Presents Faculty Concert FEATURING Gerri Houlihan Blakeley White-McGuire Robbie Cook Stafford C. Berry, Jr. Ray Schwartz Rosanna Tavarez Charlie Slender-White Quilan Arnold Paul Matteson Momar Ndiaye

PRODUCTION CREW Production Stage Manager Kristen Lamb Stage Managers William Brighton, Laura Krus, Katherine Reller, Julia Turgeon Lighting Design Supervisor Gabriel Esparza Sound Supervisor Hudson Waldrop Light Board Operators Lexi Bell, Kami Roush Sound Board Operator Kali Marquart

Sunday, July 7, 2019 at 7:00pm Reynolds Industries Theater

Performance: 100 minutes, including intermission for the Time Being (excerpts)

Choreography Gerri Houlihan Performance Elisabeth Barbier, Antonia Bey, Jo Carpenter, Susan Hartley, Sue Hill, Don Love, Beth Seaton, April Strickland Music Bach’s Violin Concerto in A Minor, 2nd and 3rd movements Lighting Design Laura Krus

Speak Memory (1996)

And it is not yet enough to have memories. You must be able to forget them when they are many, and you must have the immense patience to wait until they return. For the memories themselves are not important. Only when they have changed into our very blood, into glance and gesture, and are nameless, no longer to be distinguished from ourselves–only then can it happen that in some very rare hour the first word of a poem arises in their midst and goes forth from them. –Rilke

Choreography Jacqulyn Buglisi Choreography and Performance Blakeley White-McGuire courtesy of Buglisi Theater Performance Music Taverner Costume Design Christina Goamomo Lighting Design Kami Roush & Aysia Middlebrooks

1,3,5 Choreography and Choreography and Robbie Cook & Ellie Goudie-Averill Performance Performance

Music Played live by John Osburn Lighting Design Kali Marquart & Mara Senecal-Albrecht hOw to bUILD a hOuse

Choreography Stafford C. Berry, Jr. Performance Stafford C. Berry, Jr. and Kenneth D. Eaddy Lighting Design Fiona Paine

Anthropocene

Choreography Ray Eliot Schwartz with input from the perfomers Performance Janice Lancaster, Cinthia Pérez Navarro, Ray Eliot Schwartz Music Hildegard Westerkamp, Ryuichi Sakamoto Costume Design Melody Eggen Lighting Design Abbey Starling & Isoke Wright

INTERMISSION

Her Name Was Miriam

Choreography and Rosanna Tavarez Performance Music Interview between Rosanna Tavarez and her mother Lelia Tavarez, "Don't Leave Me This Way" Thelma Houston Lighting Design Mercedes Oviedo & Jules Reese

Platform (excerpts)

Choreography and Liane Burns & Charles Slender-White Performance

Composer Holly Herndon Lighting Design Will Brighton & Alexa Denney Gospel Gangsta

Choreography and Performance Quilan “Cue” Arnold Lighting Design Katherine Reller & Julia Turgeon

How Many Times (excerpt)

Choreography and Paul Matteson Performance

Sound and Text Karaniya Metta Sutta, "The Garden" from Frog and Toad Together, "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?", Moby Lighting Design Beth Miller & Kiera McMahon

Sous la peau d'un autre

Choreography Momar Ndiaye Performance Abigail Zbikowski Music Sound Score Matthew Dixon, "Virginia" (Feat. Magakala Virginia Yollande And Yowa Hollande) Music Mix Momar Ndiaye Voice Michel Foucault Lighting Design Caitlin Lewis & Lexi Bell

