MAY 2019 MAY WINTER/SPRING SEASON WINTER/SPRING

Season Sponsor: Farah Al Qasimi, Self-Portrait in Red, 2016 2019 Winter/Spring Season

Brooklyn Academy of Music Mark Morris Dance Group

Adam E. Max, BAM Board Chair Judith R. Fishman, Board Chair

William I. Campbell and Nora Ann Wallace David Resnicow and Mark Selinger, Board Vice Chairs BAM Board Vice Chairs Artistic Director, Mark Morris

Katy Clark, President Executive Director, Nancy Umanoff

David Binder, Artistic Director Pepperland

Mark Morris Dance Group Choreography by Mark Morris

BAM Howard Gilman Opera House May 8—11 at 7:30pm

Running time: approx. one hour, no intermission

Music by The Beatles and Ethan Iverson Music arrangements by Ethan Iverson Set design by Johan Henckens Costume design by Elizabeth Kurtzman Lighting design by Nick Kolin

2019 Winter/Spring is programmed by Joseph V. Melillo.

Season Sponsor:

Leadership support for dance at BAM provided by The Harkness Foundation for Dance

Major support for dance at BAM provided by The SHS Foundation

Support for the Signature Artists Series provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation Pepperland

MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP

MICA BERNAS SAM BLACK KARLIE BUDGE* BRANDON COURNAY JOHN EIRICH

DOMINGO ESTRADA, JR. LESLEY GARRISON LAUREN GRANT SARAH HAARMANN

DEEPA LIEGEL* AARON LOUX LAUREL LYNCH DALLAS McMURRAY

MINGA PRATHER* BRANDON RANDOLPH NICOLE SABELLA CHRISTINA SAHAIDA

BILLY SMITH NOAH VINSON

*apprentice

MMDG MUSIC ENSEMBLE

CLINTON CURTIS COLIN FOWLER JACOB GARCHIK ETHAN IVERSON

SAM NEWSOME ROB SCHWIMMER VINNIE SPERRAZZA

Artistic Director Executive Director MARK MORRIS NANCY UMANOFF

Major support for the Mark Morris Dance Group is provided by American Express, Anonymous, Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners, LLP, Frederick and Morley Bland, Booth Ferris Foundation, Allan S. and Rhea K. Bufferd, Suzy Kellems Dominik, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Judith R. and Alan H. Fishman, Shelby and Frederick Gans, Isaac Mizrahi and Arnold Germer, Howard Gilman Foundation, Hearst Foundations, Sandy Hill, Elizabeth Amy Liebman, The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, Suzanne Berman and Timothy J. McClimon, McDermott, Will & Emery, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Meyer Sound/Helen and John Meyer, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Ellen and Arnold Offner, Sarabeth Berman and Evan Osnos, PARC Foundation, Poss Family Foundation, Diane E. Solway and David Resnicow, Resnicow + Associates, Margaret Conklin and David Sabel, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Iris Cohen and Mark Selinger, The SHS Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Jane and R.L. Stine, The White Cedar Fund, and Friends of MMDG.

Additional support provided by Amazon, Kenneth Aidekman Family Foundation, Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc., Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation, Cavali Foundation, Chervenak-Nunnalle Foundation, Con Edison, Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Inc., Dau Family Foundation, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Estée Lauder Companies, ExxonMobile Corporate Matching Gift Program, Google Matching Gift Program, The Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation, Guggenheim Partners Matching Gifts, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, Marta Heflin Foundation, IBM Corporation Matching Gifts Program, Jaffe Family Foundation, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Kinder Morgan Foundation, The Langworthy Foundation, Leatherwood Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Materials for the Arts, Megara Foundation, Merck Partnership for Giving, Morgan Stanley & Co., Harris A. Berman & Ruth Nemzoff Family Foundation, Parkinson’s Foundation, The L. E. Phillips Family Foundation, The Pinkus Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Rolex, Billy Rose Foundation, Inc., Jennifer P. Goodale and Mark Russell, San Antonio Area Foundation, Schneer Foundation, Singer Xenos Wealth Management, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, Viad Corp, and Zeitz Foundation.

The Mark Morris Dance Group is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams, Council Member Helen Rosenthal, the New York City Department for the Aging, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Pepperland

PEPPERLAND

Music: Original songs by The Beatles, arr. by Ethan Iverson* Original compositions by Ethan Iverson†

Choreography Mark Morris Set design Johan Henckens Costume design Elizabeth Kurtzman Lighting design Nick Kolin Assistant to Mr. Morris Aaron Loux

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band* Magna Carta† With a Little Help from My Friends* Adagio† When I’m Sixty-Four* Allegro† Within You Without You* Scherzo† Wilbur Scoville† Penny Lane* A Day in the Life* Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band*

Clinton Curtis, vocals; Sam Newsome, soprano saxophone; Jacob Garchik, trombone; Rob Schwimmer, theremin; Ethan Iverson, piano; Colin Fowler, keyboard; Vinnie Sperrazza, percussion

Mica Bernas, Sam Black, Brandon Cournay, John Eirich, Domingo Estrada, Jr., Lesley Garrison, Lauren Grant, Sarah Haarmann, Laurel Lynch, Dallas McMurray, Brandon Randolph, Nicole Sabella, Christina Sahaida, Billy Smith, Noah Vinson Original music by The Beatles. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission from Sony Music Publishing.

Costumes built by Eric Winterling, Inc.

“A Day in the Life,” “Penny Lane,” “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” “When I’m Sixty-Four,” “With a Little Help from My Friends” by John Lennon and Paul McCartney “Within You Without You” by George Harrison Pepperland ©2017 Discalced, Inc.

Pepperland is a Mark Morris Dance Group production in association with BAM, Brooklyn, New York; American Dance Festival, Durham, North Carolina; Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity with the Sony Centre, Toronto, Canada; Cal Performances, UC Berkeley, California; Celebrity Series of Boston, Massachusetts; The City of Liverpool, England, U.K.; Dance Consortium UK; Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; International Festival of Arts & Ideas, New Haven, Connecticut; The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.; Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; La Jolla Music Society, La Jolla, California; Meyer Sound, Berkeley, California; Seattle Theatre Group, Seattle, Washington; Segerstrom Center for The Arts, Costa Mesa, California; UCSB Arts & Lectures, Santa Barbara, California; and White Bird, Portland, Oregon.

