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BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC

51 Opera House Thursday, November 15, 1984 at 7:00pm Friday, November 16, 1984 at 8:00pm Saturday, November 17, 1984 at 8:00pm Sunday, November 18, 1984 at 2:00pm

BILL T. JONES / ARNIE ZANE & COMPANY in SECRET PASTURES World Premiere

Choreography Music Bill T. Jones & Arnie Zane

Sets Costumes Keith Haril1,g Willi Smith

Lighting Stan Pressner Hair and Make-up Design Marcel Fieve

Dancers Sean Curran Heywood McGriff Bill T. Jones Amy Pivar Janet Lilly Arnie Zane Margaret Liston Julie West*

Homer Avila, Hilary Easton, Samantha Hoyt Per Larsen, Tom Nance and Sharon Pennix

*(On leave of absence)

Love OfLife Orchestra musicians Rik Albani, Rebecca Armstrong, Ernie Brooks, Rhys Chatham, Sara Cutler, Tony Garnier, Randy Gun, Peter Gordon, Linda Hudes, Richard Landry, Lenny Pickett, Tim Schellenbaum, Ned Sublette, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, David Van Tieghem, Pet~r Zummo

BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE AND COMPANY are supported by the generous grants from the National Endow­ ment for the Arts and the New York $tate Council on the Arts. The Company is especially grateful for the support shown to them by the Jerome Foundation, the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, Consolidated Edison of New York, Monsanto Corporation, Coca-Cola Corporation, Philip Morris, Incorporate4, Manufacturer's Hanover Trust and a growing list of friends and supporters. The Company is a recipient of a ~Land Grant" from the Harkness Center, which provides studio space for rehearsal and the creation of new works. Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane & Co. deeply appreciate the support given to them by Steven Giles and Pineapple Studios.

7 LIBRETID prepares to leave its lastlocation, The Rainforest, Our story opens in the busy streets ofa Major Mid­ on the eve ofthe departure, we find an astounding western Metropolis, home of The Professor- a array ofrelationships have developed. Against the lushness of The Rainforest, the group shares an former vaudevillian who developed a belated unforgettable evening. interest in archeology and is now a recognized scien­ tific authority specializing in trips to out ofthe way Scene Seven. Time to go...but not for everyone. places. The Professor has been selected to head an Cast expedition to an unchartered island continent that recently appeared in the South Atlantic. The Professor Arnie Zane In Scene One, we find The Professor's young assis­ The Fabricated Man Bill T. Jones tant (an irresponsible fellow, sweet ofdisposition) Young Male Assistant Sean Curran who encounters an unidentified young woman who The Female Assistant Amy Pivar asks him for simple directions and gets a real ear­ Tall Handsome full. The news ofthe Island's discovery has spread Reporter Heywood McGriff rapidly and a large group appears, including The The Lady Reporter 'Margaret Liston Professor himself. After much confusion and specu­ The Blonde Assistant Janet Lilly lation The Professor, with the help of another Beach Creature Homer Avila unidentified young woman, must select the mem­ 1st unidentified bers of his expedition. His first choice is a Tall young woman Hilary Easton Handsome Reporter (arrogant, easily bought buta Others Samantha Hoyt great dancer!), secondly the irresponsible Young Per Larsen Male Assistant, next a young Female Grad Student Tom Nance (full of leftist notions and arch rival of the Young Sharon Pennix Male Assistant). He then chooses the Lady Reporter Love ofLife Orchestra (a former stunt woman and arch rival of the Tall Rik Albani Trumpet, flugelhorn, Handsome Reporter, she has sworn to follow and percussion rec~rd. his 'little indiscretions'). Finally a Young Rebecca Armstrong Voice Soclahte from mainline Philadelphia is chosen Ernie Brooks Bass guitar (because she is blonde, well educated and has lots Rhys Chatham of money). 2nd trumpet Scene Two takes us to the Laboratory where a Sara Cutler Harp Tony Garnier recently arrived 'artificial intelligence', to beknown String bass, as The Fabricated Man, is waiting for The Profes­ electric bass sor's arrival. Huge sums ofmoney were donated on Randy Gun Rock guitar the agreement that The Professor would train the Peter Gordon Eb clarinet, tenor sax creature and take him along. This is not easy as the Linda Hudes Synthesizer creature is impulsive, childlike, and very strong (not Richard Landry Flute, alto flute, to mention with very poor posture). soprano, tenor and Scene Three finds our group at long last landing on bari saxes, clarinet, ~e beach as a lone sand creature takes a very long bass clarinet tIme to move past. They came equipped with a large Lenny Pickett Piccolo, flute, portable environment out ofwhich they come and alto flute, soprano, go about their chores, getting acquainted in the alto, tenor, bari, ~ea~time. (By-the-way, all 'others' are purely bass saxes, Eb, Bb and ImagInary.) contrabass clarinets Scene Four. Here our expedition, minus The Profes­ Tim· Schellenbaum Guitar, electronics sor and The Man, is busily at work in the moun­ Ned Sublette Spanish, steel string, tain landscape. It begins as a lark and ends. The electric and pedal Blonde Assistant gets separated and has an steel guitars unpleasant experience with a hyperactive group of "Blue" Gene Tyranny Grand piano monkeys who resemble all too much her present David Van Tieghem Drums, percussion, travelling companions. vibraphone, marimba Peter Zummo S~~ne Five. Several days later at twilight our expe­ Trombone, dItIon after a day ofesoteric experiments and cal­ baritone hom That Hat by Peter Gordon and Arthur Russell culations decide to go running inthe desert for more esoteric exercise and calculations. Vocals by David Johannsen, Arthur Russell and Scene Six. We have-been onthe island continent for Rebecca Armstrong practically one month. By the time the expedition Leanne Unger-mixdown engineer

