Segerstrom Center for the Arts presents

SEGERSTROM HALL June 14–15, 2019 MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP Friday at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at 2 & 7:30 p.m. PEPPERLAND

MICA BERNAS SAM BLACK KARLIE BUDGE* BRANDON COURNAY JOHN EIRICH DOMINGO ESTRADA, JR. LESLEY GARRISON LAUREN GRANT SARAH HAARMANN DEEPA LIEGEL* AARON LOUX LAUREL LYNCH DALLAS McMURRAY MINGA PRATHER* BRANDON RANDOLPH NICOLE SABELLA CHRISTINA SAHAIDA BILLY SMITH NOAH VINSON *apprentice

MMDG MUSIC ENSEMBLE CLINTON CURTIS COLIN FOWLER JACOB GARCHIK SAM NEWSOME ROB SCHWIMMER GEORGE SHEVTSOV VINNIE SPERRAZZA

Artistic Director MARK MORRIS Executive Director NANCY UMANOFF

The Center applauds:

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PEPPERLAND Pepperland is a Mark Morris Dance Group production in association with Music: Original songs by The Beatles, arr. by Ethan Iverson* Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Costa Original compositions by Ethan Iverson† Mesa, California; American Dance Festival, Durham, North Carolina; Choreography: Mark Morris BAM, Brooklyn, New York; Banff Set Design: Johan Henckens Centre for Arts and Creativity with Costume Design: Elizabeth Kurtzman the Sony Centre, Toronto, Canada; Lighting Design: Nick Kolin Cal Performances, UC Berkeley, Assistant to Mr. Morris: Aaron Loux California; Celebrity Series of Boston, Massachusetts; The City of Liverpool, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band* England, U.K.; Dance Consortium Magna Carta† UK; Hopkins Center for the Arts, With a Little Help from My Friends* Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Adagio† Hampshire; International Festival When I’m Sixty-Four* of Arts & Ideas, New Haven, Allegro† Connecticut; The John F. Kennedy Within You Without You* Center for the Performing Arts, Scherzo† Washington, D.C.; Krannert Center Wilbur Scoville† for the Performing Arts, University of Penny Lane* Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; La Jolla A Day in the Life* Music Society, La Jolla, California; Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band* Meyer Sound, Berkeley, California; Seattle Theatre Group, Seattle, Clinton Curtis, vocals; Sam Newsome, soprano saxophone; Washington; UCSB Arts & Lectures, Jacob Garchik, trombone; Rob Schwimmer, theremin; Santa Barbara, California; and White Colin Fowler, piano; George Shevtsov, keyboard; Vinnie Sperrazza, percussion Bird, Portland, Oregon.

Mica Bernas, Sam Black, Karlie Budge, Brandon Cournay, John Eirich, Pepperland is supported in part by Domingo Estrada, Jr., Lesley Garrison, Lauren Grant, Laurel Lynch, Friends of MMDG, the Howard Gilman Dallas McMurray, Brandon Randolph, Nicole Sabella, Christina Sahaida, Foundation, PARC Foundation, and Billy Smith, Noah Vinson New Music USA. Music commissioned by the Charles and Joan Gross Original music by The Beatles. All Rights Reserved. Family Foundation. The premiere Used by permission from Sony Music Publishing. engagement was supported by funding from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Howard Gilman Foundation.

This evening’s program will be performed without an intermission.

