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DIVERSE | CAPTIVATING | GROUNDBREAKING – Words that speak to what sets TITAS Presents apart. Forward-thinking, surprising, intriguing and relevant are all precepts that guide the curation of the annual seasons we put together.

Dance is such a special art form. Athletic, difficult, luscious, inspiring and surprising— Time and time again, these are the descriptions I hear from audience members. For more than 35 years, TITAS Presents continues to present the coolest, the most innovative, the most remarkable dance artists touring the world today. First-time audience members say they had no idea dance was so cool, something our longtime subscribers have always known.

The 2018/2019 season won’t disappoint. Creative, soulful, gymnastic and breathtaking imagery makes this a very special set of international companies. Funny, stunning, inspiring and exciting, we proudly present a season of ten extraordinary companies from the United States and China. It is a season rich in creativity and soul-stirring performances.

Success is rooted in collaboration. Together, TITAS Presents and the AT&T Performing Arts Center are dedicated to cultivating talent, new work, and advancing the Arts in our ever-expanding cultural landscape. We are committed, both individually and jointly, to supporting a collaborative community that fosters the creative process. Tonight’s presentation exemplifies our commitment to that process, and to innovative programming. We bring the world to Dallas. Thank you for actively engaging in the Arts, and for being a part of the TITAS Presents and AT&T Performing Arts Center families. What we do together, truly does make a difference.

Sincerely,

Charles Santos Executive Director/Artistic Director TITAS

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Did You Know? Young people who participate in the arts for at least three hours on three days each week through at least one full year are: • 4 times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement • 3 times more likely to be elected to class office within their schools • 4 times more likely to participate in a math and science fair • 3 times more likely to win an award for school attendance

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FRIDAY . SATURDAY | OCTOBER 19 . 20 2018 | MOODY PERFORMANCE HALL

STEPHEN PETRONIO COMPANY

Artistic Director, Choreographer STEPHEN PETRONIO

Dancers BRIA BACON ERNESTO BRETON JAQLIN MEDLOCK TESS MONTOYA RYAN PLISS NICHOLAS SCISCIONE MAC TWINING MEGAN WRIGHT

Assistant to the Artistic Director Resident Lighting Designer NICHOLAS SCISCIONE KEN TABACHNICK

Technical Director Lighting Supervisor JOE DORAN GILLIAN WOLPERT

Production Stage Manager Education Directors ROBERT MCINTYRE TESS MONTOYA MEGAN WRIGHT

Executive Director YVAN GREENBERG

For North American booking inquiries: Cathy Pruzan, Artist Representative, [email protected]

TITAS PRESENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH AT&T PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 11 FRIDAY . SATURDAY | OCTOBER 19 . 20 2018 | MOODY PERFORMANCE HALL Program bud (2005) Choreography: Stephen Petronio Music: , “Oh What a World”; Published by Put Tit On Music/ WB Music Corp. (ASCAP) Costumes: H. Petal and Tara Subkoff Lighting: Ken Tabachnick Performed by: Ernesto Breton and Mac Twining - PAUSE - Hardness 10 (2018) Choreography: Stephen Petronio Music: Nico Muhly; Music by arrangement with G. Schirmer, Inc. publisher and copyright owner. Costumes: Patricia Field ARTFASHION, hand-painted by Iris Bonner/These Pink Lips Lighting: Ken Tabachnick Performed by: Bria Bacon, Ernesto Breton, Jaqlin Medlock, Tess Montoya, Nicholas Sciscione, Mac Twining, Megan Wright INTERMISSION Excerpt from Goldberg Variations (1986) Choreography: Steve Paxton Music: Goldberg Variations by J.S. Bach, performed by Glenn Gould, Courtesy of Sony Classical, By arrangement with Sony Music Licensing Lighting: Ken Tabachnick Performed by: Nicholas Sciscione - PAUSE - Untitled Touch (2017) Choreography: Stephen Petronio Music: Original score by Costumes: H. Petal Lighting: Ken Tabachnick Performed by: Bria Bacon, Ernesto Breton, Jaqlin Medlock, Tess Montoya, Ryan Pliss, Nicholas Sciscione, Mac Twining, Megan Wright

The creation of Untitled Touch and Hardness 10 was made possible by a commissioning grant from The O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation and by support from New Music USA. PROGRAM NOTES

The bud duet, from 2005, is the seed that Of the many dance interpretations of Bach’s Goldberg grew into Bud Suite (2006). Made to some of Variations, Steve Paxton’s work is, perhaps, the most Rufus Wainwright’s most beloved love songs based invested in variety. Beginning in 1986, Paxton’s on desire and longing, this group of short dances Goldberg Variations project extended over six years, was built on these ideas along with physical contact rooted in his commitment to never perform the and gender fluidity.Bud Suite escalates from those work identically. Inspired by Glenn Gould’s 1982 explorations to transcendence through physicality, recording, and intrigued by the juxtaposition of an an elevation from the body to a less tangible plane. ever-changing dance set to a fixed audio reproduction, Paxton did not commit to recording any of his My experience through Bloodlines, particularly in performances until the project’s end in 19921. A staging Yvonne Rainer’s work last season, has offered quarter of a century later, the video serves as a lush the possibility of a new kind of space to experiment portrait of who Paxton was as a mover during this with pedestrian movement in my newest work, time, though that was never his intent. Widely Hardness 10—simple walking patterns, alongside the revered as the shepherd of contact improvisation, virtuosic athleticism for which I’m best known for. history texts often fail to mention the exquisite This work began as a meditation on the nature of nature of Paxton as a performer of his own repertory. the diamond, a dense stone, forged under pressure Yvonne Rainer once commented that Paxton into an object of brilliance and clarity. Once the developed his aesthetic as a means to avoid the idea formed, there was no question in my mind inherent technical brilliance of his dancing body2. that this was the perfect opportunity for a third This excerpt from Paxton’s work highlights the collaboration with Nico Muhly, whose music holds magic that results from mating a highly-evolved an emotional depth and formal mastery that is rare. mover with a masterful improviser. Shifting from And what an amazingly bold pairing with Patricia isolation and fine motor movements to athletic gross Field’s graphic costumes. Always, the lighting of motor movement, existing in all dimensions in space, Ken Tabachnick is essential to how you see my contrasting strong, quick effort with undulations work. His title does no service to his ongoing of the spine, the dance, and Nicholas Sciscione’s contribution to the art we continue to make. performance, are facile… curious… alluring.

—Stephen Petronio Petronio’s [2017] work, Untitled Touch, is a mix of purposeful propulsion and dexterous motion. The dancers often act upon another, rather than work Bloodlines is the project of a lifetime. Literally. in tandem, orbiting around each other while Initiated in 2014, on the heels of Stephen Petronio transitions and groupings dissolve. The movement Company’s 30th anniversary, Bloodlines simultaneously allows varied aesthetics to rub together, as classical looks forward and back on the legacy of Stephen lines collide with the deliberate release of effort. Petronio, while making space for the vision and As noted in the title, it is a tactile work, but is lineage of his most influential predecessors. With neither sensitive nor indulgent. Instead, it employs specific focus on Petronio’s post-modern heroes surprisingly percussive movement vocabulary. and mentors (Trisha Brown, Merce Cunningham, The accompanying score, composed by frequent Anna Halprin, Steve Paxton, and Yvonne Rainer), collaborator Son Lux, suggests an ongoingness in Bloodlines endeavors to shift dance history from the opposition to the decisive irregularity of the staging. books into the body, and, in doing so, encourages In these moments of juxtaposition, Petronio makes audiences to reframe the narratives assigned to these his own dance history transparent, referencing his dances within history. Part homage, part investigation, influences without mimicry or portraiture. The non- through Bloodlines, Petronio draws a serpentine line discerning eye might miss the elements upon first from post-modernism to his own signature elegance glance, but…we see clear nods to Trisha Brown’s and kineticism. dynamism, Paxton’s athleticism, Rainer’s intellect, and Anna Halprin’s humanity. In Untitled Touch, Beginning with Merce Cunningham’s RainForest and the Bloodlines project overall, Petronio unpacks in 2014, each season, Stephen Petronio Company these coexisting aesthetics, reassembling them like has added one or more historic post-modern dance a three-dimensional puzzle with its own internal works to their repertory, to be performed alongside logic and multiple non-linear perspectives. a new work created by Petronio. [On this program,] the company presents an excerpt from Steve Paxton’s Bloodlines continually plays with sum and parts, Goldberg Variations. discarding the notion that one is greater. Of note is Petronio’s decision to explore the work of other

1. Steve Paxton’s Introduction to the Goldberg Variations. Dir. Walter Verdin. Perf. Steve Paxton. Vimeo. N.p., 1993. Web. 15 Feb. 2017.

2. Kourlas, Gia. “Yvonne Rainer Talks about Her Newest Dance and Judson.” Time Out New York. Time Out, 30 Oct. 2012. Web. 15 Feb. 2017. .

