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BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC Sunday Evening February 12 , 1984 at 7:00PM A CELEBRATION EVENING TWYLA THARP DANCE with special guest artist MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV TWYLATHARP SARA RUDNER TOMRAWE JENNIFER WAY SHELLEY WASHINGTON RAYMOND KURSHALS RICHARD COLTON WILLIAM WHITENER JOHN CARRAFA KATIE GLASNER JOHN MALASHOCK MARY ANN KELWGG SHELLEY FREYDONT KEITH YOUNG AMY SPENCER BARBARA HOON ROBERT RADFORD production designed by SANTO WQUASTO lighting designed by JENNIFER TIPTON The Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation gratefully acknowledges the Benefactors and Patrons who have supported this gala evening. Performances by TWYLA THARP DANCE have been made possible in part by public funds fro m the New York State Council on the Arts and the Nation:l En dowment for the Am. Additional support for these performances at the Brooklyn Ae< '11 of Music has been pro­ vided by the Booth Ferris Foundation, the Charles Engelhard h ; ,dation, and the Norman and Rosita Winston Foundation. PROGRAM THE GOLDEN SECTION Premiere: (THE CATHERINE WHEEL) September 1981, New York, New York Choreography by Twyla Tharp Costumes designed by Santo Loquasto Lighting designed by Jennifer Tipton Music composed, produced and performed by David Byrne Rawe, Way, Washington, Kurshals, Colton, Whitener, Carrafa, Glasner, Malashock, Kellogg, Freydont, Young, Hoon Five Golden Sections What A Day That Was Big Blue Plymouth Light Bath The original producrion ofT HE CATHERINE WHEEL was made possible in pan by grams from rhe New York Srare Council on rhe Arcs and rhe Narional Endowmem for rhe Arcs. pause SINATRA SUITE Performed to the music of Frank Sinatra Choreography by Twyla Tharp Costumes designed by Oscar de la Renta Lighting designed by Jennifer Tipton Tharp and Baryshnikov Strangers In The Night (Kaempfert-Singleton-Snyder) All The Way 0. Vanheusen-S. Cahn) That's Life (D. Kay-K. Gordon) My Way (Anka-Francois-Revaux-Thibauit) One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) (H. Arlen-). Mercer) Sinatra Suite is regularly performed as part of the repertory of American Ballet Theatre. intermission BAKER'S DOZEN Premiere: February 1979, Brooklyn, New York Choreography by Twyla Tharp Costumes designed by Santo Loquasto Lighting designed by Jennifer Tipton Music composed by Willie "The Lion" Smith Music performed by Dick Hyman Raw, Glasner; Malashock, Way; Carrafa, Washington; Whitener, Freydont; Kurshals, Kellogg; Colton, Rudner Echoes of Spring Tango a Ia Caprice Concentrating Relaxin' intermission REPRISE: SINATRA SONGS Performed to the music of Frank Sinatra Choreography by Twyla Tharp Costumes designed by Oscar de la Renta Lighting designed by Jennifer Tipton Softly As I Leave You (Calabrese-Devita-Shaper) Washington and Young Forget Domani (Newell-Ortolani) Way and Whitener One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) (H. Arlen-). Mercer) Rudner and Carrafa My Way (Anka-Francois-Revaux-T hibauit) Washington, Carrafa; Way, Whitener; Rudner, Carrafa; Tharp, Baryshnikov REPRISE: SINATRA SONGS is extracted from a larger work, NINE SINATRA SONGS, a production made possible in part by grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional funds were provided by the Ida and William Rosenthal Foundation. ---------About the Artists--------- TWYLA THARP studied ballet with Igor Pittsburgh Steelers' wide receiver Lynn Swann, the present, and THE CATHERINE Schwezoff, Margaret Craske, Richard Thomas which was performed on ABC's "Omnibus" WHEEL, which was filmed as a co-production and Barbara Fallis, jazz with Eugene Lewis, series. Miss Tharp also choreographed Milos ofTwyla Tharp Enterprises and the BBC and and modern technique with Martha Graham, Forman's 1978 film HAIR, in which her for which she received a 1983 Emmy Alwin N ikolais, Erick Hawkins, Merce Company performed as featured dancers, and nomination for outstanding choreography. In Cunningham, and Paul Taylor. Miss Tharp reconstructed period dancing for Dino de the spring of 1982 Miss Tharp performed with gave her first concert, TANK DIVE, at Hunter Laurentiis' film RAGTIME. She recently Andre Gregory in his cwo person play, BONE College in 1965. From 1965 ro the present directed the opera sequences for the Saul SONGS. Miss Tharp is che recipient of the time, she has continued to produce a number Zaentz fi lm production of Peter Shaffer's 198 I Dance Magazine Award, and has of works for her own company, ranging from AMADEUS. Her first television special, received Honorary Docrorate Degrees in che the early non-proscenium works such as MAKING TELEVISION DANCE, a co­ performing arts from Brandeis University MEDLEY ( 1969) and DANCING IN THE production ofTwyla Tharp Dance Foundation ( 1972), the California Institute of the Arts STREETS OF LONDON AND PARIS, and WNET/ TV Lab, won che Chicago (1978), Brown University (1981), Bard CONTINUED IN STOCKHOLM AND International Film