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Friday, October 16, 2015, 8pm Saturday, October 17, 2015, 8pm Sunday, October 18, 2015, 3pm Zellerbach Hall

Twyla Tharp D?th Anniversary Tour r o d a n a f A

n e v u R Daniel Baker, Ramona Kelley, Nicholas Coppula, and Eva Trapp in Preludes and Fugues

Choreography by Costumes and Scenics by Lighting by James F. Ingalls

The Company John Selya Rika Okamoto Matthew Dibble Ron Todorowski Daniel Baker Amy Ruggiero Ramona Kelley Nicholas Coppula Eva Trapp Savannah Lowery Reed Tankersley Kaitlyn Gilliland Eric Otto

These performances are made possible, in part, by an Anonymous Patron Sponsor and by Patron Sponsors Lynn Feintech and Anthony Bernhardt, Rockridge Market Hall, and Gail and Daniel Rubinfeld. Cal Performances’ – season is sponsored by Wells Fargo. PROGRAM

Twyla Tharp D?th Anniversary Tour

“Simply put, Preludes and Fugues is the world as it ought to be, Yowzie as it is. The Fanfares celebrate both.”—Twyla Tharp, 2015

PROGRAM

First Fanfare

Choreography Twyla Tharp Music John Zorn Musical Performers The Practical Trumpet Society Costumes Santo Loquasto Lighting James F. Ingalls

Dancers The Company

Antiphonal Fanfare for the Great Hall by John Zorn. Used by arrangement with Hips Road.

PAUSE

Preludes and Fugues Dedicated to Richard Burke (Bay Area première)

Choreography Twyla Tharp Music Johann Sebastian Bach Musical Performers David Korevaar and Angela Hewitt Costumes Santo Loquasto Lighting James F. Ingalls

Dancers The Company

The Well-Tempered Clavier : Volume 1 recorded by MSR Records; Volume 2 recorded by Hyperi on Records Ltd.

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Second Fanfare

Choreography Twyla Tharp Music John Zorn Musical Performers American Brass Quintet Costumes Santo Loquasto Lighting James F. Ingalls

Dancers The Company

In Excelsis by John Zorn. Used by arrangement with Hips Road.

PAUSE r o d a n a f A

n e v u R Matthew Dibble and Rika Okamoto in Yowzie

Yowzie (Bay Area première)

Choreography Twyla Tharp Music American Musical Performers Henry Butler, Steven Bernstein, and the Hot 9 Costumes and Scenics Santo Loquasto Lighting James F. Ingalls

Dancers John Selya Rika Okamoto Matthew Dibble Ron Todorowski Daniel Baker Amy Ruggiero Ramona Kelley Nicholas Coppula Eva Trapp Savannah Lowery Reed Tankersley Kaitlyn Gilliland PROGRAM

Musical Selections

“Buddy Bolden’s Blues” Jelly Roll Morton © ASCAP/Edwin H. Morris & Co.

“Wolverine Blues” Jelly Roll Morton © ASCAP/Edwin H. Morris & Co. /Spanish Fly Music

“Gimmie a Pigfoot” Wesley Wilson © ASCAP/Spanish Fly Music

“Viper’s Drag” Thomas “Fats” Waller © ASCAP/Edwin H. Morris & Co. /Ann Rachel Music Corp.

“Booker Time” Henry Butler © ASCAP/Hitocracy Music

“King Porter” Jelly Roll Morton © ASCAP/Edwin H. Morris & Co./Spanish Fly Music

“Henry’s Boogie” Henry Butler © ASCAP/Hitocracy Music

“Buddy Bolden’s Blues,” “Wolverine Blues,” “Gimme a Pigfoot,” “Viper’s Drag,” “Booker Time,” “King Porter,” and “Henry’s Boogie” as performed by Henry Butler and Steven Bernstein (P) 2014, JAF, Inc. Under exclusive license of Impulse! Universal Music France.

