The Philadelphia Dance Company Performances by Rosita Adamo
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The Philadelphia Dance Company Performances by Rosita Adamo, Janine Beckles, Elyse Browning, William E. Burden, Joe Gonzalez, Victor Lewis Jr, Roxanne Lyst, Adryan Moorefield, Courtney Robinson, Jah’meek D. Williams Joan Myers Brown – Founder, Executive/Artistic Director This presentation is supported by the Arts Midwest Touring Fund, a This program is partially program of Arts Midwest that is funded by the National Endowment supported by a grant from the for the Arts,with additional contributions from the Illinois Arts Council Illinois Arts Council Agency. Agency, the Crane Group, and General Mills Foundation. (Program Subject to Change) PHILADANCO! Board of Directors LATCHED Colette deChalus Lee, CCTE - Danielle Pierre - Beverly A. Harper - Spencer Wertheimer, Esq Choreographer: Christopher L. Huggins Joan Myers Brown - Kelly Finch - Susan B. Glazer - Deborah G. Levin Barbara Katz-Chobert Music: SOHN Jacqueline M. Roberts, Esq. - Kristi Purnell Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor Costumes: Christopher Huggins/Motions Rosita Adamo, Janine Beckles, Joe Gonzalez, Company Staff Victor Lewis Jr, Adryan Moorefield, Courtney Robinson A pas de six, danced in the brilliant essence of Christopher Huggins amazing choreographic Joan Myers Brown DFA, DHL Founder, Executive/Artistic Director style, “Latched” is about latching on to another body, soul and spirit. Though a fight to Kim Y. Bears-Bailey Associate Artistic Director pull away, it is irresistible in finding new ways to latch on to each other even when trying Marlisa J. Brown-Swint Artistic Administrative Assistant to detach. Kate Glickman & Ingrid Broadnax Development Consultants This ballet made possible by a generous support from the Karen Pressley Administrative Assistant/Insurance Coordinator Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Lomax Foundation and Anonymous. Veronica Castillo-Perez Interim Administrator Jerilyn Dressler Fiscal Mgr, Your Part-Time Controller (YPTC) -PAUSE- Debora Chase-Hicks Rehearsal Director/Coach Tommie-Waheed Evans Assistant Rehearsal Director/Choreographer BEWILDERED Clifton Taylor Lighting Designer Choreographer: Thang Dao Melody Beal Stage Manager & Tour Lighting Director Music: James Brown Janine Beckles Touring Assistant Additional music and arrangement: Ronobir Lahiri Milton Myers Resident Choreographer Christopher L. Huggins Choreographer-in- Residence Costume Design/Execution: Dante Baylor Donald T. Lunsford, II Artistic Director (D/2) Rosita Adamo, Janine Beckles, Elyse Browning, Adryan Moorefield Artistic Director (D/3) William E. Burden, Joe Gonzalez, Victor Lewis Jr, Spencer Wertheimer, Esq Counsel Roxanne Lyst, Adryan Moorefield, Courtney Robinson, Morris J. Cohen & Co., P.C. Accountants/ Auditors Jah’meek D. Williams Pamela Green Artists Representative / PMG Arts Management. KONZERTDIREKTION LANDGRAF International Representative Jeff Story Audio Technician THERE WAS... THERE IS A TIME Carmella Vassor-Johnson Wild Child Productions – Videographer Choreographer: Abdel Salaam Darrin Ross Kitinay Productions, Inc. Additional music and arrangement: Kevin Toney Massage Therapist. Monteo F. Myers, LMT, CDT Rosita Adamo, Janine Beckles, Elyse Browning, Joe Gonzalez, Victor Lewis Jr, Adryan Moorefield, Courtney Robinson, Jah’meek D. Williams Advisory Members -PAUSE- Mikki Shepard - Michael Kaiser - Maureen Knighton - Delores Browne Christopher D’Amanda, M.D. - Jerry Gibbs, Ph.D. - Mary Hurtig - Linda Munich THINK Evelyn Sample-Oats - Reverend Sandy Reed - William A. Smith - James N. Wade Choreographer: Ronald K. Brown Barbara Wallace – Angela Brown - Lisa Yancey - Jeanne Fisher - Dawn Gibson-Brehon Rosita Adamo, Janine Beckles, Elyse Browning, William E. Burden, Joe Gonzalez, Victor Lewis Jr, Roxanne Lyst, Adryan Moorefield, Courtney Robinson, Jah’meek D. Williams PHILADANCO! The Philadelphia Dance Company Bewildered, There Was... There Is A Time, and Think are excerpts from the Apollo Theater’s James Brown: Get on the Good Foot, a 9 North Preston Street Celebration in Dance. Support for the production made possible in part by: the Ford Foundation Fund for Global Programs; JoAnn Price; PHILADANCO Way Earl W. and Amanda Stafford; the Reginald Van Lee New Works Fund; Lafayette Consolidated Government, Lafayette, LA; University of Louisiana Lafayette; Lafayette Convention and Visitors Commission; Lafayette Economic Development Authority; Van Eaton & Romero, Philadelphia, PA 191-4-2210 Renee and Tawasky Ventroy; Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center; and the Rialto Center for the Arts, Georgia State ph: 215-387-8200 fax: 215-387-8203 University, Atlanta, GA. student at The Ailey School. Huggins appeared as a guest artist for several dance companies in the United States and abroad. As a master teacher