A.I.M by KYLE ABRAHAM the Barrington Foundation Wendy Mccain Northeast and the Midwest

PILLOWNOTES JACOB’S PILLOW EXTENDS SPECIAL THANKS by Maura Keefe TO OUR VISIONARY LEADERS The PillowNotes series comprises essays commissioned from our Scholars-in-Residence to provide audiences with a broader VISIONARY LEADERS form an important foundation of support and context for viewing dance. demonstrate their passion for and commitment to Jacob’s Pillow through annual gifts of $10,000 and above. “Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.” ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room Their deep affiliation ensures the success and longevity of the Pillow’s annual offerings, including educational initiatives, free public Home matters. Heart, hearth, and castle. A refuge. A place from which to venture and a place to return. Home for Kyle programs, The School, the Archives, and more. Abraham has multiple meanings. In his skin, and in his body, in music and art. In New York, and now in Los Angeles. But really, it’s Pittsburgh that was first and maybe even always home. It’s where Kyle Abraham is from. And it threads through his creative history. $25,000+ PRESENTS Carole* & Dan Burack Christopher Jones* & Deb McAlister Like Kyle Abraham, the city of Pittsburgh has multiple and at times diverging identities. As a city, it’s both and neither the A.I.M BY KYLE ABRAHAM The Barrington Foundation Wendy McCain Northeast and the Midwest. It’s Appalachia on the one hand and the Rust Belt on the other. In straddling these boundaries, Frank & Monique Cordasco Fred Moses* it borrows cultural influences from a variety of sources. It’s a city of oppositions. It’s blue collar and white collar. It’s been Hon. Stephan P. Driscoll*, in honor and memory Jennie A. Kassanoff & Dan H. Schulman Ted Shawn Theatre of John Lindquist & Barton Mumaw Mark & Taryn Leavitt called America’s smartest city, and it’s also where the reality show Dance Moms is filmed. It’s rabidly dedicated to its Stephanie & Robert ‡ Gittleman Sylvia T. Pope* hometown sports teams—the Steelers, the Penguins, and the Pirates—and is equally proud of the Andy Warhol Museum. July 31-August 4, 2019 Carolyn Gray & George Peppard Robert & Eileen Rominger Pittsburgh sons and daughters include Gertrude Stein and August Wilson, choreographers Martha Graham and Paul Taylor. Joan & Jim Hunter Irene Ryan Foundation As Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writer Brian O’Neill writes: “It’s just Pittsburgh, and there’s no place like it. That’s both its blessing and its curse.” ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Kyle Abraham INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Michele Thompson $10,000+ Abraham, like Pittsburgh, presents conflicting identities. He’s known for what some people term his neo hip hop style, but he has also performed with former New York City Ballet principal ballerina Wendy Whelan. As soon as he starts to dance, Dr. Norman Abramson Ann* & Peter Herbst GENERAL MANAGER Hillary Kooistra Deborah & Charles Adelman Laura* & Nick Ingoglia one understands the singular movement style that drew Whelan to commission a duet from him for Restless Creature Aliad Fund Nancy K. Kalodner (which premiered at the Pillow in 2013). She explained her motivation as a desire to determine whether she could move PRODUCTION MANAGER & Rick & Nurit Amdur Amy & Richard Kohan like him, saying, “If I could do something like that as a ballet dancer. If I could transform myself to feel what he feels as a LIGHTING SUPERVISOR Dan Stearns Candace* & Rick Beinecke Lizbeth & George Krupp dancer.” Abraham describes his movement as “postmodern gumbo…a hybrid of movement sensibilities inspired by a lot of Linda & Bob Berzok Jack & Elizabeth Meyer, in honor of postmodern, modern, contemporary and ballet forms and even some social-dance vernaculars as well.” PERFORMERS Kyle Abraham Sydelle & Lee Blatt Diane & Deval Patrick David Carlisle & Morene Bodner Hans* & Kate Morris Matthew Baker Chervenak-Nunnallé Foundation Gov. Deval L. & Diane Patrick His groundbreaking solo Inventing Pookie Jenkins (2006) became a kind of signature work and it foreshadowed the Tamisha Guy Claudia Perles complexity of what was to come with his company Abraham.In.Motion (now known simply as A.I.M). Dressed in a white Neil* & Kathleen Chrisman Keerati Jinakunwiphat Ranny Cooper & David Smith Caren & Barry Roseman tulle skirt, like a ballerina might wear, Abraham swaggered onto the stage carrying a boom box. All at once, he embodied Jeffrey Davis & Michael T. Miller Hunter K. Runnette* & Mark P. VandenBosch multiple and complex identities that were both recognizable and strange: an African American man with a boom box Claude “CJ” Johnson David DeFilippo & Lisa Shapiro, in memory of Naomi Seligman & Ernie von Simson (familiar), and an African American man in a draping white skirt (unfamiliar). At once masculine and feminine, high art and Catherine Ellis Kirk Robert Gittleman Mark Sena & Linda Saul-Sena street, Abraham showed his movement histories in his dancing. His mastery as a performer allowed him then and allows Natalie & Howard Shawn Marcella Lewis Hermine Drezner him today to move smoothly between that hybrid of forms, vernacular and ballet and modern dance techniques. His Sheila Drill Lisbeth Tarlow & Stephen Kay Donovan Reed Roger Tilles virtuosity as a dancer, as a polyglot of dance languages, makes the juxtapositions of styles not jarring but overlapping. Nancy & Michael Feller Jada Jenai Williams David & Nina Fialkow in honor of Stephen Weiner & Donald Cornuet Deval & Diane Patrick and Mark A. Leavitt Ellen Weissman Abraham’s connection to Pittsburgh is more than symbolic. He has remarked in interviews that his high school days are a Jeanne Donovan Fisher Mark & Liz Williams constant source of inspiration for him—that time of change when we discover, inhabit, and discard identities. Abraham Joan* & Charlie Gross Elaine* & Irving Wolbrom came to concert dance late after starting out as a club dancer. As he said in an interview with LifeandTimes.com, “Growing up in that early hip-hop time, when you went out and danced, there were moves and set up social dances, but you would Billboards * Former Trustees, staff, faculty, interns, just start dancing.” He went to see the Joffrey Ballet perform (1993) when he was sixteen and it changed him. He The School’s dancers, or arists-in-residence went, not to see the ballet, but rather to see some dances to the song cycle by the pop superstar Prince. That love of music ‡ deceased from the club and that love of dancing combine in his work as a choreographer.

As Abraham moved out into the world, his sense of home expanded, with works of home centered in the Civil Rights INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT Movement (The Watershed, 2015) and the end of South African apartheid in When The Wolves Came In (2015), both As of May 23, 2019 major support for Jacob’s Pillow has been generously provided by the inspired by the 1960 music of We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite. Dearest Home (2017), narrowed the scope following institutions: The Arison Arts Foundation; Arnhold Foundation; The Barr Foundation; The Barrington Foundation; Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation; Blue Cross Blue Shield intimately to the dancers themselves. With the company’s return to the Pillow, Abraham himself retakes the stage with of Massachusetts; The Chervenak-Nunnallé Foundation; The Feigenbaum Foundation; Gladys INDY (2018), as well as showcasing the dancers in works like Show Pony (2018) and Drive (2017). Krieble Delmas Foundation; The Ford Foundation; Howard Gilman Foundation; Harkness Foundation for Dance; William Randolph Hearst Foundation; The John S. and James L. Knight The tangible corporeality of dancing bodies makes it impossible to ignore who we are. This is not to say that every dance, Foundation; Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency; MassDevelopment; The Andrew as its subject matter, grapples with issues of identity. Like Pittsburgh, the city of bridges, Abraham and his dancers span W. Mellon Foundation; Mertz Gilmore Foundation; New England Foundation for the Arts; differences and suggest possibilities. We see the dancers themselves as much as we see the dance. And both are beautiful. National Endowment for the Arts; Onota Foundation; The