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artists at a point in his career when most artists Stephen Petronio Company would like to send a are concerned with concretizing their own legacy. heartfelt thanks to Charles Santos and the entire staff The notion of legacy as synergistic is anomalous and crew at TITAS Presents and AT&T Performing to the vision of modern dance history as a roster of Arts Center. We are thrilled to be returning to Dallas individuals chiefly concerned with authoritative for this engagement. personal statements. Though historians often encourage the reductive geometry of timelines and Stephen Petronio Company is supported by public family trees, we know the evolution and chronology funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, of art is rarely linear or singular. No art form evolves New York State Council on the Arts with the in a vacuum. An alternate reading of the Bloodlines support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the project highlights cooperative artmaking as one New York State Legislature, and New York City of the lasting lessons from Petronio’s early dance Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with training. A dancer’s movement profile is an amalgam the City Council, as well as American Express, The of every physical experience encountered over time. Amphion Foundation, Inc., The Aaron Copland There are preferences and predispositions toward Fund for Music, Inc., Doris Duke Charitable style, genre, and technique, but one cannot undo Foundation, The Gladys Krieble Delmas his physical history. What the body encounters Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, changes it, dynamically; what the eyes capture Howard Gilman Foundation, Joseph & Joan imprint on the brain. The result is a complex recipe Cullman Foundation for the Arts, New Music USA, that cannot be quantified or duplicated, but is O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation, tangible and visible in performance. Rockefeller Brothers Fund, SHS Foundation, and The Shubert Foundation. — Melanie George, 2017

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Acclaimed by audiences and critics alike, Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award nominations Stephen Petronio is widely regarded as one of for the 2017 Bloodlines season. Two new pieces, the leading dance-makers of his generation. New by Merce Cunningham and Rudy Perez, will be music, visual art, and fashion collide in his dances, added to the repertoire for the 2018/19 Season. producing powerfully modern landscapes for the The juxtapositions of Bloodlines repertory alongside senses. He has built a body of work with some of the Petronio’s works offers audiences an experiential most talented and provocative artists in the world, insight into the evolution of this strand of creativity in including composers Atticus Ross, Valgeir Sigurðsson, American choreography. Nico Muhly, Fischerspooner, Rufus Wainwright, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Son Lux, Nick Cave, In 2016, Stephen Petronio Company expanded its James Lavelle, Michael Nyman, Sheila Chandra, focus on American postmodern dance to explore the Diamanda Galás, Andy Teirstein, Wire, Peter meaning of legacy and its impact on the future and Gordon, Lenny Pickett, and David Linton; visual sustainability of this most ephemeral art form. With artists Janine Antoni, Cindy Sherman, Anish Kapoor, an eye toward securing artists’ consistent ability to Donald Baechler, Stephen Hannock, Tal Yarden, create and explore, the Petronio Residency Center Arnaldo Ferrara, and Justin Terzi III; fashion designers (PRC) has been established as a retreat center where Narciso Rodriguez, John Bartlett, Jillian Lewis, research and the creative process will be paramount. Adam Kimmel, Benjamin Cho, Michael Angel, Tony After launching the Campaign for PRC, $1M was Cohen, Rachel Roy, Tara Subkoff, Tanya Sarne/ raised within 12 months to facilitate the purchase Ghost, Leigh Bowery, Paul Compitus, Manolo, of Crow’s Nest, a 175-acre property in Cairo, Yonson Pak, H. Petal, Iris Bonner/These Pink Lips New York, 20 minutes from the burgeoning Catskill and Patricia Field; and Resident Lighting Designer and Hudson, New York art scenes. Paid artist Ken Tabachnick. residencies began in the summer of 2018, providing dedicated rehearsal space and resources for our Founded in 1984, Stephen Petronio Company has inaugural resident artists, Nora Chipaumire, Will performed in 40 countries throughout the world, Rawls and Kathy Westwater. and their collaborators including numerous New York City engagements to develop new work in an environment unfettered by and 24 seasons at The . The Company market constraints and away from the daily pressures has been commissioned by Dance Umbrella Festival/ of urban life. The program will become part of a London, Hebbel Theater/, Scène National de growing ecosystem in the U.S. dedicated to fostering Sceaux, Festival d’Automne à Paris, CNDC Angers/ a new model for the future of contemporary dance. France, The Holland Festival, Festival Montpellier Danse, Danceworks UK Ltd, Festival de Danse– Stephen Petronio Company was recently featured Cannes, and in the U.S. by San Francisco Performances, in the documentary film “If the Dancer Dances” by The Joyce Theater, UCSB Arts & Lectures, Wexner Maia Wechsler and Lise Friedman, which follows Center for the Arts, Walker Art Center, and White the Company as they restage Rainforest (1968), Bird, among others. In 2017, SPC completed a five- an iconic work by Merce Cunningham. This fall, week residency in Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam SPC will restage Steve Paxton’s 1964 Jag vill gärna teaching and performing as a part of the sixth telefonera (I Would Like to Make a Phone Call) and season of DanceMotionUSA supported by the U.S. perform the “Bessie” nominated Goldberg Variations Department of State and Brooklyn Academy of Music. for the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done. In spring The 2014–15 season marked the first incarnation of of 2019 the Company tours to the Teatro Sociale Bloodlines, a project of Stephen Petronio Company to in Trento, Italy, and the Lugano Arts and Culture honor and curate a lineage of American postmodern Centre in Lugano, Switzerland, before performing dance masters. Distinguished for creating original its 35th Anniversary season at the NYU Skirball languages that embody the highest level of artistic Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. excellence displayed through extreme physical and conceptual rigor, these artists have had a profound For more information about the company, visit impact on Petronio’s own artistic path. To date, www.petron.io. the Company has restaged eight works, by Merce Cunningham, Trisha Brown, Anna Halprin, Yvonne Rainer, and Steve Paxton, receiving two New York

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STEPHEN PETRONIO, ERNESTO BRETON (Artistic Director, Choreographer) (Dancer), a native New for over 30 years, has honed a Yorker, began his formal unique language of movement training at the Fiorello that speaks to the intuitive H. LaGuardia HS for the and complex possibilities Performing Arts. He studied of the body informed by its at SUNY Purchase from shifting cultural context. He has collaborated 2008-09 and then transferred and graduated with a wide range of artists in many disciplines from The Juilliard School in May 2013, under over his career and holds the integration of the artistic direction of Lawrence Rhodes. He multiple forms as fundamental to his creative has had the opportunity to dance works by drive and vision. He continues to create a haven José Limón, Andrea Miller, Raewyn Hill, Eliot for dancers with a keen interest in the history of Feld, Pam Tanowitz, Alexander Ekman, and contemporary movement and an appetite for the William Forsythe. After graduating, Breton unknown. Petronio was born in Newark, New has danced in several works and projects, as a Jersey, and received a B.A. from Hampshire fellowship dancer, with the Merce Cunningham College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he Trust; performed in the North American stage began his early training in improvisation and premiere of Die Materie: Matter & Spirit at the dance technique. He was greatly influenced Park Avenue Armory. He is also a performer in by working with Steve Paxton and was the the off-Broadway immersive theater production first male dancer of the Trisha Brown Dance called Sleep No More and joined the Stephen Company (1979 to 1986). He has gone on Petronio Company in 2016. to build a unique career, receiving numerous accolades, including a John Simon Guggenheim JAQLIN MEDLOCK Fellowship, awards from the Foundation (Dancer) a native of New for Contemporary Performance Arts, New York, received her training York Foundation for the Arts, an American from Angela D’Valda Sirico, Choreographer Award, a New York Dance Steve Sirico, Franco DeVita, and Performance “Bessie” Award, and a 2015 and Raymond Lukens. Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. Medlock graduated cum laude from Marymount Manhattan College BRIA BACON (Dancer), with a BFA in Dance and Photography. She has a New Jersey native, is a 2017 danced for numerous companies including Steps graduate of Mason Gross Repertory Ensemble, Compagnie Julie Bour, School of the Arts–Rutgers. NY2 Dance, and Davalois Fearon Dance. She Pursuing multiple passions, has performed works by various artists including Bacon has completed her first Nacho Duato, Angelin Preljocai, Donald Byrd, year of graduate school at Max Stone, Tyce Diorio, and Sonya Tayeh. Rutgers University towards her EdM (Masters Performing credits include His Majesty’s of Dance Education). While her professional Theatre, Scotland; the Ritz Carlton, Las Vegas; performance career is in its beginning stages Oude Liberatas, South Africa; Teatro Juan she has been able to work with Kyle Marshall Ruiz, Mexico City; Winspear Opera House, Choreography, as well as Netta Yerushalmy on Dallas; and The Joyce Theater recent projects. She is elated to have joined the in NYC. Medlock has worked as an assistant Stephen Petronio Company in 2017. to choreographers Pedro Ruiz in NYC, and Warren Adams in Leeds, England. Medlock joined the Stephen Petronio Company in 2011 and was named “On The Rise” by Dance Magazine in 2012. In addition to dancing, Medlock also models and has her own photography business specializing in movement.

