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Bodycast:

Suzanne Bocanegra Lecture by An Artist Frances McDormand Starring Paul Lazar Directed by #Bodycast

LOCATION: RUN TIME: DATES: 2013 Next Wave Festival

Approx 1hr BAM Fisher (Fishman Space) Dec 3—7at7:30pm

The Shubert Foundation,The Shubert Inc. The SHSFoundation The Morris andAlmaSchapiroFund at BAMprovidedby: fortheater Major support BAM 2013NextWave Festival sponsor Executive Producer Joseph V. Melillo, President Karen BrooksHopkins, Vice ChairmanoftheBoard Adam E.Max, Vice ChairmanoftheBoard William I.Campbell, Chairman oftheBoard Alan H. Fishman, AcademyofMusic BAM Fisher 2013 Next Wave Festival Thanks for coming tonight. In 2010 the curator Laurence Kardish Bodycast: asked me to give a lecture on my work at the . Rather than just do a normal artist lecture, An Artist Lecture by where an artist runs through a bunch Suzanne Bocanegra of slides of her paintings and sculpture, BAM I thought I would make a new piece Starring out of the idea of an artist lecture, an Frances McDormand artist lecture about an artist lecture. In the course of that new piece I ended up telling a larger story—how I became an artist and how when I was 10 a Premiere strange series of events in my showed me how an artist really TEXT AND VISUALS worked. Suzanne Bocanegra I did the lecture with an , Paul Lazar, and the resulting piece—When SOUND DESIGN a Priest Marries a Witch, an Artist Jamie McElhinney Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra Star- ring Paul Lazar—ended up having LIGHTING DESIGN several performances at museums and Laura Mroczkowski theater festivals across the country. To one of these performances Paul invited GUEST APPEARANCES Frances McDormand. They had worked Theo Bleckmann together at . Fran Emily Coates came and took us out for beers after- Proud supporter of BAM wards, and she asked me if there were MUSIC SUPERVISION any more stories I was planning on David Lang telling in this format. I told her I was planning one about how I grew up vis- iting my grandparents farm, which was next to the most famous whorehouse in Texas, and one about how I spent my early teenage years in a bodycast. Fran said, “I’ll take the bodycast.”

Bodycast: An Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra Starring Frances McDormand premiered at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh. Salutes 2013 Next Wave Festival 2013 Next Wave Festival Thank you! Little Dot (2010) was commissioned Suzanne Bocanegra by Ian Berry at the Tang Museum, and Writer-Visuals Deborah Lohse was the original dancer. I’d like to thank the following people Suzanne Bocanegra is a visual artist and places for all their help in the When a Priest Marries a Witch, an Who’s living and working in . Her development of this piece: Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra piece, When a Priest Marries a Witch, Starring Paul Lazar (2010) was written an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra Laurence Kardish at the Museum of for and premiered at the Museum of Starring Paul Lazar, premiered at the Modern Art. Modern Art. Subsequent performances Museum of Modern Art (NYC) in May Lynn Zelevansky at the Carnegie Mu- Who thanks to Brian Rogers and Sheila 2010 and traveled to the Wexner Center, seum in Pittsburgh. Lewandowski at the Chocolate Factory, the Tang Museum, Cynthia Woods Luis Croquer and Sylvia Wolf at the Helen Shaw and the Prelude Festival Mitchell Center for the Arts at the Hous- Henry Art Gallery in Seattle. at CUNY, Karen Farber at the Cynthia ton Museum of Fine Arts, James Cohan Ann Philbin at the Hammer Museum in Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at Gallery, the Chocolate Factory Theater, . University of Houston, Ron Berry at the and the Prelude Theater Festival in NYC Eric Karpeles and Commonweal in Fusebox Festival in Austin, Charlotte and the Fusebox Theater Festival in Bolinas, . Meehan at Wheaton College, Eric Ehn Austin. When a Priest Marries a Witch Rebecca Robertson, Jamie Boyle, and at Brown University, Joe Scanlan and was filmed at The Performing Garage Michael Lonergan at the Susan Marshall at Princeton, Kate Valk and will be released this spring. A major Armory. and Cynthia Hedstrom at the Perform- show of Bocanegra’s work opened at the Mathew Pokoik at Mt. Tremper Arts. ing Garage, Ann and the Tang Museum in July 2010 and traveled Joe Melillo and everyone at BAM. Wexner Center, Jim and Jane Cohan at to SITE Santa Fe in 2011. Bocanegra’s

