Bebe Miller Company in a Rhythm Mar 15-18 on the Boards Would Like to Acknowledge That Think About What It Means to Be a Female Arts Leader Today

Bebe Miller Company In a Rhythm Mar 15-18 On the Boards would like to acknowledge that think about what it means to be a female arts leader today. I we are gathered on native land, and that this land begin by asking myself a series of questions: How is meaning was traditionally cared for by the Coast Salish made? What actions and gestures create meaning? How do artistic gestures inspire meaning in this world? How do I respond peoples, including the Duwamish. to situations when language fails me? Miller’s suite of new works is based on the dynamics of adap- tation and translation. With nods to literary giants Toni Morrison, David Foster Wallace, and Gertrude Stein, she examines the Notes about this performance syntax of movement—how we apprehend meaning—by juxta- posing action and context in time and space to create a new The running time is approximately 65 minutes. dynamic dimension on stage. In watching the rehearsals for In a Photography and filming are not permitted. Rhythm, I was struck by how Bebe floats in and out of the frame of the performance, tells stories, and narrates our experience of watching live contemporary dance. Miller is more interested in the audience considering different faculties when thinking about the choreographic, primarily our perception and the ways in which it will always be a contradictory and paradoxical sense. The white marley becomes the blank sheet of paper where the text and the movement of the dancers become one. Bodies Welcome and the rolls of felt vacillate between notes on a musical score and punctuation on a page. The rhythm of each body goes in and out sync, two or four bodies move in unison, while the oth- A friend of mine posted this quote from a book Helen ers construct different rhythms. Sounds and voices generate an Molesworth contributed to and I realized this relates to creating audio environment as you read the choreography. Miller pushes meaning through a contemporary performance and curatorial your reading of things, creating an emphasis on those impercep- practice: tible details of how meaning gets made. I can’t stop the analytical part of my brain from considering “Let's begin with a working definition. According to syntax: the syntax of sentences put together on this page, the Eli Zaretsky, a Marxist historian writing in the 1970s, syntax of movements, color rhythms, musical notes, interviews feminism aspires to ‘revolutionize the deepest and most about race, legibility about bodies in space together, and how, universal aspects of life—those of personal relations, as Miller says, we can make words march. Her emphasis on love, egotism, sexuality, and our emotional lives.’ I like these perceptual features, for me, relates to feminist curato- this definition; it helps me remember that part of what I'm rial practice, which goes back to Molesworth's definition of after, as a feminist, is the fundamental reorganization of feminism—the personal, the emotional, and the emphasis on the institutions that govern us, as well as those that we, in reorganizing overarching existing structures. Miller is exploring turn govern.” exactly these ideas through In a Rhythm, a feminist restructuring of making a partnership between language, words, inspiration, On March 13, Molesworth was fired from her job as Chief and movements. Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles for "undermining the museum." This is one of the many female leaders that have recently been fired because of either creative Rachel Cook differences or board leadership seeing them as difficult, or any Artistic Director, On the Boards number of other clichéd reasons people fire women. You might ask why bring this up in program notes for a new performance by notable choreographer Bebe Miller. As the new Artistic Director of this organization, and as the first female

artistic director in the history of On the Boards, I can’t help but COVER PHOTO: ROBERT ALTMAN

2 3 Bebe Miller Company: In a Rhythm A note from the artist Mar 15–18, 2018

Our process includes individual and collective choreographic contributions from the collaborating artists; their creative insights and energies are an integral part of each work. In a Rhythm was inspired by a coincidence of reading. I came across a text by Astrid Lorange, How Reading Bebe Miller Choreography and Direction: is Written: A Brief Index to Gertrude Stein. From her Principal Collaborator: Angie Hauser Dance Artists: Michelle Boulé; Christal Brown; Sarah Gamblin; Angie introduction: “My reading of Stein seeks to de-em- Hauser; Darrell Jones (originating artist); Bronwen MacArthur; Bebe phasize the question of meaning in order to consider Miller; Trebien Pollard other perceptual affects: the vague, often paradoxical, Production/Lighting Designer: Stan Pressner sometimes troubling, and endlessly variegated con- Costume Designer: Liz Prince Dramaturgy: Talvin Wilks structions that constitute experience.” My first thought Video Installation: Lily Skove was, how choreographic! Around the same time, I Music: Leonard Cohen; The Commodores; Steve Gadd; Donny read a harrowing short story by David Foster Wallace, Hathaway; Nelly; Mike Vargas; Pamela Z Incarnations of Burned Children. Please find it and read Text : Bebe Miller; Angie Hauser it. He moves you through a devastating experience mo- Interview excerpt: Toni Morrison and Charlie Rose from Charlie Rose, 1998, video 17664 ment by moment, in time parallel to the most mundane. I continued with both writers, along with a re-entry into Premiere: Nov 30–Dec 3, 2017, Wexner Center for the Arts, Toni Morrison’s continually inspiring telling-of-the-tales. Columbus, OH Her writing has been a beacon for many of us, but it is

