TO LEAVE YOU
To Leave You is an immersive, interdisciplinary performance by RMW&A acknowledging the impressions we leave in and for one another as we live and pass on. Created and performed alongside a dynamic team of acclaimed collaborators - dance artists, Jessica Tong and Jason Hortin (Hubbard Street Dance Chicago), musician/composer, Nate Kinsella (Birthmark, American Football) and visual artist, Julia Miller (Manual Cinema) - To Leave You seamlessly blends movement, music, film, and projection into a tapestry of scenes mapping the essences, memories and messages we leave behind when we exit this world.
TO LEAVE YOU, Premiere
November 10, 2026
Three Top Lounge at Salt Shed, Chicago IL
Direction and choreography: Robyn Mineko Williams
Performers: Jason Hortin, Nate Kinsella, Julia Miller, Jessica Tong, Robyn Mineko Williams
Music: Nate Kinsella
Visual design: Julia Miller
Lighting design: Claire Chrzan
Costume Design: Hogan McLaughlin
Original lighting design: David Goodman-Edberg
Original costume design: Melina Ausikaitis
This work was commissioned by and premiered at MCA Chicago in September 2025 for its 2025 Chicago Performs festival. Creative residencies for To Leave You were provided by Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL and Meredith Dincolo and Jose Alejandro Segura. Production residency for the work provided by The Momentary, Bentonville, AR. Robyn Mineko Williams is a 2025 NDP Finalist Grant Award recipient. Support was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project with funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation in support of To Leave You. Robyn Mineko Williams acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council. Special thank you’s to Karen Castleman, Todd Clark, Terence Marling, Jeff Corbin and Massimo Pacilli, and the families of the creative team.
Photos: Chris Strong and Ricardo E. Adame