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Production Team A Note From the Artistic Director Buck Linton Welcome to Rider : 2020, Moving in Our Todd Loyd Community, celebrating the many ways dancers use their bodies to Robin Shane Designer move in rhythm and harmony. We for many reasons: some to Yoshi Tanokura Set Designer embrace and honor tradition and mores; others to strive for personal Tyrone Palmer Scene Shop Foreman achievements and win trophies; many dance socially or for recreation, Anne Sears WCC Public Relations and while some dance to entertain, for others it is the optimal form of Dax Finley Poster Design artistic expression. and students Nicole Nilsson Production Manager Every Dance is an ethnic dance in that it is generated from Jada Melanson Assistant Stage Managers the values, aesthetics, mythologies and symbolism of the time and Maglia Sabio Assistant Stage Managers culture in which it is created. RD2020 makes connections between the Kylee Czapiel Sound Board Operator dance genres and points out the distinctiveness of each community. Amy Allen Light Board Operator Alexa Boone Program The particular motivation of a dance dictates its shapes, Morgan Nash Promotion rhythms, dynamics and vocabulary. What the communities share is Jewels Essis Social Media passion, discipline, energy, attention to detail and common kinesthetic Iris Courchaine Assistant Costume Design delight. Mackenzie Germain Tanisha Anand Costume Assistant Thank you for joining us, Samantha Butler Ushers, Camera We hope you enjoy the show. Christiannah Akisnamni Fly Operator Xiomara Quinones Crew Michael Calixto Crew Miranda Kelley Projection Assistant Kim Chandler Vaccaro and Laura Luck SFPA Secretary Extrodinaire

Tap Store Follies Choreographer Julie Johnson Thick Program Music "Count the Basses" From Bob Rizzo's Tap & Groove CD compiled by Mark Santoro Hosts: Josiah Jacoby and Gabriela Alter "Fabulous Feet" from Kid, Broadway Cast recording Films by Rose Conroy-Voza Dancers Josie Abruzzi, Ryan Alger, Nicole Alling, Melody Almodovar, Anna Fredeen, Alexa Goldblum, Josiah Jacoby, Emma Kasper, Shannin Kavanagh, Cassie Krick, Emma Landis, Amanda Ortner, Alayna Rubach River Stories

Choreographer Merli V. Guerra

Music Arrangement by Guerra, including music by Hari Prasad Chaurasia; found sound; and vocals by Guerra. Stardust Soul Dancers Gabriela Alter, Rose Conroy-Voza, Iris Courchaine, Choreographer Jennifer Gladney Alexa Goldblum, Victoria Kreutzer, Cassie Krick, Xiomara Music Joel P West, Wayne Dyer Quinones, Dancers Josie Abruzzi, Gabriella A. Boes, Tiffani Britton, Cara Sae Tamano, Victoria Williams Buchanan, Rose Conroy-Voza, Iris Courchaine, Felicia Garro, Victoria Kreutzer, Emma Landis, Michelle Lukach, Morgan Nash, Mara O'Brien, Hannah Wade Calls @ 3

Choreographer Laney Engelhard and Dancers Rehearsal Assistant Niall Lessard Don’t Kill The Vibes Music Shades by Dark Sky Justin Dominic Melvin Dancers Gabriella A. Boes, Alexa Boone, Cara Buchanan, Music Sly5thAve, The ClubCasa Chamber Orchestra, Kendrick Samantha Butler, Christina Ficarra, Anna Fredeen, Melissa Juarez, Lamar, and Total Giovanni Shannin Kavanagh, Morgan Nash Dancers Melody Almodovar, Alexa Boone, Michael Calixto, Jewels Essis, Christina Ficarra, Josiah Jacoby, Melissa Juarez, Sae Tamano, Ociel Vazquez-Gonzales, Victoria Williams

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Choreographer Kim Chandler Vaccaro Music Original music by Stephanie Zhang, Ares by Yansmaler, Dreamers Whoa by XXXTANTACION, Hypnagogic by Calvin Harris Choreographer Kim Chandler Vaccaro Dancers Tiffani Britton, Samantha Butler, Michael Calixto, Music Dreamers by Judy Collins Jewels Essis Dancers Full Cast

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the Coppola Pool, and a server at Applebee's. She plans to go to graduate ongratulations to the Seniors! C school for Dance Movement Therapy.

