Presents

Thursday, June 21 & Friday, June 22 at 8:00pm Durham Performing Arts Center Performance: 2 hours 20 minutes including intermission EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Itamar Kubovy ARTISTIC DIRECTORS Renée Jaworski Matt Kent DANCERS Antoine Banks-Sullivan Nathaniel Buchsbaum Krystal Butler Zachary Eisenstat Heather Favretto Casey Howes Jacob Michael Warren

CREATIVE DIRECTOR DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION Mark Fucik Shane Mongar CAPTAINS STAGE MANAGER Heather Favretto Jacob Michael Warren Michael Depp-Hutchinson

LIGHTING SUPERVISOR VIDEO TECHNICIAN STAGE OPS Yannick Godts Jaechelle Johnson Amanda Taylor DIRECTOR OF NEW PROGRAMMING GENERAL MANAGER / CFO Lily Binns Daniel Ordower EDUCATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SENIOR COMPANY MANAGER Emily Kent Kirsten Leon ASSOCIATE PRODUCER MARKETING MANAGER Jake McIntyre Brigid Pierce

ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR PRODUCTION INTERN Kayla Prata Maxwell Jabara

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Major support for Pilobolus Artistic Programming provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art, and by The Shubert Foundation. EYE OPENING World Premiere Created by Renée Jaworski and Matt Kent in collaboration with Nathaniel Buchsbaum, Krystal Butler, Benjamin Coalter, Isabella Diaz, Zachary Eisenstat, Heather Favretto, Casey Howes, Nile Russell, and Jacob Michael Warren Performed by Antoine Banks-Sullivan, Nathaniel Buchsbaum, Krystal Butler, Zachary Eisenstat, Heather Favretto, Casey Howes, and Jacob Michael Warren Art Direction Greg Laffey Lighting Design Trevor Burk Sound Design David Van Tieghem

Special thanks to Mark Fucik, Emily Kent, and Itamar Kubovy, and our friends at RadioLab.

GNOMEN 1997 Choreographed by Robby Barnett and in collaboration with Matt Kent, Gaspard Louis, Trebien Pollard, and Mark Santillano Performed by Antoine Banks-Sullivan, Nathaniel Buchsbaum, Zachary Eisenstat, and Jacob Michael Warren Music Paul Sullivan Throat Singing Matt Kent Costume Design & Eileen Thomas Construction Lighting David M. Chapman

This piece is dedicated to the memory of our friend and colleague, Jim Blanc. It was made possible in part by contributions from his family and friends as well as by a commission from the American Dance Festival with support from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Philip Morris Companies, Inc., New Production Fund. WARP & WEFT World Premiere Created by Renée Jaworski and Matt Kent in collaboration with Mark Fucik and Krystal Butler, Isabella Diaz, Heather Favretto, and Casey Howes Performed by Krystal Butler, Heather Favretto, and Casey Howes Music Thao Nguyen Costumes Márion Talán Lighting Design Diane Ferry Williams Sound Design David Van Tieghem

Trio was commissioned by ADF with support from the Doris Duke/SHS Foundations Award for New Works and The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation.

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SYMBIOSIS 2001 Choreographed by Michael Tracy in collaboration with Otis Cook and Renée Jaworski Performed by Heather Favretto and Jacob Michael Warren Music “Morango...almost A Tango” by Thomas Oboe Lee was written for and performed by the Kronos Quartet and appears on the Nonesuch recording White Man Sleeps. “God Music” from “Black Angels” by George Crumb and “Fratres” by Arvo Pårt were performed by the Kronos Quartet and appear on the Nonesuch recording released 1985-1995. “Long-Ge” by Jack Body was written for and performed by the Kronos Quartet and appears on the recording Early Music. Costumes Angelina Avallone Lighting Design Steven Strawbridge BRANCHES 2017 Created by Renée Jaworski and Matt Kent in collaboration with Itamar Kubovy, Mark Fucik and Antoine Banks-Sullivan, Nathaniel Buchsbaum, Krystal Butler, Isabella Diaz, Heather Favretto, and Jacob Michael Warren Performed by Antoine Banks-Sullivan, Nathaniel Buchsbaum, Krystal Butler, Zachary Eisenstat, Heather Favretto, Casey Howes, and Jacob Michael Warren Music David Van Tieghem, David Darling, Riley Lee, Olivier Messiaen, Bonobo Sound Design David Van Tieghem Costume Design Liz Prince Lighting Design Thom Weaver

Branches premiered at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Inside/Out Series, June 21, 2017, and was commissioned by Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes a great nation deserves great art. ABOUT PILOBOLUS

For 45 years, Pilobolus has tested the limits of human physicality to explore the beauty and the power of connected bodies. We continue to bring this tradition to global audiences through our post-disciplinary collaborations with some of the greatest influencers, thinkers, and creators in the world. Now, in our digitally driven and increasingly mediated landscape, we also reach beyond performance to teach people how to connect through designed live experiences. We bring our decades of expertise telling stories with the human form to show diverse communities, brands, and organizations how to maximize group creativity, solve problems, create surprise, and generate joy through the power of nonverbal communication.

