KIDD PIVOT AND ELECTRIC COMPANY THEATRE BETROFFENHEIT FEB 14–16 / 7:30 PM

Created by and © Wendy D Photography © Wendy

This performance contains strobe-like effects, non-toxic theatrical haze and coarse language.

There will be one 15-minute intermission.

FEB 2018 VISIT THEBROADSTAGE.ORG 7 Written by...... Jonathon Young Choreographed and Directed by...... Crystal Pite Performers...... Christopher Hernandez David Raymond Cindy Salgado Jermaine Spivey Tiffany Tregarthen Jonathon Young* Understudy...... Yiannis Logothetis Apprentice...... Renée Sigouin Composition and Sound Design...... Owen Belton Alessandro Juliani Meg Roe Set Design...... Jay Gower Taylor Lighting Design...... Tom Visser Costume Design...... Nancy Bryant Rehearsal Direction...... Eric Beauchesne Additional Choreography...... Bryan Arias (salsa) Cindy Salgado (salsa) David Raymond (tap) Set Construction...... Scene Ideas Scenic Painters...... Patrick Spavor Daniel Dumitriu Puppets...... Heidi Wilkinson Omanie Elias Costume Assistant and Builder...... Nicola Ryall Costume Cutter...... Linda Chow Stitcher...... Patrice Yapp Stitcher and Builder...... Wendy Dallian Production Manager and Technical Director ...... Jeremy Collie-Holmes Audio Technician/Show Control...... Eric Chad Stage Manager...... Philomena Sondergaard Stage Carpenter...... Isaac Robinson

MANAGEMENT Electric Company Theatre...... Shantini Klaassen, Managing Producer Jennifer Swan, Company & Financial Manager

* Appears with the permission of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association. The participation of these Artists is arranged by permission of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association under the provisions of the Dance Opera Theatre Policy (DOT).”

8 FEB 2018 Kidd Pivot...... Jim Smith, Executive Director Jason Dubois, Producer Francesca Piscopo, Artist and Tour Manager Warren Chan, Marketing and Communications Manager Ann Hepper, Accounts Katie Nichols, Administrative Assistant Brent Belsher, Fundraising Associate and Company Manager on Tour

Agents for Kidd Pivot ...... Menno Plukker Theatre Agent Inc. (except ) mennoplukker.com

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Music commissioned by the Charles and NOTES FROM CRYSTAL PITE Joan Gross Family Foundation. “Simply translated, Betroffenheit means shock, bewilderment or impact. The Stage makeup provided by M.A.C. root of the word is treffen, ‘to meet’ and Cosmetics. betroffen, ‘to be met,’ and Betroffenheit is the state of having been met, stopped, Thank you to Artemis Gordon and Arts struck or perplexed in the face of a Umbrella, Barry Kootchin, Pamela Taylor, particular event … a space and time where Carey Dodge, Kristina Lemieux, language ceases. We are left only with an Creative Space Society and Progress Lab awareness of the limits of language and 1422. the limits of what can be in. In this gap definitions disappear and certainty Board of Directors: vanishes. Anything is possible – any Kidd Pivot – Ainslie Cyopik (Treasurer), response, any action or inaction. Nothing Dory Dynna (Secretary), Valerie Jerome, is prescribed. Everything is up for grabs in Barry McKinnon (Vice President), Derek this fertile and palpable silence.” Porter, Guy Riecken (President) – From “And Then, We Act” by Ann Bogart Electric Company Theatre – Emira “What a daunting task transforming a Mears, (President) Brian Paterson, (Vice troubled mind is, when what you’re looking President),Tara Rasmussen & Katie Wyka, for is what you’re looking with.” (Co-Secretary), Tania Lo, (Treasurer) – From “In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts – Michael Fergusson, Cheri Hessami, Close Encounters with Addiction.” Veronica S.C. Rossos, and Laara Sadiq. by Gabor Maté

Jonathon Young’s personal story of trauma and loss - his own Betroffenheit - is at the heart of this venture. Jonathon has

