The Hard Nut

CAL PERFORMANCES PRESENTS PROGRAM

Friday, December 14, 2012, 7:30pm Saturday, December 15, 2012, 2pm & 8pm Sunday, December 16, 2012, 3pm Thursday, December 20, 2012, 7:30pm Friday, December 21, 2012, 7:30pm Saturday, December 22, 2012, 2pm & 8pm Sunday, December 23, 2012, 3pm Zellerbach Hall The Hard Nut

Based on Nutcracker and Mouseking, by E.T.A. Hoffmann Music by Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker, Op. 71 (1891–1892) Production based on the work of Charles Burns

Mark Morris, choreography Adrianne Lobel, set design Martin Pakledinaz, costume design James F. Ingalls, lighting design Stephanie BergerStephanie Mark Morris Dance Group

Chelsea Lynn Acree Samuel Black Rita Donahue MetLife Foundation is the Official Tour Sponsor of the Mark Morris Dance Group. Domingo Estrada, Jr. Lesley Garrison Lauren Grant Brian Lawson* Aaron Loux Laurel Lynch Stacy Martorana Major support for the Mark Morris Dance Group is provided by the Asian Cultural Council, Dallas McMurray Amber Star Merkens Maile Okamura Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Brooklyn Community Foundation, the Fund for the City of New York, Spencer Ramirez Billy Smith Noah Vinson The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Billy Rose Foundation, The Fan Fox and Jenn Weddel Michelle Yard Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, and Jane Stine and R. L. Stine.

* apprentice The Mark Morris Dance Group New Works Fund is supported by The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Meyer Sound/Helen and John Meyer, Shawn Gannon John Heginbotham June Omura Kraig Patterson PARC Foundation, and the Poss Family Foundation. Brandon Cournay John Eirich Julie Fiorenza The Mark Morris Dance Group’s performances are made possible with public funds from the Benjamin Freedman Jennifer Jones Claudia MacPherson New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council on the Arts, Brandon Randolph Utafumi Takemura Nicholas Wagner and the National Endowment for the Arts. Mark Morris, Artistic Director The Hard Nut © 1991 Discalced, Inc. d/b/a Mark Morris Dance Group Nancy Umanoff, Executive Director

Berkeley Symphony Orchestra These performances are made possible, in part, by Patron Sponsors Paul and Sheri Siegel, George Cleve, Conductor and Kathleen G. Henschel.

Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir Cal Performances’ 2012–2013 season is sponsored by Wells Fargo. Robert Geary, Director

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The Hard Nut

CAST

Marie Lauren Grant Arabian Fritz June Omura Brian Lawson, Laurel Lynch, Stacy Martorana, Brandon Randolph, Nicholas Wagner Louise/Princess Pirlipat Jenn Weddel Dr. Stahlbaum/King Mark Morris Chinese Mrs. Stahlbaum/Queen John Heginbotham John Eirich, Julie Fiorenza, Utafumi Takemura Housekeeper/Nurse Kraig Patterson Drosselmeier Billy Smith Russian Nutcracker/Young Drosselmeier Aaron Loux Chelsea Lynn Acree, Samuel Black, Rita Donahue, Lesley Garrison, Barbie Doll Chelsea Lynn Acree Claudia MacPherson, Dallas McMurray Robot Spencer Ramirez French Party Guests Jennifer Jones, Maile Okamura, Spencer Ramirez, Noah Vinson Samuel Black, Rita Donahue, Domingo Estrada, Jr., Shawn Gannon, Laurel Lynch, Dallas McMurray, Maile Okamura, Noah Vinson, Michelle Yard Suitors John Eirich, Brian Lawson

Changers Chelsea Lynn Acree, Brandon Cournay, Dentist Shawn Gannon Brandon Randolph Flowers Rat King Utafumi Takemura Samuel Black, Rita Donahue, Domingo Estrada, Jr., Benjamin Freedman, Lesley Garrison, Jennifer Jones, Laurel Lynch, Stacy Martorana, Dallas McMurray, Maile Okamura, Rat Soldiers June Omura, Noah Vinson, Nicholas Wagner, Michelle Yard Julie Fiorenza, Lesley Garrison, Jennifer Jones, Claudia MacPherson, Stacy Martorana, Brandon Randolph

G. I. Joe Soldiers John Eirich, Benjamin Freedman, Brian Lawson, Spencer Ramirez, Nicholas Wagner

Snow Chelsea Lynn Acree, Samuel Black, Rita Donahue, John Eirich, Domingo Estrada, Jr., In memoriam Julie Fiorenza, Benjamin Freedman, Lesley Garrison, Jennifer Jones, Brian Lawson, Martin Pakledinaz Laurel Lynch, Claudia MacPherson, Stacy Martorana, Dallas McMurray, Maile Okamura, (1953–2012) Spencer Ramirez, Brandon Randolph, Utafumi Takemura, Noah Vinson, Nicholas Wagner, Jenn Weddel, Michelle Yard These performances are dedicated to the memory of Martin Pakledinaz, costume designer, longtime collaborator, and dear friend. Rat Queen Chelsea Lynn Acree