Sergeant Ferri's Crewland

Created and Performed by ADF Production Crew ABOUT THE ARTISTS QUILAN “CUE” ARNOLD, MFA, is a professional dancer, choreographer, and teacher based out of Brooklyn, . He has been a member of companies such as Rennie Harris Puremovement (PA), Abby Z and the New Utility (NY), and Enzo Celli Vivo (NY). Quilan’s choreographic work has been presented in a domestic and international milieu. His most recent work, The Third Rail, was presented at the 2018 INSITU Site-Specific Festival in New York and has been restaged for the 2019 Hunter College Dance Company concert. Quilan is also the executive director of the documentary series, Building Shop, which is partially funded by the 2018 Ohio State Dance Preservation Grant. Other recent credits include the International Human Rights Festival (NY), Steps on Broadway’s Performance Lab (NY), and the Emerging Choreographer Series (NY). As an educator Quilan currently serves as a faculty member at Hunter College, Bard College, Steps on Broadway, Mark Morris Dance Center, and Gibney Dance Center in . Quilan was a 2019 Guest Lecturer at Towson University and a 2018 Guest Lecturer at Ohio State University (OH) and Rutgers University (NJ). Additionally, he was a 2017 Artist in Residence at the University of Memphis (TN) and New York University (NY). PAUL MATTESON is a choreographer, teacher, and "Bessie" award–winning performer whose research explores languages and logics within collaborative choreography. The American Dance Festival has had a pivotal influence on his dancing since he was a sophomore in college. He first performed at ADF with David Dorfman Dance and Lisa Race. He met Bill T. Jones at ADF and then danced in the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company from 2008 to 2012. In 2017, ADF presented his duet work with longtime collaborator Jennifer Nugent. Paul recently participated in and taught the movement component of a 10-month course at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, exploring perception and the intersections between Vipassana meditation and art making. Paul is an assistant professor in the School of Dance at The University of the Arts ROBBIE COOK is a Brooklyn-based dance artist working as an Assistant Professor of Dance at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY. During the summer, he teaches at both the American Dance Festival and Bates Dance Festival. Robbie has taught internationally through Japan Network as a member of the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in Sapporo, Japan, The i-Dance Festival in Hong Kong, and Chadwick International School in Incheon, South Korea and has been invited two times to Universidad de Las Américas in Puebla, México to teach and set choreography on the students. While living in Los Angeles, he played percussion with String Theory Productions at the 2014 Emmy’s Governor’s Ball, led a contact improvisation workshop for the BODYTRAFFIC Company, and was on the dance faculty at Loyola Marymount University from 2011 to 2015. Robbie has also been on the dance faculty of Shenandoah Conservatory, Idyllwild Arts Academy, CSSSA @ Cal Arts, and TCU. As a dancer he has performed for Michel Kouakou, Rosie Herrera, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Douglas Dunn, Liz Lerman, Edwaard Liang, Margaret Jenkins, Liz Gerring, Keith Thompson, Stacy Spence, Laurel Jenkins, Jan Erkert, Third Rail Projects, Lucky Plush Productions, Dallas Opera’s production of Boris Godunov, and Deborah Hay (SPCP ’01 and ’07) and performed Yvonne Rainer’s Trio A as a duet with Hope Mohr. Robbie’s choreography has been performed nationally and internationally in Chicago, New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Alaska, and Tokyo, Japan, and on students at Pepperdine, UDLAP, Idyllwild, ADF, and Shenandoah Conservatory. He earned an MFA in Dance from Bennington College and a BFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Robbie’s classes draw from his study of functional anatomy with Irene Dowd and his continual investigation of the eight limbs of Yoga. ELLIE GOUDIE-AVERILL is a dance artist and educator based in New York City. Since graduating with her MFA in Dance Performance from the University of Iowa, she has served as a professor at Temple University, Bucknell University, Franklin & Marshall College, and the University of Kansas. She has danced professionally for a variety of choreographers, including Susan Rethorst, Lucinda Childs, and Bronwen MacArthur and performed with Group Motion Multimedia Dance Theater in Philadelphia for five seasons. Her choreography has been shown at Movement Research at Judson Church, the Kimmel Center's International Festival for the Arts, and RAW Material. Ellie is the co-director of Stone Depot Dance, a collaboration with Beau Hancock, and a regular collaborator and dancer with Tori Lawrence + Co. in dance films and site-specific works. She is beginning her third year of teaching as a guest artist at Connecticut College and is thrilled to be at ADF this summer to perform this collaborative duet with Robbie Cook! RAY ELIOT SCHWARTZ is a movement artist, educator, and researcher whose primary focus is the integration of Somatic Movement Education and Dance practice. He co-founded four contemporary dance projects in the southern US and has been a guest artist for diverse populations in the US, Turkey, Southeast Asia, South America, and Mexico. He has been a faculty member of the American Dance Festival, Bates Dance Festival, MELT, Camp_iN, and SFADI, among