2 ABOUT THE COMPANY

honorary doctorates to date. He has taught Dance Festival, regularly performs at Lincoln at the University of Washington, Princeton Center for the Performing Arts’ Mostly Mozart University, and Tanglewood Music Center. He and White Light Festivals, and collaborates is a member of the American Academy of Arts yearly with BAM on performances and and Sciences and the American Philosophical master classes. From the company’s many Society, and has served as an Advisory Board London seasons, it has received two Laurence Member for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Olivier Awards and a Critics’ Circle Dance Arts Initiative. Morris has received the Samuel Award for Best Foreign Dance Company. H. Scripps/American Dance Festival Award for Reflecting Morris’ commitment to live music, Lifetime Achievement, the Leonard Bernstein the Dance Group has featured live musicians Lifetime Achievement Award for the Elevation in every performance since the formation of Music in Society, the Benjamin Franklin of the MMDG Music Ensemble in 1996. Laureate Prize for Creativity, the International MMDG regularly collaborates with renowned Society for the Performing Arts’ Distinguished musicians, including cellist Yo-Yo Ma, pianist Artist Award, Cal Performances Award Emanuel Ax, mezzo-soprano Stephanie of Distinction in the Performing Arts, the Blythe, and jazz trio The Bad Plus, as well Orchestra of St. Luke’s Gift of Music Award, as leading orchestras and opera companies, and the 2016 Doris Duke Artist Award. In including the Metropolitan Opera, English MARK MORRIS was born on August 29, 2015, Mark Morris was inducted into the Mr. National Opera, and the London Symphony 1956, in Seattle, Washington, where he studied and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall Orchestra. MMDG frequently works with with Verla Flowers and Perry Brunson. In the of Fame at the National Museum of Dance in distinguished artists and designers, including early years of his career, he performed with Saratoga Springs, New York. Morris opened painters Robert Bordo and the late Howard the companies of Lar Lubovitch, Hannah the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn, Hodgkin, set designers Adrianne Lobel and Kahn, Laura Dean, Eliot Feld, and the Koleda New York, in 2001 to provide a home for his Allen Moyer, costume designers Martin Balkan Dance Ensemble. He formed the company, subsidized rental space for local Pakledinaz and Isaac Mizrahi, and many Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG) in artists, outreach programs for children and others. MMDG’s film and television projects 1980, and has since created over 150 works seniors, and a school offering dance classes to include Dido and Aeneas, The Hard Nut, for the company. From 1988 to 1991, he was students of all ages and abilities. Falling Down Stairs, two documentaries for Director of Dance at Brussels’ Théâtre Royal the U.K.’s South Bank Show, and PBS’ Live de la Monnaie, the national opera house of The MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP was from Lincoln Center. In 2015 Morris’ signature Belgium. In 1990, he founded the White Oak formed in 1980 and gave its first performance work L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato had Dance Project with Mikhail Baryshnikov. that year in New York City. The company’s its national television premiere on PBS’ Great Much in demand as a ballet choreographer, touring schedule steadily expanded to include Performances. While on tour the Dance Group Morris has created 22 ballets since 1986 and cities in the United States and around the partners with local cultural institutions and his work has been performed by companies world, and in 1986 it made its first national community organizations to present arts and worldwide, including San Francisco Ballet, television program for the PBS series Dance humanities-based activities for people of all American Ballet Theatre, Ballet du Grand in America. In 1988, MMDG was invited ages and abilities. Théâtre de Genève, and the Royal New to become the national dance company of Zealand Ballet. Noted for his musicality, Belgium, and spent three years in residence The MMDG MUSIC ENSEMBLE, formed in Morris has been described as “undeviating in at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in 1996, is integral to the Dance Group. “With his devotion to music” (The New Yorker). He Brussels. The Dance Group returned to the the dancers come the musicians… and what a began conducting performances for MMDG in United States in 1991 as one of the world’s difference it makes” (Classical Voice of North 2006 and has since conducted at Tanglewood leading dance companies. Based in Brooklyn, Carolina). The Ensemble’s repertory ranges Music Center, Lincoln Center, and BAM New York, MMDG maintains strong ties to from 17th and 18th century works by John (Brooklyn Academy of Music). He served presenters in several cities around the world, Wilson and Henry Purcell to more recent as Music Director for the 2013 Ojai Music most notably to its West Coast home, Cal scores by Ethan Iverson, Lou Harrison, and Festival. He also works extensively in opera, Performances in Berkeley, California, and its Henry Cowell. The musicians also participate directing and choreographing productions Midwest home, the Krannert Center for the in the Dance Group’s educational and for the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Performing Arts at the University of Illinois community programming at home and on Opera, English National Opera, and The at Urbana-Champaign. MMDG also appears tour. The Music Ensemble is led by Colin Royal Opera, Covent Garden, among others. regularly in New York, Boston, Seattle, and Fowler, who began to collaborate with MMDG He was named a Fellow of the MacArthur Fairfax. In New York, the company has in 2005 during the creation of Mozart Dances. Foundation in 1991 and has received eleven performed at New York City Center’s Fall for ABOUT THE ARTISTS

