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JESSICA LANG DANCE

Thursday, January 24, 2019 Catherine Herrick Cobb Great Hall

38 Artistic Director JESSICA LANG

Executive Director WILLIAM WAGNER

Dancers PATRICK COKER, JULIE FIORENZA, EVE JACOBS, KANA KIMURA, LAURA MEAD, MILAN MISKO, THOMAS RAGLAND, RACHEL SECREST, JAMMIE WALKER

Production Stage Manager DANIEL DILLER

Lighting Supervisor SHANNON CLARKE

Company Manager CALLEN GOSSELIN

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Tonight’s program will run approximately 120 minutes, with two 15-minute intermissions.

Continued on next page. 39 PROGRAM LYRIC PIECES (2013) Choreography: Jessica Lang Music: Edvard Grieg Scenic Design: Jessica Lang with molo products designed by Stephanie Forsythe and Todd MacAllen Lighting Design: Nicole Pearce Costumes: Amy Page

ARIETTA Patrick Coker, Julie Fiorenza, Eve Jacobs, Kana Kimura Milan Misko, Rachel Secrest, Thomas Ragland, Jammie Walker

ELVES’ DANCE Patrick Coker, Julie Fiorenza, and Rachel Secrest

PEASANT’S SONG Eve Jacobs

NORWEGIAN MELODY Milan Misko and Jammie Walker

NORWEGIAN DANCE Patrick Coker, Milan Misko, Thomas Ragland, and Jammie Walker

THE BROOK Julie Fiorenza, Eve Jacobs, Kana Kimura and Rachel Secrest

IN BALLAD STYLE Jammie Walker with Patrick Coker, Julie Fiorenza, Eve Jacobs, Kana Kimura, Milan Misko, Rachel Secrest, Thomas Ragland

MARCH OF THE TROLLS Patrick Coker, Julie Fiorenza, Eve Jacobs, Milan Misko, Rachel Secrest

PHANTOM Kana Kimura and Thomas Ragland

REMEMBRANCES Ensemble

This work was originally commissioned by Birmingham Royal Ballet and premiered in 2013.

40 Intermission

THE CALLING (EXCERPT FROM SPLENDID ISOLATION II) (2006) Choreography: Jessica Lang Music: Trio Mediaeval Costume Concept: Jessica Lang Costumes: Elena Comendador Original Lighting: Al Crawford, recreated by Nicole Pearce

Kana Kimura

This work was originally premiered by Ailey II in 2006. “O Maria, stella maris” Performed by Trio Mediaeval (p) ECM Records 2005. Used by arrangement with ECM Records, Munich.

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us/we (2018) Choreography: Jessica Lang Visual Artist and Scenic Designer: José Parlá Costume Design and Creations: Moriah Black Video Creations: Jose Parla, Moriah Black and Jessica Lang Projections Designer and Engineer: Anja Hose Video Coordinator: Milan Misko Music: David Lang, RAM JAM, El Michel’s Affair Sound Concept and Recordings: Jessica Lang, José Parlá, and Milan Misko Sound Designer and Audio Engineer: Hayat Dominguez Lighting Design: Stuart Wilson Technical Director: Gregory Rowland

Patrick Coker, Julie Fiorenza, Eve Jacobs, Kana Kimura, Laura Mead, Milan Misko, Thomas Ragland, Rachel Secrest, Jammie Walker

This project was made possible with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. This project was created in residency at and co-commissioned by Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. Additional creative residency credits for Krannert Center Performing Arts Center include Terri Ciofalo – Director of Production; Alec LaBau – Assistant Production Manager; Bobby Reynolds – Technical Director; Cathy Fazio – Stage Manager; Kiana Schalk – Assistant Lighting Design and Programmer; Edith Moreno – Assistant to the Costume Designer; and Grace Chariya – Assistant Stage Manager

“our land our peace”, and “our common fate” by David Lang part of full work “national anthems” on album Los Angeles Master Chorale + the Calder Quartet ©2016 Cantaloupe Music. “Black Betty” by RAM JAM on album RAM JAM. Sony Music Licensing ©1977. “El Pueblo Unido” by El Michels Affair on album Sounding Out The City ©2016 Big Crown Records

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THIS THING CALLED LOVE (2018) Celebrating the music of Tony Bennett Choreography: Jessica Lang Visual Art: Anthony Benedetto/Tony Bennett Stage Design: Jessica Lang Lighting Design: Nicole Pearce Costume Design: Bradon McDonald Audio Recording: Concept by Jessica Lang Voice: Tony Bennett Recording: Milan Misko