many others. He is a research associate with the Center for Body Mind Movement and professor at the University of the Americas-Puebla in México where he served as Academic Coordinator of the Dance Program from 2008 to 2018. BLAKELEY WHITE-MCGUIRE is a New York-based dance performer, maker, and teacher and holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College. She received her formal dance training at the Center in New York City while studying under Pearl Lang, Linda Hodes, Yuriko and Susan Kikuchi, Diane Gray, Terese Capucilli, Christine Dakin, Armgard Von Bardeleben, Marianne Bachman, Yung Yung Tsuai, and Kazuko Hirabayashi. Critically acclaimed as a principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company (2002-2016, 2017), she has embodied the most iconic roles of 20th century to international critical acclaim. As a leading practitioner of the she has toured the globe, been the featured performer in Google’s “doodle” honoring the dance pioneer, and materially contributed to three historical re-imaginings: Ardent Song, Imperial Gesture, and Notes on a Voyage. Simultaneously and throughout her career, Blakeley has created and performed with contemporary choreographers, filmmakers, and directors including Jacquelyn Buglisi, Jayoung Chung, , Sean Curran, Sue de Beer, Nacho Duato, Daniel Ezralow, Larry Keigwin, Lar Lubovitch, Richard Move, Bulareyaung Pagarlava, Marta Renzi, Pascal Rioult, Robert Wilson, and Anne Bogart SITI/ Company. Blakeley’s original work has been presented by the Museum of Arts and Design, Jacob’s Pillow’s INSIDE/OUT, Battery Dance Festival, New Ballet Ensemble, Baton Rouge Ballet Theater, Roxbury Arts Group, 2018, the Moving Beauty series, ALT 360+, Inside the Dancer’s Art, Quando Eles Dancam, UFO (Unified Fashion Objectives), the Movers & Shapers’ podcast series, and the Martha Graham Dance Company’s Graham 2. Her writing has been published byThe Dance Enthusiast, The Huffington Post, Dance Magazine, Performance Research Journal, and most recently in A Life in Dance: A Practical Guide. Blakeley has served on the faculties of the Graham Center, the Ailey School, the New School, The Actors’ Studio, and New York City’s famed LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts as a teacher of technique, repertory, and improvisation. She is currently on the faculty of Hunter College, Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance, and the American Dance Festival. Blakeley stages Martha Graham’s repertory internationally, most recently for Paul Taylor, Semperoper, and Ballet Vlaanderen. Blakeley continues to create, collaborate, research, lecture, and perform and is currently a dancer/choreographer/administrator for the inter- generational dance collective Movement Migration. ROSANNA TAVAREZ has a diverse background as a performer/entertainer and has had the honor of working with Marina Ambramovic, Ryan Heffington, Travis Payne, Tony Michaels, and Rosanna Gamson/Worldwide. She also toured with N’SYNC and Jessica Simpson as one-fifth of the girl group Eden’s Crush and covered the Emmys, Grammys and Oscars in addition to hosting her own shows, as a television personality for FOX, E!, TVGuide Network, and Telemundo/NBC. She was selected to attend the Countertechnique Teacher Training program in 2016 and is now one of seven certified American Countertechnique Teachers. She is on faculty at Studio School and CalState LA and guest teaches throughout the US. Her work has been presented by REDCAT, LA Department of Cultural Affairs, The Odyssey Theatre, Highways Performance Space, Breaking Ground Dance Festival, LA Dance Festival, and Sarasota Contemporary Dance and supported by ARC grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation, UCLA Hothouse Residency, and Show Box LA. STAFFORD C. BERRY, JR., MFA, is an accomplished artist, educator, activist, and scholar of African-rooted dance, theater, and aesthetics. He is the Director of the Indiana University African American Dance Company (AADC). He is certified in Umfundalai Contemporary and a licensed Zumba® Instructor. Mr. Berry has toured nationally and internationally to Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean. He was the Associate Artistic Director of Baba Chuck Davis’ internationally acclaimed African American Dance Ensemble for 14 years, former Co-Director of The Berry & Nance Dance Project, and faculty at the American Dance Festival for 5 years. Mr. Berry’s artistic work is concerned with black male discourse, black folks’ embodied epistemologies, and “making space” for African American, Lgbtqia+, “weirdos,” and disempowered communities. His recent work includes: Double-dutch and Broken Levees (2017), a dance about urban cultural play and climate change, set to the music of jazz virtuoso Wynton Marsalis, and hOw to bUILD a hOuse (2017), a work that juxtaposes the construction of a physical dwelling with the making of a familial, queer safe space, for which Mr. Berry received the Greater Columbus (Ohio) Arts Council’s prestigious Choreographer’s Fellowship. Wawa Aba (2013), his work on the world-class Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, continues to tour nationally and internationally as an audience favorite. In his second year as Professor of Practice in both African American and African Diaspora Studies and Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance at IU, Mr. Berry restaged Good Game, Yo! (2015), a dance about black male relationships, at the 2018 American Dance Guild Showcase Festival in New York City. GERRI