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6-18-2015

Analogy/Dora: Tramontane

Office of Arts + Cultural Programming

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Part of the Theatre and Performance Studies Commons Dr. Susan A. Cole, President Daniel Gurskis, Dean, College of the Arts Staff Jedediah Wheeler, Executive Director, Arts & Cultural Programming Office of Arts & Cultural Programming College of the Arts Executive Director Jedediah Wheeler Dean Daniel Gurskis Executive Producer Jill Dombrowski Associate Dean Ronald L. Sharps World Premiere! Production/Facility Manager J. Ryan Graves Assistant Dean Linda D. Davidson Cultural Engagement Director Carrie Urbanic Director of Administration Marie Sparks World Premiere! Business Manager Stephanie Haggerstone College Administrator Zacrah S. Battle Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company Media and Marketing Specialist Amy Estes Executive Assistant to the Dean Alyson Thelin Director of Audience Services Robert Hermida Program Assistant Kilolo Kumanyika Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company Technical Director Colin Van Horn Art and Design Aissa Deebi Analogy/Dora: Tramontane Audio Visual Engineer Erik Trester John J. Cali School of Music Jon Robert Cart Cultural Engagement Assistant Hannah Rolfes School of Communication and Media Merrill Brown Production Associate Gillian P. Holmes Theatre and Dance Randy Mugleston Analogy/Dora: Tramontane Film Project Coordinator Omonike Akinyemi Broadcast and Digital Media Facilities Nick Tzanis Conceived and Directed by Bill T. Jones Box Office ManagerPierson Van Raalte University Art Galleries Teresa Rodriguez Choreographed by Bill T. Jones with Janet Wong and the Company House Manager Maureen Grimaldi Text based on an oral history conducted by Bill T. Jones with Dora Amelan Graphics Patrick Flood/pfloodesign.com Original Score Composed by Nick Hallett Press Manny Igrejas PR Décor by Bjorn G. Amelan Program Editor Susan R. Case Production Run Crew Laura Chrismon, Jeff Cierniak, Lighting Design by Robert Wierzel Jesse Haack, Rocco Terranova, Benjamin Weill Costume Design by Liz Prince Sound Design by Sam Crawford Associate Set Design by Solomon Weisbard

The Company Antonio Brown, Rena Butler, Cain Coleman, Jr., Talli Jackson, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, I-Ling Liu, Major Donors Erick Montes-Chavero, Joseph Poulson, Jenna Riegel Alexander Kasser Theater Benefactors Founders Arlene Allen Music performed by Nick Hallett and Emily Manzo Mary Mochary Bank of America I. Michael Kasser John and Cynthia Barnes Grace Lyon Concialdi Production Stacey Boggs,* Sam Crawford, Carley Manion, Scott Sloan Alexandra and Seth Bergstein Matthew Mochary Jean Hall *Member of the United Scenic Artists Union (USA). ______The Hillier Group Automatic Data Processing Audrey V. Leef Analogy/Dora: Tramontane is the first installment in a trilogy titledAnalogy: A Trilogy. The work is based Doris and Felix Beck The Prudential Insurance Company of America on an oral history conducted with Dora Amelan around 2002. Robert and Barbara Constable Schering-Plough Research Institute Andrew Constable Wachovia Bank Musical excerpts from: Franz Schubert, “Nachtstück,” “Alinde,” and “Nähe des Geliebten”; George and Linda Hiltzik Josh and Judy Weston Charles Trenet, “Le Soleil et la Lune”; Jean Lenoir, “Parlez-moi d’amour”; Anna Marly, Montclair State University Alumni Association Margaret and Herman Sokol “Le Chant des partisans, ou Chant de la libération.” Jack and Jeanette Sullivan

Arts and Cultural Programming at Montclair State University is honored to have been awarded a 2015 Citation of Excellence from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts for achieving the highest standard of excellence as recognized by our peers. The 2014/15 season is made possible in part by funds from: Photo of Dora Amelan (right) and her friend Esther (1937). Commissioned by Peak Performances @ Montclair State (NJ). Co-commissioned by Dancers’ Workshop and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Developed in residence at the Alexander Kasser Theater at Montclair State University, Bard College, and Dancers’ Workshop in The New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, Jackson Hole, Wyoming. a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts June 18–21, 2015 Analogy: A Trilogy is produced by New York Live Arts. The development of new works by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Discover Jersey Arts Company