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Festival of Dance 68-69
Sunday Matinee, November 17, 1968
Subscription Performa nce
The Brooklyn Academy of Music presents
The Erick Hawkins Dance Company with
Lucia Dlugoszewski, composer and chamber orchestra under t he direction of
Gerard Schwarz
Nancy Meehan 1 Erick Hawkins 1 Dena Madole
Beverly Brown 1 Kay Gilbert 1 Carol Ann Turoff
Kelly Holt I Robert Yohn 1 Edward Henkel
The Erick Hawkins Dance Company's participation in Festival of Dance 68-69 is made possible by grants f rom the Ford Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts.
The unauthorized use of photographic or recording equipment In this theatre is strictly prohibited.
(For program notes see pages 7, 11 and 14.) 4 I BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC I NOVEMBER 1968
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DANCE IN BROOKLYN
The month of November is an auspi and has established itself as one of cious one for the Academy of Music. the major patrons of the art. In the space of f ive weeks five modern-dance companies will give If November is modern-dance twenty-eight performances in the month at the Academy, then Decem Opera House: This is the beginning ber is decidedly classical-dance of New York's most ambitious month. From December 10 through modern-dance season in history, and Jan uary 5 the highly praised Ameri it is beginning in Brooklyn. Later in can Ballet Theatre will be dancing the season four more weeks of in the Opera House. This spectacu modern dance will be given at the lar troupe, which just completed a Billy Rose Theatre in Manhattan as gala season last summer at the part of Festival of Dance 68-69. The Metropolitan Opera House as part of Festival is produced jointly by the Lincoln Center's Festival '68, will Academy, Harvey Lichtenstein, di present thirty-two performances of rector and Theatre 1969, Edward the great ballets of Western civiliza Albee and Richard Barr, directors. tion. The first week will be devoted to the company's "Swan Lake," described by the New York Times as The twenty-eight Brooklyn per "without . . . exception the best formances wil l include four reviva ls, "Swan Lake" in the world." On four world premieres and four New Wednesday, December 18, the world York premieres. The compa nies of premiere of a new ballet cho Martha Graham, Anna Sokolow, reographed by Michael Smuin to Erick Hawkins, Pau l Taylor and Mozart's "Cassation no. 1 in G Alwin Nikolais will participate. major" will be danced by the com pany. Christmas week will provide a Festival of Da nce 68-69 is partially specia l treat for children and their underwritten by grants from the adu lt escorts-eight performances of Ford Foundation and the New York a new production of "Coppelia." An State Council on the Arts. In an other highlight of the Brooklyn nouncing its grant, W. McNeil Lowry, season will be a reviva l of "Miss Ford Foundation vice president for Julie" featuring Carla Fracci and the Humanities and the Arts, said, Erick Bruhn. Miss Fracci and Mr. "Al though the Foundation has not Bruhn as guest artists with the com been able to assume the continuing pany will also appear in the pas de support of individual modern-dance deux from "Flower Festival at Gen companies, it is glad to respond to zano" and in "Giselle," which they a rec urrent theme in all leading danced to critical acclaim at Linco ln dancer-choreographers - their hope Center in July. for a concentrated program on major stages." The New York State Council All told the American Ballet on the Arts has made frequent Theatre will give New York four grants to promote modern dance glorious weeks of dance-in Brooklyn. 6 I BROOKLYN ACAOEMY OF MUSIC I NOVEMBER 1968
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EARLY FLOATING
Choreography by Erick Hawkins Music by Lucia Dlugoszewski Designs by Ralph Dorazio
" Early Floating" is a dance of passage, of surprise, of loving playfulness; playing with time to make the watchers aware of it, and playing with movement to create tenderness and wonder. When Wi IIi am Saroyan says, "The surprise of art is not shock, but wonder," he describes the essence of " Early Floating."
The music is f or "timbre piano," of which Lucia Dlugoszewski is the inventor. This involves new bowi ng and muting techniques on the strings, using bows of wood, felt, metal, glass, wire and plastic. The score is structured for four different complex stationary sonorities or "curtains of timbre," each one involving a different consonant or "white interval."
The score is performed by the composer.
Dena Madole Ke lly Hol t Robert Yohn Erick Hawkins
INTERMISSION
TIGHTROPE (World Premiere) Commissioned by the Foundation for Modern Dance. For Sallie Wagner.