Stage Manager: Valerie Oliveiro her truth-telling in various interviews that is newly in- Production Manager: Elby Brosch spiring. To me, all three writers capture diverse cultural Project/Tour Manager: Lila Hurwitz/Doolittle+Bird relevancies through how they structure language: their syntax, and their precise tone, brings meaning. Special thanks to the staff at On the Boards; Smith College Department of Dance (Northampton, MA) and Velocity Dance Center (Seattle) In making this suite of dances I wanted to look at the for rehearsal residencies support; LUMBERYARD/Jacob’s Pillow and syntax of movement—how we collide with meaning FringeArts (Philadelphia) for production residencies support; and our through the juxtaposed dynamics of action and con- Kickstarter donors. text, in time and space. Our tacit reading of the building blocks of situations is inherent in the culture it serves. Join the conversation In a Rhythm works with the premise that our willing- ness to decipher the unfamiliar cultivates shared un- #bebemillercompany derstanding. It uses sound and text as underlying maps of events and situations. My focus is on the “tell”—the subtle interactions of gesture, timing, focus and dynamics that are uniquely human, yet, outside of familiar BEBEMILLERCOMPANY OTB_SEA frames, are often illegible. We understand these bytes BEBEMILLERCOMPANY.ORG ONTHEBOARDSSEATTLE of kinetic information because we, as humans, move. THEMAKINGROOM.ORG ONTHEBOARDS

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IN A RHYTHM

In a Rhythm is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by New York Live Arts in partnership with Wexner Center for the Arts, On the Boards, and NPN. The Creation Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). The Forth Fund is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

In a Rhythm was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

In a Rhythm was made possible in part by funding from the Greater Columbus Arts Council and by state tax dollars allocated by the Ohio Legislature to the Ohio Arts Council (OAC), a state agency that funds and supports quality arts experiences to strengthen Ohio communities culturally, educationally, and economically.

In a Rhythm received production development support from LUMBERYARD.

Photo: Robert Altman Robert Photo: Bebe Miller Company and In a Rhythm are supported in part by awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

General Operating support was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable About The Making Room Foundation. Support was also provided by generous individual donors. This work was created within an overarching project, The Making Room, an investigation into innovative ways of sharing the creative process. While Miller and choreographer Susan THE MAKING ROOM Rethorst each create new work, they share and discuss their The Making Room was supported in part by the National Endowment for the respective processes; these interactions are the project’s Arts, the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and The Ohio State University’s Battelle Engineering, focus. Audiences follow the artists’ ideas via open rehearsals, Technology and Human Affairs (BETHA) Endowment. showings, an online portal (www.themakingroom.org) and The Making Room FringeArts production residency was funded by the New e-book (launching June 2018) that capture the information, England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with funding from The perspectives and physical practice that inspire the creation of Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. dance. In a Rhythm is the suite of dance works Miller created The Making Room portal and e-book were produced by Bebe Miller Company in during this project. collaboration with Susan Rethorst. Thanks to the Kickstarter supporters: Abby M. Carlozzo; Alexander Morton; themakingroom.org Amii LeGendre; Amiti Perry; Anna Hurwitz; Anonymous; Ara Lucia; Beth Graczyk; BOOMERANG; Bradford Chapin; Caterina Bartha; Catherine Cabeen; Christine Elmo; Janet Erickson and Richard Bird; Daniel Doolittle; Daniel McCusker; Dante Brown|Warehouse Dance; Diana Cherryholmes; David Gray; Frances Guillemot; Frank Leon Rose; Jane; Jennifer Salk; Jessica Massart; Jill Randall; Joan Hanna; Johanna Hulick; Josh Hines and Kelly Hurlburt; Joyce Adams; Karen Quisenberry; Video installation in lobby: Kendra Hovey; Kris Wheeler; Laura Scatena Romero; Linda K Johnson; Margaret Piacenza; Matthew Shyka; Melanie George; Michael J. Morris; Michael Mazzola; Moments of Looking: Seeing Inside Dancing Nicholas Croft; Noelle Chun; Peggy Cheng; Peggy Olsen; Rachael Lincoln; Robert Flynt; Shannon Drake; Shawn Liu; Sheila Siden; Sheri Cohen; Susan Skove; Tara; The Gray Family; Tim Brown; Valerie Oliveiro. Video artist Lily Skove documented convenings and rehearsals for The Making Room. She participated as a register and translator of the day’s events, training her eye on the alchemical exchange between the artists in the room. The video is a distilla- tion of what she saw.

