Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company & SITI Company: A Rite Fri, Mar 6 FEATURING & Sat, Mar 7 Akiko Aizawa*, Will Bond*, Antonio Brown, Rena Butler, Cain Coleman, Jr., Leon Ingulsrud*, Talli Royce Hall Jackson, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Ellen Lauren*, I-Ling Liu, Erick Montes Chavero, Jennifer Nugent, Joseph Poulson, Jenna Riegel and Stephen Duff Webber* 8pm RUNNING TIME: A Rite (2013) Approximately 65 minutes; Anne Bogart Artistic Director No intermission SITI Company

SCA TERRACE SERIES Bill T. Jones Artistic Director PRE-SHOW EVENT: Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company Intersections: A night of interdisciplinary Dance Janet Wong Associate Artistic Director choreographed and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company performed by PhD Dance Conceived, directed and choreographed by Anne Bogart, Bill T. Jones and Janet Wong in collaboration majors Barry Brannum, with the performers Bernard Brown, and Fangfei Miao. Robert Wierzel** Lighting design 7 pm Royce Terrace James Schuette** Costume design

PRODUCTION STAFF POST-SHOW EVENT: Kyle Maude Director of Producing and Touring Q&A with the performers Joseph Futral Production Manager Friday March 6 on the Royce Stacey Boggs** Lighting Supervisor stage. Meet and greet in Sam Crawford Associate Sound Designer West Lobby follows. Carley Manion Stage Manager, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company Sunneva Stapleton* Stage Manager, SITI Company CAP UCLA SPONSOR: Hannah Emerson Company Manager Suported in part by the Doris Nikhil Mehta Assistant Director Duke Charitable Foundation Endowment Fund. Anne Bogart and Bill T. Jones are members of SDC, the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, an independent national labor union.

MEDIA SPONSOR: * Denotes member of Actors Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. ** Members of the United Scenic Artists Union (USA)

Text excerpts from: Brian Greene, Werner Herzog, Jonah Lehrer, Severine Neff, and testimonies from WWI veterans, plus In Spring by Shuntaro Tanikawa (courtesy of The Japan Writers’ Association) and Gisela Cardenas’ English translation of Antigona by Jose Watanabe. The role of musicologist is based upon interviews with Professor Severine Neff, of the University of North Carolina. Excerpts from the following recordings of The Rite of Spring are heard in A Rite: Kirov Orchestra, 2001; Los Angeles Philharmonic, MESSAGE FROM THE CENTER: 2006; San Francisco Symphony, 1999; KBP by Daniel Bernard Roumain and Sam Crawford, 2013; and Darryl Brenzel and What is this feeling? Mobtown Modern Big Band, 2012 and Birdsongs of the Mesozoic.

More than 100 years ago as Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring hit (Excerpts from) The Rite of Spring, as performed by Birdsongs of the Paris stage in a powerful explosion of never-before heard the Mesozoic, produced by Richard W. Harte, originally released on sounds and movement audiences found themselves asking this Magnetic Flip (Ace of Hearts AHS 10018), re-released on Dawn of question. The Rite of Spring was provoking, it caused riots, the Cycads (Cuneiform Records Rune 274/275)” it instigated critique and dialogue, and while the movement vocabulary of Vaslav Nijinsky and avant-garde compositional Vocal score for The Augurs composed by Timothy Hambourger. approach of Stravinsky confronted audiences at the time, the Vocal score for Spring Rounds composed by Yayoi Ikawa. music is largely considered to be one of the most important works of the 20th century. English translation of In Spring by Shuntaro Tanikawa

