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2 ENCORE STAGES Throwing Like a Girl and Writing Like One Too

The cast of the upcoming production of The Wolves at ACT. Photo by Dawn Schaefer.

Danielle Mohlman My dad was a star athlete in high My parents met in high school. She school. Letterman jacket, full page in was a cheerleader, full of school spirit examines the women the yearbook, the whole nine yards. He and there for every water polo game laying claim to sports was a water polo goalie and to this day and swim meet. Pom poms in hand, via the theatre, and their the number he wore on his swim cap she watched him pull through the – 22 – is significant for both him and water, breaking records in freestyle and inspiration for doing so. my mom. Every “22” they’ve ever seen backstroke. in the wild has been photographed and framed. It’s the date of their wedding As a teenager, I lived for the hours anniversary. And it was etched into between the end of school and the the pin cushion my mom used in beginning of sunset. I’d flash my home economics, silver-headed pins completed homework at my mom forming the curves of each number. and then run down the street to my

encoremediagroup.com/programs 3 Danielle Mohlman's father, Mitch Mohlman, on the far left. (He’s wearing number 22, but the angle doesn’t show it.) neighbor Gilbert’s house. If we could jealousy-fueled competition these about a “sweet old lady” with only assemble a team of neighborhood kids, young soccer players seem to thrive on. one breast, claiming that the winter we’d play touch football in the street, Their drug instead, is frantic whispers air is “colder than a witch’s” – well, yelling “Car!” every time someone’s about a sheltered teammate who you can finish the rest. As the Wolves parent got home from work. We had chooses pads over tampons. And jokes warm up for their games, they name- more timeouts than any regulation game about pregnancy that quickly become check each other by jersey number and, it seemed, just as many injuries. unchecked abortion rumors. These If we couldn’t get a team together, I’d girls are sixteen and it shows. strap on my roller blades and speed up “As the Wolves and down the sidewalk, jumping off our Interspersed in this dialogue about homemade ramp. If he was patient and uterine lining and inefficient feminine warm up for their I was calm, Gilbert would continue his products is a discussion about former games, they name- lifelong quest – teaching me how to ollie Prime Minister of Cambodia, Nuon on his skateboard. I was never any good, Chea, who at 90 years old is giving check each other but I was relentless. Still am. I’d fall and testimony about the Khmer Rouge get back up again, bloody palms and all. genocide. The audience is momentarily by jersey number Despite everything, I’m the furthest thing faced with an odd juxtaposition: the from an athlete. But sports are starting to murder of hundreds of thousands of and masculine creep their way into my plays – and I’m Cambodian citizens and the torture of not the only one. a particularly heavy period. Offstage, epithets like another soccer team warms up – a team just as driven, just as talented, “man” and “dude,” just as vicious. Spend enough time on the field and as though their you’ll come away with blood. But the Sarah DeLappe’s dialogue in The blood that opens Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves perfectly intones a teenage and feminine first Wolves isn’t skinned knees or thousands athletic vocabulary. These girls turn names betray the of burst blood vessels congealing into around crude language as though they a purple bruise. It’s menstrual blood – just learned how to form the syllables very nature of their in all its coagulated glory. The Wolves’ with their mouths. They litter their thirst for blood isn’t quenched by the sentences with expletives, gossiping competitive spirit.”

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EAP full-page template.indd 1 12/12/17 9:49 AM and masculine epithets like “man” and grace. It’s like my body has forgotten writing The Great Leap. In her author’s “dude,” as though their feminine first how to move. But as a teenager, I’d show note, Yee writes that her father played names betray the very nature of their up at my community center on Tuesday basketball all day and all night growing competitive spirit. It’s reminiscent of nights, poised to learn another thirty up. As a 6’1” Chinatown kid from San every male dominated sport out there. seconds of choreography. I wanted so Francisco’s projects, he dominated They don’t want to be weak, so instead badly to dance to Tchaikovsky. Instead, asphalt courts and recreation center they’re “man” and “dude.” It’s easier my teacher brought in the Runaway floors. He was never going to go pro that way. It’s armor. Bride soundtrack. To this day I can’t – he knew that even then. But he was hear Shawn Colvin without thinking good. He was really good. In my own play, Dust, I also dive about those long mirrors, the ballet into the ferocity of teenage girls. My barre, and the smell of high school girls Lauren Yee’s father first visited China in athletes are a high school swim team, learning to dance. As I raised my hands the 1980s, playing a series of exhibition condemned to an unfinished life – the high above my head, blood dried on my games against China’s best teams. entire play lives in the memory of the palms. My mind was on the asphalt road Yee says that The Great Leap isn’t her young man who killed every one of of our makeshift football field. father’s story – his American team was them, but even in his distorted lens defeated too many times to count. But they’re magnificent. The swim team’s All those years of dance make their it’s a story like her father’s. In The Great captain, Wendy, is the queer object of way into Dust as well. In an effort to Leap, Manford, a rec center-trained this vicious man’s attention. Everyone communicate with the audience that teenager from Chinatown, busts else was just in the wrong place at something is very wrong, the play never into a basketball practice uninvited, the wrong time. Even in death, they stops moving. Dance is an integral part barreling at the team’s point guard, work together as a team, shifting the of the play’s vocabulary, conveying twisting his ankle in the process. perspective memory by memory. everything from an overactive With a newly injured player and a life imagination to a mass murder. This changing exhibition game against When I told my parents about this play lives in a zone where words are Beijing University on the horizon, the play they were surprised I’d chosen an not sufficient on their own. It’s the University of San Francisco coach, athletic path. Those football games unsquareable moment of my bloody Saul, is livid. In the moment before the on the street went on for years and at palms in a ballet class. It may look play begins, Saul tells Manford that one point I actually took a chance on delicate at first glance, but upon closer he has thirty seconds to explain why organized sports, playing two seasons inspection it’s everything but. he was “sh---ing all over his practice” of softball. But their perception of me before he calls security. While other has always been divorced from the While I was finding inspiration for players might leave immediately, athletics they know and love. They Dust in my dad’s legendary tales about running through the door they came describe my upbringing as musical – a his high school swim records, Lauren in, Manford takes full advantage of the decade of clarinet and nearly the same Yee was looking to her own father’s thirty seconds. amount of dance classes. Today, I lack obsession with basketball as she started

Production photos from the Studio Theatre production of The Wolves. Photo by Teresa Wood.

6 ENCORE STAGES “I will win you games. I will score you points. I will make you layups. I will shoot from half court, full court. I will shoot over whatever, whenever, whoever is getting in my way. I am quick. I am relentless. I am the most relentless person you have ever met, and if you’ve met someone more relentless than me, tell me. Tell me and I will meet them, and I will find a way to become even more relentless than th e m .”

“It’s an athletic embarrassment of riches, helmed by three female playwrights who aren’t afraid to walk away with a scraped knee verdi and a couple of bruises.” AIDA

Despite his short stature and brash may 5–19 introduction, Manford makes his way onto the University of San Francisco team. Because he’s right. He is relentless. But he’s also undeniably talented. VERDI’S MONUMENTAL MASTERPIECE New Production In this profoundly personal love story, In Italian with English subtitles. Evenings 7:30 PM Verdi’s power to translate human We live in a city that pulses with Sunday 2:00 PM Seahawks spirit, even in the off emotions into magnificent music is on full display. The high-stakes love triangle Featuring the Seattle Opera season. But March through May, a unfolds on a grand scale amid glorious Chorus and members of new cavalry of athletes is taking over. Seattle Symphony Orchestra. spectacle and rousing choruses—including Manford and the University of San the famous Triumphal March. Francesca Francisco are commanding the Leo Zambello’s all-new production includes MCCAW HALL K. Theatre at Seattle Rep. Wendy and evocative choreography by Jessica Lang, 206.389.7676 the Mermaids are taking over Youth and largescale visuals by visionary artist PRODUCTION SPONSORS: Theatre Northwest, aptly surrounded RETNA, who cites the structures of LENORE M. HANAUER by water on Mercer Island. And the Egyptian hieroglyphics as the basis for his C.E. STUART CHARITABLE TRUST Wolves are running drills up and down striking designs. ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FROM: 4CULTURE Artwork © RETNA (Marquis Duriel Lewis), the Allen Theatre at ACT. It’s an athletic SEATTLEOPERA.ORG/AIDA Photo © Philip Newton embarrassment of riches, helmed by

encoremediagroup.com/programs 7 SPACE BARONS, BANKERS, AND A SEAHAWK LEARN MORE AT TOWNHALLSEATTLE.ORG Lauren Yee’s father, Larry Yee, blocking a shot. Photo from excerpt of The Great Leap on New Play Exchange, courtesy of cinema the playwright.

three female playwrights who aren’t afraid to walk away with a scraped knee and a couple of bruises. As every coach we’ve ever encountered has said, “Rub some dirt on it and walk it off.” <

The Great Leap by Lauren Yee runs at Seattle Repertory Theatre from March 23 to April 22.

The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe runs at ACT from April 20 to May 13.

A workshop production of Dust by Danielle Mohlman runs at Youth Theatre Northwest from May 11 to 12.

Danielle Mohlman is a nationally RORY KINNEAR ("PENNY DREADFUL") AND produced feminist playwright based in ANNE-MARIE DUFF (SUFFRAGETTE) RETURN TO THE NATIONAL Seattle. Her play Nexus is among the 2015 THEATRE TO PLAY MACBETH AND LADY MACBETH. Honorable Mentions on The Kilroys list. THU, MAY 10 ∙ SIFF CINEMA UPTOWN She is an alumnus of the inaugural class SUN, JUN 17 - TUE, JUN 19 ∙ SIFF FILM CENTER of Playwrights’ Arena at Arena Stage and a member of the 2018 Umbrella Project FOR TICKETS VISIT SIFF.NET Writers Group.

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TABLE of CONTENTS UPCOMING PERFORMANCES Letter from the Director | A-2 Apr 24 | Calidore String Quartet Simon Trpčeski | A-3 May 17-19 | Complexions Contemporary Ballet Diego El Cigala | A-7 Kathleen Battle | A-11 Hubbard Street Dance Chicago | A-15 INTRODUCING THE 2018-19 SEASON Your Guide to Meany Center | A-23 The new season has been announced. See page A-10 Thanks to our Donors | A-24 for a complete list of artists and dates. Welcome to Meany Center

Dear Friends:

It is such a pleasure to be able to share with Next season, we will also explore you some highlights from our upcoming contemporary American voices in classical 2018-19 Season. music with Time for Three, a groundbreaking, category-shattering trio that transcends Next year, Meany Center features 24 visionary traditional classification. artists and ensembles that are pushing artistic boundaries, blending genres and redefining As a final highlight, in an unprecedented the meaning of creative mastery. Seattle native event for Meany Center, we welcome the and international star Mark Morris will present 109-musician Taiwan Philharmonic, with pianist a program set to the music of 20th-century Stephen Hough — a huge undertaking and one iconoclast Harry Partch. Our own UW School of our largest-scale performances ever. of Music stewards the original collection of Partch’s historic instruments, and we look Of course, none of this would be possible forward to a groundbreaking collaboration without the support of you, our friends and of live music and dance. artistic inspiration, and our partners at the University of Washington. In a special Meany Center presentation, celebrated pianist Emanuel Ax recreates With gratitude — enjoy tonight’s his New York, recital debut program on its performance! 40th anniversary, as part of the President’s Piano Series.

Iconic Grammy and Latin Grammy Award- winning Mixtec singer Lila Downs, one of the world’s most singular and powerful voices, Michelle Witt returns to Meany with her compelling stage Executive and Artistic Director presence and poignant storytelling.

Meany Center Advisory Board Kathleen Wright, President Yumi Iwasaki, Leadership Team Darcy Paschino Ex-Officio Members: Joel Baldwin, ArtsFund Board Intern O. David Jackson John Robinson Ana Mari Cauce, UW President Ross Boozikee Dr. Susan Joslyn Donald Rupchock Robert C. Stacey, Luis Fernando Esteban Sally Kincaid Marcie Stone Dean, College of Arts & Sciences Davis B. Fox Kurt Kolb, Leadership Team Donald Swisher Catherine Cole, Divisional Dean of the Arts Brian Grant Jeff Lehman, Leadership Team Rick Szeliski Becky Harris Craig Miller, Leadership Team David Vaskevitch Kyra Hokanson Gray Chelsey Owen Gregory Wallace Cathy Hughes Seema Pareek Mark Worthington

EMERITUS BOARD

Linda Linford Allen Ruth Gerberding Dick Roth Ellen Wallach Linda Armstrong Randy Kerr Eric Rothchild Ellsworth C. “Buster” Alvord, In memoriam Cynthia Bayley Susan Knox Jeff Seely Betty Balcom, In memoriam Thomas Bayley Matt Krashan, K. Freya Skarin Ernest Henley, In memoriam Cathryn Booth-LaForce Emeritus Artistic Director Rich Stillman Mina Person, In memoriam JC Cannon Sheila Edwards Lange David Stone Jerome Sanford, Sr. In memoriam Elizabeth Cooper Frank Lau Lee Talner Gail Erickson Lois Rathvon Thomas Taylor

A-2 MEANY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS President’s Piano President’s Piano Series generously sponsored by SIMON TRPČESKI ERIC & MARGARET ROTHCHILD April 5 | 7:30 p.m. SEASON SUPPORT COMES FROM

GRIEG From Holberg’s Time, Suite for Orchestra (1843–1907) Praelude: Allegro vivace Sarabande: Andante Gavotte: Allegretto Air: Andante religioso Rigaudon: Allegro con brio

MENDELSSOHN Selections from Songs Without Words (1809–1847) Op. 19, No. 1, Andante con moto; Molto allegro e vivace, “Hunting Song” Op. 30, No. 6, Allegretto tranquillo, “Gondolier’s Song” Op. 53, No. 2, Allegro non troppo, “Dedication” Op. 38, No. 2, Allegro non troppo, “Lost Joy” MEDIA PARTNER Op. 62, No. 1, Andante espressivo, “May Breezes” Op. 67, No. 2, Allegro leggiero, “Lost Illusions”

INTERMISSION MEANY CENTER THANKS THE FOLLOWING SIGNATURE SPONSOR Evelyn Simpson RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade, Op. 35 (Arr. Paul Gilson)

