KYLE ABRAHAM/ ABRAHAM.IN.MOTION DEAREST HOME

TUE–SAT MAY 16–20, 2017 YBCA FORUM

YBCA.ORG #KYLEABRAHAM A NOTE Our organization was founded in 1993 as a citizen institution that would be home KYLE ABRAHAM/ to the diverse local arts community while FROM THE serving to connect the Bay Area to the EXECUTIVE world. YBCA’s mission is to generate ABRAHAM.IN.MOTION culture that moves people. We believe DIRECTOR that culture—a collection of art, traditions, DEAREST HOME values, human experiences, and stories— is what enables us to act with imagination and creativity, to act socially, politically, CHOREOGRAPHY: KYLE ABRAHAM and with conviction. Culture instigates IN COLLABORATION WITH ABRAHAM.IN.MOTION change in the world. MUSIC COMPOSITION: JEROME BEGIN We believe that more and different kinds LIGHTING AND SET DESIGN: DAN SCULLY of people need to be defining culture today TEXT DESIGN: and that more people need to have access COSTUMES: KYLE ABRAHAM to cultural experiences that are relevant to their lives and their communities. We need PERFORMERS: MATTHEW BAKER, new definitions and new experiences that TAMISHA GUY, CATHERINE ELLIS KIRK, MARCELLA LEWIS, JEREMY “JAE” NEAL, CONNIE SHIAU bring people together regardless of their differences in order to make the inclusive and equitable culture we need today. We ABRAHAM.IN.MOTION believe that the arts should be on the The mission of Kyle Abraham/ For more information, to get involved, or front line of change and that cultural Abraham.In.Motion is to create an to purchase AIM merchandise, please visit institutions exist to spur and support big evocative, interdisciplinary body of work. www.abrahaminmotion.org. societal movements. Through powerful Born into hip-hop culture in the late art experiences, thoughtful and provoca- 1970s and grounded in Abraham’s artistic COMPANY INFORMATION tive content, and deep opportunities for upbringing in classical cello, piano, and Artistic Director: Kyle Abraham participation, we are committed to kindling the visual arts, the goal of the movement inclusive culture that cultivates empathy, is to delve into identity in relation to a Abraham.In.Motion Staff: awakens personal and societal transfor- personal history. The work entwines a Executive Director: Joe Stackell mation, and reaches for a world fueled sensual and provocative vocabulary with Production Manager: Dan Stearns by inspiration. The need has never been a strong emphasis on sound, human Company Manager: Hillary Kooistra stronger than now, and there is no better behavior, and all things visual in an Finance Manager: Lucy Mallett place than YBCA to answer the call. We effort to create an avenue for personal Choreographic Associate: Matthew Baker are so glad that you are here. We are investigation and exposing that on stage. Rehearsal Director: Tamisha Guy grateful for your cultural participation, A.I.M. is a representation of dancers Rehearsal Assistant: Jeremy “Jae” Neal and we hope you will come back and from various disciplines and diverse Education Assistant: Connie Shiau enjoy all that YBCA has to offer. personal backgrounds. Combined, these Marketing and Development Associate: individualities create movement that is Catherine Ellis Kirk manipulated and molded into something Education and Communications Assistant: Warmly, fresh and unique. Marcella Lewis

DEBORAH CULLINAN Cover Photo by Carrie Schneider CEO of YERBA BUENA Dearest Home was commissioned by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Hopkins Center for the Arts, and with CENTER FOR THE ARTS a grant from The O’Donnell-Green Music & Dance Foundation. Dearest Home is a project of Creative Capital. Additional generous support for the creation and presentation of Dearest Home was provided by The MAP Fund, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; the National Endowment for the Arts; the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; New York State Council on the Arts; and a Princess Grace Foundation-USA Special Project Grant. Dearest Home was developed during residencies at The Hopkins Center for the Arts, University of Arizona, University Musical Society, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

2 3 A NOTE FROM I instructed, “Choose one of those four, and THE CURATOR group yourselves around the room with other people who’ve made the same choice that MARC BAMUTHI JOSEPH you did.” CHIEF OF PROGRAM AND PEDAGOGY More than a few people couldn’t decide at first, but eventually a majority emerged. In this room, when I asked people to conjure home, most folks thought of it as…

A memory: Dancing with my mom in our

living room, my face pressed against her Photo: Steven Schreiber pregnant belly. Through the front window, it is dusk, and the sun is setting on summer. I’m going to be a big brother soon…

