CreatedbyMichelleDorrance

Dorrance Dance Elemental and NicholasVan Young #BAMNextWave no intermission LOCATION: RUN TIME: DATES: Approx 70min BAM Fisher (Fishman Space) DEC 8at2pm DEC 5—8at7:30pm

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Costume design Andrew Jordan

Sound design Christopher Marc

Stage manager Betsy Ayer

Technical director/Assistant stage manager Diego Quintanar

Production assistants Ali Dietz Carly D. Shiner at age 16 under Acia Gray and Deidre Strand the Kennedy Tap Company, receiving the 2014, Dorrance moved to Brooklyn to assist with Tapestry Dance Company in Austin, national NAACP ACT-SO Award twice. He his sister Michelle’s company and pursue his TX, eventually rising to principal dancer and now travels worldwide both as a soloist and passion for music. In addition to composing resident choreographer. Since moving to with ’s A.C.G.I., Rasta music with Gregory Richardson for Dorrance Who’s New York, he has performed with Manhat- Thomas’ Tap Stars, and Dorrance Dance. Dance, he composes music for film and the- tan Tap, RumbaTap, Dorrance Dance, and Performances include Center’s ater, collaborating with students from NYU Beat the Donkey, has toured as a drummer Cotton Club Parade, Juba! Masters of Tap and Columbia University. for Darwin Deez, and spent almost a decade & Percussive Dance at the Kennedy Center, with STOMP, performing the lead role and and Broadway’s Tony and Astaire award- Who acting as rehearsal director. Young tours winning production After Midnight. BILLY MARTIN both nationally and internationally teaching Composer MICHELLE DORRANCE and performing at various tap festivals and Artistic Director/Co-Creator founded Sound Movement dance company ELIZABETH BURKE Born in New York City in 1963, percussion- and IFTRA, Institute for the Rhythmic Arts. Performer ist, composer, and visual artist Billy Martin Michelle Dorrance is a New York City-based He is thrilled to have found a home with dedicated himself to music full-time at age artist. Mentored by Gene Medler (North Dorrance Dance, co-creating and developing Elizabeth Burke is a Chapel Hill, NC, native 17—casting himself into Manhattan’s thriv- Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble), she was ETM: Double Down, and the Guggenheim’s who spent 11 years under the direction of ing, eclectic musical landscape. He carefully lucky to study under many of the last master Works & Process Project, both col- her mentor, Gene Medler, in the acclaimed honed his craft everywhere from chamber hoofers. Career highlights include: STOMP, laborative efforts with Michelle Dorrance. North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble. Burke orchestra stages to Brazilian nightclubs to Derick Grant’s Imagine Tap!, Jason Samuels has been with Dorrance Dance since its the underground performance spaces that Smith’s Charlie’s Angels/Chasing the Bird, inception in 2010. She pursues her own nurtured the burgeoning downtown improv Ayodele Casel’s Diary of a Tap Dancer, EPHRAT “BOUNCE” ASHERIE choreographic work, teaches, and performs community. Most notably, Martin formed and Mable Lee’s Dancing Ladies, and Darwin Performer as a soloist on occasion. She is an alumna of performs with the genre-defying experimen- Deez. Company work includes Savion the school at Jacob’s Pillow and Marymount tal band Medeski, Martin & Wood. He has Glover’s Ti Dii, Manhattan Tap, Barbara Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie, a 2016 Bessie Manhattan College (BA political science, BA published anti-instructional films, literature, Duffy, JazzTap Ensemble, Rumba Tap, Award-winner for innovative achievement in communication arts, magna cum laude). artwork, and music worldwide. He is cur- and solo work ranging from The Late Show dance, is a NYC-based B-girl, dancer, and rently president/CEO of the non-profit founda- with Stephen Colbert to commissions for choreographer. As artistic director of Ephrat tion Creative Music Studio founded in 1971 the Martha Graham Dance Company, Vail Asherie Dance (EAD), she has presented WARREN CRAFT by Karl Berger and Ornette Coleman. Dance Festival, and American Ballet Theatre. work at Jacob’s Pillow, FiraTarrega, and New Performer A 2018 Doris Duke Artist, 2017 Ford York Live Arts, among others. Asherie has re- Foundation Art of Change Fellow, and 2015 ceived numerous awards to support her work Warren Craft is a New York City tap dancer AARON MARCELLUS MacArthur Fellow, Dorrance is humbled including a NDP Award from NEFA, a Mondo who has trained in ballet with both American Composer/Performer to have been acknowledged/supported by Cane! Commission from Dixon Place, and Ballet Theatre and School of American Ballet. United States