(1844–1908) “The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship” ADDITIONAL SUPPORT COMES FROM Nancy D. Alvord † “The Kalendar Prince” Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Ex-Offi cio Members: “The Young Prince and the Young Princess” Warren and Anne Anderson Ana Mari Cauce, UW President “Festival at Baghdad. The Sea. The Ship Breaks Against a Linda Armstrong Robert C. Stacey, Cliff Surmounted by a Bronze Horseman” Sven and Melinda Bitners Dean, College of Arts & Sciences Stephen and Sylvia Burges Catherine Cole, Divisional Dean of the Arts Ana Mari Cauce and Susan Joslyn Heidi Charleson Gail Erickson and Phil Lanum Lynn and Brian Grant Family Dr. Martin Greene and Kathleen Wright Richard and Nora Hinton Sally Schaake Kincaid Matthew and Christina Krashan Craig Miller and Rebecca Norton Bill and Meg Morgan Seema Pareek and Gurdeep Pall Mina B. Person † Eric and Margaret Rothchild Don and Toni Rupchock Dave and Marcie Stone Donald and Gloria Swisher

encoremediagroup.com/programs A-3 SIMON TRPČESKI | Program Notes

APR From Holberg’s Time, Suite for was surpassed by Liszt and precious 16 Orchestra (1884) few others. To Clara Schumann, EDVARD GRIEG herself one of the century’s prodigally gifted pianists, Mendelssohn was the By 1884, Edvard Grieg had already best and most poetic of keyboard established himself as Norway’s gift to artists. Naturally he wrote a great the world of music. His fame extended deal of piano music. His early sonatas far beyond his homeland and the breathed deeply the still-lingering air of rest of Scandinavia. He was clearly a Beethoven, for which they are perhaps world figure whose reputation was unfairly criticized. He really found his unaffected by more radical composers pianistic voice, so to speak, in his forty- who shared Debussy’s opinion that eight Songs Without Words (1830–1845), Faculty Guitar Recital: Grieg’s music was “chocolate-covered written largely for amateurs in an age Michael Partington with guest snow.” With national pride high, he where pianos and piano playing were Marc Teicholz Music by Haydn, Giuliani, Poulenc, was approached by a commission as common as listening to recorded Bogdanovic, and others. organizing the celebration of the music is today. The Songs are just that, 7:30 pm Brechemin Auditorium bicentennial of the birth of Norway’s song-like short pieces that seem to tell literary giant, Ludwig Holberg (1684- a tale without the benefit or limitation 1754), a native of Grieg’s hometown of words. of Bergen. Holberg, equally famed in APR Denmark, was a master of comedy; his The composer sought to recapture in 20 characters have the kind of universal his Songs Without Words the sense of truthfulness that renders the plays spontaneity and naturalness he found ageless. Grieg was delighted to and loved in folk song. Though simple contribute to the upcoming festivities. in structure—generally a clear, unfussy melody over flowing accompaniments— Neils Gade contributed a Holbergian the four dozen songs radiate freshness Suite, which remains as unforgotten and variety throughout. Most of the as most of that Danish composer’s songs are propelled by the kind of canon. Grieg composed a cantata rapidly scurrying eighth- or sixteenth- for men’s voices for the occasion of note figurations in the lefthand UW Chamber Orchestra with the unveiling of a new statue of the that Mendelssohn borrowed and Melia Watras, viola playwright, and his beguiling piano perfected from Schubert, the greatest, David Alexander Rahbee conducts members suite, From Holberg’s Time, which he incidentally, of song composers. of the UW Symphony in a program of works transcribed for strings in 1885. The by Britten, Wagner, and Wolf. tone of the music and its overall Op. 19, No. 1, Andante con 7:30 pm Brechemin Auditorium structure conjure up the grace and moto, “Hunting Song”: a rippling airiness of 18th century rococo music accompaniment supporting the with a lingering Baroque accent. A roaming mid-register theme conveys tender unforced lyricism, balanced by a APR scintillating Praelude in basic sonata form yields to a series of delectable somewhat more energetic middle. 27 dance movements: a pensive Sarabande, sassy Gavotte connected to Op. 30, No. 6, Allegretto tranquillo, a Musette that floats above a bagpipe- “Gondolier’s Song”: gently rocking in 6/8 inspired drone, a mock-solemn Air as befits a Venetian gondolier’s song. reminiscent of Bach’s famed Air on a G Cast in the minor, the introspective String, and a lively, energetic Rigaudon. song gradually increases in volume, then recedes as the recurring higher melody serenely floats over the Selections from Songs Without Words accompaniment. (1830–1845) UW Symphony Orchestra with FELIX MENDELSSOHN Op. 53, No. 2, Allegro non troppo, Ben Lulich, clarinet “Dedication”: quietly urging and Works by Lutoslawski, Ravel, and Haydn. David Alexander Rahbee, conductor. In a century known for its often somewhat restless. 7:30 pm Meany Theater broadly talented musicians, Mendelssohn’s extravagant gifts Op. 38, No. 2, Allegro non troppo, expressed themselves in many “Lost Joy”: quiet and somewhat areas. Obviously, his rich musical anxious, especially in the left hand legacy testifies to his stature in the accompaniment under a flowing, rising MORE AT: WWW.MUSIC.WASHINGTON.EDU pantheon of composers, but he also and falling theme. ArtsUW TICKET OFFICE: 206.543.4880 was a skilled watercolorist, as well as an excellent writer. As a pianist he

A-4 MEANY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Op. 62, No. 1, Andante, “May Breezes”: Tales of One Thousand and One Nights or Scheherazade opens with “The Sea a lovely main theme that begins simply, Arabian Nights. The eponymous and Sinbad’s Ship,” which features with a descending interval over a Scheherazade is the teller of tales, the stick-to-the-ribs main theme rippling accompaniment. Rising required to provide the sultan with new that courses through the work as a implicit internalized drama raises tales each night lest she be beheaded connective device. A second theme the temperature before the music for failing to deliver the goods—or provides a sensuous counterpoise withdraws into inner reflection. “good stories.” Of course, after 1,000 to the weighty primary motive. The nights her master had fallen hopelessly second movement, “The Kalendar Op. 67, No. 2, Allegro leggiero, “Lost in love and married the much-relieved Prince,” continues the engaging Illusions”: a bouncy, stop/start kept woman. musical travelogue. opening figure is pressed on by insistent accompaniment; the piece Even as a composer dedicated to “The Young Prince and the Young ends quietly. literary-based music, he obsessed Princess” limns a musical portrait of between the dictates of “absolute” young love. The work concludes with music in contrast to programmatic the dramatic “Festival at Baghdad. Scheherazade inspiration—Mahler, of course, The Sea. The Ship Breaks against (arranged for piano by Paul Gilson) changed his mind about this issue as a Cliff Surmounted by a Bronze (1888) well, often providing detailed exegeses Horseman.” Herein musical ideas NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV of specific movements before freshly emerge from the previous discarding and discrediting them. movements, tying the disparate Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s colorful elements into a summary panorama. scores, often evoking in musical terms Noted for his brilliant orchestrations, the action and characters from the rich Rimsky-Korsakov’s kaleidoscopic © 2018 Steven Lowe heritage of Russian fairy tales, helped scoring of Scheherazade may seem an ensure his reputation as one of the odd choice for a piano-only version, great painterly orchestrators of all time. yet shorn of its orchestral garb, the Even when not directly inspired by music emerges with undiminished pictorial ideas, his flair for the right tone panache. As with piano versions color or accent served him exceedingly of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring (the well. It is no wonder that his writings composer being a student of Rimsky- on orchestration continue to serve Korsakov), Scheherazade’s narrative music students the world over. Two quality is maintained throughout, its remarkably inventive scores emerged contrasts of mood and dramatic profile from the composer in 1888, the Russian rendered intact by the composer’s Easter Overture, with its evocation melodic gifts and knowing adherence of Russian bells, and the evergreen to the magic of fairytales—a feature of Scheherazade, inspired by the ageless much Russian music.

encoremediagroup.com/programs A-5 Photo: Andrew Jernigan A-6 SIMON TRPČESKI M of Birmingham SymphonyOrchestra, Symphony, St. LouisSymphony,City will reunitewith theSanFrancisco During the2017-18season, Trpčeski and KrzysztofUrbański. Shani, DimaSlobodeniouk,Robin Ticciati Petrenko, Jukka-PekkaSaraste, Lahav Oramo, AntonioPappano,Vasily Nelsons, GianandreaNoseda,Sakari Jurowski, SusannaMälkki,Andris Dudamel, JakobHrůša,Vladimir Bringuier, ThomasDausgaard,Gustavo with includeMarinAlsop,Lionel Conductors heregularlycollaborates Sea FestivalandtheBBCProms. Bergen InternationalFestival,theBaltic such asVerbier,AspenMusicFestival, performs chambermusicatfestivals Paris, Munich,PragueandTokyo, cultural capitalsasNewYork,London, He regularlygivessolorecitalsinsuch the MelbourneSymphonyOrchestra. Philharmonic, ChinaPhilharmonicand Los AngelesPhilharmonics,NewJapan Filharmonía deGalicia,NewYorkand Orchestre NationaldeFrance,Real Stockholm PhilharmonicOrchestra, Orchestra, OsloPhilharmonic,Royal Sinfonieorchester, HelsinkiPhilharmonic NDR ElbphilharmonieOrchester,WDR Orchestra, RussianNational Orchestra, RoyalConcertgebouw orchestras includingLondonSymphony performs withtheworld’sforemost acedonian pianistSimonTrpčeski MEANY CENTER FORTHEPERFORMING ARTS |

About the Artist Diapason d’Or inSeptember2017. No. 1and3, againwonhimthe features Prokofi ev’sPianoConcertos recent recordingforOnyxClassics as ClassicalCDoftheWeek. Hismost immediately hailedbyTheTelegraph Hall, releasedonWigmoreHallLive , was March 2012recitalattheWigmore Diapason d’Oraccolades.Trpčeski’s FM, Orchestra, wererecognizedwithClassic and theRoyalLiverpoolPhilharmonic Theme byPaganini,withVasilyPetrenko complete concertosplusRhapsodyona his interpretationsofRachmaninov’s Gramophone Awards.In2010and2011, Choice andDebutAlbumawardsatthe on EMIin2002receivedboththeEditor’s widespread acclaim.Hisfi rstrecording Trpčeski hasrecordedprolifi callyto of hisnativeMacedonia. which celebratesthemusicandculture self-made folkprojectMakedonissimo, Schott, aswelltheU.K.debutof partnership withthecellistDanielMüller- additionally featurehisregularduo at WigmoreHall.Thisresidencywill London, thelatterasArtistinResidence Beijing, Shanghai,Sydney,Adelaideand among others.Hewillgiverecitalsin the BBCScottishSymphonyOrchestra, Orchestra delTeatrodiSanCarloand joining StavangerSymphonyOrchestra, Orchester Zürichontour,aswell Symphony OrchestraandtheTonhalle- Philharmonia Orchestra,NewZealand Gramophone Editor’sChoiceand

Artist Awardin2003. Royal PhilharmonicSocietyYoung Artist, andwashonoredwiththe previously aBBCNewGeneration studied withBorisRomanov.Hewas School ofMusicinSkopje,wherehe Simon Trpčeskiisagraduateofthe the RepublicofMacedoniain1979, next generationofartists.Bornin cultivate thetalentofcountry’s musicians inMacedoniaorderto Trpčeski worksregularlywithyoung Culture oftheRepublicMacedonia, arts organization—andtheMinistryof —Macedonia’s leadingculturaland With thespecialsupportofKulturOp World Music & Theater DIEGO EL CIGALA SEASON SUPPORT COMES FROM April 7 | 8 p.m.

Diego El Cigala, Singer Jaime Calabuch, Piano Cristian David Muñoz, Trumpet Edinson Muñoz, Trumpet Richard Stella, Trombone Bernardo Aguirre, Trombone Denilson Ibarguen, Percussion Diego Mayorga, Timbale Julio Valdés, Bass MEDIA PARTNER Diego Galindo, Vocals Andrés Gonzales, Vocals

PROGRAM WILL BE ANNOUNCED FROM THE STAGE.

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT COMES FROM Linda and Tom Allen Nancy D. Alvord † Luis Fernando and Isabelle Maria Esteban Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Yumi Iwasaki and Anoop Gupta Chelsey Owen and Robert Harris Cahterine and David Hughes Ana Mari Cauce and Susan Joslyn Britt East and Scott VanGerpen Matthew and Christina Krashan Seema Pareek and Gurdeep Pall Hugues Hoppe and Sashi Raghupathy Blue and Jeff Resnick Eric and Margaret Rothchild Richard Szeliski and Lyn McCoy

encoremediagroup.com/programs A-7 DIEGO EL CIGALA | About the Artists

pain has produced many thrilling musicians such as Camarón, Tomatito, excitement of that Sunday morning flS amenco singers, but none so brilliant or Gerardo Nuñez and Vicente Amigo in which Bebo and Diego recorded innovative as Diego El Cigala. began to collaborate with him on their together for the fi rst time,” recalled recordings. Fernando Trueba. “Everybody cried.” He was born on a cold December day in 1968 on Provisiones Street near In 1997, he started his solo career with That same year, El Cigala recorded Madrid’s famed fl ea market, El Rastro. the album Undebel, produced by David the album Piratas del Flamenco with Diego’s mother, Aurora Salazar Motos, Amaya. This album featured guitarists celebrated Latino jazz trumpeter and sister of the great musician Rafael Farina Antón Jiménez, David Amaya, Paquete, percussionist Jerry González. During from the Spanish city of Salamanca, and Tomatito. Three years later he that year, they both toured throughout did not pursue a professional career produced his second album, Entre Vareta Mexico and Spain with a breathtaking as a fl amenco singer despite her great y Canasta. Award-winning Spanish live show. Months later, El Cigala talent. His Andalusian father, José de director Fernando Trueba (Belle Epoque, performed at one of the most coveted Córdoba, made a living at popular Calle 54) fi lmed the video of the title track stages: the Teatro Real in Madrid. tablaos (fl amenco clubs) such as Torres from the album. The recording of this concert, which Bermejas, El Corral de la Pacheca and included collaboration with Niño Josele, Arco de Cuchilleros. Then everything began to change in became a monumental fl amenco 2001 with the release of Corren Tiempos manifesto by El Cigala. Ramón Jiménez Salazar is the name de Alegría, which was nominated for shown on El Cigala’s passport. His best fl amenco album of the year at the Both Diego and Bebo felt this initial commonly used name of “Diego” is Latin Grammys. It began when Fernando collaboration was just the beginning the result of a family dispute while Trueba’s musical documentary Calle 54 and that they needed to take their at the baptismal font. “El Cigala” was was still being edited, and Diego was musical encounter further. It was a nickname given to him by gypsy blown away by the scene of Cuban Fernando Trueba who became the guitarists the Losada brothers—and not, pianist Bebo Valdés performing the missing link they needed to materialize as it is often said, by famed fl amenco song “Lágrimas Negras” with a fellow the ideas that surged between that singer Camarón during one of their fi rst countryman, Cachao Lopez. Diego voice and that piano. Keeping it quiet, tours together. declared that he had to meet Valdés and the three of them got to work on a new play with him. They began with “Amar recording and before the end of the Little Diego spent his time running after y Vivir,” written by Consuelo Velásquez: year, El Cigala and Valdés delivered a soccer ball, but whenever he heard “Por qué no han de saber, que yo te amo Lágrimas Negras (Black Tears) at the fl amenco he would drop everything just vida mía…” (“Why shouldn’t they know Gusman Theatre in Miami. The next to listen. Soon he started to sing for that I love you, my darling?”) sang Diego, morning, the press described the dancers, invited by well-known artists on what would become the fi rst studio pianist as “a living classic of the Cuban such as Cristóbal Reyes, Mario Maya, track that he would record with Bebo, and music” and the fl amenco singer as the Manolete, Farrruco, Manuel Camacho destined to appear on the album Corren “Sinatra of fl amenco.” and El Güito, among others. As well, Tiempos de Alegría. “I still remember the