Excerpt from the COLE PORTER MEDLEY Artwork: New York City Skyline Patrick Coker, Julie Fiorenza, Eve Jacobs, Kana Kimura, Laura Mead, Milan Misko, Thomas Ragland, Rachel Secrest, Jammie Walker

I LEFT MY HEART IN SAN FRANCISCO Artwork: Bridge in a Fog, San Francisco Milan Misko with Ensemble

CRAZY RHYTHM Artwork: NYC Cab Ensemble

SMILE Artwork: Central Park Snowstorm Kana Kimura and Jammie Walker with Patrick Coker, Julie Fiorenza, Eve Jacobs, Milan Misko, Thomas Ragland and Rachel Secrest

IT DON’T MEAN A THING Artwork: Duke Ellington – Black Rain, Musicians Pori Jazz Festival ‘98 and Piano Player Pori Jazz Ensemble

42 FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE Artwork: New York Skyline Ensemble

This Thing Called Love is dedicated to my mom and dad. –JL

This work was originally commissioned by The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College, Director Seth Soloway. This work was sponsored by SHS Foundation and Helen Melchior and made possible by the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts. This work was created (in part) during a residency at Kaatsbaan International Dance Center in Tivoli, New York.

Jessica Lang Dance would like to give a special thanks to Benedetto Arts and RPM Productions for helping make this work possible.

“Cole Porter Medley” Performed by Tony Bennett, Courtesy of Concord Records, a division of Concord Music. Also courtesy of Warner Chappell and The Cole Porter Musical and Literary Property Trusts. “It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing” Performed by Tony Bennett, Courtesy of Concord Records, a division of Concord Music and BMI. “Smile” Performed by Tony Bennett, Courtesy of Columbia Legacy. Music by Charles Chaplin. Words by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons ©Copyright by Bourne Co. Copyright (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved. International Copyright Secured Used By Permission. “Crazy Rhythm” written by Irving Caesar, Roger Wolfe Kahn and Joseph Meye. All rights on behalf of Irving Caesar Music and itself administered by WB Music Corp. Also courtesy of Columbia Records. “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” Performed by Tony Bennett, Courtesy of Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Columbia Records. “For Once in My Life” Performed by Tony Bennett, Courtesy of Sony/ ATV Music Publishing and Columbia Records.

JESSICA LANG DANCE Founded in 2011, Jessica Lang Dance (JLD) is a New York City-based dance company whose mission is to enrich and inspire global audiences by immersing them in the beauty of movement and music. Since the company’s inception, Jessica Lang has created numerous original works for JLD, whose diverse repertoire demonstrates a commitment to artistic collaboration and a style that resists categorical definition. JLD has performed at premier venues and festivals worldwide including Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, New York City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Joyce Theater, the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, The Music Center, Winspear Opera House, Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center, Helikon Opera and Palacio de Bellas Artes, among others. JLD has received numerous grants and funding from organizations including The New York Community Trust, Howard Gilman Foundation, Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, SHS Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, the Jerome Robbins Foundation, the Irving Harris Foundation, the O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Dance/ NYC, and the ArtsCONNECT program of Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. For more information on the company, visit jessicalangdance.com.

