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Speak: Tap & Kathak Unite SPEAK: TAP & KATHAK UNITE MAR 22–24 / 7:30 PM Ensemble Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, Michelle Dorrance, Rachna Nivas, Rina Mehta Allison Miller, Drums and Composer Carmen Staaf, Piano Tabari Lake, Bass Jayanta Banerjee, Sitar and Composer Vaibhav Mankad, Vocals Satyaprakash Mishra, Tabla SPEAK: Tap & Kathak Unite at The Broad Stage made possible in part by a generous gift from Ann Petersen and a grant from the California Arts Council. There will be no intermission. 4 MAR/APR 2018 ABOUT THE SHOW ACT I Indian Kathak dance and American Maya tap dance, continents and ages apart, A call to the warrior goddess Durga and share parallel stories of struggle and Kali, the goddess of creative destruction perseverance. They come together in this sensational collaboration that is Sam Yug, Rina Mehta and Michelle rhythm, poetry, storytelling, music and Dorrance dance. SPEAK carries forward the legacy Kathak and Tap come together seamlessly of iconic artists like Pandit Chitresh Das, in this piece created in a rare 9.5 cycle Dr. Jimmy Slyde and James Buster Brown, while bringing to the forefront the voices ACT II of powerful female artists. Joined by Thaat, Rachna Nivas the world’s leading Indian classical and A traditional kathak piece highlighting jazz musicians, SPEAK promises to thrill, the dynamic movement and rhythmic provoke and move your spirit. compositions characteristic of Kathak CAST dance Kirwani, Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards & Rina Mehta (Kathak) Michelle Dorrance Rachna Nivas (Kathak) Tap and Indian classical music meet and Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards (Tap) get acquainted in this piece composed in Michelle Dorrance (Tap) Raag Kirwani Jayanta Banerjee (Sitar) Vaibhav Mankad (Vocals) Nirupana, Rachna Nivas and Rina Mehta Satyaprakash Mishra (Tabla) Kathak and Jazz meet and get acquainted Allison Miller (Drums) in this piece based on Kathak Yoga, a Carmen Staaf (Piano) technique that explores the layering of Tabari Lake (Bass) polyrhythms CREW Tap Solo, Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards A traditional tap solo highlighting the Lighting Designer/ Technical Director: essence of Tap dance David Robertson Production Manager: Elka Samuels Smith ACT III Company Manager: Navneet Bal Chalan, Indian and Jazz Bands SPECIAL THANKS Hindustani classical music and Jazz music come together to create an entirely new Ann Petersen & Lesley Pam, sound and music The Esper A. Petersen Foundation One, Full Cast California Arts Council Kathak, Tap, Hindustani classical music Elka Samuels Smith, and Jazz weave together in this finale Divine Rhythm Productions exploring the concepts of difference and oneness MAR/APR 2018 VISIT THEBROADSTAGE.ORG 5 BIOS presentation. She specifically credits her teachers and mentors Paul & Arlene DORMESHIA SUMBRY-EDWARDS is a two- Kennedy for giving her the foundations to time Bessie Award winner (as performer succeed across diverse platforms. and choreographer), Princess Grace Award and Astaire Award winner for MICHELLE DORRANCE is a New York Best Female Performer in Broadway’s City based tap dancer, choreographer, After Midnight. Additional Broadway director and teacher, and the Founder/ credits include the Tony Award winning Artistic Director of Dorrance Dance. productions of Black and Blue and Bring In Mentored by Gene Medler, she grew up Da’Noise, Bring In Da’Funk. Dormeshia was performing with his North Carolina Youth integral to Noise/Funk’s International Tour Tap Ensemble and has since performed (dance captain/principal) and performed in Savion Glover’s ti dii, Derick Grant’s ® as special guest for GRAMMY Recording Imagine Tap!, Jason Samuels Smith’s artist Fantasia, and for International Jazz Charlie’s Angels/Chasing the Bird, STOMP, Day at The Kennedy Center, collaborating company work with Manhattan Tap, with the legendary Al Jarreau and Dee Barbara Duffy & Co, JazzTap Ensemble, Dee Bridgewater. Rumba Tap; and original work by legends Film and TV credits include “TAP” with Dr. Harold Cromer and Mable Lee. Gregory Hines, Spike Lee’s “Bamboozled” Recent highlights include CBS’s The Late (Assistant Choreographer/actress), “The Show with Stephen Colbert; The Royal Rise and Fall of Miss Thang” (Best Lead Variety Show; a high-fashion short film Actress nomination), Superstars of Dance for Tabitha Simmons; collaborating and (representing the USA), Tops Commercial, performing with inspirations, Dormeshia and onscreen coach for MTV’s Made Sumbry-Edwards, Derick Grant, Toshi to name a few. Dormeshia was also the Reagon, Nicholas Van Young, Ephrat tap advisor for Dance Magazine and the Asherie, Damian Woetzel, Lil’ Buck, Bill face of Capezio’s national tap campaign. Irwin, Tiler Peck; and choreographing Choreography credits include Michael commissions for The Martha Graham Jackson’s Rock My World, The Cotton Dance Company and The Guggenheim Club’s Sophisticated Ladies, The Blues Museum. Project (co-choreographer/co-creator), and Jacob’s Pillow debut And Still You A 2017 Ford Foundation Art of Change Must Swing with leading collaborators Fellow and 2015 MacArthur Fellow, Jason Samuels Smith, Derick K. Grant and Michelle is humbled to have been