A Tribute to

theatre. Thank you for your cooperation. DELLAof this production is strictly prohibited by law. Food and drink are not permitted in the recording audio or Video, pager, photographic devices. phone, electronic other and performance begins, please note the exit closest to your seat. Kindly silence your cell intermission. Please be advised 15-minute that one this production including contains minutes 45 and partial 1hour is nudity. Before performance this the of length The DAVIDSON KEGAN MARLING,KERRY MEHLING,JANESCHNORRENBERG and Sideshow Physical Theatre: Theatre: Physical Sideshow and by Granada Artist-in-Residence THU-SAT MAY 31-JUNE28PM MAIN THEATRE, WRIGHTHALL ELLEN BROMBERG SUN JUNE32PM ERIC KUPERS,

UC Davis Department of Theatre & Dance About Della Davidson A central figure in West Coast dance since the mid presents 1980’s, Della Davidson was a professor in the UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance and recently named the 2012 recipient of the Dancers A Tribute to Della Davidson Choice Award for her continuing impact on dance in the Bay Area. Born in Texas in 1951 and raised in Michigan, Della moved to New York City to start her career in dance in 1972. She attended and the snow fell softly on all the Michigan State and the University of Utah where she apprenticed as a choreographer and earned an living and the dead... M.A. in 1983 at the University of Arizona. Della by Ellen Bromberg has been artistic director of the San Francisco- Granada Artist-in-Residence based Della Davidson Dance Company since 1986, and of Sideshow Physical Theatre at UC Intermission (15 minutes) Davis since 2001. Over her successful career, she created more than 40 works and received many awards including the Isadora Duncan Award Icarus for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography. by Kegan Marling Della’s innovative work on women’s desire, death, disease and the fragility of existence was lyrical, collaborative and multidisciplinary, using dance, theater and film. One of her greatest gifts was to recognize potential in others and bring out Who Here Thinks They’re a Fish their strengths, whether they were her students, dancers, collaborators, colleagues or by Kerry Mehling friends. Della’s sense of delight and play, along with a profound connection to the elemental forces of life and death, shaped her art and her life. She deeply loved her family and friends, her cats and the beauty of the world, especially the Southwest. Sad.Happy All who knew Della loved her for her warm, gentle presence. She will be profoundly by Jane Schnorrenberg and Kegan Marling missed by family, friends, students and the dance community. From the Department of Theatre & Dance Song for Della Our beloved Della Davidson arrived here at the Department of Theatre and Dance by Eric Kupers in 2001 where she wore many hats beyond professor. She helped to articulate what an interdisciplinary MFA in theatre and dance might become. She was the artistic director of our resident Sideshow Physical Theatre, which she also established. Undimmed Della worked interactively with dancers and other collaborators to develop her by Della Davidson and Jane Schnorrenberg choreographies which often took years to complete. A survivor of Hodgkin’s disease, Della’s works were darkly-toned yet inspirational, with beautiful movement that faced tragedy with courage. Repudiating stereotypical OPENING NIGHT PROCESSION female roles, her choreography often evoked the energy of forceful women, their On Thursday, May 31, join us before and after the performance to honor Della strength, physicality and sensuality. She was firmly committed to feminism as a Davidson’s work, mentorship and spirit in front of the theater through a celebration challenge to oppression and small-mindedness as evidenced by her heavily ironic pieces including The 10 P.M. Dream and Fierce/Pink/House. led by Eric Kupers and Richard Marriott and performed by the CSU East Bay Inclusive Interdisciplinary Ensemble, Dandelion Dancetheater and guests. As Professor Lynette Hunter has so well articulated, “Della Davidson leaves an extraordinary presence of light, inspiration and creative integrity. Without her, the THE DELLA DAVIDSON MEMORIAL FUND programs in Theatre and Dance and in Performance Studies would simply not carry The friends and family of Della Davidson have established the Della Davidson the imaginative energy that they do, and with her memory they will continue to do Memorial Fund to provide student support and artist residencies at UC Davis for so. She touched us, helped us make dreams and ideas into movement, and that legacy choreographers and physical theatre artists. You can learn more about the fund and will stay with us forever, gifting the future.” how to support it on the second to last page of this program. Della will be greatly missed by all of us. -Peter Lichtenfels, Chair From the Creator/Director and at a variety of national and international dance film festivals including Lincoln Many years ago, I walked into a dance studio at the University of Utah for a summer Center’s Dance on Camera Festival, Cinedans Amsterdam, VideoDanza, Dance workshop and noticed a tall, strong, yet gentle dancer who I soon learned was named Camera West, Buenos Aires and Los Angeles, to name a few. Recent work focuses Della. Instantly we connected and that connection lasted a lifetime. Soon after that on the integration of media in performance and she has designed video for stage summer meeting, Della was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and underwent and installations in her own work and in collaboration with other choreographers. A intense radiation therapy which successfully eradicated the cancer. But who would professor at the University of Utah and recipient of a 2012 Distinguished Innovation have guessed that the treatment that had saved her life then, would take it away and Impact Award, Ellen is the founding director of the International Dance for the almost 40 years later. Camera Festival which began in 1999. She was the founding director of the Center Having known and worked with Della Davidson in a variety of capacities throughout for Interdisciplinary Arts and Technology and has also designed the first Graduate her career it was