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Lincoln Center Festival lead support is provided by American Express

July 19 –22 Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall

Compagnie XY Il N’est Pas Encore Minuit

Artistic Collaboration Loïc Touzé , David Gubitch , Valentin Mussou , Emmanuel Dariès Acrobatic Collaboration Nordine Allal Lighting Design Vincent Millet Costume Design Nadia Léon Lindy Hop Instruction Aude Guiffes, Philippe Mencia

Approximate running time: 1 hour and 10 minutes, with no intermission

This performance is made possible in part by the Josie Robertson Fund for Lincoln Center. Public support for Festival 2017 is provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. 07-19 Compagnie XY_Gp 3.qxt 7/5/17 12:48 PM Page 2

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Acrobats

David Badia Hernandez Thibault Berthias Gwendal Beylier Mohamed Bouseta Airelle Caen David Coll Povedano Soen Geirnaert Pierre Le Gouallec Aurore Liotard Mikis Matsakis Evertjan Mercier Alice Noël Zinzi Oegema Jeremie Robert Thomas Samacoïts Guillaume Sendron Abdeliazide Senhadji Andres Somoza Serrano Antonio Terrones Y Hernandez Antoine Thirion Amaia Valle Charlie Vergnaud 07-19 Compagnie XY_Gp 3.qxt 7/5/17 12:48 PM Page 3

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A Note from the Artists to collaborations with Compagnie XY, other projects include Nos Images with Mathilde Once during our travels, some circus Monnier and Tanguy Viel; Autour de la Table, students asked us if it was true that in our a work directed for ORO with kom.post show we perform three columns of five and çati; and Gomme with Yasmin Rahmani. people. One of us answered that we do He is an artistic consultant in France and something way more difficult: “We agree around the world for productions in dance, with each other.” visual arts, and theater.

Indeed, to produce and to make this show David Gubitsch (Artistic Collaboration), from as a collective is not always easy. But even a family of musicians, was equally attracted if the world in which we live is more and to the worlds of music and technology more ruled by individualism and competition, from a young age. He studied piano at age another way of doing things together is four and quickly mastered the disassembly available and even unavoidable. and reconstruction of every electronic object in the house. As a teenager he collected Cooperation, mutual aid, solidarity became interesting sounds from a range of electronic the foundations of our work. It’s not music, soon composing his first original without constraints, daily questionings. It’s songs. To deepen his technical knowledge a delicate balance, but our strength comes he works in several professional recording from this process. studios where he specializes in filmmaking.

In our company, we rely on a simple Valentin Mussou (Artistic Collaboration) motto that drives our work and we hope graduated from the Conservatoire de that you will join us in appreciating and Boulogne-Billancourt and turned to compo - using it: “Alone, we go faster; together, sition and live performance. Along with we go further.” David Gubitsch, he met Laurent Gachet and joined the Académie Fratellini, where —Compagnie XY they worked on soundtracks with other students. They later joined large-scale shows (including La Sarabande du Flying Dutchman About the Creative Team with Maroc à Salé) and created soundtracks for films including Karim Dridi’s Le Dernier Loïc Touzé (Artistic Collaboration) trained Vol . He has continued his stage work with at the Opéra de Paris, then performed with artists Woodkid and Adnan Joubran. contemporary dance choreographers Carolyn Carlson, Mathilde Monnier, and Catherine Emmanuel Dariès (Artistic Collaboration) Diverrès. He creates works with Compagnie began circus performing with Pop Circus in ORO, formed in 1991 and located in Nantes Auch (a district in southwestern France) since 2010. He has collaborated on numer - at age eight. In 1992 he completed his ous projects with choreographers, musi - training at the Centre National des Arts cians, and visual artists. Since the early du Cirque (CNAC); he met other circus 2000s he has created the works Morceau, acolytes, with whom he founded Cirque LOVE, and La Chance, and works regularly Désaccordé in 1997. Together they created with visual artist and set designer Jocelyn C’est pour Toi que Je Fais ça!, directed by Cottencin. From 2001 to 2006 he co-managed Guy Alloucherie; Les Oiseaux—Le Bord du the Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers. In addition Monde, directed by François Cervantès; 07-19 Compagnie XY_Gp 3.qxt 7/5/17 12:48 PM Page 4