and choreographer, he works in Europe, -INTERMISSION- Japan, Korea, and throughout the United States. He has taught countless master classes and workshops at several universities and dance institutions including Howard University in Washington, D.C., Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, jest to name a few. Huggins, a much A MOVEMENT FOR FIVE sought after choreographer, has created ballets for numerous companies, including Dallas Black Choreographer: Dawn Marie Bazemore Dance Theatre, Ailey II, Philadanco, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, Broadway Dance Center Music: A compilation of various artists of Tokyo, Oslo Dance Ensemble in Oslo, Norway. He is a 2002 and 2008 recipient of the Ira Lighting Design: Nick Kolin Aldridge Award for Best Choreography from the Black Theatre Alliance in Chicago for his work Enemy Behind the Gates and Pyrokinesis. He also worked on several projects for Disney in Costume Design/Execution: Natasha Guruleva Orlando, Florida. Huggins is a silver medalist from the Seoul International Contemporary Dance Competition, resident choreographer at Duke Ellington High School for the Arts in Washington, Section I – The Breakdown D.C., and will serve as Artist-in-Residence for The Ailey School in 2009. Most recently, he was Janine Beckles, Elyse Browning, William E. Burden, Joe Gonzalez, the choreographer for the 50th Anniversary Opening Night Gala for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Huggins is currently a faculty member at The Ailey School. Victor Lewis Jr, Adryan Moorefield, Courtney Robinson, Jah’meek D. Williams Joan Myers Brown, DFA, DHL (Founder, Executive Artistic Director) Ms. Brown is the Section II – For Five founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and The Philadelphia School of Dance Arts. She serves as honorary chairperson for the International Association of Blacks Joe Gonzalez in Dance, an organization she established in 1991. She is also founder of the International with William E. Burden, Victor Lewis Jr, Adryan Moorefield Conference of Black Dance Companies in 1988. She is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of the Arts, which bestowed upon her an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, and is a member of the dance faculty at Howard University in Washington, DC. She was also Section III – Exoneration? awarded an honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters by Ursinus College. Listed in Who’s Who in The Cast America and described as an “innovator and communicator,” Ms. Brown has made significant contributions to the national and international arts communities. She remains a tireless advocate Inspired by the events surrounding the “Central Park 5”, this piece aims to uncover the and spokesperson and is a model of tenacity, hope and discipline. Ms. Brown is the proud structure of a community and socio-political system that failed to protect the lives of five mother of three daughters Marlisa, Dannielle and Megan, and grandmother of six. It must be innocent young boys living in Harlem in 1989. “You can forgive, but you won’t forget. emphasized that Joan Myers Brown’s efforts for dance excellence are only part of her contribution You can’t forget what you lost. No money can ever bring that time back.” - Kharey Wise to society and Philadelphia in particular. She speaks out, talks back and shows up. She was (Ken Burns, David McMahon, Sarah Burns, documentary, “The Central Park 5”, 2012) co-chair of Dance/USA Philadelphia. She has received the prestigious Philadelphia Award and This ballet made possible by the generous support of the November 7, 2010 was declared Joan Myers Brown Living Legacy Day. Her memoirs were National Endowment for the Arts, the Mertz-Gilmore Foundation and the Shubert Foundation documented in a recent publication “Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina”, by author Brenda Dixon Gottschild and she has received awards from the City of Philadelphia, the State of Pennsylvania and the Embassy of the United States of America. Brown was designated in 2013 as one of the Top 10 Philadelphians honored as a Distinguished ENEMY BEHIND THE GATE Daughter of Pennsylvania and Outstanding Alumni of West Philadelphia High School. July Choreographer: Christopher Huggins 2013 Joan Myers Brown received the prestigious National Medal of Arts Award presented by Music: Steve Reich President Barak Obama. Most recently she was honored by Tuskegee University and given Original Lighting Design: William H. Grant, III The XIX Visionary Award and the American Dance Guild Honoree Award. In May she received an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania. Costume Design: Christopher Huggins Costume Execution: Natasha Guruleva Rosita Adamo, Janine Beckles, Elyse Browning, William E. Burden, The Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) is a nonprofit organization that