is made possible by the Company’s Partners in Creation: Ellen Poss, Jane Bovingdon Semel & Terry Semel, National Dance Project (NDP) of the New England Foundation for the Arts Anne Delaney, Stephen & Ruth Hendel, Eleanor Friedman, and Zoe Eskin. Support is also provided by The O’Donnell-Greene Alexander Kasser Theater Music and Dance Foundation; the MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Alison and James T. Cirenza and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; Robert and Holly Gregory and the New York State Council on the Arts. The Honorable Mary Mochary The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company extends special thanks to Pauline Kim Harris and Mary Way. To view our complete season and for more information, visit peakperfs.org. Duration: 80 minutes, no intermission. In consideration of both audience and performers, please turn off all electronic devices. The taking of photographs or videos and @peakperfs the use of recording equipment are not permitted. No food or drink is permitted in the theater. Larry Keigwin, and many others. Brown also has worked I-Ling Liu (Dancer), a native of Taiwan, received About the Artists with Malcolm Low/Formal Structure, Stephen Pier, Nilas her BFA from Taipei National University of the Arts in About the Company Martins Dance Company, Sidra Bell Dance New York, 2005. She has performed with Ku and Dancers, Taipei and Camille A. Brown & Dancers. Brown performs with Crossover Dance Company, Image in Motion Theater Bill T. Jones (Co-Founder/Artistic Director/ residency at the New Museum of Contemporary Art’s Over the past 33 years the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Resident Lighting Designer Robert Wierzel Gregory Dolbashian’s The DASH Ensemble and has Company, Neo-Classic Dance Company, and in works Choreographer) is the recipient of the 2014 Doris Duke theater, and his work was included in Performa’s 2007 Zane Dance Company has shaped the evolution Resident Costume Designer Liz Prince choreographed on Verb Ballets, August Wilson Center by Trisha Brown, Lin Hwai-min, and Yang Ming-Lung. Performing Artist Award; the 2013 National Medal of and 2009 biennials. Upcoming projects include a of contemporary dance through the creation and Artistic Consultant Bill Katz Dance Ensemble, and Perry Mansfield Performing Arts Liu joined the Company as an apprentice in 2007 and Arts Award; 2010 Kennedy Center Honors; a 2010 Tony collaboration with Argentine choreographer Luciana performance of over 140 works. Founded as a School and Camp, among others. His work has been became a member in 2008. Acuña, to be presented this September at the Festival multicultural dance company in 1982, the company Programming, Producing, and Engagement Award for Best Choreography of the critically acclaimed shown at The Juilliard School, Center for Performance FELA!; a 2007 Tony Award, 2007 Obie Award, and International de Théâtre de Buenos Aires. was born of an 11-year artistic collaboration between Interim Director of Education and Engagement Research, NYC Summer Stage, Riverside Church, and Erick Montes-Chavero (Senior Dancer), originally 2006 Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane. Today, the company is Alexander Thompson Hunter College. Brown joined the Company in 2007. from Mexico City, trained at the National School of Callaway Award for his choreography for Spring Bjorn G. Amelan (Décor/Creative Director) was the recognized as one of the most innovative and powerful Producing Manager Isabella Hrelijanovic Classical and Contemporary Dance. He has been part Awakening; the 2010 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award; the partner of the late fashion designer Patrick Kelly from forces in the modern dance world. The company has Associate Artist Program Manager Rakia Seaborn Rena Butler (Dancer) is a native of Chicago, IL. She of the River to River Festival, with DJ Spooky, and the 2007 USA Eileen Harris Norton Fellowship; the 2006 1983 until Kelly’s death in 1990. Amelan moved to the performed its ever-enlarging repertoire worldwide in studied under Anna Paskevska and Randy Duncan Boogie Down Dance Series at the Bronx Academy of Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreography United States to begin his collaboration with Bill T. over 200 cities in 30 countries on every major continent. Production at the Chicago Academy for the Arts high school and Arts and Dance and has presented work in collaboration for The Seven; the 2005 Wexner Prize; the 2005 Jones