Prospect Hill Foundation; The Shubert Foundation; The Robert and Tina Sohn Foundation; The Spingold Foundation; Talented Students in the Arts Initiative, a collaboration of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Surdna © 2019 Maura Keefe and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Foundation; The Thompson Family Foundation; The Velmans Foundation; Weissman Family Foundation; and Jacob’s Pillow Business Partners. Dance writer Maura Keefe has led audience programs at various venues around the country and is the Associate Director of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she was named the Dorothy G. Madden Professor of Dance in 2018. PROGRAM MEMBERSHIP SUPPORTS state (2018) Stuart Loungway. Johnson also DONOVAN REED (Dancer) is originally EVERYTHING YOU LOVE ABOUT attended summer intensives with from Philadelphia, PA, and began CHOREOGRAPHY Andrea Miller in collaboration with the dancers of A.I.M Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, his dance training at the age of 16 JACOB’S PILLOW MUSIC COMPOSITION Reggie Wilkins Doug Varone & Dancers, Movement under the direction of Shawn Lamere- Invention Project, and Springboard Williams. Soon after, Reed elongated LIGHTING DESIGN Nicole Pearce JOIN OUR THOUSANDS OF MEMBERS & SUPPORT THE Dance Montréal under the direction his search for knowledge by attending MISSION OF JACOB’S PILLOW. COSTUME DESIGN Jose Solis of Alexandra Wells, where he college at The University of The Arts. performed work by Shannon Gillen He was awarded his B.F.A. in May of REHEARSAL DIRECTORS Tamisha Guy You can help the Pillow present outstanding dance artists Allysen Hooks and Elia Mrak. Johnson joined A.I.M 2016. During his time in college, Reed from around the world, provide training and support to in 2017. participated as an Artist in Residence the talented dancers of The School at Jacob’s Pillow, maintain DANCERS Keerati Jinakunwiphat at Die Hochschule für Musik und Catherine Ellis Kirk CATHERINE ELLIS KIRK (Dancer) is Darstellende Kunst, Frankfurt, DE. our landmark site, and create free community programs Marcella Lewis originally from Dallas, Texas. After In addition, he participated in an that engage people of all ages and backgrounds with dance. attending Booker T. Washington independent artist program where his INDY (2018) High School for the Performing and training was extended with The Visual Arts, Kirk graduated with a Pennsylvania Ballet, The Philadelphia CHOREOGRAPHY & PERFORMANCE Kyle Abraham B.F.A. from New York University Dance Company (PHILADANCO!), Tisch School of the Arts and holds a Eleone Dance Theatre, and The Rock EVERY GIFT MATTERS. MUSIC COMPOSITION Jerome Begin yoga certification through The Perri School for Dance Education. He has JOIN AND CHOOSE THE LEVEL RIGHT FOR YOU! LIGHTING DESIGN Nicole Pearce Institute for Mind and Body. Kirk performed works by choreographers has completed programs with San such as Sidra Bell, Regina Van Berkel, Explore the full list of benefits, join as a new Member, renew your COSTUME DESIGN Karen Young Francisco Conservatory of Dance, Sharon Eyal, Tommie Waheed- current membership, or upgrade to a higher level SCENIC DESIGN Abigail DeVille Gaga Intensive in Tel Aviv, and Evans, Beth Gill, Andrea Miller, Mike at jacobspillow.org/support/membership. Springboard Danse Montréal. She has Esperanza, Tania Isaac, and Meredith CHOREOGRAPHIC had the opportunity to perform works Rainey. Reed is currently working with ADVISOR Margie Gillis by Fernando Melo, Ohad Naharin, Helen Simoneau Danse, and joined You can also make a donation by phone at 413.243.9919 x122. DRAMATURG Charlotte Brathwaite Sharon Eyal, Peter Chu, Andrea Miller, A.I.M in 2018. Robert Battle, Bebe Miller, and Alex ASSISTANT TO THE Sustaining members support the Pillow year-round through easy, Ketley. Upon graduating, Kirk had (Dancer) was CHOREOGRAPHER Matthew Baker JADA JENAI WILLIAMS automatic monthly or quarterly gifts. the pleasure of apprenticing for Sidra born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She is INDY was created with commissioning funds and a residency provided by The Joyce Theater Foundation with major support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Bell Dance NY before working with a graduate of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High Additional funding for the creation of INDY provided by Steven and Michele Pesner. Danaka Dance, Chihiro Shimizu and School and SUNY Purchase College, Artists, UNA-Projects, Burr Johnson, with a B.F.A. in Dance and a minor in Depending on your level, membership gives you access to: Jasmine Hearn, and Helen Simoneau Arts Management. During her college - INTERMISSION - Early Ticketing Danse. Kirk is thrilled to be dancing career, she had the opportunity to work Fan level & above with A.I.M, which she joined in 2013. with Jonathan Reidel, Kyle Abraham, The Quiet Dance (2011) Kevin Wynn, and Jean Freebury Admission to Cast Parties CHOREOGRAPHY Kyle Abraham MARCELLA LEWIS (Dancer) hails restaging Merce Cunningham’s Change Contributor level & above from Los Angeles, CA, where she of Address, and Dylan Crossman. MUSIC “Some Other Time” composed by Leonard Bernstein, played by Bill Evans began her dance training at the Lula Williams has studied abroad in Pillow Lab showings where you can witness the creative process LIGHTING DESIGN Dan Scully Washington Dance Theatre at the Perth, Australia at Western Australia Supporter level & above age of three. She then continued her Academy for Performing Arts, and has COSTUME DESIGN Kristi Wood studies at the Los Angeles County spent summers in Montréal attending Priority Parking Passes DANCERS 7/31, 8/1, 8/3 eve: Catherine Ellis Kirk (soloist), Matthew Baker, Tamisha Guy, High School for the Arts (LACHSA). Springboard Danse Montréal, where Partners’ Circle level & above Keerati Jinakunwiphat, Claude “CJ” Johnson She later received her B.F.A. in Dance she worked with Jonathan Alsberry from SUNY Purchase College, where restaging work by Aszure Barton, and 8/2, 8/3 mat, 8/4: Catherine Ellis Kirk (soloist), Matthew Baker, Keerati Jinakunwiphat, Invitations to Member-Exclusive Events she was awarded the Adopt-A-Dancer Shamel Pitts restaging Three by Ohad Claude “CJ” Johnson, Marcella Lewis Scholarship. While at Purchase, Lewis Naharin. Since graduating, she has Discounts in The Pillow Store performed works by Doug Varone, worked with Helen Simoneau and Show Pony (2018) Gregory Dolbashian, madboots, Kevin joined A.I.M in 2018. Wynn, and Ori Flooman. Lewis has CHOREOGRAPHY Kyle Abraham completed summer programs at the Help make dance creation, presentation, education, and MUSIC “Hatshepsut” by Jlin San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, preservation at Jacob’s Pillow possible. Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, LIGHTING DESIGN Dan Scully and Alonzo King Lines Ballet, where Thank you! COSTUME DESIGN Fritz Masten she was awarded the Homer Avila Scholarship. She is the recipient of a DANCER 7/31, 8/1, 8/3 eve: Marcella Lewis 2018 Princess Grace Award in Dance. 8/2, 8/3 mat, 8/4: Tamisha Guy Marcella joined A.I.M in 2016. JOSE SOLIS (Costume Designer, Metropolitan Opera, WarHorse training at Ballet Tech, under the Drive (2017) state) is a graduate of Parsons (Broadway), and The Lyric Opera of direction of Eliot Feld. Later she CHOREOGRAPHY Kyle Abraham in collaboration with A.I.M School of Art and Design. He has Chicago. TV and film credits include: All attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia created and worked for Emanuel My Children (ABC), Law & Order SVU High School, and SUNY Purchase MUSIC Theo Parrish and Mobb Deep, with additional sound editing by Sam Crawford Ungaro, Ralph Lauren, Oscar de la (NBC), Damages (FX), Empire and Gone College as a double major in Dance LIGHTING DESIGN Dan Scully Renta, and Bill Blass New York. Baby Gone (Fox), Widows (major film and Arts Management. She has Solis also designed the costumes for directed by Steve McQueen). Dance completed summer programs with COSTUME DESIGN Karen Young Gallim’s Blush (2009), Wonderland credits include: David Dorfman Dance, Complexions Contemporary Ballet DANCERS Matthew Baker (2010), For Glenn Gould (2011), and Trisha Brown Dance Company, A.I.M, and Springboard Danse Montréal, Tamisha Guy Stone Skipping (2017). Pilobolus, Joffrey Ballet, and Les Ballets and has performed works by