values and was later adapted into Snakes and Ladders during British colonial rule.

Accessibility

  • Accessible and companion seating can be selected when purchasing tickets online, or at the Box Office at 617-478-3100 or visitorservices@icaboston.org.
  • Assistive listening devices are available for all theater programs at the theater entrance.
  • A link to live captioning will be shared by the day of the event and will be available in the theater.
  • ASL interpretation is available by advance request; please contact the Box Office at 617-478-3100 or visitorservices@icaboston.org to make a request.

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KAIROS Dance Theater is dedicated to collaboratively creating visceral, socially engaged performance works that fuse rigorous physicality, embodied storytelling, and immersive design. The company presents a bold evening of interdisciplinary performance featuring three distinctive works: Tavernous, a darkly comic, satirical dance-theater piece performed live with Boston’s celebrated vocal ensemble Renaissance Men; a world premiere created in collaboration with Grammy-nominated cellist Dave Eggar, who will also perform live; and husk/vessel, a nationally touring, critically acclaimed work co-created with choreographer Paula Josa-Jones.

Accessibility

  • Accessible and companion seating can be selected when purchasing tickets online, or at the Box Office at 617-478-3100 or visitorservices@icaboston.org.
  • Assistive listening devices are available for all theater programs at the theater entrance.
  • A link to live captioning will be shared by the day of the event and will be available in the theater.
  • ASL interpretation is available by advance request; please contact the Box Office at 617-478-3100 or visitorservices@icaboston.org to make a request.

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With exciting choreography and stellar dancers, New York City–based Gibney Company presents a breadth of works by emerging and renowned choreographers who are committed to exploring connections between the rigorous, often superhuman, physicality of contemporary dance alongside responsive, humanistic storytelling. The company will perform William Forsythe’s Trio (of six), Roy Assaf’s A Couple, and Lucinda Childs’s Three Dances (for prepared piano) John Cage.

Accessibility

  • Accessible and companion seating can be selected when purchasing tickets online, or at the Box Office at 617-478-3100 or visitorservices@icaboston.org.
  • Assistive listening devices are available for all theater programs at the theater entrance.
  • A link to live captioning will be shared by the day of the event and will be available in the theater.
  • ASL interpretation is available by advance request; please contact the Box Office at 617-478-3100 or visitorservices@icaboston.org to make a request.

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A work of magical realism narrated by and featuring the viewpoints of six women, Marks of RED continues award-winning choreographer Shamel Pitts’s research exploring Black embodiment, aliveness, and human connection. Marks of RED is an Afrofuturistic meditation on the “womb space,” divining the effect that memory has on our experiences, senses, bodies, reality, and imaginative possibilities.

This multidisciplinary work includes scenic designs by Mimi Lien, projection lights by Lucca Del Carlo, and production by TRIBE arts collective. Marks of RED explores the nuanced multiplicity and deep complexity of self-expression and the perceived spaces for regeneration, enfoldment, implosion, rupture, and potential.

About TRIBE

TRIBE’s mission is to cultivate a space of discovery and a platform for artists—specifically artists of color—with huge inspiration from the Afrofuturism movement. This movement states that we have a responsibility through our work to tell new stories and create a brighter future that is different and shines more luminously than our past.

TRIBE (TRI314 Multidisciplinary Visual Performance) is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary arts collective founded by MacArthur “Genius Grant”  Fellow Shamel Pitts in December 2019. The collective is composed of international and local artists working across mediums such as movement, choreography, digital storytelling, lighting design, video mapping projection, poetry, spoken word, cinematography, scenography, dramaturgy, costume styling, and music composition.

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Accessibility

  • Accessible and companion seating can be selected when purchasing tickets online, or at the Box Office at 617-478-3100 or visitorservices@icaboston.org.
  • Assistive listening devices are available for all theater programs at the theater entrance.
  • A link to live captioning will be shared by the day of the event and will be available in the theater.
  • ASL interpretation is available by advance request; please contact the Box Office at 617-478-3100 or visitorservices@icaboston.org to make a request.

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Support for Marks of RED is provided, in part, by The David Henry Fund for Performance.

Choreographers Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener return to the ICA with their newest experiment, Open Machine. Exploring the relationship between human and machine intelligence, Mitchell and Riener enact a constantly shifting, multi-sensory performance that blurs the boundaries between public and private perceptions. Featuring a sweeping sound score by vocal artist Charmaine Lee and electronic musician Mas Ysa, and media design by Jesse Stiles, seven extraordinary dancers erupt in a dynamic choreography for the stage that reimagines live gathering, decision-making, and our influence on a technologically mediated and rapidly changing world. 

About Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener

Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener are New York-based dance artists. Their work involves building collaborative worlds through improvisational techniques, digital technologies, and material construction. They met as dancers in the Merce Cunningham Dance company. Since 2010 they have created over 25 multidisciplinary dance works including site-responsive installations in public spaces, dances for film, and performances in venues such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Barbican Centre, REDCAT, The Walker Art Center, and MoMA/PS1. Throughout, they have maintained a commitment to queer culture and aesthetics. Their partnership intentionally blurs authorship and maintains a deep commitment to collaboration with a diverse community of dancers, performers, artists, and cultural institutions.

Accessibility

  • Accessible seating is available first-come first-served and may be selected upon theater entry. Please contact our Visitor Services team at visitorservices@icaboston.org or 617-478-3100 for more information.
  • Assistive listening devices are available for all theater programs at the theater entrance.
  • A link to live captioning will be shared by the day of the event and will be available in the theater.
  • ASL interpretation is available by advance request; please contact our Visitors Services team at 617-478-3100 or visitorservices@icaboston.org to make a request.

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Taíno AfroBorikua award-winning choreographer, interdisciplinary movement artist, and artistic director of Danza Orgánica, Mar Parrilla will respond to Caroline Monnet: Man-made Land through expressive dance and movement. 

Join Parrilla after the performance for a Q+A. 

About Caroline Monnet: Man-made Land

Caroline Monnet’s site-responsive installation for the Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall accompanies An Indigenous Present, a thematic exhibition spanning 100 years of contemporary Indigenous art. Responding to the ICA’s location at the edge of the harbor, Monnet’s installation is plotted with “blooms” that expand fractal-like, symbolizing Boston’s 400-year history of land reclamation. Intricately layered materials cohere into geometric circles and lines that Monnet abstracts from Anishinaabeg designs found on regalia, birch bark baskets, and beadwork. Man-made Land is a meditation, as she explains, “on the interconnectedness of all living things…a way to transmit cultural knowledge and values across generations, reinforcing a sense of community and belonging.” 

About Mar Parrilla

Mar Parrilla is a Taíno AfroBorikua and award-winning choreographer, educator, and community organizer. She is the founding Artistic Director of Danza Orgánica, a Boston-based dance theater company rooted in liberation, antiracism, antipatriarchy, and decolonial practices. A proud mother and interdisciplinary artist, Mar founded the Dance for Social Justice™ program and the annual We Create! Festival. Her work has been recognized by the BARR Foundation, the New England Foundation for the Arts, and the Boston Foundation, among others. Mar is also a Luminary Artist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and has led multi–year collaborations with the Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe and Puerto Rico-based artists through Proyecto Melaza. She has taught since 1998 in K–12 and higher education, integrating decolonial approaches into her pedagogy. Fluent in five languages, she is currently learning her Taíno Arawak language and proudly honors her lineage of artists, healers, and visionaries. 

Join Summer Stages Dance @ ICA resident artists Eiko Otake and DonChristian Jones for a workshop designed for “people who love to move or want to move with delicious feeling.” Explore exercises designed to focus awareness, coordination, and sensing the reciprocal natures of movement and emotion. No dance training is required, and all abilities are welcome.    

2025 Summer Stages Dance @ ICA/Boston is made possible, in part, with the support of Jane Karol and Howard Cooper, Carol and John Moriarty, and The Aliad Fund.

Making their Boston debut, Canadian contemporary dance company Anne Plamondon Productions explore the body as a source of resilience, beauty, and hope in Myokine. Secreted by muscles when the body is in motion, myokines are often called “molecules of hope” for the sense of well-being and optimism they provide. For Plamondon, this process symbolizes the healing role of the body when faced with the increasing complexities and troubling issues of our time. It embodies the essential function of dance to release tension, emotion, and anxiety—bringing to life the power of our bodies when united in movement.

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  • Accessible and companion seating can be selected when purchasing tickets online, or at the Box Office at 617-478-3100 or visitorservices@icaboston.org.
  • Assistive listening devices are available for all theater programs at the theater entrance.
  • A link to live captioning will be shared by the day of the event and will be available in the theater.
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Known for its expansive vision, versatility, and technical prowess, Doug Varone and Dancers creates kinetically thrilling dances that reflect the complexity of the human spirit. From the smallest gesture to full-throttled bursts of movement, Varone’s work takes your breath away. Doug Varone and Dancers returns with highlights from its 30-year repertory including Lux (2006) and the Boston premieres of Home (1988), and Restore (2024).

Accessibility

  • Accessible and companion seating can be selected when purchasing tickets online, or at the Box Office at 617-478-3100 or visitorservices@icaboston.org.
  • Assistive listening devices are available for all theater programs at the theater entrance.
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Each summer the ICA offers residencies for choreographers to develop new work. Get a special sneak peek at their efforts during these work-in-progress showings of their exciting new projects.