These works were commissioned by The , , with funds from the Estate of John L. Klebanoff, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C. (lead commission - ers); Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University (made possible by Phillip and Marsha Dowd) & Ravinia Festival Association, ; TITAS Presents in association with AT &T Performing Arts Center, Dallas; and the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Beverly Hills. This work was also made possi - ble by the New England Foundation for the Arts National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation 50th Anniversary Tour gratefully acknowledges David Herro & Jay Franke for lead funding; Tam O’Shaughnessy, in memory of Sally Ride, for sponsorship of Preludes and Fugues ; Patsy & Jeff Tarr and the JCT Foundation for many years of support; Catherine & Bill Miller for under - writing first rehearsal period; Cathy & Stephen Weinroth for underwriting second rehearsal period; Vincente Wolf for his generosity; and Sara Rudner & Rose Marie Wright for their absolute commitment.

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CHOREOGRAPHER /DIRECTOR Joffrey , Theatre, , , Ballet, , The Australian Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, The Dance Company, City Ballet, , Ballet, and . Ballet and dance com - panies around the world continue to perform Ms. Tharp’s works. In 1992, Ms. Tharp published her autobi - og raphy, Push Comes to Shove . She went on to write The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life , followed by The Collaborative Habit: Life Lessons for Working Together . She is cur - rently working on a fourth book. Today, Ms. Tharp continues to create. r o d a

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u John Selya trained at the R School of American INCE GRADUATING from in Ballet. Mr. Selya went on S1963 , Twyla Tharp has choreographed to join American Ballet more than 160 works: 129 dances, twelve tel - Theatre (ABT), where he evision specials, six Hollywood movies, four danced and choreo - full-length , four Broadway shows, and graphed. Following his two figure-skating routines. She received one departure from ABT, Tony Award, two Emmy Awards, 19 honorary Mr. Selya joined Twyla doctorates, the Vietnam Veterans of America Tharp’s company. He cre - President’s Award, the 2004 National Medal of ated the role of Eddie in Ms. Tharp’s Tony the Arts, the 2008 Prize, and Award-winning Broadway musical Movin’ Out , a 2008 Kennedy Center Honor. Her many which earned him numerous awards and nom - grants include the John D. and Catherine T. inations. Following Movin’ Out , Mr. Selya per - MacArthur Fellowship. She is a member of the formed in other Broadway productions, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and including Guys and Dolls and Ms. Tharp’s Come the American Philosophical Society and an Fly Away . He directed and starred in the na - Honorary Member of the American Academy tional tour of , and in 2013 he of Arts and Letters. staged the work for the , In 1965, Ms. Tharp founded her dance where it became an audience favorite and broke company, Twyla Tharp Dance. Her dances are box-office records. In addition to the world’s known for creativity, and technical preci - stages, Mr. Selya’s dancing can also be seen in sion coupled with a streetwise nonchalance. such movies as ’s Everyone Says By combining different forms of movement— I Love You , Julie Taymore’s Across the such as jazz, ballet, boxing, and inventions of Universe , and John Turturro’s Romance and her own making—Ms. Tharp’s