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Brooklyn Academy of Music

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

Karen Brooks Hopkins Joseph V. Melillo President Executive Producer presents the 51st (dream) state Conceived and written by Sekou Sundiata

Approximate BAM Howard Gilman Opera House running time: Nov 8, 10 & 11, 2006 at 7:30pm one hour and 30 minutes, Directed by Christopher McElroen no intermission Score composed by Graham Haynes Vocal arrangements by Richard Harper Choreography by David Thomson Projection design by Sage Marie Carter Set design by Troy Hourie Lighting design by Roderick Murray Costume design by Liz Sound design by Lucas Indelicato

Presented in association with STAGE/Aaron Davis Hall, Inc.

BAM 2006 Next Wave Festival is sponsored by Altria Group, Inc.

JPMorgan Chase is the title sponsor for the 51st (dream) state.

the 51st (dream) state is part of Diverse Voices at BAM presented by Time Warner Inc.

Music programming at BAM is made possible by a generous grant from The State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

Leadership support for BAM Theater is provided by The Shubert Foundation, Inc., with major support from The SHS Foundation, Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust, Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, and additional support from Billy Rose Foundation, Inc. Performed by Poet Sekou Sundiata Vocalists Ronnell Bey La Tanya Hall Samita Sinha Bora Yoon Drums Chris Eddleton Cornet Graham Haynes Bass Calvin Jones Keyboards and Laptop Adam Klipple Guitar Bill White Dancer David Thomson

Design & Production Music Director Graham Haynes Production Supervisor Vincent DeMarco / KelVin Productions, LLC Sound Engineer Gabe Wood Stage Manager Jay Ryan Company Manager Katea Stitt Additional original music composed by Bill Toles, Sekou Sundiata Executive Producer dance & be still arts Artistic Director Sekou Sundiata Producer MultiArts Projects & Productions/MAPP Co-Directors and Producers Ann Rosenthal and Cathy Zimmerman Associate Producer Jordana Phokompe Lead commissioning and development support for the 51st (dream) state has been provided by WaterWorks, an initiative of HARLEM STAGE/Aaron Davis Hall, Inc., Harlem Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY. WaterWorks is sponsored by Time Warner, Inc.; with additional support from Altria Group, Inc. and the National Endowment for the Arts. Nathan Cummings Foundation provided the initial funding for WaterWorks.

Commission support has been provided by Carolina Performing Arts at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, OH; Melbourne International Arts Festival, Australia; Miami Dade College, Center for Cultural Collaborations International; Stanford Lively Arts at Stanford University, CA; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.

New World Theater, Amherst, MA; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; the Arab American National Museum, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Eugene Lang College/New School University; and Lafayette College provided essential developmental and production residencies. The work was also developed in association with Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, a national consortium of college, universities and cultural institutions.

The 51st (dream) state is made possible in part by a grant from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters Ensemble Theatre Collaborations Grant Program, a component of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Theatre Initiative. The development of this work is also made possible with generous support from the Ford Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Production Fund, the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts .

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT NYSCA For further information about Sekou Sundiata and this project, contact: MAPP/MultiArts Projects & Productions, NYC • 140 Second Avenue Suite 502, New York, NY 10003 Tel: 646-602-9390/ www.multiartsprojects.com

MUSIC AND TEXT CREDITS:

Audio recordings by excerpted from "Restoring Hope," delivered at Pasadena Community College, December 2003. Used with permission.

Audio recording by Jacob Needleman excerpted from "Rediscovering the American Soul," delivered January 29, 2003 in Washington, DC. Used with permission.

Projected text by Michael Ignatieff excerpted from "The American Empire, The Burden" published by The New York Times Magazine, January 5, 2003. Used with permission.

"Grey" by Ani DiFranco. Used with permission.

"The House I Live In" by Allan Lewis and Earl Robinson. Copyright © 1942 by Music Sales Corporation (ASCAP) for US International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Used with permission.

"Ute Sun Song" by Valerie Naranjo, and Traditional music, arranged by Valerie Naranjo. Used with permission.

"My Love Is You" by Abbey Lincoln. Used with permission.