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TESS MONTOYA (Dancer MAC TWINING (Dancer) and Education Director) was born in Baltimore Maryland, raised in Santa Fe, New trains with Nadege Hottier at Mexico, where she began her Premiere Division Ballet and training at the National Dance studies contemporary dance Institute of New Mexico. She with a variety of artists in graduated from Point Park New York. He has performed University with a bachelor of arts in dance. Since with Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance moving to New York, Montoya has performed Company, Michael Mao Dance Company, and with Megan Kendzior, Daniel Gwirtzman, and has participated in several workshops with the Daniel Roberts. She has taken part in multiple Merce Cunningham Trust. workshops and performances through the Merce Cunningham Trust Fellowship Program. Tess MEGAN WRIGHT (Dancer is currently project manager and administrator and Education Director) was with Davalois Fearon Dance. She joined born in New York City and Stephen Petronio Company in 2015 and is co- raised in Maine. She danced director of the company’s education program. with the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company in San RYAN PLISS (Dancer), Francisco from 2013-2016, originally from Ithaca, New touring nationally and internationally. In York, received a BFA in 2014, Wright served as assistant to Katharine Dance Performance from Hawthorne at Springboard Danse Montréal. the Conservatory of Dance In 2016 she was an apprentice with Kate at SUNY Purchase in 2014. Weare Company. She is a founding member of Ryan has had the pleasure Maurya Kerr’s tinypistol, and has performed to work and perform with many renowned with Hope Mohr Dance, Christian Burns, choreographers such as Nelly van Bommel/ Robert Moses’ Kin, RAWdance, and many NØA DANCE, Julie Bour, Johannes Wieland, others. She joined Stephen Petronio Company and Doug Varone. He enjoys choreographing in 2016 and is co-director of the company’s work of his own, and in 2017 presented at the education program. Her critical writing on New Steps Dance Festival in partnership with dance has been published and cited in a number Chen Dance Center. Ryan is absolutely thrilled of outlets. She is a 2009 graduate of the Walnut to have joined the Stephen Petronio Company Hill School of the Arts. as an apprentice for the 2017/18 season.

NICHOLAS SCISCIONE (Dancer and Assistant to the Artistic Director) was born and raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He graduated magna cum laude with a BFA in Dance from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Sciscione has worked with Joshua Beamish, Kyle Marshall Choreography, and 10 Hairy Legs. Sciscione joined Stephen Petronio Company in 2011 and has been the Assistant to the Artistic Director since 2016. He was a “2017 NY Bessie Awards Nominated” performer.

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IRIS BONNER AKA THESE PINK LIPS approach to dressing is evident through her work as (Costume Designer), Philadelphia native, transforms a costume designer. Field single handedly changed her artistic interpretation of beauty and confidence the way women dress through the HBO series Sex into wearable expressions of her unique aesthetic. and the City (arguably the most fashionable show Iris Barbee Bonner was born and nurtured in in television history) and its feature films. For her Philadelphia, and after her pursuit of higher learning work as costume designer on SATC, Field won an at Arcadia University where she graduated with a Emmy Award and received five nominations for Best Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts with a major in Graphic Costume Design, and with the help of a thrift store Design, Iris found her voice as an artist. Finding tutu created one of the most iconic onscreen NY comfort in her gift, Iris has used her passion for art fashion moments since Audrey Hepburn donned and desire to illustrate her feminine wilds as the Givenchy for a stroll past Tiffany’s. Field also received inspiration for her brand These Pink Lips, a fusion an Academy Award nomination for The Devil Wears of vibrancy and sexually explicit content. In March of Prada, as well as continued recognition for her work 2012, These Pink Lips was introduced to the world costuming television series such as Ugly Betty, Hope & via The Black Light District showcase. Displayed Faith, and most recently for Darren Star’s hit TVLand in notable art galleries in both her hometown of series Younger, starring Sutton Foster, Hillary Duff, Philadelphia and in New York City, and through and Debi Mazar. a thriving online boutique, Iris’s brand empowers females to embrace their sexuality and wear their Field is also a seasoned retailer, establishing her confidence as a proclamation of their liberation from namesake boutique in New York City in 1966, labels and stereotypes. These Pink Lips’ eye-popping which remained a fashion landmark for 50 years. designs have sparked controversy and conversation From its famed location on East 8th Street to its with seasoned publications, and with celebrities final residence on the Bowery, her store was a such as Amber Rose, Missy Elliot, Alicia Keys, June downtown institution, internationally known and Ambrose, Patricia Field, and Cardi B. frequented by celebrities, stylists, emerging designers, artists, performers, and club-kids alike. In 2016, JOE DORAN (Technical Director) was a Broadway Field sold her iconic retail property and launched a Assistant Lighting Designer for Prince of Broadway, new concept, ARTFASHION. Born out of her long Doctor Zhivago, and Magic/ Bird. He was also the personal ties to New York City’s art community Broadway National Tour (Asst. LD) for Hamilton, legends like Keith Haring and Basquiat, Anything Goes, West Side Story, Flashdance the Musical, ARTFASHION now sees Field as curator, working Joseph…Dreamcoat, In the Heights. Off Broadway, with an impressive group of today’s talented his projects include H4 and Shakespeare’s Slave. visual artists who, under Field’s guidance, have NYC Dance credits include Sean Curran Company, applied their unique aesthetics to hand painted Armitage Gone! Dance, HT Chen and Dancers, Shen one-of-a-kind clothing. Through her online gallery Wei Dance Arts, Gabrielle Lansner and Co., and and shop patriciafield.com, Field continues to Martha Graham Dance Company, among others. bring these sought-after fashion creations to fashion He recently designed an adaptation of The Tempest fans around the world. In October 2017, Field directed by and starring Olympia Dukakis. He also opened the ARTFASHION Gallery at 200 East designed Cyclops, the Rock Opera with the NY Musical Broadway in lower Manhattan. A sleek 1000 square Theatre Festival. Regional Credits include: Alpine foot space reminiscent of an artist’s studio, the gallery Theatre Project, Bristol Riverside Theatre, The presents customers with all original paintings and , Swift Creek Mill Theatre, and Virginia sculpture in addition to the entire fashion collection. Repertory Theatre. Doran is the 2008, 2009, 2012, 2015, and 2016 recipient of the Richmond Theatre SON LUX (aka Ryan Lott) (Composer) grew up Critics Circle Award. He also received the 2010 US studying music and earned a Bachelor of Music at Army Recreation Program Award for Outstanding Indiana University. His debut recording, At War Lighting Design of a Musical. Doran is a graduate of With Walls and Mazes, earned him the title of “Best NC School of the Arts. Member of USA Local 829. New Artist” by NPR’s “All Songs Considered.” www.joedorandesign.com Following this debut, his full-length included 2011’s We Are Rising, featuring collaborations with PATRICIA FIELD (Costume Designer) is a native chamber sextet yMusic, DM Stith, and Shara Worden New Yorker and one of fashion’s greatest visionaries (My Brightest Diamond), 2013’s Lanterns, full of whose multi-faceted career has spanned more than “impressive post-rock concoctions” (PopMatters), and five decades. Field has received widespread critical 2015’s Bones, featuring a newly-formed trio of Lott, praise for her pioneering vision of what constitutes guitarist Rafiq Bhatia, and drummer Ian Chang. style, a fashion philosophy that values eclecticism, In addition to his creative output as Son Lux, Lott creative expression, and an understanding of has kept busy balancing his time between scores for oneself over the chasing of trends. Her distinctive films, commissions, and advertising work. In 2012,

