2015 Next Wave Festival NOV 2015

Shinique Smith, Magnetic Beam, 2015

Published by: Season Sponsor: #BAMNextWave #WendyWhelan

Brooklyn Academy of Music

Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board

William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board

Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board

Katy Clark, President

Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer Hagoromo

BAM Harvey Theater Nov 3, 5—7 at 7:30pm; Nov 8 at 3pm

Running time: approx. 80 minutes, no intermission

International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) Brooklyn Youth Chorus Music by Nathan Davis Libretto by Brendan Pelsue Choreography by David Neumann Puppetry by Chris M. Green Conducted by Nicholas DeMaison Conceived and directed by David Michalek

The Angel Wendy Whelan | Katalin Károlyi (contralto) The Fisherman Jock Soto | Peter Tantsits (tenor) Puppeteers Ren Carrillo, Pepper Fajans, Catherine Gowl, Leah Hofmann, Rowan Magee, Erin Orr

Set design by Sara Brown Lighting design by Clifton Taylor Costumes by Dries Van Noten Season Sponsor: Sound design by Jody Elff Dramaturgy by Norman Frisch

Presented in association with American Opera Projects Leadership support for dance at BAM provided by Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Harkness Foundation for Dance.

Major support for dance at BAM provided by The SHS Foundation. Hagoromo—Note

I rediscovered Hagoromo several years ago in a book of Noh plays translated by Ezra Pound. After reading it, I began to imagine how the characters of the Angel and Fisherman could be uniquely inhabited by the dancers Wendy Whelan and Jock Soto. As Wendy’s life partner, I had the privilege to closely watch her now famous partnership with Jock blossom, particularly during the years 2000—05 when, along with Christopher Wheeldon, they created one remarkable ballet after another. Like the Angel and Fisherman, Jock and Wendy embody elemental opposites: earth and sky, solid assurance and airy grace. It’s been an enormous pleasure to witness the rekindling of their unique and special chemistry after a 10-year hiatus.

This project has attempted to bring together dance and live new music, disciplines that rarely meet due to the non-overlapping values of their differing ecosystems. The plan from the beginning, cooked up by International Contemporary Ensemble artistic director Claire Chase and myself was to bring the ensemble and composer Nathan Davis into direct contact with the dramaturgical and choreographic process and vice-versa. Through this union we are attempting something that feels fresh and new: chamber dance/opera.

I am deeply proud of the artistic and administrative team that has come together around Hagoromo. They are profoundly talented individuals, but also most especially kind. And as the story of Hagoromo tells us, kindness does matter.

At the heart of Hagoromo is a single message that shines with a timely wisdom: only kindness and compassion can transform greed into giving, and profit into value.

Through a poor fisherman’s return of a magical Angel’s robe, we are reminded that works of art are most essentially valuable when they remain in circulation. The fisherman could have kept the robe, removed it from its cycle of angelic use, and transformed it into a source of his own private capital. But he didn’t and so the mystery and magic of the garment survives and so, too, an Angel’s dance.

—David Michalek

ADDITIONAL PERFORMERS

INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE Claire Chase flute Rebekah Heller bassoon Jennifer K. Curtis violin Daniel Lippel guitar Ross Karre percussion/dulcimer

BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS Choral Director Natalie Hawkins Lily Pisano Dianne Berkun-Menaker Akiya Henry Clara Rosarius Jess Hernandez Maya Sequira Emily Ahn Charlotte Knutsen Madelaine Smith Ariel Binns Olivia Knutsen Sarah Sotomayor Kierra Foster-Bagley Meghan Kouassi Isabella Stevenson Erynn Gutierrez Stephanie Negron Aliyah Weiss Julia Harbutt Ana Maria Oliynyk Wendy Whelan and Jock Soto. Photo David Michalek Hagoromo

ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION CREDITS

Production manager Michael Givey Technical director Karen Walcott Music director Nathan Davis Stage manager Dathan Manning

Headpieces by Stephen Jones Electronics Levy Lorenzo Assistant choreographers Ivy Baldwin, Jenny Shore Butler Assistant director Rachel Ann Manheimer Assistant stage manager Jacob Wexler Assistant lighting designer/Lighting programmer Alejandro Fajardo Assistant to the lighting designer Steve O’Shea Assistant set designer Daniel Prosky Assistant costume designer Spencer Phipps Costume coordinators Reid Bartelme, Harriet Jung Wardrobe supervisor Amy Page Hair & make-up artist Virna Acosta Puppet design Chris M. Green Puppet fabrication The Specialists Ltd., Chris M. Green Set fabrication ART Scene Shop Rehearsal/workshop singers Gudrun Buhler, Rachel Calloway, Catherine Hedberg, Megan Ihnen, Nicole Mitchell, Alice Teyssier, Melissa Wimbish Rehearsal pianists Kelly Horsted, Christopher Cooley Rehearsal puppeteers Tony Feummeler, Takemi Kitamura, CB Goodman, Katie Melby, Tristan Farmer Copyist Andrew Yoon Production photographers Mark Stephen Kornbluth, Steven Pisano

Nathan Davis’ original score was created through ICE’s First Page commissioning program in memory of Claude Arpels and thanks to the lead support of Van Cleef & Arpels, Marisa Arpels, and Claude J. Arpels.

Libretto commissioned by American Opera Projects.

Hagoromo received production development support from American Dance Institute (ADI)’s Incubator residency program.

Hagoromo is available for touring. For more information, contact [email protected].