Pilobolus has created and toured over 120 pieces of repertory to more than 65 countries. We currently perform our work for over 300,000 people across the U.S. and around the world each year. In the last year, Pilobolus was featured on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, NBC’s TODAY Show, MTV’s Video Music Awards, The Harry Connick Show, ABC’s The Chew, and the CW Network’s Penn & Teller: Fool Us. Pilobolus has been recognized with many prestigious honors, including a TED Fellowship, a 2012 Grammy® Award Nomination, a Primetime Emmy® Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cultural Programming, and several Cannes Lion Awards at the International Festival of Creativity. In 2015, Pilobolus was named one of Dance Heritage Coalition’s “Irreplaceable Dance Treasures.” Pilobolus has collaborated with more than 25 brands and organizations in finance, retail, media, fashion, sports, and more to create bespoke performances for television, film, and live events.

More information at www.pilobolus.org | facebook.com/PilobolusDance instagram@Pilobolus | @Pilobolus WHO’S WHO ITAMAR KUBOVY (Executive Producer) oversees the many moving parts of Pilobolus. After joining Pilobolus in 2004, he founded Pilobolus's acclaimed International Collaborators Project, a program that invites artists and thinkers from diverse fields to participate in Pilobolus’s collaborative choreographic process. He also grew the business of Pilobolus Creative Services, collaborating with clients to develop custom movement and storytelling for film, advertising, publishing, and corporate events. Itamar was born in Israel and grew up in New Haven, where he studied philosophy at Yale. Prior to joining Pilobolus, he ran theaters in Germany and Sweden, directed plays by John Guare, co-directed the 2002 season finale of The West Wing, and made a film, Upheaval, starring Frances McDormand. RENÉE JAWORSKI (Co-Artistic Director) received her BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Upon graduating she began work with MOMIX, performing and teaching throughout the world as well as creating her own work in Philadelphia. She began performing with Pilobolus in 2000. Renée has served as choreographer and creator for exciting projects and collaborations such as the 79th Annual Academy Awards, the Grammy® nominated video for OKGo’s All is Not Lost, and Radiolab Live: In the Dark and has worked with myriad outside artists through the International Collaborator's Project. In 2010, her alma mater honored her with the university’s Silver Star Alumni Award for her work as an artist in the field of dance. Renée lives in Connecticut with her husband and daughter. MATT KENT (Co-Artistic Director) has worked with Pilobolus since 1996 as a dancer, collaborator, creative director, and choreographer. Past Pilobolus projects include Head Choreographer for Andre Heller’s Magnifico, a large-scale circus production, choreographer for a Sports Emmy-nominated teaser created in collaboration with the NFL network, and choreographer for a television appearance on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. His work for Pilobolus on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, co-directed by Teller and Aaron Posner, was nominated for Best by the L.A. Drama Critics Circle. Outside of Pilobolus, he has worked as zombie choreographer for AMC’s hit series “The Walking Dead;” as movement consultant on the Duncan Sheik musical, Whisper House, and created family and children’s performances with Rob Kapilow. Matt lives in Connecticut with his wife and two sons. MARK FUCIK (Pilobolus Creative Director) is a native of Walnut Creek, CA. He attended Rutgers University where he earned his BA in Theater Arts. He started dancing at 21 and hasn't looked back. He joined Pilobolus in 2001 and danced with the main company until 2005. He then began working with the company in many different capacities performing with Pilobolus Creative Services, teaching, and serving as Associate Creative Director. He has taught future generations of dancers in Pilobolus workshops, as well as on his own classes at colleges and universities around the US. He was excited to get back into the studio to create Shadowland, and toured with the original Shadowland cast for two years. He has spent the last five years as the Assistant Artistic Director of Alison Chase Performance. As always, Mark thanks his family and his patient and understanding husband Collin for all their love and support. ANTOINE BANKS-SULLIVAN (Dancer) was born and raised in Chicago, IL. He attended Whitney Young Magnet High School where he began dance training under the instruction of Lisa Johnson-Willingham at the age of 16. He has since trained with Deeply Rooted Dance Theater, Chicago, Joel Hall, and Central Florida Ballet. Since his first contract with Walt Disney Co., Antoine has danced with Busch Gardens Florida, Cleo Parker Robinson, High School Musical Live, Cirque Dreams, and Las Vegas Theater. In his free time Antoine enjoys cooking, party planning, and traveling the world. He would like to thank his friends and family, especially his loving mother and husband Thomas for their unending support. Antoine is currently performing with Disney’s Broadway Musical, Tarzan, and is thrilled to return to Pilobolus for this engagement. Antoine first joined Pilobolus in 2014. NATHANIEL BUCHSBAUM (Dancer) was born in Pittsburgh, PA, and realized his love for movement while attending high school in Florida. He worked as a guest artist with the Tallahassee Ballet and in 2011 graduated from Florida State University with a BFA in Dance. Nathaniel has had the pleasure of working with KineticArchitecture, Amalgamate Dance Company, Gerri Houlihan, , Brian Brooks Moving Company, and Doug Elkins. His choreography has been featured in the NewGrounds Dance Festival and the Five By Five event in Tampa, FL, and the Amalgamate Artist Series in New York. Nathaniel is honored to have joined Pilobolus's Shadowland in 2012. KRYSTAL BUTLER (Dancer) began her dance training at Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, DC, under the direction of Sandra Fortune. Krystal moved to and graduated from Long Island University. She has received scholarships and completed summer programs at the Ailey School, ADF, Earl Mosley Institute for the Arts, and Arke' Danza. Krystal was a member of INSPIRIT, a dance company and Forces of Nature Dance Theater. She has toured in Senegal with the theater company Art Creates Life, performing in the play, Junkanoo, and in Europe in the show MAGNIFICO produced by Andre Heller with choreography by Pilobolus. She has been a member of Pilobolus since 2011, spending 3 years touring Shadowland and now in her second year with Pilobolus Dance Theater. ZACHARY EISENSTAT (Dancer) was born in Westchester, NY. His interest in dance was born at bar mitzvahs, but it was years before he found his way back. Zachary was an NCAA gymnast throughout his college career. He graduated in 2006 