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Th ursday, June , , pm Th ursday, June , , pm Friday, June , , pm Friday, June , , pm Saturday, June , , pm Saturday, June , , pm Sunday, June , , pm Sunday, June , , pm Zellerbach Playhouse Zellerbach Playhouse Baryshnikov Dance Foundation Baryshnikov Dance Foundation presents presents Hell’s Kitchen Dance Hell’s Kitchen Dance

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Over/Come Choreography Aszure Barton () Music Kermit Goel, Domenico Titomanglio, Salvatore D’Esposito, How Wonderful to Know Roger Miller, (In the Summertime) You Don’t Want My Love

© Jack David Myers  Myers David © Jack Original Lighting Daniel Ranger Choreography Costumes Wendy Winters Aszure Barton Benjamin Millepied Dancers Jonathan Alsberry Aszure Barton William Briscoe Dancers Tina Finkelman Ariel Freedman Lesley Kennedy Mikhail Baryshnikov Jonathan Alsberry Aszure Barton Na-Ye Kim Doug Letheren Todd McQuade Lauren Muraski Ian Robinson Kyle Robinson William Briscoe Tina Finkelman Ariel Freedman Ashley Wallace Lesley Kennedy Na-Ye Kim Doug Letheren Todd McQuade Lauren Muraski Ian Robinson Over/Come was created during a residency at Baryshnikov Arts Center in summer  Kyle Robinson Ashley Wallace and made possible by a gift from James Duff y in memory of Martha Duff y.

Lighting Design & Supervision Leo Janks INTERMISSION General Management Christina L. Sterner

Th is performance is made possible, in part, by the generous support of the members of the Cal Performances Producers Circle and Friends of Cal Performances. Cal Performances thanks our Centennial Season Sponsor, Wells Fargo.