8 Noles by the Composer ARNIE ZANE is a native New Yorker born in the During "The Announcement" a twelve-tone pitch Bronx and educated atthe State University ofNew system isused to neutralize hierarchies (tonal, tex­ York at Binghamton. Mr. Zane's first recognition tural, etc....). Rigidity is offset by a syncopated in the arts came as a ph~tographer. In 1975 he was rhythm and personal taste ofthe composerand per­ the recipient of a Creative Artist Public Service formers. "The Laboratory" starts with a tonal uni­ award in Photography and has had shOWs ofhis work son and the harmonies implied by expanding lines at Light Impressions Gallery, TheKitchen Center, in contrary motion. Two melodies answer one Dance Theater Workshop and Pratt Institute. His another, a fugue evolves, things get messy. "The dance photography has appeared in numerous pub­ Arrival" is tonality inits full elegance. Hopefulness lications, most recently inVogue Magazine. Arnie and naivete. Naked (not nude). "Luncheon on the Zane's introduction to the dance world came in 1973 Grass" was composed on a farm in Ireland where when he, Bill T. Jones and Lois Welk formed the Bill and Arnie came for the shooting of Kit Fitz­ American Dance Asylum in Binghamton, New gerald's videotape, The Return ofthe Native. This York. Since moving backto in 1979, was on the Dingle Peninsula (Dingle Music). Mr. Zane has received a second CAPS award in "Blonde Assistant and the Tree ofMonkeys" is the Choreography (1981) and two Choreographic Fel­ saxophone at its most frightened state. Ascending lowships from the National Endowment for theArts and descending glissandi, a maximumoftransients (1983, 1984). In 1980 Mr. Zane was co-recipient through simultaneous gutteral utterances and the (with Bill T. Jones) ofthe German Critics Award loosening of the embouchure. "Garden of Radio for his work, Blauvelt Mountain. As Co-Artistic Delights." "That hat stays on.. :'--Arthur Russell '84. DirectorofBill T. Jones/Arnie Zaneand Company, "The Departure" was first a set of string and sax Mr. Zane shares the choreographic responsibility pieces composed in Amsterdam for Lawrence for the Company's repertory. In addition his work Weiner's film about emigration, "Plowman's Lunch," has been seen in New York at The Kitchen Center becameanelegy for Wies Smals, and is finally "The (Cotillion, 1981), at ~S. 122 (New Hero, 1981), and Departure." Questions without answers. Lonely at St. Mark's in the Bowery (Garden with Johanna melody. The coexistence ofseeniingly incompati­ Boyce, 1981). Prior to forming Bill T. Jones/Arnie ble parts. ZaneandCompany, Mr. Zane and Mr. Jones toured -BIOGRAPHIES-- extensively in the and abroad. Mr. BILL T. JONES entered college as an athlete and Zane and Mr. Jones recently completed filming a actor in 1970. His first dance training took place at television projectoftheir workRotaryAction (their the State University of New York at Binghamton first collaboration with Mr. Gordon in February where he studied classical ballet, modern dance, 1982), co-produced with WGBH-TV Boston and contact improvisation and rai Chi Chaun. Before Channel 4 in London. Recent performances have forming Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane and Company in included such places as the five city European 1982, Mr. Jones choreographed and performed as Kitchen ICA tour (1981), Walker New Dance USA a soloistandduet company with his partner, Arnie (1981), Vienna New Dance Festival, Academie der Zane, touring nationally and internationally. From Kunst, Sadler's Wells, TheatredelaVille, Kennedy 1978-81, Mr. Jones was an Affiliate Artist working Center, City Center and Zellerbach Hall. extensively in high schools and art centers around the United S~tes. In 1979, Mr. Jones received the Creative Public Service award in Choreography and PETERGORDON bornin New York City and in 1980, 1981, 1982 he was the recipient ofChoreo­ was has lived in Virginia and Munich, Germany. In graphic Fellowships from the National Endowment Munich he studied saxophone, music theory, played for the Arts. His works can be seen in the reperto­ in rockbands, and developed his continuing interest ries of Werkcentrum Dans Company, the Rezone Dancers, and a second piece is being commissioned in radio and other forms of media. Back in the United States, he studied film andtelevision at USC by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for and UCLA. At UC-San Diego, he studied with Ken­ November of 1985. Among Mr. Jones' film and neth Gaburo, Roger Reynolds, and video credits are Break, produced by KTCA-TV in and received a BA in music composition. Gradu­ Minneapolis and Rotary Action, co-produced by ate work in composition was with WGBH-TV Boston and Channel 4 in London. and Terry Riley at the Center for Contemporary Recent tours have taken Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane and Company around the world where their work Music at Mills College, Oakland, California. has been seen atthe Kennedy Center, Sadler's Wells, Since 1975 he has lived in New York City, working City Center, Theatre de la Ville, Zellerbach Hall, first as a saxophonist for a variety ofblues, rockand Walker New Dance USA (1982), Cologne Festival, avant-garde artists, then putting together his own Vienna and Hong Kong. ensembles. Since 1977 Gordon has composed music