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an SB in Mechanical Engineering. He spent some time working on Wall St. before finding his way to comedy and acting. As theater took him all over the world, he happened upon an opportunity to work with Pilobolus on a production of The Tempest. His bar mitzvah born passion re-kindled, he now finds himself taking the stage again with Pilobolus, this time as a dancer. Zachary would like to thank all those who helped him get here, all those who help him stay here, and you, yes you, for being a part of this wild ride. HEATHER FAVRETTO (Dancer/Dance Captain) grew up in New Jersey where her hyperactivity as a child drove her parents to place her in dance classes. Years later, she received her BFA in Dance from Rutgers University and was awarded the Dance Express Honor for outstanding choreography. Upon graduation, she worked for Douglas Dunn and Dancers, Cleo Mack Dance Project, and Naganuma Dance, while producing her own work in and around NYC. She joined Pilobolus in 2010 to work on a musical adaptation of James and the Giant Peach with Academy Award winning composers Pasek and Paul. She has since helped create numerous works with Pilobolus and its collaborators. She has had the pleasure and honor of performing in over 30 countries, as well as on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Today Show with Kathie Lee and Hoda! It continues to be a wild ride, and Heather is truly elated to be sharing her love of art and theater with all of you tonight! CASEY HOWES (Dancer) is a Brooklyn based dancer and choreographer. Born and raised in Los Angeles, CA, Casey has been dancing her entire life, catalyzing her training at The Colburn School Under Leslie Carothers and Glenn Edgerton. During her studies, Casey performed works by Martha Graham, , Shannon Gillen of Vim Vigor, and Ron Amit of Batsheva. After graduating SUNY Purchase’s Conservatory of Dance with a BFA in Dance & Choreography, she has trained rigorously across Europe and has danced for Lauren Beirne Dance Works. Casey is thrilled to be working with Pilobolus. JACOB MICHAEL WARREN (Dancer/Dance Captain) was born in San Francisco, CA, and raised in Boston, MA where he began tap dancing. Tap gave way to ballet and , and in 2009, Jake graduated from Marymount Manhattan College with a BFA in Dance. Since graduation, Jake has performed in New York and around the world with Armitage Gone! Dance, The Steps on Broadway Ensemble, TakeDance, and Pilobolus’s Shadowland. He has done multiple film, musical, and theatrical projects including Wind & Tree, a film by Abe Abraham, and Promise, an experimental theatre piece with Chris D'Amboise and Jed Bernstein. Jake is also a dedicated musician and a founding member of The Harmonica Lewinskies, a NYC- based /rock band. ROBBY BARNETT (Co-Founder, Choreographer) was born and raised in the Adirondack Mountains and attended Dartmouth College. He joined Pilobolus in 1971. MICHAEL TRACY (Charter Artistic Director, Choreographer) was born in Florence and raised in New England. He met the other Pilobolus founders at Dartmouth in 1969 and became an artistic director after graduating magna cum laude in 1973. Michael toured with Pilobolus for 14 years and has choreographed and directed the company ever since. He has set his work on the Joffrey, Ohio, Hartford, Nancy, and Verona and with Pilobolus choreographed a production of Mozart’s Magic Flute. Michael taught at Yale University for two decades and lives in northwestern Connecticut. JONATHAN WOLKEN (1949-2010) (Co-Founder, Choreographer) co-founded Pilobolus in 1971 and remained one of its Artistic Directors as well as Director of Development until his death on June 13, 2010. Mr. Wolken graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in Philosophy. During his career he created 46 works for Pilobolus, in collaboration with its other artistic directors, with guest artists, and as sole choreographer. He also choreographed for the Glyndebourne Festival Opera’s production of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are and created Oneiric, featured in a jointly produced Danish Television feature for members of the Royal Danish Ballet. Over the years he taught many workshops and was dedicated to the furtherance of Pilobolus technique not only in dance but as a model for creative thinking in any field. THAO NGUYEN (Composer) grew up in Falls Church, VA, where she first picked up a guitar at the age of 12 and began performing in a pop country duo in high school. She spent most of her 20s touring, supporting one critically acclaimed album after another. She’s worked with a laundry list of vaunted artists including , , , and producer . She even toured the US with the nationally syndicated NPR radio programRadiolab . Thao's music has been described by The New Yorker as "music that makes you move from your bones out...[it's] keenly intelligent and original." Her most recent album, , was released in March 2016. PAUL SULLIVAN (Composer) has composed fourteen scores for Pilobolus since 1980. He has appeared as a conductor, performer, and composer on and off Broadway several times. Paul currently lives on the coast of Maine where he composes music for his own record label, River Music. Paul's award-winning piano albums include Sketches of Maine, A Visit to the Rockies, Folk Art, Nights in the Gardens of Maine, and Christmas in Maine. His most recent albums are Circle ‘Round The Season and the Memory Lane Collection. DAVID VAN TIEGHEM (Sound Designer) Broadway: Doubt, The Lyons, Romeo and Juliet, The Big Knife, Born Yesterday, Arcadia, The Normal Heart, Reckless, An Enemy of the People, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, A Behanding in Spokane, A Man for All Seasons, Inherit the Wind, Frozen, After Miss Julie, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Constant Wife, The Crucible, Three Days of Rain, The Best Man. Off-Broadway: Wit, The Piano Lesson, Through a Glass Darkly, How I Learned to Drive. Film/TV: Buried Prayers, Working Girls, Penn & Teller, Wooster Group. Dance: , Doug Varone, Elizabeth Streb, Elisa Monte, Michael Moschen. Percussionist: , , , . Awards/Nominations: Drama Desk, Obie, Bessie, Lortel, Guggenheim. CDs: Thrown for a Loop, Strange Cargo, Safety in Numbers, These Things Happen. GREGORY LAFFEY (Art Direction) is a designer and maker from Pittsburgh, PA. He specializes in sets, props, and costumes for dance, theater, and film. Gregory now lives in New York City and has been working on various Pilobolus projects since 2009. Favorites include Shadowland, Radiolab Live: In the Dark, and any that take him out of the country. ANGELINA AVALLONE (Costume Designer) has collaborated with Pilobolus Dance Theatre on over 18 productions as costume and set designer. Her work as been seen at the Kennedy Center, The , The American Dance Festival, Wolf Trap, The Shubert Theater, and The Emerson Theater. International tours include Europe, Japan, and South America. Her creative credits also include designs for in New York