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 Artist in residence, and a 2011 Miami Dance Fellow. In 2013 she was awarded a Princess Grace Choreographic Fellowship for her work with Ballet Hispanico titled Show.Girl. The same year she was in residency with Moving Ground Dance Theater in Cleveland creating a new work titled HouseBroken. She recently premiered her first solo work, Cookie's Kid, at Miami Light Project as well as a duet with NYC based choreographer Larry Keigwin at the American Dance Festival. Rosie is a proud artistic associate of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami Dade County. IVONNE BATANERO (Dancer) is a Miami based choreographer, dancer and teacher originally born in Lima, Perú. She graduated from University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 2009 and has been working with Rosie Herrera Dance Theater since 2010. Most recently she toured to Lima, Perú to create her first dance on film and to present her latest solo work I think it’s in my belly. HANNAH DARRAH (Dancer) is originally from Durham, NC and studied modern dance at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Hannah has performed with Helen Simoneau Danse since 2014. She was a 2009 YoungArts finalist and a 2014 YoungArts Alumni Gala Performer. She is also a stop-motion clay animator and has created music videos for several bands including Merrily and the Poison Orchard, Landlady, and American Aquarium. Hannah recently released her first clay animated short film, “Trip the Light Fantastic”, which was made possible by a 2014- 2015 Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artists Grant. She currently resides in Philadelphia and her work can be viewed at hannahdarrah.com NILE H. RUSSELL (Dancer) is originally from Baltimore, MD. He received a B.A. in dance from Connecticut College, where he was fortunate enough to have the guidance of wonderful dancers and teachers such as Dan Wagoner, Lan Lan Wang, Jeff Rebudal, Robyne Watkin, David Dorfman, Eddie Taketa, and Jeremy Nelson. In 2002, Nile traveled to India to study temple and architecture studies and Bharatanatyam dance. He moved to New York in 2004, where he danced with Silver-Brown Dance, LeeSaar The Company, Luis Lara Malvacias, Stefanie Nelson Dance Group, Naganuma Dance, and co-founded CaN Dance. In 2009, Nile joined Pilobolus Dance Theater as a dancer and later became Dance Captain of the main touring company. Through Pilobolus, he has performed all over the world, taught nationwide and on three continents, and has been lucky to experience a wide range of people and cultures. Nile currently lives in Denver and has danced for Kim Robards Dance, and teaches at Denver School of the Arts, Arts Immersion, and studios throughout Denver. His work has been presented at Smith College, Dance Theater Workshop (now called New York Live Arts), Connecticut College, The Silo at Hunt Hill Farm, Denver School of the Arts, and he will be premiering a new work this summer for the Denver Arts Museum as part of their Summer Performances series. He hopes to only add to the amazing dance and arts culture of Colorado. SHALEIGH COMERFORD (Dancer) received a masters’ degree in Visual and Performing Arts from Hollins University. She trained on scholarship with the Roanoke Ballet Theatre and ADF and continued training in NYC and at P.A.R.T.S in Brussels, Belgium. In addition, Comerford was personally invited to train in the Gaga movement language with Ohad Naharin and the Batsheva Dance Company in Tel Aviv, Israel. Comerford performed and toured principal roles with the Roanoke Ballet Theatre from 2000 to 2004. She relocated to NYC in the fall of 2005 where she performed as a member of Tina Croll & Company and apprenticed with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company.Comerford left New York in 2009 to perform leading roles with the Virginia Ballet Academy. Comerford has also performed guest roles with Keigwin + Company, Dendy Dance Theater, Carolina Ballet, and Martha Clarke as well as in a restaging of Batsheva Dance Company’s Minus Sixteen and the official music video for “Blind” by Christian Loffler. Comerford continues to teach, perform, and choreograph internationally with Cirque USA, Input Place, and ShaLeigh Dance Works. GABRIELLE REVLOCK GABRIELLE REVLOCK (Performer/Dance-Maker) is known for her signature work with the hoop and her slapstick-feminist collaborations with Nicole Bindler. Her work has been supported by a Fresh Tracks residency at New York Live Arts, a LAB Fellowship through FringeArts, The Independence Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, SCUBA National Touring Network for Dance, The Puffin Foundation, Susan Hess Choreographers’ Project, Omi International Arts Center, Philadelphia- Budapest Exchange, Philadelphia-Poland Exchange, and The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. In 2011 she won a finalist prize at The A.W.A.R.D. Show: Philadelphia. Her work has been presented nationally at FringeArts (Philadelphia), New York Live Arts, Omi International Arts Center (Ghent, NY), The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (Philadelphia), Joyce SoHo, Temple University (Philadelphia), Bryn Mawr College, Gibney Dance Center (NYC), Vox Populi Gallery (Philadelphia), JACK (NYC), Center for Performance