FEB 2018 VISIT THEBROADSTAGE.ORG 9 challenged me to use our art form to ABOUT THE COMPANIES grapple with the question of suffering, KIDD PIVOT and he has steadied me with his courage. I am so grateful for this opportunity to Integrating movement, original music, stand beside him for a while, to look out text and rich visual design, Kidd Pivot’s at this difficult territory, and to navigate it performance work is assembled with with this earnest act of creating. I’ve been recklessness and rigour, balancing sharp surprised by the joy within our process, exactitude with irreverence and risk. and profoundly moved by Jonathon’s Under the direction of internationally curiosity and open heart. Throughout his renowned Canadian choreographer deeply sought effort, Jonathon has made Crystal Pite, the company’s distinct room for us to catch glimpses of grace. choreographic language – a breadth of movement fusing classical elements and Jonathon and I want to acknowledge the complexity and freedom of structured and thank the brilliant team of dancers - improvisation – is marked by a strong Bryan, Cindy, David, Tiffany and Jermaine theatrical sensibility and a keen sense of - for their countless artistic contributions, wit and invention. which have been utterly essential to Kidd Pivot tours extensively around the creating both the form and content of this world with productions that include The production. A huge thank you also goes Tempest Replica (2011), The You Show out to our extraordinary design team – (2010), Dark Matters (2009), Lost Action AJ, Meg, Owen, Jay, Nancy and Tom – for (2006) and Double Story (2004), created their vision, hard work, attention to detail with Richard Siegal. Kidd Pivot received and collaborative spirit. Thank you as the 2006 Rio Tinto Alcan Performing well to Blake Brooker and for Arts Award and was resident company inspiration and guidance. And finally, our at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, with eternal gratitude for the technical team the support of Kulturfonds Frankfurt and production support staff – Eric B, RheinMain in Frankfurt, , from Jan, Jeremy, Eric C, Jim, Jessie and our 2010 to 2012. kiddpivot.org teams at Kidd Pivot and Electric Company Theatre – whose ingenuity, foresight, ELECTRIC COMPANY THEATRE patience and problem solving have been instrumental in getting this production Electric Company Theatre is one of here tonight. Canada’s leading creators of live theatre, rich in spectacle and adventurous in This production is dedicated to Kim form, challenging theatrical conventions Collier, Stuart Collier and Elaine Conway. while preserving a strong sense of story. The company was originally formed as a collective in 1996 by Siminovitch Prize-winning director Kim Collier, David Hudgins, Jonathon Young and Governor General’s Award-winning writer Kevin Kerr, who met while training at Studio 58 in Vancouver.

10 FEB 2018 Electric Company’s newest production Choreographer of Nederlands Dans The Full Light of Day is written by Daniel Theater, Associate Dance Artist of Brooks and Directed by Kim Collier, and Canada’s National Arts Centre, and will premiere at the Vancouver Playhouse Associate Artist at Sadler’s Wells, London. in January 2019. The company has created In 2002, she formed her own company over 20 original productions including the Kidd Pivot in Vancouver. Kidd Pivot tours film/theatre hybrid (Arts Tear the Curtain! nationally and internationally, performing Club Theatre) a live-cinematic adaptation works such as Dark Matters and Lost of Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit (American Action. Kidd Pivot’s residency at the Conservatory Theatre), Studies in Motion Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt (Canadian Stage) and (Edinburgh Brilliant! (2010-2012) provided Pite the opportunity Fringe, San Jose Stage). In 2005, the to create and tour The You Show and company wrote and directed The Score - a Replica. Most recently, the feature film for CBC Television that played company has premiered Betroffenheit, festivals in Canada, USA, Mexico, Taipei a co-creation with playwright and actor and Tokyo. Electric Company has received Jonathon Young of Electric Company numerous industry awards across Theatre. Canada including the first Rio Tinto Alcan Performing Arts Award for Theatre (2001). JONATHON YOUNG, co-creator, writer, In 2009, Electric Company co-founded performer, is a Canadian actor/writer Progress Lab 1422, a 6,000 sq ft theatre and has collaborated on the making of creation space in Vancouver, with Rumble over 20 original productions with Electric Theatre, Neworld Theatre and Boca del Company Theatre including: Tear the Lupo. electriccompanytheatre.com Curtain! (a film/theatre hybrid for Arts Club Theatre and Canadian Stage), No BIOS Exit (a re-working of Jean-Paul Sartre’s CRYSTAL PITE, co-creator, play performed in San Francisco at the choreographer, director, is a Canadian American Conservatory Theatre) and choreographer and performer, and Studies in Motion (Vancouver Playhouse, former company member of Ballet British Edmonton Citadel, Theatre Calgary, Columbia and William Forsythe’s Ballett Canadian Stage). In addition, Jonathon Frankfurt. has worked across Canada as a freelance actor. Some recent projects include: Pite’s professional choreographic debut All But Gone (Necessary Angel, ) was in 1990, at Ballet . The Waiting Room (Arts Club Theatre, Since then, she has created over 40 Vancouver), The Great Gatsby (Theatre works for companies such as Nederlands Calgary), Hamlet (Bard on the Beach Dans Theater I, Cullberg Ballet, Ballett Festival, Vancouver). Jonathon has Frankfurt, The National Ballet of Canada, collaborated with Crystal Pite on two Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal (Resident projects for Nederlands Dance theatre: Choreographer, 2001-2004), Cedar Parade and The Statement, which was Lake Contemporary Ballet, Ballet British performed at New York City Centre in Columbia, and /Fou November 2016. Jonathon is a recipient of Glorieux. She has also collaborated the UK National Dance Award and several with Electric Company Theatre and Jessie Richardson Awards for acting and Robert Lepage. Crystal is an Associate writing.