Eiko Otake and DonChristian Jones | July 6, 2 PM

Inspired by the ever-changing nature of water and the body as a river of memories, Eiko Otake and DonChristian Jones, who began their collaboration in 2017, will continue to develop and expand their artistic connection at the ICA. In a work-in-progress presentation overlooking the Boston Harbor, Otake and Jones will share new materials and engage in conversations with visitors.

Late seating not guaranteed.

Content advisory: This showing contains nudity.

About Eiko Otake and DonChristian Jones

Eiko Otake is a Japanese-born, New York–based interdisciplinary performance artist who worked for over four decades as half of the duo Eiko & Koma. Their works were commissioned by the American Dance Festival, BAM Next Wave Festival, Joyce Theater, Kennedy Center, the Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Whitney Museum, among others. Since 2014, Otake has developed A Body in Places, a series of site-specific solo performances at more than 70 locations. A Body in Fukushima, a collaboration with photographer William Johnston, documented her five visits to post-nuclear disaster zones in Japan. The Duet Project (2018-) is an ongoing cross-disciplinary collaboration with artists as diverse as David Harrington, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Wen Hui, Joan Jonas, and Beverly McIver. Otake’s ten-year initiative I Invited Myself showcases her media works through exhibitions and screenings. Otake’s feature-length film A Body in Fukushima and documentary No Rule Is Our Rule (co-directed with Wen Hui) have been screened in film festivals worldwide.

DonChristian Jones is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist, singer/songwriter, and producer. His work spans musical and time-based performance, rap albums, video, and public murals, blending genres of painting and performance installation. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 2012, where he studied painting both there and abroad in Rome, Italy. Jones has shown and performed at institutions such as The Whitney Museum, MoMA Ps1, New Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Carnegie Center, and was a collaborating artist-in-residence at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Captiva, Florida with Eiko Otake. Forbes listed DonChristian’s debut album, Where There’s Smoke, as one of the ten best Hip Hop albums of 2018.

Netta Yerushalmy with Katherine Profeta, Alla Kovgan, Tuce Yasak, Paula Matthusen, and Mieke Ulfig | July 13, 2pm

In July, the museum will host acclaimed choreographer Netta Yerushalmy for a week-long residency as she develops a new interdisciplinary performance centered around female aging and its impact on art-making. Yerushalmy will create the work alongside five other collaborators, including Katherine Profeta (writer), Alla Kovgan (filmmaker), Tuce Yasak (light /space design), Paula Matthusen (music), and Mieke Ulfig (graphic art). Be among the first to see this new work take shape in a special preview showing and learn about their collaborative working process.

About Netta Yerushalmy

Netta Yerushalmy is a dance artist based in New York City. Her work aims to engage with audiences by imparting the sensation of things as they are perceived, not as they are known, and to challenge how meaning is attributed and constructed.

For her choreographic work, Yerushalmy has been awarded a USA Artists Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Princeton Arts Fellowship, Research Fellowship at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Toulmin Fellowship for Women Leaders in Dance at Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University, New York City Center Choreography Fellowship, Van Cleef & Arpels / Jerome Robbins Bogliasco Fellowships, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award, National Dance Project Grant, LMCC’s Extended Life program, Six Points Fellowship, Cultural Leadership Fellowship from Mandel Institute, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.

Her work has been commissioned and presented by venues such as PEAK Performances, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Joyce Theater, American Dance Festival, New York Live Arts, Danspace Project, Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Wexner Center for the Arts, La Mama, River to River Festival, Center for the Arts/Buffalo, International Dance (Jerusalem), Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Foundation, ‘62 Center for the Arts/Williamstown, ODC & Bridge Project, Harkness Dance Festival, International Solo Festival (Stuttgart), and Roulette.

Yerushalmy’s work has been supported by the Baryshnikov Arts Center, UCROSS Foundation/UCLA, Watermill Center, MANCC, National Center for Choreography/Akron, Dance Initiative, Djerassi Arts Program, The Yard, Jacob’s Pillow Lab, Miami Light Project, Movement Research, Gibney’s DiP, and Trinity College.

Yerushalmy works across genres and disciplines: she contributed to artist Josiah McElheny’s Prismatic Park at Madison Square Park, choreographed a Red Hot Chili Peppers music video, worked with cellist Maya Beiser and composer Julia Wolfe on Spinning, and collaborated on evenings of theory and performance at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI Berlin).

2025 Summer Stages Dance @ ICA/Boston is made possible, in part, with the support of George and Ann Colony, Jane Karol and Howard Cooper, Carol and John Moriarty, Andrew and Linda Hammett Ory, and The Aliad Fund.