Research (NYC), Joe's Pub at The Public Theater (NYC), Kelly Strayhorn Theater (Pittsburgh, PA), 171 Cedar Arts Center (Corning, NY), Dance Place, (Washington, DC), ODC (San Francisco), Velocity Dance Center (Seattle), and Abrons Art Center (NYC). Festivals include the Provincetown Dance Festival, Performance Mix Festival (NYC), newMoves (Pittsburgh, PA), Chop Shop (Seattle), and the Seattle International Dance Festival. Internationally she has performed in the Na Grani Contemporary Dance Festival (Yekaterinburg, RU), Whenever Wherever Festival (Tokyo, JP), Yokohama Dance Collection (JP), Trafó (Budapest, HU), and Korzo (the Hague, NL). Gabrielle has danced for Lucinda Childs and Susan Rethorst and is a company member with Jane Comfort & Company. Interested in bridging experimentation and populism, she created the online video So You Think You Can’t Understand Contemporary Dance?, a two-minute conversation with her favorite five-year-old. www.GabrielleRevlock.com BRIAN BROOKS Choreographer BRIAN BROOKS has recently been appointed as the inaugural Choreographer in Residence at Chicago's Harris Theater for Music and Dance. This innovative three-year fellowship supports several commissions for Brooks each season with the first year featuring Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Miami City Ballet, as well as his own New York-based group. Brooks is the recipient of a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship. Other recent awards include a NY City Center Fellowship and The Joyce Theater’s Artist Residency. His dance group has toured nationally and internationally since 2002 with recent presentations by the American Dance Institute at The Kitchen, The Joyce Theater, Jacob’s Pillow, the American Dance Festival, BAM’s 2013 Next Wave Festival, NY City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival, the Guggenheim Museum, Dance Theater Workshop, Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival and the 92nd Street Y Harkness Festival. The American Dance Institute, where Brooks is a member of the Artist Advisory Board, has presented his company three times and supported him with two Incubator Production Residencies. Brooks has been commissioned by Damian Woetzel at the Vail International Dance Festival to create three new works featuring dancers from NYC Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet, including First Fall, in which Brooks dances with former NY City Ballet Principal Dancer Wendy Whelan. He is currently creating a full production that he will perform together with Whelan beginning in the summer of 2016. Theatre for a New Audience has invited Brooks to choreograph two Off-Broadway Shakespeare productions – A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2013), directed by Julie Taymor, and Pericles (2016), directed by Trevor Nunn. Brooks has created new dances at schools including The Juilliard School, The Boston Conservatory, The School at Jacob’s Pillow, Harvard University, and most recently, for 35 students at Eliot Feld’s Ballet Tech The New York City Public School for Dance. He dedicated 12 years as a Teaching Artist of Dance at the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education and has been on the part-time faculties of both Rutgers University and Princeton University. www.brianbrooks.us MATTHEW ALBERT (Dancer) was born and raised in Maywood, NJ. He attended the Bergen County Academy for Visual and Performing Arts, where he graduated in 2009 with a concentration in acting. In 2012, he received his BFA in Dance from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Matthew has performed works by Kate Weare, Christopher Williams, Wally Cardona, Seán Curran, Sydney Skybetter, and Deborah Jowitt. He is the co-founder of The Yomoco, a production company that he uses as a platform for artistic projects, and can also be found performing in Third Rail Projects' immersive show The Grand Paradise. DEAN BIOSCA (Dancer) began his formal dance training in high school at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts under the direction of Ethan Stiefel. He went on to receive his BFA from The Juilliard School this past spring. Dean has worked with choreographers Aszure Barton, Kate Weare, Jonah Bokaer, Camille A. Brown, Doug Elkins, and Maurya Kerr and has performed repertory by José Limón, Merce Cunningham, Twyla Tharp, Alwin Nikolais, Mark Morris, and Ohad Naharin. Dean was also a scholarship recipient at the American Dance Festival in 2011 and 2012 where he performed new creations by Martha Clarke and Jodi Melnick. Professionally, Dean has performed as part of the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company and has performed the work of Brian Brooks at venues such as the The Joyce Theater and the Harris Theater. Mr. Biosca is excited to join the Ballett des Saarländischen Staatstheaters for their upcoming 2016-17 season. DANIEL CHING (Dancer) began his dance training at 17 at the Mid-Pacific School of the Arts in Honolulu, HI. He studied politics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa as a Regents scholar and economics at Pomona College, before transferring to Juilliard, where he decided to quit academia forever so that he could focus on making art. He has performed works by Jiri Kylian, Ohad Naharin, Merce Cunningham, and others. An