Spanish Domingo Estrada, Jr., Michelle Yard

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The Hard Nut BERKELEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Joana Carneiro, Music Director Kent Nagano, Conductor Laureate ACT I George Cleve, Conductor Dr. and Mrs. Stahlbaum’s annual Christmas Eve Party. Their children Fritz, Marie, and Louise violin i english horn wait in the den. Party dances: polka, hokey- Franklyn D’Antonio, Concertmaster Peter Lemberg pokey, hesitation, stroll, bump, waltz. Friend Laura Albers, Associate Concertmaster of the family Drosselmeier brings animated Matthew Szemela, Assistant Concertmaster clarinet toys that he has made. He gives a Nutcracker to Eugene Chukhlov Roman Fukshansky, Principal the children. Fritz breaks it. The children fight. Larisa Kopylovsky Diana Dorman Dr. Stahlbaum changes the subject. The guests Emanuela Nikiforova go home. The family goes to bed. The house- Candy Sanderson bass clarinet Lisa Zadek Peter Josheff keeper cleans up. Susana Millman Amber Star Merkens and Noah Vinson in The Hard Nut violin ii bassoon Marie can’t sleep and comes downstairs to see if Daniel Flanagan, Principal Carla Wilson, Principal the Nutcracker is resting comfortably. At mid- Yashushi Ogura, Assistant Principal Shawn Jones night she is frightened by rats. Everything in and stepped backwards seven times. Karsten Windt the room grows to giant size. G. I. Joes led by The King commanded Drosselmeier to David Cheng horn the Nutcracker battle rats led by the mutant Rat find the hard nut or face decapitation. Lauren Avery Eric Achen, Principal King. Marie kills the Rat King with her slipper. Drosselmeier set off in search of the hard Joseph Maile Stuart Gronningen Loren Tayerle She falls unconscious. The Nutcracker is trans- nut. He traveled the world for fifteen viola David Goldklang formed into a young man. Marie is tucked in. years before finding it back at home. Tiantian Lan, Principal A worried Drosselmeier makes his way through Ilana Matfis, Assistant Principal trumpet the blizzard. The ugly teenage Pirlipat watched as one Darcy Rindt Cheonho Yoon, Principal young man after another attempted to Patrick Kroboth Kale Cumings crack the hard nut. The last one to try Deanna Said ACT II was Drosselmeier’s own nephew. He suc- trombone ceeded. On his seventh step backward, cello Tom Hornig, Principal Carol Rice, Principal Craig McAmis Marie is in a fever. Drosselmeier comes to see if he stepped on the Rat Queen, killing Shirley Hunt, Assistant Principal Marie is resting comfortably and tells her one of her. Pirlipat became beautiful and reject- Wanda Warkentin bass trombone his stories: ed the young Drosselmeier as he started Adaiha Macadam-Somer David Ridge to become ugly—like a nutcracker. Once upon a time, a King and a Queen bass tuba had a beautiful baby girl named Pirlipat. At this point, Marie interrupts the story Michel Taddei, Principal Bradley Moller, Principal The Queen’s old enemy, the Rat Queen, and offers her love to young Drosselmeier. Robert Ashley threatened to ruin little Pirlipat. The Mrs. Stahlbaum acknowledges her daughter’s timpani flute Kevin Neuhoff, Principal nurse and the cat were left to guard the new maturity with a flower dance. Everyone in Emma Moon, Principal baby at night. While the nurse and cat the world joins Marie and young Drosselmeier Melanie Keller percussion slept, the Rat Queen destroyed Princess in celebrating their love. The two go away to- Sarah Holzman Ward Spangler, Principal Pirlipat’s face. The Royal Family was hor- gether forever. Scott Bleaken rified by the sight of their formerly beau- piccolo tiful daughter. The Rat Queen explained Sarah Holzman harp that the Princess would regain her EPILOGUE Wendy Tamis, Principal beauty only after a young man cracked oboe Deborah Shidler, Principal celesta the hard nut, Krakatuk, with his teeth Louise and Fritz are sent to bed. Bennie Cottone Gregory Mason, Principal

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PIEDMONT EAST BAY CHILDREN’S CHOIR Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky From 1988 to 1991, he was Director of Dance at (1840–1893) began his ca- the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, the Robert Geary, Artistic Director reer as a civil servant. In national opera house of Belgium. Among the 1862, he gave up his job works created during his time there were three Michael Adams and enrolled at the evening-length dances: L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed Rachel Adams St. Petersburg Conservatory. il Moderato; Dido and Aeneas; and The Hard Lucy Allen He was offered the Nut. In 1990, he founded the White Oak Dance Isaak Barajas Professorship of Harmony Project with Mikhail Baryshnikov. Mr. Morris Sarah Beasley at the newly opened is also a ballet choreographer and has created

Andres Beck-Ruiz Tom Bachtell Tate Bissinger Moscow Conservatory in eight works for San Francisco Ballet since 1994 Katherine Brown 1866. After the success of his first piano concer- and received commissions from many others. Sarah Chin to, he began a correspondence with Nadezhda His work is in the repertory of Pacific Northwest Chloe Combes von Meck, a wealthy widow, whose financial Ballet, Boston Ballet, the Dutch National Ballet, Milo DeOlivares support enabled him to devote himself to com- New Zealand Ballet, Houston Ballet, English Ruth Dewit position. They remained correspondents until a National Ballet, and the Royal Ballet. Emi Fogg misunderstanding in 1890 ended their relation- Mr. Morris, named music director of the Rachel Frost ship, but they never actually met. Tchaikovsky 2013 Ojai Music Festival, is noted for his musi- Courtney Gao Juliet Hayes made a disastrous marriage in 1877, possibly in cality and has been described as “undeviating in Ryan Howzell an attempt to conceal his homosexuality; a sepa- his devotion to music.” He has conducted per- Nora Hurley ration followed an attempted suicide after only formances for the Mark Morris Dance Group Dylan Jones eleven weeks of marriage. Despite his subse- since 2006. He has worked extensively in opera, Nicolas Lai quent depressions, he managed to produce his directing and choreographing productions for Bryn Lawson most successful opera, Eugene Onegin (1877– the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Olivia Lee 1878), his Fourth Symphony (1878), and his Gotham Chamber Opera, English National Andrea Leung Violin Concerto (1878) during this period. In Opera, and the Royal Opera, Covent Garden. Rebekah Lorencz Florence-Faith Matteson 1881, he gave up teaching at the conservatory In 1991, he was named a Fellow of the Ratu Maulana and for the next seven years was deeply involved MacArthur Foundation. He has received eleven Ariel McEtchin in composition. His death from cholera in honorary doctorates to date. In 2006, Mr. Morris Seth Moure St. Petersburg, after imprudently drinking un- received the New York City Department of Bailey Ramirez boiled water, occurred soon after the first perfor- Cultural Affairs Mayor’s Award for Arts & Genevieve Raushenbush mance of his Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique) Culture and a WQXR Gramophone Special Carmen Sanchez in 1893. Recognition Award “for being an American William Schaff ambassador for classical music at home and Kay Sibal Mark Morris Mark Elka Sorensen was born abroad.” He is the subject of a biography, Eliana Tallarida on August 29, 1956, in Morris, by Joan Acocella (Farrar, Straus & Delphina Wedell Seattle, Washington, Giroux), and Marlowe & Company published Hannah Williams where he studied with a volume of photographs and critical essays en- Abigail Willson Verla Flowers and Perry titled Mark Morris’ L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Orli Ziv Brunson. In the early Moderato: A Celebration. years of his career, he Mr. Morris is a member of the American performed with the Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Koleda Balkan Dance Philosophical Society. In recent years, he has re- Ensemble, and later ceived the Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance

Sarah Schatz with the dance compa- Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement (2007), nies of Lar Lubovitch, Hannah Kahn, Laura the Leonard Bernstein Lifetime Achievement Dean, and Eliot Feld. He formed the Mark Award for the Elevation of Music in Society Morris Dance Group in 1980, and has since cre- (2010), and the Benjamin Franklin Laureate ated more than 130 works for the company. Prize for Creativity (2012).