"Pure Innocence," traditional music arranged by Samita Sinha. Used with permission.

Original music for New American Theater by Bora Yoon. Used with permission. Who's Wb...... -....o _

Sekou Sundiata is a poet who writes for print, ally with his band; in 2001, they performed in performance, music, and theater. He has been 23 cities in the United States and Canada as part a Sundance Institute Screenwriting Fellow, a of Ani DiFranco's "Rhythm and News Tour." Revson Fellow, a Master Artist-in-Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Performers Arts (Florida), the first Writer-in-Residence at Ronnell Bey's (vocals) Off-Broadway credits University, and he is currently a include Running Man (Music-Theatre Group) Lambent Fellowship in the Arts Fellow. He was and Eli's Comin' (Vineyard-OBIE Award). She has featured in the Bill Moyers' PBS series on poetry, performed at BAM, The Fez, The New School The Language of Life, and as part of Russell with Sekou Sundiata, and Joe's Pub with La Simmons' on HBO. Sundiata is Chanze. Regional credits include Ain't Misbe­ currently a professor at Eugene Lang College in havin' (Madison Rep.), Best of Both Worlds (New . He has written and performed in York, NY), The Life and Life of Bumpy Johnson highly acclaimed performance theater works The by Amiri Baraka (San Diego Rep.), and All Night Circle Unbroken is a Hard Bop, which toured Strut (Michigan/California). Bey's television nationally and received three AU DELCO Awards appearances include Rosie O'Donnell Christmas and a Bessie Award; The Mystery of Love, com­ Special and The Tony Awards (with Broadway missioned and produced by New Voices/New Inspirational Voices). Visions at HARLEM STAGE/Aaron Davis Hall, Inc. in New York City and the American Music Chris Eddleton (drums) has performed at Central Theater Festival in ; and Udu, a Park Summerstage with the Brazilian percus­ music theater work produced by 651 ARTS in sionist Cyro Baptista's band Beat the Donkey Brooklyn and presented by the International Fes­ and Greg Tate's free group, Burnt Sugar. For tival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven, the Walker ten years he has been the house drummer for Art Center and Penumbra Theater in Minneapo­ the jazz/hip-hop open-mic show All That, which lis, Flynn Center in Burlington, VT, the Hopkins included an appearance on BET's Planet Groove. Center at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, Eddleton also appeared on The Show and Miami-Dade Community College in Florida. with Def-Jam recording artist . Blessing the boats, Sundiata's first solo theater Other musicians he has shared the stage with piece, opened in November 2002 at HARLEM are Brazilian trumpeter Claudio Roditi, Latin jazz STAGE/Aaron Davis Hall, Inc., NYC and has pianist Hilton Ruiz, and N'Dea Davenport of the since been presented in more than 30 cities in Brand New Heavies. In the US, Eddleton has the US, Scotland, and Australia. In March 2005, toured in Brown Butterfly and performed at the Sundiata produced The Gift of Life Concert, Monterey Jazz Festival. Internationally, he has an organ donation public awareness event at played throughout Europe with World Village the Apollo Theater that kicked off a th ree-week recording artist Marta Topferova and with Saul run of blessing the boats at the Apollo Theater Williams. He has toured to Russia, Uzbekistan, SoundStage. These projects were produced in and Kyrgistan (AK4/Adam Klipple Quintet), and partnership with the Apollo Theater Foundation, played in Turkey (Brazil & Co., Boys Choir of the National Kidney Foundation and the New Harlem), Hong Kong (Massa), and Okinawa (Too York Organ Donor Network with support from the the Limit). US Department of Health and Human Services. Sundiata's first recording, the Grammy nominated La Tanya Hall (vocals, vocal director) tours and The Blue Oneness of Dreams (Mouth Almighty/ makes special appearances with Diana Ross, Mercury), and its successor, longstoryshort Julio Iglesias, Bobby McFerrin, Harry Belafonte, (Righteous Babe Records), are both rich with the Aretha Franklin, Gloria Gaynor, and Jon Secada. sounds of , , jazz, and African and Afro­ Hall's television performances include 100 Caribbean percussion. He has toured internation- Center Street (A&E), Law & Order (NBC), The Who's Wb o _