6 7 About the artists

BEBE MILLER (Artistic Director/ process and expression to diverse Choreographer) has received four New communities. Bebe Miller Company was York Dance and Performance “Bessie” formed in 1985; since then, Miller has Awards and support from the National created more than 50 dance works for Endowment for the Arts, New York the company that have been performed in Foundation for the Arts, Guggenheim nearly 400 engagements worldwide. BMC Foundation and many others. She was a has been commissioned and presented United States Artists Ford Fellow, received by leading venues including 651 ARTS, one of the first Doris Duke Artists Awards BAM Next Wave, DTW, Jacob's Pillow, and a New York Live Arts’ 2013 David Joyce Theater, PICA, REDCAT, Walker Art White Award, and was a 2015 Movement Center and Wexner Center for the Arts. Research Honoree. A Distinguished The company’s newest project, Vault, is a Professor in Dance at The Ohio State series of artist-driven national convenings, University’s College of Arts and Humanities meant to share innovative methodologies from 2000–2016, Miller received an for documenting, archiving and sharing Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters the dance-making process. Activities with from Ursinus College in 2009. artists, presenters, curators, archivists, Miller’s vision of dance and scholars and technologists range from performance resides in her faith in the peer-to-peer and intergenerational Photo: Robert Altman Robert Photo: moving body as a record of thought, mentoring, informal “campfire” talks, experience and beauty. Her aesthetic formal presentations on recent practices, relies on the interplay of a work’s idea, and resource-sharing. Gatherings have its physicality, and the contributions of been held in New York City and Seattle, company members to fashion its singular and plans are afoot for convenings at voice. Seeking to expand the language Jacob’s Pillow and in the Columbus area of dance, Bebe Miller Company’s work in 2018. encompasses choreography, writing, film, video and digital media. Committed MICHELLE BOULÉ (Dance Artist) is to keeping dance available to a wide a “Bessie” Award winning dance artist, spectrum of people and to further the teacher, and BodyTalk Practitioner. She conversation about the role of arts and is the recipient of a NYFA Choreography creativity in our culture, BMC is dedicated Fellowship, Cloud Prize, Boekelheide to providing access to the creative Creativity Award, Jerome Foundation

