Amy Seiwert’s Imagery a contemporary ballet company SKETCH 4 | Music Mirror

World Premiere Ballets by: Amy Seiwert Adam Hougland Original Live Music By: Kevin Keller

July 24–27, 2014

ODC Theater 3153 17th Street San Francisco, CA 94110

Photo: Imagery artists Weston Krukow and Sarah Griffin, photo by David DeSilva Dear Patron,

Thank you so much for choosing to come to Amy Seiwert’s imagery’s SKETCH 4 | Music Mirror. By doing so, you have supported live art which, in of it itself, is important. But more than that, you have chosen to participate in a unique program. Each year, Amy identifi es a theme and invites stunning artists that she thinks have a pertinent message to create dances for Bay Area audiences — dancers, choreographers and composers that we wouldn’t otherwise be exposed to.

This year, in SKETCH 4 | Music Mirror, the focus is on how two very diff erent ballet choreo- graphers, Adam Hougland and Amy Seiwert, interpret the same piece of original music by composer Kevin Keller. Seiwert and Hougland are widely recognized for their inventiveness and versatility. Seiwert is known for her abstract explorations; Hougland for his creative storytelling. SKETCH 4 is an exploration of how these two artists interpret the same piece of commissioned music.

Imagery is in the midst of a one Hundred Friend Challenge in which we are asking you to help recruit one hundred new or increased donations by September 1, 2014. For each new Friend or increased donation, the Imagery Board of Directors will match donations up to $8000. Help us take advantage of this fantastic opportunity to grow our community of supporters. By investing in imagery, you directly impact our ability to create and present exceptional work in the Bay Area and beyond.

The SKETCH series has become a staple of mid- summer dance in San Francisco, but it won’t be able to continue without your generous support. We thank those of you who were able to support, in any way, SKETCH 4, and ask for your help in Imagery’s future endeavors. If you are pleased tonight, tell your friends. To give a donation, visit our website www.asimagery.org or talk to a company member.

Thank you for your attention. On behalf of the entire Board, I hope you enjoy this off ering as much as we have enjoyed presenting it to you.

Niko Mayer, Chairman of the Board

Photo: Imagery artists Weston Krukow, photo by David DeSilva Amy Seiwert’s Imagery a contemporary ballet company

Amy Seiwert’s imagery, a San Francisco-based contemporary ballet company, believes that ballet is an expressive and vital voice relevant to our times. ASI’s artists share the belief that through collaboration and experimentation, vibrant and courageous ideas are expressed. An environment of risk is fostered, and habitual reactions are discouraged. imagery Board of Directors Artists of the Company imagery Staff Niko Kozak Mayer — President Sarah Griffi n Amy Seiwert — Artistic Director Lori Laqua — Treasurer Brandon “Private” Freeman Barbara Hébert — Project Manager Amy Seiwert — Secretary Rachel Furst Colleen Griffi n — Administrative Assistant Kristine Elliott James Gilmer KT Graham Weston Krukow Company Class Teachers Joan Lazarus Ben Needham-Wood Joanna Berman, Laura Rae Bernasconi, Fred W. Terman Annali Rose Lee Wei Chao, Sandra Chinn, Maurya Len Weiss Katherine Wells Kerr, Amy London, Amy Seiwert

Amy Seiwert’s Imagery is a 501(C)3 non-profi t corporation. All donations are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

Amy Seiwert’s Imagery is honored to be a Resident Arts Group at Zaccho Dance Theatre. Amy Seiwert’s Imagery is grateful to the following foundations for their support for SKETCH 4 | Music Mirror: The Zellerbach Family Foundation, the W&F Hewlett Foundation, and the Fleishhacker Foundation. Amy Seiwert’s Imagery is supported by San Francisco Grants for the Arts. SKETCH 4 was supported by New Music USA, made possible by an annual program support and/or endowment gifts from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Baisley Powell Elebash Fund, Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. Program Design: Phyllis Peterson, www.MagnoliaStudio.com SKETCH 4 | Music Mirror Music composed by Kevin Keller Music performed by: Robert Howard on cello and Keisuke Nakagoshi on piano Lighting: Jim French Costumes: Christine Darch Beautiful Decay Don’t You Remember? Choreography: Adam Hougland intermission Choreography: Amy Seiwert Dancers: Full Company Dancers: Full Company