COLIN FOWLER (music Gallim Dance, Barkin/Selissen Project, and BRANDON COURNAY director, piano) began his Carolyn Dorfman Dance (2007–2013). She was is originally from Walled musical study at the age a guest artist with the Limón Dance Company, Lake, Michigan, and of five in Kansas City and performing at the 2013 Bienal Internacional received his B.F.A. from went on to study at the de Danza de Cali in Bogotá, Colombia; The Juilliard School. prestigious Interlochen Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater; and As a freelance artist, he Arts Academy. He at The Joyce Theater for the company’s 70th has performed with the continued his education Anniversary in 2015. Bernas also teaches at the Radio City Christmas at The Juilliard School, Limón Institute and has been on the faculty Spectacular, the Mark where he received his bachelor of music in for BIMA at Brandeis University since 2011. Morris Dance Group, Morphoses, The 2003 and his master of music in 2005. While at She joined MMDG as an apprentice in January Metropolitan Opera, New York Theatre Juilliard, he studied piano with Abbey Simon, 2017 and became a company member in Ballet, The Chase Brock Experience, Schoen organ with Gerre Hancock and Paul Jacobs, August 2017. Movement Company, Dance Heginbotham, harpsichord with Lionel Party, and conducting and KEIGWIN + COMPANY. TV/film/ with James dePriest and Judith Clurman. A SAM BLACK is originally industrial credits include PBS’ Great versatile musician and conductor, Fowler from Berkeley, California, Performances, Musical Chairs (HBO), Puma, works in many areas of the music scene in where he began studying Sesame Street, and Target. As an educator New York City. He is a veteran of numerous tap at the age of nine and répétiteur, he has worked with The Broadway shows, most recently performing with Katie Maltsberger. Pennsylvania Ballet, Whim W’Him, The in the Tony Award winning musical He received his B.F.A. Juilliard School/Nord Anglia Education, and Jersey Boys. A seasoned church musician, in dance from SUNY universities nationwide. Offstage, he has Fowler is currently the organist at Marble Purchase, and currently worked with companies in multiple capacities Collegiate Church on Fifth Avenue and also teaches MMDG master from artistic direction to administrative leads services and concerts at Park Avenue classes and Dance for PD®. He first appeared management. For many years, he was the Synagogue, where he has served as Music with MMDG in 2005 and became a company Rehearsal Director and Associate Artistic Director since 2012. As a classical soloist member in 2007. Director of KEIGWIN + COMPANY. and collaborative artist, he has performed In addition, he has assisted numerous and recorded with many world-renowned KARLIE BUDGE choreographers on creative projects in theatre, musicians and ensembles, including Deborah grew up in Knoxville, film, and dance. He joined MMDG as an Voigt and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He Tennessee, dancing with apprentice in March 2018 and became a began to collaborate with the Mark Morris the Tennessee Children’s company member in October 2018. Dance Group in 2005 and has since then Dance Ensemble (TCDE). performed over 40 pieces with the company She graduated magna CLINTON CURTIS on almost every keyboard instrument possible, cum laude with a B.A. (baritone) is a multi- including the harmonium and toy piano, in dance and B.S. in genre singer, musician, and has conducted performances of Mozart statistics in 2016 from and songwriter originally Dances, Acis and Galatea, and The Hard Nut. Case Western Reserve University and danced from Key West, Florida. Hailed by The New York Times as “invaluable” with Graham 2 dance company. Budge has As a choral singer and “central to Morris’ music,” he was performed works by Mark Morris, Pascal he has worked with appointed music director in 2013. Rioult, Larry Keigwin, Martha Graham, Ted many of the world’s Shawn, Bertram Ross, Virginie Mecene, luminary conductors MICA BERNAS, Adam Barruch, Michael Mao, and Randy and orchestras, most recently including originally from Manila, Duncan. She has presented her choreography engagements with the New York Philippines, received her throughout New York City in Playscape2016, Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, and San training at the Cultural NEXT@Graham, NYC10, SoloDuo Festival, Francisco Symphony. March 2016 marked his Center of the Philippines and four Martha Graham School showings. operatic debut in Curlew River for the Mark Dance School. She later She received the Pearl Lang Award for Morris Dance Group. As a popular songwriter joined Ballet Philippines Excellence in Choreography in 2017. Budge and frontman for The Clinton Curtis Band as member of the corps joined MMDG as an apprentice in September he has toured internationally as a cultural de ballet, performing as 2018. ambassador with the U.S. Department of State. a soloist from 2001–2006. Since moving to He has released five original studio albums New York in 2006, Bernas has worked with available at music.clintoncurtis.com. Marta Renzi Dance, Armitage Gone Dance, 4 JOHN EIRICH was He has released four albums as a leader, In addition to staging Morris’ repertory on his raised in Florida where including The Heavens: The Atheist Gospel company and at universities, Grant teaches he earned his B.F.A. in Trombone Album. He co-leads Brooklyn’s ballet and modern technique for numerous dance from New World premiere Mexican brass band, Banda de los professional dance companies and schools School of the Arts and Muertos. Since 2006 Garchik has contributed around the globe and is an adjunct faculty was a student at Jacob’s dozens of arrangements and transcriptions member at Montclair State University. Her Pillow