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BREAK THE FLOOR PRODUCTIONS Presents

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6 @ 8PM CENTRE IN THE SQUARE, KITCHENER SHAPING SOUND

BREAK THE FLOOR PRODUCTIONS

PRESENTS SHAPING SOUND

STARRING TEDDY FORANCE KYLE ROBINSON

ALSO STARRING CHANTAL AGUIRRE CHANNING COOKE RORY FREEMAN DANIEL GAYMON JAIMIE GOODWIN KATE HARPOOTLIAN JUSTINE LUTZ BEN SUSAK CHELSEA THEDINGA AMY YAKIMA

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER CREATIVE CONSULTANT PRODUCER GIL STROMING MANDY MOORE NIKOLE VALLINS SET DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN JESUS RODRIGUEZ SETH JACKSON GREGORY ANDERSON NATHAN SCHEUER GENERAL MANAGER COSTUME DESIGN PRODUCTION MANAGER BRAD BAUNER EFFIE MATTHEWS ROBBIE MACLEAN

SOUND DESIGN MARKETING & PUBLIC RELATIONS DISTRICT 78 C MAJOR ENTERTAINMENT

CREATED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY TRAVIS WALL NICK LAZZARINI TEDDY FORANCE KYLE ROBINSON

EXCLUSIVE TOUR REPRESENTATION EVELYN ZILBERMAN COLUMBIA ARTISTS THEATRICALS THE SHOW

ACT I

Broken In Chaos...... Full Company Solitude...... Jaimie Goodwin and Kyle Robinson Between Sleep...... Nick Lazzarini and Full Company A Sudden Drift...... Jaimie Goodwin and Teddy Forance with Channing Cooke, Amy Yakima, Nick Lazzarini and Travis Wall My Dear Love...... Chelsea Thedinga and Daniel Gaymon Exposure...... Channing Cooke, Kate Harpootlian, Ben Susak, Justine Lutz, Daniel Gaymon, Kyle Robinson and Chantel Aguirre Rouge Lounge...... Jaimie Goodwin and Full Company

INTERMISSION

ACT II

Escape From Reality...... The Men Found...... Jaimie Goodwin and Full Company Corruption...... Chantal Aguirre, Kyle Robinson and Full Company Darkness...... Full Company The Light...... Amy Yakima, Travis Wall and The Men Waking Life...... Full Company Proud to support the TD 30 Under 30 Program.