Trockadero de Monte Carlo. Wood William Forsythe, Pam Tanowitz, Keerati Jinakunwiphat DAN STEARNS (Production Manager now owns and operates Logan Square and Mark Morris. In 2013, Guy Claude “CJ” Johnson and Lighting Supervisor) is a lighting Pilates + Core in Chicago and is a BASI graduated with honors from Catherine Ellis Kirk designer, scenic designer, and Pilates Instructor. SUNY Purchase College and Marcella Lewis production manager interested in joined the Martha Graham Dance Donovan Reed the intersections of dance, theater, KAREN YOUNG (Costume Design, INDY, Company shortly after. In 2016, Jada Jenai Williams music, and video. In addition to Drive) creates costumes for dance Guy was selected as one of Dance A.I.M, recent collaborations include and performance and contemporary Magazine’s “Top 25 to Watch”, and Drive was commissioned by New York City Center for the 2017 Fall for Dance Festival with generous Jane Comfort and Company, Pavel art that have been seen in theaters received the 2016 Princess Grace support from the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. Special funding forDrive provided by Jay Franke Zuštiak/Palissimo, LeeSaar The and museums internationally. Recent Award. In 2017, she was named & David Herro, and by Rick Beyer. Drive was developed, in part, through a residency at White Oak Company, Scott Ebersold, Paul H. projects include Wendy Whelan’s one of the Best Dancers of the Year Conservation, made possible by the Howard Gilman Foundation. Bedard/Theater in Asylum, Tara Restless Creature, Third Rail Projects© by Dance Europe. Guy currently Ahmadinejad/Piehole, and Tami highly acclaimed immersive show Then dances with A.I.M, under artistic A.I.M BOARD OF DIRECTORS Stronach. He has worked in venues She Fell, and teaching at the Rhode direction of Kyle Abraham, which Stephen Simcock (chair), Kyle Abraham (Artistic Director, ex-officio), Cheryl Bergenfeld, such as BAM, The Joyce, New York Island School of Design. Design work she joined in 2014. Chris Calkins, Adrienne Edwards, Glenn Ligon, Bebe Neuwirth, Carrie Schneider, Eric Shiner, Gilda Squire, Julia Strickland Live Arts, La MaMa, Abrons Arts for dance includes: Martha Graham Center, HERE, Dixon Place, and 3LD Dance Company, Brian Brooks, KEERATI JINAKUNWIPHAT (Dancer) in New York; and internationally Armitage Gone! Dance, American Ballet is originally from Chicago, IL, and Generous support for A.I.M provided by: Engaging Dance Audiences, administered by Dance/USA and made possible with generous funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; from France to Korea and many Theatre, Morphoses, Dusan Tynek, received her B.F.A. from the The DuBose & Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund; The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels places in between. He is a graduate Pam Tanowitz, and Keigwin + Company, Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Foundation; The Harkness Foundation for Dance, the Howard Gilman Foundation; The JKW of NYU Tisch School of the Arts. among many others. Design for video Purchase College, and was a Foundation; Joyce Theater Foundation; Mertz-Gilmore Foundation; New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; art includes: David Michalek’s Slow recipient of the Adopt-A-Dancer New York Community Trust; O’Donnell-Green Music & Dance Foundation; Princess Grace REGGIE WILKINS (Composer, Dancing, Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Scholarship. She has additionally Foundation-USA; The Rockefeller Brothers Fund; The Samuel H. Scripps Foundation; Emma A. state) is a pianist, composer, and 5 and Cremaster 1, Toni Dove’s Lucid studied at the Western Australian Sheafer Charitable Trust; and The Shubert Foundation. Public funding provided by The National Endowment for the Arts, The New York State Council on the Arts with support of Governor electronic music artist based in Possession, and Eve Sussman’s 89 Academy of Performing Arts, San Andrew Cuomo and the NYS Legislature; and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in Pittsburgh, PA. After receiving Seconds at Alcazar. More info at Francisco Conservatory of Dance, partnership with the City Council. his B.A. in Architecture from the karenyoungcostume.com and Springboard Danse Montréal. A.I.M is a proud supporter of Dancers Responding to AIDS, which helps ensure that those most University of Pittsburgh (2011), She has worked with artists such in need receive the care and comfort they would otherwise do without. Founded in 1991 by he decided to further explore (Choreographic former Paul Taylor Dance Company members Denise Roberts Hurlin and Hernando Cortez, MATTHEW BAKER as Nicole von Arx, Hannah Garner, DRA relies on the extraordinary compassion and efforts of the performing arts community to his passion for form and space Associate, Dancer) hails from Ann Shannon Gillen, Kevin Wynn, and fund a safety net of social services for those in need. Together, we can make a difference for through sound. His work spans a Arbor, Michigan. He received his B.F.A. Doug Varone. Jinakunwiphat began those less fortunate than us. Donate at dradance.org/donate. full spectrum of genres through (’08) in Dance from Western Michigan working with A.I.M as a swing in For booking information, contact Lotus Arts Management, Sophie Myrtil-McCourty, President, collaborations with various University. In NYC, he worked with 2016 and joined the company as at 72-11 Austin Street, Suite 371, Forest Hills, NY 11375. churches, productions, clubs, choreographers such as Mark Dendy full-time member in 2018. Tel: 347.721.8724; email: [email protected]; website: lotusartsmgmt.com companies, and artists. His most and Keith Thompson before joining notable project, RIVKA, plays Keigwin + Company, under the Artistic CLAUDE “CJ” JOHNSON (Dancer) with texture and atmosphere in Direction of Larry Keigwin and co- hails from Chicago, IL, where he an effort to create a nostalgic founder Nicole Wolcott, from 2009-14. began his formal dance training at Jacob’s Pillow is committed to providing an inclusive environment that cultivates the celebration of the art of dance environment for reflection, healing, As Choreographic Associate for A.I.M, The Chicago Academy for the and its positive impact on communities. and relaxation. More info at Baker works with the Artistic Director Arts under the direction of Randy We are dedicated to fostering a safe, comfortable, and enjoyable experience for everyone on our beautiful campus. You, soundcloud.com/babyt33th and his colleagues to maintain and Duncan. He continued his dance as patrons and visitors of Jacob’s Pillow, are expected to contribute to our mutually respectful and welcoming community develop the company’s repertory. Baker training at SUNY Purchase College, and support the world of dance and all its citizens for generations to come. KRISTI WOOD (Costume Design, was the recipient of a Distinguished where he was awarded the Adopt- If you have any suggestions, comments, or incidents to report, The Quiet Dance)’s original and Alumni Award from his Alma Mater in A-Dancer Scholarship. During please direct them to Deputy Director A.J. Pietrantone at [email protected]. continued profession is as a 2014. Baker joined A.I.M in 2011. 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COMPANY ABOUT A.I.M premiered Abraham’s Another Night and former New York City Ballet Xavier Dolan released in 2018. from the Fashion Institute of Paramor (The Juilliard School); The mission of A.I.M, under at New York City Center. Principal Dancer Wendy Whelan Additional awards and honors Technology in 2007. DeVille has with Andrea Miller on WHALE, the Artistic Direction of Kyle Rebecca Bengal of Vogue wrote, as part of Restless Creature; and include: Guggenheim Fellow, Sadler’s exhibited a constellation of site- Bloom, and Unwrap These Flowers Abraham, is to create an evocative “What Abraham brings to Ailey is an choreographed for the feature- Wells Jerwood Fellowships, Princess specific installations in the United (Gallim, Jacoby & Pronk, The interdisciplinary body of work. Born avant-garde aesthetic, an original length film, The Book of Henry, for Grace Foundation Fellowship in States and Europe. Recent exhibitions Juilliard School). Selected dance into hip-hop culture in the late and politically minded downtown acclaimed director Colin Trevorrow. Choreography, Special Projects include Lift Every Voice & Sing, ICA credits include: 10 works with Mark 1970s and grounded in Abraham’s sensibility that doesn’t distinguish Abraham recently premiered The Awards and Works in Progress Award, Miami (2017); No Space Hidden Morris (Mark Morris Dance Group, artistic upbringing in classical cello, between genres but freely draws Runaway for New York City Ballet’s New York City Center Choreography (Shelter) ICA LA, Los Angeles, CA Houston Ballet, and Boston Ballet); piano, and the visual arts, the goal on a vocabulary that is as much 2018 Fall Fashion Gala, which was Fellowship, Joyce Theater Artist (2017); Magnetic Fields: Expanding seven works with Aszure Barton of the movement is to delve into Merce and Martha as it is Eadweard recognized as “Best of Dance for in Residence, and more. Miller’s American Abstraction, 1960s to Today, (Aszure & Artists, Netherlands identity in relation to a personal Muybridge and Michael Jackson.” 