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TheMark Morris Dance Group (MMDG) was seniors, and a school offering dance classes to und Isolde for the Opéra National de Paris, di- Matthew Rose (rehearsal di- formed in 1980 and gave its first concert that students of all ages. For more information, visit rected by Peter Sellars with video installations rector) began his dance train- year in New York City. The company’s tour- www.mmdg.org. by Bill Viola; as well as two other world premiere ing in Midland, Michigan, ing schedule steadily expanded to include cit- works directed by Mr. Sellars, L’Amour de Loin with Linda Z. Smith at age ies in the United States and around the world, Adrianne Lobel (scenic design) has carved out an and Adriana Mater, composed by Kaija Saariaho 17. After receiving his B.F.A. and in 1986 it made its first national television impressive career as a stage designer. Her work with librettos by Amin Maalouf. He has re- in dance from the University program for the PBS series Dance in America. tells a visual story in response to a script and/ ceived two Tony Awards and the Obie, Drama of Michigan in 1992, he In 1988, MMDG was invited to become the or piece of music. Ms. Lobel is also a painter, in Desk, Lucille Lortel, and Helen Hayes awards, moved to New York City. He national dance company of Belgium, and spent which she translates nature. In both, she believes among others. was a soloist with the Martha Graham Dance three years in residence at the Théâtre Royal de in paring down elements to essentials, and that Company from 1993 to 1996, and in 1997 began la Monnaie in Brussels. The company returned negative space—the space between objects—is James F. Ingalls’s (lighting design) designs working with MMDG. After several years of to the United States in 1991 as one of the world’s as powerful as the objects themselves. Her stage for Mark Morris include Orfeo ed Euridice performing full-time with the group, he began leading dance companies, performing across the work has most recently been seen on Broadway (Metropolitan Opera); King Arthur (English assisting Mr. Morris with the creation of new United States and at major international festivals. in The Diary of Anne Frank and A Year with Frog National Opera); Sylvia, Sandpaper Ballet, works. He has been the company’s rehearsal di- in Brooklyn, New York, the company maintains and Toad, and at the Metropolitan Opera for the Maelstrom, and Pacific (San Francisco Ballet); rector since 2006. strong ties to several cities, most notably its West 2011 staging of John Adams’s Nixon in China Platée (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and Coast home, Cal Performances, and its Midwest (choreographed by Mark Morris and directed by New York City Opera); L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed home, the Krannert Center for the Performing Peter Sellars). Other works with Mr. Sellars in- il Moderato; Dido and Aeneas; and The Hard Nut dancers Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana- clude Mr. Adams’s Doctor Atomic (San Francisco (Mark Morris Dance Group); Ein Herz (Paris Champaign. MMDG also appears regularly Opera), The Rake’s Progress (Théâtre du Châtelet, Opera Ballet); and the initial White Oak Dance Chelsea Lynn Acree grew up in New York; Boston; Fairfax, Virginia; and Paris), The Magic Flute (Glyndebourne Festival), Project tour. His work for Lincoln Center in- in Baltimore, Maryland, Seattle. MMDG made its debut at the Mostly Così fan tutte (Pepsico Summerfare, New York), cludes Zaide, Ainadamar, and Bach Cantatas, all where she began her dance Mozart Festival in 2002 and at the Tanglewood and The Mikado (Lyric Opera of Chicago). directed by Peter Sellars, and Renaissance Muse, training with Sharon Lerner Music Festival in 2003, and has since been in- For Mark Morris, she has designed L’Allegro, il directed by Mark Lamos. At the Metropolitan and continued at Carver vited to both festivals annually. From the com- Penseroso ed il Moderato; The Hard Nut; Orfeo ed Opera, Mr. Ingalls has also designed An Center for the Arts and pany’s many London seasons, it has garnered Euridice; Platée; and King Arthur, among others. American Tragedy, Salome, Benvenuto Cellini, Technology. Since receiving two Laurence Olivier Awards. MMDG is noted The Gambler, War and Peace, and Wozzeck. her B.F.A. in dance from for its commitment to live music, a feature of Martin Pakledinaz (costume design) has de- Most recently, he designed A Flowering Tree SUNY Purchase in 2005, she has had the op- every performance on its international touring signed costumes for theater, opera, and dance. and La Passion de Simone (New Crowned Hope portunity to work with a variety of artists, in- schedule since 1996. MMDG collaborates with He has collaborated with Mark Morris on at the Barbican Centre, London), Dr. Atomic cluding SYREN Modern Dance, Laura leading orchestras, opera companies, and musi- works for the Mark Morris Dance Group, San (Holland Festival/De Nederlandse Opera and Peterson, Hilary Easton + Company, and cians, including cellist Yo-Yo Ma in the Emmy Francisco Ballet, and Boston Ballet. He has San Francisco Opera), and The Cherry Orchard Michael and the Go-Getters. Ms. Acree is on the Award-winning filmFalling Down Stairs (1997); also designed costumes for New York City (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). He often col- faculty at The School at the Mark Morris Dance percussionist and composer Zakir Hussain, Ballet, including Christopher Wheeldon’s The laborates with the Wooden Floor (formerly the Center, where she teaches children and adults Mr. Ma, and jazz pianist Ethan Iverson in Kolam Nightingale and The Rose. Mr. Pakledinaz’s Saint Joseph Ballet) in Santa Ana, California. how to move through space. She began working (2002); The Bad Plus inViolet Cavern (2004); New York credits include Chaplin, Nice Work if with MMDG in 2007 and joined the company pianists Emanuel Ax, Garrick Ohlsson, and You Can Get It (Tony Award nomination); The Charles Burns was born in Washington DC. He in 2011. Yoko Nozaki in Mozart Dances (2006); and with Normal Heart, Anything Goes (Tony nomina- currently lives in Philadelphia with his wife, the English National Opera in Four Saints in Three tion); Gypsy, starring Patti Lupone and direct- painter Susan Moore. His illustrations and com- Samuel Black is from Acts (2000) and King Arthur (2006). MMDG’s ed by Arthur Laurents; The Pirate Queen; The ics have been widely published in Europe and the Berkeley, California, where film and television projects also include Dido Pajama Game (Tony nomination); Lend Me a United States, in such magazines as RAW, The he began studying tap at age and Aeneas, The Hard Nut, two documentaries Tenor (Hewes, Tony, and Outer Critics award New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The nine with Katie Maltsberger. for the United Kingdom’s South Bank Show, and nominations); The Trip to Bountiful; Thoroughly Believer, and Rolling Stone. His books include He received his B.F.A. in PBS’s Live from Lincoln Center. In September Modern Millie; Wonderful Town; The Wild Party; The Hive (Pantheon, 2012), X’ed Out (Pantheon, dance from SUNY Purchase, 2001, the Mark Morris Dance Center opened in A Year with Frog and Toad; Kiss Me, Kate (Tony- 2010), and Black Hole (Pantheon, 2005). and also studied at the Brooklyn, New York, to provide a home for the winner); Golden Child; The Diary of Anne Frank; Rotterdamse Dansacademie in company, rehearsal space for the dance commu- Waste; and The Life. His work in opera includes the Netherlands. He has performed with David nity, outreach programs for local children and Rodelinda for the Metropolitan Opera; Tristan Parker, Takehiro Ueyama, and Nelly van