in 1993. He has designed sets for the following In 2011, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company Director of Production Anita Shah received her BFA from SUNY Purchase Conservatory with choreographers Bill Young and Colleen Thomas for Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Bill T. Jones works: Green and Blue (1997, Lyon Opera merged with Dance Theater Workshop to form New York Technical Director Michael Zimmerman of Dance. While at Purchase, she had the honor of the Gorillas Fest and the LIT Festival, The Tank @ DCTV, Lifetime Achievement; the 2005 Harlem Renaissance Ballet), How! Do! We! Do! (1999) for Bill T. Jones and Live Arts, of which Bill T. Jones is the artistic director. Lighting Supervisor Laura Bickford studying at Taipei National University of the Arts in and E-Moves at the Harlem Stage Gatehouse. In 2010 Award; the 2003 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize; and Jessye Norman in conjunction with Lincoln Center’s Taiwan. She graduated cum laude and was the recipient he collaborated with choreographers Jennifer Nugent the 1994 MacArthur “Genius” Award. In 2010, Jones Great Performers series, You Walk? (2000), New York Live Arts is an internationally recognized Development of the Bert Terborgh Dance Award. Butler has danced and Yin Mei on a ballet for the National Dance Academy was recognized as Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des The Table Project (2001), Another Evening (2002), destination for innovative movement-based artistry, Chief Development OfficerDavid Archuletta with Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion, David Dorfman of Beijing, China. He holds a fellowship in choreography Lettres by the French government, and in 2000, the Verbum (2002), World Without/In (2002), Black Suzanne offering audiences access to art and artists notable Manager of Institutional Giving Dance, Luna Negra Dance Theater, Mettin Movement from the New York Foundation for the Arts and has Dance Heritage Coalition named him “An Irreplaceable (2002), Reading, Mercy, and The Artificial Nigger (2003), for their conceptual rigor, format experimentation, Royd Climenhaga Word Collective, and the salsa dance company Pasos con presented his choreography in Mexico, Colombia, and Dance Treasure.” Jones choreographed and performed Mercy 10 x 8 on a Circle (2003), Chaconne (2003), and and active engagement with the social, political, and Development Assistant Alexandra Burke Sabor. She was featured in Dance Magazine’s article Spain. Montes-Chavero joined the Company in 2003. worldwide with his late partner, Arnie Zane, before Blind Date (2005) for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance cultural currents of our times. Inspired by the legacies “On the Rise” in March 2013. forming the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company Company. Amelan received the 2001 New York Dance of Bill T. Jones and Dance Theater Workshop, New York Marketing & Public Relations Joseph Poulson (Dancer), originally from in 1982. He has created more than 140 works for his and Performance “Bessie” Award for his designs for Live Arts is a vibrant hub of contemporary dance- and Director of Marketing and Design Cain Coleman, Jr. (Dancer) started his dance Philadelphia, PA, received undergraduate and graduate company. In 2011, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance The Breathing Show and The Table Project. movement-based experimentation, offering audiences Liliana Dirks-Goodman training at the Center for the Arts at Henrico High. He degrees from the University of Iowa and Bennington Company merged with Dance Theater Workshop to meaningful experiences that are both thought-provoking Associate Director of Communications later joined the City Dance Theatre of Richmond, VA. College, respectively. From 2000 to 2010, he was a form New York Live Arts, of which Jones is the artistic Robert Wierzel (Lighting Designer) has worked and intimate. It commissions, produces, and presents Elizabeth Cooke After training at the Conservatory of Dance at SUNY member of Susan Marshall & Company, David Dorfman director. with artists in theater, dance, new music, opera, and performances in its Manhattan facility, which houses Marketing Manager Katie Jennings Purchase, he began dancing with Philadanco and the Dance, Bill Young/Colleen Thomas & Dancers, Creach/ museums, on stages throughout the country and a 184-seat theater and two sizable studios that can Martha Graham Dance Company. He has performed Company, and