A memory: My grandmother is baking a cake for the interminable post-Church old people festivities come Sunday. The kitchen smells of vanilla and warm, and the adults are at the table playing an Old World card game. I watch closely, but I will never, ever, understand the rules. PROGRAM OVERVIEW: Recently, in a room filled Home is a familiar body stretching toward me, and still just out of reach. As a matter In 2015, I felt full—not in a sense of fulfillment, but rather fullness of rage, sadness, and with 150 future leaning of investigation, it is layered with the kind frustration based on the issues we were tackling in our work and the unintentional relevance folks, I was charged of intimate complexity that has become associated with the ways in which these works addressed this country’s wrought history. a hallmark of Kyle Abraham’s stunning with facilitating a ‘get- choreography. To journey through Mr. American history is so deeply laced with pain and struggle that drawing on it as source to know-you’ session. I Abraham’s wide-ranging output is to take a material began to personally take a toll on me. As a result, I decided to focus my next work, rigorous walk through a labyrinth of macro Dearest Home, on themes of love, loss, and longing under the assumption that these themes asked “When you think histories. Along his choreographic path, he’s have the potential to heal and bring people together, forgetting for a moment the eerie, of home, is it a place, a left us artifacts of subculture to decode, serendipitous coincidences that have existed within the two-year creative processes of all of and dances of temperance and vulnerability my previous works. memory, a person, or a that wind around one’s memory, clearly journey?” and elusively, like a moonbeam. After Works like 2012’s Pavement, which drew inspiration from W. E. B. Du Bois’s Souls of Black Folk presenting Abraham.In.Motion in 2015, and John Singleton’s Boyz n The Hood, were aimed at addressing police brutality and the YBCA enthusiastically commissioned his active genocide of black families across the country specifically during my adolescence in the latest piece, a sojourn of several on-site early 1990s. Sadly, this work became all the more relevant after the shocking death of Trayvon residencies that have brought us here this Martin the same year that Pavement was set to premiere. With Dearest Home, I had no idea evening, to Dearest Home. Through the lens that I would lose my mother exactly one year from the previously announced world premiere of the choreographer, home takes on the of this work, or end a relationship with the man I thought I’d marry—all in the same calendar armature of Loving and Longing, Love and year. Loss. It is a series of memories activated as present, moving conversations. We are That said, this work is still a healer in many ways. We’ve had the great pleasure of taking part honored to be the place that first holds this in a variety of workshops and conversations with community groups across the country on the work for public witness. We anticipate Mr. topics of love, longing, and loss. These interactions have led to multigenerational epiphanies, Abraham will imbue us with new memories newly formed friendships, and, in one case, a marriage proposal. to share, and we encourage you to join us in reaching out to hold them close. Thank you for sharing your evening with us tonight!

I am so thankful to YBCA for believing in this work and for allowing me the opportunity to stretch my creativity and artistry.

—KYLE ABRAHAM, Artistic Director 4 5 Photo: Carrie Schneider ARTIST PROFILES for Dance Festival at New York’s City Center; Dublin’s Project Arts Center, the Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art KYLE ABRAHAM Museum, ; the Andy Warhol Museum, 2016 Doris Duke Award recipient and 2015 ; the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, City Center choreographer in residence Pittsburgh; and venues in Montreal, Kyle Abraham is a 2013 MacArthur Fellow , Jordan, and Ecuador. who began his dance training at the Civic Light Opera Academy and the High In addition to performing and School for the Creative and Performing developing new works for his company, Arts in Pittsburgh. He continued his dance Abraham.In.Motion, Abraham recently studies in New York, receiving a BFA from premiered Untitled America, a three-part SUNY Purchase College and an MFA from commissioned work for the Alvin Ailey NYU Tisch School of the Arts and, most American Dance Theater, and finished recently, an honorary doctorate in fine arts touring The Serpent and the Smoke, a new from Washington Jefferson College in 2014. pas de deux for himself and the acclaimed In 2012, Abraham was named the New York Bessie Award–winning and former New Live Arts resident commissioned artist for York City Ballet principal dancer Wendy 2012–14. Also in 2012, Alvin Ailey American Whelan as part of Restless Creature. He Dance Theater premiered Abraham’s choreographed for the upcoming feature- Another Night at New York’s City Center to length film The Book of Henry with the rave reviews. acclaimed director Colin Trevorrow.