Sopranos (HBO), Now and Again (CBS), One Jazz Festival, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Life to Live (ABC), The Chris Rock Show (H BO), Festival, the Free Jazz Festival in Rio de Janeiro, and An Evening with Harry Belafonte & Friends the JazzNOJazz Festival in Zurich, the Akbank (PBS). Her work on film can be seen in The Jazz Festival in Turkey, and the Poretta Soul Devil and Daniel Webster. Hall's theatrical cred­ Festival. its include A Christmas Carol, Stormy Weather, Dreamgirls, Storyvi//e, What the World Needs Samita Sinha (vocals), though trained foremost Now, and Promises and Promises. Hall is also in classical Hindustani music, has a repertoire an in-demand session and jingle singer, vocal spanning a range of styles in several differ- arranger, and director. ent languages. She experiments in synthesiz- ing elements of Hindustani music with jazz, Calvin Jones (bass) a graduate of the University electronic music, and theater, creating new sonic of Miami (FL), has performed, recorded, and intersections by bringing the precision and detail toured with Ronny Jordan, James McBride, of the classical Indian vocal tradition to various , Craig Harris, , contexts. Sinha began training in Indian classical Greg Osby, Eartha Kitt, Alex Bugnon, Carla Cook, music at age ten in Flushing, the same time she Chico Freeman, Donald Byrd, Patti Austin, James started playing piano and singing in choral and 'Blood' Ulmer, Max Roach, Pharoah Sanders, jazz ensembles and musicals. In 2002 she was Andrew Hill, Ray Andreson, and Jon Hendricks. awarded the Fulbright Scholarship to study in He has also performed on Broadway and toured the guru-student tradition in India with Dr. Alka with Bring In Da Noise, Bring In Da Funk; Ain't Deo Marulkar. During this time Sinha developed Nothin' but the Blues; and All Shook Up. Jones a unique vocal and compositional style drawing has performed in 39 states and 25 countries. from the various musical and linguistic idioms she knows (Hindi, Urdu, Braj, Mandarin, Eng­ Adam Klipple (keyboards, laptop) leads two lish, and vocal sound painting), and performed ensembles: AK4 and Drive-By Leslie. His piano this music throughout India and the Middle East. quartet, the AK4, not only plays derangements At present her main projects include KAASH-a of traditional standards, but also forays into music collective she leads-and Sunny Jain Col­ Brazilian, Latin, West African, funk, and pop. lective. (www.samitasinha.com) The AK4 was recognized as a Jazz Ambassador in 2003, and was sponsored by the Kennedy Bill White (guitar) is a native New Yorker, Center and the US Department of State on a received his bachelor's degree from SU NY-Old six-week tour of Russia and Central Asia. Drive­ Westbury. He has performed, toured, and re­ By Leslie, his Hammond organ quartet, delivers corded with Cecil Bridgewater, Miriam Makeba, riotous funk-jazz-dance music. In addition to his Chaka Khan, Hall & Oates, Meshell Ndegeocello, personal endeavors, Klipple is involved in stage Patti Austin, Taylor Dane, Miki Howard, Jean and recording projects with Craig Harris, Joe Carn, Bernie Worrell, Melba Moore, Craig Har­ Bowie and Defunkt, Jay Rodriguez, and Michael ris, and his own Bill White 350 Project, which Ray and the Cosmic Krewe. His credits also has three CDs on the market. White scored the include performances with the Sun Ra Arkestra, music for the off-Broadway play, Sacrifice to Marc Ribot, John Medeski, Kurt Rosenwinkle, Eros. Wh ite performed on Broadway with Bring Dave Fiuczynski, , Josh Roseman, In Da Noise, Bring In Da Funk, and was featured Peter Apfelbaum, Rachel Z, Alfonzo Blackwell, on Bill Moyers' PBS special The Language of Life and Smokey Robinson. He has appeared at such with Sekou Sundiata. renowned venues as the Blue Note, Iridium, Blues Alley, and the Knitting Factory, and at Bora Yoon (vocals, violin, electronics) is a musi­ international jazz festivals such as: the Umbria cal architect and multi-instrumentalist with a Jazz Festival, the JVC Jazz Festival, the Moers twisted penchant for the iconoclastic. She has Who's Wb~o _

