Credits

• Billing

  Concept & Direction by Ginger Krebs

  Sound & Technology by Joseph Kramer

  Choreography by Ginger Krebs in collaboration with the performers

  Performance by Christina Chammas, Eunjin Choi, Ginger Krebs, Lauren Kunath, Harlan Rosen, Stephanie Stoumbelis, Kenny Ward, and Yuxuan Zhong

  Costumes by Kristin Abhalter

  Lighting by Rich Norwood

• About the Artists

  Christina Pierre Chammas (performer) is a dance artist invested in making work that explores human relationships using choreographic precision, material specificity, and social care. A frequent lead contributor to collaborative processes in addition to making her own work, Christina has performed with dropshift dance, Harlan Rosen, Helen Lee, and Nora Sharp. She has been fortunate to learn from Molly Shanahan, Bebe Miller, and The Architects in recent years, deepening her investigation in ensemble improvisational environments. She holds a BFA from Wayne State University in her hometown of Detroit, MI. Outside of dance, she can be found fostering pigeons, watching horror movies, and managing operations at her family’s hummus business.

  Eunjin Choi (performer) is a South Korean performance artist based in Chicago. She draws from her background in dance, choreography, and theatre to investigate subjects such as disappearance and grief, incapacitated and unproductive bodies, performance and objecthood, and language and performativity.

  Her work has presented at venues such as Nam June Paik Art Center, Judson Church, PACT Zollverein, Arko Arts Theatre, and featured in festivals such as Festival Bo:m and Inverse Performance Arts Festival. She has received support from Arts Council Korea, LIG Arts Foundation, and Seoul Art and Culture Center, among others. She received her MFA in choreography from the Korea National University of Arts and in Studio Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

  Joseph Kramer (sound and technology designer) is a Chicago-based artist working with technology and sound as orienting tools, creating instruments, objects, and performances that investigate the nature of our connections – to machines, to systems, and to each other. His most substantial body of work has been made since 2009 under the name Coppice, with collaborator Noé Cuéllar: spatially engaged sound work that has ranged from earbuds to concert halls. In solo work and other collaborations, he has released recordings worldwide and designed custom electronics for other artists and institutions. His writing includes a chapter on microcontroller sound in Nicolas Collins’s Handmade Electronic Music, and essays in Leonardo and Leonardo Music Journal. Kramer holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he has taught since 2012, working close to the hardware and favoring hand-built electronics over closed, black-boxed tools.

  For Protected by Invisible Fence, the latest chapter in his collaborations with choreographer Ginger Krebs since 2012, Kramer composed the score and designed the production’s sound and technology system: eight networked, performer-operated stanchions that turn proximity and touch into autonomous, generative sound and light. It’s a through-line in his work: systems with a will of their own, in emergent, reciprocal relationship.

  Ginger Krebs (lead artist) performs, choreographs, and leads collaborative ensemble projects in Chicago. Described as “inherently funny without having a clear joke to ‘get’,” her performances celebrate people’s creative responses to constraints, and marvel at the everyday heroism of human beings who speak truth to power. Her early artmaking focused on sculpture, much of which questioned the psychology of perception and proprioception (the body sensing itself) and imagined infrastructure for systems of exchange. Ultimately, her interest in networks and relational dynamics led her to want to enact systems through movement, so Krebs has been making dance since 2005. Krebs has presented recent projects in Chicago at the Cultural Center, Steppenwolf’s 1700 Theater, and The Dance Center of Columbia College. She has been awarded residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California; the Bogliasco Foundation in Genoa, Italy; the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) at Florida State University-Tallahassee; MacDowell; Ucross; and Djerassi. Her work has been recognized with an Artist Fellowship Award in Performance-Based Arts by the Illinois Arts Council, a MAP Fund grant, and a Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist Award. She teaches at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

  Lauren Kunath (performer) is a freelance movement artist in Chicago originally from Waukee, Iowa. In 2014 she received her BA in dance from Columbia College Chicago and shortly after became a certified pilates Instructor through Polestar Pilates. She has presented her work in shows such as Fraction, Delve and at the Adler Planetarium as well as performed pieces for the Coincidentals, Andy Slavin, Khecari and Ginger Krebs.