Contemporary for Kronos Quartet of music from all over writing has been published in the journals Traditions Program. He the world. His arrangements were featured Dance Education in Practice, Ballet Review, was a member of Taylor 2 on Floodplain, Rainbow, and A Thousand Dance Enthusiast, Dance Magazine, and from 2006-2010, has been a member of TAKE Thoughts. He composed the score for Kronos InfiniteBody. She also serves as a panelist Dance since 2007, and joined Dušan Týnek for the documentaries The Campaign and for the New York State Council on the Arts. Dance Theatre in 2010 and Megan Williams Green Fog directed by Guy Maddin. He has Grant earned her M.F.A. in Dance from Dance in 2017. He has performed in The Magic created arrangements for vocalists Anne Montclair State University (where she was Flute at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis Sofie von Otter, Angelique Kidjo, Laurie a member of the Alpha Epsilon Lambda directed by Isaac Mizrahi (2014), Missa Brevis Anderson, Rhiannon Giddens, kd lang, Natalie Honor Society) and her B.F.A. in Dance with Limón Dance Company, and L’Allegro, Merchant, Tanya Tagaq, and Alim Qasimov. from New York University’s Tisch School of il Penseroso, ed il Moderato and The Hard Nut As a trombonist Garchik has worked with the Arts. She is a recipient of the prestigious with the Mark Morris Dance Group. He is a many luminaries of the avant-garde, including American Association of University Women founding member of Dance Heginbotham. Henry Threadgill, Laurie Anderson, Anthony Career Development Grant, the Sono Osato Braxton, Anthony Coleman, Joe Maneri, Frank Scholarship for Graduate Studies, and the DOMINGO ESTRADA, London, James Tenney, Terry Reilly, and Caroline Newhouse Grant—all in support JR., a native of Victoria, George Lewis. He has also played in ensembles of her scholarly pursuits. Originally from Texas, studied martial led by emerging artists Mary Halvorson, Darcy Highland Park, Illinois, she lives in Brooklyn, arts and earned his James Argue, Dan Weiss, Miguel Zenon, and New York with her husband David Leventhal black belt in 1994. He Steve Lehman, and has been named a “Rising (former MMDG dancer and current Dance for danced ballet folklorico Star” in the Downbeat Jazz Critic’s Poll. PD® Program Director) and their son, born in through his church for 2012. eleven years. Estrada LESLEY GARRISON earned his B.F.A. in ballet grew up in Swansea, SARAH HAARMANN and modern dance from Texas Christian Illinois, and received her grew up in Macungie, University and had the honor of working early dance training at the Pennsylvania and with the late Fernando Bujones. During Center of Creative Arts received training at his undergraduate studies, he attended the in St. Louis, Missouri, the Lehigh Valley American Dance Festival where he had the and Interlochen Arts Charter High School privilege of performing Skylight, a classic work Academy in Interlochen, for the Performing Arts by choreographer Laura Dean. He debuted Michigan. She studied under the direction of with MMDG in 2007 and became a company at the Rotterdamse Dansacademie in The Kimberly Maniscalco. She member in 2009. Estrada would like to thank Netherlands and holds a B.F.A. from Purchase graduated magna cum laude with a B.F.A in God, his family, and all who support his College. She first performed with MMDG in dance from Marymount Manhattan College passion. 2007 and became a company member in 2011. in 2012. Haarmann has had the pleasure of Garrison teaches at The School at the Mark performing with Pam Tanowitz Dance, Jessica JACOB GARCHIK Morris Dance Center and for MMDG’s Dance Lang Dance, Dylan Crossman Dans(ce), Pat (trombone) is a multi- for PD® program. Catterson, Denisa Musilova, and Bill Young. instrumentalist and She joined MMDG as an apprentice in January composer. Since moving LAUREN GRANT, 2017 and became a company member in to New York in 1994 honored with a New York August 2017. he has been a vital Dance and Performance part of the Downtown “Bessie” award for her JOHAN HENCKENS (set realization) became and Brooklyn scene, career with the Mark the Director of Technical Production of the playing trombone with Morris Dance Group, Mark Morris Dance Group in 1989, during the Lee Konitz Nonet, Ohad Talmor/Steve has danced with MMDG the company’s three-year residency at the Swallow Sextet, Mary Halvorson Octet, since 1996, appearing in Koninklijke Muntschouwburg in Brussels, and the John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble. over 60 of Morris’ works. Belgium. 5 ETHAN IVERSON Joffrey Ballet School, and lighting supervisor Dance Company. She joined MMDG as an (composer, arranger) was for Daniil Simkin’s Intensio, Wendy Whelan’s apprentice in September 2018. a founding member of Restless Creature, the Apollo Theatre’s Get on The Bad Plus, a game- the Good Foot, Dance Heginbotham, Lincoln AARON LOUX grew up changing collective with Center Festival, and New York City Center’s in Seattle, Washington, Reid Anderson and Fall for Dance Festival. Other projects include and began dancing at David King. The New productions with the Cincinnati Ballet, the Creative Dance York Times called TBP Gotham Chamber Opera, Asolo Repertory Center as a member of “…Better than anyone at Theater, Castillo Theater, and Signature Kaleidoscope, a youth melding the sensibilities of post-60’s jazz and Theatre. Kolin is an adjunct faculty member modern dance company. indie rock.” During his 17-year tenure, TBP at Hunter College, where he is the resident He began his classical performed in venues as diverse as the Village lighting designer for the M.F.A. playwriting training at the Cornish Vanguard, Carnegie Hall, and Bonnaroo; program. He holds an M.F.A. from New York College Preparatory Dance Program and