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Bommel, and currently teaches MMDG master of Dance Heginbotham. He has performed Benjamin Freedman, from Dance, Rocha Dance Theater, and Sidra Bell classes and Dance for PD. He first appeared Missa Brevis with the Limón Dance Company Tampa, Florida, began his Dance New York. She first performed with with MMDG in 2005 and became a company and L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato dance training at Interlochen MMDG in 2007 and became a company mem- member in 2007. with MMDG. Arts Academy and North ber in 2011. Ms. Garrison teaches at The School Carolina School of the Arts, at the Mark Morris Dance Center and for the Brandon Cournay is from Domingo Estrada, Jr., a na- where he performed in Dance for PD program. Detroit, Michigan, and has tive of Victoria, Texas, stud- works by Martha Graham, had an exciting journey per- ied martial arts and earned Jerome Robbins, Jiří Kylián, Lauren Grant has danced forming in both commercial his black belt in 1994. He and Larry Keigwin. At University of South with MMDG since 1996. and concert dance. He per- danced ballet folklórico Florida, he participated in the reconstruction of Performing leading roles in formed in the Radio City through his church for eleven Bill T. Jones’s Serenade/The Proposition. He also The Hard Nut and Mozart Christmas Spectacular and years. Mr. Estrada earned his was a student at the Jacob’s Pillow Contemporary Dances, Ms. Grant has ap- has been featured in TV commercials or indus- B.F.A. in ballet and modern Program, where he worked with Judith Jamison. peared in over 40 of Mark trials for Puma, Sesame Street, and Target. dance from Texas Christian University and had Mr. Freedman will graduate in 2013 from New Morris’s works. She is on the Mr. Cournay can also be seen in the upcoming the honor of working with the late Fernando York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a faculty of The School at the dance film Musical Chairs. He has performed Bujones. During his undergraduate studies, he B.F.A. in dance and an intensive minor in psy- Mark Morris Dance Center and frequently leads with New York Theatre Ballet, MMDG, and attended the American Dance Festival, where he chology. At Tisch, he has had the opportunity to classes for the company before rehearsals and Morphoses, and is currently dancing with had the privilege of performing Skylight, a classic learn and perform Mark Morris’s Pacific, as well performances. Additionally, she teaches tech- Keigwin + Company. He received his B.F.A. in work by choreographer Laura Dean. He debuted as to choreograph multiple works on the student nique and repertory at schools and universities dance from the Juilliard School. with MMDG in 2007 and became a company company. In New York, he has worked with across the United States and abroad. Ms. Grant member in 2009. Mr. Estrada would like to Korhan Basaran, Chihiro Shimizu and Artists, has been featured in Time Out New York, Dance Rita Donahue was born and thank God, his family, and all who support and Danaka Dance Group. He will join MMDG Magazine, the book Meet the Dancers, and ap- raised in Fairfax, Virginia, his passion. as an apprentice in January 2013. peared in a documentary (The South Bank Show, and attended George Mason United Kingdom), which followed the company University. She graduated Julie Fiorenza was born in Shawn Gannon was a mem- in the making and premiere of Four Saints in with high distinction in 2002, South Korea and grew up in ber of MMDG from 1993 to Three Acts. She and her husband David Leventhal receiving a B.A. in English Massachusetts, where, at age 2004. He worked with the (former MMDG dancer) are proud parents of and a B.F.A. in dance. She four, she began her training at group again in 2008, playing son Zev, born in March 2012. danced with bopi’s black the Academy of Dance Arts the role of Lord Capulet in sheep / dances by kraig patterson and joined and later studied at the Boston Mark Morris’s Romeo & Juliet, John Heginbotham was MMDG in 2003. Ballet School. She received a B.F.A. in dance On Motifs of Shakespeare. He raised in Anchorage, Alaska, from The Ailey School/Fordham University, is thrilled to be part of The and graduated from the John Eirich was raised in graduating with honors. Ms. Fiorenza has been a Hard Nut. Juilliard School (B.F.A. in Orlando, Florida, where he member of Ailey II, Nai-Ni Chen Dance dance, 1993). He has per- studied ballet and jazz at Company, and Adams Company Dance. She Lesley Garrison grew up in formed in the companies of Southern Ballet Theatre. He performed lead dance roles in regional produc- Swansea, Illinois, and re- Susan Marshall, John earned his B.F.A. in dance tions of The King and I at Casa Mañana Theatre ceived her early dance train- Jasperse, Pam Tanowitz, and from New World School of and the Ogunquit Playhouse. She has appeared ing at the Center of Creative as a guest artist with Pilobolus Dance Theatre. the Arts in 2005. He was also on stage at the Metropolitan Opera in Turandot Arts in St. Louis, Missouri, He joined MMDG in 1998, dancing as a full a student at Jacob’s Pillow and Mark Morris’s Orfeo ed Euridice. She has and at Interlochen Arts company member until 2012. He formed his Contemporary Traditions Program and has per- also performed with MMDG in Romeo & Juliet, Academy in Interlochen, own performance group, Dance Heginbotham, formed with Miami Contemporary Dance On Motifs of Shakespeare and L’Allegro, il Michigan. She studied at the in 2011. His dances have been presented at the Company and the Florida Grand Opera. Penseroso ed il Moderato. This is her third season Rotterdamse Dansacademie in the Netherlands Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the He has worked with the Amy Marshall Dance dancing in The Hard Nut. Ms. Fiorenza is a and holds a B.F.A. from SUNY Purchase, where Baryshnikov Arts Center, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Company, was a member of Taylor 2 from 2006 founding member of Jessica Lang Dance. she received the Modern Dance Faculty Award. Festival, La MaMa ETC, and the Museum of to 2010, and has been a member of TAKE Dance She has performed with Erica Essner, Dance Modern Art (with the art-pop group since 2007. Mr. Eirich joined Dušan Týnek Heginbotham, the Kevin Wynn Collection, Fischerspooner). In addition to directing Dance Dance Theatre in 2010 and is currently a member Neel Verdoorn, Nelly Van Bommel’s NØA Heginbotham, he is the current Guest