Hagoromo was made possible through the generous support of: The Ford Foundation Stuart H. Coleman and Jerome Robbins Foundation The Ted and Mary Jo Shen Meryl Rosofsky Mark and Catherine Slavonia Charitable Gift Fund Sheri and Marc Feigen The Laurie M. Tisch Diana and Joe DiMenna Hubert and Mireille Illumination Fund The SHS Foundation Goldschmidt The New York Community Trust Ian Archer-Watters Caroline Howard Hyman Witherspoon Fund Jody and John Arnhold Ken and Jill Iscol Barry Friedberg Charles and Debbie Adelman Julia F. Koch Judith Hoffman Mitchell J. Blutt & Margo Virginia and Timothy Millhiser Denise and Andrew Saul Krody Blutt Michele and Steven Pesner Cheryl Henson Donya Bommer Stephen Kroll Reidy American Opera Projects

AOP’s season is made possible by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Amphion Foundation, Aaron Copland Fund for Music, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), public funds from New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, New York City Department of Culture Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and many generous individuals.

AMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS General director Charles Jarden Producing director Matt Gray Managing director Robert E. Lee III Composer-in-residence Laura Kaminsky Resident production stage manager W. Wilson Jones Bookkeeping Cynthia Kelly Accountants Certus LLP Apprentices Sam Carl, Zoe Hart, Barney Johnson, Mariah Wakefield

AOP BOARD OF DIRECTORS Dr. Coco Lazaroff, Chairman; Robert E. Lee III, President; Anna Rabinowitz, Vice President; John Buscarello, Treasurer; Anthony Roth Costanzo; Sarah Moulton Faux; J. David Jackson; Charles Jarden; W. Wilson Jones; Mark Kalow; Norman Ryan

INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE STAFF Executive director Vanessa Rose Artistic director (CEO) Claire Chase Co-artistic director Joshua Rubin Business manager Jonathan Harris Production/digitICE.org Ross Karre Individual giving Rebekah Heller Grants Ryan Muncy Education Jacob Greenberg Production & operations associate Maciej Lewandowski Artistic operations associate Alice Teyssier Engineer and technical associate Levy Lorenzo Executive assistant Maro Elliott

BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS STAFF Founder & artistic director Dianne Berkun-Menaker Executive director Elise Bernhardt Director of development & institutional advancement Marie-Laure Kugel Director of financeJulian Sheffield Director of training divisions & elective programs Elizabeth Woodhouse Community engagement manager Andrea Arevalo Conductor & chorus manager Kris Burke Production & events manager Jennifer Cambras Marketing & communications manager Frank Impelluso Chorus managers Angela Batchelor, Molly Goldberg, Kiena Williams, Eric Williamson Office coordinatorMarjory Bruno Development associate Hannah Margolies Finance assistant Anlys Maldonado

SPECIAL THANKS Basil Twist, Pamela Tanowitz and staff of New York City Center, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, Larry Henry and staff of Gelsey Kirkland Academy of Classical Ballet, Mark Morris Dance Group, Stephanie Bok, Jerry Homan, and staff of The Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, Markus Paminger, J. Stephen Sheppard and Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP, Stephen Setterlun and Kirstin Knutson, The James Madison University Department of Theatre and Dance and the James Madison University Forbes Center production team. Hagoromo—Synopsis

PART 1—THE HEAVENS The Angel appears. She asks Hakuryo to return the Hagoromo, but he rebuffs her pleas. In heaven, an Angel enters into the ritual space of the Palace of the Moon. She performs a dance Denied her robe, the Angel fades and weakens with a sacred mantle called the Hagoromo, before Hakuryo’s eyes. which instills her with mysterious powers. As the dance concludes, the Hagoromo is returned to its Moved by the Angel’s suffering, Hakuryo ceremonial stand. The Angel exits. considers her request. A bargain is proposed: he will return the Angel’s mantle and, in exchange, Two celestial animals emerge from the shadows. witness her heavenly dance. They play with the Hagoromo. The sacred mantle is awakened, flies off the edge of the Palace of The Angel agrees, but requests the robe be given the Moon, and falls to earth. to her first. Hakuryo is reticent. How does he know she will not trick him and fly away?

“Your doubt is sad and mortal,” she tells him. “In PART 2—THE EARTH Heaven there is no deceit.”

On earth, an old fisherman named Hakuryo Shamed by the truth of the Angel’s words, stands onshore, taking in the beauty of a spring Hakuryo returns the robe. morning. A strange storm rises up. Hakuryo, who cannot afford to miss even one day’s catch, goes The Angel performs her dance with the to sea. Hagoromo, revealing the mysterious phenomena it evokes. Hakuryo is blown to a distant island where he finds the Hagoromo hanging on a tree. He She ascends to the heavens. rejoices at the discovery. END Who’s Who

BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS is a collective and performs puppet shows for all ages. Offstage of young singers and vocal ensembles re- he is a teaching artist and a licensed massage envisioning choral music performance through therapist. their distinctive, remarkable sound, artistic innovation, and collaboration with classical and NATHAN DAVIS (composer, music director) contemporary artists. With an incredibly versatile “writes music that deals deftly and poetically range and unique repertoire, Brooklyn Youth with timbre and sonority” (New York Times). Chorus combines intensive vocal training and Lincoln Center inaugurated the TullyScope music study with exceptional performances. Festival with the premiere of Davis’ landmark The chorus has been touted by The New York work Bells and presented other premieres at the Times as a “consistently bold organization” that Mostly Mozart Festival. Commissioned by the regularly commissions and presents new music International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), in genre-defying forms. The chorus’ after-school Calder Quartet, Yarn/Wire, La Jolla Symphony program encompasses multi-level training Chorus, Steven Schick, Donaueschinger divisions and advanced performing ensembles as Musiktage, and the Ojai Festival (with sound well as a full complement of enrichment classes sculptor Trimpin), his music has been performed and individual lessons. The chorus’ diverse at NYC’s Carnegie Hall, Park Avenue Armory, student body of over 500 young people, ages Miller Theatre, Le Poisson Rouge, Roulette, 7—20, represents nearly 200 schools citywide. in a portrait concert at Spoleto USA, and Classes take place at its Cobble Hill headquarters internationally at Darmstadt, Helsinki Musica and neighborhood locations in Bedford- Nova, Aspekte Salzburg, and Acht Brücken Stuyvesant and Red Hook, Brooklyn. Köln. He has received awards from Meet The Composer, Fromm Foundation, Copland Fund, SARA BROWN (set designer) is a set designer Jerome Foundation, American Music Center, and for theater, dance, and opera based in Boston, MATA. With Phyllis Chen he scored Sylvia Milo’s MA. Her designs include World of Wires (The NYIT award-winning monodrama The Other Kitchen, NYC; Festival d’Automne, Paris), Mozart, currently running at The Players Theatre. A House in Bali (2010 Next Wave; Cal Recordings of his music include The Bright Performances), The Temperamentals (Lyric and Hollow Sky, one of Time Out NY’s top five Stage Company, Boston), Island and Images classical albums of 2011. nathandavis.com from the Embers (Dana Tai Soon Burgess Co., Washington DC), The Gacy Play (Sideshow NICHOLAS DeMAISON (conductor) is a New Theater, Chicago), The Shape She Makes and York-based conductor and composer whose The Lily’s Revenge (American Repertory Theater, performances include dozens of premieres Cambridge, MA), Bride Widow Hag, A Bright of new instrumental, operatic, and choral New Boise, The Flu Season, and Twelfth Night works. He is music director of the Rensselaer (ART Institute, Cambridge, MA), and Mr. G Orchestra and Concert Choir at Rensselaer (Central Square Theater, Cambridge, MA). She Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. Recent and holds an MFA from the University of Virginia upcoming conducting engagements have included and a BA from Gustavus Adolphus College. She appearances at the Beijing Modern Music Festival is currently the Director of Design for Music (NCPA, Beijing) and Handan Grand Theater and Theater Arts at Massachusetts Institute of (Handan, China), premiering Mojiao Wang’s opera Technology. Encounter, Monday Evening Concert Series (Zipper Hall, Los Angeles), The Stone (NYC), Troy Savings REN CARILLO (puppeteer) is originally from Bank Music Hall (Troy, NY), and BAM. He has also California. He has performed in Stravinsky’s worked on the music staff for broadcast productions Firebird with Chris M. Green and David with Live from Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, PBS, Neumann, Don Cristobal: Billy-Club Man with New York Philharmonic, Gerard Schwarz’s All-Star Erin Orr and Rima Fand, and Kaiser Permanentes Orchestra, and as a music supervisor for critically Educational Theatre Program in Northern acclaimed production company Giants Are Small, California. Carillo is a core member of Brooklyn whose innovative multi-media concert operas have based Alphabet Arts where he creates, directs, gained international attention in recent years. Wendy Whelan and Jock Soto. Photo David Michalek Who’s Who

JODY ELFF’s (sound designer) sound design, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Two Gentlemen production, and recording credits include work of Verona (Old Globe); The Taming of the Shrew, with Yo-Yo Ma, Laurie Anderson, Fred Hersh, Othello (Virginia Shakespeare Festival); and David Lang, Bang on a Can, Meredith Monk, Proof. In New York, productions have included Tan Dun, and many others. His recording credits The Merchant of Venice (TFANA); Oh the include the Grammy-nominated Off the Map Humanity and Other Exclamations, The Director, by the Silk Road Ensemble, and soundtracks ‘Twas (Flea Theater); The Return (Metropolitan for the Francis Ford Coppola films Tetro and Museum), and many new works in NYC and at Twixt. His live television mixing experience the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She is a company includes segments for The Daily Show with Jon member with blessed unrest. She has earned a Stewart and The Colbert Report. Elff designed BA in history and literature from Harvard, and an and engineered the sonic landscape for Theater MFA from the Old Globe/USD. of the New Ear, a stage presentation written by Charlie Kaufman featuring Meryl Streep. His fine CHRIS M. GREEN (puppetry director) art sound installations have been shown in various is a Brooklyn-based designer, performer, galleries and museums internationally, including composer, and director. His theatrical, sound, a commissioned sound-sculpture permanently and installation works have been presented installed in a public parking facility in Lyon, France. over the past 18 years in venues including Lincoln Center, New York City Center, National PEPPER FAJANS (puppeteer) is the founding Geographic Museum, La Jolla Playhouse, St. director of Brooklyn Studios for Dance (BkSD), Ann’s Warehouse, Goethe Institute (Delhi), and the Brooklyn Touring Outfit. His recent work Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Teatro del Co. Venture, created with David Vaughan and Lago (Chile), among others. His Brooklyn- Chris M. Green, was awarded for Outstanding based design studio Chris Green Kinetics has Choreography at the 2015 Montreal Fringe received awards from American Association of Festival and will be remounted at the Centaur Museums, Themed Entertainment Association, Theatre in 2016. He was personal assistant to and AIA. Recent honors include Creative Capital Merce Cunningham and continued to tour with Award (2009), MacDowell Fellowship (2012), the Cunningham Company as the production and LMCC Process Space residency (2013). carpenter through the final world tour. As director Currently, Green is developing his new play of BkSD he renovated a 1920s-era gymnasium American Weather through the HERE Resident into a burgeoning dance studio. Artist and Dream Music Programs with support from the Jim Henson Foundation. Along with NORMAN FRISCH (dramaturg) is an wife Erin K. Orr, Green teaches an intensive independent dramaturg, performance curator, performance workshop called The Language of and producer based in New York. Over the Things both nationally and internationally. years, he has worked with many fine theater artists: Reza Abdoh & dar a luz, Bread & Puppet LEAH HOFMANN (puppeteer), originally from Theater, the Builders Association, MotiRoti, St. Louis, MO, currently resides in New York. Bill Rauch, Peter Sellars, Stuart Sherman, SITI Broadway experience includes War Horse (Joey/ Company, and the Wooster Group, among others. Topthorn), Big Fish; Metropolitan Opera’s The Frisch has curated and co-curated a number of Merry Widow (FrouFrou); and internationally in important international arts centers and festivals, Jedermann (Bear) and The Three Penny Opera and taught at universities in the US and abroad. at Salzburg Festspiele. National Tours: Young He is an active member of Literary Managers & Frankenstein (Inga) and Radio City Christmas Dramaturges of the Americas (LMDA). Spectacular (Rockette). Hofmann also builds puppets under the direction of Julian Crouch. In CATHERINE GOWL (puppeteer) has participated her spare time, she is an Etch A Sketch Artist, in national tours of War Horse; regional theater EtchySketchyArt.com. includes Electra (Pittsburgh Public Theater), Six Degrees of Separation, King Lear, Coriolanus, INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY The Madness of George III, Cyrano de Bergerac, ENSEMBLE (ICE), described by the New York Who’s Who

