at The Rotunda at the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center
MUSIC: Anthony Roth Costanzo, Mark A. Shuldiner
PERFORMANCE: Stevie Hanley, Helen Lee, Fabien Maltais-Bayda, Lily McMenamy, Zachary Nicol, Jeffrey Swider Peltz, Stephen Thompson
PHOTOGRAPHY: Will Davidson
DJ SET: Jeremiah Meece
DINNER: Lula Café
DESSERT: Dream Cake Test Kitchen
RenBen 2023: TRU RENAISSANCE gives carte blanche to artist and choreographer Adam Linder. In keeping with the format of artist-conceived evenings inaugurated with Piero Golia’s RenBen at the South Shore Cultural Center in 2022, which featured chef and artist Laila Gohar, movement designer Stephen Galloway, and the Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps.
RenBen raises a significant portion of the museum’s annual budget, enabling new artistic commissions, scholarly discourse, and lasting publications. Your contributions allow us to keep all Ren exhibitions and events free and open to the public.
“Elegantly wrought, at times brassily bombastic, with moments of shimmering magic, humor, and just the right amount of romance, [RenBen 2022] was all those things …” - Andrew Berardini, ARTFORUM
Dancer and choreographer Adam Linder has been invited to Chicago to design RenBen: TRU RENAISSANCE. Linder’s Shelf Life was one of two inaugural commissions for the Museum of Modern Art’s Kravis Studio, dedicated to live art in 2020. Linder is the 2016 recipient of the Hammer Museum’s Mohn Award, granted for artistic excellence to an artist featured in its biennial, Made in L.A.—the first time this award was bestowed on a dancer. Further, Linder has developed projects and performances for The Wattis Institute in San Francisco, Serralves Museum in Porto, LAXART in Los Angeles, The Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin, The Centre Pompidou in Paris, and countless other arts venues. This will be Linder’s first project in Chicago.
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