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Choreographer in Residence for the Dartmouth John Heginbotham, and Nelly van Bommel’s Stacy Martorana began her Rider, among others. Ms. Merkens would like to Dance Ensemble. As a teacher, Mr. Heginbotham NØA Dance, among others. He joined MMDG dance training in Baltimore, thank her family for their continuous support. is on faculty at Princeton University and The as an apprentice in 2011. Maryland, at the Peabody School at the Mark Morris Dance Center. He is Conservatory. In 2006, she Maile Okamura studied pri- a founding teacher of Dance for PD, an ongoing Aaron Loux grew up in graduated from the University marily with Lynda Yourth at collaboration between MMDG and the Seattle, Washington, and be- of North Carolina School of the American Ballet School Brooklyn Parkinson Group. For more informa- gan dancing at the Creative the Arts with a B.F.A. in con- in San Diego, California. She tion, please visit www.johnheginbotham.com. Dance Center as a member of temporary dance. She has was a member of Boston Kaleidoscope, a youth mod- danced with the Amy Marshall Dance Company, Ballet II and Ballet Arizona Jennifer Jones was raised in ern dance company. He began the Neta Dance Company, Helen Simoneau before moving to New York Lakeland, Florida. She holds his classical training at the Danse, Kazuko Hirabayashi Dance Theater, to study modern dance. an M.F.A. in dance perfor- Cornish College Preparatory Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company, and Ms. Okamura has been dancing with MMDG mance/choreography from Dance Program and received his B.F.A. from Rashaun Mitchell. From 2009 to 2011, she was a since 1998. She has also worked with choreogra- New York University and a the Juilliard School in 2009. He danced at the member of the Repertory Understudy Group for phers Neta Pulvermacher, Zvi Gotheiner, Gerald B.F.A. with a focus in ballet Metropolitan Opera and with Arc Dance the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. She Casel, and John Heginbotham, with whom she performance from the Company before joining MMDG in 2010. joined MMDG as an apprentice in January 2012 frequently collaborates as a dancer and University of South Florida. Her choreography Laurel Lynch began her and became a full company member in costume designer. has been selected to represent USF at the dance training at Petaluma November 2012. American College Dance Festival, as well as School of Ballet in June Omura was born in chosen to be performed in the Celebrazione California. She moved to Dallas McMurray, from El New York, grew up in Festival in Milan, Italy and in the DanceNOW New York to attend the Cerrito, California, began Birmingham, Alabama, and raw studio showings in New York City. In col- Juilliard School, where she dancing at age four, studying graduated from Barnard lege, she had the privilege to dance in works by performed works by Robert jazz, tap, and acrobatics with College with honors in dance Mark Morris, José Limón, Jessica Lang, Ronald Battle, Margie Gillis, José Katie Maltsberger, and ballet and English. She joined K. Brown, Chris Yon, Deborah Jowitt, and Jim Limón, and Ohad Naharin. After graduation, with Yukiko Sakakura. He MMDG in 1988, moving to Martin, among others. She has appeared in pro- Ms. Lynch danced for Dušan Týnek Dance received a B.F.A. in dance Brussels, Belgium, for the ductions at the Metropolitan Opera, including Theatre, Sue Bernhard Danceworks, and Pat from the California Institute company’s three-year residency at the Théâtre Ben Wright’s Don Giovanni and Mark Morris’s Catterson. She joined MMDG as an apprentice of the Arts. He performed with the Limón Royal de la Monnaie. She toured the world with Orfeo ed Euridice. She was a member of the in 2006 and became a company member in Dance Company, in addition to works by Jiří MMDG for the next two decades, creating roles Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company from 2008 2007. Many thanks to Gene and Becky. Kylián, Alonzo King, Robert Moses, and Colin throughout the repertory, including the original to 2011, is a founding member of Skybetter and Connor. Mr. McMurray performed with MMDG casts of L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato and Associates, and is a personal trainer under the Claudia MacPherson was as an apprentice in 2006 and became a company The Hard Nut. She is featured in the film Falling Tracy Anderson Method. born in Wisconsin but calls member in 2007. Down Stairs, a collaboration between Mr. Morris Kentucky home. She holds a and the cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and in 2005 she was Brian Lawson began his B.F.A. from The Ailey Amber Star Merkens, origi- honored with a New York Dance and Performance dance training in Toronto at School/Fordham University nally from Newport, Oregon, Award (“Bessie”) for her work with the company— Canadian Children’s Dance and has worked with Eva began her dance training especially for her performances as Fritz, the Theatre, where he worked Dean Dance, Kevin Wynn with Nancy Mittleman. She naughty little brother of The Hard Nut. Ms. with such choreographers as Collection, Tattooed Ballerinas, and SuriCo. received her B.F.A from the Omura has taught ballet, Mark Morris reperto- David Earle, Carol Anderson, Ms. MacPherson has enjoyed collaborating with Juilliard School and went on ry, and modern dance in workshops and master and Michael Trent. Mr. Lawson soprano Noemi Lugo for concerts in Kentucky, to dance with the Limón classes across the country. She lives in New spent a year studying at the Vermont, and Brazil. She has performed with Dance Company. In 2001, Paltz, New York, with her husband and their Rotterdamse Dansacademie in the Netherlands MMDG in The Hard Nut, Romeo & Juliet, On she received the Princess Grace Award and three children, and she recently earned an M.A. and graduated summa cum laude in 2010 from Motifs of Shakespeare, and L’Allegro, il Penseroso joined MMDG. She has presented her own cho- in education at SUNY New Paltz for English SUNY Purchase, where he was also granted the ed il Moderato, as well as in Mark Morris’s pro- reography both in New York and abroad, taught language arts. President’s Award for his contributions to the duction of Orfeo ed Euridice at the Metropolitan at The School at the Mark Morris Dance Center, dance program. Mr. Lawson has had the plea- Opera. She is currently a member of Jessica and worked as a freelance photographer for sure of performing with Pam Tanowitz Dance, Lang Dance. 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Kraig Patterson was born in Brandon Randolph began Utafumi Takemura received Nicholas Wagner was born Trenton, New Jersey. He was his training with the School her B.F.A. in dance with and raised in Baltimore, inspired to pursue a career in of Carolina Ballet Theater in honors from SUNY Purchase Maryland, and has been danc- dance after performing in Greenville, South Carolina, and her M.F.A. from New ing and performing since age high school musicals. He under the direction of Hernan York University’s Tisch four. He graduated with a continued his formal dance Justo. At age 14, he was ac- School of the Arts, where she B.F.A. from the University of training via scholarships at cepted into the South Carolina was a recipient of the Siedman Illinois at Urbana-Champaign the Princeton Ballet, the Governor’s School for the Award for Dance. She has and moved to New York in 2009. While in col- Ailey School, the Martha Graham School, and Arts and Humanities, where he studied with performed and taught nationally and interna- lege, he was privileged to be one of the first par- the Merce Cunningham Studio. He received his Stanislav Issaev and Bobby Barnett. In May tionally with numerous companies and choreog- ticipants in MMDG/Krannert Center shadow raphers. In 2010, she received a New York Dance program, in which students take classes with B.F.A. from the Juilliard School in 1986, and 2012, he received his B.F.A. in dance from and Performance Award (“Bessie”) for her work danced with MMDG from 1987 to 1999. SUNY Purchase, where he had the opportunity MMDG company members in Urbana and Mr. Patterson, also known as bopi, has per- to perform with Dance Heginbotham, as well as with Pam Tanowitz Dance. Ms. Takemura has New York. In New York, Mr. Wagner danced formed with Mark Haim, the Danny Lewis repertory by Stephen Petronio, Lar Lubovitch, had the pleasure of performing with MMDG in for Yung-Li Dance and was a member of Dušan Repertory Ensemble, Ohad Naharin, Neta Paul Taylor, and George Balanchine. The Hard Nut since 1993 and L’Allegro, il Týnek Dance Theatre from 2010 to 2012. He Penseroso ed il Moderato Pulvermacher, and the White Oak Dance Mr. Randolph will begin his apprenticeship with since 2002. currently resides in Brooklyn and will begin his Project. In 1996, Mikhail Baryshnikov invited MMDG in January 2013. apprenticeship with MMDG in January 2013. Noah Vinson received his him to choreograph a new piece for the White Billy Smith grew up in B.A. in dance from Columbia Michelle Yard was born in Oak Dance Project, make like a tree…; he subse- Fredericksburg, Virginia, and College Chicago, where he Brooklyn, New York. She be- quently created three additional works for the attended George Mason worked with Shirley Mordine, gan her professional dance company. Mr. Patterson also served as an artist University under a full aca- Jan Erkert, and Brian Jeffrey. training at the High School in residence at George Mason and Princeton demic and dance talent schol- In New York, he has danced of the Performing Arts in universities, Cornish College for the Arts, and arship. Mr. Smith graduated with Teri and Oliver Steele and New York City and contin- Barnard/Columbia College, among others. He magna cum laude in 2007 and the Kevin Wynn Collection. ued her studies as a scholar- has been a guest faculty member at Barnard/ received achievement awards He began working with MMDG in 2002 and ship student at the Alvin Columbia College, Sarah Lawrence College, the in performance, choreography, and academic became a company member in 2004. Ailey American Dance Center. She graduated International Summer School of Dance (Japan), endeavors. While at George Mason he per- with a B.F.A. from New York University’s Tisch and the American Dance Festival. In 1996, he formed the works of Mark Morris, Paul Taylor, Jenn Weddel received her School of the Arts. Ms. Yard teaches Pilates as founded his own company, bopi’s black sheep / Lar Lubovitch, Doug Varone, Daniel Ezralow, early training from Boulder well as master classes for MMDG’s residency dances by kraig patterson. Larry Keigwin, Susan Marshall, and Susan Ballet Company near where programs. She joined MMDG in 1997. Mom, Shields. Mr. Smith’s own piece, 3-Way Stop, was she grew up in Longmont, thank you. Spencer Ramirez began his selected to open the 2006 American College Colorado. She holds a B.F.A. dance training in Springfield, Dance Festival Gala at Ohio State University, from Southern Methodist Virginia, studying under and his original choreography for a production University and also studied at orchestra & choir Melissa Dobbs, Nancy Gross, of Bye Bye Birdie garnered much critical praise. Boston Conservatory, Colorado Kellie Payne, and Marilyn An actor as well, Mr. Smith’s regional theater University, and the Laban Center, London. George Cleve (conduc- York. He continued training credits include Tulsa in Gypsy, Mistoffelees in Since moving to New York in 2001, Ms. Weddel tor), one of the world’s at the Maryland Youth Ballet Cats, and Dream Curly in Oklahoma! Mr. Smith has created and performed with RedWall Dance most persuasive Mozart with such faculty as Michelle danced with Parsons Dance from 2007 to 2010. Theater, Sue Bernhard Danceworks, Vencl interpreters, has led top Lees, Christopher Doyle, and Harriet Williams. He joined MMDG as a company member Dance Trio, Rocha Dance Theater, TEA Dance orchestras in North In 2008, he entered the Juilliard School under in 2010. Company, and with various choreographers, in- America and Europe in cluding Alan Danielson and Ella Ben-Aharon. performances of the mu- the direction of Lawrence Rhodes, and had the opportunity to perform works by José Limón, Ms. Weddel performed with MMDG as an ap- sic of Mozart. Most recently, he led a trium- Jerome Robbins, Sidra Bell, and Fabien Prioville. prentice in 2006 and became a company mem- phant run of the opera Idomeneo, a co-produc- Mr. Ramirez joined MMDG as an apprentice in ber in 2007. tion with Opera San Jose and the Packard July 2010 and became a company member Humanities Institute that received international in 2011. critical acclaim. Other operas include Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Le nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, and Die Zauberflöte.

