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MEADOWS DANCE ENSEMBLE 2014 SPRING DANCE CONCERT

MARCH 26-30, 2014

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SMU MEADOWS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS DIVISION OF DANCE

PRESENTS THE

MEADOWS DANCE ENSEMBLE 2014 SPRING DANCE CONCERT

BOB HOPE THEATRE-OWEN ARTS CENTER

SMU Meadows School of the Arts Division of Dance

Presents the

MEADOWS DANCE ENSEMBLE 2014 SPRING DANCE CONCERT

March 26-29, 8:00pm March 30, 2:00 pm Bob Hope Theatre-Owen Arts Center

Choreographers Adam Hougland Bill T. Jones Jawole Willa Jo Zollar

March 29, 8:00 pm Additional works by: Christopher L. Huggins Dwight Rhoden

Artistic Director Patty Harrington Delaney The Division of Dance and the entire Meadows School of the Arts are honored to present this concert as a tribute to Ann Williams and Lily Cabatu Weiss in recognition of the invaluable contributions they have made to the field of dance through their tireless dedication, creative passion and inspired vision.

Ann Williams, Founder and Artistic Director of Dallas Black Dance Theatre

Lily Cabatu Weiss, Chair of the Dance Department at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts CHALABATI (2007)

Choreography Jawole Willa Jo Zollar Restaging and Direction Millicent Johnnie, Chanon Judson, and Samantha Speis Student Rehearsal Assistant Shauna Davis Music Chalabati and El Wali Sidi Mimoun by Randy Weston Costumes Currie Leggoe with additional design by Eugenia P. Stallings Lighting Luther Frank, original design J. Russell Sandifer

Dancers:

B(3/26, 3/29, 3/30) Bre' Ann Berger, Kaylah Burton, Camille Cucjen, Joshua Coleman, Kirsten Hamm, Caitlin Heflin, Deepa Liegel, Kyra McCarty, Raven Ross, Katie Schaible, Cayla Simpson

(3/27, 3/28) Kaylah Burton, Samantha Chiesa, Joshua Coleman, Reid Conlon, Allison Leopold, Kyra McCarty, Diane Liu, Natalia Perea, Katie Schaible, Cayla Simpson, Kelly Zitka

This work was first created and performed at a residency at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2007. I am grateful for their creative contributions to this work. Maria Bauman was Assistant Choreographer for this residency.

Costumes courtesy of Florida State University Dance Department COLD VIRTUES (2003)

Choreography Adam Hougland Music Philip Glass Costumes Marion Williams Original Ughting Michael T. Ford Lighting Reconstruction Susan A. White Rehearsal Director Myra Woodruff

Dancers:

3/26, 3/29 & 3/30 Lexi Stinger and Christopher Dorsey Kailey And riot and Dexter Green

Ellie Blanchat, Salvatore Bonilla, Eric Coudron, Jordan Daniels, Alexander Druzbanski, Hope Endrenyi, ian Forcher, Aubry Neal, Natalia Ramirez, and Kelsey Rohr

3/27 &3/28 Summer Myatt and Christopher Dorsey Katharine Rygiel and Dexter Green

Adrian Aguirre, Zach Biehl, Jordan Daniels, lan Forcher, Reid Frye, Monica Hernandez, Abigail Marchesseault, Sarah Hailey Padilla, Emily Reiff, and Gabriela Stilwell D-MAN IN THE WATERS (Part 1) (1989, revised 1998)

"In a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy." -Jenny Holzer

Choreography Bill T. Jones Staged by Germaul Barnes Rehearsal Director Anne Westwick Music Felix Mendelssohn, Octet for Strings in E-flat major, Op. 20(1825) Costumes Liz Prince Ughting Robert Wierzel

Dancers:

(3/27, 3/29 & 3/30) Salvatore Bonilla, Joshua Coleman, Jordan Daniels, Christopher Dorsey, Dexter Green (Zach Biehl on 3/30), Monica Hernandez, Natalia Perea, Emily Alexa Perry, and Raven Ross

(3/26 & 3/28) Salvatore Bonilla, Joshua Coleman, Camille Cucjen, Jordan Daniels, Shauna Davis, Alexander Druzbanski, Dexter Green, Deepa Liegel, and Lexi Stinger

This dance is dedicated to Dernian Acquavella.