Times as “one of the most accomplished and DAVID MICHALEK (director) works in media adventurous groups in new music,” is dedicated ranging from photography, video/sound and light to reshaping the way music is created and installations, and live performance to site-specific experienced. With a modular makeup of 35 works of public art. His concentration has been leading instrumentalists, performing in forces closely tied to his interest in the contemporary ranging from solos to large ensembles, ICE person, which he explores through the use of functions as performer, presenter, and educator, relational aesthetics, performance techniques, advancing the music of our time by developing storytelling, movement, and gesture. His work in innovative new works and new strategies for video has been focused on capturing marginal audience engagement. ICE redefines concert moments—carefully staged—that develop music as it brings together new work and new density with minimal action through the interplay listeners in the 21st century. of image, sound, and most importantly, time. Exploring notions of durational and rhythmic KATALIN KÁROLYI (contralto, The Angel), born time (as opposed to the referential time used in Hungary, studied singing with Noëlle Barker. in cinema) in both form and content, his works She went on to set up Studio Versailles Opéra engages in intimate yet open narratives. His work with Rachel Yakar and René Jacobs. Other has been shown nationally and internationally conductors she has worked with include Yehudi with recent art exhibitions or performances at the Menuhin, William Christie, Phillip Herreweghe, Brooklyn Museum, LA Music Center, the Louvre, Thomas Adès, and George Benjamin. Opera Cleveland Museum, Covent Garden, Harvard productions include performances at the University, Sadler’s Wells, Trafalgar Square, Opéra National de Paris, Teatro alla Scala, Opera Bastille, Venice Biennale, Yale University, Wiener Festwochen, Almeida Opera, BAM, The Kitchen, Tanz Im August, WOMAdelaide, and the Festival d’Aix en Provence. She has Lincoln Center, and the Edinburgh Festival. In also appeared at Ravinia Festival Chicago, 2007, he was given a Bessie Award for his Salzburg Festival, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, video installation at Lincoln Center entitled, Barbican Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hall, BBC SlowDancing. Michalek is a visiting faculty Proms, and Cité de la Musique. She frequently member at Yale Divinity School, where he appears with ensembles including Ictus, London lectures on religion and the arts. He resides in Sinfonietta, Ensemble Intercontemporain, BCMG, New York City with his wife, the dancer Wendy Amadinda, Asko-Schoenberg, Musikfabrik, Whelan. davidmichalek.net Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, SEM and Tambuco. She has had numerous DAVID NEUMANN (choreographer), as artistic works composed for her including Ligeti’s director of Advanced Beginner Group, has Sippal, Dobbal, Nádihegedüvel which she has created work presented in New York at PS performanced often, as well as a recording for 122, Dance Theater Workshop, Central Park Teldec Classics. katalinkarolyi.org SummerStage, Celebrate Brooklyn, Symphony Space, the Whitney at Altria, The Kitchen, ROWAN MAGEE (puppeteer) was raised in Troy, and New York Live Arts. Neumann and NY and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. Advanced Beginner Group have received five He is a dancer, actor, teacher, and puppeteer. Bessie Awards, and several grants including Currently performing with Robin Frohardt’s The from Creative Capital, BUILD, Rockefeller Pigeoning (thepigeoning.com), Magee is also and MAP funds. In recent years, Neumann collaborating on Phantom Limb Company’s has been awarded a 2011 Foundation for Memory Rings, a theatrical tribute to the oldest Contemporary Arts Award for Dance, a 2013 living tree in the world, and Dan Hurlin’s Depero New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Project, a debut of previously untranslated and in Choreography, and a 2014 MacDowell unproduced puppet plays by futurist painter Fellowship. He was recently awarded a 2014 Fortunato Depero. He is a featured director in the NDP Production Grant. More recently, Neumann 2016 Labapalooza Puppet Festival at St. Ann’s directed Geoff Sobelle’s The Object Lesson at Warehouse in Brooklyn. BAM and choreographed Soho Rep’s Obie Award winning production of An Octoroon. Neumann Who’s Who