Continued on next page. 43 BIOS JESSICA LANG (Artistic Director) leads L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato). Coker the creative vision of the organization which began working with choreographer Jessica has garnered remarkable acclaim since Lang in 2015, and in January 2016, Coker the company’s founding in 2011. Under became a member of JLD. her artistic leadership, the company now offers more than 50 performances annually JULIE FIORENZA (Dancer) was born in at some of the world’s most prestigious South Korea and grew up in Massachusetts, performing arts centers. Noted for her where she trained at the Academy of Dance dedication to educational activities, Lang Arts and the Boston Ballet School. She developed a unique curriculum for JLD earned a BFA in dance from The Ailey called LANGuage, which is offered as part School/Fordham University, graduating of the company’s programming on tour and with honors, and has performed throughout locally in New York City, focusing on the the country as a member of Ailey II, Nai- Queens community. Ni Chen Dance Company and Adams Company Dance. Fiorenza has danced at As one of the most celebrated choreographers the Metropolitan Opera in its productions of her generation, Lang choreographs of Turandot and Mark Morris’ Orfeo ed and teaches throughout the world. She Euridice. She has performed with the Mark has created original works for companies Morris Dance Group in Romeo & Juliet: On including American Ballet Theatre, Alvin Motifs of Shakespeare, The Hard Nut, and Ailey American Dance Theater, Pacific L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, and Northwest Ballet, Birmingham Royal appeared with MMDG in the television Ballet, the National Ballet of Japan, and debut of L’Allegro which aired in March Joffrey, among many others. Lang has also 2015 on PBS’s Great Performances. In 2011, worked in opera on the production Aida, Fiorenza became a founding member of directed by Francesca Zambello, for San JLD. She has also worked with Lang in Francisco Opera and Washington National collaboration with visual artist Shinichi Opera. She is the recipient of a 2014 Bessie Maruyama, appearing in the film White. Award and the 2017 Arison Award. EVE JACOBS (Dancer) is an NYC based- Lang grew up in Bucks County, PA, and has dance artist from Chicago. She trained a diverse dance training background. She is in ballet at North Carolina School of the a graduate of The Juilliard School under Arts and received her BFA in dance from the direction of Benjamin Harkarvy and a The Juilliard School in 2014. At Juilliard, former member of Twyla Tharp’s company Jacobs performed in works by such iconic THARP! choreographers as Pina Bausch, Ohad Naharin, and Lar Lubovitch, and began PATRICK COKER (Dancer) grew up to create her own work. A recipient of the in Chester, Virginia. In May 2014, Coker Hector Zaraspe Prize for Choreography, graduated magna cum laude from the Jacobs’ work has been featured at the Ailey/Fordham BFA program, where Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Brooklyn’s White he apprenticed with Ailey II in his final Wave Dance, in Juilliard’s performing year. He has performed with Cedar Lake educational programs, and in Bridge Contemporary Ballet, Joshua Beamish’s Production Group’s Richard III at Fourth MOVE: the company, Earl Mosley’s Street Theater. Jacobs joined JLD in 2015. Diversity of Dance and the Mark Morris In addition to performing, she has staged Dance Group (in The Hard Nut and

44 Lang’s work for the Des Moines Dance Ballet School. He holds a BFA from the Project and currently assists her for the Purchase College Conservatory of Dance. American Ballet Theater’s Make A Ballet Misko has worked with Kansas City Ballet, program. Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Merce Cunningham Dance Company RUG, KANA KIMURA (Dancer) was born Kazuko Hirabayashi Dance Theater, Adams in Hiroshima, Japan, where she began Company Dance, and Setsuko Kawaguchi her ballet training at the age of four and Ballet, Japan. He has created dances studied contemporary dance with Takako for Take Dance, Bucknell University, Asakawa. After graduating from The and directed his first short dance film, Juilliard School, Kimura worked with Transportation, which was selected for Wally Cardona Quartet. She also appeared Lincoln Center’s Dance on Camera Festival in Nixon in China at The Metropolitan 2013. Misko became a member of JLD in Opera (choreographed by Mark Morris), 2012. In addition to performing the work worked on a dance video performance for of Jessica Lang, Misko has staged her work Shanghai Expo, and has also performed on Rutgers University. with Japanese Arts Organization J-­Collabo in NYC. She was in an off-Broadway show THOMAS RAGLAND (Dancer) of called The Nutcracker Rouge with Company Richmond, VA, began his dance training XIV. In 2011, Kimura became a founding with Annette Holt and the Parks and member of JLD. She has also worked with Recreation City Dance Program. He Lang on collaborative projects with visual continued his training with The School artist Shinichi Maruyama, including the of Richmond Ballet, eventually attending film White and print series Nudes. both its trainee and apprentice programs. Ragland attended the Juilliard Summer LAURA MEAD (Dancer) grew up in Intensive and danced with the City Dance Austin, TX, and Berkeley, CA. She received Troupe. He was a member of Richmond a BFA in dance from The Juilliard School, Ballet for ten seasons. Ragland joined JLD where she performed works by Jessica Lang, in 2017. Ronald K. Brown, Eliot Feld and Paul Taylor, among others. Mead originated the RACHEL SECREST (Dancer) is originally principal role of Betsy in Twyla Tharp’s from Carmel, IN, where she grew up training Broadway musical Come Fly Away, for which under Suzann DeLay. She graduated summa she received an Astaire Award nomination. cum laude from the Ailey/Fordham BFA Mead served as dance captain on a national program with degrees in dance and political tour of Tharp’s Movin’ Out. She has also science. There she had the opportunity to performed with American Repertory Ballet, perform works by Alvin Ailey, Ronald K. the Metropolitan Opera, Morphoses, Post: Brown, Dwight Rhoden, Camille Brown, Ballet, and Los Angeles Dance Project. She and Adam Barruch, among others. She has has helped to stage Lang’s work on various attended training programs at Hubbard schools and companies. Mead has been a Street, Joffrey Ballet, Northwest Dance member of JLD since the full company’s Project, and Springboard Danse Montreal. debut in 2012. Rachel has been a company member with Abarukas, and has worked with Omar MILAN MISKO (Dancer) was raised Roman de Jesus, River North Dance in Missouri, where he began his dance Chicago, and Parsons Dance. In 2017, she training with Jo Noth’s White Oak began working with Jessica Lang Dance, Dance Academy and the Kansas City where she is currently a company member.