Pepperland is supported in part by Friends of MMDG, the Howard Gilman Foundation, PARC Foundation, and New Music USA. Music commissioned by the Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation. The premiere engagement was supported by funding from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Howard Gilman Foundation. Mark Morris Dance Group

MICA BERNAS SAM BLACK KARLIE BUDGE BRANDON COURNAY

JOHN EIRICH DOMINGO ESTRADA, JR. LESLEY GARRISON LAUREN GRANT SARAH HAARMANN

DEEPA LIEGEL AARON LOUX LAUREL LYNCH DALLAS McMURRAY MINGA PRATHER

BRANDON RANDOLPH NICOLE SABELLA CHRISTINA SAHAIDA BILLY SMITH NOAH VINSON

CLINTON CURTIS COLIN FOWLER JACOB GARCHIK ETHAN IVERSON

SAM NEWSOME ROB SCHWIMMER VINNIE SPERRAZZA

NICK KOLIN ELIZABETH KURTZMAN Pepperland—Notes on the score

It Was Fifty Years Ago Today

1. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The original album ended with an unprecedented effect, a very long chord. Fifty years later, perhaps a similar chord is good place to begin…

2. Magna Carta. A formal invocation of personalities from the LP cover.

3. With a Little Help From My Friends. When Ringo sang it, he was on top of the world. Our version is more vulnerable.

4. Adagio. In the age of Tinder, a Lonely Heart advertisement might seem hopelessly quaint. But everyone has always needed to find a match.

5. When I’m Sixty-Four. In between 6 and 4 is 5. All three (counts to the bar) are heard beneath the music-hall scuffle.

6. Allegro. A single offhand line of trombone from “Sgt. Pepper” germinates into a full-fledged sonata form.

7. Within You Without You. George Harrison’s sincere study of Indian music aligns easily with another Harrison interested in bringing the East to the West: the great composer Lou Harrison, one of Mark Morris’ most significant collaborators. The hippie-era sentiment of the lyric remains startlingly fresh and relevant today.

8. Scherzo. Glenn Gould said he preferred Petula Clark to the Beatles. Apparently Gould, Clark, and a chord progression from “Sgt. Pepper” all seem to have inspired this mod number.

9. Wilbur Scoville. The first thing we hear on the LP is a guitar blues lick, here transformed into a real blues for the horns to blow on. Wilbur Scoville invented the scale to measure heat in hot sauce: The original Sergeant Pepper?

10. Cadenza. After seeing Bach’s Brandenburg 2 on the telly, Paul McCartney came into the studio and told George Martin to add piccolo trumpet to “Penny Lane.” Indeed, detailed references to European classical music are one reason so many Beatles songs still stump the average cover band.

11. Penny Lane. Not on Sgt. Pepper, but nonetheless originally planned to be, and of course especially relevant to the city of Liverpool.

12. A Day In the Life. Theremin nocturne, vocal descant, apotheosis.

13. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Another unprecedented effect on the original LP was a reprise of the first theme, which is part of why it is called the first “concept album.” Our later vantage point enables us to project into the next decade, the 70s, and conjure a disco ball. Thank you, Beatles! Thank you, Sgt. Pepper!

—Ethan Iverson Pepperland

Mark Morris and Ethan Iverson. Photo: Beowulf Sheehan Who’s Who

MARK MORRIS was born Distinguished Artist Award, Cal Performances on August 29, 1956, in Award of Distinction in the Performing Arts, the Seattle, WA, where he Orchestra of St. Luke’s Gift of Music Award, and studied with Verla Flowers the 2016 Doris Duke Artist Award. In 2015, and Perry Brunson. In Mark Morris was inducted into the Mr. and Mrs. Photo: Beowulf Sheehan the early years of his Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame at the career, he performed National Museum of Dance in Saratoga Springs, with the companies of NY. Morris opened the Mark Morris Dance Lar Lubovitch, Hannah Center in Brooklyn in 2001 to provide a home Kahn, Laura Dean, Eliot Feld, and the Koleda for his company, subsidized rental space for Balkan Dance Ensemble. He formed the local artists, outreach programs for children and Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG) in 1980, seniors, and a school offering dance classes to and has since created over 150 works for students of all ages and abilities. the company. From 1988 to 1991, he was director of dance at Brussels’ Théâtre Royal The MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP was de la Monnaie, the national opera house of formed in 1980 and gave its first performance Belgium. In 1990, he founded the White Oak that year in New York City. The company’s Dance Project with Mikhail Baryshnikov. Much touring schedule steadily expanded to include in demand as a ballet choreographer, Morris cities in the US and around the world, and has created 22 ballets since 1986 and his work in 1986 it made its first national television has been performed by companies worldwide, program for the PBS series Dance in America. including San Francisco Ballet, American Ballet In 1988, MMDG was invited to become the Theatre, Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève, national dance company of Belgium, and spent and the Royal New Zealand Ballet. Noted for three years in residence at the Théâtre Royal his musicality, Morris has been described as de la Monnaie in Brussels. The Dance Group “undeviating in his devotion to music” (The New returned to the United States in 1991 as one Yorker). He began conducting performances for of the world’s leading dance companies. Based MMDG in 2006 and has since conducted at in Brooklyn, MMDG maintains strong ties to Tanglewood Music Center, Lincoln Center, and presenters in several cities around the world, BAM. He served as music director for the 2013 most notably to its West Coast home, Cal Ojai Music Festival. He also works extensively in Performances in Berkeley, CA, and its Midwest opera, directing and choreographing productions home, the Krannert Center for the Performing for the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana- English National Opera, and the Royal Opera, Champaign. MMDG also appears regularly Covent Garden, among others. He was named in New York, Boston, Seattle, and Fairfax. a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 1991 In New York, the company has performed at and has received 11 honorary doctorates to date. New York City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival, He has taught at the University of Washington, regularly performs at Lincoln Center for the Princeton University, and Tanglewood Music Performing Arts’ Mostly Mozart and White Light Center. He is a member of the American Festivals, and collaborates yearly with BAM Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American on performances and master classes. From Philosophical Society, and has served as an the company’s many London seasons, it has advisory board member for the Rolex Mentor received two Laurence Olivier Awards and a and Protégé Arts Initiative. Morris has received Critics’ Circle Dance Award for Best Foreign the Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival Dance Company. Reflecting Morris’ commitment Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Leonard to live music, the Dance Group has featured Bernstein Lifetime Achievement Award for the live musicians in every performance since Elevation of Music in Society, the Benjamin the formation of the MMDG Music Ensemble Franklin Laureate Prize for Creativity, the in 1996. MMDG regularly collaborates with International Society for the Performing Arts’ renowned musicians, including cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Who’s Who pianist Emanuel Ax, mezzo-soprano Stephanie in many areas of the music scene in New York Blythe, and jazz trio The Bad Plus, as well City. He is a veteran of numerous Broadway as leading orchestras and opera companies, shows, most recently performing in the Tony including the Metropolitan Opera, English Award winning musical Jersey Boys. A seasoned National Opera, and the London Symphony church musician, Fowler is currently the organist Orchestra. MMDG frequently works with at Marble Collegiate Church on Fifth Avenue distinguished artists and designers, including and also leads services and concerts at Park painters Robert Bordo and the late Howard Avenue Synagogue, where he has served as Hodgkin, set designers Adrianne Lobel and Allen music director since 2012. As a classical soloist Moyer, costume designers Martin Pakledinaz and collaborative artist, he has performed and and Isaac Mizrahi, and many others. MMDG’s recorded with many world-renowned musicians film and television projects include Dido and and ensembles, including Deborah Voigt and Aeneas, The Hard Nut, Falling Down Stairs, two the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He began to documentaries for the UK’s South Bank Show, collaborate with the Mark Morris Dance Group and PBS’ Live from Lincoln Center. In 2015 in 2005 and has since then performed over Morris’ signature work L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed 40 pieces with the company on almost every il Moderato had its national television premiere keyboard instrument possible, including the on PBS’ Great Performances. While on tour harmonium and toy piano, and has conducted the Dance Group partners with local cultural performances of Mozart Dances, Acis and institutions and community organizations to Galatea, and The Hard Nut. Hailed by The present arts and humanities-based activities for New York Times as “invaluable” and “central to people of all ages and abilities. Morris’ music,” he was appointed music director in 2013. The MMDG MUSIC ENSEMBLE, formed in 1996, is integral to the Dance Group. “With MICA BERNAS, originally from Manila, the dancers come the musicians…and what a Philippines, received her training at the Cultural difference it makes” (Classical Voice of North Center of the Philippines Dance School. She Carolina). The Ensemble’s repertory ranges later joined Ballet Philippines as member of from 17th- and 18th-century works by John the corps de ballet, performing as a soloist Wilson and Henry Purcell to more recent scores from 2001—06. Since moving to New York in by Ethan Iverson, Lou Harrison, and Henry 2006, Bernas has worked with Marta Renzi Cowell. The musicians also participate in the Dance, Armitage Gone Dance, Gallim Dance, Dance Group’s educational and community Barkin/Selissen Project, and Carolyn Dorfman programming at home and on tour. The Music Dance (2007—13). She was a guest artist with Ensemble is led by Colin Fowler, who began the Limón Dance Company, performing at the to collaborate with MMDG in 2005 during the 2013 Bienal Internacional de Danza de Cali in creation of Mozart Dances. Bogotá, Colombia; Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater; and at the Joyce Theater for the COLIN FOWLER (music director, keyboard) company’s 70th Anniversary in 2015. Bernas began his musical study at the age of five also teaches at the Limón Institute and has been in Kansas City and went on to study at the on the faculty for BIMA at Brandeis University prestigious Interlochen Arts Academy. He since 2011. She joined MMDG as an apprentice continued his education at The Juilliard School, in January 2017 and became a company where he received his Bachelor of Music in member in August 2017. 2003 and his Master of Music in 2005. While at Juilliard, he studied piano with Abbey Simon, SAM BLACK is originally from Berkeley, CA, organ with Gerre Hancock and Paul Jacobs, where he began studying tap at the age of nine harpsichord with Lionel Party, and conducting with Katie Maltsberger. He received his BFA with James dePriest and Judith Clurman. A in dance from SUNY Purchase, and currently versatile musician and conductor, Fowler works teaches MMDG master classes and Dance for Who’s Who