apparent that her close brush with death at an early age informed Certificate in Screendance in collaboration with the Department of Film and Media her art, her values, her relationships and her perspectives on life, beauty, pleasure Arts. and love. Her works investigated the joys and sorrows of the human condition, and she did so with passion, beauty and often with great humor. Her work often straddled From the Assistant Director worlds, the here and now, and the dreamscape, the archetypal and mythological. Along with countless others, I was fortunate to have Della in my life as a mentor and When I began working with her as a video/media designer for a number of pieces, friend, and to have played and dreamed with her in the dance studio. Shortly before our collaboration deepened our relationship. I was able to feel the generosity of her she passed away, Della brought together some of her long-time collaborators—Jane creative spirit and understand with more clarity, the strength and commitment of her Schnorrenberg, Kerry Mehling, Eric Kupers and myself—to talk about a new project mentorship to her students and dancers. she was working on with Ellen. We were excited to be gathering for the start of a new project, ready to jump back into the studio with Della once again. When Della and I first began conversations about the next work we were going to make together, we both sensed that it would be our last, and that it would be different After Della’s passing, Ellen approached the four of us about transforming the from our previous collaborations. We both wanted to create a space outside of time, evening into a celebration of Della. We had a deep impulse to create something yet in time….a slower, less structured crafting of ideas, images and space. I think beautiful out of this tremendous loss, and so for the second half of the evening we Della had been grappling with the irony of beauty, that it isn’t fully experienced have each created a work inspired by, and in celebration of, Della. without the knowledge of death and loss. As this piece has come into form, I The evening will close with Undimmed, a work originally choreographed by Della recognize that beauty, true beauty, holds pain and the unknown within it. I think and Jane for their friend and collaborator Tracy Rhodes. The piece celebrates this is something our culture struggles with. Seeking concrete answers in black and the brightness of the human spirit and its continuation beyond death. Originally white seems only to lead to more suffering. The experience of beauty is in holding performed as a solo by Jane, for this performance she will be joined by dancers from opposites within a larger whole. It is my hope that the individual vignettes within this the San Francisco Bay Area and Davis/Sacramento. work together convey a sense of wholeness. Della built a beautiful and rich community around her. Through Sideshow Physical In our last conversation, Della asked me what I thought of this for the title, and the Theatre, we collaborated with scientists, designers, writers, filmmakers, scholars, snow fell softly on all the living and the dead… I loved it. It evokes such silence, and on one occasion a bear carrying a microwave. She inspired fierce devotion from subtle motion and yet stillness. Her loss is deeply felt, but her presence has also everyone who worked with her, because she was always fiercely devoted to us and been felt in the process of the piece’s creation. Kegan Marling, former dancer with she brought out our best and brightest qualities. Della Davidson’s Sideshow Physical Theatre, has been a tremendous support for the creation of this piece and for the entire evening. While I have held the larger vision As Jane said, “This speaks fully to her soft-heartedness, her deep kindness of heart, of the work, Kegan has brought the specificity of Della’s processes into the creative and her way of seeing deeply into her performers. Della saw the potential in us—the space and has been a tremendous partner in all of it. And of course the performers things we couldn’t see in ourselves. She honed our skills and extracted out the beauty have been diligent, fully engaged, and generous with their ideas and energy. Thank and fire in each of us. It reminds me of a line from her piece, The 10 P.M. Dream: you to Kegan, to the dancers, to the entire production staff and crew, and to the ‘As if a paper clip could be a piece of sculpture...and it could.’” Department of Theatre and Dance for the support in creating this celebration of the Della taught us to find courage in our uniqueness—to embrace the exceptionality of life and work of my dear friend and collaborator, Della Davidson. our bodies and our creativity. She encouraged us to find pleasure in our bodies and in --Ellen Bromberg the artistic path itself, even amidst great pain and darkness. She gave us permission Granada Artist-in-Residence to let beauty exist without critique or justification. She showed us how dance helps us understand our lives, our responsibilities, our fears and our joys. How it captures About the Creator/Director the unspeakable and the indefinable, and for just a brief moment dance lets us hold Ellen Bromberg is a filmmaker, media designer, choreographer, curator and educator. the unknown in our hands. A former dancer and choreographer with Utah’s Repertory Dance Theater, she has received numerous awards for her work including a Guggenheim Fellowship, three Every time we dance, we can be reminded of Della. She lives in our quirky gestures, Bay Area Isadora Duncan Dance Awards, a Bonnie Bird American Choreographer our wide-sweeping arms, and in the quiet stillness when we suddenly find a place to Award, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Arizona Commission land. Through dance, our bodies hold the memory of Della. Thank you for all that on the Arts and the George Soros Foundation, among others. She has also been you have given us, Della. honored with a Pew National Dance/Media Fellowship, a UC Berkeley Townsend --Kegan Marling Humanities Fellowship and a UC Davis Granada Artist-in-Residence Award. Ellen’s on behalf of Sideshow Physical Theatre screen works have been presented on public television stations, on online channels UC Davis Department of Theatre & Dance