In honor of this iconic work at its 2013 centennial, two vital What is this feeling? American artists and their companies dove headfirst into the This invisible flow of energy feelings instigated by The Rite of Spring over the course of its That comes up from the earth, into the soles of my feet revolutionary start and evolutionary influence. Coming through my stomach, to my chest, then up into my throat Welling up inside me, making me want to shout out loud SITI Company, as led by Anne Bogart, and Bill T. Jones/ What is this feeling? Arnie Zane Dance Company, are both known and revered Buds bursting out from the tips of tree branches, poking at my heart for their sense of curiosity, for their collaborative spirit It is delight, but also grief and commitment to cultural exchange. Working on A Rite It is agitation, and yet tranquility provided a chance for two unique and likeminded artistic It is longing, with hidden anger communities to work together and explore the potential of Held in check by the dam in my heart one another in service of artists who came before and cracked But the whirlpools, held back, grow fierce open profound new possibilities in the confluence of music, Trying to flood over theater and dance. What is this feeling? I want to dip my hand into the sky’s blue And explore they did, for more than a year, with Jones All the people I’ve never met - constantly advocating for the performers and creators to I want to meet them, I want to talk to them embrace the visceral sensation of the source work, to “get the I wish tomorrow and the day after tomorrow would come all at once music into our bones,” while Bogart was driven by the cerebral, I feel so impatient theoretical and historical and sociological ramifications of I want to walk beyond the horizon The Rite of Spring. And yet, I want to stay right here on this patch of grass, motionless I want to call out to someone in a loud voice What you are about to experience tonight is a remarkable feat And yet, I want to be alone in silence in the art of performance. This weekend’s two performances What is this feeling? are among the final times these two extraordinary companies will share the stage together, sharing with us the profound A Rite was commissioned by Carolina Performing Arts at The results of the rites they collectively brought to life in service of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. art, of sensation, of inspiration, of converging themes, ideas and creative modalities. Additional commissioning support provided by: The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College. We are proud to honor that collaboration here on this stage and in your company. The creation of new work by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company is made possible by the Company’s Partners in Creation: Ellen Poss, Jane Bovingdon Semel & Terry Semel; Anne Delaney; Stephen & Ruth Hendel; Eleanor Friedman; and Zoe Eskin.

A Rite was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

With Special Thanks to: Yayoi Ikawa, Timothy Hambourger, Severine Neff and Daniel Bernard Roumain. ABOUT THE ARTISTS DIRECTORS’ NOTES BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE DANCE COMPANY