Rebecca Bengal of Vogue writes, “What In 2011, OUT Magazine labeled Abraham as Abraham brings to Ailey is an avant- the “best and brightest creative talent garde aesthetic, a original and politically to emerge in New York City in the age of minded downtown sensibility that doesn’t Obama.” distinguish between genres but freely draws on a vocabulary that is as much Merce and Martha as it is Eadweard Muybridge and Michael Jackson.” That COMPANY same year, Abraham was named the 2012 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award recipient and a MATTHEW BAKER (dancer) hails from 2012 USA Ford Fellow. Ann Arbor, Michigan. He received his BFA (2008) in dance from Western Michigan In 2010 Abraham received a prestigious University. In New York, he worked with Bessie Award for outstanding performance such choreographers as Mark Dendy and in dance for his work in The Radio Keith Thompson before joining Keigwin Show, and a Princess Grace award for + Company, under the artistic direction choreography. The previous year, he was of Larry Keigwin and cofounder Nicole selected as one of Dance Magazine’s 25 to Wolcott, from 2009 to 2014. He joined Watch, and in 2008 he received a Jerome Kyle Abraham/Abraham.in.Motion in 2012. Foundation travel and study grant. As choreographic associate for A.I.M., Baker works with the artistic director and His choreography has been presented his colleagues to maintain and develop throughout the and abroad, the company’s repertory. Baker was the most recently at On the Boards, Seattle; recipient of a Distinguished Alumni Award South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center; from his alma mater in 2014. REDCAT, Los Angeles; Philly Live Arts, Philadelphia; Portland’s Time Based Arts TAMISHA GUY (dancer), a native of Festival; Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Trinidad and Tobago, began her formal Massachusetts; Danspace Project, New dance training at Ballet Tech, the New York York; Dance Theater Workshop, New City Public School for Dance under the York; Bates Dance Festival, Lewiston, direction of Eliot Feld. Later she attended Maine; Harlem Stage, New York; Fall Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, and

6 then SUNY Purchase College as a double Scholarship. She joined Abraham.In.Motion major in dance and arts management. in fall 2016. She has completed summer programs THE MEANINGS ARE AMPLIFIED BY THE QUALITY OF with Complexions Contemporary Ballet, JEREMY “JAE” NEAL (dancer) was born THE DANCING. IT’S BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE I’VE Springboard Danse Montreal, and Nathan and raised in Michigan and received his SEEN A GROUP OF VIRTUOSO DANCERS LOOK AS Trice, and performed works by William training from Western Michigan University. NATURAL, AS HUMAN, AS ABRAHAM’S COMPANY. Forsythe, Pam Tanowitz, Loni Landon, Mark There, he performed in Strict Love by Doug Morris, and Martha Graham. In 2013 Guy Varone, Temporal Trance by Frank Chavez, THE NEW YORKER graduated with honors from SUNY Purchase and Harrison McEldowney’s Dance Sport. College and joined the Martha Graham Since relocating to New York, Neal has had Dance Company shortly after, and in 2014 the privilege of working with SYREN Modern joined Kyle Abraham’s Abraham.In.Motion. Dance, Christina Noel Reaves, Catapult In 2016 Guy was selected as one of Dance Entertainment, Katherine Helen Fisher Magazine’s Top 25 to Watch and received Dance, Nathan Trice, and now the Princess Grace Award. Abraham.In.Motion. Neal would like to thank his family and friends for their CATHERINE ELLIS KIRK (dancer) is consistent encouragement and support. originally from Dallas. After attending Booker T. Washington High School for the CONNIE SHIAU (dancer) grew up in Tainan, Performing and Visual Arts, Kirk graduated Taiwan. She was accepted into the dance with a BFA from ’s conservatory at SUNY Purchase College Tisch School of the Arts and earned a yoga in 2008, after training in the high school certification through Mind Body Dancer. program at Taipei National University of the Kirk has completed programs with the San Arts. She has had the privilege of working Francisco Conservatory of Dance, Gaga with Gallim Dance, Kevin Wynn Collective, Intensive in Tel Aviv, and Springboard and Adam Barruch Dance. Shiau is a Danse Montréal, and had the opportunity recipient of the 2014 Reverb Dance Festival to perform works by Fernando Melo, Ohad best dancer award. She also received an Naharin, Sharon Eyal, Peter Chu, Andrea honorable mention for the 2014 Jadin Miller, Robert Battle, and Alex Ketley. Since Wong Award for emerging Asian American graduating, Kirk has had the pleasure of dancers. Shiau joined Abraham.In.Motion working with Danaka Dance and Chihiro in 2013 and has assisted Kyle Abraham in Shimizu and Artists, and apprenticing setting new repertory work at Princeton for Sidra Bell Dance New York. Kirk is University and Point Park University. currently dancing for UNA-Projects and Helen Simoneau Danse, and is thrilled to continue with Kyle Abraham/Abraham. In.Motion. CREATIVE TEAM

