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BRIDGMAN | PACKER DANCE Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts G. Piper Theater ScottsdaleArts.org | 480-499-TKTS 1 Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts Presents

BRIDGMAN | PACKER DANCE

World Premiere of GHOST FACTORY

Friday and Saturday, June 25–26, 2021 8:00 p.m., Installation Viewing 8:45 p.m., Show

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts Virginia G. Piper Theater

Presenting Sponsors Karen and John Voris Betty Hum and Alan Yudell

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GHOST FACTORY (WORLD PREMIERE) Choreography and Performance: Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer

Video: Peter Bobrow Lighting Design: Frank DenDanto III Music and Sound Score: Ansel Bobrow Costumes: Anna-Alisa Belous Set: Peter Bobrow, Ken Rothchild, Anna-Alisa Belous Live Camera Technology Design: Stivo Arnoczy Production Manager: Tim Cryan Technology Engineer: Scott Fetterman Johnson City Community Liaison: Corinna Johnson Additional Technology Support: Rob Henderson, John Erickson, Niko Stycos

The creation of Ghost Factory was made possible by a grant from the National The video projections in Ghost Factory are sourced from both live camera and Endowment for the Arts, a National Dance Project Finalist Grant Award, and pre-recorded footage recorded on site in Johnson City in the former factories commissioning support from the American Dance Asylum. Bridgman|Packer and buildings of the Endicott Johnson Shoe and the Lestershire Dance is a 2020 NDP Finalist Grant Award recipient. Support was made Spool & Mfg. Co. possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to The sound score includes additional music by H. Carmichael and the voices address sustainability needs during the COVID-19 pandemic and in support of of current and former residents of Johnson City: Julie Dyno, Carol Cass, Jerry Ghost Factory. Kane, Jack Lane, Bernadette Quaglia, Diane Marusich, Ken Summers, Bob Egan, and Emalie Tipton. Ghost Factory is inspired by the residents and vast deserted factories of Johnson City, an upstate town. Thriving in the first half of the 20th century, more than 20,000 people, mostly Eastern European immigrants, worked for the Endicott Johnson Shoe Company. At its peak, it produced 52 million pairs of shoes a year.

