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6/11/19 2019 ADF School DESCRIPTIONS OF FOOTPRINTS AND SDI REPERTORY PIECES The following are descriptions of repertory projects whose auditions will be held during preview weekend. Read these descriptions carefully to choose which auditions to attend. If you are not cast in a piece during opening weekend – don’t fret! There will be many other performing opportunities, including the ICR concert, student concert, and faculty concert. FOOTPRINTS OVERVIEW In Footprints projects, choreographers set a work for ADF’s performance season using ADF students. It is strongly driven by its basic parameters: a work is set and performed in a short amount of time! This means that Footprints requires a serious time commitment: casts will rehearse Monday through Friday (Wednesdays included); one weekend rehearsal each week is permitted; and the last two weeks of the festival will be largely spent in tech and dress rehearsals in the theaters. There will even be one show that tours to Wilmington, NC on July 13th. In these respects, Footprints is a window into how dance gets made in the professional world. Note that if you are someone who wants to delve into all WFSS has to offer, Footprints casts will be unable to take full advantage of WFSS. Students in Footprints may not enroll in a repertory course. Due to scheduling conflicts, students in Footprints will be unable to participate in the Student Concerts or International Choreographers in Residence Concert. They may participate in the Faculty Concert. Paul Taylor/ Esplanade/ Set by Michael Trusnovec Michael Trusnovec, from Yaphank, New York, began dancing at age six, graduated from the Long Island High School for the Arts and was a 1992 YoungARTS awardee and Presidential Scholar in the Arts. In 1996, he earned a B.F.A. in Dance Performance from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas dancing in the varied works of Anna Sokolow, Frederick Ashton, Bob Fosse, George Balanchine and Martha Graham. After two years in Taylor 2, Michael joined the Paul Taylor Dance Company in 1998 and spent over 20 years creating new works with Mr. Taylor, performing and teaching around the world, and acting as Associate Rehearsal Director. He was featured in the 2004 PBS Great Performances: Acts of Ardor and the 2013 Paul Taylor in Paris. Mr. Trusnovec continues to serve as the Director of Worldwide Licensing. Professionally, he has appeared with Cortez & Co. Contemporary/Ballet, CorbinDances and has danced in new works by Larry Keigwin, Doug Varone, Doug Elkins, Pam Tanowitz and Margie and Christopher Gillis. Additionally, he is a co-founder of the Asbury Park Dance Festival, serves as a Dance Panelist for the New York State Council on the Arts, and was a mentor to the finalists of YoungArts 2019. Mr. Trusnovec was a proud recipient of a 2006 Bessie Award, received a 2016 distinction of “Positano Premia La Danza” Dancer of the Year, and was honored with a 2018 Dance Magazine Award. “In casting Paul’s masterwork, Esplanade, I’ll be looking for dancers who have an intelligence in their dancing, an organized awareness of their bodies, a great sense of weight, a natural ease in moving, and a willingness to take risks. Above all, Esplanade, like so many of Mr. Taylor’s dances is about community, so I’ll be looking for dancers with warm personalities who easily connect with one another, and who's sheer joy in moving through space shines through.” Merce Cunningham/ How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run/ Set by Andrea Weber Andrea Weber was a dancer with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company from 2004 to 2011, performing roles in over 25 works. Andrea is on faculty of the Merce Cunningham Trust, teaching Cunningham Technique® at New York City Center, Barnard College, and the Joffrey Jazz and Contemporary Trainee program. She has also taught at SUNY Purchase, UNCSA, Brown University, Skidmore College, the American Dance Festival, ArcDanz Festival, NYU Tisch, ABT Studio Company, Salem State College, and Dance New Amsterdam. Andrea has staged Pond Way for Ballett am Rhein and Ballet Vlaanderen, Suitefor Five for the CNSMD in Lyon, RainForest for the Stephen Petronio Company, Sounddance at UNCSA, How To Pass, Kick, Fall and Run for Boston Conservatory, and the Skidmore Event in the Tang Museum at Skidmore College. She has also created MinEvents for the American Dance Festival, Joffrey Ballet School, and ArcDanz Festival. Andrea arranged and staged the E vents for the Merce Cunningham: Common Time exhibit at both the Walker Arts Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Andrea has been awarded five Merce Cunningham Trust Fellowships since 2012, reconstructing dances including O cean , CRWDSPCR and Second Hand . Andrea has also danced with Bill Coleman, Dance Heginbotham, Jessica Lang Dance, Cornfield Dance, Jonah Bokaer, and Charlotte Griffin. “As David Vaughan, MCDC’s beloved archivist, wrote: “How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run has an athletic theme, without any specific reference