presents INTERMISSION and the snow fell softly on all the living and the dead… UC Davis Department of Theatre & Dance

with presents Nicole Casado Iu-Hui Chua Icarus Christine Germain with Lauren Godla Zach Heinzer Sarah Kliban David Orzechowicz Kegan Marling Afi Staley Nol Simonse

CREATED AND DIRECTED BY DIRECTED BY Kegan Marling Ellen Bromberg Granada Artist-in-Residence Choreographed by Kegan Marling and Nol Simonse Music by Richard Marriott Text by Kegan Marling based on Concept devised by Della Davidson and Ellen Bromberg Anne Sexton’s Transformations Choreography and Media Design by Ellen Bromberg Costumes originally designed by Sandra Woodall for Della In Collaboration with Kegan Marling and the Dancers Davidson’s The Desire to Return to the Safety of Day. Composer/Sound Design: Ryan Ross Smith Lighting Design: Tony Shane Scenic Design: Travis Kerr Icarus was inspired by Della Davidson’s The 10 P.M. Dream. Thanks to Costume Design: Maggie Chan Jane, Eric, Kerry, Ellen, Monique Jenkinson, Wayne Hazzard, Tony Shane, Travis Kerr, Roxanne Femling, Brian Thorstenson, David Orzechowicz, Ami Student, my family, my collaborators Nol, Sarah and Richard, and my mentor and friend Della. UC Davis Department of Theatre & Dance UC Davis Department of Theatre & Dance

presents presents

Who Here Thinks They’re a Fish Sad.Happy

with with

Kerry Mehling Kegan Marling Jane Schnorrenberg CHOREOGRAPHY BY Kerry Mehling CHOREOGRAPHY BY

Music: Louis Prima—By A Waterfall; Jane Schnorrenberg and Kegan Marling Andreas Scholl—Herz, Mut, Leib, Sel (heart, courage, body, soul) Costumes: Kerry Mehling Costumes: Jane Schnorrenberg and Kegan Marling Music: Tina Turner

