Faye Driscoll Coming: Play Thank You For

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Approx 1hr15min, nointermission BAM Fisher (Fishman Space) NOV 16—19at7:30pm Fund Innovation. for Artistic from theJoseph V.support Melillo This production ismadepossiblewith GilmoreFoundation.Mertz provided bythe fordanceattheBAMFisherSupport Rockefeller BrothersFund. New York bythe supported Cityartists Programming intheBAMFisher by provided byTheSHSFoundation. for danceatBAM Major support The HarknessFoundation forDance. Doris Duke CharitableFoundation and provided bythe fordanceatBAM Leadership support BAM Fisher in2016. The HarknessDanceResidency atthe Faye Driscollistherecipientof Season Sponsor: Executive Producer Joseph V. Melillo, President Katy Clark, Vice ChairmanoftheBoard Adam E.Max, Vice ChairmanoftheBoard William I.Campbell, Chairman oftheBoard Alan H. Fishman, Brooklyn AcademyofMusic BAM Fisher Thank You For Lead commissioner for Thank You Faye Driscoll is the 2016 Harkness Coming: Play for Coming: Play is the Wexner Foundation Artist in Residence at Center for the Arts at The Ohio State BAM Fisher. Additional residency University through its Wexner Center support for Thank You for Coming: Play CHOREOGRAPHY AND TEXT SET DESIGN Artist Residency Award program. was provided by the Wexner Center, Faye Driscoll Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin Co-commissioning partners are Walker Art Center, the Museum of Arts in collaboration with the performers Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM); and Design, The Performing Garage GARMENT AND PROPS DESIGN Summer Stages Dance at the Presents visiting artist series, and a PERFORMERS Jamie Boyle Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston; Production Residency grant funded Sean Donovan Walker Art Center with support from by the New England Foundation for Faye Driscoll LIGHTING DESIGN the William and Nadine McGuire the Arts’ National Dance Project, with Alicia Ohs Amanda K. Ringger Commissioning Fund, The Andrew W. funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Paul Singh Mellon Foundation, and the National Foundation. Thank You for Coming: Laurel Snyder STAGE MANAGER Endowment for the Arts; Center Play was supported, in part, through Brandon Washington Giulia Carotenuto for the Arts at Wesleyan University a generous rehearsal space grant from Lindsay Head (understudy) in Middletown, CT; and the Lower chashama. ARTISTIC ADVISOR Cultural Council developed SOUND DESIGN Jesse Zaritt as part of LMCC’s Extended Life Dance Bobby McElver Development program made possible ADDITIONAL TEXT AND in part by The Andrew W. Mellon MUSICAL DIRECTION TEXT DRAMATURGY Foundation. Additional commissioning Bobby McElver and Sean Donovan Amanda K. Davidson support was provided by Mass Live Arts through a multi-year residency and ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS REHEARSAL ASSISTANT presentation commitment. Sean Donovan Marina Fong Bobby McElver Thank You for Coming: Play is made Faye Driscoll PRODUCTION ASSISTANT possible, in part, by the New England Kedian Keohan Foundation for the Arts National Dance VOCAL ARRANGEMENT Project, with lead funding from the Sean Donovan SET DESIGN ASSISTANT Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Aaron Minerbrook The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, LYRICS with additional support from the Faye Driscoll GARMENT AND PROPS ASSISTANT National Endowment for the Arts. Jonatan Amaya Additional project funding provided by ADDITIONAL LYRICS Creative Capital’s MAP Fund, which is Sean Donovan INTERN supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Ali Perkins Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Thank You for Coming: PRODUCED BY Play is a project of Creative Capital. Faye Driscoll with Aaron Rosenblum Makers: the MAD Biennial, the first title Donovan & Calderón. Their biennial at the Museum of Arts and original works include the site-specific PAUL SINGH Design. Driscoll has collaborated with bilingual piece Se Vende (2008) at the Performer theater and performance artists such FAE Festival in Panama; The Climate Who’s as Young Jean Lee, Cynthia Hopkins, Chronicles (2011) at The Incubator Paul Singh earned his BFA in dance Taylor Mac, Jennifer Miller, and the Arts Project, New York; and 18 1⁄2 from the University of Illinois. He National Theater of the Minutes (2013) at JACK, New York. has danced for Gerald Casel, Jane of America and recently choreographed Comfort, Risa Jaroslow, Douglas Dunn, Who for a new film by Josephine Decker. Christopher Williams, Will Rawls, Driscoll has been funded by The MAP ALICIA OHS and was part of Punchdrunk Theatre FAYE DRISCOLL Fund, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Performer