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Arts administrators say A trombone player warms up along of arts funding, has been threatened: Market Avenue during the Ballard Jazz funding at the federal level. that patrons have a say Festival. Painters and photographers in the future of the arts in of all levels of experience are hanging There were shockwaves felt nationwide when the White House released the America. their group show at the Mount Baker Neighborhood Center for the Arts. Three proposed 2018 federal budget. The Dollar Bill Cinema hosts a transgender budget calls for the elimination of the film festival, and there is a poetry slam at National Endowment for the Arts, Hugo House. Little kids are performing the National Endowment for the hip-hop at the Creative Dance Center, Humanities, and the Corporation for and the curtain rises on The Magic Flute Public Broadcasting. If the budget is at the Seattle Opera. There are original approved and, indeed, these historic paintings on the walls of our coffee institutions are eliminated, Seattle's shops and performances in the streets. arts and culture will be affected. Randy Engstrom, Director of Seattle’s Office of Seattle is bursting with art. Our citizens Arts and Culture, says, in a statement and, in turn, our city government, value issued in March, that the action “will the arts and support them generously. have profound economic and societal Art is everywhere because of arts impacts in Seattle and throughout the funding, and recently, one key source c o u n tr y.”

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Seattle is in a fortunate position to be generally well-equipped to weather budget cuts by way of the White House. “The city of Seattle’s Office of Arts and Culture has seen its budget increase significantly, thanks in large part to the 1% for Arts plan, and the admission of tax surpluses propelled by the likes of Chihuly Garden and Glass and the Great Wheel,” says McGinn.

In the early 1970s, Seattle established a comprehensive system for assuring that creativity would remain a part of civil life in perpetuity. The city instituted the progressive 1% for Art ordinance, which has since become a model other cities have replicated worldwide. The proposal stipulated that, noted a Seattle Times article at the time, "All requests for appropriations for construction projects from eligible funds shall include an amount equal to one (1) percent of the estimated cost of such project for works of art" and that those monies would go for the "selection, acquisition, and/or installation of works JUNE 30 & JULY 1 of art to be placed in, on, or about A LIVE PRESENTATION OF public facilities.” In 2015, McGinn notes, the city invested 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY $3 million to support more than 360 individuals and institutions. Following Pablo Rus Broseta, conductor Trump’s proposed NEA cuts, Engstrom Experience Stanley Kubrick’s spellbinding, Academy Award®-winning masterpiece. Recognized as one of the greatest works of science fiction cinema, 2001: A Space at the Office of Arts and Culture issued Odyssey is acclaimed for its technological realism, boldness and inspired use of music. a statement, which says, in part: Watch the film on the big screen with the iconic score, featuring the epic opening “Our office envisions a city driven by scene set to Also sprach Zarathustra by R. Strauss, performed live by the Seattle Symphony. creativity that provides the opportunity In association with Warner Bros., Southbank Centre London and the British Film Institute. to engage in diverse arts and cultural experiences.”

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Be that as it may, the current political climate has had some unexpected, adverse effects on arts funding. Asked if they’ve seen a shift in giving patterns since Trump’s ascendency, several arts The Seattle Symphony received $40,000 administrators say they have. “There’s from the NEA last year. Photo by Brandon been a focus on giving to social services Patoc. over the arts. People are donating to cultural institutions. Their investment Black Lives Matter and Standing Rock,” dollars and resources helps arts and Hsieh says. Artist Trust’s Kristina Goetz cultural organizations present over 10,000 agrees: “Who didn’t become a member of events, exhibits, and performances every the ACLU recently? I added them to my [personal] monthly giving budget, and 2030 5th AVENUE SEATTLE, WA 98121 year. Over 800,000 students received 206.448.2001 | palacekitchen.com they were a new one for me.” tickets to exhibits and performances @palace_kitchen through ArtsFund. They gave $2.4 Arts groups and artists are already million in grants last year to groups like adapting. “We need to tell our stories a the Seattle Art Museum, SIFF, Jet City little differently,” adds Goetz. Hsieh notes MEET THE NEW WORLD. Improv and Seattle Arts & Lectures. Since local artists are pursuing their creative SAME AS THE OLD WORLD. ArtsFund’s inception 47 years ago, the endeavors and then giving the proceeds organization has distributed more than from them to those well-known social $75 million. “We want to strengthen our service organizations. community with the arts,” Horita says. “The city is healthier with a diverse arts Investing in the arts at the sector.” federal level works Horita sees silver linings in regards to the political turmoil of late. “There’s “Let’s be clear, this was not about been an increase in dialogue and civic finances,” Randy Engstrom says of the engagement. It’s been a reminder to show proposed budget. “It was not an act of up and stand up for what we believe in.” strategy. It was a blunt instrument. An She paraphrased Republican politician ideological statement about the arts and Mike Huckabee, who recently wrote a creativity.” The NEA receives about $150 column in the Washington Post urging million in federal funding—that’s .004% Trump to not cut the NEA. “He says of the federal budget. Engstrom believes the arts civilize and humanize us all. that cutting the NEA is shortsighted and fiscally irresponsible. This isn’t a partisan issue. It’s about our A WORLD PREMIERE STAGING fundamental values.” In 2015, according to a report from the JUNE 7 - JULY 2 CENTER THEATRE AT THE ARMORY Kathy Hsieh, Cultural Partnerships and Bureau of Economic Analysis, the arts Grants Manager at Seattle’s Office of contributed more than 4% to our nation’s Arts and Culture, is encouraged as well. GDP, coming in at $704 billion. Agriculture “It’s inspiring to me,” she says. “Different and mining, combined, contributed to 3% of the GDP. 78,000 full-time jobs are groups are coming together for common TIX: 206.216.0833 | BOOK-IT.ORG

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Emel Mathlouthi | Pg. A-3

Kirill Gerstein | Pg. A-7

Les Ballets Trockadero | Pg. A-11

SUBSCRIPTIONS NOW ON SALE SINGLE TICKETS ON SALE AUGUST 1

Kathleen Battle Itzhak Perlman BANDALOOP Juilliard String Quartet Simon Trpčeski Third Coast Percussion Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan Diego El Cigala Imogen Cooper

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MEANY CENTER ADVISORY BOARD

Kathleen Wright, President WELCOME to Dave Stone, Vice President MEANY CENTER Kurt Kolb, Strategist Linda Linford Allen Linda Armstrong Joel Baldwin, ArtsFund Board Intern Dear Friends, Ross Boozikee Manisha Chainani I hope you are as excited as I am about our Luis Fernando Esteban 2017-18 Season which features 25 leading artists Davis B. Fox and ensembles from thirteen countries. We’ve invited old friends such as Garrick Ohlsson, new Brian Grant friends such as the Danish String Quartet and Becky Harris Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, and artists Kyra Hokanson Gray making their Meany Center debuts, including Cathy Hughes pianist Nareh Arghamanyan, Malian singer Yumi Iwasaki Habib Koité and the Montrose Trio. O. David Jackson

I am also proud of programming that Sally Kincaid represents new artistic challenges for us, as Katherine Kruger, Student Board Member well as the risk that comes with supporting Jeff Lehman leading edge work — for example, we are Craig Miller excited to present all three parts of Bill T. Chelsey Owen Jones/Arnie Zane Company’s newest work, Seema Pareek Analogy: A Trilogy on our World Dance Series; Darcy Paschino or Feathers of Fire, an interdisciplinary work Donald Rupchock that incorporates shadow puppetry, video projection, live performance, and music by Donald Swisher Iranian American musicians Loga Ramin Rick Szeliski Torkian and Azam Ali on our World Music & David Vaskevitch Theater Series. Gregory Wallace Jeannette Wing Finally, I am thrilled to welcome two legendary Mark Worthington musicians to our stage next season: Kathleen Battle and Itzhak Perlman, iconic artists who are seldom seen in so intimate a space as Ex-Officio Members Meany Theater, where no seat is more than Ana Mari Cauce, UW President 90 feet from the stage. Robert C. Stacey, Dean, College of Arts & Sciences Catherine Cole, Divisional Dean of the Arts I hope you enjoy the final performances of 2016-2017, and look forward to welcoming you back next season. EMERITUS BOARD Cynthia Bayley / Thomas Bayley / Cathryn Booth-LaForce / JC Cannon / Warmly, Elizabeth Cooper / Gail Erickson / Ruth Gerberding / Randy Kerr / Susan Knox / Matt Krashan, Emeritus Artistic Director / Sheila Edwards Lange / Frank Lau / Lois Rathvon / Dick Roth / Eric Rothchild / Jeff Seely / K. Freya Skarin / Rich Stillman / Lee Talner / Thomas Taylor / Ellen Wallach

Ellsworth C. "Buster" Alvord, In memoriam Betty Balcom, In memoriam Michelle Witt Ernest Henley, In memoriam Executive & Artistic Director Mina Person, In memoriam Jerome Sanford, Sr. In memoriam

A-2 UW WORLD SERIES EMEL MATHLOUTHI MAY 13, 2017 | 8 P.M.

The program will be announced from stage. SEASON-LONG SUPPORT COMES FROM There will be no intermission.

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Linda and Tom Allen Nancy D. Alvord Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Gail Erickson and Phil Lanum Lynn and Brian Grant Family Hugues Hoppe and Sashi Raghupathy Catherine and David Hughes Yumi Iwasaki and Anoop Gupta Matthew and Christina Krashan Chesley Owen and Robert Harris Eric and Margaret Rothchild Richard Szeliski and Lyn McCoy Ellen Wallach and Thomas Darden

encoreartsseattle.com A-3 About the Artist EMEL MATHLOUTHI

A strident songstress whose intensity is cloaked in melliflous vocals, Emel Mathlouthi is also known for her role as a leading artist in the Arab Spring. MY WORD IS FREE (Kelmti Horra) Born in Tunis, she was shunned from Emel Mathlouthi her country's official airwaves but rose to prominence through social I am those who are free and never fear media. She released her first album, I am the secrets that will never die Kelmti Horra (My Word is Free) in 2012, I am the voice of those who would not give in garnering lavish praise from critics I am the meaning amid the chaos and fans for her powerful vocals laid over a unique mix of North African I am the right of the oppressed rythyms and modern electronic beats. That is sold by these dogs (the regime) 2015 was a prolific year, including Who rob the people of their daily bread work on a new album with producer And slam the door in the face of ideas Valgeir Siggurdson and culminating with her solo performance at the I am those who are free and never fear Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony. Called I am the secrets that will never die one of the top fifteen acts of 2015 I am the voice of those who would not give in by PopMatters, Emel Mathlouthi is a I am free and my word is free unique artist with a powerful message I am free and my word is free and a voice beyond comparison. Don't forget the price of bread (livelihood) And don't forget the cause of our misery And don't forget who betrayed us in our time of need

I am those who are free and never fear I am the secrets that will never die I am the voice of those who would not give in TOWN MUSIC SERIES I am the secret of the red rose Whose color the years loved Whose scent the rivers buried And who sprouted as fire Calling those who are free

I am a star shining in the darkness I am a thorn in the throat of the oppressor I am a wind touched by fire JUNE 21 I am the soul of those who are not forgotten EVERY NEW I am the voice of those who have not died BEGINNING Works by: Let's make clay out of steel Reena Esmail And build with it a new love Christopher Theofanidis That becomes birds Jessie Montgomery & Gregg Kallor That becomes a country/home That becomes wind and rain

I am all the free people of the world put together I am like a bullet I am all the free people of the world put together Conducted by Joshua Roman I am like a bullet Town Music Artistic Director

Translated by Hussein M. Elkhafaifi, Director of the Arabic and Islamic Studies Program, UW Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization. Series Sponsors:

A-4 UW WORLD SERIES URGENT BEAUTY by ADHAM HAFEZ

Adham Hafez is an award-winning “east.” Coming from Tunisia, an African There has never been a time as critical Egyptian choreographer, performer, Arab Mediterranean country — a country as this time now, to listen — literally music composer and cultural producer that battled with colonialism and paid listen — to Arab artists. While the Arab based in Cairo. He is the founder and dearly — Mathlouthi is a true cosmopolitan (and generally the Middle Eastern) artistic director of HaRaKa, Egypt’s first from the other side of the ocean. Multi- subject continues to be demonized in dance research, development and archive references melt into complex scales and several contexts in the West, it is of an project; CAIROGRAPHY, Egypt’s only critical tonalities, dodging any monolithic cultural utmost urgency to insist on artistic and writing publication for choreography and identity one would think Tunisia has. cultural dialogues. As many Western performance studies; and TransDance, governments tilt to the right, there are a series of transdisciplinary festivals Tunisia: a country so crucial to Arab lessons to be learnt from Arab women on dance and performance. His awards feminist history, and to the ongoing artists who work against the tides. For it include First Prize for a Choreographer Arab uprisings. It was in the 1950s that is in Tunisia’s rich history and necessary by the Cairo Opera House and Egyptian Tunisia issued legal changes in favor of turmoil that we may find a song that Ministry of Culture, and a Leadership Grant women, banning polygamy, giving more answers many contemporary American from the USA State Department. Hafez also space in the public sector for women, concerns. And, it is in Syria’s pains and served as a fellow with the International challenging normative habits, traditions active dreaming towards the future that Society for the Performing Arts. and religiosity. Tunisia’s first president, we may regain our hope in humanity and Habib Bourguiba (1903-2000), saw the our faith in dreams. While myriad of simulacra and fictitious emancipation of Tunisian women to be representations of Arab and Middle in line with the fight for independence Yet, there is an abyss that separates Eastern women fill the media in the from France, as he continued to construct the reality of an Arab person from the so-called “West,” the so-called “Middle a modern state for his people. Yet even representation of Arabs in U.S. media. East” continues to culturally thrive and now images of oppressed veil-clad women This abyss continues to widen, and weave complex artistic creations out of are almost strictly the ones that circulate continues to actively empower terrorism. its rich history and critical present. This within Western media, as the West fails Terrorism triumphs when every Arab/ complexity and urgent beauty is hidden to mention that Turkish women had the Middle Eastern person is seen as a away under mediatized "veils” and right to vote before women in France or potential threat through institutionalized misrepresentations verging on outdated Japan, and that as early as 1899, Egypt and segregation practices, while every orientalism. Enter Emel Mathlouthi, with Arab countries witnessed shockwaves of Western subject is framed as a civilized her towering presence, a musicality that feminist revolt that started with the book victim. Terrorism triumphs the way straddles multiple genres and unexpected of Qassim Amin — the Egyptian jurist and racial segregation did, when every black cultural references, and a physicality so Islamic modernist — and culminated in the body was seen as dangerous, exotic vibrant it’s alarming. Emel Mathlouthi 1923 “Egyptian Feminist Union.” This Union or frightful, and every white body was ruptures multiple “veils” and tears through fought for Egyptian and Arab women’s framed as civilized, godly and “human.” It sediments of orientalism, hate speech equality and empowerment, coordinated is in our daily performances of difference and ignorance as she performs, in Arabic, between local feminist efforts and global and similarity that we either humanize or French and English, original compositions feminist movements, and made it possible dehumanize one another. It is in music and lyrics from the gut. for Egyptian women to attend public like Emel Mathlouthi’s that we either schools and participate in politics. “listen” or are forever lost. Emel Mathlouthi, born in 1982, and best known for her protest music, has toured Aware of the difference between Emel in Arabic means “Hopes.” Here is the world with her eclectic songs that led the State and the individual, and to hopes, ya Emel: May your voice ring to her collaboration with both Harmonia institutionalized activism and grassroots with the strength of Tunisian women Mundi and Partisan Records on two work, contemporary Arab artists continue and with the pain of their martyrs. May albums. Known for her struggle since their struggles for freedom of expression, your voice emanate with the courage of the Tunisian government banned her representative rights and global Syria’s White Helmets and the horrors music in 2008, and also for her songs on cultural dialogue away from colonialist of their children. May your voice vibrate the streets during the Tunisian uprising misconceptions. Emel Mathlouthi’s with Tahrir’s chants and with Sinai’s fears. in 2011, Emel Mathlouthi stunned her work is one voice that richly reminds us And, may your voice, ya Emel, remind audiences with her performance at the of a radical generation of Arab artists us of the necessary political exercise of Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony. whose work unfolds on stretches of listening. No voice is apolitical, no song is war zones and mine fields, but also on apolitical, and no struggle is unworthy of Her work brings us to face and realize the theater stages as old as time, and within our full attention and support. complexity both of Arab subjects and of cultural landscapes joyously oblivious of contemporary Arab performance, as it canonized practices. questions the very notions of “west” and

encoreartsseattle.com A-5 Remembering Ernest Henley

In March, 2017, Meany Center lost a close friend and long-time supporter, Ernest (“Ernie”) Henley.

