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Montclair State University Montclair State University Digital Commons 2014-2015 Discover the Heartbeat of Creative Life PEAK Performances Programming History 10-30-2014 Great Britten Office of Arts + Cultural Programming PEAK Performances at Montclair State University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/peak-performances-2014-2015 Part of the Theatre and Performance Studies Commons Dr. Susan A. Cole, President Staff Daniel Gurskis, Dean, College of the Arts Jedediah Wheeler, Executive Director, Arts & Cultural Programming Office of Arts & Cultural Programming College of the Arts Executive Director Jedediah Wheeler Dean Daniel Gurskis Executive Producer Jill Dombrowski Associate Dean Ronald L. Sharps Producer Jessica Wasilewski Assistant Dean Linda D. Davidson Richard Alston Dance Company Production/Facility Manager J. Ryan Graves Director of Administration Marie Sparks Cultural Engagement Director Carrie Urbanic College Administrator Zacrah S. Battle Media and Marketing Specialist Amy Estes Executive Assistant to the Dean Alyson Thelin Richard Alston Dance Company Director of Audience Services Robert Hermida Program Assistant Kilolo Kumanyika Lighting Supervisor Chris Holland Art and Design Aissa Deebi Great Britten John J. Cali School of Music Jon Robert Cart Cultural Engagement Assistant Hannah Rolfes Production Associate Gillian P. Holmes School of Communication and Media Merrill Brown Theatre and Dance Randy Mugleston Artistic Director Richard Alston Film Project Coordinator Omonike Akinyemi Great Britten Box Office Manager Pierson Van Raalte Broadcast and Digital Media Facilities Nick Tzanis Executive Director Isabel Tamen House Manager Maureen Grimaldi University Art Galleries Teresa Rodriguez Rehearsal Director Martin Lawrance Marketing/PR Assistant Noah Befeler Production Manager Paul Kizintas Graphics Patrick Flood/pfloodesign.com Press Ellen Jacobs Associates Program Editor Susan R. Case Dancers Ihsaan de Banya, Nicholas Bodych, Elly Braund, Jennifer Hayes, James Muller, Production Run Crew Andrew Boyle, Joe McDonald, Nancy Nerantzi, Liam Riddick, Oihana Vesga Bujan, Simon Donnellon, Phoebe Hart Brian Mohr, Jeffrey Reid, Colin Van Horn Montclair State’s Office of Arts & Cultural Programming (ACP) presents and produces leading artists of the world in Guest Artists dance, music, theater, and opera. Under its signature series Peak Performances, ACP has produced works such as Zinnias: Heather J. Buchanan, Choral Director The Life of Clementine Hunter by Robert Wilson, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Toshi Reagon, and Jacqueline Woodson; Dog Days by David T. Little and Royce Vavrek; Harry Partch’s Oedipus; and Ridge Theater’s The Difficulty of Crossing a Vincent Carr, Organ Field by David Lang. In addition, ACP has commissioned works by Bill T. Jones, Kronos Quartet, Jan Fabre, Liz Lerman, Nicholas Phan, Tenor Wayne McGregor, Laurie Anderson, Romeo Castellucci, Richard Alston, Susan Marshall, Fred Hersch, and David Gordon. Jason Ridgway, Piano American Contemporary Music Ensemble Montclair State University Vocal Accord Major Donors Alexander Kasser Theater Benefactors Founders Arlene Allen Mary Mochary Bank of America PROGRAM I. Michael Kasser John and Cynthia Barnes American Premiere! Alexandra and Seth Bergstein Grace Lyon Concialdi Matthew Mochary Jean Hall Rejoice in the Lamb ________________________ The Hillier Group ~~Pause~~ Automatic Data Processing Audrey V. Leef Unfinished Business Duet Doris and Felix Beck The Prudential Insurance Company of America Schering-Plough Research Institute ~~Pause~~ Robert and Barbara Constable Andrew Constable Wachovia Bank American Premiere! George and Linda Hiltzik Josh and Judy Weston Hölderlin Fragments Montclair State University Alumni Association ~~Intermission~~ Margaret and Herman Sokol Jack and Jeanette Sullivan Illuminations The 2014/15 season is made possible in part by funds from: Nash Chris by Photo The National Endowment for the Arts The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, October 30–November 2, 2014 a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts Discover Jersey Arts Alexander Kasser Theater National Dance Project (NDP) of the New England Foundation for the Arts Rejoice in the Lamb was commissioned by The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, with production support from Peak Performances @ Montclair State, New Jersey (USA). Alison and James T. Cirenza Unfinished Business Duet was commissioned by Octagon Theatre, Yeovil. Robert and Holly Gregory The Honorable Mary Mochary Hölderlin Fragments was commissioned by the Barbican Centre, London, for the Barbican Britten celebrations. Duration: 85 minutes, including one 15-minute intermission. To view our complete season and