Over the past 32 years the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance A Rite is the resulting expression of the alchemy of two Company has shaped the evolution of contemporary dance through communities, of two companies – a dance company and the creation and performance of over 140 works. Founded as a a theater company – encountering the legacy of Igor multicultural dance company in 1982, the company was born of an Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring one hundred years after its birth. 11-year artistic collaboration between Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane. The reverberations felt in the work’s vast wake are woven Today, the company is recognized as one of the most innovative through world wars, the formation and disintegration of and powerful forces in the modern dance world. The company has nations, the birth of global culture and scientific changes performed its ever-enlarging repertoire worldwide in over 200 cities that did nothing less than alter the way we live now. How in 30 countries on every major continent. In 2011, the Bill T. Jones/ do we begin to grapple with the significance of Rite of Arnie Zane Dance Company merged with Dance Theater Workshop Spring’s very existence? How do we create a rite for our to form New York Live Arts, of which Bill T. Jones is the Artistic modern world, informed by the legacy of the original but Director. containing the complexities and paradoxes of our own times? Everything that you will see and that you will experience The repertory of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company is onstage tonight contains the original score in its bones. widely varied in its subject matter, visual imagery and stylistic But we are also dealing with the fragility of memory, the approach to movement, voice and stagecraft and includes musically- legacy of the work’s existence and humanity’s never-ending driven works as well as works using a variety of texts. Some of its curiosity about the nature of the universe. most celebrated creations are evening length works including Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land (1990, Next – Anne Bogart Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music); Still/Here (1994, Biennale de la Danse in Lyon, France); We Set Out Early… Visibility As our creative team struggled to “get our arms” around Was Poor (1996, Hancher Auditorium, Iowa City, IA); You Walk? this project, a never-ending challenge was whose Rite (2000, European Capital of Culture 2000,Bolgna, Italy); Blind Date of Spring were we considering? Was it Nijinky’s epic (2006, Peak Performances at Montclair State University); Chapel/ making movement choices at the service of Stravinsky’s/ Chapter (2006, Harlem Stage Gatehouse); Fondly Do We Hope… Nicholas Roerich’s libretto/synopsis situated in the Fervently Do We Pray (2009, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park, IL); archaism of Russia’s pagan past complete with “primitive” Another Evening: Venice/Arsenale (2010, La Biennale di Venezia, movements and a sacrificial virgin? Or was it to be Venice, Italy); Story/Time (2012, Peak Performances); and A Rite Stravinsky’s modernist re-write of the rules of composition (2013, Carolina Performing Arts at the University of North Carolina- and orchestration? Though the apparition of what was Chapel Hill). The Company is also currently touring Body Against staged that night in Paris and the scandal of the opening Body, an intimate and focused collection of duet works drawn from performance confronted us regularly, we have – for the most the Company’s 30-year history. part – tried to look past the libretto and engage the music and the 100-years old discourse around it with as fresh and BILL T. JONES personal an approach as possible. Bill T. Jones (Artistic Director/Co-Founder/Choreographer) is the recipient of the 2014 Doris Duke Artist Award; the 2013 National – Bill T. Jones Medal of Arts Award; 2010 Kennedy Center Honors; a 2010 Tony Award for Best Choreography of the critically acclaimed FELA!; a 2007 Tony Award, 2007 Obie Award, and 2006 Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation CALLAWAY Award for his NEW YORK LIVE ARTS choreography for Spring Awakening; the 2010 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Located in the heart of Chelsea in New York City, New York Live Award; the 2007 USA Eileen Harris Norton Fellowship; the 2006 Arts is an internationally recognized destination for innovative Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreography for The Seven; movement-based artistry offering audiences access to art and the 2005 Wexner Prize; the 2005 Samuel H. Scripps American artists notable for their conceptual rigor, format experimentation Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement; the 2005 Harlem and active engagement with the social, political and cultural Renaissance Award; the 2003 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize; currents of our times. At the center of this identity is Bill T. Jones, a and the 1994 MacArthur “Genius” Award. In 2010, Mr. Jones was world-renowned choreographer, dancer, theater director and writer. recognized as Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government, and In 2000, The Dance Heritage Coalition New York Live Arts was formed in 2011 by the merger of Dance named Mr. Jones “An Irreplaceable Dance Treasure.” Theater Workshop and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Inspired by the legacies of Mr. Jones and Dance Theater Mr. Jones choreographed and performed worldwide with his late Workshop, New York Live Arts is a vibrant hub of contemporary partner, Arnie Zane, before forming the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane dance and movement based experimentation, offering audiences Dance Company in 1982. He has created more than 140 works meaningful experiences that are both thought provoking and for his company. Mr. Jones is the named Artistic Director of New intimate. We commission, produce and present performances in York Lives Arts, an organization that strives to create a robust our 19,326 square foot facility, which houses a 184-seat theater framework in support of the nation’s dance and movement-based and two sizable studios that can be combined into one large studio. artists through new approaches to producing, presenting and New York Live Arts serves as home base for the internationally educating. For more information visit www.newyorklivearts.org. acclaimed touring company of Mr. Jones, provides an extensive range of participatory programs for adults and young people and ARNIE ZANE supports the continuing professional development of artists. Our Arnie Zane(Co-Founder/Choreographer) (1948-1988) was a native influence extends beyond NYC through our international cultural New Yorker born in the Bronx and educated at the State University exchange program that currently places artists in Eastern Europe, of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton. In 1971, Arnie Zane and the Middle East and Africa. www.newyorklivearts.org. Bill T. Jones began their long collaboration in choreography and in 1973 formed the American Dance Asylum in Binghamton with Lois Welk. Mr. Zane’s first recognition in the arts came as a photographer when he received a Creative Artists Public Service (CAPS) Fellowship in 1973. Mr. Zane was the recipient of a second CAPS Fellowship in 1981 for choreography, as well as two Choreographic Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1983 and 1984). In 1980, Mr. Zane was co-recipient (with Bill T. Jones) of the German Critics Award for his work Blauvelt Mountain. Rotary Action, a duet with Mr. Jones, was filmed for television, co-produced by WGBH-TV Boston and Channel 4 in London. New York Live Arts Board of Directors: SITI COMPANY Richard H. Levy, Chair SITI Company is an ensemble-based theater company whose three Helen Haje, Vice Chair ongoing components are the creation of new work, the training Stephen Hendel, Vice Chair of young theater artists, and a commitment to international Terence Dougherty, Secretary collaboration. SITI was founded in 1992 by Anne Bogart and Tadashi Jean Davidson, Chief Executive Officer, Ex-Officio Suzuki to redefine and revitalize contemporary theater in the United Bill T. Jones, Artistic Director, Ex-Officio States through an emphasis on international cultural exchange Joseph Azrack, Treasurer and collaboration. Originally envisioned as a summer institute in Saratoga Springs, New York, SITI has expanded to encompass a Bjorn Amelan year-round program based in New York City with a summer season Derek Brown in Saratoga. SITI believes that contemporary American theater must Muna El Fituri necessarily incorporate artists from around the world and learn Colleen Keegan from the resulting cross-cultural exchange of dance, music, art and Helen Mills performance experiences. Slobodan Randjelovic Jane Bovingdon Semel SITI Company is: Akiko Aizawa, J. Ed Araiza, Anne Bogart, Will Catharine R. Stimpson Bond, Gian-Murray Gianino, Leon Ingulsrud, Ellen Lauren, Kelly David Thomson Maurer, Charles L. Mee, Jr., Tom Nelis, Barney O’Hanlon, Neil Patel, Kweli Washington James Schuette, Brian H Scott, Megan Wanlass, Stephen Duff Judith Zarin Webber and Darron L West.