avid choreographer, Daniel has presented his own work at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, National Young Arts Week, and Juilliard’s annual Choreographic Honors Showcases. CARLYE ECKERT (Dancer) has worked and collaborated with Tino Sehgal, Jonah Bokaer, Jack Ferver, Luke Murphy Dance, Yara Travieso, Lucie Baker, The Equus Projects, and Boris Charmatz/Musee de la Dance and has appeared as a guest dance artist with Aszure Barton and Artists and Keigwin+Company. She has performed with choreographer Brian Brooks since 2013. Ms. Eckert's choreography has been presented on the West Coast, NYC, and upstate New York. Since 2011, Ms. Eckert has produced and curated STUFFED: Dinner and Dance, a free performance series at Judson Memorial Church in NYC. www.carlyeeckert.com MARIELIS GARCIA (Dancer) was born in NYC. She received her BFA in Dance from Marymount Manhattan College. Marielis has had the opportunity to work with Johannes Wieland, Robert Battle, Larry Keigwin, Benoit-Swan Pouffer, Andrea Miller, and Shannon Gillen. Professionally she has danced with ODC of San Francisco, City Dance Ensemble and Stefanie Battan Bland. Along with performing in the work of Brian Brooks, Marielis currently dances with Peter Kyle Dance. Her teaching and commissions have been requested by Appalachian State University, Salem College, Howard Community College, and the University of North Carolina. Marielis teaches at Steps On Broadway and in NYC public schools. INGRID KAPTEYN (Dancer) Since graduating from Juilliard with the Martha Hill Prize in 2013, Ingrid has performed in Martha Clarke and Alfred Uhry’s Angel Reapers at The Signature Theater, in Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More NYC, at The Metropolitan Opera, and with Wally Cardona. She has taught throughout North America and Iceland, including with FRESH Dance Intensive and at Princeton and Bucknell Universities, and she serves as the Assistant to the Artistic Director of Springboard Danse Montréal. In January 2014 she cofounded HEWMAN, an artists’ collective that mounts collaborative installations in unconventional venues and has performed with choreographer Brian Brooks since April 2014. VICTOR LOZANO (Dancer) is a native of Houston, TX where he began dancing at the Houston Metropolitan Dance Center. He continued his education in New York and graduated from The Juilliard School with a BFA in Dance. Victor has performed repertory works by José Limón, Twyla Tharp, Merce Cunningham, Ohad Naharin, and Lar Lubovitch and new works by Fernando Melo, Camille A. Brown, Brian Brooks, Kate Weare, Kyle Abraham, and Pam Tanowitz. Victor is a 2012 YoungArts Finalist in Dance and a 2016 recipient of Juilliard’s Career Advancement Fellowship. WHITNEY SCHMANSKI (Dancer), is a recent graduate of The Juilliard School and is enthusiastic about exploring the profound connections between the mind and body. Whitney has studied at various programs and institutions including Springboard Danse Montréal, Movement Invention Project, Cedar Lake Ballet, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, and LINES Ballet. She has performed renowned repertoire of Merce Cunningham, Alexander Ekman, Eliot Feld, Jiří Kylián, José Limón, Ohad Naharin, and Didy Veldman. Whitney has performed at New York City Center, BAM Fisher Hall, Hudson Valley Dance Festival, and Chicago Dancing Festival. Whitney is also pursuing entrepreneurial interests alongside the spheres of dance science/ kinesiology and Dance/Movement Therapy. EMILY MCGILLICUDDY (Production Manager) is a New York based Production Manager and Stage Manager. She has managed shows in NYC and across the country with Keigwin + Company, Karen Sherman, Jennifer Muller/The Works, Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel, Nai Ni Chen, Liz Gerring, Satoshi Haga, and VIA Dance and is happy to once again be working with BBMC. She has toured the world with Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo and is a graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts. KAREN YOUNG (Costume Design) has designed costumes for numerous dance and contemporary video art works and has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In addition to her work with Brian Brooks, she has designed costumes for Wendy Whelan's Restless Creature, the Martha Graham Dance Company, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theater, Kyle Abraham, Armitage Gone! Dance, Pam Tanowitz, Elisa Monte, and Larry Keigwin, among many others. Costume design for video art includes David Michalek’s Slow Dancing, Matthew Barney's Cremaster 5 and Cremaster 1, and Eve Sussman’s 89 Seconds at Alcazar and The Rape of the Sabine Women. Recent projects include Third Rail Projects highly acclaimed immersive shows Then She Fell and The Grand Paradise, Doug Elkin's The Weight of Smoke for the Paul Taylor Dance Company, and Alejandro Cerrudo's Sleeping Beauty for Ballett Basel. www.karenyoungcostume.com

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Brian Brooks extends his personal gratitude to Jodee Nimerichter and the entire staff at the American Dance Festival. Thank you, also, to the dancers performing this piece: Matthew, Carlye, Marielis, Ingrid, Daniel, Dean, Victor, and Whitney, and to Risa Steinberg, for your continued guidance and excellence!