A-8 MEANY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS In 2003, Lágrimas Negras went from an Dos Lágrimas, which was released in In 2013, Diego released his latest intimate, spontaneous project to an 2008. In this work, top Cuban and album, Romance de la Luna Tucumana, unstoppable super-hit that went far Spanish musicians reinterpreted a new interpretation of the Argentine beyond the borders of flamenco and such popular boleros, coplas and repertoire, this time focusing on Latin music to win over hundreds of tangos as “Dos Gardenias,” “María folkloric aspects. Key to some of the thousands of mainstream music fans all de la O,” “Historia de un Amor” and excitement generated by this CD was over the world. The excellent reviews, the “Compromiso.” We also listened to him the participation of Mexico’s famed brilliant live performances, and fantastic —as tender as ever—delivering the main electric guitarist Diego Garcia, known as word of mouth all worked together to track in the movie Y Tú, ¿Quién Eres? “The Twanguero,” who brought a totally keep this album at the top of the charts (And You? Who Are You?), directed by new sound to Diego. Also critical to the for the next two years. The Ondas Award Antonio Mercero, which focuses on the success of this unique collaboration was became the first of an immense pile of challenges faced by Alzheimer patients. the influence of two Argentine singers: awards including remarkable ones such Adriana Varela and the legendary as Micrófono de Oro, five Amigo Awards, In April 2010, Diego traveled to Argentina Mercedes Sosa. The album quickly three Music Awards and, deserving to record Cigala & Tango, a live recording became a huge sensation in Spain special recognition, two Grammy and five at the Teatro Gran Rex in Buenos Aires, where it reached Gold Record status in Latin Grammy nominations. Even Ben with repertoire based on the Argentine its debut week. The Spanish tour was a Ratliff, the hard-to-please music critic tango. During the two weeks prior to a critical and commercial success, with of The New York Times, acknowledged the recording, the artist lived with the 15 sold-out concerts. The excitement Lágrimas as 2003’s Album of the Year. musicians in the same house, which was well-captured by a reviewer for also served as the rehearsal site. After La Nacion: “The slide guitar and heavy In the middle of the extensive Lágrimas that, they did a small tour in Cordoba, La groove of Garcia’s milonga assemble a Negras tour, El Cigala collaborated with Plata and Montevideo, concluding with a perfect society with the voice of El Cigala. Paco de Lucia for his album Cositas concert in Buenos Aires. You can feel it. El Cigala and Garcia in Buenas. Afterwards, he recorded tandem, flamenco and milonga, could “Suspiros de España,” which was featured In addition to Diego’s usual band, the be another musical chapter like the one on the soundtrack of the movie Soldados project involved two legendary masters he opened with Bebo Valdés in Lágrimas de Salamina by David Trueba. of the Argentine tango: the bandoneonist Negras.” Néstor Marconi and guitarist Juanjo In 2005, Diego decided to pay homage to Dominguez. In the background we have After success with his 2014-16 world one of the greatest painters of all times, two additional well-known Argentine tour and just before the unveiling of his Pablo Picasso. In this CD, musicians such musicians: violinist Pablo Agri, and cellist newest work, Diego El Cigala embarked as Paco de Lucia, Tomatito, Raimundo Diego Sanchez. As a host, friend, and on his “85 Tour,” a successful tour in Amador, Josemi Carmona and Jerry top-class collaborator, the rocker Andrés Europe alongside the Cuban legend González contributed their sound to Calamaro also put his unique stamp on Omara Portuondo that commemorated songs ranging from the classic “Se this project. the anniversary of the diva of Buena Equivocó La Paloma” by Rafael Alberti to Vista Social Club. other tunes by contemporary composers 2011 proved to be yet another year of such as Javier Rubial, Javier Krahe and awards and continued strong record Before his latest tour, Diego already had Carlos Chaouen. Picasso en Mis Ojos sales, with Cigala & Tango selling over a new objective: salsa music. This new (Picasso in My Eyes) became a gold record 120,000 copies in Spain and becoming project, released after the “85 Tour,” in Spain and also in Venezuela. The next a Gold Record in Colombia and supposes an exciting and unique project year at the Latin Grammys it was hailed Argentina. It received the Latin Grammy that will feature the most relevant as the Best Flamenco Album. That same for Best Tango CD. A subsequent U.S. musicians of the genre: vocalists, night, the Best Video Clip award went to tour resulted in sold-out shows and producers, and instrumentalists. “Blanco y Negro” by El Cigala. Directed great reviews. On Dec. 28th, 2011, the Conceived in six different locations— by Fernando Trueba, it is from the in- prestigious New York Times ranked the El Cali, Puerto Rico, the Dominican concert DVD Bebo & Cigala, a recording of Cigala show as New York’s best concert Republic, Havana, New York and these two great artists performing their in all categories of pop, rock, and jazz Miami—the new project began to take Lágrimas Negras repertoire. that year. Noted critic Ben Ratliff: “Town shape after the birth of the new and Hall, Nov. 1, a séance that continually long-awaited work by Diego El Cigala: In 2006, Cigala released a collection of changed form and mood according to Indestructible. his work in a five-CD set. In addition, at the whim of El Cigala, the great Gitano the Bienal de Sevilla, Diego shared the singer—a mile of charisma with a soul- stage with Salif Keïta, considered to be scarring voice—and his band, as they the golden voice of African music. The played their own sort of traditional occasion only served to confirm Cigala’s flamenco that brushed against jazz and ease in adapting his art to great popular tango.” The international Cigala & Tango songs rooted in diverse cultures. tour, lasting into 2012, consisted of 90 concerts on the world’s best stages. Despite being increasingly busy, El Cigala More than 160,000 spectators thrilled found time to work on a new album, to this unique show.

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Nancy D. Alvord THE SOUNDS OF THE NORTHWEST Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Linda and Tom Allen Juan Huey-Ray, ounder and Director Sharon Gantz Bloome Janet Boguch and Kelby Fletcher SOPRANO ALTO TENOR BASSBARITONE Robert and Janitta Carithers Lisa Allen Regina Harris Steve Ellis Nicholas Belloto Ana Mari Cauce and Dr. Susan Joslyn Sue Bardsley Doris Huey-Ray Donald Fleeks Eldridge Harding Phyllis Byrdwell Geneva Martin Jessilyn Head LeRoy McCullough Helen Curtis Nia Fletcher Ramona Phillips Cora Jackson Dan Williams Gail Erickson and Phil Lanum Karen Fraser Jordan Sauvage Willie McClarron Dr. Melvin and Nanette Freeman Marian George Mona Terry Robert Neal Matthew and Michelle Galvin Eleanor Goodall Patricia Valentine Christyan Seay Dirk Giseburt and Marilyn Stahl Joyce Matthews Larry Sneed M. Elizabeth Halloran Tatiana Matthews Richard and Nora Hinton Martha Nash Sigrid Hokanson Molly Pere Catherine and David Hughes Marty Phillips Yumi Iwasaki and Anoop Gupta Geneva Taylor Kurt Kolb Shirley Young Jeff rey Lehman and Katrina Russell Patricia McKenzie and Leonard Costello UW CHAMBER SINGERS Thomas Mcuaid Craig Miller and Rebecca Norton Geoff rey Boers, Director Cecilia Paul and Harry Reinert Eric and Margaret Rothchild SOPRANO ALTO TENOR BASS Donald and Toni Rupchock Molly Barnes Monica Berndt Joel Bevington Griffi n Becker Elisabeth Cherland Emily Callan Samuel Kui Alonso Brizuela Maya Sonenberg and John Robinson Olivia Kerr Marilee Clobes Joshua Lutman Steve Danielson Richard Szeliski and Lyn McCoy Lauren Kulesa Anna Frisch Frederick Bayani Phillip Dietz Greg Wallace and Craig Sheppard Elizabeth Nice Eleanor Kahn Mabalot Francis Goess Ellen Wallach and Thomas Darden Sadie uinsaat Jennifer Rodgers Eric Mullen Leif Layman Alix Wilber and Andrew Himes Lgia Pucci Meg Stohlmann Gerrit Scheepers Ben Luedcke George Wilson and Claire McClenny Sarah Riskind Maia Thielen Joseph To Fredrik Mansfi eld Dr. Martin Greene and Kathleen Wright Kyle Ueland Jonah Melchert Nicholas Varela Curtis Nilson Ryan Wong

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oprano Kathleen Battle’s luminous era to contemporary works. She The Australian echoed the sentiment Svoice has been called “…without has enjoyed some of her greatest of critics around the world, saying, qualifi cation, one of the very few most successes in the opera house in “The Sydney Opera House has beautiful in the world” (The Washington repertoire ranging from Handel played host to any number of great Post). Yet beyond the glory of her (Cleopatra in the Metropolitan singers…but it’s unlikely there has singing, in a career fi lled with countless Opera’s premiere staging of Giulio ever been (or perhaps ever will be) accolades, honors and major milestones, Cesare) to Richard Strauss (Sophie, a performance to match the recital what has perhaps distinguished her Zdenka, Zerbinetta). For her Covent American soprano Kathleen Battle most is her almost magical ability to Garden debut as Zerbinetta in gave.” create an unwavering emotional bond Ariadne auf Naxos, Ms. Battle became between herself, her music and her the fi rst American to be honored Kathleen Battle’s gifts as a singer audience. with a Laurence Olivier Award for extend beyond the realm of classical Best Performance in a New Opera music. Her work as a great interpreter In her youth, this native of Portsmouth, Production. She has similarly of spirituals is documented on a joint Ohio, the youngest of seven children, distinguished herself as one of our recital with Jessye Norman, Spirituals sang in church and school, and generation’s fi nest interpreters of in Concert (DG). Her pure emotional envisioned a future as a music teacher. Mozart (Susanna, Despina, Pamina, power in this music of joy and sorrow Fortunately for audiences around the and Zerlina), as well as the bel canto cuts through all cultural boundaries. world, she found other ways to share operas of Rossini (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) As the Vienna Kurier put it, “Kathleen her love of music—and through her and Donizetti (L’Elisir d’Amore, Don Battle sang so beautifully in the natural gifts, innate intelligence, and Pasquale, La Fille du Regiment). In the spiritual ‘Heaven is one beautiful hard work, her soaring voice has carried words of critic Tim Page, “Ms. Battle’s place,’ she came pretty close to her to the heights of the classical music natural territory is music of sweetness, heaven.” world. Indeed, throughout a remarkable serenity and girlish ecstasy. Within this career that has brought her to the stages repertoire she is all but unequaled.” Ms. Battle drew considerable of the world’s leading opera houses and attention with the world premiere major concert halls, critics have never In recital, Kathleen Battle, the winner of of Honey and Rue, a song cycle with tired of rhapsodizing over her limpid, fi ve Grammy awards, has mesmerized music by Oscar and Grammy-winning unmistakable sound. In quite poetic audiences around the globe with her composer André Previn and lyrics terms, they have compared it to “the unique artistry and vocal beauty. Of by Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning ethereal beauty of winter moonlight” her Carnegie Hall recital debut, New author Toni Morrison, commissioned (The Washington Post), “a paradoxical York Newsday declared, “In an age for Ms. Battle by Carnegie Hall on meeting of earth and sky” (Philadelphia when the vocal recital has practically the event of their 100th anniversary. Inquirer), and “cream from a miraculous, gone the way of the dinosaur, this was Since then, she has performed the bottomless pitcher” (The New York Times). a thrilling case for its return.” For the work with leading orchestras and in CD of this recital, released on DG, Ms. recital throughout the world. The Los The range of Ms. Battle’s repertoire Battle received one of three Grammy Angeles Times called her performance spans three centuries from the Baroque Awards for Best Classical Vocal Soloist. of this work “spellbinding,” while the