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M04198 (0610) CAST WHO’S WHO TRAVIS WALL was the runner- for the Fox Modern from the National Foundation for reality show So You Think You Can Dance, and Advancement in the Arts (NFAA). It was also is currently a resident choreographer and judge during this time that he met legendary dancer for the national dance competition show. He is a Mikhail Baryshnikov who began to mentor Kyle 4-time Emmy nominated choreographer for his from that point on. He went on to fine-tune his work on So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing abilities by training at the Julliard School, earning with the Stars. Travis has choreographed stage a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2009. Throughout and music videos for Carrie Underwood, Justin his college experience and after, Kyle worked Bieber and Demi Lovato. He choreographed as a freelance dancer with Aszure & Artists as for the 82nd as well as the well as the Dance Company. He 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, where he played the role of Diesel in West Side Story’s First worked with Drake, , National Tour performing the choreography of Chelsea Handler, Eminem, and . Travis Jerome Robins. Kyle was featured on Dancing also choreographed the contemporary numbers with the Stars in a pas de duex to Christina for the feature film Step Up Revolution and just Perri’s “Arms.” He has guest starred on NBC’s finished choreographing a film with Kevin Hart. Parks and Recreation and most recently can be Currently, he teaches on tour with NUVO Dance seen on the “You Win” Chase Bank/Lowe’s Competition. Travis is a founding member national commercial. Currently, he resides in Los of the based dance company Angeles where he choreographs and performs Shaping Sound. Follow him at @travISova for Shaping Sound Dance Company, as well as independently. Follow him at @KyleRRobinson NICK LAZZARINI His multifaceted dancing abilities have leveraged his career within the CHANTEL AGUIRRE trained with San Francisco United States and abroad. Nick is the season , The Dance Company of SF and NYU’s one winner of the Fox reality show So You Tisch School of the Arts. She has performed with Think You Can Dance, and has been featured in San Francisco Ballet, Cedar Lake, Soul Escape, countless publications, including the cover of Lunge Dance Collective, Tayeh Dance, Shaping Dance Spirit Magazine twice. He has performed Sound and Still Motion. She has worked with with music sensations such as on Beyoncé, Adele, Florence and the Machine, , Kelly Clarkson at this The Goo Goo Dolls, , Ceelo Green, year’s American Music Awards and Florence Christina Perri, Panic at the , , and the Machine at The MTV Video Music and was the associate choreographer for Kylie Awards. Currently, he teaches on tour for JUMP Minogue’s World Tour. TV credits: Dancing Dance Convention. Nick is a founding member with the Stars, So You Think You Can Dance, the of the Los Angeles based dance company Academy Awards, VMA’s, AMA’s, MACY’s Shaping Sound. Follow him at @NickLazzarini Passport, Billboard Music Awards, Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, BET Awards, GLEE, X TEDDY FORANCE grew up at his families dance Factor, Good Christian Belles, Two and a Half studio the Hackworth School of performing arts Men and Mad Men. She travels the country in Easthampton, Massachusetts. He has had the teaching and choreographing at various schools opportunity to perform with , Cirque and tours with NUVO Dance Convention. Du Soleil, Florence & the Machine, Kelly Clarkson, Usher, Lady Gaga, , & Maxwell. CHANNING COOKE grew up in Haverhill, MA Teddy has performed on Ellen, Good Morning where she trained under studio owner Karla America, Dancing with The Stars, American Pattavina. She debuted on Fox’s So You Think You Idol, The Oscars, The AMA’s, The Emmy’s & Can Dance as a top twenty contestant and then was in The Step Up Revolution Movie. Teddy went on to perform alongside continues to teach on JUMP Dance Convention at the 42nd Annual Academy Awards. Other for his 6th season! Follow him at @TeddyForance TV credits include American Idol where she performed with Rihanna, The X Factor with Jessie KYLE ROBINSON is a Contemporary J, So You Think You Can Dance with , choreographer and teacher whose work strongly the American Music Awards, All The Right Moves, emphasizes Modern and Ballet technique. At Shake It Up, Austin & Ally, Two and A Half Men, the age of 18, he received the Gold Award in and Movement One, a dance documentary. She WHO’S WHO currently