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Northrop Presents ASZURE BARTON & ARTISTS Sat, Nov 12, 8:00 pm Carlson Family Stage

Awáa Dear Friends of Northrop, Northrop at the University of Minnesota Presents I’m so glad you’re here tonight to meet Aszure Barton, an artist I’ve been crazy about ever since I first laid eyes on her work about 10 years ago. That was an enchanting work she created for Ballet Jazz de Montréal called Les Chambres de Jacques. I think I vowed at that moment to share Aszure’s work with as many people as possible if I ever had the ASZURE BARTON opportunity to do so.

She was invited back to create a subsequent work for BJM the following year (Jack in a Box), and by then, word had spread & ARTISTS throughout the dance world that dancers loved working with Aszure Barton. And those dancers represent genres from classical ballet to the most contemporary. Her list of credits would be the envy of any choreographer: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the National Ballet of , Artistic Director , Martha Graham Dance Company, ASZURE BARTON Christine Tschida. Photo by Tim Rummelhoff. and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, to name just a few.

Critics often use the words “sexy” and “cheeky” when talking about Aszure’s work, and her choreography certainly does have a lush sensuality as well as a delightfully quirky sense of humor. But I think the thing that touches me the most—and will touch you, as well, I Artists hope—is the profound humanity at the root of everything she creates. JONATHAN EMANUELL ALSBERRY LARA BARCLAY WILLIAM BRISCOE TOBIN DEL CUORE BRETT PERRY When Aszure Barton’s name is listed as a choreographer of a piece, she often credits the dancer or dancers OSCAR RAMOS ZANDER SCHARER CONSTANT as co-creators of the work as well. It’s a generosity of spirit, to be sure, but it also offers a glimpse into her method of working, which is not so much one of imposing steps on a dancer as much as it is drawing movement out of each dancer’s soul. The results can be surprising. Lighting and Stage Designer I was reminded of my first encounter with Aszure Barton’s work just a few weeks ago when we were BURKE BROWN talking with Rodrigo Pederneiras of Grupo Corpo about choreographers he admired. His company had just shared a bill with Aszure’s at New York City’s FALL FOR DANCE, and his admiration was evident. So Costume Designer was Mikhail Baryshnikov’s when he invited her to become the first artist-in-residence at The Baryshnikov LINDA CHOW Arts Center in 2005. Videographer It’s clear that Aszure Barton has earned many friends and admirers over the last decade. I hope you’ll TOBIN DEL CUORE count yourself one of them after tonight's performance. Stage Manager Thanks for being here and making dance a part of your life. PAMELA RAPP

Sincerely,

Christine Tschida Director of Northrop

NEXT UP AT NORTHROP: See you in 2017! The season resumes on January 24 with Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company, copresented with Walker Art Center. We'll have a special screening of the filmMr. Gaga on Tuesday, January 17 at 6:30 pm.

This presentation of Aszure Barton & Artists is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund, Cover: Aszure Barton & Artists in Awáa. and a grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation Minnesota. Photo © Kim Williams, courtesy of The Banff Centre. 2 3 AWÁA ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ASZURE BARTON

Artistic Direction and Choreography by ASZURE BARTON Hailed by critics Rift, at the Laikipia Nature Conservancy. Barton Original Music by CURTIS MACDONALD & LEV “LJOVA” ZHURBIN and audiences has been featured on the cover of Dance Magazine with select, additional tracks by JOHANNES BRAHMS AND GAL COSTA alike, Canadian and her choreography has appeared in television Lighting and Stage Design by BURKE BROWN choreographer projects, including the Sundance Channel’s Costume Design by LINDA CHOW Aszure Barton is the Iconoclasts Series with Alice Waters and Mikhail Video by TOBIN DEL CUORE founder and director Baryshnikov. She was the first artist-in-residence Stage Manager, PAMELA RAPP of Aszure Barton at The Baryshnikov Arts Center in 2005 and was a & Artists. She has resident artist at The Banff Center from 2009-13. created works for She has been proclaimed an official Ambassador Mikhail Baryshnikov, of Contemporary Choreography in Canada The title of the work means “one that is a mother” in the language of the Haida, an aboriginal people Alvin Ailey American and has received many accolades including the living on Canada’s west coast. Awáa celebrates our mothers. Dance Theater, prestigious Arts & Letters Award, joining the ranks Photo by Graeme Mitchell English National of Oscar Peterson, Eugene Levy, Karen Kain, and Ballet, , Nederlands Christopher Plummer. Barton was born and raised Awáa is a co-production of The CanDance Network Creation Fund, National Arts Centre, Danse Danse, Dans Theater, National Ballet of Canada, in Alberta, Canada, and received her formal dance Canada Dance Festival, Le Grand Théâtre de Québec, La danse sur les routes, and The Banff Centre. It is Martha Graham Dance Company, Bayerisches training at the National Ballet School, where, as a supported by the Dance Section of the Canada Council for the Arts and The Banff Centre's Performing Staatsballett, Sydney Dance Company, Houston student, she helped originate the ongoing Stephen Arts Residency program. Ballet, and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, among Godfrey Choreographic Showcase. She currently many others. Her works have been performed on lives in Brooklyn and is a lover of green tea. countless international stages including Palais Garnier, The Kennedy Center, The Stanislavsky Aszure Barton & Artists is a home for visual, Theater, Sadler’s Wells, and Lincoln Center. Other sound, and performing artists and engineers, choreography credits include the Broadway revival cohering in creative residencies to evoke the production of The Threepenny Opera directed movement-based vision and free spirit of its by Scott Elliott (translation by Wallace Shawn founder. We seek to embrace risk and vulnerability and starring Cyndi Lauper, Alan Cumming, Jim to create work that is universal, intimate, and Dale, Nellie Mackay, and Ana Gasteyer), film and entertaining. Visit aszurebarton.com for more installation projects, and international outreach information. activities such as Kenya’s Earth Project: Healing the