To most of the University, Ernie was a physics professor, a Department Chair, a former Dean. Here at Meany Center, however, he will always be remembered as the man who helped make possible everything we are today.

It was under Ernie’s watch as Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences that Founding Artistic Director Matt Krashan first established the footprint for the former UW World Series featuring piano, chamber music, world music and dance from around the globe. “It’s going to cost a lot,” Matt told him, but Ernie was unfazed. He was a founding member of our Advisory Board in 1988 where he tirelessly served for 25 years before moving to our Emeritus Board in 2013.

Ernie was a faithful subscriber to Meany Center’s President’s Piano Series as well as International Chamber Music since 1980, attending performances with his wife, Elaine. A pianist himself, he also served on our program committee for the piano series.

However much pleasure Ernie gained over his many years attending performances here, he and Elaine gave so much more back. In 2011, they established the Elaine and Ernest Henley Endowment for Classical Music at Meany to foster the passion and appreciation for classical music that they share in the next generation of artists and audiences. PRESIDENT'S PIANO SERIES GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY ERIC & MARGARET ROTHCHILD KIRILL GERSTEIN MAY 16, 2017 | 7:30 P.M.

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ROLAND M. TRAFTON ENDOWMENT FUND J.S. BACH Four Duets (1685-1750) E Minor, BWV 802 F Major, BWV 803 MEDIA SPONSOR G Major, BWV 804 A Minor, BWV 805

JOHANNES BRAHMS Piano Sonata No. 2 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 2 (1833-1897) Allegro non troppo, ma energico Andante con espressione Meany Center thanks the following Signature Sponsors for Scherzo: Allegro — Poco più moderato underwriting this evening's program. Finale: Sostenuto — Allegro non troppo

Nancy D. Alvord e rubato — Molto sostenuto Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Linda Armstrong INTERMISSION Heidi Charleson Gail Erickson and Phil Lanum Lynn and Brian Grant Family FRANZ LISZT Transcendental Études S. 139, (1852) Dr. Martin Greene and Kathleen Wright (1811-1886) Preludio Sally Schaake Kincaid Karen Koon and Brad Edwards Molto Vivace Matthew and Christina Krashan Paysage Hans and Kristin Mandt Mazeppa Bill and Meg Morgan Mina B. Person Feux Follets Don and Toni Rupchock Vision Evelyn Simpson Eroica David and Marcie Stone Donald and Gloria Swisher Wilde Jagd Mark and Amy Worthington Ricordanza Allegro Agitato Molto Harmonies du Soir Chasse-neige

Kirill Gerstein appears by arrangement with CM Artists. Recordings available on the Myrios Classics label.

encoreartsseattle.com A-7 About the Program KIRILL GERSTEIN

Four Duets, BWV 802–805 writing counterpoint. Dollops of expressive Romantic, filled with far-ranging moods and Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) chromatic harmony add emotional depth to making technical demands that suggest the rigorous part-writing. The basic tempo is a Lisztian mindset, especially the second Among Bach’s voluminous keyboard slow and measured, the mood serious and theme. Powerful descending scales further works, the brief Duets, BWV 802–805, are introspective. Perhaps the most imposing the strong connection to Liszt’s world. not as well-known as the Well-Tempered edifice of the set, Bach takes time to foray Extended passages of outright storminess Clavier, English and French Suites, Partitas into different keys, adding further interest. contrast with moments of relative calm — and “Italian” Concerto to mention but a that actually serve to emphasize the overall few of his unalloyed gems for organ and tempestuous demeanor and youthful ardor. harpsichord. Yet these beguiling miniatures Piano Sonata No. 2 in F-sharp Minor, Two quiet but by no means peaceful chords and small only in length; they are filled with Op. 2 (1852) close the movement. bold chromatic counterpoint and expressive Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) richness. They are not duets in the sense of The ensuing Andante con espressione is involving more than one player, but simply Brahms was a fine pianist, one lacking the a set of fantasy-like variations, inspired as being conceived for two independent ultimate degree of virtuosity (and certainly by a Medieval song, “Mir ist Leide” (“I feel music lines or voices, much like his famous the virtuoso’s mindset) but richly endowed sorrow”). It opens with a finely etched two-part inventions. Composed in 1739, with expressive and persuasive musicality. theme at far remove from the heated they are among the works that populate the Clara Schumann, one of the 19th century’s passion of the preceding movement. A later Third Book of the Clavier-Ubung, originally most noted pianists, commented that she lyrical motive recalls the lyrical genius of scored for organ. had never heard anyone play the piano with Schubert, not the last time Brahms’ often such musical insight and power as Brahms. under-appreciated lyric gift would blossom. The first Duet in E Minor, BWV 802, is a Naturally, piano music played a prominent fervent double fugue launched by an role in his development as a composer. At the movement’s end Brahms reprises energetic rising scalar theme. The work, as All three of his early piano sonatas are that theme, leading directly into the brief one would expect, shows Bach’s unequalled large, sprawling canvasses. The third of the Scherzo: Allegro, a galloping variant on the ability to partner highly polyphonic textures threesome, in F minor, Op. 5, has retained Medieval tune. Here, too, moods shift with the sheer joy of both execution and a firm spot in the solo piano repertoire. between agitated energy and moments listening pleasure. Who said minor keys Numbers 1 and 2 pop up occasionally and of optimism. In particular, this movement are always sad? (Another example of joyful remind us why Robert and Clara Schumann points to the later Op. 10 Ballades. music in the minor is the delightful final were so impressed by Brahms when he movement the flute-led Orchestral Suite No. visited them in 1853. As Brahms would Taking a cue from many of Beethoven’s 2 in B Minor.) later do for Antonín Dvořák, advocating works, the Finale is the longest and the Bohemian composer to the publisher weightiest movement, and opens with a The duet in F Major, BWV 803, is also a Simrock, the Schumanns persuaded their flowing trill-laden introductory Sostenuto fugue laid out in the form of a Baroque-era publisher, Breitkopf and Härtel, to print their section. With the Allegro proper Brahms da capo aria (ABA) in which strong contrast visitor’s piano music. refashions the implied theme of the is established between outer sections— Sostenuto into an energentic minor-key flowing and lyrical—and the highly As is well-known, Brahms was almost orchestral edifice high on energy that chromatic and dissonant inner section, cast merciless in denigrating his early works by readily shows the composer’s command in the minor to enhance contrast between unceremoniously casting them into the of counterpoint. (Brahms once said the the two miniature worlds in this miniature fireplace. Luckily for posterity, all three of two greatest events in his life were the piece. The main theme is a rising triad that the aforementioned sonatas were spared unification of Germany under Bismarck faintly resembles the Two-Part Invention the ordeal by fire! The second numbered and, more important here, the publication No. 8, also in F Major. sonata was composed before the first, of the Bach Gesellschaft — all 56 volumes of and Brahms dedicated the work to Clara music by the “Cantor of Leipzig.”) As with the The G Major duet is the shortest of Schumann, who remained his closest friend opening movement, mood swings abound, the four, and bears a keen familial and musical confidante for the remainder though here Brahms posits a blissful echo connection to the Two-Part Inventions, of their lives. (She died only a year previous of the movement’s opening bars. evoking the élan and simplicity of a to Brahms’ passing in 1897.) Though some dance. A rising, bouncy theme sets a have found the sonata a bit wayward in its mood of exuberant energy. Not even a unfolding, a kinder assessment celebrates Transcendental Études, S.139 detour into E Minor (same key signature its improvisatory-sounding exploration of Franz Liszt (1811–1886) as G Major, i.e., one sharp) lessens the feeling and sonority. dance-like ambience. In 1826, still in his mid-teens, Liszt was The opening Allegro non troppo, ma energico already famously known for his prodigious The concluding Duet, BWV 805 in A Minor, is cast in Classical sonata-allegro form, keyboard pyrotechnics. That same year he once again demonstrates Bach’s fluency in but its mood and manner are thoroughly began work on what eventually evolved

A-8 UW WORLD SERIES into his twelve Transcendental Études, a next number, Ricordanza (“Remembrance”) project that unfolded over several decades. shifts far from the “hunt” and revels in He produced a revised set in 1837–38, wistful thoughts and nostalgic recollections. considered even more “transcendentally” difficult than the final version of 1851–52. Étude No. 10, Allegro agitato molto, lacks a With regard to the interim set from the ‘30s, discriptive title. Here, too, Schumann had an a published review by Robert Schumann observation to share: it is “…ten times more characterized them as “studies in storm difficult than before,” referring to Liszt’s and dread…fit for ten or twelve players in earlier version of this revised piece. Over its the world.” His greatly gifted wife Clara was roughly four-minute journey the motivated even more dismissive in her assessment, pianist must negotiate energy-sapping skips, damning Liszt as “a smasher of pianos.” octave passages, and numbingly difficult Still, pianists and listeners alike continue rapid fingerwork. Liszt biographer and to be drawn to and challenged by the composer Humphrey Searle described this extraordinary technical demands of this fast and furious Étude as “a violent, rather music. Though one might assume the cover savage piece.” title “Transcendental” might have derived Remembering Mina Person simply from their technical challenges, Liszt The penultimate Harmonies du soir chose the term to reflect his obsession, (“Harmonies of the evening”) is perhaps We are deeply saddened by the loss of shared by most early Romantics, for a view the most intimate and poetic of the lot. our dear friend, collaborator and patron of Nature as a manifestation of Spirit — Even so, this is by no means an easy piece Mina Person. Mina was a very long-time think Emerson and Thoreau. to bring off; the music is replete with member of both the Meany Center lightning-fast chord progressions, beyond- (UW World Series) Advisory Board and The opening Preludio, brief and powerful, the-octave stretches and very widely spaced a dedicated member of the Center's both invites and warns a pianist of the positioning of the hands. The music begins Education Committee. requisite virtuosity needed to simply get the slowly, with rich and almost Impressionist notes right. More than that, the thundering chords in the right hand supported by single She was passionate about many things, chords recede to allow the flowing grace notes in bass. As the piece proceeds a spare but perhaps her fiercest commitment of the closing moments. The Molto vivace, melody is heard floating over chromatic was to children. She believed fervently replete with fear-inducing hand-crossings, roaming chords. Much of the piece unfolds that every child is special; that every child lacks a programmatic title, which prompted as a series of rolling chords supported a deserves to have beauty in their lives composer/pianist Ferrucio Busoni to melody in the clouds. and that every child should have positive add one of his own: Fusées because of its experiences that help them develop rocket-like closing. The following Paysage The final Étude, Andante con moto, bears the and grow into their best possible selves. (“Scenery”) evokes an understated and subtitle Chasse-neige (literally “snow plow” For Mina, music was a perfect vehicle to poignant rustic landscape. but probably intended to convey “sleigh”). accomplish that. Swirling chromatic scales recall wind- Mina helped fund, collaboratively plan, Returning to sheer expressive power, blown snow. Rather than employing long and implement artistic residencies for Mazeppa is Liszt’s take on Victor Hugo’s and lyrical vocal-type themes, Liszt avails Seattle K-12 schools, working tirelessly dramatic poem about the historical figure himself of brief fragmentary motives that, to make sure children of color, children who became a nearly mythical icon. Feux in conjunction with the aforementioned of immigrants and refugees, children follets (“Will o’ the wisp”) abounds in subtly chromaticism, sound strikingly modern. who were economically or socially shifting colors that suggest the eerie and Keen to the pianistic challenge of this piece disadvantaged saw themselves reflected luminescent swamp gas attributed in Robert Schumann noted, “It presents a in the artists they watched on our stage folklore as gifts from fairies and spirits of number of highly difficult figures in the or met in their classrooms. the air. Vision also impresses by its pianistic accompaniment, and one often does not color, which is darker and slower than the know where to find the fingers for them.” Because of her, Meany Center was preceding Étude; Busoni opined that it able to offer more than 500 in-school limned a portrait of Napoleon’s funeral. The © 2017 Steven Lowe residencies, including four “Night of aptly titled Eroica proceeds with epic drama Strings” extended multi-week residencies and nobility. in which professional artists and students performed together in a public Wilde Jagd (“Wild hunt”) is both furiously concert. These activities reached over energetic and arguably tongue-in-cheek. 50,000 students in Seattle area schools. All manner of the hunt is evoked, e.g., rustic horn calls, excited hunters and even Mina’s dedication will continue to inspire allusions to the hapless if brave, prey. The the lives of many, and she will be very dearly missed. About the Artists KIRILL GERSTEIN