the James Cohan Gallery. work has been seen in exhibitions in the I’d also like to thank the people who and abroad in such venues helped support the other pieces of Little Dot and I Write the Songs photos as Serpentine Gallery, Hayward Gallery mine that I talk about in the show: by Peter Serling. (both in ), the Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and the Fabric Tartan Project (with J. Special thanks to: Workshop in Philadelphia. Morgan Puett) (2001) was commis- Jack Haskell, Dare Clubb, Annie-B sioned by Lisa Corrin for the Serpentine Parson, Guy Hedreen, David Lang for Bocanegra’s piece I Write the Songs, Gallery and exhibited at the Victoria careful reading of the text, and to Liz commissioned by the and Albert Museum in London. Sargent, David Stone, David Nimmer, and the River to River Festival, was Irene Hofmann of SITE Santa Fe, Wynn installed at the Winter Garden in the Color Chart (2009) was commissioned Kramarsky, Josephine Ramirez, J. World Financial Center in New York City by Pau Aleta-Cortes and Quang Bao’s Morgan Puett, Jody Elff, Ike, Thea and and at the town square in Santa Fe, Math Studio at Smith College, and Judah Lang. NM. Rerememberer, commissioned by John McCleary was the mathematician the Danish Arts Council, was performed and the original singer. Thank you to “Our Bodies Ourselves” at Judson Church in New York and (9th Edition) for the use of images. traveled to Teater Republique in Copen- I Write the Songs (2009) was commis- hagen. A recipient of the Prize, sioned by Brett Littman at the Drawing And of course, thanks to Fran and Paul she has received grants from the Pollock- Center, in partnership with the River to for doing this in the first place. Krasner Foundation, the Tiffany Founda- River Festival. FLUX Quartet was the tion, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the original string quartet. —Suzanne Bocanegra National Endowment for the Arts, the Danish Arts Council, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a 2013—

Photo: Suzanne Bocanegra by Peter Serling Photo: Suzanne Bocanegra by Peter 14 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow. 2013 Next Wave Festival for the London Sinfonietta, with libretto and visuals by English filmmaker Peter Frances McDormand Greenaway. He frequently collaborates Performer with choreographers including Shen Wei, , Susan Frances McDormand studied at the Yale Marshall, and Édouard Lock. The School of Drama. On , she commercial recording of the little received the Tony Award, Drama match girl passion won the 2010 Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Grammy Award for Best Small Awards for her performance in David Ensemble Performance. Lang is Lindsay-Abaire’s , di- a professor of music composition rected by Daniel Sullivan. Other stage at the Yale School of Music and appearances include The Country Girl co-founder/artistic director of New directed by on Broadway, York’s legendary music festival Caryl Churchill’s Far Away directed by Bang on a Can. Stephen Daldry at New York The- atre Workshop, her Tony-nominated performance as Stella in , The Sisters Rosenzweig directed by Daniel Sullivan at Theatre, The Swan at The Public Theatre, A Streetcar Named Desire (this time in the role of Blanche) at the Gate Theater in Dublin, and Dare Clubb’s Oedipus at the Blue Light Theater Company opposite Billy Crudup. With The Wooster Group, she performed in To You, The Birdie! and North Atlantic. include Promised Land, , This Must Be the Place, Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted, Burn After Reading, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, with Money, Laurel Canyon, Some- thing’s Gotta Give, Wonder Boys, City by the Sea, Madeline, Primal Fear, Lone Star, Palookaville, Chattahooch- ee, Darkman, Hidden Agenda, Short Cuts, Beyond Rangoon, Paradise Road, The Man Who Wasn’t There, Raising Arizona, and Blood Simple.

