The Wanderer

2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL Brooklyn Academy of Music Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board The William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board Adam E. Max, Wanderer Vice Chairman of the Board Karen Brooks Hopkins, President Jessica Lang Dance Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer Choreography by Jessica Lang DATES: Dec 3—6 at 7:30pm LOCATION: BAM Fisher (Fishman Space) RUN TIME: 1hr 5min (no intermission) Season Sponsor: Time Warner Inc. is the BAM 2014 Next Wave Festival Sponsor Leadership support for dance at BAM provided by The Harkness Foundation for Dance Major support for dance at BAM provided by The SHS Foundation. BAM Fisher #THEWANDERER 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL The Wanderer WORLD PREMIERE The Wanderer: Kirk Henning The Brook: Kana Kimura Artistic Director & Choreographer The Girl: Laura Mead JESSICA LANG The Hunter: Milan Misko Assistant to the Choreographer The Others: Julie Fiorenza, Sarah CLIFTON BROWN Haarmann, John Harnage, Claudia MacPherson Music by FRANZ SCHUBERT Generous support for the creation Die schöne Müllerin of The Wanderer provided by Anonymous Donor, The Dau Family Visual Concept Foundation, Ann and Weston Hicks, JESSICA LANG and Christopher Jones and Deborah McAlister. Additional support provided Set Designer by Deborah and Charles Adelman. MIMI LIEN In-kind support provided by Judith R. Lighting Designer and Alan H. Fishman and Jill and Alan NICOLE PEARCE Resnick. Costume Designer The Wanderer was created in part BRADON McDONALD during a Creative Development Residency with support from the Dancers Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award Initiative. JULIE FIORENZA SARAH HAARMANN The Wanderer was created in part with JOHN HARNAGE support from the Made In Wickenburg KIRK HENNING Residency Program with funding from KANA KIMURA the R. H. Johnson Foundation, The CLAUDIA MacPHERSON Del E. Webb Center for the Performing LAURA MEAD Arts, and the National Endowment for MILAN MISKO the Arts. with This program is supported, in part, STEVEN LABRIE, Baritone by public funds from the New York TYSON DEATON, Pianist City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL BRIEF SYNOPSIS: JESSICA LANG THE WANDERER DANCE Founded in 2011, Jessica Lang Dance A miller (the Wanderer) is journeying (JLD) is a New York City-based dance through a forest. He comes across a company dedicated to creating and Brook. The Brook leads him to a mill, performing the work of Jessica Lang. where he falls in love with the Miller’s JLD enriches and inspires global audi- daughter, the Girl. He decides to stay ences by immersing them in the beauty and work at the mill, while he ques- of movement and music. tions the Brook if she has deliberately led him to the Girl—is this his destiny? Since the company’s inception, marked by Lang’s receipt of a Joyce Theater The Girl loves the color green. Artist Residency supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, JLD has made rapid success perform- As a sign of his love, the Wanderer ing at renowned venues and festivals gives the Girl his green ribbon. She throughout the country including accepts it, which he mistakes for Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the Ken- requited love. nedy Center Concert Hall, the Joyce Theater, New York City Center’s Fall Then, a Hunter, dressed in green, fol- for Dance Festival, and the Winspear lows the Brook’s path and comes upon Opera House in Dallas, TX, where the the mill. The Girl falls in love with the company’s performance was chosen Hunter because he is wearing green. as the best dance event of 2013. In 2014, JLD premiered Scape, commis- Tortured and tormented by everything sioned by the Kennedy Center and the National Symphony Orchestra to John in nature that is the color green, the Adams’ Violin Concerto and played heart-broken Wanderer can bear no live by violinist Leila Josefowicz with more and throws himself into the Brook the NSO. JLD has received numerous and dies. The Brook sings him a lul- grants and funding from organizations laby. including the Jerome Robbins Founda- tion, the O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Japan Foun- dation New York, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. In spring 2015, the company will undertake an 8-city tour, followed by a two week run of The Wanderer at Jacob’s Pillow, marking the company’s third Pillow season since its debut in 2012. For a full listing of upcoming perfor- mances, visit jessicalangdance.com. 