8 9 Travel & Study Grant, Foundation for throughout North America, Europe, SARAH GAMBLIN (Dance Artist) has Bronwen has danced with New York and Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, Australia, and Asia, and is the owner of toured internationally as a member of Copenhagen (DK) based companies, and DanceWEB scholarship. Her MBody Radiance. michelleboule.com, Bebe Miller Company and Bill Young and performing and teaching throughout choreography has received commissions mbodyradiance.com Dancers. Sarah earned her MFA in Dance Europe, the U.S. and South America. and presentations from The Chocolate from the University of Washington where She formed MacArthur Dance Project Factory, Danspace Project, ISSUE Project CHRISTAL BROWN (Dance Artist) has she performed with the Chamber Dance in 2007 and her choreography has Room, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, toured nationally and internationally Company, Rob Kitsos, Lingo Dance been performed in NYC, New England, River to River, American Realness, Mount with Urban Bush Women (as a principal Theater and Amii LeGendre. Gamblin is Philadelphia, Russia, France and Scotland. Tremper Arts Festival, and The Kitchen, performer, community specialist and on the dance faculty at Texas Woman's MDP and its collaborative work have been and has toured to Latvia, Dublin, Chicago, apprentice program coordinator), Chuck University where she teaches modern supported by LEF, NEFA, New Haven San Marcos, and Philadelphia. Her duo Davis' African-American Dance Ensemble technique, choreography, improvisation, Mayor’s Grant, Vermont Performance Lab, with cellist Okkyung Lee was presented and Andrea E. Woods/Souloworks. and experiential anatomy. In 2006, she Summer Stages Dance/Baryshnikov Arts by The Met Breuer, send+receive, Brown performed with and managed founded Dance Lab, a student-performing Center, Silo Kirkland Farm (DanceNOW/ The Stone, ISSUE, and JACK. Recent Gesel Mason Performance Projects group devoted to improvisation in [NYC]), Susan Hess Choreographers choreographic commissions include and apprenticed with the Liz Lerman the dance making process. Gamblin Project, the 2011 Ellen Forman Memorial Zenon Dance Company, The New School, Dance Exchange and Bill T. Jones/ founded and co-hosts the weekly TWU Award and DanceUP/MetLife Foundation. Latvian Academy of Culture, Trevor Day Arnie Zane Dance Company. Brown Contact Improvisation Jam since 2004. As the 2016 Guest Artist, Bronwen was School, and Universities of California- is the Founding Artistic Director of Her choreography has been produced recently presented by Trinity College’s San Marcos, Oregon, and Illinois. She INSPIRIT, a performance ensemble and nationwide, and has been commissioned Austin Arts Center Fall Dance in Hartford, has been a resident artist at Yaddo, educational conglomerate dedicated to by The University of Montana, Perpetual CT. Bronwen has been on faculty at MacDowell Colony, Bemis Center, LMCC bringing female choreographers together Motion, Flatlands Dance Theater, Mam- University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Extended Life Dance Development, to collaborate and show new work, Luft Dance, Texas Christian University currently serves as a Lecturer in the Yale collective address, Movement Research, expanding the views of women of all ages, and the University of South Florida. School of Drama, and she will teach at BAX Space Grant, DanceHouse (Ireland), and being a constant source of inspiration Smith College in the spring of 2017. She and SKITE (France). Boulé worked as to its audience as well as members. ANGIE HAUSER’s (Dance Artist; received her MFA from Smith in 2016 and a collaborative performer with Miguel Founded in 2000, INSPIRIT has been Principal Collaborator) work and was appointed to the faculty of Music and Gutierrez for 15 years and is also honored to show work at venues across research is grounded by the questions Dance at UMass Amherst this year. noted for her work with Deborah Hay the country. of improvisation, performance and and John Jasperse. She has taught collaboration. Since 2000, Angie has TREBIEN POLLARD (Dance Artist) been a member of the Bebe Miller has performed with Tania Isaac Dance, Company. In 2006 Angie was awarded Nia Love, Martha Graham Ensemble, New York Dance and Performance Pascal Rioult Dance Theater, Pearl “Bessie” Award for Creation and Lang Dance Theatre, Rebecca Stenn Choreography for her work with BMC. Co., Erick Hawkins Dance Co., the MET Her dancemaking projects include (Metropolitan Opera Ballet), Ronald K. collaborations with many artists Brown/Evidence and Pilobolus, and has including Chris Aiken, K.J. Holmes, worked as a guest artist with Urban Bush Darrell Jones, Andrew Harwood and Women. His choreography for dance Kathleen Hermesdorf. She has also and music artists has been performed danced with the companies of Elizabeth throughout U.S., England and Japan. Streb, Liz Lerman and Poppo Shiriashi. He has been on faculty at the 92nd She has taught dance technique, Street Y, Marymount Manhattan College, dancemaking, contact improvisation, Middlebury College, Goucher College, improvisation throughout North America American Dance Festival, Queens as well as Switzerland, Germany, France College, Adelphi University and the and Scotland. She is currently an University of Southern Mississippi. Assistant Professor at Smith College in the Department of Dance where she STAN PRESSNER (Production/Lighting teaches choreography, creative process, Designer) has created the lighting for improvisation and dance technique. dance, theatre, opera and music events