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In addition to Co-Artistic Directors Anne Bogart, Leon Ingulsrud and Ellen Lauren, SITI Company is comprised of eight actors, four designers and a playwright. The company represents a change in thinking about the relationships between artists and institutions. Offering performances from our varied repertoire, and workshops in the unique theater training we champion, SITI Company is dedicated to establishing long lasting relationships with theater presenters and their communities around the world.

SITI Company Board of Directors Anne Bogart Gigi Bolt Barbara Cummings (Vice-Chair) Rena Chelouche Fogel Christopher L. Healy (Treasurer) Kim Ima (Secretary) Leon Ingulsrud Kevin Kuhlke Ellen Lauren Thomas Mallon Kelly Maurer Charles L. Mee Ruth Nightengale (Chair) Annie Pell

Emeritus Board Nicole Borrelli Hearn Matthew Bregman Lynn & Ronald Cohen Martha Coigney Jim Cummings Judy Guido Leonard Perfido Daniel C. Smith Jaan Whitehead

ANNE BOGART (Co-Artistic Director) is one of the three Co- Artistic Directors of the SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. She is a Professor SITI Mission at Columbia University where she runs the Graduate Directing SITI Company was built on the bedrock of ensemble. We believe Program. Works with SITI include Persians, Steel Hammer, A that through the practice of collaboration, a group of artists Rite, Café Variations, Trojan Women (After Euripides), American working together over time can have a significant impact upon both Document, Antigone, Under Construction, Freshwater, Who Do contemporary theater and the world at large. You Think You Are, Radio Macbeth, Hotel Cassiopeia, Death and the Ploughman, La Dispute, Score, bobrauschenbergamerica, Through our performances, educational programs, and Room, War of the Worlds–the Radio Play, Cabin Pressure, Alice’s collaborations with other artists and thinkers, SITI Company Adventures, Culture of Desire, Bob, Going, Going, Gone, Small Lives/ will continue to challenge the status quo, train to achieve artistic Big Dreams, The Medium, Noel Coward’s Hay Fever and Private excellence in every aspect of our work, and offer new ways of seeing Lives, August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, and Charles Mee’s Orestes. and of being as both artists and as global citizens. She is the author of five books: A Director Prepares; The Viewpoints Book; And Then, You Act; Conversations with Anne, and What’s the SITI Company is committed to providing a gymnasium-for-the-soul Story. where the interaction of art, artists, audiences and ideas inspire the possibility for change, optimism and hope. SITI Company Exclusive Worldwide Tour Representation Rena Shagan Associates Founded in 1992 by Anne Bogart, Tadashi Suzuki, and a group 16A West 88th Street of likeminded artists, SITI Company began as an agreement to New York, NY 10024 redefine and revitalize contemporary theater in the United States (212) 873-9700 / (212) 873-1708 (fax) through an emphasis on international cultural exchange, training www.shaganarts.com and collaboration. Originally envisioned as a summer institute in Saratoga Springs, New York, SITI expanded to encompass a year-round Season inclusive of touring, the creation of new work and running a Conservatory program for 9 months of the year to cultivate the next generation of independent theater artists. Based in New York City, SITI Continues to operate its international training program during its summer season in Saratoga. The Company CAST AND CREW BIOS Mr. Brown has also worked with Malcolm Low/Formal Structure, Stephen Pier, Nilas Martins Dance Company, Sidra Bell Dance AKIKO AIZAWA (Actor) joined SITI Company in 1997. With New York and Camille A. Brown & Dancers. In addition to SITI: Persians, Steel Hammer, A Rite, Café Variations, Radio working with the company, Mr. Brown also performs with Gregory Macbeth, Trojan Women (After Euripides), American Document, Dolbashian’s “The Dash Ensemble” and has choreographed on Verb Antigone, Under Construction, Who Do You Think You Are, Ballets, August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble, Perry Mansfield bobrauschenbergamerica, Freshwater, Hotel Cassiopeia, A Performing Arts School and Camp and various other companies, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Intimations for Saxophone, La schools and intensives across the United States. Mr. Brown’s work Dispute, War of the Worlds–the Radio Play, Culture of Desire and has also been shown at The Juilliard School, Center for Performance systems/layers. Theaters/festivals include BAM, the Public Theater, Research, NYC Summer Stage, Riverside Church and Hunter Wexner Center, American Repertory Theater, Arena Stage, Joyce College. Mr. Brown joined the company in 2007 and is grateful to Theater, ArtsEmerson, Krannert Center, Los Angeles Opera, New share his gifts and talents with the world. York Theatre Workshop, New York Live Arts, Carolina Performing Arts and Getty Villa. International festivals/venues include: RENA BUTLER (Dancer) is a native of Chicago, IL. She studied Edinburgh, Dublin, Bonn, Bobigny, Helsinki, Tbilisi, Melbourne, under the instruction of Anna Paskevska and Randy Duncan at Bogota, São Paulo, Tokyo, Toga and Moscow. The Chicago Academy for the Arts high school. Ms. Butler received her B.F.A from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance, and also WILL BOND (Actor), is a founding member of SITI Company. studied dance abroad at Taipei National University of the Arts International tours include The Medium, Small Lives/Big Dreams, in Taiwan. She graduated cum laude and was the recipient of the Bob ( Drama Desk Nomination best solo performance), War of Bert Terborgh Dance Award. Ms. Butler has also danced for Kyle the Worlds, bobrauschenbergamerica, Death and the Ploughman, Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion, David Dorfman Dance, Luna Negra Radio Macbeth, Antigone, and Persians - commissioned by and Dance Theater, Mettin Movement and salsa dance company Pasos performed at the Getty Villa in Los Angeles this past summer. Con Sabor. Ms. Butler was featured in Dance Magazine’s March He has toured