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Son Lux joined forces with rapper Serengeti and revival of The Glass Menagerie and scores for films indie music luminary as to including the Academy Award-winning The Reader. release the EP Beak & Claw as well as a self-titled Born in Vermont, Muhly studied composition at full-length in 2014. This adds to his already the Julliard School before working as an editor and long list of high profile collaborators, with artists conductor for Phillip Glass. He is part of the artist- such as Beans (AntiPop Consortium), Richard run Bedroom Community, which Perry (Arcade Fire), Busdriver, Colin Stetson (Bon released his first two albums,Speaks Volumes (2006) Iver), and Peter Silberman (The Antlers). He also and Mothertongue (2008). He lives in New York contributed brass and wind arrangements to the City. Hardness 10 marks Petronio and Muhly’s These New Puritans’ album Hidden, NME’s 2010 third collaboration. Album of the Year. In addition to his work as Son Lux, Lott composes music for film, theater and STEVE PAXTON (Choreographer), has researched dance. Lott has worked with choreographers Travis the fiction of cultured dance and the ‘truth’ of Wall, Stephen Petronio and Gina Gibney. Film improvisation for 55 years. He lives on a farm, and credits include composing and arranging for five he has received grants from Change, Inc., E.A.T., major features, most notably The Disappearance of the Foundation for Performance Arts, John D. Eleanor Rigby (2014) and Paper Towns (2015), as Rockefeller Fund, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. well as the upcoming Mean Dreams (2017), which He has been awarded two NY Bessie Awards, premiered at Cannes and the Toronto Film Festival and is a contributing editor to Contact Quarterly 2016. In addition to his score for Petronio’s work Dance Journal. He was one of the founders of the Like Lazarus Did, Lott has created scores for three of Judson Dance Theater, Grand Union, Contact Petronio’s commissioned works for other companies: Improvisation, Touchdown Dance for the visually Ballet de Lorraine, National Dance Company Wales, disabled (UK), and began his career studying modern and OtherShore. dance techniques, ballet, Aikido, Tai Chi Chuan, and Vipassana meditation. He performed with the ROBERT MCINTYRE (Production Stage Manager) Merce Cunningham Dance Co. from 1961-65. He is a NYC based AEA stage manager. He holds lectures, performs, choreographs and teaches primarily a bachelor of science dual degree in business in the USA and Europe. In 2008, he published a management and technical theatre from East DVD with ContreDanse in Brussels, ‘Material for Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania. Robert is the Spine’. In 2009, he re-choreographed ‘Ave Nue’ the production stage manager with Camille A. Brown (1985) in Amsterdam, and toured Japan, including & Dancers. Recently, he’s toured with ENGARDE ‘Night Stand’ with Lisa Nelson, in Tokyo. With Arts for Wilderness to the Kennedy Center Family Contredanse of Brussels, he, Florence Corin and Theatre. Some companies he has stage managed Baptiste Andrien have developed the Phantom with include American Tap Dance Foundation, Exhibition, a multi-image room of meditations on Steps Repertory Ensemble, TAKE Dance, Pocono Material for the Spine, featured in the Super Bodies Mountains Theatre Co. (US & Edinburgh), Gallim Triennale in Hasselt, Belgium. In 2013 he was Dance, Encompass New Opera Theatre, Keely featured in Tanz I’m August, Berlin, Germany; and Garfield Dance, and Damage Dance. He was the ‘Night Stand’ was performed in NYC at Dia:Chelsea. associate production manager of the Ted Shawn In 2014, his work ‘Bound’, with jurij Konjar, was Theatre in 2014 and the Inside/Out production presented in Ljubljiana, Venice, Munich. In June coordinator in 2013 at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. 2014, he received the Venice Biennale Leone d’Oro Robert was a production intern at Jacob’s Pillow in for life-time achievement in dance. He received 2012 and a lighting intern at Williamstown Theatre another Bessie in 2016 for the same reason. Festival in 2010. ‘Quicksand’, an opera by Robert Ashley, premiered in January, 2015 at the Kitchen, NYC, and Festival NICO MUHLY (Composer) is a composer of D’autumne in 2016, featuring set and choreography operas, chamber, and symphonic works, and sacred by Paxton, found a place on the NY Times’ 2016 music whose influences range from American ‘best 10 classical music performances’ list. minimalism to the Anglican choral tradition. The recipient of commissions from The Metropolitan H. PETAL (Costume Designer) grew up in Liverpool Opera, Carnegie Hall, St. Paul’s Cathedral, and and was raised by his immigrant grandmother, a others, he has written more than 80 works for the master patternmaker who had him creating clothes concert stage, including the opera Marnie (2017). for his family by age ten. Petal briefly attended Muhly is a frequent collaborator with choreographers Central Saint Martins in the late 1980s before such as Stephen Petronio and Benjamin Millepied, dropping out to follow his aesthetic heart to and as an arranger, has paired with Sufjan Stevens, England’s underground. He has designed for a wide Antony and the Johnsons, and others. His work for variety of Petronio’s choreographic adventures in the stage and screen includes music for the Broadway dance world since 1990, including MiddleSexGorge,

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Close Your Eyes and Think of England, and Bud Suite at the London Palladium in 2007, and the album for the Stephen Petronio Company; Extravenous Release The Stars which went Gold in Canada for Lyon Ballet; Laytext for The Deutsche Opera and the U.K. Berlin; Tragic/Love for Ballet de Lorraine; and most recently, By Singing Light and Water Stories for Wainwright has received Juno Awards for Best National Dance Company Wales. Alternative Album in 1999 and 2002 for Rufus Wainwright and Poses, respectively, and nominations TARA SUBKOFF (Costume Designer) is an American for his albums (2005) and Release the actress, conceptual artist, fashion designer, and Stars (2008). He was nominated for Songwriter 21st-century style icon. Subkoff has acted in over of the Year in 2008 for his Release the Stars 27 films, includingThe Cell, As Good As It Gets, album. He also composed the original music for Freeway, The Ballad of Bette Page, and How do you choreographer Stephen Petronio’s work BLOOM know? with Jack Nicholson, Reese Witherspoon, which has toured across the country. Musically Owen Wilson, and Paul Rudd. Subkoff began Rufus has collaborated with artists including Elton Imitation of Christ in 2001 as an art project that John, David Byrne, Boy George, Joni Mitchell, became an overnight international fashion sensation and producer Mark Ronson among and quickly built a cult following. Actress Chloe others. His most recent collaboration is on the title Sevigny appeared in its first show, when each piece track of Robbie Williams’ latest album, Swings Both was sewn by hand and recycled from vintage and Ways, which was co-written with renowned musician thrift store finds. Subkoff has shown twice at the and producer Guy Chambers and sung as a duet Paris Couture Shows, and has curated a seven-day between Rufus and Robbie. fashion installation at the Carlton Festival of the Arts in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Subkoff’s latest venture is In addition to being a celebrated contemporary called Imitation. Imitation Couture was shown in pop singer, Rufus has made a name for himself in Hydra, Greece. the classical world. His much acclaimed first opera, titled , premiered at the Manchester KEN TABACHNICK (Resident Lighting Designer) International Festival in July 2009. The opera was has an extensive career in and around the arts. subsequently performed in London at Sadler’s Wells Some companies with whom he has collaborated in April 2010, in Toronto at the Luminato Festival include the Bolshoi and Kirov companies, Paris in June 2010 and at the Brooklyn Academy of Opera Ballet, Martha Graham Dance Company, Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House in February and Trisha Brown Dance Company. Tabachnick 2012. Now fully established as a composer of is currently the Executive Director of the Merce operas, Rufus has been commissioned by the Cunningham Trust. Prior to that, he was Deputy Canadian Opera Company to write his second opera Dean for Tisch Asia at NYU, Dean of the School based on the story of the Roman Emperor of the Arts at Purchase College and General and Antinous. The new opera will premiere in Manager at . Ken also spent Toronto in October 2018. several years as Resident Lighting Designer at , and has worked on operas in GILLIAN WOLPERT (Lighting Supervisor) originally Pittsburgh, Miami, Detroit, Orange County, and from Toronto, has toured with The Kennedy Wolf Trap. After earning his JD from Fordham Center, The Acting Company, Sean Curran Law School, he had his own private practice in Dance Company, , and numerous entertainment and intellectual property law. other dance and theatre projects and has served as Tabachnick is a trustee of Dance/USA and the lighting designer for New York Theatre Workshop, Hemsley Lighting Programs. He also consults on Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Blessed Unrest, Zoetic strategic planning for arts organizations, which he Dance, Hartt Dances, Strike Anywhere, and many has taught, such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra, others. In addition to her work in the performing Aspen Film, and the Rubin Museum. He has been arts, Gillian also works in architectural and exhibit lighting Petronio’s work since 1985. lighting design including projects for Canada’s Science and Technology Museum and upcoming at RUFUS WAINWRIGHT (Composer), the New The Manitoba Museum. Her work has garnered a York-born, Montreal-raised singer songwriter has Guthrie award for her contributions to Canada’s released seven studio albums, three DVDs, and Stratford Festival and a Jessie Richardson nomination three live albums, including the Grammy nominated for her design of The Unexpected Man in Vancouver. Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall, which captured his celebrated Judy Garland tribute performance

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS, SOCIALIZE WITH US ONLINE STEPHEN PETRONIO COMPANY www.petron.io Jill Brienza, Chair; Joa Baldinger, Claire Flack, facebook.com/StephenPetronioCompany Jean-Marc Flack, Alison A. Mazzola, Sarah Silver twitter @stephenpetronio #stephenpetroniocompany #stephenpetronio STEPHEN PETRONIO DANCE instagram @stephenpetroniocompany COMPANY, INC. #provokingcreativity Executive Director: Yvan Greenberg Development Director: Alessandra Larson Stephen Petronio Company relies on the generous Administrative Associate: Cassandra Stern support of individuals and organizations for its Program and Financial Development Consultant, three main programs: producing original works by Petronio Residency Center: Alyson Pou Stephen Petronio in collaboration with leading Press Representative: John Wyszniewski, contemporary artists, preserving a legacy of Everyman Agency postmodern dance through the Bloodlines initiative, and supporting future generations of dancemakers For North American booking inquiries: at the Petronio Residency Center. If you would Cathy Pruzan, Artist Representative, like to join our circle of supporters by making a [email protected] contribution, please visit www.petron.io or contact us at 212-473-1660.