The first movement of O-Man in the Waters was commissioned by the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble and was made possible with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.

Presented under license from New York Live Arts, Inc. (The following works performed on March 29, 2014 only)

HIS GRACE (2014) Dallas Black Dance Theatre

Nelson Mandela ... His grace exalts us all!

Choreography Christopher L. Huggins Assistant to Choreographer Levi Marsman Music Moby, Sean Clements Lighting Milton T. Tatum, Jr. Costumes Beth Thomason-Designs Unique

Dallas Black Dance Theatre Dancers:

Claude Alexander, Ill, Jasmine C. Black, Katricia Eaglin, Richard A. Freeman, Jr., Alyssa Harrington, Michelle Hebert, Christopher McKenzie, Jr., Amber J. Merrick, Omoniyi Osoba, Derrick Smith, Sean J. Smith, Jamie Thompson TESTAMENT (Excerpts) (2011) Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing & Visual Arts

Choreography Dwight Rhoden Music Traditional, sung by Cedric Neal and Liz Mikel Repertory Dance Company Directors Lily Cabatu Weiss, Lisa Lagravinese Stoller Costume Design John Ahrens after Jae Man Joo Costumes courtesy of Complexions Contemporary Ballet and John Ahrens Lighting Design Pavel Perebillo

BTWHSPVA Repertory Dance Company 1:

Alonzo Blanco, Jared Brown, Alexandria Clair, Montana Dalton, Caroline Haidet, Madison Hicks, Alysia Johnson, Kendell Miller-Roberts, Mason Manning, Natalie Newman/Minga Prather, Omar Rivera, My'Kal Stromile, Rebecca Troyak

Understudies:

Amy Allen, Alexandra Breeden, Madison Ceurter, Whitney Hester, Ausia Jones, Margaret Marchant, Callahan McGovern, Madison Moseman, Addison Norman, Celeste Robbins, Laurel Shore, Savannah Rose

TESTAMENT was originally commissioned through the generous support of TITAS/Dallas, Texas. This performance is made possible by Kobes Arts. Ann Williams- Honoree Ann Williams, founder and artistic director of Dallas Black Dance Theatre, is a founding member of the North Texas Dance Council and The International Association of Blacks in Dance. She received dance training under Barbara Hollis (member of the Katherine Dunham Dance Company), Edith James, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Alvin Ailey and Arthur Mitchell. Ms. Williams holds an undergraduate degree from Prairie View A&M University (honored as distinguished alum in 1990), a Master of Arts in dance and related arts frorn Texas Woman's University (honored as distinguished alurn in 1990 and served on Board of Regents for six years) and a certificate in arts management from Texas A&M University. She has also received two honorary doctorates: Honorary Doctor of Humanities from Northwood University and Honorary Doctor of Philosophy from TWU. She was inducted into the Texas Women's Hall of Fame in 2002 and was honored at The Kennedy Center as a part of the Masters of African-American Choreography series in 2005.

Ms. Williams has received rnany awards and honors frorn arts and service organizations, including Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Phi Delta Kappa, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. (Sankofa Foundation Legacy Award), North Texas Dance Council, NAACP, the Dallas Historical Society, the IWF Dallas Chapter, The Real Estate Council (Dreamers, Doers & Unsung Heroes Award) and TACA (Award for Excellence in the Performing Arts). She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Trinity Chapter-The Links, Inc., The Society, Inc.-Dallas Chapter, Charter 100, Dallas Chapter Associates of Jack and Jill of America, NAACP (Lifetime Member), and the Dallas Black Chamber of Cornrnerce.

