5 by 5 Mark Dendy Dafi Altabeb Rosie Herrera Gabrielle Revlock Brian Brooks
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Presents 5 BY 5 Mark Dendy Dafi Altabeb Rosie Herrera Gabrielle Revlock Brian Brooks Tuesday, June 28-Thursday, June 30 at 8:00pm Reynolds Industries Theater Performance: 105 minutes including intermission CARNE VIVA Choreography by Rosie Herrera in collaboration with dancers Performers Ivonne Batanero, Hannah Darrah, Nile Russell, ShaLeigh Comerford Music "Fade into you" by Mazzy Star, "Como yo te Amo" by Rocio Jurado, "Conversation with Death" by Berzilla Walli Lighting David Ferri Costumes Rosie Herrera and Gustavo Casanova Stage Manager Tiffany Schrepferman Carne Viva is commissioned by ADF with support from the Doris Duke/ SHS Foundations Award for New Dance. Additional support provided by Hilton Durham near Duke University. The development of this work was made possible through the Alan M. Kriegsman Creative Residency at Dance Place. DYSTOPIAN DISTRACTIONS! (EXCERPT) Choreographed & performed by Mark Dendy Costumes by Stephen Donovan Score C-SPAN interview Lighting David Ferri Stage Manager Dwayne Worthington “Dendy, seated downstage of the curtain, a gas mask pulled over his head, he animates an audio recording of Donald Rumsfeld; with his shoulders shuddering with every chuckle and his hands stirring and stabbing the air, he transforms a vapid interview into a riveting work of performance art.” —Elizabeth Schwyzer, Santa Barbara Independent Originally commissioned by and created at DANCEworks, Santa Barbara. Premiered April 26, 2014 – Lobero Theatre, Santa Barbara. NEVER THE LESS Choreography by Dafi Altabeb Co-Creators/Dancers Olivia Court Mesa, Yochai Ginton Costumes Ron Glait Music Miki Patish, Niko Hafkenscheid, Rotem Bar Or Photography Nini Moshe Lighting Designer Uri Morag Stage Manager Maya Lee-Parritz And despite the challenge, the doubt, the routine, I choose this every day, as though for the first time. Premiered in Curtain up festival 2012. INTERMISSION HALO Created and Performed by Gabrielle Revlock Original Music Jacob Mitas Lighting David Ferri Stage Manager Camryn Clevenger TORRENT Choreography Brian Brooks Original Music Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, "The Four Seasons" Lighting Nicole Pearce Costume Design Karen Young Dancers Matthew Albert, Dean Biosca, Daniel Ching, Carlye Eckert, Marielis Garcia, Ingrid Kapteyn, Victor Lozano, Whitney Schmanski Rehearsal Coach & Risa Steinberg Choreographic Advisor Production Manager Emily McGillicuddy Fluctuating between orderly patterns and unrestrained turbulence, Torrent sends eight dancers soaring to Max Richter’s revelatory score. Brian Brooks’ performances are made possible in part through the sponsorship of The Field, with generous support from The SHS Foundation. Torrent was originally commissioned by Juilliard Dance for New Dances: Edition 2013. The company reconstruction occurred during a Creative Residency awarded by the Joyce Theater, made possible with funding by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Music used with permission from G. Schirmer Inc., publisher and copyright owner. MARK DENDY MARK DENDY (Choreographer) has worked in a variety of genres ranging from experimental dance and edgy East Village drag to high-end Broadway productions, prominent ballet companies, and opera to large-scale site-specific works. Mark Dendy Dance & Theatre was presented at PS 122, ADF, Bates Dance Festival, The Joyce Theater, Jacob’s Pillow, Lincoln Center, Central Park SummerStage, and DTW, as well as numerous national and international venues. His commercial theater credits include choreography for Taboo and The Pirate Queen (Broadway), The Wild Party (Off Broadway), The Magic Flute (The Metropolitan Opera), Orpheus (NYC Opera), and Rappaccini’s Daughter (Gotham Chamber Opera). Mark has received several awards and honors, most notably a 1997 "Bessie" Award, a 2000 Obie Award, the National Society of Arts and Letters Sustained Achievement Award (1990), the Herb Alpert Award, and the Joe A. Calloway Award (both in 2000). His new company MARK DENDY PROJECTS was formed in 2008, with longtime collaborator Stephen Donovan, to create socially conscious dance-theater work. Works include Ritual Cyclical, at Lincoln Center Out of Doors (premiere 2013), Dystopian Distractions! DANCEworks, Lobero Theatre, Santa Barbara (premiere 2014); Labyrinth at Abrons Arts Center (premiere 2014), NEWYORKnewyork @Astor Place at Joe’s Pub (premiere 2015), and Whistleblower Dixon Place (premiere 2015). MarkDendyProjects.com DAFI ALTABEB DAFI ALTABEB (Choreographer) was born in 1976. Altabeb graduated from the Kibutzim Collage Of Education with a BEd and a Teaching Diploma, specializing in composition and EW Movement Notation. Altabeb has been a musician, dancer, and a choreographer since 