PD®. He first appeared with MMDG in 2005 and engagements with the New York Philharmonic, became a company member in 2007. Berlin Philharmonic, and San Francisco Symphony. March 2016 marked his operatic KARLIE BUDGE grew up in Knoxville, TN, debut in Curlew River for the Mark Morris Dance dancing with the Tennessee Children’s Dance Group. As a popular songwriter and frontman Ensemble (TCDE). She graduated magna cum for The Clinton Curtis Band he has toured laude with a BA in dance and BS in statistics in internationally as a cultural ambassador with 2016 from Case Western Reserve University and the US Department of State. He has released danced with Graham 2 dance company. Budge five original studio albums available at music. has performed works by Mark Morris, Pascal clintoncurtis.com. Rioult, Larry Keigwin, Martha Graham, Ted Shawn, Bertram Ross, Virginie Mecene, Adam JOHN EIRICH was raised in Florida where he Barruch, Michael Mao, and Randy Duncan. She earned his BFA in dance from New World School has presented her choreography throughout New of the Arts and was a student at Jacob’s Pillow York City in Playscape2016, NEXT@Graham, Contemporary Traditions Program. He was a NYC10, SoloDuo Festival, and four Martha member of Taylor 2 from 2006—10, has been a Graham School showings. She received the Pearl member of TAKE Dance since 2007, and joined Lang Award for Excellence in Choreography in Dušan Týnek Dance Theatre in 2010 and Megan 2017. Budge joined MMDG as an apprentice in Williams Dance in 2017. He has performed September 2018. in The Magic Flute at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis directed by Isaac Mizrahi (2014), BRANDON COURNAY is originally from Walled Missa Brevis with Limón Dance Company, and Lake, MI, and received his BFA from The Juilliard L’Allegro, il Penseroso, ed il Moderato and The School. As a freelance artist, he has performed Hard Nut with the Mark Morris Dance Group. He with the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Mark is a founding member of Dance Heginbotham. Morris Dance Group, Morphoses, Metropolitan Opera, New York Theatre Ballet, The Chase Brock DOMINGO ESTRADA, JR., a native of Victoria, Experience, Schoen Movement Company, Dance TX, studied martial arts and earned his black belt Heginbotham, and KEIGWIN + COMPANY. in 1994. He danced ballet folklorico through his TV/film/industrial credits include PBS’ Great church for 11 years. Estrada earned his BFA in Performances, Musical Chairs (HBO), Puma, ballet and modern dance from Texas Christian Sesame Street, and Target. As an educator and University and had the honor of working with the répétiteur, he has worked with the Pennsylvania late Fernando Bujones. During his undergraduate Ballet, Whim W’Him, The Juilliard School/Nord studies, he attended the American Dance Anglia Education, and universities nationwide. Festival where he had the privilege of performing Offstage, he has worked with companies in Skylight, a classic work by choreographer Laura multiple capacities from artistic direction to Dean. He debuted with MMDG in 2007 and administrative management. For many years, he became a company member in 2009. Estrada was the rehearsal director and associate artistic would like to thank God, his family, and all who director of KEIGWIN + COMPANY. In addition, he support his passion. has assisted numerous choreographers on creative projects in theater, film, and dance. He joined JACOB GARCHIK (trombone) is a multi- MMDG as an apprentice in March 2018 and instrumentalist and composer. Since moving to became a company member in October 2018. New York in 1994 he has been a vital part of the downtown and Brooklyn scene, playing trombone CLINTON CURTIS (baritone) is a multi-genre with the Lee Konitz Nonet, Ohad Talmor/Steve singer, musician, and songwriter originally from Swallow Sextet, Mary Halvorson Octet, and Key West, FL. As a choral singer he has worked the John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble. He has with many of the world’s luminary conductors released four albums as a leader, including The and orchestras, most recently including Heavens: The Atheist Gospel Trombone Album. Photo: Mat Hayward

