The Pillownotes Series Comprises Essays Commissioned from Our Scholars-In-Residence to Provide Audiences with a Broader Context for Viewing Dance

PILLOWNOTES JACOB’S PILLOW EXTENDS SPECIAL THANKS by Maura Keefe TO OUR VISIONARY LEADERS The PillowNotes series comprises essays commissioned from our Scholars-in-Residence to provide audiences with a broader context for viewing dance. VISIONARY LEADERS form an important foundation of support and demonstrate their passion for and commitment to Jacob’s Pillow through For a long time, cellist Maya Beiser hasn’t really fit the expectations of what a classical musician looks like or annual gifts of $10,000 and above. what a classical musician does. She’s a founding member of Bang on a Can, she plays music from Dvorák and Bach to Pink Floyd, Hildegard of Bingen, and Lou Reed. In an interview when asked about being called a “cello Their deep affliliation ensures the success and longevity of the rockstar” and “cello goddess,” she answered, “I imagine it’s because I’m not conforming as a classical performer Pillow’s annual offerings, including educational initiatives, free public to the habits people expect. Part of it, curiously, is about what I wear and how I express myself on stage. It’s programs, The School, the Archives, and more. true I do care about the visual aspect. I think of it as an art form—a total performance.”

That sense of the performance and the visual feeds Beiser’s imagination and led her to imagine an idea for a PRESENTS $25,000+ new project. She’s had lots of ideas in the past. About music mostly. But also, about how music relates to other THE DAY Carole* & Dan Burack Christopher Jones* & Deb McAlister art forms, especially in the visual realm. But this idea was different. This time, she wanted to experiment with a The Barrington Foundation Wendy McCain Doris Duke Theatre Frank & Monique Cordasco Fred Moses* close collaboration in the dance world. Hon. Stephan P. Driscoll*, in honor and memory Jennie A. Kassanoff & Dan H. Schulman July 31-August 4, 2019 of John Lindquist & Barton Mumaw Mark & Taryn Leavitt First, she reached out to Wendy Whelan. Of course, Whelan makes sense. She’s known for her boldness and Stephanie & Robert ‡ Gittleman Sylvia T. Pope* intelligence, her sense of adventure as an artist. As the internationally acclaimed dancer began planning Carolyn Gray & George Peppard Robert & Eileen Rominger to retire from her role as principal ballerina with New York City Ballet, she was already experimenting with Joan & Jim Hunter Irene Ryan Foundation commissioning new works. For example, she danced a series of new duets, called Restless Creature, which premiered at Jacob’s Pillow in 2013. Right from the beginning of her professional dance career, Whelan has been drawn to music. In a New York Times piece, she recalled feeling as if she had been struck by lightning PERFORMERS Maya Beiser when seeing George Balanchine’s Agon. “In that moment, I discovered the dancer I wanted to one day become: $10,000+ Wendy Whelan Dr. Norman Abramson Ann* & Peter Herbst a dancer devoted to choreography and choreographers, a dancer who could become a vessel for music, a Deborah & Charles Adelman Laura* & Nick Ingoglia dancer who would offer her best self in every inch of her work.” Master dancer joins master musician. Aliad Fund Nancy K. Kalodner Rick & Nurit Amdur Amy & Richard Kohan Then came the question of choreographer. Lucinda Childs came to mind, because of what Beiser calls, “her CHOREOGRAPHY Lucinda Childs Candace* & Rick Beinecke Lizbeth & George Krupp inclination and sensitivity to music.” Beiser knew of the brilliant collaborations between Childs and composer Linda & Bob Berzok Jack & Elizabeth Meyer, in honor of Philip Glass for such works as Einstein on the Beach, with Robert Wilson (1976) and Dance, with Sol LeWitt Sydelle & Lee Blatt Diane & Deval Patrick (1979). When Dance was restaged in 2011, The Guardian dance critic Judith Mackrell wrote that Childs’s WORDS & MUSIC David Lang David Carlisle & Morene Bodner Hans* & Kate Morris choreography and “the dancing also brings a hallucinatory visual clarity to Glass's score.” Beiser trusted that Chervenak-Nunnallé Foundation Gov. Deval L. & Diane Patrick Childs would expand all of their vocabularies and embark on a genuine choreographic exploration with Whelan. Claudia Perles Neil* & Kathleen Chrisman Master choreographer joins the collective, and they begin to work on THE DAY. And each of the women Ranny Cooper & David Smith Caren & Barry Roseman Jeffrey Davis & Michael T. Miller Hunter K. Runnette* & Mark P. VandenBosch expands her points of view, all in relation to the others. David DeFilippo & Lisa Shapiro, in memory of Naomi Seligman & Ernie von Simson Robert Gittleman Mark Sena & Linda Saul-Sena It all starts with the music. Beiser had already started working with composer David Lang on a commissioned Hermine Drezner Natalie & Howard Shawn solo work for cello on September 11, 2001. They were both living in New York, and thus the work, shaped Sheila Drill Lisbeth Tarlow & Stephen Kay by both geography and history, became “A World To Come” (2003). Beiser explains the piece as a kind of Nancy & Michael Feller Roger Tilles investigation of “life after death, a Jewish mystical concept of what happens when we die and how the soul David & Nina Fialkow in honor of Stephen Weiner & Donald Cornuet separates from the body.” In 2016, Beiser commissioned a kind of prequel, which resulted in Lang’s piece, “the Deval & Diane Patrick and Mark A. Leavitt Ellen Weissman day.” As Lang describes it, “'the day' looks at ways we review our lives, exploring remembered moments as a Jeanne Donovan Fisher Mark & Liz Williams chronicle of a life.” New York Times critic Joshua Barone says the music is, “by turns hopeful, funny, surprising Elaine* & Irving Wolbrom Joan* & Charlie Gross and tragic.”

