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OPENING NIGHT Thursday, October 25, 1979 at 7:00 P.M.

THE CHINESE CONJUROR (from PARADE - 1917) danced by GARY CHRYST

Choreography Leonide Marine Musk Erik Satie Costume Design Pablo Picasso Lighting Design Richard Nelson

arrangement with C. Schirmer, Inc., agent for Editions Salabert, Paris. publisher and copyrighter.

SOLO danced by VIOLA FARBER

Choreography Viola Farber Lighting Design Richard Nelson

THE ATTIC WINDOW (after LE SPECTRE DE LA ROSE and L'APRES-MIDI D'UIV FAURE)

danced by JAMES CUNNINGHAM and TERRY CREACH

Test and Choreography James Cunningham Director Barbara Ellmann Costume Design Barbara Ellmann Set Design Susan Sons Lighting Design Raymond J. Dooley Costume Execution Rosy Wright Set Execution Susan Sons and Susan M. Wood

"Always keep an attic window open. Not cracked, but open." William James © 1979, James Cunningham. All rights reserved.

Intermission

SHIZEN danced by ALISON CHASE and MOSES PENDLETON Choreography Alison Chase and Moses Pendleton Music Riley Lee Lighting Design Neil Jampolis

Pilobolus Theatre's SHIZEN was commissioned by the American Dance Festival, THE BLUE DANUBE danced by ANNABELLE GAMSON

Choreography Isadore Duncan Music Johann Strauss Lighting Design Richard Nelson Friday, October 26, 1979 at 8:00 P.M.

A PROGRAM OF TO RUSSIAN MUSIC BERNARD ROSE, Pianist Richard Nelson, Lighting Designer

HOMMAGE A SCRIABIN (New York Premiere) danced by NAOMI SORKIN Choreography Anna Soko low Musk Alexander Scriabin Poeme, Op. 32, No. 1 Fragilite, Opus 51, No. 1 Etude, Opus 8, No. 12 Costume Design A. Christina Giannini

TWO DANCES (Wend Premiere) danced by MARTINE VAN HAMEL Choreography Annabelle Gamson Music Alexander Scriabin Opus 73, Guirlandes Flammes Sombres

PRELUDES FOR TWO (World Premiere) danced by GARY CHRYST and CHRISTIAN HOLDER Choreography Christian Holder Music Sergei Rachmaninoff Opus 32, No. 1 Opus 23, Nos. 4, 7, 8 Costume Design Christian Holder

PRELUDES FOR TWO has been especially commissioned for these programs. The piano used in this concert is Bittendorfes Grand piano. t o u r of Jack Kahn Music and Kimball International, Inc.

Intermission

SYMPHONY NO. 6 "PATHETIQUE" (Dance created circa 1916) (New York Premiere) danced by ANNABELLE GAMSON

Choreography Isadore Duncan Music Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Second movement: Allegro con grazia Third movement: Allegro molto vivace Fourth movement: Adagio lamentoso

(There will be a short pause between movements)

This is one of Isadore Duncan's major anti- solos. The fourth movement is based on Dun.n's choreography but developed by me. I thank Julia Levi. for having taught me these dances and for having shared with me her invaluable insights. -Annabelle Gamson Saturday, October 27, 1979 at 8:00 P.M. THE CHINESE CONJUROR (from PARADE - 1917) danced by GARY CHRYST Choreography Leonide Massine Music Erik Satin Costume Design Pablo Picasso Lighting Design Richard Nelson

The music for The Chinese Conjuror by arrangement with G. Schirmer, Inc., agent for Editions Salabert, Paris, publisher and copyrighter. ate Jut.

SOLO danced by VIOLA FARBER Choreography Viola Farber Lighting Design Richard Nelson

THE ATTIC WINDOW (after LE SPECTRE DE LA ROSE and L'APRES-MIDI D'UN FAURE) danced by JAMES CUNNINGHAM and TERRY CREACH Text and Choreography James Cunningham Director Barbara Ellmann Costume Design Barbara Ellmann Set Design Susan Sons Lighting Design Raymond J. Dooley Costume Execution Rory Wright Set Execution Susan Sons and Susan M. Wood

"Always keep an attic window open. Not cracked, but open." William James C) 1979, James Cunningham. All rights reserved.

