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2015 Next Wave Festival DEC 2015 Shinique Smith, Abiding Light, 2015 Published by: Season Sponsor: #BAMNextWave #SashaWaltz Brooklyn Academy of Music Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board Katy Clark, President Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer Continu BAM Howard Gilman Opera House Dec 4 & 5 at 7:30pm Running time: one hour & 35 minutes, including intermission Sasha Waltz & Guests Directed and choreographed by Sasha Waltz Set design by Thomas Schenk, Pia Maier Schriever, and Sasha Waltz Costume design by Bernd Skodzig Light design by Martin Hauk Dramaturgy by Jochen Sandig Music by Edgard Varèse Additional music by Iannis Xenakis, Claude Vivier, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Season Sponsor: Leadership support for dance at BAM provided by Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Harkness Foundation for Dance. Major support for dance at BAM provided by The SHS Foundation. Support for the Signature Artist Series provided by The Howard Gilman Foundation. Continu CHOREOGRAPHY Liza Alpízar Aguilar Luc Dunberry Virgis Puodziunas Ayaka Azechi Edivaldo Ernesto Sasa Queliz Jirí Bartovanec Delphine Gaborit Zaratiana Randrianantenaina Davide Camplani Hwanhee Hwang Orlando Rodriguez Maria Marta Colusi Florencia Lamarca Mata Sakka Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Sergiu Matis Michal Mualem Esnaola Thomas Michaux Joel Suárez Gómez Idan Yoav Drums Robyn Schulkowsky Rehearsal direction Renate Graziadei Assistant director Steffen Döring Sound technician Lutz Nerger Stage technician Daniel Herrmann Props Brad Hwang Wardrobe Federico Polucci Hair and make-up Stefanie Kinzel Assistant technical direction Leonardo Bucalossi Lighting technician Olaf Danilsen Tour management Karsten Liske Technical direction Reinhard Wizisla Direction, Sasha Waltz & Guests Jochen Sandig Iannis Xenakis (1922—2001) Claude Vivier (1948—83) Concret PH, 1958 ** Zipangu für 13 Streicher, 1980 Rebonds B, 1989 (will be performed live by Robyn Schulkowsky) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756—91) Oboe Quartet, KV 370, 2. Adagio Edgard Varèse (1883—1965) * Arcana, 1927 * Hyperprism, 1923 * Ionisation, 1929—31 MUSIC * Music by arrangement with Hendon Music, Inc., a Boosey & Hawkes company, sole agent in the US, Canada and Mexico for Casa Ricordi/Universal Music Publishing Ricordi S.R.L., publisher and copyright owner. ** By arrangement with Hendon Music, Inc., a Boosey & Hawkes company, publisher and copyright owner. A production of Sasha Waltz & Guests in collaboration with Schauspielhaus Zürich/Zürcher Festspiele, spielzeit’europa|Berliner Festspiele and Sadler’s Wells London. Supported by Radial Stiftung. Made in Radialsystem®. Sasha Waltz & Guests is supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds and Land Berlin. Niannian Zhou and ensemble. Photo: Sebastian Bolesch Who’s Who SASHA WALTZ (direction, choreography) was the Federal Republic of Germany (2011). Since born in Karlsruhe, Germany. She studied dance June 2013, Sasha Waltz has been a member of and choreography in Amsterdam and New the Academy of Arts, Berlin. For its anniversary York. In 1993 she founded her company Sasha year of 2013, the company was named Waltz & Guests with Jochen Sandig in Berlin. European Cultural Ambassador by the European In 1996 she opened the critically-acclaimed Union. Most recently Sasha Waltz & Guests was Sophiensaele, a theater she co-founded with awarded the 2014 George Tabori Ehrenpreis by Sandig. From 2000—05, Waltz was named one Fonds Darstellende Künste. of the artistic directors of Berlin’s Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz where she created pieces BERND SKODZIG (costumes) was born in such as the Körper trilogy (2000—02) as well as Datteln, Germany, and studied stage and insideout, Impromptus (2005 Next Wave), and costume design with Jürgen Rose at the Gezeiten (2010 Next Wave), among others. In Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste 2004 Sasha Waltz & Guests once again became in Stuttgart. After graduation, he assisted an independent company, with Sandig as artistic Rose and freelance curated for the Textiles director. During the following years various and Dress Department of the Victoria and works by Waltz—among them Dido & Aeneas Albert Museum (London). Skodzig has created (2005), Medea (2007), Roméo et Juliette costumes for theater, dance, and opera (2007), and Passion (2010)—constituted a productions in Berlin at the Deutsches Theater, new genre: the choreographic opera. She also Sophiensaele, Jüdisches Museum, Schaubühne implemented various Dialoge projects: Dialoge am Lehniner Platz, and in Düsseldorf at the 09—Neues Museum at the Neue Museum Schauspielhaus. In 2006 he created costumes Berlin and Dialoge 09—MAXXI at the new for Tankred Dorst’s new production of Der Ring MAXXI Museum in