* Former Trustees, staff, faculty, interns, THE DAY (2019), which premieres at Jacob’s Pillow, brings both Lang’s compositions together in a new way, The School’s dancers, or artists-in-residence with Beiser and Whelan in a duet of music and dance. Beiser was intrigued to see what Whelan and Childs ‡ Deceased would make of music she knew so intimately, because as she remarked, “Collaborators are powerful when they open a new window.” She went on to say, “How dancers hear and react to music is completely different from INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT musicians.” That sentiment echoes a statement David Lang made in a PillowTalk in 2011. “I really like what As of May 23, 2019 major support for Jacob’s Pillow has been generously provided by the dance does to my music. They don’t always do a lot. They focus on one kind of thing, one idea, one sound…It following institutions: The Arison Arts Foundation; Arnhold Foundation; The Barr Foundation; changes what you hear. It changes what you see…I like how it changes what I think is in the music. Sometimes The Barrington Foundation; Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation; Blue Cross Blue Shield you write the music and you’re still trying to figure out what the hell it is yourself.” of Massachusetts; The Chervenak-Nunnallé Foundation; The Feigenbaum Foundation; Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation; The Ford Foundation; Howard Gilman Foundation; Harkness Each of the collaborators is an experienced and mature artist. Whelan contends that this makes it all the better, Foundation for Dance; William Randolph Hearst Foundation; The John S. and James L. saying, “In fact, I actually feel that, being this age, I have something more interesting to say than I did when I Knight Foundation; Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency; MassDevelopment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Mertz Gilmore Foundation; New England Foundation for the was 25—something real and worked and experienced. I want to work with living choreographers, dance to live Arts; National Endowment for the Arts; Onota Foundation; The Prospect Hill Foundation; music…I want everything to be alive, full of life.” The Shubert Foundation; The Robert and Tina Sohn Foundation; The Spingold Foundation; Talented Students in the Arts Initiative, a collaboration of the Doris Duke Charitable Onstage, Whelan and Beiser. The dancer and the musician, united. In the music, the body and the soul, how Foundation and Surdna Foundation; The Thompson Family Foundation; The Velmans they belong together, how they part. Foundation; Weissman Family Foundation; and Jacob’s Pillow Business Partners. © 2019 Maura Keefe and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Dance writer Maura Keefe has led audience programs at various venues around the country and is the Associate Director of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she was named the Dorothy G. Madden Professor of Dance in 2018. PROGRAM FUNDING AND SUPPORT MEMBERSHIP SUPPORTS THE DAY THE DAY was conceived by Maya Beiser. EVERYTHING YOU LOVE ABOUT PERFORMERS Maya Beiser JACOB’S PILLOW Wendy Whelan THE DAY was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. JOIN OUR THOUSANDS OF MEMBERS & SUPPORT THE CHOREOGRAPHY Lucinda Childs MISSION OF JACOB’S PILLOW. THE DAY was co-commissioned by Théâtre de la Ville, Paris; Carolina Performing Arts at The University WORDS & MUSIC David Lang of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Jacob's Pillow (world premiere at Festival 2019); The Joyce Theater; and You can help the Pillow present outstanding dance artists SCENIC DESIGN Sara Brown Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA. from around the world, provide training and support to the talented dancers of The School at Jacob’s Pillow, maintain SOUND DESIGN Dave Cook THE DAY was supported, in part, by the Inaugural Artist Fellowship at The Joyce Theater Foundation’s our landmark site, and create free community programs Artist Residency Center, made possible by lead funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Howard that engage people of all ages and backgrounds with dance. PROJECTION Gilman Foundation, LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Additional DESIGN Joshua Higgason commissioning support was provided by the Wendy Whelan New Works Initiative. LIGHTING DESIGN Natasha Katz Substantial development support for THE DAY was provided by LUMBERYARD Contemporary Performing EVERY GIFT MATTERS. COSTUME DESIGN Karen Young Arts and Summer Stages Dance @ ICA/Boston. Additional development support was provided by JOIN AND CHOOSE THE LEVEL RIGHT FOR YOU! Baryshnikov Arts Center. CREATIVE Explore the full list of benefits, then join as a new Member, renew PRODUCER Maya Beiser THE DAY was supported in part by a Fay Chandler Faculty Creativity Grant from the MIT Center for Art, your current membership, or upgrade to a higher level MANAGING Science & Technology. at jacobspillow.org/support/membership. PRODUCER Christina Jensen "world to come" by David Lang was commissioned in 2003 for Maya Beiser by Carnegie Hall, You can also make a donation by phone at 413.243.9919 x122. PRODUCTION MANAGER Emily McGillicuddy the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, UC Santa Cruz Arts & Lectures, On the Boards, and Connecticut College, with support from Meet The Sustaining members support the Pillow year-round through easy, LIGHTING Composer. "the day" by David Lang was commissioned in 2016 for Maya Beiser by Hancher Performances automatic monthly or quarterly gifts. SUPERVISOR Alejandro Fajardo at the University of Iowa. PROJECTIONS SUPERVISOR Jess Medenbach Depending on your level, membership gives you access to: Early Ticketing Fan level & above Part 1: the day Part 2: world to come Admission to Cast Parties Contributor level & above