For 37 years, Ms. Williams has directed Dallas Black Dance Theatre from a community­ based organization and a semi-professional dance company to a professional company that tours internationally and is critically acclaimed. She is a dance consultant and has served as a dance panelist for the City of Dallas/Office of Cultural Affairs, Texas Commission on the Arts, Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation, Houston Arts Council, Arkansas Arts Council, the Boston Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. For 44 years, she was married to the late Nathaniel Williams, a retired administrator of the Dallas Independent School District. They are the parents of Angelia Williams Chancellor, a graduate of Florida A&M University School of Business and Industry and University of Dallas School of Business Management. Lily Cabatu Weiss - Honoree Lily Cabatu Weiss holds bachelor's and master's degrees in dance from Texas Woman's University, has taught on the dance faculties at Southern Methodist University and Houston's HSPVA, and joined the faculty at BTWHSPVA in 1978. Her extensive training includes workshops with such legends as Bella Lewitzky, Carolyn Adams of Paul Taylor and Betty Jones of Jose Limon and her performing credits include John Mead and Dancers in New York and Japan. She has been a guest choreographer for Dallas Black Dance Theatre, the Dance Education Department-New York University for four r seasons, SMU and many institutions. Her awards and recognitions include the Texas 1 Choreographers Award from the Texas Commission on the Arts, the National Young Arts Foundation Distinguished Teacher Award, Distinguished Teacher by the Commission on Presidential Scholars (eleven different years by twelve students), SURDNA Arts Teacher Fellowship, the Texas Dance Educator Award, Bates Dance Festival Teacher Fellowship and being named a Distinguished Teacher by the Rockefeller Foundation. Ms. Weiss was also featured in the international publication Dance Teacher magazine both in 2007 & 2009. She was recently named Teacher of the Year for BTWHSPVA and, in April2014, she will be given the highest honor bestowed by the National High School Dance Festival, the Outstanding Service Award. She has trained many students who are now performing in dance companies and on Broadway, teaching at universities, or working in related careers both nationally and internationally.

Under her leadership as chair of the Dance Department at BTWHSPVA since 2001, she has made it possible for her students to work with internationally renowned dance artists repeatedly over time. These artists include Dwight Rhoden of Complexions Contemporary Ballet (seven works), Larry Keigwin of Keigwin & Company (three works), Robert Battle, artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (five works), T akehiro Ueyama of Take Dance (three works), Adam Hougland, Resident choreographer of Louisville Ballet and BTWHSPVA alum (three works) and Jessica Lang of Jessica Lang Dance (five works). Ms. Weiss' contributions to BTWHSPVA have been significant in crafting a strong curriculum that is used as a national model. The National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts recognized BTWHSPVA as one of five Distinguished Arts Schools and it was chosen as one of the nation's top eight magnet schools. She is currently laying the groundwork for national accreditation from ACC-PAS. Ms. Weiss has been active in building the cultural life of Dallas for many years and currently serves as a member of the TITAS Board and the Steering Committee for the Bruce Wood Dance Project. Jawole Willa Jo Zollar - Choreographer

Jawole Willa Jo Zollar is the winner ofthe 2014 Meadows Prize arts residency, presented annually by the Meadows School of the Arts to pioneering artists and scholars active in one of the school's disciplines. For the first half of her residency in February, she worked with Meadows dance students to restage Chalabati. In November, she will return for the second half of her residency to conduct workshops with students in connection with the professional development of a new work planned for Urban Bush Women, Walking with 'Trane ... Chapter 3.

A native of Kansas City, Missouri, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar trained with Joseph Stevenson, a student of the legendary Katherine Dunham. She earned a B.A. in dance from the University of Missouri at Kansas City and an M.F.A. in dance from Florida State University. In 1980 she moved to New York City to study with Dianne Mcintyre at Sounds in Motion.

In 1984 Zollar founded Urban Bush Women (UBW) as a performance ensemble dedicated to exploring the use of cultural expression as a catalyst for social change. In addition to 34 works for UBW, she has created works for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Philadanco, University of Maryland, Virginia Commonwealth University and others, and with collaborators including Compagnie Jant-Bi from Senegal and Nora Chipaumire. In 2())6 she received a New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) for her work as choreographer/creator of Walking With Pearl ... Southern Diaries.

Featured in the PBS documentary Free to Dance, which chronicles the African American influence on modern dance, Zollar was designated a Master of Choreography by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 2005. Her company has toured five continents and has performed at venues including Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the Kennedy Center. UBW was selected as one of three U.S. dance companies to inaugurate a cultural diplomacy program for the U.S. Department of State in 2010. In 2011 Zollar choreographed visible with Chipaumire, a theatrical dance piece that explores immigration and migration. In 2012 Zollar was a featured artist in the film Restaging Shelter, produced and directed by Bruce Berryhill and Martha Curtis, and currently available to PBS stations.