teaches throughout North America appeared as a co-star on Oxygen’s All The Right and is honored to be dancing with Shaping Sound. Moves. She was a top ten finalist on So You Think You Can Dance and regularly returns to perform RORY FREEMAN at the age of 18 was a Silver with them as an ‘Allstar’. She has been seen Award recipient in from the on TV in a McDonald’s commercial; other TV National Foundation for Advancements in the credits include: episodes of Dancing with The Arts (NFFA). He then went on to earn his BFA in Stars (as a guest performer and dancing with Dance from SUNY Purchase (NY) in 2010. This artists such as Adele and ), a gave him the opportunity to perform pieces by recurring role on Glee, Two and a Half Men, lead Bill T. Jones, Paul Taylor, Bella Lewitsky, and Luca female in Shawn Hook’s video Every Red Light, Veggetti. In 2010, he joined the world renowned the 82nd and , the Emmy dance company, MOMIX, and performed Awards, and the 2012 and 2013 American nationally and internationally. Since moving to Music Awards. You can also check her out on Los Angeles in 2013, Rory has had the honor of film in High School Musical 3, Rock of Ages, and working and performing with companies such Movement One, a dance documentary. Jaimie as Commonality, Escape Artists, and Royal Flux. was the assistant choreographer to Sonya In addition, he has worked with music artists Tayeh on the and Kylie Minogue such as Earth, Wind, & Fire, Taylor Swift, Paula world tours and performed with ’ Abdul, and Jack Wagner, among others. He has Bad Boys of Dance on several European tours. appeared in Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” and She prides herself in inspiring and sharing with ’s “Check Yourself” music videos. He others. She recently had the honor of teaching at had the pleasure of being a part of the skeleton Stanford University and continues to travel and crew to create part of the Opening Ceremonies teach with 24SEVEN. You can currently find her for the 2014 Winter Olympics. Rory is a part performing around the world with Shaping Sound! of the faculty and judges for various national KATE HARPOOTLIAN grew up in Columbia, conventions and competitions. He has taught & SC studying at Columbia City Jazz. She has choreographed at numerous studios across the worked with choreographers such as Jason U.S. and South America. Rory is also the Co- Parsons, Billy Bell, Cherice Barton, Heather Founder and Co-Director of MOVE: The Initiative, Lang and Brice Mousset. Credits include: a dance intensive that takes place in the New Boardwalk Empire, Dancing with the Stars, The England area, which he is from. Rory was honored Merce Cunningham Dance Company and The to become a member of Shaping Sound in 2013. Great Gatsby premiere event. She has also acted He was part of the company’s first ever national in commercials for Special K, Sunglass Hut, and tour, performed at the International Festival Nespresso. She has a flair for the comedy, a love Dans Encore, the Dizzy Feet Foundation Gala, of learning and teaching and enjoys anything and Dancer Palooza. Rory is thrilled to be able involving dessert. Follow her @KateHarpootlian to work with Shaping Sound for a second season! DANIEL GAYMON was born and raised in JUSTINE LUTZ grew up in Plymouth, MN where Columbia, SC. He began dancing at the age she started dancing at the age of three. She of nine under the training of Dale Lam at the attended Loyola Marymount University and Columbia City School & Company traveled as an assistant for the Pulse on Tour for where he studied for nine years. He has a year. TV Credits include: ABC’s Suburgatory, worked with choreographers Mandy Moore, Fox’s Glee, Disney’s Liz and Maddie, The Travis Wall, Teddy Forance, , American Music Awards and the Teen Choice Dondraico Johnson and many others. He Awards. She has been seen in a Fuller mops toured China in a five week touring production, commercial. Justine has worked with Taylor and this past year he toured Germany Swift, Ke$ha, Pitbull, Ed Sheeran, Paramore with the Rasta Thomas’ Bad Boys of Dance. and Emmy winning cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond in God The Father. She has appeared JAIMIE GOODWIN grew up in Virginia Beach, in both Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” and Ed VA where she trained in performing arts under Sheeran’s “Don’t” music videos and works Denise Wall. She made her acting debut as a with NIKE. She hopes her drive and passion guest star on the new CBS TV show Vegas and will be felt as she tours with Shaping Sound. WHO’S WHO