Photo: Robert Altman Robert Photo: on five continents. His work can be found BRONWEN MACARTHUR (Dance in the repertoires of, among others: The Artist) is a choreographer, performer and New York City Ballet, The Lyon Opera educator. Her interests lie in the limits Ballet, Geneva Opera Ballet, Bill T.Jones/ and possibilities of physicality, creating Arnie Zane, Ralph Lemon and Company, community and collaborative forms. Bayerische Staadtsballet, The Atlanta

10 11 including video and projection design for Company productions including Landing/ Bebe Miller Company for A History. Her Place, for which he received a 2006 dance films have been screened at Dance "Bessie" Award for Dramaturgy. Theater Workshop’s Digital Series in NYC, The San Diego/Tijuana DanceonFilm ELBY BROSCH (Production Manager) Festival, and Dance Camera Istanbul. Elby Brosch is dancer, choreographer, Her choreography has been presented and theater technician. He calls Seattle at The Chocolate Factory Theater (NY), his home where he has acted as the Dailes Theatre (Riga, Latvia), and Technical Director at Gay City Arts, The Paxton Center (Oberlin College, Velocity Dance Center, and 12th Ave Arts. OH) among other venues. Based in Los He has had the pleasure of working at On Angeles, she and her partner, TJ Hellmuth, The Boards, Slate Theater, The Eclectic create documentaries, commercials and Theater, Langston Hughes Performing films with their company, Open Land. Arts Institute, and Washington Hall. Artists Projects include documentation films he has worked with include Pat Graney, for The William Forsythe Company's Cherdonna Shinatra, BenDeLaCreme, Lou Motion Bank Project, and a film of Ann Henry Hoover, Kitten La Roux, Markeith Hamilton's event of a thread at the Park Wiley, zoe | juniper, Kate Wallich, Coriolis Avenue Armory (NYC). Lily has taught Dance, Dani Tirrell, Amy O'Neal, Keith media and performance at the The Ohio Hennessy, Sara Shelton Mann, Shannon State University, Oberlin College and the Stewart, and Princess Charming. Photo: Robert Altman Robert Photo: Institute for Choreography in Latvia. She holds a Diploma in Dance Studies from VALERIE OLIVEIRO (Stage Manager) is the Laban Centre in London, a BA from an artist based in Minneapolis, MN and Wesleyan University, and an MFA in dance originally from Singapore. She is currently and technology from The Ohio State stage managing for Cynthia Oliver, Bebe Ballet, The Boston Ballet, Pittsburgh Actor’s Studio and a 1988, 1991 and 1994 University. Miller and Dance Heginbotham. She Ballet Theatre, The Alvin Ailey Repertory American Theatre Wing Design Award recently designed lighting for Rosy Simas’ Ensemble, Stephen Petronio and Dancers nomination. TALVIN WILKS (Dramaturgy) is a Skin(s) at Intermedia Arts (Minneapolis, and The Netherlands Dance Theatre. playwright, director and dramaturg. His MN) and La Pena (Berkeley, CA). She re- Recent credits include: Twelfth Night LIZ PRINCE (Costume Designer) plays include Tod, the Boy, Tod; The Trial cently performed in Jennifer Monson’s In and Richard III for Shakespeare’s Globe designs for dance, theater and film, of Uncle S&M; Bread of Heaven; and An Tow and Morgan Thorson’s Still Life, and on Broadway, Jessye Norman’s Sacred including long-time collaborations with American Triptych. Directorial projects will perform