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She has worked in Film Production and A Note from Maya Beiser at New York City Center, extensively on Broadway and Electronic Arts from Bard THE DAY is a response to two solo cello works written for me by the composer David Lang – the day Manhattan Theatre Club, is a six-time Tony winner. College. jessmedenbach.com and world to come. Playwrights Horizons, and New Her recent credits include York Theatre Workshop. Springsteen on Broadway, KAREN YOUNG (Costume The music for the second part, world to come, was actually composed first. A commission from fajardodesigns.com The Prom, Frozen, Hello, Designer) is a New York-based Carnegie Hall, we began working on the piece in September 2001. Both David and I were in New York Dolly! (starring Bette costume designer who has City when the devastating events of September 11 unfolded. The piece became suffused with the JOSHUA HIGGASON (Projection Midler), Aladdin, Long Day’s designed for numerous dance disappearance of the thousands of people who vanished into the ashes of the World Trade Center Designer) is a designer of Journey into Night, The Glass companies and contemporary (WTC) that day. world to come (also sharing the initials, wtc) is a kind of prayer–introspective and performances, creating Menagerie, Once, The Coast of video artists. Her costume personal; a meditation on the eternal, post-mortal journey of the soul as it separates from the body. unique live experiences for Utopia: Salvage, and Aida. Katz designs for dance are events, concerts, opera, and is a TDF Wendy Wasserstein included in the repertoires of The first half of this production, the day, is based on the prequel composition of the same title, written theater. He designs video and Project mentor for high school the Martha Graham Dance in 2016. Exploring the ways we remember our lives, as they are running away from us, Lang crowd- projections, interactive media, students and Vice Chair of the Company, Alvin Ailey American sourced the narrated text from the Internet. Every phrase that completed the sentence “I remember sets, and lighting. He started American Theatre Wing. Dance Theater, Kyle Abraham, the day I” was treated as a personal statement from someone, somewhere, about a moment that was working in experimental Brian Brooks, Sidi Larbi so significant it felt worth holding onto. The text, appearing every six seconds, is arranged like a prism– theater and art with some EMILY McGILLICUDDY Cherkaoui, Acosta Danza Cuba, in an alphabetical order–with many conflicting facets of each action described from different vantage points. groundbreaking companies (Production Manager) is a Pontus Lidberg, Hubbard Street and has continued developing New York/Chicago based Dance Chicago, Paul Taylor During the time I recorded these two pieces for an album, I kept seeing images of a woman, a dancer, into a unique voice in the Production Manager and Stage Dance Company, American emerging from the notes of the cello–embodying the voices, recounting these stories, inhabiting these world of immersive media Manager. She has managed Ballet Theatre, Ballet Basel, memories, possessing those lives. driven experiences. He shows in New York City and Pam Tanowitz, Sonya Tayeh, currently teaches Performance across the country with and Miami City Ballet, among Working with Wendy Whelan and Lucinda Childs on this project has been a dream come true. We Media, Interactive Design for Wendy Whelan, Brian Brooks, many others. She designed the embarked on this project as a collaborative effort, truly respecting each other as artists. We are blessed Live Performance, and Lighting Keigwin + Company, Karen costumes for Wendy Whelan's to be working with such an extraordinary team: Sara Brown, Dave Cook, Joshua Higgason, Natasha Design at MIT. Sherman, Reggie Wilson/ projects Restless Creature and Katz, Karen Young, Emily McGillicuddy, and Christina Jensen, have all been extraordinary. joshuahiggason.net Fist & Heel Performance Some of a Thousand Words Group, Liz Gerring, Satoshi and is currently directing the NATASHA KATZ (Lighting Haga, VIA Dance, and Che reconstruction and design BIOS Designer) has designed Malambo. In addition to her of the costumes of Martha extensively for theater, work in dance, she manages Graham’s entire repertoire MAYA BEISER (Performer/ Raised in the Galilee Mountains she has collaborated with opera, dance, concerts, fashion shows and events, and for the Martha Graham Dance Creative Producer) has been in Israel by her Argentinean are Louis Andriessen, Brian and permanent lighting produces music festivals. She Company. Young has designed described as a renowned cellist, father and French mother, Beiser Eno, Philip Glass, Tan Dun, installations around the world. has toured the world with LA the costumes for the video producer, and multifaceted spent her early life surrounded Steve Reich, Shirin Neshat, Bill Her work in dance incudes Dance Project and Les Ballets works of Eve Sussman, Toni artist. The New York Times by the music and rituals of Morrison, Robert Woodruff, and lighting for The Royal Ballet Trockadero de Monte Carlo Dove, Matthew Barney's writes, “The adventurous Ms. Jews, Muslims, and Christians, Lucinda Childs. in London, American Ballet and is a graduate of North Cremaster 1 and Cremaster 5, Beiser has been called the while studying classical cello Theatre, The Joffrey Ballet, San Carolina School of the Arts. David Michalek's large-scale 'cello goddess,' which is not repertoire. At the age of 12, Beiser’s vast discography Francisco Ballet, The National outdoor video installations hyperbole: She summons from she was discovered by the late includes 11 solo albums. Her Ballet of Canada, New York JESS MEDENBACH (Projections Slow Dancing and Portraits in her instrument an emotional violinist Isaac Stern who became recent albums TranceClassical City Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Supervisor) is a video and Dramatic Time, and Michelle power so stirring that even the her mentor throughout her (2016) and Maya Beiser: and Ballet Hispanico. Katz media designer, filmmaker, Handelman’s Hustlers and most stoic audience members early career. She is a featured Uncovered (2014) topped has a long-standing creative editor, and producer Empires. She has taught at the risk turning into sobbing sacks performer on the world’s most the classical music charts. relationship with Christopher originally from the Hudson Rhode Island School of Design of flesh.” Passionately forging prestigious stages including Her next album, delugEON, Wheeldon, having designed Valley in Upstate New York. and the Metropolitan Museum her artistic path through Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, will