Mr. Gerstein records for Myrios Classics. His solo recordings feature Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition and Schumann’s Carnaval, and his recording of works by Schumann, Liszt and Oliver Knussen was chosen by The New York Times as one of the best recordings of 2010. His first orchestral recording of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 and the Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, was released by Myrios in March 2015 and is the first recording using the new critical edition of Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 recently completed by the Tchaikovsky Museum in Moscow using the composer’s original second version. KIRILL GERSTEIN works with the Leipzig Gewandhaus His most recent recording for the Myrios The multifaceted pianist Kirill Gerstein Orchestra, WDR Cologne, Deutsche label is Liszt’s complete Transcendental is rapidly ascending into classical Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Frankfurt Études, while upcoming recording plans music’s highest ranks. With a masterful Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre include Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue technique, discerning intelligence, and National de France and the Netherlands and Concerto in F with the St. Louis a musical curiosity that has led him to Radio Philharmonic; appears in recital Symphony, David Robertson conducting. explore repertoire spanning centuries at Vienna’s Musikverein; and performs and numerous styles, he has proven to at the Proms in London and the Born in 1979 in Voronezh, Russia, be one of today’s most intriguing and Aldeburgh Festival. Mr. Gerstein studied piano at a special versatile musicians. music school for gifted children and Kirill Gerstein’s recent North American taught himself to play jazz by listening to Mr. Gerstein is the sixth recipient of engagements include performances his parents’ extensive record collection. the prestigious Gilmore Artist Award, with the Philadelphia and Minnesota At the age of 14, he came to the United presented every four years to an Orchestras, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, States to study jazz piano as the youngest exceptional pianist who, regardless of and the Chicago, Toronto, San Francisco, student ever to attend Boston’s Berklee age or nationality, possesses broad and Cincinnati, Houston, Dallas and Montreal College of Music. After completing his profound musicianship and charisma and symphonies among others. He has also studies in three years and following his who desires and can sustain a career as recently appeared at Tanglewood with second summer at the Boston University a major international concert artist. the Boston Symphony, Blossom with the program at Tanglewood, Mr. Gerstein Mr. Gerstein was also awarded First Prize Cleveland Orchestra, the Aspen Music turned his focus back to classical music at the 2001 Arthur Rubinstein Piano Festival and the Santa Fe Chamber Music and moved to New York City to attend Competition in Tel Aviv, and received a Festival. Internationally, Kirill Gerstein has the Manhattan School of Music, where 2002 Gilmore Young Artist Award and a played with such prominent European he studied with Solomon Mikowsky and 2010 Avery Fisher Grant. orchestras as the Berlin Philharmonic earned both Bachelors and Masters and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, of Music degrees by the age of 20. He Highlights of his 2016-17 season in North the Munich, Rotterdam and London continued his studies in Madrid with America include return appearances Philharmonics, Dresden Staatskappelle, Dmitri Bashkirov and in Budapest with with the Cleveland Orchestra, New York Finnish Radio Orchestra, Tonhalle Ferenc Rados. Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, and Orchestra in Zurich, and the Czech the symphony orchestras of Detroit, St. Philharmonic, both in Prague and on Mr. Gerstein became an American citizen Louis, Atlanta, Vancouver, New Jersey tour. He has performed recitals in Paris, in 2003 and divides his time between the and San Diego; solo recitals in Chicago, Prague, Hamburg, London’s Wigmore United States and Germany. Washington, DC, Seattle, Kansas City, Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall, and at Miami, Princeton, and at Duke University; the Liszt Academy in Budapest. His and summer festival appearances at European festival appearances include Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival, performances at the Salzburg Festival as Rockport Chamber Music Festival and the well as at Verbier, the Lucerne Festival, Bravo! Vail Festival with the Philadelphia the Proms in London and the Jerusalem Orchestra. Internationally, Mr. Gerstein Chamber Music Festival.

A-10 UW WORLD SERIES WORLD DANCE SERIES GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY GLENN KAWASAKI LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE

SUPPORT COMES FROM MONTE CARLO MAY 18-20, 2017 | 8 P.M.

FEATURING

Linda and Tom Allen Tory Dobrin, Artistic Director Nancy D. Alvord Isabel Martinez Rivera, Associate Director Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Liz Harler, General Manager Stephen and Sylvia Burges Hellmut and Marcy Golde DANCERS Lynn and Brian Grant Family Olga Supphozova and Yuri Smirnov | Robert Carter Hugues Hoppe and Sashi Raghupathy Moussia Shebarkarova and Vyacheslav Legupski | Paolo Cervellera Guzella Verbitskaya and Mikhail Mudkin | Yumi Iwasaki and Anoop Gupta Jack Furlong, Jr Varvara Bratchikova and Sergey Legupski | Giovanni Goff redo Matthew and Christina Krashan Helen Highwaters and Vladimir Legupski | Duane Gosa Chelsey Owen and Robert Harris Alla Snizova and Innokenti Smoktumuchsky | Carlos Hopuy Cecilia Paul and Harry Reinert Yakatarina Verbosovich and Roland Deaulin | Chase Johnsey Judy Pigott Tatiana Youbetyoubootskaya and Araf Legupski | Laszlo Major Lois H. Rathvon Nadia Doumiafeyva and Kravlji Snepek | Philip Martin-Nielson Joseph Saitta Lariska Dumbchenko and Pepe Dufk | Raff aele Morra Richard Szeliski and Lyn McCoy Colette Adae and Marat Legupski | Christopher Ouellette Donna and Joshua Taylor Doris Vidanya and Ilya Bobovnikov | Matthew Poppe Ellen Wallach and Tom Darden Nina Immobilashvili and Stanislas Kokitch | Alberto Pretto George Wilson and Claire McClenny Irina Kolesterolikova and Boris Mudko | Giovanni Ravelo Maria Paranova and Boris Nowitsky | Carlos Renedo Eugenia Repelskii and Jacques d’Aniels | Joshua Thake Nina Enimenimynimova and Ketevan Iosifi di | Long Zou

COMPANY STAFF Music Director, George Daugherty | Associate Production Manager, Barbara Domue | Ballet Master, Raff aele Morra | Lighting Supervisor, Erika Johnson Wardrobe Supervisor, Ryan Hanson | Development Manager, Lauren Gibbs Costume Designer, Ken Busbin, Jeff rey Sturdivant | Stylistic Guru, Marius Petipa Orthopedic Consultant, Dr. David S. Weiss Photographer, Zoran Jelenic

encoreartsseattle.com A-11 Program LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO

LE LAC DES CYGNES (SWAN LAKE, ACT II) Music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Choreography: after Lev Ivanovich Ivanov Costumes: Mike Gonzales Decor: Jason Courson Lighting: Kip Marsh

Swept up into the magical realm of swans (and birds), this elegiac phantasmagoria of variations and ensembles in line and music is the signature work of Les Ballets Trockadero. The story of Odette, the beautiful princess turned into a swan by the evil sorcerer, and how she is nearly saved by the love of Prince Siegfried, was not so unusual a theme when Tchaikovsky first wrote his ballet in 1877 — the metamorphosis of mortals to birds and visa versa occurs frequently in Russian folklore. The original Swan Lake at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow was treated unsuccessfully; a year after Tchaikovsky's death in 1893, the St. Petersburg Maryinsky Ballet produced the version we know today. Perhaps the world's best-known ballet, its appeal seems to stem from the mysterious and pathetic qualities of the heroine juxtaposed with the canonized glamour of 19th-century Russian ballet.

Benno: Innokenti Smoktumuchsky (friend and confidant to...) Prince Siegfried: Vyacheslav Legupski (who falls in love with...) Queen of the Swans: Yakatarina Verbosovich Swans: Colette Adae, Nadia Doumiafeyva, Nina Immobilashvili, Irina Kolesterolikova, Maria Paranova, Eugenia Repelskii, Doris Vidanya, Tatiana Youbetyabootskaya (all of whom got this way because of....) Von Rothbart: Jacques d’Aniels (an evil wizard who goes about turning girls into swans)

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Pax De Deux, Solo, or Mordern work to be announced

“Pas de Six” from ESMERALDA Music: Cesare Pugni Choreography: after Marius Petipa Staged: Elena Kunikova Costumes: David Tetrault Lighting: Kip Marsh

A-12 UW WORLD SERIES La Esmeralda is a three-act ballet based upon Victor Hugo’s Notre Dame de Paris. Originally choreographed by Jules Perrot, the ballet premiered in London in 1844, with Carlotta Grisi in the title role. The Russian premiere, with new choreography by Marius Petipa, was in St. Petersburg in 1886. The story is of the hopeless love of the deaf and hunchback Quasimodo for the gypsy girl Esmeralda. The great Russian ballerina Alexandra Danilova wrote in her memoirs: “...Esmeralda was in love with a very handsome officer who was romancing her while he was betrothed to another woman — the usual story — and, of course, he wouldn’t marry her. She was burned at the stake. Very tragic.” In this scene during the second act of the ballet, the heartbroken Esmeralda laments the two-timing officer while being consoled by her friend, Pierre Grengoire, and her fellow gypsies.

Esmeralda: Nina Immobilashvili Pierre Grengoire: Jacques d’Aniels Gypsies: Artist s of the Trockadero

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DON QUIXOTE Music by Ludwig Minkus Choreography after Marius Petipa and Alexander Gorsky Costumes by Mike Gonzales Lighting by Kip Marsh Décor by Robert Gouge

Scene: The outdoor cafe of Lorenza's Inn

Waitresses: Colette Adae, Guzella Verbitskaya Helen Highwaters, Nina Immobilashvili, Gypsies: Nadia Doumiafeyva and Eugenia Repelskii Lorenza: Maria Paranova (mother to Kitri) Kitri: Alla Snizova (the prettiest girl in the village, madly in love with Basil) Basil: Ilya Bobovnikov (a pesoless barber with a roving eye and a weakness for strong drink)

The Marquise Cristobal Iglesias Habsburgo de Azuza y Cycamonga: Boris Mudko (a rich nobleman, desperately seeking a beautiful young wife)

Amour: Olga Supphozova (who neatly ties together all the loose ends) Fairies: Artists of the Trockadero

Don Quixote & Sancho Panza*

*Due to economic reasons, these two characters have been eliminated. You may, if you like, imagine the aristocratic vagrant and his constant companion, Sancho Panza, wandering about aimlessly and getting in everyone's way, which in most versions is all they do anyway.

encoreartsseattle.com A-13 About the Artists LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO

LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo was founded in 1974 by a group of ballet enthusiasts for the purpose of presenting a playful, entertaining view of traditional, classical ballet in parody form and en travesti, Les Ballets Trockadero first performed in the late-late shows in Off-Off Broadway lofts. The Trocks, as they are affectionately known, quickly garnered a major critical essay by Arlene Croce in The New Yorker, and combined with reviews in The New York Times and The Village Voice, repertoire from the prestigious Critic’s heavy bodies delicately balancing on toes established the Company as an artistic and Circle National Dance Awards (2007) (UK), as swans, sylphs, water sprites, romantic popular success. By mid 1975, the Trocks' the Theatrical Managers Award (2006) (UK) princesses, angst-ridden Victorian ladies inspired blend of their loving knowledge and the 2007 Positano Award (Italy) for — enhances rather than mocks the spirit of dance, their comic approach, and the excellence in dance. In December 2008, the of dance as an art form, delighting and astounding fact that men can, indeed, Trocks appeared at the 80th anniversary amusing the most knowledgeable, as dance en pointe without falling flat on their Royal Variety Performance, to aid of the well as novices, in the audiences. faces, was being noted beyond New York. Entertainment Artistes’ Benevolent Fund, Articles and notices in publications such as in London, attended by members of the For the future, there are plans for new Variety, Oui, The London Daily Telegraph, as British royal family. works in the repertoire: new cities, states well as a Richard Avedon photo essay in and countries to perform in; and for Vogue, made the Company nationally and The Trocks’ numerous tours have been the continuation of the Trocks’ original internationally known. both popular and critical successes — their purpose: to bring the pleasure of dance to frenzied annual schedule has included the widest possible audience. They will, as The 1975-76 season was a year of growth appeared in over 35 countries and over they have done for more than forty years: and full professionalization. The Company 600 cities worldwide since its founding “Keep on Trockin’.” found management, qualified for the in 1974. Including seasons at the Bolshoi National Endowment for the Arts Touring Theater in Moscow and the Chatelet MEET THE DANCERS Program, and hired a full-time teacher and Theater in Paris. The Company continues ballet mistress to oversee daily classes and to appear in benefits for international COLETTE ADAE rehearsals. Also in this season, they made AIDS organizations such as DRA (Dancers Colette was orphaned at the age of three their first extended tours of the United Responding to AIDS) and Classical Action when her mother, a ballerina of some States and Canada. Packing, unpacking, and in New York City; the Life Ball in Vienna, dubious distinction, impaled herself on the repacking tutus and drops, stocking giant Austria; Dancers for Life in Toronto, first violinist’s bow after a series of rather sized pointe shoes by the case; running Canada; London’s Stonewall Gala; and uncontrolled fouette voyage. Colette was for planes and chartered buses all became Germany’s AIDS Tanz Gala. A documentary raised and educated with the “rats” of routine parts of life. about the company, Rebels on Pointe, was the Opera House but the trauma of her recently completed and will travel to film childhood never let her reach her full Since those beginnings, the Trocks have festivals throughout 2017. potential. However, under the kind and established themselves as a major watchful eye of the Trockadero, she has dance phenomenon throughout the The original concept of Les Ballets begun to flower, and we are sure you will world. They have participated in dance Trockadero De Monte Carlo has not enjoy watching her growth. festivals world wide and there have changed. It is a Company of professional been television appearances as varied male dancers performing the full range of VARVARA BRATCHIKOVA as a Shirley MacLaine special, The Dick the ballet and modern dance repertoire, A people’s Artist and Cat’s Meow, Varvara Cavett Show, What's My Line?, Real People, including classical and original works was educated at the Revanchist Institute. On-Stage America, with Kermit and Miss in faithful renditions of the manners She began her career as Pistachia in V. Piggy on their show Muppet Babies, and and conceits of those dance styles. The Stolichnaya’s production of The Nutcracker a BBC Omnibus special on the world comedy is achieved by incorporating and and achieved stardom as Odette/Odile/ of ballet hosted by Jennifer Saunders. exaggerating the foibles, accidents, and Juliet/Giselle/Aurora in the famous Night of Awards that the Trocks have garnered underlying incongruities of serious dance. the 1000 Tsars. Her repertoire encompasses over the years include for best classical The fact that men dance all the parts — nearly all the works she appears in.

A-14 UW WORLD SERIES MAY NADIA DOUMIAFEYVA kindly peasants. Her debut at the Maryinsky 23 No one who has seen Heliazpopkin will Theatre, St. Petersburg, was marred by soon forget the spiritual athleticism of her overzealous grand jete into the Tsar’s Nadia Doumiafeyva, a child of Caucasus box, impaling a Grand Duchess. Banished who changed her name for show business from Russia, she made her way arduously reasons. Her fiery attack combined with to New York, where she founded - and still lyric somnolence produce confusion in directs - the Ecole de Ballet de Hard-Nox. audiences the world over, especially when Her most famous exercise is the warm-up, applied to ballet. consisting of a martini and an elevator.