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He also conducted Mozart’s Requiem as the Berkeley Symphony has established a reputa- in a concert version in 1997 before it was fully Kong International Children’s Choral Festival grand finale of the International Festival tion for presenting major new works for orches- staged in New York City, London, and Chicago. (2006); and first prize in Contemporary Music Mozartiana in Moscow and Mozart’s Symphony tra alongside fresh interpretations of the classi- A champion of new music, Berkeley at the Choral Olympics in Linz, Austria (2000). No. 41 with the National Philharmonic of cal European repertoire. It has been recognized Symphony has commissioned and premiered Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir is Russia. Mr. Cleve has conducted a wide range of with an Adventurous Programming Award from numerous new works. Recent Orchestra- celebrating its 30th anniversary season in other operas, including Purcell’s Dido and the American Society of Composers, Authors commissioned works include Private Alleles 2012–2013; activities include chorus parts in Aeneas; Verdi’s Don Carlo, La Traviata, and and Publishers in eight of the past ten seasons. (2011) by Enrico Chapela, Mantichora (2011) by Berg’s Wozzeck with Esa-Pekka Salonen and Rigoletto; Puccini’s La Bohème and Madame The Orchestra performs four mainstage con- Du Yun, and Holy Sisters (2012) by Gabriela Lena Philharmonia Orchestra at Cal Performances Butterfly; Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana; certs a year in Zellerbach Hall, and supports lo- Frank. Past commissions include Manzanar: An and in Los Angeles, Break Bread with Michael Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci; and Stravinsky’s cal composers through its Under Construction American History (2005) by Naomi Sekiya, Jean- Morgan and Oakland East Bay Symphony, The Oedipus Rex. He made his debut at San Francisco New Music Series/Composers Program. A com- Pascal Beintus, and David Benoit; Bitter Harvest Hard Nut with MMDG at Cal Performances, Opera with Bizet’s Carmen and also conducted a munity leader in music education, the Orchestra (2005) by Kurt Rohde and librettist Amanda and Battle Hymns by David Lang with Volti, concert version of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice with partners with the Berkeley Unified School Moody; and a fanfare by Mr. Rohde commemo- the San Francisco Choral Society, and the Leah the Boston Symphony. District to produce the award-winning Music in rating Mr. Nagano’s 30 years as music director. Stein Dance Company. Sought after as a guest conductor, Mr. Cleve the Schools program, providing comprehensive, Berkeley Symphony entered a new era in has led the Singapore Symphony, the ABC age-appropriate music curriculum to more than January 2009, when Joana Carneiro became Robert Geary, founding Artistic Director of symphonies of Australia, the New Zealand 4,000 local elementary students each year. the orchestra’s third Music Director in its 40- the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir, Volti, Symphony, the Mozarteum Orchestra at the Berkeley Symphony was founded in 1969 as year history. Under Ms. Carneiro, the Orchestra and the Golden Gate International Choral Salzburg Festival, the Vienna Symphony, the Berkeley Promenade Orchestra by Thomas continues its tradition of presenting the cutting Festival, also serves as Artistic Director of the the Royal Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Rarick, a protégé of the great English conduc- edge of classical music. Together, they are forg- San Francisco Choral Society. For the past 30 Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, tor Sir Adrian Boult. Reflecting the spirit of the ing deeper relationships with living composers, years, he has overseen the development of the the Swedish Radio Orchestra, the Orchestre times, the orchestra performed in street dress which include several prominent contemporary Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir, an innova- National de France, the Orchestre de la Suisse and at unusual locations, such as the University Bay Area composers, such as John Adams, Paul tive education and performance program whose Romande, the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Art Museum. Dresher, and Gabriela Lena Frank. record of success in international competition Berlin, the Russian National Orchestra, the Under its second Music Director, Kent is at the highest national standard. Recipient Budapest Festival Orchestra, and the Simón Nagano, who took the post in 1978, the The internationally acclaimed Piedmont East of awards for Outstanding Conductorial Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela. In Orchestra charted a new course with innovative Bay Children’s Choir offers children through- Achievement in Giessen Germany and Artistic the United States and Canada, Mr. Cleve ap- programming that included rarely performed out San Francisco’s East Bay an outstanding Interpretation from the Międzyzdroje Festival in peared with the New York and Los Angeles 20th-century scores. In 1981, the internationally program of choral training and performance. Poland, Mr. Geary has also received the KDFC philharmonics, the Cleveland Orchestra, and renowned French composer Olivier Messiaen Led by Artistic Director Robert Geary, the Music Educator of the Year Award, and the Lois the Boston, Symphony, San Francisco, Toronto, journeyed to Berkeley to assist with the prepara- Choir has performed with the Oakland East Bay B. Rawlings Educational Inspiration Award. Winnipeg, and Montreal symphonies. He has tions of his imposing oratorio The Transfiguration Symphony, Berkeley Symphony, San Francisco His choirs have been recognized in the United also performed at New York’s Mostly Mozart of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Orchestra gave Opera, San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco States by invitations to perform for the national Festival and at the Ravinia Festival with the a sold-out performance in Davies Symphony Choral Society, and Volti; for national and re- conferences of Chorus America, the American Chicago Symphony. Hall. In 1984, Berkeley Symphony collaborated gional conventions of the American Choral Choral Directors Association, the Organization In addition to his tenure as music director with Frank Zappa in a critically acclaimed pro- Directors Association and the Organization of of American Kodály Educators, and the College of the San Jose Symphony from 1972 to 1992, duction featuring life-size puppets and moving American Kodály Educators; with John Denver, Music Society. His choirs can be heard on re- Mr. Cleve has been a frequent guest conductor at stage sets, catapulting the Orchestra onto the MMDG, Barenaked Ladies, and more. cordings with many labels, including Other Symphony Silicon Valley, Opera San Jose, New world stage. In addition to its vigorous program of in- Minds, Harmonia Mundi, Koch International, York City Ballet, and San Francisco Ballet. He Berkeley Symphony has introduced Bay novative new music projects, commissions, and Swiss International Radio, Ablaze, and Innova. was awarded the rank of Officier in the Order Area audiences to works by upcoming young premieres, the Choir has established itself as a Mr. Geary also has prepared his choirs for some of Arts and Letters of the Republic of France in composers, many of whom have since achieved leading force in international choral activities, of the world’s leading conductors, including recognition of his performance of French mu- international prominence. Celebrated British with far-reaching collaborations and the es- Helmuth Rilling, Robert Shaw, Kurt Herbert sic. He also received an Honorary Doctorate of composer George Benjamin, who subsequently tablishment of the Golden Gate International Adler, Edo de Waart, Krzysztof Penderecki, Fine Arts from the University of Santa Clara, became Composer-in-Residence at the San Children’s and Youth Choral Festival. The Herbert Blomstedt, Dale Warland, Kent Nagano, the Gold Medal of Honor of Austria, and the Francisco Symphony, was first introduced to Choir has earned grand prizes, first prizes, and and Michael Tilson Thomas. Silver Medal from the city of his birth, Vienna, the Bay Area in 1987, when Berkeley Symphony gold medals at prestigious competitions across Austria, for his role in founding the Midsummer performed his compositions Jubilation and Europe, Asia, and the Americas, including three Mozart Festival. Ringed by the Flat Horizon. Thomas Adés’s opera gold medals at Grand Prix St. Petersburg Choral Powder Her Face was debuted by the orchestra Festival (2008); two gold medals at the Hong

