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PROGRAM NOTES BREAK THE FLOOR PRODUCTIONS Presents FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6 @ 8PM CENTRE IN THE SQUARE, KITCHENER SHAPING SOUND BREAK THE FLOOR PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS SHAPING SOUND STARRING TRAVIS WALL NICK LAZZARINI 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. We’re working together with Centre In The Square to make a difference in our community. M04198 (0610) CAST WHO’S WHO TRAVIS WALL was the runner-up for the Fox Modern Dance 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 Academy Awards as well as the well as the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company. He 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, where he played the role of Diesel in West Side Story’s First worked with Drake, Florence and the Machine, National Tour performing the choreography of Chelsea Handler, Eminem, and Rihanna. 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 Los Angeles 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 Ballet, 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 Adele on Beyoncé, Adele, Florence and the Machine, Dancing with the Stars, Kelly Clarkson at this The Goo Goo Dolls, Taylor Swift, Ceelo Green, year’s American Music Awards and Florence Christina Perri, Panic at the Disco, Chris Brown, 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 Janet Jackson, Cirque and tours with NUVO Dance Convention. Du Soleil, Florence & the Machine, Kelly Clarkson, Usher, Lady Gaga, Kylie Minogue, & 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 Neil Patrick Harris 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 Jennifer Lopez, 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 Modern Dance 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 Annie Lennox), 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 85th Academy Awards, 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 Miley Cyrus and Kylie Minogue such as Earth, Wind, & Fire, Taylor Swift, Paula world tours and performed with Rasta Thomas’ 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 Paula Abdul’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,
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