Rome, for example. In 2013 des Nibelungen at Bayreuther Festspiele and Waltz created choreography to Stravinsky’s Le designed costumes for the world premiere of Sacre du Printemps, a collaboration between Hans Werner Henze’s concert opera Phaedra Sasha Waltz & Guests and the Mariinsky Ballet, (2007, dir. Peter Mussbach, designed by St. Petersburg. Sacre premiered at the Mariinsky Olafur Eliasson) at Berliner Staatsoper Unter Theatre in St. Petersburg in May 2013 under den Linden. He created the wardrobe for Falk the musical direction of Valery Gergiev. The Richter’s production of Kabale und Liebe (2008, German premiere followed in October 2013 at Berliner Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz) and Berlin’s Staatsoper under the musical direction Oscar Wilde’s Salomé (2009, dir. Ulrich Rasche, of Daniel Barenboim and performed by the Staatsschauspiel, Stuttgart). Skodzig designed dancers of Sasha Waltz & Guests. With Peter costumes for Wilhelm Meister (Schauspielhaus, Weibel, Waltz curated the exhibition Sasha Frankfurt, 2010). He worked on Marie-Louise Waltz. Installationen. Objekte. Performances, Bischofberger’s production of Corneille’s which presented her work for the first time Illusion Comique (2011 premiere, Düsseldorfer in the context of visual arts. In April 2014 Schauspielhaus), and Roland Schimmelpfennig’s she continued her artistic collaboration with Hamlet (dir. Oliver Reese, Frankfurter Barenboim at the Berliner Staatsoper by staging Schauspielhaus). Skodzig has collaborated with Wagner’s Tannhäuser. In September 2014 Sasha Waltz & Guests since 1999. He designed Claudio Monteverdi’s Orfeo, choreographed by costumes for Dialoge 99/1, Dialoge 99/2, and for Sasha Waltz with the Freiburger Barockorchester Körper, noBody, and insideout (Schaubühne am directed by Pablo Heras-Casado, premiered in Lehniner Platz). He worked on her production Amsterdam. In 2015 her choreographed work, of Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette (2007, Opéra Roméo et Juliette, had its German premiere at National de Paris) with which he made his the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Waltz was awarded Teatro alla Scala (Milan) debut in 2012. In the Caroline-Neuber-Preis as well as the French 2009 he created the costumes for Waltz’s latest cultural recognition of Officier de l’Ordre des Arts Dialoge projects Dialoge 09—Neues Museum et des Lettres (2010) and the Order of Merit of (Berlin) and Dialoge 09—MAXXI (Rome), and Who’s Who in 2010 for Métamorphoses and Continu at artist’s scholarship from the Deutsche Akademie Schauspielhaus, Zürich and Festspieltage, Villa Massimo, Rome. In 2014 she created the Salzburg, among others. In 2014 he created stage design for Waltz’s Tannhäuser at Staatsoper costumes for Waltz’s production of Wagner’s im Schiller Theater Berlin. Schriever lives and Tannhäuser (musical dir. Daniel Barenboim) at works in Rome and Berlin. Staatsoper im Schiller Theater, Berlin. Skodzig lives and works as a freelance artist in Berlin and MARTIN HAUK (lighting design) was born in London Spitalfields and regularly speaks as guest Berlin. He studied theater and event technology. professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin. While employed by Art Lab Studios, Berlin, he produced events for Shell, Skoda, and IBM, and THOMAS SCHENK (set design) was born created lighting for Cora Frost, Gayle Tufts, Tim in Mainz where he studied architecture. He Fischer, and Alex B. He has worked with Sasha has collaborated with Sasha Waltz to develop Waltz since 1996, lighting Zweiland, Körper, S, staging for her works since 1995. Among noBody, insideout, Impromptus, Jagden und these collaborations: Travelogue III—All Ways Formen (Zustand 2008), Gezeiten, Continu, and Six Steps, Allee der Kosmonauten, Zweiland, Matsukaze (2011). For Waltz’s Métamorphoses Na Zemlje, Körper, noBody, insideout (2004 he was responsible for lighting and stage OPUS Prize winner, stage design), Dido & design. In 2012 he participated in the dance Aeneas, Gezeiten, Medea, and Continu. He has project MusicTANZ—Carmen, an education designed sets for anything else and Don’t we project of the Berliner Philharmoniker, creating by Luc Dunberry and d’avant by Diaz de Garaio the lighting as well. In 2013, he lit the project Esnaola, Cherkaoui, Dunberry, and Jalet. In Dialoge 2013—Kolkata in India. Hauk created 2007 with Pia Maier Schriever, he developed the lighting for the latest choreographic opera staging for Waltz’s Roméo et Juliette for the Paris by Waltz, Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, which Opera, and for Continu (2010 world premiere, premiered in September 2014 in Amsterdam. Zurich Festival) and gefaltet in 2012 (world premiere, Mozartwoche, Salzburg). He was JOCHEN SANDIG (dramaturgy) was born in significantly involved in the scenography for the Esslingen. In 1990, he started his psychology 2013 exhibition Sasha