May 2007 2007 Spring Season

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BAM 2007 Spring Season is sponsored by: Bloomberg ENCOREThe Performing Arts Magazine 2007 Spring Season

Brooklyn Academy of Music

Alan H. Fishman William I. Campbell Chairman of the Board Vice Chairman of the Board

Karen Brooks Hopkins Joseph V. Melillo President Executive Produ cer presents Dense Terrain Doug Varone and Dancers

Approximate BAM Harvey Theater running time: May 16, 18 & 19 at 7:30pm one hour and May 20 at 3pm 15 minutes, no intermission Conceived, directed, and choreographed by Doug Varone Original musical score by Nathan Larson Set design by Allen Moyer Video by Blue Land Media Lighting design by Jane Cox Costume design by Liz Prince Video conceived and directed by Doug Varone

The score for Dense Terrain was commissioned by the Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation

BAM 2007 Spring Season is sponsored by Bloomberg.

BAM Dance receives major support from The Harkness Foundation for Dance and Mertz Gilmore Foundation, with additional support from Mary L. Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation. Dense Terrain

Performed by Peggy Baker Larry Hahn Nathan Larson John Beasant III Stephanie Liapis Julia Kent cello Daniel Charon Belinda McGuire Kevin March percussion Anthony Cochrane Erin Owen Ryan Corriston Ariane Reinhart live and recorded voices: Natalie Desch Eddie Taketa Anthony Cochrane, Cat Martino, Erin Owen , Ariane Reinhart

Dense Terrain was commissioned by Summerdance Santa Barbara and the Carlsen Center of the Johnson County Community College, Kansas, Charles R. Rogers, artistic director; and co-commissioned by the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington , Vermont.

Major funding has also been provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Nationa l Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts, with additional support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Harkness Foundation for Dance.

Additional support for the score was provided by the American Music Center's live Music for Dance Program and the New York State Council on the Arts' Composer Commission program.

Dense Terrain was created while in residence at the Purchase College Conservatory of Dance and Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, with funding support from the New York State Council on the Arts.

Nathan Larson wishes to thank Anthony Cochrane, Cat Martino, and Ariane Reinhart for their contributions to the score.

"My great love and gratitude to all the artists who have continued to share their beautiful voices with me in the creation of this work. It's been an honor. " - Doug Varone Who's Who

Doug Varone and Dancers American premiere of Laurent Petitgirard's As it closes its 20lh anniversary season with Joseph Merrick: The Elephant Man (2006). the New York premiere of Dense Terrain at Varone was the director and choreographer for BAM, Doug Varone and Dancers is preparing these diverse productions. to kick off its 2007-08 season with two new commissions. The first, for the Bard Doug Varone Summerscape Festival, is set to Elgar's Cello Summing up Varone's career to date following Concerto (July 5-8); the second, to a score by the company's acclaimed 2006 program at Hawaiian ukulele sensation Jake Shimabukuro, the Joyce Theater earlier this season, Thfi NfJw. is for Wolf Trap (July 24). All of this follows a 'yor~ Tir:nes. critic Roslyn Sulcas wrote: Varone year full of touring, residency work, a Joyce "has choreographed dances for plays and Theater season of new and revived repertory, operas, for television and for fashion shows. and projects in opera. This snapshot hints at In his own way, however, he is a purist whose Doug Varone's wide-ranging interests and his principal concern seems to be to get at the company's renowned versatility. From its first essence of humanity by setting it in motion. Mr. concerts at P.S. 122 in 1986, in repertory Varone's ability to convey depths of emotion dances such as the propulsive Rise (1993) and through highly charged, physically exciting Lux (2006), the site-specific Neither (2000) choreography has made him a rarity among at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, his generation." By any measure, Varone's Ricky Ian Gordon's song cycle Orpheus and output is extraordinary for its emotional range, Euridice for Lincoln Center (2005), or the kinetic breadth, and the diversity of platforms emotionally charged Joseph Merrick: The on which he stages his work. Varone was Elephant Man (2006), Varone's performers awarded a 2006 OBIE for his direction and have been singled out for their super-human choreography of Ricky Ian Gordon's Orpheus realizations of his vision. Eight New York Dance and Euridice at Lincoln Center for its American and Performance Awards (Bessies) have been Songbook series. His numerous honors also awarded to the company's dancers, designers, include a Guggenheim Fellowship and a New and to Varone himself. Choreographic awards York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) include two American Dance Festival Doris for Sustained Achievement in Choreography. Duke Awards for New Work, and three National His work has been supported by the National Dance Project awards. The company's dances Endowment for the Arts since 1988. In have been commissioned by such leading addition to the works for his own company, institutions as Jacob's Pillow, the Joyce Varone has been commissioned by the Lim6n Theater, Whitebird (Portland, OR), the Carlsen Company, Dancemakers (Canada), Batsheva Center (Overland Park, KS), the Clarice Smith Dance Company (Israel) , Uppercut Danse Center for the Performing Arts (College Park, (Denmark) , AnCreative (Japan), Dayton MD), Summerdance Santa Barbara, and the Contemporary Dance Company, Colorado Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts. Ballet, and Ailey II, among others. Upcoming During its 20-year tenure, the company has commissions include Bern Ballet (Switzerland) performed on stages throughout North and and Rambert Dance Company (London). South America , Asia , and Europe including The His works have been set on many regional Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, San Francisco dance companies and college and university Performances, London's Queen Elizabeth Hall , students. For New York's Metropolitan Opera , Toronto's Harbourfront, Moscow's Stanislavsky Varone choreographed new productions of Theater, the Venice Biennale, and the Tokyo, Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps, Berlioz' Jacob's Pillow, and American Dance Festivals. Les Troyens , Strauss' Salome, and the world In recent years the Company has created and premiere of Tobias Picker's An American performed works in partnership with producers, Tragedy. Other opera credits include Wagner's and opera and theater companies on new Die Walkure (Washington Opera); Rossini's /I productions including Le Sacre du Printemps Viaggio a Reims (New York City Opera); and for the Metropolitan Opera (2003), the Aquila the American premieres of George Antheil 's Theatre Company on H.G . Wells' The Invisible Transatlantic, Laurent Petitgirard's Joseph Man (2005), and Minnesota Opera on the Merrick: The Elephant Man; and Ricky Ian Who's Who