was recently awarded a 2015 Bessie Award Rain. Soto is currently a faculty member at the for outstanding production for his original work School of American Ballet, the official academy I Understand Everything Better which had its of New York City Ballet. His life is the subject of world premiere at the American Dance Institute the award-winning documentary Water Flowing and New York premiere at Abrons Arts Center. Together (2008) and the memoir Every Step You Take (HarperCollins 2011). ERIN ORR (puppeteer) is a puppeteer and storyteller whose work ranges from a dark PETER TANTSITS (tenor, The Fisherman) fairytale for adults (Savage Nursery), to a puppet has appeared on the stages of the Teatro alla circus about the real-life drama of honeybees Scala and the Bayerische Staatsoper. Future (It’s A Bee, Honey), and a musical puppet play appearances include the title role in Dusapin’s inspired by the Spanish Punch (Don Cristóbal, Perelà (Staatstheater Mainz); Stockhausen’s Billy-Club Man). In addition to collaborating Donnerstag aus Licht (Theater Basel); Die with Chris M. Green, she has recently partnered Soldaten (Bayerische Staatsoper); Wozzeck with Cynthia Von Buhler, creating shadow (Concertgebouw Amsterdam); Acis and Galatea puppets for Ziegfeld’s Midnight Frolic and a toy (Festival de Belle-Île). He is also scheduled to theater about the fratricidal habits of blue footed debut with the Berlin Philharmonic, Los Angeles boobies for The Brothers Booth. She has also Opera, Netherlands RPO, Opera Philadelphia, often puppeteered for Basil Twist, Christopher and a return to the London Symphony Orchestra. Williams, and Lake Simons. He recently appeared at the Vienna Festwochen, Glyndebourne, Aldeburgh, Holland, and BRENDAN PELSUE (librettist) is a playwright, Beijing Music Festivals, and with the London librettist, and translator from Newburyport, MA. Symphony Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, He is currently pursuing an MFA in playwriting MDR Sinfonieorchester, and multiple times from the Yale School of Drama, where past with the New York Philharmonic (including projects include Parking Lot, Riverbank: a Noh the NY premiere of Le Grand Macabre). Other Play for Northerly Americans, and a translation/ recent engagements include Candide (Leipzig adaptation of Molière’s Dom Juan. A Huntington Gewandhaus), La Cenerentola (KonzertTheater Playwriting Fellowship finalist and one of Cutting Bern), The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit Ball Theater’s “Risky Playwrights,” his work has (International Händel-Festspiele), and the title been produced or developed by groups including role in the UK/Irish tour of The Importance of the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Corkscrew Being Earnest, including the Barbican premiere Theater Company, Telephonic Literary Union, led by Thomas Adès. Tiny Dynamite, and Bay Area Playwrights Festival. CLIFTON TAYLOR (lighting designer) has created lighting, projection, and scenic designs JOCK SOTO (dancer, The Fisherman) was for Broadway, off-Broadway, as well as for acclaimed during his 24-year career at New York opera, theater, and dance companies around City Ballet for the incomparable skill and artistry the world. His work at BAM has been presented of his partnering technique and for his versatility with the music of Fred Ho (Journey to the West) as a performer in both classic and contemporary and with many dance companies over the past neoclassical ballets. After training at the School 29 years. His designs for dance have been of American Ballet, he joined NYCB in 1981 commissioned for the repertories of Alvin Ailey, and was named a principal dancer in 1985. Cedar Lake, Martha Graham, ABT, and San His extensive repertoire included leading parts Francisco and Washington Ballets among many in numerous works by George Balanchine and others. He is currently the resident designer Jerome Robbins, and he inspired the creation of for Karole Armitage, Philadanco, and Elisa roles in new ballets by Peter Martins, Christopher Monte dance companies. Opera designs have Wheeldon, and other notable choreographers. included several works for New York’s Gotham He was memorably paired with Wendy Whelan Chamber Opera, BAM, New York Philharmonic’s in a number of ballets at NYCB, including opera presentations at Lincoln Center, and Wheeldon’s Polyphonia, Liturgy, and After the internationally. designcurve.com Who’s Who