Zollardeveloped a unique approach to enable artists to strengthen effective involvement in cultural organizing and civic engagement, which evolved into UBW's acclaimed Summer Leadership Institute. She serves as director of the Institute, founding artistic director of UBW and currently holds the position of the Nancy Smith Fichter Professor of Dance and Robert 0. Lawton Distinguished Professor at Florida State University. A former board member of Dance/USA, Zollar received a 2008 United States Artists Wynn fellowship and a 20CR fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial. Still dancing, she recently toured in a sold-out national tour presented by 651 ARTS as a leading influential dancer/choreographer on a program that included her early mentor Dianne Mcintyre, her collaborator Germaine Acogny, Carmen de Laval lade and Bebe Miller. As an artist whose work is geared towards building equity and diversity in the arts, Zollar was recently presented with the 2013 Arthur L. Johnson Memorial award by Sphinx Music at their inaugural conference on diversity in the arts. In addition, Zollar was named a recipient last April of the 2013 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award.

Adam Hougland - Choreographer Adam Hougland is in his third year as Artist-in-Residence at SMU Meadows School of the Arts. He grew up in Dallas and studied visual arts and acting from an early age. At 14 he began his dance training at the Dallas Conservatory of Ballet and the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. In 1999 he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in dance from The Juilliard School and then went on to perform with The Limon Dance Company, Toronto Dance Theatre and the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company. While at Juilliard, Hougland choreographed his first group dance, Beyond, which won the Hector Zaraspe Prize for Choreography. This piece set his choreographic career in motion and was quickly taken into the repertoires of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal, the Cincinnati Ballet, Ballet Met Columbus and the Louisville Ballet.

Hougland has gone on to create original works for Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company, the American Ballet Theatre Studio Company, lntrodans in the Netherlands, the Limon Dance Company, Cedar Lake Ensemble, The W ashington Ballet, Ballet Memphis, Ballet X and The New York Choreographic InstitutNe at ew York City Ballet. He has created works for internationally recognized dancers such as Sofiane Sylve (San Francisco Ballet, New York City Ballet, Dutch National) and Marcelo Gomes (American Ballet Theatre). In 2006 he created a world premiere for Juilliard's Centennial Celebration that toured to Chicago and Los Angeles and was broadcast on the PBS Live from Lincoln Center series. He has won the Princess Grace Award for Choreography, The Chao-San Goh Award for Choreography and a New York State Council for the Arts Commissioning Grant. He was one of Pointe magazine's " 10 VIPs of 2006" and was named one of Dance Magazine's "25 to watch" for 2011.

Hougland is the principal choreographer for the Louisville Ballet and has created seven critically acclaimed original works for the company, including Rite ofSpr ing with special guest artist Wendy Whelan (principal dancer, New York City Ballet). He is resident choreographer for the Cincinnati Ballet and has since created a new evening-length Mozart's Requiem and a new Firebirdfor the company.

Bill T. Jones - Choreographer Bill T. Jones is the recipient of 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 2CD6 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 2CD6 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 dans I'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government, and in 2000, The Dance Heritage Coalition named him "An Irreplaceable Dance Treasure."

Mr. Jones choreographed and performed worldwide with his late partner, Arnie Zane, before forming the Bill T. Janes/Arnie Zane Dance Company in 1982. He has created more than 140 works for his company. In 2011, Mr. Jones was named executive artistic director of New York Live Arts, an organization that strives to create a robust framework in support ofthe nation's dance and movement-based artists through new approaches to producing, presenting and educating.

Christopher L. Huggins - Choreographer As a dancer, teacher and choreographer, Christopher L. Huggins works in Europe, Japan and throughout the United States. Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, Huggins trained under Andrea Herbert Major, Danny Sloan and Martha Gray. He attended the State University of New York at Purchase, The Juilliard School, and was a fellowship student at The Ailey School. Huggins appeared as a guest artist for several dance companies in the United States and abroad. He was a featured performer for the Essence Awards, Broadway's A Few Good Men, and Debbie Allen's production Soul Possessed. Huggins is a 2002 recipient ofthe Ira Aldridge Award for Best Choreography from the Black Theatre Alliance in Chicago for Enemy Behind the Gates, and worked on several projects for Disney in Orlando, Florida. His most recent choreography for DBDT was The Wiz.