FEB 2018 VISIT THEBROADSTAGE.ORG 11 CHRISTOPHER HERNANDEZ, performer, with Mikhail Baryshnikov, assisted Andy was born and raised in Miami, Fl. Blankenbuehler in preproduction for After graduating with a BFA from the Hamilton and other Broadway shows, and Conservatory of Dance, Christopher assisted and performed for Mia Michaels. went on to join the companies of She is on faculty with New York City Dance Ballet Hispanico, Sleep No More, and Alliance and was Assistant Rehearsal most recently Broadway’s ON YOUR Director for Cedar Lake Contemporary FEET! Christopher was a performer in Ballet. Cindy was a cofounder and teacher Lincoln Center’s Great American Dance for Artists Striving To End Poverty. She series featuring Ballet Hispanico, which co-started a multimedia dance theatre premiered internationally in theatres in company called Shook Ones in 2014. Cindy 2016, and on television as part of PBS has been a proud member of Kidd Pivot Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration since 2009. in 2017. He also has been seen dancing alongside recording artists such as Ricky JERMAINE SPIVEY, performer, was Martin and Marc Anthony in televised born in Baltimore, Maryland, where performances and concerts. This is he began his dance training and later Christopher’s first year working with attended performing arts high school at Kidd Pivot. the Baltimore School for the Arts. After graduating with a BFA in dance from The DAVID RAYMOND, performer, was born Juilliard School in 2002, he moved to and raised in Penticton, BC. He began Lisbon, Portugal, where he danced with as a tap dancer and continued to train Ballet Gulbenkian from 2002 to 2005. In in classical and other forms of dance, 2005, Jermaine joined the Cullberg Ballet, forming Over the Influence with four where he met Crystal Pite, and performed street dancers. In 2004, he entered a with the company until Summer 2008. 2-year creative residency with Tiffany Jermaine has received several awards in Tregarthen in Antwerp, Belgium. Upon dance including the National Foundation returning to Vancouver in 2007, they for Advancement in the Arts 1st Level founded Out Innerspace Dance Theatre Scholarship and the Princess Grace Award. to serve as the home for their creative Jermaine has been performing with Kidd work, and Modus Operandi as a platform Pivot since August 2008. to develop and share their practice with young artists. David has performed with TIFFANY TREGARTHEN, performer, was The 605 Collective, Wen Wei Dance, born in Prince George, BC. Her early Response Dance, Dana Gingras, Simone mentors include Margo Hartley, Rosemarie Orlando, Beijing Modern Dance, Vancouver Harris, Linda Klassen, Rachael Poirier and Opera and Move: The Company. Yaming Li. Her professional career began with Mia Michaels RAW and Wes Veldink CINDY SALGADO, performer, was born in New York and POZ Dance Theatre in in Sunnyvale, CA. She began her training Seoul. She spent two years of professional at the age of 3. After graduating from the development in Antwerp with her partner Juilliard School in 2005 with the Princess David Raymond, before returning to co- Grace Award, she began freelancing in create Out Innerspace Dance Theatre New York. She danced for Aszure Barton and its associated post-secondary dance & Artists, most memorably on tour program Modus Operandi. Additionally,

12 FEB 2018 Tiffany created a work for Les Grands Theatre Projects, Theatre Junction, Ballets Canadiens through their National Citadel Theatre, Belfry, Intrepid Theatre, Young Choreographer Competition, has Theatre SKAM, Theatre Aquarius, Manitoba danced with The Turning Point Ensemble, Theatre Centre, Western Canada Theatre, Radix Theatre, The Beijing Modern Dance Orlando Shakespeare Festival, American Company, The Vancouver Opera, The 605 Conservatory Theatre (San Francisco), Collective, Wen Wei Dance, and Justine Center Theater Group (LA) and the Chambers among others, and joined Kidd Britten/Pears Festival (UK). They are Pivot in 2013. thrilled to be working with Kidd Pivot.