  Richard Norwood (Lighting Designer and Production Manager) is a lighting designer and theatre craftsman having worked in Chicago for the last 30 years with such acclaimed companies as Trap Door Theatre, Defiant Theatre, Congo Square Theatre, Remy Bumppo Theatre, Zephyr Dance and nationally with Hershey Felder Productions. Richard previously held the position of production manager with the Museum of Contemporary Art’s Performance Programs. Richard holds a BFA in Lighting Design and Stage Technology from University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.

  Harlan Rosen (performer) is an artist and performer living and working in Chicago. They have presented original work in venues throughout Chicago both extinct and extant, including Outerspace, Elastic Arts, Hairpin Arts Center, Hamlin Park, 6018|North, Co-Prosperity, No Nation, and VCR, as well as public, site-responsive performance activations. Rosen previously appeared in Ginger Krebs’s Escapes and Reversals (2018/19), and has performed in and contributed to ensemble works by Carole McCurdy, Helen Lee, Mitsu Salmon, Christopher Knowlton, Irene Hsiao, Joan Laage, and Iván-Daniel Espinosa, along with being a regular guest at improvised performance series including Cristal Sabbagh’s Freedom From And Freedom To and Sharkey Zalek’s Hot Mess. Formerly, they danced as a competitive salsero with Modern Clave Dance Company and Mixed Motion Art Dance Company, before discovering Butoh and beginning to produce work as an independent artist. Rosen’s ten-plus years of studying Butoh continue to influence their performance practice and life philosophy as well as forays into directorial and pedagogical projects. This fall, they will bring their Butoh/drag solo, ZARA THRUSTER: GOD IS DEAD, on tour throughout Japan on a double bill with their partner, Butoh choreographer Iván-Daniel Espinosa.

  Kristin Abhalter Smith (costume designer) is a multidisciplinary artist and curator with a background in sceneography.

  Stephanie Stoumbelis (performer) is a dancer, drag performer and acupuncture student from Massachusetts. She is returning to performance after a 10-year hiatus. Stephanie had the honor of being a young artist in Minneapolis where she worked with Alex Lange, Mad King Thomas, Supergroup & Rachel Jendrzejewski, Angharad Davies, Megan Mayer and all the brilliant rapscallions of Dykes Do Drag. She won a 2016 Minnesota Sage Award for Outstanding Design for her piece Burger Queen//Dairy King at the Red Eye Theater. She is grateful to be a part of this project and to know all the wonderful people involved across the iterations, including Bocheng Zhang, Garden Du, and Sara Wagenmaker. Stephanie is endlessly fortunate to have such loving family and friends, many whom have traveled to Chicago for this show.

  Kennedy Ward (performer) is a Columbia College Chicago graduate with a BFA in Dance and minor in Art History. As a Chicago native, arts administrator, and fervent dancer; Kennedy works in devotion to the community of dance and art that moves this city. With a background in various fine arts disciplines, anti-racist arts based scholarship, and community based organizations; Kennedy works to center pleasure, community, and its likeness into the arts infrastructure that generates resources and longevity. Serving as a devotee to movement and dance, Kennedy aims to live as an argument of remaining supple and fallible.

  Yuxuan Zhong (performer) is a Chinese-born, Chicago-based performance and moving image artist. He earned his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). His work explores instability, temporality, and the ways bodies, images, and relationships shift beyond familiar structures. In I Do Not Know What I Am Becoming (2025), a solo performance influenced by Butoh, Zhong disrupts his own physical habits, moving from recognizable and predictable actions toward increasingly unfamiliar states. His moving image works Exercise 1: Prelude (2023) and Exercise 1: Act 1 (2023) were exhibited in Perspectives 2024 at CICA Museum in South Korea, examining the changing relationship between the artist, the city of Chicago, and the act of looking. His video work How To Make Beef Wellington (2025), presented in SAIC’s 2025 BFA Show, uses the format of a low-budget television cooking program to assemble a Beef Wellington from ice and water. Zhong is currently performing with Ginger Krebs in Protected by Invisible Fence at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

• Special Thanks

  Special thanks to collaborating artists Ryan Holsopple, Yuyang (Garden) Du, Sara Wagenmaker, and Bocheng Zhang, for their contributions to earlier iterations of this project.

  Thanks to Laura Paige Kyber, Moira Brennan, and all the wonderful MCA staff, John Rich, Ann Brusky, Douglas Brusky, Nathan Smith, Katie Matteson Campana, Josh Hoglund, Jill Perez, Chloe Cucinotta, Joanna Furnans, and La Mar Brown.