A Canary Torsi, receiving a New York Arnie Zane (Co-Founder/Choreographer) (1948– abroad. He has worked with Bill T. Jones and his be combined into one large studio. New York Live Operations & Finance works by Paul Taylor, George Balanchine, Martha Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award in 2009. He 1988) was a native New Yorker born in the Bronx company since 1985. Projects include Blind Date, Arts serves as home base for Jones’s internationally General Management Consultant Andrea Nellis Graham, Talley Beaty, George Faison, Christopher has also performed with Elena Demyanenko, Jeanine and educated at the State University of New York at Another Evening/I Bow Down, Still/Here, You Walk?, Last acclaimed touring company, provides an extensive Executive Assistant/Board Liason Tyler Ashley Huggins, Ray Mercer, and many more. He has been Durning, Mark Morris Dance Group, Lisa Race, Binghamton. In 1971, Arnie Zane and Bill T. Jones began Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land, How to range of participatory programs for adults and young Director of Finance & Administration Donald Heath seen on Good Morning America, Good Morning New Susan Scorbatti, Peter Schmitz, Wil Swanson, and their long collaboration in choreography and in 1973 Walk an Elephant, and We Set Out Early…Visibility Was people, and supports the continuing professional Associate Director of Finance & Human Resources York, and So You Think You Can Dance. As an emerging Punchdrunk’s New York production of Sleep No More. formed the American Dance Asylum in Binghamton Poor. Other works with Bill T. Jones include projects development of artists. newyorklivearts.org Nupur Dey choreographer, he has presented works at Purchase Poulson joined the Company in 2012. with Lois Welk. Zane’s first recognition in the arts came at the Guthrie Theater, Lyon Opera Ballet, Deutsche Bookkeeper Jeff Berzon College, Regional Dance Association, The Girl Effect as a photographer when he received a Creative Artists Opera Ballet (Berlin), Boston Ballet, Boston Lyric Opera, New York Live Arts Rental Coordinator Alyssa Alpine Project, and Bare Bones Dance Project. Coleman joined Jenna Riegel (Dancer), a native of Fairfield, IA, has Public Service (CAPS) Fellowship in 1973. Zane was the Welsh dance company Diversions, and London’s Artistic Director Bill T. Jones Operations Coordinator Stephanie Walker the Company in 2014. been a New York–based dancer, performer, and teacher the recipient of a second CAPS Fellowship in 1981 for Contemporary Dance Trust. Wierzel has also worked Executive Director & CEO Jean Davidson Receptionist Samantha Lysaght & Xavier Hageman since 2007. She holds an MFA in Dance Performance choreography as well as two Choreographic Fellowships with choreographers Trisha Brown, Doug Varone, Donna Interim Executive Director Kim Cullen Talli Jackson (Dancer) was born and raised in from the University of Iowa and a BA in Theatre Arts from the National Endowment for the Arts (1983 and Uchizono, Larry Goldhuber, Heidi Latsky, Seán Curran, Director of Programs Tommy O. Kreigsman Audience Services Liberty, NY, and received his first training with Livia from Maharishi University of Management. She has 1984). In 1980, Zane was co-recipient, with Bill T. Molissa Fenley, Susan Marshall, Margo Sappington, Audience Services Manager Christine Jacobsen Vanaver at the Vanaver Caravan Dance Institute in performed and toured nationally and internationally as a Jones, of the German Critics Award for his work Blauvelt Alonzo King, and JoAnn Fregalette Jansen. Wierzel is Board of Directors Richard H. Levy, Board Chair; Front of House Assistant Renee Colbert upstate New York. He was a recipient of full scholarships company member of David Dorfman Dance, Alexandra Mountain. Rotary Action, a duet with Jones, was filmed currently on the faculty of New York University’s Tisch Helen Haje, Stephen Hendel, Vice Chairs; House Manager Shantelle Jackson from the American Dance Festival in 2006 and 2008, Beller/Dances, Bill Young/Colleen Thomas & Dancers, for television, co-produced by WGBH-TV Boston and School of the Arts and the Yale School of Drama. Helen Mills, Treasurer; Terence Dougherty, House Manager Tony Carlson the Bates Dance Festival, and The Ailey School. Since johannes weiland, and Tania Isaac Dance. Riegel began Channel 4 in London. Secretary; Jean Davidson, Chief Executive Officer; Head Usher Xavier Hageman moving to New York City in 2006, Jackson has had working with the Company as a guest artist in 