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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Brooklyn Academy of Music Adam E. Max, BAM Board Chair William I. Campbell and Nora Ann Wallace, BAM Board Vice Chairs Katy Clark, President Elemental Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer Created by Michelle Dorrance and Nicholas Van Young Dorrance Dance DATES: DEC 5—8 at 7:30pm Season Sponsor: DEC 8 at 2pm LOCATION: BAM Fisher (Fishman Space) Michelle Dorrance is the recipient of the Harkness Dance Residency at the RUN TIME: Approx 70min BAM Fisher in 2018 no intermission Leadership support for dance at the BAM Harvey and the BAM Fisher provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Major support for dance at BAM provided by The SHS Foundation Support for female choreographers and composers in the Next Wave Festival provided by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Support for dance at the BAM Fisher provided by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation Chubb is a lead sponsor of BAM #BAMNextWave BAM Fisher Elemental Craft Photo: Matthew Murphy Warren Created by Performers Michelle Dorrance and Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie Nicholas Van Young Christopher Broughton Elizabeth Burke Choreography by Warren Craft Michelle Dorrance and Donovan Dorrance Nicholas Van Young Michelle Dorrance in collaboration with the performers Aaron Marcellus Carson Murphy Additional choreography by Claudia Rahardjanoto Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie Gregory Richardson Matthew “Megawatt” West Leonardo Sandoval Byron Tittle Original music by Matthew “Megawatt” West Donovan Dorrance Nicholas Van Young Gregory Richardson Aaron Marcellus Elemental has been developed in part Featuring original composition during the Harkness Dance Residency at “Stridulations for Dorrance” by BAM Fisher. Billy Martin Underwriting support for this work is Additional music provided by Anh-Tuyet Nguyen and “All the Things You Are in C Sharp” Robert Pollock. Written/Composed by Charles Mingus Published by Adams Avenue Hand-crafted instruments provided courtesy of artist Adam Morford of Lighting design MorfBeats. morfbeats.com Kathy Kaufmann 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 Jason Samuels Smith’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 New York City 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 Rotunda 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 Tap Dance 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 New York University 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