Company’s American debut of Sleep Choreography and text Creative Capital award, the New York No More. Last year Singh was a dancer State Council on the Arts, a Foundation Alicia Ohs is a dancemaker and in Peter Sellars’ new The Indian Faye Driscoll is a Bessie award-winning for Contemporary Art grant, the Jerome community builder interested in Queen and most recently danced for performance maker whose works Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, what makes people laugh, cry, and Peter Pleyer (with collaborators Meg include Wow Mom, Wow (2007), 837 the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, continue. She has worked with youth Stuart, Sasha Waltz, Eva Karczag, Venice Boulevard (2008), There is so and from NEFA she has received a and taught yoga for over 10 years, and Jeremy Wade) in a large-scale much mad in me (2010), You’re Me National Dance Project, Production collectively organized a CSA farm, improvisation work in Berlin. He has (2012), and Thank You For Coming: Residencies for Dance Grant, and a and developed health and wellness presented his own work at Judson Attendance (2014). Thank You for French—US Exchange in Dance grant. strategies in activist communities. In Memorial Church, New York Live Coming: Play (2016) is the second She is a grateful recipient of a 2016 New York she has presented work Arts, Joe’s Pub, Dixon Place, and La work in the Thank You For Coming Doris Duke Artist Award. at Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Dixon MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, trilogy. Each work in the trilogy desires Place, Movement Research at Judson and in 2004 his solo piece Stutter to extend the sphere of influence of Memorial Church, CATCH, and Dance was presented at Kennedy Center. performance to create a communal SEAN DONOVAN New Amsterdam. She has worked Singh has taught contact improvisation space where the co-emergent social Performer with Movement Research as a curator around the world during CI training moment is questioned, heightened, and educator, and is a founding festivals in Israel, Spain, Ukraine, and palpable. Her work has been Sean Donovan is a New York–based member and facilitator of the Artists of Germany, France, Finland, and India. presented nationally at venues such actor, dancer, and writer. As a Color Council. From 2008—11 Ohs He currently teaches for Movement as the Wexner Center, the Walker Art performer he has worked with Faye co-produced and directed multiple Research, Sarah Lawrence College, Center, the Institute for Contemporary Driscoll, Miguel Gutierrez, Jane works in San Francisco, where her and The Juilliard School. While in Art/Boston, MCA/Chicago, Wesleyan Comfort and Company, The Builders work was described as “feisty, clever New York he continues dancing and University, Danspace Project, The Association, Witness Relocation, 600 and poignant” by the San Francisco choreographing for his company, Kitchen, and the American Dance Highwaymen, Jennie Marytai Liu, John Bay Guardian. She is currently a Singh & Dance. Festival, and internationally at the Jesurun, and others. He has performed collaborating and performing member Théâtre de Vanves’ Festival Artdanthé, at BAM, The Kitchen, Danspace in Faye Driscoll’s Thank You for Théâtre de Gennevilliers, Festival Project, PS 122, New York Live Arts, Coming series, and has performed d’Automne in Paris, Croatian National La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, with Sally Silvers, Andrea Geyer, niv Theatre in Zagreb, Melbourne Festival, the Chocolate Factory, HERE Arts Acosta, Sondra Loring, Laura Arrington, Belfast International Arts Festival, Center, the Joyce Theater, the Duke, RoseAnne Spradlin, and others. She is and Centro de Arte Experimental Baryshnikov Arts Center, Incubator Arts a graduate of Tisch School of the Arts’ (Universidad Nacional de San Martín) Project, the Ohio Theatre, and others. Experimental Theatre Wing. in Buenos Aires. Her work was He creates theater and mixed media exhibited in Younger Than Jesus, at works in collaboration with Sebastián New Museum, and included in NYC Calderón Bentin under the collaborative projects with Ryan McNamara, Dana the New York Foundation for the Arts LAUREL SNYDER Katz, and Robin Becker. In New York BOBBY MCELVER Fellowship and recipients of grants Performer he has performed at various venues Sound design from the MAP Fund and mediaThe including Lincoln Center, MoMA PS 1, foundation inc. Vaughan and Margolin Laurel Snyder is a dancer, educator, the Guggenheim Museum, New York Bobby McElver is a sound designer are members of the devised theater and musician based in Brooklyn. She Live Arts, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and