BEN SUSAK is excited to be touring with the Ballet in New York, Batsheva Dance Company amazing Shaping Sound artists that he is proud in Israel and Boulder Jazz Dance Workshop. to call his friends. Credits include; Wicked, Cirque du Soleil, So You Think You Can Dance and GIL STROMING Dancing with the Stars. He has worked with Lady BREAK THE FLOOR PRODUCTIONS Gaga, Britney Spears, Ke$ha, Florence and the (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) Gil is regarded as Machine, Kelly Clarkson and has been featured one of the leading dance entrepreneurs in the on American Idol. Shaping Sound, one clap! world. Before his business ventures, Gil began his dance career at 12 years old with the Kirov CHELSEA THEDINGA grew up in Las Vegas Student Ballet Company. From there, he was and trained at Inspire Dance Company under cast in the hit Off-Broadway show Tap Dogs. Artistic Director Robert Contreras. After Upon leaving the show at age 18, Gil created his moving to Los Angeles, she began dancing own tap dance company, Break The Floor. Break with Sonya Tayeh’s dance Company Tayeh The Floor performed for the NBA at Madison Dance and assisted choreographers on So You Square Garden, for the internationally televised Think You Can Dance which led to performance Goodwill Games (TBS), The Marian Anderson opportunities on The Academy Awards, The Awards (PBS), the Thanksgiving Day Parade American Music Awards, MTV Video Music (ABC), The Princess Grace Awards, and with Awards, Glee, America’s Got Talent, The Secret the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Gil has appeared Life of the American Teenager, Dancing with the on numerous television programs including The Stars and So You Think Can Dance. Chelsea Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Today Show, has toured North and South America dancing Live With Regis and Kathie Lee, the Kennedy for Latin artist Chayanne’s No Hay Imposibles Center’s 25th Anniversary Honors (PBS) and on ’s comedy album, Bigger and Blacker. Tour. Recently, Chelsea performed with Stacey Gil is also the face of Capezio tap shoes, gracing Tookey’s Still Motion Dance Company and the cover of Capezio tap shoe boxes worldwide. with Shaping Sound on All the Right Moves. Following his dance career, Gil created Break The Floor Productions, LLC. Break The Floor AMY YAKIMA is the Season 10, America’s Productions is one of the world’s preeminent Favorite Female Dancer on the reality show dance entertainment companies, encompassing So You Think You Can Dance and was a guest touring theatrical productions, dance workshops, performer on SYTYCD Ukraine. She grew up photo and video production, corporate events in Northville, MI, where she began dancing at and apparel. Break The Floor Productions has Noretta Dunworth School of Dance at the age of produced some of the most premier dance three. She performed in the Radio City Christmas events of our time including NUVO Dance Spectacular as ‘Clara’ in Detroit and New York Convention, 24 Seven Dance Convention & the City. She attended Marymount Manhattan world’s largest dance convention JUMP! With a College on scholarship in NYC and she is currently broad range of business prospects and a reach a staff member at Velocity Dance Convention. of over 500,000+ dancers annually, Break The Floor Productions is largely responsible for SKYLAR BOYKIN (SWING) was born and raised the transformation of dance entertainment. in Dallas, Texas. Since the age of nine she trained at Dance Industry Performing Arts Center in NIKOLE VALLINS (PRODUCER) is a producer ballet, jazz, contemporary, improvisation and and former casting director. Producing projects choreography. In 2010, she was selected as a include: The National Tour of Shaping Sound, Texas YoungMaster and was awarded multiple DancerPalooza, Capezio A.C.E. Awards Winners grants to further her studies in the art of dance. Festival, Happy We’ll Be, a dance narrative at In 2012, from a field of 5,000 contestants, she Roseland Ballroom, Make Believe on Broadway was named YoungArts Winner in modern dance at The Bernard Jacobs Theater, Broadway and choreography from which she traveled Celebrates Whitney Houston at Joe’s Pub, to Miami to perform with 20 other dancers at I’M IN starring Rachelle Rak at Le Poisson the Miami New World Center. Skylar has had Rouge, D Watts: Spoken Word Preserves at the the privilege to attend many workshops and Helen Mills Theater and Broadway’s Future: intensives including, Cedar Lake Contemporary Steven Jamail at the Lincoln Center Library. WHO’S WHO As a casting director, she has worked on such FOR BOOKING INQUIRIES CONTACT: Broadway productions as A Chorus Line, Finian’s EVELYN ZILBERMAN Rainbow, White Christmas, The Lion King, COLUMBIA ARTISTS THEATRICALS Gypsy, Dreamgirls, Grease, the NY City Center [email protected] 917.206.4600 Encores! Series and the feature films, Hairspray and Nine. Nikole is on the Artistic Advisory board of Rosie’s Theater Kids and is a founding Production Manager...... Robby MacLean board member of The Performing Arts Project. Lighting Director...... Terese Porterfield Production Carpenter...... Michael Hetzer BRAD BAUNER (GENERAL MANAGER) Production Properties...... John Rex Brad Bauner was an Associate Producer of Wardrobe Supervisor...... Tysh Hawkins Costume Designer...... Effie Mathews Broadway’s Burn the Floor (2010). He previously Lighting Designer...... Seth Jackson, Nathan Scheuer served as the Associate Producer for Post Street Set Designer...... Jesus Rodriguez, Greg Anderson Theater and Marines Memorial Theater in San Merchandise Associate...... Gary Vaughn Francisco. He was the General Manager of Rat Physical Therapist...... Michele Nielson Pack: Live at the Sands for two tours. Brad also Marketing & Public Relations...... C Major spent seven years as the Associate General Entertainment Manager of the smash hit STOMP. Additionally, Online Advertising...... Arthouse Interactive Brad is a television writer, playwright and lyricist. Production Assistant...... Jordan Richbart Graphic Design...... Alex Ray Vasquez, Samantha Van Sant Additional Choreography By...... Kate Harpootlian, Matthew Peacock, Ben Susak, Chelsea Thedinga At Tim Hortons, if we can’t serve our premium blend coffee within twenty minutes of brewing it, we won’t serve it at all. That’s why we write the time on the pot, whenever we brew a fresh one. It’s your guarantee that you’ll always get a great-tasting cup of coffee. CENTRE IN THE SQUARE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Chair...... Bruce Gordon For more than 30 years, Centre In The Square has Vice Chair...... Murray Gamble played a leading role in promoting the highest Mayor...... Berry Vrbanovic quality of local and international music and Councillor...... John Gazzola performing arts in southwestern Ontario. The Councillor...... Scott Davey Centre is dedicated to promoting performing Councillor...... Paul Singh arts that entertain, inspire, engage and create Board Member...... Hilary Abel memorable experiences for the region. The Board Member...... Jennifer Appleby Vines venue’s main hall, a 2,047-seat state-of-the-art Board Member...... Sandy Delamere theatre boasts superior acoustics and is widely Board Member...... Carol Leaman regarded as one of the finest performance space Board Member...... Shawn Mathers in North America. A registered not-for-profit Board Member...... 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