Gordon's Grapes of Wrath (Minnesota Opera). His score for The Woodsman , directed by Nicole He directed and choreographed Gluck's Orfee Kassel , was awarded the Gras Savoye Award for et Eurydice and Rossini's II Barbiere di Siviglia Best Music at the Cannes Film Festival 2004. for Opera Colorado. Varone's theater credits Other scores include Mike Kang's The Motel, include choreography for Broadway's Triumph of Little Fish starring Cate Blanchett, and W32nd Love and for productions at Baltimore's Center which premiered at this year's Tribeca Film Stage, Yale Repertory Theatre, Walnut Street Festival . FILMUSIK, a compilation of Larson's Theatre, Princeton's McCarter Theater, Music film music, was released in 2005 on Commotion Theater Group, The Vineyard Theatre, and Via Records. In addition to the film work, Larson Theater. He choreographed and directed the has created much music for television and Aquila Theatre Company's The Invisible Man. commercials, including several H&M and Volvo Choreography for television and fashion include campaigns , and produced an Emmy-Award song the dance and underwater sequences of the A&E for Nickelodeon'S Nickellinium. Larson continues Network production , The Planets (nominated for to create music on the art-rock scene. In 2001 an International Emmy and Grammy Award for he composed , performed, and produced a solo Long Form Video) and designer Geoffrey Beene's album, Jealous God, for Artemis Records, with couture runway shows in NYC. His collaboration a collection of, songs that have been described with photographer Michael Thompson was as "post-punk sou l" with glam and gospel commissioned by W magazine and featured in influences. He continues to write and produce its February 2004 issue. Film credits include records for other artists, including the 2004 choreography for the Patrick Swayze film, One Manhattan/Blue Note recording The Things Last Dance. Born in Syosset, NY, he received his We Do for singer Angela McCluskey; LA-based Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts from Purchase singer-songwriter Angie Mattson's upcoming College and returned this spring to be awarded Given to Sudden Panic and Noisy Retreat, and the College's Presidential Distinguished Alumni has contributed to the recordings of bands such Award. as Sparklehorse, The Ark , and . Currently he is engaged in several films , an Nathan Larson (composer/performer) is best ongoing recording/performing project with his known as an award-winning composer of film­ wife cal led , and is writing scores and as a songwriter on the indie rock and performing with his new band HOT ONE, scene. As the lead guitarist and songwriter whose debut album was released early this year. for the influential art-punk band (1992- 99), Larson won a reputation Performers for creating challenging work. His band's early scores for October Film 's High Art and First Love Peggy Baker has been a vibrant presence in Last Rites (on which he wrote and/or produced the world of contemporary dance for more than tracks featuring such artists as Billy Corgan, Jeff 30 years. A founding member of Toronto's Buckley, and Liz Phair) earned rave reviews , Dancemakers, she toured internationally with as did his songwriting for Todd Haynes' Velvet Lar Lubovitch 's celebrated company throughout Goldmine (1998). Larson's score for 20th the 80s, and joined Mikhail Baryshnikov and Century Fox's Boys Don't Cry (1999) established Mark Morris for the inaugural season of their him as a film-scoring force on his own and , White Oak Dance Project, subsequently forging since then , he has created music for many important creative relationships with Doug Varone controversial and critically-acclaimed films. His and Montreal's Paul-Andre Fortier. Since 1990 fi lm credits include: Todd Solondz's Storytelling she has created or commissioned dances for her (2002) and his recent Palindromes (2005); Joel own repertoire through her Toronto-based Peggy Schumacher'S Tigerland (2000), and additional Baker Dance Projects. Irene Dowd, Christine music for his Phone Booth (2003); Jesse Wright, Risa Steinberg, and Patricia Miner, her Peretz's Le Chateau (2002); Lukas Moodyson's primary teachers since the mid-80s, continue to Lilja 4-Ever (2003); Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty exert a powerful influence on her development. Things (2003); Erik Skjoldbjearg's Prozac Nation Baker is Artist-in-Residence at Canada 's National (2004); Paprika Steen's Aftermath (2004); and Ballet School. Shainee Gabel's A Love Song for Bobby Long. ~ Who's Who