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Founder: Bebe Schweppe Artistic Director: Tom Mossbrucker Executive Director: Jean-Philippe Malaty

Artists: Katherine Bolaños, Sadie Brown, Jenelle Figgins, Seia Rassenti Watson, Austin Reynolds, Evan Supple, Anthony Tiedeman, Pete Leo Walker, Joseph Watson, Jenny Winton

Production Stage Manager: Danny Bacheldor Lighting Supervisor: Seah Johnson

Representation & Booking: U.S. & Canada Europe Israel Cathy Pruzan, Artist Bernard Schmidt Offer Zaks, Representative Productions, Inc. OZ Productions 4709 Paradise Drive 16 Penn Plaza, Suite 545 +972-52-8765341 Tiburon, CA 94920 New York NY 10001 [email protected] 415-789-5051 212-564 4443 oz-productions.co [email protected] [email protected] www.bernardschmidtproductions.com

22 TITAS PRESENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH AT&T PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FRIDAY . SATURDAY | OCTOBER 26 . 27 2018 | MOODY PERFORMANCE HALL Program Aspen Santa Fe Ballet: An Evening with Pianist Joyce Yang

Where We Left Off ASFB Commissioned Work Choreography: Nicolo Fonte Music: Philip Glass* Lighting Design: Seah Johnson Costume Design: Mark Zappone Staged By: Emily Franc Piano: Joyce Yang Dancers: Katherine Bolaños, Sadie Brown, Jenelle Figgins, Seia Rassenti Watson, Austin Reynolds, Evan Supple, Anthony Tiedeman, Pete Leo Walker, Joseph Watson, Jenny Winton Premiere: February 11, 2011, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Aspen, CO

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s production of Where We Left Off is made possible through the generosity of Toby Devan Lewis.

*Mad Rush, Metamorphosis No. 2 by Philip Glass. © 1979, 1988 Dunvagen Music Publishers Inc. Used by Permission.

INTERMISSION Dream Play ASFB Commissioned Work Choreography: Fernando Melo Co-creator: Shumpei Nemoto Music: Erik Satie, Frédéric Chopin Lighting Design: Seah Johnson Costume Design: Jérôme Delbey Scenic Design Construction: Danny Bacheldor Piano: Joyce Yang Dancers: Katherine Bolaños, Sadie Brown, Jenelle Figgins, Seia Rassenti Watson, Austin Reynolds, Evan Supple, Anthony Tiedeman, Pete Leo Walker, Joseph Watson, Jenny Winton

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s production of Dream Play is made possible through the generosity of Kelley and Mark Purnell.

In Dream Play, the audience is invited to experience a constant shift of perspective…between the whimsical world created by the artists and the raw process that generates its animation. It is my hope that this theatrical experience will stimulate your imagination and generate countless interpretations for your enjoyment. It’s important to note the creative process and the development of the physical vocabulary was a collective act in which all parties involved proposed ideas and solutions. –Fernando Melo

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INTERMISSION Half/Cut/Split ASFB Commissioned Work Choreography: Music: Robert Schumann Lighting Design: Seah Johnson Costume Design: Nete Joseph Piano: Joyce Yang Dancers: Sadie Brown, Jenelle Figgins, Seia Rassenti Watson, Evan Supple, Anthony Tiedeman, Joseph Watson Premiere: April 5, 2018, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Orange County, CA

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s production of Half/Cut/Split is made possible through the generosity of the Aspen Music Festival & School, The City of Aspen, Orange County Philharmonic Society, and Bunni & Paul Copaken.

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Ballet’s dynamic story in the American West New commissions In 1996, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Founder Bebe ASFB’s mission places highest priority on developing Schweppe invited Tom Mossbrucker and Jean- new dance works and nurturing relationships with Philippe Malaty to create a in Aspen. emerging choreographers. The company fostered the A unique, multidimensional arts organization early careers of now in-demand global dance makers developed rapidly from the ballet school Schweppe like Nicolo Fonte (nine commissioned Fonte works had established in the Rocky Mountains. “Bebe’s in the ASFB repertoire), Jorma Elo (three vision for Aspen to have its own ballet company commissioned Elo works), Edwaard Liang, Jacopo was the project of a lifetime,” says Malaty, ASFB’s Godani, Helen Pickett, Cayetano Soto, Alejandro Executive Director. “We embarked together on a Cerrudo, and others. Works by late 20th century serendipitous adventure. More than twenty years masters—William Forsythe, Jiˇrí Kylián, Twyla later, the connection between the dancers and our Tharp—round out the repertoire. two communities is deep and inextricable.” “We value building relationships with choreographers Forging a new frontier who become integral to the company. The natural The company began modestly with seven dancers. beauty of our surroundings has a profound Growth was organic. Friends in the field—Gerald impact on creativity. Our choreographers find Arpino, Trey McIntyre, Septime Webre, Dwight it inspiring to create here,” says Mossbrucker, Rhoden—offered start-up repertoire. Moses ASFB’s Artistic Director. Pendleton’s popular Noir Blanc was a seminal event for the young ASFB. It launched a tradition of Renowned in the U.S. & abroad commissioning new works. An open, exploratory Based in the American West, ASFB occupies the style emerged as Mossbrucker and Malaty tapped vanguard of its field, brandishing a strong national the creative scene in Europe where classical ballet reputation. Repeat engagements at the American was breaking from its boundaries. The athletic and Dance Festival, Harris Theater for Music and adventurous American dancers found themselves at Dance, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Joyce Theater, a crossroads of dance history. The divide between The Kennedy Center, Saratoga Performing Arts ballet and modern dance was dissolving. Center, and Wolf Trap testify to the company’s popularity and ability to please audiences. The Innovative business model company has toured overseas as well, with prestigious In 2000, the Aspen, Colorado-based ballet company invitations and bookings in Brazil, Canada, France, forged a dual-city relationship with Santa Fe, New Greece, Guatemala, Israel, Italy, and Russia. Premier Mexico, broadening its scope and lending crucial funders—National Endowment for the Arts, New revenue diversification. Under this hybrid business England Foundation for the Arts/National Dance model, a roster of arts activities flourishes year-round Project, Joyce Foundation, Shubert Foundation, in both cities. Performance, education, presentation, Wolf Trap Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, and community outreach all join in the mix. In and Princess Grace Foundation—have supported 2014, ASFB shared resources with a local troupe, ASFB’s growth. Juan Siddi Flamenco Santa Fe (JSFSF). This entrepreneurial project led to artistic heights at Into a bright future Jacob’s Pillow and New York’s Joyce Theater. Since its founding in 1996, ASFB has carved a Fortified with new experience and relationships, reputation as a dance-lover’s dance company. It JSFSF continues to thrive in its own right. has genuinely reshaped the field, introducing new choreographic talent to national stages, fostering a new breed of exceptional dancer, and stimulating audiences with high-caliber performances. Fueled by an annual budget of over $4 million and an endowment nearly twice that size, the company’s strong artistic vision is supported by solid financial footing.

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JOYCE YANG, (Piano ) Grammy-nominated pianist No. 3 in five New Zealand cities, a reunion with Joyce Yang came to international attention when the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for three she won the silver medal at the 12th Van Cliburn performances of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3, International Piano Competition in 2005. The and her first collaboration with the Aspen Santa youngest contestant at 19 years old, she also took home Fe Ballet on a new work for dancers and solo piano the awards for Best Performance of Chamber Music choreographed by Jorma Elo. The work will receive and of a New Work. A Steinway artist, she received its world premiere in Aspen this March. Yang will an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2010 and her first also perform alongside the Nashville Symphony Grammy nomination in 2017 (Best Chamber Music/ Orchestra, Lexington Philharmonic, Eugene Small Ensemble Performance) for her recording of Symphony, Santa Rosa Symphony, Rochester Franck, Kurtág, Previn & Schumann with violinist Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony, Reno Augustin Hadelich. Yang has performed with the New Philharmonic, Allentown Symphony, Oklahoma City York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Philharmonic, Vancouver Symphony, and Asheville Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Symphony. She will continue her enduring partnership Philharmonic, and BBC Philharmonic, among many with longtime collaborators Alexander String others, working with such distinguished conductors Quartet with performances of works by Schumann as James Conlon, Edo de Waart, Manfred Honeck, and Brahms in California and New York. Born in Lorin Maazel, Leonard Slatkin, and Jaap van Seoul, Korea, in 1986, Yang received her first piano Zweden. She has appeared in recital at New York’s lesson from her aunt at age four. In 1997 she moved and Metropolitan Museum, to the United States to study in the pre-college ’s Kennedy Center, Chicago’s Symphony division of the Juilliard School. After winning Hall, and Zurich’s Tonhalle. In the 2017/2018 the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Greenfield Student season, Yang embarks on a journey of debuts, Competition, she performed Prokofiev’s Third Piano collaborations, and premieres. Highlights include Concerto with that orchestra at just twelve years her 12th consecutive appearance as a guest artist old. Yang appears in the filmIn the Heart of Music, at the Aspen Music Festival, her debut with the a documentary about the 2005 Cliburn Competition. New Zealand Symphony Orchestra under Edo De www.PianistJoyceYang.com Waart performing Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto www.facebook.com/PianistJoyceYang

ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET

BEBE SCHWEPPE, (Founder), grew up in Augusta, to relocate from New York City. Never did I imagine Georgia, and started dancing at the Georgia Dance that one day the company would be performing Theatre, under Frankie Levy at the age of seven. She nationally and internationally and never did was invited by Robert Joffrey to study at his school I imagine that one day they would be performing in New York on a full scholarship at age eleven. works by internationally famous choreographers. Bebe moved to Aspen in 1975 and fifteen years later Although I had the dream, I never imagined so much. founded the Aspen Ballet School. Her presence was I feel very lucky.” a catalyst in the region. In 1996, she invited Jean- Philippe Malaty and Tom Mossbrucker to develop JEAN-PHILIPPE MALATY, (Executive Director), a small professional company in Aspen. Through was born in the Basque region of France. After their combined energies, the Aspen Ballet Company receiving his baccalaureate in dance, he accepted was born a year later. Shortly after, new performing scholarships to study at Mudra, Maurice Béjart’s opportunities beckoned in Santa Fe, upon which the school in Brussels, and at John Cranko’s ballet company was renamed Aspen Santa Fe Ballet. Bebe academy in Stuttgart. Invited by acclaimed instructor speaks with pride when she considers the changes David Howard to study in New York, Jean-Philippe that have occurred over the years to her “baby”. traveled to America under Howard’s tutelage. “The Company has evolved to having earned a name Jean-Philippe’s performance career began with of its own–ASFB. What a treat! It is recognized by Joffrey II. He also danced as a guest artist with Los other artists and respected by all. This is of course Angeles Classical Ballet, , and the due in large part to Jean-Philippe and Tom.” Lyric Opera of Chicago. Jean-Philippe segued from She cites that “their strength has been in their the stage to an administrator role while still in his unique ability to perceive and design a repertoire twenties. A key member of Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s that entertains all parts, whether it’s the audience or start-up team, Jean-Philippe has been central to the dancer.” Tom and Jean-Philippe have “greatly developing the company’s unique dual-city-based succeeded” in realizing her dreams for the company, hybrid business model. He directs operations in she says. “I am thankful that I had the dream and was two locations, overseeing a $4 million budget lucky and persistent enough to convince JP and Tom that he allocates to the company, two schools, an

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esteemed presenting series, and an award-winning Tom began to dance at age four, studying tap in his folkloric outreach program. Jean-Philippe’s first hometown of Tacoma, Washington. He pursued love is teaching and when his schedule permits, he classical ballet training at the School of American conducts master classes at schools and universities. Ballet and the Joffrey Ballet School. His twenty In 2013, Jean-Philippe shared an honor with years as a principal dancer with the Joffrey Ballet, Artistic Director Tom Mossbrucker when the Santa performing in over 70 under the direct Fe Community Foundation bestowed its Piñon coaching of founders Robert Joffrey and Gerald Award on the company. In 2012, the Denver Arpino, coincided with a period of high artistic Bonfils-Stanton Foundation granted Jean-Philippe a achievement for the company. Tom danced in ballets Livingston Fellowship in recognition of his significant by great twentieth century choreographers: Fredrick leadership role in Colorado’s non-profit sector. In Ashton, , Laura Dean, William 2010, in recognition of ASFB’s contribution to Forsythe, Jiri Kylián, Mark Morris, Paul Taylor and the field of dance, Jean-Philippe and Tom were . Signature roles included Iago in Jose honored with the Joyce Theater Foundation Award. Limon’s The Moor’s Pavane; Champion Roper in A naturalized U.S. citizen, Jean-Philippe is proud to Agnes DeMille’s Rodeo; Billy in Eugene Loring’s have forged a company alive with American energy, Billy the Kid; and Romeo in John Cranko’s Romeo invention, and eclecticism. and Juliet. This rich dance background Tom brings to coaching dancers today. In 2013, Tom shared “Dance is a celebration of the human spirit, and an honor with Executive Director Jean-Philippe not a celebration of steps. Here at Aspen Santa Fe Malaty when the Santa Fe Community Foundation Ballet, we foster the spirit and the love of dance.” bestowed its Piñon Award on the company. In 2010, in recognition of ASFB’s contribution to the – Jean-Philippe Malaty field of dance, Tom and Jean-Philippe Malaty were honored with the Joyce Theater Foundation Award. TOM MOSSBRUCKER, (Artistic Director), has A former board member of Dance USA, Tom been artistic director of Aspen Santa Fe Ballet currently serves on the board of The Gerald Arpino since 1996. For the past seventeen years Tom has and Robert Joffrey Foundation. built a prestigious arts organization sharing two homes in Aspen and Santa Fe. In his role as artistic “We strive for continuity and enjoy bringing director, Tom cultivates highly sophisticated and choreographers back to create second and third challenging works of contemporary ballet. His shining works...to us that is success.” achievement is ASFB’s roster of 27 ballets created on commission by leading global choreographers. – Tom Mossbrucker

DANCERS

KATHERINE BOLAÑOS, a native of Oklahoma Classic Ballet. Her guesting with Ballet Bratislava City, is in her fourteenth season with ASFB. Katherine took her to Slovakia and Austria. “Dance allows me began her professional career with Ballet Oklahoma to explore emotions on such deep levels. When it’s where she remained for seven years performing time to perform, all those emotions come out. There mostly classical roles. As a guest artist with the is no better feeling than to have such free expression.” Ensemble, she toured extensively in Taiwan and China. “I love the partnering in JENELLE FIGGINS, a Washington D.C. native, contemporary work and moving in a way that’s very began training at the historic Jones-Haywood School slow, expressive, and creature-like. I enjoy rehearsing of Ballet and Duke Ellington School of the Arts. in the studio as much as performing on stage. She then won a full scholarship to Dance Theatre of The studio gives the freedom to grow artistically. Harlem’s Kennedy Center residency. After earning On stage I feel like I’m in a different world.” a B.F.A. with honors from SUNY Purchase, she attended Springboard Danse Montreal. Jenelle SADIE BROWN, now in her fifth season with Aspen is a 2014 recipient of the Princess Grace Award. Santa Fe Ballet, began to dance in her hometown of Previously with , Jenelle Evansville, Indiana. She also studied at the Boston is now in her third season with Aspen Santa Fe Ballet. Ballet School, The Harid Conservatory, and the “I want to continue to learn by pairing movement Walton School for Girls in Grantham, England. with aspects of humanity. There is so much self- Sadie performed for three seasons with the Grand discovery in collaboration–and being part of a creation Rapids Ballet and as a guest artist with Evansville process makes me happy.” Dance Theater, Evansville Ballet, and Michigan

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SEIA RASSENTI WATSON danced with Flamenco PETE LEO WALKER, is in his third season with Y Mas as a youngster in Arizona, then trained in Aspen Santa Fe Ballet following five seasons with classical ballet with Linda Walker at the Tucson , where he performed a diverse Regional Ballet. After graduating from the Kirov repertoire of neoclassical and contemporary works. Academy of Ballet in Washington, DC, she danced A native of Jacksonville, FL, Pete began training at with North Carolina Dance Theater where she Dansations Performing Arts Center and continued worked with Dwight Rhoden. Seia is in her ninth at the Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts. Pete is season with ASFB. “I feel most comfortable in the a 2011 recipient of the Princess Grace Award. In contemporary mode. I trained classically because 2013 he was featured as one of Dance Magazine’s I knew it would help me become a better dancer. But “Top 25 to Watch.” “My mom was a part of the Rock I really love the freedom and personal expression of the Steady Crew in Brooklyn. She taught me to pop and work we do here. I found my niche.” lock, so contemporary classical ballet is the closest to my heart—with a technical element.” AUSTIN REYNOLDS, from Detroit, Michigan, enters his first full season with Aspen Santa Fe JOSEPH WATSON, now in his ninth season Ballet after studying at Interlochen Arts Academy, with Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, began formal dance Springboard Danse Montreal, and The Juilliard training at TWIGS (To Work In Gaining Skills), a School. He has had the pleasure of performing the respected after-school program in his home town repertoire of Jirˇí Kylián, Alexander Ekman, and of Baltimore. After graduating from the Baltimore Ohad Naharin, as well as in new creations by Jennifer School for the Arts, Joseph attended The Juilliard McQuiston Lott, Stephan Laks, Matthew Neenan, and School, earning his BFA in dance. He was a member Zvi Gotheiner. “I am grateful to join a company that of North Carolina Dance Theatre prior to joining commissions new work and, with that, I am excited ASFB. “I try not to overthink a performance. I just to make new discoveries alongside this inspiring tell myself that I’m about to go on stage to do what group of individuals.” I love. I love the zen feeling I get when I’m out there.”