City, Joe’s Pub at the Public, The Rainbow Room, Yale Repertory Theatre, Yale University Theatre, Circus Flora at the Kennedy Center, Syracuse Stage, Actors Theater of Louisville, Kentucky, The Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis, Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey, and others. Her credits on Broadway include associate costume designer on The Scarlet Pimpernel and Once Upon A Mattress. She studied fashion design in Florence, Italy, and received her MFA from the Yale School of Drama. In 1994 she received the Leo Lerman Design Award at Conde Nast. LIZ PRINCE (Costume Designer) designs costumes for dance, theater, and film and has designed costumes for numerous Pilobolus productions. Her costumes have been exhibited at The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Rockland Center for the Arts, and the 2011 Prague Quadrennial. She received a 1990 New York Dance and Performance Award ("Bessie") for costume design as well as a 2008 Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters from Bard College. MÁRION TALÁN (Costume Designer) has nurtured her talents in design by working closely with artists, directors, and performers in New York and across the country. Some of her dance design credits include Bryan Arias: One Thousand Million Seconds, Gibney Dance Company (2018), When Breath Becomes Air (2018), The Sky Seen from the Moon, The Juilliard School (2017), and A Rather Lovely Thing for Jacobs Pillow (2016); Caleb Teicher: Small and Tall for Jacobs Pillow (2016) and Meet Ella at Gibney (2016); Liz Gerring: Glaciers at The Joyce (2015); for Norbert de la Cruz: Talksikan for Ballet X (2015) and Fold by Fold for Aspen/Santa Fe Ballet (2013) by Norbert de la Cruz among others. (mariontalan.com) TREVOR BURK (Lighting Designer) is a Principal Designer at Visual Noise Creative. Main St. Electrical Parade, Tokyo Disneyland (Media Design), Kilimanjaro Safari Ride, James Bay- Electric Light (Creative Director), Foster the People, Sacred Hearts Club, Torches, (Creative Director) Animal Collective Centipede Hz World Tour (Production Designer), Los Angeles Dance, Hollywood Bowl (Lighting Design) Glass’ civil warS , Los Angeles Philharmonic (Lighting Design) Pitch Perfect 3 (Production Lighting Designer) The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (Lighting Design) Billboard Music Awards 2017, 2018 (Screens Producer). DAVID M. CHAPMAN (Lighting Designer) was Director of Production for Pilobolus from 1978 to 1997. A native of the Berkshires, his early credits include many summers with the Berkshire Theatre Festival and Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival and winters on the road with rock, mime, and dance tours. David has designed the lighting for numerous Pilobolus works including Day Two, Bonsai, Particle Zoo, and Axons. Other work includes positions as assistant lighting designer for the 1978 Spoleto Festival USA and Production Manager of the 1981 American Dance Festival. In his most recent New York project, he served as lighting coordinator for the Japanese singer Tokiko at Carnegie Hall. His lighting designs can also be seen in the repertory of Peter Pucci Plus Dancers. He was until May 2006 Director of Production for Jacob's Pillow and until 2008 Director of Facilities and Production at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, MA. STEPHEN STRAWBRIDGE (Lighting Designer) has many works in the repertory of Pilobolus Dance Theatre. His designs have been seen on Broadway, off- Broadway, and at most major regional theaters and opera houses across the country. Internationally he has designed the lighting for major premiers Bergen, Copenhagen, The Hague, Hong Kong, Linz, Lisbon, Munich, Naples, Sao Paulo, Stockholm, and Vienna. He has been recognized with numerous awards and nominations including the American Theatre Wing, Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle, Connecticut Critics Circle, Dallas-Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum, Helen Hayes, Henry Hewes Design, and Lucille Lortel. He is co-chair of the design department at Yale School of Drama and resident lighting designer for the Yale Repertory Theatre. THOM WEAVER (Lighting Designer) studied at Carnegie-Mellon and Yale and has previously worked with Matt Kent and Pilobolus on Teller and Aaron Posner’s The Tempest at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. In NY his work has been seen at NYSF/ Public Theatre, Primary Stages, Signature Theatre, Player’s Theatre (Play Dead with Teller), 37ARTS (Frankenstein), Cherry Lane, Festival, Lincoln Center Institute, and SPF. Thom has worked regionally at CenterStage, Syracuse Stage, Huntington, Milwaukee Rep, Shakespeare Theatre, Asolo, Theatre J, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Williamstown, Folger Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, Roundhouse Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Hangar, Spoleto Festival USA, City Theatre, Stage, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, and Yale Rep. Thom has received 3 Barrymore Awards (21 nominations), 4 Helen Hayes nominations, and 2 AUDELCO Awards. DIANE FERRY WILLIAMS (Lighting Designer) is a free-lance lighting designer who has lit well over 300 productions of theater, dance, dance festivals, and opera in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Awards include a Jeff Award, an After Dark Award, a Carbonelle Award, six Drammy awards, and six Jeff nominations. Diane has a BA from Ashland University in Ohio with a theater major and a Master of Fine Arts in Theatrical Design from Northwestern University. SHANE MONGAR (Director of Production) is originally from Chattanooga, TN. Shane joined Pilobolus in 2008. MICHAEL DEPP-HUTCHINSON (Stage Manager) is a native of Punxsutawney, PA, home for the beloved holiday Groundhog Day. Michael earned his BA in Theater at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and joined Pilobolus as part of the production internship program in 2015 and has since been touring with varied Pilobolus shows and projects. YANNICK GODTS (Lighting Supervisor) started with Pilobolus in 2013 as a production intern and has been with the company ever since. In 2014, he joined the staff of Shadowland and has been to four continents with the show since then. When not on the road or in the Pilobolus studio, he lives in Washington, DC, and works as a visual artist, graphic designer, and lighting and scenic designer at large. He thanks his family for their encouragement and friends for putting up with the fact that he's never home. JAECHELLE JOHNSON (Video Technician) is a graduate of UNC School of the Arts school of Design and Production’s Sound Design program. She recently relocated to NYC where she freelances with The Juilliard School, ADI, and other companies. She’s excited to join Pilobolus for her first season. AMANDA TAYLOR (Stage Ops) is a recent graduate of Wagner College and is excited to be working with Pilobolus Dance Theatre’s production department. Presents