John Beasant III of Denver, Colorado, holds Aquila 's productions over the last eleven years. an MFA in Dance (University of Utah). He has He was in the original the cast of The Coast made appearances as a dancer, actor, and of Utopia at Lincoln Center Theater. His work singer for the stage, television, and film. Some in the UK includes seasons with the Royal performance credits include Keith Johnson, Shakespeare Company, the Royal Lyceum Shapiro & Smith Dance, the Metropolitan Theatre in Edinburgh , and the Lyric Theatre in Opera, Aquila Theatre Company, and ARENA Belfast, among others. His television credits Dances by Mathew Janczewski. Beasant has include The Apocalypse Watch for Hallmark and served on faculty at the University of Minnesota Benjamin Franklin for PBS, as well as a regular and teaches at workshops and residencies character in the UK thriller series Taggart. around the globe. He has presented his own dances throughout the country at various Ryan Corriston started dancing at the age of universities, festivals, and studios. Beasant will eight with the Kaleidoscope Dance Company be commissioned this August as an artist-in­ under the direction of Anne Gilbert, and was residence to create work and perform for the a company member for eight years. He began Summerscape Contemporary Dance Theatre, a dancing again in college and received a BA in Florida-based dance company. He has staged Dance from the University of Washington, where pieces made by Doug Varone and Daniel he studied under Hannah Wiley, Rip Parker, Shapiro/Joanie Smith. Beasant joined Doug and Maria Simpson, as well as doing several Varone and Dancers in 200l. collaborations with Rob Kitsos . In New York, Corriston has danced in several works at the Dan iel Charon hails from Moorhead, MN and Metropolitan Opera and has worked with Nancy is a graduate of the North Carolina School of Bannon , Andrew Robinson , Tiffany Mills, Martha the Arts. A company member since 1999, he Clarke, and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance previously danced with the Lim6n Company for Company. He thanks his beautiful wife Amber, three years. Other performance credits include and their two year-old son Toby, for allowing him Dance Kaleidoscope, the Metropolitan Opera, to join Doug Varone and Dancers in 2005. and Mordine & Company. He teaches regularly in NYC and has taught at the Metropolitan Opera, Natalie Desch , a company member since Bates Dance Festival , and at numerous colleges 2001, is a native of New Castle, PA, where she around the country. Since 1997, Charon has began her dance training under the guidance shown his own work at various venues in NYC of Deborah Parou. After receiving her BFA and including his own concert at Joyce SoHo in the Martha Hill Prize from The Juilliard School 2005. Recently, he was commissioned to create (under the direction of Benjamin Harkarvy), she new work for the VIA Dance Collaborative in joined the Lim6n Dance Company where she NYC and the d9 Dance Collective in Seattle, performed from 1996-200l. A faculty member Washington. He has also staged the works of at Hunter College, Desch has also taught at the Jose Lim6n and Jiri Kylian and continues to Bates Dance Festival and at the Lim6n Institute stage the works of Doug Varone . and Dance New Amsterdam in NYC, and has staged the works of Doug Varone , Jose Lim6n, Anthony Cochrane was born in the north of and Jiri Kylian. Her choreography has been Scotland and trained as an actor at the Royal presented at various venues and festivals around Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in New York City and the country. Glasgow. He has worked with Doug Varone and his dancers on the collaboration with the Aquila Larry Hahn has had the pleasure of working Theatre Company, H.G. Wells' The Invisible with a wide array of choreographers in New York Man. Cochrane is an associate director, musical and San Francisco, chief among them Senta director, and composer for the Aquila Theatre Driver; Gus Solomons, Jr.; Catlin Cobb; Margaret Company. Hi s acting roles there have included Jenkins; Bill Young; Mark Morris; and Allyson Cyrano de Bergerac, King Lear, Achilles in The Green. He was a member of Doug Varone and Iliad, Brutus in Julius Caesar, lago in Othello, Dancers from 1988 to 2003, creating roles in and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. He virtually every company dance, and continues has also composed the music for all but two of to join the company for special projects. Most Who's Who