MARCELLA LEWIS (dancer) hails from JEROME BEGIN (composer) has been Los Angeles, where she began her dance called a “fabulous composer-pianist” training at the Lula Washington Dance and an “unimpeachable” collaborator by Theatre at the age of three. She continued the New York Times. His works have been her studies at Los Angeles County High performed throughout the United States, School for the Arts and received a BFA Europe, and Asia, including a nationally from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of televised performance of his score for Dance, where she was awarded the Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company Adopt-a-Dancer Scholarship. While at for President Barack Obama at the 2010 Purchase, Lewis performed works by Doug Kennedy Center Honors. Other dance Varone, Gregory Dolbashian, madboots, commissions include works for Hubbard Kevin Wynn, and Ori Floman. Lewis has Street Dance Chicago, the Juilliard School, completed summer programs at the San Brian Brooks Moving Company, Keigwin Francisco Conservatory of Dance, Hubbard + Company, Gallim Dance, Seán Curran Street Dance, and Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Company, Sacramento Ballet, Richmond where she was awarded the Homer Avila Ballet, Alabama Ballet, and many others. Photo: Carrie Schneider 8 9 YBCA CONTRIBUTERS

YBCA PRODUCTION STAFF LIST: Jodi Feder, Director of Production Martin Barron, Associate Director of Production June Higginbotham, Production Manager Chris Griffin, Production Manager Thomas White, Theater Head Technician Cedric Lathan, Theater Head Audio Engineer Greg Wilson, Forum Head Technician

YBCA PERFORMING ARTS PROGRAMMING STAFF Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Chief of Program and Pedagogy Isabel Yrigoyen, Associate Director of Performing Arts Claire Shoun, Performing Arts Programs Manager

YBCA 2016-2017 BOARD OF DIRECTORS INTERM BOARD CHAIR Rekah Patel

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Berit Ashla Photo: Carrie Schneider Diana Cohn Erik Mayo His music was featured in the PBS Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Studio He holds an MFA from New York University’s American Masters show on Bill T. Jones’s Museum in Harlem, New York; and the Tisch School of the Arts. MEMBERS work. Recent projects include Kwaidan, a Power Plant, Toronto. A major retrospective Peter Bransten large-scale multimedia opera installation of his work, Glenn Ligon: AMERICA, opened DAN STEARNS (production manager) Amy Eliot based on traditional Japanese ghost at the Whitney Museum of American Art in is a lighting designer, scenic designer, Elna Hall, Ph.D stories; NEVEREND, an evening-length New York in 2011 and traveled nationally. and production manager interested in Meklit Hadero dance work for Jin Ju Song-Begin / Da- the intersections of dance, theater, Kevin King On Dance; the score for the documentary DAN SCULLY (lighting and set design) is music, and video. In addition to D.J. Kurtze Flex Is Kings; and an album recording a New York–based lighting and projection Abraham.In.Motion, his recent Jocelyn Lamm Startz with Chris Lancaster for their synth/ designer, and has been designing for Kyle collaborations include Jane Comfort Laura Livoti cello duo band Tranimal. Current projects Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion for more and Company, Pavel Zuštiak / Palissimo, Mark Miles include new works for Brian Brooks Moving than ten years, including the full-length LeeSaar The Company, Scott Ebersold, Sabrina Riddle Company and Loni Landon Dance Project. evening works Pavement, Live! The Realest Paul H. Bedard / Theater in Asylum, Tara Catalina Ruiz-Healy Begin serves on the faculty of the Juilliard M.C., and the Bessie Award–winning Ahmadinejad / Piehole, and Tami Stronach. Paul Ryder School. The Radio Show. Recent work includes He has worked at BAM, the Joyce Theater, Diane Sanchez Rocky, Broadway, New York; Jedermann, New York Live Arts, La MaMa, Abrons Arts Vicki Shipkowitz GLENN LIGON (text design) lives and Salzburger Festspiele, Austria; The Center, HERE, Dixon Place, and 3LD in Meg Spriggs works in New York. He received a BFA from Orchestra Rocks!, Carnegie Hall, New York; New York, and internationally from Marc Vogl Wesleyan University in 1982 and attended and Another Night, Alvin Ailey American to Korea. Vinitha Watson the Whitney Museum Independent Dance Theater. He has also worked with Zak Williams Study Program in 1985. His text-based Trinity Repertory Company, Providence, Johann Zimmern conceptual works have been featured in Rhode Island; Asolo Repertory Theatre, solo shows at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sarasota, Florida; Cleveland Playhouse; EMERITUS IN MEMORIAM Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival; and Helen Sause Paul Connolly San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Two River Theater, Red Bank, New Jersey. 10 11 YBCA DONORS Organizations Individuals $100,000 AND ABOVE Theatre Communications Group Verda Alexander and Primo Orpilla Yerba Buena Community Benefit District Berit Ashla and Aron Cramer Corporations Orit Atzmon and Yoav Shoham Google.org A WARM THANK YOU TO YERBA BUENA CENTER $10,000 AND ABOVE John Bankston and Robert C. Goodman FOR THE ARTS’ CONTRIBUTORS! Jennifer and Matias Duarte Foundations Corporations Colin Eykamp The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Airbnb* Gloria and Saul Feldman Thank you to our contributors for The James Irvine Foundation Dolby Laboratories Randi and Bob Fisher enthusiastically supporting YBCA’s The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation United Airlines* Mary and John P. Grossman Panta Rhea Foundation Michael Harrington and Amanda Michael programs. YBCA gratefully acknowledges Surdna Foundation contributions from our FY17 partners, Foundations James C. Hormel and Michael P. Nguyen The Wallace Foundation Knight Foundation Kaitlyn and Mike Krieger and contributions and in-kind donations The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts The Sato Foundation Richard Laiderman and Jung-Wha Song of $500 or more received between July 1, Zellerbach Family Foundation Joonho Lee and Kiyoung Nam 2016 and April 1, 2017 Government Eileen and Peter Michael Institute of Museum and Library Services Individuals Catalina Ruiz-Healy and Jonathan Kevles National Endowment for the Arts Diane Sanchez Special thanks to the City of San Francisco Anonymous Paul Connolly Petra Schumann and Rob Wullenjohn for its ongoing support. Individuals Carla and David Crane Vicki Shipkowitz Anna and Richard E. Gardner Revocable Trust Erik Mayo Lava Thomas and Peter Danzig Leslie and Merle Rabine Mike Wilkins and Sheila Duignan Harvey and Leslie Wagner Foundation Charles and Cheryl Ward Organizations Zak Williams and Alex Mallick ArtPlace America $5,000 AND ABOVE May Yip