Image: “Anatomical Venus,” wax model by Clemente Susini and Giuseppe Ferrini (1782) Photo: Frances McDormand by Doug Hamilton 2013 Next Wave Festival director for Brooklyn-based com- She is the recipient of four Academy and Parson directed a dance/theater Joshua Higgason pany Faye Driscoll Group. Rivera has Award nominations: Mississippi Burn- adaptation of Anne Carson’s transla- Projection Supervisor proudly worked with many performing ing, Almost Famous, North Country, tion of Euripedes’ Alkestis. This piece, arts organizations both in New York and Fargo, for which she received the titled The Supernatural Wife, opened Joshua Higgason is a video and inter- City and on the road. Favorites include award for her performance as Marge at the National Theatre in Paris and active media designer and engineer. Phantom Limb Company, Keigwin + Gunderson. made its New York premiere in the Recent designs include Platonov (video Company, New York City Players, and 2011 BAM Next Wave Festival. Their and co-scenic design, La Jolla Play- Sidra Bell Dance. Her NYC directing production of Sybil Kempson’s Ich, house, dir. Jay Scheib); Powder Her debut, The Geographical History of Paul Lazar Kürbisgeist premiered at the Choco- Face (video, New York City , dir. America by Gertrude Stein, was named late Factory (NYC) in March of 2011. Director Jay Scheib); World Of Wires (light- Critic’s Pick by Backstage Magazine in Lazar is an associate member of The ing and video, The Kitchen, dir. Jay 2009. Rivera is delighted to be work- Wooster Group, acting in Brace Up!, In 1990 Paul Lazar co-founded Big Schieb); Ich, Kürbisgeist (video, Big ing with this team for the first time. All Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape, and Dance Theater with Annie-B Parson, Dance Theater); Sontag: Reborn (sce- of her work is for her family. North Atlantic. Lazar also performed and since then he has continuously nic design, The Builder’s Association); in Richard Maxwell’s Cowboys and created dance/theater work with the Planetarium (BAM, video engineering Indians and Young Jean Lee’s Lear at company. Among the pieces he has for Sufjan Stevens, Mulhy, Bryce Soho Rep, and Chekhov’s The Three David Lang directed for Big Dance: Man in a Dessner, design by Candystations); and Sisters at . Case starring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Age of Adz (Sufjan Stevens, Candysta- Fassbinder’s Bremen Freedom; Odon tions). He is a co-founder of Workhorse Lazar’s film acting career includes One of America’s most performed Van Horvath’s Don Juan Comes Back and has taught interactive media roles in Silence of the Lambs, The and honored , David Lang from the War; and Tristan Tzara’s workshops at Princeton, MIT, and LIU, Host, Beloved, Lorenzo’s Oil, Phila- received the Pulitzer Prize in music The Gas Heart, which has toured where he earned his MFA. delphia, Henry Fool, Six Ways to for the little match girl passion, to the Exit and Via Theater festivals Sunday, Married to the Mob, Trapped commissioned by Carnegie Hall for in France and the Polverigi Festival in Paradise, Speechless, Stars Fell Paul Hillier and Theater of Voices. of Theater in . The company’s on Henrietta, The Vig with , “With his winning of the Pulitzer original piece, Another Telepathic, Randi Rivera and Mickey Blue Eyes with Hugh Prize for the little match girl passion opened at Dance Theater Workshop Stage Manager Grant. His latest film Snow Piercer (one of the most original and moving in New York and toured to the STUC will be out this spring. Lazar currently scores of recent years), Lang, once Festival in Leuven, Belgium. Mac Randi Rivera is a director, designer, teaches acting and theater related a postminimalist enfant terrible, has Wellman’s Girl Gone opened at The stage manager, and native New Yorker. courses at and solidified his standing as an American Kitchen in New York and toured to On She holds a BA in theater and His- has taught at Rutgers, Barnard, and master” (The New Yorker). Recent The Boards in Seattle, to UCLA, and panic studies from Hamilton College. the William Esper Studio. At NYU, works include the concerto man made to Kamplagle Theater in Hamburg, In 2006 she studied technical theater Lazar directed Botho Strauss’ Big for the ensemble S¯o Percussion and a . Along with Annie-B Parson, at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Little, Len Jenkin’s The Country consortium of orchestras, including the Lazar also co-directed Shunkin which & Drama, and in 2007 production Doctor, and Fassbinder’s Bremen BBC Symphony and the Los Angeles opened at The Kitchen and toured management at Universidad San Freedom. He directed ’s Philharmonic; love fail for the early to the Yerba Buena Theater in San Pablo (CEU) in Madrid, Spain. Rivera Girl Gone at Marymount Manhattan music vocal ensemble Anonymous 4, Francisco. He has acted in numer- has been the stage manager for Half College. Straddle since 2012, beginning with with libretto and staging by Lang, at ous Big Dance pieces including Plan Seagull (Thinking of You) for NYC’s the Kennedy Center, UCLA and the B and The Other Here. Big Dance’s COIL festival. In 2013—14 Rivera will 2012 Next Wave Festival at BAM; most recent work, Comme Toujour travel with Half Straddle to Massachu- death speaks, for Shara Worden, Bryce Here I Stand, has toured numer- setts, Portugal, France, and Croatia. Dessner, Nico Muhly, and Owen Pallett ous cities in France and also ran From 2009—13 she was the technical at Carnegie Hall; and writing on water at The Kitchen in New York. Lazar 2013 Next Wave Festival earned an MFA in sound design from (New York Magazine). Bleckmann Early Floating; principal roles in works CalArts in 2003. has released a series of albums on by Balanchine, Robbins, and Tharp;

