Danspace Project Staff & Consultants Board of Directors

Executive Director & Chief Curator President Judy Hussie-Taylor Helen Warwick First Vice President Program Director & Associate Curator Sam Miller, In Memoriam, 2013-2018 Lydia Bell Vice President Director of Finance & Operations David Parker Jodi Bender Secretary Melissa Levin Director of Development Peggy H. Cheng Treasurer Sarah Needham Danspace Communications Director Lily Cohen Officer-at-Large David Fanger Project Development & Communcations Assistant Suzanne Bocanegra Séverine Kaufman Trisha Brown, In Memoriam, 2006-2017 Winter 2020 Anthony Calnek Assistant Curator, Public Engagement Douglas Dunn, Emeritus Seta Morton Hilary Easton Adrienne Edwards Development Manager Ishmael -Jones, Emeritus Nora Thompson Judy Hussie-Taylor Thomas Lax Production Manager Ralph Lemon, Emeritus Sophie Sotsky Bebe Miller, Emeritus Rashaun Mitchell Lighting Designers Eiko Otake Kathy Kaufmann Judilee Reed Carol Mullins Linda Stein Nina Winthrop Senior House Manager Jordan Morley Artists Advisory Board

House Manager Chair Toni Carlson Ain Gordon

Senior Box Office Manager Jonah Bokaer, Wally Cardona, David Dorfman, Emma Rose Brown Jeanine Durning, Miguel Gutierrez, Trajal Harrell, Iréne Hultman Monti, John Jasperse, Heidi Latsky, Box Office Managers Tere O’Connor, Risa Steinberg, Donna Uchizono, E G Condon Christopher Williams, Nami Yamamoto Ella Wasserman-Smith

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Danspace Project presents new work in dance, supports a diverse range of choreographers in developing their work, encourages experimentation, and connects artists to audiences. Leadership Circle David Thompson & Ginger Teo Gelles Alberta Arthurs Chapman RoseLee Goldberg & Dakota For 45 years, Danspace Project has supported a vital community of contemporary dance artists in an environment Barbara Bertozzi Castelli Kay Turner Jackson unlike any other in the United States. Located in the historic St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, Danspace shares its facility with the Church, The Poetry Project, and New York Theatre Ballet. Danspace Project’s Commissioning Katie Dixon & Richard Fleming Sam Valenti Kennis Hawkins Initiative has commissioned over 570 new works since its inception in 1994. George and Ellen Needham Lucy Vasserman Dale & Stephen Hoffman Slobodan Randjelovic Katie Wisniewski Rattanamol Johal Danspace Project’s Choreographic Center Without Walls (CW²) provides context for audiences and increased support for artists. Our public programs (including Danspace Presents, Platforms, Food for Thought, DraftWork), Martha Sherman David & Monica Zwirner Robert Knowles Commissioning Initiative, residencies, guest artist curators, and contextualizing activities and materials are Muna Tseng Phyllis Lamhut core components of CW² offering a responsive framework for artists’ works. Since 2010, we have produced Thomas J. Lax twelve Platforms, published twelve print catalogues and five e-books, launched the Conversations Without Walls discussion series, and explored models for public discourse and residencies. Brad Learmonth $300 - $499 Melissa Levin Follow Us $5,000 - $9,900 Anonymous (1) Kelly McDonald Instagram: @DanspaceProject Anne B. 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Mellon Foundation Foundation; Cultural Services of the French Embassy; and The New York State Council on the Arts, as well as Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation; Doris Duke Charitable Sharon Binstok George Emilio Sanchez the generous individuals that support the Creation Fund, Foundation; FUSED (French U.S. Exchange in Dance), a Claire Bishop Alex Sloane including gifts in honor of the Elizabeth H. Berger Fund. program developed by FACE Foundation and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States with $500 - $1,499 Roslyn Biskin Rebekah Smith Danspace Project’s 2019-2020 season, including the support from the Florence Gould Foundation, the Ford Anonymous (2) Art Bridgman & Myrna Packer Gus Solomons jr. DraftWork and Food for Thought series, are presented, in Foundation, Institut français- Paris, the French Ministry of part, with public funds from the New York City Department Culture and private donors; Howard Gilman Foundation; Alberta Arthurs Kim Chan Laurie Uprichard of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. The Harkness Foundation for Dance; Marta Heflin Sandi Bloem Sara Coffey & Dave Snyder Carole Vance Foundation; the Jerome Foundation; Lambent Foundation Greg Crimp Barbara Cohen-Stratyner Bethany Wall Danspace Project programs are made possible in part Fund of the Tides Foundation; The Andrew W. Mellon through PUBLIC FUNDS from the National Endowment Foundation; Mertz Gilmore Foundation; The Jerome Jacqueline Davis Carol Dilley David R. White for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts with Robbins Foundation; the James E. Robison Foundation; Vallejo Gantner Gail Donnenfeld Bruce & Meg Williams the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc.; The York State Legislature; the NYS DanceForce, a partnership Shubert Foundation; Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Allyson Green Toni Dorfman James Wright program of the New York State Council on the Arts with Charitable Trust; and the Patrons and Members of Louise A. Lawler William Downey Megan Wright the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New Danspace Project. York State Legislature; the New York City Department Jenny Lee & Joe Killian Douglas Dunn Paul D. Young of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; Danspace Project receives additional support from Frances Milberg Alice H. & Robert V. Eagly and Materials for the Arts (a joint program of the NYC Contact Quarterly, fleur elise bkln, Insomnia Cookies, Edward Miller & Ray Montero Cathy Edwards & Mike Wishnie Department of Cultural Affairs and the Department of Ozone Design, Paddle8, Pangea Restaurant, Porsena Sanitation). Restaurant, Sky Frame Inc., and Veniero’s, as well as from Sara Nainzadeh David L. Fanger & Martin the Barr Foundation, ExxonMobil Foundation, Google, Sarah Needham Wechsler As of January 8, 2020 Danspace Project extends special thanks to City Council Moody’s Foundation, The William Penn Foundation, and Majority Leader and Cultural Affairs Committee Chair the Rauschenberg Foundation through matching gifts Laura Paul & Paul Messier Phyllis & Sumner Fanger Jimmy Van Bramer, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, programs. Special thanks to Community Funds, Inc. - Doug & Teresa Peterson Molissa Fenley New York State Senator Brad Hoylman, and State LuEsther T. Mertz Advised Fund and the Mertz Gilmore Assembly Member Deborah J. Glick for their advocacy and Foundation for support of equipment and technological Judilee Reed Robert Flynt & Jeff McMahon support. upgrades. Christina L. Sterner & Steve Sonia Freiberg Poses Amy Gelles Danspace Project Danspace Project Presents Performances and Events Winter 2020