recently he was featured in two New York David Neumann (! Am Legend, film), and was projects choreographed by Varone, Le Sacre honored to spend summer 2003 as a dancer du Printemps for the Metropolitan Opera and at The Yard. Before joining Doug Varone and Aquila Theatre's Off-Broadway production of The Dancers in November 2006, Owen also danced Invisible Man. During the last fifteen years Hahn in his works at the Metropolitan Opera (2002- has also developed a business designing and 2004. She teaches Pilates and Gyrotonic® in constructing sculptural light forms and furniture. New York, and thanks her family, friends , and He is the recipient of a 1996 Bessie (New York Peter. Dance and Performance Award) for his work with Doug Varone and Dancers. Ariane Reinhart's experience includes an evening of solo works by Martha Clarke, Mark Haim, Stephanie Liapis grew up in Dayton, Ohio. She Shen Wei, and Doug Varone. Broadway and graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Off-Broadway shows include Andru's Head (dir. in 1998 and was the recipient of the Helbien Mark Dendy), and New York Gilbert & Su ll ivan Scholarship. She has had the pleasure of working Players (NYGASP). Other credits-Broadway with Jamie Bishton/Dance, the Metropolitan the Golden Age with Marni Nixon (Snug Harbor Opera ballet in Le Sacre du Printemps, Nancy Cultural Center), Gallantry (Cantiamo Opera Bannon , and nicholasleichterdance among Theatre), Cabaret Evening (Don't Tell Mama) , others. Liapis has been a member of Doug and performing at ADF in works by Argentina's Varone and Dancers since 2002. She teaches Susana Tambutti, Israel's Inbal Pi nto, and dance regularly in New York City and across the others. She appeared on TV in Sex and the City country. She has begun to dabble in the world (HBO). A native New Yorker, Reinhart made of costume design and she made her acting her professional debut at age nine in Dada debut this February in Nancy Bannon's The Pod master John Wilson's Off-Broadway production, Project. Liapis would like to express her deepest Scatalog. Reinhart is happy to be working with gratitude to her friends and fami ly for their Doug Varone and Dancers again. continued support. Eddie Taketa holds a BFA in dance theater Belinda McGuire, originally from Toronto, has from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and worked with several prominent Canadian artists is the recipient of a 1998 New York Dance such as Peggy Baker, David Earle, and Carol and Performance Award (Bessie) for Sustained Anderson , and has performed throughout Canada Achievement in Dancing. Dancing professionally and Singapore/Malaysia as a member of the since 1982, Taketa has performed with such Canadian Children's Dance Theatre. She is a companies as Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, graduate of The Juilliard School , where she had Murray Louis Dance Company, and Nikolais the pleasure of performing the works of Ronald Dance Theatre. He has also performed in the K. Brown, Jacqueline Buglisi , Adam Hougland , Jacob's Pillow 's Men Dancers: The Ted Shawn Jose Lim6n , Mark Morris, Paul Taylor, and Doug Legacy. As a teacher, he has taught at numerous Varone. As a choreographer, McGuire has created universities, festivals , and studios throughout works which have been presented at the Canada the US, Europe, and Asia. Notably, he taught Dance Festival and in New York City on the and choreographed as Guest Artist in Dance at stages of the Peter J. Sharp Theater and Alice Connecticut College from 1995-2006. Taketa Tully Hall. She joined Doug Varone and Dancers has been a member of Doug Varone and Dancers in May 2006. since 1994.