This is a solo I choreographed for Della to try to express my gratitude to her. I had hoped to show her the piece, unfortunately this was not to be. Della loved the water. When she once asked “Who here thinks they’re a fish?” I truly believed she felt she was. What I don’t think she understood was that Special thanks to Roxanne Femling. for many of us she was actually the water. UC Davis Department of Theatre & Dance UC Davis Department of Theatre & Dance

presents presents

Song for Della Undimmed Created in 2001 in memory of Tracy Rhodes A dance film by Eric Kupers in collaboration with with Sideshow Physical Theatre Alumni and Bandelion Jane Schnorrenberg with and Eric Kupers Ann DiFruscia Kegan Marling Tyler Eash Kerry Mehling Victoria Lal Jane Schnorrenberg Kegan Marling Kerry Mehling Robin Nasatir DIRECTED BY Christa Ogier Eric Kupers Nol Simonse Melissa Wynn

CHOREOGRAPHY BY Music Composed by Eric Kupers and Keith Penney Music Performed by Bandelion featuring: Eric Kupers, Keith Penney, Della Davidson and Jane Schnorrenberg Anne-Lise Reusswig, Benjamin Wright and special guest Paul Mehling Camera: Ezra Daly Music: W.A. Mozart Editing: Eric Kupers Additional footage by Ellen Bromberg and Sideshow Physical Special thanks to Margaret Jenkins Dance Lab and Theatre and archival footage of Della Davidson performing in her own Deborah Slater Dance Theater for donating rehearsal space. choreography Lydia, Amelia, Nadine from 1990.