This page and opposite: Aszure Barton & Artists in Awáa. Photos © Kim Williams, courtesy of The Banff Centre. 4 5 THE ARTISTS

JONATHAN ALSBERRY is a dancer, educator, WILLIAM BRISCOE began his dance training at the BRETT PERRY started dancing at the age of creating original works with creator and coach. Born in Normal, IL he began Repertory Dance Company of East Harlem, at age three at The Dance Company in Indianapolis, internationally acclaimed choreographers such dancing with his mother Lyndetta and went on 10. He went on to train at LaGuardia High School Indiana under the direction of Diane Gudat. as , Hofesh Shecter, Jacopo Godani, to graduate from The Chicago Academy for the of Music and Art and Performing Arts, while also After graduating from The Juilliard School in Alexander Ekman, Stijn Celis, and others. In 2012, Arts. In 2006 he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts performing in Aida at the Metropolitan Opera 2008, he started his professional career with Ramos joined Batsheva Dance Company, under the from The Juilliard School. Alsberry, a.k.a “Jojo,” House and Merce Cunningham Dance Center. He Trey McIntyre Project in Boise, Idaho. Perry direction of Ohad Naharin, with whom he danced is now dancer, rehearsal director, and creative later received his BFA from The Juilliard School in was a recent member of Ballet BC where he for four seasons. He has since returned to NYC and collaborator with AB&A and has assisted Ms. 2003. Upon graduation, Briscoe became a leading danced the works of many internationally is a freelance performer and teacher. Barton in over a dozen creations. He toured with member of Aszure Barton & Artists where he renowned choreographers. He is a recipient Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Hell’s Kitchen Dance, as well performed with Mikhail Baryshnikov and Hell's of the prestigious Princess Grace Award of ZANDER SCHARER CONSTANT began his dance as Evolution with and Herman Kitchen Dance. He has also worked with other Dance and first collaborated with Aszure training at the age of twelve at Arts Umbrella, Cornejo. Alsberry has performed as a principal renowned choreographers including Robert Battle, Bartion in 2008. under the direction of Artemis Gordon. He also dancer with The Metropolitan Opera, The Lyric Karole Armitage, Georg Reischl, Wayne McGregor, received additional training at Canada's National Opera of Chicago, and Chicago Opera Theater. In and Kyle Abraham, among many others. He is OSCAR RAMOS comes from Cidra, Puerto Ballet School. Constant has had the opportunity 2007 he joined the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company currently a faculty member and choreographer at Rico where he began his training at the to work with renowned artists including Crystal and is a performer and rehearsal director with the Adelphi University. conservatory of Ballet Concierto de Puerto Pite, Medhi Walerski, Tom Weinberger, and Ohad company. Rico, later beginning his professional career Naharin. He participated in Arts Umbrella Dance A native of Maine, TOBIN DEL CUORE began with the company in 2000. In 2003, Ramos Company’s (AUDC) 2014 tour to Holland and Originally from , LARA BARCLAY his ballet training at the Walnut Hill School in moved to NYC to train at the Ailey School. Italy, where AUDC performed in Nederlands Dans trained at the National Ballet School and the Natick, Massachusetts. He attended The Juilliard From 2004 to 2006, Ramos danced for Theater’s production of Switch 2014. He also School. She has danced with School under the direction of Benjamin Harkarvy, Hubbard Street 2 under the direction of Julie recently performed with Ballet BC. numerous International dance companies, graduating in 2001 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Nakagawa. In 2007, he joined Cedar Lake including Dance Theatre, Kiel Ballet, Upon graduating, Del Cuore joined the artists of Needcompany, Copenhagen International Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, where he danced and Ballet Mannheim. Barclay has been teaching for six years. Since leaving HSDC, he has performed and choreographing for over 15 years and has with AB&A, The Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, had the pleasure of working with students and Alessandra Ferri, Houston Grand Opera, Mark professionals across the globe. Her credits include Morris Dance Group, The Lyric Opera of Chicago, Ballet BC, Toronto Dance Theatre, Copenhagen BalletX, and SFDanceworks. He has also staged International Ballet, New Danish Dance Theatre, work for choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo and The Goh Ballet, Judith Marcuse, Arts Umbrella, regularly assists Ms. Barton in the creation of new among many others. Barclay is a proud mother of work. Del Cuore is an accomplished video artist two beautiful girls. having made works with numerous international organizations. He has been a member of Aszure Barton & Artists since 2010.