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CONTACT We’d love to hear from you! Contact us at [email protected] Presents BILL T. JONES/ ARNIE ZANE COMPANY

CO-FOUNDER & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Bill T. Jones Janet Wong FEATURING

THE COMPANY Antonio Brown Rena Butler Cain Coleman, Jr. Talli Jackson Shane Larson I-Ling Liu Jenna Riegel Christina Robson Carlo Antonio Villanueva

MUSIC PERFORMED BY Nick Hallett Matthew Gamble

PRODUCTION STAFF Hillery Makatura Stacey Boggs* Veronica Falborn Sam Crawford * Member of the United Scenic Artists Union (USA)

Friday, July 1 at 8:00pm Saturday, July 2 at 7:00pm Durham Performing Arts Center

Performance: 75 minutes without intermission ANALOGY/LANCE: PRETTY AKA THE ESCAPE ARTIST (2016) Conceived and Directed by Bill T. Jones Choreography by Bill T. Jones with Janet Wong and the Company Text Based on an oral history conducted by Bill T. Jones with Lance T. Briggs Written by Bill T. Jones and Adrian Silver Original Score Composed by Nick Hallett Décor by Bjorn Amelan Lighting Design by Robert Wierzel* Costume Design by Liz Prince Projection Design by Janet Wong Sound Design by Sam Crawford Dramaturgy by Adrian Silver * Member of the United Scenic Artists Union (USA) Musical excerpts and samples: Bad Boy by Luther Vandross, Sam Cooke, and William Miller used by permission of ABKCO Music and Records, Inc.. Coffee Pot (Time for the Percolator) by Curtis Alan Jones used by permission of Cajual Music. C.U.N.T. by Robbie Tronco Cook used by permission of the Music Sales Group and Johnick Music. Greatest Love of All by Michael Masser and Linda Creed used by permission of Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. Shame by John Henry Fitch Jr. and Rueben Cross used by permission of Warner Chappell Music. Work This Pussy by JP Wilkerson used by permission of JP Wilkerson. Nachtstück, Alinde and Nähe des Geliebten by Franz Schubert. Joan Come Kiss Me Now by Thomas Ravenscroft. With original songs by Lance T. Briggs, composed by Nick Hallett. Analogy/Lance: Pretty aka the Escape Artist is commissioned by ADF with support from the Doris Duke/SHS Foundations Award for New Dance. Additional support provided by The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation. Co-commissioned by Dancers’ Workshop and the Executive Director’s Fund at The Joyce Theater Foundation. Analogy: A Trilogy is produced by New York Live Arts. The development of new works by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company is made possible by the Company’s Partners in Creation: Anne Delaney, Zoe Eskin, Eleanor Friedman, and Carol Tolan. Support is also provided by the Ford Foundation, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, the O'Donnell- Green Music and Dance Foundation, the Jerome Robbins Foundation, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation and the Shubert Foundation. Rehearsed and developed at Dancers’ Workshop in Jackson Hole, WY, The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College, SUNY, and Bard College. Special thanks to Lance T. Briggs, Johari Briggs, and Caymichael Patten. PROGRAM NOTES In 2014, Lance T. Briggs, born in 1970, began an oral history project with his uncle, Bill T. Jones. He is currently in recovery after having lost the use of his lower limbs due to certain medical circumstances not quite understood. He is at present writing a musical about his life, titled Welcome to the Pretty Show. COMPANY HISTORY Over the past 34 years the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company has shaped the evolution of contemporary dance through the creation and performance of over 140 works. Founded as a multicultural dance company in 1982, the company was born of an 11-year artistic collaboration between Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane. Today, the company is recognized as one of the most innovative and powerful forces in the modern dance world. The company has performed its ever-enlarging repertoire worldwide in over 200 cities in 30 countries on every major continent. In 2011, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company merged with Dance Theater Workshop to form New York Live Arts of which Bill T. Jones is the Artistic Director. The repertory of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company is widely varied in its subject matter, visual imagery, and stylistic approach to movement, voice and stagecraft and includes musically driven works as well as works using a variety of texts. Some of its most celebrated creations are evening length works including Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land (1990, Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music); Still/ Here (1994, Biennale de la Danse in Lyon, France); We Set Out Early… Visibility Was Poor (1996, Hancher Auditorium, Iowa City, IA); You Walk? (2000, European Capital of Culture 2000,Bolgna, Italy); Blind Date (2006, Peak Performances at Montclair State University); Chapel/Chapter (2006, Harlem Stage Gatehouse); Fondly Do We Hope… Fervently Do We Pray (2009, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park, IL);Another Evening: Venice/ Arsenale (2010, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy); Story/Time (2012, Peak Performances); and A Rite (2013, Carolina Performing Arts at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill). The