in new work by Thorson and Ellington for Carnegie Hall, Peer Gynt at Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, include the world premiere productions Simas in 2018/2019. the Guthrie, Twelfth Night and Measure Jane Comfort, the Houston Ballet, of Eyewitness Blues, by Mildred Ruiz and for Measure for Shakespeare’s Globe, Michail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Project, Steven Sapp (New WORLD Theater/ LILA HURWITZ (Project/Tour Manager) La Clemenza de Tito, Abduction From Mark Dendy, Pacific Northwest Ballet, New York Theatre Workshop), UDU by is Principal Consultant at Doolittle+Bird, The Seraglio and Rake’s Progress for Dortmund Theater Ballet, Doug Varone, Sekou Sundiata (651Arts/BAM), The Love specializing in project management, the Bayerische Staadtsoper, Mikhail Ralph Lemon and David Dorfman. Her Space Demands by Ntozake Shange communications, production, and grant Baryshnikov’s Dances with Piano…, work has been exhibited at the New York (Crossroads), No Black Male Show/ writing for artists and others. Previously and Jean Genet’s The Blacks for the Public Library for the Performing Arts, Pagan Operetta by Carl Hancock Rux she was Associate Director and Director Market Theatre of Johannesberg. He 2011 Prague Quadrennial of Performance (Joe’s Pub/The Kitchen), Banana Beer of Communications at Artist Trust; served as UCLA’s Visiting Professor of Space and Design, Cleveland Center Bath by Lynn Nottage, (Going to the River Administrative/Co-Artistic Director of Dance Lighting from 1992-1994 and on for Contemporary Art, Rockland Center Festival/EST), the Obie Award/AUDELCO Dance Art Group, producers of the the Faculty of the Juilliard School from for the Arts and Snug Harbor Cultural Award-winning The Shaneequa Chronicles Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation 2000-2008. He served as the resident Center. She received a 1990 New York by Stephanie Berry (Ensemble Studio from 1994–2011; designer of Contact lighting designer of the Lincoln Center Dance and Performance Award ("Bessie") Theatre), Relativity by Cassandra Medley Quarterly magazine for 11 years; and a Festival from 1996–2010. Television and a 2008 Charles Flint Kellogg Arts (Ensemble Studio Theatre – AUDELCO dancer working with Nina Martin, Lucia credits include Two Moon July for the and Letters Award from Bard College. nomination for Best Director 2006) and Neare, Karen Nelson, Lisa Nelson, Kitchen and PBS, Night Music for WHYY- She teaches costume design at SUNY On the Way to Timbuktu by Petronia Paley Stephanie Skura, Crispin Spaeth, and TV Philadelphia, Bravo’s Inside the Actor’s Purchase College and Manhattanville (Ensemble Studio Theatre – AUDELCO others. She received the inaugural Studio and Airdance for Live from Off- College. nomination for Best Director 2008). He Velocity Dance Center Dance Champion Center. Pressner is the recipient of a 1988 has served as co-writer/dramaturg for award in 2011 for her arts advocacy work. New York Dance and Performance Award LILY SKOVE (Video Artist) is a filmmaker 10 productions in Ping Chong’s ongoing ("Bessie") for cumulative achievement, and choreographer, creating for the series of Undesirable Elements, and has a 1997 Cable Ace Award for Inside the screen, installation, and live performance, been dramaturg for four Bebe Miller