collaborated with Joshua Redman, Bill Frisell, University’s Tisch School of the Arts. received his B.F.A. from The Juilliard School and the Mark Morris Dance Group; and in 2009. He danced at The Metropolitan Opera created a faithful arrangement of Stravinsky’s ELIZABETH and with Arc Dance Company before joining The Rite of Spring and a radical reinvention KURTZMAN (costume MMDG in 2010. of Ornette Coleman’s Science Fiction. Iverson design) began her also has been in the critically acclaimed Billy career in the fashion LAUREL LYNCH began Hart Quartet for well over a decade and industry after attending her dance training at occasionally performs with an elder statesman the Parsons School of Petaluma School of Ballet like Albert “Tootie” Heath or Ron Carter. For Design. She has designed in California. She moved almost 15 years Iverson’s blog Do the Math textiles and accessories to New York to attend has been a repository of musician-to-musician for numerous New The Juilliard School where interviews and analysis, surely one reason York design houses. She has added costume she performed works by Time Out New York selected Iverson as one design and book illustration to her list of Robert Battle, Margie of 25 essential New York jazz icons: “Perhaps vocations, designing numerous pieces for Gillis, José Limón, and NYC’s most thoughtful and passionate student the Mark Morris Dance Group including Ohad Naharin. After graduation Lynch danced of jazz tradition—the most admirable sort Dancing Honeymoon, Sang-Froid, The for Dušan Týnek Dance Theatre, Sue Bernhard of artist-scholar.” More recently Iverson has Argument, Greek to Me, Four Saints in Three Danceworks, and Pat Catterson. Lynch joined been writing about jazz for The New Yorker. Acts, Empire Garden, Visitation, The Muir, MMDG as an apprentice in 2006 and became In 2017 Iverson co-curated a major centennial Crosswalk, Petrichor, and Pure Dance Items. a company member in 2007. Many thanks to celebration of Thelonious Monk at Duke She also designed L’Isola Disabitata for the Gene and Becky. University, and in 2018 premiered an original Gotham Opera Company, under Mark Morris’ piano concerto with the American Composers direction. Kurtzman is currently active in DALLAS McMURRAY, Orchestra and released a duo album with Mark providing art and music programs for children from El Cerrito, Turner on ECM. Many years ago, Iverson with autism in New York City, where she lives California, began dancing was the Mark Morris Dance Group’s musical and works. at age four, studying director and is thrilled to be back in the pit for jazz, tap, and acrobatics MMDG again! DEEPA LIEGEL grew with Katie Maltsberger up dancing with Cornish and ballet with Yukiko NICK KOLIN (lighting Preparatory Dance, Sakakura. He received a design) has designed Leela Kathak Dance, and B.F.A. in dance from the Whelm, Words, A Forest, Seattle Theater Group in California Institute of the Arts. McMurray Numerator, Pure Dance Seattle, Washington. She performed with the Limón Dance Company in Items, Little Britten, and received her B.F.A. in addition to works by Jiří Kylián, Alonzo King, The Trout for the Mark dance performance with Robert Moses, and Colin Connor. McMurray Morris Dance Group honors and a minor in performed with MMDG as an apprentice in and tours with the arts management from Southern Methodist 2006 and became a company member in 2007. Dance Group as lighting University in 2017. Since moving to New supervisor. Recent dance projects include new York, she has performed with Barkha Dance works for Philadanco!, Art of Fugue with Syren Company, Broadway Bares, and Monica Modern Dance, many collaborations with the Kapoor, and apprenticed with the Limón 6 SAM NEWSOME BRANDON ROB SCHWIMMER (saxophone) works RANDOLPH began (theremin) is a composer- primarily in the medium his training with the pianist/keyboardist, of solo saxophone, an School of Carolina Ballet thereminist, and Haken approach through which Theater in Greenville, Continuumist. He has he gained world-wide South Carolina, under worked with Simon critical acclaim with the direction of Hernan & Garfunkel, Wayne the release of his 2009 Justo. At age 14, he was Shorter, Antônio Carlos recording Blue Soliloquy: accepted into the South Jobim, Bobby McFerrin, Solo Works for Soprano Saxophone, which Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Willie Nelson, Paul Simon, Gotye, The Boston received a five star review in Downbeat Humanities, where he studied with Stanislav Pops, Chaka Khan, Laurie Anderson, Arif magazine. Newsome sees himself more Issaev and Bobby Barnett. Randolph received Mardin, Stevie Wonder, Adam Guettel, Paul along the lines of a visual artist who paints his B.F.A. in dance from Purchase College in Bley, T-Bone Walker, Sam Rivers, Christian with notes and sounds rather than shapes 2012. There he had the opportunity to perform Marclay, Matthew Barney, Ang Lee, Maria and colors. “My music,” says Newsome, with Dance Heginbotham as well as repertory Schneider, The Klezmatics, Bernie Worrell, “is a type of improvisatory art music in by Stephen Petronio, Lar Lubovitch, Paul Annette Peacock, Gwyneth Paltrow, Mabou which jazz functions more as a resource Taylor, and George Balanchine. Randolph Mines, Geoffrey Holder, John Cale, Steve than a musical genre to be interpreted with began working with MMDG in 2013 and Buscemi, Iva Bittova, Theo Bleckmann, John stylistic specificity.” Even though Newsome’s became a company member in 2014. Stubblefield, The Roches, Jack Quartet, Teo approach is unorthodox, it has proven to Macero, Hal Willner, Vernon Reid, The Everly be very fruitful—musically and critically. NICOLE SABELLA Brothers, Kurt Vonnegut, Odetta, Joseph Newsome’s creative efforts have earned him is originally from Jarman, Alwin Nikolai/Murray