COMING HOME: ADF ALUMNI RETURN

Saturday, June 23 at 7:00pm Sunday, June 24 at 2:00pm Reynolds Industries Theater Performance: 75 minutes including intermission Untitled

Choreography and Performance Burr Johnson Music Girls' Generation Costume Design Reid Bartelme and Harriet Jung

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TedX on Love Excerpt from Another Fucking Warhol Production (The Love Episode) Premiered at The Kitchen, NYC, June 2017. Presented by Dance Place, Washington, DC, April 2018

Written, Directed, Choreographed, and Costumed by Raja Feather Kelly | the feath3r theory Lighting Design Tuce Yasak Sound Design Emily Auciello Wardrobe Asa Thornton Performers Amy Gernux, Sara Gurevich, Rachel Prit zlaff,Collin Ranf, Aaron Moses Robin, Benjamin Wolk

The world premiere of AFWP was presented by Lumberyard Contemporary Performing Arts (Formerly ADI) at The Kitchen where it also received production development support. AFWP was created in part at The Yard, an artist residency and performance center dedicated to contemporary dance, theater, and related arts, as a part of the 2017 Off-Shore Creation Residency. The premiere of AFWP was made possible by funding from The Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. You being Me being You and the Eye

Choreography and Performance Xan Burley and Alex Springer Music Alexandre Lunsquii Lighting Design Andy Dickerson This work was made possible with the support from a Space Grant from Gibney, Center for Performance Research’s Artist-in-Residence program, Triskelion Arts Space Subsidy Program (made possible by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation), Jacob’s Pillow Research Fellowship, and the Marble House Project. Special thanks to the people who participated in the research element of this project and Mali Sastri for vocal coaching.

I Gotta Premiere: Long Beach, CA 2015

Choreography Julio Medina Music “Slow Mo Ambiance” edited by Casey Brown, “Half Forgotten Day Dreams” by John Cameron, “I Gotta” edited by Julio Medina sampling Original Compositions “Zealots of Stockholm [Free Information]” composed by Donald Glover, “White Lines” composed by Melle Mel and Sylvia Robinson, “The Mexican” produced by GZA The Genius, “Half Forgotten Day Dreams” by John Cameron, “It’s Just Begun” by Gerry Thomas, Jimmy Castor, and John Pruitt. Sound Design Casey Brown, Julio Medina Costume Design Chanele Causubon Performer Julio Medina

The solo is originally inspired by the power move known as a "windmill" within the breaking practice. The work uses a movement fusion of breaking and modern dance, spoken text, and props to question the relationship between masculinity, sexuality, and vulnerability. Gaze