in Tadashi Suzuki’s Dionysus and Robert Wilson’s 2013 article ‘On the Rise’, FORMA collective magazine and online Persephone. Original works include I’ll Crane For You, a solo dance fashion and culture site, ‘Refinery29’. work commissioned from Deborah Hay; The Perfect Human V.1, Option Delete, and a 2013 EMPAC DANCE MOViEs commission CAIN COLEMAN, JR. (Dancer) started his dance training in Lost & Found all with Marianne Kim. He is newly published in the high school at The Center for The Arts at Henrico High. He later 2013 Routledge Companion to Stanislavsky. joined The City Dance Theatre of Richmond, VA. After training at the Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase, he began dancing ANTONIO BROWN (Dancer) a native of Cleveland, OH, began with Philadanco and The Martha Graham Dance Company. He his dance training at the Cleveland School of the Arts and received has performed works by Paul Taylor, George Balanchine, Martha his B.F.A. from The Juilliard School in 2007 under the direction Graham, Talley Beaty, George Fazon, Christopher Huggins, Ray of Lawrence Rhodes. While there, he performed works by Ohad Mercer and many more. He has been seen on Good Morning Naharin, Jose Limon, Jiri Kylian, Eliot Feld, Aszure Barton, America, Good Morning New York and So You Think you Can Jessica Lang, Susan Marshall and Larry Keigwin, among others. Dance. As an emerging choreographer he has presented works at Purchase College, Regional Dance Association, The Girl Effect program. She has performed with The Kevin Wynn Collection, Project, Bare Bones Dance Project, and has produced a few of his Nathan Trice Rituals, Kazuko Hirabayashi, The Francesca Harper own shows. Mr. Coleman joined the Company in 2014. Project, Yaa Samar Dance Theater, and A Canary Torsi. In 2008, she was featured in Dance Magazine’s “On The Rise” performers. LEON INGULSRUD (Co-Artistic Director and Actor), is Ms. Jenkins joined the Company in 2005. one of the three Co-Artistic Directors and helped found SITI Company. He has appeared in Orestes, Seven Deadly Sins ELLEN LAUREN (Co-Artistic Director and Actor) is one of (New York City Opera), Nicholas & Alexandra (LA Opera), the SITI’s three Co- Artistic Directors, a founding member and bobrauschenbergamerica, Hotel Cassiopeia, Who Do You Think head of SITI’s Educational Programming. Her credits include You Are, Radio Macbeth, Under Construction, Antigone, American Persians; Trojan Women (After Euripides) (Getty Villa); A Rite Document with Martha Graham Dance Company, War of the with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company; Café Variations; Worlds–the Radio Play, Trojan Women (After Euripides), Café Under Construction; Radio Macbeth; Who Do You Think You Variations, Continuous Replay with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Are; American Document with Martha Graham Dance Company; Dance Company and A Rite with SITI and BTJ/AZ. Previous to Death and the Ploughman; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Room; SITI, Mr. Ingulsrud was a member of the Suzuki Company of Toga bobrauschenbergamerica; Hotel Cassiopeia; systems/layers; War of for seven years, during which time Mr. Ingulsrud also served as the Worlds–the Radio Play; Cabin Pressure; The Medium; Culture a resident director at the ATM Arts Center in Mito, Japan. Mr. of Desire; Going, Going, Gone and Orestes. Festivals include Bonn Ingulsrud served two years as the Associate Artistic Director of Germany, Iberoamericano Bogota, BAM Next Wave, Humana, Swine Palace in Baton Rouge, LA. Mr. Ingulsrud has taught in Bobigny, Melbourne, Edinburgh, Singapore. Wexner Center, workshops and universities around the world, translates Japanese Krannert Center and Walker Art Center. In New York: New York theater texts into English, and holds an MFA in directing from Live Arts, NYTW, CSC, The Women’s Project, Miller Theatre, The Columbia. He also appears in AMC’s western series Hell On Public Theater, City Opera at Lincoln Center and Joyce Theater. Wheels. Regional credits with SITI include San Jose Rep, ART Cambridge, Court Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare and Actors Theatre of TALLI JACKSON (Dancer) was born and raised in Liberty, NY. Louisville. Additional credits include The Women (Hartford Stage), He received his first training with Livia Vanaver at the Vanaver Seven Deadly Sins (New York City Opera, Kosovar Award for Caravan Dance Institute in upstate New York. He has been a Anna II) Marina: A Captive Spirit, all with Anne Bogart. Resident recipient of full scholarships from the American Dance Festival company member: StageWest Theatre, Mass; The Milwaukee in ‘06 and ’08, the Bates Dance Festival, and the Ailey School. Repertory; The Alley Theatre, Houston. Associate artist WITH The Since moving to New York City in 2006, Mr. Jackson has had the Suzuki Company of Toga (SCOT) under the direction of Tadashi pleasure of working with Francesca Harper, Paul Matteson and Suzuki. Credits include: Dionysus, Oedipus, Waiting for Romeo, Erick Montes. In 2013, Mr. Jackson was honored with a Princess and King Lear. For over 6 years headed the Toga International Grace Award in dance. He has been a member of the Bill T. Jones/ Suzuki Training Summer Program in Toga, Japan. Ongoing faculty Arnie Zane Dance Company since 2009. member at The Juilliard School of Drama since 1995 and in 2014 directed the final show for Group 44. Fox Fellowship recipient for SHAYLA-VIE JENKINS (Senior Dancer), originally from Ewing, Distinguished Achievement in 2008- 2010. Published in American NJ, received her primary dance instruction from Watson Johnson Theater, January 2011 – In Search of Stillness. Dance Theater and Mercer County Performing Arts School. In 2004, she graduated with honors from the Ailey/Fordham B.F.A. I-LING LIU (Dancer), a native of Taiwan, received her B.F.A. from Taipei National University of the Arts in 2005. She has performed with Ku and Dancers, Taipei Crossover Dance Company, Image in Motion Theater Company, Neo-Classic Dance Company and in works by Trisha Brown, Lin Hwai-Min and Yang Ming-Lung. Ms. Liu joined the Company as an apprentice in 2007 and became a member of the Company in 2008.