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14 15 THANK YOU TO OUR INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORTERS MEDIA AND COMMUNITY SUPPORTERS

DAVE HOLT THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION

KREIELSHEIMER REMAINDER FOUNDATION

THE NORCLIFFE WYMAN FOUNDATION YOUTH TRUST ABOUT ON THE BOARDS

Founded by artists in 1978, On the Boards invests in leading contemporary performing artists near and far, and connects them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas. We JEAN T. FUKUDA NESHOLM believe if we are successful in our work that we can grow our field, enrich peoples’ lives, and contribute to civic and global dialogues. MEMORIAL FUND FOR FAMILY We value • artistic risks while being fiscally responsible • leadership in our field and the multiple communi- PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION ties we serve to strategically advance the role contemporary artists play in society • racial and social equity to ensure our organization includes multiple viewpoints • provocative art as a vehicle to connect people of diverse backgrounds and perspectives • our local creative community as we engage with international artists and peers.

Board of Directors Staff Ruth Lockwood | president Betsey Brock | Executive Director Tyler Engle | past president Rachel Cook | Artistic Director Tom Israel | vice president Jessica Schroeder | Director of Finance John Robinson | treasurer & Operations Caroline Dodge | secretary Rich Bresnahan | Technical Director Andrew Adamyk | member at Large Sara Ann Davidson | Operations Manager Norie Sato | member at large Clare Hatlo | Associate Producer Kim Lusk | Bookkeeper Kristen Becker, John Behnke, Kim Brillhart, Maryika Julian Martlew | Sound Technician Byskiniewicz, Brian Curry, Florangela Davila, Priya Mark Meuter | Production Manager Frank, Rodney Hines, John Hoedemaker, Michaela Pamala Mijatov | Director of Audience Services Hutfles, Chiyo Ishikawa, Tom Kundig, Tina LaPadula, Eze-Basil Oluo | House Manager TOMLINSON Davora M. Lindner, Mari London, Emily Tanner- Beth Raas-Bergquist | Director of Development LINEN SERVICE McLean, Deborah Paine, Mary Ann Peters, Richard Erica Bower Reich | Patron Relations Specialist Reel, Spafford Robbins, Jimmy Rogers, Ginny Charles Smith | Director of Program Management Ruffner, Robert Stumberger, Annette Toutonghi, Jayme Yen | Director of Design and Communications Timothy White Eagle Turner, Josef Vascovitz, Bill Way

Off The Boards Advisory Board Carol Bobo, Dorit Ely, Jerry Fulks, Jeff Gerson, William Gleason, Karen Guzak, David Holt, Lorna Jordan, Mark Kantor, John Kucher, Marge Levy, Robert McGinley, Gene McMahon, H. Stewart Parker, Dave Roberts, Carlo Scandiuzzi, George Suyama, Virginia Wyman

16 17 COMING SOON MAR 29 — APR 1 MAR 23–24 MAR 24 ALICE GOSTI MATERIAL DEVIANCE IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN CULTURE DANCE | SEATTLE

KIDD PIVOT & ELECTRIC COMPANY OPEN STUDIO #38 (curated by THEATRE: BETROFFENHEIT Dani Tirrell): El Nyberg, Angel Alviar-Langley "Moonyeka", Presented in association with Kiana Harris, Imani Sims, Alicia Seattle Theatre Group (tickets Mullikin, Roache (pictured at stgpresents.org) above)

APR 7 APR 12-15 PHOTO: TIM SUMMERS SUN, APR 1 5 PM Material Deviance in Contemporary American Culture takes a sideways look at our object-based reality. Reflecting stuff-centered culture back to ourselves, this dream state passes through shame, nostalgia, patriotism, and the weight of inheritance. Choreographer and hybrid

SAT, MAR 31 8 PM performance artist Alice Gosti asks, Do objects imbued with so much of our worth start to take over and take on a life of their own? This cluttered landscape expands like a hoarder’s collection and contracts like an immigrant’s suitcase. It breathes like capitalism, filling an existential OPEN STUDIO #39 FRANK BOYD & LIBBY KING: void whose appetite is endless. Material Deviance helps us uncover PATTI & THE KID FRI, MAR 30 8 PM what is buried under the steep piles along the path from our bed to the Featuring Carl Lawrence bedroom door. We hold it in our hands. (performance), Kyki Li & Hannah Theater artists Frank Boyd Moujing (dance) (pictured (Elevator Repair Service, TEAM) above), Seth Sexton (dance), and Libby King (TEAM, SITI) BE PART OF THE SHOW: A COMMUNITY RITUAL RELEASE OF EMOTIONALLY ENTANGLED OBJECTS Sean P Rosado (dance), Barry present a post-apocalytic

THU, MAR 29 8 PM MAR 25, 2-5 PM Johnson (movement & sound) western — with Nerf guns. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Bring items of significance that you're ready to part with to a community event in conjunction with the performance. Participants will share the story of the objects with MDICAC performers who will witness and incorporate these INFO & TICKETS: ONTHEBOARDS.ORG stories into the performance in abstract and nonlinear ways. Learn more: ontheboards.org/special-events/ community-ritual

19 Representation in High-Def: Elevating OntheBoards.tv PHOTO: JULIETA CERVANTES

Did you know that we're filming In a Rhythm for OntheBoards.tv?

OntheBoards.tv is a digital catalogue and streaming service for contemporary performance. We have an ongoing initiative at On the Boards to make the site more racially equitable—we want 50% of the films to be by artists of color. We're producing FOUR new films for the site before June 2018, including In a Rhythm. Want to help us? Donate to our Kickstarter at goo.gl/XHmkHz!

Questions? Ask Beth Raas-Bergquist ([email protected]) or Erica Bower Reich ([email protected]).