company is also currently touring Body Against Body, an intimate and focused collection of duet works drawn from the company’s 33-year history. BILL T. JONES (Artistic Director/Co-Founder/Choreographer: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company; Artistic Director: New York Live Arts) is the recipient of the 2014 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award; the 2013 National Medal of Arts; the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors; a 2010 Tony Award for Best Choreography of the critically acclaimed FELA!; a 2007 Tony Award, 2007 Obie Award, and 2006 Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation CALLAWAY Award for his choreography for Spring Awakening; the 2010 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award; the 2007 USA Eileen Harris Norton Fellowship; the 2006 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreography for The Seven; the 2005 Wexner Prize; the 2005 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement; the 2005 Harlem Renaissance Award; the 2003 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize; and the 1994 MacArthur “Genius” Award. In 2010, Mr. Jones was recognized as Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government, and in 2000, the Dance Heritage Coalition named Mr. Jones “An Irreplaceable Dance Treasure.” Mr. Jones choreographed and performed worldwide with his late partner, Arnie Zane, before forming the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company in 1982. He has created more than 140 works for his company. Mr. Jones is the Artistic Director of New York Live Arts, an organization that strives to create a robust framework in support of the nation’s dance and movement-based artists through new approaches to producing, presenting, and educating. For more information visit www.newyorklivearts.org. ARNIE ZANE (Co-Founder/Choreographer) (1948-1988) was a native New Yorker born in the Bronx and educated at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton. In 1971, Arnie Zane and Bill T. Jones began their long collaboration in choreography and in 1973 formed the American Dance Asylum in Binghamton with Lois Welk. Mr. Zane’s first recognition in the arts came as a photographer when he received a Creative Artists Public Service (CAPS) Fellowship in 1973. Mr. Zane was the recipient of a second CAPS Fellowship in 1981 for choreography, as well as two Choreographic Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1983 and 1984). In 1980, Mr. Zane was co-recipient, with Bill T. Jones, of the German Critics Award for his work,Blauvelt Mountain. Rotary Action, a duet with Mr. Jones, was filmed for television, co-produced by WGBH- TV Boston and Channel 4 in London. COMPANY PROFILES ANTONIO BROWN (Dancer), a native of Cleveland, OH, began his dance training at the Cleveland School of the Arts and received his BFA from The Juilliard School in 2007 under the direction of Lawrence Rhodes. While there, he performed works by Ohad Naharin, José Limón, Jiri Kylian, Eliot Feld, Aszure Barton, Jessica Lang, Susan Marshall and Larry Keigwin, among others. Mr. Brown has also worked with Malcolm Low/Formal Structure, Stephen Pier, Nilas Martins Dance Company, Sidra Bell Dance New York, and Camille A. Brown & Dancers. In addition to working with the company, Mr. Brown also performs with Gregory Dolbashian's The Dash Ensemble and has choreographed for Verb Ballets, August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble, Perry Mansfield Performing Arts School and Camp, and various other companies, schools, and intensives across the United States. Mr. Brown’s company, Antonio Brown Dance, has shown work at The Juilliard School, Center for Performance Research, NYC Summer Stage, Riverside Church and Hunter College among others. Antonio is also a founding member of Elephant Room, a collective of theater artists. Mr. Brown joined the company in 2007 and is grateful to share his gifts and talents with the world. RENA BUTLER (Dancer) Rena Butler is a native of Chicago, IL. She has danced with Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion, David Dorfman Dance, Mettin Movement, as a guest artist with Luna Negra Dance Theater, and for Manuel Vignoulle-M/Motions. She has been featured in FORMA magazine, Refinery29.com, The Dance Enthusiast, Jordan Matter's Dancers Among Us, and Dance Magazine. She began her studies at The Chicago Academy for the Arts, studied overseas at Taipei National University of the Arts, and received her BFA from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance. Her choreographic work has been featured on the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater School's BFA students, The Joffrey Ballet School in New York, in the Young Choreographer's Festival in NYC, and CHTV Stories television program in Switzerland. Rena is a dancer, artistic collaborator, and choreographer based in New York. She is supremely grateful to be a member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company. CAIN COLEMAN, JR. (Dancer) started his dance training in high school at The Center for The Arts at Henrico High. He later joined The City Dance Theatre of Richmond, VA. After training at the Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase, he began dancing with Philadanco and the Martha Graham Dance Company. He has performed works by Paul Taylor, George