ERICK MONTES CHAVERO (Senior Dancer), originally from Mexico City, trained at the National School of Classical and Contemporary Dance. In 2004 he was featured in Dance Magazine’s “25 To Watch”. He holds a fellowship in choreography from The New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2009, he was part of the program In the Company of Men at Dance New Amsterdam. He has been part of the River to River Festival in collaboration with DJ Spooky, The Boogie Down Dance Series at Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, and has been presenting his work in collaboration with the choreographers Bill Young and Colleen Thomas for the Gorillas- Fest and The LIT Festival, The Tank at DCTV, and E-Moves at The Gatehouse/Harlem Stage. In 2010 he worked in collaboration with choreographers Jennifer Nugent and Yin Mey in the creation of a Ballet for the National Dance Academy of Beijing, China. He has presented his choreography in Mexico, Colombia and Spain. Mr. Montes-Chavero joined the company in 2003.

JENNIFER NUGENT (Dancer), is originally from Miami, FL. She was a member of David Dorfman Dance and has performed with Martha Clarke, Daniel Lepkoff, Lisa Race, Nina Winthrop, Kate Weare, Bill Young, Colleen Thomas, Gerri Houlihan, and Dale Andre. She has been a guest artist at universities and dance festivals throughout the U.S., Russia, Korea and Vietnam. Ms. Nugent joined the Company in 2009. Document (Joyce), Antigone (NYLA) and Radio Play (Joe’s Pub). JOSEPH POULSON (Dancer), originally from Philadelphia, Regional: American Repertory Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville PA, received undergraduate and graduate degrees from the (Betrayal, Glengarry Glen Ross), Milwaukee Repertory Theater, San University of Iowa and Bennington College, respectively. From Jose Repertory Theatre, Magic Theatre, Portland Stage Company, 2000 to 2010 he was a member of Susan Marshall & Company, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Court Theatre and Stage West. David Dorfman Dance, Bill Young/Colleen Thomas and Dancers, Creach/Co and Acanarytorsi, receiving a New York Dance and STACEY BOGGS (Lighting Supervisor) is a New York-based Performance “Bessie” Award in 2009. He has also performed with lighting designer whose works include Theatre Three’s The Diary Elena Demyanenko, Jeanine Durning, Mark Morris Dance Group, of Anne Frank, CAT’s Inside/Out, 651’s Soundtrack 63, Waterwell’s Lisa Race, Susan Scorbatti, Peter Schmitz, Will Swanson and Marco Millions (based on lies), The|King|Operetta, #9, I Love a Punchdrunk’s New York production of Sleep No More. Mr. Poulson Piano (national tour). She has designed with choreographers Robert joined the Company in summer 2012. Moses, Troy Powell, Christopher Wheeldon and Mina Yoo. She has worked as a Lighting Supervisor for The Wooster Group and as the JENNA RIEGEL (Dancer), a native of Fairfield, IA, has been a Technical and Lighting Director for Ailey II. Ms. Boggshas worked New York-based dancer, performer and teacher since 2007. Ms. at Glimmerglass Opera, Florida Grand Opera and Michigan Opera Riegel holds an M.F.A. in Dance Performance from the University Theater. Ms. Boggs has designed the lighting for many window of Iowa and a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Maharishi University displays in the New York City area. She graduated from NYU’s of Management. She has performed and toured nationally and Graduate Design program in 2005. Ms. Boggs joined the Bill T. internationally as a company member of David Dorfman Dance, Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in 2013. Alexandra/Beller Dances, Bill Young/Colleen Thomas & Dancers, johannes weiland and Tania Isaac Dance. Ms. Riegel began working SAM CRAWFORD (Sound Supervisor, Associate Sound Designer) with the Company as a guest artist in 2010 and was ecstatic to join completed degrees in English and Audio Technology at Indiana the Company in 2011. University in 2003. A move to New York City led him to Looking Glass Studios where he worked on film projects with Philip Glass STEPHEN DUFF WEBBER (Actor), has performed with SITI and Björk. His recent sound designs and compositions have all over the world since 1994 in Persians; Steel Hammer; A Rite; included works for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company Café Variations; American Document; Antigone; Radio Macbeth (Venice Biennale, 2010), Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion (Macbeth); Hotel Cassiopeia; Under Construction; Freshwater; (Pavement, 2012), and David Dorfman Dance (Lincoln Center Death and the Ploughman; War of the Worlds–the Radio Play Out of Doors, 2012). He currently holds positions as both Sound (Orson Welles), bobrauschenbergamerica; systems/layers (with Supervisor for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and Rachel’s); La Dispute; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Cabin Music Director for David Dorfman Dance. He also plays