Who’s Who

He co-leads Brooklyn’s premiere Mexican brass State Council on the Arts. Grant earned her band, Banda de los Muertos. Since 2006 MFA in dance from Montclair State University Garchik has contributed dozens of arrangements (where she was a member of the Alpha Epsilon and transcriptions for Kronos Quartet of music Lambda Honor Society) and her BFA in dance from all over the world. His arrangements from New York University’s Tisch School of were featured on Floodplain, Rainbow, and A the Arts. She is a recipient of the prestigious Thousand Thoughts. He composed the score American Association of University Women for Kronos for the documentaries The Campaign Career Development Grant, the Sono Osato and Green Fog directed by Guy Maddin. He has Scholarship for Graduate Studies, and the created arrangements for vocalists Anne Sofie Caroline Newhouse Grant—all in support of her von Otter, Angélique Kidjo, Laurie Anderson, scholarly pursuits. Originally from Highland Park, Rhiannon Giddens, kd lang, Natalie Merchant, IL, she lives in Brooklyn with her husband David Tanya Tagaq, and Alim Qasimov. As a trombonist Leventhal (former MMDG dancer and current Garchik has worked with many luminaries of the Dance for PD® Program Director) and their son, avant-garde, including Henry Threadgill, Laurie born in 2012. Anderson, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Coleman, Joe Maneri, Frank London, James Tenney, Terry SARAH HAARMANN grew up in Macungie, PA Reilly, and George Lewis. He has also played in and received training at the Lehigh Valley Charter ensembles led by emerging artists Mary Halvorson, High School for the Performing Arts under the Darcy James Argue, Dan Weiss, Miguel Zenon, direction of Kimberly Maniscalco. She graduated and Steve Lehman, and has been named a “Rising magna cum laude with a BFA in dance from Star” in the Downbeat Jazz Critic’s Poll. Marymount Manhattan College in 2012. Haarmann has had the pleasure of performing LESLEY GARRISON grew up in Swansea, IL, with Pam Tanowitz Dance, Jessica Lang Dance, and received her early dance training at the Dylan Crossman Dans(ce), Pat Catterson, Denisa Center of Creative Arts in St. Louis, MO, and Musilova, and Bill Young. She joined MMDG as Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, MI. an apprentice in January 2017 and became a She studied at the Rotterdamse Dansacademie in company member in August 2017. The Netherlands and holds a BFA from Purchase College. She first performed with MMDG in JOHAN HENCKENS (set realization) became 2007 and became a company member in 2011. the director of technical production of the Garrison teaches at The School at the Mark Mark Morris Dance Group in 1989, during the Morris Dance Center and for MMDG’s Dance for company’s three-year residency at the Koninklijke PD® program. Muntschouwburg in Brussels, Belgium.

LAUREN GRANT, honored with a New York ETHAN IVERSON (composer, arranger, piano) Dance and Performance Bessie Award for her was a founding member of The Bad Plus, a career with the Mark Morris Dance Group, has game-changing collective with Reid Anderson danced with MMDG since 1996, appearing and David King. The New York Times called TBP in over 60 of Morris’ works. In addition to “…better than anyone at melding the sensibilities staging Morris’ repertory on his company and of post-60’s jazz and indie rock.” During his 17- at universities, Grant teaches ballet and modern year tenure, TBP performed in venues as diverse technique for numerous professional dance as the Village Vanguard, Carnegie Hall, and companies and schools around the globe and Bonnaroo; collaborated with Joshua Redman, is an adjunct faculty member at Montclair State Bill Frisell, and the Mark Morris Dance Group; University. Her writing has been published in and created a faithful arrangement of Stravinsky’s the journals Dance Education in Practice, Ballet The Rite of Spring and a radical reinvention of Review, Dance Magazine, and InfiniteBody. Ornette Coleman’s Science Fiction. Iverson also She also serves as a panelist for the New York has been in the critically-acclaimed Billy Hart Who’s Who