LARISKA DUMBCHENKO MARIA PARANOVA World Percussion Bash Students from the UW percussion studio, Before defecting to the West, Lariska’s Maria's remarkable life story — only gamelan, and steel pan ensembles perform supreme agility aroused the interest of the now coming to light after 19 dark years music from around the world. Russian space program, and in 1962 she in near hopeless conviction that she 7:30 pm Meany Studio Theater became the first ballerina to be shot into was Mamie Eisenhower — will never orbit. Hurtling through the stratosphere, fully be told. The discovery of her true she delivered handy make-up tips to identity (at a Republican fundraiser in an assembled crowd of celebrities back Chicago) brought her to the attention MAY on earth, including the now legendary: of the Trockadero, where she is slowly 26 “Whitney Houston, we have a problem....” recovering her technical powers.

NINA ENIMENIMYNIMOVA EUGENIA REPELSKII Nina's frail spiritual qualities have caused The secrets of Mme Repelskii's this elfin charmer to be likened to a lemon beginnings lie shrouded behind the soufflé poised delicately on the brink of Kremlin wall; in fact, no fewer than total collapse. Her adorably over-stretched six lie in the wall (in jars of assorted tendons exude a childlike sweetness that sizes). Dancing lightly over pogroms belies her actual age. and other sordid reorganizational Modern Ensemble: Player’s Choice Cristina Valdés, director, leads UW Music measures, Eugenia has emerged as a students in a program of premieres and HELEN HIGHWATERS ballerina nonpareil whose pungency is arrangements curated by UW Modern Helen has defected to America three times indisputable. Music ensemble members. and been promptly returned on each 7:30 pm Meany Studio Theater occasion — for "artistic reasons." Recently MOUSSIA SHEBARKAROVA. discovered en omelette at the Easter Egg A celebrated child prodigy back in the Hunt in Washington, DC, she was hired by Brezhnev era, Moussia Shebarkarova MAY the Trockadero, where her inexplicable rise astounded her parents at the age of two by 30 to stardom answers the musical question: taking a correspondence course in ballet. Who put the bop in the bop-shibop shibop? Sadly, due to the unreliable Russian postal system, she has only just graduated. NINA IMMOBILASHVILI For more years than she cares to admit, ALLA SNIZOVA Nina has been the Great Terror of the Alla enjoyed great success as a baby international ballet world. The omniscient ballerina at the mere age of 9. Being a child and ubiquitous Immobilashvili is reputed prodigy, she developed serious allergy to have extensive dossiers on every major problems and could only perform short dance figure, living and/or dead. This pieces. Known as the “little orphan,” Miss ETHNOMUSICOLOGY VISITING ARTIST Manimou Camara: amazing collection has assured her entree Snizova joined the Trockadero on tour, West African Music & Dance into the loftiest choreographic circles; the appearing cloaked in an enigma (complete Master drummer and dancer is joined by roles she has thus been able to create with zip-out lining). A consummate actress, his students in this special performance. are too numerous to mention. We are she has danced the part of Little Miss 7:30 pm Meany Theater honored to present this grand dame in Markova and the title role of Glinka’s Popoy- her spectacular return to the ballet stage. the Sailor Man.

IRINA KOLESTEROLIKOVA OLGA SUPPHOZOVA MORE AT: WWW.MUSIC.WASHINGTON.EDU Irina was discovered, along with Rasputin’s Olga made her first public appearance in a ArtsUW TICKET OFFICE: 206.543.4880 boot, adrift in a basket on the River Neva by KGB line-up under dubious circumstances.

encoreartsseattle.com A-15 After a seven-year-to-life hiatus, she JACQUES d’ANIELS THE LEGUPSKI BROTHERS his ballet slippers and fled to the sewers, CARLOS HOPUY GIOVANNI RAVELO now returns to her adoring fans. When Jacques was originally trained as an Araf, Marat, Sergey, Vladimir and only to surface these forty years later. Birthplace: Havana, Cuba. Training: Birthplace: Bucaramanga, Colombia. questioned about her forced sabbatical, astronaut before entering the world of Vyacheslav are not really brothers, nor Escuela Nacional de Arte, Havana. Joined Training: Ballet Anna Pavlova (Bogota), The Olga’s only comment was “I did it for Art’s ballet. Strong but flexible, good natured are their names really Araf, Marat, Sergey, KRAVLJI SNEPEK Trockadero: February 2012. Previous Rock School, Escuela del Ballet Nacional de sake.” Art, however, said nothing. but dedicated, sensible but not given to Vladimir or Vyacheslav nor are they real Kravlij comes to the Trockadero from his companies: National Ballet of Cuba, Cuba. Joined Trockadero: October 2008. unbelievable flights of fantastic behavior, Russians, nor can they tell the difference split-level birthplace in Siberia, where National Ballet of Costa Rica, Ballet San Previous Companies: Roxey Ballet, Ballet GUZELLA VERBITSKAYA Mr. d’Aniels is an expert on recovering between a pirouette and a jete...but... he excelled in toe, tap, acrobatic and Antonio. Awards: International Ballet Nacional de Colombia. Guzella was born on a locomotive speeding from ballet injuries (including the dread well...they do move about rather nicely Hawaiian. This good natured Slav is Competitions in Havana (Gold medalist through the Ural Mountains. She quickly “Pavlova’s clavicle”). ...and...they fit into the costumes. famous for his breathtaking technique: 1999, 2001, 2002), Nagoya (Gold CARLOS RENEDO realized the limitations of her native a blend of froth and frou-frou centered medalist 2002), and Jackson, Mississippi Birthplace: Barcelona, Spain. Training: folk dancing and quaint handicrafts. ILYA BOBOVNIKOV MIKHAIL MUDKIN on a spine of steel, painfully acquired at (finalist, 2010). Jorge Fdez-Hidalgo Estudi de Dansa After her arrival in America, she learned The recipient of this year’s Jean de Brienne The famed Russian danseur for whom the hands and feet of his teacher, Glib Barcelona, Steps on Broadway (NYC). Joined everything she now knows about ballet Award, Ilya is particularly identified the word “Bolshoi” was coined, Mikhail Generalization, who has already trained CHASE JOHNSEY Trockadero: February 2012. Previous from a seminar entitled “Evil Fairies on the for his Rabelaisian ballet technique. A comes to American from his triumphs as many able dancers. As an artist in the Birthplace: Winter Haven, FL. Training: companies: Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Periphery of the Classical Dance.” revolutionary in the art of partnering, he understudy to a famous impresario in the classical, heroic, tragical mold, young Harrison Arts Center, Virginia School of the Steps Ensemble, Rebecca Kelly Ballet. was the first to introduce crazy glue to role of the Bear in Petrushka. Kravlji wrenched the heart of all who saw Arts. Joined Trockadero: April 2004. Previous YAKATARINA VERBOSOVICH stop supported pirouettes. him dance Harlene, the Goat Roper in The company: Florida Dance Theatre. Named JOSHUA THAKE Despite possessing a walk-in wardrobe BORIS MUDKO Best Little Dacha in Sverdlovsk. Dance Magazine’s 25 to Watch in 2008. Birthplace: Providence, RI Training: Boston so large that it has its own postcode, ROLAND DEAULIN Boris is the Trocks’ newest danseur, Ballet School, San Francisco Ballet School, Yakatarina remains a true ballerina Having invented the concept of the “bad having joined only last year. Boris is MEET THE COMPANY LASZLO MAJOR Brae Crest School of Classical Ballet. Joined of the people. Indeed, she is so loved hair year” or “annus hairibilis,” French - a drunken but talented Russian from Birthplace: Mosonmagyaròvàr, Hungary. Trockadero: November 2011. Previous in her native Russia that in 1993 the born Roland now devotes his spare time to Dzerzhinsk, in the former Soviet Union, ROBERT CARTER Training: Györ Dance and Art School. Joined company: Man Dance Company of San grateful citizens of Minsk awarded her selling his new line of Michael Flatley Wigs who insisted on an audition while the Birthplace: Charleston, SC. Training: Robert Trockadero: September 2014. Previous Francisco. the key to the city. That might well have on the QVC shopping channel. company was on tour. It took some time Ivey Ballet School, Joffrey Ballet School. companies: North Carolina Dance Theater, remained the “golden moment” of this to sober him up to make him coherent — Joined Trockadero: November 1995. Atlantic City Ballet, Compagnie Pàl Frenàk. LONG ZOU great ballerina’s career had they not PEPE DUFKA he was given gallons of tea and several Previous companies: Florence Civic Ballet, Birthplace: Li Ling, China. Training: Central subsequently changed the locks. The ballet world was rocked to its enemas — but finally he was accepted Dance Theater of Harlem Ensemble, Bay PHILIP MARTIN-NIELSON School of Ballet (London), Guangzhou Art foundations last month when Pepe Dufka into the company. He has since given up Ballet Theater. Birthplace: Middletown, NY. Training: School. Joined Trockadero: May 2009 / DORIS VIDANYA sued 182 of New York’s most ardent ballet all drink and is doing quite well. Natasha Bar, School of American Ballet, rejoined 2016. Previous Companies: Ballet The legendary Vitebsk Virago first lovers for loss of earnings. Mr. Dufka claims PAOLO CERVELLERA Chautauqua Institution of Dance Joined Central (UK), Guangzhou Ballet, Jin Xing achieved recognition as a child performer, that nineteen years of constant exposure BORIS NOWITSKY Birthplace: Putignano (Bari), Italy. Training: Trockadero: September 2012. Previous Dance Theatre. appearing with the famous Steppe to rotten fruit and vegetables has led to Boris has been with the greatest ballerinas San Carlo Opera House Ballet School. company: North Carolina Dance Theater. Brothers in the world premiere of painful and prolonged bouts of leafmould, of our time; he has even danced with Joined Trockadero: November 2012. Dyspepsiana (based on an unfinished cabbage root fly, and bottom-end rot. Sadly, some of them. One of the first defective Previous company: San Carlo Opera House RAFFAELE MORRA LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE paragraph by M. Gorki). As a favorite of this historic court case comes too late for a Russian male stars, he left the motherland Ballet Company, Naples Italy. Birthplace: Fossano, Italy. Training: Estudio CARLO, Inc. is a nonprofit dance company Nicholas, Alexandra, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, former colleague whose legs were recently for purely capitalistic reasons. Amazingly, de Danzas (Mirta & Marcelo Aulicio), chartered by the State of New York. Anastasia and the czarevich, La Effhrvia crushed by a genetically modified avocado: between his appearances on television JACK FURLONG, JR Accademia Regionale di Danza del Teatro All contributions are tax-deductible as (as she is known to her admirers) was he will never dance again. and Broadway, as well as in movies, Birthplace: Boston, MA. Training: Valentina Nuovo di Torino. Joined Trockadero: May provided by law. compelled to flee St. Petersburg disguised commercials, magazines, special events, Kozlova. Joined Trockadero: September 2001. Previous company: Compagnia di as a Karsky shashlik. Upon arrival in the KETEVAN IOSIFIDI and women’s nylons, he occasionally still 2014. Previous company: Quark Danza Teatro Nuovo di Torino. Board of Directors New World, she established herself as the Ketevan was dismissed from the Kirov has time to dance. Contemporary Dance Theater. Vaughan de Kirby, President Prima Ballerina Assoluta de Kalamazoo, a Ballet in 1991 when he blackmailed the CHRISTOPHER OUELLETTE Lucille Lewis Johnson, Vice President title she still retains. horn section of the orchestra and forced YURI SMIRNOV GIOVANNI GOFFREDO Birthplace: San Francisco, CA. Training: San Tory Dobrin, Secretary/Treasurer them to play Papa Don’t Preach in the third At the age of sixteen, Yuri ran away from Birthplace: Noci, Italy. Training: Ballett- Francisco Ballet School. Joined Trockadero: James C. P. Berry TATIANA YOUBETYABOOTSKAYA act of Romeo and Juliet while he vogued home and joined the Kirov Opera because Akademie Munchen, La Scala Opera May 2014. Previous company: Pittsburgh Martha Cooper Tatiana comes to the ballet stage after her en pointe. Though Ketevan’s appreciation he thought Borodin was a prescription Ballet School. Joined Trockadero: October Ballet Theatre. hair-raising escape from the successful of high culture is second to none, he still barbiturate. Luckily for the Trockadero, 2013. Previous companies: DeMa Dance Program subject to change without notice. (but not terribly tasteful) overthrow of her thinks that “prima donna” means any song he soon discovered that he didn’t know Company, Peridance Contemporary Dance MATTHEW POPPE country’s glamorous government. She recorded before Like a Virgin. his arias from his elbow and decided to Company. Birthplace: Phoenix, AZ. Training: School of Music for Swan Lake is conducted by Pierre made a counter-revolutionary figure of become a ballet star instead. American Ballet, School of Ballet Arizona. Michel Durandwith the Czech Philharmonic herself when she was arrested for single- STANISLAS KOKITCH DUANE GOSA. Joined Trockadero: June 2014. Previous Chamber Orchestra, Pavel Prantl, Leader handedly storming the People’s Museum, “The Forgotten Man” of ballet, Stanislas is INNOKENTI SMOKTUMUCHSKY Birthplace: Chicago, IL. Training: University companies: Boston Ballet, Ballet Arizona. where her fabulous collection of jewels hardly ever mentioned in reviews by critics Innokenti is known only to the most of Akron, Ailey School. Joined Trockadero; BOOKING INQUIRIES was being insensitively displayed alongside or in discussions by devoted balletomanes, cultured and refined balletomanes in the September 2013. Previous companies: ALBERTO PRETTO Liz Harler, General Manager a machine gun. The resilient Madame despite having created several important dark alleyways of St. Petersburg. Originally Jennifer Muller/The Works, Brooklyn Ballet, Birthplace: Vicenza, Italy. Training: Academie [email protected] Youbetyabootskaya is currently the roles in now-forgotten ballets. He is the a promising dancer —choreographer, his The Love Show. de Danse Classique Princesse Grace, proprietress of American’s only mail order author of “The Tragedy of My Life,” an only ballet — Le Dernier Mohicain - was Monaco. Joined Trockadero: February 2011. course in classical ballet. autobiography not at all reliable. stolen by the director of the company. In Previous companies: English National Ballet, severe depression and shock, he burned Stadttheater Koblenz.