composer for theater, dance, company TEAM with whom they received the majority of her physical French Institute Alliance Française, and film, and also designs interactive created five plays—RoosevElvis, training at New York University’s 92nd Street Y, Danspace at St. Mark’s audio-visual technology for bands and Waiting for You on the Corner of..., Tisch School of the Arts and various Church, Dixon Place, and Judson live events. McElver was a company Mission Drift, Architecting, and dance festivals throughout the US Memorial Church, among others. member of The Wooster Group from Particularly in the Heartland—that and Europe. As a performer Snyder He has performed internationally 2011—16 where he worked on have won numerous awards and toured has collaborated with such artists as with Driscoll and others in Vietnam, productions including The Room; Early throughout the world to venues such Faye Driscoll, Tere O’Connor, Tatyana Argentina, France, and Croatia. He Shaker Spirituals; Cry, Trojans! (Troilus as The Shed at the National Theater Tenenbaum, and Kendra Portier. Her has previously collaborated with Mark & Cressida); Early Plays; Vieux Carré; and Barbican Centre, London; Public choreography has been performed Dendy, Alicia Ohs, Burr Johnson, Jen and Hamlet. He has worked in theater Theater and PS 122, New York; Walker at the Tank, Triskelion Arts, Center McGinn, Neta Pulvermacher, Lauren and dance for Andrew Schneider’s Art Center, Minneapolis; Culturgest, for Performance Research, and Chez Bakst, Megan Kendzior, Daria Faïn, YOUARENOWHERE, Lisbon, Portugal; and the Hong Kong Bushwick in New York; the FRESH and Germaul Barnes. Players, Half Straddle, Young Jean Arts Festival. As a scenographer Festival, San Francisco; Deltebre Lee, Palissimo, Michou Szabo, and Vaughan has designed over 70 shows Dansa, Spain; and Ponderosa, Erin Markey, and on the film Every for theater, opera, and dance that have Germany. As an educator Snyder LINDSAY HEAD Secret Thing. McElver was nominated been seen throughout the US, Canada, facilitates movement experiences Understudy for a 2015 Bessie for Outstanding the UK, Portugal, Romania, China, that require no prior dance training Music Composition/Sound Design. Japan, and Oman. While he was the and emphasize movement potential, Lindsay Head received her BFA in bobbymcelver.com. resident designer of Lorin Maazel’s self-acceptance, and creativity. dance from the University of Florida Castleton Festival, Vaughan designed She has shared this teaching in 2014 where she also studied 13 productions including a full cycle practice at organizations including acting and art history. In New York NICK VAUGHAN AND of Benjamin Britten’s chamber . CLASSCLASSCLASS, New York; Mark she has performed for Raja Kelly, JAKE MARGOLIN He frequently collaborates with Morris Dance Center, Brooklyn; the Neta Pulvermacher, Megan Kendzior, Set design choreographer Yoshiko Chuma and American Dance Festival Studios, Francesca Harper, and the Metropolitan designed the last two installments of Durham, NC; the Dance Exchange, Museum of Art. Head has also trained Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin her ongoing Page Out of Order series. Washington DC; Colby College, and performed internationally with are Houston-based installation For dance company Palissimo, he Waterville, ME; Henrico Performing Ismael Ivo at Volkstheater, Vienna, artists whose solo shows include created sets and costumes for pieces Arts High School, Richmond, VA; and and SESC, São Paulo. She studied A MARRIAGE: 2 (WEST-ER) at the including Le Petit Mort and The Leviathan Studio, Vancouver, BC. and devised theater and mask work Invisible Dog Art Center, New York; A Painted Bird Trilogy: Amidst. at the London International School of MARRIAGE: 1 (SUBURBIA) at HERE Performing Arts with Thomas Prattki. Arts Center, New York, and other BRANDON WASHINGTON Head currently studies improvisational venues; ArtSlant Prize Presents: Nick JAMIE BOYLE Performer comedy at the Upright Citizens & Jake, Chicago; and Preparations for Garment and props design Brigade, and performs regularly a Marriage at Future Tenant Gallery, Brandon Washington is a native of with her independent improv team, Pittsburgh. Their collaborations with Jamie Boyle is a visual artist whose Chesapeake, VA, and received his BFA Hamford. For more information, please choreographers include creating the current work involves a needle, from the University of Florida. He has visit yeslikeyourhead.com. environments for Yoshiko Chuma’s thread, and other ordinary things. been collaborating with Driscoll since Shredded and Pavel Zustiak’s S(even). She received an MFA in art with an 2012 and is also currently working