[Project Creatine] is a theatrical memoir written for the unique talents of operatic tenor and drag performer Jordan Weatherson Pitts/Creatine Price. Combining opera and drag, this performance goes beyond the limitations of either genre, offering a story of perseverance and radical self-definition in an age when many are legally forbidden to exist as they are. [Project Creatine] (working title) makes profoundly audible one person’s struggle to actualize a reality without fear or doubt that they are worthy of life.

Conceived and performed by Jordan Weatherston Pitts (aka Creatine Price)

Music by Samuel Beebe

Libretto by Lex Brown and Jordan Weatherston Pitts

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Experience Maria Somerville’s singularly lush dream pop in a one-night-only performance. Inspired by the landscape of her youth—the wild, mountainous terrain of Galway’s rural west coast—Somerville has developed a spellbinding sound world of gusting ambient electronics, ethereal guitar strums, sparse percussion, and hushed lyrical vignettes. Luster, her 2025 landmark album for the independent label 4AD, was named “Best New Music” by Pitchfork and heralded as an “Irish dream pop masterpiece” by Fader Magazine. Somerville is also known for her beloved Early Bird Show on NTS Radio, where her dawn chorus selections range from blissful ambient and shoegaze to traditional Irish folk songs.

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Heralded for their “white-hot intensity” (The New York Times) and “stunning precision of harmony, intonation, and . . . spectacular virtuosity” (Gramophone Magazine), the Grammy-nominated Lorelei Ensemble performs LOOK UP, a concert of music inspired by the sea and sky. 

The program features Christopher Cerrone’s Beaufort Scales, a new 36-minute oratorio for eight voices and live electronics commissioned by Lorelei Ensemble, that draws inspiration from various iterations of the Beaufort Wind Force Scale created by Sir Francis Beaufort in 1805, along with texts from Melville, Fitzgerald, and Anne Carson. Composer Christopher Cerrone explains, “The piece tries to posit—through both historical sources and technological intervention—what increasingly tempestuous weather is doing to our lives.”

The concert also features Meredith Monk’s “Other Worlds Revealed” and “Earth Seen from Above,” from Atlas, Molly Herron’s “Stellar Atmospheres,” and Elijah Daniel Smith’s “Suspended in Spin” (Lorelei commission). 

“The idea of LOOK UP is about looking up to the sky and seeing we are one entity in this expansive universe, but also looking up and seeing what is happening on the planet right here,” says Artistic Director Beth Willer.

About Lorelei Ensemble

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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 electronic musician Mas Ysa, the duo is joined by five other dancers who 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

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In conjunction with An Indigenous Present, experience a day of multidisciplinary sound-based works and installations by Diné composer, musician, and artist Raven Chacon.

About Raven Chacon

An Indigenous Present is organized by Jeffrey Gibson and Jenelle Porter, guest curators, with Erika Umali, Curator of Collections, and Max Gruber, Curatorial Assistant.

With warmest thanks, we gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the ICA’s Avant Guardian Society in making this exhibition possible.  

This exhibition is supported in part by Peggy J. Koenig, Barbara H. Lloyd, and Kim Sinatra.

“Jazz Urbane is a musical tapestry … informed by tradition, probing the present, provoking thought and possibilities for the (music-making) future.“ —Patrice Rushen  

Jazz Urbane Cafe returns to the ICA for an evening of collaboration, connection, inspiration, and artistic exchange. The Imagine Orchestra directed by Dr. Bill Banfield shares the stage with an incredible array of dynamic artists and projects from across the Greater Boston area, including pianist Dr. John Paul McGee, movement and storyboard artist Wyatt Jackson, filmmaker Karina Choudhury, the voices of Boston Children’s Chorus and Boston City Singers, students from the Longy School, and Boston Ujima Project.  Featuring music, dance, and film, this one-of-a-kind concert experience is a meaningful ode to artistic inspiration and the liberating pleasure and joy of working within a collaborative and supportive community of artists. 

Art Forward is a one-movement interdisciplinary celebration of connection and collaboration. It is our gift, our blessing, and our passion to bring this collective experience to you. 

Jazz Urbane Cafe Art Forward is presented in collaboration with Boston Ujima Project, the Longy School of Music, and the Boston Children’s Chorus and Boston City Singers. 

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This event is sold out for both members and nonmembers!

Boston-born and internationally recognized, DJ Kon takes over the ICA’s waterfront Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater for a special night of music and dancing. The last of an increasingly rare breed of dedicated record crate diggers, Kon brings his deep knowledge of obscure goodies to clubs and festivals worldwide. Dance the night away and celebrate a Boston artist and innovator who places his love of music above everything else. Plan on arriving with comfortable shoes and open ears!

About the Artist

Presented in partnership with Keep On. Keep On is a party held twice a month at Middlesex in Cambridge whose aim is to build community through dance music.

Sip a drink from the ICA Wine + Coffee Bar and enjoy live music from Gregory Groover, one of Boston’s best and brightest jazz musicians.

About Gregory Groover, Jr.

Star Scores is both a performance and immersive sculptural installation by Roberto Carlos Lange (also known as Helado Negro) and visual artist Kristi Sword. The piece features a live ensemble performance of four experimental compositions, paired with an impressionistic film that explores the imperceptible forces that shape the West Texas landscape and the Appalachian skies. Parts of the film were originally commissioned by Ballroom Marfa and organized by Sarah Melendez. 

The installation, featuring large-scale weather balloons, never-before-seen abstract visuals by Sword, and an immersive soundscape by Lange, will be on view in the Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater, included with museum admission, at the following times:
Thu, Feb 13, 2025 | 5–9 PM
Sat + Sun | Feb 15 + 16, 2025, 11 AM–4 PM

About Roberto Carlos Lange

About Kristi Sword

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French composer Pierre Boulez (1925–2016) was among the most influential composers and music educators of the last hundred years. Consistently challenging the musical status quo, Boulez’s music transformed and revolutionized the contemporary musical landscape. In addition to composition, Boulez was a singular conductor who led performances by some of the world’s best orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, and the Chicago Symphony. Boulez also invested in contemporary music’s future, building institutions, ensembles, and training programs like IRCAM, Ensemble intercontemperain, and the Lucerne Festival that still thrive today.

The ICA and the Boston University Center for New Music celebrate the life and legacy of Boulez. Sound Icon, one of Boston’s leading interpreters of contemporary music, will perform under the direction of conductor Jeffrey Means two monumental Boulez works: the early career masterpiece Le marteau sans maître and the late period Dérive 2. These two pieces highlight the extraordinary range, color, and depth of Boulez’s music and offer audiences a rare opportunity to hear these works performed live.

Pierre Boulez’s music and the institutions he built made a lasting impression on the contemporary music world, and his influence continues to challenge and inspire.

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