2018” by The New York Times. educational programming is run Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO Dans Theater, Hubbard Street history. The work entwines a That same year, Abraham was from Gallim’s Brooklyn home studio (2017); Harlem: Found Ways. Cooper Dance Chicago, Malpaso); 15 sensual and provocative vocabulary named the 2012 Jacob’s Pillow In 2011, OUT Magazine labeled and has been brought to universities Gallery at Hutchins Center, Harvard works with Jessica Lang (American with a strong emphasis on sound, Dance Award recipient and 2012 Abraham as the “best and brightest and educational centers across the University, Cambridge, MA (2017); Ballet Theatre, Jessica Lang human behavior, and all things USA Ford Fellow, before serving creative talent to emerge in New US; recently at Harvard, The Juilliard Urban Planning: Contemporary Dance, National Ballet of Japan, visual in an effort to create an as a choreographic contributor for York City in the age of Obama”. School, Barnard, NYU, Marymount Art and the City 1967-2017, Joffrey Ballet, and Birmingham avenue for personal investigation Beyoncé’s 2013 British Vogue cover Manhattan College, Wesleyan Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, Royal Ballet); 10 works with John and exposing that on stage. shoot. ANDREA MILLER (Choreographer, University, and UCSB, among others. MO (2017); LANDMARK, Socrates Heginbotham (Atlanta Ballet and state) is the Artistic Director Sculpture Park, Queens, NY (2016); Dance Heginbotham); No Longer A.I.M is a representation of dancers Abraham received a prestigious and choreographer of Brooklyn- JEROME BEGIN (Composer, INDY) has Only When It’s Dark Enough Can You Silent with Robert Battle (Alvin from various disciplines and diverse Bessie Award for Outstanding based company, Gallim, and has been called a “fabulous composer- See The Stars, The Contemporary, Ailey American Dance Theater); personal backgrounds. Combined Performance in Dance for his work established herself as a perpetually pianist” and an “unimpeachable” Baltimore, MD (2016);Revolution Terrain with Brian Brooks (Hubbard together, these individualities in The Radio Show, and a Princess groundbreaking artist who brings choice of collaborator by the New in the Making, Hauser Wirth, Los Street Dance Chicago); Face the create movement that is Grace Award for Choreography in unbridled empathy, intimacy, and York Times. Begin’s works have Angeles, CA (2016); When You Cut Torrent with Sonya Tayeh (Malpaso manipulated and molded into 2010. The previous year, he was sensitivity to her work. A sought- been performed throughout the Into the Present the Future Leaks of Cuba); and Episode 31 with something fresh and unique. selected as one of Dance Magazine’s after creator and collaborator USA, Europe, and Asia, including a Out at the Old Bronx Courthouse, Alexander Ekman (New Zealand For more information, to get “25 To Watch” for 2009, and in dance, film, theater, tech, nationally televised performance Bronx, NY (2015); Puddle, Pothole, Royal Ballet). Selected New York involved, or purchase your A.I.M received a Jerome Travel and Study and fashion, Miller was named of his score for Bill T. Jones/Arnie Portal, Sculpture Center, Queens, NY theater credits includes work with merchandise, please visit Grant in 2008. 2017–18 Artist in Residence at Zane Dance Company for President (2014); Playing with Fire: Political directors Edward Albee, Jade King abrahaminmotion.org. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Obama at the 2010 Kennedy Center Interventions, Dissident Acts, and Carroll, Amir Nizar Zuabi, and Ed Follow A.I.M on Instagram His choreography has been becoming the first choreographer Honors. Other dance commissions Mischievous Actions, El Museo del Sylvanus Iskandar. Pearce has also @abraham.in.motion. presented throughout the United to hold that distinction. Miller’s include works for Hubbard Street Barrio, New York, NY (2014); Material worked with companies including States and abroad; at Fall for Dance opening work created for the Met’s Dance Chicago, The Juilliard School, Histories at the Studio Museum in The Cherry Lane, The Play Company, KYLE ABRAHAM (Artistic Director) is Festival at New York City Center, Temple of Dendur, Stone Skipping, Brian Brooks Moving Company, Harlem, New York, NY (2014). DeVille and The Playwrights Realm. a 2018 Princess Grace Statue Award Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of was named Best Choreography by Keigwin + Company, Gallim, Sean has designed sets for theatrical For more info visit Recipient, 2017-18 Joyce Creative Music, The Joyce Theater, The Wendy Perron/Dance Magazine. Curran Company, Sacramento Ballet, productions at venues such as the nicolepearcedesign.com Residency Artist, 2016 Doris Duke Los Angeles Music Center, Jacob’s Miller’s final work for the museum Richmond Ballet, Alabama Ballet, and Stratford Festival (2014), directed by Award Recipient, and a 2015 City Pillow Dance Festival, Théâtre de la opened at The Met Breuer in May many others. His music was featured Peter Sellars, Harlem Stage (2016), La DAN SCULLY (Lighting Design, The Center Choreographer in Residence. Ville, Sadler’s Wells, Maison de 2018. Miller’s highly acclaimed in the “PBS American Masters” on MaMa (2015), JACK (2014-16), and Quiet Dance, Show Pony, Drive) Abraham is a 2013 MacArthur la Danse, Tanz Im August, On The works with Gallim have been Bill T. Jones’ work. Recent projects Joe’s Pub (2014) directed by Charlotte is a New York-based lighting and Fellow who began his dance Boards, Danspace Project, Dance performed worldwide at venues include: Kwaidan, a large-scale Brathwaite. She has received projection designer, and has been training at the Civic Light Opera Theater Workshop, Bates Dance including The Joyce Theater, multimedia opera installation based honors—a 2014-15 fellowship at The designing for A.I.M for over ten Academy and the Creative and Festival, Harlem Stage, Montréal, Lincoln Center, BAM, Jacob’s Pillow, on traditional Japanese ghost stories, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study years, including the full-length Performing Arts High School in Ottawa, Italy, Germany, Sweden, The Kennedy Center, Grec Festival NEVEREND, an evening length dance at Harvard, a 2015 Creative Capital works Pavement, Live! The Realest Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He France, Jordan, Ecuador, Dublin’s de Barcelona, Theatre National de work for Jin Ju Song-Begin/Da-On grantee, and a 2015 OBIE Award for M.C., and the Bessie Award- continued his dance studies in New Project Arts Center, The Okinawa Chaillot, The Grand Theatre de la Dance, the score for a documentary design. DeVille is the 2017-18 Chuck winning The Radio Show. Recent York, receiving a B.F.A. from SUNY Prefectural Museum & Art Museum Ville de Luxembourg, Theaterhaus Flex is Kings, and recording an album Close Henry W and Marion T Mitchell work includes Rocky (Broadway), Purchase College and an M.F.A. located in Okinawa, Japan, The Stuttgart, Canal Madrid, and the with Chris Lancaster in their synth/ Rome Prize fellow. Jedermann (Salzburger Festspeile), from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Andy Warhol Museum, The Byham, Metropolitan Museum of Art. cello duo band, Tranimal. Current The Orchestra Rocks! (Carnegie an honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts and The Kelly-Strayhorn Theater in Commissions include Pennsylvania