Louis Dance such recognition as receiving the 2016 NYFA Clearwater, Florida, Company, Marc Ribot, Frank London and Artist’s Fellowship for the Music/Sound where she studied at the Sammy Davis Jr. As a world class thereminist, category; being selected as a nominee for Academy of Ballet Arts Schwimmer has been featured on CBS Soprano Saxophonist of the Year by the 2016 and the Pinellas County Sunday Morning, The New York Times, and Jazz Journalist Association (JJA); and placing Center for the Arts at the Wall Street Journal. A founding member fourth in the Soprano Saxophone category in Gibbs High School under and former co-director of the NY Theremin the 64th Annual Downbeat Jazz Critics Poll. Suzanne B. Pomerantzeff. Society, his credits as theremin soloist include In 2009, she graduated from the University of The Boston Pops, The Orchestra of St. Luke’s MINGA PRATHER, the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, earning (which included his theremin arrangement of a Dallas, Texas native, her B.F.A. in modern dance performance and Bernard Herrmann’s “Scene d’Amour” from received her training from the “Outstanding Performance in Modern Vertigo), Bobby McFerrin at Carnegie Hall, Booker T. Washington Dance” Award. She was a performer with Zane Gotye’s Ondioline Orchestra, and Simon & High School for the Booker’s Smoke, Lilies, and Jade Arts Initiative. Garfunkel’s world tours. In addition to his Performing and Visual Sabella first performed with MMDG in 2013 CD Theremin Noir (with Uri Caine and Mark Arts, and later graduated and became a company member in 2015. Feldman), Rob played on Trey Anastasio’s with honors in dance CD Traveler, Matthew Barney’s epic movie from the Ailey/Fordham CHRISTINA SAHAIDA Cremaster 3, and A&E’s Breakfast with the B.F.A. program. Prather has had the pleasure grew up in Pittsburgh, Arts. of performing with Hubbard Street Dance Pennsylvania and began Chicago, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, her early dance training GEORGE (YEGOR) and Nimbus Dance Works performing works at the Pittsburgh Ballet SHEVTSOV (keyboard) by Alvin Ailey, Alejandro Cerrudo, William Theatre School. In 2012, has recently appeared Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Crystal Pite, and she graduated with honors at Stormen Konserthus Twyla Tharp. She received an award from the from Butler University, Bodø (Norway), Fajr National Young Arts Foundation for Modern receiving a B.F.A. in dance Festival (Iran), Skirball Dance in 2014. Prather joined MMDG as an performance. She has worked with Ballet Quad Center (New York), apprentice in September 2018. Cities, Texture Contemporary Ballet, and most Tokyo Bunka Kaikan recently the Big Muddy Dance Company in St. (Japan), the National Louis, Missouri. Sahaida joined MMDG as an Theater in Taipei (Taiwan), and Auditorio de apprentice in July 2017 and became a company Ciudad de León (Spain). His performances member in February 2019. have been singled out for their “Mozartean 7 elegance,” “perfect lucidity” (The New York VINNIE SPERRAZZA Times), and “superb musicianship” (The (percussion) is an active Miami Herald). His recording of the piano member of the Brooklyn music of Claude Debussy and Pierre Boulez jazz and creative music was selected by rhapsody.com as one of the community. He leads top 25 classical albums of 2013. Shevtsov several bands (including is a dedicated collaborator in the world of Apocryphal, Haunted, dance, and in addition to working with and Pilot House MMDG since 2008, he has worked with Lar Overhead), writes music, Lubovitch, Benjamin Millepied, Alexander and is a featured collaborator in a number of Ratmansky, John Heginbotham, and others. bands (including Landline, Hearing Things, Among the composers who have heard and many others). In 2017, he released Shevtsov perform their works are Pierre two widely praised albums of his original Boulez, John Luther Adams, Elliott Carter, compositions: Juxtaposition (Posi-Tone Charles Wuorinen, Georg Friedrich Haas, Records) and Hide Ye Idols (Loyal Label). In Steve Reich, Louis Andriessen, and George 2018, he toured the United States as a member Crumb. More information at facebook.com/ of the MMDG Music Ensemble and did a georgeshevtsovpiano. brief tour of Spain with PLAY, featuring Jacob Sacks and bassist Masa Kamaguchi. In 2019, BILLY SMITH grew Sperrazza will tour extensively with Pepperland up in Fredericksburg, and release three collaborative albums with Virginia, and attended The Choir Invisible (with Charlotte Greve George Mason University and Chris Tordini), Trio Trio (featuring Dave under a full academic and Scott and Rich Perry), and Caleb Curtis/Noah dance talent scholarship. Garabedian/Vinnie Sperrazza. He graduated magna cum laude in 2007 and NOAH VINSON received achievement is originally from awards in performance, choreography, and Springfield, Illinois, academic endeavors. While at George Mason and received his B.A. in he performed the works of Mark Morris, Paul dance from Columbia Taylor, Lar Lubovitch, Doug Varone, Daniel College Chicago. He was Ezralow, Larry Keigwin, Susan Marshall, and named a Dance Magazine Susan Shields. Smith’s own piece, 3-Way “Dancer on the Rise” in Stop, was selected to open the 2006 American 2009 and assisted Mark College Dance Festival Gala at Ohio State Morris in the creation of his most recent work University, and his original choreography for Houston Ballet, The Letter V. He began for a production of Bye Bye Birdie garnered dancing with MMDG in 2002 and became a much critical praise. An actor as well, Smith’s company member in 2004. regional theater credits include Tulsa in Gypsy, Mistoffelees in CATS, and Dream Curly in Oklahoma! Smith danced with Parsons Dance from 2007-2010. He joined MMDG as a company member in 2010.