PERFORMER BIOS Tyler is happy to dance for Della, his SARAH KLIBAN of San Francisco is a was Collapse six months before artistic mentor and friend. film, television and theatre actress. She delivering the first of her three children. NICOLE CASADO began dancing as a was in the first version ofThe 10 P.M. CHRISTINE GERMAIN was born in KEGAN MARLING is a choreographer, sophomore in high school. She was part Dream and has worked with Della on Quebec, Canada. She earned her BFA writer, designer and arts consultant. of Binary Youth Dance Company and many of her subsequent productions. in contemporary dance at Concordia His work is a reflection of ever-shifting Stella Nova Dance Company for three She was seen most recently in the University in Montreal. In 2006 she interests: contact improv, creative years. She is a dramatic art major with films “Hemingway and Gellhorn” and came to San Francisco State University writing, sound design, photography, an emphasis in dance at UC Davis. She “Contagion.” Her time collaborating as part of an international exchange pottery, bookbinding, ballroom, ballet, has participated in Main Stage Dance as with Della has been some of the most program and decided to make the Bay Afro-Caribbean dance, painting, tap, a dancer for the past two years and has challenging and rewarding in her career. Area her home. Christine has danced gymnastics, acting, woodworking and recently been involved in dance projects She is honored to be sharing the stage for Nita Little, Kim Epifano, Iu-Hui installation art. In addition, Kegan’s in nature with Iu-Hui Chua and Kathleen with Kegan and Nol in this tribute to Chua, Jesse Hewit, Alex Ketley, Amy work is heavily influenced by the artists Dycaico. Della. Lewis, Paco Gomes, and Cathleen he has worked with: Della Davidson, IU-HUI CHUA likes chocolate, McCarthy, among others. She has ERIC KUPERS has co-directed, Bill T. Jones, Joe Goode, Lea Anderson, puppies and dancing in trees. She has performed in England, India, Canada choreographed, and performed Scott Wells, Susan Foster, Nigel presented her work nationally and and the United States. Germain created with Dandelion Dancetheater since Charnock (DV8) and Anna Halprin. internationally and has danced with her dance company Christine Germain its inception, creating numerous He and Jane Schnorrenberg currently Anna Halprin’s Sea Ranch Collective, and Dancers in 2007 after receiving the works that have been presented co-direct their own company, entitled Dandelion Dancetheater, Plaza, Labayen CA$H grant award from Dancer’s Group nationally and internationally. He is spoon. In addition, he has created Dance Theater, Theaterworks and and Theatre Bay Area. She is currently deeply influenced by his work as a work for the Move(men)t Festival and Headmistress. Her newest interest studying the Feldenkrais Method as performer in the companies of Della National Queer Arts Festival and has has led to developing and creating well as working towards her MFA in Davidson and Margaret Jenkins. Eric been a resident artist at CounterPULSE. environmental dances for video with choreography at UC Davis. is Assistant Professor of Dance at Kegan studied choreography and collaborator Terre Parker. She is artistic Cal State University East Bay and is sociology at UC Davis, where he LAUREN GODLA has been practicing director and founder of the Raw Egg heading up the development of the received the Jere Curry Award for dance and acrobatics since she was three Collective and co-artistic director with Inclusive Interdisciplinary Program in Excellence in Dance. He loves big dogs, years old. In high school she got a taste Open Experiments Ensemble as well the Theatre and Dance Department. frozen waffles, riding on trains in foreign of modern dance and choreography as co-founder and co-artistic director He has been an artist-in-residence at countries, board games, road trips with and went on to pursue her exercise of the physical theater group Chaotic the Baryshnikov Arts Center, ODC loud music you can sing to, fresh cedar biology major and dramatic art minor at Cabal with Susan-Jane Harrison. Chua Theater, CELLspace, CounterPULSE and pine, large open spaces, organizing UC Davis. This year she was involved and Harrison have been awarded a grant and the Jon Sims Center for the Arts reeses pieces, cartoons, folding laundry, in Main Stage Dance as a dancer in from the UC Davis Consortium for and has created commissioned works river hikes, sleeping in front of the the graduate student pieces and she Women and Research for an upcoming for Big Moves, Cal State University heater, entertaining kids and being with choreographed her own work for the original work to be presented in fall East Bay, California Choreographers friends and family. show. Lauren has also been involved in 2012. Festival, Dancing in the Streets/NYC, several dance projects in nature with Iu- KERRY MEHLING holds an MFA and choreography for projects by ANN DIFRUSCIA was born into a Hui Chua and Kahleen Dycaico. in choreography from UC Davis poor, immigrant Italian family that John Killacky, California Shakespeare and a BFA in performance from the ZACH HEINZER is a third-year loved to dance and sing, Ann learned Festival, and Highland Summer University of Utah. In 2005 she formed dramatic art major with a minor in the “Hucklebuck” at age three and Theatre. This summer he returns