A-12 MEANY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Cincinnati Herald remarked, “her voice Battle and virtually the same cast as Joel A. Martin was like the ebb and flow of the seas as the recording, which created such a Pianist, producer, composer and an almost sacred silence enclosed the sensation that Carnegie Hall recognized arranger Joel A. Martin is the creator auditorium.” The recording of this cycle it as one of its one hundred milestones of Jazzical®, a marriage of classical, was released by DG, on a disc which during its centennial year. jazz and more. In the last couple of also includes Barber’s Knoxville: Summer years, he has collaborated with and of 1915 and arias from Gershwin’s Porgy Kathleen Battle has made immeasurable written music for Grammy Award- and Bess. contributions as an ambassador winners Kathleen Battle, Fergie of for classical music, performing for the Black Eyed Peas, Brooklyn Youth Always seeking to expand her artistic Presidents and dignitaries, and Chorus, cellist Eugene Friesen of the horizons, Ms. Battle was joined by attracting diverse new audiences Paul Winter Consort, and Rock and Roll leading jazz musicians for her first through television broadcasts of her Hall of Famer Jaimoe of the Allman crossover album, So Many Stars (Sony operas and concerts, as well as through Brothers, among many other artists. Classical), a collection of lullabies, appearances on popular network talk spirituals and folksongs. Commenting shows. Her performance on the PBS Joel was the youngest pianist ever, on her extraordinary gifts as a jazz broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera’s and the first African-American pianist, artist, The Detroit News noted, “When 1991 season opening gala won her to compete in the 1985 Van Cliburn Battle and her core jazz trio held the an Emmy for Outstanding Individual International Piano Competition. stage, the musical splendor was almost Achievement in a Classical Program He has appeared as soloist with more than the ear could take in.” on Television. A documentary film on the New York Philharmonic, El Paso the recording of Sony’s Baroque Duet Symphony, Springfield Symphony Since her student years, Kathleen album with Wynton Marsalis and John Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, New Battle has collaborated with colleagues Nelson conducting the Orchestra of St. Hampshire Festival Orchestra, Cab who rank among the world’s most Luke’s was nominated for an Emmy. Ms. Calloway Orchestra and the Hartford talented musicians. She has been a Battle’s critically acclaimed Metropolitan Symphony. favorite soloist with the world’s leading Opera Presents performances of Mozart’s orchestras and esteemed conductors Die Zauberflöte, Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore In October 2013, Joel released his such as Herbert von Karajan, Sir and Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia are seventh Jazzical® CD, Jazzical Meets Georg Solti, Riccardo Muti, James available on DG VHS and DVD, while Menken, honoring multiple Oscar- Levine, Claudio Abbado, Lorin Mazell, Sony has captured her Zerlina in Grammy-Tony-Award-winning Disney Seiji Ozawa, Leonard Slatkin and Sir Karajan’s production of Don Giovanni at and Broadway composer Alan Menken Neville Marriner. Her partnerships the Salzburg Festival as well. (Aladdin, Little Mermaid, Little Shop of with soprano Jessye Norman, tenors Horrors, Enchanted, Pocahontas). With Luciano Pavarotti and Plácido Domingo, Praised for the keen intelligence which stellar performances by Broadway violinist Itzhak Perlman, trumpeter informs her musical sensitivity, Kathleen legends Liz Callaway, Amanda Wynton Marsalis, guitarist Christopher Battle earned both her bachelor and McBroom, Christine Pedi and the Gay Parkening, flautists Jean-Pierre master degrees from the College Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles, Jazzical Rampal and Hubert Laws, and the late Conservatory of Music, University of Meets Menken featured 14 songs, saxophonist Grover Washington, Jr., to Cincinnati. She has been awarded eight including two world premieres penned name but a few, are documented on honorary doctoral degrees—from her by Alan Menken specifically for this CD. numerous recordings and video discs. Alma Mater, the University of Cincinnati, and from Westminster Choir College in On July 18, 2014, at the capstone Kathleen Battle has established herself Princeton, N.J., Ohio University, Xavier event of International Mandela Day as a distinguished recording artist University in Cincinnati, Amherst College, celebrations at the United Nations, Joel through a wide range of releases Seton Hall University, Wilberforce produced Footsteps of Mandela, an all- encompassing complete opera, concert, University, Ohio, Manhattanville College, star tribute concert to Nelson Mandela choral and solo albums on all major and the Shawnee State University. at N.Y.C.’s Riverside Church. Special labels. Memorable concerts recorded In honor of her outstanding artistic guest artists included Metropolitan live and now available on CD and home achievements, Ms. Battle was inducted Opera bass and baritone legend video include Mozart’s Coronation Mass into the NAACP Image Award Hall of Simon Estes, and Broadway singer from the Vatican and the 1987 New Fame, and into the Hollywood Bowl Hall Liz Callaway. A second Footsteps of Year’s Concert, both with Herbert von of Fame in 2002. She is the first recipient Mandela concert was held in February Karajan conducting (the CDs are on of the Ray Charles Award bestowed upon 2015 in Bridgeport, Conn., at the Klein the DG label with the video versions her by Wilberforce University. Heady Memorial Auditorium to an enthusiastic on Sony). Her performance of the title accomplishments indeed for an artist audience of 1,000 people. role in the DG recording of Handel’s whose earliest connection to music was Semele, with Marilyn Horne, Samuel simply feeling “blessed to have a voice that Performances in 2016 included the Ramey, and John Nelson conducting, somebody else wanted to hear.” debut concert and national tour of earned Ms. Battle a fifth Grammy Joel’s Footsteps of Peace in Palm Beach, Award. This recording commemorates Fla., concerts around the world with a now legendary concert performance live house-music band Tortured Soul, of Handel’s masterpiece, starring Ms. two symphonic commissions, and the

encoremediagroup.com/programs A-13 KATHLEEN BATTLE | About the Artists release of the eighth CD in the Jazzical a performance of An Afternoon of for development of musicianship, series, Jazzical Rocks! featuring the Spirituals. Huey-Ray was the director assessment, adjudication, and Jazzical Symphony Orchestra. for The Sound in Fortune’s Bones, repertoire grading. It is now being a collaboration between Cultural beta-tested in fi ve states and For more information: jazzical.com, Pursuits and the Seattle Theater provinces. footstepsofpeace.com Group, and was the director for The Sound with the Seattle Symphony in As a conductor and teacher, Boers Valerie Curtis-Newton Live and On-Screen. maintains an active schedule of concerts, workshops, clinics and The Head of Directing at the UW’s The Sound of the Northwest master classes. He has conducted School of Drama, Valerie also serves as The Sound of the Northwest was in many of the major concert halls the artistic director for The Hansberry founded in 1987 by its director, across the United States and Canada, Project, an African American theater lab. Juan Huey-Ray, for the purpose of as well as concerts in Europe, Asia and She has worked with theaters across preserving and presenting the music Australia. He has the opportunity to the country including: The Guthrie of the African-American heritage, work with thousands of singers of all Theater, Intiman Theatre, Actors’ Theatre particularly the Negro Spiritual. ages and nationalities each year. These of Louisville, Alabama Shakespeare The Sound is an award-winning diverse experiences have served as the Festival, Seattle Children’s Theatre, The community chorus presenting foundation of his research in empathy Mark Taper Forum, New York Theatre concerts throughout the Puget and perception, and his creation of Workshop, among others. She has been Sound region. In February 2012, The gesture and pedagogy for the new awarded the National Endowment for Sound was featured in an Ensemble millennium. the Arts/Theatre Communications Group Spotlight at Carnegie Hall. The group’s Career Development Grant for Directors, repertoire is mainly Negro Spirituals Boers conducts the UW Chamber the Stage Directors and Choreographers sung a cappella including music Singers, a choir of graduate and Foundation’s Gielgud Directing from the early masters like Burleigh advanced undergraduate music majors Fellowship, the Seattle Stranger Genius and John Work, and the works of studying choral conducting, vocal Award in Performance and the Crosscut contemporary musical giants like performance, music education, noted Courage Award for Culture. Ysaye Barnwell, Roland Carter, Jester for its vocal agility, varied color, and Hairston, Moses Hogan, Robert L. expressivity. Juan Huey-Ray Morris and Raymond Wise. The Sound Founder and Director, is a division of Cultural Pursuits, a UW Chamber Singers The Sound of the Northwest nonprofi t organization that promotes The University of Washington Chamber cultural edu-tainment. Singers is the UW’s longest-standing Juan Huey-Ray, born in the South choral organization, formed in the into a family of musicians and raised Geoff rey Boers early 1930s. The group fl ourished in the Midwest by a great-aunt, is Director, UW Chamber Singers and gained international recognition steeped in the music of the African under the leadership of its conductors American heritage. Among his many Geoff rey Boers is Director of Choral Gerald Kechley, Rodney Eichenberger accomplishments, Huey-Ray has Activities at the UW, a program widely and Joan Conlon. The current Chamber served as rehearsal director for Jester recognized as forward thinking Singers consists of graduate and Hairston, and as Minister of Music at and vibrant. Under his direction, advanced undergraduate music majors the First AME Church of Seattle. He the graduate choral program has studying choral conducting, vocal was recruited to teach and sing with developed a singular mission: performance and music education, as the Seattle Peace Chorus on a peace to nurture the whole student as well as many students from programs mission to the then-Soviet Union. In conductor, teacher, servant, leader, across campus. They have been 1987, he was chosen to assemble a choir scholar. Through his teaching featured at many festivals, conventions for the convention of the International Boers is exploring the evolution of and workshops, including NWACDA, Association of Ministers’ Wives and conducting gesture and rehearsal Musicfest Canada and at the national Ministers’ Widows. Under his direction, pedagogy and their connection conventions of the American Kodaly this choir’s performance of spirituals with the emerging neuroscience Educators, National Association (with some drama for good measure) of mirror neurons, empathy, of Schools of Music and American and gospel brought the crowd of over perception, learning and personal Musicological Society. a thousand to its feet. Among the transformation. His exploration attendees was Winnie Mandela, the wife has resulted in new thinking about In relationship with the UW’s nationally of the revered Nelson Mandela, who conducting and teaching with regard recognized Baltic Studies program and applauded enthusiastically. This was the to breath, movement, artistry, Baltic Choral Collection, the Chamber birth of The Sound of the Northwest (The personal awareness and cultural Singers have travelled to the Baltics fi ve Sound), a community chorus dedicated development. His work has led to the times, and will return again in 2019. to the preservation and presentation of development of mentorship for local The choir has just released its fi rst the Negro Spiritual. Under Huey-Ray’s cohorts of teachers across the United professionally produced CD …behold direction, The Sound has performed with States and Canada. Most recently again, the stars on Centaur Records. the Seattle Opera and the Seattle Choral Boers has developed a level-based Society, as well as at Carnegie Hall, in Choral Literacy Rubric, a system

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N.N.N.N.

Choreography, Stage Design, Lighting and Costume Design: William Forsythe Sound Design: Thom Willems Technical Consultant: Tanja Rühl Staging: Cyril Baldy, Amancio Gonzalez

N.N.N.N. appears as a mind in four parts, four dancers in a state of constant, tacit connection. Underscored by the sudden murmured fl ashes of Thom Willems’ music, the men enter into a complex, intense inscription. Their arms, heads, bodies and legs become singular voices, each tuned and in counterpoint to the other. These performers write out a text of the voice of the body, slowly, then more and more rapidly, coalescing over and over into a linked entity of fl inging arms, folding joints and a sharp, high sense of time. Hubbard Street is honored to be the fi rst U.S. dance company to perform William Forsythe’s N.N.N.N., restaged by original cast members Cyril Baldy and Amancio Gonzalez in fall 2015.

Created for and premiered by Ballett Frankfurt, Nov. 21, 2002 at the Opernhaus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. First performed by Hubbard Street Dance Chicago at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Oct. 15, 2015. Original score by Thom Willems. Used by permission of Thom Willems. Hub- bard Street’s acquisition of N.N.N.N. is sponsored by the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, with support from Sandy and Jack Guthman through the Imagine campaign.

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Choreography: Robyn Mineko Williams Music: Jherek Bischoff , Emitt Rhodes, Sufjan Stevens, Julie London, Olafur Arnalds, Alice Sara Ott Sound Design: Loosebrains Lighting Design: Burke Brown Costume Design: Branimira Ivanova

Music by Jherek Bischoff : “Eyes,” from the album Scores: Composed Instrumentals, recorded by Brassland, published by Nettwerk One B Music U.S. Music by Emitt Rhodes: “Lullabye,” from the album The Emitt Rhodes Recordings (1969–1973), courtesy of Universal Music Group, published by Manifesto Records. Music by Sufjan Stevens: “Now That I’m Older,” from the album Age of Adz, recorded by Asthmatic Kitty Records, published by New Jerusalem Music. Music by Arthur Kent and Sylvia Dee: “The End of The World,” as performed by Julie London, from the album The Very Best of Julie London, courtesy of Universal Music Group, published by Music Sales Corp. Music by Ólafur Arnalds: “Letters of a Traveller,” as performed by Ólafur Arnalds and Alice Sara Ott, from the album The Chopin Project, courtesy of Universal Music Group, published by Nettwerk One B Music US. ‘

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Choreography, Set Design and Costume Design: Nacho Duato Music: María del Mar Bonet Lighting Design: Nicolás Fischtel Staging: Africa Guzmán Choreographer’s Assistant: Pablo Piantino

“Water, we asked for water; And You, oh Lord, You gave us wind; And You turn Your back to us; As though You will not listen to us.” This appeal is portrayed in the powerful movements of three couples, who are occupied with the sowing, planting and threshing of the barren Catalonian land.

Music by María del Mar Bonet: “Cançó D'Es Collir Olives,” “Cançó D'Esterrossar” and “Fora D'Es Sembrat,” from the album María del Mar Bonet; “Tonada De Treure Aigo” and “Tonada De Treure Aigo,” from the album Saba de Terrer, “La Canço de Na Ruixa Mantells,” from the album Jardi Tancat, courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment.

Organization and Production: Carlos Iturrioz c/o Mediart Producciones SL (Spain). © 1997 NACHO DUATO, all rights reserved

PAUSE

PACOPEPEPLUTO

Choreography: Alejandro Cerrudo Music: Dean Martin, Joe Scalissi Lighting Design: Matt Miller Costume Design: Rebecca M. Shouse

Three solos for male dancers set to songs popularized by “the king of cool,” Dean Martin, in the ’50s and ’60s, PACOPEPEPLUTO shows Cerrudo’s skill at balancing aesthetic austerity and sharp wit.

Created for and premiered by Hubbard Street Dance Chicago during its Inside/Out Choreographic Workshop at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s UIC Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, June 17, 2011. Music by William Hill: “In the Chapel in the Moonlight,” from the album Dino—The Essential Dean Martin as recorded by Dean Martin for EMI with permission from EMI Music Publishing, Shapiro Bernstein & Co. and Sony/ATV. Music by Terry Gilkyson, Richard Dehr, and Frank Miller: “Memories Are Made of This,” as recorded by Joe Scalissi at Paradyme Productions. Music by Jack Brooks and Harry Warren: “That’s Amore,” from the album Dino—The Essential Dean Martin as recorded by Dean Martin for Universal Music Enterprises with permission from Sony/ATV. Support for the development of PACOPEPEPLUTO was provided in part by the Choreographic Development Initiative, made possible by a gift from The Davee Foundation.

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SOLO ECHO

Choreography: Crystal Pite Music: Johannes Brahms Lighting Design: Tom Visser Stage Design: Jay Gower Taylor Costume Design: Joke Visser, Crystal Pite Staging: Eric Beauchesne

Lines for Winter By Mark Strand

Tell yourself as it gets cold and gray falls from the air that you will go on walking, hearing the same tune no matter where you fi nd yourself— inside the dome of dark or under the cracking white of the moon's gaze in a valley of snow. Tonight as it gets cold tell yourself what you know which is nothing but the tune your bones play as you keep going. And you will be able for once to lie down under the small fi re of winter stars. And if it happens that you cannot go on or turn back and you fi nd yourself where you will be at the end, tell yourself in that fi nal fl owing of cold through your limbs that you love what you are.

Music by Johannes Brahms: “Allegro non Troppo from Sonata for Cello and Piano in E Minor, Opus 38” and “Adagio Aff ettuoso from Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Major, Opus 99,” from the albumBrahms Sonatas for Cello & Piano, courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment.