Balanchine, Martha Graham, Talley Beatty, George Fazon, Christopher Huggins, Ray Mercer, and many more. He has been seen on Good Morning America, Good Morning New York and So You Think you Can Dance. As an emerging choreographer he has presented works at Purchase College, Regional Dance Association, The Girl Effect Project, and Bare Bones Dance Project and has produced a few of his own shows. Mr. Coleman joined the company in 2014. TALLI JACKSON (Dancer) was born and raised in Liberty, NY. He received his first training with Livia Vanaver at the Vanaver Caravan Dance Institute in upstate New York. He has been a recipient of full scholarships from the American Dance Festival in ‘06 and ’08, the Bates Dance Festival, and the Ailey School. Since moving to New York City in 2006, Mr. Jackson has had the pleasure of working with Francesca Harper, Paul Matteson and Erick Montes. In 2013, Mr. Jackson was honored with a Princess Grace Award in dance and was nominated for a Clive Barnes Award. He has been a member of the company since 2009. SHANE LARSON (Dancer) was born and raised in Minnesota, where he received his training at the St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists. He graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Dance and a minor in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Studies. During his time in New York City, he has branched out to collaborate with punk musicians, filmmakers, improvisational music ensembles, and site-specific visual artists. He also had the opportunity to study at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance in Austria, where he was exposed to the expanse of the European contemporary dance scene. With a new outlook on the limitless possibilities and pathways of the body, he hopes to continue the exploration of dance with a sense of newness and discovery. Shane joined the company in 2015. I-LING LIU (Dancer), a native of Taiwan, received her BFA from Taipei National University of the Arts in 2005. She has performed with Ku and Dancers, Taipei Crossover Dance Company, Image in Motion Theater Company, and Neo-Classic Dance Company and in works by Trisha Brown, Lin Hwai-Min and Yang Ming-Lung. Ms. Liu joined the Company as an apprentice in 2007 and became a member of the company in 2008. JENNA RIEGEL (Dancer), a native of Fairfield, IA, has been a New York- based dancer, performer, and teacher since 2007. Ms. Riegel holds an MFA in Dance Performance from the University of Iowa and a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Maharishi University of Management. She has performed and toured nationally and internationally as a company member of David Dorfman Dance, Alexandra/Beller Dances, Bill Young/ Colleen Thomas & Dancers, Johannes Weiland, and Tania Isaac Dance. Ms. Riegel began working with the company as a guest artist in 2010 and was ecstatic to join the Company in 2011. CHRISTINA ROBSON (Dancer), originally from Tewksbury, MA, received her early dance training from Tammy Ivers Aspell and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Roger Williams University in 2009 under the direction of mentor Kelli Wicke Davis. Since relocating to New York City, she has had the opportunity to perform with The Sean Curran Company, David Dorfman Dance, Monica Bill Barnes and Company, Alexandra Beller, Heidi Henderson, Third Rail Projects, and Deganit Shemy. Christina became a member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company in 2015. CARLO ANTONIO VILLANUEVA (Dancer) was born and raised in Wallington, NJ. He received his primary movement training from Scott Chandler and TJ Doucette while touring with the Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps of Concord, CA. He received his BFA summa cum laude from Mason Gross School of the Arts, studied dance abroad at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, and continues his training in classes and workshops provided by the Merce Cunningham Trust. Mr. Villanueva has served as a company member of 10 Hairy Legs and collaborates continuously with Kyle Marshall and Miriam Gabriel. His choreography has appeared at the Your Move Dance Festival, Movement Research at the Judson Church, and the Gertrud Kraus Choreography Competition in Jerusalem. Carlo Antonio joined the company in 2015. BJORN G. AMELAN (Creative Director) was the partner of the late fashion designer Patrick Kelly from 1983 until Mr. Kelly passed away on January 1, 1990. Mr. Amelan moved to the United States to begin his collaboration with Bill T. Jones in 1993. He has designed sets for the following works by Bill T. Jones: Green and Blue (1997) for the Lyon Opera Ballet; How! Do! We! Do! (1999) for Bill T. Jones and Jessye Norman, in conjunction with the Lincoln Center’s Great Performers Show (1999), You Walk? (2000), The Table Project (2001), Another Evening (2002), Verbum (2002), World Without/In (2002), Black Suzanne (2002), Reading, Mercy and The Artificial Nigger (2003), Mercy 10 x 8 on a Circle (2003), Chaconne (2003) and Blind Date (2005) for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company. Mr. Amelan is the recipient of the 2001 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for his designs of The Breathing Show and The Table Project. STACEY BOGGS (Lighting Director) is a New York based lighting designer whose works include Theatre Three’s The Diary of Anne Frank, CAT’s