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Years later Mikhail Baryshnikov (dancer), a native of Riga, Morning America, E! Entertainment, MTV, AOL, Latvia, began studying ballet at age nine; as a ASzURe & Artists and Baryshnikov Arts Center, Choreography Benjamin Millepied () teenager, he entered the school of the Kirov Ballet, among many others. Mr. Freeman lives in New Music Philip Glass, Saxophones graduating from student to principal dancer in York City. Meredith Monk, St. Petersburg . In , he left Russia to pursue a career with ballet and modern companies around the Benjamin Millepied (choreographer) was born Waltz & Urban March world, settling in New York City in  as a in Bordeaux, France, and is the principal dancer Erik Satie, Gnossiennes Nos.  and  principal dancer with American Ballet Th eatre and, at New York City Ballet. He trained at the Videography Olivier Simola from  to , with New York City Ballet. In Conservatoire National in Lyon, and then at Lighting Leo Janks , he returned to ABT as artistic director. From the School of American Ballet, where, in , Costumes Deanna Berg  to , Mr. Baryshnikov was director and he originated a role in Jerome Robbins’s  &  dancer with the White Oak Dance Project, which Part Inventions. In that same year, Mr. Millepied he co-founded with choreographer Mark Morris. won the Prix de Lausanne. While continuing to Dancers Mr. Baryshnikov is currently devoting his time and dance, Mr. Millepied has emerged as a promising Mikhail Baryshnikov and Aszure Barton energy to the Baryshnikov Arts Center, which is in choreographer. Most recently, he created a full- its inaugural year. Among his most recent awards length Nutcracker (with décor by Paul Cox) for the are the Kennedy Center Honors, Th e National Ballet de Geneve, and debuted Benjamin Millepied Medal of Honor, the Commonwealth Award, & Company at Th e Joyce Th eater. Forthcoming is Th e Chubb Fellowship and the Jerome Robbins a week of performance at the Biennale de la Danse Come In Award. in Lyon and new work created for the Paris Opera Ballet (music by Philip Glass, costumes by Marc Choreography Aszure Barton () Aszure Barton (choreographer, dancer) was born Jacobs), American Ballet Th eatre, the Eifman Music Vladimir Martynov, Come In in Alberta, Canada. Her formal dance training was Ballet, the National Ballet of Cuba and Capitole Gidon Kremer and Tatjana Grindenko, at the National Ballet School in Toronto, where, at de Toulouse. solo violins , she set in motion the ongoing Stephen Godfrey Kremerata Baltica Choreographic Showcase. She also received training Olivier Simola (videographer) was born in at Th e Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Alberta Ballet Bourg-en-Bresse, France. Mr. Simola studied at Photography & Editing Kevin Freeman School and John Cranko Schüle in Germany. She the National Regional Conservatory in Grenoble Lighting Leo Janks has performed and toured internationally with and the National Superior Conservatory of Music Costumes Deanna Berg Th e National Ballet of Canada, Les Ballets Jazz de in Lyon. He then began his career working with Montreal and Wendy Osserman Dance Company. choreographers Andy Degroat, Philippe Saire Dancers She was awarded the prestigious Canada Council and Jean-François Duroure. His videocamera Mikhail Baryshnikov and Th e Company Grant for European dance exploration in , and always accompanying him, he has developed a was the winner of the  Hubbard Street Dance fl uid and inventive style of image, balancing with Chicago’s National Choreographic Competition. fi nesse the distinctive worlds of Philippe Decoufl é, She is the Artistic Director of ASzURe & Artists, Benjamin Millepied and Mikhail Baryshnikov. established in . She has been commissioned Mr. Simola has been a member of the company Years later, Over/Come and Come In premiered on June , , at the Center for to create new works for bjmdanse, Th e Juilliard DCA since , where he began in the light of the Arts at the University at Buff alo, New York. School, Barnard/Columbia, Hubbard Street  and Decodex. He became one of its main members Benjamin Millepied & Company, among others. with the ceremony for Cannes’s th anniversary, Ms. Barton recently choreographed the Broadway Marguerite, Shazam!, Le Doute Ma Bite (Solo), production of Th e Th reepenny Opera, in a new Iris, Iiris, etc…. Whether it be as a dancer, director translation by Wallace Shawn and with direction or editor, Mr. Simola collaborates with his friends PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE. by Scott Elliott. Magalli Caillet-Gajan, Christophe Salengro, Joel Borges and Christopher Waksmann. Kevin Freeman (director of photography, editor) is an independent director, producer, writer, Jonathan Alsberry (dancer) is a  Juilliard cinematographer and editor from Bolton, School graduate. He is honored to join this group Massachusetts. He creates original cinema and of extraordinary souls in a life-changing endeavor. documentaries with his company Freemaniac He would like to thank God and his parents for Productions and also works with ABC News, Good the greatest support and love…ever.

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William Briscoe (dancer) is fortunate enough Lauren Muraski (dancer) is originally from New Hell’s Kitchen Dance  to work with choreographers from New York to Jersey. She has participated in the jazz program Company Manager Travis Fritsche Europe, as a gypsy prince. Mr. Briscoe received his at the School at Jacob’s Pillow, and is currently Lighting Designer/Supervisor Leo Janks BFA in dance from Th e Juilliard School in . an undergraduate dance major at New York Production Manager Will Knapp He has been a member of ASzURe & Artists since University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Ms. Muraski Stage Manager Melissa Caolo fall . He is proud to join Hell’s Kitchen Dance is very excited and grateful to be a part of this Wardrobe Supervisor Anna Finke on its fi rst touring season. Dreams do come true. wonderful opportunity. Physical Th erapist Health SOS