Camille A. Brown (named The New York acknowledged/supported by United Times’ The Best of Dance 2016). States Artists, the Joyce Theater, New York City Center, the Alpert Awards, With over 30 years touring the world, she Jacob’s Pillow, the Princess Grace also spent 11 years as Michael Jackson’s Foundation, Crain’s New York, the Field, tap instructor. Throughout her career American Tap Dance Foundation and the Dormeshia has established high standards Bessie Awards. A passionate educator, for the art form of tap performance, Michelle holds a BA from New York choreography and instruction, where University, teaches on faculty at IFTRA, there is an emphasized balance of Broadway Dance Center and as a guest musicality, technicality, grace and 6 MAR/APR 2018 artist at universities, festivals and arts been funded by National Endowment for organizations throughout the world. the Arts, Zellerbach Family Foundation, She wishes to credit the master hoofers California Arts Council and Alliance for with whom she studied in her youth for California Traditional Arts. constant inspiration and influence. As Dean of the Chhandam School of Kathak, Rachna has also been RACHNA NIVAS is a leading artist, educator and activist in Indian classical instrumental in building one of the dance, bringing a relevant voice to Kathak. world’s premiere Indian arts institutions, Deemed “charismatic” and “revelatory” advancing a globally renowned pedagogy. She is artistic director of the Chhandam by the San Francisco Chronicle, Rachna is a fierce and passionate performer, Youth Dance Company, shepherding displaying the depth of her 17-year training excellence, leadership and creative under legendary master and icon Pandit discovery amongst teens. Rachna Chitresh Das. She is a founding artist of currently splits her time between San the Leela Dance Collective, an artist- Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City owned and artist-led arts organization, and Mumbai, becoming one of the producing powerful works through the most sought-after teachers of her collective creativity of trailblazing women generation. Rachna’s broader vision is to in Kathak. raise awareness, through kathak dance, of the rich philosophies of the Indian Rachna was principal dancer with the subcontinent, and for it to be a tool for Chitresh Das Dance Company for 15 empowerment and social change. years and received two nominations for an Isadora Duncan Dance Award while RINA MEHTA brings to the art form of performing worldwide in productions Kathak, classical dance of North India, a such as Shiva, Sita Haran, Pancha Jati, singular voice and vision. An artist and an Darbar, Shabd and many more. Some of entrepreneur, she displays on and off the the most notable venues she has toured stage her depth of training with legendary include Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Kathak master, Pt. Chitresh Das, an in San Francisco, Cal Performances at UC unshakeable grounding in tradition and a Berkeley, REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/ pioneering spirit. Described as “regal” and Cal Arts Theater) and Getty Museum in Los “brilliant” by critics, her performances Angeles, National Center for Performing and artistic work are paving a path Arts in Mumbai, National Institute of forward for the legacy of Pt. Chitresh Das Kathak Dance in New Delhi, Shaniwarwada and Kathak dance itself. Festival in Pune and International Kriya Rina is a founding artist of the Leela Dance Yoga Congress. Her original solo work, Collective, which brings together leading “Meera”, was featured at the ODC Walking artists from around the world to advance Distance Festival in San Francisco and at a collective vision for Kathak. Rina’s Salvatore Capezio Theater in New York original works include SPEAK, a kathak-tap City. Rachna is currently touring her collaboration; “Chandanbala”, the story of latest collaborative work, SPEAK, bringing the revered Jain saint interpreted through together leading women in kathak and tap the Kathak tradition; and “Son of the and bridging Indian and Black-American/ Wind”, the story of India’s mythological African art and heritage. Her works have hero, Hanuman, brought to life through MAR/APR 2018 VISIT THEBROADSTAGE.ORG 7 dance-drama. She has received funding ALLISON MILLER is a NYC-based to create and tour her works by such drummer/composer who engages her prestigious institutions such as the deep roots in improvisation as a vehicle to National Endowment for the Arts, the explore all music. Described by critics as California Arts Council and the Zellerbach a charismatic and rhythmically propulsive Family Fund. drummer with melodic sensibility, Miller Prior to her work with the Leela has been named “Top 20 Jazz Drummers” Dance Collective, Rina was a principal in Downbeat Magazine. Her band, Boom dancer with the Chitresh Das Dance Tic Boom, is a 2014 recipient of Chamber Company, performing and touring with Music America’s “Presenter Consortium the company’s critically acclaimed for Jazz Grant” and is proudly sponsored by Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. As productions including Shabd, Pancha a side-musician, Miller has been the Jati and Sita Haran across the United States and in India.
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