2014 Next Wave Festival OCT 2014 Sponsored by Time Warner Inc. Roberto Diago, Aqui Estoy, 2014 Published by: Season Sponsor: Brooklyn Academy of Music Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board Moment William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board Marigold Karen Brooks Hopkins, President Joseph V. Melillo, Choreography by Executive Producer Jodi Melnick DATES: OCT 8—11 at 7:30pm LOCATION: BAM Fisher (Fishman Space) RUN TIME: 53min (no intermission) Season Sponsor Time Warner Inc. is the BAM 2014 Next Wave Festival Sponsor Leadership support for dance at BAM provided by The Harkness Foundation for Dance Major support for dance at BAM provided by The SHS Foundation. #MOMENTMARIGOLD BAM Fisher 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL performers into the process later in the game. With Moment Marigold, the need for the aloneness, and loneliness, Moment in the studio evaporated. It quickly became clear that this work needed the presence of both EmmaGrace and Maggie very early on in the process. I Marigold was working with ideas of the constant unfolding/unraveling of movement, of gnarled knots and images, motionless movement, pulled from a never- CHOREOGRAPHY ending desire to create new physical Jodi Melnick sequences and sensations in the body. Within the plentitude of dance PERFORMERS material we reference motifs from Jodi Melnick previous moments in the piece but not EmmaGrace Skove-Epes as an attempt to establish a thematic Maggie Thom structure. These references are fleeting, used to rouse the work into the next MUSIC phase of unraveling. The work is driven Steven Reker by our physical expressiveness; the body is the living, sensing, biological LIGHTING DESIGN plant that we implement as our Joe Levasseur aesthetic material. The experience of the performer drives the work without COSTUME DESIGN it being about the persona. I question Reid Bartelme & Harriet Jung if that is possible. Once the work was well on its way to becoming what I thought it was going to be, it changed drastically as it meshed with the actual space, Joe’s lighting design, Steven’s score, and Reid and Harriet’s costume Creation of Moment Marigold was design. This is the nature of it—it is a made possible in part by the Doris living thing. Duke Charitable Foundation, ADI in Rockville Maryland, and the John These thoughts/notes are just Simon Guggenheim Foundation. fragments of the palette I was pulling from while creating the work. I am not testing any model that supports or NOTES ON MOMENT MARIGOLD refutes a thesis —rather I engage with a continuous act of creating. Entering the studio and developing movement has always been the —Jodi Melnick governing principle of my approach to dance making. I have always done this alone and then brought other dancers/ Photo: Jodi Melnick by Stephanie Berger 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL John). Melnick collaborated with artist Exchange/Spoke the Hub in 2011. Spradlin, Sarah Michelson, David Dorf- Burt Barr (Fanfare, 2009), and has Her past performance credits include man, Jodi Melnick, Beth Gill, Maria appeared in the video work of artists Martha Bowers, Leslie Arlette Boyce, Hassabi, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Who’s Charles Atlas and Jillian Peña. Melnick Noémie LaFrance, Sondra Loring, LeeSaar the Company, Anna Sperber, worked with Donna Uchizono (2005— Meredith Monk, Susan Osberg, Aileen Megan Sprenger, and Christopher 08), creating and performing in a trio Passloff, Jesse Philips-Fein, Dana Williams. He has received two Bessie with Mikhail Baryshnikov and Hristoula Salisbury, Maria Simpson, and Nadia Awards for his design work, including Who Harakas, and danced with the Twyla Tykulsker/Spark(edit) Arts. Skove-Epes one with Big Dance Theater for Comme Tharp Dance Company from 1991— is pursuing her MFA in dance at Sarah Toujours Here I Stand. In 2009, his 94 and again in 2009. Melnick is Lawrence College. Drop Clock installation was featured in JODI MELNICK immensely grateful to all of the artists the lobby of Dance Theater Workshop. Choreographer she has worked with in the past, those In 2010, he showed a collection of MAGGIE THOM aforementioned as well as Yoshiko original paintings at PS 122. Ongoing Performer Jodi Melnick is a New York City-based Chuma, Nina Wiener, Irene Hultman, projects include lighting work for Jenni- choreographer, dancer, and teacher. Dennis O’Connor, Tere O’Connor, David Maggie Thom was born and raised in fer Monson, Big Dance Theater, Wendy Melnick is a 2014 Doris Duke Impact Neumann, Liz Roche, Lance Gries, New York City and received her BA Whelan, and Palissimo. Assistant to the Award recipient, a 2012 Guggenheim Yves Musard, Patricia Hoffbauer, and from Wesleyan University. Thom has Lighting Designer: Daniel Stearns Fellow, received a Jerome Robbins Russell Dumas. danced in five projects with Juliana F. joelevasseur.com New Essential Works Grant (2010— May/MAYDANCE, performing at NYLA, 11), a Foundation for Contemporary Currently, Melnick teaches technique the Chocolate Factory, University of Arts 2011 Grants to Artists Award, STEVEN REKER and composition at Barnard College, Wisconsin/Milwaukee, and Abrons Art and has been honored with two Bessie Music NYU (Experimental Theater Wing), as Center. Since 2007, Thom has worked Awards for sustained achievement in a guest teacher at Sarah Lawrence Col- with Sara Rudner appearing in Dancing dance (2001 and 2008). Her work Steven Reker is a Brooklyn-based lege, and the Trevor Day School. on View at the Baryshnikov Arts Center has been presented at New York City musician and choreographer who and the Institute of Contemporary Art Center, the Joyce Theater, New York founded the band People Get Ready in Boston. Thom has also danced with Live Arts (NYLA), The Kitchen, La in 2009. The group has presented EMMAGRACE SKOVE-EPES Vicky Shick at The Kitchen, mute/Me- MaMa, Jacob’s Pillow, American Dance their music and performance pieces at Performer gan Boyd and Luka Kito, Laurel Jen- Festival, Martha’s Vineyard, OtherShore The Kitchen, NYLA, Death by Audio, kins Tentindo, Stacy Grossfield, Molly Baryshnikov Arts Center, BAM, Skirball Dance Company, Barnard College, EmmaGrace Skove-Epes is a dancer Poerstel, and participated in Sarah Center (LA), Glasslands Gallery, and Sarah Lawrence College, and George and choreographer born and raised in Maxfield’s improvisational score In many other venues and performing Washington University. She created Brooklyn. Her work has been presented and Out of Uniform. In May of 2012, art centers in and outside of NY. He a new solo for Taryn Griggs (2014 at the Current Sessions (NYC), AUNTS, Thom wrote a “Why I Dance” column has worked as a musician-composer McKnight awardee), and has been Brooklyn Bridge Park, Center for for Dance magazine. Thom is an early and/or dancer-choreographer with the presented internationally: in Kansai, Performance Research, Gibney Dance childhood educator, teaches move- artists Yoshiko Chuma, David Byrne, Japan, for DanceBox; in Belfast, Center, Gowanus Arts Exchange, HERE ment and yoga to students of all ages, Robert Wilson, Bill T. Jones, Yasuko Ireland, opening the Dublin Dance Fes- Arts Center, Irondale Center for Theater, and is currently on faculty at Plymouth Yokoshi, Miranda July, and Annie-B tival in 2011; and in Tallinn, Estonia. Judson Memorial Church, Nothing Church School in Brooklyn Heights. Parson. Future projects include the In 2012, Melnick collaborated with Space, Paradise Theater, Performing staging of Richard Brautigan’s novella Trisha Brown, creating and performing Arts Conservatory of New Canaan, In Watermelon Sugar at The Kitchen in the solo One of Sixty Five Thousand Theaterlab, Triskelion Arts, Westbeth, JOE LEVASSEUR 2015. His new solo project MUSCLE Gestures. Melnick continues to perform and the 92nd St Y. Skove-Epes was the Lighting Design MEMORY will be premiering in 2015 and collaborate with choreographers recipient of a space grant at Brooklyn as well. He is so happy to be working such as Sara Rudner, Vicky Shick, Arts Exchange in 2012, and a space Joe Levasseur has collaborated with with Jodi again. Jon Kinzel, Susan Rethorst, and John grant and residency at Gowanus Arts many dance and performance artists Jasperse (creating Becky, Jodi, and including John Jasperse, RoseAnne 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL REID BARTELME & Special Thanks: HARRIET JUNG Costume Design Heartfelt thanks to EmmaGrace and Maggie for your unwavering Reid & Harriet Design is a clothing commitment, inspired dancing, and design studio in New York City founded humor. by Reid Bartelme and Harriet Jung in 2011. They first met as classmates at Thank you, Joe and Steven. the Fashion Institute of Technology and, in collaboration, they have designed Thank you, Reid and Harriet. costumes for choreographers Justin Peck, Marcelo Gomes, Andrea Miller, Thank you to Joe Melillo and the entire Emery Lecrone, Kyle Abraham, Mauro staff and crew at BAM Fisher. Bigonzetti, and Doug Varone. They have costumed productions at Ameri- Thank you to Adrienne Willis, Ruth can Ballet Theatre, New York City Bal- Moe, Jason Wells, and the entire staff let, and BalletNext and have produced at the American Dance Institute (ADI) clothes for commissioned works at Fall for incubating this work. for Dance, the Youth America Grand Prix, and Dancers Responding to AIDS. More heartfelt thanks to Sara Rudner, Current projects include new Justin Vicky Shick, Doris Reyes, Jon Kinzel, Peck creations for Miami City Ballet Burt Barr, Trisha Brown, Sarah Mi- and Pacific Northwest Ballet. Along chelson, Laurie Roth, Dean Villarini, with Justin Peck, they are featured in Katie Glasner, and the creative space at the documentary Ballet 422 which Barnard College. premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. 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