SEP 2016 2016 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL Ellen Carey, Dings and Shadows, 2012 Published by: Season Sponsor: 2016 BAM Next Wave Festival #monumentalBAM Brooklyn Academy of Music Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board Katy Clark, President Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer monumental BAM Howard Gilman Opera House Sep 16 & 17 at 7:30pm Running time: approx. one hour & 25 minutes, no intermission The Holy Body Tattoo Music by Godspeed You! Black Emperor Choreography by Dana Gingras and Noam Gagnon Direction Dana Gingras Text by Jenny Holzer Films by William Morrison Lighting design by Marc Parent BY YOUR RESPONSE TO DANGER IT IS EASY TO TELL HOW YOU HAVE LIVED AND WHAT HAS BEEN DONE TO YOU. YOU SHOW WHETHER YOU WANT TO STAY ALIVE, WHETHER YOU THINK YOU DESERVE TO AND WHETHER YOU BELIEVE IT’S ANY GOOD TO ACT. —Jenny Holzer Season Sponsor: Support for the Signature Artist Series provided by Howard Gilman Foundation. Leadership support for dance at BAM provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Harkness Foundation for Dance. Major support for dance at BAM provided by The SHS Foundation. monumental DANCERS Caroline Gravel Louis-Elyan Martin Louise-Michel Jackson Esther Rousseau-Morin Kim de Jong Sovann Prom Tep Shay Kuebler Jamie Wright Nic Lydiate Choreographic remount & rehearsal director Sarah Williams Costumes Marilène Bastien Costume assistant Chantal Bachand Technical director Dave Bourdages Stage manager Claudia Couture Sound Yann Dupuis Producer Sarah Rogers Produced by Animals of Distinction Live collaboration initiated by David Sefton The choreographers wish to gratefully acknowledge the creative contribution of the original cast to the choreographic process and development of monumental: Ric Brown, Sarah Doucet, David Flewelling, Andrea Gunnlaugson, Day Helesic, Farley Johansson, Blair Neufeld, Sonja Perreten, and Sarah Williams. World premiere of monumental with live music performed by Godspeed You! Black Emperor: January 28, 2016 Co produced by National Arts Centre, Ottawa PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, Vancouver Adelaide Festival of Arts Place des Arts Montréal Luminato Festival, Toronto Edinburgh International Festival BAM for the Next Wave Festival Special thanks to Jim Smith/Eponymous who produced monumental in 2005 and to the National Arts Centre in Ottawa which co-produced and premiered the original version on February 24, 2005. Thank you to the many people who contributed to this project from its initial inception in 2005 to its current incarnation in 2016: Chantal Deeble, Menno Plukker, Cathy Levy, Yannick Grandmont, Justin Evans, Camille Gingras, Steven R Gilmore, Erik Whittaker, The Simons Foundation, Luminergie, Tiago Chasqueira, and Guillaume Cavalière. Animals of Distinction Board of Directors: Suzanne Hawkes, Patty Jones, Dianne Kennedy, Patricia Kim, Mike Magee, Marie Brassard, Daniel Canty, Karine Denault, Line Nault, Sonya Stefan and Roger Tellier-Craig. animalsofdistinction.org Rehearsals for monumental with Godspeed You! Black Emperor were supported through a residency at Place des Arts, Montreal. Animals of Distinction also gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec. monumental CAROLINE GRAVEL LOUISE-MICHEL KIM DE JONG SHAY KUEBLER JACKSON NIC LYDIATE LOUIS-ELYAN MARTIN ESTHER ROUSSEAU- SOVANN PROM TEP JAMIE WRIGHT MORIN NOAM GAGNON DANA GINGRAS MARC PARENT SARAH WILLIAMS Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Photo Yannick Grandmont Wh Who’s Who DANA GINGRAS (choreographer) is a Montreal forms. The work of AoD has been presented based choreographer, filmmaker, performer, and nationally and internationally across many teacher. Gingras’ 25-year career has moved different platforms including live performance, across mediums and artistic practices. She has film, design, visual art, and new media. Smash worked on collaborations with cultural icons Up (2008), which premiered at the FTA in such as William Gibson and Jenny Holzer. Montreal, is a collaboration with animator and Musical collaborators include underground programmer James Paterson and Amit Pitaru. legends like GY!BE, The Tindersticks, Warren What Is Mine Is Yours (2011), a performance Ellis, The Tiger Lillies, and Steven Severin of and video installation, was created for the Los Siouxse and the Banshees. She has co-created Angeles County Museum of Art. The company’s multi-media works with filmmakers, animators, first full-length piece, Heart as Arena (2011), and programmers including William Morrison, a co-commission by the CanDance Network Vincent Morriset, James Paterson, and Amit and the FTA, was created with radio sound Pitaru. Her work perceives the nature of dance artist Anna Friz. Somewhere Between Maybe as a condition of risk and an embrace of that (2015) premiered at L’Agora de la Danse in risk. The goal of the work is to amplify the sense Montreal and featured a score by The Caretaker. of what the limits of physical possibility are, to Gingras has also directed numerous short films make innovation in movement visible