TO LEAVE YOU
To Leave You is a new 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 investigating the idea of trace - a mapping of the essences, memories and messages we leave behind when we exit this world.
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: David Goodman-Edberg
Costume design: Melina Ausikaitis
This work was commissioned by MCA Chicago 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 and to address continued sustainability needs. 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