be released in August the lighting for premieres at Medenbach’s work ranges of Art and received research uncharted territories, Beiser BAM, The Kennedy Center, BBC 2019 on Beiser’s new Islandia the Royal Ballet of Tryst, Alice's from media for theater, grants from the NEA/TCG has been captivating audiences Proms, London’s Southbank Music Records imprint. She is Adventures in Wonderland, opera, and live events to development program and the worldwide, bringing a bold Centre, Royal Albert Hall, the the featured soloist on many and The Winter's Tale. Katz’s Augmented and Virtual London College of Fashion. and unorthodox presence Barbican, Sydney Opera House, film soundtracks, including other collaborations with Reality applications, short karenyoungcostume.com to contemporary classical Beijing Festival, Barcelona’s an extensive collaboration Wheeldon include Continuum films, music videos, and video music, experimenting with L’auditori, Paris’ Cité de la with composer James (San Francisco Ballet), installations. Medenbach has various musical styles, and Musique, and Stockholm’s Newton Howard for M. Night Carnival of the Animals worked throughout the United defying conventional norms Concert Hall. Beiser’s critically Shyamalan’s The Happening and (New York City Ballet), Swan States and Europe, had work with her boundary-crossing acclaimed multimedia After Earth, Denzel Washington’s Lake (Pennsylvania Ballet), displayed in Times Square performances. Hailed as “the productions World To Come, The Great Debaters, Edward Cinderella (Dutch National and has been written about in reigning queen of avant-garde Almost Human, Provenance, Zwick’s Blood Diamond, and Ballet), and The Nutcracker The New York Times and The cello” by The Washington Post, Elsewhere: A Cello Opera, Rupert Sanders’ Snow White and (Joffrey Ballet). She designed Creators Project. Medenbach she has been called a “cello All Vows, and Spinning have the Huntsman. the lighting for Wheeldon’s holds an M.F.A. in Video and rock star,” by Rolling Stone and consistently been chosen for top Broadway musical An American Media Design from Carnegie praised as “a force of nature,” critics’ “Best Of The Year” lists. Beiser is a 2015 United States in Paris, for which she won a Mellon University and a B.F.A. by The Boston Globe. Among the wide range of artists Artists (USA) Distinguished Fellow in Music; a 2017 Mellon and in 2007, she was nominated LUCINDA CHILDS including the Paris Opera Ballet of the state, which premiered Bali (BAM’s Next Wave series); Distinguished Visiting Artist in London for both an Olivier (Choreographer) began her and Les Ballets de Monte Carlo. in June 2019 with the New Island and Images from the at MIT Center for Art, Science Award and a Critics Circle Award career at the Judson Dance She has also directed and York Philharmonic; his opera Embers (Dana Tai Soon Burgess & Technology; and she was for her performances. Whelan Theater in New York in 1963. choreographed a number of the loser, which opened the Co., Washington D.C.); The recently a Presenting Artist at has been a guest artist with Since forming her dance contemporary and eighteenth- 2016 Next Wave Festival at the Gacy Play (Sideshow Theater, the inaugural CultureSummit, The Royal Ballet and the Kirov company ten years later, she has century operas, including Brooklyn Academy of Music Chicago); The Shape She Makes held in 2017 in Abu Dhabi. Ballet and has performed all created over 50 works, both solo Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice and received a West Coast and The Lily’s Revenge (The Invited to present at the over the U.S., South America, and ensemble. In 1976 she was for the Los Angeles Opera, premiere in April 2019 with LA American Repertory Theater, prestigious TED main stage in Europe, and Asia. She received featured in the landmark avant- Mozart’s Zaide for La Monnaie Opera; the public domain for Cambridge, MA); and Mr. Long Beach, CA, Beiser's 2011 the Dance Magazine Award in garde opera Einstein on the in Brussels, Stravinsky’s Le 1000 singers, which premiered G (Central Square Theater, TED Talk has been watched by 2007, and in 2009 was given a Beach by Philip Glass and Robert Rossignol and Oedipe, Vivaldi’s at Lincoln Center’s 2016 Mostly Cambridge, MA). She is a over one million people and Doctorate of Arts, honoris causa, Wilson, for which she won an Farnace, Handel’s Alessandro, Mozart Festival; his chamber Senior Lecturer for MIT Music translated into 32 languages. from Bellarmine University. In Obie Award. She subsequently and John Adams’s Dr. Atomic opera anatomy theater and Theater Arts. Beiser is a graduate of Yale 2011, she received both The appeared in a number of for the Opera du Rhin. Her premiered at the Prototype sarabdesign.com University and was a founding Jerome Robbins Award and a Wilson’s productions, including production of Jean Baptiste Festival in New York and then member of the Bang on a Can Bessie Award for her Sustained I Was Sitting on My Patio This Lully’s Atys premiered at Oper at LA Opera; the concerto man DAVE COOK (Sound Designer) All-Stars. mayabeiser.com Achievement in Performance. Guy Appeared I Thought I Kiel in 2014 and her production made for the ensemble So is a native New Yorker and Since 2013, Whelan has Was Hallucinating, Quartett, of Jean-Marie Leclaire’s Scylla Percussion and a consortium of comes from a background WENDY WHELAN (Performer) been developing her own by Heiner Muller, Wilson and and Glaucus premiered there orchestras, including the BBC immersed in recording studios, is widely considered one of independent projects. Her Glass’s opera White Raven, in 2017. Symphony and the Los Angeles theaters, and concert settings. the world’s leading dancers of inaugural project, Restless Wilson’s video project Video Philharmonic; mountain, His work in the pop/rock her generation. Whelan began Creature, with four dancer/ 50, and Maladie de la Mort by Childs is the recipient of commissioned by the world has landed him Gold dance lessons at the age of three choreographers—Kyle Abraham, Marguerite Duras (opposite numerous awards. She holds Cincinnati Symphony;death and Platinum album credits in her hometown of Louisville, Joshua Beamish, Brian Brooks, Michel Piccoli). Most recently, the rank of Commandeur