Artists, the Joyce Theater, an Extended Life Residency from the Lower He has been a member of Brenda Bufalino’s Aaron Marcellus, a singer, vocal coach, New York City Center, the Alpert Awards, Manhattan Cultural Council. She has taught New American Orchestra, Max writer, musician, dancer, and actor from Jacob’s Pillow, Princess Grace Foundation, at Wesleyan University and is on faculty at Pollak’s RumbaTap, and Dorrance Dance. Atlanta, GA, started in gospel music and The Field, American Tap Dance Foundation, Broadway Dance Center. He moves with “bizarre physicality,” and has performed around the world. He has and the Bessie Awards. Dorrance holds a BA ephratasheriedance.com “unconventional eloquence” (The New recorded albums and was voted into the top from and is a Capezio York Times). 24 on American Idol in 2011. After a world Athlete. tour, Marcellus was featured in a Chapstick CHRISTOPHER BROUGHTON commercial, NBC’s Next Caller, and was Performer DONOVAN DORRANCE a cast member of STOMP. Marcellus also NICHOLAS VAN YOUNG Composer/Performer hosts a burlesque show at Duane Park. Most Associate Artistic Director/Co-Creator Christopher Broughton, born and raised in importantly, he founded both Surrender to Los Angeles, CA, began dancing at the age Donovan Dorrance hails from Chapel Hill, Love, LLC, a foundation that supports arts Nicholas Van Young is a dancer, musician, of 11 and has never looked back. Under the NC, where he studied piano, guitar, drums, programs and seeks to feed the hungry, and choreographer, and a 2014 Bessie Award instruction of Paul and Arlene Kennedy at and voice before attending the University of Adventure Voice, a training program offering recipient. He began his professional career Universal Dance, he became a member of North Carolina for a BA in philosophy. In vocal classes for groups and individuals. boundaries in the concert dance world. He CARSON MURPHY GREGORY RICHARDSON has been touring with Dorrance Dance since ANDREW JORDAN Performer Composer/Performer 2014 and continues to approach each show Costume design with vigor and excitement. His “elegant and Carson Murphy has had the fortune to Gregory Richardson is a composer, per- polished lines” (The Brooklyn Rail) captivate Andrew Jordan is a Brooklyn-based artist travel the world tap dancing and working former, and multi-instrumentalist and has audiences worldwide as he feels most at and costume designer exploring the possible with incredible artists. Murphy is currently been a member of Dorrance Dance since home with the company. relationships between sculpture, instal- a member of Dorrance Dance and Nicholas 2011. He learned rhythm and blues at an lation, puppetry, and the moving form of Young’s Sound Movement. She has also early age from a family of musicians in which the human body. Jordan’s work has been performed with and for Sarah Petronio, Ted everyone could play at least a little piano and MATTHEW “MEGAWATT” WEST proclaimed “sensational…a visual feast” Levy, Leela Petronio’s Hip Tap Project, Max everyone was expected to sing. The Tucson Performer (The Philadelphia Inquirer) and “a sculptural Pollak’s Rumba Tap, Barbara Duffy and native studied at Bard College and has been wonder” (The New York Times). He has Company, Katherine Kramer, Mable Lee, working as a professional musician in New Matthew “Megawatt” West started danc- designed for both stage and screen, includ- Michela Marino-Lerman, ’s Syn- York City for nearly two decades. Richardson ing at 16 on his church’s dance team in ing projects spanning opera, contemporary copated Ladies, Tap City, Josh Hilberman, is known for his winning combination of Queens, NY, and with the company On dance, experimental performance, and pa- Sarah Savelli, Ayodele Casel, was a part of natural talent, hard work, and dedication and Choreography, where he learned challenging rade. His most recent collaborators include the original recreation of Harold Cromer’s is fortunate to have traveled the world several choreography and mastered different styles playwright Kyoung Park and choreographers Opus One, toured the US with Broadway’s times over with various ensembles. He lives within hip-hop dance. He has competed in Douglas Dunn, Ellen Cornfield, Michelle Dor- 42nd Street, has been seen dancing on and works in Brooklyn, where he has been a several B-boy competitions and strives to rance, Cori Olinghouse, Raja Feather Kelly, Time Square’s JumboTron, and has been part of countless collaborations. impart knowledge and wisdom to the next and Christopher Williams. Jordan received featured in Dance Spirit Magazine. Murphy generation of dancers. He has taught at his MFA with an in sculpture is endlessly inspired by these artists