8 MMDG CREDITS

MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP STAFF Outreach Director Eva Nichols & Co., Kinder Morgan Foundation, The Artistic Director Mark Morris Dance for PD® Programs Assistant Amy Bauman Langworthy Foundation, Leatherwood Executive Director Nancy Umanoff Dance for PD® Programs Administrator Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. Natasha Frater MacArthur Foundation, Materials for the PRODUCTION Arts, Megara Foundation, Merck Partnership Director of Technical Production Johan Henckens DANCE CENTER OPERATIONS for Giving, Morgan Stanley & Co., Harris A. Music Director Colin Fowler Director of Events and Venue Operations Berman & Ruth Nemzoff Family Foundation, Lighting Supervisor Nick Kolin Elise Gaugert Parkinson’s Foundation, The L. E. Phillips Sound Supervisor Rory Murphy Director of Facilities and Capital Projects Family Foundation, The Pinkus Foundation, Costume Coordinator Stephanie Sleeper Mark Sacks Jerome Robbins Foundation, Rolex, Billy Wardrobe Supervisor Amy Page Rental Programs Manager Annie Woller Rose Foundation, Jennifer P. Goodale and Operations Coordinator Tiffany McCue Mark Russell, San Antonio Area Foundation, ADMINISTRATION Front Desk Manager Tamika Daniels Schneer Foundation, Singer Xenos Wealth Chief Financial Officer Elizabeth Fox Assistant Front Desk Manager Management, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Payroll Manager/Benefits Administrator Dominique Terrell Fund, Viad Corp, and Zeitz Foundation. Rebecca Hunt Front Desk Associates Hunter Darnell, Finance Manager Natalia Kurylak Roxie Maisel, Anna Marchisello, The Mark Morris Dance Group is supported in Finance Assistant Emily Rogers Carter Shocket, Kareem Woods part by public funds from the New York City Finance Intern Heleny Rodriguez Maintenance Hector Mazariegos, Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership IT Director Aleksandr Kanevskiy Hyland Pitts, Orlando Rivera, with the City Council, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Company Manager Jen Rossi Virginia Ross, Louis Michael Sanabria, Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams, General Manager Geoff Chang Arturo Velazquez Council Member Helen Rosenthal, the New Assistant Company Manager Julia Weber York City Department for the Aging, the New Assistant to the Executive Director Booking Representation Michael Mushalla York State Council on the Arts with the support Stephanie Saywell (Double M Arts & Events) of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York Media and General Consultation Services State Legislature, and the National Endowment DEVELOPMENT William Murray (Better Attitude, Inc.) for the Arts. Director of Development Michelle Amador Legal Counsel Mark Selinger (McDermott, Manager of Individual Giving David Gracia Will & Emery) The Mark Morris Dance Group is a member of Manager of Institutional Giving Accountant O’Connor Davies, Dance/USA and the Downtown Brooklyn Arts Ann Marie Rubin Munns & Dobbins, LLP Alliance. Development Associate Makayla Santiago Orthopaedist David S. Weiss, M.D. (NYU Langone Medical Center) Headshots of Mark Morris, Colin Fowler, and MARKETING Physical Therapist Marshall Hagins, PT, PhD the Mark Morris Dance Group dancers taken Director of Marketing Karyn LeSuer Hilot Therapist Jeffrey Cohen by Beowulf Sheehan. Marketing & Communications Associate Nissa Heman Thanks to Maxine Morris. PRODUCTION CREDITS Web & Social Media Manager Joleen Richards Costumes built by Eric Winterling, Inc. Content & Editorial Coordinator Trevor Izzo Sincerest thanks to all the dancers for their dedication, commitment, and incalculable A Day in the Life, Penny Lane, Sgt. Pepper’s ARCHIVES contribution to the work. Lonely Hearts Club Band, When I’m Sixty-Four, Archive Project Manager Stephanie Neel With a Little Help from My Friends by Archive Project Metadata and Cataloging Additional support provided by Amazon, John Lennon and Paul McCartney Coordinator Regina Carra Kenneth Aidekman Family Foundation, Lily Archive Digitization Assistant Kareem Woods Auchincloss Foundation, Inc., Bossak/Heilbron Within You Without You by George Harrison Charitable Foundation, Cavali Foundation, EDUCATION Chervenak-Nunnalle Foundation, Con Edison, Pepperland ©2017 Discalced, Inc. 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IT WAS FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY by Ethan Iverson

1. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The original album ended 8. Scherzo. Glenn Gould said he preferred Petula Clark to the Beatles. with an unprecedented effect, a very long chord. Fifty years later, Apparently Gould, Clark, and a chord progression from “Sgt. perhaps a similar chord is good place to begin… Pepper” all seem to have inspired this mod number.