Quartet for well over a decade and occasionally Mark Morris Dance Group including Dancing performs with an elder statesman like Albert Honeymoon, Sang-Froid, The Argument, Greek “Tootie” Heath or Ron Carter. For almost 15 to Me, Four Saints in Three Acts, Empire years Iverson’s blog Do the Math has been a Garden, Visitation, The Muir, Crosswalk, repository of musician-to-musician interviews Petrichor, and Pure Dance Items. She also and analysis, surely one reason Time Out New designed L’Isola Disabitata for the Gotham York selected Iverson as one of 25 essential New Opera Company, under Mark Morris’ direction. York jazz icons: “Perhaps NYC’s most thoughtful Kurtzman is currently active in providing art and and passionate student of jazz tradition—the music programs for children with autism in New most admirable sort of artist-scholar.” More York City, where she lives and works. recently Iverson has been writing about jazz for The New Yorker. In 2017 Iverson co-curated a DEEPA LIEGEL grew up dancing with Cornish major centennial celebration of Thelonious Monk Preparatory Dance, Leela Kathak Dance, and at Duke University, and in 2018 premiered Seattle Theater Group in Seattle, WA. She an original piano concerto with the American received her BFA in dance performance with Composers Orchestra and released a duo album honors and a minor in arts management from with Mark Turner on ECM. Many years ago, Southern Methodist University in 2017. Since Iverson was the Mark Morris Dance Group’s moving to New York, she has performed with musical director and is thrilled to be back in the Barkha Dance Company, Broadway Bares, and pit for MMDG again! Monica Kapoor, and apprenticed with the Limón Dance Company. She joined MMDG as an NICK KOLIN (lighting design) has designed apprentice in September 2018. Whelm, Words, A Forest, Numerator, Pure Dance Items, Little Britten, and The Trout AARON LOUX grew up in Seattle, WA, and for the Mark Morris Dance Group and tours began dancing at the Creative Dance Center as a with the Dance Group as lighting supervisor. member of Kaleidoscope, a youth modern dance Recent dance projects include new works for company. He began his classical training at the Philadanco!, Art of Fugue with Syren Modern Cornish College Preparatory Dance Program and Dance, many collaborations with the Joffrey received his BFA from The Juilliard School in Ballet School, and lighting supervisor for 2009. He danced at the Metropolitan Opera and Daniil Simkin’s Intensio, Wendy Whelan’s with Arc Dance Company before joining MMDG Restless Creature, the Apollo Theatre’s Get on in 2010. the Good Foot, Dance Heginbotham, Lincoln Center Festival, and New York City Center’s LAUREL LYNCH began her dance training at Fall for Dance Festival. Other projects include Petaluma School of Ballet in California. She productions with the Cincinnati Ballet, Gotham moved to New York to attend The Juilliard Chamber Opera, Asolo Repertory Theater, School where she performed works by Robert Castillo Theater, and Signature Theatre. Kolin is Battle, Margie Gillis, José Limón, and Ohad an adjunct faculty member at Hunter College, Naharin. After graduation Lynch danced for where he is the resident lighting designer for the Dušan Týnek Dance Theatre, Sue Bernhard MFA playwriting program. He holds an MFA from Danceworks, and Pat Catterson. Lynch joined New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. MMDG as an apprentice in 2006 and became a company member in 2007. Many thanks to ELIZABETH KURTZMAN (costume design) Gene and Becky. began her career in the fashion industry after attending the Parsons School of Design. She has DALLAS McMURRAY, from El Cerrito, CA, designed textiles and accessories for numerous began dancing at age four, studying jazz, tap, New York design houses. She has added and acrobatics with Katie Maltsberger and costume design and book illustration to her list ballet with Yukiko Sakakura. He received a of vocations, designing numerous pieces for the BFA in dance from the California Institute of Who’s Who the Arts. McMurray performed with the Limón South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts Dance Company in addition to works by Jiří and Humanities, where he studied with Stanislav Kylián, Alonzo King, Robert Moses, and Colin Issaev and Bobby Barnett. Randolph received his Connor. McMurray performed with MMDG as BFA in dance from Purchase College in 2012. an apprentice in 2006 and became a company There he had the opportunity to perform with member in 2007. Dance Heginbotham as well as repertory by Stephen Petronio, Lar Lubovitch, Paul Taylor, and SAM NEWSOME (saxophone) works primarily George Balanchine. Randolph began working in the medium of solo saxophone, an approach with MMDG in 2013 and became a company through which he gained world-wide critical member in 2014. acclaim with the release of his 2009 recording Blue Soliloquy: Solo Works for Soprano NICOLE SABELLA is originally from Clearwater, Saxophone, which received a five-star review FL, where she studied at the Academy of Ballet in Downbeat magazine. Newsome sees himself Arts and the Pinellas County Center for the more along the lines of a visual artist who paints Arts at Gibbs High School under Suzanne B. with notes and sounds rather than shapes and Pomerantzeff. In 2009, she graduated from colors. “My music,” says Newsome, “is a type of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA, improvisatory art music in which jazz functions earning her BFA in modern dance performance more as a resource than a musical genre to and the “Outstanding Performance in Modern be interpreted with stylistic specificity.” Even Dance” Award. She was a performer with Zane though Newsome’s approach is unorthodox, Booker’s Smoke, Lilies, and Jade Arts Initiative. it has proven to be very fruitful—musically Sabella first performed with MMDG in 2013 and and critically. Newsome’s creative efforts have became a company member in 2015. earned him such recognition as receiving the 2016 NYFA Artist’s Fellowship for the Music/ CHRISTINA SAHAIDA grew up in Pittsburgh, Sound category; being selected as a nominee for PA and began her early dance training at the Soprano Saxophonist of the Year by the 2016 Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School. In 2012, she Jazz Journalist Association (JJA); and placing #4 graduated with honors from Butler University, in the Soprano Saxophone category in the 64th receiving a BFA in dance performance. She Annual Downbeat Jazz Critics Poll. has worked with Ballet Quad Cities, Texture Contemporary Ballet, and most recently the MINGA PRATHER, a Dallas, TX native, received Big Muddy Dance Company in St. Louis, MO. her training from Booker T. Washington High Sahaida joined MMDG as an apprentice in School for the Performing and Visual Arts, and July 2017 and became a company member in later graduated with honors in dance from the February 2019. Ailey/Fordham BFA program. Prather has had the pleasure of performing with Hubbard Street ROB SCHWIMMER (theremin) is a composer- Dance Chicago, Alvin Ailey American Dance pianist/keyboardist, thereminist, and Haken Theater, and Nimbus Dance Works performing Continuumist. He has worked with Simon works by Alvin Ailey, Alejandro Cerrudo, William & Garfunkel, Wayne Shorter, Antônio Carlos Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Crystal Pite, and Twyla Jobim, Bobby McFerrin, Willie Nelson, Paul Tharp. She received an award from the National Simon, Gotye, The Boston Pops, Chaka Khan, Young Arts Foundation for Modern Dance in Laurie Anderson, Arif Mardin, Stevie Wonder, 2014. Prather joined MMDG as an apprentice in Adam Guettel, Paul Bley, T-Bone Walker, Sam September 2018. Rivers, Christian Marclay, Matthew Barney, Ang Lee, Maria Schneider, The Klezmatics, Bernie BRANDON RANDOLPH began his training Worrell, Annette Peacock, Gwyneth Paltrow, with the School of Carolina Ballet Theater in Mabou Mines, Geoffrey Holder, John Cale, Steve Greenville, SC under the direction of Hernan Buscemi, Iva Bittova, Theo Bleckmann, John Justo. At age 14, he was accepted into the Stubblefield, The Roches, Jack Quartet, Teo Photo: Mat Hayward Who’s Who

Macero, Hal Willner, Vernon Reid, The Everly Smith’s regional theater credits include Tulsa Brothers, Kurt Vonnegut, Odetta, Joseph Jarman, in Gypsy, Mistoffelees in CATS, and Dream Alwin Nikolai/Murray Louis Dance Company, Curly in Oklahoma! Smith danced with Parsons Marc Ribot, Frank London, and Sammy Davis Dance from 2007­—10. He joined MMDG as a Jr. As a world class thereminist, Schwimmer company member in 2010. has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning, and in The New York Times and The Wall Street VINNIE SPERRAZZA (percussion) is an active Journal. A founding member and former co- member of the Brooklyn jazz and creative music director of the NY Theremin Society, his credits community. He leads several bands (including as theremin soloist include the Boston Pops, Apocryphal, Haunted, and Pilot House Orchestra of St. Luke’s (which included his Overhead), writes music, and is a featured theremin arrangement of Bernard Herrmann’s collaborator in a number of bands (including “Scene d’Amour” from Vertigo), Bobby McFerrin Landline, Hearing Things, and many others). In at Carnegie Hall, Gotye’s Ondioline Orchestra, 2017, he released two widely-praised albums and Simon & Garfunkel’s world tours. In addition of his original compositions: Juxtaposition (Posi- to his CD Theremin Noir (with Uri Caine and Tone Records) and Hide Ye Idols (Loyal Label). Mark Feldman), Schwimmer played on Trey In 2018, he toured the US as a member of the Anastasio’s CD Traveler, Matthew Barney’s epic MMDG Music Ensemble and did a brief tour movie Cremaster 3, and A&E’s Breakfast with of Spain with PLAY, featuring Jacob Sacks and the Arts. bassist Masa Kamaguchi. In 2019, Sperrazza will tour extensively with Pepperland and BILLY SMITH grew up in Fredericksburg, VA, release three collaborative albums with The and attended George Mason University under Choir Invisible (with Charlotte Greve and Chris a full academic and dance talent scholarship. Tordini), Trio Trio (featuring Dave Scott and Rich He graduated magna cum laude in 2007 and Perry), and Caleb Curtis/Noah Garabedian/ received achievement awards in performance, Vinnie Sperrazza. choreography, and academic endeavors. While at George Mason he performed the works NOAH VINSON is originally from Springfield, of Mark Morris, Paul Taylor, Lar Lubovitch, IL, and received his BA in dance from Columbia Doug Varone, Daniel Ezralow, Larry Keigwin, College Chicago. He was named a Dance Susan Marshall, and Susan Shields. Smith’s Magazine “Dancer on the Rise” in 2009 and own piece, 3-Way Stop, was selected to open assisted Mark Morris in the creation of his most the 2006 American College Dance Festival recent work for Houston Ballet, The Letter V. Gala at Ohio State University, and his original He began dancing with MMDG in 2002 and choreography for a production of Bye Bye Birdie became a company member in 2004. garnered much critical praise. An actor as well,