and Coney Island’s Shining Angels Studio and at from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and many more and is eternally grateful to spend LEONARDO SANDOVAL after school programs in Queens. West is an his BFA in fine arts with a minor in media her life teaching and dancing. Murphy is Performer avid listener of house music and a dedicated studies from the Columbus College of Art the owner and director of Sound Movement student of house dance, training with the and Design. Jordan is also known under the Pilates and Gyrotonic® studio in Larchmont, Leonardo Sandoval, Brazilian tap dancer, has NYC crew MAWU, Conrad Rochester, and moniker andytoad. andytoad.com New York. soundmovementny.com become known in the tap world and beyond James “Cricket” Colter. for his musicality, and for adding his own Brazilian flavor to tap. An early member of CHRISTOPHER MARC CLAUDIA RAHARDJANOTO Dorrance Dance, he is also in demand as a KATHY KAUFMANN Sound design Performer choreographer, solo dancer, and jazz musi- Lighting design cian. A true dancer/musician, Sandoval has Christopher Marc has been with Dorrance Claudia Rahardjanoto, born and raised in had his work, including collaborations with Kathy Kaufmann, a New York City native, Dance since June of 2016. He has worked Berlin, Germany, started dancing profes- composer Gregory Richardson, presented has been happily designing for Dorrance as a sound engineer with several compa- sionally at the age of nine at the Deutsche at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Jazz Dance since its inception (SOUNDspace, nies around the country including Kennedy Oper Berlin. Named one of “25 to Watch” at Lincoln Center, and the National Folk The Blues Project, ETM, Myelination). A Center, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, by Dance Magazine in 2010 and featured Festival. resident designer at Danspace Project whose Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Mills Entertain- on the cover of Dance Teacher Magazine in work has been seen throughout the US, ment, Aquila Theatre, and Harlem Stage. His 2011, Rahardjanoto has danced with and Canada, Europe, and Asia, she also teaches sound designs include More Forever (CT & learned from Andreas Dänel, Sven Göttli- BYRON TITTLE at Sarah Lawrence. She is a two-time Bessie Co) and The Magic Flute (Pacific Symphony). cher, , Ted Levy, Dormeshia Performer recipient and was nominated for her work on His other credits include The Black Book; Sumbry-Edwards, Michelle Dorrance, Derick Rebecca Davis’ Bloowst Windku in 2015. Wuthering Heights, The Tempest, Fahrenheit K. Grant, Brenda Bufalino, Roxane Butterfly, Byron Tittle is a multi-faceted dancer based Recent projects include designs for Moriah 451, Twelfth Night (Aquila Theatre national Andrew Nemr, Barbara Duffy, Jane Goldberg, in New York where he studied extensively at Evans, Mariana Valencia, Jonathan Gonza- tour); Berlin to Broadway, Candide, Putting Jared Grimes, Max Pollak, Michael Minery, Broadway Dance Center and the Ameri- les, David Parker, Tatyana Tennenbaum, It Together, La Rondine (Skylark Opera); God the late Harold “Stumpy” Cromer, and the can Tap Dance Foundation, and then later Mina Nishimura, Morgan Bassichis, and of Carnage, Striking 12, Death of a Sales- legendary Mable Lee, among others. She is toured the country with The Pulse on Tour. Ephrat Asherie Dance. man (Artistry MN); and Becky’s New Car, grateful to be able to share her passion and After finding commercial success dancing Sherlock Holmes, The Boxcar Children, Over love for tap dance through her performances for Janet Jackson, Nicki Minaj, and Laurie the Tavern, Death of a Salesman (Lyric Arts). and teaching worldwide. Ann Gibson, Tittle is focused on pushing the its passionate commitment to expanding the BETSY AYER audience of tap dance, America’s original art Thank You! Stage manager form. Founded in 2011 by artistic director and 2015 MacArthur Fellow, Michelle Dor- Dorrance Dance Board of Directors And special thanks for all you do for Betsy Ayer’s recent dance credits include rance, the company has received countless Dorrance Dance to: Four Quartets (Bard Summerscape); Trisha accolades and rave reviews, with perfor- Joseph Gallo (Chair), Deb Klowden Mann Brown Dance Company; FLEXN (Park mances for packed houses at venues includ- (Secretary), Marc Steglitz* (Treasurer), Henri Benaim, Nancy Feller, Avenue Armory and international tour); ing The Joyce Theater, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Angelina Burnett, Michelle Dorrance, Andrea Nellis, Alexandra Martin, Vail Dance Festival; and New York City Festival, New York City Center, Vail Dance M’Liss Dorrance*, Emma Dunch, Amanda Hameline, Cory