A-16 UW WORLD SERIES After a seven-year-to-life hiatus, she JACQUES d’ANIELS THE LEGUPSKI BROTHERS his ballet slippers and fled to the sewers, CARLOS HOPUY GIOVANNI RAVELO now returns to her adoring fans. When Jacques was originally trained as an Araf, Marat, Sergey, Vladimir and only to surface these forty years later. Birthplace: Havana, Cuba. Training: Birthplace: Bucaramanga, Colombia. questioned about her forced sabbatical, astronaut before entering the world of Vyacheslav are not really brothers, nor Escuela Nacional de Arte, Havana. Joined Training: Ballet Anna Pavlova (Bogota), The Olga’s only comment was “I did it for Art’s ballet. Strong but flexible, good natured are their names really Araf, Marat, Sergey, KRAVLJI SNEPEK Trockadero: February 2012. Previous Rock School, Escuela del Ballet Nacional de sake.” Art, however, said nothing. but dedicated, sensible but not given to Vladimir or Vyacheslav nor are they real Kravlij comes to the Trockadero from his companies: National Ballet of Cuba, Cuba. Joined Trockadero: October 2008. unbelievable flights of fantastic behavior, Russians, nor can they tell the difference split-level birthplace in Siberia, where National Ballet of Costa Rica, Ballet San Previous Companies: Roxey Ballet, Ballet GUZELLA VERBITSKAYA Mr. d’Aniels is an expert on recovering between a pirouette and a jete...but... he excelled in toe, tap, acrobatic and Antonio. Awards: International Ballet Nacional de Colombia. Guzella was born on a locomotive speeding from ballet injuries (including the dread well...they do move about rather nicely Hawaiian. This good natured Slav is Competitions in Havana (Gold medalist through the Ural Mountains. She quickly “Pavlova’s clavicle”). ...and...they fit into the costumes. famous for his breathtaking technique: 1999, 2001, 2002), Nagoya (Gold CARLOS RENEDO realized the limitations of her native a blend of froth and frou-frou centered medalist 2002), and Jackson, Mississippi Birthplace: Barcelona, Spain. Training: folk dancing and quaint handicrafts. ILYA BOBOVNIKOV MIKHAIL MUDKIN on a spine of steel, painfully acquired at (finalist, 2010). Jorge Fdez-Hidalgo Estudi de Dansa After her arrival in America, she learned The recipient of this year’s Jean de Brienne The famed Russian danseur for whom the hands and feet of his teacher, Glib Barcelona, Steps on Broadway (NYC). Joined everything she now knows about ballet Award, Ilya is particularly identified the word “Bolshoi” was coined, Mikhail Generalization, who has already trained CHASE JOHNSEY Trockadero: February 2012. Previous from a seminar entitled “Evil Fairies on the for his Rabelaisian ballet technique. A comes to American from his triumphs as many able dancers. As an artist in the Birthplace: Winter Haven, FL. Training: companies: Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Periphery of the Classical Dance.” revolutionary in the art of partnering, he understudy to a famous impresario in the classical, heroic, tragical mold, young Harrison Arts Center, Virginia School of the Steps Ensemble, Rebecca Kelly Ballet. was the first to introduce crazy glue to role of the Bear in Petrushka. Kravlji wrenched the heart of all who saw Arts. Joined Trockadero: April 2004. Previous YAKATARINA VERBOSOVICH stop supported pirouettes. him dance Harlene, the Goat Roper in The company: Florida Dance Theatre. Named JOSHUA THAKE Despite possessing a walk-in wardrobe BORIS MUDKO Best Little Dacha in Sverdlovsk. Dance Magazine’s 25 to Watch in 2008. Birthplace: Providence, RI Training: Boston so large that it has its own postcode, ROLAND DEAULIN Boris is the Trocks’ newest danseur, Ballet School, San Francisco Ballet School, Yakatarina remains a true ballerina Having invented the concept of the “bad having joined only last year. Boris is MEET THE COMPANY LASZLO MAJOR Brae Crest School of Classical Ballet. Joined of the people. Indeed, she is so loved hair year” or “annus hairibilis,” French - a drunken but talented Russian from Birthplace: Mosonmagyaròvàr, Hungary. Trockadero: November 2011. Previous in her native Russia that in 1993 the born Roland now devotes his spare time to Dzerzhinsk, in the former Soviet Union, ROBERT CARTER Training: Györ Dance and Art School. Joined company: Man Dance Company of San grateful citizens of Minsk awarded her selling his new line of Michael Flatley Wigs who insisted on an audition while the Birthplace: Charleston, SC. Training: Robert Trockadero: September 2014. Previous Francisco. the key to the city. That might well have on the QVC shopping channel. company was on tour. It took some time Ivey Ballet School, Joffrey Ballet School. companies: North Carolina Dance Theater, remained the “golden moment” of this to sober him up to make him coherent — Joined Trockadero: November 1995. Atlantic City Ballet, Compagnie Pàl Frenàk. LONG ZOU great ballerina’s career had they not PEPE DUFKA he was given gallons of tea and several Previous companies: Florence Civic Ballet, Birthplace: Li Ling, China. Training: Central subsequently changed the locks. The ballet world was rocked to its enemas — but finally he was accepted Dance Theater of Harlem Ensemble, Bay PHILIP MARTIN-NIELSON School of Ballet (London), Guangzhou Art foundations last month when Pepe Dufka into the company. He has since given up Ballet Theater. Birthplace: Middletown, NY. Training: School. Joined Trockadero: May 2009 / DORIS VIDANYA sued 182 of New York’s most ardent ballet all drink and is doing quite well. Natasha Bar, School of American Ballet, rejoined 2016. Previous Companies: Ballet The legendary Vitebsk Virago first lovers for loss of earnings. Mr. Dufka claims PAOLO CERVELLERA Chautauqua Institution of Dance Joined Central (UK), Guangzhou Ballet, Jin Xing achieved recognition as a child performer, that nineteen years of constant exposure BORIS NOWITSKY Birthplace: Putignano (Bari), Italy. Training: Trockadero: September 2012. Previous Dance Theatre. appearing with the famous Steppe to rotten fruit and vegetables has led to Boris has been with the greatest ballerinas San Carlo Opera House Ballet School. company: North Carolina Dance Theater. Brothers in the world premiere of painful and prolonged bouts of leafmould, of our time; he has even danced with Joined Trockadero: November 2012. Dyspepsiana (based on an unfinished cabbage root fly, and bottom-end rot. Sadly, some of them. One of the first defective Previous company: San Carlo Opera House RAFFAELE MORRA LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE paragraph by M. Gorki). As a favorite of this historic court case comes too late for a Russian male stars, he left the motherland Ballet Company, Naples Italy. Birthplace: Fossano, Italy. Training: Estudio CARLO, Inc. is a nonprofit dance company Nicholas, Alexandra, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, former colleague whose legs were recently for purely capitalistic reasons. Amazingly, de Danzas (Mirta & Marcelo Aulicio), chartered by the State of New York. Anastasia and the czarevich, La Effhrvia crushed by a genetically modified avocado: between his appearances on television JACK FURLONG, JR Accademia Regionale di Danza del Teatro All contributions are tax-deductible as (as she is known to her admirers) was he will never dance again. and Broadway, as well as in movies, Birthplace: Boston, MA. Training: Valentina Nuovo di Torino. Joined Trockadero: May provided by law. compelled to flee St. Petersburg disguised commercials, magazines, special events, Kozlova. Joined Trockadero: September 2001. Previous company: Compagnia di as a Karsky shashlik. Upon arrival in the KETEVAN IOSIFIDI and women’s nylons, he occasionally still 2014. Previous company: Quark Danza Teatro Nuovo di Torino. Board of Directors New World, she established herself as the Ketevan was dismissed from the Kirov has time to dance. Contemporary Dance Theater. Vaughan de Kirby, President Prima Ballerina Assoluta de Kalamazoo, a Ballet in 1991 when he blackmailed the CHRISTOPHER OUELLETTE Lucille Lewis Johnson, Vice President title she still retains. horn section of the orchestra and forced YURI SMIRNOV GIOVANNI GOFFREDO Birthplace: San Francisco, CA. Training: San Tory Dobrin, Secretary/Treasurer them to play Papa Don’t Preach in the third At the age of sixteen, Yuri ran away from Birthplace: Noci, Italy. Training: Ballett- Francisco Ballet School. Joined Trockadero: James C. P. Berry TATIANA YOUBETYABOOTSKAYA act of Romeo and Juliet while he vogued home and joined the Kirov Opera because Akademie Munchen, La Scala Opera May 2014. Previous company: Pittsburgh Martha Cooper Tatiana comes to the ballet stage after her en pointe. Though Ketevan’s appreciation he thought Borodin was a prescription Ballet School. Joined Trockadero: October Ballet Theatre. hair-raising escape from the successful of high culture is second to none, he still barbiturate. Luckily for the Trockadero, 2013. Previous companies: DeMa Dance Program subject to change without notice. (but not terribly tasteful) overthrow of her thinks that “prima donna” means any song he soon discovered that he didn’t know Company, Peridance Contemporary Dance MATTHEW POPPE country’s glamorous government. She recorded before Like a Virgin. his arias from his elbow and decided to Company. Birthplace: Phoenix, AZ. Training: School of Music for Swan Lake is conducted by Pierre made a counter-revolutionary figure of become a ballet star instead. American Ballet, School of Ballet Arizona. Michel Durandwith the Czech Philharmonic herself when she was arrested for single- STANISLAS KOKITCH DUANE GOSA. Joined Trockadero: June 2014. Previous Chamber Orchestra, Pavel Prantl, Leader handedly storming the People’s Museum, “The Forgotten Man” of ballet, Stanislas is INNOKENTI SMOKTUMUCHSKY Birthplace: Chicago, IL. Training: University companies: Boston Ballet, Ballet Arizona. where her fabulous collection of jewels hardly ever mentioned in reviews by critics Innokenti is known only to the most of Akron, Ailey School. Joined Trockadero; BOOKING INQUIRIES was being insensitively displayed alongside or in discussions by devoted balletomanes, cultured and refined balletomanes in the September 2013. Previous companies: ALBERTO PRETTO Liz Harler, General Manager a machine gun. The resilient Madame despite having created several important dark alleyways of St. Petersburg. Originally Jennifer Muller/The Works, Brooklyn Ballet, Birthplace: Vicenza, Italy. Training: Academie [email protected] Youbetyabootskaya is currently the roles in now-forgotten ballets. He is the a promising dancer —choreographer, his The Love Show. de Danse Classique Princesse Grace, proprietress of American’s only mail order author of “The Tragedy of My Life,” an only ballet — Le Dernier Mohicain - was Monaco. Joined Trockadero: February 2011. course in classical ballet. autobiography not at all reliable. stolen by the director of the company. In Previous companies: English National Ballet, severe depression and shock, he burned Stadttheater Koblenz.