work expands Cigarettes . Mr. Selya is a r ecipient of a fellow - the boundaries of ballet and . ship at New York University’s Center for Ballet In addition to choreographing for her own and the Arts in fall 2015. company, she has created dances for The ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Rika Okamoto , originally Ron Todorowski is origi - from Japan, moved to nally from Pittsburgh, United States in 1988 and Pennsylvania, and has began dancing with the had a diverse career in Martha Graham Dance concert, musical theater, Company, where she met and commercial dance. Twyla Tharp. Ms. Okamoto He has been a member of first danced for Ms. Tharp Complexions Contempor - in 1993. She was an original ary Ballet, Cedar Lake cast member in Ms. Tharp’s Broadway mu sicals , Parsons Dance Movin’ Out and Come Fly Away . Currently, she Company, and R.A.W., and has teaches Ms. Tharp’s technique class and reper - guested for many other companies. He was tory, and assists in the development of Tharp most recently part of the original cast of Finding education programs. She has been a guest Neverland on Broadway. His other Broadway Tharp teacher and ballet master at many col - credits include Twyla Tharp’s Come Fly Away , leges and institutions worldwide. Ms. Okamoto The Times They Are a-Changin’ , and Movin’ has also worked for various productions with Out , along with Wicked , Guys and Dolls , and many choreographers, including Maryl Tankard Footloose . He starred in London’s West End and Pichon Baldin for Disney’s Broadway musi - production and first national tour of Movin’ cal Tarzan , Robert Wilson, Mark Morris, Daniel Out , for which he received a Helen Hayes Ezralow, Jessica Lang, and Buglisi/Foreman, as Award for Best Actor in a musical. His off- well as her teachers, Kazuko Hirabayashi, Pearl Broadway and other theater credits include Lang, and Yuriko. She has appeared in nu - Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party , Chess for the merous commercials, television programs, and Actor’s Fund with Josh Groban, Spirit , films, including the film Across the Universe , Cinderella , and Barry Manilow’s Copacabana . directed by . She was chosen by His television and film credits include Saturday to play the title role for his Night Live , Today , Good Morning America , The pre-production project. View , the , the Video Music Awards, and the feature film Winter’s Tale . He Matthew Dibble was has choreographed original work for Wayne born in Halifax, West State University and BC Beat in New York City Yorkshire, England, and and worked as assistant choreographer for began his training at the Seven Brides for Seven Brothers at the Lyric . After Theater in Oklahoma City and for Celine five years with the Royal Dion’s A New Day in Las Vegas. He recently Ballet, Mr. Dibble became shot a music video for Nate Ruess’s new single, a founding member of “A-Ha.” Thanks to family, Ryan, and Twyla for K Ballet in Japan, and in this incredible opportunity. 2001 he joined Twyla Tharp Dance. He later danced a principal role (James) on the Movin’ Daniel Baker was born in Out tour and created the role of Chanos in Newcastle, Australia. He Come Fly Away on Broadway, both choreo - studied at the School of graphed and directed by Ms. Tharp. American Ballet, the offi - Mr. Dibble has also danced for , cial school of the New , Roland Petit, Christopher York City Ballet. He later Wheeldon, and . Today, went on to become a he dances and sets works for Ms. Tharp all soloist in the Miami City around the world. Ballet and danced for San

