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Leon Levy BAM Digital Archive Brooklyn Academy of Music P R O G R AM C DANCE THEATRE 4/1-61Afr51 IIMIKINgrIrTr,7r477, BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC Harvey Lichtenstein, President and Executive Producer BAM Opera House DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM Founders ARTHUR MITCHELL KAREL SHOOK Artistic Director ARTHUR MITCHELL Executive Director ROBERT J. TAYLOR Music Director MILTON ROSENSTOCK Dance Artists TYRONE BROOKS KAREN BROWN LORRAINE GRAVES YVONNE HALL CHARMAINE HUNTER CHRISTINA JOHNSON VIRGINIA JOHNSON HUGUES MAGEN RONAL D PERRY CASSANDRA PHIFER KEITH SAUNDERS EDDIE J. SHELLMAN LOWELL SMITH JUDY TYRUS AUGUSTUS VAN HEERDEN DONALD WILLIAMS Lisa Attles Dean Anderson Elena Dominguez Fabian Barnes Rodolphe Cassand Robert Garland Gregory Jackson Tai Jimenez Endalyn Taylor-Shellman Judith Rotardier Richard Witter Vince Collins Felicity de Jager Luis Dominguez Kellye Gordon Tassia Hooks Adam James Patrick Johnson Andre Levitt Rena Robinson Valencia Yearwood Andrea Bergquist Simone Cardoso Sophia Cannonier Lawrence de Maeyer Ivonne Labrada Calvin Shawn Landers Cedric Rouse Marjorie Oron Ramona Smith Connie Rotardier Ineke Rush American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. is proud to be the worldwide sponsor of Dance Theatre of Harlem. Dance Theatre of Harlem gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. All contributions are tax deductible. Major institutional support provided by the LILA WALLACE-READER'S DIGEST FUND. Funding for the orchestra for the New York Season at BAM was provided in memory of Helen W. Buckner by the Helen W. Buckner Charitable Trust. My)-1, 00$V DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM PROGRAM C May 5, 6, 9 8pm; May 10, 3pm MIRAGE (The Games People Play) Choreography BILLY WILSON Music GARY MCFARLAND Costume and Scenery Design CARL MICHEL Lighting Design EDWARD EFFRON Husband LOWELL SMITH Wife LORRAINE GRAVES (5/5, 9) CASSANDRA PHIFER (5/6, 10) Grey Lady KAREN BROWN Young Man RICHARD WITTER Crazies KELLYE GORDON (5/5, 6, 10) CHARMAINE HUNTER (5/9) VALENCIA YEARWOOD (5/10) ENDALYN TAYLOR-SHELLMAN (5/5, 6, 9) DEAN ANDERSON ROBERT GARLAND Late Arrival YVONNE HALL (5/5, 10) CHRISTINA JOHNSON (5/6, 9) intermission MEDEA Choreography MICHAEL SMUIN Music SAMUEL BARBER MEDEA SUITE, OP. 23 Costumes ANDY KAY Lighting SARA LINNIE SLOCUM Conductor MILTON ROSENSTOCK Staged by ROBERT SUND and EVELYN CISNEROS Medea LISA ATTLES (5/5, 9) CHARMAINE HUNTER (5/6, 10) Sons of Medea &Jason LAWRENCE DE MAEYER (5/5, 9) CALVIN SHAWN LANDERS (5/5, 9) GREGORY JACKSON (5/6, 10) VINCE COLLINS (5/6, 10) Jason DONALD WILLIAMS (5/5, 9) RONALD PERRY (5/6, 10) Creusa Princess of Corinth TAI JIMENEZ (5/5, 9) JUDITH ROTARDIER (5/6, 10) "To die by other hands more merciless than mine. No, I who gave them life will give them death." - Euripides Music by arrangement with G. Schirmer Music Inc., publisher and copyright owner. intermission Bistrot &lit-ea* Vleateg & La filet e.adete...., Marseillaise Cam.fr. 270 8TH STREET BROOKLYN, NY 11215 (718) 788-7433 Residential and A french restaurant specializing in Commercial Heating and authentic cuisine from the South of France, located in a historic landmark building Air Conditioning, that formally housed Michels Installation and Service 350 Flatbush Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11238 For Reservations Major Credit Cards Accepted (718) 622-1122 Closed Mondays Parking Available Since 1938 . the finest craftsmanship in interior and exterior institutional, commercial, hospitality, retail and residential projects. Herbert HERBERT CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC. 115 WEST 18TH STREET NEW YORK, NY 10011 -4193 2121463-7111 NEW YORK NEW ENGLAND LONDON FIREBIRD Choreography JOHN TARAS Music IGOR STRAVINSKY FIREBIRD SUITE (1945 version) Costume and Scenery Design GEOFFREY HOLDER Lighting Design PAUL SULLIVAN Conductor DAVID LAMARCHE Young Man RONALD PERRY (5/5) AUGUSTUS VAN HEERDEN (5/6) EDDIE J. SHELLMAN (5/9) DONALD WILLIAMS (5/10) Firebird CHARMAINE HUNTER (5/5) JUDY TYRUS (5/6, 9) CHRISTINA JOHNSON (5/10 Princess of Unreal Beauty JUDITH ROTARDIER (5/5) FELICITY DE JAGER (5/6) LORRAINE GRAVES (5/9, 10) Beautiful Maidens Karen Brown (5/5, 6, 10) Endalyn Taylor-Shellman Tai Jimenez Marjorie Oron Sophia Cannonier Tassia Hooks Connie Rotardier Rena Robinson Felicity de Jager (5/5, 9, 10) Judith Rotardier (5/6, 9) Yvonne Hall (5/5, 10) Christina Johnson (5/6, 9) Ivonne Labrada Ramona Smith Princess of Evil CASSANDRA PHIFER Creatures of Evil ADAM JAMES GREGORY JACKSON Lisa Attles Kellye Gordon Simone Cardoso Ineke Rush Elena Dominguez Valencia Yearwood Fabian Barnes Luis Dominguez Andre Levitt Richard Witter Vince Collins Calvin Shawn Landers Cedric Rouse Lawrence de Maeyer Patrick Johnson Rodolphe Cassand APOTHEOSIS Entire Ensemble Music by arrangement with Theodore Presser Company, agents for MCA Music, New York, publisher and copyright owner. Firebird was first produced by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Paris Opera in 1910, with choreography by Michel Fokine, the great early 