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Dorrance Dance Michelle Dorrance, Artistic Director Friday, October 27, 201 7, 8pm Zellerbach Hall Dorrance Dance Michelle Dorrance, artistic director Dancers Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie, Christopher Broughton, Elizabeth Burke, Warren Craft, Michelle Dorrance, Claudia Rahardjanoto, Byron Tittle, Matthew “Megawatt” West, Gabriel Winns Ortiz, Nicholas Van Young PROGRAM Jungle Blues (2012) Choreography by Michelle Dorrance With solo improvisation by Christopher Broughton Music by Branford Marsalis Quartet Lighting Design by Kathy Kaufmann Costume Design by Amy Page DANCERS Full Company SOLOISTS Claudia Rahardjanoto Elizabeth Burke & Nicholas Van Young Michelle Dorrance & Warren Craft Byron Tittle Christopher Broughton PAUSE Three to One (2011) Choreography by Michelle Dorrance Music by Aphex Twin, Thom Yorke Lighting Design by Kathy Kaufmann Costume Design by Michelle Dorrance and Mishay Petronelli DANCERS Michelle Dorrance, Byron Tittle, Matthew “Megawatt” West The creation of Three to One was made possible, in part, by the Danspace Project 2010 –11 Commissioning Initiative with support from the Jerome Foundation. Danspace’s Commissioning Initiative is a core component of the Choreographic Center Without Walls (CW²). PAUSE Myelination (2017) Choreography by Michelle Dorrance, in collaboration with and featuring improvisation by the dancers Additional choreography by Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie and Matthew “Megawatt” West Original Music by Prawn til Dante (Donovan Dorrance and Gregory Richardson) with Aaron Marcellus Lighting Design by Kathy Kaufmann Costume Design by Amy Page Elizabeth Burke and Byron Tittle, dance captains DANCERS Full Company MUSICIANS Donovan Dorrance, piano and clarinet Aaron Marcellus, vocals and keys Gregory Richardson, bass and clarinet Nicholas Van Young, percussion WITH Warren Craft, guitar Myelination (2017) has been commissioned, in part, by Cal Performances, UC Berkeley. Myelination (2017 and 2015) has also been commissioned by New York City Center for the Fall for Dance Festival with generous support from the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. Music for Myelination (2015) commissioned by the Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation. Myelination (2017) was also made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The 2017 –18 creation and presentation of an evening-length version of Myelination is also supported, in part, by a New Music USA Project Grant. The presentation of Dorrance Dance was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Cal Performances’ 2017 –18 season is sponsored by Wells Fargo. 6 ABOUT THE ARTISTS Dorrance Dance is an award-winning tap Stephen Colbert ), Damian Woetzel's Vail Dance dance company based in New York City. The Festival Projects, and the Martha Graham company’s work aims to honor tap dance’s Dance Company (guest choreographer and uniquely beautiful history in a new, dynamic, performer); she also toured the world playing and compelling context; not by stripping the bass for indie-pop sensation Darwin Deez. A form of its tradition, but by pushing it—rhyth - 2016 –17 New York City Center Choreography mically, technically, and conceptually. The com - Fellow, 2016 United States Artists Award Re - pany’s inaugural performance garnered a cipient, 2 015 MacArthur Fellow, 2014 Alpert “Bessie” Award for “blasting open our notions Award winner, 2013 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award of tap” and the company continues its passion - winner, 2012 Princess Grace Award winner, 2012 ate commitment to expanding the audience for Field Dance Fund recipient, 2011/2015 “Bessie” tap dance, one of America’s original art forms. Awar d winner, and a Capezio Athlete, Dorrance Founded in 2011 by artistic director and holds a bachelor’s degree from New York Uni - 2015 MacArthur Fellow Michelle Dorrance, the versity and teaches on faculty for IFTRA. company has received countless accolades and rave reviews and performed for packed houses Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie (dancer ), a 2016 at venues including the Joyce Theater, New York “Bessie” Award winner for Innovative Achieve - City Center, Lincoln Center Out of Doors (New ment in Dance, is a New York City-based b-girl, York City), the Kennedy Center (Wash ington, dancer, and choreographer. As artistic director DC), Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival (Beck ett, of Ephrat Asherie Dance, she has presented MA), Vail International Dance Festi val (Vail, work at Jacob’s Pillow, Fira Tarrega, and New CO), National Arts Centre of Canada and York Live Arts, among others. Asherie has re - Danse Danse Montréal (Canada), Fira Tarrega ceived numerous awards to support her work, (Spain), Staats theater Darmstadt (Ger many), including a Kevin Spacey Artist of Choice Hong Kong Arts Festival, as well as many col - Award, a Mondo Cane! Commission from leges and universities across the United States. Dixon Place, and an Extended Life Residency from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She