DRIES VAN NOTEN (costume designer) sells Tharp. In 2007, Whelan was nominated for his men’s, women’s, and accessories collections an Olivier Award and a Critics Circle Award all over the world. In addition to his boutiques in for her performances with Morphoses/The Antwerp, Paris, Singapore, Kuwait, Hong Kong, Wheeldon Company. She received the 2007 and Tokyo, Van Noten works in partnership with Dance Magazine Award, and in 2009 was some 400 boutiques in cities such as New York, given a doctorate of Arts, honoris causa, from London, Milan, Berlin, and Moscow. In 2009, Bellarmine University. In 2011, she was honored he was awarded Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts with both the Jerome Robbins Award and a et des Lettres in Paris; the Flemish Chamber of Bessie Award for her Sustained Achievement in Commerce (VOKA) inducted him into the Galerie Performance. In 2013, she premiered her first des Eminents; the Flemish Royal Academy original production called Restless Creature at of Belgium gifted him with the Gold Medal Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Restless Creature (Gouden Penning), and the Couture Council of has since toured to London and across the the Museum at FIT in New-York honored him US. Whelan was recently appointed an artistic with the Couture Council Award for Artistry of associate at New York’s City Center. She resides Fashion. In 2014 the work of Van Noten was in New York City with her husband, the artist featured at the musée des Arts Décoratifs in David Michalek. Paris. Inspirations is the very first exhibition devoted to the artist’s work. In November 2014, AMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS (producer), Dries Van Noten was appointed president of the founded in 1988, is at the forefront of the jury of the seventh edition of the A Shaded View contemporary opera movement, commissioning, on Fashion Film Festival (ASVOFF). In 2015, developing, presenting, and producing opera and the Inspirations exhibition moved to Antwerp’s music theater projects, collaborating with young, MoMu. This is an evolution in content and rising, and established artists, and engaging expression of the exhibition in Paris devoted to audiences in unique and transformative theatrical the designer’s work. driesvannoten.be experiences. AOP has produced over 30 world premieres, including Kaminsky/Reed/Campbell’s WENDY WHELAN (dancer, The Angel) was As One (BAM, 2014), Nkeiru Okoye’s Harriet born and raised in Louisville, KY, where at the Tubman: When I Crossed That Line to Freedom age of three she began taking dance classes with (Irondale Center, 2014), and Lera Auerbach’s Virginia Wooton, a local teacher. At age eight she The Blind (co-production with Lincoln Center performed as a mouse with the Louisville Ballet Festival, 2013). Other notable premieres include in its annual production of The Nutcracker. Kimper/Persons’ Patience & Sarah (1998), Joining the Louisville Ballet Academy that year, Weisman/Rabinowitz’s Darkling (2006), Lee she began intense professional training. In Hoiby’s This is the Rill Speaking (2008), and 1981 she received a scholarship to the summer Phil Kline’s Out Cold: Zippo Songs (BAM, 2012). course at the School of American Ballet (SAB), AOP-developed operas that premiered with co- the official school of New York City Ballet, and producers include Stefan Weisman’s The Scarlet a year later she moved to New York to become Ibis at PROTOTYPE Festival (2015), Gregory a full-time student there. She was invited to Spears’ Paul’s Case at Urban Arias (2013) and become a member of the New York City Ballet PROTOTYPE Festival and Pittsburgh Opera corps de ballet in 1986 and was promoted to (2014), Jack Perla’s Love/Hate at ODC Theater principal dancer in 1991. Whelan has performed with San Francisco Opera (2012), Stephen a wide spectrum of the Balanchine repertory Schwartz’s Séance on a Wet Afternoon at New and worked closely with Jerome Robbins on York City Opera (2011), Tarik O’Regan’s Heart many of his ballets. She has originated featured of Darkness at London’s Royal Opera House roles in 13 ballets for Christopher Wheeldon, (2011), and Opera Parallèle (2015). AOP’s core as well as in the ballets of William Forsythe, programs comprise Composers & the Voice, First Alexei Ratmansky, Wayne McGregor, Jorma Chance, OPERAtion Brooklyn, I Hear America Elo, Shen Wei, Jerome Robbins, and Twyla Singing, and AOP Helping Hands. aopopera.org ©2015 Viacom Inc. All rights reserved. rights All Inc. ©2015 Viacom

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SHINIQUE SMITH is the 2015 Next Wave Festival Cover Artist, part of BAM’s tradition of visual art on the cover of BAMbill. Since 1983, dozens of artists have participated, including Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Chuck Close, Rosemarie Trockel, and more. Three new artworks created by Smith will rotate between Sep–Dec 2015. These archival inkjet prints, each 22” x 30”, are available to purchase for $1200 individually or $3500 for all three. Proceeds benefit BAM. For inquiries or to purchase, please contact BAM Visual Art at [email protected] or 718.636.4101.

Shinique Smith (b. 1972, Baltimore, MD) is a New York-based artist whose work is inspired by the vast nature of things that we consume and discard, which resonate on a personal and social scale. The graffiti of her youth, Japanese calligraphy, and abstraction are influences from which she extracts “the graceful and spiritual qualities in written word and the everyday.” Over her career, Smith has had more than 20 solo exhibitions and has exhibited internationally, including at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Deutsche Guggenheim (Berling), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art (North Miami), The New Museum, and MOMA/PS1. Most recently, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston mounted a solo exhibition titled Shinique Smith: Bright Shinique Smith, Magnetic Beam, 2015, 22”x30”, Matter, which featured 30 key works from the past decade alongside recent archival inkjet print. Photo courtesy the artist. work. Smith earned her BFA and MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art and Master of Arts in Teaching from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University. She is represented by James Cohan Gallery, New York and Shanghai, David Castillo Gallery in Miami, and Brand New Gallery, Milan. #BAMNextWave #UrbanBushWomen Photo: Rick McCollough

Walking, and dancing,with ‘Trane

Urban Bush Women’s suite, Walking with Q: What’s the structure of Walking with ‘Trane? ‘Trane (Dec 9—12, Harvey Theater) is a dual celebration of the company’s 30th anniversary, A: Walking with ‘Trane is conceived as a concept and the 50th of the release of A Love Supreme, album with a Side A and Side B, inspired by John Coltrane’s album that spurred founder the musical life and spiritual journey of John Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and company to create Coltrane, a composer at the forefront of music this work. Talvin Wilks is the dramaturg, with innovation in a racially-charged America of the scores by George Caldwell and Philip White. ’50s and ’60s. Informed by the unpredictability Zollar answered some questions about ‘Trane. of the bandstand—the “band state”—the scary, risky place that potentially extends into transcendence, this ethereal investigation lives Q: What about Coltrane’s music inspired you to within multiple layers of Coltrane’s music, make a suite? Coltrane’s spirituality, and Coltrane’s life. Side A: Just A Closer Walk With ‘Trane is a A: When I first heard Coltrane’s A Love Supreme conjuring of Coltrane’s essence and his journey, as a college student in the ’70s it made an based in rooted understandings of his music immediate impact on me, like so many others and known traditions pushed into heightened who encountered the music. I felt the deep performance states—from cool to hot, from spirituality of the music and it inspired many ancient field hollers to gospel cadences that conversations among my friends about the drive a spiraling physical journey through echoes nature of love, spirituality, and art. It refelcted of the blues, bebop, hard bop and free states, a generation of spiritual quest that Coltrane scored by Philip White. captured that did not deny the political, the Side B: Freed (Om) explores the artistic imprint anguish, the love that was permeating society; of Coltrane’s A Love Supreme, composed by he accessed that in the music. George Caldwell and played live. #BAMNextWave Dec 9—12