Inside/Out, 651’s Soundtrack 63, Waterwell’s Marco Millions (based on lies), The|King|Operetta, #9, and I Love a Piano (national tour). She has designed with choreographers Robert Moses, Troy Powell, Christopher Wheeldon, and Mina Yoo. She has worked as a Lighting Supervisor for The Wooster Group and as the Technical and Lighting Director for Ailey II. She has worked at Glimmerglass Opera, Florida Grand Opera, and Michigan Opera Theater. Stacey has designed the lighting for many window displays in the New York City area. She graduated from NYU’s Graduate Design program in 2005. Stacey joined the company in 2013. HANNAH EMERSON (Company Manager) completed her B.F.A. in Contemporary Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 2011. While enrolled, she studied with and was selected to perform works by many respected dance artists. She moved to NYC shortly after being awarded the William R. Kenan, Jr. Fellowship at the Lincoln Center Institute. Choosing to remain in the northeast, she has held administrative positions at New York Live Arts and The Yard while continuing to be artistically involved in the dance community. Ms. Emerson joined the company in 2014. VERONICA FALBORN (Production Stage Manager) is incredibly excited to be working with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company. Other dance credits include The New York City Ballet, School of American Ballet, Trisha Brown Dance Company, Vail International Dance Festival, Dances Patrelle, and NJ Ballet. She is a proud graduate of SUNY Purchase. HILLERY MAKATURA (Production Manager) graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University with a B.F.A. in Theater. She has been touring both internationally and throughout the U.S. since 2006. She has worked as production manager for The Actors Studio, Big Art Group, Theater Mitu and Trisha Brown Dance Company. KYLE MAUDE (Producing Director) graduated from Drake University with a B.F.A. in Theater. She has worked with Ballet Tech/Feld Ballets New York, The Royal Ballet School of London, Buglisi-Foreman Dance, and Lesbian Pulp-o-Rama! Ms. Maude joined the company in 2003. LIZ PRINCE (Costume Designer) designs costumes for dance, theater and film and has had the great pleasure of designing for Bill T. Jones since 1991. Her work has been exhibited at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 2011 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Space and Design, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Rockland Center for the Arts and Snug Harbor Cultural Center. She received a 1990 New York Dance and Performance Award ("BESSIE") and a 2008 Charles Flint Kellogg Arts and Letters Award from Bard College. She teaches costume design at SUNY Purchase College and Manhattanville College. ROBERT WIERZEL (Lighting Designer) has worked with artists in theater, dance, new music, opera and museums, and on stages throughout the country and abroad. He has worked with choreographer Bill T. Jones and his company since 1985. Projects include Blind Date, Another Evening/I Bow Down, Still/Here, You Walk?, Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land, How To Walk An Elephant, and We Set Out Early, Visibility Was Poor. Other works with Bill T. Jones include projects at the Guthrie Theatre, Lyon Opera Ballet, Deutsche Opera Ballet (Berlin), Boston Ballet, Boston Lyric Opera, the Welsh dance company Diversions, and London’s Contemporary Dance Trust. Robert has also worked with choreographers Trisha Brown, Doug Varone, Donna Uchizono, Larry Goldhuber, Heidi Latsky, Sean Curran, Molissa Fenley, Susan Marshall, Margo Sappington, Alonzo King and Joann Fregalette-Jansen. Additional credits include national and international opera companies, Broadway, and regional theater. Mr. Wierzel is currently on the faculty of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and The Yale School of Drama. JANET WONG (Associate Artistic Director/Projection Designer) was born in Hong Kong and trained in Hong Kong and London. Upon graduation she joined the Berlin Ballet where she first met Bill when he was invited to choreograph on the company. In 1993, she moved to New York to pursue other interests. Ms. Wong became Rehearsal Director of the Company in 1996 and Associate Artistic Director in August 2006. COLLABORATOR PROFILES NICK HALLETT (Composer) has been writing music for and performing with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company since 2014. His scores include Analogy/Dora, A Letter to my Nephew, and Fishkill/Movements 1-45. He is a New York-based composer, vocalist, and cultural producer creating between the worlds of music, art, and performance. Recent presentations of his work include the Palais de Tokyo, Mass MoCA, Ecstatic Music Festival at Kaufman Music Center, Centro de Experimentación Teatro Colón, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and The Public Theater/Joe’s Pub. Hallett’s first opera, co-authored with artist Shana Moulton, Whispering Pines 10, has been staged at The Kitchen, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Carolina Performing Arts, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art's TBA Festival, Cricoteka (Poland), and The Warhol Museum, among others. Hallett and Moulton were awarded a Creative Capital grant to adapt their project for the internet. Since 2007, Hallett has served as Music Director of the Joshua