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Kulturhuset CityTheatre K. Kvarnström&Co/ 1hr (nointermission) BAM Fisher (Fishman Space) SEP 23—26at7:30pm

The Mertz GilmoreFoundation.The Mertz the BAMFisher provided by fornewdance presentationsin Support provided byTheSHSFoundation. fordanceatBAM Major support The HarknessFoundation forDance. Doris Duke CharitableFoundation and provided by fordanceatBAM Leadership support Season Sponsor: Executive Producer Joseph V. Melillo, President Katy Clark, Vice ChairmanoftheBoard Adam E.Max, Vice ChairmanoftheBoard William I.Campbell, Chairman oftheBoard Alan H. Fishman, Brooklyn AcademyofMusic BAM Fisher TAPE ABOUT TAPE In this contemporary baroque playground of and music from choreographer Kenneth Kvarnström, MUSIC dancer-applied duct tape sets the terms Kenneth Kvarnström (in order) for a range of abstract movements as a lone multi-instrumentalist accompanies SET AND LIGHTING DESIGN S.L. WEISS on lute, theorbo, and guitar. Jens Sethzman Prelude Fugue Taking the occasional time-out to COSTUME DESIGN Fantasie lecture on baking, the fugue form, and Astrid Olsson Allemande other topics, the dancers—marrying Ciacconna lyrical grace with street-style body DANCERS isolation—use modern gesture to Pär Andersson F. POULENC elucidate their asides while expressing Sophie Augot Sarabande freedom within constraint. Works by Matthew Branham Bach, Couperin, Poulenc, and others Robert Malmborg R. DE VISÉE are featured alongside costumes by Erik Nyberg Prélude & Allemande en mi mineur Swedish fashion designer Astrid Olsson Cilla Olsen in this playful counterpoint of old and A. PICCININI new, told and shown, bound and free. BAROQUE LUTE, GUITAR, & Toccata XIII THEORBO Jonas Nordberg J.S. BACH ABOUT Kulturhuset Allemande (BWV1007) City Theatre SOUND TECHNICIAN Jan Lilja R. DE VISÉE Kulturhuset City Theatre is one of Prélude & Allemande en la mineur Northern Europe’s largest cultural TECHNICAL COORDINATOR institutions. Located right in Maria Ros Palmklint F. COUPERIN Stockholm’s political and commercial Les Baricades Misterieuses center, it is also a public space for PRODUCER the people of Stockholm. Kenneth Helena Smeds Kvarnström is the artistic director of dance. Other activities at Kulturhuset MARKETING City Theatre include libraries, theater, Julia Milder debates, art exhibitions, film, and music. Kulturhuset City Theatre TAPE premiered on October 4, 2014 receives approximately three million Kulturhuset City Theatre visits annually. Stockholm, Sweden Benny Fredriksson, Managing Director

Photo: Mats Bäcker JONAS NORDBERG Who’s Baroque Lute, Guitar, and Theorbo Jonas Nordberg is one of the few musi- cians who, in addition to the guitar, also has mastered several historical plucked string instruments such as Who the renaissance lute, baroque guitar, baroque lute, arch-lute, and theorbo.