speaks, a song cycle based on with artists such as 10,000 Kentucky. Whelan began intense and Alejandro Cerrudo–was she appeared in Wilson’s in France’s Ordre des Arts Schubert, but performed by maniacs, the B-52’s, Nick Cave, professional training at the co-produced by The Joyce production of Arvo Part’sAdam’s et des Lettres and in 2017 rock musicians, including Bryce Graham Parker, The Golden Louisville Ballet Academy. She Theater Productions and Passion and also recorded she received the Golden Dessner from The National Palominos, Amy Helm, and was accepted to the summer premiered at Jacob’s Pillow spoken text and collaborated Lion award from the Venice and Shara Worden from My many more. His current and program of the School of Dance Festival in 2013, later on the choreography for Letter Biennale and the Samuel Brightest Diamond; the whisper previous live concert touring/ American Ballet at age 14; a year touring the U.S. She followed to a Man, which was based on H. Scripps American Dance opera, for the International mixing credits include David later, she moved to New York to up with the development of Nijinsky’s diaries and performed Festival award for lifetime Contemporary Ensemble and Bowie, Radiohead, Natalie continue her studies as a full- two more projects in 2015, by Mikhail Baryshnikov. achievement. In 2018, Childs soprano Tony Arnold; and love Merchant, Todd Rundgren, time student. In 1984, she was Whelan/Watson Other Stories, was inducted into the Hall of fail, an evening-length work for Carly Simon, Ravi Shankar, named an apprentice with New co-produced by the Royal In 1979 Childs choreographed Fame at the National Museum the early music vocal ensemble Anoushka Shankar, Terry Riley, York City Ballet and joined the Opera House in London, and one of her most enduring of Dance. lucindachilds.com Anonymous 4. Marc Cohn, Laurie Anderson, corps de ballet a year later. Hagoromo, which was self- works, Dance, with music by Medeski, Martin and Wood, produced with American Philip Glass and film décor by DAVID LANG (Words & Music) Lang is a Professor of Music and Maya Beiser. Cook owns Whelan went on to spend 30 Opera Projects for the BAM Sol LeWitt, which continues to is one of the most highly Composition at the Yale and operates Area 52 Studios years at New York City Ballet, Next Wave Festival. In 2016- tour internationally and has esteemed and performed School of Music and is Artist in in Saugerties, NY. dancing virtually all the major 17, she premiered Some of a been added to the repertory American composers writing Residence at the Institute for area-52-studios.com Balanchine roles, and working Thousand Words with Brian of the Lyon Opera Ballet, for today. The New Yorker wrote: Advanced Study in Princeton. closely with Jerome Robbins Brooks and Brooklyn Rider at the which she has choreographed “With his winning of the He is co-founder and co- ALEJANDRO FAJARDO on many of his ballets and International Festival of Arts & Beethoven’s Grande Fugue. In Pulitzer Prize for 'the little artistic director of New York's (Lighting Supervisor) is a originating roles in ballets by Ideas, which was co-produced by 2015 she revived Available Light, match girl passion' (one of legendary music collective Colombian Lighting Designer such notable choreographers as The Joyce Theater Productions created in 1983 with music by the most original and moving Bang on a Can. His music is and Photographer based in William Forsythe, Twyla Tharp, and toured throughout the U.S. John Adams and a split-level set scores of recent years), Lang, published by Red Poppy Music New York City, with experience Alexei Ratmansky, Christopher by Frank Gehry. It was presented once a postminimalist enfant (ASCAP) and is distributed designing plays, musicals, Wheeldon, Jorma Elo, Shen Wei, In February 2019, Whelan at the Festival d’Automne in terrible, has solidified his worldwide by G. Schirmer, Inc. operas, and more. Most and Wayne MacGregor. She was marked a return to New York Paris and the Manchester standing as an American davidlangmusic.com recently, he designed The promoted to soloist in 1989 and City Ballet when she was International Festival. In 2016, master.” His works have been Healing by Sam Hunter for to principal dancer in 1991. Her appointed Associate Artistic in an exhibit titled “Nothing performed around the world in SARA BROWN (Scenic Theatre Breaking Through most notable choreographic Director of the Company. Personal,” her choreographic most of the great concert halls. Designer) is a set designer Barriers. Other designs collaboration at NYCB was with A documentary, entitled Restless scores were shown at the based in Boston, MA. Selected include shows at La MaMa, Christopher Wheeldon, who Creature: Wendy Whelan, was Thaddeus Ropac Gallery in Lang's "simple song #3," designs include Appropriate Clubbed Thumb/Playwrights created roles for Whelan in released in movie theaters collaboration with the Centre written as part of his score for (Trinity Repertory Company, Horizon School, The Actors thirteen of his ballets, including across the country beginning Nationale de la Danse, to which Paolo Sorrentino's acclaimed Providence, RI); Rhinoceros Studio, The Curtis Institute of Polyphonia, Liturgy, and After in summer 2017 and is now she has donated her archive. film YOUTH, received many (Playwright’s Theater and Music, Pace University, and the Rain. At his own company, available on iTunes and Amazon. award nominations in 2016, Suffolk University); World of The Williamstown Theatre Morphoses/The Wheeldon The film recently won the Chita Since 1981 Childs has including the Academy Award Wires (The Kitchen, NYC & Festival. He has also assisted Company, he again chose Rivera Award for Best Dance choreographed over thirty works and Golden Globe. Recent Festival d'Automne, Paris); on off-Broadway and regional Whelan for several new works, Documentary. wendywhelan.org for major ballet companies, work include his opera prisoner Hagoromo and A House in productions, including Fall For