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Ildémik, Après la Pluie…, and Petit Apéro Larieu, Paco Decina, Bruno Bayen, and Populaire, directed by Cirque Désaccordé; Alain Mollot, and the companies Trafic de and Petites Mythologies Populaires , directed Style, Choream, and Théâtre du Grabuge. by Christian Lucas. He was among the cre - ators and producers of the 1998 clown Aude Guiffes and Philippe Mencia (Lindy show Marcher sous les Étoiles en Évitant Hop Instruction) have taught swing dancing les Crottes with the company Apprentie. In in Paris, throughout France, and internation - 2011 he joined Compagnie XY as a back-up ally for more than 15 years. They first encoun - with Le Grand C and went full-time for Il tered swing at dance parties in the late N’est Pas Encore Minuit . 1990s, and in 2004 appeared on the youth tal ent television show Attention à la Marche , Nordine Allal (Acrobatic Collaboration) which they won. They created G-swing, the graduated from the Centre National des first record label devoted to electro-swing, Arts du Cirque in Chalons-en-Champagne in 2006, and performed as extras in the in 1992. The following year he began work - 2009 film about the life of French polymath ing with Cirque du Soleil. Since then he has Boris Vian, V Comme Vian , directed by worked with Compagnie Malabar, Compagnie Philippe le Guay. Their dance troupe, Flying Gosh, Cirque Zanzibar, Pôle National des Cool Cats, regularly appears at events like Arts du Cirque d’Amiens, and Troupe Festival des Fous du Swing de Paris and Acrobatique de Tanger, where he was one Festival International Swing de Nancy. of the creators of the show Halka . Peggy Donck (Production Manager), after Vincent Millet (Lighting Design) has been legal training in human rights and business lighting designer for a number of shows, management, first encountered the circus including Lost Illusions (Bolshoi Theater); in 2000 when she joined Collective AOC, Prince Hodong, Wedding, and La Fille Mal working as the company administrator for Gardée (Korean National Ballet); Lettre à un five years. After she became general sec re - Ami d’Afrique, choreographed by Karine tary at HorsLesMurs—the National Center Saporta; Giselle (Les Ballets du Louvre); for Resources for Street Arts and Circus Nous Avons les Machines (Les Chiens de Arts—she joined Compagnie XY for its Navarre); Notre Printemps (Das Plateau); show Le Grand C. The Sound of Music, directed by Yan Duyvendack; Troilus and Cressida and The Antoine Billaud (Production Manager), Plough and the Stars, directed by Bernard who has a degree in political science and Sobel; and La Nuit Juste Avant les Forêts, law, began his career as an advisor for directed by Eric Castex. In 2009 he discov - street arts and circus arts at HorsLesMurs ered the world of the circus after Compagnie from 2000 to 2006, then joined with Peggy XY invited him to design the lighting for Le Donck to found Rouge Production, a ven - Grand C and to tour with the company. ture that continues to this day. He also joined Compagnie XY in 2008, at the time Nadia Léon (Costume Design) trained at Le Grand C was being created. the École de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne, where she received an art degree in costume work. Since then About Compagnie XY she has worked in theater, dance, and Formed in Lille, France, the circus collec - opera with Vincent Colin, Hubert Japelle, tive has created three shows, Laissez-Porter Thierry Collet, Béatrice Massin, Daniel (2005), Le Grand C (2009), and Il N’est Pas 07-19 Compagnie XY_Gp 3.qxt 7/5/17 12:48 PM Page 5