Jamie McElhinney the Winter & Winter label including ’ canonical solo Carna- Sound Designer recordings of Las Vegas standards, tion; Rainer’s 21st century creations; Who’s Weimar art songs, and popular “bar and Christopher Janney’s solo Heart- Jamie McElhinney is a New York- Laura Mroczkowski songs” (all with pianist Fumio Yasuda); Beat. Her commissions include from based audio artist who has worked Lighting Designer a recording of newly-arranged songs Memphis (with Lacina Cou- with hundreds of music, theater, by Charles Ives (with jazz/rock collec- libaly), Performa (with Tamar Ettun), dance, and visual art performances Laura Mroczkowski is a freelance Who tive Kneebody); the acoustic Solos for and presentations in the Movement in venues all over the world. Selected lighting designer in New York City. She Voice and I dwell in possibility; and Research Fall Festival and Baryshnikov works include: audio system designer has had the opportunity to work with Arts Center, where she was a Martha his recent Hello Earth—the Music of for Isaac Julien’s exhibit Ten Thousand artists from around the world, includ- Duffy Memorial Fellow. She gradu- Kate Bush. His current project is a Waves (MoMA atrium, NYC); head ing The Builders Association, Deborah ated magna cum laude with a BA in song cycle of music on the subject of of audio and front of house engineer Hay Dance Company, Big Dance English from Yale (2006) and holds death, songs in the key of d, featur- for the 2013 ONEBEAT International Theater, Radiohole, Whitney Museum, an MA in American studies from Yale ing harpist Zeena Parkins. Bleckmann Music Exchange program and the , Los Angeles (2011). With particle physicist Sarah has additionally collaborated with 2013 Celebrate Brooklyn concert Opera Company, Walker Arts Center, Demers, she is co-authoring a book on numerous musicians and composers, series (Prospect Park Bandshell); Actor’s Theater of Louisville, First physics and dance, forthcoming from including , Uri Caine, sound designer and engineer for Mi- Stage Theater Company, New York Yale University Press. She teaches and Philip Glass, John Hollenbeck, Sheila chael Gordon’s Timber (BAM Fisher); Theater Workshop, 3-Legged Dog, directs the dance studies curriculum at Jordan, Phil Kline, David Lang, Kirk Yale University. sound designer and engineer for Stop Baryshnikov Arts Center, REDCAT, Nurock, Ben Monder, Michael Tilson the Virgins directed by Adam Rapp and the Center for New Performance. Thomas, Kenny Wheeler, John Zorn, (Sydney Opera House); sound system Her work has been seen in countless the Bang on a Can All-stars, and, most designer for We’re Gonna Die (Lincoln international festivals. Mroczkowski is prominently, Meredith Monk, with Maurina Lioce Center) and Untitled Feminist Show the co-artistic director and a founding whom Bleckmann worked as a core Production Manager (Walker Performing Arts Center), both member of Blank-the-Dog produc- ensemble member for close to two by Young Jean Lee; sound designer tions. lauramroczkowski.org Maurina Lioce works in many aspects decades. He has been interviewed by for Botanica directed by Jim Findlay of production, theater, and music. Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air and (3LD); sound engineer for Brooklyn She most recently produced Mass appeared on the Omnibus by STEW (BAM Harvey); Live Arts, a new experimental theater show with Laurie Anderson. sound designer and engineer for Ac- Theo Bleckmann festival at Bard College at Simon’s cinosco’s The Success of Failure; in- Guest Performer-Vocalist Rock. She has participated in Pro- ternational touring sound engineer for gressive Theater Workshop’s God This Clement World, Must Don’t Whip A singer and new music composer of Emily Coates Hates This Show, Pearl d’Amour’s ‘Um, and Accidental Nostalgia by eclectic tastes and prodigious gifts, Guest Performer-Dancer How to Build a Forest, Kneehigh Cynthia Hopkins; and sound designer Grammy-nominated and Echo Award Theater Company’s The Wild Bride, for Lightning at our Feet directed by recipient Theo Bleckmann makes Emily Coates has performed inter- Aynsley Vandenbroucke’s 33 1/3, Bob McGrath (BAM Harvey). McElhin- music that is accessibly sophisticated, nationally with and Jim Findlay’s Botanica and has (1992—98), Mikhail Baryshnikov’s ney is also music director and lead unsentimentally emotional, and seri- performed in The PuSh Arts Festival White Oak Dance Project (1998— banjo player with Bob Wonder and the ously playful, leading his work to be and K Record’s What the Heck Fest. 2002), Dance (2001— Future Ex-Wives, international touring described as “from another planet” She is the company manager for Half 03), and (2005—pres- sound engineer with the Young at (New York Times), as “magical, Straddle and is currently develop- ent). Career highlights include three Heart Chorus’ show End of the Road futuristic,” (AllAboutJazz), “limitless” ing Dream of the Red Chamber, A duets with Baryshnikov: in Mark directed by Roy Faudre, and part time Performance for a Sleeping Audience (Citypaper, Philadelphia), “transcen- Morris’ The Argument, Karole Armit- audio engineer for Dizzy’s Club Coca with Jim Findlay. dent” (Village Voice), and “brilliant” age’s The Last Lap, and Erick Hawkins’ Cola (Jazz at Lincoln Center). He