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Mark Morris Dance Group Staff Booking Representation Michael Mushalla (Double M Arts & Events) Media and General Consultation Services William Murray (Better Attitude, Inc) Artistic Director Mark Morris Legal Counsel Mark Selinger (McDermott, Will & Emery) Executive Director Nancy Umanoff Accountant O’Connor Davies Munns & Dobbins, LLP Orthopedist David S. Weiss, M.D. (NYU Langone Medical Center) Production Physical Therapist Marshall Hagins, PT, Ph.D. Technical Director Johan Henckens Hilot Therapist Jeffrey Cohen Rehearsal Director Matthew Rose Assistant Technical Director Matthew Eggleton Technical Assistant Dirk Loomans Costumes constructed by Martin Adams; Anne Maskrey; Euro Co.; Vincent Costumes; Lighting Supervisor Nick Kolin Woody Shelp; Izquierdo Studios; Eric Winterling, Inc.; and Paul Chang Tailors. Sound Supervisor Ken Hypes Wardrobe Supervisor Stephanie Sleeper Costumes refurbished by Olivia Fuks, Elizabeth Sargent and Carli Beardsley. Wardrobe Assistants Elizabeth Sargent, Alan Smith Hair & Makeup Supervisor Leslee Newcomb Assistant Hair & Makeup Supervisor Sara Beukers Thanks to Maxine Morris.