The choreographers gratefully acknowledge the contribution of the dancers in the creation of this new work. About SKETCH 4 | Music Mirror The SKETCH series was launched in 2011 as a platform for experimentation and innovation in ballet based choreography. Each choreographer self identifies a risk and uses that as their departure point for creation. The SKETCH series was created specifically as a resource for choreographers to abandon their comfort zones. For SKETCH 4 | Music Mirror, Imagery commissioned an original score by Kevin Keller. To foster dialogue about the relationship between dance and music, we are exploring how two choreographers explore the same musical score. A challenge presented in how to not let one artist drive this creative process. Our scheme to deal with that issue: Hougland and Seiwert, independent of each other, submitted three visual images to Keller for inspiration. Keller then created six movements of music based on those images. Hougland and Seiwert have not seen each other’s images, nor has Keller shared which image inspired which movement. Finally, Hougland and Seiwert can order the movements in any way they wish.

A heartfelt thank you to all individual Principal Season Sponsor: $5,000 and above donors who collaborated in 2014. Anonymous Your patronage is the difference. Barbara Maclaren

Choreographer Dancer Sponsor: Sponsor: Friend: Sponsor: $500–$999 $100–$249 $35–$99 $1,000–$4,999 Peggy Heinmann David Archuletta Robert E. Friedman Jennifer and Mike Krukow The Bob and Edie Michele Benza Theresa Furst Ana Cecilia Bukowski Lori Laqua Kirkwood Fund Nancy C. Griffiths Joseph Copley Richard and Joan Lazarus Jean Halvorsen Darlene Gilmer Sharonjean Leeds Karren Shorofsky Contributor: Kristine Keefer Niko Mayer $250–$499 Dalia Rawson and Ann Mari Spector Lenard G. Weiss Barbara Hébert Gareth Hughes Sharon Wehner

We also have tremendous gratitude to the many individuals who donated below the $35 level, as well as individuals who donated after July 10th. Choreographers and Composers

Amy Seiwert (Choreographer and Artistic Director) — Amy Seiwert’s collaborations with artists of other disciplines and commitment to experimental work from a classical base make her a unique voice in the Bay Area dance community. As Rita Felciano wrote in the Bay Guardian: “She quite possibly is the Bay Area’s most original dance thinker, taking what some consider a dead language and using it as a 21st century lingo to tell us something about who we are.” She was named one of‚ “25 to Watch” by Dance Magazine, one of the ”Hot 20 under 40“ by 7x7 Magazine, was honored with a “Goldie” award from the Guardian, and twice her choreography has been listed in the “Top 10” dance events of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle (2007, 2010). Twice she has worked with dancers from the New York City Ballet, participating in the NY Choreography Institute at the invitation of Peter Martins. In addition to creating for Imagery, her creations are in the repertory of Ballet Austin, BalletMet (Columbus), Atlanta, Smuin, Washington Ballet, Cincinnati, Sacramento, Colorado, Louisville, Milwaukee and American Repertory Ballets, as well as Robert Moses’ KIN and Alaska Dance Theater. Future projects include premiers for Cincinnati and Kansas City Ballets. She is honored to be the Choreographer in Residence for Smuin Ballet as well as an Artist in Residence at the ODC Theater.

Adam Hougland (Guest Choreographer) — Adam Hougland grew up in Dallas, Texas and studied visual arts and acting from an early age. At 14 he began his dance training at the Dallas Conservatory of Ballet and the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. In 1999 he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance from The Juilliard School

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OBC’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY FUND NOW ACCEPTING CONTRIBUTIONS AT www.OaklandBallet.org and then went on to perform with The Limon Dance Company, Toronto Dance Theatre and The Lar Lubovitch Dance Company. Adam has gone on to create original works for Morphoses/ The Wheeldon Company, The American Ballet Theatre Studio Company, Introdans in the Netherlands, The Limon Dance Company, Cedar Lake Ensemble, The Washington Ballet, Ballet Memphis, Ballet X and The New York Choreographic Institute at New York CIty Ballet. In 2006 he created a world premiere for Juilliard’s Centennial Celebration that toured to Chicago and Los Angeles and was broadcast on the PBS “Live from Lincoln Center” series. He has won The Princess Grace Award for Choreography, The Choo-San Goh Award for Choreography, a New York State Council for the Arts Commissioning Grant named Pointe Magazines’ “10 VIP’s for 2006” and Dance Magazine’s “25 to watch for 2011.” www.AdamHougland.com

