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Exhibition Detail John Jota Leaños: Imperial Silence: Una Ópera Muerta Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) 220 East Chicago Ave Chicago, IL 60611 September 14th, 2012 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

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Performance

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John Jota Leaños

Imperial Silence: Una Ópera Muerta

September 14-16, 2012

Tickets $28, members $22, students $10

Cultural taboos around silence, death, and dissent are presented through a multimedia performance that fuses dark, humored animation with Mexican dance, Mariachi, hip-hop, bossa nova, and blues. The work is created by San Francisco-based director John Jota Leaños; Chicago-based choreographer Joel Valentin-Martinez; DJ/composer Cristóbal Martinez; and the Tucson-based Mariachi ensemble Los Cuatro Vientos. The opera’s four acts explore war and empire by following Mother Goose children’s rhymes; a skeleton traveling the road to Mictlan (the Aztec underworld); and an animated newscast that includes news footage from Chicago events.

Presented by the MCA in association with the National Museum of Mexican Art.