HOULIHAN began her professional training at The Juilliard School, studying with Antony Tudor, Alfredo Corvino, and members of the Martha Graham and Jose Limon dance companies. She performed with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet and the Paul Sanasardo Dance Company and spent five years as a soloist with the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company touring extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Ms. Houlihan has taught or choreographed for such institutions as NY’s High School of the Performing Arts, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the Bates Dance Festival, the Boston Ballet, the Harvard Summer Dance Center, Meredith College, the University of South Florida, North Carolina School of the Arts, the University of Richmond, the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, and Virginia Commonwealth University. From 1984 to 1987, she directed her own school and company, the Boston Dance Project. She was one of five finalists in the Boston Ballet’s International Choreography Competition. From 1988 to 1999, Ms. Houlihan was on the faculty of New World School of the Arts in Miami, FL. During that time, she was also the artistic director of Houlihan and Dancers. The recipient of two Florida Individual Artist Fellowships in Dance/Choreography in 1991-92 and 1996- 97, Houlihan and Dancers was on the touring roster for the state of Florida. She is a member of the board of directors for the Florida Dance Association and also for the American College Dance Association. Ms. Houlihan has been on the faculty of the American Dance Festival from 1981 to 1983 and from 1987 to the present. As an international representative for ADF, she has participated in eighteen international linkages, teaching in Korea, China, Brazil, Paraguay, Chile, Estonia, Poland, the Philippines, Russia, and Mongolia. She is the 2005 recipient of the Balasaraswati Joy Anne Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching and a 2012 recipient of the Pearl S. Tyner Distinguished Professor in Teaching. She received her MFA in 2007 from the Hollins University/American Dance Festival MFA program. She recently retired from FSU and currently teaches year-round at the American Dance Festival studios and as a guest artist at Elon University. MOMAR NDIAYE is an international performer, choreographer, teacher, and videographer from Senegal. He received his MFA in Dance with a focus in African Studies from the University of Illinois in 2017 and was awarded with the Wanda- Nettl prize for excellence in choreography for his thesis work,Point 0. Ndiaye has worked as performer and collaborator with many well-known choreographers from Africa, Europe, Asia, and America such as Andreya Ouamba and Keith Hennessy and has also been creating and touring staged contemporary dance works along with choreographies for music videos with his own company Cadanses since 2004. Momar Ndiaye has received the Danceweb scholarship in 2012, PAMOJA in 2014, and was a Dance l’Afrique Dance laureate in 2015. Momar has been involved in many international collaborative projects such as Shifting Realities with Tanzhaus and Hellerau European Center of the Arts, Share-Creative-Africa in collaboration with Exodus in Ljubljana, and 1space with Alkantara (Portugal), Exodus (Slovenia), and KVS (Belgium). He was recently invited by the Slovenian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Culture to participate at the International Africa Day conference in Ljubljana in the rubric creative industry in Africa. Momar is currently working on the construction of a dance center in Senegal, while continuing his journey as an international dance maker. CHARLES SLENDER-WHITE has worked as a contemporary dance artist throughout North America, Europe, Russia, Hong Kong, and Australia. He is the Artistic Director of FACT/SF, a San Francisco-based contemporary dance company which he founded in 2008. With FACT/SF, Charles has created more than thirty works with commissions by the US Department of State, ODC Theater (San Francisco), CounterPulse (San Francisco), Acid Rain (Chelyabinsk), Dialogue Dance (Kostroma), the Yekaterinburg University of the Humanities (Yekaterinburg), the University of St. Cyril & Methodius (Skopje), and others. Charles began studying Countertechnique in 2005 and became a certified teacher in 2012. There are currently 32 Countertechnique teachers worldwide. Also in 2012, Charles spent a year in mentorship with Elizabeth Streb as part of CHIME Across Borders at the Margaret Jenkins Dance Lab. Prior to moving to San Francisco, Charles performed, taught, and created new work as a company member of Tatiana Baganova’s Provincial Dances Theatre in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Charles graduated with honors from the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his undergraduate degrees in Dance and Performance Studies and English Literature. LIANE BURNS joined Portland-based dance companies Shaun Keylock Company and Push/Fold in 2018. She has performed as a company member and collaborator with San Francisco-based companies FACT/ SF, detour dance, and many others. She received her BFA in Dance Performance from Chapman University and completed a year of post-graduate studies in Jerusalem, Israel, while apprenticing with Amir Kolben Dance Company. Burns has both performed and created work in Orange County, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Israel, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, and Macedonia.