lap steel Pressure; Going, Going, Gone; Culture of Desire; The Medium; and banjo in various groups, including Bowery Boy Blue (Brooklyn) Private Lives; Hay Fever and Short Stories. New York: Death and and Corpus Christi (Rome). the Ploughman (CSC), War of the Worlds–the Radio Play, Hotel Cassiopeia, A Rite (BAM), Culture of Desire (NYTW), Trojan HANNAH EMERSON (Company Manager) completed her BFA Women 2.0 (En Garde Arts), Freshwater (Women’s Project), The in Contemporary Dance from the University of North Carolina Golden Dragon (PlayCo), Radio Macbeth (Public), American School of the Arts in 2011. While enrolled, she studied with and was selected to perform works by many respected dance artists. She with Ballet Tech/Feld Ballets New York, The Royal Ballet School moved to NYC shortly after being awarded the William R. Kenan, of London, Buglisi-Foreman Dance, and Lesbian Pulp-o-Rama! Jr. Fellowship at the Lincoln Center Institute. Choosing to remain Ms. Maude joined the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in in the northeast, she has held administrative positions at New York 2003. Live Arts and The Yard while continuing to be artistically involved in the dance community. Ms. Emerson joined the Bill T. Jones/ JAMES SCHUETTE (Costume Designer) has designed over 15 Arnie Zane Dance Company in 2014. productions for SITI Company. Recent work includes set and/or costume designs for Paula Vogel’s Civil War Christmas directed by JOSEPH FUTRAL (Production Manager) has worked offstage Tina Landau (New York Theatre Workshop), Carmen directed by for the dance world for over 20 years. Previous work includes Anne Bogart (Glimmerglass), Sweet Bird of Youth directed by David Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Jose Limon Dance, American Cromer (Goodman Theatre), The March written and directed by Dance Festival, Pilobolus, Charleston Ballet Theatre, Augusta Ballet Frank Galati (Steppenwolf), Norma (Washington National Opera), including productions with Wynton Marsalis Septet and Odeon, Belleville (Steppenwolf), Champion directed by James Robinson Spoleto Festival, USA; New York International Fringe Festival, and and Pirates of Penzance directed by Sean Curran (Opera Theatre Fred Garbo’s Inflatable Theatre Company. Lighting design includes of St Louis). His work has been seen at the American Repertory Atlanta’s Theatrical Outfit, Saiah Arts International’s Terminus and Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, American Conservatory Moby Dick, Moving in the Spirit, choreographer Blake Beckham, Theater, Arena Stage, Berkeley Rep, Court Theatre, Goodman Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre, Ballethnic Dance Company, Theatre, Minneapolis Children’s Theatre, Long Wharf, La Jolla Lee Harper and Dancers, Jomandi Theatre, Great Lakes Theatre Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Manhattan Theatre Club, New Festival, events for Amherst College, Yale University, Saab, and York Theatre Workshop, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights Buick and serving on the Board of Directors for Full Radius Dance. Horizons, The Public Theater, Papermill Playhouse, Seattle Rep, Mr. Futral joined the company in 2015. Trinity Rep, Vineyard Theatre, Yale Rep, Boston Lyric Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera, New York City Opera, Santa CARLEY MANION (Stage Manager) is an Oregon native. While Fe Opera, and Minnesota Opera. Upcoming projects include studying at the University of Oregon for her B.F.A. in dance, she Dolores Claiborne (San Francisco Opera), Ricky Ian Gordon’s 27 started stage management. She continued work in dance at Jacob’s (Opera Theatre of St Louis) and Dr. Sun Yat-Sen (Santa Fe Opera). Pillow Dance Festival and there worked with many companies throughout four years. The Pillow served as the perfect doorway SUNNEVA STAPLETON (Stage Manager) is beyond excited to into the dance world and Ms. Manion stepped through it eagerly. be joining SITI and BTJ on this production. Other credits include Before taking her position as Stage Manager for the Bill T. Jones/ The Untitled Feminist Show (YJLTC), Horsedreams (Rattlestick), Arnie Zane Dance Company in 2014, she worked with the Trisha The Tenant (Woodshed Collective), Civilization (Clubbed Thumb), Brown Dance Company, Kyle Abraham and Camille A. Brown We’re Gonna Die (YJLTC/13P), Roadkill Confidential(Clubbed among others. Thumb), Zero Hour (13P), Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War (Mad Ones), Signs of Life (Amas Musical Theatre), KYLE MAUDE (Director of Producing and Touring) graduated Creature (New Georges/Page 73 Productions), I Have Been to from Drake University with a BFA in Theatre. She has worked Hiroshima Mon Amour (Voice & Vision/Crossing Jamaica Avenue), Frequency Hopping (Hourglass Group), Beebo Brinker Chronicles COMING UP AT CAP UCLA (Harriet Leve), Serenade (Jaradoa Theater), Trouble in Paradise (Hourglass Group). BFA from Webster University.