Gabriella A. Boes is a Dance Performance major. She has danced in, and choreographed for, both the Rider Dance Ensemble & Rider Dance About the Artists Team. Ms. Boes co-choreographed Moons and Tides for Rider Dances 2019: The Dance and Sustainability Project, and presented a poster on Kim Chandler Vaccaro, Artistic Director, choreographer, Associate the project at the 2019 National Dance Education Organization Professor at Rider, faculty Princeton School. Dr. Vaccaro is an Conference in Miami. She plans to move to LA to pursue a career as a author of Jazz Dance Today with Lorraine Person Kriegel; the editor of professional dancer and choreographer. Dance in My Life; a contributing editor for A Core Collection in Dance and contributing author to Jazz Dance: Roots and Branches. At Rider she Alexa Boone is a Dance Performance and Health Sciences double created the BA in Dance Performance, the Minor in Movement Science major, and is the recipient of the 2019 Dance Merit Scholarship. She is and the BA in Dance Science. Her research continues to be in the a 4-year member of Rider Dance Ensemble, and has worked as an neuroscience of dance teaching and Critical Mindbody Thinking entertainer at Sesame Place for 4 years. Alexa completed an internship (CMBT.) Chandler Vaccaro has created over 20 original works for Rider with Justine DeLuccio at Movement Logic PT, and plans on attending Dances, and has produced this event since 2005. She is the creator of the graduate school for physical therapy. movement system and author of the book CoMBo: Conditioning for Mindbody comboconditioning.com. Rose Conroy-Voza is a Dance Performance major with a minor in Film and Media Studies. She is a Mildred S. Hawkins Scholarship recipient, Rose Conroy-Voza, filmmaker Please see Rose's biography in the has worked as a CA for three and a half years, and teaches dance at The Senior section. Dr. Vaccaro would like to thank Rose for the incredible Dance Network. She is the president of the Film Advisory Board and amount of work she did for this project and the support she has given Advertising Chair for The Broncway. She has been a part of the Rider our entire dance community over our past 4 years. Dance Team, Rider Dance Ensemble, APO, Broncs Go Green, and the Student Conduct Board. Justin Dominic Melvin, choreographer, is a professional dancer, educator, choreographer, filmmaker, and storyteller. Born in Newark, Emma Kasper is a Dance Performance major and participated in other NJ, he trained at Arts High School, Ailey School, American Ballet dance organizations such as Rider Dance Ensemble. Though only at Theater summer programs, and Joffrey Ballet School. He holds a BFA Rider for two years she was fortunate to work with noted choreographers from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and a MFA such as Robson Alves, Ryan Davis and Julie Johnson Thick. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Justin danced in The Hard Nut with the Mark Morris Dance Group and with Lustig Dance Xiomara Quinones is a Dance Performance major with a Psychology Theater, Keigwin + Co, LaneCoArts, Nai Ni Chen Dance Company, minor. She is a recipient of a Founder's Scholarship and has been a part Carolyn Dorfman Dance, and the North Carolina Symphony. Justin of multiple organizations including: Dance Club Chair on the Rider continues to dance and perform with Dance Dance Team Board, a member of Rider Dance Ensemble, and Delta , and Orfeo ed Euridice. He continues to Heginbotham and the Phi Epsilon. She is also CPR, Lifeguard, AED, First Aid, and Coppola Metropolitan Opera Ballet. His opera credits include Marnie, Don TIPS certified and works as a bartender at the Rider Pub, a Lifeguard at

Giovanni, Aida, Les Troyens, and Orfeo ed Euridice. He continues to presented by 80+ events across the U.S., and abroad in Canada, fulfill his passion for teaching as a guest artist and lecturer at high Germany, Indonesia, and Italy. Guerra is a freelance dance journalist schools, universities, dance conservatories, and for educator professional and graphic designer. She now splits her time between Boston and New development. In addition, Justin with Daniel P. Calderon was most Jersey, while pursuing her MFA in Dance at Rutgers University, where proud to create and produce his first film - unapologetic me: BLACK she is a part-time lecturer. |GAY|MAN|. Thus far, the film has had screenings at: the Newark International Film Festival, Samsung Experience (NY flagship), Niall Lessard, choreographer, began his training at Princeton Ballet Afrikana Alphabet Film Festival, Stockton University, A Celebration of School at the age of 3 and attended Julliard. He danced professionally Black Queer Art (Omaha, NE), and No Longer Silent – A Night of Films with both American Repertory Ballet Company and Lustig Dance (New Orleans, LA). . He completed a summer internship with Alexandra Wells, Co- founder and Artistic Director of Springboard Danse Montreal. When Laney Engelhard, choreographer, Adjunct Professor at Rider he is not dancing, Niall works with his father as a metal artisan for Julian University, danced with American Repertory Ballet under the direction Schnabel. of Graham Lustig for seven seasons, followed Lustig to Lustig Dance Theatre for three more seasons, and danced for Oregon Ballet Theater. Buck Linton, Technical Director, Master of Fine Arts in She has been a guest artist with Hubbard Company II, and Technical Design from Virginia Tech; Technical Director for the performed in Radio City’s Christmas Spectacular and danced with School of Fine and Performing Arts since Fall 2012. He has worked Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance in Asheville. Laney has created with such venues as The Kennedy Center, Paper Mill Playhouse, exceptional work for Rider Dances for the past 13 years. Manhattan Theatre Club, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse. He manages all of the Jennifer Gladney, choreographer, ’06 summa cum laude Rider productions in the Department of Theatre and Dance and is a master University; double-major in Elementary Education/Dance, minor Early at recycling materials for use in multiple shows! Childhood Education. Jen has been on the faculty at Princeton Ballet

