DANCE

THE RADIO SHOW ABRAHAM.IN.MOTION

Emmett Robinson Theatre at College of Charleston June 1 and 4 at 8:00pm; June 2 and 3 at 2:00pm

Performers Kyle Abraham Rena Butler Chalvar Monteiro Elyse Morris Rachelle Rafailedes Maleek Washington

Costume Design Sarah Cubbage Lighting Design Dan Scully Lighting Supervisor/Technical Director Michael Jarett

PRESHOW Shirley Brown, The Chi-Lites, The Dramatics, The Emotions, Al Green, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Al Wilson, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Laura Lee, Dorothy Moore, The Shirelles, Sylvia, Dionne Warwick, Bill Withers, Betty Wright, The Velvelettes

AM 860 Alva Noto, Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige, The Brothers Johnson, Exile, , The Fugees, Ryoji Ikeda, Ann Peebles, Jonnie Taylor, The Velvelettes

106.7 FM Antony & The Johnsons, Alva Noto, J.S. Bach, Michael Baysden, Beyoncé, Eiffel 65, Exile, Sophia Fresh (featuring Kanye West), HudMo, Ryoji Ikeda, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Klymaxx, Jena Knight, Lady Gaga, Mary Mary, Mtume, Eddie Murphy, Amber Lee Parker, Jay Sean, Slick Rick, Britney Spears, Jonnie Taylor, The Velvelettes; Additional editing by Herman Soy Sos Pearl

PERFORMED WITHOUT AN INTERMISSION. THERE WILL BE A SHORT PAUSE FOLLOWING AM 860.

The 2012 Dance Series is presented by BlueCross BlueShield of . Additional support for the 2012 Dance Series is provided by The Harkness Foundation for Dance.

The Radio Show is made possible by the generous support of The Heinz Endowments and with funds from the 2009–2010 Danspace Project Commissioning Initiative with support from the State Council on the Arts. Additional support for the commissioning and development of The Radio Show has been provided through The Kelly Strayhorn Theater and the Harlem Stage Fund for New Work, which has received support from the Jerome Foundation.

The Radio Show was created during a residency provided by The Joyce Theater Foundation, , with major support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Radio Show had its world premiere at The Kelly Strayhorn Theater in in January 2010 and went on to receive a Bessie Award for its New York premiere at Danspace Project in February 2010.

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ABOUT THE RADIO SHOW KYLE ABRAHAM, professional dancer The Radio Show is broken up into various shorter works that blend and choreographer, began his training at my fondest memories of driving with my family and of listening the Civic Light Opera Academy and the to Pittsburgh’s radio stations Hot 106.7 FM WAMO and its sister Creative and Performing Arts High School in station AM 860. On September 8, 2009, WAMO, the only urban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He continued his radio station in Pittsburgh, sadly went off-air. With the recent dance studies in New York, receiving a BFA turmoil surrounding the death of 16-year-old Darrion Albert in from SUNY Purchase and an MFA from NYU Chicago discussed over the airwaves of radio stations around the Tisch School of the Arts. Over the past few world, I wondered how aware listeners were to the goings-on in years, Abraham has received tremendous other urban communities around the country now that this voice accolades and awards for his dancing and choreography, including had been taken away. Without black radio, where is the audible a 2010 Bessie Award for Outstanding Performance in Dance for voice of the black community? Radio was so prevalent during his work in The Radio Show; a 2010 Princess Grace Award for times of strife in the past. Where is its place today? Is radio fading Choreography; a BUILD grant and an individual artist fellowship away? Are we still listening? Reinterpreting those questions into from the New York Foundation for the Arts; a Jerome Foundation the context of my father’s diagnosis of Alzheimer’s ten years ago Travel and Study Grant; and a Pennsylvania Council for the Arts and his more recent aphasia-afflicted conditions is where these Fellowship. In 2009 he was honored as one of Dance Magazine’s losses of a voice find a common thread. “25 To Watch.” Abraham was heralded by OUT Magazine as one – Kyle Abraham of the “best and brightest creative talents to emerge in New York City in the age of Obama.” His choreography has been presented ABOUT THE COMPANY throughout the and abroad, most recently at The mission of Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion is to create Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Danspace Project, Dance Theater an evocative interdisciplinary body of work. Born into hip-hop Workshop, Bates Dance Festival, Harlem Stage, Fall for Dance culture in the late ’70s and grounded in Abraham’s artistic Festival at New York’s City Center, Dublin’s Project Arts Center, upbringing in classical cello, piano, and the visual arts, the The Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum in , goal of the movement is to delve into identity in relation to a The Andy Warhol Museum in his hometown of Pittsburgh, and personal history. The work entwines a sensual and provocative venues in Canada and . As a performer, Abraham has vocabulary with a strong emphasis on sound, human behavior, worked with acclaimed modern dance companies including David and all things visual in an effort to create an avenue for Dorfman Dance, Burnt Sugar Dance Conduction Continuum, personal investigation and exposing that on stage. Abraham. Nathan Trice/Rituals, Mimi Garrard Dance Theater, Bill T. Jones/ In.Motion is a representation of dancers from various disciplines Arnie Zane Dance Company, Dance Alloy, The Kevin Wynn and diverse personal backgrounds. Combined together, these Collection, and Attack Theatre. In addition to performing and individualities create movement that is manipulated and molded developing new works for his company, Abraham.In.Motion, into something fresh and unique. For more information please Abraham also teaches his unique approach to post-modern dance visit www.abrahaminmotion.org. in various schools and studios throughout the United States.