Tina Finkelman (dancer) attended Barnard Alexandra Naudet (dancer in Years later video) College in her hometown of New York City. is from Poitiers, France. She began studying Baryshnikov Dance Foundation She has danced with a number of companies Ballet in the Conservatoire National de Région Managing Director Christina L. Sterner throughout the United States, and joined ASzURe de Poitiers, then at the Stedelijk Instituut for Director of Development Anne Deutsch & Artists in March . Ballet Antwerpen in Belgium. In , Ms. Director of Operations Huong Hoang Naudet studied contemporary dance at the Centre Production Supervisor Christopher Buckley Ariel Freedman (dancer) began dancing at the age National Danse Contemporaine, Angers. Since Technical Coordinator Pamela Rapp of three in her living room. She graduated from , Ms. Naudet has collaborated with Philippe Assistant to the Managing Director Kim Mach Th e Juilliard School in , where she received Decoufl é. Currently, she works in partnership Assistant Production Supervisor Sara Overgaard the Martha Hill Prize. with Frédérique Werlè in France and Stephanie Tiersch in Germany at Tanztheater. Lesley Kennedy (dancer), originally from Canada, Acknowledgments received a BFA in dance from Ohio University. Ian Robinson (dancer) graduated from New York New works created by Aszure Barton and Benjamin Millepied have been commissioned by She has performed professionally in New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in . He Baryshnikov Dance Foundation and created at the Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC). City for  years, and joined ASzURe & Artists has performed the work of Merce Cunningham, Ms. Barton and Mr. Millepied were named Artists in Residence at BAC for –. in . Bridget L. Moore and Dwight Rhoden, among others. He recently attended the Alonzo King Special thanks to the following for their generous support: Th e Howard Gilman Foundation, Na-Ye Kim (dancer) was born in Seoul, Korea, Professional Workshop in San Francisco. Donald M. Kendall, James H. Duff y, Howard and Nancy Marks, Movado Group Inc., and was trained in London at the Royal Ballet Peter and Helen Bing, Paul Newman, Annette Campbell-White, Lisa Wolman, School. She received a BA in dance education from Kyle Robinson (dancer) is originally from Richard and Jennie DeScherer, Altria Group Inc., Constance Chung, Ted Forstmann, the University of Durham, UK. In , Ms. Kim Duxbury, Massachusetts. He is currently studying Th e Marshall Frankel Foundation, Dianne and Daniel Vapnek, Th e Wendi and received an MFA from New York University’s dance at Th e Juilliard School in New York. Joseph Rose Foundation, Sophia D. Schachter, Dean Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Eifl er, Tisch School of the Arts. Nancy Jane Goldston, Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Hirshon, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hoff , Ashley Wallace (dancer) is originally from Long Mr. and Mrs. Peter Young Suk Kim, Alan Landsburg, Mr. and Mrs. James Liang, Doug Letheren (dancer) is a New Hampshire Beach, California. She is a graduate of NYU’s Mr. and Mrs. William Maroney, Bill Mills and Doug Wright. native. He studied and trained at St. Paul’s School Tisch School of the Arts and currently performs and the Conservatoire Nationale de la Region in with Johannes Wieland, Hudson Vagabond Th e Baryshnikov Arts Center Residency Program is supported, in part, by public funds from the Rennes, France. He is currently attending Th e Puppets and Edisa Weeks. New York City Department of Cultural Aff airs. Juilliard School, and will graduate in . Th e Baryshnikov Dance Foundation was Clothing for video of Come In supplied by American Apparel’s dance-inspired line. Todd McQuade (dancer) began his artistic incorporated in . Its mission is to foster an training with the Civic Ballet of San Luis Obispo, interest in the arts; to encourage the development Accountant Bruce Nadell, Padell Nadell Fine Weinberger, LLP California. Mr. McQuade attended UCLA where of performers, choreographers, directors, writers, Travel Arrangements Ilene Furgang Travel Service he earned a BA in . He has danced with the composers and designers; and to advance their Los Angeles and New York City Operas, Buglisi/ collaboration. In November , the Foundation Foreman Dance, the Mark Morris Dance Group opened the Baryshnikov Arts Center, located in and Hubbard Street . Mr. McQuade has created the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of New York works with Lucinda Childs, Alonzo King, Todd City. Th e Center serves as a creative laboratory, Williams, Christian Spuck, Alex Ketley and Aszure meeting place and performing space for a vibrant Barton. community of artists from around the world. Its programs include student fellowships, artist residencies and commissions of new works.

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