Choreography Chafin Seymour in collaboration with the performers Performance David Glista, Cameron McKinney, Sean Nederlof Music Octo Octa, Father John Misty, Gabriel Garzón-Montano, DJ Dodger Stadium, Action Bronson Sound Design Chafin Seymour Lighting Design David Ferri –BURR JOHNSON– BURR JOHNSON (ADF student 2006-2009) is a NYC-based dancer/ choreographer and holds a BFA in dance and choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University. He has danced for John Jasperse Projects, Helen Simoneau Danse, Kimberly Bartosik/daela, Shen Wei Dance Arts, and Christopher Williams. Burr has also worked for Marina Abramović/Givenchy, Walter Dundervill, Ryan McNamara, Yozmit, Mark Fell, Boris Charmatz, Isabel Lewis, Nick Mauss, Peter Sellars, and Jack Ferver. His choreographic work has been presented through Movement Research, Dixon Place, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, Abrons Art Center, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, Danspace Project, New York Live Arts, and Works and Process at the Guggenheim with Reid and Harriet Design. He has guest taught at Henrico Center for the Arts, Philadelphia University of the Arts, the University of Utah, Salem College, Goucher College, Virginia Commonwealth University, UNC Greensboro, and NYU. He attended ADF during the summers of 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 where he performed in two reconstructions of Laura Dean’s : Tympani and Infinity, both reconstructed by Rodger Belman.

REID & HARRIET DESIGN was founded by Reid Bartelme and Harriet Jung in the Fall of 2011. They were classmates in the fashion design program at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Prior to meeting at FIT Reid spent 10 years working as a dancer, and Harriet earned a degree in Molecular and Cell Biology from UC Berkeley. Collaboratively, they have designed costumes for Justin Peck, Trey McIntyre, Kyle Abraham, Pam Tanowitz, Jack Ferver, and Matthew Neenan, among others. They have costumed productions at American Ballet Theater, New York City Ballet, , the National Ballet of Canada, , Pennsylvania Ballet, , Hubbard Chicago, the Malpaso Dance Company, and Les Ballets du Grande Théatre de Genève. Along with Justin Peck, they are featured in the documentary Ballet 422. In spring of 2015, they created a performance work called Fashion Show as part of a commission from the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. Reid and Harriet Design received a fellowship at NYU's Center for Ballet and the Arts in fall of 2017 and recently launched a small line of swimsuits. –RAJA FEATHER KELLY | THE FEATH3R THEORY– the feath3r theory (TF3T) is a New York City based dance-theater-media company that produces the work of Artistic Director and Choreographer Raja Feather Kelly. As a collaboration of dancers, actors, filmmakers, musicians, photographers, and designers, TF3T explores pop culture and current cultural phenomena, building original performances that skillfully combine, deconstruct, and reimagine elements of dance, visual media, fashion, drag, standup, minstrelsy, and narrative theater. RAJA FEATHER KELLY (Artistic Director) (ADF student 2008)Raja Feather Kelly’s choreography includes I, I Am A Dancer (Ars Nova ANT Fest), Ugly (The Bushwick Starr), Another Fucking Warhol Production (The Kitchen, American Dance Festival, nominated Most Innovative Dance Performance of 2017 by Dance Magazine), Andy Warhol's Bleu Movie (BAM Fisher, Baryshnikov Arts Center), Andy Warhol's Tropico (Danspace Project), Andy Warhol's Drella, (I Love You Faye Driscoll) (The Invisible Dog), and Andy Warhol's 15: Color Me, Warhol (Dixon Place). Off-Broadway credits include choreography for A Strange Loop directed by Michael R. Jackson (Playwright Horizons), Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Everybody directed by Lila Neugebauer (Signature Theatre), Susan-Lori Parks’ The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz (Signature Theatre, received a 2017 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Revival), Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro, directed by Lila Neugebauer (Signature Theatre), Daaimah Mubashshir's Everyday Afroplay (JACK), Jim Findlay's Electric Lucifer (The Kitchen), Jackie Sibbles-Drury's Fairview, directed by Sarah Benson (Soho Rep) and Lempicka, directed by Rachel Chavkin (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Raja was born in Fort Hood, TX, and is the first and only choreographer to dedicate his company’s work to Andy Warhol and the development of popular culture over the last thirty years. Kelly can be seen in the work of Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group, Keely Garfield, and Kota Yamazaki. He has formerly been a company member with David Dorfman Dance, Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion, Christopher Williams Dance, and Zoe | Juniper. A 2017 Princess Grace Award winner in Choreography and a Director for Soho Rep's 2018/19 Writers and Directors Lab, his honors include a 2018-2020 HERE Arts Fellowship, 2018/19 CartHorse Fellowship at the Buran Theatre, a 2018 Alan Kreigsman Residency at Dance Place (Washington, DC), 2018 Fellowship at the Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU, 2018 Creator-in-Residence at Kickstarter, a 2017 Bessie Schonberg Fellowship at The Yard on Martha’s Vineyard, a 2016 NYFA Choreography Fellowship, a 2015 Dixon Place Dance Artist Residency, and a LMCC Workspace Residency. A 2009 DanceWEB Scholar, Raja has been the Guest Choreographer at Bates Dance Festival, Princeton University, Sarah Lawrence College, University of Florida, University of Utah, and the Harkness Choreographer- in-Residence at Hunter College. He is a Connecticut College alumnus and holds bachelor’s degrees in English and Dance.

TUCE YASAK (Lighting Design) graduated from the Department of Industrial Design at Middle East Technical University in Turkey. She is interested in site- specific performances, light installations, and architectural and urban lighting. Tuce has designed the lighting for the following productions of the feath3r theory: Color Me Warhol, Another 37 Reasons to Cry, Tropico, and Another Fucking Warhol Production.