Choreography by Erick Hawkins Music by Lucia Dlugoszewski Designs by Tad Tagga rt
Dancers Ke lly Holt Dena Madole Robert Yohn Beverly Brown Kay Gilbert Carol Ann Turoff
Violin Dorothy Pixley Clarinet Theodore De Colo Percussion Gordon Gottlieb Conductor Gerard Schwarz
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NAKED LEOPARD
Choreography by Erick Hawkins Music by Zoltan Kodaly Designs by Ralph Dorazio
Inside everyone is an animal innocence that sometimes takes a lifetime to recognize and cherish. "Naked Leopard" is a dance celebrati ng this animal innocence.
Erick Hawkins Cellist: Jonathon Abramowitz
INTERMISSION
JOHN BROWN: a passion play (Revised Version)
Scenario and Choreography Erick Hawkins Poetry Robert Richman Music Charles Mills Music Revised & Orchestrated Lucia Dl ugoszewski Set lsamu Noguchi
This revised version was commissioned by the Foundation for Modern Dance for performances sponsored by the United States Government at the EXPO '67 World Festival.
One of the most controversial men in the history of the United States is John Brown who took it upon himself to act as the fulcrum of the conscience of the American people. The dilemma of slavery was cracked open by John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia, and was resolved only by a war in which almost five hundred thousand men on each side died. It is the story of the man whose commitment compels him to act.
CHARACTERS
Captain John Brown Erick Hawkins Interlocutor Ke lly Holt
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Seth S. Faison, Chairman Harvey Lichtenstein, Director Edward S. Reid, Vice Chairma n Ll oyd Hezekiah, Assistant Di rector for Administration Mon roe D. Stein, Vice Chairman John Latham, Hon. Alexander Aldrich Assistant Director for Public Affairs Bernard S. Barr Lewis L. Lloyd, Assistant Di rector for Dance Production Mrs. H. Haughton Bell Jan Henry Ja mes, Associate, Public Affairs Donald F. Benjamin Thomas Kerrigan, Dr. Edward G. Bernard Associate, Public Affairs Dr. William M. Birenbaum Betty Rosendorn, Administrator, School Time Program John R. H. Blum Sarah Walder, Thomas A. Donnelly Administrator, Membership Program Gordon Braithwaite, William B. Hewson Dance Subscription Manager Winston E. Himsworth Adele Allen, Administrative Secretary Rev. W. G. Henson Jacobs Sylvia Rodin, Max L. Koeppel Administrative Assistant Mildred Levinson, Msgr. Raymond S. Leonard Assistant, Public Affairs Mrs. George Liberman Frances Seidenberg, Assistant, Public Affairs Harvey Lichtenstein Merle Johnson, Mrs. Constance J. McQueen Financial Secretary Evelyn August, Arthur William Rashap Staff Assistant James Q. Riordan Gail Kupermann, Assistant, School Time Program Donald G. C. Sinclair Anne Kelly, William Tobey Assistant, Membership Program
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LORDS OF PERSIA Commissioned by the American Dance Festival and first performed there, July 31, 1965.
Choreography by Erick Hawkins Music by Lucia Dlugoszewski Costumes by Ralph Lee Set and Polo Sticks Designed and Carved by Ralph Dorazio The choreography, score and costumes are new fo r this performance.
Polo was first played in Persia, and this is a dance about polo. The game is played as a vigorous and elegant ceremony, in three periods. The eleventh century, Persian poet, Firdawsi , wrote about the sport: " His majesty, who is an excellent judge of mankind, uses the game as a latent means of discovering their merits. It tests the value of a man, and strengthens the bonds of friendship." The music for "Lords of Persia" is a dynamic-dichotomy structure written for five soloists: Violin Dorothy Dixley Clarinet Theodore De Colo Trumpet Ronald Anderson Trombone Arnold Fromme Percussion Gordon Gottlieb
The Dancers Kelly Holt Robert Yohn Edward Henkel Erick Hawkins
The choreography of "Tightrope," "Cantilever," "Early Floating," "Geography of Noon" and " Lords of Persia" was composed first, in si lence. The musical scores by Lucia Dlugoszewski we re then composed in minute collaboration with the dance, eac h one being a completely independent musical work which has been performed in concerts of music. Th e dance and music are two theatres which perform cont inuous ly side by side and are aware of each other instant by instant.
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