Intermission

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BERNARD ROSE, Pianist HOMMAGE A SCRIABIN-. (New York Premiere) danced by NAOMI SORKIN Choreography Music Alexander Scriabin Poeme, Opus 32, No. 1 Fragilite, Opus 51, No. 1 Etude, Opus 8, No. 12 Costume Design A. Christina Giannini Lighting Design Richard Nelson TWO DANCES (World Premiere) danced by MARTINE VAN HAMEL Choreography Annabelle Gamson Music Alexander Scriabin Opus 73, Guirlandes Flammes Sombre. Lighting Design Richard Nelson

PRELUDES FOR TWO (World Premiere) danced by GARY CHRYST and CHRISTIAN HOLDER Choreography Christian Holder Musk Sergei Rachmaninoff ' Opus 32, No. 1 Opus 23, Nos. 4, 7, 8 Costume Design Christian Holder Lighting Design Richard Nelson PRELUDES FOR TWO has been especially commissioned for these programs.

Pause

THE BLUE DANUBE WALTZ danced by ANNABELLE GAMSON Choreography Musk Johann Strauss Lighting Design Richard Nelson

The piano used in this concert is a Bosendorfer Grand piano, courtesy of Jack Kahn Music and Kimball International, Inc.

Sunday, October 28, 1979 at 2:00 P.M.

ANNABELLE GAMSON and GARRICK OHLSSON in an ALL ISADORA DUNCAN PROGRAM Richard Nelson, Lighting Designer DANCES TO THE PIANO MUSIC OF FREDERIC CHOPIN (circa 1903-1916)

Val. Brillante, Opus 31, No. 1 Waltz, Opus 70, No. 2 (Piano Solo)

Prelude, Opus 28, No. 7 Waltz in C# minor, Opus 64, No. 2

Mazurkas, Opus 33, No. 1 (Piano Solo), Nos. 2, 3, 4 Waltz, Opus 42 (Piano Solo)

Polonaise Militaire, Opus 40, No. 1

Intermission WALTZES, Opus 39 Johannes Brahms (circa 1913)

Isadora Duncan referred to this work as The Faces o) Love. The second, fourth and final waltzes are reconstructed from fragments of the original choreography.

THREE ETUDES . Alexander Scriabin OPUS 42, No. 5 (Piano Solo)

"MOTHER" Opus 2, No. 1 (circa 1921) "REVOLUTIONARY ETUDE" Opus 8, No. 12 (circa 1922) "MOTHER" and "REVOLUTIONARY ETUDE" were inspired by Isadore Duncan's Soviet experience.

I thank Julia Levien for having taught me these dances, and for having shared with me her invaluable insights. - Annabelle Gamson Mr. Ohlsson performs on the BOsendorfer Grand piano, courtesy of Jack Kahn Music and Kimball International, Inc.

ANNABELLE GAMSON

Annabelle Gamson has achieved international recognition for her -interpretations of the solo works of Isadora Duncan and . A featured performer on Dance in America series on WNET, she has appeared as dance in major festivals throughout the United States and in Europe.

Her dance training began at the age of five with Julia Levies, a former member of the Anna and Irma Duncan Dance Companies. This early training aroused an interest in the Duncan dances which she retained during her wide-ranging career. Work on the Duncan repertory stimulated further interest in other early pioneers of and led her to the study of the solos of Mary Wigman. With the help of Hanya. Holm, a Wigman disciple, and early film fragments, she succeeded in reconstructing some of Wigman's solos, and these works are now in her repertory. The theme from Wigman's famous Witch Dame has served as a source for a larger work which she has choreographed and which was premiered last year on the Dance Umbrella series. The study of these early modern dances has provided Annabelle Cameos with insights into performing techniques that are not often seen in present day performers; and has provided her a rich source for her own choreography.

The present series of dance performances marks a new facet of Annabelle Garnson's career- that of a dance impresario. Her new role of dance concert producer springs from her feeling that the present time is a golden age for the performing arts. In this series, she joins some of her most respected artists in programs of solos and duets. Annabelle Gamson expects this to be the first of an on-going series.

GARRICK OHLSSON.