Administration Sincerest thanks to all the dancers for their dedication, commitment, Chief Financial Officer Elizabeth Fox and incalculable contribution to the work. Finance Associate Rebecca Hunt General Manager Huong Hoang Additional funding has been received from the Altman Foundation; The Amphion Foundation, Inc.; Company Manager Sarah Horne Capezio Ballet Makers Dance Foundation; The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc.; Joseph and Joan Executive Assistant Jenna Nugent Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Inc.; The Harkness Foundation for Dance; Johnson& Johnson/Society for Interns Marianny Loveras, Erica Marnell the Arts in Healthcare; Kinder Morgan Foundation; Leon Lowenstein Foundation; Materials for the Arts; McDermott, Will & Emery; Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation; SingerXenos Wealth Management; Development & Marketing The Tcherepnin Society; and the Friends of the Mark Morris Dance Group. Director of Development Michelle Amador Associate Director of Development Kelly Sheldon The Mark Morris Dance Group is a member of Dance/USA and the Downtown Brooklyn Arts Alliance. Development Assistant Rebecca Cash Digital Content Manager Moss Allen For more information, contact Marketing Assistant Abby West Mark Morris Dance Group Intern Jessica Augustin 3 Lafayette Avenue Brooklyn, New York 11217-1415 Education phone (718) 624-8400 School Director Sarah Marcus fax (718) 624-8900 School Administrator Sydnie Liggett [email protected] Outreach Director Eva Nichols www.mmdg.org Dance for PD Program Manager David Leventhal Dance for PD Program Assistant Maria Portman Kelly Dance for PD Program Intern Pauline Etim-Ubah

Dance Center Operations Facility & Production Manager Peter Gorneault Studio Manager Karyn Treadwell Operations Coordinator & Community Liaison Jackie Busch Front Desk Manager Elise Gaugert Assistant Front Desk Managers Charles Gushue, Abby West Music Coordinator Bruce Lazarus Maintenance Jose Fuentes, Jamel Moore, Orlando Rivera, Diana Velazquez Intern Ashley Lindner

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