JAN 9-11 & 16-18 | 8PM STAY TUNED! Aki Sasamoto FEB 22-MAR 21 Aki Sasamoto PHASE TRANSITION PLATFORM 2020: Utterances from the Phase Transition Chorus co-curated by JAN 30-FEB 1 | 8PM Okwui Okpokwasili Melinda Ring & Judy Hussie-Taylor January 9-11 & 16-18 STRANGE Installation open: 3-6pm (Free and open to all) ENGAGEMENTS Performances: 8pm

FEB 1 | 3PM DraftWork Performance: Aki Sasamoto, Jessica Weinstein ANABELLA LENZU / Sound: Alsarah, Matt Bauer KYLE MARSHALL Lighting: Madeline Best Video: Ben Hagari

FEB 13-15 | 8PM Phase Transition is curated by Lydia Bell. Community ACCESS: NEW YORK THEATRE

BALLET The accompanying publication, Aki Sasamoto: Phase Transition, is designed by Kyla Arsadjaja, published by Danspace Project, and edited by Lydia Bell, and on sale at danspaceproject.org or at all Phase Transition performances.

Tickets Be Bold! Become a Member! Advance tickets are $22 General / $15 Members Danspace Project members get exclusive (unless otherwise noted). benefits and experience a vital part of New York Tickets can be purchased at the door for $25 City’s dance community. Support the presenta- (cash or check only) pending availability. tion of innovative new dance, get great deals on tickets, and much more! This performance runs approximately 60 minutes with no intermission. Purchase Advance Tickets online at danspaceproject.org or by phone at Join at danspaceproject.org/support (866) 811-4111 (OvationTix/TheaterMania) Aki Sasamoto works in sculpture, the 7 Daughters of Eve (12 Shouts to the Ten Mitchell, The Sam Roberts Band, Iron and (2008) and an MFA from Columbia performance, video, and whatever more Forgotten Heavens, The Sasquatch Rituals) Wine and . He is featured on University, New York (2014). medium that takes to get her ideas across. and Lenore Malen (Eve in Sheepland, Circe). numerous recordings by , In her installation/performance works, Jessica’s ten foot tall alter egos include the Harris Eisenstadt and . His Aki moves and talks inside the careful German cabaret and film star Tall Hilda, and recordings as a leader and co-leader on 482 arrangements of sculpturally altered objects, the shy singer-songwriter Ellipsa MG. Music and Clean Feed have received wide activating bizarre emotions behind daily critical acclaim. Matt has collaborated with Special Thanks to life. Her works appear in gallery spaces, Aki for many productions since 2002. Sam Ekwurtzel, Pau Atela, Ofra & Salome, theater spaces, as well as in odd sites. Shown Alsarah is a singer, songwriter, Katie & Gina, Yolanda Royster, the at SculptureCenter, the Kitchen, Chocolate bandleader and a somewhat reluctant Chocolate Factory Theater, Zack Tinkelman Factory Theater, Whitney Biennial 2010, ethnomusicologist. Born in Khartoum, Madeline Best designs lighting and is the at The Kitchen, Anonymous Ensemble, Greater New York 2010 at MOMA-PS1, Sudan, she relocated to Yemen with her Director of Production at The Chocolate Bortolami Gallery, Professor Ron Smith, New York; National Museum of Art-Osaka, family before abruptly moving to the USA, Factory Theater. Best graduated from and J & R Bauer. 