Since graduating from the Mozarteum KENNETH KVARNSTRÖM University Salzburg in 2011, Norberg Choreographer has been frequently engaged as a solo- Finnish-born, Stockholm-based cho- ist and chamber musician for concerts, reographer Kenneth Kvarnström has dance performances, and operas. worked professionally with dance since Recent venues include: Lockenhaus 1990, primarily with his own company Chamber Music Festival, Greenwich Photo: Astrid Olsson, Kenneth Kvarnström, and Jens Sethzman, by Mats Bäcker Kvarnström, and Jens Sethzman, Kenneth Photo: Astrid Olsson, K. Kvarnström & Co. His choreographic Early Music Festival, Stockholm Early work has been performed throughout Music Festival, and Movimentos Festi- Europe, as well as in Africa, Asia, Latin val Wolfsburg. TAPE is Norberg’s fourth America, North America, and Australia. collaboration with Kenneth Kvarnström. In 2003, Kvarnström decided to take a six-year break from his work as a cho- ASTRID OLSSON reographer, taking on the role of artistic Costume Designer director of House of Dance in Stock- holm. He returned to choreographing Astrid Olsson has an extensive back- for his own company in 2008. That ground in the world of fashion, as a year, he was appointed professor of the designer, lecturer, creative director, and arts (dance) in Finland. In 2014, he pattern maker, both on a freelance ba- became the artistic director of dance at sis, for her own brand, and in collabo- Kulturhuset City Theatre in Stockholm. ration with other companies. In 2004, There, he creates work for his own Olsson established the V Avenue Shoe company and invites local companies Repair fashion label with Lee Cotter. to perform. Many of his works, such The label was named Newcomer of the as come back (to me) and sofa(r) Year by Café magazine in 2006 and have received critical acclaim in recent Italian Vogue in 2011, and Designer of years. the Year by Scandinavia’s leading fash- ion industry publication Habit in 2007 and Swedish Elle in 2009. In 2014, the designer duo established a new fashion label, By the No, for which the new Spring/Summer 2016 collection is co-designed by Kenneth Kvarnström. in Israel, Bounce streetdance Nordic countries including Kenneth JENS SETHZMAN company’s version of One flew over Kvarnström, Cristina Caprioli, Set and lighting designer the Cuckoo’s Nest, and in Fredrik Örjan Andersson, and Ina Cristel “Benke” Rydman’s interpretation of Johannessen, among others. Olsen Jens Sethzman started to create his . He has been a part of has also been Kenneth Kvarnström’s own artistic work in the beginning of Batsheva Ensemble in Israel as well assistant on several pieces and has the 1990s with a focus on light and as in K. Kvarnström & Co. Malmborg worked as a rehearsal director at painting as primary sources and has is currently working on his own Göteborgsoperans Danskompani for Jo since been working with piece to be premiered in 2016. Strømgren and Cristina Caprioli. Olsen choreography as his main field. His is currently a teacher at the Royal development as an artist has been Swedish School in Stockholm. influenced by the possibilities of the SOPHIE AUGOT modern technology of light and its Dancer architecture. His work is characterized PÄR ANDERSSON Sophie Augot received her training by precise aesthetic spaces where one Dancer at the Royal Swedish Ballet School experiences light as a medium in itself and at the University College of and its irrationality, , and Pär Andersson started his education Dance in Stockholm. She has been mathematics. at the Royal Swedish Ballet School working as a performer-dancer for 2005—08. Between 2008—10 he the past 10 years. During this time studied at P.A.R.T.S. (Performing MATTHEW BRANHAM she has performed at various theaters Arts Research and Training Studios) Dancer around Europe including Tanzquartier in Brussels, Belgium. He has been in Vienna, Sophiensaele in Berlin, working in Sweden and Denmark with American dancer Matthew Branham La casa Encendida in Madrid, La choreographers Eva Lundqvist, Malin studied with , Briqueterie in Paris, and at the Istanbul Elgán, Martin Forsberg, Ina Christel Planet Dance, and of Theatre Festival. In addition to working Johannessen, Örjan Andersson, and NY. He has worked with dance and with K. Kvarnstörm & Co., Augot has Kenneth Kvarnström. This year he opera companies in the US and been a long-time collaborator with created the solo But as a document Europe including the Metropolitan choreographer Björn Säfsten and has with visual artist Alex Mirutziu. Opera, Gallim Dance, Peridance also worked with Cristina Caprioli, Andersson is based in Stockholm. Ensemble, Adam Barruch Dance, Martin Forsberg, Stina Nyberg, and the Dash Ensemble, Exhale Dance, Alexander Gottfarb, among others. Cie. Toula Limnaios, Cooperativa ERIK NYBERG Maura Morales, Company Dancer Idem, and Skånes Dansteater. CILLA OLSEN Dancer Erik Nyberg graduated from the Royal Swedish Ballet School in 2009 and ROBERT MALMBORG Cilla Olsen trained in gymnastics then joined Danish Dance Theatre Dancer while growing up and received her under the direction of Tim Rushton dance education at Balettakademien between the years 2010—14. Robert Malmborg was educated at in Stockholm. She has worked as He has toured internationally with the Royal Swedish Ballet School. He a dancer with Nye Carte Blanche choreographers Itzik Galili, Kim has performed in a variety of works, in Norway, Helsinki City Theatre Brandstrup, Tim Rushton, and Wang including Kamuyot, a collaboration in Finland, and Cullberg Ballet in Yuanyuan, among others. Nyberg has between Riksteatern in Stockholm Sweden. As a freelancer, she has also been freelancing in a broad range and Batsheva Dance company worked with choreographers in the of dance projects around Europe.

Photo: Mats Bäcker