2. Magna Carta. A formal invocation of personalities from the LP 9. Wilbur Scoville. The first thing we hear on the LP is a guitar blues cover. lick, here transformed into a real blues for the horns to blow on. Wilbur Scoville invented the scale to measure heat in hot sauce: 3. With a Little Help From My Friends. When Ringo sang it, he was The original Sergeant Pepper? on top of the world. Our version is more vulnerable. 10. Cadenza. After seeing Bach’s Brandenburg 2 on the telly, Paul 4. Adagio. In the age of Tinder, a Lonely Heart advertisement might McCartney came into the studio and told George Martin to add seem hopelessly quaint. But everyone has always needed to find a piccolo trumpet to “Penny Lane.” Indeed, detailed references to match. European classical music are one reason so many Beatles songs still stump the average cover band. 5. When I’m Sixty Four. In between 6 and 4 is 5. All three (counts to the bar) are heard beneath the music-hall scuffle. 11. Penny Lane. Not on Sgt. Pepper, but nonetheless originally planned to be, and of course especially relevant to the city of Liverpool. 6. Allegro. A single offhand line of trombone from “Sgt. Pepper” germinates into a full-fledged sonata form. 12. A Day In the Life. Theremin nocturne, vocal descant, apotheosis.

7. Within You Without You. George Harrison’s sincere study of 13. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Another unprecedented Indian music aligns easily with another Harrison interested in effect on the original LP was a reprise of the first theme, which is bringing the East to the West: the great composer Lou Harrison, part of why it is called the first “concept album.” Our later vantage one of Mark Morris’s most significant collaborators. The hippie-era point enables us to project into the next decade, the ’70s, and sentiment of the lyric remains startlingly fresh and relevant today. conjure a disco ball. Thank you, Beatles! Thank you, Sgt. Pepper!

10 INVESTING IN DANCE

THE SUPPORT THAT MAKES PEPPERLAND POSSIBLE by Ryan Wenzel

It takes a long time to bring a work like Mark Morris’ Pepperland to the stage. The steps are many: composing and arranging the music, choreographing the movement, rehearsing the dancers and musicians, designing the decor, lighting, and sound. Seldom mentioned is the funding required to set it all in motion. Dance companies often rely on support from foundations and individual donors to fund new works, and only after the premiere convince presenters to schedule performances. Mark Morris Dance Group, however, has developed a model that is unusual in the dance world, whereby multiple arts institutions join together to commission a piece—often years before it will reach their stages. This approach began with Mozart Dances (2006), a three-way commission, and grew over time with Romeo and Juliet (2008), Acis and Galatea (2014), and Layla and Majnun (2016). It reaches unprecedented scale with campus, and to the local population at large,” Pepperland, which received advance funding says Ross. “Because they have become part from no fewer than seventeen institutions. of our community, it is easy for us to support They span the United States, Canada, and the them and their work on this level.” United Kingdom; are based in towns, cities, A separate community—one with a and on university campuses; and include both reputation for supporting superior new work— non-profit and for-profit entities. has coalesced around the commissioning “The support provided by these institutions organizations themselves, enticing others to sustains us, and shows their unique join. Pepperland marks the Banff Centre’s first understanding of the hidden costs involved commission of a Morris work, yet there are with creating dance works of this size,” says no plans for the piece to be performed on its Nancy Umanoff, executive director of Mark stages in Alberta, Canada; it will instead, by Morris Dance Group. arrangement with the Banff Centre, play at This funding model serves the the Sony Centre in Toronto, more than 2,000 commissioning partners well, too, and is miles away. “We wanted to support Mark and based largely on Morris’s importance and his company, of course, but also for audiences the trust they have in his work. “Like all arts to know that we support work of this caliber organizations, we need to be careful about how alongside other great organizations,” says we marshal our resources. But the excellence Janice Price, the Banff Centre’s president. “It is that Mark represents is at the heart of what incredibly rewarding to be seen as part of the we do, so we support it wholeheartedly,” says ecosystem that makes this happen.” Matías Tarnopolsky, former executive and And if history is any indication, that artistic director of Cal Performances at the ecosystem will only continue to strengthen and University of California, Berkeley, which has grow. worked with Morris and his dancers for three decades. Ryan Wenzel is a New York-based writer and Mike Ross, director of the Krannert Center editor. for the Performing Arts of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, echoes Tarnopolsky and adds that the Dance Group’s offstage outreach has also been crucial in furthering their close-knit relationship. “In addition to annual performances, they have brought workshops and other activities to our 11