EVAN SUPPLE, a native of Toronto, Ontario, JENNY WINTON A newcomer to Aspen Santa Fe trained at Elite Danceworx before moving on to earn Ballet, Jenny Winton began ballet at the San Francisco a B.F.A. from Marymount Manhattan College, Class Ballet School and trained there on full scholarship, of 2016. While at Marymount, he danced in works performing featured children’s roles throughout the by Dwight Rhoden, Paul Taylor, Aszure Barton, years. In 2008 she was invited to join the second Desmond Richardson, and Alexandra Damiani. company of the and, in 2009, He also toured internationally as a member of the she joined The Joffrey Ballet in Chicago, where she Nikolais-Louis Dance Theatre in 2013. Additionally, danced for five years. After competing as a Senior Evan was a featured soloist in the closing ceremony Soloist in the 2014 International Ballet Competition of the 2015 Pan-Am Games. He spent summers with at Jackson, MS, Jenny then shifted gears to tour the Complexions, Canada’s National Ballet School, and country for two years performing the iconic role of Springboard Danse Montreal. This is Evan’s second Penny in the musical, Dirty Dancing. Jenny’s work season with Aspen Santa Fe Ballet. ranges from dance to theatre to television, including a co-starring role in the first season of CBS’ ‘BULL.’ ANTHONY TIEDEMAN, a graduate of The “Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s repertoire has so much Juilliard School, brings to Aspen Santa Fe Ballet his integrity and range that I knew it would allow me to exposure to works by master choreographers Merce use all of my tools, from theater to ballet.” Cunningham, Paul Taylor, and José Limón. Training in Lar Lubovitch’s choreography led Anthony to join Lar Lubovitch Dance Company for its Fall 2014 Joyce Theater season. A New Jersey native, Anthony has traveled abroad for summer intensives at Springboard Danse Montreal and Nederlands Dans Theater. This is Anthony’s third season with ASFB. “When I first saw Aspen Santa Fe Ballet at the Joyce, I was blown away by the intense physicality and strong, yet beautiful, technique. It’s a balance I try to bring to my own dancing.”

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JORMA ELO is one of the most sought-after is that his choreography is obviously the result of a choreographers in the world. He has created works personal reflection–distinctly and unmistakably for companies including Theatre, Fonte, proof of a rare quality” (Michel Odin / Danse). , New York City Ballet, As a member of Nacho Duato’s Compañia Nacional , , Royal Ballet of de Danza in Madrid, Fonte forged a strong identity Flanders, Vienna State Opera Ballet, , in the Spanish company for seven years, for both his Netherlands Dance Theater, and Finnish National dancing and his choreography. En los Segundos Ocultos Ballet, among others. Elo trained with the Finnish (In Hidden Seconds), one of three ballets Fonte created National Ballet School and the Kirov Ballet School for the company, was hailed as a breakthrough work in Leningrad. He danced with Finnish National of great impact with the poetic vision of a mature Ballet and Cullberg Ballet until joining Netherlands artist and indeed this ballet established his presence Dance Theater in 1990, where he enjoyed a 15 year on the nternational dance scene. From 2003 to 2006 career. Elo was appointed Resident Choreographer Mr. Fonte enjoyed a creative partnership with The of in 2005, where he has created Göteborg Ballet in Sweden helping to establish the many world premieres, including Sharp Side of Dark company’s distinct profile. There, he created his first (2002), Plan to B (2004), Carmen/Illusions (2006 full-length ballet, Re: Tchaikovsky, which appeared on & 2009), Brake the Eyes (2007), In on Blue (2008), the “Best of 2005” lists of both Ballett International Le Sacre du Printemps (2009), Sharper Side of and Dance Europe. Fonte has also played an Dark (2012), and Awake Only (2012). Boston important role in the ongoing development of Ballet premiered a full length performance titled Aspen Santa Fe Ballet as one of that company’s most “Elo Experience” in 2011. Elo was awarded the popular guest choreographers. To date he has created Benois de la Danse prize for best choreography in eight highly successful works for ASFB. Mr. Fonte is 2010, for his production of A Midsummer Night’s currently Resident Choreographer for in Dream, commissioned by Vienna State Opera Ballet, Salt Lake City, Utah. and Slice to Sharp for the Stanislavsky Music Theatre. In 2012, the Finnish Government awarded Elo the FERNANDO MELO is originally from Rio de Dance Artist Prize. Elo has also been awarded the Janeiro, Brazil. At the age of 16 he was awarded a Choreography prize in the 2005 Helsinki International scholarship to train at the Vienna State Opera Ballet. Ballet Competition, and he was the recipient of the He has been in Europe ever since, building his career Prince Charitable Trust Prize and the Choo-San Goh as a dancer and choreographer and creating works Choreographic Award in 2006. He was nominated for around the world. Among the companies he a 2008 Isadora Duncan Dance Award. Elo has been has choreographed for are: Göteborgsoperans featured in Esquire, Dance, and Pointe magazines. Danskompani (Sweden), where he is also currently rehearsal director; Deutsche Oper am Rhein NICOLO FONTE has created over 40 new works Düsseldorf (Germany), Introdans (Holland), for dance companies spanning the globe, garnering Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, München (Germany), praise and generating excitement for his daring and Luzerner Theater (Switzerland), Luna Negra Dance theatrical approach to dance. , Theater, Ballet Hispanico New York (U.S.A.), Royal Danish Ballet and The , and Norrdans (Sweden). In addition, Fernando among many others, all have works of his in their choreographs for opera. His recent projects include repertoire. Whether made to Ravel’s brash Bolero Die Schöpfung by Joseph Haydn for Vocal Futures, or the quiet intricacy of a Bach violin piece, Fonte London, (U.K.), Daphne by Richard Strauss at ballets have common ground: “The choreography the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, (France), is inventive, creating expressive original shapes built Solaris by Detlev Glanert at the Oper Köln (Germany) on an undercurrent of implicit human relationships” and L’Opera Seria by Florian Leopold Gassman at (Foyer/Dance Europe). “What impresses the most La Monnaie in Brussels (Belgium).

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FOUNDING ARTISTIC AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS Dwight Rhoden Desmond Richardson

PRINCIPAL CHOREOGRAPHER Dwight Rhoden

ARTISTIC ADVISORS COMPANY REPETITEUR Carmen de Lavallade & Sarita Allen Clifford Williams

REHEARSAL DIRECTORS GENERAL MANAGER Natalia Alonso, Jae Man Joo, Natiya Kezevadze Sumaya Jackson

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR & RESIDENT COSTUME DESIGNER RESIDENT LIGHTING DESIGNER Christine Darch Michael Korsch PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER LIGHTING SUPERVISOR Luis E. Santiago Jesse Muench

ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE Christina Dooling, Gary W. Jeter II, Christina Johnson, Jae Man Joo, Natiya Kezevadze, Terk Lewis, Clifford Williams

THE COMPANY Jared Brunson, Jillian Davis, Thomas Dilley, Craig Dionne, Larissa Gerszke, Brandon Gray, Maxfield Haynes, Shanna Irwin, Tatiana Melendez, Daniela O’Neil, Simon Plant, Miguel Solano, Tim Stickney, Eriko Sugimura, Candy Tong

Apprentices: Khayr Muhammad

30 TITAS PRESENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH AT&T PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FRIDAY . SATURDAY | NOVEMBER 09 . 10 2018 | MOODY PERFORMANCE HALL Program BACH 25 (World Premiere April 2018 - Arcata, CA) Choreography by: Dwight Rhoden Music by: Johann Sebastian Bach Lighting Design: Michael Korsch Costumes Design by: Christine Darch Performed by: The Company

Program Note: Reverence, Celebration, Moxie

INTERMISSION STAR DUST (World Premiere May 2016/ Detroit, MI) A Ballet Tribute to David Bowie Choreography by: Dwight Rhoden Music by: David Bowie Costumes by: Christine Darch Lighting/Set Design by: Michael Korsch Performed by: The Company

I. LAZARUS (Blackstar album 2016) Brandon Gray & The Company

II. CHANGES (Hunky Dory album 1971) Craig Dionne & The Company

III. LIFE ON MARS (Hunky Dory album 1971) Jared Brunson & The Company

IV. SPACE ODDITY (Space Oddity album 1969) Maxfield Haynes & The Company

V. 1984 (Diamond Dogs album 1974) Tim Stickney & The Company

VI. HEROES (Heroes album 1977) Sung by Peter Gabriel Miguel Solano, Jillian Davis, Craig Dionne, Brandon Gray, Shanna Irwin

VII. MODERN LOVE (Let’s Dance album 1983) The Company

VIII. ROCK AND ROLL SUICIDE (The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars album 1972) Simon Plant & The Company

IX. YOUNG AMERICANS (Young Americans album 1975)

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STAR DUST is the first installment of a full evening length Ballet tribute to the genre bending innovation of one of the prolific Rock Stars of our time–DAVID BOWIE. This Ballet takes an array of his hits and lays a visual imprint, inspired by his unique personas and his restless invention artistically–to create a Rock Opera style production in his honor. With Bowie’s 40+ year career and 25 Albums, that stretch across musical borders –STAR DUST pays homage to the iconic and Chameleonic spirit of what can only be described as... BOWIE. * STAR DUST was generously commissioned by Detroit›s Music Hall Special Thanks to Vince Paul

“Warszawa” Written by David Bowie & Brian Eno Published by Tintoretto Music (BMI) administered by RZO Music, Inc EMI Music Publishing Ltd

“Lazarus” Written by David Bowie Publishers: Nipple Music (BMI) administered by RZO Music, Inc.