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Photo: Todd Rosenberg

The Company Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s core Hubbard Street include collaborations he was quickly incorporated into company purpose is to bring artists, art and audiences with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and and repertoire. His fi rst choreographic together to enrich, engage, educate, Nederlands Dans Theater. These pieces attempt in 1983 was a major success: transform and change lives through and additional commissions are in the Jardí Tancat to Spanish/Catalan music the experience of dance. Celebrating repertory at companies around the U.S. by compatriot Ma del Mar Bonet won Season 40 in 2017–18, under the artistic as well as in Australia, Denmark, Germany him the fi rst prize at the International leadership of Glenn Edgerton, Hubbard and the Netherlands; touring engagements Choreographic Workshop (Internationaler Street continues to innovate, supporting have brought his work still further abroad, Choreographischer Wettbewerb) at ascendant creative talent while presenting to audiences in Algeria, Canada, Morocco Cologne. Duato has created more than repertory by internationally recognized and Spain. In March 2012, Pacifi c Northwest a dozen works for the two companies of living artists. Hubbard Street has grown Ballet invited Cerrudo to choreograph his fi rst Nederlands Dans Theater and in 1988 was through the establishment of multiple work for the company, Memory Glow, upon named Resident Choreographer next to platforms alongside the Lou Conte Dance receiving the Joyce Theater Foundation’s Hans van Manen and Jiří Kylián. His ballets Studio— now in its fi fth decade of providing second Rudolf Nureyev Prize for New Dance. form part of the repertoire of companies a wide range of public classes and pre- Additional honors include an award from including the Paris Opera, Cullberg Ballet, professional training—while extensive Youth, the Boomerang Fund for Artists (2011) and Nederlands Dans Theater, Les Grands Education, Community, Adaptive Dance a Prince Prize for Commissioning Original Ballets Canadiens, Deutche Opera Ballet, and Family Programs keep the organization Work from the Prince Charitable Trusts (2012) Australian Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, Ballet deeply connected to its hometown. Visit for his acclaimed, fi rst evening-length work, Gulbenkian, Finnish Opera Ballet, The hubbardstreetdance.com for artist profi les, One Thousand Pieces. Cerrudo is one of four Royal Ballet, The Singapore Ballet, Tulsa touring schedules, and much more. choreographers invited by New York City Ballet Theatre, Pacifi c Northwest Ballet, San Ballet principal Wendy Whelan to create and Francisco Ballet, The Washington Ballet, CHOREOGRAPHER PROFILES perform original duets for Restless Creature, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, North and he was recently announced the 2014 USA Carolina Dance Thatre, The Boston Ballet, Alejandro Cerrudo (Resident Donnelley Fellow by United States Artists. The Gothemburg Ballet, The Royal Swedish Choreographer) was born in Madrid, Spain Ballet, The Royal Danish Ballet, The and trained at the Real Conservatorio Nacho Duato, born in Valencia, Spain, started Northen Ballet, Ballet du Capitole, Ballet du Profesional de Danza de Madrid. His professional ballet training with the Rambert Rhin, Teatro Comunale Florence, National professional career began in 1998 and School in London at 18, expanding studies at Ballet of Portugal, The Norweigian Ballet, includes work with Victor Ullate Ballet, Maurice Béjart’s Mudra School in Brussels and National Theatre Tokio, The Universal Stuttgart Ballet and Nederlands Dans Theater completing his dance education at The Alvin Ballet, Stars Foundation Ballet, American 2. Cerrudo joined Hubbard Street Dance Ailey American Dance Centre in New York. Ballet Theatre, Tulsa Ballet Theatre, Staats Chicago in 2005, was named Choreographic In 1980, Duato signed his fi rst professional Theater Berlin, and the Bolshoi Ballet. From Fellow in 2008 and became the company’s contract with the Cullberg Ballet in Stockholm June 1990 until July 2010, Nacho Duato fi rst Resident Choreographer in 2009. and a year later, Jiří Kylián brought him to the was Artistic Director of Compañía Nacional Fifteen works choreographed to date for Nederlands Dans Theater in Holland, where de Danza (Madrid-Spain). In 1995, he

encoremediagroup.com/programs A-19 HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO | About the Artists received the grade of Chevalier dans l’Ordre and performance installations by, among is a former company member of Ballet British des Arts et des Lettres, which is annually others, architect-artist Daniel Libeskind, Columbia and William Forsythe’s Ballett given by the French Embassy in Spain. In ARTANGEL, Creative Time and the SKD– Frankfurt. Pite’s professional choreographic 1998, the Spanish Government rewarded Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. debut was in 1990 at Ballet British Columbia. him the Golden Medal of Merit in the As an educator, Forsythe is regularly Since then, she has created more than 40 Fine Arts. At the Stuttgart Opera in 2000, invited to lecture and give workshops at works for companies such as Nederlands he was off ered the Benois de la Danse, universities and cultural institutions. He is Dans Theater, Cullberg Ballet, Ballett one of the most prestigious international an Honorary Fellow at the Laban Centre Frankfurt, the National Ballet of Canada, awards for choreography, presented by for Movement and Dance in London, and Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, Cedar Lake the International Dance Association for holds an Honorary Doctorate from the Contemporary Ballet, Ballet British Columbia his Ballet Multiplicity, Forms of Silence and Juilliard School in New York City. Forsythe and Louise Lecavalier / Fou Glorieux, plus Emptiness. In January 2011, he took the is currently Professor of Dance and Artistic collaborations with the Electric Company position of Artistic Director of Mikhailowsky Advisor for the Choreographic Institute Theatre and acclaimed director Robert Ballet (Saint Petersburg-Russia). In 2014, he at the University of Southern California’s Lepage. In 2002, Pite formed the company became Intendant and Artistic Director of Glorya Kaufman School of Dance. Visit Kidd Pivot, which integrates movement, Berlin State Ballet (Germany). williamforsythe.de to learn more. original music, text and rich visual design, balancing sharp exactitude with irreverence Raised in New York and initially trained in Robyn Mineko Williams began her and risk. Kidd Pivot tours nationally and Florida with Nolan Dingman and Christa career at River North Dance Chicago, internationally, performing critically-acclaimed Long, William Forsythe danced with followed by twelve seasons as a member works including Dark Matters, Lost Action, The the Joff rey Ballet and later the Stuttgart of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, during You Show and The Tempest Replica. Pite is the Ballet, where he was appointed Resident which she performed choreography by recipient of the Banff Centre’s Cliff ord E. Lee Choreographer in 1976. Over the next renowned artists including Ohad Naharin, Award (1995), the Bonnie Bird North American seven years, he created new works for the Jiří Kylián, William Forsythe and Johan Choreography Award (2004), the Isadora Stuttgart ensemble and ballet companies Inger, and originated roles in new works Award (2005), two Dora Mavor Moore Awards throughout Europe and the United States. by Jorma Elo, Sharon Eyal, Twyla Tharp (2009 and 2012), a Jessie Richardson Theatre In 1984, he began a 20-year tenure as and Lar Lubovitch, among others. She Award (2006) and the Governor General of director of Ballett Frankfurt, where he began making her own work in 2001 Canada’s Performing Arts Award, Mentorship created works such as Artifact (1984), through Hubbard Street’s Inside/Out Program (2008). Pite also received the 2011 Impressing the Czar (1988), Limb’s Theorem Choreographic Workshop and has since Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award, the inaugural (1990), The Loss of Small Detail (1991, in created multiple premieres for Hubbard Lola Award in 2012, and the Canada Council’s collaboration with composer Thom Willems Street’s main company and HS2. Williams 2012 Jacqueline Lemieux Prize. and designer Issey Miyake), Eidos: Telos has made work for Atlanta Ballet, Grand Visit kiddpivot.org to learn more. (1995), Endless House (1999), Kammer/ Rapids Ballet, Groundworks Dance Theatre, Kammer (2000) and Decreation (2003). Thodos Dance Chicago and Visceral Dance HUBBARD STREET PROFILES After the closure of Ballett Frankfurt in Chicago, presented at venues such as the 2004, Forsythe established a new, more Kennedy Center, the American Dance Glenn Edgerton (Artistic Director) joined independent ensemble, The Forsythe Festival, and the Joyce Theater. Named one Hubbard Street Dance Chicago after an Company, founded with the support of of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” for 2014, international career as a dancer and director. the German states of Saxony and Hesse, Williams was a winner of Northwest Dance At the Joff rey Ballet, he performed leading the cities of Dresden and Frankfurt am Project’s 2012 International Choreography roles, contemporary and classical, for 11 Main, and private sponsors. His works are Competition, received a 2013 Princess years under the mentorship of Robert Joff rey. prominently featured in the repertoires Grace Choreographic Fellowship, and was In 1989, Edgerton joined the acclaimed of virtually every major ballet company in selected as an emerging choreographer Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT), where the world, including the Mariinsky Ballet, for Springboard Danse Montréal the same he danced for fi ve years. He retired from New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, year. In 2015, she completed a Princess performing to become its artistic director, the National Ballet of Canada, London’s Grace Foundation–USA Works In Progress leading NDT 1 for a decade and presenting Royal Ballet and the Paris Opéra Ballet. Residency at the Baryshnikov Arts Center the works of Jiří Kylián, Hans van Manen, Awards received by Forsythe and his and received a Choreography Mentorship William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Mats Ek, ensembles include four New York Dance Co-Commission Award from the Princess Nacho Duato, Jorma Elo, Johan Inger, Paul and Performance “Bessie” Awards and Grace Foundation–USA in support of HS2 Lightfoot and Sol León, among others. From three Laurence Olivier Awards in the + Manual Cinema’s Mariko’s Magical Mix: A 2006 to 2008, he directed the Colburn Dance U.K.; he has been conveyed the title of Dance Adventure. In 2016, Williams launched Institute at the Colburn School of Performing Commandeur des Arts et Lettres by the her independent project, Undercover Arts in Los Angeles. Edgerton joined Hubbard government of France; and he has received Episodes, and was named among Newcity’s Street as associate artistic director in 2008; the German Distinguished Service Cross, Players 50 list of local leaders in the since 2009 as artistic director, he has built the Wexner Prize, the Golden Lion of the performing arts and Best Choreographer upon more than three decades of leadership Venice Biennale, the Samuel H. Scripps/ by Chicago magazine. in dance performance, education and American Dance Festival Award for appreciation established by founder Lou Lifetime Achievement, and the Swedish Crystal Pite, choreographer and performer Conte and continued by Conte’s successor, Carina Ari Medal. Forsythe has also been born in Terrace, British Columbia and Jim Vincent. Edgerton was awarded with an commissioned to produce architectural raised on the Canadian West Coast, honorary doctorate of the arts degree from

A-20 MEANY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS California Institute of the Arts in May 2016. as at the University of Utah, where she was collaboration with world-renowned jazz a member of Utah Ballet. Tong danced composer Terrence Blanchard, and CHTV Lou Conte (Founding Artistic Director), after with BalletMet in Ohio, Eliot Feld’s Ballet Stories television program in Switzerland. a performing career that included roles in Tech in New York City and with Hubbard Broadway musicals such as Cabaret, Mame Street 2 before joining the main company Alicia Delgadillo began her classical and How to Succeed in Business Without Really in January 2007. She was named one of training at the Susan Hayward School of Trying, established the Lou Conte Dance Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” for 2009, and Dance in San Francisco, California, and Studio in 1974. Three years later, he founded currently serves on Chicago Dancers United’s continued her studies in North Carolina what is now Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. Ambassador Committee for Dance for Life with Gay Porter and Bridget Porter Young Originally the company’s sole choreographer, Chicago. at the Charlotte School of Ballet. In 2004, he developed relationships with emerging Delgadillo began studying full-time with and world-renowned dance-makers Lynne HUBBARD STREET DANCERS Daniel and Rebecca Wiley at Piedmont Taylor-Corbett, Margo Sappington and School of Music and Dance. She has Daniel Ezralow as the company grew. Jacqueline Burnett received classical attended summer programs at Hubbard Conte continued to build Hubbard Street’s ballet training in Pocatello, Idaho from Street, the Juilliard School, San Francisco repertoire by forging a key relationship with Romanian ballet master Marius Zirra, Conservatory of Dance, and Springboard Twyla Tharp in the 1990s, acquiring seven of with additional summer training at Ballet Danse Montréal. Delgadillo graduated with her works as well as original choreography. It Idaho, Brindusa-Moore Ballet Academy, honors from the Ailey School and Fordham then became an international enterprise with the Universal (Kirov) Ballet Academy, the University’s joint program in New York City the inclusion of works by Jiří Kylián, Nacho Juilliard School and the San Francisco in 2012, while a member of Hubbard Street Duato and Ohad Naharin. Throughout his Conservatory of Dance. She graduated 2, and was promoted to the main company 23 years as the company’s artistic director, magna cum laude with departmental in April 2014. Conte received numerous awards including honors from the Ailey School and Fordham the first Ruth Page Artistic Achievements University’s joint program in New York City Kellie Epperheimer began her dance Award in 1986, the Sidney R. Yates Arts in 2009, while an apprentice with Hubbard training in 1988 at the Academy of Dance Advocacy Award in 1995, and a Chicagoan Street. She was promoted to the main and Civic Ballet of San Luis Obispo, and of the Year award from Chicago magazine company in August 2009 and is a 2011–12 attended training programs at the Joffrey in 1999. In 2003, Conte was inducted as a Princess Grace Honorarium recipient. Ballet School and the Juilliard School laureate into the Lincoln Academy of Illinois, in New York City. A founding member the state’s highest honor, and in 2014, was Craig D. Black Jr. finished his sixth season of Cedar Lake Ensemble (later Cedar named one of five inaugural recipients of with Aspen Santa Fe Ballet prior to joining Lake Contemporary Ballet), she joined the City of Chicago’s Fifth Star Award. He Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in the fall of Hubbard Street 2 in January 2005, and was has been credited by many for helping raise 2017. The California native was captain of promoted to the main company in January Chicago’s international cultural profile and for his San Jose high school’s nationally ranked 2007. creating a welcoming climate for dance in the dance team. Black received his B.F.A. from city, where the art form now thrives. The Juilliard School, where he was awarded Michael Gross earned a B.F.A. in Dance the 2010 Princess Grace Award in Dance. from the University of Arizona and received David McDermott (Executive Director) He won the 2011 Lorna Strassler Award for much of his early training from Colorado most recently served as the First Deputy Student Excellence at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Jazz Dance Company in Colorado Springs, Commissioner at the City of Chicago’s Festival. Craig’s summer programs were at followed by further studies at the American Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Springboard Danse Montreal, Nederlands Academy of Ballet and Springboard Danse Events. In this role, David managed the Dans Theater and the Pillow. Montréal. Formerly a member of River day to day operations of the department North Dance Chicago and Visceral Dance and played instrumental roles in major Rena Butler hails from Chicago. She has Chicago, Gross has also performed with initiatives such as creating the Chicago danced with Kyle Abraham/Abraham. Elements Contemporary Ballet and in the Cultural Plan, revitalizing the Taste of In.Motion, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s holiday Chicago, and ensured the success of the David Dorfman Dance, Manuel Vignoulle/M- production, Welcome Yule! Gross joined Chicago Architecture Biennial. Prior to his Motions, Yara Travieso, The Kevin Wynn Hubbard Street in August 2014 and thanks employment with the City, David led the Collection and Pasos Con Sabor Salsa his friends and family for their love and Senator Durbin’s Department of Community Dance Company. She began her studies at support. Outreach, served as the Senator’s Political The Chicago Academy for the Arts, studied Director, and has managed political overseas at Taipei National University of the Elliot Hammans began his formal campaigns at the congressional, county, and Arts in Taiwan, and received her B.F.A. from dance training in 2008 with Robert Sher- municipal levels. David recently completed a SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance. She Machherndl and continued his ballet and fellowship at the University of Chicago’s Civic has acted as repetiteur for Kyle Abraham/ modern dance education with Moving Leadership Academy and holds a degree Abraham.In.Motion and Bill T. Jones/Arnie People Dance in Santa Fe, NM, under the in Public Policy from Trinity College at the Zane Company. Rena’s choreographic work direction of Curtis Uhlemann. Hammans University of Dublin. has been featured on the School at Alvin Ailey joined Moving People Dance Company American Dance Theater’s B.F.A. program, as an apprentice in 2010, trained on full Jessica Tong (Rehearsal Director) received The Joffrey Ballet School in New York, in the scholarship at the Alonzo King LINES Dance her formal training at the Ballet School in Young Choreographer’s Festival in N.Y.C., Center in San Francisco, and attended Salt Lake City under Jan Clark Fugit, as well The New Orleans Museum of Modern Art in Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s 2011 and