Erin Owen grew up in the mountains near Julia Kent (cello) was born in Vancouver, Asheville , NC. She moved to New York in 1999 Canada, and studied cello at Indiana University, upon her graduation from Scripps College Bloomington. She has performed and/or recorded (Claremont, CAl with BA degrees in dance and with many artists and ensembles, including biology. She has danced with Ivy Baldwin, Faye Antony and the Johnsons, Burnt Sugar, The Driscol l, Melissa Briggs, Netta Yerushalmy, Angels of Light, Larsen , Backworld, Jarboe , Karinne Keithley, Daniel Charon, Geraldine Devendra Banhart, Angela McCluskey, Leona Cardiel , Bill T. Jones (Fall for Dance Festival), Naess, Teddy Thompson, Rufus Wainwright, and 1~ Who's Who her former band, Rasputina. A solo CD of multi­ (Signature), This Is Our Youth (New Group/ tracked cello and found sounds will be released Second Stage), The Dying Gaul (Vineyard), and at the end of April in Europe by Shayo Records. numerous productions for the Drama Dept., including As Bees in Honey Drown. Among his Kevin March (percussion) has played drums with many opera credits: Abduction from the Seraglio many notable indie rock bands, including Guided (Houston Grand Opera); La Boheme, The by Voices, Shudder to Think, Those Bastard Mother of Us All, II Viaggio a Reims (New York Souls, and The Dambuilders. He has recorded City Opera/ Glimmerglass Opera); Luisa Miller and toured with such luminaries as , (Spoleto Festival); Friend of the People (Scottish Leona Naess, The Rentals , Angela McCluskey, Opera); and Orfee et Eurydice (Opera Colorado) and is currently playing with Nathan Larson as a in a production directed by Doug Varone . In collaborator on film scores and in the band HOT October of 2005, he collaborated with Varone ONE. on the premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon's Orpheus and Euridice, produced by Lincoln Center's Great Designers & Staff Performers series. Recently he designed sets for the San Francisco Ballet's production of Mark Blue Land Media (video production), created by Morris' Sylvia . In May, 2006, he received an Joe Bruncsak and Walter Rissmeyer, produces OBIE award for Sustained Achievement in Set documentary, educational, and arts-based Design. video projects. BLM previously worked with Doug Varone on The Bottomland, for the Wolf Liz Prince (costume designer) has been Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts. Other designing costumes for theater and dance for projects underway include a performance project seventeen years and her designs for Doug for Wolf Trap in collaboration with traditional Varone's Dense Terrain marks their sixteenth Hawaiian hula dancers and a documentary collaboration. Her most recent Varone credits following a team of scientists to the depths of the include Boats Leaving, Castles, Of the Earth Far Arctic Ocean. Below, and The Bottomland for his company; The Beating of Wings for Dayton Contemporary Jane Cox's (lighting designer) previous designs Dance Company; and The Plain Sense of Things with Doug Varone include Boats Leaving, for the Lim6n Dance Company. Other credits Castles, Agora, and Approaching Something include Mark Dendy's Dream Analysis , Faun, and Higher (for Doug Varone and Dancers); Elephant Swan Lake (for Germany's Dortmund Theater); Man at Minnesota Opera ; and The Invisible Man Bebe Mi ller's Going to the Wall; and Bill T. Jones' with Aquila Theatre. Other dance collaborations We Started Out Early... Visibility Was Poor. She include designs for Eliot Feld , David Dorfman, has worked extensively with Jones, designing a and Monica Bill Barnes. Recent theater in New number of pieces for his company. She has also York: Dame Edna on Broadway, designs for designed for Ralph Lemon , Meg Stuart, Jane BAM, Playwrights Horizons, Signature Theatre, Comfort, and David Dorfman. Prince's costumes Vineyard Theatre, and CSC. Regional work have been exhibited at the Cleveland Center for includes at the Guthrie, Arena Stage, McCarter, Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Long Wharf, Seattle Rep, Denver Center, and New York Public Library for the Performing Arts , Alliance. and The Whitney Museum of American Art. She is the recipient of a 1990 New York Dance Allen Moyer's (set designer) Broadway credits and Performance Award (Bessie) for Sustained include In My ute, The Constant Wife, Twelve Achievement in Costume Design . Angry Men, The Man Who Had All the Luck, A Thousand Clowns, and Reckless. Off-Broadway Stephen Petrilli (technical director, stage credits include Grey Gardens, Lobby Hero manager) is also a lighting designer and has (Playwrights Horizons) , The Uttle Dog Laughed designed for Nathan Trice / Rituals, Rebecca (Second Stage), Entertaining Mr. Sloane, The Kelly Ballet, Pilobolus Dance Theatre, Ailey II , Da zzle (Roundabout), A Picasso (MTC), Well and Shapiro & Smith Dance, Kevin Wynn Collection, 2.5 Minute Ride (Public Theater), Landscape of Isabel Gotzkowsky & Friends, Complexions, the Body, John Guare's A Few Stout Individuals and Performance Artist Judith Ren -Lay. In the Who's Who