Dwight Rhoden - Choreographer Dwight Rhoden has established a remarkably wide-ranging career, earning distinction from The New York Times as "one of the most sought out choreographers of the day." A native of Dayton, Ohio, who began dancing at age 17, Rhoden has performed with Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Les Ballet Jazz De Montreal and as a principal dancerwithAivinAiley American Dance Theater. He has appeared in numerous television specials, documentaries and commercials throughout the United States, Canada and Europe and has been a featured performer on many PBS "Great Performances" specials. Since 1994 Rhoden's choreography has been the lynchpin in the development of the Complexions repertory. He has been praised for his prolific body of work, visionary style and boundary-breaking sensibility. Rhoden has created over 80 ballets for Complexions, as well as numerous other companies, including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, The Arizona Ballet, The Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Company, Ballet Gamonet, The Dance Theater of Harlem, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, The Jaffrey Ballet, Miami City Ballet, New York City Ballet/Diamond Project, North Carolina Dance Theater, The Pennsylvania Ballet, Philadanco, Minneapolis Dance Theater, Phoenix Dance Company, Sacramento Ballet, Oakland Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, The Washington Ballet, and Zenon Dance Company. Widely known as "a dancer's choreographer," Rhoden has worked with, coached and created for some of the most diverse artists spanning the worlds of ballet and contemporary dance. "Rhoden's work is post-Balanchinean choreography, a new aesthetic in movement, stage, picture, and performance concepts reflecting a post-modern, techno-savvyworldview" (Dance Magazine).

He has directed and choreographed for 1V, film, theater and live performances including So You Think You Can Dance, E! Entertainment's "Tribute to Style" and Cirque Du Solei I. He has also worked with such high-profile artists as Prince, Lenny Kravitz, Kelly Clarkson and Patrick Swayze. Rhoden is the resident choreographer of North Carolina Dance Theatre and has lectured, taught, created works for and served as Artist in Residence at universities around the United States including New York University, Juilliard and The University of Mississippi, where his 2004 Racial Reconciliation Project was credited as a catalyst for dialogue in a community that has been historically divided. Rhoden is a 1998 New York Foundation for the Arts Award recipient and beneficiary of the 2001 Choo San Goh Award for Choreography. In May 2006 he received The Ailey School's Apex Award in recognition of his extensive contributions to the field of dance.

Germaul Barnes - Restager Germaul Barnes is a Bessie Award winner for his dancing in the work of the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company. He is currently director and founder of Germaul Barnes/ Viewsic Expressions Dance, a New York-based dance company that presents multi­ media dance performances and educational residencies around the world. Mr. Barnes is also co-director of Burnt Sugar/Danz with Gabri Christa and Greg Tate. He has received many grants and awards for his extensive foreign experience as dancer, teacher, choreographer and anthropologist. He has created dances for The Ailey School, Southern Danceworks, Birmingham Southern College, Skidmore College, Jasmyn Fyffe Dance-Toronto, Ghana National Dance Theater, ChoreoOuest Project, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, among others. For a complete list of his achievements, visit: www.ViewsicEx.org.

Liz Prince - Costume Designer Liz Prince has worked extensively with Bill T. Jones since 1990, designing for his company as well as his productions at Boston Ballet, Berlin Opera Ballet and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. She recently designed costumes for Goodspeed Musicals' version of Pippin, directed by Gabriel Barre. She has also designed for Doug Varone and Dancers, Jose Limon Dance Company, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, American Ballet Theatre, Washington Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Philadanco, Houston Ballet, Dendy Dance, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Dortmund Theater Ballet, Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project, Meg Stuart, Lucy Guerin, Tamar Rogoff, Claire Danes, Pilobolus, Neil Greenberg, Jane Comfort, Bebe Miller, Ralph Lemon, Arthur Aviles, Larry Goldhuber, David Dorfman and LAVA. Her costumes have been exhibited at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art and Snug Harbor Cultural Center. Ms. Prince received a 1990 New York Dance and Performance Award for costume design.

Robert Wierzel - Lighting Designer Robert Wierzel has worked with artists in theatre, dance, new music, opera and museums, 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// 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 theatre. Mr. Wierzel is currently on the faculty of New York University's Tisch School ofthe Arts.