Fellow in Music; a 2017 Mellon and in 2007, she was nominated LUCINDA CHILDS including the Paris Opera Ballet of the state, which premiered Bali (BAM’s Next Wave series); Distinguished Visiting Artist in London for both an Olivier (Choreographer) began her and Les Ballets de Monte Carlo. in June 2019 with the New Island and Images from the at MIT Center for Art, Science Award and a Critics Circle Award career at the Judson Dance She has also directed and York Philharmonic; his opera Embers (Dana Tai Soon Burgess & Technology; and she was for her performances. Whelan Theater in New York in 1963. choreographed a number of the loser, which opened the Co., Washington D.C.); The recently a Presenting Artist at has been a guest artist with Since forming her dance contemporary and eighteenth- 2016 Next Wave Festival at the Gacy Play (Sideshow Theater, the inaugural CultureSummit, The Royal Ballet and the Kirov company ten years later, she has century operas, including Brooklyn Academy of Music Chicago); The Shape She Makes held in 2017 in Abu Dhabi. Ballet and has performed all created over 50 works, both solo Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice and received a West Coast and The Lily’s Revenge (The Invited to present at the over the U.S., South America, and ensemble. In 1976 she was for the Los Angeles Opera, premiere in April 2019 with LA American Repertory Theater, prestigious TED main stage in Europe, and Asia. She received featured in the landmark avant- Mozart’s Zaide for La Monnaie Opera; the public domain for Cambridge, MA); and Mr. Long Beach, CA, Beiser's 2011 the Dance Magazine Award in garde opera Einstein on the in Brussels, Stravinsky’s Le 1000 singers, which premiered G (Central Square Theater, TED Talk has been watched by 2007, and in 2009 was given a Beach by Philip Glass and Robert Rossignol and Oedipe, Vivaldi’s at Lincoln Center’s 2016 Mostly Cambridge, MA). She is a over one million people and Doctorate of Arts, honoris causa, Wilson, for which she won an Farnace, Handel’s Alessandro, Mozart Festival; his chamber Senior Lecturer for MIT Music translated into 32 languages. from Bellarmine University. In Obie Award. She subsequently and John Adams’s Dr. Atomic opera anatomy theater and Theater Arts. Beiser is a graduate of Yale 2011, she received both The appeared in a number of for the Opera du Rhin. Her premiered at the Prototype sarabdesign.com University and was a founding Jerome Robbins Award and a Wilson’s productions, including production of Jean Baptiste Festival in New York and then member of the Bang on a Can Bessie Award for her Sustained I Was Sitting on My Patio This Lully’s Atys premiered at Oper at LA Opera; the concerto man DAVE COOK (Sound Designer) All-Stars. mayabeiser.com Achievement in Performance. Guy Appeared I Thought I Kiel in 2014 and her production made for the ensemble So is a native New Yorker and Since 2013, Whelan has Was Hallucinating, Quartett, of Jean-Marie Leclaire’s Scylla Percussion and a consortium of comes from a background WENDY WHELAN (Performer) been developing her own by Heiner Muller, Wilson and and Glaucus premiered there orchestras, including the BBC immersed in recording studios, is widely considered one of independent projects. Her Glass’s opera White Raven, in 2017. Symphony and the Los Angeles theaters, and concert settings. the world’s leading dancers of inaugural project, Restless Wilson’s video project Video Philharmonic; mountain, His work in the pop/rock her generation. Whelan began Creature, with four dancer/ 50, and Maladie de la Mort by Childs is the recipient of commissioned by the world has landed him Gold dance lessons at the age of three choreographers—Kyle Abraham, Marguerite Duras (opposite numerous awards. She holds Cincinnati Symphony;death and Platinum album credits in her hometown of Louisville, Joshua Beamish, Brian Brooks, Michel Piccoli). Most recently, the rank of Commandeur speaks, a song cycle based on with artists such as 10,000 Kentucky. Whelan began intense and Alejandro Cerrudo–was she appeared in Wilson’s in France’s Ordre des Arts Schubert, but performed by maniacs, the B-52’s, Nick Cave, professional training at the co-produced by The Joyce production of Arvo Part’sAdam’s et des Lettres and in 2017 rock musicians, including Bryce Graham Parker, The Golden Louisville Ballet Academy. She Theater Productions and Passion and also recorded she received the Golden Dessner from The National Palominos, Amy Helm, and was accepted to the summer premiered at Jacob’s Pillow spoken text and collaborated Lion award from the Venice and Shara Worden from My many more. His current and program of the School of Dance Festival in 2013, later on the choreography for Letter Biennale and the Samuel Brightest Diamond; the whisper previous live concert touring/ American Ballet at age 14; a year touring the U.S. She followed to a Man, which was based on H. Scripps American Dance opera, for the International mixing credits include David later, she moved to New York to up with the development of Nijinsky’s diaries and performed Festival award for lifetime Contemporary Ensemble and Bowie, Radiohead, Natalie continue her studies as a full- two more projects in 2015, by Mikhail Baryshnikov. achievement. In 2018, Childs soprano Tony Arnold; and love Merchant, Todd Rundgren, time student. In 1984, she was Whelan/Watson Other Stories, was inducted into the Hall of fail, an evening-length work for Carly Simon, Ravi Shankar, named an apprentice with New co-produced by the Royal In 1979 Childs choreographed Fame at the National Museum the early music vocal ensemble Anoushka Shankar, Terry Riley, York City Ballet and joined the Opera House in London, and one of her most enduring of Dance. lucindachilds.com Anonymous 4. Marc Cohn, Laurie Anderson, corps de ballet a year later. Hagoromo, which was self- works, Dance, with music by Medeski, Martin and Wood, produced with American Philip Glass and film décor by DAVID LANG (Words & Music) Lang is a Professor of Music and Maya Beiser. Cook owns Whelan went on to spend 30 Opera Projects for the BAM Sol LeWitt, which continues to is one of the most highly Composition at the Yale and operates Area 52 Studios years at New York City Ballet, Next Wave Festival. In 2016- tour internationally and has esteemed and performed School of Music and is Artist in in Saugerties, NY. dancing virtually all the major 17, she premiered Some of a been added to the repertory American composers writing Residence at the Institute for area-52-studios.com Balanchine roles, and working Thousand Words