collaborated with site-specific choreographer No­ (2000), an event he produced and curated; and emie Lafrance, media philosopher DJ Spooky­ Sights and Sounds (2000), an exhibition at the premiering Subliminal Strings in Paris at Festival Bronx River Arts Center. Haynes has twice been Sons D'Hiver-members of Meredith Monk's nominated for the Alpert Award in the Arts and vocal ensemble, multimedia artist Emile Bennett has been awarded grants by the National Endow­ (DCA, STEIM), and NY Fringe. From the Gug­ ment for the Arts, the New York State Council on genheim to the airwaves of MTV Networks, she the Arts, and Meet the Composer. He has also has performed her original work nationally and been a lectu rer at New York University on the internationally, garnering awards from the John subject of Music and Trance. Lennon Songwriting Contest, Billboard, and the Arion Music Award committee. Recent projects Richard Harper (vocal arrangements), a multi­ include the live acoustic sound design of Agora instrumentalist, has recorded on piano, trombone, /I in the historic 55,000 sq. ft empty McCarren baritone horn, and voice with artists such as Pool, and the sonic curation of the experimental Makanda Ken Mcintyre, James Jabbo Ware, music/film SummerScreen series. Assai String Quartet, Jack Walrath, Miles Griffith, Fred Ho, and . Over the years he has Designers & Collaborators been privileged to work with Frank Foster, Sam Christopher McElroen (director) is the co-founder Rivers, Bill Barron, Diedre Murray, Carlos Garnet, of the Classical Theater of Harlem (CTH) where Lena Horne, Smokey Robinson, the Jivin' Lindy he has produced 27 productions in six seasons Hoppers, Craig Harris, Sekou Sundiata, and many yielding twelve AUDELCO Awards, five Obie others. He has served as the musical directed for Awards, a 2006 Lucille Lortel Award, a 2004 the Charles Moore Dance Theater, Pepsi Bethel Drama Desk Award, and CTH being named "I Authentic Jazz Dance, and numerous original of 8 theaters in America to Watch" by the Drama productions including Udu, You Don't Miss Your League. As a director, he has helmed numerous Water, and A Winter's Tale. His compositions productions at CTH including Waiting for Godot and arrangements have been featured Off-Broad­ with Wendell Pierce, The Cherry Orchard with way, Late Great Ladies of Blues and Jazz, and on Earle Hyman, and The Blacks: A Clown Show television Dance in America, City of Acapella . He (four Obie Awards and named one of the best is co-composer and arranger of Spiritual Journey, Off-Broadway productions of the 2003 season by a musical that has successfully run at the Apollo The New York Times). Theater and his most recent musical, Worksong, has had several New York stagings. Dr. Harper Graham Haynes (composer, musical director, holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology and Composi­ cornet) was born in 1960 and raised in the New tion from the Union Institute and University, and York suburb of Hollis, Queens. His father, Roy teaches at New School University. Haynes, revolutionized modern jazz drumming. Haynes studied at Queens College and formed his David Thomson (choreographer, dancer) began own ensemble, Graham Haynes and No Image, dancing at Haverford/Bryn Mawr Colleges and in the late 1980s. He has recorded seven CDs later received a BA in Liberal Arts from SUNY/ of his own music as well as with Steve Cole- Purchase. He has worked as a collaborative artist man, Cassandra Wilson, Lonnie Plaxico, George in widely diverse landscapes of music, dance, Russell, , Vernon Reid, Bill Laswell, theater and performance with such artists as Brandon Ross, and D.J. Logic. Haynes served Kevin Wynn, Mel Wong, Bebe Miller (found- as music director of Tracie Morris' Afrofuturistic ing company member), Remy Charlip, David (2003) which was presented at The Kitchen. Rousseve, Jane Comfort, Susan Rethorst, Irene Other multimedia projects include A Cruel New Hultman, Michael Dinnwiddie, Michel Laub/Re­ World (2003), a collaboration with Donald Byrd mote Control, Laurie Anderson, Tracie Morris, and and Spectrum Dance Company; Electric Church Trisha Brown (1987-93) among many others. Who's Wb o _