OWEN BELTON, composer, sound JAY GOWER TAYLOR, set designer, started designer, is based in Vancouver, Canada, out in theatre as a professional dancer graduated from Simon Fraser University in where he enjoyed an international career 1993 with a degree in Fine and Performing spanning more than 20 years. Parallel Arts (concentration, Music) and studied to his dance career, Jay developed his acoustic and computer music composition skills as a designer. Some of his first with Owen Underhill and Barry Truax. He opportunities designing for theatre were has been writing music for dance since with Serge Bennathan, collaborating on 1994 when he created the music for Absences, The Invisible Life of Joseph Shapes of a Passing for choreographer Finch, Conversations and Elles. More Crystal Pite’s piece for Toronto-based recently, Jay designed The Virtual Stage Ballet Jorgen. Since then, he has created and Electric Company Theatre’s live- many scores for dance companies cinematic interpretation of Jean-Paul including Kidd Pivot, The National Ballet Sartre’s NO EXIT. In the works of Crystal of Canada, Nederlands Dans Theatre, Pite, Jay has designed Plot Point, Solo Cullberg Ballet in Stockholm, Ballet Echo, Parade, Frontier and In the Event Nuremberg, Oregon Ballet Theatre and for ; Emergence 420 People in Prague. Since 2008, Owen for the National Ballet of Canada; Dark has also been creating sound design and Matters and The Tempest Replica for Kidd composing for theatre, working mainly Pivot. for theatre companies in Vancouver. Additionally, he has scored several NANCY BRYANT, costume designer, lives in short films. Vancouver, BC, and designs costumes for dance, theatre, opera and film. Works with ALESSANDRO JULIANI and MEG ROE, Crystal Pite include Seasons’ Canon (Paris composer, sound designer, are Canadian Opera), Parade and Plot Point (Nederlands theatre artists based in Vancouver. Their Dance Theater) and The Tempest Replica work has been seen and heard across (Kidd Pivot). Costume designs for Canada and internationally in conjunction theatre include Helen Lawrence (Stan with: The Shaw Festival, Canadian Stage, Douglas Inc.), The Overcoat (Canadian Factory Theatre, Centaur Theatre, Bard on Stage) and Tear the Curtain (Arts Club/ the Beach, Ruby Slippers Theatre, Electric Electric Company Theatre). Designs for Company Theatre, Blackbird Theatre, opera include Das Rheingold, The Flying Arts Club, The Vancouver Playhouse, Pi Dutchman, Rodelinda (The Pacific Opera), Theatre, Rumble Theatre, The National and Sweeney Todd (Vancouver Opera). Arts Centre, Theatre Calgary, Alberta Nancy has received a Leo (film) Award

FEB 2018 VISIT THEBROADSTAGE.ORG 13 for Legend of Earthsea, multiple Jessie Ballet Academy, among others, as well as Richardson Theatre Awards and the 2014 rehearsal director for Nederlands Dans Mayor’s Arts Award for Vancouver Theatre. Theater. He currently resides in Holland, and devotes most of his spare time to TOM VISSER, lighting designer, grew up in advocating for climate action justice and the countryside of west Ireland. At the age sustainable practices in the dance world. of 18 he started working in music theatre through his theatrical family. After 6 years JEREMY COLLIE-HOMES, production he started working in dance through manager, hails from Wellington, New the Nederlands Dans Theater. Since Zealand, where he graduated from 2005 he has created original designs for Victoria University with a Bachelor of choreographers: Crystal Pite, Alexander Arts in Theatre and Film and a Bachelor Ekman, Johan Inger, Stijn Celis, Lukas of Commerce and Administration Timulak, Sharon Eyal and Joeri Dubbe just in Management. Since then, he has to name a few. Recently Tom has been combined his love of travel with his creating his own projects through art career. He has worked as a Production installations and interactive media. Manager, Technical Director, Lighting Director and Stage Manager for festivals, ERIC BEAUCHESNE, rehearsal director, venues and companies in New Zealand, was born in Québec. Eric grew up Australia, the and Europe, fishing and hunting before discovering on cruise ships and now in Canada. In dance at the age of 16. A graduate of addition to his role at Kidd Pivot he is École supérieure de danse du Québec, currently involved as Technical Director he has been on stage with Les Grands with Vancouver-based companies Out Ballets Canadiens, the Badisches InnerSpace Dance Theatre and Tara Staatstheater Karlsruhe and Les Ballets Cheyenne Performance. He has recently Jazz de Montréal, as well as with Canadian worked with the Auckland International contemporary dance icons such as La Arts Festival, New Zealand (Venue Fondation Jean-Pierre Perrault, Paul- Manager), Push International Arts Festival André Fortier, Louise Lecavalier and (Venue Technical Director), Vancouver Crystal Pite. A company member since Folk Music Festival, Aeriosa Dance Society, 2004, Eric currently collaborates with Squamish Valley Music Festival, Holy Body Kidd Pivot as rehearsal director and stages Tattoo, Green Thumb Theatre and Wen Pite’s work on companies worldwide Wei Dance. Yes, he does often import including Cullberg Ballet, Ballet British New Zealand Marmite and will happily go Columbia, National Ballet of Canada, Bungee Jumping at a moment’s notice. Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and, most recently, Ballet Zürich. Eric has served as guest teacher and faculty for several organizations such as École de danse contemporaine de Montréal, Arts Umbrella Vancouver, Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation and Dutch National

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