9 for, performed with and co-directed (with David Van The 1983 Coty award winner WILLI SMITH is Tieghem) the Love of Life Orchestra, one of the truly a designer for today. With a total understand­ earliest and best known new music/rock fusion big ing and involvement in contemporary art and bands. Gordon also works as a solo artist and is best lifestyle, he sets the fashion pace for modern men known for his recent "tone poems," such as Frozen and women, and reflects it all in his WilliWear col­ Moments ofPassion, which incorporate solo saxo­ lections. He has successfully blazed new fashion phone playing, spoken fragments and pre-recorded trails by designing innovative sportswear for men material. Gordon has given hundreds of concerts and women more interested in style than status. in Europe and the U.S. His opera The Birth ofa Poet Because ofhis consistent affection for 'street cul­ (in collaboration with Richard Foreman, Kathy ture' his clothes are often referred to as "Street Acker and David Salle) was recently premiered in Couture." Rotterdam and his Otello (with Falso Movimento) Constantly changing and exploring new avenues of has had over 80 performances in 21 cities. creativity, Willi's reputation as a unique and innova­ Gordon is a composer, performer and producer. He tive designer has never diminished. His early years bas produced or co-produced, arranged dozens of in New York working for several manufacturers and phonograph recordings and collaborated with many design houses including Digits, allIed to the inevita­ new music and visual artists ...for Love of Life ble start ofWtlhWear with longtime friend and part­ Orchestra, Mike Oldfield, Jill Kroesen, Robert Ash­ ner; Laurie Mallet. Now, eight years later at 35, he ley, Robert Longo, ~urie Anderson and Lawrence has seen his business evolve into one of the fore­ Weiner. His radio production for NPR was a com­ most designer companies in America. "Just two position entitled Shoptalk using eight composers' years ago we were a relatively small operation with voices. His music has been used by various dancers, a staff oftwenty. Today, everytime ~ walk into the including Molissa Fenley, Bill T. Jones and Arnie office we're hiring ten more new employees. I Zane, and Alvin Ailey. Gordon's production credits believe we're now a staff ofover one hundred. At include Robert Ashley's video opera, Perfectlives, first I thought, 'What do we need so many people David Van Tieghem's score for Twyla Tharp's Fait for?' But when I see the amount ofbusiness were Accompli and recordings of new music for labels doing, I realize the important role everyone plays. such as Lovely Music, Warner Bros., Crepescule, It also allows me the opportunity to collaborate with Antarctica, Expanded Music, Lust/Unlust, Beggars artists from other industries outside of fashion. I Banquet and Zick/Zack. do not believe in spending every working day sketch­ Gordon's material has its roots in the minimal avant­ ing away in my design room:' An avid movie and garde but is strongly flavored by his extensive back­ opera buff, Willi is constantly on the move. He ground as a rock musician. It incorporates live travels regularly to India, his most favorite hideway instrumentalists, audio tape, electronics and video and a place that he is most inspired by. and often times social and political topics serve as Future plans for 1984 include the opening ofa Paris structure. Along with Secret Pastures, current office, the construction ofa menswear showroom, projects include Return ofthe Native, a video music designed by SITE, and a creative collaboration with work with Kit Fitzgerald. twenty-one contemporary artists through his new division, WilliWear Productions.