Abraham.In.Motion is a proud supporter of Dancers Responding RENA BUTLER is a native of Chicago, Illinois. She studied to AIDS. Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion is a member of at the Chicago Academy for the Arts under the instruction of Pentacle (Dance Works, Inc.), a non-profit service organization Anna Paskevska, Randy Duncan, and Sandra Kaufmann. During for the performing arts, Mara Greenberg and Ivan Sygoda, her tenure at the Academy, Butler performed as a guest artist Directors. with Luna Negra Dance Theater. In 2007 she performed on the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Pentacle | www.pentacle.org Arts in Washington, DC. Butler has also toured with salsa dance 246 West 38th Street, 4th Floor company Pasos Con Sabor, to San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 2003. New York, NY 10018 She was the recipient of the Bert Terborgh Award and graduated cum laude in 2011 from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance. Booking Information: While at Purchase, she had the great privilege of studying dance, Sophie Myrtil-McCourty | [email protected] choreography, kung fu, and Chinese opera abroad at the Taipei National University of the Arts in Taiwan. She has also worked with choreographers such as Doug Varone, Kevin Wynn, Luca Vegetti, Pam Tanowitz, and Dianne McIntyre.

CHALVAR MONTEIRO is a native of New Jersey, where he began his formal dance training at the age of 13. He studied at The Ailey School and recently received his BFA in dance from Purchase College at SUNY. While at Purchase he performed works by Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Helen Pickett, and Doug Varone, to name a few. He has performed with the Kevin Wynn Collection and Sidra Bell Dance NY.

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ELYSE MORRIS is a native of , New York, and DAN SCULLY (Lighting Designer) is a New York–based lighting graduated from LaGuardia High School of Music and Art & and projection designer, and has been designing lighting for Kyle Performing Arts in 2006. She has received scholarships to study Abraham and Abraham.In.Motion for over six years. Recent work at Ballet Hispanico, The Ailey School, The School at Jacob’s includes 1969 (Alarm Will Sound/Carnegie Hall), The Witch of Pillow, Alonzo King’s LINES ballet school, and Springboard Edmonton (Red Bull Theater), The Orchestra Rocks! (Carnegie Danse Montréal. Morris holds a BA in Dance (cum laude) with a Hall), Seven Last Words ( Chamber Orchestra concentration in dance science from Goucher College. While at Society), The Wii Plays (Ars Nova), Christmas is Miles Away (Babel Goucher, she also received a scholarship to study the history and Theater), Caligula (Soho Rep.), and Di Ksube (Folksbeine National performance of contemporary and traditional dance in Rio de Yiddish Theatre), among other credits. Regional credits include Janeiro, Brazil, in 2008. She has performed works by artists such Trinity Rep, GEVA, Asolo Rep, and Two River Theater Company. as Robert Battle, Thaddeus Davis and Tanya Wideman-Davis, He has served as resident lighting designer for the Hudson Valley Larry Keigwin, Heather McArdle, Robert Moses, Troy Powell, and Shakespeare Festival and lighting designer for Amy Brenneman’s Nathan Trice. Morris joined Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion one-woman show Mouth Wide Open. Scully received his MFA in 2010 and is also a part of The Seán Curran Company. from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