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Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) Ballet BC

Photo: Maria Baranova A panoply of artists collaborate on a paean to photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, whose work Alexis Fletcher and Christoph von Riedemann in Solo Echo Photo: Michael Slobodian came to define a complicated era. Hear from composer Bryce Dessner and director Kaneza Vancouver’s contemporary ballet company brings a Schaal. slate of exciting work to BAM. By Susan Yung Film

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Farah Al Qasimi (b. Abu Dhabi, 1991) is an artist working in photography, video, sound, and performance. Al Qasimi received an MFA in photography from the Yale School of Art in 2017, and recently completed residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine and at the Delfina Foundation in London. She is the recipient of the 2018 NADA New York Artadia Award and the 2018 Individual Photographer’s Fellow- ship from the Aaron Siskind Foundation, and currently teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design and at Pratt Institute. Upcoming exhibitions include solo presentations at the Jameel Arts Centre and at The Third Line, both in Dubai.

Farah Al Qasimi Self-Portrait in Red, 2016 Archival Inket Print 34.25 x 27.17 inches Courtesy of the artist and Helena Anrather, New York @BAM_Brooklyn Triptych Photo: Maria Baranova

Mapplethorpe’s Gaze Triptych (Eyes of One on Another), at the an underlying structure allowed librettist Korde Howard Gilman Opera House from Jun 6 Arrington Tuttle and I to look across the entire to 8, focuses on the photography of Robert span of Mapplethorpe’s work and embrace his Mapplethorpe and combines music by Bryce work from where we stand in 2019. In section Z Dessner with a libretto by Korde Arrington Tuttle, we begin with an unpublished poem that Essex performed by Roomful of Teeth with Alicia Hall Hemphill wrote to Robert which asks questions Moran and Isaiah Robinson, directed by Kaneza of his depiction of his African-American male Schaal. Dessner and Schaal answered some models (“is it desire, equality, disgust, or questions. —Susan Yung hatred?”). Essex’s words open this section and then the final words of the piece are from his landmark poem American Wedding, which acts BRYCE DESSNER—Composer like a coda to the three-part structure. SY: What moved you to create a piece based on Mapplethorpe, and how did you structure it? : What’s the connection between BD: Mapplethorpe has influenced me since SY my first exposure to his work as a teenager. Mapplethorpe’s portraits and madrigals? Growing up in Cincinnati in 1990, I was told by BD: A lot of Mapplethorpe’s work directly the authorities that I was not allowed to look references Italian Mannerism and Renaissance at Mapplethorpe’s photographs—that these art. There are many photographs (of sculpture tremendous works of art were not art at all, but and the body, self-portraits, S&M images) that pornography. Up close, I witnessed Cincinnati we can look at alongside Renaissance paintings become the crucible of the NEA wars after and see all kinds of references and connections. Contemporary Art Center Director Dennis Barrie The Italian madrigal vocal tradition is the musical was jailed and art was put on trial in court. It analog to this incredible period of creativity that I was a huge moment, and for better or for worse have always loved, and this project gave me the still resonates across all aspects of American opportunity to explore the music of Monteverdi culture. Triptych covers a lot of ground (the in relationship to Mapplethorpe’s work. In middle section is inspired by the trial and my Triptych we hear a section of a Monteverdi experience as a teenager)—the XYZ portfolio as madrigal, “Sestina” (Tears of a Lover at the Tomb @BAM_Brooklyn Triptych of the Beloved), in re-imagined settings and re- Simon,Tommy, Alicia, Isaiah, Brad, and Roomful mixed through the incredible vocal techniques of of Teeth). We can all testify to the enduring Roomful of Teeth. I originally set this idea as power of Mapplethorpe’s work and the ways in a prelude to Patti Smith’s “The Boy Who Loved which it confronts many deep contradictions and Michelangelo,” but as we worked more on truths within American identity and the way we the overall structure we incorporated it elsewhere see one another. For me the process of making in faint echoes of the original. this piece and spending time with Robert’s images and the words of Korde, Patti, and Essex hopefully SY: Did you consider rock influences while translates to what the audience will see and hear. writing Triptych, with a nod to Patti Smith’s sound, as you incorporate some of her poetry KANEZA SCHAAL—Director in the lyrics, and since she was so close to SY: What are some of the considerations while Mapplethorpe? directing Triptych? BD: I love Patti Smith’s music and poetry and KS: With Triptych we have many different artists have been honored to perform with her in who come to this piece with many different Philip Glass’ Tibet House benefits at Carnegie interests, repulsions, admirations, questions, Hall. Around the time I first learned about around Mapplethorpe’s work. Sometimes they Mapplethorpe in 1990 I was also discovering the agree, sometimes they disagree; some of our incredible music of Patti and her contemporaries curiosities and desires overlap, some diverge. (1970s punk rock is probably the single biggest As the director, I am arranging this tapestry, and influence on my band The National and our seeing to it that it doesn’t tear. entire generation). The vastness of her creative output has been deeply inspiring to me. The SY: Mapplethorpe’s work, for better or worse, opening of Triptych and the setting of Patti’s “The became emblematic of the 80s—the culture Boy Who Loved Michelangelo” was one of the wars, AIDS, gay rights. How did those factor into first pieces of music I wrote for this project and shaping the work? was extremely important in finding the sonic KS: We are holding a lot of ghosts in Triptych. identity of the work. While the piece does not Ghosts whose names made it into archives and directly reference Patti’s music, I think stylistically many who didn’t. I was a child in San Francisco the work travels some distance between the in the 80s. My mother and I were living at my sound world of madrigal and more classical vocal aunt’s house. There was a social group around techniques, through various American idioms my aunt and her girlfriend. Ten gay men. Eight and singing styles (including folk music, gospel, of whom were dead by the time I was six. I and rock/pop). remember the smell of bodies dying. I remember the quilt. The sweetness, and fear, and pounding SY: The repeating phrase: “When you shoot a grief. My work always, in some way, addresses black body…” what was the thought process while the presence of the absent. writing this movement, with its double entendre? BD: I spent a lot of time with this powerful SY: Any additional thoughts on Triptych and the moment in Korde’s libretto trying to find a process of creating it? musical setting to do justice to these words. KS: I am interested in work that provides Eventually the music came to me clearly and platforms for public dialogue. Mapplethorpe is that piece kind of wrote itself—in a simple and a kind of touchstone. He stood at this precipice raw/ direct setting. My intention with the entire of self-imaging culture. The work captured and libretto was to do my best realizing the power in ignited the public’s imagination. Korde’s response to Mapplethorpe and the work’s relationship to pressing issues then and now— As of late, when confronted with controversial one of many moments for me and the creative or problematic works, our tendency as a society team in the creation of this piece that pushed us has been to try and erase them. My own feeling beyond ourselves. as an artist is that these are works I want to address. I see Mapplethorpe’s work in all its The most important part of this project for me problematic glory. Reading archives across has been spending time with and learning purposes is essential to exhuming history. about the brilliant members of our creative team (Korde, Kaneza, Lilleth, Carlos, Yuki, © 2019, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Inc. All rights reserved. BAM

