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L.A.DANCES PROGRAM A

SPLIT STEP | EMILY MAST & ZACK WINOKUR

ADAGIO IN B MINOR | JANIE TAYLOR

RISING WATER | GIANNA REISEN

CHAPTER SONG | KYLE ABRAHAM

SEPTEMBER 26 - OCTOBER 24 8PM SPLIT STEP EMILY MAST & ZACK WINOKUR

Split Step is a collaboration between visual artist Emily Mast, director Zack Winokur, composer Evan Mast, lighting designer Christopher Kuhl, and the dancers of LADP. It was created over two summer workshops at the LUMA Foundation in Arles, France. It will premiere in Los Angeles in September.

Lighting Design | Christopher Kuhl Music | Evan Mast Sound Editor | Yehuda Duenyas Costumes | Emily Mast & Zack Winokur in collaboration with Anthony Bryant, Daisy Jacobson, David Freeland Jr., Doug Baum, Gianna Reisen, Janie Claire, Mario Gonzales & Rachelle Rafailedes ADAGIO IN B MINOR JANIE TAYLOR

Adagio in B minor is a stand alone solo piano piece composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Beneath it’s elegant and classical simplicity, lies an undertone of something very deeply felt. Entered into his “catalogue of works” in 1788, it still sounds very modern today. The movement is musically driven, and combines old and new styles of social and classical dance to create a distinct and infinite world for two people.

Choreography | Janie Taylor Costumes | COS with Janie Taylor Music | Adagio in B minor | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart RISING WATER GIANNA REISEN

Rising Water, set to a compilation of scores by Andrew Bird, is a piece for three dancers that challenges the balance between love and control. Humanness and affection play a significant role in the development of the work and the growth of he dancers’ relationship to one another. Bird’s music establishes a rise and fall effect, through the sounds of nature, like water and hollow space. Each character, in their movement, inhabit these imagined rivers and canyons to create an environment that is driven by powerful sound.

Choreography | Gianna Reisen Costumes | A V I O N Clothier Music | Andrew Bird CHAPTER SONG KYLE ABRAHAM

Created in close collaboration with the LADP Company, Chapter Song is a series of constantly shifting vignettes that explore the textures and sensations of transition. Set to an eclectic playlist, the sonic experience of Chapter Song aims to disrupt expectations and juxtapose the serious with the comedic - the personal with the political. This dynamic work moves quickly, much like the changing of the channels, allowing for unexpected connections and discovery.

EMILY MAST

Emily Mast is a visual artist who makes work that pulls from a combination of practices—visual art, theater and dance— and is anchored in the production of multi-compositional projects that employ live performance, sculptural installation, video and performance souvenirs. She has staged choreographed exhibitions and presented live performances at various venues including: The LUMA Foundation, Arles, France (2019); STUK, Leuven, Belgium (2018); Human Resources, Los Angeles (2018); FRAC Occitanie Montpellier, France (2017); Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria (2017); The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2017); the PowerPlant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (2016); La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel (2015); China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles (2015); Mona Bismarck American Center, Paris (2015); Silencio, Paris (2015); the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2014); The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2014); Night Gallery, Los Angeles (2014); Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Project Space, New York (2013); Simone Dubal Gallery, New York (2013); the Galeria Luisa Strina in Sao Paolo, Brazil (2013); Public Fiction, Los Angeles (2012); REDCAT, Los Angeles (2012) and Performa, New York (2009). Emily runs Mast on Fig, a space for the development and communal sharing of experiential events and art works. It is located in a brick storefront in the Cypress Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. ZACH WINOKUR Zack Winokur is a stage director and choreographer. Recent directing highlights include The Black Clown, an adaptation of the Langston Hughes poem starring Davóne Tines at the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center and the American Repertory Theater; Perle Noire: Meditations for Joséphine, with music by Tyshawn Sorey, new text by Claudia Rankine, and starring Julia Bullock on the grand staircase of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Sondheim’s A Little Night Music with the Nederlandse Reisopera in collaboration with design firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero and visual artist Cynthia Talmadge; and a new production of Hans Werner Henze’s El Cimarrón, also at the Met Museum. Additionally, his work has been presented at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Dutch National Opera, La Monnaie, Cincinnati Opera, The Juilliard School, Centre Pompidou, Royal Opera House, Museum of Arts and Design, Clark Art Institute, David Lynch’s Club Silencio, and the Supreme Court of the United States. Future highlights include directing Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George with the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Gustavo Dudamel and Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde – the centerpiece of Santa Fe Opera’s 2020 season. Winokur is also Co-Artistic Director, with Matthew Aucoin, of AMOC (American Modern Opera Company), an ensemble of singers, musicians, and dancers committed to creating a body of new, discipline- colliding music-theater works. CHRISTOPHER KUHL Christopher Kuhl is a lighting, scenic, installation, and conceptual designer for new performance, theatre, dance and opera. Recent work includes: The Hunger (Abbey Theatre Dublin, BAM), Europeras, A Trip to the Moon, Young Caesar, Night and Dreams: Schubert & Beckett (Los Angeles Philharmonic); Halfway to Dawn (David Rousseve / Reality, New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center, REDCAT, BAM); Home (BAM, Hong Kong Festival, New Zealand Festival); The Parable of the Sower (Holland Festival, The Public Theater); Dog Days (Los Angeles Opera, REDCAT, Ft Worth Opera); The Object Lesson (Edinburgh Festival, BAM, Sydney Festival); The Source (San Francisco Opera, REDCAT, BAM); The Institute of Memory (REDCAT, The Public Theater, T:BA Festival); Straight White Men (Young Jean Lee’s Theatre Company, Centre Pompidou, The Public Theatre, Kaai Theater); The Elephant Room (CTG, St. Ann’s Warehouse); ABACUS (REDCAT, BAM, Sundance Film Festival, EMPAC); Quartier Libres with Nadia Beugré (New York Live Arts, Walker Art Center); Cipher with Samita Sinha (The Kitchen). He was also the Production Manager and Lighting Director for Ralph Lemon’s How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere? He has also had the pleasure of making art at the Fusebox Festival, On the Boards, San Fransisco Symphony, Jacob’s Pillow, Carnegie Hall, Santa Fe Opera, The Chocolate Factory, Beijing Music Festival, Queer Zagreb, MAC France, and Santiago a Mil Chile. Christopher has received two Bessie Awards, two Ovation Awards and a Sherwood Drammy, and Horton Award. He is originally from New Mexico and a graduate of CalArts. EVAN MAST