with Brian of the Lyon Opera Ballet, for today. The New Yorker wrote: Advanced Study in Princeton. closely with Jerome Robbins Brooks and Brooklyn Rider at the which she has choreographed “With his winning of the He is co-founder and co- ALEJANDRO FAJARDO on many of his ballets and International Festival of Arts & Beethoven’s Grande Fugue. In Pulitzer Prize for 'the little artistic director of New York's (Lighting Supervisor) is a originating roles in ballets by Ideas, which was co-produced by 2015 she revived Available Light, match girl passion' (one of legendary music collective Colombian Lighting Designer such notable choreographers as The Joyce Theater Productions created in 1983 with music by the most original and moving Bang on a Can. His music is and Photographer based in William Forsythe, Twyla Tharp, and toured throughout the U.S. John Adams and a split-level set scores of recent years), Lang, published by Red Poppy Music New York City, with experience Alexei Ratmansky, Christopher by Frank Gehry. It was presented once a postminimalist enfant (ASCAP) and is distributed designing plays, musicals, Wheeldon, Jorma Elo, Shen Wei, In February 2019, Whelan at the Festival d’Automne in terrible, has solidified his worldwide by G. Schirmer, Inc. operas, and more. Most and Wayne MacGregor. She was marked a return to New York Paris and the Manchester standing as an American davidlangmusic.com recently, he designed The promoted to soloist in 1989 and City Ballet when she was International Festival. In 2016, master.” His works have been Healing by Sam Hunter for to principal dancer in 1991. Her appointed Associate Artistic in an exhibit titled “Nothing performed around the world in SARA BROWN (Scenic Theatre Breaking Through most notable choreographic Director of the Company. Personal,” her choreographic most of the great concert halls. Designer) is a set designer Barriers. Other designs collaboration at NYCB was with A documentary, entitled Restless scores were shown at the based in Boston, MA. Selected include shows at La MaMa, Christopher Wheeldon, who Creature: Wendy Whelan, was Thaddeus Ropac Gallery in Lang's "simple song #3," designs include Appropriate Clubbed Thumb/Playwrights created roles for Whelan in released in movie theaters collaboration with the Centre written as part of his score for (Trinity Repertory Company, Horizon School, The Actors thirteen of his ballets, including across the country beginning Nationale de la Danse, to which Paolo Sorrentino's acclaimed Providence, RI); Rhinoceros Studio, The Curtis Institute of Polyphonia, Liturgy, and After in summer 2017 and is now she has donated her archive. film YOUTH, received many (Playwright’s Theater and Music, Pace University, and the Rain. At his own company, available on iTunes and Amazon. award nominations in 2016, Suffolk University); World of The Williamstown Theatre Morphoses/The Wheeldon The film recently won the Chita Since 1981 Childs has including the Academy Award Wires (The Kitchen, NYC & Festival. He has also assisted Company, he again chose Rivera Award for Best Dance choreographed over thirty works and Golden Globe. Recent Festival d'Automne, Paris); on off-Broadway and regional Whelan for several new works, Documentary. wendywhelan.org for major ballet companies, work include his opera prisoner Hagoromo and A House in productions, including Fall For

Dance and Flamenco Festival Tony Award. She has worked in Film Production and A Note from Maya Beiser at New York City Center, extensively on Broadway and Electronic Arts from Bard THE DAY is a response to two solo cello works written for me by the composer David Lang – the day Manhattan Theatre Club, is a six-time Tony winner. College. jessmedenbach.com and world to come. Playwrights Horizons, and New Her recent credits include York Theatre Workshop. Springsteen on Broadway, KAREN YOUNG (Costume The music for the second part, world to come, was actually composed first. A commission from fajardodesigns.com The Prom, Frozen, Hello, Designer) is a New York-based Carnegie Hall, we began working on the piece in September 2001. Both David and I were in New York Dolly! (starring Bette costume designer who has City when the devastating events of September 11 unfolded. The piece became suffused with the JOSHUA HIGGASON (Projection Midler), Aladdin, Long Day’s designed for numerous dance disappearance of the thousands of people who vanished into the ashes of the World Trade Center Designer) is a designer of Journey into Night, The Glass companies and contemporary (WTC) that day. world to come (also sharing the initials, wtc) is a kind of prayer–introspective and performances, creating Menagerie, Once, The Coast of video artists. Her costume personal; a meditation on the eternal, post-mortal journey of the soul as it separates from the body. unique live experiences for Utopia: Salvage, and Aida. Katz designs for dance are events, concerts, opera, and is a TDF Wendy Wasserstein included in the repertoires of The first half of this production, the day, is based on the prequel composition of the same title, written theater. He designs video and Project mentor for high school the Martha Graham Dance in 2016. Exploring the ways we remember our lives, as they are running away from us, Lang crowd- projections, interactive media, students and Vice Chair of the Company, Alvin Ailey American sourced the narrated text from the Internet. Every phrase that completed the sentence “I remember sets, and lighting. He started American Theatre Wing. Dance Theater, Kyle Abraham, the day I” was treated as a personal statement from someone, somewhere, about a moment that was working in experimental Brian Brooks, Sidi Larbi so significant it felt worth holding onto. The text, appearing every six seconds, is arranged like a prism– theater and art with some EMILY McGILLICUDDY Cherkaoui, Acosta Danza Cuba, in an alphabetical order–with many conflicting facets of each action described from different vantage points. groundbreaking companies (Production Manager) is a Pontus Lidberg, Hubbard Street and has continued developing New York/Chicago based Dance Chicago, Paul Taylor During the time I recorded these two pieces for an album, I kept seeing images of a woman, a dancer, into a unique voice in the Production Manager and Stage