projects include new works for FRITZ MASTEN (Costume Design, Hall), and Another Night (Alvin from Washington Jefferson College, his hometown of Pittsburgh, PA. Ballet, Grace Farms, Bern Ballet, Brian Brooks Moving Company and Show Pony) has designed costumes Ailey American Dance Theater). and is currently serving as a visiting In addition to performing and NDT2, Nord Nederlands Dans, Loni Landon Dance Projects. Begin and sets for theater internationally. Regional work includes Trinity Rep., professor in residence at UCLA. developing new works for his Atlanta Ballet, Peak Performances, currently serves on the faculty of The He is the winner of The Irene Sharaff GEVA, Asolo Repertory Theatre, company, A.I.M, Abraham premiered Lincoln Center, and The Kimmel Juilliard School. Award. For more info visit Cleveland Playhouse, Hudson Valley In November 2012, Abraham in 2016 Untitled America, a three- Center. Collaborations in fashion fritzmasten.com. Shakespeare Festival, and Two River was named the newly appointed part commissioned work for Alvin include Hermès, Lacoste, Calvin ABIGAIL DEVILLE (Scenic Design, Theater Company. Scully earned New York Live Arts Resident Ailey American Dance Theater; Klein, VOGUE, Lane Crawford, INDY) (b. 1981, New York, NY) NICOLE PEARCE (Lighting Design, their M.F.A. from NYU Tisch School Commissioned Artist for 2012–14. toured The Serpent and The Smoke, Kswiss, and Zach Gold. Miller’s received her M.F.A. from Yale state, INDY) has worked previously of the Arts. Just one month later, Alvin Ailey a pas de deux for himself and recent film credit,The Death and University 2011 and her B.F.A. with Kyle Abraham on Nonsequitor American Dance Theater acclaimed Bessie Award-winning Life of John F. Donovan, directed by COMPANY ABOUT A.I.M premiered Abraham’s Another Night and former New York City Ballet Xavier Dolan released in 2018. from the Fashion Institute of Paramor (The Juilliard School); The mission of A.I.M, under at New York City Center. Principal Dancer Wendy Whelan Additional awards and honors Technology in 2007. DeVille has with Andrea Miller on WHALE, the Artistic Direction of Kyle Rebecca Bengal of Vogue wrote, as part of Restless Creature; and include: Guggenheim Fellow, Sadler’s exhibited a constellation of site- Bloom, and Unwrap These Flowers Abraham, is to create an evocative “What Abraham brings to Ailey is an choreographed for the feature- Wells Jerwood Fellowships, Princess specific installations in the United (Gallim, Jacoby & Pronk, The interdisciplinary body of work. Born avant-garde aesthetic, an original length film, The Book of Henry, for Grace Foundation Fellowship in States and Europe. Recent exhibitions Juilliard School). Selected dance into hip-hop culture in the late and politically minded downtown acclaimed director Colin Trevorrow. Choreography, Special Projects include Lift Every Voice & Sing, ICA credits include: 10 works with Mark 1970s and grounded in Abraham’s sensibility that doesn’t distinguish Abraham recently premiered The Awards and Works in Progress Award, Miami (2017); No Space Hidden Morris (Mark Morris Dance Group, artistic upbringing in classical cello, between genres but freely draws Runaway for New York City Ballet’s New York City Center Choreography (Shelter) ICA LA, Los Angeles, CA Houston Ballet, and Boston Ballet); piano, and the visual arts, the goal on a vocabulary that is as much 2018 Fall Fashion Gala, which was Fellowship, Joyce Theater Artist (2017); Magnetic Fields: Expanding seven works with Aszure Barton of the movement is to delve into Merce and Martha as it is Eadweard recognized as “Best of Dance for in Residence, and more. Miller’s American Abstraction, 1960s to Today, (Aszure & Artists, Netherlands identity in relation to a personal Muybridge and Michael Jackson.” 2018” by The New York Times. educational programming is run Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO Dans Theater, Hubbard Street history. The work entwines a That same year, Abraham was from Gallim’s Brooklyn home studio (2017); Harlem: Found Ways. Cooper Dance Chicago, Malpaso); 15 sensual and provocative vocabulary named the 2012 Jacob’s Pillow In 2011, OUT Magazine labeled and has been brought to universities Gallery at Hutchins Center, Harvard works with Jessica Lang (American with a strong emphasis on sound, Dance Award recipient and 2012 Abraham as the “best and brightest and educational centers across the University, Cambridge, MA (2017); Ballet Theatre, Jessica Lang human behavior, and all things USA Ford Fellow, before serving creative talent to emerge in New US; recently at Harvard, The Juilliard Urban Planning: Contemporary Dance, National Ballet of Japan, visual in an effort to create an as a choreographic contributor for York City in the age of Obama”. School, Barnard, NYU, Marymount Art and the City 1967-2017, Joffrey Ballet, and Birmingham avenue for personal investigation Beyoncé’s 2013 British Vogue cover Manhattan College, Wesleyan Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, Royal Ballet); 10 works with John and exposing that on stage. shoot. ANDREA MILLER (Choreographer, University, and UCSB, among others. MO (2017); LANDMARK, Socrates Heginbotham (Atlanta Ballet and state) is the Artistic Director Sculpture Park, Queens, NY (2016); Dance Heginbotham); No Longer A.I.M is a representation of dancers Abraham received a prestigious and choreographer of Brooklyn- JEROME BEGIN (Composer, INDY) has Only When It’s Dark Enough Can You Silent with Robert Battle (Alvin from various disciplines and diverse Bessie Award for Outstanding based company, Gallim, and has been called a “fabulous composer- See The Stars, The Contemporary, Ailey American Dance Theater); personal backgrounds. Combined Performance in Dance for his work established herself as a perpetually pianist” and an “unimpeachable” Baltimore, MD (2016);Revolution Terrain with Brian Brooks (Hubbard together, these individualities in The Radio Show, and a Princess groundbreaking artist who brings choice of collaborator by the New in the Making, Hauser Wirth, Los Street Dance Chicago); Face the create movement that is Grace Award for Choreography in unbridled empathy, intimacy, and York Times. Begin’s works have Angeles, CA (2016); When You Cut Torrent with Sonya Tayeh (Malpaso manipulated and molded into 2010. The previous year, he was sensitivity to her work. A sought- been performed throughout the Into the Present the Future Leaks of Cuba); and Episode 31 with something fresh and unique. selected as one of Dance Magazine’s after creator and collaborator USA, Europe, and Asia, including a Out at the Old Bronx Courthouse, Alexander Ekman (New Zealand For more information, to get “25 To Watch” for 2009, and in dance, film, theater, tech, nationally televised performance Bronx, NY (2015); Puddle, Pothole, Royal Ballet). Selected New York involved, or purchase your A.I.M received a Jerome Travel and Study and fashion, Miller was named of his score for Bill T. Jones/Arnie Portal, Sculpture Center, Queens, NY theater credits includes work with merchandise, please visit Grant in 2008. 2017–18 Artist in Residence at Zane Dance Company for President (2014); Playing with Fire: Political directors Edward Albee, Jade King abrahaminmotion.org. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Obama at the 2010 Kennedy Center Interventions, Dissident Acts, and Carroll, Amir Nizar Zuabi, and Ed Follow A.I.M on Instagram His choreography has been becoming the first choreographer Honors. Other dance commissions Mischievous Actions, El Museo del Sylvanus Iskandar. Pearce has also @abraham.in.motion. presented throughout the United to hold that distinction. Miller’s include works for Hubbard Street Barrio, New York, NY (2014); Material worked with companies including States and abroad; at Fall for Dance opening work created for the Met’s Dance Chicago, The Juilliard School, Histories at the Studio Museum in The Cherry Lane, The Play Company, KYLE ABRAHAM (Artistic Director) is Festival at New York City Center, Temple of Dendur, Stone Skipping, Brian Brooks Moving Company, Harlem, New York, NY (2014). DeVille and The Playwrights Realm. a 2018 Princess Grace Statue Award Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of was named Best Choreography by Keigwin + Company, Gallim, Sean has designed sets for theatrical For more info visit Recipient, 2017-18 Joyce Creative Music, The Joyce Theater, The Wendy Perron/Dance Magazine. Curran Company, Sacramento Ballet, productions at venues such as the nicolepearcedesign.com Residency Artist, 2016 Doris Duke Los Angeles Music Center, Jacob’s Miller’s final work for the museum Richmond Ballet, Alabama Ballet, and Stratford Festival (2014), directed by Award Recipient, and a 2015 City Pillow Dance Festival, Théâtre de la opened at The Met Breuer in May many others. His music was featured Peter Sellars, Harlem Stage (2016), La DAN SCULLY (Lighting Design, The Center Choreographer in Residence. Ville, Sadler’s Wells, Maison de 2018. Miller’s highly acclaimed in the “PBS American Masters” on MaMa (2015), JACK (2014-16), and Quiet Dance, Show Pony, Drive) Abraham is a 2013 MacArthur la Danse, Tanz Im August, On The works with Gallim have been Bill T. Jones’ work. Recent projects Joe’s Pub (2014) directed by Charlotte is a New York-based lighting and Fellow who began his dance Boards, Danspace Project, Dance performed worldwide at venues include: Kwaidan, a large-scale Brathwaite. She has received projection designer, and has been training at the Civic Light Opera Theater Workshop, Bates Dance including The Joyce Theater, multimedia opera installation based honors—a 2014-15 fellowship at The designing for A.I.M for over ten Academy and the Creative and Festival, Harlem Stage, Montréal, Lincoln Center, BAM, Jacob’s Pillow, on traditional Japanese ghost stories, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study years, including the full-length Performing Arts High School in Ottawa, Italy, Germany, Sweden, The Kennedy Center, Grec Festival NEVEREND, an evening length dance at Harvard, a 2015 Creative Capital works Pavement, Live! The Realest Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He France, Jordan, Ecuador, Dublin’s de Barcelona, Theatre National de work for Jin Ju Song-Begin/Da-On grantee, and a 2015 OBIE Award for M.C., and the Bessie Award- continued his dance studies in New Project Arts Center, The Okinawa Chaillot, The Grand Theatre de la Dance, the score for a documentary design. DeVille is the 2017-18 Chuck winning The Radio Show. Recent York, receiving a B.F.A. from SUNY Prefectural Museum & Art Museum Ville de Luxembourg, Theaterhaus Flex is Kings, and recording an album Close Henry W and Marion T Mitchell work includes Rocky (Broadway), Purchase College and an M.F.A. located in Okinawa, Japan, The Stuttgart, Canal Madrid, and the with Chris Lancaster in their synth/ Rome Prize fellow. Jedermann (Salzburger Festspeile), from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Andy Warhol Museum, The Byham, Metropolitan Museum of Art. cello duo band, Tranimal. Current The Orchestra Rocks! (Carnegie an honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts and The Kelly-Strayhorn Theater in Commissions include Pennsylvania projects include new works for FRITZ MASTEN (Costume Design, Hall), and Another Night (Alvin from Washington Jefferson College, his hometown of Pittsburgh, PA. Ballet, Grace Farms, Bern Ballet, Brian Brooks Moving Company and Show Pony) has designed costumes Ailey American Dance Theater). and is currently serving as a visiting In addition to performing and NDT2, Nord Nederlands Dans, Loni Landon Dance Projects. Begin and sets for theater internationally. Regional work includes Trinity Rep., professor in residence at UCLA. developing new works for his Atlanta Ballet, Peak Performances, currently serves on the faculty of The He is the winner of The Irene Sharaff GEVA, Asolo Repertory Theatre, company, A.I.M, Abraham premiered Lincoln Center, and The Kimmel Juilliard School. Award. For more info visit Cleveland Playhouse, Hudson Valley In November 2012, Abraham in 2016 Untitled America, a three- Center. Collaborations in fashion fritzmasten.com. Shakespeare Festival, and Two River was named the newly appointed part commissioned work for Alvin include Hermès, Lacoste, Calvin ABIGAIL DEVILLE (Scenic Design, Theater Company. Scully earned New York Live Arts Resident Ailey American Dance Theater; Klein, VOGUE, Lane Crawford, INDY) (b. 1981, New York, NY) NICOLE PEARCE (Lighting Design, their M.F.A. from NYU Tisch School Commissioned Artist for 2012–14. toured The Serpent and The Smoke, Kswiss, and Zach Gold. Miller’s received her M.F.A. from Yale state, INDY) has worked previously of the Arts. Just one month later, Alvin Ailey a pas de deux for himself and recent film credit,The Death and University 2011 and her B.F.A. with Kyle Abraham on Nonsequitor American Dance Theater acclaimed Bessie Award-winning Life of John F. Donovan, directed by JOSE SOLIS (Costume Designer, Metropolitan Opera, WarHorse training at Ballet Tech, under the Drive (2017) state) is a graduate of Parsons (Broadway), and The Lyric Opera of direction of Eliot Feld. Later she CHOREOGRAPHY Kyle Abraham in collaboration with A.I.M School of Art and Design. He has Chicago. TV and film credits include: All attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia created and worked for Emanuel My Children (ABC), Law & Order SVU High School, and SUNY Purchase MUSIC Theo Parrish and Mobb Deep, with additional sound editing by Sam Crawford Ungaro, Ralph Lauren, Oscar de la (NBC), Damages (FX), Empire and Gone College as a double major in Dance LIGHTING DESIGN Dan Scully Renta, and Bill Blass New York. Baby Gone (Fox), Widows (major film and Arts Management. She has Solis also designed the costumes for directed by Steve McQueen). Dance completed summer programs with COSTUME DESIGN Karen Young Gallim’s Blush (2009), Wonderland credits include: David Dorfman Dance, Complexions Contemporary Ballet DANCERS Matthew Baker (2010), For Glenn Gould (2011), and Trisha Brown Dance Company, A.I.M, and Springboard Danse Montréal, Tamisha Guy Stone Skipping (2017). Pilobolus, Joffrey Ballet, and Les Ballets and has performed works by Trockadero de Monte Carlo. Wood William Forsythe, Pam Tanowitz, Keerati Jinakunwiphat DAN STEARNS (Production Manager now owns and operates Logan Square and Mark Morris. In 2013, Guy Claude “CJ” Johnson and Lighting Supervisor) is a lighting Pilates + Core in Chicago and is a BASI graduated with honors from Catherine Ellis Kirk designer, scenic designer, and Pilates Instructor. SUNY Purchase College and Marcella Lewis production manager interested in joined the Martha Graham Dance Donovan Reed the intersections of dance, theater, KAREN YOUNG (Costume Design, INDY, Company shortly after. In 2016, Jada Jenai Williams music, and video. In addition to Drive) creates costumes for dance Guy was selected as one of Dance A.I.M, recent collaborations include and performance and contemporary Magazine’s “Top 25 to Watch”, and Drive was commissioned by New York City Center for the 2017 Fall for Dance Festival with generous Jane Comfort and Company, Pavel art that have been seen in theaters received the 2016 Princess Grace support from the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. Special funding forDrive provided by Jay Franke Zuštiak/Palissimo, LeeSaar The and museums internationally. Recent Award. In 2017, she was named & David Herro, and by Rick Beyer. Drive was developed, in part, through a residency at White Oak Company, Scott Ebersold, Paul H. projects include Wendy Whelan’s one of the Best Dancers of the Year Conservation, made possible by the Howard Gilman Foundation. Bedard/Theater in Asylum, Tara Restless Creature, Third Rail Projects© by Dance Europe. Guy currently Ahmadinejad/Piehole, and Tami highly acclaimed immersive show Then dances with A.I.M, under artistic A.I.M BOARD OF DIRECTORS Stronach. He has worked in venues She Fell, and teaching at the Rhode direction of Kyle Abraham, which Stephen Simcock (chair), Kyle Abraham (Artistic Director, ex-officio), Cheryl Bergenfeld, such as BAM, The Joyce, New York Island School of Design. Design work she joined in 2014. Chris Calkins, Adrienne Edwards, Glenn Ligon, Bebe Neuwirth, Carrie Schneider, Eric Shiner, Gilda Squire, Julia Strickland Live Arts, La MaMa, Abrons Arts for dance includes: Martha Graham Center, HERE, Dixon Place, and 3LD Dance Company, Brian Brooks, KEERATI JINAKUNWIPHAT (Dancer) in New York; and internationally Armitage Gone! Dance, American Ballet is originally from Chicago, IL, and Generous support for A.I.M provided by: Engaging Dance Audiences, administered by Dance/USA and made possible with generous funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; from France to Korea and many Theatre, Morphoses, Dusan Tynek, received her B.F.A. from the The DuBose & Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund; The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels places in between. He is a graduate Pam Tanowitz, and Keigwin + Company, Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Foundation; The Harkness Foundation for Dance, the Howard Gilman Foundation; The JKW of NYU Tisch School of the Arts. among many others. Design for video Purchase College, and was a Foundation; Joyce Theater Foundation; Mertz-Gilmore Foundation; New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; art includes: David Michalek’s Slow recipient of the Adopt-A-Dancer New York Community Trust; O’Donnell-Green Music & Dance Foundation; Princess Grace REGGIE WILKINS (Composer, Dancing, Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Scholarship. She has additionally Foundation-USA; The Rockefeller Brothers Fund; The Samuel H. Scripps Foundation; Emma A. state) is a pianist, composer, and 5 and Cremaster 1, Toni Dove’s Lucid studied at the Western Australian Sheafer Charitable Trust; and The Shubert Foundation. Public funding provided by The National Endowment for the Arts, The New York State Council on the Arts with support of Governor electronic music artist based in Possession, and Eve Sussman’s 89 Academy of Performing Arts, San Andrew Cuomo and the NYS Legislature; and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in Pittsburgh, PA. After receiving Seconds at Alcazar. More info at Francisco Conservatory of Dance, partnership with the City Council. his B.A. in Architecture from the karenyoungcostume.com and Springboard Danse Montréal. A.I.M is a proud supporter of Dancers Responding to AIDS, which helps ensure that those most University of Pittsburgh (2011), She has worked with artists such in need receive the care and comfort they would otherwise do without. Founded in 1991 by he decided to further explore (Choreographic former Paul Taylor Dance Company members Denise Roberts Hurlin and Hernando Cortez, MATTHEW BAKER as Nicole von Arx, Hannah Garner, DRA relies on the extraordinary compassion and efforts of the performing arts community to his passion for form and space Associate, Dancer) hails from Ann Shannon Gillen, Kevin Wynn, and fund a safety net of social services for those in need. Together, we can make a difference for through sound. His work spans a Arbor, Michigan. He received his B.F.A. Doug Varone. Jinakunwiphat began those less fortunate than us. Donate at dradance.org/donate. full spectrum of genres through (’08) in Dance from Western Michigan working with A.I.M as a swing in For booking information, contact Lotus Arts Management, Sophie Myrtil-McCourty, President, collaborations with various University. In NYC, he worked with 2016 and joined the company as at 72-11 Austin Street, Suite 371, Forest Hills, NY 11375. churches, productions, clubs, choreographers such as Mark Dendy full-time member in 2018. Tel: 347.721.8724; email: [email protected]; website: lotusartsmgmt.com companies, and artists. His most and Keith Thompson before joining notable project, RIVKA, plays Keigwin + Company, under the Artistic CLAUDE “CJ” JOHNSON (Dancer) with texture and atmosphere in Direction of Larry Keigwin and co- hails from Chicago, IL, where he an effort to create a nostalgic founder Nicole Wolcott, from 2009-14. began his formal dance training at Jacob’s Pillow is committed to providing an inclusive environment that cultivates the celebration of the art of dance environment for reflection, healing, As Choreographic Associate for A.I.M, The Chicago Academy for the and its positive impact on communities. and relaxation. More info at Baker works with the Artistic Director Arts under the direction of Randy We are dedicated to fostering a safe, comfortable, and enjoyable experience for everyone on our beautiful campus. You, soundcloud.com/babyt33th and his colleagues to maintain and Duncan. He continued his dance as patrons and visitors of Jacob’s Pillow, are expected to contribute to our mutually respectful and welcoming community develop the company’s repertory. Baker training at SUNY Purchase College, and support the world of dance and all its citizens for generations to come. KRISTI WOOD (Costume Design, was the recipient of a Distinguished where he was awarded the Adopt- If you have any suggestions, comments, or incidents to report, The Quiet Dance)’s original and Alumni Award from his Alma Mater in A-Dancer Scholarship. During please direct them to Deputy Director A.J. Pietrantone at [email protected]. continued profession is as a 2014. Baker joined A.I.M in 2011. 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Johnson also DONOVAN REED (Dancer) is originally EVERYTHING YOU LOVE ABOUT attended summer intensives with from Philadelphia, PA, and began CHOREOGRAPHY Andrea Miller in collaboration with the dancers of A.I.M Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, his dance training at the age of 16 JACOB’S PILLOW MUSIC COMPOSITION Reggie Wilkins Doug Varone & Dancers, Movement under the direction of Shawn Lamere- Invention Project, and Springboard Williams. Soon after, Reed elongated LIGHTING DESIGN Nicole Pearce JOIN OUR THOUSANDS OF MEMBERS & SUPPORT THE Dance Montréal under the direction his search for knowledge by attending MISSION OF JACOB’S PILLOW. COSTUME DESIGN Jose Solis of Alexandra Wells, where he college at The University of The Arts. performed work by Shannon Gillen He was awarded his B.F.A. in May of REHEARSAL DIRECTORS Tamisha Guy You can help the Pillow present outstanding dance artists Allysen Hooks and Elia Mrak. Johnson joined A.I.M 2016. During his time in college, Reed from around the world, provide training and support to in 2017. participated as an Artist in Residence the talented dancers of The School at Jacob’s Pillow, maintain DANCERS Keerati Jinakunwiphat at Die Hochschule für Musik und Catherine Ellis Kirk CATHERINE ELLIS KIRK (Dancer) is Darstellende Kunst, Frankfurt, DE. our landmark site, and create free community programs Marcella Lewis originally from Dallas, Texas. After In addition, he participated in an that engage people of all ages and backgrounds with dance. attending Booker T. Washington independent artist program where his INDY (2018) High School for the Performing and training was extended with The Visual Arts, Kirk graduated with a Pennsylvania Ballet, The Philadelphia CHOREOGRAPHY & PERFORMANCE Kyle Abraham B.F.A. from New York University Dance Company (PHILADANCO!), Tisch School of the Arts and holds a Eleone Dance Theatre, and The Rock EVERY GIFT MATTERS. 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DRAMATURG Charlotte Brathwaite Sharon Eyal, Peter Chu, Andrea Miller, A.I.M in 2018. Robert Battle, Bebe Miller, and Alex ASSISTANT TO THE Sustaining members support the Pillow year-round through easy, Ketley. Upon graduating, Kirk had (Dancer) was CHOREOGRAPHER Matthew Baker JADA JENAI WILLIAMS automatic monthly or quarterly gifts. the pleasure of apprenticing for Sidra born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She is INDY was created with commissioning funds and a residency provided by The Joyce Theater Foundation with major support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Bell Dance NY before working with a graduate of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High Additional funding for the creation of INDY provided by Steven and Michele Pesner. Danaka Dance, Chihiro Shimizu and School and SUNY Purchase College, Artists, UNA-Projects, Burr Johnson, with a B.F.A. in Dance and a minor in Depending on your level, membership gives you access to: Jasmine Hearn, and Helen Simoneau Arts Management. During her college - INTERMISSION - Early Ticketing Danse. Kirk is thrilled to be dancing career, she had the opportunity to work Fan level & above with A.I.M, which she joined in 2013. with Jonathan Reidel, Kyle Abraham, The Quiet Dance (2011) Kevin Wynn, and Jean Freebury Admission to Cast Parties CHOREOGRAPHY Kyle Abraham MARCELLA LEWIS (Dancer) hails restaging Merce Cunningham’s Change Contributor level & above from Los Angeles, CA, where she of Address, and Dylan Crossman. MUSIC “Some Other Time” composed by Leonard Bernstein, played by Bill Evans began her dance training at the Lula Williams has studied abroad