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Michael MacDonald and Lynda Mapes / Ross and Lisa Macfarlane / Jeanne Dryfoos Kay and John Allen Gayle and Jack Thompson Giselle Falkenberg and Rockwell Moulton / James Fesalbon Thompson / Gertrud Tobiason / Emily Transue / Frits van Daniel Mageau / Sara Magee / Heinz and Ingeborg Maine / Luis Fernando and Isabel Maria Esteban Stuart Allen and Sunny Liu Jerry and Ernalee Thonn and Edward Francis Darr II / Judith Gillum Fihn and Stephan Oppen / John Vistica / Gail and John Wasberg / Christine John and Katharina Maloof / Dubravka and Danko Martincic Thomas Faber and Laura Townsend Faber Charles Alpers and Ingrid Peterson Mary Toy D. Fihn / Susan Carol Fisher / Susan Fitch / Naoko Forderer Westergaard / David Wine / Becky Woodworth / Michael and Nancy Matesky / Tessa Matthey and Peter Gary Fuller and Randy Everett Anonymous Stephen Toy and Jennifer Anttila / Judith Frey and Flick Broughton / Anne Futterman / Daniel Durkee / Lila May / Roland Mayer / Donna McCampbell / Gamelin / Anne and David Gilbert / Nathaniel Gilbert / Katya This listing includes donors ($50 and above) to Meany Center Janet Geier and Peter Seitel Joseph Ashley Michelle and Stephen Turnovsky Mary V. McGuire / Robert and Catherine McKee / Douglas Giritsky / Sara Glerum / Sarah Goldenkranz / Nancy Green for the Performing Arts from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016. Sergey Genkin Lisa Baldwin and John Cragoe Pieter and Tjitske Van der Meulen McLaren and Irene Yamamoto / Susan L. McNabb / Renate / Andrew Gross and Shira Wilson / Shuko Hashimoto / Ian To change your program listing or correct an error, please Susan and Richard Hall Joanna and David Beitel Vanessa Villalobos Hellen and Paula Cerni / Robin Hendricks / Judith Herrigel / call us at 206-685-2819. Contributions to Meany Center are Steven Haney McVittie / Barbara and James Miller / Reza and Carol Robert Bergman Valerie and Eugenia Vinyar Carol R. Hershman / Jim Hessler / Nancy Hevly / Alistair Hirst tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. To make a gift or Larry Harris and Betty Azar Moinpour / Raymond Monnat and Christine Disteche / Laura Bertin and Mark Williams James and Judith Wagonfeld / Sibyl James / Natarajan Janarthanan and Ponni Rajagopal / for more information on donor benefits, please call 206-685- Phyllis Hatfield David Morris / Anne Morrison / Christine Moss / Pamela A. Dennis Birch and Evette Ludman Osamu Yamamoto Janice Javier / Linda Kent and James Corson / Kyle Kinoshita 2819 or visit meanycenter.org/donate. Steve and Sarah Hauschka Mullens / Susan Mulvihill and James Liverman / Teri Mumme James and Edith Bloomfield Lee and Barbara Yates / Lee Klastorin / Jurgen and Lynn Klausenburger / William Kara D. Hefley / John Nemanich and Ellendee Pepper / Betty Ngan and Holly Boone and Pat Braus Koenig / Calvin and Margaret Konzak / Daniel and Sandra MATCHING GIFTS Tom Mailhot / Marianne and Albert Nijenhuis / Dawna Nipp Peter Hiatt and Ronald Hunden Kraus / Pamela Lampkin and Robert Zipkin / Bruce Landon Katherine Bourbonais and Donald Ramsey Adobe Systems, Inc. / ArtsFund / AT&T Foundation / Tuck Hoo KEY PLAYER / David Norman / Beatrice Nowogroski / Nenita Odesa / and Atsuko Osawa-Landon / Kathryn Lew and Dennis Lorraine and Harry Bruce Martin Oiye and Susan Nakagawa / William and Sherry The Boeing Company / City of Seattle / East West Bank Bronwen Houck (between $100 and $249) Apland / Barbara Lewis / James and June Lindsey / Wendy Elizabeth Cantrell / Google, Inc. / IBM Corporation / Intel Corporation / Randy and Gwen Houser Owen / Cathy Palmer / Elizabeth Park / Nichole Parr / Gerald Marlowe / William and Judith Matchett / Brian McHenry Harry and Sue Chan Anonymous / Ann Adam / Laila Adams / James Adcock and Merck Company Foundation / Microsoft Corporation / Michael Hunter Paulukonis / Florence Peterschmidt / Karen Peterson / James / Teresa McIntyre / Michael and Noor McMann / Sharon Daniel and Sandra Ciske Anne Otten / Kathryn Alexandra / Frank and Nola Allen / Phelps / Sandra Piscitello / Mary-Alice Pomputius and Walter Metcalf and Randall Smith / Eric Michelman and Patricia Nintendo of America, Inc. / Puget Sound Energy / Shell Melanie Ito and Charles Wilkinson Cherie Claire Dick Ammerman / Lauralyn Andrews / Timothy D. and G. Smith / Susan Porterfield / Lincoln and Mayumi Potter / Shanley / Marilyn Milberger / Jocelyn and Mike Miller / Oil Company / State of Washington / T-Mobile USA, Inc. / Paul Kassen Leonard and Else Cobb Anthony Barrick / Marianne Beirne / Mike and Marie Bender Jocelyn Raish and Robert Toren / Dennis Reichenbach / Matt Sheree Miller and Benjamin Greer / Michael Morris / John U.S. Bank / Wells Fargo, LLC Deborah Katz Mosher / Harold and Susan Mozer / George and Ellen Leroy and Marybeth Dart / G. Carter Bentley and Lynda Emel / Robin Bentley / Andrew Reichert / Carrie Richard / Carla Rickerson / Suzuko and David Kimelman and Karen Butner Naden / Isaac and Lensey Namioka / Kara Niedner / Barbara Kenneth Dayton Bertino-Reibstein / David Bird / Beverly Bodansky / Helen Edward Riewe / Paula Riggert / Chet Robachinski / Norita Italics denotes membership in Meany Society Kelly Kleemeier and Dave Dickson O’Steen and R. Howard Mitchell / Sharon Overman / Colette Arlene B. Ehrlich Bodkin / Michael Bolasina / Gene Brenowitz and Karen Robbins / Neil Roberts and Bonnie Worthington-Roberts / Frank and JoAnna Lau Posse / Nicole Quinones / James and Ruth Raisis / Michael Pamela Fink and Michael Bevan Domino / Joyce and David Brewster / Carl Brodkin / Dianne Pacita Roberts / Cassy Robinson-Cohen / Randy Rohwer / Michael Linenberger and Sallie Dacey Mark Firmani Calkins / Carol and Henry Cannon III / Frances Carr / Robert Robert Romeo / Gail Sailer / Jennifer Salk and David Ehrich May and Wah Lui Susan Fischer Catton / Pamela and Robert Center / Robert and Molly / Laura Sargent / Joachim Schneider and Jolene Vrchota Tomilynn and Dean McManus Albert Fisk and Judith Harris Cleland / Libby Cohen / R. Bruce and Mary Louise Colwell / / Charles Schooler / Janet Schweiger / Jean Schweitzer / Ramona Memmer and Lester Goldstein Karen Conoley and Arthur Verharen / Jan and Bill Corriston / Emily Fitch Charyl and Earl Sedlik / Norman Hollingshead / Mark and John and Gail Mensher Kathy Cowles and Bradford Chamberlain / Karen and Philip Patti Seklemian / Robbie Sherman, / M.D. and Charles Stephen Metzler and Almudena de Llaguno Gerald Folland Craven / Jean Crill / Gavin Cullen and David Jamieson / Judy Meconis / Beverly Simpson / Roger Simpson and Jeffrey Linda and Peter Milgrom Stuart Fountain and Tom Highsmith Cushman and Robert Quick / John Darrah and Elizabeth Cantrell / John Sindorf and Mary / Ann Bolte / Virginia Sly / Susan P. Mitchell William and Lindy Gaylord Dickerman Darrah / The de Soto Family / Janice DeCosmo Mani and Karen Soma / Sarah Stanley and Dale Rogerson Kevin Murphy and Karen Freeman Susan and Russell Goedde and David Butterfield / Dr. Barbara DeCoster / Theodore / Allyn and Douglas Stevens / Christopher and Heidi Stolte James and Pamela Murray Laurie Griffith Dietz / Susan Dittmann / Ann Dittmar / Susan and David / Derek Storm and Cynthia Gossett / Carol Swayne and Erika J. Nesholm Tim Groggel and Annette Strand Dolacky / David Doody and Michael Erickson / Nancy Dorn Guy Hollingbury / Renata Tatman and Pablo Schugurensky Eugene and Martha Nester Susan Hert and William Levering III / Laurie Ann and C. Bert Dudley / Elizabeth Duffell / Cliff / Thomas Taylor / Mark Teitelbaum / Sue Thomas / Mary Anne and Bill Nolan David B. Johnson Eastman / Sheila Edwards-Lange and Kip Lange / Ian Einman Anne Thorbeck / Barbara Trenary / Dorene and Dennis Tully Amanda Overly Michael and Nancy Kappelman / Lynne and Hollie Ellis / Penelope and Stephen Ellis / Jean / Phyllis Van Orden / Yvonne and Bruno Vogele / Patricia Ron Pederson and Jeff Sakuma Aaron Katz and Kate Dougherty Burch Falls / Alan and Jane Fantel / Polly and Eric Feigl / Wahl and Dean Wingfield / Lenore Waldron / Michael Wall / John Rochford and Nick Utzinger Philip and Marcia Killien Jacqueline Forbes and / Douglas Bleckner / Julie and Steven Martha Walton / Margaret Watson / Taylene Watson / Larry Dick Roth and Charlene Curtiss Connie and Gus Kravas Friedman / Lucille Friedman / William Friedman / Susan and and Lucy Weinberg / Richard and Ann Weiner / Barbara Werner and Joan Samson Eli Livne and Esther Karson Albert Fuchs / Kai Fujita / Melissa Fulton / Sarah Skye Gilbert Weinstein / Leah Wener-Fligner / Bruce and Christine White Cathy Sarkowsky Dennis Lund and Martha Taylor / George Gilman / J. David Godwin and Virginia Reeves / / John and Margaret Williams / Judy and Raymond Williams Dolores Gill Schoenmakers Jeffrey and Barbara Mandula Joan and Steven Goldblatt / Jennifer and Henry Gordon / / Karin Williams / April and Brian Williamson / Barbara Michael Scupine and Kim Gittere-Abson William and Holly Marklyn Catherine Gorman / Gene Graham / Virginie Grange / Alieu and Grant Winther / Carolyn Wood / Evgueni and Tatiana Edward Sheets and Ronda Skubi Robin L. McCabe Ann and Natasha Greaves / Nancy and Earl Grout / David Zabokritski / Shirley Zaic and Eric Johnson / Robert Zauper / Marcia Sohns and Mark Levy Mary Mikkelsen Grossman and Cezanne Garcia / Evette and Robert Hackman Lawrence Zeidman and Linda Tatta / Maxine Zemko Clark Sorensen and Susan Way M. Lynn Morgan / Emile Haddad / Katherine Hanson and Michael Schick / Peter Tarczy-Hornoch and Candice McCoy Trisha and Eric Muller Mary Beth Hasselquist / John and Geraldine Hay / Dandan FRIEND Mark Taylor Rik Muroya He / Kathryn Heafield and Guy Sattler / Peter Herford / Manijeh Vail William and Rosemary Newell Lori Hess and Benjamin Miller / Janet Hesslein and Murl (between $50 and $99) Josephus Van Schagen and Marjon Floris Sanders / David Hewitt and Marcia Wagoner / Alan and Judy Margarete Noe Anonymous / Michelle Acosta / Cynthia Adams / Claudia and Bob and Andrea Watson Mark Novak and Katrin Pustilnik Hodson / Ellen Hofmann / Roy Linwood Hughes / Ron Hull / Thomas Allan / Michael and Elizabeth Anderson / Daemond Eugene Webb and Marilyn Domoto Webb Wendy and Murray Raskind Margaret Hunt / Patricia Hynes / Thomas Jacka / Grace Jao / Arrindell / Kam Au and Yuen Chan / Ruth and Mark Balter / Joella Werlin Jason Reuer Robert C. Jenkins / Linda and Christopher Johnson / Robert Elisabeth Beaber / Elaine Brighton / Zbigniew Butor / Linda Stephen and Debra Wescott Tom Robinson and Joan Wellman Johnson and Heather Erdmann / Larry and Roberta Jordan and Peter Capell / Gwyneth and Chris Casazza / Paul and John V. Worthington Christine Carr / Phyllis and Alan Caswell / Michael and Mary Bette Round / Julie Kageler / H. David Kaplan / George and Mary Kenny /