RACHELLE RAFAILEDES, a native Ohioan, began dancing MICHAEL JARETT (Lighting Supervisor/Technical Director) at the age of three and received her BFA from The Juilliard is pleased to continue his collaboration with Kyle Abraham/ School in 2009, where she was awarded the Martha Hill Prize for Abraham.In.Motion. He is currently the Lighting Designer/ excellence in leadership and dance. Rafailedes has performed Dance Technical Director for the VCU Department of Dance and with Keigwin + Company, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Loni Choreography and the Production Manager/Lighting Designer for Landon, and with the Juilliard Dance Ensemble in New York City the Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School. Jarett received his BA Center’s Fall for Dance festival. In her career thus far, Rafailedes in theater from the University of Richmond and his MFA in theater has been fortunate to perform works by Ohad Naharin, Twyla design from Brandeis University. As the Gilbert Hemsley Lighting Tharp, Antony Tudor, and Aszure Barton. She joined Abraham. Intern at Lincoln Center, he had the opportunity to work with In.Motion in 2009 and is a Bessie Award–winning collaborator Lincoln Center Festival, New York City Opera, Alvin Ailey American for Kyle Abraham’s The Radio Show. Dance Theater, and . Design credits include the world premieres of The Two Orphans by Theresa Rebeck and MALEEK WASHINGTON was born in the Bronx, New York, and Sex! Drugs! & Ukuleles!. Jarett has designed for choreographers at seven years old was introduced to dance at Broadway Dance and companies including Robert Battle, Monica Bill Barnes, Center and the Harlem School of the Arts. After attending LaGuardia Stefanie Batten Bland, Maria Bauman, Thang Dao, Linda Kent, High School for Performing Arts, he continued his education at The Nicholas Villeneuve, Amaranth Contemporary Dance, Camille Boston Conservatory while performing with Commonwealth Ballet A. Brown and Dancers, Ground Zero Dance, Starr Foster Dance and working with Complexions. He attended Jacob’s Pillow for two Project, and the VON HOWARD PROJECT. years and has collaborated with CityDance Ensemble and toured to over eight countries with them. Recently Washington attended SpringBoard Danse where he joined Jose Novas’s Compagnie Flak for a season of European tours. In addition, he has interacted with choreographers such as Aszure Barton, Helen Pickett, Michael Utoff, Milton Meyers, Yuriko Takata, and Tim Rushton of the Danish Dance Theater. This is Washington’s second season with Abraham. In.Motion. He would like to dedicate his season in loving memory of his late grandmother Duella Smith.

SARAH CUBBAGE (Costume Designer), a New York–based costume designer, is pleased to be working again with Abraham. In.Motion. Recent designs include I Hate Hamlet for Northern Stage; Ladies Man for Curtain Call Theatre; and Hot L Baltimore at The Dalton School. Cubbage’s work has been seen at the Manhattan School of Music, Atlantic Theatre Company, New York Shakespeare Society, Center for Contemporary Opera, and Aquila Theatre Company. Recent New York dance designs include Lean-to for Kate Weare Company at Danspace Project and Brick for Abraham.In.Motion at Dance Theater Workshop. Recent film designs include So Over You (directed by Karen Odyniec) Box (directed by Etienne Kallos), Seconds (directed by Marcin Stawarz), and Welcome (directed by Maja Milanovic). Her assistant work includes Gypsy (Broadway), Vanessa (New York City Opera), and On the Town ( Encores!). Cubbage received her MFA from NYU Tisch School of Arts.

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