in Pillow Lab showings where you can witness the creative process LIGHTING DESIGN Dan Scully Washington Dance Theatre at the Perth, Australia at Western Australia Supporter level & above age of three. She then continued her Academy for Performing Arts, and has COSTUME DESIGN Kristi Wood studies at the Los Angeles County spent summers in Montréal attending Priority Parking Passes DANCERS 7/31, 8/1, 8/3 eve: Catherine Ellis Kirk (soloist), Matthew Baker, Tamisha Guy, High School for the Arts (LACHSA). Springboard Danse Montréal, where Partners’ Circle level & above Keerati Jinakunwiphat, Claude “CJ” Johnson She later received her B.F.A. in Dance she worked with Jonathan Alsberry from SUNY Purchase College, where restaging work by Aszure Barton, and 8/2, 8/3 mat, 8/4: Catherine Ellis Kirk (soloist), Matthew Baker, Keerati Jinakunwiphat, Invitations to Member-Exclusive Events she was awarded the Adopt-A-Dancer Shamel Pitts restaging Three by Ohad Claude “CJ” Johnson, Marcella Lewis Scholarship. While at Purchase, Lewis Naharin. Since graduating, she has Discounts in The Pillow Store performed works by Doug Varone, worked with Helen Simoneau and Show Pony (2018) Gregory Dolbashian, madboots, Kevin joined A.I.M in 2018. Wynn, and Ori Flooman. Lewis has CHOREOGRAPHY Kyle Abraham completed summer programs at the Help make dance creation, presentation, education, and MUSIC “Hatshepsut” by Jlin San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, preservation at Jacob’s Pillow possible. Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, LIGHTING DESIGN Dan Scully and Alonzo King Lines Ballet, where Thank you! COSTUME DESIGN Fritz Masten she was awarded the Homer Avila Scholarship. She is the recipient of a DANCER 7/31, 8/1, 8/3 eve: Marcella Lewis 2018 Princess Grace Award in Dance. 8/2, 8/3 mat, 8/4: Tamisha Guy Marcella joined A.I.M in 2016. PILLOWNOTES JACOB’S PILLOW EXTENDS SPECIAL THANKS by Maura Keefe TO OUR VISIONARY LEADERS The PillowNotes series comprises essays commissioned from our Scholars-in-Residence to provide audiences with a broader VISIONARY LEADERS form an important foundation of support and context for viewing dance. demonstrate their passion for and commitment to Jacob’s Pillow through annual gifts of $10,000 and above. “Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.” ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room Their deep affiliation ensures the success and longevity of the Pillow’s annual offerings, including educational initiatives, free public Home matters. Heart, hearth, and castle. A refuge. A place from which to venture and a place to return. Home for Kyle programs, The School, the Archives, and more. Abraham has multiple meanings. In his skin, and in his body, in music and art. In New York, and now in Los Angeles. But really, it’s Pittsburgh that was first and maybe even always home. It’s where Kyle Abraham is from. And it threads through his creative history. $25,000+ PRESENTS Carole* & Dan Burack Christopher Jones* & Deb McAlister Like Kyle Abraham, the city of Pittsburgh has multiple and at times diverging identities. As a city, it’s both and neither the A.I.M BY KYLE ABRAHAM The Barrington Foundation Wendy McCain Northeast and the Midwest. It’s Appalachia on the one hand and the Rust Belt on the other. In straddling these boundaries, Frank & Monique Cordasco Fred Moses* it borrows cultural influences from a variety of sources. It’s a city of oppositions. It’s blue collar and white collar. It’s been Hon. Stephan P. Driscoll*, in honor and memory Jennie A. Kassanoff & Dan H. Schulman Ted Shawn Theatre of John Lindquist & Barton Mumaw Mark & Taryn Leavitt called America’s smartest city, and it’s also where the reality show Dance Moms is filmed. It’s rabidly dedicated to its Stephanie & Robert ‡ Gittleman Sylvia T. Pope* hometown sports teams—the Steelers, the Penguins, and the Pirates—and is equally proud of the Andy Warhol Museum. July 31-August 4, 2019 Carolyn Gray & George Peppard Robert & Eileen Rominger Pittsburgh sons and daughters include Gertrude Stein and August Wilson, choreographers Martha Graham and Paul Taylor. Joan & Jim Hunter Irene Ryan Foundation As Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writer Brian O’Neill writes: “It’s just Pittsburgh, and there’s no place like it. That’s both its blessing and its curse.” ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Kyle Abraham INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Michele Thompson $10,000+ Abraham, like Pittsburgh, presents conflicting identities. He’s known for what some people term his neo hip hop style, but he has also performed with former New York City Ballet principal ballerina Wendy Whelan. As soon as he starts to dance, Dr. Norman Abramson Ann* & Peter Herbst GENERAL MANAGER Hillary Kooistra Deborah & Charles Adelman Laura* & Nick Ingoglia one understands the singular movement style that drew Whelan to commission a duet from him for Restless Creature Aliad Fund Nancy K. Kalodner (which premiered at the Pillow in 2013). She explained her motivation as a desire to determine whether she could move PRODUCTION MANAGER & Rick & Nurit Amdur Amy & Richard Kohan like him, saying, “If I could do something like that as a ballet dancer. If I could transform myself to feel what he feels as a LIGHTING SUPERVISOR Dan Stearns Candace* & Rick Beinecke Lizbeth & George Krupp dancer.” Abraham describes his movement as “postmodern gumbo…a hybrid of movement sensibilities inspired by a lot of Linda & Bob Berzok Jack & Elizabeth Meyer, in honor of postmodern, modern, contemporary and ballet forms and even some social-dance vernaculars as well.” PERFORMERS Kyle Abraham Sydelle & Lee Blatt Diane & Deval Patrick David Carlisle & Morene Bodner Hans* & Kate Morris Matthew Baker Chervenak-Nunnallé Foundation Gov. Deval L. & Diane Patrick His groundbreaking solo Inventing Pookie Jenkins (2006) became a kind of signature work and it foreshadowed the Tamisha Guy Claudia Perles complexity of what was to come with his company Abraham.In.Motion (now known simply as A.I.M). Dressed in a white Neil* & Kathleen Chrisman Keerati Jinakunwiphat Ranny Cooper & David Smith Caren & Barry Roseman tulle skirt, like a ballerina might wear, Abraham swaggered onto the stage carrying a boom box. All at once, he embodied Jeffrey Davis & Michael T. Miller Hunter K. Runnette* & Mark P. VandenBosch multiple and complex identities that were both recognizable and strange: an African American man with a boom box Claude “CJ” Johnson David DeFilippo & Lisa Shapiro, in memory of Naomi Seligman & Ernie von Simson (familiar), and an African American man in a draping white skirt (unfamiliar). At once masculine and feminine, high art and Catherine Ellis Kirk Robert Gittleman Mark Sena & Linda Saul-Sena street, Abraham showed his movement histories in his dancing. His mastery as a performer allowed him then and allows Natalie & Howard Shawn Marcella Lewis Hermine Drezner him today to move smoothly between that hybrid of forms, vernacular and ballet and modern dance techniques. His Sheila Drill Lisbeth Tarlow & Stephen Kay Donovan Reed Roger Tilles virtuosity as a dancer, as a polyglot of dance languages, makes the juxtapositions of styles not jarring but overlapping. Nancy & Michael Feller Jada Jenai Williams David & Nina Fialkow in honor of Stephen Weiner & Donald Cornuet Deval & Diane Patrick and Mark A. Leavitt Ellen Weissman Abraham’s connection to Pittsburgh is more than symbolic. He has remarked in interviews that his high school days are a Jeanne Donovan Fisher Mark & Liz Williams constant source of inspiration for him—that time of change when we discover, inhabit, and discard identities. Abraham Joan* & Charlie Gross Elaine* & Irving Wolbrom came to concert dance late after starting out as a club dancer. As he said in an interview with LifeandTimes.com, “Growing up in that early hip-hop time, when you went out and danced, there were moves and set up social dances, but you would Billboards * Former Trustees, staff, faculty, interns, just start dancing.” He went to see the Joffrey Ballet perform (1993) when he was sixteen and it changed him. He The School’s dancers, or arists-in-residence went, not to see the ballet, but rather to see some dances to the song cycle by the pop superstar Prince. That love of music ‡ deceased from the club and that love of dancing combine in his work as a choreographer.