Kevin Keller, “Music Mirror” (Composer) — Starting out as a progressive rock guitarist, composer Kevin Keller moved to the piano while in high school, where a fascination with Debussy’s impressionism yielded to wider interests in the textural experiments of Eno and the electronic music of Subotnick. His first work for string quartet, “Three Bagatelles,” was premiered by the Kronos Quartet at the 1986 Festival of New American Music. During the 1990’s, Keller worked as Principal Composer for San Francisco’s Morrison Planetarium, where he also presented live concerts with his trio of cello, bass, and piano/keyboards. He moved to New York City in 2002 to pursue work as a composer for dance. Keller has received commissions from some of the brightest stars in contemporary ballet, including Dwight Rhoden, Elisa Monte, Joshua Beamish, Nicolo Fonte, and Amy Seiwert. His works have been recorded by cellists David Darling, Jeff Ziegler (Kronos Quartet), and Meena Cho, as well as the JACK Quartet. Keller’s recent work “The Day I Met Myself” was awarded “Best Neo-Classical Album of 2012” by ZMR, an organization of radio programmers throughout the U.S. www.KevinKeller.com

Guest Musicians

Robert Howard, a native of Atlanta, GA, graduated from Rice University and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He has studied and performed at festivals such as Tanglewood, Spoleto, Verbier, the Accademia Chigiana, and the Sandor Vegh Academy in Prague. Locally, he has performed with American Bach Soloists, New Century Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque, and the San Francisco Symphony. A frequent guest on many Bay Area chamber music series, Robert has also made concerto appearances with BARS Orchestra and Stanford Symphony. As a teacher, he has coached at San Francisco Conservatory, Stanford University, and San Jose State University.

Keisuke Nakagoshi, a native of Japan, studied composition with David Conte and piano with Paul Hersh at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. In 2013, he made his solo debut with the San Francisco Symphony when he performed Ingvar Lidholm’s “Poesis” with Herbert Blomstedt. Keisuke and Swiss pianist Eva-Maria Zimmermann formed the piano duet “ZOFO” in 2009. Their debut recording “Mind Meld” was nominated for a Grammy award for Best Chamber Music Performance in 2013. Mr. Nakagoshi serves as pianist in the production team for Opera Parallèle. ODC Theater odcdance.org/musicmoves AND MORE.... AUGUST 246PM ANTOINE HUNTERANDMILISSAPAYNE BRADLEY ODC THEATER UNPLUGGED WITH AUGUST 7-98PM DANCE HEGINBOTHAM(WESTCOASTDEBUT) AUGUST 14-168PM KATE WEAREANDPAUFVEDANCE AUGUST 3-47PMAND9PM JOE GOODEPERFORMANCEGROUPIRRESISTIBLY DRAWN JULY 31-AUGUST28PM ODC/DANCE PRESENTSSUMMERSAMPLER HEAR DANCESEEMUSIC JULY 31-AUGUST24,2014 |

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Photo by Gudmundur Vigfusson About the Dancers

BRANDON FREEMAN, better known as “Private,” hails from Colorado. In addition to a very successful 12-year career with ODC, Private has also had the privilege of working with many other Bay Area dance companies and schools. He has also worked with Colorado Ballet and Wonderbound, in Denver. Private earned a number of Isadora Duncan Awards, including Ensemble Performance with Katherine Wells in 2014, for Amy Seiwert’s “The Devil Ties My Tongue.“ In addition to teaching ballet and modern dance technique, including Dance for Parkinson’s Disease, he choreographs, oil paints, and loves woodworking. Private has worked with Imagery since 2010.

RACHEL FURST was born in Baltimore, Maryland, where she trained at the Baltimore School for the Arts. In 2013, Rachel graduated from the Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet BFA Program at Dominican University with a BFA in Dance and a minor in Psychology. Throughout her training, she has had the opportunity to perform works by Amy Seiwert, Sidra Bell, Gregory Dawson, Kara Davis, Gina Patterson, and Julia Adam. Last winter, she danced in Smuin Ballet’s “Christmas Ballet.” Rachel began dancing with Imagery in 2012.

JAMES GILMER of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was trained at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School and the Pittsburgh School for the Creative and Performing Arts. After graduating in 2011, he joined Cincinnati Ballet where he worked with Amy Seiwert for the first time as a soloist in “I Think of You Often.” James began dancing with Imagery in 2013.

SARAH GRIFFIN was born in Barranquilla, Colombia. As a classically trained dancer, she has performed a wide range of classical and contemporary works with Kansas City Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, the Dance Theatre of Harlem Ensemble, Oakland Ballet, and with Amy Seiwert’s Imagery since 2010. Sarah was nominated for an Izzie award for SKETCH 2 and was featured in Pointe Magazine’s top 10 standout performances of the year for SKETCH 3. She is honored to participate in her fourth SKETCH season with Imagery before moving to Portland to join Oregon Ballet Theatre.