20th-century Russian choreographer. The cast was headed by Tamara Karsavina, the choreographer and his wife, Vera. Using legends of ori- ental Russia, Fokine sought to create a ballet of national origin. Since a complete Firebird story suitable in its entirety for a ballet did not exist, he combined various folktales for his scenario. Stravinsky, then young and relatively unknown, was chosen to compose the music. Other choreographers who have staged productions of Firebird include Adolph Bolm (Ballet Theatre, 1945), George Balanchine (NY City Ballet, 1949, and in collaboration with Jerome Robbins, 1970), Serge Lifar (Paris Opera Ballet, 1954), John Cranko (Stuttfart Ballet, 1964), George Skibine (Harkness Ballet, 1965), Brian MacDonald (Harkness Ballet, 1967), Maurice Bejart (Paris Opera Ballet and Ballet of the 20th Century, 1970) and Eske Holm (Royal Danish Ballet, 1972), with some production set to a new scenario rather than the original. Born in New York, dancer, choreographer and ballet master John Taras studied with Michel Fokine, Anatole Vilzak, Ludmilla Sholler and others, and has been associated with American Ballet Caravan (1940), Littlefield Ballet (1940-41), American Ballet (1941), American Ballet Theatre (1942-46 and since 1984), De Basil's Original Ballet Russe (1947), Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas (1948-53 and 1955), New York City Ballet (1959-69 and 1972-84), Paris Opera Ballet (1969-70) and Deutsche Opera Ballet in West Berlin (1971-72). Among the bal- lets he has choreographed are Braziana (1945), Camille (1946), The Minotaur (1947), Designs with Strings (1948), Tarasiana (1951), Piege de Lemiere (1953), La Guirlande de Campra (1966), Haydn Concerto (1968), Scenes de Ballet (1972), Daphnis and Chloe (1975), Souvenir de Florence (1981) and many others. In addition to his own works, he has mounted ballets by George Balanchine for companies around the world. Using Stravinsky's revised and shortened 1945 score, Mr. Taras and Geoffrey Holder have moved the ballet out of the mythical forests of old Russia and reset it in an imaginary tropical jungle, using Stravinsky's revised and shortened 1945 score. The production was pr emiered by Dance Theatre of Harlem on January 12, 1982, at New York's City Center, featuring Stephanie Dabney in the title role, plus Donald Williams, Lorraine Graves and Sulpicio Mariano. In a mysterious forest a Young Man is hunting. He hears strange sounds, and with a fiery light appears the Firebird, who is part bird, part beautiful woman. At first he hides, so as not to frighten her away, but, fascinated with the shimmering creature, he captures her. She pleads for her freedom and he releases her. In gratitude she dances for him. Before she leaves, she gives him a magical feather that will protect him from danger; then she disappears. In the gardens of the Princess of Evil, the Young Man comes upon a group of Beautiful Maidens, led by the Princess of Unreal Beauty. When he approaches them, the Beautiful Maidens are alarmed, but the Princess of Unreal Beauty steps forward and they begin to dance. Suddenly darkness falls and the Creatures of Evil attack. Armed with his magic feather, the Young Man stands his ground against the Creatures and the wicked Princess of Evil who has joined them. In a flash the Firebird appears, destroying the Princess of Evil and bringing peace to the forest. In the final scene, courtiers, attendants and bearers of pennants celebrate the wedding of the Young Man and the Princess of Unreal Beauty. DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM was estab- ARTHUR MITCHELL is known around the lished in 1969 by Arthur Mitchell, a former world as an accomplished teacher, choreogra- principal dancer with the New York City pher and dancer. He has been a pivotal figure Ballet, as his personal commitment to the peo- in the dance world for over three decades. ple of Harlem following the assassination of Mitchell began formal ballet training in his late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now stepping teens and went on to win the coveted annual into its third decade, Dance Theatre of Harlem dance award upon graduation from the High re-affirms its founding commitment. School of Performing Arts in New York City, resulting in offers of scholarships to .. The goal of Dance Theatre of Harlem is to give Bennington College and the School of young people, especially the economically and American Ballet. He accepted the latter and culturally disadvantaged, opportunities in the went on to join the New York City Ballet in arts. It started with classes for the young; com- 1955 where he debuted in the Fourth munity outreach performances for children, Movement of Western Symphony. senior citizens and the physically disabled; and Open House performances with nominal ticket He quickly rose to the position of premier prices. danseur. During his fifteen years with the New York City Ballet, he electrified audiences with Beginning as "one of ballet's most exciting his performances in all of the major ballets in undertakings" (The New York Times, 1971), the company's repertoire.
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