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2012 Summer Intensives. Following one Robyn Mineko Williams on the development Umbrella and Springboard Danse Montréal. season with Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance and of her UNDER(cover) series, and creates He joined Hubbard Street in 2013. studies abroad at Austria’s Tanzzentrum her own work as part of Hubbard Street’s Minga Prather, a Dallas native, is a SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy Inside/Out Choreographic Workshop. graduate of Booker T. Washington High of Dance), Hammans earned his B.F.A. in Lipson was promoted to the main company School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Dance in 2014 from Tisch School of the Arts in August 2016. under direction of Lily Weiss. She was at N.Y.U. Choreographers whose work he named a 2014 winner in Modern Dance by has performed include Sean Curran, Gail Florian Lochner trained at Ballettschule the National YoungArts Foundation. Prather Gilbert, Crystal Pite, Kendra Portier and Malsam in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, and is currently fi nishing up her senior year in Nathan Trice. Hammans joined Hubbard the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und the Ailey/Fordham B.F.A. program, and will Street 2 as a full company member in Darstellende Kunst in Mannheim, where graduate with Fordham University’s Class of August 2014 and was promoted to Hubbard he was the recipient of its Birgit Keil Dance 2018. In addition to training with The Ailey Street’s main company in August 2016. Foundation scholarship. Lochner earned School, she has performed as a guest artist his master’s degree in the performing with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Alice Klock trained at numerous ballet arts and joined Gauthier Dance Company and Nimbus Dance Works during their company schools, Interlochen Arts in Stuttgart in 2011, performing works 2016-17 season. She has danced alongside Academy, and the Alonzo King LINES’ B.F.A. by numerous choreographers including Grammy winner Erykah Badu, and was program. She joined Hubbard Street’s Mauro Bigonzetti, Jiří Bubeníček, Alejandro featured on Vogue.com in the Fashion second company in 2009 and was promoted Cerrudo, Alexander Ekman, Itzik Galili, Eric Week 2017 Collection Video. Prather joined to the main company in 2011. Alongside Gauthier, Marco Goeke, Johan Inger, Jiří Hubbard Street in 2017. performing she has created choreographic Kylián, Christian Spuck, Cayetano Soto, work for Hubbard Street, The Nexus Philip Taylor, Stephan Thoss, Paul Lightfoot David Schultz began training in Michigan Project, Loyola University, Neos Dance and Sol León. He received a “Best of the with the School of Grand Rapids Ballet, Theater, Visceral Dance Chicago and NW Season” nomination in Germany’s Dance where he then performed for four Dance Project’s LAUNCH. In 2016, she was for You! Magazine in September 2013, and seasons with its company, Grand Rapids a winner of Hubbard Street’s International joined Hubbard Street in August 2015. Ballet. Schultz joined Hubbard Street 2 in Commissioning Project, and in 2017 was September 2009 and was promoted to the selected as a winner of NW Dance Project’s Ana Lopez began her formal training at main company in August 2011. He is the Pretty Creatives International Choreographic Conservatorio de Danza Diputacion de A recipient of a 2012 Princess Grace Award. Competition. She was named Hubbard Coruña. Upon graduating Isaac Diaz Pardo Street’s Choreographic Fellow in 2017. To High School, she continued her training Kevin J. Shannon began dancing under the learn more visit klockonian.com. at Centro Internacional de Danza Carmen guidance of Lester Holmes. He graduated Roche. Prior to joining Hubbard Street in from the Baltimore School for the Arts Myles Lavallee began his training in Arizona January 2008, Lopez danced with Joven with additional training at the School of at various dance schools and later studied Ballet Carmen Roche, with Compañía American Ballet, Miami City Ballet School, at the School of American Ballet in New York Nacional de Danza 2 in works by Nacho Paul Taylor Dance Company and Parsons City for two years. In 2011, Lavallee joined Duato and Tony Fabre, and at Ballet Dance. He earned his B.F.A. in 2007 at the Ballet Arizona, where he danced for four Theater Munich under the directorship of Juilliard School, toured nationally with the seasons under the direction of Ib Andersen. Philip Taylor. She was named one of Dance Juilliard Dance Ensemble and appeared In 2015 Lavallee joined Les Grands Magazine’s “25 to Watch” for 2012. in the Live from Lincoln Center broadcast Ballets Canadiens de Montreal. There television special “The Juilliard School: he performed works by Ohad Naharin, Andrew Murdock is a graduate of the Celebrating 100 Years.” Shannon joined Stephan Thosse, Jean Christophe Maillot, Juilliard School, from which he received Hubbard Street in November 2007. Ken Osala, Shen Wei and Jiří Kylian. Lavallee a B.F.A. in Dance under the direction of has choreographed for Ballet Arizona for the Lawrence Rhodes. Prior to being a regular Connie Shiau (Guest Dancer) was raised Artist Relief Fund Benefi t and Innovations collaborator with Aszure Barton & Artists, in Tainan, Taiwan. She moved across the program, as well as for Les Grands Ballets in Murdock performed with Gallim Dance globe to come to New York after she was À Suivre. Lavallee has also performed as a and BJM Danse, formerly Les Ballets Jazz accepted into the dance conservatory guest artist with Robert Dekker’s Post:Ballet de Montréal. Additional collaborators and at SUNY Purchase College in 2008. After in San Francisco. This is his fi rst season with colleagues include Cherice Barton, Joshua graduating from college, Shiau had the Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. Beamish, Andy Blankenbuehler, Nina privilege to work with Adam Barruch Dance, Chung, Joe Lanteri, Austin McCormick, Kevin Wynn Collective, Meenmoves, Gallim Adrienne Lipson began dancing under the Michelle Mola, Abdel Salaam and Edgar Dance, Helen Simoneau Danse, and Kyle tutelage of Jennifer Swan and continued her Zendejas. He has appeared at the Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion. Shiau was studies at Ryerson University. There, Lipson Greenwich Music Festival, with Zack the recipient of the 2014 Dancer Award at was a founding member of Rock Bottom Winokur, and with Geneviève Dorion-Coupal Reverb Dance Festival, and was given the Movement, and supplemented her training at Just for Laughs and Le 400e Anniversaire title of Honorable Mention for Jadin Wong with summers at Hubbard Street, Jacob’s de la Ville de Québec. As a rehearsal Award for the emerging Asian American Pillow and Springboard Dance Montréal, assistant to Aszure Barton, he has worked dancer in the same year. She was named amongst others. Upon graduation in 2013, with American Ballet Theatre, Canada’s one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in Lipson moved to Chicago to join Hubbard National Ballet School and Ballet BC, New 2018. She is extremely honored to join Street 2. Lipson worked with choreographer York University, the Steps Ensemble, Arts Hubbard Street Dance Chicago this year.

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PRODUCER’S CIRCLE Kurt Kolb Bonnie Swailes ($25,000+) Mary Lindenberger Ernest Vogel and Barbara Billings Corrinne Martin and Gary Horsfall Nancy D. Alvord † Ladies Musical Club, Inc. Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Tom McQuaid, in memory of Bill Gerberding PATRON (between $500 and $999) Anonymous John O’Connell and Joyce Latino Glenn Kawasaki, Ph.D. John C. Robinson and Maya Sonenberg Kay and John Allen Marcella D. McCaff ray Donna and Joshua Taylor Charles Alpers and Ingrid Peterson Mina B. Person † Robert and Andrea Watson Gretchen and Basil Anex Eric and Margaret Rothchild Alix Wilber and Andrew Himes Anonymous Donald and Gloria Swisher Michelle Witt and Hans Hoff meister Jean-Loup and Diane Baer Maryanne Tagney and David Jones Luther Black and Christina Wright Barbara Weinstein † DISTINGUISHED PATRON William D. Bollig (between $1,000 and $2,499) Ross Boozikee DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE Heida Brenneke (between $10,000 and $24,999) Anonymous Joan Affl eck-Smith and Nepier Smith Natalie Brown Warren and Anne Anderson Stephen Alley and Amy Scott David and Deborah Buck Anonymous Jeff and Cameron Altaras Rita Calabro Wimsey J. N. Cherrington Linda Armstrong Jillian Barron and Jonas Simonis Sharon Gantz Bloome Cynthia and Christopher Bayley Timothy Cliff ord Sven and Melinda Bitners Tom Bayley Jill Conner Stephen and Sylvia Burges Lawrence and Kathleen Brennan Margaret Crastnopol and Charles Purcell Ana Mari Cauce and Susan Joslyn Mel Belding and Kathy Brostoff Suzanne Dewitt and Ari Steinberg Britt East and Scott VanGerpen Cathryn Booth-LaForce and W. Kenneth LaForce Jeanne Dryfoos Gail Erickson and Phil Lanum Kalman Brauner and Amy Carlson Sally and Jeff Eagan Lynn and Brian Grant Family Virginia Burdette and Gary Wieder John and Kathy Ehrenberg Richard and Nora Hinton William Calvin and Katherine Graubard Luis Fernam and Isabelle Marie Estaban Sally Schaake Kincaid Eric and Susan Carlson Thomas Faber and Laura Townsend Faber Hans and Kristin Mandt Thomas Clement Robin and Douglas Ferguson Craig Miller and Rebecca Norton David B. Chow Albert Fisk and Judith Harris Chelsey Owen and Robert Harris Consuelo and Gary Corbett Stuart Fountain and Tom Highsmith Cecilia Paul and Harry Reinert Leonard Costello and Patricia McKenzie Gary Fuller and Randy Everett Judy Pigott Richard Cuthbert and Cheryl Redd-Cuthbert Sergey Genkin and Nelli Tkach Carmel Hennessy Popet Toby Diamond Genevra Gerhart Fern Rogow † Anita and Jack Dingrani William Glassford and Beverley Song Richard Szeliski and Lyn McCoy Susan and Lewis Edelheit Jayme Gustilo Lisa Esztergalyos and Kenneth Schiele Susan and Richard Hall SERIES BENEFACTOR Dr. Melvin and Nanette Freeman Steven Haney (between $5,000 and $9,999) Bill and Ruth Gerberding Wolfram and Linda Hansis William Gleason Larry Harris and Betty Azar Linda and Tom Allen Phyllis Hatfi eld Manisha Advani Torsten and Daniela Grabs Kyra Hokanson Gray Stephen and Sarah Hauschka Janet Boguch and Kelby Fletcher Ernest and Elaine Henley Heidi Charleson Carolyn and Gerald Grinstein Arthur and Leah Grossman Susan Hert and William Levering III Helen Curtis Alan and Judith Hodson M. Elizabeth Halloran Christopher and Amy Gulick Terri Hamilton Peter Hoff meister and Meghan Barry Catherine and David Hughes Tuck Hoo and Tom Lyons Yumi Iwasaki and Anoop Gupta Kara D. Hefl ey Michael Heltsley Randy and Gwen Houser Matthew and Christina Krashan Joan Hsiao and James Bromley Karen Koon and Brad Edwards Timmy Hendrickson Susan Herring Brian Hulse and Julia Paden Jeff rey Lehman and Katrina Russell Melanie Ito and Charles Wilkinson Bill and Meg Morgan Peter Hiatt and Ronald Hunden Paul and Alice Hill Marcia Kamin Seema Pareek and Gurdeep Pall Aaron Katz and Kate Dougherty Lois Rathvon Mary and Michael Hudspeth Michael Hunter Philip and Marcia Killien Blue and Jeff Resnick Deborah Katz Don and Toni Rupchock O. David Jackson Ilga Jansons and Michael Dryfoos David Kimelman and Karen Butner Joseph Saitta Leslie Kincaid and Nicholas Lawrence Dave and Marcie Stone H. David Kaplan Deborah Katz Julia Kalmus and John Lillard Summit Law Group, PLLC Joseph and Anne-Marie Knight Thomas and Doris Taylor Otis and Beverly Kelly Randy and Kimberly Kerr Jessica Kravitz Gregory Wallace and Craig Sheppard Frank and JoAnna Lau Kelly Kleemeier and Dave Dickson Ellen Wallach and Thomas Darden Chris Laws George Wilson and Claire McClenny Susan Knox and Weldon Ihrig Leander Lauff er and Patricia Oquendo Margaret Levi and Robert Kaplan Mark and Amy Worthington Michael Linenberger and Sallie Dacey Dr. Martin Greene and Kathleen Wright Melodie Martin and Kenneth Dayton Barbara Martyn Dennis Lund and Martha Taylor Tomilynn and Dean McManus Lynda Mapes and Douglas MacDonald EVENT SPONSOR Wayne and Kristin Martin (between $2,500 and $4,999) Robin Mendelson and Joss Delage Margaret Dora Morrison Robin L. McCabe Kenneth and Marleen Alhadeff Sayantani Mukherjee Ramona Memmer and Lester Goldstein Randy Apsel Darcy and Enzo Paschino John and Gail Mensher Cristi Benefi eld Richard and Sally Parks Ms. Mary M. Mikkelsen Robert and Janitta Carithers Alice Portz and Brad Smith Linda and Peter Milgrom Heidi Charleson Tina and Chip Ragen Alan and Mary Morgan Vasiliki Dwyer Jeff and Kimberly Seely Mary Monfort and Kevin Coulombe Davis Fox and Rosemary Coleman Evelyn Simpson Kevin Murphy and Karen Freeman Michelle and Matthew Galvin David Skar and Kathleen Lindberg James and Pamela Murray Dirk Giseburt and Marilyn Stahl Sigmund and Ann Snelson Erika J. Nesholm Hellmut and Marcy Golde Carrie Ann Sparlin Eugene and Martha Nester Yoshi and Naomi Minegishi Bob and Robin Stacey Anne Stevens Nolan and William Nolan Hylton and Lawrence Hard Ethel and Bob Story Amanda Overly Elizabeth Hebert Dale Sylvain and Thomas Conlon John Rochford and Nick Utzinger In memory of Gene Hokanson Lorraine Toly Joy Rogers and Robert Parker Hugues Hoppe and Sashi Raghupathy Manijeh Vail Werner and Joan Samson Bernita Jackson Josephus Van Schagen and Marjon Floris Michael Scupine and Kim Gittere-Abson