ROBERT WIERZEL (Lighting Designer) has worked with choreographer Bill T. Jones and the BTJ/AZ Dance Company since 1985. Projects include Blind Date, Another Evening/I Bow Down, Still/Here, You Walk?, Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/ The Promised Land, How To Walk An Elephant, and We Set Out Early, Visibility Was Poor, among many others. Additional works with Bill T. Jones include projects at the Guthrie Theatre, Lyon Opera Ballet, Deutsche Opera Ballet (Berlin), Boston Ballet, Boston Lyric Opera, the Welsh dance company Diversions, and London’s Contemporary Dance Trust. Robert has also worked with choreographers Trisha Brown, Doug Varone, Donna Uchizono, Larry Goldhuber, Heidi Latsky, Sean Curran, Molissa Fenley, Susan Marshall, Margo Sappington, Alonzo King, Liz Gerring and Andrea Miller. Additional credits include national and international opera companies, Broadway (FELA!) and many Delfos Danza Contemporanea: regional theaters throughout the USA and Canada. Mr. Wierzel is currently on the faculty of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in NYC. Cuando los Disfraces se Cuelgan Tue, Apr 14 at 8 pm JANET WONG (Associate Artistic Director) was born in Hong Kong and trained in Hong Kong and London. Upon graduation she Royce Hall joined the Berlin Ballet where she first met Bill T. Jones when he was invited to choreograph on the company. In 1993, she moved to New York to pursue other interests. Ms. Wong became Rehearsal Director of the Company in 1996 and Associate Artistic Director in August 2006.

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