for more information, visit peakperfs.org. In consideration of both audience and performers, please turn off all electronic devices. The taking of photographs or videos and the use of recording equipment are not permitted. No food or drink is permitted in the theater. @peakperfs Program Program Notes About the Company Richard Alston (Artistic Director) choreographed Training and with Shift. During his four years with Rejoice in the Lamb (2014) Hölderlin Fragments (2013) Rejoice in the Lamb Illuminations his first work in 1968, as one of the 12 students of the both, he worked with choreographers including Bawren Choreography Richard Alston Choreography Richard Alston The 18th-century poet Christopher Smart was Synopsis newly formed London Contemporary Dance School. Tavaziva, Tom Dale, and Maresa von Stockert. In susceptible to bouts of religious mania. He had a With much fanfare, the stridently confident young In 1972, he formed the UK’s first independent dance 2010 he continued training at London Contemporary Music Benjamin Britten, Rejoice in the Lamb Music Benjamin Britten, Sechs Hölderlin- tendency to pull passers-by in the street to their Rimbaud cries out, “J’ai seul la clef de cette parade group, Strider. In 1975, Alston went to New York to Dance School. He graduated in 2013 with the (1943); music by arrangement with Fragmente (1958); music by arrangement knees to pray with him and so was confined to a sauvage”(I alone have the key to this wild sideshow). study at the Merce Cunningham Dance Studio. On his Principal’s Award for Outstanding and Consistently Boosey & Hawkes with Boosey & Hawkes mental asylum, where he passed the time writing Figures from his imagination capture the frantic speed return two years later, he worked throughout the UK and High Achievement. He joined Richard Alston Dance long sprawling poems “from the hand of the artist of city bustle. We see Rimbaud clambering across Europe as an independent choreographer and teacher. Company as an apprentice in 2013, becoming a full Lighting Zeynep Kepekli Lighting Charles Balfour inimitable.” the roofs of Paris to seek out his fellow writer, the company member in 2014. Costumes Peter Todd Costumes Fotini Dimou older and completely infatuated Verlaine. They set off In 1980, Alston became resident choreographer with Dancers: Dancers Ihsaan de Banya, Nicholas Bodych, One of these was Jubilate Agno (Rejoice in the together, the young boy impatient to rush ahead toward Ballet Rambert and later was appointed artistic director, Nicholas Bodych was born in Cheshire. He trained Lamb), eccentric to be sure but brilliantly expressing adventure, Verlaine less impetuous, not so brave. a position he held from 1986 to 1992. In his time there, at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and Christopher Smart Nicholas Bodych Nancy Nerantzi, Oihana Vesga Bujan, Smart’s fervent and unswerving faith. The words start he created 25 dances for the company and was also Rambert School, where he graduated in 2011. He has Jeoffry Ihsaan de Banya Liam Riddick, James Muller with a driving litany of Old Testament figures and The pair imagine an ideally happy couple, an ideal commissioned to create work for the Royal Danish worked with National Dance Company Wales (including Elly Braund, Phoebe Hart, Jennifer Hayes, Tenor Nicholas Phan animals, calming down to a more serene Hallelujah. of love to which Rimbaud cannot commit. He is too Ballet (Kingdom of Pagodas, 1982) and the Royal Ballet Dream for Dance GB), London Organising Committee In his solitude, Smart took time to contemplate his restless, dreaming of the sea and of light glittering (Midsummer, 1983). In 1992, Alston was invited to of the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012 events, Nancy Nerantzi, Simon Donnellon, Piano Jason Ridgway most steady companion—the cat Jeoffry, “for I am sharply. Gradually, Rimbaud’s wild nature and create a full evening of his own work, including Boulez’s 2Faced Dance Company, The Musicall Compass, and James Muller, Liam Riddick, possessed of a cat, surpassing in beauty”—and also disordered senses are inevitably beginning to take their Le marteau sans maître, for the Ballet Atlantique in New Movement Collective. Bodych has performed Oihana Vesga Bujan to consider flowers, which he described as “peculiarly toll. He staggers as he tries to recapture his earlier France. He made another full evening for London works by Ohad Naharin, Stephen Petronio, Christopher Illuminations (1993) the poetry of Christ.” Regular attacks of depression confidence, but his mind is now troubled and uncertain. Contemporary Dance Theatre at the 1994 Aldeburgh Bruce, Itzik Galili, and Mark Baldwin. He joined Richard Choral Director Heather J. Buchanan Choreography Richard Alston unsteadied the poet, causing him to imagine that The