on They were twice official finalists for emphasis in sculpture from Ohio State and was project manager for Ann on a duet created in collaborative Hamilton Studio from 2007—11. Her partnership with choreographer/ GIULIA CAROTENUTO recent projects include Some Begins performer Jumatatu Poe. Zaritt’s solo Stage manager Thanks! (an exhibition of sculptures made in Binding was the recipient of three collaboration with Meg Shevenock at 2010 New York Innovative Theater Giulia Carotenuto is a New York–based Thank you Joe Melillo and the entire 707 Gallery at the Pittsburgh Cultural Awards: Outstanding Choreography, dance artist hailing originally from BAM team. Thank you Chuck Helm for Trust) and integrated archive design for Outstanding Solo Performance, Rome, Italy. In 2004 she moved to being an advocate since 837 Venice The Object Lesson by Geoff Sobelle. and Outstanding Performance Art the US to attend Chapman University Boulevard. Thank you Beth Graczyk She also worked as assistant to artist Production. He has recently taught at in southern California, graduating who has been a generous and rigorous Ann Hamilton for the theater is a University of the Arts, Bard College, magna cum laude with a BFA in dance ear and eye to my process—you are blank page, a collaboration with SITI American Dance Festival, Hollins performance. She moved to New York a true artistic companion. Thank Company at the Wexner Center. University, and Pomona College, as in 2008 and has worked with artists you Dages Keates for your thoughtful well as at festivals in Japan, Korea, including Mark Dendy, Douglas Dunn, feedback and witnessing. Thank you and Russia. He was a member of Catherine Miller, and Kate Fisher. Giulia Carotenuto, Toni Melaas, and AMANDA K. RINGGER Shen Wei Dance Arts (2001—06) and In 2011 she became a member of Nikki Zialcita who were pivotal players Lighting design Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak Dance Palissimo (recipient of a Wexner Center in the early stages of making this work, Company (2008). From 2009—13 he Artist Residency Award), where she and whose words and movements Amanda K. Ringger has lived in New performed in the work of Faye Driscoll performed in Strange Cargo, the third resonate to this day. Thank you York since 1997, designing locally, and Netta Yerushalmy. part of the The Painted Bird Trilogy. Michael Kiley for being a part of the nationally, and internationally with Later that same year she joined Monica early musical conception and Sandra artists such as Faye Driscoll, Doug Bill Barnes & Company and performed Garner and Nadia Tykulsker for your Elkins, Cynthia Oliver, Molly Poerstel, AMANDA K. DAVIDSON in venues including the Joyce Theater, administrative and producorial support Jennifer Archibald, Julian Barnett, Nora Text dramaturge Skirball Center, and Kennedy Center. in launching this project. Thank you Chipaumire, Alexandra Beller, Deborah She joined the Faye Driscoll Group in Ellen Poss for your generosity. Thank Lohse, Laura Peterson, Donnell Oakley, Amanda K. Davidson is the author of 2012 and performed in Thank You for you Ann Hamilton and Michael Mercil Kota Yamazaki, 10 Hairy Legs, Darrah the prose chapbooks Arcanagrams: Coming: Attendance. Most recently, for your support and generosity at Carr, and cakeface, among others. She A Reckoning (Little Red Leaves, Carotenuto also became a member of the Wexner premiere. Thank you received a BA from Goucher College 2014), The Space: Fragments for New York-based company Third Rail Alessandra Calabi, Tei Blow, and Jony in Baltimore and an MFA in lighting a Family (Belladonna, 2014), and Projects, where she can be seen in Perez/JP Carrier. Thank you Fluffy Duff design from the Tisch School of the Apprenticeship (New Herring Press, their critically acclaimed production Johnson for being my person who Arts at New York University. She is 2013), as well as The Conditions of Then She Fell. throughout the day… the recipient of a 2009 Bessie Award Our Togetherness, an online serial for her collaboration on Faye Driscoll’s comic on Weird Sister Magazine. A Thank you audience. 837 Venice Boulevard. 2014 New York Foundation for the Arts fellow in poetry, she has been a writer- in-residence at the Lower Manhattan JESSE ZARITT Cultural Council, MacDowell Colony, Artistic advisor Millay Colony for the Arts, I-Park Foundation, Inc., and Art Farm in Jesse Zaritt has performed his solo Nebraska. She teaches writing and work in the US, Russia, Korea, movement at Evergreen State College. Germany, Japan, Mexico, and Israel. He was a 2012—13 artist-in- residence in the Studio Series Program at New York Live Arts, working Photo: Maria Baranova BAM

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