He has performed downtown, Off-Broadway and credits include The Zipper Theatre, Theatreworks in London's West End with the acclaimed a cap­ USA, The Culture Project, INTAR, and numer- pella performance group Hot Mouth, of which he ous shows at Juilliard Drama School. Regional is a founding member. Thomson has been on the includes: The Guthrie, New York Stage and Film, faculties of Sarah Lawrence College, Movement Westport Country Playhouse, Williamstown Research, NYU (Experimental Theater Wing), as Theatre Festival, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Bay well as having taught both nationally and interna­ Street Theatre, Children's Theatre Minneapolis, tionally. His collaborative work, TheForestProject, Syracuse Stage, Pioneer Theatre, Alabama Shake­ has been produced by The Kitchen. In 2001, speare Festival, The Asolo, and GeVa Theatre. he received a New York Dance and Performance Opera includes Sarasota Opera, Music Academy (Bessie) Award for Sustained Achievement in of the West, Pine Mountain Music Festival, and Performance. Most recently, he has worked with Juilliard Opera. RecenVupcoming includes Driving Ralph Lemon (Geography Trilogy: Parts 2 & 3), Miss Daisy (Syracuse Stage), Quartet (Bay Street Dean Moss/Laylah Ali (Figures on a Field) and Theatre), King Lear and Waiting for Godot (Clas­ Bebe Miller (Landing/Place). He serves on the sical Theatre of Harlem), Esoterica (DR2, NYC) board of Dance Theater Workshop. These perfor­ and The Cherry Orchard (Chautauqua Theatre mances are dedicated to his mother, Pearline. Company). Hourie attended the Bregenz Opera Festival on a 2005 Ford Foundation Travel Grant. Sage Marie Carter (projections designer) theater credits include Moonlight and Magnolias (Man­ Roderick Murray's (lighting designer) lighting hattan Theater Club, Alliance Theater), Night­ designs have been seen nationally and interna­ maze (US tour), Never Sang for My Father (Step­ tionally since 1992 on the works of Kimberly penwolf), Dirty Tricks (Public Theater), Loves & Bartosik, Ralph Lemon, Benjamin Millepied, Hours (Old Globe), blessing the boats (US tour), Wally Cardona, Yanira Castro, Paradigm Co., Miss Saigon (current US tour), 00 Bla Dee (Or­ Luca Veggetti, Pepatian, Hot Mouth, Ricochet egon Shakespeare Festival), One Flew Over the Co., Dusan Tynek, ABT Studio Company, Risa Cuckoo's Nest (Broadway, RSC London, Steppen­ Jaroslow and Dancers, Bill Young and Dancers, wolf), The Cripple of Inishmaan (Public Theater), Donna Uchizono, and Kriota Willburg, among Missing Footage (Helen Hayes PAC), Having Our many others. He received a 2001 Bessie Award Say (Broadway, McCarter Theatre, and national for his work for Wally Cardona's Trance Territory. tour), Cakewalk (A.R.T.), and Techno Sacre Murray recently was the lighting designer for (Guggenheim Works & Process). She has created Ralph Lemon's Come home Charley Patton and projections for television, chamber music, opera, Wally Cardona's Everywhere, both performed dance, street art, fine art installations, sporting at the BAM Harvey Theater. Prior to dedicating events, stand-up comedy, and rock concerts. himself full time to design he performed for nine Carter is currently living in Brooklyn working as a years with the award winning Circus Amok. designer, programmer, and consultant. Liz Prince (costume designer) has designed Troy Haurie's (set designer) Off-Broadway costumes for dance and theater projects for over experience includes Temporary Help (Revelation 20 years. Productions include works by Bill T. Theatre, 2003 Drama Desk Nomination); Throw Jones, Doug Varone, Neil Greenberg, Trey Mc­ Pitchfork (NYTW), Tartuffe (Acting Company); Intyre, Mark Dendy, Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Eduardo Machado's Havana Is Waiting (Cherry Oak Dance Project, Arthur Aviles, Jane Comfort, Lane Theatre), and The Passion of Frida Kahlo Ralph Lemon, Lenora Champagne, Lawerence (Directors Company/ Arclight) and Classical Goldhuber, Pilobolus, Bebe Miller, and Sarah East Theatre of Harlem (2005 AUDELCO Award, Johnson. Prince's costumes have been exhibited 2001 and 2004 Nominations). Other NYC at the New York Public Library for the Performing Who's ,Wb~o _