“Changes” Written by David Bowie Published by Tintoretto Music (BMI) administered by RZO Music, Inc; EMI Music Publishing Ltd; BMG Blue (BMI) obo Chrysalis Music Ltd

“Life on Mars?” Written by David Bowie Published by Tintoretto Music (BMI) administered by RZO Music, Inc; EMI Music Publishing Ltd; BMG Blue (BMI) obo Chrysalis Music Ltd

“1984” Written by David Bowie Published by Jones Music America (ASCAP) administered by ARZO Publishing; Bewlay Brothers Music; EMI Music Publishing Ltd; BMG Blue (BMI) obo Chrysalis Music Ltd

“Heroes” Written by David Bowie & Brian Eno Published by Tintoretto Music (BMI) administered by RZO Music, Inc ; EMI Music Publishing Ltd

“Modern Love” Written by David Bowie Published by Jones Music America (ASCAP) administered by ARZO Publishing

“Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide” Written by David Bowie Published by Tintoretto Music (BMI) administered by RZO Music, Inc; EMI Music Publishing Ltd; BMG Blue (BMI) obo Chrysalis Music Ltd

“The Young Americans” Written by David Bowie Published by Jones Music America (ASCAP) administered by ARZO Publishing; Bewlay Brothers Music; EMI Music Publishing Ltd; BMG Blue (BMI) obo Chrysalis Music Ltd

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Hailed as a “matchless American dance company” DESMOND RICHARDSON (Co-Founder, by the Philadelphia Enquirer, COMPLEXIONS Co-Artistic Director) The first black American principal Contemporary Ballet transcends dance tradition dancer of , Desmond through a groundbreaking approach to the art. Richardson is hailed by as one Founded in 1994 by master choreographer Dwight of the greatest dancers of his time. Nominated for a Rhoden and the legendary Desmond Richardson, Tony Award for his role in the original Broadway cast COMPLEXIONS’ foremost innovation is to remove of and deemed a standout in the Tony-Award boundaries, not reinforce them. The company blends winning production After Midnight, Richardson is methods, styles and cultures from across the globe, highly esteemed by the American theater community. and the result is a continually evolving form of He appeared in Twyla Tharp’s Broadway production dance that reflects the movement of our world—and Movin’ Out, and had his singing debut in Burt all its cultures—as an interrelated whole. Bacharach’s and Hal David’s The Look Of Love, choreographed by Ann Reinking and Scott Ellis. COMPLEXIONS’ artistic directors and company members teach master classes around the world to Richardson has appeared on celebrated stages across dancers of all levels, bringing the company’s inventive the world, namely the , the vision of human movement to five continents, Kennedy Center, Paris Opera, the Bolshoi Theater, over 20 countries and over 20 million television the Mariinsky Theatre, the State Kremlin Palace, viewers. The company has also performed at Teatro Massimo and Teatro alla Scala for Moise e major dance festivals throughout Europe. These Pharoné, with Roberto Bolle and Maestro Riccardo include Italy’s Festival of Dance; France’s Isle De Muti. He has been a member and invited guest Dance Festival and Maison De La Dance Festival; of prestigious companies including Alvin Ailey the Holland Dance Festival; Switzerland’s Steps American Dance Theater, Frankfurt Ballet, Royal International Dance Festival; Poland’s kódz´ Swedish Opera Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Biennale, Warsaw Ballet Festival and Kraków Washington Ballet and San Francisco Ballet. Spring Ballet Festival; and Spain’s Dance Festival of Canary Islands. COMPLEXIONS has toured Richardson has received numerous awards including extensively throughout the Baltic Regions, Korea, the Dance Magazine Award, Capezio Award, Ailey Brazil, Japan, Egypt, Israel, Russia, New Zealand, Apex Award, L.A. Ovation Award, Bessie Award and Bermuda, Serbia, Jamaica and Australia. YoungArts Alumni Award. He has been a celebrity guest performer and choreographer for productions COMPLEXIONS has received The New York across media such as the American Music Awards, Times Critics’ Choice Award, among numerous the Academy Awards, City Center’s Encore Series, other awards. It has appeared in theaters across the Italy’s AMICI and international franchises of U.S., including the Joyce Theater, Lincoln Center, So You Think You Can Dance. Richardson has been Brooklyn Academy of Music, New Victory Theater featured by famed artists such as Michael Jackson, (New York City), the Mahalia Jackson Theater for Prince, Madonna, Elton John and Aretha Franklin, the Performing Arts (New Orleans), Paramount and he appears in celebrated films such as the Theatre (Seattle), The Music Center (Los Angeles), Oscar- Award winning Chicago, Julie Taymor’s Winspear Opera House (Dallas), Cutler Majestic and the recent independent Theatre (Boston), the Music Hall (Detroit), and film, Fall to Rise. He has worked with fashion the Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.) as part of icon, Tom Ford, Chic’s Nile Rodgers and recently the 2017 Ballet Across America. Prominent theaters contributed to Grammy-Award winning Jill abroad that have hosted COMPLEXIONS include Scott’s video Back Together, which features dancers the Bolshoi Theatre, the Kremlin Theatre (Moscow), from COMPLEXIONS. The Mikhailovsky Theater (St. Petersburg) and the Melbourne Arts Center. Internationally and domestically, he is a master teacher for programs like the New York’s All Stars In the 24 years since its inception, the company has Project, YoungArts Miami, United Way, The born witness to a world that is becoming more fluid, Pulse, NYCDA and ASH. He served as co-creative more changeable and more culturally interconnected director and choreographer with David Monn than ever before. Today, COMPLEXIONS for the Park Avenue Armory Gala Masquerade. represents one of the most recognized and respected Richardson is currently guest artist in residence at performing arts brands in the world. It is poised to USC’s Glorya Kaufman School of Dance and is continue its mission of bringing unity to the world, the visiting adjunct professor of dance at Southern one dance at a time. Methodist University.

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DWIGHT RHODEN (Founding Artistic Director/ North Carolina Dance Theater, Pennsylvania Ballet, Principal Choreographer) has established a remarkably Philadanco, , Minneapolis Dance wide-ranging career, earning distinction from Theater, Phoenix Dance Company, Sacramento The New York Times as “one of the most sought out Ballet, Oakland Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, choreographers of the day.” A native of Dayton, Ohio, and Zenon Dance Company, Rhoden began dancing at age 17. among others.

Rhoden has performed with Dayton Contemporary Rhoden has also directed and choreographed Dance Company, Les Ballet Jazz De Montreal performances for shows across a range of and as a principal dancer with the Alvin Ailey media, including So You Think You Can Dance, American Dance Theater. In 1994, Rhoden and E! Entertainment’s Tribute to Style, Amici, and Desmond Richardson founded COMPLEXIONS Cirque Du Soleil’s Zumanity, and he appeared in the Contemporary Ballet. They have brought their feature lm One Last Dance. He has also collaborated unique brand of contemporary dance to the world with a number of celebrated artists, including for over two decades. Under Rhoden’s direction, Prince, Lenny Kravitz, Kelly Clarkson, ELEW, COMPLEXIONS has become a dance institution David Rozenblatt, Nicholas Payton, The Drifters, high in demand, as a center of innovation and Paul Simon, Billy Strayhorn, Nina Simone, cutting edge programming. Marvin Gaye, U2, The Turtle Creek Chorus and Patrick Swayze. Rhoden’s choreography has been the lynchpin of the development of COMPLEXIONS’ repertory. Rhoden is a recipient of various honors and “Musicality, innovation, purpose, consistency, a awards including the New York Foundation brilliant use of stage space and the ability to tell a for the Arts Award, The Choo San Goh Award story—all these qualities make [Rhoden] one of for Choreography and The Ailey School’s Apex today’s elect choreographers” (Los Angeles Times). Award. Rhoden recently received an honorary Since 1994, Rhoden has created over 80 ballets for doctorate degree from the Boston Conservatory in COMPLEXIONS, as well as for numerous other recognition of his extensive contributions to the companies, including the Alvin Ailey American field of dance. Dance Theater, Arizona Ballet, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, BalletMet, Dance Theater of Harlem, , In the spring of 2018, Rhoden premiered a new work Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Joffrey with San Francisco Ballet for Unbound: A Festival Ballet, , New York City Ballet, of New Works.

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