Aszure Barton & Artists in Awáa. Photo © Don Lee, courtesy of The Banff Centre. 6 7 ASZURE BARTON & ARTISTS STAFF

BURKE BROWN, Lighting Designer­ LEV “LJOVA” ZHURBIN, Composer Recent dance designs include lighting for Aszure Hailed by Billboard as “one of New York’s fastest- Barton & Artists, Ballet Nacional de Mexico, Ballet rising composers and instrumentalists” and by Idaho, Decadancetheatre, and David Neumann. The New York Times as “an eclectic with an ear for Mr. Brown’s recent NYC work includes the texture...strikingly original and soulful,” Zhurbin Incubator Arts Project, the Ohio Theater, Apollo was born in Moscow and moved to New York in Theater, Joyce Soho, Three-Legged Dog, Here 1990. He performs as a violist with Ljova and the Arts Center, Ensemble Studio Theatre, 52nd Street Kontraband, string quartets, jazz combos, and Project, Public Theater, La Mama ETC, Under The Gypsy bands; arranges music for Yo-Yo Ma, Kronos Radar Festival, Summer Play Festival, Arts Nova, Quartet, Jay-Z, and others; and composes for film, Joe’s Pub, and the Baryshnikov Arts Center. His TV, dance, and the concert stage. Zhurbin has been international work includes productions at the collaborating and performing alongside AB&A Abbey Theatre in Dublin, the Golden Mask Festival since 2009. in Moscow, the Seoul Performing Arts Festival in South Korea, and with Opera Erratica in Toronto. LINDA CHOW, Costume Designer Northrop is Projection Design work includes productions with Linda Chow graduated from the Ryerson theatre Big Apple Baroque, Yale Baroque Opera Project, program in 1982. Sewing and cutting for theatre, Diverse City Theater Co., and the Bone Orchard dance, and film lead to designing for dance. Her full of stories. Collective. Brown is a member of the Wingspace work with Kidd Pivot includes The You Show, Dark Design Collective and holds an MFA from the Yale Matters, and Lost Action. She also collaborated School of Drama. wingspace.com/burke with Crystal Pite on Arietta for Ballet BC and Emergence for the National Ballet of Canada. SHARE CURTIS MACDONALD, Composer Recently with Ballet BC, she has worked with Jose Curtis MacDonald is an alto saxophonist, Navas, Shawn Hounsell, Medhi Walerski, Serge composer, and sound artist. He graduated cum Bennathan, Gioconda Barbuto, , YOURS TODAY! laude from the New School University in 2007 and Aszure Barton. and immediately became faculty. In 2011 he released Community Immunity on Greenleaf Level 1 Atrium Music. MacDonald has been informed by several artistic practices as part of his quest for a broader context in which to present his work. Staying close to one of the most desirable artistic communities in North America, the Banff Centre for the Arts has unmistakably left a lasting impact on his philosophy on the creation of music. “The exchanges I have with musicians, choreographers, filmmakers, sculptors, engineers, mathematicians and digital artists whom I’ve met over the years continually influence the music I produce.” MacDonald’s work can be heard on many new music and modern jazz recordings where he organizes improvisation, sound, art and digital technology, drawing virtuosity not only from traditional approaches, but also other transcendental and philosophical models. Osmo Vanska and musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra. Photo by Tim Rummelhoff. The Moody Blues. Photo by Tim Rummelhoff. Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal inFuel . Photo by Leda and St Jacques. Convocation Audience at Northrop in 1939. ’s Ashley Murphy and DaVon Doane in Far But Close. Photo by Rachel Neville.

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[email protected] // 612-626-7554 Danita McVay Greene Paul J. Aslanian 26 27 BATSHEVA DANCE COMPANY Jan 24 7:30 pm Decadance 2017 Copresented with Walker Art Center

Ohad Naharin’s inventive, high-octane retrospective presents brilliantly remixed material spanning the renowned company’s past 25 years.

Northrop Film Screening MR. GAGA Tue, Jan 17, 6:30 pm

Mr. Gaga is the story of Ohad Naharin, an artistic genius who redefined the language of modern dance. This spirited and insightful documentary mixes intimate rehearsal footage with an extensive unseen archive and breathtaking dance sequences.

Batsheva Dance Company in Decadance. northrop.umn.edu Photo © Maxim Waratt.