by putting funded by the Bravo!Fact film program and the body at its limit state. Gingras is an associate most recently filmed Chainreaction (2014) as dance artist of Canada’s National Arts Centre. part of a residency at EMPAC in Troy, NY. The film premiered at TIFF in Toronto and has since THE HOLY BODY TATTOO was formed in been screened at numerous festivals world wide. 1993 by Dana Gingras and Noam Gagnon. The In 2016 under the direction of Gingras, AoD company changed the landscape of Canadian produced The Holy Body Tattoo’s last work, dance, earning numerous awards and honors monumental (2005), this time with Godspeed for its stage and film work. our brief eternity, You! Black Emperor playing live. This expanded premiering in 1996, won the Dora Mavor Moore version of the piece premiered at the Queen Award for Best Ensemble Performance. The work Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver as part of the has been performed more than 100 times in PuSh Festival on January 28, 2016. Since then, Canada, Europe, the US, and was performed for it has been performed at the Adelaide Festival, the last time in Australia at the Sydney Opera Montreal’s Place des Arts, Grand Théâtre House in 2007. Circa (2000), was the recipient Quebec, as a part of the Luminato Festival at the of the inaugural Rio Tinto Alcan Performing Arts Hearn Generating Station in Toronto, and most Award. The piece has been performed around recently at the Edinburgh International Festival. the world, including at Ein Fest in Wuppertal, Germany at the invitation of Pina Bausch, and GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR began at London’s Barbican Theatre. Other critically with Efrim, Mauro, and Moya in the early 90s, acclaimed works include Running Wild (2004) playing a handful of shows and recording a and monumental (2005). self-released cassette as a trio before deciding to transform the group into a large band. ANIMALS OF DISTINCTION (AoD), was Recruiting numerous Montreal musicians founded in 2006 as a satellite company of The through 1995—96, GYBE mounted sense- Holy Body Tattoo, and is the multimedia dance rattling wall-of-sound performances, featuring as company for the independent work of Artistic many as 14 musicians and several 16mm film Director Dana Gingras. AoD functions as a projectors, before recording their debut vinyl-only type of framework for contemporary practice, Constellation album in 1997. They transformed as a point of intersection where the social a warehouse space into the Hotel2Tango, a kinaesthetic, and the possibilities of physical DIY hive of activity with band rehearsal rooms, thinking can be visualized in choreographic ideas silkscreen and wood shops, and weekend shows with different collaborations and with other art that took place under the radar. The group Who’s Who settled into a permanent nine-member lineup a play directed by François Girard. Parent also by late 1998, with Aidan and Bruce on drums, regularly designs for theater, especially with Thierry and Mauro on basses, Efrim, Dave, and directors Martin Faucher and Denis Marleau. Roger on guitars, and Norsola and Sophie on Parent has won two Dora Mavor Moore awards cello and violin, respectively. The band toured (2013 and 2016) for ‘’Oustanding lighting and recorded continuously from 1998—02 design in dance’’ from the Toronto Alliance for and gained a reputation for mesmerizing live Performing Arts. He is currently resident lighting shows marked by orchestral dynamics, epic rock designer for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de power, and clunky, beautiful film loops. After four Montréal. As a self-taught designer, he has records, GYBE announced an indefinite hiatus earned public and critic recognition around the in 2003. The hiatus ended in December 2010, world for his exceptional works. when the band returned to curate and perform at All Tomorrow’s Parties in the UK, followed DANCERS by extensive international touring. In October 2012, ALLELUJAH! DON’T BEND! ASCEND!, CAROLINE GRAVEL its first recorded work in a decade, was released Caroline Gravel is a dance artist based to widespread critical acclaim. The follow-up, in Montreal. Since 2002, she has made Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress, was released creative contributions, worked, and toured in March 2015. internationally as a solo artist and with Montreal choreographers such as Catherine Gaudet, NOAM GAGNON (choreographer) is the Dana Gingras, Frédérick Gravel, Daniel Léveillé, artistic director of Vision Impure, which he Jean-Sébastien Lourdais, Jacques Poulin-Denis, founded in 2006 in Vancouver, Canada. For and Andrew Turner. Mentored by choreographer Vision Impure, he has created, choreographed, Meg Stuart (Damaged Goods) and directed by and performed in several full-length works, Manon Levac during her MA, she conducted a and has toured extensively throughout Canada. study probing the intricacies of body states and Gagnon is regularly commissioned by dance the discourse of authorship within contemporary artists and companies to create works, and has choreography.