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Ballet BC By Susan Yung Solo Echo . Michael Slobodian

Vancouver-based Ballet BC bears its geographical William Forsythe is well-known to audiences for stamp in its name, but the “C” might just as well the numerous intrepid dance-theater works by stand for “contemporary.” The company makes his companies Ballett Frankfurt and The Forsythe its BAM debut at the Howard Gilman Opera Company performed at BAM over the last two House from June 13 to 15. The three repertory decades. Pite and Molnar, both Canadians, dances to be performed are by choreographers danced for him in Germany, where he was whose paths have crossed previously—William based for many years, and where his radical Forsythe, Crystal Pite, and Emily Molnar, the style and intellectual approach to ballet exerted artistic director of Ballet BC. great influence on the genre. Molnar notes, “Contemporary ballet is the ballet of today, and The direction of Ballet BC under Molnar, who we are bringing that vernacular forward, very celebrates a decade at the company’s helm, similar to what’s been going on in Europe for heartily embraces collaboration. She says, “With years.” That course was charted in no small part a new work, you have the gift of having that by Forsythe. work done on your artists, so that they have a one-on-one relationship with the choreographer. Forsythe’s Enemy in the Figure (1989) was, It’s very new and it’s very vibrant, and that’s interestingly, performed by his company at BAM what Ballet BC has always been known for. in 2001. It is set to a score by Dutch composer Right now, we are going back to those roots. and frequent Forsythe collaborator Thom We are about creation; we are about innovation. Willems, and is memorable for its dramatic We are about collaborating with not just the chiaroscuro lighting (also by Forsythe), a set designers and musicians, but also with our with a wildly snaking rope, high-speed stage community, with our audiences, with our crossings, and devilishly difficult modern ballet country, and keeping that collaborative feeling in technique. That it is 30 years old is an emphatic the institution, so that we flow in a collaborative declaration of how avant-garde this American- way, and so that every part of the company is in born choreographer has always been. the creative process.”

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Crystal Pite has gained a large international understanding of the art form. That led me into following in recent years, with commissions by wanting to understand what it meant to do notable companies, and performance by her own choreography, and become a choreographer, troupe, Kidd Pivot. Her works frequently embrace and now I’m into understanding what it takes the entire theater space, using lighting to to create the environment so that dancers, and ingeniously shape the performance volume and choreographers, and artists of all forms, can create deep shadows which obscure and reveal actually develop.” the dancers. Ballet BC will perform Solo Echo, which is accompanied by a Brahms sonata for The three choreographers have created disparate cello and piano. The dance is a prime example bodies of work, of course, but they share a of Pite’s fluid, emotive, and singular movement visceral, at times primal vibe that impacts vocabulary. audiences immediately. Molnar says, “I always go back to when you watch a show. It shouldn’t Molnar has created a new work that will be be lights or costumes—those are enhancements included in the BAM engagement, set to and they absolutely interplay with the work. blues-rock, and which will utilize her highly But at the end of the day you should be able to expressionistic and challenging movement. strip everything down and be able to be moved She notes, “What I’m attracted to in blues is by that one individual on the stage. That is that such sorrow is sung through joy. It’s the what makes us a performing art, and that is opposition of the very dark with the uplifting. our strength. It’s something that you cannot There’s a wildness and chaos... It’s about living manipulate or edit.” No doubt Ballet BC’s BAM and being human.” performances will reach viewers’ guts, hearts, and minds. Of her evolution from dancer to choreographer to company director, she said, “As an artist, Susan Yung is senior editorial manager at BAM. you tend to want to challenge yourself and see how you can keep enhancing your © 2019, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Inc. All rights reserved. Solo Echo . Michael Slobodian BAM Supporters & Patrons

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2019 WINTER/SPRING TALKS in the shelter of the fold / epilogue | Doug Varone and Mapplethorpe in performance | With Bryce Dessner, Dancers | With Bang on a Can All-Stars | Choreography Kaneza Schaal, and Korde Arrington Tuttle | by Doug Varone | Jun 5—8 | FS In conjunction with Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) | Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) | Composed by Jun 7 at 6pm | Attic Studio, PJS Bryce Dessner| Libretto by Korde Arrington Tuttle Aperture Conversations: Young New York With Ethan featuring the words by Essex Hemphill & Patti Smith James Green and collaborators Dara Allen, Marcs | Directed by Kaneza Schaal | Roomful of Teeth with Goldberg, and Matt Holmes| Moderated by Michael special guests Alicia Hall Moran & Isaiah Robinson| Schulman | Jun 19 at 7pm | FS Music direction & conducting by Brad Wells Jun 6—8 | OH FILM

Ballet British Columbia | Choreography by Crystal Pite, ALL IN BRC Emily Molnar, and William Forsythe | Jun 13—15 | OH Diamantino | Jun 1—11 Espæce | A piece by Aurélien Bory | Compagnie 111 | Caribbean Film Series: See You Yesterday | Jun 4 Jun 20—22 | OH The Last Black Man in San Francisco | Jun 5 BAM PRESENTS BAMcinemafest | Jun 12—23 Everybooty | Jun 29 from 9pm—2am | Throughout R&B FESTIVAL AT METROTECH Fisher Building Thursdays between Jun 6 and Aug 15 | 12noon—2pm VISUAL ART | MetroTech Commons, downtown Brooklyn Check BAM.org for lineup Styling Perspectives | Featuring work by Karina Aguilera Skvirsky and Juan Manuel Echavarría | May 31—Aug 8 | Natman Room, PJS

BC=BAMcafé | BRC=BAM Rose Cinemas | FH=Fisher Hillman Studio | FLL=Fisher Lower Lobby | FS=Fishman Space (BAM Fisher) MM=Mark Morris Dance Center | OH=BAM Howard Gilman Opera House | PJS = Peter Jay Sharp Building BAM Board