ScottsdaleArts.org | 480-499-TKTS 3 PLACES WITH HIDDEN STORIES: The 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship awarded to Bridgman and Packer was the AN AUDIO/VISUAL INSTALLATION ACCOMPANYING GHOST FACTORY first in the history of the Guggenheim Foundation to be given to two individuals Johnson City Stories: In the process of creating Ghost Factory, Art Bridgman for their collaborative work. They are also recipients of 12 National Endowment and Myrna Packer interviewed more than 30 current and former residents for the Arts Grants (2007–2021), a 2013 National Dance Project Touring of differing ages and backgrounds, asking them what buildings and places Award, a 2020 NDP Finalist Grant Award, NEFA Expeditions Grants (2008, in Johnson City might hold their stories. This installation reveals the stories 2012, 2015), two Choreography Fellowships from the New York Foundation of Julie Dyno and Carol Cass, Jerry Kane, Diane Marusich, Clyde Van Dyke, for the Arts, a New York State Council for the Arts Grant, and four National Mike Micha, Mike Morrissey, Bernadette Quaglia, Corinna Johnson, and Performance Network’s Creation Fund Awards. They have received five “First Emalie Tipton. Light” Commissions from Dance Theater Workshop (now New York Live Arts), a Danspace Project Commissioning Initiative, as well as commissions Greater Phoenix Stories: The same question was asked of people in the from Dance New Amsterdam, the 92nd Street Y New Works in Dance, and Phoenix area. This installation includes the stories of Pina, Virginia McInnis, Portland Ovations. Their international touring has been supported by USArtists Steve Weiss, Kip Sudduth, Kevin Jin, Dr. Lynda Mae, and Amy Voza Quist. International, American Dance Abroad, Performing Americas Project, National Performance Network, and La Red de Promotores CentroAmericana y El Caribe. Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer would like to extend heartfelt thanks to their collaborators, as well as the following people who were integral to the Bridgman|Packer Dance’s Season at The Sheen Center was making of these works and to these performances: Naima Kradjian (CEO, chosen as “Best of 2016” in both The Village Voice and Huffington Post, and Goodwill Theatre Inc., Johnson City), Melissa Mishke and Don Demauro (Spool their performance at Dallas City Performance Hall was chosen as “Best of Contemporary Art Space, Johnson City), Gerry Smith (former Broome County 2017” by TheatreJones.com. Their stand-alone dance film Look Out (2018), in Historian), Janet Ottman (Johnson City Historian), Lois Welk (American Dance collaboration with drone camera cinematographer Gavin Preuss, was selected Asylum), Sarah Marincel and Matthew Paulus (Paulus Development), Corinna for Screendance Miami and received Best Cinematography at the Johnson, Grace Yi-Li Tong, Mason Cummings, Cynthia Berkshire, Judith Rose, Experimental Dance & Music Film Festival and Best Drone Film at the Beyond Naaz Hosseini, Sandy Garcia, Nathalie Matychak, and the staff and crew at Earth Festival. Their film Embrace in the Time of COVID-19 (2020) received Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts. Best Choreography Award at the Global Shorts Film Festival and Best Dance Film at the Los Angeles Experimental Dance & Music Film Festival. For more ABOUT BRIDGMAN|PACKER DANCE: information, visit: BridgmanPacker.org, @BridgmanPacker on , and Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer, co-artistic directors of Bridgman|Packer @BridgmanPackerDance on Instagram and Twitter. Dance, have collaborated in choreography and performance since 1978. Decades later, they continue to be a vital and present voice in the dance Peter Bobrow (Video Design) is a filmmaker who has spent more than 20 ecosystem. In 2001, they expanded their choreographic vision, stretching years producing, shooting, and editing documentary and scripted projects of the boundaries of dance by merging it with video technology. They continue all types. He’s been collaborating with Bridgman|Packer Dance since 2003. to receive international critical praise for seamlessly melding these two art Some of Bobrow’s recent projects include producing profiles of individuals forms. In 2017, they received a New York Dance and Performance Award for on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic, following immigrants on the Outstanding Production (The Bessies) for their work Voyeur. verge of deportation by ICE, looking behind the scenes at a Chanel Couture show in Paris, searching the jungles of Colombia for buried narco treasure In New York City, they have been presented by , City Center’s with associates of Pablo Escobar, filming the NASA/JPL crew during the final Fall for Dance Festival, 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival, Dance Theater moments of the Cassini Saturn Mission, and chasing dogsledders under Workshop (now New York Live Arts), Dance New Amsterdam, Central Park of Denali in minus-40 degrees. Bobrow has worked on projects Summerstage, The Sheen Center, and the Baryshnikov Arts Center. featuring , , Liam Neeson, , Idina Menzel, Edward James Olmos, Mahershala Ali, Nick Nolte, Ice-T, Mira Sorvino, , Bridgman|Packer Dance has toured throughout the , performing and many others. His documentary and unscripted work include projects for at festivals and art centers, including Spoleto Festival USA, Jacob’s Pillow Netflix, Amazon, Discovery, History, NatGeo, and A&E. Dance Festival, the Florida Dance Festival, Bates Dance Festival, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Dance St. Louis, and ’s Annenberg Center. They have appeared abroad in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Central America at festivals, including Munich International Dance Festival, Festival Internacional de Artes Escenicas (Panama), Kintetsu Theater (Osaka, Japan), Festival Internacional Chihuahua (Mexico), Beirut Spring Festival (Lebanon), High Fest International Arts Festival (Armenia), and Tancforum (Budapest).