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Encore Minuit (2017), and has given more challenge the boundaries of traditional than 500 performances worldwide. The per formance. For more information, visit company, at the forefront of acrobatic tech - LincolnCenterFestival.org. nique from a creative perspective, has grown its ranks from a half-dozen artists Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts when it began to 22 today. By honing and serves three primary roles: presenter of refining its aesthetic, Compagnie XY pushes artistic programming, national leader in arts the limits of physical ability and brings poetry and education and community engage - to the body in motion. Openness, sharing, ment, and manager of the Lincoln Center and solidarity are a central part of the com - campus. A presenter of more than 3,000 pany’s process of collective creation. If circus free and ticketed events, performances, is art in action, for Compagnie XY it is also tours, and educational activities annually, keeping the magic of collaboration alive. LCPA offers 16 series, festivals, and pro - grams including American Songbook, Avery Compagnie XY Staff Fisher Career Grants and Artist program, Production Managers Peggy Donck, David Rubenstein Atrium programming, Antoine Billaud Great Performers, Legends at Lincoln Center: The Performing Arts Hall of Fame, Compagnie XY Acknowledgments Lincoln Center at the Movies, Lincoln Il N’est Pas Encore Minuit is supported by Center Emerging Artist Awards, Lincoln the Minister of Culture, who provided produc - Center Festival, Lincoln Center Out of tion help through the DRAC Nord-Pas-de- Doors, Lincoln Center Vera List Art Project, Calais and support for creation of circus arts Midsummer Night Swing, Mostly Mozart by the DGCA; by the Regional Council Nord- Festival, White Light Festival, the Emmy Pas-de-Calais, which provided assistance Award –winning Live From Lincoln Center, for the creative process; and by ADAMI which airs nationally on PBS, and Lincoln through project assistance. Center Education, which is celebrating 40 years enriching the lives of students, educa - The U.S. tour of Compagnie XY is supported tors, and lifelong learners. As manager of the by the Cultural Services of the French Lincoln Center campus, LCPA provides sup - Embassy in the United States, FACE port and services for the Lincoln Center com - Foundation, and Institut Français, Paris. plex and the 11 resident organizations: The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Lincoln Center Festival , now in its 22nd The Film Society of Lincoln Center, Jazz at season, has received worldwide attention Lincoln Center, The Juilliard School, Lincoln for presenting some of the broadest and Center Theater, The Metropolitan Opera, New most original performing arts programs in York City Ballet, New York Philharmonic, The Lincoln Center’s history. The festival has New York Public Library for the Performing presented 1,465 performances of opera, Arts, the School of American Ballet, and music, dance, theater, and interdisciplinary Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. For forms by internationally acclaimed artists more information, visit LincolnCenter.org. from more than 50 countries. To date, the festival has commissioned 44 new works Acknowledgments and offered 145 world, U.S., and New York Lighting, Sound Equipment premieres. It places particular emphasis on Production Resource Group showcasing contemporary artistic view - Production Rigger Tony Menditto points and multidisciplinary works that 07-19 Compagnie XY_Gp 3.qxt 7/5/17 12:48 PM Page 6

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Chairman Robert J. Appel, Shahara Ahmad-Llewellyn, Mica Ertegun Charles E. Phillips, Jr. Vice Chair Hughlyn F. Fierce Michael F. Price John Arnhold Michael D. Fricklas, Mark Rosenthal, Jessica M. Bibliowicz Secretary Chair, Executive Committee Valentino D. Carlotti Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Jack Rudin*, Richard M. Cashin Buzzy Geduld Vice Chair Diane M. Coffey, Valerie S. Grant Lywal Salles Vice Chair Stephen Ifshin* Arthur J. Samberg Harry Crosby Jeffrey Kindler Lisa Schiff, Stephen S. Daniel Gregory S. Marcus Chairman Emeritus Gordon J. Davis, Wynton Marsalis Paul C. Schorr, IV Founding Chairman Ronald D. McCray Barry F. Schwartz Diana Roesch DiMenna Steven Miller Kimberly Ayers Shariff Loren Douglass Clarence Otis, David J. Stern Gail May Engelberg, Treasurer Faye Wattleton Vice Chair Gbenga Oyebode George Wein Mark R. Patterson DIRECTORS EMERITI June Noble Larkin Albert Murray* Jonathan F. P. Rose Alan D. Cohn* EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS Mayor of the City of New York Hon. Bill de Blasio, Designee StephenPresident R. Aiello, of the Borough of Manhattan Hon. Gale Brewer, Designee Courtney Lee-Mitchell,Speaker of the New York City Council Hon. Melissa Mark-Viverito,Charles Davis, Designee

BOARD REPRESENTATIVE Sherman Irby, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra

EXECUTIVE Managing & Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, Executive Director Greg Scholl, Jazz at Lincoln Center gratefully acknowledges the following:

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Personal and Financial Management of WyntonPresident Marsalis The Management Ark; Edward C. Arrendell II,

Jazz at Lincoln Center salutes Agnes Varis for her generous underwriting support of the Rose Theater stage and the facility’s infrared listening system. Pianos by Steinway & Sons – the artistic choice of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Great Performances is the exclusive caterer of Frederick P. Rose Hall. Sirius XM® Satellite Radio is the exclusive satellite radio partner of Jazz at Lincoln Center. deceased * (as of May 23, 2017) 07-19 Compagnie XY_Gp 3.qxt 7/5/17 12:48 PM Page 7