Festival's Dance Film College (1981 ), Williams College ( 1983), the SOMETIMES MADRID ( 1969), to the Award in 1980. CONFESSIONS OF A Medal of Distinction from Barnard College current stage repertory for her Company's 16 CORNER MAKER, directed by Miss Tharp, ( 1982), and the Spirit of Achievement Award dancers, now in residence at the Brooklyn and produced by CBS Cable in associacon with from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Academy of Music. In 197 3, Miss Tharp the Foundation, features three of the (1983). Since 197 1, the Company has received a commission for her first special Company's repertory pieces: BAKER'S performed rhroughout the United States and project, DEUCE COUPE, from the Joff rey DOZEN, SH ORT STORIES, and BACH Europe and celebrated its fifteenth anniversary Ballet. Since then there have been many special DUET, and was first aired in Ocrober 1981. by self-producing its first Broadway season at productions: AS TIME GOES BY ( 1973) and Other of the Company's repertory on tape the Wimer Garden Theatre in the spring of HAPPILY EVER AFTER (1976) for the includes THE BIX PIECES (CBS Camera 1980 followed by a second Broadway season in J effrey Ballet; PUSH COMES TO SH OVE Three, 1973); SUE'S LEG (WNET, Dance In 1981. ( 1976), THE LITTLE BALLET ( 1983), America, 1976); and THE FUGUE and SINATRA SUITE ( 1983) and THE BACH EIGHT JELLY ROLLS (London Weekend SARA RUDNER has performed as a guest PAR TITA ( 1983), for Mikhail Baryshnikov Television, 1974). Miss Tharp has most with Twyla Tharp Dance since 1977. As a and American Ballet Theatre; AFTER ALL recently completed an anthology videotape member of the Company from 1965 ro 1974 ( 1977) and THREE FANFARES (1980) for that is a scrapbook of her career from 196 5 co she made major contributions co its work and gold medal figure skater John Curry; and growth, creating roles in EIGHT JELLY DANCE IS A MAN'S SPORT, TOO (1980) ROLLS, THE BIX PIECES, and such early for New York City Ballet's Peter Martins and works as GENERATION, TORELLI, and DISPERSE. Currently the Artistic Direaor of · Bournonville, Ashron, and Tharp. In 1977 he She currently studies ballet in New York with the Eighteenth Street Dance Foundation, Miss joined Twyla Tharp Dance. He currently Lawrence Rhodes and Alba Calzada. Rudner performs her own choreography studies ballet with Maggie Black. throughout the United States and Europe. Her SHELLEY FREYDONT began ballet work has also been performed on the programs WILLIAM WHITENER began dancing studies as a child in her home state, Georgia. of rhe Lar Lubovirch Dance Company and with the] offrey Baller in 1969 following his She earned her B.F.A. and M.F.A. in dance Pilobolus Dance Theatre. Miss Rudner is the studies with Robert] offrey in Seattle, from the University of Utah and caught on the recipient of a J ohn Simon Guggenheim Washington. His repertory included principal dance faculties of California Stare University at Memorial Fellowship for 1981-82. roles in George Balanchine's TARANTELLA, Fresno and the Chautauqua Institute in KurrJoos' THE BIG CITY, and the title role Sararoga Springs, New York. Previously a TOM RAWE was born and raised in Alfred, in PETROUCHKA. He was also featured in member of Ballet West and the Louis Falco New York. He attended high school at all of Miss Tharp's works at the Joffrey and in Dance Company, she joined Twyla Tharp Interlochen Arts Academy where he pursued 1978 he joined Twyla Tharp Dance. As a Dance in the fall of 1979. In 1983 she his early interests in music and dance. From choreographer Mr. Whitener has created reconstructed period dances and assisted Miss there he trained at the J uilliard School and Ballets for] offrey II dancers, Martine van Tharp in the filming of AMADEUS. earned a B.S. in Business Engineering from Hamel, Ballet Hispanico, and Olympic gold Clarkson College of Technology and an M.A. in medalist] ohn Curry. Recently he served as KEITH YOUNG was raised in Ohio and Dance from Ohio Srate University. As a senior Miss Tharp's assistant on ONCE UPON A began dancing there with rhe] udy Greg company member Mr. Rawe, who joined TIME for American Baller Theatre. He Dance Company and the Contemporary Dance Twyla Tharp Dance in 1973, has been featured currently studies ballet with Maggie Black. Theatre of Cincinnati. Upon moving ro New in a long list of company projects for stage, York he studied extensively with Merce film, and television. JOHN CARRAFA studied rap and jazz as a Cunningham and with Viola Farber and Mel child in Waterbury, Connecticut and received Wong, two choreographers in whose J ENNIFER WAY was invited ro join Twyla his early ballet training at the Hanford Baller. companies he subsequently performed. He was Tharp Dance in] anuary, 197 5. She has, since After earning a Bachelors Degree in Biology invited to join Twyla Tharp Dance in the fall of char rime, performed in virtually all of the from Bares College he studied mime and 1980.

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