School since 2005 and was a company dancer with American Repertory Nicole Nilsson, Production Stage Manager, is a senior Technical Ballet. Ms. Gladney is also on the faculty of Mercer County Theater major from Los Angeles, California. She has been involved with Community College, choreographs for the Mercer Dance Ensemble and main-stage Rider productions including Hair (PSM), Assassins (PSM), directs the MCCC annual dance event. She has been part of Rider Oklahoma! (SM), Heathers (SM), The Theory of Relativity (ASM), Dances since its inception in 2005 and was the 1st senior honors student Disgraced (ASM), Bonnie & Clyde (props supervisor), In Every Note to choreograph (Cross Phases,) for this event. (sound operator/projections operator), and Sophocles: These Seven

Sicknesses (hair/makeup). She has also worked on the student Merli V. Guerra, choreographer, Artistic Director of Luminarium productions She Plays the River (SM), Live from Lawrenceville: It's Dance Company (Boston, MA), is a professional dancer and award- Saturday Night! (SM), and Upon the Shoulders We Stand (SM). Nicole winning interdisciplinary artist. She has performed with has worked In New York with the Off-Broadway theatre company, and companies on international tours to India (2007, 2012) and Transport Group, as a production assistant, and as a production Japan (2009), while her own choreographic works, screen-dance films, assistant at the Ahmanson Theatre in downtown Los Angeles on their and interactive art installations have been production of Indecent.

Todd Loyd, Lighting Designer, is the Lighting Director for Rider Julie Johnson Thick, choreographer, is an adjunct with priority status, University's Department of Theatre and Dance. He designs the lighting teaching Rider's Musical Theater majors tap dance since 2013. Julie and for every performance that the Department produces in addition to her husband, Bob, founded the Off-Broadstreet Theater in Hopewell mentoring the students that assist in designing, hanging, focusing, and where she functioned as managing producer and choreographer. programming the lighting for each show. At Rider he designed over 30 Together they produced over 300 shows over 32 years. In NYC, Julie productions including plays, musicals, dance concerts, cabarets and danced with Gregory Hines's Tap Company and Luigi Jazz. Julie has operas. Some of the highlights include The Will Rogers Follies, Sophocles, worked as a guest artist at The Ed Sullivan Theatre, Hines and Hatchet, Oklahoma!, The Dance and Sustainability Project, Heathers, the Musical, Broadway Dance Center, and continues to teach at a NJ dance studio. The Theory of Relativity, Disgraced, Once on This Island, White Christmas, Her diversified background even includes being the NJAIAW Collegiate She Kills Monsters, and A Chorus Line. Other selected professional State All-Around Champion In gymnastics. projects include Rock of Ages and Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (Forestburgh Playhouse), Journey to Oz (Children’s' Theater of Charlotte and Experiential Theater Company)., and The Gun Show (Passage Theatre.)

Robin I. Shane, Costume Designer, has been the resident costume designer at Rider for the past 5 seasons. Favorite designs include Catch Me If You Can, Ubu Roi, All Shook Up, The Praying Mantis, Machinal, Lucky Stiff, Merrily We Roll Along, Metamorphoses (KCACTF Honorable Mention) and The Full Monty. Recent productions include God of RIDER UNIVERSITY is a private, co-educational, student-centered Carnage at the Montgomery Theatre, The Captive with the Philadelphia university that emphasizes purposeful connections between academic Artist’s Collective, and Yes! And’s Silliest Story Ever Told at Plays & study and real world learning experience. Rider prepares graduates to Players in Philadelphia. Robin is also the current Resident Designer at thrive professionally, to be lifelong independent learners, and to be Passage and had previously served as the Resident Designer for EgoPo responsible citizens who embrace diversity, support the common good Productions in Philadelphia. Other favorite productions include and contribute meaningfully to the changing world in which they live Xanadu, Dreamgirls and The Rocky Horror Show (Revision Theater) and and work. Brundibar; on the Bridge and But The Giraffe (The New Victory Theater/Yale Rep/ Berkeley Rep.) Other credits include Jean Cocteau Rider University’s WESTMINSTER COLLEGE OF THE ARTS inspires Rep, Soho Rep, The Mint, Chicago Opera Theater, The Juilliard and empowers innovative artists and leaders to transform their communities through the arts. With world-class programs in art, School, New York University and The Harrisburg Opera, as well as the dance, music, music theatre and theatre. large and small screen. Robin serves on the Board of Yes! And Collaborative Arts in Philadelphia. She earned her MFA from New York Please see https://www.rider.edu/events for a full listing of events University’s Tisch School of the Arts. 101 Walnut Lane Princeton, NJ 08540 609-921-7100 www.rider.edu/wcc