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Francisco Ballet. Mr. Baker has performed Ramona Kelley is origi - works by Ms. Tharp, , John nally from California, Cranko, William Forsythe, Mark Morris, where she began her Neumeier, Alexei Ratmansky, Jerome Robbins, training at Berkeley Ballet Paul Taylor, , and Christopher Theater under the direc - Wheeldon. Mr. Baker was a finalist on the hit tion of Sally Streets. She is show So You Think Can Dance and has danced a National Foundation for alongside the Rockettes at the Radio City the Advancement of the Music Hall. He has also appeared in two Arts scholarship award- of PBS’s and per - winner and holds a B.F.A. in dance from New formed Ms. Tharp’s Movin’ Out at the 2014 York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Gershwin Awards honoring . He re - Ms. Kelley first worked with Twyla Tharp ceived the New York Choreographic when she danced the principal role of Betsy in Fellowship Award and has choreographed for the North American and Japanese tour of the New York Choreographic Institute at Come Fly Away . She has also worked with . Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance, the Oakland Ballet Company, and The Phantom of the Amy Ruggiero earned a Opera ’s 25th anniversary tour, among others. B.A. in dance and biolog - ical sciences from Nicholas Coppula was Goucher College and born in Pittsburgh, went on to perform with Pennsylvania, where he American Repertory started training in tap and Ballet and ballet at a young age. He (apprentice). In New later moved on to train York, Ms. Ruggerio has with the Pittsburgh Ballet performed in Manon at the Metropolitan Theatre School, American Opera (Degas ballerina, soloist), the Radio Ballet Theatre, and at the City Christmas Spectacular (ensemble), Heart Chautauqua Institute with North Carolina and Lights (ensemble, workshop, and original Dance Theatre. After high school, he joined cast), and Lindsay Nelko’s Awakening the Show Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre for eight (dancer). She performed on the first national years. During that time, he performed soloist and Japan tours of Come Fly Away (Dance and principal roles in The Nutcracker , Swan Captain/Swing, understudy Babe, understudy Lake , Jorden Morris’s Moulin Rouge , George Betsy, understudy Slim), and in Little Dancer Balanchine’s , and Ms. Tharp’s In the at the Kennedy Center (Dance Captain/Swing, Upper Room and Nine Sinatra Songs . understudy Young Marie), the Equity show - Mr. Coppula now lives in New York City with case of Revolution, the Musical , and Opera his wife and partner, Eva Trapp, where they New Jersey’s The Merry Widow (dancer). Her work with the Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation. film and television credits include Flesh and Bone (audition dancer, pilot episode), Born in Kentucky, Eva Beyoncé’s The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour Trapp started her profes - Opening Video (ballerina), the Radio City New sional training with York Spring Spectacular commercial (Degas Michigan Ballet Theatre ballerina), and the Verdon Legacy LLC and Pittsburgh Ballet archival footage. Theatre School. She began her career with Ohio Ballet, where she danced ABOUT THE ARTISTS for four seasons. She then went to dance for Sansano, and Johannes Weiland. In 2012 , he eight seasons with Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre performed Alexander Ekman’s Episode 31 with as a soloist. Ms. Trapp had the honor of being the Juilliard Ensemble at the Edinburgh the first ballerina from an American company International Festival. Soon after graduation, to perform Blanche in John Neumeier’s A he began working with Ms. Tharp and per - Streetcar Named Desire . Ms. Trapp currently forming with such choreographers as Jonah resides in New York City with her husband Bokaer, Jonathan Royse Windham, Cheryl and fellow dancer Nicholas Coppula, where Copeland, and Lilja Rúriksdóttir. Working she is working for Twyla Tharp. with Ms. Tharp for the past year has truly been an honor for him, and he is very excited to be Savannah Lowery was a part of her 50th anniversary tour. born in Largo, Florida. She began dancing at age Kaitlyn Gilliland began three under the direction her dance training at the of Judith Lee Johnson at Minnesota Dance Theatre the Judith Lee Johnson and continued her studies Studio of Dance. At age at the School of American 14, Ms. Lowery moved to Ballet. From 2006 to 2011, New York City to attend Ms. Gilliland danced with the School of American Ballet. After two years the , of devout training from Balanchine experts receiving the company’s Kay Mazzo, Suki Schorer, and Suzy Pillare, she 2009–2010 Janice Levin Dancer Award. She was offered an apprenticeship with the New has since appeared with BalletNext, Ballet York City Ballet. In October 2002 Ms. Lowery Collective, Ballet Tech, Emery LeCrone officially joined the Company as a member of Dance, Intermezzo Dance Company, JV the corps de ballet , and in December 2007 was Squad—Designated Movement, New promoted to the rank of soloist after her per - Chamber Ballet, Pontus Lidberg Dance, formance as the Dewdrop in George Trainor Dance, and Twyla Tharp. She gradu - Balanchine’s The Nutcracker —one of her fa - ated summa cum laude , Phi Beta Kappa from vorite roles today. Ms. Lowery has had the Columbia University in May 2015. privilege to work with many renowned chore - ographers, including Eric Otto was born and and , and is thrilled to be work - raised in Westchester, ing with the incomparable Twyla Tharp. New York. He began dancing at age seven with Reed Tankersley is a na - the School of American tive of the in New York City. Bay Area, where he began He has danced profes - his dance training at age sionally with New York five. In 2014, he attended City Ballet, American the in Ballet Theatre, Ballet, New York, where he per - Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, and Ballet formed works by Merce X. He was an original cast member of Twyla Cunningham, Twyla Tharp’s Come Fly Away (Sid understudy). In Tharp, , Murray Louis, and Alex 2003, Mr. Otto was invited to join the cast of Ketley. Mr. Tankersley has had the pleasure of Movin’ Out (James understudy). He has most working and performing internationally in recently appeared on Broadway in The works by Peter Chu, Gustavo Ramirez Phantom of the Opera . Mr. Otto has