Light Show, a team of artists that creates cinematic projections to live music, and—since 2004—as co-director of NYC's celebrated Darmstadt series, which supports the performance of music and art from the experimental canon. MATTHEW GAMBLE (Baritone) American baritone Matthew Gamble has established himself as an artist of rare versatility, while his young career continues to grow with theaters in both North America and Europe. Recent and future engagements include debuts with the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen, Lorin Maazel’s Castleton Festival, Princeton Festival, Phoenicia Festival of the Voice, and the Connecticut Lyric Opera and a collaboration as the baritone soloist with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company in the development of two new works: Analogy/Lance, and A Letter to My Nephew/Lance, projects that have included residencies at Bard College and Montclair State University, with engagements in France, New York, Boston, Wyoming, North Carolina and many others into 2016 and beyond. Matthew has studied with Joan Dornemann at IVAI in New York, Martina Arroyo’s Prelude to Performance, noted coach Ira Siff, and acclaimed tenor Richard Margison in Toronto, Canada. Roles include Mozart's Count Almaviva, Papageno, and Don Giovanni, Mr. Ford in Verdi's Falstaff, multiple Puccini roles, Luther/Schlemiel in L'Contes D'Hoffmann, Mr. Gobineau in Menotti's The Medium, multiple roles in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, and Smirnov in William Walton's The Bear. ADRIAN SILVER (Dramaturg) is a freelance dance dramaturg and writer, currently working with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, Pontus Lidberg, and Colleen Thomas. He has also worked with Karin Coonrod as movement director and Martha Clarke as assistant director. His translations from Yiddish have been supported by Target Margin Theater, NYSCA, and The National Yiddish Book Center. He holds a BA in English from Colby College and an MFA in Dramaturgy from Columbia. STAFF LISTS NEW YORK LIVE ARTS Artistic Leadership Bill T. Jones, Artistic Director Executive Leadership Kim Cullen, Executive Director & CEO Director of Programs Tommy O. Kreigsmann Board of Directors Stephen Hendel, Co-Chair Richard H. Levy, Co-Chair Helen Haje, Vice Chair Slobodan Randjelovic, Vice Chair Helen Mills, Treasurer Terence Dougherty, Secretary Bjorn Amelan Sarah Arison Bill T. Jones Colleen Keegan Matthew Putman Alanna Rutherford Jane Bovingdon Semel Catharine R. Stimpson David Thomson Kweli Washington Derek Brown, Board Emeritus

STAFF Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company Janet Wong, Associate Artistic Director Bjorn G. Amelan, Creative Director Kyle Maude, Producing Director Hillery Makatura, Production Manager Stacey Boggs, Lighting Director Veronica Falborn, Production Stage Manager Hannah Emerson, Company Manager Sam Crawford, Sound Supervisor Robert Wierzel, Resident Lighting Designer Liz Prince, Resident Costume Designer Bill Katz, Artistic Consultant Programming, Producing, and Engagement Isabella Hreljanovic, Producing Manager Rakia Seaborn, Associate Artist Program Manager Production Teresa Benavente, Production Manager Michael Zimmerman, Technical Director Lauren Libretti, Lighting Supervisor Development David Archuletta,Chief Development Officer Janet Oh, Institutional Giving Manager Jessica Sonders, Individual Giving and Special Events Manager Alexandra Burke, Development & Membership Associate Marketing & Public Relations Liliana Dirks-Goodman, Director of Marketing and Design Tyler Ashley, Executive and Communications Assistant Shantelle Jackson, Studio Rental and Marketing Finance Nupur Dey, Interim Director of Finance & Human Resources Audience Services Renee Colbert, Audience Services Manager Tony Carlson, House Manager Tony Carlson, Tyra Jackson, Sarah Lass, Samantha Lysaght, Denisa Musilova, Eli Tomondong, Nehemoyia Young, Front of House Staff Consultants Marcum LLP, Certified Public Accounts, Inc Heidi Riegler of Riegler Media & Marketing, Social Media/Marketing Larry Kopp, Rida Bint Fozi and Kaitlin Stewart of the TASC Group, Press Ian Douglass, Photographer Lowenstein Sandler, PC, Pro-Bono Counsel

Located in the heart of Chelsea in New York City, New York Live Arts is an internationally recognized destination for innovative movement-based artistry offering audiences access to art and artists notable for their conceptual rigor, formal experimentation and active engagement with the social, political and cultural currents of our times. At the center of its identity is Bill T. Jones, world-renowned choreographer, dancer, theater director and writer. New York Live Arts serves as the home base for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and is the company’s sole producer, providing support and the environment to originate innovation and challenging new work for the company and the NYC creative community. New York Live Arts produces and presents dance, music, and theater performances in its 20,000 square foot home, which includes a 184-seat theater and two 1,200 square foot studios that can be combined into one large studio. New York Live Arts offers an extensive range of participatory programs for adults and young people and supports the continuing professional development of artists and commissions.

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