In 1970, at the age of 22, Garrick Ohlsson became the first and only American ever to win the prestigious Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw. In the course of the following nine years, Mr. Ohlsson has gone on to appear as a soloist with the five major American orchestras (Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia, New York and Chicago), and has made countless recital and orchestra tours of Germany, Sweden, Finland, France; Holland, Switzerland, Czechoslo- vakia, Poland, and England. His recordings include ten albums on Angel Records of Chopin, Brahma and Rachmaninoff. This fall Angel Records will release his recording of Brahms Concerto No. 1 and a two-record set of Chopin Nocturnes. ALISON CHASE CHRISTIAN HOLDER Alison Chase, from St. Louis, received her B.A. in One of those rare artists who excel in nearly every history and philosophy from Washington University facet of the theater, Christian Holder is a renowned and her M.A. in dance from UCLA. She taught dance dancer, most notably for his thirteen-year association at Dartmouth College for three years before joining with The Jaffrey . He is a successful choreo- Pilobolus in 1973. grapher. He is praised as an actor. He is a notable GARY CHRYST costume designer. His repertoire at The Jeffrey was A with The Jeffrey Ballet, Gary wide and marked by his dramatic stage presence and Chryst is noted for an astounding range of classical compelling dancing. He choreographed his first work and contemporary works. Whether he is the happy-go- for The Jeffrey, Five Dances, in 1975. It was hailed as lucky Interlocutor in Cakewalk or the sinister and the work of an exceptionally promising choreographer. calculating logo in The Moor's Pavane, critics have Preludes For Two tribute to the artistic partnership praised Mr. Chryst as -one of the finest dancers of his of Mr. Holder and sMr. Chryst, which resulted in some generation, His Joffrey repertoire encompasses most of the. most exciting Joffrec performances in the Com. of the important choreographers of the Twentieth pany's history. century: Ashton, Massine, Fokine, Jams. Limon, Cranko, MOSES PENDLETON Tharp and Robbins. He has toured widely with the Raised on a dairy farm in Vermont, Moses Pendleton Company, winning special acclaim in Russia for his co- founded Pilobolus Dance Theater in 1971. He has performance of Trinity, a work he later performed for toured widely as a choreographer and performer with television. A native of La Jolla, California, he is a Pilobolus, and is currently working on a piece for the graduate of New York's High School of Performing 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid. He has choreo- Arts. graphed and performed with other companies, and his TERRY CREACH work has been seen on television's Dance in America and Sesame Street, and in a feature for Terry Creech, in his second season as a dancer and Canadian Broadcasting. In May of actor with James Cunningham's Acme Company, is also this year he staged works and appearing with Vanaver Caravan. performed for the Paris Opera. He was a Guggenheim He has been seen Fellow in with the Rotante Dance Company, and Mussawir Gym. 1978. nastic Dance Company. Since 1972 he has choreographed BERNARD ROSE Currently a member of the Chelsea original works for Mussawir and toured extensively with Trio, Bernard Rose Acme, Rotante, and Mussawir, has toured throughout the United States as soloist and under the National chamber under Endowment for the Arts Dance Touring Program and musician the auspices of Young Concert the Artists -in-Schools Program. Artists. He has served as Music Director for the New York Community Opera, worked in music production JAMES CUNNINGHAM for educational television, and recorded for Library Choreographer, dancer, actor and Artistic Director of of Congress Records. He has perforthed the Acme with the Company he founded eleven years ago, Mr. Syracuse Ballet, the Jeffrey Ballet II, members of the Cunningham has toured widely under the National American Ballet Theater, the Daniel Lewis Dance Endowment for the Arts Dance Touring Program and Repertory Company and Annabelle Gamma. Artists-in-Schools Program. In addition, he has chore°. NAOMI SORKIN graphed for productions at the Stratford (Ontario) Naomi Sorkin has distinguished herself as an important Shakespeare Festival and for Canadian television. Cur artist in two major companies: American Ballet Theater rently a member of the dance faculty of Pratt Institute, and the Eliot Feld Ballet. Her repertoire is wide and he has received grants from, among others, the American critics have acknowledged her as -an artist of fine Dance Festival, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the sensibility, dramatic skills, flexibility and in National Endowment taste." for the Arts. recent months she has been preparing her own program VIOLA FARBER of solo dances which will be seen at the Dance Viola Farber has toured extensively here and abroad Umbrella in November and in January, 1980 in . with the company she formed in 1968 after twelve years The program shows a varied repertoire representing as leading dancer with the Mace Cunningham Dance some of the most illustrious contemporary American Company. Her works have been commissioned for many choreographers. She appeared this summer at the companies including the Repertory Dance Theater of Aspen Music Festival in Colorado in Igor Stravinsky's Utah, the Manhattan Festival Ballet, and the Ballet L'Histoire Du Sold. Theatre Contemporain and the Ballet Theatre Francais RICHARD NELSON in France. She has collaborated with, among others, Richard Nelson has created dance lighting for Moron Peter Saul, John Cage, Alvin Lacier, and Alan Hughes, Cunningham, , Laura Dean, Netherlands and her collaborative video work with Robert Rauschen- Dance Theatre, Annabelle Gams., and many others. berg and David Tudor has been seen on nationwide His any Broadway credits include The Magic Show television. and The Price, and this season his work will be seen in King ol the Schnorrers, The Interview and Engelbert MARTINE VAN HAMEL Humperdinck at the A leading ballerina with American Minskon. He has designed lighting Ballet Theater, Miss for the New York Shakespeare Festival, Lincoln salt Hamel excels equally in classic and Center contemporary Repertory Theatre, Opera and many . She dances leading roles in Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Don other repertory companies throughout the country, Tom Quixote and Giselle. Her repertoire in Stoppard's eludes works by Tetley, The Real Inspector Hound and Alter MacMillan, Balanchine, Feld, Magritte are among his off-Broadway credits. Cranko, Tudor and Tharp. In a recent review, a London critic praised SUZANNE EGAN "her beautiful line, her , Production Stage Manager. Susanne the respect she shows Egan has, for four the choreography. She is an seasons, been the production stage manager artist to treasure?' Prior at the to joining Ballet Theater. Miss McCarter Theatre, under the artistic an Hamel danced with the direction of National Ballet of Canada. Michael Kahn. She has managed both on off- In 1966, she was awarded the and gold medal at the Broadway, and on national tours as well as for the International Ballet Competition in Varna. She also won American Shakespeare the seldom-awarded Festival, Miss Egan has stage Prix de Varna for best artistic managed both in the United States interpretation in all categories. and abroad for the Miss van Hamel has Jeffrey Ballet, Louis Falco Dance Company and choreographed several works. Jennifer Muller and the Works. STAFF: _Suzanne Egan Production Stage Manager . Administrative Coordinator Pentacle Management Ruth K. Hurwitz, Project Director Public Relations Guarnan and Murtha Associates, Inc. glen Gordean, Press Representative