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL Award in the UK. Lang has received numerous grants for her work on ballet companies from organizations Who’s including the Jerome Robbins Foundation, the NEA, and the Choo San Goh Foundation. Her receipt of a 2010 Joyce Theater Artist Residency supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Who Foundation helped launch her own company, Jessica Lang Dance (JLD) JESSICA LANG in 2011. Lang’s work has also been Choreographer-Artistic Director performed by numerous educational institutions including the Juilliard Jessica Lang is a choreographer and School, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, the artistic director of Jessica Lang the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program, Dance. Hailed as “a master of visual Marymount Manhattan College, SUNY composition” by Dance magazine, Purchase College, Southern Methodist Lang seamlessly incorporates striking University, Princeton University, design elements and transforms University of Richmond, and Point classical ballet language into artfully Park University, among others. She crafted, emotionally engaging is on the faculty of American Ballet contemporary works. Since 1999, Theatre’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Lang has created more than 80 School as well as a teaching artist works on companies worldwide for the Make A Ballet program. With including Birmingham Royal Ballet, her strong belief in the importance of The National Ballet of Japan at the education, Lang recently developed her New National Theatre Tokyo, Joffrey own methodology called LANGuage, a Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, Cincinnati unique creative curriculum that teaches Ballet, Colorado Ballet, Ballet San individuals from all populations to Jose, Richmond Ballet, Pennsylvania cultivate the habit of creative thinking Ballet, Ailey II, ABT II, Hubbard through exercise. Lang, a graduate of Street 2, and New York City Ballet’s the Juilliard School under the direction Choreographic Institute, among many of Benjamin Harkarvy, is a former others. American Ballet Theatre has member of Twyla Tharp’s company, presented her work at the Metropolitan THARP! Opera House, and she has received commissions from the Dallas Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum CLIFTON BROWN for its Works and Process series. For Dancer-Rehearsal Director opera, Lang received outstanding acclaim for her directorial debut and Clifton Brown began his professional choreography of Pergolesi’s Stabat career when he joined the Alvin Ailey Mater at the 2013 Glimmerglass Opera American Dance Theater in 1999. Festival. Lang is the recipient of a There he was featured in many works, prestigious 2014 Bessie Award, and named assistant rehearsal director, her ballet Lyric Pieces, commissioned and served as Judith Jamison’s and performed by Birmingham Royal choreographic assistant. While Ballet, earned a nomination for a dancing with the Ailey company he coveted 2013 Manchester Theatre was nominated in the UK for a Critics 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL Circle National Dance Award for best male dancer. Brown has received a SARAH HAARMANN Bessie Award in recognition of his Dancer work with the Ailey company, as well as a Black Theater Arts Award. He Sarah Haarmann grew up in Macungie, has had the privilege of performing PA. In 2012, she earned a BFA in at the White House and for President dance from Marymount Manhattan Obama. He has also danced with College under the direction of Katie Earl Mosley’s Diversity of Dance, Lar Langan, where she performed works Lubovitch Dance Company, and as by Benoit-Swan Pouffer, Jessica Lang, a guest artist with Miami City Ballet, Lar Lubovitch, Larry Keigwin, Shen Rome Opera Ballet, Nevada Ballet, Wei, and Pam Tanowitz, with whom and Parsons Dance Company. He has she continues to perform. Upon made several television appearances graduation, Haarmann was selected including performing as a guest artist to participate in the Cunningham on So You Think You Can Dance and repertory workshops sponsored by the Dancing with the Stars. As a répétiteur, Merce Cunningham Trust. Haarmann he has set the work of Alvin Ailey, began working with JLD in 2012 and Earl Mosley, and Jessica Lang on joined the company in 2013. various companies. He continues to assist Lang on her creations across the globe, most recently for Birmingham JOHN HARNAGE Royal Ballet and the Glimmerglass Dancer Opera Festival. Brown is proud to be a founding member of JLD. John Harnage was raised in Miami, FL, where he trained with the Miami City Ballet School and New World JULIE FIORENZA School of the Arts. In May of 2014 Dancer he graduated from the Juilliard School under the direction of Lawrence Julie Fiorenza was born in South Korea Rhodes, where he had the privilege of and grew up in Massachussetts, where learning works by choreographers such she trained at the Academy of Dance as José Limón, Alexander Ekman, Pina Arts and the Boston Ballet School. Bausch, and Lar Lubovitch. Harnage is She earned a BFA in dance from the also a modern dance finalist from the Ailey School/Fordham University and 2010 NFAA YoungArts competition, was a member of Ailey II, Nai-Ni has worked professionally with Brice Chen Dance Company, and Adams Mousset’s Oui Danse, and performed Company Dance. Fiorenza danced at internationally at the 2012 Edinburgh the Metropolitan Opera in productions International Festival with the Juilliard of Turandot and Mark Morris’ Orfeo Dance Ensemble.

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