Q: Do you feel your choreography compares in Q: What compelled you to choose the some ways to jazz? Do you allow your dancers composers who are providing the music? the freedom to improvise within a given framework? A: I wanted Side A and Side B to have very A: What I’m seeing is the development of different sound scores. For Side A, I wanted

group vocabulary and idiosyncratic vocabulary. electronic Photo: David Cooper Lisa Ryder. as an expression of contemporary Group Vocabulary is the language that is being music and in my own mind’s musings, a developed, Idiosyncratic Vocabulary is the score possibility where Coltrane might have ventured if from which the dancer responds and lives in the he had lived during the time that electronic music moment in response to what is happening with offered new possibilities of sound. Philip White the music and the other performers. We are the is an experimental composer with an extensive music; we are not dancers interpreting the music. background in what is commonly called “jazz.” Our vocabulary is the music for the audience; I first met George Caldwell through his work it is best revealed in silence. When music that with Dianne McIntyre and fell in love with his we commonly call jazz is written about, who approach to music making. is playing with the musician is as important as the composer. But in dance, the dancers are not Q: Is the inclusion of a man a first for UBW? as acknowledged for their contribution in the And what prompted that? process. The dancers are building an ability to create in the moment. A: No, he is not the first. I work with who interests me. Photo: Rick McCollough Photo courtesy Carlotta Films US US Photo courtesy Carlotta Films TAKING OFF 5,000 TIMES A DAY. TAKING ON EVERYTHING ELSE. Delta is proud to be the offical airline of BAM. #BAMNextWave #SteelHammer Photo: Michael Brosilow

So Many by Robert Wood John Henrys

It’s been said that you can never sing a folk But the details are predictably fuzzy. Was John song twice. Folk songs are living organisms, not Henry 5’1” or 6’1”? Was his wife Polly Ann or Sally reproducible objects, the argument goes, existing Ann? Did his hammer shine like silver or gold? to perpetually renew the contract between universal myths and the gritty particulars of our Wolfe’s answer, according to her libretto, is lives. Sometimes, because songs migrate and yes. A patchwork of juxtaposed nouns and the oral tradition gets creative, those particulars adjectives plucked from the story’s myriad work their way into the songs themselves and variants, her libretto celebrates proliferation and variations proliferate. A Scottish glen becomes pluralism—an American crazy quilt of contested, a Virginia holler, a silver dagger becomes a pen telephone-gamed fact. On stage, four female knife, rosy-red lips become lily-white hands. The vocalists take on the role of stoic Appalachian details change so that the myths don’t have to. balladeers, impassively conveying the ballad’s litany of discrepancies. Through an acerbic Such is the case with the “The Ballad of John post-minimalism, fleshed out by banjos, jaw Henry,” whose 200+ documented versions harps, guitars, and other instruments played form the basis of Pulitzer Prize-winning by the Bang on a Can All-Stars, they repeat, composer Julia Wolfe’s work Steel Hammer foreshorten, and linger over phrases as though and its theatrical adaptation, which comes to trying on the variants for size. BAM in December. The story of John Henry is a familiar one: a spike-driving railroad worker of Words have become raw material, stripped Bunyonesque strength beats a steam drill in a of context. And if folklore typically relies on contest to bore through a mountain, only to “die archetypes to work properly—the Trickster, with his hammer in his hands.” That folk music however tricky, the Tragic Hero, however tragic— historian Alan Lomax called the legend “possibly then this is its radical inversion: a hypnotic America’s greatest piece of folklore” is no wonder: celebration of content over narrative form in the mythos of the railroad, man vs. machine service of a bustling musical machine. anxiety, bootstraps individualism—the muscular American imaginary is there in its entirety. CELEBRATE COMMUNITY

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The more traditional storytelling in Steel prison laborer who’d been falsely convicted. Hammer falls to six actors from Anne Bogart’s Foundational myth had been built on the back of SITI Company, who, along with step dancing the oppressed. and other choreography (by Barney O’Hanlon), offer theatrical interludes between musical In another segment, a woman recalls meeting movements. Yet in keeping with Wolfe’s oblique Henry at the age of 12 while he worked as a approach to the tale, the interludes take an pig slaughterer in the post-reconstruction south. alternative path as well. Using different texts Conditions were dire for blacks (“sanitation was written by playwrights Kia Corthron, Regina an unuttered idea”), she reminds the audience, Taylor, Carl Hancock Rux, and Will Power—each and Henry, out of breath, seemed to be on the of whom was tasked with telling the John Henry run from something. “Every man is an end in tale in their own idiosyncratic ways—the actors himself,” Henry says to her in passing, his days delve into the John Henry subconscious. of freedom presumably numbered. The stream drill is rendered as one foe among many. Myths repress, after all. We often can romanticize them only because their gritty In another, John Henry is in jail with no release preconditions are kept out of sight. In the case date in sight. What will we tell our kids?, he of John Henry, always portrayed as African- wonders through the bars to his wife. Their American, those givens are inescapably linked solution: an unlikely tale about how their father to race. How, after all, did John Henry end up died while at his railroad job, but not before working on the railroad in the first place? What beating the odds in a contest with a machine. would lead a person to fight for his job to the point of exhausting himself to death? “For me,” Anne Bogart has said, “this project is not about getting to the absolute truth of this In Steel Hammer’s first segment, a subtle contest tale. It’s about how we mold stories for the times of representation plays out. A group of largely we live in.” white town folk take turns recounting the legend with wide-eyed wonder before another woman, The details change, and yet our myths live on. referencing historical likelihood, tempers their story: John Henry worked the railroads as a Robert Wood is a copywriter at BAM. Photo: Michael Brosilow BAM Directory