KEITH HARING, 26, is known as a graffiti artist to millions ofNew Yorkers who ride the New York STAN PRESSNER has designed lighting for City subwdys. However, his drawings and paintings numerous modern dance companies including have been exhibited in galleries, museums and pub­ Charles Moulton, Kinematic, TImothy Buckley, lic places in Tokyo, Australia and much ofEurope. Tim Miller, Eric Barsness, Mathers & Masters He has also been included in shows at the Wl\itney among others. In addition, he has served as light­ Museum ofAmerican Art, the Hirschhorn MuseQm ing designer for WHYY-Philadelphia T.V.'s Night and the San Francisco Museum ofModem Art. He Music Series, Chicago Fest, Chicago's Loop Alive has been an artist-in-residence at Ule Montreux Festival, and &lletStars, An International Celebra­ Festival in Switzerland, the Ernest Hom Elemen­ tion ofDance. tary School in Iowa City, Iowa, and at the Le Mans 24-Hour Race in France. SECRET PASTURES is an original score com­ Keith first worked with Bill T. Jones in a live posed by Peter Gordon. dance/painting perlOrmance at The Kitchen in 1982. Performed by Peter Gordon and the Love of Life In 1983, Keith painted directly on Bill T. Jones' body Orchestra.. for photographs by Tseng Kwong Chi. Secret Pastures is his first investigation into set design.

10 November 15-18, 1984

BILL T. JONES / ARNIE ZANE & CO. In

Scene 1: The Announcement Scene 2: Laboratory Scene 3: Beach ...The Arrival Scene 4: Mountains Luncheon Blond Assistant and The Tree of Monkeys Scene 5: Running in the Desert At Sunset Scene 6: The Rainforest Romance Garden of Radio Delights Scene 7: Beach... The Departures WHO'S WHO IN THE COMPANY

SEAN CURRAN grew up in Boston, Mass. Since HOMER DAVID AVILA New Orleanian, first moving to New York he has received his BFA in came to New York to dance with David Lusby and Dance from NYU School ofthe Arts studying there has since worked with others, including Jones and with Larry Rhodes. It was also at NYU that he first Zane; and has recently returned from two years with worked with Bill T. Jones as an original cast mem­ Penn Dance Theatre. This BAM season marks the ber of Corporate Whimsey and a year later helped conclusion ofhis professional performance career. to recreate the work for the company, CoDanceCo. Gracias Olympia. Sean currently enjoys studying ballet with Ernie Pagnano. HILARY EASTON is a graduate of NYU School of the Arts. She has danced in the companies of JANET LILLY grew up in Iowa. Since moving to Ze'Eva Cohen, Mickie Geller, Bertram Ross and New York in 1979, she has danced with a number acted as understudy/rehearsal assistant for Sentll of modern choreographers including, Jill.Becker, Driver. She is also presently working with Rika Burnham, Pat Catterson and Alice Kaltman. Dudek/Mann and Dancers, Mimi Garrard, Monica This is Janet's second season with Bill T. Levy and studying ballet with Ernie Pagnano. Jones/Arnie Zane & Co.