is on faculty at Wesleyan University and PERFORMERS Broadway Dance Center. For more information please visit www.ephratasherie.com. Michelle Dorrance (artistic director, chore - Christopher Broughton (dancer ), born and ographer, and dancer ), raised in Los Angeles, began dancing at the age founder and artistic of 11 and has never looked back. Under the director of Dorrance instruction of Paul and Arlene Kennedy at Uni - Dance, is a New York versal Dance, he soon became a member of the City-based tap dancer, Kennedy Tap Company, where he twice re - performer, choreogra - ceived the national NAACP ACT-SO Award. pher, teacher, and director. Mentored by Gene Broughton now travels worldwide both as a Med ler, she grew up performing with his North soloist and with Jason Samuels Smith’s A.C.G.I., Caro lina Youth Tap Ensemble and has since Rasta Thomas’ Tap Stars , and Dor rance Dance. performed with STOMP , Savion Glover’s ti dii, Performances include New York City Cen - Manhattan Tap, Barbara Duffy & Co, JazzTap ter’s Cotton Club Parade ; Juba! Master’s of Tap Ensemble, Rumba Tap, Ayodele Casel’s Diary & Percussive Dance at the Kennedy Center; and of a Tap Dancer , Mable Lee’s Dancing Ladies, Broadway’s Tony and Astaire Award-winning Harold Cromer’s original Opus One , Derick production After Midnight. Grant’s Imagine Tap , Jason Samuels Smith’s Charlie’s Angels/Chasing the Bird , Jon Batiste Elizabeth Burke (rehearsal director and dancer ) and Stay Human (on CBS’ The Late Show with has been working with Dorrance Dance since 6b PLAYBILL ABOUT THE ARTISTS the company’s inception in 2010 –11 and prior voice before attending the University of North to that spent 11 years under the tutelage of her Carolina (BA in philosophy). After spending mentor, Gene Medler, in the acclaimed North time singing in an a cappella group, drumming Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble. She also works in an indie-rock band, and waiting tables in with Nicholas Young’s Sound Movement Dance restaurants, Donovan moved to Brooklyn to Company and Caleb Teicher & Company, as assist his sister’s company and pursue his pas - well as with other choreographers. Burke is a sion for music. In his spare time, he composes graduate of the School at Jacob’s Pillow and music with Greg Richard son for Dorrance Mary mount Manhattan College (bachelor’s de - Dance, takes online business courses, and is grees in political science and communication occasionally published in his UNC professors’ arts, magna cum laude, 2014). When not work - books in the field of philosophy. ing with Dorrance Dance, Burke teaches and pursues her own choreographic work. Aaron Marcellus (co-composer and musician ), a singer, vocal coach, writer, musician, dancer, Warren Craft (dancer ) is a New York City tap and actor from Atlanta, started in Gospel music dancer who has trained in ballet with both the and has performed around the world. He has American Ballet Theatre and the School of recorded albums and was selected part of the American Ballet. He has been a member of Top 24 on American Idol in 2011. After a world Brenda Bufalino’s New American Tap Dance tour, Marcellus was featured in a Chapstick Orchestra, Max Pollak’s RumbaTap, and Dor - commercial, on NBC’s Next Caller , and as a cast rance Dance. Craft moves with “bizarre physi - member of STOMP . He also hosts a burlesque cality” and “unconventional eloquence” ( New show at Duane Park. Most importantly, Marcel - York Times ). lus founded both Surrender To Love, LLC, a foundation that supports arts programs and Donovan Dorrance (music director, composer, seeks to feed the hungry, and Adventure Voice, and musician ) hails from Chapel Hill, NC, a training program offering vocal classes for where he studied piano, guitar, drums, and groups and individuals. 7 ABOUT THE ARTISTS Claudia Rahardjanoto (dancer ) was born and rance. Continually taking her master classes raised in Berlin, Germany, and started dancing and workshops, he joined the company in 2013 professionally at the age of nine at the Deutsche and has been involved with the ensemble since Oper Berlin. Named one of “25 To Watch” then. Commercially, Tittle has danced for Janet by Dance Magazine in 2010 and featured on Jackson and Nicki Minaj but feels most at home the cover of Dance Teacher Magazine in 2011, on stage with Dorrance Dance. she has danced with and learned from Andreas Dänel, Sven Göttlicher, Dianne Walker, Ted Nicholas Van Young (dancer and musician ), a Levy, Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, Michelle New York-based dancer, choreographer, musi - Dorrance, Derick Grant, Brenda Bufalino, cian, and master teacher, began his professional Roxane Butterfly, Andrew Nemr, Barbara career under Acia Gray and Deidre Strand with Duffy, Jane Goldberg, Jared Grimes, Max Pol - Tapestry Dance Company in Austin, TX, even - lak, Michael Minery, the late Harold “Stumpy” tually becoming a principal dancer and resident Cromer, and the legendary Mable Lee, among choreographer. Since moving to New York, he others.
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