A-24 MEANY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Edward Sheets and Ronda Skubi Diana and Richard Thompson Chet Robachinski / Norita Robbins / Rachel and David Bela and Yolande Siki Gayle and Jack Thompson Robert / Sam and Josie Roskin / Gail Sailer / Darrell Marcia Sohns and Mark Levy Mary Toy Sanders / Laura Sargent / Robert and Doris Schaefer Clark Sorensen and Susan Way Michelle and Stephen Turnovsky / Joachim Schneider and Jolene Vrchota / Charles Patricia Tall-Takacs and Gary Takacs Valeri and Eugenia Vinyar Schooler / Janet Schweiger / Jean Schweitzer / Noah Mark and Liza Taylor Dr. James B. and Judith B. Wagonfeld Scooler / Giles and Sue Shepherd/ Roberta Sherman Stephen and Ericka Thielke Patricia Wahl and Dean Wingfield and Charles Meconis / John Sindorf and Mary Ann Bolte Kris and Epaminondas Trimis Osamu Yamamoto / Mani and Karen Soma / Derek Storm and Cynthia Pieter and Tjitske Van der Meulen Lee and Barbara Yates Gossett / Pamela Stromberg / Kristin Strout / Virginia Valeri and Eugenia Vinyar Sybert and Peter Byers / Brian Taberski / Peter Tarczy- David Wang Hornoch and Candice McCoy / Beth Traxler / Barbara Joella Werlin KEY PLAYER Trenary / Dorene and Dennis Tully / Gerald Tuttle and (between $100 and $249) Stephen and Debra Wescott Kathleen Gorham / Phyllis Van Orden / Margaret van James Adcock and Anne Otten / Mary Alberg / Kathryn Drs. Crispin S. Wilhelm and Sundee L. Morris Waardenburg / Yvonne and Bruno Vogele / Edward and Alexandra and Steven Rubey / Frank and Nola Allen / John V. Worthington Patricia Wagner / Lenore Waldron / Greta and Joseph Anonymous / Laurence Ashley / Jill Bader / Elizabeth Wright Piano Studio Students Ward / Gail and John Wasberg / Larry and Lucy Weinberg Baker / Lisa Baldwin and John Cragoe / Lauret Ballsun Igor Zverev and Yana Solovyeva / Merle Weiss and Diane Pien / Christine Westergaard / Timothy and G. Anthony Barrick / Mary and Douglas Bruce and Christine White / John and Margaret Williams Bayley / Mike and Marie Bender / Robin Bentley / GREAT PERFORMER / Karin Williams / April and Brian Williamson / Phillip Mary Ann Berrie / David Bird /Helen Bodkin /Susan (between $250 and $499) and Constance Winberry / Barbara and Grant Winther and Thomas Bohn / Joyce and David Brewster / Kevin / Carolyn Wood / Ying Gi Yong / Evgueni and Tatiana Stuart Allen and Sunny Liu Burnside and Rachel Schopen / Dianne Calkins / Zabokritski / Shirley Zaic and Eric Johnson / Robert Richard Ammerman Scott and Jayme Canfield / Carol and Henry Cannon / Zauper / Lawrence Zeidman and Linda Tatta / Lauralyn Andrews Frances Carr / John and Danielle Carr / Robert Catton Maxine Zemko Anonymous / Pamela and Robert Center / Pamela Charles / Robert Sharon Armstrong and Patricia Charlson / Curt Clauson / Robert and FRIEND Robert Babs Molly Cleland / Rita and Richard Cloney / Jayne Coe / (between $50 and $99) Robert Bergman Leslie and Libby Cohen / Richard and Dorothy Cole / Anonymous / Jessica Allen and William Diamond / Julie Barbara Bishop-Sand Jan and Bill Corriston / Scott Craig and Louise Locke Anderson / Suzanne and Marvin Anderson / Anton James and Edith Bloomfield / Karen and Philip Craven / Jean Crill / Gavin Cullen Andrews and Kata Kekedi / John and Genevieve Ashford William Bogardus and David Jamieson / Judith Cushman and Robert / Maaike Bakker and Andrew Lewis / Ruth and Mark Gene Brenowitz and Karen Domino Quick / Katherine De Bruyn / The de Soto Family / Balter / Jonas Barklund / Elisabeth Beaber / Thomas Paul Brown and Amy Harris Janice DeCosmo and David Butterfield / Barbara Bird / Lisa and Steve Boulanger / Elaine Brighton / Susan Elizabeth Cantrell DeCoster / Kathleen Dickeman / Theodore Dietz / Ann Buttram and David Frost / Timothy Callahan and Amy James and Peggy Champin Dittmar / Susan and David Dolacky / David Doody Paige / Linda and Peter Capell / Eric Carnell / Phyllis Daniel and Sandra Ciske and Michael Erickson / Nancy Dorn / Laurie Ann and and Alan Caswell / Leroy Chadwick / Sing Chao and Arian Colachis and Ian Glass C. Bert Dudley / Elizabeth C. Duffell and Brad Wilke / Daniel Welch / Michael and Gayle Charlesworth / John Catherine Cole Dona and Robert Dughi / Ian Einman / Polly and Eric Clarkson and Elizabeth Gilchrist / Fran Clifton / Carol R. Bruce and Mary-Louise Colwell Feigl / Corinne Fligner and Mark Wener / Brenda Fong Cole and Andrew Groom / Monica Clare Connors / Anne Mr. John Cragoe and Ms. Lisa Baldwin / Jacqueline Forbes and Douglas Bleckner / Susanne and George Counts / Christopher Curry / Diane Darling Leroy and Marybeth Dart and Bruce Foster / Susan and Albert Fuchs / Brian and Darrel Nance / Elizabeth and John Darrah / Laura Cynthia L. Doll and Mr. Greg C. Nelson Giddens and Steve Rovig / George Gilman / Sara and William Downing / Richard Eide / Robert and Ingrid Joan Duffell Glerum / J. David Godwin and Virginia Reeves / Anne Eisenman / Patricia Emmons and Shmuel El-Ad / Renee Margaret Dunn Good / Charles and Margaret Gordon / Jennifer and Eskenazi and Michael Magee / Timmie Faghin / Giselle Pamela Fink and Michael Bevan Henry Gordon / Catherine Gorman / Gene Graham Falkenberg and Rockwell Moulton / Thea Fefer / James Susan Fischer / Phillip Greenblatt / Nancy and Earl Grout / Dorothy Fesalbon and Edward Francis Darr II / Jay Field and Emily Fitch Guth / Emile Haddad and Terryll Bailey / Walter and Deborah Dwyer / Melanie Field / Judith Gillum Fihn and Gerald Folland Willa Halperin / Rebekah Harris / Shuko Hashimoto Stephan D. Fihn / Susan Carol Fisher / Robert and Elaine Janet Geier and Peter Seitel / Kathryn Heafield and Guy Sattler / James Heher Franza / William Friedman / Anne Futterman / Frances Susan and Russell Goedde and Leslie Fields / Lori Hess and Benjamin Miller / Goldman / Thomas and Carol Graham / Jerry and Ellen Tim Groggel and Annette Strand Janet Hesslein and Murl Sanders / David Hewitt and Hendin / Judith Herrigel / Keri Holmboe / Natarajan Chris Gross Marcia Wagoner / Eric and Mary Horvitz / Shwu-Shin Janarthanan and Ponni Rajagopal / Erica and Duane Emile F. Haddad and Terryll Bailey Hou and David Chow / Roy Hughes / Margaret Hunt Jonlin / Margot Kadesch / Linda Kent and James Corson / Carole Horwitz / Patricia Hynes / Robert C. Jenkins / Robert Johnson Lee Klastorin and Ralph Walden / Nancy and John Lynn Hagerman and James Hummer and Heather Erdmann / Larry and Roberta Jordan / Kloster / Joseph and Anne-Marie Knight / Richard and Norman Hollingshead Ellen Kaisse and Gary Roberts / Kyle Kinoshita / Divya Donna Koerker / Margarethe Konzak / Jennifer Kraft and David B. Johnson Krishnana / James and Elaine Klansnic/ Adam Kline Chris Pesce / Daniel and Sandra Kraus / Yvonne Lam and Michael and Nancy Kappelman and Genie Middaugh / Joan Klyn / Glen Kriekenbeck Nathan Schimke / Diane Lasko and Clinton Diener / Carla Paul Kassen and Quentin King / Phyllis Lamphere / Rosalie Lang and David Lawrence / Jo Anne Laz / Kathryn Lew and George and Mary Kenny / Inge and Leslie Larsen / Rosanne Larsen and Gary Dennis Apland / Erika Lim / Larry MacMillan and Billie Marcia G. Killien, Ph.D. Burdge / Deborah and David Larson / Tammara and Young / David Margolius and Inna Garkavi / William and Frederick Klein IV Brian Leighton / Peter LeVeque / Meini Li / Warren Judith Matchett / Robert McCroskey / Brian McHenry / Jean Kincaid and David Koewler Lucas / Ingrid Lynch / Barbara Mack / Daniel Mageau Sharon Metcalf and Randall Smith / Charles and Lynn Thomas and Rhoda Lawrence / Sara Magee / Heinz and Ingeborg Maine / Suresh Meyer / Eric Michelman and Patricia Shanley / Marilyn Arni Hope Litt and Anjali Malhotra / John and Katharina Maloof / Milberger / Jocelyn and Michael Miller / James Moore Eli Livne, Ph.D. and Dr. Esther Karson Constance Mao / Wendy Marlowe / Michael and Nancy and Kristi Branch / Harold and Susan Mozer / Susan Dr. E. Ludman and Mr. D Birch Matesky / Donna McCampbell / Wayne McCleskey Mulvihill and James Liverman / George and Ellen Naden / Barbara Lycett and John Parchem and Robin Thomas / Mary V. McGuire / Robert and Betty Ngan and Tom Mailhot / Barbara O’Steen and R. Jeffrey and Barbara Mandula Catherine McKee / Michael and Noor McMann / Susan Howard Mitchell / Sharon Overman / James Packman William and Holly Marklyn L. McNabb / Renate McVittie / Christine Meinhold / and Andrew Cohen / Michael and Susan Peskura / Michael Mathieu Vera Metz / Michael and Sarajane Milder / Barbara Sandra Pisatello / Nicole Quinones / William Reed and Jim McDermott and James Miller / Sheree Miller and Benjamin Greer / Nancy Worden / Meryl Retallack / Pacita Roberts / David Terry Miller James and Cheri Minorchio / George and Julie Moberly and JoAnne Rudo / William Sandal / Margaret Sandelin / M. Lynn Morgan / Reza and Carol Moinpour / Raymond Monnat and Stephen and Linda Saunto / Peggy Savlov / Craig Margarete Noe Christine Disteche / David Morris / Anne Morrison / Schieber / Noah Schooler / Herbert and Elaine Selipsky / Anne Otten and Jame Adcock Christine Moss / Pamela A. Mullens / Joseph and Kay Robert Simpson Jr. / Hazel Singer and John Griffiths / James and Tiffany Reed Neal / John Nemanich and Ellendee Pepper / Marianne Anne Solomon / Donna Sunkel / Sharon and Michio Dennis Reichenbach Nijenhuis / Caroline Normann / Mark Novak and Tsutsui / Frits van Oppen / Karen Uhrbrock / Kymberly Jason Reuer Katrin Pustilnik / Marilyn and Beatrice Nowogroski and Jeremy Waltmunson / Amy Wong-Freeman / Barbara and Mark Roller / Mary Kay O’Neill / Nenita Odesa / Martin Oiye and Becky Woodworth Bette Round Susan Nakagawa / Angela Owens / David Owsiany Janet and John Rusin and Everett Seven / Cathryn Palmer / Elizabeth Park / This listing includes donors ($50 and above) to Meany Jennifer Salk and David Ehrich William and Frances Parson / Gerald Paulukonis / Betty Center for the Performing Arts from July 1, 2016 to June Cathy Sarkowsky Person / Anna and David Peterson / James and Louise 30, 2017. To change your program listing or correct an Robert and Doris Schaefer Peterson / Jeanne Peterson / Karen Peterson / Gregory error, please call us at 206-685-2819. Contributions to Eric Schlegel and Mary Stout and Margaret Petrie / James Phelps and Ena Urbach / Meany Center are tax-deductible to the extent allowed Mark and Patti Seklemian Sandra Piscitello / Susan Porterfield / James and Ruth by law. To make a gift or for more information on donor Carol Swayne and Guy Hollingbury Raisis / Wendy and Murray Raskind / Yumiko Ray / benefits, please call 206-685-2819 or visit meanycenter. Margaret Taylor and Robert Elliott Stephen and Mary Reardon / Carrie Richard / Cynthia org/donate. David and Barbara Thomas Richardson / Carla Rickerson / Paula Riggert /

encoremediagroup.com/programs A-25 ENDOWMENT AND PLANNED GIFTS Many thanks to the following individuals for supporting the future of Meany Center through planned gifts and contributions to our endowment:

Planned Gifts Meany Center Education Endowment Anonymous Kalman Brauner and Amy Carlson Linda and Tom Allen Ernest and Elaine Henley* Ellsworth and Nancy Alvord † Julie Kageler Wimsey J.N. Cherrington Matthew and Christina Krashan* Consuelo and Gary Corbett J. Pierre and Felice Loebel* Bill and Ruth Gerberding Lee and Judy Talner* Matthew and Christina Krashan Margaret Dora Morrison Matt Krashan Endowed Fund for Cecilia Paul and Harry Reinert Artistic and Educational Excellence Mina B. Person † in the Performing Arts Lois Rathvon Carolyn H. Grinstein and Gerald Grinstein Fern Rogow † Matthew and Christina Krashan* Dave and Marcie Stone Donald and Gloria Swisher * Endowment Founder Lee and Judy Talner † Deceased “If I have seen a Ellen J. Wallach little further, it is MATCHING CORPORATE GIFTS Arts AL!VE Student Fund for only by standing Exploring the Performing Arts Adobe Systems, Inc. Susan Knox and Weldon Ihrig* AT&T Foundation on the shoulders Renata Tatman and Pablo Schugurensky Chevron Corporation City of Seattle of Giants." Nancy and Eddie Cooper Endowed Fund East West Bank — BERNARD OF CHARTRES for Music in Schools Google, Inc. Dave and Marcie C. Stone* IBM Corporation Intel Corporation From Haydn to Mozart to Meany Center Endowment Fund Merck Company Foundation Beethoven to the Beatles, Windsor R. Utley* † Microsoft Corporation each generation owes its Phillip B. and Constance J. Winberry Puget Sound Energy progress to the ones that Shell Oil Company came before. Elaine and Ernest Henley Endowment State of Washington for Classical Music The Boeing Company Ernest † and Elaine D. Henley* The K Foundation You, too, can be a giant. T-Mobile USA, Inc. Catherine and David Hughes Asian U.S. Bank CONSIDER A GIFT to the Programming Endowment United Way of Greater Los Angeles Meany Center through your Catherine and David Hughes* United Way of King County will, trust or retirement plan, Yumi Iwasaki and Anoop Gupta United Way of Snohomish County and help future generations Wells Fargo, LLC Live Music for World Dance of artists and arts lovers see Series Endowment a little further by standing on Lorraine Toly your shoulders. Bernita W. Jackson Linda and Peter Capell Contact: Dr. Susan Hert and William R. Levering, III Cristi Benefi eld, Director of Cecilia Paul and Harry Reinert* Sergio Ortega-Trujano Philanthropy, Meany Center 206-616-6296 [email protected] meanycenter.org/donate

This listing includes endowment founders and endowment donors from July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017. For more information on how to make a gift through your will or trust, or to name Meany Center for the Performing Arts as a benefi ciary of your retirement plan or insurance policy, please call 206-685-1001 or 800-284-3679 or visit www.uwfoundation.org/giftplanning.