21st Century Museum of Contemporary finally feeling most at home in , Bennington College, grew up in Durham Art, Yokohama Triennale 2008, Japan; NY, where she has been residing since 2004. NC and currently lives in Long Island City, Gwangju Biennial 2012, South Korea; She is a self-proclaimed practitioner of Queens. Recent design projects include Shanghai Biennale 2016, China; Kochi- East-African Retro-Pop music. Working work with the artists, Juliana May, Luciana Muziris Biennale 2016, India; and more. on various projects, she has toured both Achugar, Big Dance Theater, Moriah Evans, Funding She teaches Sculpture at Yale School of nationally and internationally. With her Paulina Olowska, Andrea Kleine, Anna Aki Sasamoto’s Phase Transition is made Art. She is a recipient of 2019 Guggenheim main outfit, Alsarah & the Nubatones, she Azrieli, Ursula Eagly, Katie Workum, Milka possible with support from the Howard Fellowship and Pollock-Krasner Foundation has released 2 full-length albums titled Djordjevich, Keely Garfield, Neal Medlyn, Gilman Foundation and The Andrew W. grant. She has collaborated with musicians, Silt, followed by Manara (Wonderwheel Yve Laris Cohen. Upcoming projects include Mellon Foundation. choreographers, mathematician, and Recordings, 2014 and 2016). She has works with Lauren Bakst and Heather engineers. Aki likes food. Donuts, also released 1 full-length album titled Kravas. Thanks to Jon, Davey, and Orson for grapefruits, potatoes, coffee, and well drinks Aljawal (Soundways Recordings, 2013). all your support. appear in some of her works. And she was featured on the Nile Project‘s debut CD, Aswan (2014). Alsarah also works with the Sudanese artist collective Ben Hagari’s films and video installations Jessica Weinstein is an actor and Refugee Club Productions on a variety of are tragicomedies that unfold in absurdist performing artist in theater, film, and other projects including the critically acclaimed environments. Extending from the screen- mediums. She has previously performed documentary “Beats of the Antonov.” based to installation format his work is with Aki in Sunny in the Furnace, as well the result of wide-ranging research in the as other delightful experiments that she fields of literature, theater, art history, and cannot remember the name of. She makes Matt Bauder is a saxophonist and composer scientific curiosities. Hagari has shown new theater and live film with her company based in Brooklyn, NY. He is the leader in the US and abroad including at The Anonymous Ensemble including The Future, of Day in Pictures, Hearing Things and Rose Art Museum in , the Liebe Love Amour!, I Land, the Turing part of the collaborative trio Memorize SculptureCenter in New York as part of Opera, Wanderlust, the Best, and the current the Sky. Bauder mainly plays the tenor their In Practice survey of contemporary intercontinental live-streaming performance , but is also an accomplished sculpture, Whitechapel Gallery in London, Flight. She has been honored to perform multi-instrumentalist often adding , Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, around the world with Lee Breuer and bass clarinet, flute, guitar and electronics KIT in Düsseldorf, Flora Ars+Natura in Mabou Mines in numerous shows including to his stage and recording arsenal. He has Bogotá, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Mabou Mines’ Dollhouse, Glass Guignol, La performed with many iconic figures in avant- The Israel Museum, among others. Hagari Divina Caricatura, Porco Morto, and Red garde and including Anthony received a BEd.F.A from Hamidrasha Beads, as well as with Sibyl Kempson and Braxton, Bill Dixon, Fred Anderson, Roscoe School of Art, Beit Berl College, Israel