WESTON KRUKOW, also known as “The Puppy,” is honored to be collaborating with Amy Seiwert’s Imagery for his third year. He began his training in San Luis Obispo at American Dance, then continued his education at the University of Arizona. Weston resides in San Francisco where he recently finished his debut year at Smuin Ballet. Along with dancing, Weston loves choreographing and teaching and has traveled to Iowa since 2011 to Co-Direct SPARK (Superior Performing Arts Reaching Kids). He would like to thank his family, friends, and teachers for helping him find a path that humbles, inspires, and fulfills his life.

ANNALI ROSE is currently a dancer with Ballet San Jose. Formerly, she danced with Trey McIntyre Project for four years and Sacramento Ballet for nine. She originally met Amy while working with Sacramento Ballet, and performed in her works “lessness,” “I Want Inside,” and “End Quote” while with that company. She began working with Imagery in 2013. KATHERINE WELLS is from Sunnyvale, California. She has danced with Mark Foehringer Dance Project, Colorado Ballet, Oakland Ballet, Diablo Ballet, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Project Agora, Dance Through Time, Tanya Bello’s Project B, Zaccho Dance Theater, Post Ballet and Robert Moses KIN. SF Chronicle named her performance in Moses’ “Helen” Top 10 of 2012. Katherine first worked with Imagery in 2003 and has been very fortunate to have been part of many ground-breaking works including “White Noise.” She won an Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Outstanding Performance along with Private Freeman for Seiwert’s “The Devil Ties My Tongue” in SKETCH 3. BEN NEEDHAM-WOOD has performed with Amy Seiwert’s Imagery since 2011. He first worked with Amy at the Louisville Ballet, where he was a company artist for five years. Ben then went on to join Smuin Ballet where he is currently a company member. Some standout performances include Romeo in Alun Jones’s “Romeo and Juliet,” Armand in Val Caniparoli’s “Lady of the Camellias,” Jiri Kylian’s “Return to a Strange Land,” as well as principal roles in several contemporary works by Adam Hougland and Amy Seiwert.

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Amy Seiwert’s Imagery would like to thank Academy of Ballet, Zaccho Dance Theater, Smuin Ballet, Winemonger, Rob Bailis, Christy Bolingbroke, Mary Ellen Hunt, Darren Johnston, Katy Wilcox, Ann Mari Spector, Alexandra Fabbri, and Candice Moenich.

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Christine Darch (Costume Design) — Christine Darch designs for Julia Adam, Marc Brew, Val Caniparoli, Robert Dekkers, Jodie Gates, Edwaard Liang, Jae Man Joo, James Kudelka, Matthew Neenan, David Palmer, Gina Patterson, Brian Reeder, Dwight Rhoden, and Amy Seiwert. She has designed costumes for ballet superstars Anastasia and Denis Matvienko, Anastasia Vinokur and Desmond Richardson. New projects include world premieres for Le Ballet Nice Méditerranée for Dwight Rhoden, Ballet X for Matthew Neenan, Kansas City Ballet for Amy Seiwert, and Ballet Memphis for Julia Adam, Gabrielle Lamb and Matthew Neenan. www.ChristineDarch.com Jim French (Lighting Designer) — Jim French is thrilled to be collaborating on another SKETCH. Other lighting designs for dance include; Ballet San Jose, Bandaloop, Carte Blanche (Norway), Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Company C Ballet, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Jennifer Muller/The Works, Joe Goode Performance Group, LevyDance, Richmond Ballet, Rioult Dance NY, and Twyla Tharp Dance. Jim has toured the US, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and South America with the companies of Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Martha Graham, Pascal Rioult, and Twyla Tharp. www.jimfrenchld.com Kathryn T Graham (Production/Stage Manager) — KT Graham is currently Production Director and Stage Manager for Smuin Ballet and PSM for Amy Seiwert’s Imagery. Previous positions include PSM and Lighting Designer for Lewitzky Dance Company, Technical and Lighting Director for Washington Ballet, PSM and a Lighting Designer for WestWave Dance Festival, PSM for the performances for Dance/USA’s 2012 National Conference, Production Manager for Gay Games IV Cultural Festival in NYC, and also for the NGO Forum: United Nations World Conference on Women in China. She loves drawing, creating, and walking labyrinths, and is an avid knitter, reader, and diarist.