Betroffenheit Feb 14–16 / 7:30 Pm
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KIDD PIVOT AND ELECTRIC COMPANY THEATRE BETROFFENHEIT FEB 14–16 / 7:30 PM Created by Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young © 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 Canada) mennoplukker.com Eponymous (Canada) eponymous.ca 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, Vancouver 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 taken 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 Kevin Kerr 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, Germany, 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 The Tempest 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