Brooklyn Academy of Music Members Philippe Krakowsky Ex Officio John Lipsky Jonathan S. Auerbach Edgar A. Lampert Hon. Bill de Blasio Laurie Mallet Chair of the Board Tony Bechara Lorraine Lynch Hon. Corey Johnson Cathy-Ann Martine-Dolecki Adam E. Max Fran Bermanzohn Adam E. Max Hon. Eric L. Adams David L. Ramsay, M.D., M.Ed. David Binder Scott McDonald Hon. Tom Finkelpearl Hon. Franklin R. Weissberg Vice Chairs of the Board Gordon Bowen James I. McLaren Emma Wolfe, Rep. for Hon. William I. Campbell William I. Campbell Ahrin Mishan Bill de Blasio BAM Endowment Trust Nora Ann Wallace Natalia Chefer David L. Picket Lori H. Luis, Rep. for Hon. Chair Linda Chinn Frances A. Resheske Eric Adams Gabriel Pizzi President Katy Clark Jonathan F.P. Rose Chris Coffey, Rep. for Hon. Katy Clark Dr. Rudolph F. Crew Anna Kuzmik Sampas Corey Johnson Treasurer Suzy Franczak Davis Timothy Sebunya Keith Stubblefield Artistic Director Cheryl Della Rosa Bartholomew A. Sheehan III Chairmen Emeriti David Binder Dinyar S. Devitre Brian Stafford Neil D. Chrisman Members Mark N. Diker Axel Stawski Seth S. Faison * Steven G. Felsher Secretary Yrthya Dinzey-Flores Doug Steiner Alan H. Fishman Alan H. Fishman Mark H. Jackson Andre Dua Joseph A. Stern Bruce C. Ratner Elizabeth Holtzman Thérèse M. Esperdy Alexa Davidson Suskin Marcel Przymusinski Treasurer Richard E. Feldman Pedro J. Torres Honorary Trustees Alberto Sanchez James I. McLaren Steven G. Felsher John L. Usdan Beth Rudin DeWoody Timothy Sebunya Jeanne Donovan Fisher Brigitte Vosse Mallory Factor R. Edward Spilka Presidents Emeriti Barry M. Fox Nora Ann Wallace Robert L. Forbes Nora Ann Wallace Karen Brooks Hopkins Roberta Garza Adam Wolfensohn Charles J. Hamm Adam E. Max, Ex Officio Harvey Lichtenstein * MaryAnne Gilmartin Claire Wood Barbara B. Haws James I. McLaren, Ex Officio Anne Hubbard William Josephson *in memoriam Executive Producer Emeritus Mary Kantor Joseph V. Melillo

BAM Staff

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a fatal diagnosis. Starring Crazy Rich Asians brother in the Dominican Republic to clean out ensemble member Awkwafina in her first leading their late father’s home. While thematically and role, Wang’s deeply personal, life-affirming aesthetically distinct, each of these gala films is story was one of the great critical successes at united by their ability to find depth, power, and this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The film’s meaning in their intimate, unique storytelling. unique premise of a family striving to provide its matriarch with a final celebration of family and This sort of idiosyncratic artistry is a thread homecoming was inspired by Wang’s own family, that runs through all of BAM’s current cinema and the way they withheld her grandmother’s programming. In this year alone, audiences have diagnosis and confronted her final days. While seen Marlon Riggs’ poetic explorations of black, universal in its depiction of the dynamics of gay identity, Claire Denis’ sensual renderings familial relationships, The Farewell is a deeply of modern France and the post-colonial world, personal, singular story, one that only Wang Věra Chytilová’s anarchic feminist rebuttals could depict. to sexism and government bureaucracy, Nina Menkes’ minimalist portraits of womanhood Other gala screenings include Centerpiece and existential ennui, and many more examples film Give Me Liberty, Kirill Mikhanovsky’s of deeply personal filmmaking. This year’s Czechosolvak New Wave-inflected “day in BAMcinemaFest continues that tradition, with the life” of a young Russian-American driver works that display singularity so bold that they and a community of marginalized characters; become universal. Spotlight film South Mountain, Hilary Brougher’s portrait of a woman’s journey through grief and Shelley Farmer is BAM’s publicity manager, film. self-rediscovery; and Closing Night’s De Lo Mio, Diana Peralta’s story of ride or die New © 2019, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Inc. All rights reserved. York sisters who reunite with their estranged Strengthening Communities

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BAM Endowment A great institution is built upon on a secure future. At BAM, a robust endowment is the foundation for our adventurous programming and archival, community, and educational initiatives. BAM sincerely thanks those listed below for their generous support of the BAM Endowment. $5,000,000 and above Charles J. & Irene F. Hamm Ide & David Dangoor Richard B. Fisher & Jeanne Stephanie & Tim Ingrassia Thérèse M. Esperdy & Robert G. Donovan Fisher Maribelle & Stephen Leavitt Neborak The Howard Gilman Foundation Mary & Jim Ottaway Jr. in honor of Madison S. Finlay The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation Ruth Blackburne Ottaway Forest City Ratner Companies Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Rockefeller Brothers Fund Francena T. Harrison Performance Endowment Fund for Community, Jonathan F.P. & Diana V.C. Rose Fund Educational, & Public Affairs Martha A. & Robert S. Rubin Rita K. Hillman Programs Nora Ann Wallace & Jack Nusbaum HSBC Bank USA, N.A. Goldman Sachs Gives at the $1,000,000 to $4,999,999 $250,000 to $499,999 recommendation of Anne Hubbard Altria Group, Inc./Next Wave The Bohen Foundation & Harvey Schwartz Forward Fund The Charles & Valerie Diker Dance Richard Hulbert BAM Fund to Support Emerging Endowment Fund Independence Community Bank and Local Musicians The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Miriam Katowitz & Arthur Radin Brooklyn Community Foundation Michael Bancroft Goth Endowed Mr. & Mrs. Edgar A. Lampert The Campbell Family Foundation Annual Performance Fund Annie Leibovitz & Studio The Irene Diamond Fund William Randolph Hearst Leo Burnett, USA Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Endowment for Education and James McLaren & Lawton Fitt Emily H. Fisher Humanities Programs Sarah G. Miller & Frank L. Coulson Judith R. & Alan H. Fishman The Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation The Morgan Stanley Community The Ford Foundation Fund to Carole & Irwin Lainoff and Educational Fund Support Collaborative Creativity Maxwell Family Fund in Community J.P. Morgan & Co. Incorporated Among U.S. Artists Funds, Inc. Nash Family Foundation Diane & Adam E. Max The Jessica E. Smith and Kevin R. The Jerome Robbins Foundation, Inc. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Brine Charitable Trust May & Samuel Rudin Family Fund For Opera & Music-Theater The Geraldine Stutz Trust, Inc. Foundation Bruce C. Ratner Anonymous Edward Spilka William Boss Sandberg Axel Stawski & Galia Meiri The Peter Jay Sharp Fund for Opera $100,000 to $249,999 Mr. & Mrs. Ame Vennema and Theater Michael Bailkin, Marvin Levine, Verizon Communications The SHS Foundation Jesse Masyr, David Stadtmauer The Isak and Rose Weinman The Starr Foundation Robert & Joan Catell Fund for Foundation in honor of Madame The Thompson Family Foundation Education Programs Lilliana Teruzzi Charina Endowment Fund The Winston Foundation $500,000 to $999,999 Neil D. & Kathleen M. Chrisman Anonymous The Devitre Fund Mr. & Mrs. Henry Christensen III As of November, 2018

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