EMILY AUCIELLO (Sound Design) is a New York based freelance sound designer. She has designed at Signature Theatre, Women's Project, HERE Arts Center, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Ohio, JACK, IRT, Under St. Marks, NY Fringe, Two River Theater Company, Delaware Theater Center, Penguin Rep, and others. Love to Alex.

AMY GERNUX (Performer) is a performer and artist living, working, thrifting, and making soap and the occasional garment in Brooklyn, NY. Since relocating from WMASS she has been in the room/on the stage with and learning from artists like Raja Feather Kelly, Bebe Miller, and Third Rail Projects. She adores, admires, and finds home with the feath3r theory.

SARA GUREVICH (Performer) is a Newburgh-based performer and choreographer. Her work has been presented at Movement Research at Judson Church, BAX Upstart Festival, Dixon Place, Movement Research’s Open Performance, Green Space, and WAXworks. She currently performs with Raja Feather Kelly’s the feath3r theory. Gurevich holds a BFA with honors from the Ailey School/Fordham University, and is currently pursuing a master's degree in Social Work. RACHEL PRITZLAFF (Performer) is a dance performer, educator, and administrator based in Astoria, NY. Rachel founded Rivertown Dance Academy in 2016, a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization dedicated to providing open access dance education in the lower Hudson Valley. Since 2013, Rachel has had the honor of collaborating and performing with the feath3r theory.

COLLIN RANF (Performer) is a 6th generation Montanan, 500 hour registered yoga teacher, home cook, and dance artist. At 13 he dropped out of out of middle school to become a ballerina, later going on to study at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School. After attaining a BFA from The University of Montana, he moved to NYC to pursue dancing. He has been a member of the feath3r theory since 2015. In addition, Collin makes his own solo dances. You can see some of them on his instagram account @collinranf. Collin is the Development Associate at Youth America Grand Prix and was a 2017/2018 Brooklyn Arts Exchange Upstart participant. More info at www. collinranf.com.

AARON MOSES ROBIN (Performer) graduated from FSU in late 2013. His first job with the feath3r theory was cleaning the floor for their performance of Drella in 2014. He was reading a book about Edie Sedgwick by Jean Stein, and Raja and he got to talking. Aaron was in the next work. Aaron also makes potions for a living. BENJAMIN WOLK (Performer) is a 31 year old married man and father to two beautiful pit-mixes. He studied Judo for 15 years before discovering dance in college. He started working with the feath3r theory in 2013 at Bates Dance Festival. Ben has appeared in three evening-length works with the feath3r theory.

–ALEX SPRINGER– XAN BURLEY + ALEX SPRINGER (ADF student 2003) are performers, creators, and teachers based in Brooklyn, NY. Since 2008, their collaborative choreography has been presented at the Dance Complex in Boston, MA, Jacob’s Pillow Inside/ Out (2017 Research Fellows), Center for Performance Research (2016 Technical/ Production Residency recipients), Danspace Project’s DraftWork series, Movement Research at the Judson Church, University Settlement (2013-14 Artists-in- Residence), Brooklyn Arts Exchange (2011 Space Grant), DANCE NOW Joe’s Pub Festival (2011 Encore Challenge Winners), the 92Y, and Triskelion Arts, among others. Last September, the two spent a month developing their work in residence at the Marble House Project in Vermont. They have created work for many university dance departments and professional companies, including Zenon Dance Company, and have been on faculty at Gibney, Mark Morris Dance Center, Bates Dance Festival, and many other programs. This spring they enjoyed teaching as artists-in-residence at the University of Maryland. Burley and Springer were members of Doug Varone and Dancers until 2017 and have performed extensively with other artists in NYC and elsewhere. Their choreography appears in the feature-length film Frances Ha (2013), and they were honored to receive the 2015 Emerging Artist Award from their alma mater, the University of Michigan. They joyfully welcomed their son, Jasper, in February of 2018 and will pursue their MFAs in Dance at Smith College starting this fall. www.theMedianMovement.com ANDY DICKERSON is an independent lighting designer working in New York City. In addition to working with Xan Burley + Alex Springer for many years, his recent credits include Vangeline Theater's Butoh Beethoven and Eclipse at the Producer's Club, Launch Movement Experiment's Cabin at Triskelion Arts, Peter Kyle Dance's Vigilance at Triskelion Arts, and Jessica Gaynor Dance's Location of Figures at Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church among many others. He also currently serves as Triskelion Arts' Co-Artistic Director and Technical Director and as a Production Manager at the New York Times' Times Center.