A-20 UW WORLD SERIES Leo Butzel and Roberta Reaber Wright Piano Studio Students Janet and John Rusin Christian and Patricia Killien / Jean Kincaid and David Koewler Gayle Charlesworth / John Clarkson and Elizabeth Gilchrist Ramey / Mechthild Rast / William Reed and Nancy Worden Rita Calabro Ying Gi Yong Robert and Doris Schaefer / Leslie Kincaid / Divya Krishnana / James and Elaine Klansnic / Jayne Coe / Brian Cole / Carol Cole and Andrew Groom / / Meryl Retallack / Cody Ring-Rissler / Sam and Josie Roskin Wimsey J. N. Cherrington Igor Zverev and Yana Solovyeva Bob and Robin Stacey / Adam Kline and Genie Middaugh / Nancy and John Kloster Monica C. Connors / Merrilee G. Conway and Jay Young / / Ellen Roth and Dan Roach / David and JoAnne Rudo / Anne and George Counts / Barbara Courtney / Peter and Craig Schieber / Stephen and Loretta Schuler / Juanita and Jill Conner Thomas Standaert / Mark and Joan Klyn / Glen Kriekenbeck / Laurence and Beatrice Crane / Gary Crispin / Christopher Curry / Rachel Warren Segura / Herbert and Elaine Selipsky / Giles and Margaret Crastnopol and Charles Purcell Edgar and Gail Steinitz Rosalie Lang / Inge and Leslie Larsen / Eric Larson and Teresa GREAT PERFORMER Demotts / Melisa Doss / Laura and William Downing / Sue Shepherd / Danny Shih / Ann and Christopher Smit / Suzanne Dewitt and Ari Steinberg David and Barbara Thomas Bigelow / Tammara and Brian Leighton / Benjamin Lerner / Donna and Robert Dughi / Richard Eide / Patricia Emmons Carol Smith / Hank and Dorothy Stephens / Evelyn Sterne Toby Diamond (between $250 and $499) Peter LeVeque / Max Lieblich / Marilyn Stone Lytle / Douglas Diana and Richard Thompson and Shmuel El-Ad / Ivone and Oren Etzioni / Susan Ewens / / Kristin Strout / Mark Sullivan / Mark Thomas / W. Michael MacDonald and Lynda Mapes / Ross and Lisa Macfarlane / Jeanne Dryfoos Kay and John Allen Gayle and Jack Thompson Giselle Falkenberg and Rockwell Moulton / James Fesalbon Thompson / Gertrud Tobiason / Emily Transue / Frits van Daniel Mageau / Sara Magee / Heinz and Ingeborg Maine / Luis Fernando and Isabel Maria Esteban Stuart Allen and Sunny Liu Jerry and Ernalee Thonn and Edward Francis Darr II / Judith Gillum Fihn and Stephan Oppen / John Vistica / Gail and John Wasberg / Christine John and Katharina Maloof / Dubravka and Danko Martincic Thomas Faber and Laura Townsend Faber Charles Alpers and Ingrid Peterson Mary Toy D. Fihn / Susan Carol Fisher / Susan Fitch / Naoko Forderer Westergaard / David Wine / Becky Woodworth / Michael and Nancy Matesky / Tessa Matthey and Peter Gary Fuller and Randy Everett Anonymous Stephen Toy and Jennifer Anttila / Judith Frey and Flick Broughton / Anne Futterman / Daniel Durkee / Lila May / Roland Mayer / Donna McCampbell / Gamelin / Anne and David Gilbert / Nathaniel Gilbert / Katya This listing includes donors ($50 and above) to Meany Center Janet Geier and Peter Seitel Joseph Ashley Michelle and Stephen Turnovsky Mary V. McGuire / Robert and Catherine McKee / Douglas Giritsky / Sara Glerum / Sarah Goldenkranz / Nancy Green for the Performing Arts from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016. Sergey Genkin Lisa Baldwin and John Cragoe Pieter and Tjitske Van der Meulen McLaren and Irene Yamamoto / Susan L. McNabb / Renate / Andrew Gross and Shira Wilson / Shuko Hashimoto / Ian To change your program listing or correct an error, please Susan and Richard Hall Joanna and David Beitel Vanessa Villalobos Hellen and Paula Cerni / Robin Hendricks / Judith Herrigel / call us at 206-685-2819. Contributions to Meany Center are Steven Haney McVittie / Barbara and James Miller / Reza and Carol Robert Bergman Valerie and Eugenia Vinyar Carol R. Hershman / Jim Hessler / Nancy Hevly / Alistair Hirst tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. To make a gift or Larry Harris and Betty Azar Moinpour / Raymond Monnat and Christine Disteche / Laura Bertin and Mark Williams James and Judith Wagonfeld / Sibyl James / Natarajan Janarthanan and Ponni Rajagopal / for more information on donor benefits, please call 206-685- Phyllis Hatfield David Morris / Anne Morrison / Christine Moss / Pamela A. Dennis Birch and Evette Ludman Osamu Yamamoto Janice Javier / Linda Kent and James Corson / Kyle Kinoshita 2819 or visit meanycenter.org/donate. Steve and Sarah Hauschka Mullens / Susan Mulvihill and James Liverman / Teri Mumme James and Edith Bloomfield Lee and Barbara Yates / Lee Klastorin / Jurgen and Lynn Klausenburger / William Kara D. Hefley / John Nemanich and Ellendee Pepper / Betty Ngan and Holly Boone and Pat Braus Koenig / Calvin and Margaret Konzak / Daniel and Sandra MATCHING GIFTS Tom Mailhot / Marianne and Albert Nijenhuis / Dawna Nipp Peter Hiatt and Ronald Hunden Kraus / Pamela Lampkin and Robert Zipkin / Bruce Landon Katherine Bourbonais and Donald Ramsey Adobe Systems, Inc. / ArtsFund / AT&T Foundation / Tuck Hoo KEY PLAYER / David Norman / Beatrice Nowogroski / Nenita Odesa / and Atsuko Osawa-Landon / Kathryn Lew and Dennis Lorraine and Harry Bruce Martin Oiye and Susan Nakagawa / William and Sherry The Boeing Company / City of Seattle / East West Bank Bronwen Houck (between $100 and $249) Apland / Barbara Lewis / James and June Lindsey / Wendy Elizabeth Cantrell / Google, Inc. / IBM Corporation / Intel Corporation / Randy and Gwen Houser Owen / Cathy Palmer / Elizabeth Park / Nichole Parr / Gerald Marlowe / William and Judith Matchett / Brian McHenry Harry and Sue Chan Anonymous / Ann Adam / Laila Adams / James Adcock and Merck Company Foundation / Microsoft Corporation / Michael Hunter Paulukonis / Florence Peterschmidt / Karen Peterson / James / Teresa McIntyre / Michael and Noor McMann / Sharon Daniel and Sandra Ciske Anne Otten / Kathryn Alexandra / Frank and Nola Allen / Phelps / Sandra Piscitello / Mary-Alice Pomputius and Walter Metcalf and Randall Smith / Eric Michelman and Patricia Nintendo of America, Inc. / Puget Sound Energy / Shell Melanie Ito and Charles Wilkinson Cherie Claire Dick Ammerman / Lauralyn Andrews / Timothy D. and G. Smith / Susan Porterfield / Lincoln and Mayumi Potter / Shanley / Marilyn Milberger / Jocelyn and Mike Miller / Oil Company / State of Washington / T-Mobile USA, Inc. / Paul Kassen Leonard and Else Cobb Anthony Barrick / Marianne Beirne / Mike and Marie Bender Jocelyn Raish and Robert Toren / Dennis Reichenbach / Matt Sheree Miller and Benjamin Greer / Michael Morris / John U.S. Bank / Wells Fargo, LLC Deborah Katz Mosher / Harold and Susan Mozer / George and Ellen Leroy and Marybeth Dart / G. Carter Bentley and Lynda Emel / Robin Bentley / Andrew Reichert / Carrie Richard / Carla Rickerson / Suzuko and David Kimelman and Karen Butner Naden / Isaac and Lensey Namioka / Kara Niedner / Barbara Kenneth Dayton Bertino-Reibstein / David Bird / Beverly Bodansky / Helen Edward Riewe / Paula Riggert / Chet Robachinski / Norita Italics denotes membership in Meany Society Kelly Kleemeier and Dave Dickson O’Steen and R. Howard Mitchell / Sharon Overman / Colette Arlene B. Ehrlich Bodkin / Michael Bolasina / Gene Brenowitz and Karen Robbins / Neil Roberts and Bonnie Worthington-Roberts / Frank and JoAnna Lau Posse / Nicole Quinones / James and Ruth Raisis / Michael Pamela Fink and Michael Bevan Domino / Joyce and David Brewster / Carl Brodkin / Dianne Pacita Roberts / Cassy Robinson-Cohen / Randy Rohwer / Michael Linenberger and Sallie Dacey Mark Firmani Calkins / Carol and Henry Cannon III / Frances Carr / Robert Robert Romeo / Gail Sailer / Jennifer Salk and David Ehrich May and Wah Lui Susan Fischer Catton / Pamela and Robert Center / Robert and Molly / Laura Sargent / Joachim Schneider and Jolene Vrchota Tomilynn and Dean McManus Albert Fisk and Judith Harris Cleland / Libby Cohen / R. Bruce and Mary Louise Colwell / / Charles Schooler / Janet Schweiger / Jean Schweitzer / Ramona Memmer and Lester Goldstein Karen Conoley and Arthur Verharen / Jan and Bill Corriston / Emily Fitch Charyl and Earl Sedlik / Norman Hollingshead / Mark and John and Gail Mensher Kathy Cowles and Bradford Chamberlain / Karen and Philip Patti Seklemian / Robbie Sherman, / M.D. and Charles Stephen Metzler and Almudena de Llaguno Gerald Folland Craven / Jean Crill / Gavin Cullen and David Jamieson / Judy Meconis / Beverly Simpson / Roger Simpson and Jeffrey Linda and Peter Milgrom Stuart Fountain and Tom Highsmith Cushman and Robert Quick / John Darrah and Elizabeth Cantrell / John Sindorf and Mary / Ann Bolte / Virginia Sly / Susan P. Mitchell William and Lindy Gaylord Dickerman Darrah / The de Soto Family / Janice DeCosmo Mani and Karen Soma / Sarah Stanley and Dale Rogerson Kevin Murphy and Karen Freeman Susan and Russell Goedde and David Butterfield / Dr. Barbara DeCoster / Theodore / Allyn and Douglas Stevens / Christopher and Heidi Stolte James and Pamela Murray Laurie Griffith Dietz / Susan Dittmann / Ann Dittmar / Susan and David / Derek Storm and Cynthia Gossett / Carol Swayne and Erika J. Nesholm Tim Groggel and Annette Strand Dolacky / David Doody and Michael Erickson / Nancy Dorn Guy Hollingbury / Renata Tatman and Pablo Schugurensky Eugene and Martha Nester Susan Hert and William Levering III / Laurie Ann and C. Bert Dudley / Elizabeth Duffell / Cliff / Thomas Taylor / Mark Teitelbaum / Sue Thomas / Mary Anne and Bill Nolan David B. Johnson Eastman / Sheila Edwards-Lange and Kip Lange / Ian Einman Anne Thorbeck / Barbara Trenary / Dorene and Dennis Tully Amanda Overly Michael and Nancy Kappelman / Lynne and Hollie Ellis / Penelope and Stephen Ellis / Jean / Phyllis Van Orden / Yvonne and Bruno Vogele / Patricia Ron Pederson and Jeff Sakuma Aaron Katz and Kate Dougherty Burch Falls / Alan and Jane Fantel / Polly and Eric Feigl / Wahl and Dean Wingfield / Lenore Waldron / Michael Wall / John Rochford and Nick Utzinger Philip and Marcia Killien Jacqueline Forbes and / Douglas Bleckner / Julie and Steven Martha Walton / Margaret Watson / Taylene Watson / Larry Dick Roth and Charlene Curtiss Connie and Gus Kravas Friedman / Lucille Friedman / William Friedman / Susan and and Lucy Weinberg / Richard and Ann Weiner / Barbara Werner and Joan Samson Eli Livne and Esther Karson Albert Fuchs / Kai Fujita / Melissa Fulton / Sarah Skye Gilbert Weinstein / Leah Wener-Fligner / Bruce and Christine White Cathy Sarkowsky Dennis Lund and Martha Taylor / George Gilman / J. David Godwin and Virginia Reeves / / John and Margaret Williams / Judy and Raymond Williams Dolores Gill Schoenmakers Jeffrey and Barbara Mandula Joan and Steven Goldblatt / Jennifer and Henry Gordon / / Karin Williams / April and Brian Williamson / Barbara Michael Scupine and Kim Gittere-Abson William and Holly Marklyn Catherine Gorman / Gene Graham / Virginie Grange / Alieu and Grant Winther / Carolyn Wood / Evgueni and Tatiana Edward Sheets and Ronda Skubi Robin L. McCabe Ann and Natasha Greaves / Nancy and Earl Grout / David Zabokritski / Shirley Zaic and Eric Johnson / Robert Zauper / Marcia Sohns and Mark Levy Mary Mikkelsen Grossman and Cezanne Garcia / Evette and Robert Hackman Lawrence Zeidman and Linda Tatta / Maxine Zemko Clark Sorensen and Susan Way M. Lynn Morgan / Emile Haddad / Katherine Hanson and Michael Schick / Peter Tarczy-Hornoch and Candice McCoy Trisha and Eric Muller Mary Beth Hasselquist / John and Geraldine Hay / Dandan FRIEND Mark Taylor Rik Muroya He / Kathryn Heafield and Guy Sattler / Peter Herford / Manijeh Vail William and Rosemary Newell Lori Hess and Benjamin Miller / Janet Hesslein and Murl (between $50 and $99) Josephus Van Schagen and Marjon Floris Sanders / David Hewitt and Marcia Wagoner / Alan and Judy Margarete Noe Anonymous / Michelle Acosta / Cynthia Adams / Claudia and Bob and Andrea Watson Mark Novak and Katrin Pustilnik Hodson / Ellen Hofmann / Roy Linwood Hughes / Ron Hull / Thomas Allan / Michael and Elizabeth Anderson / Daemond Eugene Webb and Marilyn Domoto Webb Wendy and Murray Raskind Margaret Hunt / Patricia Hynes / Thomas Jacka / Grace Jao / Arrindell / Kam Au and Yuen Chan / Ruth and Mark Balter / Joella Werlin Jason Reuer Robert C. Jenkins / Linda and Christopher Johnson / Robert Elisabeth Beaber / Elaine Brighton / Zbigniew Butor / Linda Stephen and Debra Wescott Tom Robinson and Joan Wellman Johnson and Heather Erdmann / Larry and Roberta Jordan and Peter Capell / Gwyneth and Chris Casazza / Paul and John V. Worthington Christine Carr / Phyllis and Alan Caswell / Michael and Mary Bette Round / Julie Kageler / H. David Kaplan / George and Mary Kenny /

encoreartsseattle.com A-21 ENDOWMENT & PLANNED GIFTS MEANY CENTER SEASON SPONSORS We would like to thank the following individuals for supporting the future of Meany Center through planned gifts and contributions to our endowment: We are deeply grateful to the following corporations, foundations and government agencies whose generous support make our programs possible:

Planned Gifts Live Music for World Dance Vivika Stamolis $100,000 AND ABOVE COMMUNITY PARTNERS Anonymous Series Endowment Jacoline Stewart The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Arts Impact / ArtsUW / Department of Near Eastern Languages and Linda and Tom Allen Andrew Bertino-Reibstein Douglas and Joan Stewart Civilization / Henry Art Gallery / Ladies Musical Club / Ellsworth and Nancy Alvord Ioana Butoi Robby Thoms $25,000 AND ABOVE Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute / Seattle Art Museum / Wimsey J.N. Cherrington Linda and Peter Capell Wayne Thurman Seattle Asian Art Museum / Seattle Collaborative Orchestra / Seattle The Boeing Company / Classical KING FM 98.1* / Doris Duke Consuelo and Gary Corbett Chris Casazza Larry Todd Music Partners Seattle Public Schools / UW Alumni Association / Charitable Foundation / National Endowment for the Arts / Bill and Ruth Gerberding Gwyneth Casazza Marina Toropov Nesholm Family Foundation UW Dance Program / UW Intellectual House / UW Libraries / UW Matthew and Christina Krashan Wimsey J.N. Cherrington Anh Tran Residential Life Program / UW School of Drama / UW School of Margaret Dora Morrison Brian Cole Raymond and Judy Williams Music / Velocity Dance Center Mina B. Person Peter and Beatrice Crane Grant and Barbara Winther $10,000 - $24,999

Lois Rathvon Gary Crispin Katherine M. Wurfel 4Culture / ArtsFund / Microsoft / New England Foundation BUSINESS CIRCLE SPONSORS Dave and Marcie Stone Rachel Demotts Robert Zauper for the Arts / Peg and Rick Young Foundation / Seattle Offi ce Agua Verde Cafe and Paddle Club / Classical Wines from Spain / Donald and Gloria Swisher Susan Dittmann of Arts & Culture College Inn Pub / Hotel Deca* / Finnriver Farm & Cidery* / Fran's Lee and Judy Talner Paulette Elster Meany Center Education Endowment Chocolates* / Macrina Bakery* / Madres Kitchen* / Pagliacci* / Ellen J. Wallach Kai Fujita Kalman Brauner and Amy Carlson UP TO $9,999 North City Bistro* / Theo Chocolate* / Tom Douglas Restaurants* / Virginie Grange Ernest and Elaine Henley* Banner Bank / East West Bank / KEXP 90.3 FM* / KUOW 94.9 University Inn* / Watertown Hotel* Arts AL!VE Student Fund for Dandan He Julie Kageler FM* / Ladies Musical Club / U.S. Bank / Washington State Arts

Exploring the Performing Arts Jim Hessler Matthew and Christina Krashan* Commission / Western States Arts Federation/ Summit Law Group * Denotes full or partial gift in kind.

Susan Knox and Weldon Ihrig* Alistair Hirst J. Pierre and Felice Loebel*

Renata Tatman and Pablo Schugurensky Dobrila Istocki Lee and Judy Talner*

Bernita Jackson

Meany Center Programming Endowment Janice Javier Matt Krashan Endowed Fund for

Windsor R. Utley* † Lorie Jones Artistic and Educational Excellence

Ralph Lusher in the Performing Arts

Nancy and Eddie Cooper Endowed Fund Kara Niedner Jill Hanley Conner for Music in Schools Sergio Ortega-Trujano (multiple founders)

Lucille Friedman Nichole Parr

Dave and Marcie Stone*, in memory of Pascal Picat * Endowment Founder

Mina Fleisher Cecilia M. Paul and Harry F. Reinert* † Deceased

Matt Reichert

Cody Ring-Rissler

Elaine and Ernest Henley Endowment Nubia Rojas-Blas for Classical Music Judy See

Ernest and Elaine Henley* Danny Shih

Daniel Skaggs

Catherine and David Hughes Asian Jonathan Srsen

Programming Endowment Christopher and Heidi Stolte

Catherine and David Hughes* Richard and Ann Weiner

Yumi Iwasaki Raymond and Judy Williams

Anoop Gupta George Wilson and Claire McClenny

This listing includes endowment founders and endowment donors from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016. For more information on how to make a gift through Join an impressive roster of companies of all sizes that support Meany Center, its mission, and its performances. Sponsors receive signifi cant your will or trust, or to name Meany Center for the Performing Arts as a beneficiary of your retirement plan or insurance policy, please call 206-685-1001 recognition throughout the season and an array of benefi ts catered to your organization's goals. For more information, please contact the or 800-284-3679 or visit www.uwfoundation.org/giftplanning. Meany Center Philanthropy Department at (206) 221-1287.

A-22 UW WORLD SERIES ENDOWMENT & PLANNED GIFTS MEANY CENTER SEASON SPONSORS We would like to thank the following individuals for supporting the future of Meany Center through planned gifts and contributions to our endowment: We are deeply grateful to the following corporations, foundations and government agencies whose generous support make our programs possible:

Exploring the Performing Arts Jim Hessler Matthew and Christina Krashan* Commission / Western States Arts Federation/ Summit Law Group * Denotes full or partial gift in kind.