Arts, Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Cleveland Katea Stitt (company manager) began her career Center for Contemporary Art. She received a as a performing arts producer in 1987. In 1994 1990 Bessie for costume design. she launched her own company, Anyanwu Management, to offer production, tour and artist Lucas Indelicato's (sound designer) recent cred­ management services to individuals, ensembles, its include associate for the 2005 Lincoln Center and organizations. Now in its twelfth year, Festival and designer for Ralph Lemon's Tree the company's clients have included Ntozake and Come home Charley Patton. As an engineer, Shange, Lester Bowie, The Ethnic Heritage Indelicato tours the world with Meredith Monk. Ensemble, Dianne Mcintyre, Judith Jackson, Sekou Sundiata, Defunkt, Washington Performing Production Arts Society, District Curators, and the Rhythm Vincent DeMarco, KelVin Productions (produc­ and Blues Foundation. She has performed tour tion supervisor) credits include Fantasy Traveller and road management for ensembles in many US Tour (National Blacklight Theatre Prague), parts of the world including the United States, Cookin' (Richard Frankel Productions), Millen­ several countries in Western and Eastern Europe, nium World Peace Summit for Religious Leaders Turkey, and Pakistan. Currently, she is the road (Unitea Nations), and Seaside Summer/MLK manager for renowned vocal ensemble Sweet Concert Series. DeMarco was the associate Honey In The Rock. From 1999 until 2004, Stitt production manager at the NYSF/Public Theater was the coordinator of, and an oral historian for, 2000-04. He is a managing partner of KelVin the Smithsonian Institution's Jazz Oral History Productions, LLC with John Finen and Kelly Program. She is a producer for Pacifica Radio Cobb. and hosts an eclectic weekly Jazz and World music program on Washington, DC Pacifica radio Gabe Wood (sound engineer) has been a sound affiliate WPFW. Stitt is a co-chair of Black Voices designer and audio technician in New York and for Peace. Boston for the past four years. Sound design credits include Life During Wartime (Actor's MultiArts Projects &Productions (MAPP) is Studio Drama Schoo!), Laughing Wild (Hun­ a NYC-based arts organization dedicated to tington Theatre Company) and The Moonlight producing and sustaining performing artists as Room (SpeakEasy Stage Company). Recently he they develop multidisciplinary projects that raise worked Off-Broadway on Almost Maine and Mr. questions about the complexities of our time. Marmalade. MAPP works in close collaboration with artists, arts organizations, and other arts professionals Jay Ryan (stage manager) is a freelance lighting to provide a holistic set of production and tour­ designer working and living in NYC. Prior to ing services tailored to the specific nature and freelance work he spent ten years as resident needs of each project. MAPP was founded in lighting designer at Dance Theater Workshop 1994 by Executive Director, Ann Rosenthal, and in NYC. He has worked with many great artists since 1998 has been co-directed by Rosenthal including Annie B. Parsons (Obie award), H.T. and Cathy Zimmerman. MAPP has managed, Chen, Chris Aiken, Karl Anderson, Leigh Secrest, produced, and toured music, dance, and theater Maura Nguyen Donohue, Fiona Marcotty, Nami projects by more than 50 artists from fifteen Yamamoto, Jeanine Durning, Sally Silvers, countries. American Spanish Dance Theater, John Jasperse, David Parker/The Bang Group, The Elementals, David Neumann, Daniel Safer, and many others. He has designed lights at many theater spaces in New York City, the US, and Europe.