Continued on next page. 45 JAMMIE WALKER (Dancer) began his under his given name, Anthony Benedetto, dance training at Western Arkansas Ballet he has three paintings in the permanent under the direction of Melissa Schoenfeld. collection of the Smithsonian Institution He earned his BFA from the University in Washington, D.C.; he has exhibited of Oklahoma School of Dance under the his artwork in museums and galleries direction of Mary Margaret Holt. Walker throughout the world. Whether performing has had the honor of touring in China and in concert for sold-out audiences or painting Austria with Oklahoma Festival Ballet. in his art studio in New York City, Tony He danced with the Dayton Ballet for Bennett has used his exceptional creative three seasons, performing works by such talents to search for “truth and beauty” in choreographers as Septime Webre, Amy his artistry. Seiwart, Jessica Lang, and Stuart Sebastian. He has performed with Dance Grand MORIAH BLACK (Costume Designer) Moultrie as well as with Clawson Dances. is the clothing designer behind ren6; an Walker became a member of JLD in 2016. ethical clothing concept specializing in In addition to performing, Walker has one-of-a-kind garments made from recycled staged Lang’s work on Dayton Ballet and clothing. Like paintings, her pieces are currently assists her for the American Ballet made in the technique or style alluding to Theatre’s Make A Ballet program. décollage. Using a synchronistic application of fabric, her aesthetic reflects culture and current affairs, much like the city walls COLLABORATORS: she reveres. She studied at Central Saint Martins in London and earned her BFA TONY BENNETT’s life and philosophy from Parsons the New School for Design. is the embodiment of the Great American Story. His career as the pre-eminent singer of HAYAT DOMINQUEZ (Sound Design/ the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented. Engineer) originally from Kansas, is a 2nd- He continues to be embraced and loved year graduate student studying audio at the by audiences of all generations. Born in University of Illinois. She’s had the pleasure Queens, NY, in 1926, Mr. Bennett served of working in South Dakota, Colorado, in the Army during World War II and and New Mexico with companies such as marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Selma during the Civil Rights Movement; and the Santa Fe Opera. Hayat worked he was honored by the United Nations with Jessica Lang with sound design and for his humanitarian efforts and ideals. engineering as a part of a creative process As a musical performer, he has received that is unique to the Krannert Center for 19 Grammy Awards, is a Kennedy Center Performing Arts residency at University Honoree and an NEA Jazz Master and, in of Illinois Urbana/Champaign. After 2017, became the first interpretive singer graduating, Hayat plans to move to to receive The Gershwin Prize from the Colorado to freelance in sound design. Library of Congress. With his wife, Susan, ANJA HOSE (Projections Design/Engineer) he established Exploring the Arts to support greatly enjoyed the chance to collaborate arts education in public high schools. with Jessica Lang Dance and José Parla Tony Bennett is also an accomplished painter on us/we. Her passion has always been for whose passion for the visual arts began as a dance, but in recent years she has designed child growing up in Astoria, Queens, and operatic productions with Lyric @ Illinois, has flourished throughout his life. Painting including Don Giovanni, Hansel and Gretel,