Susan Knox and Weldon Ihrig* Alistair Hirst J. Pierre and Felice Loebel*

Renata Tatman and Pablo Schugurensky Dobrila Istocki Lee and Judy Talner*

Bernita Jackson

Meany Center Programming Endowment Janice Javier Matt Krashan Endowed Fund for

Windsor R. Utley* † Lorie Jones Artistic and Educational Excellence

Ralph Lusher in the Performing Arts

Nancy and Eddie Cooper Endowed Fund Kara Niedner Jill Hanley Conner for Music in Schools Sergio Ortega-Trujano (multiple founders)

Lucille Friedman Nichole Parr

Dave and Marcie Stone*, in memory of Pascal Picat * Endowment Founder

Mina Fleisher Cecilia M. Paul and Harry F. Reinert* † Deceased

Matt Reichert

Cody Ring-Rissler

Elaine and Ernest Henley Endowment Nubia Rojas-Blas for Classical Music Judy See

Ernest and Elaine Henley* Danny Shih

Daniel Skaggs

Catherine and David Hughes Asian Jonathan Srsen

Programming Endowment Christopher and Heidi Stolte

Catherine and David Hughes* Richard and Ann Weiner

Yumi Iwasaki Raymond and Judy Williams

Anoop Gupta George Wilson and Claire McClenny

encoreartsseattle.com A-23 MEANY CENTER & ARTSUW TICKET OFFICE STAFF

Michelle Witt, Executive and Artistic Director Rosa Alvarez, Director of Patron Services Rita Calabro, Managing Director Liz Wong, Assistant Director of Patron Services Katrina Deininger, Patron Services Associate Scott Coil, Director of Finance and Administration Keeli Erb, Patron Services Associate James Fesalbon, Fiscal Specialist Patrick Walrath, Patron Services Associate Yevgeniy Gofman, Accountant Cathy Wright, Patron Services Associate

Laura McKee, Tessitura Administrator Patron Services Assistants Gretchen Shantz, IT Administrator Jasmine Burkett Jason Cutler Cristi Benefield, Director of Philanthropy Leanna Keith Marie Lazzaro, Annual Giving and Events Manager Kendra Stricklin Alix Wilber, Grants and Communications Manager Abbey Willman Lauren Zawacki, Philanthropy Assistant Angela Yun

Elizabeth C. Duffell, Director of Artistic Engagement Lead Ushers Kaeline Kine, Artist Engagement Coordinator Jamee Adams Jyana Browne, Creative Fellowships Coordinator Hayden Campbell Robert Babs, Education and Outreach Associate Eli Gallagher Daphne Gomez, Education Assistant Duncan Greeley Katherine Kruger, Dance Engagement Intern Natalie Harrington

Teri Mumme, Director of Marketing and Communications Ushers Jill Becker, Assistant Director of Marketing and Communications Andy Abel Rob Noland, Graphics Production & Content Coordinator Reiane Abuda Kate Dugdale, Audience Development Assistant Altaire Anderson Son Bui, Marketing Assistant Sophie Baker Arthur Grossman, Phil Lanum, Bruce Clayton Tom, Photographers Danielle Blevens Mitchell Estberg Tom Burke, Technical Director Laura Freeman Brian Engel, Lighting Supervisor Laura Keil Juniper Shuey, Stage Manager Pearl Lam Matt Stearns, Sound Engineer Lindsey Mizell Doug Meier, Studio Theatre Stage Technician Shanay Mohamed Raine Myrvold Nancy Hautala, Audience Services Manager Payal Muni Tom Highsmith, Lead House Manager Evelyn Seo Noah Duffy, House Manager Owen Stevens Sean Luscombe, House Manager Ashley Techavimol Becky Plant, House Manager David Wall Daniel Kaseberg, Assistant House Manager Nina Tosti, Concessions Lead Mio Tang, Barista Zico Deng, Concessions Assistant Catering by

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A-24 UW WORLD SERIES Dressed for the Part Harmony Arnold is Part of the Fabric of Seattle’s Performing Arts Community

Rich Gray and Chris DiStefano in Murder for Two at ACT Theatre. Photo by Jeff Carpenter.

"My job is to work with an Harmony Arnold is the costume Well and Living in Paris), to name a designer for the production Murder few. Arnold has also designed for film actor to achieve character," for Two, produced in collaboration (Waxie Moon in Fallen Jewel, Perfect 10), says costume designer with the 5th Avenue Theatre. "My job advertising and commercials. She is an Harmony Arnold. is to work with an actor to achieve Associate Professor of Performing Arts character," she says. It is the collaborative & Art Leadership (Theatre, Costume) at character development she appreciates Seattle University. "It is a team sport," she most in costuming actors. "I love the says of her costuming work, sitting in collaborative process." ACT's lobby. She’s taking a break for a few minutes from the production of Murder Arnold is no stranger to collaboration; for Two to talk about the show and her she has worked with the 5th Avenue process. Theatre (The Man of La Mancha), Seattle Repertory Theatre (Buyer & The cast of Murder for Two is a small Cellar, Venus in Fur, Bo-Nita), INTIMAN one. There are only two actors. Chris Theatre Festival (Lysistrata), Village DiStefano plays a crime investigator. Theatre (Snapshots), and another Richard Gray plays everyone else—ten ACT Theatre/5th Avenue Theatre different suspects. Together, the pair collaboration (Jacques Brel is Alive and make up the entire orchestra. Murder for

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Arnold designed costumes for the 5th Avenue Theatre production of Man of La Mancha. Photo by Mark Kitaoka.

Two takes place over 90 minutes with era and the work of Edward Gorey, with JUNE 1 - JULY 1, 2017 no intermission. How do you costume the addition of some bursts of colorful TICKETS: WEARENCTC.ORG someone who doesn't have time for a flourishes. The fashions of the 1970s costume change? The show is very busy harken back to the Victorian era through and fast-paced and it's a challenge for their textures and patterns, Arnold someone like Arnold. It is a challenge explains, but with more color. Arnold to costume an actor who plays dozens began working up this idea, looking of characters but never leaves the stage. deeper in 1970s culture: All in the Family "The whole show could be done with episodes, Phyllis Diller, Elton John, the GEOFFREY LARSON, MUSIC DIRECTOR a piano and a hat," she shares, but this board game Clue, Velma from the Scooby- production's approach is not that simple. Doo cartoons. The ideas showed up on SEASON FINALE Arnold’s designs are a piece of the puzzle Arnold's character boards, collections of FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 2017 8:00 PM in the creation of the play’s parade of images that inspire the costume designs First Free Methodist Church characters. to come.

Her process starts with a deep read of Even though there is no time for Gray the script. The actors and the director to change costumes on stage, Arnold Chamber Symphony Op. 110a arr. Barshai have ideas about costuming as they read created a character board for each of the script; Arnold does, too. They meet, them to inform the actor and the creative discuss and collaborate. With a creative team. By fleshing out the characters,

String Quartet No. 14 team that includes director Daniel Arnold helped flesh out the show. For “Death and the Maiden” Knechtges, scenic design by Carey Wong, DiStefano's character, her work was arr. Mahler lighting design by Rich Paulsen and somewhat more straight forward. A sound design by Christopher Walker, the simple, drab 1970s-looking detective look and feel of the whole production is outfit. For Gray, there were many boards Adagio for clarinet determined. "The production meetings covering inspiration across age and and strings include laughing, brainstorming and gender, including Chevy Chase, Tom

ERIC JACOBS collaboration," Arnold enthuses. "If you Selleck, Barbara Streisand. For one Clarinet bring a good care-free attitude to them, a character Gray plays, Dahlia, Arnold lot can get done." had the opportunity to go all-out. She

Tickets: $20 General, $15 Student/Senior describes it this way: "If Elton John and Murder for Two Tickets and information: SMCOmusic.org For , the inspirations that RuPaul conceived a child while watching came to mind included the Victorian

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Five Questions with Janelle Velasquez

Janelle Velasquez is in the David Bryne/ blood flowing. Fatboy Slim immersive disco musical, “It's a city full Here Lies Love, being staged at Seattle of artists who What piece of art has always inspired Repertory Theatre. A Seattle-native, she you? Why? earned her BFA from Ithaca College and are constantly West Side Story. I used to watch that film her MBA from Pepperdine. She has been day in and day out as a child. Maria was involved with Here Lies Love since its creating beauty the first role I ever played at arts camp. earliest iterations. She's also been on a The music rouses such excitement and few TV shows including CSI: Miami and and thought all the nostalgic feelings of being a kid 90210. and watching these people sing and provoking work dance and saying to myself, "I could do We sat down to talk to Velasquez for this one day." a few minutes about breathing, West — something that Side Story and Seattle's vibrant arts What do you like about Seattle's artistic community. is so important, community?

What first inspired you to be an actor? especially today.” First off, Seattle has such a vibrant and When did you realize you could do it for eclectic arts community, from music to a living? theatre to dance to glass blowing and What performance are you excited so on. It's a city full of artists who are To be perfectly honest, my acting about seeing? constantly creating beauty and thought inspiration was Jodie Foster's I am very excited to see this new provoking work — something that is so performance in Nell. I was a child and production of The Secret Garden at important, especially today. my mother forced me to see that film the 5th Avenue Theatre. I'm in love against my will — I wanted to see My with Lucy Simon's score and I heard It's also a community that takes risks. Girl 2 — and I'm happy she did. I was wonderful things about its run at I have been a part of Here Lies Love dumbfounded that someone could Shakespeare Theatre Company. from the very first workshop and it was transform in such an extreme and sad to see it come to a halt after such riveting way in order to tell a story. What do you do before you go on stage? successful runs in New York City and My rituals vary depending on whether London. Seattle is the first city to test But my true inspiration came in high a new configuration and breathe life school. I actually grew up in Seattle I'm doing a musical or a play. But sun salutations are a definite for both. back into this magnificent show. For and attended Roosevelt, which had an that reason I am both proud — being a outstanding theatre program led by I do a breathing technique I learned Seattle native — and grateful! the remarkable Ruben Van Kempen at in college where I pinch my noise and the time. He encouraged me to explore breathe in through one nostril for eight The city is spoiled to have such performance beyond dance — I was a slow seconds, hold for eight, and then extraordinary talent and top-notch PNB kid — by sending me to a Summer breathe out the other nostril for eight venues and, in turn, the artists are so Fine Arts Camp in Fairbanks, Alaska. It seconds and hold, repeating that cycle a fortunate to have such a supportive was there that I developed a passion for < few times. It sounds weird, but it helps community. acting and made the decision to pursue me to get the breath going and the performance as a career.

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Five Questions with Seán Griffin

Seán Griffin is appearing in the 5th Avenue Theatre's production of “Seattle knows The Secret Garden. He's playing Ben Weatherstaff, the gardener that helps that the very Mary Lennox settle into her new home. He's played a lot of roles in Seattle, many soul of the at the 5th Avenue: Carousel, Elf, Aladdin, Mame, West Side Story, My Fair Lady, city is its arts and more. He's also been in productions at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Seattle Children's Theatre, and organizations. many others. Without them, We talked to him briefly about Irish superstitions, Broadway and Seattle's who are we? ” local talent.

When did you realize that you wanted to have heard so many great things about be an actor? When did you realize that it. I also want to see it because I think it's you could make a living at it? in competition with Come From Away, which I loved, for the Tony. I first realized I wanted to be an actor early on in life. I grew up in Ireland and What do you do to prepare before you hit inspired me. When I got to work with attended many performances of Gilbert the stage? her and became aware of her generosity and Sullivan and Pantomimes because I do some realaxation exercises and like on stage, her work ethic and her joy in my uncles were involved as actors and to be by myself. In my mind's eye I also performing, it has remained with me singers. One of my grandfathers was visualize certain things, which I will keep all these many years. She continues to a terrific singer. It wasn't until college to myself, being Irish and superstitious. inspire me. that I decided to pursue it as a career. Even though I have been doing this I realized I could make a living at it in What do you like most about Seattle's professionally for 55 years, I still have the first few years of my professional life artistic community? nerves. when it seemed that the jobs came along Seattle is a city that loves the arts. It is a one after the other. I was lucky and in What piece of art has always inspired city that supports the arts, even in times the right place at the right time and it you? Why? like now when government subsidies are seemed that I had the talent they were Sad to say, many people won't remember threatened. Seattle knows that the very looking for. the actress Colleen Dewhurst, but she soul of the city is its arts organizations. What artistic performance are you most was one of the best stage actresses of Without them, who are we? Without excited about seeing? Why? her time. I was lucky enough to appear them we would be so much less. Finally, I opposite her on Broadway in The Queen would like to thank the theatres that hire I am looking forward to seeing Dear and the Rebels. Watching her work mostly local talent and, thus, keeping me Evan Hansen on Broadway because I in many Eugene O'Neill plays always off the streets and out of trouble.<

14 ENCORE STAGES Intermission Brain Transmission Are you waiting the curtain to rise? Or, perhaps, you’ve just returned your seat before the second act and have a few minutes to spare? Treat your brain to this scintillating trivia quiz!

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1) Seattle Shakespeare Company is bringing Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream to the stage. In the play, who is the king of the fairies?

a) Pyramus b) Lysander c) Oberon d) Demetrius

2) Welcome to Braggsville, a satire on contemporary American issues, is on stage at Book-It Repertory Theatre. The world premiere is based on the novel by what author?

a) T. Geronimo Johnson b) Kurt Vonnegut c) Denis Johnson d) Jess Walter Midsummer Nights Dream Act IV Scene I. Artist - Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) 3) The Legend of Georgia McBride, seen at Seattle’s ACT Theatre, about an 4) Taproot is bringing the murder 5) Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Elvis-impersonator-turned-drag- mystery Busman’s Honeymoon to the Carlo takes the stage at Meany queen, takes place in what state? stage. It’s based on the work of what Center for the Performing Arts soon. a) New York famed crime novelist? What is unusual about this ballet troupe? b) Florida a) P.D. James c) Nevada b) Agatha Christie a) The troupe members are all d) Illinois c) Walter Mosley deaf. d) Dorothy Sayers b) The troupe are all children. c) The troupe are men in drag. d) The troupe is the oldest ballet Bonus Question company in the world. What was the last arts performance you Email your response to [email protected]

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classical languages, she considered her best work her translation of Dante’s Dante’s of translation her work best her considered she languages, classical . 5) C – The troupe are men in drag. Founded in New York City in 1974, they tour Japan after their their after Japan tour they 1974, in City York New in Founded drag. in men are troupe The – C 5) . Divine Comedy Divine

finalist and received his MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. 3) B – Florida. Written by Matthew Lopez, the show will be directed by David Bennett. 4) D – Dorothy Sayers. A student of of student A Sayers. Dorothy – D 4) Bennett. David by directed be will show the Lopez, Matthew by Written Florida. – B 3) Workshop. Writers’ Iowa the from MFA his received and finalist

ANSWERS ANSWERS 1) C – Oberon. Shakespeare did not create him on his own. He was mentioned often in medieval literature. 2) A – T. Geronimo Johnson. The author is a PEN/Faulkner prize prize PEN/Faulkner a is author The Johnson. Geronimo T. – A 2) literature. medieval in often mentioned was He own. his on him create not did Shakespeare Oberon. – C 1)

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