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12 13 Generous support for Kyle Abraham/ Abraham.In.Motion provided by Emma A. Sheafer YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS IS Charitable Trust, The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels GRATEFUL TO THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO Foundation, The Howard Gilman Foundation, Mertz- FOR ITS ONGOING SUPPORT. Gilmore Foundation, New York Community Trust, Princess Grace Foundation-USA, The Rockefeller YBCA Programs in 16–17 are made possible KIM EPIFANO Brothers Foundation, and The Samuel H. Scripps Foundation. Public funding provided by The in part by The James Irvine Foundation. National Endowment for the Arts, New England LAST BLUE COUCH IN THE SKY Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project Additional funding for YBCA Programs with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable 16–17: National Endowment for the Arts, Adobe, Foundation, and The New York State Council on the Arts with support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and Abundance Foundation, Gaia Fund, Grosvenor, and the New York State Legislature. Members of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Abraham.In.Motion is a proud supporter of Dancers Responding to AIDS, which helps ensure that those most in need receive the care and comfort they would otherwise do without. Founded in 1991 by former Paul Taylor Dance Company members Denise The Leslie and Merle Rabine 2016–17 Roberts Hurlin and Hernando Cortez, DRA relies on Performance Season is made possible in the extraordinary compassion and efforts of the part by Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, The performing arts community to fund a safety net of William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Panta social services for those in need. Together, we can make a difference for those less fortunate than us. Rhea Foundation. Donate at www.dradance.org/donate.

Support the creation of new work and community outreach! Contributions may be made payable to “Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion,” PO Box FRI—SUN 986, New York NY 10113. Abraham.In.Motion is a nonprofit tax-exempt organization, and all Additional Funding for YBCA Performances JUN 2—4 donations are fully deductible to the extent 16–17: Surdna Foundation, Salesforce.com, and allowed by law. Zellerbach Family Foundation. TUTUBI PLAZA For booking information, contact Sophie Myrtil- THROUGH SOMA McCourty, president, Lotus Arts Management, YBCA FORUM at 347.721.8724 or [email protected]. lotusartsmgmt.com YBCA.ORG #KIMEPIFANO Abraham.In.Motion Board of Directors: Stephen Simcock (chair), Kyle Abraham (artistic director, ex-officio), Cheryl Bergenfeld, Chris Funded in part by the New England Foundation Calkins, Glenn Ligon, Bebe Neuwirth, Carrie for the Arts’ National Theater Project, with lead Schneider, Eric Shiner, Gilda Squire funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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