A-26 MEANY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS MEANY CENTER SEASON SPONSORS We are deeply grateful to the following corporations, foundations and government agencies whose generous support make our programs possible:

$100,000 AND ABOVE

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

$25,000 AND ABOVE

The Boeing Company / Classical KING FM 98.1* / National Endowment for the Arts / Nesholm Family Foundation Scan Design Foundation

$10,000 - $24,999

4Culture / ArtsFund / Microsoft / Seattle Offi ce of Arts & Culture / U.S. Bank

UP TO $9,999

Banner Bank / East West Bank / KEXP 90.3 FM* / KUOW 94.9 FM* Ladies Musical Club / Peg and Rick Young Foundation Western States Arts Federation

BUSINESS CIRCLE SPONSORS

Agua Verde Cafe Catering / Classical Wines from Spain / College Inn Pub / Hotel Deca* / Fran's Chocolates* / Macrina Bakery* Madres Kitchen* / Pagliacci* / North City Bistro* / Theo Chocolate* University Inn* / Watertown Hotel*

CAMPUS + COMMUNITY PARTNERS

Arts Impact / ArtsUW / Burke Museum / Cornish College of the Arts / Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization / Henry Art Gallery / Ladies Musical Club / Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute / Live Music Project / Nordic Heritage Museum / Seattle Art Museum / Seattle Music Partners Seattle Public Schools / Second Inversion / Scan Design / UW Alumni Association / UW American Indian Studies / UW Canadian Studies / UW Dance Department / UW Intellectual House / UW First year programs / UW Graduate School / UW Libraries / UW Residential Life Program / UW School of Drama / UW School of Music / Velocity Dance Center

* Denotes full or partial gift in kind.

Join an impressive roster of companies of all sizes that support Meany Center, its mission, and its performances. Sponsors receive signifi cant recognition throughout the season and an array of benefi ts catered to your organization's goals. For more information, please contact the Meany Center Philanthropy Department at (206) 221-1287.

encoremediagroup.com/programs A-27 MEANY CENTER AND ARTSUW TICKET OFFICE STAFF

Michelle Witt, Executive and Artistic Director Rosa Alvarez, Director of Patron Services Rita Calabro, Managing Director Liz Wong, Assistant Director of Patron Services Katrina Deininger, Patron Services Associate Scott Coil, Director of Finance and Administration Keeli Erb, Patron Services Associate James Fesalbon, Fiscal Specialist Patrick Walrath, Patron Services Associate Yevgeniy Gofman, Accountant Cathy Wright, Patron Services Associate

Laura McKee, Tessitura Administrator Patron Services Assistants Gretchen Shantz, IT Administrator Jasmine Burkett Dakota Miller Cristi Benefi eld, Director of Philanthropy Kendra Stricklin Alix Wilber, Grants and Communications Manager Lauren Widman Elizabeth C. Duff ell, Director of Artistic Engagement Abbey Willman Angela Yun Kaeline Kine, Artist Engagement Coordinator Jyana Browne, Creative Fellowships Coordinator Lead Ushers Robert Babs, Education and Outreach Associate Danielle Blevens Colleen Kimsey, Green Room Assistant Eli Gallagher Raine Myrvold Teri Mumme, Director of Marketing and Communications Rob Noland, Graphics Production & Content Coordinator Ushers Cynthia Mullis, Interim Marketing Manager Reiane Abuda Son Bui, Marketing Assistant Altaire Anderson Katrin Hosseini, Communications & Outreach Assistant Frances Bueno Arthur Grossman, Phil Lanum, Bruce Clayton Tom, Photographers Shannon Chen Warren Woo, Videographer Ana Constantin Esther English Tom Burke, Technical Director Ryan Farris Brian Engel, Lighting Supervisor Laura Freeman Juniper Shuey, Stage Manager Abbi Helms Matt Starritt, Audio Supervisor Jared Kawasawa Doug Meier, Studio Theatre Stage Technician Pearl Lam C.J. Pier Nancy Hautala, Audience Services Manager Abby Ryider Tom Highsmith, Lead House Manager Yomira Romero Noah Duff y, House Manager Evelyn Seo Sean Luscombe, House Manager Owen Stevens Daniel Kaseberg, House Manager Levi Sy Natalie Harrington, Assistant House Manager Emma Turner Duncan Greeley, Assistant House Manager Griffi n Withington Nina Tosti, Concessions Manager Dani Slowik, Barista Katelynn Reeson, Concessions Assistant

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CALIDORE STRING QUARTET with DAVID FINCKEL AND WU HAN April 24, 7:30 p.m.. Winner of the 2018 Avery Fisher Prize, this vibrant young ensemble teams up with esteemed chamber musicians David Finckel & Wu Han for a powerhouse program of quintets by Schubert and Dvořák.

A-28 MEANY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Dialogue Encore Stages in conversation

Photo by Youth in Focus student.

Youth in Focus is a 24-year-old youth development photography What is Youth in Focus? program whose mission is to empower young people to experience We put cameras in the hands of their world in new ways and to make positive changes in their lives adolescents and place them in a challenging environment surrounded through photography. by high-quality, talented teachers and nurturing adult mentors, creating a strong community of support. Through photography our students find their Encore Stages recently sat down with Trina Gadsden, voice, identity, creativity, and gain new Youth in Focus’s Executive Director, to discuss seeing confidence in their worth and abilities. the world in light and shadows, a boy named Tony, and We are the people who teach kids how how you can help. to develop negatives into positives. Nobody has as much fun creating a safe community of trust and support for youth through photography, as we do. Our impact is empowering youth to find their voice and gain self-confidence as

encoremediagroup.com/programs 9 Photo by Youth in Focus student Chris P. they learn life skills and discover who At the time, I was running a nonprofit they are, and what matters to them. doing work in Uganda, but I knew I “Through couldn’t pass up the opportunity to Are you a photographer yourself? What help empower youth in our community got you into the art form? photography through a camera lens. Back in the day my father bought me a second-hand film camera before I our students Who are some of your favorite headed off to college. Since that time, photographers? Why? I see the world in light and shadows. Our Youth in Focus students who Photography has always been a magical find their create profound work and continue to medium for me to explore human vulnerably reveal their inner struggles emotions and nature’s gifts. voice, identity, through a camera lens. We often rush through our busy lives without truly How did you get involved with Youth in creativity, noticing or appreciating all the unique Focus? things that surround us. Our students While in graduate school, I was continue to remind me of the beauty in fascinated with the nonprofit and and gain new the small things. partnered with them any opportunity I could, to see how the organization confidence in In the professional realm, Joyce could play on a larger scale and Tenneson’s portraits have always been serve more youth through the gift hauntingly beautiful and unworldly of photography. When the former their worth and to me. And Alan Ross, who was Ansel Executive Director decided to leave, Adams’ assistant for years, chases light the Founder, Walter Bodle, left me a abilities.” and captures emotions in nature, like no voicemail and said, “You need to apply.” other.

10 ENCORE STAGES SEASONAL EXHIBITS Trina Gadsden. FOR YOUR PALETTE Enjoy artistically inspired dishes crafted from local ingredients, and see the personal story of Dale Chihuly What are some specific events or through his collections. activities throughout the year that the LUNCH / WEEKEND BRUNCH kids participate in? We offer quarterly Core Classes for youth ages 13-19 in digital and black COLLECTIONSCAFE.COM and white photography. Throughout LOCATED AT CHIHULY GARDEN AND GLASS 305 HARRISON ST / SEATTLE WA the year we partner with schools, 206.753.4935 community centers, libraries and other organizations within the community through our Partner Programs, and we work with populations ranging from If you loved Priscilla Queen of the Desert elementary school children to 92-year- at BPA, sail back for olds through our Seniors in Focus program!

“Nobody Book by Douglas Carter Beane Music and Lyrics by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar Based on the Universal Pictures film with has as much Screenplay by Richard Danus & Marc Rubel Directed by Joanna Hardie Musical Direction by Elizabeth Faye “Choreography by Heather Dawson fun creating a Originally produced on Broadway by Robert Ahrens,Don Vickery, Tara Smith, B. Swibel, safe community Sara Murchison, Dale Smith & Cari Smulyan th th of trust and MayMay 44th–20–20th support for Tickets:Tickets: youth through 206.842.8569206.842.8569 bainbridgeperformingarts.orgbainbridgeperformingarts.org

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encoremediagroup.com/programs 11 Photo by Youth in Focus student.

What are some of your favorite “Dad” showed up to his End of Quarter memories of Youth in Focus? Show and Tony was grinning from ear to ear as he shared his final image and One of my favorite memories at spoke to the crowd about his work and Youth in Focus has nothing to do with experience in our program. photography and more about the connection with the youth. A few years ago, there was a student named Tony, who was personally struggling because “Our Youth in he had been moved around so many Focus students times while in foster care. He would come early to class and would sit in ...reveal their inner my office and we would talk about his struggles through day, sometimes he would ask for advice by Oscar Wilde on how to get along with his foster a camera lens.” parents better as he didn’t want to get moved again, but most of the time I just MAY 16 - JUN 23 listened and let him know I saw him and What do you hope for the organization appreciated him. About a year into our in both the near and distant future? taproottheatre.org program, after changing schools and 206.781.9707 My goal has always been to be a 204 N 85th St his foster care home again, he ran in my sustainable organization that can serve Seattle, WA office and said he was getting adopted more kids through quality programs. by one of his teachers in his school! We Long term, we have been working with were both so excited, we started crying PROFESSIONAL THEATRE IN A NEIGHBORHOOD SETTING Mahlum Architects to help design and jumping around my office! His new ‘Youth in Focus in a Box’ so we can

12 ENCORE STAGES LadyW_CityArts_ad1-6.indd 1 2/20/18 4:09 PM How to get involved! Wholesale and Retail Sales ¿ Roasting fine coffees since 1993 Teach Youth in Focus needs professional teaching artists to teach B&W Darkroom and Digital Photography classes. Course are eight-weeks One of Seattle’s original long and occur throughout the roaster cafes, Lighthouse year. They also offer workshops has spent more than and partner programs, depending twenty years creating a on a teacher’s interest and skills. loyal following of coffee Mentor lovers. Lighthouse roasts If you have experience with consistently great coffee photography and working with in small batches of the at-risk youth, you could become freshest premium beans, a mentor with Youth in Focus to hand roasted in a vintage help make a difference in the lives cast-iron roaster each day. of over 300 kids a year. Mentors must be available for class twice a week, over an eight-week course.

Volunteer 400 N 43rd St. ¿ Seattle, WA. 98103 ¿ 206-633-4775 Maybe you’d like to help, but photography isn’t a strong suit. LIGHTHOUSEROASTERS.COM Youth in Focus has volunteer positions available to help with everything from events to recruitment to administrative tasks.

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expand to other communities in the state and nationwide.

How can one support Youth in Focus? Individual donations go such a long way in our nonprofit and help cover scholarships, film and cameras, just to name a few things! Corporate sponsorship of our classes is extremely helpful, along with simply spreading the word and sharing the work we do with more people to gain support!<

Jonathan Shipley is a freelance writer living in West Seattle. He's been published in the Los Angeles Times, Fine Books & Collections Magazine, and Seattle Magazine, among others.

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1) Seattle Rock Orchestra will grace the women, will play May 18–June 17 7) On April 20–May 13, ACT will stage to perform the music of the at Seattle Repertory Theatre, where produce The Wolves, a play about a Beatles, at the Moore Theatre, May it was developed last year. The play girls’ soccer team. Title IX is a federal 12–13. In which German city did the is written and directed by Erica law prohibiting discrimination on Beatles hone their craft in 1960-'62? Schmidt. Which one-person play did the basis of sex in education. This she direct at Seattle Rep in 2011? is often cited as justification for a) Frankfurt the funding of women’s athletic b) Dresden a) I Am My Own Wife programs in schools as well as men’s. c) Hamburg b) The Agony and the Ecstasy of In what year was this made law? d) Berlin Steve Jobs c) The K of D, an urban legend a) 1972 2) Diego El Cigala, the masterful d) Humor Abuse b) 1964 Romani flamenco singer, will c) 1990 perform at Meany Center, April 5) Lady Windermere’s Fan is to play d) 1980 7. His full name is Diego Ramón May 16–June 23 at Taproot Theatre Jiménez Salazar – El Cigala is a Company. This is the fourth play 8) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar nickname. What does it mean? written by Oscar Wilde. Which of the Wao, a play based on Junot Díaz’s following was written immediately book by the same title, will play at a) The Western Eel prior? Book-It Repertory Theatre, April b) Norway Lobster 19–May 6. Junot Díaz is a MacArthur c) Fiddler Crab a) Salomé Fellowship recipient. Which of the d) European Crayfish b) The Importance of Being Earnest following writers won this award the c) An Ideal Husband same year as him? 3) Meany Center welcomes d) A Woman of No Importance Complexions Contemporary Ballet a) Dinaw Mengestu to Seattle on May 17–19. Founded 6) Shakespeare in Love is being b) Ta-Nehisi Coates in 1994 by dance legends Dwight produced by Seattle Shakespeare c) Jesmyn Ward Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, Company, May 2 –June 3. This play d) Edwidge Danticat from which city does this storied is adapted from the Oscar-winning company hail? film by the same title. Who played Shakespeare’s love interest in the Bonus Question a) Chicago 1998 movie? b) New York What was the last arts performance you attended that you liked best and c) Los Angeles a) Claire Danes why? d) Toronto b) Kate Winslet c) Emma Thompson Email your response to [email protected] 4) Mac Beth, a retelling of Shakespeare’s d) Gwyneth Paltrow with "Trivia Quiz" in the subject line.

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