Greenberg, Ballet. Other favorite projects include Only Festival, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center Out Linda Moffitt*, and Ann Mullaly* Linda Murphy and Imogen Moon, the Sound Remains (White Light Festival); of Doors, Carolina Performing Arts at UNC/ Wendy Eagle and Teddy Balkin, The Gospel According to the Other Mary Chapel Hill, Works & Process at the Guggen- Dorrance Dance Major Supporters Elissa Hecker, Jennifer Thompson, (premiere and tour with the Los Angeles heim, and Cal Performances at UC Berkeley, (Friend’s Circle and above, as of 11/27/18) Purpose Productions, Tony Waag & Philharmonic); St. Matthew Passion (Lincoln among many others, including international American Tap Dance Foundation, Center/Park Avenue Armory); Carnegie Hall; venues in Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Charles and Deborah Adelman*, Hank and Hanaah Frechette & Flamenco Vivo, Ainadamar (Teatro Real, Madrid); New York England, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Gerry Alpert, Norman Appel and Susie and Margaret Selby & the Selby Artists City Opera; La Passion de Simone (inter- dorrancedance.com Freidman, Karen and Edward Applebome*, Management team. national tour); Lincoln Center Festival; and Jody and John Arnhold, Bob and Linda Shockheaded Peter (the Little Shubert). She DORRANCE DANCE STAFF Berzok, Peter and Heather Boneparth, Doug Dorrance Dance’s performances are is a graduate of Smith College. and Kim Borror, Walter and Marjorie Buckley, generously supported by the Howard Gilman Artistic Director Foundation, the Harkness Foundation for Michelle Dorrance Walter and Susan Buckley*, Dick and Lisa Cashin, Jim Chervenak, Munroe and Dance, and are made possible by the New DIEGO QUINTANAR Executive Director Becky Cobey, Stuart H. Coleman and Meryl York State Council on the Arts with the Technical director/Assistant stage manager Donald Borror Rosofsky*, Gretchen Court*, Scott Craft and support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and Anabel Adams*, Michael and Nancy Feller*, the New York State Legislature. Diego Quintanar started working in theater Production Manager/Sound Engineer Christopher Marc Barry and Irene Fisher, Carolyn Gray and production as a student at the College of the George Peppard, Jonathan Groff, Sarah Holy Cross. He was introduced to Dorrance Company Manager Hancock, Dean Hargrove, Odile Isralson, Tina Huang Abrams Dance through his work with the Guggen- Anne Izzillo*, Christopher Jones and heim’s Works & Process series as a project Associate Artistic Director Deborah McAlister*, Tory Kane*, Betty coordinator. His other credits include Latino Nicholas Van Young Kenan, Thomas S. Kenan, III, Pat and Cultural Center and Wyly Theater, Dallas, TX Michael Klowden, Stacey Lalljee, Mark and (carpenter and electrician); off-Broadway’s Assistant to the Artistic Director Taryn Leavitt*, Olga Lucia, Joyce Menschel, Olivia Maggi I Like It Like That (production manager); and Virginia and Timothy Millhiser*, Donna Shen Wei Dance Arts and Dance Heginbo- Rehearsal Director Moro-Sutherland*, Anh-Tuyet Nguyen and tham (assistant stage manager and Elizabeth Burke Robert Pollock, Wyndham Robertson, Jed scenic charge). Scala and Paula Wardynski, Joel and Angela Music Director Donovan Dorrance Solomon, Evan Steen and Shari Hellman, Monica Voldstad*, John Wieland, Suzi DORRANCE DANCE Lighting Designer Wojdyslawski, Elaine and Irving Wolbrom, Kathy Kaufmann and Gabrielle Yen* Dorrance Dance is an award-winning tap dance company based in New York City. The Lighting Supervisor Serena Wong In addition to those with an (*) above, thank company’s work aims to honor tap dance’s you to the supporters whose Patron Tickets uniquely beautiful history in a new, dynamic, Technical Director/Assistant Stage Manager helped make this performance possible: and compelling context, not by stripping Diego Quintanar the form of its tradition, but by pushing it— Meryl and Gilbert Benaim, Henri Benaim, BAM®, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Next Wave®, rhythmically, technically, and conceptually. Artist Representative and Teknopolis® are trademarks of Brooklyn Academy Margaret Selby, Selby/Artists Management Jennifer Chaitman, Lisa Church, Karon The company’s inaugural performance gar- of Music, Inc. © Brooklyn Academy of Music, Inc. Cullen, Noe DeWitt, Jack and Paula Kaminer, (2018). nered a Bessie Award for “blasting open our Financial Services Rebecca Kilborne, and Margaret Selby notions of tap,” and the company continues Andrea Nellis, Nellis Management Services Claudia Rahardjanoto, Byron Tittle, Elizabeth Burke Photo: Matthew Murphy BAM

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