to Talismanic Physical Theatre. Kerry has communication at UC Davis. Born and hasn’t stopped dancing since. She Cork, Ireland, to direct/choreograph an performed and toured in the companies raised in Sacramento, he is extremely formed her own company, After-Image original work with Croi Glan Dance of Della Davidson’s Sideshow Physical excited to make his first college Dance Co, and taught, choreographed Company and many community groups Theatre, Deborah Slater Dance Theater, appearance on stage in and the snow fell and performed in works by herself and of people with and without disabilities. Della Davidson Dance Theatre, Ririe softly on all the living and the dead... He other luminaries. Always an admirer dandeliondancetheater.org. Woodbury Dance Company and several has been part of the production of House of Della Davidson’s deep, honest, and VICTORIA LAL graduated from UC other West Coast companies. Kerry of Bernarda Alba as properties master provocative works, Ann is honored and Davis in 2005 and within the next few has had the pleasure to teach, perform and assistant scenic designer in Studio grateful to be a part of this tribute to her. years was able to work on projects such and choreograph nationally as well 301’s production of RENT this school as Fierce/Pink/House and The Ten P.M. as internationally. She continues to TYLER EASH is an alumnus of the year. UC Davis departments of Landscape Dream. Her last work with Sideshow teach throughout Northern California, Architecture and Theatre and Dance. Physical Theater and Della Davidson while creating her own works and collaborating with Bay Area artists. She and he has received a GOLDIE award in will be moving to Los Angeles to pursue years. He has composed extensively thanks Della for asking her to come dance and Isadora Duncan Dance Award. costume design for film. for film, television, dance, theater, play one summer and for 16 subsequent Nol teaches youth and adults at Dance SHELLY COHEN is an undergraduate opera, installations and video games, amazing years of love, art and adventure. Mission and the Alonzo King’s Lines student at UC Davis studying film encompassing styles ranging from ROBIN NASATIR started her Dance Center. He produces his own work studies and communication with a the avant garde to the commercial performance career in the late 1970s with Todd Eckert in the Shared Spaces double-minor in music and dramatic art. mainstream. He is the founder and with Mobius Dance Company and series. Nol has performed in works by This is Shelly’s third production with artistic director of the Club Foot has since performed with a variety of Della Davidson, Eric Kupers and Kegan the UC Davis Department of Theatre Orchestra, the premiere ensemble for chorographers in San Francisco and New Marling. He is honored to share the stage and Dance. She has worked as a light live music performance with silent York. She currently performs with Ruth with so many of Della’s artistic family. board operator for Tommy and assistant films. He has worked with Della Botchan Dance Company and Dana AFI STALEY currently has her eyes on stage manager for Main Stage Dance in Davidson since 1991. Lawton Dances. the prize in nearing completion of her the 2012 Edge Performance Festival. TONY SHAYNE received his graduate CHRISTA OGIER is a UC Davis MFA in acting at UC Davis. She has been Shelly has worked as a production degree at UC Davis in lighting and alumna with degrees in evolutionary acting professionally in film and theatre assistant/assistant stage manager at scenic design, working with John anthropology and classical languages. in the Bay Area for the last decade. various professional theaters in the Jasperse, Phillip Kan Gotanda and She is honored to be a part of this Some of Afi’s favorite endeavors are as a Sacramento area including California Mindy Cooper. His postgraduate performance, honoring a beloved dance puppeteer for the Big Tadoo Puppet Crew, Musical Theater, Capital Stage and the designs include The Arena, a break- mentor. devising theatre for the non-profit Mystic Sacramento Opera. Shelly also enjoys dance competition feature on Google Family Circus, numerous seasons with volunteering at various community TV coming out this summer. He DAVID ORZECHOWICZ is a PhD the Mendocino Theatre Company and theaters and has participated in over 25 currently serves as the lighting director candidate in sociology. His credits San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, an productions, concerts and dance shows for the San Francisco Ballet School include numerous shows at UC Davis award-winning team member of the SF as a stage manager, backstage crew and Trainee Program. tonyshayne.com. and in the San Francisco Bay Area, as 48-Hour Film Festival, and her featured orchestra member. In her spare time RYAN ROSS SMITH is an Oakland- well as several parades at an American role in the independent film “Everyday Shelly enjoys playing the trumpet and theme park. He previously worked with based composer who has been Blackman” available on Entertainment French horn for various groups including creating acoustic and electronic music Ellen Bromberg and Della Davidson in One DVD. The film was also available the California Aggie Marching Band and The Weight of Memory and Collapse and sound for film, dance and the On-Deman, BET and Centric Casting TV the University Concert