46 and The Light in the Piazza. Originally from public collections including, The British beautiful Boulder, CO, she is currently Museum, London, U.K.; The Albright- finishing her MFA in media design at the Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; POLA University of Illinois. Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan; and The National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, BRADON MCDONALD (Costume Cuba. Collaborative projects include the Designer) is a dancer turned designer; he 11th Havana Biennial with Wrinkles of has had a diverse career in the performing the City: Havana, Cuba project, which and visual arts. A graduate of Juilliard, he was completed in 2012 between Parlá and performed with Mark Morris Dance Group French artist JR. Parlá also worked with for a decade, and also with the Limon the Caldera Arts Program at The Portland Dance Company. Upon retiring from the Art Museum, where he collaborated with stage, he returned to the Fashion Institute participating youth for his Signature Roots of Design and Merchandising Los Angeles workshop and installation. where he earned two fashion design degrees. After his success on the Emmy Award- Permanent public arts projects include winning Project Runway Season 12, he has commissions by ONE World Trade Center; been creating custom garments for private the University of Texas at Austin; the clients, designing stage costumes for dance Barclays Center in Brooklyn; Brooklyn and opera productions including ABT, Academy of Music; BAM Fisher; North PNB, and LA Opera, and has a dancewear Carolina State University’s Hunt Library collection: Bradon X Capezio. by Snøhetta; and at Concord City Place, Toronto, Canada. JOSÉ PARLÁ (Artist) is a critically acclaimed, multidisciplinary artist in NICOLE PEARCE (Lighting Designer) painting, large-scale murals, photography, Previously with Jessica Lang: 20 works video and sculpture. Layers of paint, gestural (Jessica Lang Dance, National Ballet drawing and found ephemera combine to of Japan, Pacific Northwest Ballet, & evoke the histories of urban environments. American Ballet Theater). Selected dance Using the backdrop of world cities, he with Mark Morris, Aszure Barton, Robert creates abstractions that can appear to be Battle, Sonya Tayeh, Andrea Miller, John photorealist fragments of what he sees in the Heginbotham, Brian Brooks, Alexander chaos and rush of the metropolis. His work Ekman, Kyle Abraham, & Annabelle Lopez- reflects the ephemeral layers of walls that Ochoa, and companies including Joffrey show a place that was, but no longer is: built Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, Houston Ballet, over, renewed in some other configuration, Hubbard Street, Malpaso, Finnish National in the present, engaging memory and Opera, Gallim, Mark Morris Dance Group, imagination with the contemporary. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, & Nederlands Dance Theater. Selected His work has been exhibited at the High theater credits include work with directors: Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; The SCAD Edward Albee, Maria Mileaf, Amir Nazir Museum of Art, Savannah College of Art Zuabi, Ed Sylvanus Iskandar, & Jade King & Design, GA; The Neuberger Museum Carroll. With companies including The of Art, Purchase, NY; National YoungArts Cherry Lane, The Play Company, McCarter Foundation, Miami, FL; Van Every/ Theater, Long Wharf Theater, Hartford Smith Galleries, Davidson College, NC; Stage, Williamstown Theater Festival, and The Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba, Juilliard School Opera, & Minnesota among others. Parlá’s work is in several Opera. www.nicolepearcedesign.com

Continued on next page. 47 STUART WILSON (Lighting Designer) is areas of theater, dance, and opera in the a lighting design student in the final year Midwest. He is both thrilled and thankful of his master’s program at the University of for the opportunity to work with Jessica Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Originally Lang Dance following the workshop for us/ from Indiana, he has designed and worked we that took place in August of 2018. on professional and academic shows in the

JLD would like to thank its Board of Trustees and generous donors who made tonight’s program possible. We are especially grateful to our Sponsors’ Circle members for making our 2018-19 touring season and the new work we create and present possible:

Underwriting Sponsors Sarah Arison Jay Franke and David Herro Brian J. Heidtke Ann and Weston Hicks

Presenting Sponsors Dau Family Foundation Deidra Wager and Rick Munsen Strelizia Foundation

Supporting Sponsors Charlie and Debra Adelman Helen Melchior Elizabeth and Mark Striebeck

We are also enormously grateful to our major funders, who make everything possible: The New York Community Trust, Howard Gilman Foundation, Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, The SHS Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, the Jerome Robbins Foundation, the Irving Harris Foundation, the O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Dance/NYC and the ArtsCONNECT program of Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. Dancewear and dance shoes courtesy of Gayle Miller & Capezio NYC.

JESSICA LANG DANCE STAFF Jessica Lang, Artistic Director William Wagner, Executive Director Callen Gosselin, Company Manager Daniel Diller, Production and Stage Manager Julie Fiorenza, Administrative Assistant Milan Misko, Video Content Manager Jim Lang, Graphic Designer Allan Hatta, Website Developer Tina Fehlandt, Charla Genn, Lauren Grant, David Leventhal, Therese Wendler, William Whitener, Megan Williams, Company Class Teachers

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