Evan Mast is an instrumental musician and half of the band Ratatat. Mast is interested in the broad spectrum of styles that instrumental music spans. His compositions move easily across genres and are influenced by punk, Bollywood, ‘60s rock, Bach and hip-hop. His first solo album, Parking Lot Music, was released in 2001. Since 2003, Mast has released five albums with Ratatat. Under his alias E*vax, Mast has produced and co- written songs with Jay-Z, Kid Cudi and Kanye West. He is based in Brooklyn, New York. JANIE TAYLOR Janie Taylor was born in Houston, TX where she began her ballet training at age 2 with Gilbert Rome. She trained at the Giacobbe Academy of Dance in New Orleans from 1993-1996. After attending two years of the summer program at the School of American Ballet, she became a full-time student in the fall of 1996. While a student at SAB she originated a featured role in Christopher Wheeldon's Soiree Musicale for the Spring workshop performance in June of 1998. She received the Mae L. Wien Award at the SAB Annual Workshop and was invited to become an apprentice with New York City Ballet. A month later, she became a member of NYCB's corps de ballet. She was promoted to the rank of Soloist in February 2001 and to Principal in 2005. During her career with New York City Ballet she originated roles in ballets choreographed by Peter Martins and Benjamin Millepied. She also performed featured roles in numerous ballets by George Balanchine, and Jerome Robbins, as well as pieces by Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Susan Stroman, Twyla Tharp, and Miriam Mahdaviani. Ms. Taylor appeared in the film Center Stage directed by Nicholas Hytner which was released in 2000. She retired from the New York City Ballet on March 1, 2014 and began working as a repetiteur setting ballets for Benjamin Millepied and Justin Peck on companies around the world. She also started a career in costume design. Her designs can be seen at the New York City Ballet, and L.A.Dance Project. In December of 2016, Ms. Taylor joined L.A. Dance Project as a dancer. GIANNA REISEN

Gianna Reisen studied at the School of American Ballet in New York before joining SAB’s Student Choreographic Workshop as a dancer and a choreographer. She danced in the New York Choreographic Institute’s Spring 2015-2016 sessions and participated in NYCI’s Fall 2016 session as a choreographer where she created her second work titled Hexapoda. In 2017 former artistic director Peter Martins commissioned her to create a ballet for the New York City Ballet’s Fall Fashion Gala. Her work, Composer’s Holiday, set to music by Lukas Foss, premiered in the fall of 2017 making her the youngest choreographer in NYCB’s history, with dance luminary Mikhail Baryshnikov noting Reisen's “remarkable debut.” Gianna joined L.A. Dance Project in 2018. KYLE ABRAHAM

2016 Doris Duke Artist Award recipient and 2015 City Center Choreographer in residence, Kyle Abraham (Pittsburgh, PA) is a 2013 MacArthur Fellow. Previous awards include being named a 2012 USA Ford Fellow, a Creative Capital grantee, and receiving a 2012 Jacob's Pillow Dance Award. In 2010, Abraham received a prestigious Bessie Award for Outstanding Performance in Dance for his work in The Radio Show and a Princess Grace Award for Choreography in 2010. The previous year, he was selected as one of Dance Magazine's 25 To Watch for 2009. In 2011, OUT Magazine labeled Abraham as the "best and brightest creative talent to emerge in New York City in the age of Obama”

Kyle Abraham’s Chapter Song was commissioned by LADP with funding provided by the Elaine P. Wynn and Family Foundation and co-commissioning support provided by TITAS Presents.