Band. She also concert stage for the last 10+ years. (Suddenly Falling Down). He is proud last spring. serves the UC Davis student community and grateful to be part of the cast, and to He is currently creating his scores MELISSA WYNN received her BFA working for ASUCD Unitrans as a using his own unique animated honor a remarkable woman who saw the transit driver and route supervisor. artist in the academic. from the Juilliard School and an MFA notations for diverse, and sometimes in choreography from UC Davis. In TRAVIS KERR is currently pursuing indeterminate, ensembles, writes pop JANE SCHNORRENBERG received New York she has performed with Sarah a Master of Fine Arts degree at UC music under the monikers Power a BA in dance from Mills College and Skaggs Dance, Reggie Wilson’s Fist & Davis in order to advance his creative Player and Twin Thousands, and an MFA in choreography from UC Heel Performance Group and the Bebe reasoning ability and enhance his most recently saw a whale at Goat Davis. She has performed and toured Miller Company, among others. She is research in applied collaborative Rock Beach. For more information, in the companies of HT Chen (NYC), grateful to have been a founding member theatrical design. It is his hope to attract please visit animatednotation.com and DanceArt Co. (UK/US), Lily Cai (SF), of Sideshow Physical Theatre with Della a select group of individuals who ryanrosssmith.com. Tracy Rhoades’ Exploding Roses, Nancy Davidson. share his desire to create and explore Karp + Dancers and Paufve/Dance. Jane innovative ideas with a unified team was a longtime dancer/collaborator/ CONCEPT ARTIST BIOS assembled with the intent of producing friend of Della Davidson, dancing with constantly evolving reflections of the her for over 20 marvelous years. She and MAGGIE CHAN is a second-year MFA candidate in costume design. Her world around us. He has been working Kegan Marling currently co-direct their as a freelance lighting and scenic own company, entitled spoon. recent works have included The House of Bernarda Alba, Rosencrantz and designer for eight years at many theaters NOL SIMONSE grew up in Washington, Guildenstern are Dead, The Moby Dick in Philadelphia, Allentown and New D.C. and moved to San Francisco Variations, Body of Knowledge and York. He also had a brief five-year, six- in 1997. He is a founding member Hinterland. She has also worked on The theater run as a technical director. of Kunst-Stoff, Garrett + Moulton Laramie Project and the Asian American RICHARD MARRIOTT has been active Productions and Sean Dorsey Dance, Theater Festival at UC San Diego. She as a composer, performer, producer and instrument builder for over thirty Production Staff Production Team Production Manager ERIC STEGGALL Stage Manager Dressers Technical Director DANIEL NEELAND SHELLY COHEN kent balbuena rebecca dwyer Facilities Manager/Audio Supervisor NED JACOBSON Choreography Advisor alexis perryman Publicity Director JANICE BISGAARD ELLEN BROMBERG Costume Shop Director ROXANNE FEMLING colette ryder Scenic Design Advisor Master Electrician MICHAEL HILL Stage Crew John Iacovelli Cutter/Draper/Tailor ABEL MERCADO brian dean Scene Technician/Properties BYRON RUDROW Costume Design Advisor akshaya ganesh Scene Technician/Charge Artist JOHN MURPHY Maggie Morgan arya jarrahi Lighting Technician tristan wetter Lighting Design Advisor joshua d. solis Video Technician Nicole casado Thomas J. Munn Audio Technician wait kit tam Scenic Production Crew Company Managers Avery Lincoln Sound Design Advisor stephanie franco Jennifer Varat NED JACOBSON spencer Iascone aida mujagic Head House Manager Erica Kalingking Assistant Costume Designers SAMANTHA MCLEAN HAAS House Managers OLUFUNMILAYO Alabi YASMIN GARCIA RANDI NUNNS Jaki Joanino JENNIFER VARAT Avery Lincoln SEPIDEH SAEB House Manager/Lobby Display Jennifer Varat Costume Production Crew JENNIFER VARAT sayyida ali eric wood Costume Shop Teaching Assistant DEE Loree SILVEIRA santana maria bachaalany Lighting Production Crew Scene Shop Teaching Assistant andrea braunstein KOURTNEY LAMPEDECCHIO louis edelman mary clapp corey heimer Stitchers Nicole DeVera shelly cohen avery lincoln Lisa Gong nicole ellis wait kit tam Yuko Kanai stephanie frescas tristan wetter Kim Nguyen joselyn lua amanda mitchell Fly Crew Stock Assistant Anna Chalmers toni postell Corey Heimer sumana seshadri Erica Kalingking Webmaster JASON PANG annie welch Graphic Designers AMANDA CHEUNG david werner RUDY GARIBAY KASSIE HOELPER Publicity Assistant ROBIN MIGDOL Photographer Brian Nguyen Arts Administrative Group The Della Davidson Memorial Fund

Chief Administrative Officer KAREN NOFZIGER The friends and family of Della Davidson have Business Office FELICIA BRADSHAW established the Della Davidson Memorial Fund to EMMA KATLEBA provide student support and artist residencies at VIVIAN REYES-JOHNSON UC Davis for choreographers and physical theatre Technical Support WALTER SYSKO artists. HUY TRAN Academic Personnel Office MARTHA CLARK-GARRISON If you are interested in supporting the fund, you KIM PEARSON can make a tax deductible contribution payable to Graduate Program Coordination VICTORIA DYE UC Davis Foundation. In the memo line, please MARIAN BILHEIMER reference the Della Davidson Memorial Fund and Undergraduate Program Coordination ARIEL COLLATZ send to:

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