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Hard Nut Nuggets Mark Morris Dance Group returns to BAM with to do!”), he was ready to go. I was naughty Fritz, The Hard Nut (Dec 12—20) choreographed by and Mark was now my mother. Scary—for both Mark Morris in 1991 to Tchaikovsky’s beloved of us! Nutcracker, op. 71, with sets by Adrianne Lobel (after Charles Burns) and costumes by Martin The surprise, in performance, was that Mark’s Pakledinaz. Some members of the company “inner mom” turned out to be so genuinely shared anecdotes from the ballet’s history. sweet. Loving, even! Onstage as Fritz, I suddenly felt that no matter how badly I misbehaved, JUNE OMURA (MMDG company member I would be treated with gentle fondness. This 1988—2008; “Fritz” in The Hard Nut Mrs. Stahlbaum loved her troublesome boy 1994—2015) Once, when the inimitable Peter unconditionally, and was the kindest parent Wing Healey was injured and the character of you’d ever want to grow up with. Now that I Mrs. Stahlbaum had not yet been thrillingly re- am the mother of a darling nine-year-old son, created by John Heginbotham, there were two the memory of having once been Mark’s Mrs. memorable performances of The Hard Nut in Stahlbaum’s little boy is a dear one. I like to Edinburgh when Mark Morris stepped into the imagine that some version of Mark’s mother, role of my mom, uncomfortable high heels and Maxine Morris, was worked into his portrayal all. Every character in the party scene has a of Mrs. Stahlbaum, and that, as Fritz, I am different “track,” and Mark was already in it as experiencing what it was like to be Mark as a a hilariously drunken party guest, so re-learning son—just as he, perhaps, was experiencing the scene from such a different perspective had what it might have been like to be Maxine. Every to have been stressful, even for Mark. But after mother, and every son, should get such a chance running through it a few times (I remember his for perspective. directions to “Keep talking!” and “Tell me what #TheHardNut Dec 12—20

STACY MARTORANA always meant to do. The nerves quickly changed (MMDG company to excitement, and the thrill of watching Mark member since 2012; in the moment was just one of many wonderful “Barbie”/Arabia) I was memories I have had performing in The Hard hired into the Mark Nut. Morris Dance Group as a full time company LAUREN GRANT (MMDG Company member member in November since 1996; “Marie” since 1998) Onstage, the 2012, and my first Mark Morris Dance Group will present a brilliant show after that was take on The Nutcracker story, but offstage, The Hard Nut, in the cast and crew of The Hard Nut must Berkeley, CA. It was simultaneously execute a different show—one my first time dancing in the show. I had thought in which dancers dodge moving floor-to-ceiling that after being hired, I would be less nervous set pieces; wig and wardrobe personnel perform performing, but alas, me being the crazy, highly choreographed quick-changes; and tutu- nervous nelly that I was, I was more nervous! clad “Snowflakes” systematically shimmy off I wanted to prove that I was worthy of this their accumulated confetti. In the final scene position I was given. One of my roles was in the of Act 1 the audience is treated to one of the Arabian dance, and I had no idea how difficult it most surprising and magical blizzards. From would be. We are dressed in long robes, literally the wings, I watch my colleagues’ crystalline from head to toe, and wear sunglasses, making precision in form, space, and rhythm. They seem it difficult to see while on stage. Much of the to float through the air as would a lacy snowflake choreography includes getting down to the floor, catching a current of air. And then… group after then getting back up. During one show, my group, these heavenly snowflakes rush around foot got caught in my costume, and it was clear the wings—sweat pouring off their foreheads, to me immediately that I was not going to be gasping for breath, spitting out ingested able to free it before going offstage! I somehow “snow”—only then to re-enter the stage space managed to rise to a flamingo-like position, and and seamlessly resume their cascading eddies, while all the other dancers were able to walk effectively transporting the viewers to a strange around the stage, I had to continue on, hopping and wondrous winter landscape. on one foot in order to keep up—no easy feat while trying to balance with limited vision! I managed to get through the dance, and no one from the audience ever mentioned anything about it to me. I can’t wait to perform that role again this year! Photo: Susana Millman

NOAH VINSON (MMDG company member since 2004; France) I remember my very first Amber Star Merkens, Noah Vinson performances of Mark Morris’ production of The Hard Nut. These were back in 2002 at BAM. I was extremely nervous when I found out that I would be dancing in the Arabian dance with Mark Morris as the lead. During one performance, something wasn’t right. We were supposed to enter from stage left carrying Mark, but as the music from the previous section was ending, we quickly realized that he was not there. In a panic, we got into position and made our entrance like we were supposed to, but without our lead. Suddenly, Mark came jumping out of the wings from the opposite side of the stage, in full character, as if that’s what he was Securing BAM’s Future

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