4 ScottsdaleArts.org | 480-499-TKTS Frank DenDanto III (Lighting Designer) received a master of fine arts in Tim Cryan (Production Manager), with a focus on dance and theatre, design from New York University’s Tisch School. His design credits include Full has enjoyed collaborations with a variety of artists, including Bryn Cohn, Circle’s Soular Power’d at the , HBO’s Real Sex 24 and BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance, Fiasco Theatre Co., Sara Katzoff / Bazaar Off- productions of Blind Alley at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Productions, Nature Theatre of Oklahoma, Delirious Dances/ Edisa Weeks, Only You at the Jewish American Theater, and Shadow Box at the Hudson Reggie Wilson Fist & Heel Performance Group. Cryan has a master of fine arts Guild Theater. He has designed for Spalding Gray, Eric Bogosian, Karen Finley, from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts. TimCRyan.net Tim Miller, Deb Margolin, Ann Magnuson, John Kelly, Holly Hughes, Sarah Michelson, Lava Love, Stacy Dawson, David Neumann, and the White Oak Scott Fetterman (Technology Engineer) is a New York City-based multimedia Dance Project. Awards for his light installation/sculptures include First Runner designer, video producer, technician, and performer. A member of experimental Up in Light Forums 98 and a Jerome commission in 2002. His work and troupe Temporary Distortion from 2011–2017, he contributed video design designs have been displayed at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and the and live music to their six-hour, installation-based performance My Voice Has Museum of Art and Architecture and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, An Echo In It, which toured the United States and . During the COVID-19 both in New York City. He has worked with Bridgman|Packer Dance since 1997. pandemic, Fetterman remotely co-produced and edited a variety television program with the Oscar-nominated environmentalist filmmaker Josh Fox, Ansel Bobrow is a composer and classical guitarist currently studying music titled Staying Home: Your Revolutionary Guide to The Green New Deal, which and computer science at Yale University. He is a guitar student of Roberto aired for nine months on Network (and will likely return in Granados and Benjamin Verdery, having previously studied with Tali Roth at the near future). Juilliard Pre-College and Jonathan Trotta at the Rockland Conservatory of Music. As a member of the New York Youth Symphony, he has performed at Stivo Arnoczy (Live Camera Technology Design) is a video designer and Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, and the National Arts Club in a flute and programmer from Queens and New Berlin, New York. Aronczy graduated from guitar duet; participated in workshops with Caroline Shaw, Nico Muhly, Du Yun, the New York University Tisch School of the Arts in 2008. Recent work includes and other prominent composers; and had original compositions premiered at A Dozen Dreams (as programmer), untitled danceshowpartything (Virgin Symphony Space and the DiMenna Center for Classical Music. Bobrow was Voyages), I Am Sending You the Sacred Face (Theater in Quarantine), Blood also selected as a YoungArts winner in classical music, where—aside from Meal (TiQ), Modelland (as assoc.) B’way: The Rose Tattoo (as asst.), Be More enjoying a week of exhibits and masterclasses by peers and professionals—he Chill (as asst.), and The Band’s Visit (international tour as assoc.). Stivo.video took part in an interdisciplinary performance involving experimental animation, dance, and classical music. EXCLUSIVE USA TOUR REPRESENTATION: Anna-Alisa Belous, costume designer, holds a master of fine arts in textile and interior design from the Art and Design Academy St. Petersburg, Russia, PENTACLE and a master of fine arts in costume design from Brandeis University, Boston. Sandy Garcia Belous designs costumes for dance and theatre companies, such as Dusan [email protected] Tynek Dance Theatre, Philadanco (Pennsylvania), Rebecca Kelly Ballet, Carolyn Pentacle.org Dorfman Dance, Nai-Ni Chen Dance Co., Ailey School, Marymount Bridgman|Packer Dance appears under the auspices of the Foundation for Independent Artists, Inc., College Dance Department, Actor’s Shakespeare Project (), a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization administered by Pentacle/DanceWorks, Inc. Portland Stage Company (Maine), and Manhattan School of Music Opera Department. With Blessed Unrest Company and Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre she works as costume designer, set designer, and scenic painter. She worked in scenic shops as a prop maker and scenicartist, and she also has experience working with theatrical wig making and as a hair stylist and makeup artist. Belous has been an Artist in Residence for Dance Department at Williams College, Massachusetts, 2011–2017, and works for Martha Graham Dance Company as a dressmaker and on costume restorations. AABelous.com

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