–JULIO MEDINA– JULIO MEDINA (ADF student 2011) is an artist from Los Angeles. His work draws from various movement styles such as breaking, Latin social dances, and modern dance, engaging mediums such as movement, film, and text. Medina studied hip- hop on the concert stage and earned his MFA at UCLA’s Department of World Arts & Cultures/Dance. Beforehand, Medina completed his BA in Dance and Movement Studies at Emory University as a Quest Bridge Scholar. While there, he was a member of StaibDance Company. In 2009, Medina founded TrickaNomeTry (TNT) Dance Crew, a hip-hop crew that continues to perform in the Atlanta community. Medina currently dances with David Rousseve/REALITY, which is set to premiere and tour new work beginning October 2018. Julio is delighted to be an Assistant Professor of Dance at California State University, Long Beach where he teaches hip- hop and modern dance. –CHAFIN SEYMOUR– CHAFIN SEYMOUR (ADF student 2010) is a native of Brooklyn, NY, whose experience in dance has been investigative and eclectic. He began his training in earnest during his high school years with Dancewave and at the Packer Collegiate Institute. He received his BFA with Distinction in Dance from The Ohio State University in 2012. During his time there he was privileged to work with such artists as Susan Hadley, Vera Blaine, and Bebe Miller. Following this he returned to his home borough and had the pleasure of performing with Dante Brown|Warehouse Dance, Ni’Ja Whitson/The NWA Project, and Anneke Hansen Dance. He is the founder of seymour::dancecollective and since 2012, has presented original work throughout NYC at the Center for Performance Research, Dixon Place, WAX Works, The Brooklyn Dance Festival, Triskelion Arts, The Current Sessions, The Secret Theater, Gibney Dance, New York Live Arts, and Movement Research at Judson Church among others. The collective works on a project-to- project basis with a rotating roster of curated artists. Chafin recently completed an MFA in Choreography from the University of Iowa where he was granted an Iowa Arts Fellowship and taught as a graduate assistant within the Department of Dance. He is once again in NYC and is continuing to make work with the collective as well as teach on the Contemporary Forms faculty at Gibney.

DAVID GLISTA, currently based out of Queens, NY, is a graduate of the Walnut Hill School and the Boston Conservatory and a current member of the Limón Dance Company. As a dancer, actor, and educator, he has enjoyed the privilege of teaching and performing internationally on four continents including a state department sponsored tour to South Africa, Zambia, and Madagascar in 2016, and most recently at the 2017 Edinburgh FRINGE Festival. Prior to joining Limón, David was a member of Prometheus Dance, the Anna Sokolow Theatre Dance Ensemble, and The People Movers. David spends his time offstage working as a freelance theater electrician and is currently a resident lighting designer at Triskelion Arts in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

CAMERON MCKINNEY is a New York City-based choreographer/dancer and is the Artistic Director of Kizuna Dance. He has performed with Christal Brown and INSPIRIT, 10 Hairy Legs, Renegade Performance Group, Chafin Seymour/ seymour::dancecollective, and Joya Powell, among others. He was recently named a Choreographic Fellow for the Alvin Ailey Foundation’s New Directions Choreography Lab, provided through generous support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. He has been commissioned twice by the School, twice by the Let’s Dance International Frontiers Festival, and by SUNY Brockport, the Men in Dance Festival, Periapsis Music and Dance, and Long Island University Brooklyn, among many others. He was recently named an Emerging Choreographer for Peridance's Choreographic Development Project. He has presented choreographic work nationally and internationally at prestigious institutions and festivals such as the Japan Society, Performatica, Serendipity and the LDIF Festival, Gibney Dance, Movement Research, Middlebury Institute for International Studies, the Boston Contemporary Dance Festival, Against the Grain/Men in Dance, the Wassaic Summer Project Festival, Middlebury College, and Nazareth College, among many others. As a professional educator, Cameron has lead workshops, masterclasses, and residencies in ten states and internationally in Japan, Mexico, and the UK. He is currently building Nagare Technique, a training module for contemporary floorwork that blends streetdance styles and contemporary dance sensibilities. Cameron is currently on faculty at Gibney Dance Center.

SEAN NEDERLOF, born in San Francisco and a graduate from University California Santa Barbara, was introduced to dance via breaking and hip hop and eventually thrived in a variety of modern techniques. As a member of UCSB's student company, he toured Italy, Greece, and the UK performing works by José Limon, Donald McKayle, Jerry Pearson, and Andrea Miller. While he values a wide movement vocabulary and strives to achieve versatility in dance, Sean’s preferred style is one that blends his modern and balletic training with his early movement origins and inspirations which include martial arts, soccer, free-running, and animal mimicry. Sean currently dances in New York City where he continues to expand the possibilities of his performance. He has worked with various companies such as H.T. Chen and Dancers, Abarukas, Alison Chase/ Performance, Kizuna Dance Company, and of course seymour::dancecollective.

Five choreographers, from a field of over 130 entries, were selected by an all ADF alumni panel (Elaine Bayless, Krystal Butler, Li Chiao-Ping, Kim Cullen, Mark Dendy, Larry Keigwin, Nicholas Leichter, Johnnie Mer- cer, Sherone Price, and Elena Slobodchikova) to participate in this his- toric program. The panel process was blinded. Selections were based on choreographic originality, merit, and performance. 2018 ADF FUND CONTRIBUTORS Includes contributions received through June 14, 2018 VISIONARY ($100,000+) PIONEER ($5,000+) Doris Duke Charitable Foundation 21c Museum Hotel Durham* Duke University Anonymous SHS Foundation Anonymous Anonymous INNOVATOR ($50,000+) Bernard Bell and Stacy Cole 315 Fund Brenda Brodie City of Durham Susan and Thomas Carson National Endowment for the Arts Tom and Nancy Carstens North Carolina Arts Council Carolina Woman Magazine+ Durham/Chapel Hill Magazine+ PRODUCER ($25,000+) Bruce and Rebecca Elvin Asian Cultural Council Susan T. 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Join Us! Post Performance Discussions (PPDs) provide a unique opportunity for patrons to meet the festival artists, ask questions, and gain insight into the creators’ work and vision. PPDs take place after select evening performances throughout the summer. Please check the calendar located in the middle of the playbill for the PPD schedule.