to games. The choreography keeps the dancers constantly in motion, never staying in a given place for very long, with two or three things simultaneously occurring on stage at all times” I will be looking for dancers who can move quickly, can change direction with clarity and who excel in rhythmic phrase work. Both the sustained and allegro movements have an underlying technique and stamina to them, which makes the movement harder 6/11/19 than it looks. How To is a joyful dance, with a sense of play throughout, so I will be looking for individuals who can contribute to this environment.” Martha Graham / Dark Meadows / Set by Blakeley White-McGuire and Masha Maddux (leading audition and first week) Blakeley White-McGuire is a New York-based dance performer, maker, and teacher and holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College. She received her formal dance training at the Martha Graham Center in New York City while studying under Pearl Lang, Linda Hodes, Yuriko and Susan Kikuchi, Diane Gray, Terese Capucilli, Christine Dakin, Armgard Von Bardeleben, Marianne Bachman, Yung Yung Tsuai, and Kazuko Hirabayashi. Critically acclaimed as a principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company (2002-2016, 2017), she has embodied the most iconic roles of 20th century modern dance to international critical acclaim. As a leading practitioner of the Graham technique she has toured the globe, been the featured performer in Google’s “doodle” honoring the dance pioneer, and materially contributed to three historical re-imaginings Ardent Song, Imperial Gesture, and Notes on a Voyage. Simultaneously and throughout her career, Blakeley has created and performed with contemporary choreographers, filmmakers, and directors including Jacquelyn Buglisi, Jayoung Chung, Martha Clarke, Sean Curran, Sue de Beer, Nacho Duato, Daniel Ezralow, Larry Keigwin, Lar Lubovitch, Richard Move, Bulareyaung Pagarlava, Marta Renzi, Pascal Rioult, Robert Wilson, and Anne Bogart SITI/ Company. Blakeley’s original work has been presented by the Museum of Arts and Design, Jacob’s Pillow’s INSIDE/OUT, Battery Dance Festival, New Ballet Ensemble, Baton Rouge Ballet Theater, Roxbury Arts Group, Women in Dance 2018, the Moving Beauty series, ALT 360+, Inside the Dancer’s Art, Quando Eles Dancam, UFO (Unified Fashion Objectives), the Movers & Shapers’ podcast series, and the Martha Graham Dance Company’s Graham 2. Her writing has been published by The Dance Enthusiast, The Huffington Post, Dance Magazine, Performance Research Journal, and most recently in A Life in Dance: A Practical Guide. Blakeley has served on the faculties of the Graham Center, the Ailey School, the New School, The Actors’ Studio, and New York City’s famed LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts as a teacher of technique, repertory, and improvisation. She is currently on the faculty of Hunter College, Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance, and the American Dance Festival. Blakeley stages Martha Graham’s repertory internationally, most recently for Paul Taylor, Semperoper, and Ballet Vlaanderen. Blakeley continues to create, collaborate, research, lecture, and perform and is currently a dancer/choreographer/administrator for the inter-generational dance collective Movement Migration. Masha Dashkina Maddux is a professional concert dance performer and a dance educator. A native of Kiev, Ukraine she was first introduced to dance through the classical Vaganova ballet technique. After moving to United States she studied under the direction of Ruth Weisen at the Thomas Armour Youth Ballet of Miami, FL and ultimately graduated summa cum laude with her BFA from New World School of the Arts under the directorship of Daniel Lewis. Ms. Dashkina Maddux joined the Martha Graham Dance Company in 2007 and rose to the rank of principal dancer, performing major roles in classical Graham repertoire along with works created by some of the most influential contemporary choreographers. Ms. Dashkina Maddux was featured in Dance Magazine’s “Dancer’s Choice”, and also appeared in projects including newly released Martha Graham Dance Technique DVD, directed by Miki Orihara and Susan Kikuchi, and in a feature film Fall to Rise, written and directed by Jayce Bartok. In addition to performing, Ms. Dashkina Maddux has collaborated with photographers to capture the art of dance. Most recently her image was selected for the cover of the Dior Magazine issue #26 and The Art of Movement, a highly anticipated book conceived and created by the founders of NYC Dance Project, Ken Browar and Deborah Ory. Ms. Dashkina Maddux is the Founder and Director of the Wake Forest Dance Festival, a free and open to the public, family-friendly day of dance, based in Wake Forest, NC, which is currently in its third season. Additionally, she is an ambassador for the Dancing Angels Foundation, a nonprofit foundation that provides scholarships and other assistance to help passionate and committed young dancers fulfill their dreams.

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