PLAYBILL ABOUT THE ARTISTS performed an extensive repertoire, including (Paul Taylor Dance Company), and the 25th ballets by Frederik Ashton, George anniversary production of L’Allegro, il Balanchine, John Cranko, Jiří Kylián, Kenneth penseroso ed il moderato (Mark Morris Dance MacMillan, and Jerome Robbins. He has Group at the Teatro Real in Madrid and the danced roles created for him by Ms. Tharp, New York State Theater). His recent opera de - Paul Taylor, Matthew Neenan, Lynne Taylor- signs include ’s The Indian Corbett, and Natalie Weir. Queen (English National Opera, London; ARTISTIC STAFF Teatro Real; Opera Perm, Russia) and John Adams’s The Gospel According to the Other Santo Loquasto (Scenic and Costume Design ) Mary (English National Opera, London), both is a designer for theater, film, dance, and directed by Peter Sellars. His recent work in opera. He has received three Tony Awards and theater includes The DruidShakespeare, di - has been nominated 18 times. Mr. Loquasto rected by Garry Hynes (Druid Theatre has collaborated with Twyla Tharp since 1974 Company in Galway and at the Lincoln Center on numerous occasions, including such iconic Festival in New York City), The Second Girl works as Push Comes to Shove and Movin’ Out . (Huntington Theatre Company, Boston), Long He has collaborated with Woody Allen on 28 Day’s Journey into Night (Oregon Shakespeare films , including costume design for and Festival), The Price (Mark Taper Forum, Los production design for and Bullets Angeles), and Carmen de Lavallade’s As I over Broadway , for which he received Remember It (Jacob’s Pillow in Massachusetts Academy Award nominations. His recent de - and U.S. tour). He often collaborates with signs on Broadway include A Delicate Balance , Melanie Rios Glaser and the Wooden Floor , , Wit , and The dancers in Santa Ana, California. Assembled Parties . He received the Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Stephen Terry, Technical Director Collaboration in 2002, was inducted into the Billie Pierce, Wardrobe Supervisor Theater Hall of Fame in 2004, and received the Jessie Ksanznak, Stage Manager Pennsylvania Governor’s Award for the Arts Jill DuBoff, Sound Engineer in 2006, the Robert L.B. Tobin Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2007, and the ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF Gaudium Award in 2013. Jesse Huot, Executive Director Alexander Brady, Company Manager James F. Ingalls (Lighting Designer ) was the Chelsea Keys, Administrative Assistant stage manger and lighting supervisor for the Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation from 1978 to Special thanks to Ruven Afanador, Sean 1980. Since becoming a lighting designer in Kelleher, Amy Lehman, Joe Mizrahi, Kevin 1980, Mr. Ingalls has designed for dance, bal - Posey, Norma Stevens, and Shelley Washington. let, opera, theater, and symphony concerts. He designed Ms. Tharp’s Waiting at the Station for Press Representation Pacific Northwest Ballet. His recent designs Ellen Jacobs Associates for ballet and dance include The Sleeping www.ejassociates.org Beauty , choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky ( at Segerstrom Tour Management Center in Costa Mesa, California, and the Opus 3 Artists LLC Metropolitan Opera House in New York City), David V. Foster, President Celts , choreographed by Lila York (Boston 470 Park Avenue South, Ninth Floor North Ballet), Sea Lark and and the Maiden New York, New York 10016