Marion Williams - Designer Marion Williams is a New York-based scenic and costume designer creating designs for theatre, opera and dance. Collaborations with choreographer Adam Hougland include Phantasy Quintet with the Jose Limon Company; Cold Virtues, Devolve, Made to be Broken, Fragile Stasis and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, all with Louisville Ballet; and Mozart's Requiem and Stravinsky's Firebircl, both with Cincinnati Ballet. Additional dance designs include Jose Limon Dance, lntrodans, P.S. 122, Parson's Dance and The Juilliard School. New York theatre credits include: MCC, Mint Theater, Primary Stages, Juilliard, Manhattan School of Music, and Women's Project. Regional credits include McCarter, CENTERSTAGE, The Old Globe, Alliance, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, South Coast Repertory, Pittsburgh Public, Round House, PlayMakers, Barrington Stage, Triad Stage, The Folger, Two River, Sacramento, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and Williamstown. Williams received a M.F.A. from the University of Washington in Seattle, Wash., and is the recipient of a 2004 Princess Grace Award for design and a 2007 Princess Grace Foundation Grant. Southern Methodist University Chairman, Board of Trustees Caren Prothro President R. Gerald Turner Provost Paul Ludden

Meadows School of the Arts Dean Jose Antonio Bowen Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Kevin Paul Hofeditz Associate Dean for Administrative Affairs Martin Sweidel Assistant Dean for Development and external Affairs Kris Munoz Vetter Assistant Dean for Marketing and Communications Karen Drennan

Division of Dance Chair Patty Harrington Delaney Coordinator Heather Guthrie Dance Faculty Shelley C. Berg, Danny Buraczeski, Christopher Dolder, Adam Hougland, Millicent Johnnie, Leslie Peck, John Selya, Anne Westwick, Myra Woodruff, Travis Acreman, Kathy Chamberlain, Shelley Estes, Tara Munjee Dance Musicians Richard Abrahamson, Benjamin Croucher, Jamal Mohamed, Mina Polevoy, Edward Lee Smith, DJ Sullivan, Janeen Vestal Dance Production Crew Production Stage Manager Travis Acreman Light Board Operator McKenna Karnes Audio Operator Madison McKay Deck Electricians Christine Nestleroth Fallon Reedy Costume Crew Monica Gonzalez Cayla Simpson Stage Management Arden Leone Olivia Schmid Scenery Gracyn Singer Tori Walker Meadows School of the Arts

Production Staff Production Manager Marsha Grasselli Technical Director Steve Leary Assistant Technical Director JD Margetts Costume Studio Supervisor Giva Taylor Master Electrician Dawn Askew Assistant Master Electrician Richard Hamilton Sound Designer/Engineer Jason Biggs Prop Master JT Ringer Scene Shop Foreman Eliseo Gutierrez Cutter/Draper Eugenia P. Stallings Costumer Samantha J. Miller Stitcher Marika Wynne Production Accountant Marilee Polakoff

Student Staff Scene Shop Assistants Jacob Cox, Parker Gray, Stephanie Machado, Gabriella Padgett Lighting Assistants Derek George Dexter Green, Jesse Karmazin, Nick Miller, Dagny Sanson, Marquelle Smith, Isaac Young Costume Assistants Mia Antoinette, Synthia Green, Kristen Kelso, Hunter McConnell, Steven Smith Prop Assistants Laura Dupper, Seth Nelson Sound Assistant Jacob Lee Nice The Dance Division would like to express our deepest gratitude to Sharen Bradford, Florida State University, Louisville Ballet, Steve Woods, Marsha Grasselli and her entire production staff, Marion Williams, Michael T. Ford, Melissa Young, Linda James, Gayle Ziaks Halperin, Dwight Rhoden, Germaul Barnes, Adam Hougland, Christopher Dolder, Deborah and Sean Hallahan and Nycole Ray for their invaluable contributions to this concert. MEADOWS TICKET OFFICE Event Marketing Manager Lee Gleiser 214.768.2787 12 to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday Office opens one hour prior to performances. Tickets for upcoming performances at the Meadows School of the Arts may be purchased by phone with an approved credit card, in person with cash, check or credit card at the Meadows Ticket Office, or online at meadows.smu.edu.

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