Dance Company, American emerging from the notes of the cello–embodying the voices, recounting these stories, inhabiting these world of immersive media Manager. She has managed Ballet Theatre, Ballet Basel, memories, possessing those lives. driven experiences. He shows in New York City and Pam Tanowitz, Sonya Tayeh, currently teaches Performance across the country with and Miami City Ballet, among Working with Wendy Whelan and Lucinda Childs on this project has been a dream come true. We Media, Interactive Design for Wendy Whelan, Brian Brooks, many others. She designed the embarked on this project as a collaborative effort, truly respecting each other as artists. We are blessed Live Performance, and Lighting Keigwin + Company, Karen costumes for Wendy Whelan's to be working with such an extraordinary team: Sara Brown, Dave Cook, Joshua Higgason, Natasha Design at MIT. Sherman, Reggie Wilson/ projects Restless Creature and Katz, Karen Young, Emily McGillicuddy, and Christina Jensen, have all been extraordinary. joshuahiggason.net Fist & Heel Performance Some of a Thousand Words Group, Liz Gerring, Satoshi and is currently directing the NATASHA KATZ (Lighting Haga, VIA Dance, and Che reconstruction and design BIOS Designer) has designed Malambo. In addition to her of the costumes of Martha extensively for theater, work in dance, she manages Graham’s entire repertoire MAYA BEISER (Performer/ Raised in the Galilee Mountains she has collaborated with opera, dance, concerts, fashion shows and events, and for the Martha Graham Dance Creative Producer) has been in Israel by her Argentinean are Louis Andriessen, Brian and permanent lighting produces music festivals. She Company. Young has designed described as a renowned cellist, father and French mother, Beiser Eno, Philip Glass, Tan Dun, installations around the world. has toured the world with LA the costumes for the video producer, and multifaceted spent her early life surrounded Steve Reich, Shirin Neshat, Bill Her work in dance incudes Dance Project and Les Ballets works of Eve Sussman, Toni artist. The New York Times by the music and rituals of Morrison, Robert Woodruff, and lighting for The Royal Ballet Trockadero de Monte Carlo Dove, Matthew Barney's writes, “The adventurous Ms. Jews, Muslims, and Christians, Lucinda Childs. in London, American Ballet and is a graduate of North Cremaster 1 and Cremaster 5, Beiser has been called the while studying classical cello Theatre, The Joffrey Ballet, San Carolina School of the Arts. David Michalek's large-scale 'cello goddess,' which is not repertoire. At the age of 12, Beiser’s vast discography Francisco Ballet, The National outdoor video installations hyperbole: She summons from she was discovered by the late includes 11 solo albums. Her Ballet of Canada, New York JESS MEDENBACH (Projections Slow Dancing and Portraits in her instrument an emotional violinist Isaac Stern who became recent albums TranceClassical City Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Supervisor) is a video and Dramatic Time, and Michelle power so stirring that even the her mentor throughout her (2016) and Maya Beiser: and Ballet Hispanico. Katz media designer, filmmaker, Handelman’s Hustlers and most stoic audience members early career. She is a featured Uncovered (2014) topped has a long-standing creative editor, and producer Empires. She has taught at the risk turning into sobbing sacks performer on the world’s most the classical music charts. relationship with Christopher originally from the Hudson Rhode Island School of Design of flesh.” Passionately forging prestigious stages including Her next album, delugEON, Wheeldon, having designed Valley in Upstate New York. and the Metropolitan Museum her artistic path through Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, will be released in August the lighting for premieres at Medenbach’s work ranges of Art and received research uncharted territories, Beiser BAM, The Kennedy Center, BBC 2019 on Beiser’s new Islandia the Royal Ballet of Tryst, Alice's from media for theater, grants from the NEA/TCG has been captivating audiences Proms, London’s Southbank Music Records imprint. She is Adventures in Wonderland, opera, and live events to development program and the worldwide, bringing a bold Centre, Royal Albert Hall, the the featured soloist on many and The Winter's Tale. Katz’s Augmented and Virtual London College of Fashion. and unorthodox presence Barbican, Sydney Opera House, film soundtracks, including other collaborations with Reality applications, short karenyoungcostume.com to contemporary classical Beijing Festival, Barcelona’s an extensive collaboration Wheeldon include Continuum films, music videos, and video music, experimenting with L’auditori, Paris’ Cité de la with composer James (San Francisco Ballet), installations. Medenbach has various musical styles, and Musique, and Stockholm’s Newton Howard for M. Night Carnival of the Animals worked throughout the United defying conventional norms Concert Hall. Beiser’s critically Shyamalan’s The Happening and (New York City Ballet), Swan States and Europe, had work with her boundary-crossing acclaimed multimedia After Earth, Denzel Washington’s Lake (Pennsylvania Ballet), displayed in Times Square performances. Hailed as “the productions World To Come, The Great Debaters, Edward Cinderella (Dutch National and has been written about in reigning queen of avant-garde Almost Human, Provenance, Zwick’s Blood Diamond, and Ballet), and The Nutcracker The New York Times and The cello” by The Washington Post, Elsewhere: A Cello Opera, Rupert Sanders’ Snow White and (Joffrey Ballet). She designed Creators Project. Medenbach she has been called a “cello All Vows, and Spinning have the Huntsman. the lighting for Wheeldon’s holds an M.F.A. in Video and rock star,” by Rolling Stone and consistently been chosen for top Broadway musical An American Media Design from Carnegie praised as “a force of nature,” critics’ “Best Of The Year” lists. Beiser is a 2015 United States in Paris, for which she won a Mellon University and a B.F.A. by The Boston Globe. Among the wide range of artists Artists (USA) Distinguished PROGRAM FUNDING AND SUPPORT MEMBERSHIP SUPPORTS THE DAY THE DAY was conceived by Maya Beiser. 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