2010 and Liz Prince (Costume Designer) has worked Bjorn G. Amelan, Sarah Arison, Derek Brown, Front of House Staff Tony Carlson, Tyra Jackson, the pleasure of working with Francesca Harper, Paul was ecstatic to join the Company in 2011. (Associate Artistic Director) was born extensively with Bill T. Jones since 1990. She has Muna El Fituri, Bill T. Jones, Colleen Keegan, Sarah Lass, Denisa Musilova, Eli Tomondong, Janet Wong Matteson, and Erick Montes-Chavero. In 2013, he was in Hong Kong and trained in Hong Kong and London. also designed for Doug Varone and Dancers, José Slobodan Randjelovic, Jane Bovingdon Semel, Nehemoyia Young honored with a Princess Grace Award in dance and was Emily Manzo (Pianist) frequently performs Upon graduation she joined the Berlin Ballet, where Limón Dance Company, Dayton Contemporary Dance Catharine R. Stimpson, David Thomson, nominated for a Clive Barnes Award. He has been a throughout the US and Europe in concerts and festivals she first met Bill T. Jones when he was invited to Company, American Ballet Theatre, Washington Ballet, Kweli Washington Consultants member of the Company since 2009. of chamber music, experimental music, and rock music. choreograph on the company. In 1993, she moved Pennsylvania Ballet, PHILADANCO, Houston Ballet, Certified Public AccountantsMarcum LLP, Inc. She is a member of the Julius Eastman Memory Depot, to New York to pursue other interests. Wong became Dendy Dance, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Dortmund Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company Fundraising Kosyn & Company Shayla-Vie Jenkins (Senior Dancer), originally from Till by Turning, and Christy & Emily. She has composed rehearsal director of the Company in 1996 and associate Theater Ballet, Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Co-Founder and Artistic Director Bill T. Jones Photographer Ian Douglas Ewing, NJ, received her primary dance instruction from music for dance with Anna Sperber and Katie Eastburn artistic director in August 2006. Project, Meg Stuart, Lucy Guerin, Tamar Rogoff, Claire Associate Artistic Director Janet Wong Pro-Bono Counsel Lowenstein Sandler, PC the Watson Johnson Dance Theatre and Mercer County and has premiered the works of John Luther Adams, Danes, Pilobolus, Neil Greenberg, Jane Comfort, Bebe Creative Director Bjorn G. Amelan Performing Arts School. In 2004, she graduated with Susie Ibarra, Matthew Welch, Daniel Felsenfeld, and Nick Hallett (Composer) is a composer, Miller, Ralph Lemon, and David Dorfman. Her costumes Director of Producing and Touring Kyle Maude North American representation by Opus 3 Artists, honors from the Ailey/Fordham BFA program. She has many others. As a vocalist and pianist, she can be cultural producer, and vocalist. His original operas have been exhibited at the New York Public Library for Lighting Director Stacey Boggs opus3artists.com. performed with The Kevin Wynn Collection, Nathan heard on Tzadik, New Amsterdam Records, SHSK’H, include Whispering Pines 10, a collaboration with artist the Performing Arts, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Sound Supervisor Sam Crawford European representation by Gillian Newson, DanceArts Trice/RITUALS, Kazuko Hirabayashi, The Francesca The Social Registry, Big Print, Klangbad, Merge, Shana Moulton, which premiered at The Kitchen, toured Art, and Snug Harbor Cultural Center. Stage Manager Carley Manion UK/MSM Ltd., [email protected]. Harper Project, Yaa Samar! Dance Theater, and A and Jagjaguwar. She holds degrees from the Oberlin art museums and performance venues across the United Company Manager Hannah Emerson Canary Torsi. In 2008, she was featured as one of Dance Conservatory of Music and Columbia University. States and Europe, and received a Creative Capital grant Antonio Brown (Dancer), a native of Cleveland, OH, Magazine’s “On the Rise” performers. Jenkins joined the With funding from the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman to be adapted for the Internet. He is the music director of began his dance training at the Cleveland School of the Company in 2005. Foundation, she recently developed the Hey, Chopin! the Joshua Light Show, which appears internationally, Arts and received his BFA from The Juilliard School Educational project. emilymanzo.com, heychopin.com and the co-director of the celebrated Darmstadt new in 2007. While there, he performed works by Ohad music series. In 2009, Hallett held the first artist Naharin, José Limón, Jir˘í Kylián, Susan Marshall,