theater, Petrilli has designed several plays for DOUG VARONE AND DANCERS New York's Pearl Theatre Company, National Artistic Director, Doug Varone Asian American Theatre Company, Mint Theater Interim Executive Director, Barbara Dufty Company, and Melting Pot Theatre Company. He Touring Representative, Lisa Booth Management: toured as production stage manager for Nikolais Lisa Booth & Deirdre Valente and Murray Louis Dance Company, and spent five Development Consultant, Bernadette Ott years touring as the lighting/sound supervisor for Administrative Assistants, Sarah Rose Bodley, Pilobolus. He and his wife Shannon have a four Tess Igarta year old son, Liam. Tour Manager, John Beasant III Rehearsal Directors, Daniel Charon, Eddie Taketa Paul Vershbow (video programmer) has Wardrobe Manager, Stephanie Liapis programmed On and Off-Broadway, opera, Technical director, Stephen Petrilli ballet, modern dance and industrials for over 30 Video programmer, Paul Vershbow years. Recent work with Ridge Theater includes Production Manager, Holly Hill Musikfabrik's Shelter at BAM and various Projection Consultant, Tricia Tolliver European venues, Michael Gordon's Gotham at Video Associate Producer, William Harrison Zankel Hall, and Decasia at St. Ann's Warehouse. Accounting Services, Art Steinberg Continued productions this year include Billy Travel Agent , Peggy Powers/Peacock Travel Crystal's 700 Sundays in Australia, and Jersey Photography, Phil Knott, Richard Termine Boys in San Francisco, and Die Walkure at Design & Graphics, Sondra Graff, Patty & Toshi Washington National Opera 's Ring Cycle; new are Finding Nemo-The Musical at Walt Disney's A special thanks to these creative artists who Animal Kingdom in Orlando and Doug Varone have added their talents to the vision: Adriane and Dancers' Dense Terrain at BAM. Favorite Fang, Catherine Miller, Kayvon Pourazar, Cat productions are The Who's Tommy on Broadway; Martino, Julia Burrer, Netta Yurashalmy. John Adams' Nixon in China at Opera Theatre of St. Louis; ABT's Othello ; and Bring in pa' Noise, Special thanks to: Joseph Melillo and the BAM Bring in Da ' Funk at the Public Theater and on staff, Diane Rosenblatt, Barbara Dufty, Sarah Broadway. Bodley, Tess Igarta , Art Steinberg, Lisa Booth, Deirdre Valente, Sondra Graff, Elizabeth Geiger, Doug Varone and Dancers is incorporated as Joan Finkelstein, Jeanne Murphy, Stacy Epstein, DOVA, Inc., a non-profit tax-exempt organization. Prescott Wines, the Benefit Committee, Carol K. Your interest and support are welcome. For infor­ Walker and the Purchase College Conservatory of mation, visit www.dougvaroneanddancers.org. Dance, Dianne & Daniel Vapnek, Richard Caples, Write to us at info@dougvaroneanddancers .org, Dennis Diamond and Video D, the Dova, Inc. or at 37 West 32nd Street #4A, New York , NY Board of Directors, our generous donors, hard­ 10001, USA. working interns, and volunteers.

Doug Varone and Dancers gratefully acknowledges funding support from The Lila Acheson Wallace Theater Fund, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation , the Alphawood Foundation , the Shubert Foundation, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Altria, the Dianne & Daniel Vapnek Family Fund , and our generous patrons and friends.

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