2005. In 2009, she joined the Israeli Choreographers Association. Her pieces have been performed in major venues in Israel and abroad. Her pieces have premiered in major festivals in Israel such as Curtain up, Intimadance, and International Exposure and abroad at Internationale Tanzmesse Duesseldorf, Les Brigittines Centre d'Art contemporain, Bruxelles, Chang Mu International Dance Festival, Seoul, Ballet Preljocaj - Pavillion Noir, and Napoli Theater Festival (Italy), to name a few. Altabeb received the 2012 and 2013 Israeli Ministry of Culture Excellence Award for young choreographers. In 2014 she was the recipient of the Rosenblum Award for Excellence from the municipality of Tel-Aviv. Altabeb creates for dance departments in Israeli high schools and professional schools for training dancers such as Vertigo school for dancers and the Maslool Professional Dance Program in Bikurey Ha'itim in Tel Aviv, as well as composition and repertoire workshops for dance students and professional dancers in Israel and abroad. In 2014 she choreographed for an Israeli feature film presented in 2015. In 2009, Nini Moshe joined the group as a Co-Creator, Director, and Dramaturge and since then, Altabeb and Moshe have been collaborating to create the group’s pieces. They created the pieces Sensitivity to Heat, In-Dependent, and it couldnt have happened before. NINI MOSHE (Photographer) is a filmmaker, writer, director, and photographer. He graduated from the film department of the Beit Berl School of Art. He is currently working on a script for his first full-length film and for a TV documentary series based on his original idea. In 2009 he joined Dafi Dance Group and began directing in conjunction with Altabeb. He is the manager of the group, co-creator, and the official photographer. Their collaborations include Under the Carpet which premiered at the festival Curtain up in 2009 and High Expectations in 2011. In 2012 they created their first joint full-length piece Sensitivity to Heat. The piece premiered in Italy and was commissioned by the Dance and Theater Festival of Naples and by the Ravello Music Festival. It couldn't have happened before is their current co production. The piece premiered in November 2015. OLIVIA COURT MESA (Dancer) was born in Chile. At the age of 17, she moved to Europe and entered the Hochschule Für Musik und Tanz Köln in Germany to study dance and teaching. After graduation, she stayed in Cologne and worked as a freelancer with several choreographers. Olivia was a member of Oldenburg and Osnabruck dance companies in Germany. As a choreographer she has created a number of pieces that were supported by the Goethe Institute and Dock 11 in Berlin and has since performed with them in several cities and festivals. She created two pieces that premiered at Intimadance Festival in 2012 and 2013 in Tmuna. Since 2012 she has lived In Israel and is working as a freelancer dancer with various choreographers. YOCHAI GINTON (Dancer) After completing the Dancers' workshop in Kibbutz Ga'aton and The Bikkurei Ha-itim Dance School, Ginaton began working with choreographers Sally Ann Frilndr, Nimba Jaakoby, Sharona Florsheim, and Dafi Altabeb. He also collaborated with the Cameri Theatre and Klipa Theatre on the play Badenheim. He was a member of the Octet Dance Improvisation Group and participated in the Improvisation Project with Beijing Dance Company. ROSIE HERRERA ROSIE HERRERA (Choreographer) is a Cuban-American dancer and choreographer and the artistic director of Rosie Herrera Dance Theater in Miami. She is a graduate from New World School with a BFA in Dance Performance. She has been commissioned by The Miami Light Project, The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Dance Place, Maui Arts and Cultural Center, and the American Dance Festival in 2010, 2011, and 2013. She has had two residencies at ADF, recreating her work Various Stages of Drowning: A Cabaret on ADF dancers and creating a new work entitled Make Believe which is set to premiere on her company in 2017. Rosie is a classically trained lyric coloratura soprano and performs with the Performers Music Institute Opera Ensemble. She also choreographs and stages operas independently throughout Miami. She has collaborated on productions with The South Miami Dade Cultural Arts Center, New World School of the Arts, The University of Central Florida, Six Floor Ensemble, Zoetic Stage, and the New World Symphony as well as with the interdisciplinary performance ensemble/avant garde cabaret Circ X. Her company has been presented by the Northrop Dance Series, Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Texas A & M University, Duncan Theater, The Annenburg Center in Philadelphia, Gotham Dance at Skirball, and Focus Dance at The Joyce Theater in New York. Rosie is a 2010 MANCC choreographic fellow, a 2014 Bates Dance Festival