For The Brooklyn Academy of Music:

Theatre Manager - . . John J. Miller Assistant Theatre Manager - - Leonard Natman Malcolm J. Waters Production Manager - . SPECIAL THANKS TO: Pat Goldstein, Richard Goldstein, Esq., Jack Kahn Music, Kimball International, Inc., and the staff of The Brooklyn Academy of Music.

My deepest appreciation to Anna Sokolow, and to the performing artists who have been no supportive and have made these concerts possible. - Annabelle Gamson

Gary Chryst is appearing through the courtesy of The . Martine van Hamel is appearing through the courtesy of American Ballet Theater. Mr. Chryst, Ms. van Hamel, Naomi Sorkin and Christian Holder are represented by Peter S. Higgins Associates. Annabelle Gamson and Garrick Ohio are appearing through the courtesy of Shaw Management. James Cunningham and Terry Creach are appearing through the courtesy of James Cunningham's Acme Company, and are represented by Pentacle Management. Viola Farber is represented by Trinity Management.

This is a Dance Solos, Inc. production in cooperation with The Brooklyn Academy of Music This production is made possible in part with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.

DANCE SOLOS, INC., a not-for-profit, fax exempt that supports the activities of Annabelle Gamson, wishes to acknowledge the generous contributions of: Mr. Paul Sons Mr. Leon Levy of The Jerome Levy Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Alan Curtis, Mr. Ben Meiselman, and Mr. and Mrs. Herman Rancher.

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