Wynton Marsalis, Managing & Artistic Director Greg Scholl, Executive Director

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ROSE HALL Cat Henry, Vice President Alison Magistrali, Manager, WeBop Doug Hosney, Vice President Jason Olaine, Director, Programming & Cedric Easton, Coordinator, Education Nancy Gallagher, Vice President, Sales Touring Outreach Richard Williams, Director, Security Eric Wright, Director, Concerts and Antoinette Henry, Assistant, Secondary/ Zakaria Al-Alami, Director, Lighting Touring Operations Higher Education Programs John Starmer, Director Production Kay Wolff, Director, Music Administration Oliver Beardsley, Administrative Assistant, David Taylor, Director Production Christianna English, Assistant Director, Jazz for Young People Michael Givey, Manager, Production Music Administration Kiara Morales, Education Assistant Michael Leslie, Manager, Production Alex Ball, Associate Juan Montoya, Assistant, MSJA Edmundo Montoya, Manager, Production Omar Little, Assistant, Audio Archivist Araba Brown, MSJA Site Coordinator Sarah Peterson, Manager, Production Tim Carter, Music Preparation Timothy Thurston, MSJA Site Coordinator Dan Mueller, Director, Sales Justin Bias, Assistant Director, Nancy Karimi, Associate Director, Audio & Video Capture EXECUTIVE Marketing, Sales and Scheduling Georgina Javor, Assistant Director, Alyssa Carlucci, Executive Assistant Arlise Ellis, Senior Associate, Systems, Programming Sales and Scheduling Roland Chassagne, General Manager, BRAND AND AUDIENCE Kristina Malinauskaite, Associate, Sales Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola DEVELOPMENT and Scheduling Desmond Prass, Assistant Manager, Gabrielle Armand, Vice President Domingo Cabrera, Manager, Front of House Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola Aaron Bisman, Director, Audience Nicholas Adler, Associate Manager, Front Naeemah Hicks, Manager, Line Producer Development of House Kristopher Kandel, Manager, Line Producer Jake Cohen, Product and Marketing Manager Indio Melendez, Assistant Manager, Front Dan Israel, Manager, Programming & Valerie Florville, Partnership Manager of House Touring Jonathan Fricke, Associate, Audience Vincent Bly, Treasurer, Box Office Kathleen Murray, Manager, Operations Development Danel Verdugo, Assistant Treasurer, Raynel Frazier, Associate, Programming Box Office and Touring CREATIVE SERVICES Clinton Christie, Ticket Seller Yunie Mojica, Assistant Eugenia Han, Director Leonard Johnson, Ticket Seller John Denion, Stage Manager Brian Welesko, Assistant Director, Design Karen Reeves, Ticket Seller Ter ry Hampton, Assistant Stage Manager Frank Stewart, Senior Photographer Richard Cruz, Director, Operations Raymond Murphy, Tour Manager Richard Emery, Video Producer Juan Carlos Andrews, Stage Technician Jessica Barrios, Wardrobe Stylist James Thigpen, Jr., Designer David Gibson, Stage Technician Candace Shacklette, Associate Federico Diaz, Stage Technician MARKETING Lawrence Sumulong, Photo Editor Phil Hirsch, Stage Technician Sara Villagio, Director David Moodey, Stage Technician India Haggins, Assistant Director PUBLIC RELATIONS Jeffrey Turner, Stage Technician Leif Ellington, Manager, Subscriptions Zooey T. 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Jazz at Lincoln Center gratefully acknowledges: David Robinson, Rob Macomber, James P. Nichols, Mike Taylor, Jeff Jones, Billy Banks, Matt Hilgenberg, Kate Sain, Geoff Burke, Jonathan Kelly, Jennifer Hayes, Jon Irabagon, René Lopez, Jenny McGrath, Kyle Nix, Lewis Porter, Vanisha Gould, Ann Noling, Taylor Watson, Megumi Yonezawa, Joe Young, James Sapione, Joe Locarro. (as of May 25, 2017) 07-19 Compagnie XY_Gp 3.qxt 7/5/17 12:48 PM Page 8

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