SAMANTHA HOYT graduated from Vassar Col­ MARGARET LISTON is from the Gateway to the lege with a BA in Sociology last May. She has West - St. Louis, Mo. She received her MFA in studied dance with Luigi, Fred Benjamin, and Mar­ Dance at NYU School ofthe Arts. While there she garet Craske. Currently she studies with Ernie Pag­ studied with Larry Rhodes, Alba Calzada, Clarice nano, Jocelyn Lorenz and Michael Owens. Marshall and Ruby Shang. She holds a BA in Act­ ing from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She has done summer stock, toured with a children's PER LARSEN is from Stockholm, Sweden, where theatre company in New Jersey and worked with he studied with the Swedish Royal Opera School and the Lake George Opera Company in Saratoga the Ballet Academy of Stockholm. He worked on Springs, NY. This will mark her New York debut. the Swedish production of Ui'st Side Story in the role of Baby John. He has also done production work for Swedish and Norwegian television. He has HEYWOOD MCGRIFF, JR. graduated from Ohio danced with the Swedish modern dance company, State University in 1980 with a major in dance. He Cramenbaletten, since 1981. Per came to NYC in then joined the Frank Holder Dance Company for January 1984 and has worked with Erin Martin and two years, eventually becoming Assistant Artistic Kathryn Posin at Marymont College. He studies at Director. He danced with the Bill Evans Dance Cunningham and with Ernie Pagnano. Company in 1982-1983. After moving to New York in 1983 he danced with Nina Wiener and Dancers and became a member ofBill T. Jones/Arnie Zane SHARON PENNIX (Pasadena, California) began and Company in July 1984. He has also been guest studying dance at the Ebony Showcase Theatre in choreographer at Lamar University and the Univer­ her home town. She is a graduate ofCalifornia Insti­ sity of Northern Colorado. tute .of Fine Arts and has studied with Mia Slavenska, Rebecca Bobele, Tina Yuan and Glenn White to name a few. Sharon makes her debut with AMY PIVAR has worked with the companies of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane & Co. this season. William Gornel, Barry Smith, Rebecca Kelly and Loremil Machado Afro-Brazilian Dance Co. She also worked with Loremil Machado's Sarava Bahia Band as a singer. She has a BA from NYU and cur­ rently studies ballet with Ernie Pagnano. FOUNDATION FOR DANCE PROMOTION, INC.

Benefactors ($500 & above)*

Jonathan Bender Manufacturer's Hanover Trust Myer Bishop Keith Haring Vileana Briggs Mr. & Mrs. Irving D. Karpas Coca-Cola Corporation Emily & Sheldon Landau Consolidated Edison Dr. & Mrs. Arnold Lesser Willi Eisenhart Nadine & Herbert Lust Tony Fisher Phillip Morris Incorporated Hope & Edward Gropper R.L.B. Tobin Elisabeth Hair WilliWear Limited Rosalie & Martin Hakker

Patrons ($250-499)*

James Brown Stuart Pivar Katinka Keith Linda Trachter Robert & Anne Pivar Lansing

Friends ($100-249)*

Paula Cooper Margo Leavin Susan Cushing Robert Longo Joseph DiMondo Metro Pictures John Duff Carol Murashige Patricia Heesy Tony Shafrazi Charles Hoyt Lowery Sims Virginia Hoyt Barbara B. Toole Bill Katz Lon & Edith Zane

*Partial Listings

A very special thank you to our Board of Directors, Chanterelle, Marilyn Donini, Willi Eisenhart, Michael Howlett, Bill Katz, Harvey Lichtenstein, Nadine Lust, Laurie Mallet, Jan Murray, Willi Smith and Liz Thompson. FOUNDATION FOR DANCE PROMOTION, INC.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Jonathan C. Bender President Elisabeth R. Hair Secretary

Alvin Ailey Steven 1. diCostanzo Lisa Frigand Suzin Grosse Nancy Lesser Lowery Sims Willi Smith Linda 1. Trachter Arnie Zane

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Artistic Directors Carolelinda Dickey Executive Director Stan Pressner Production Manager

STAFF FOR THIS ENGAGEMENT

Dianne Williams Cabot Company Manager Laurie Grey Stage Manager Susan Chute Assistant to Lighting Designer Paul Shorr Sound Design and Live Mix Eric Liljestrand Monitor Mix Rachel Kramer Administrative Assistant Kermit Oswald Assistant to the Set Designer David Feldman Assistant Production Manager There will be a panel discussion, in the Carey Playhouse, immediately following this afternoon's performance. Panelists will include Bill T. Jones, Arnie Zane and Elizabeth Zimmer. The panel is sponsored by the NEXT WAVE Festival Humanities Program. MARCEL FIEVE: (Head Designs, Bill T. Jones costume painting) has collaborated for six years with Cinandre. He has created the hairstyles and make-up for the cult film "Liquid Sky". His work also includes photography and drawing that can be seen in fashion and art magazines. He is currently collaborating at Rhys Chatam and Joseph Nechvatal opera "XS" to open in London in 1985. He collaborates also with painter Lee Gordon and V.D.T..