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PRIMO PASSO Re’Sean Pates, Anthea Young by Thom Willems, Long Time Collaborator an Almost Molecular Sense of Quietude About the Program Paul Crewes Rachel Fine Artistic Director Managing Director BROTHERS SUPER STRAIGHT is coming down PULSE CREATED IN 1982. COMMISSIONED BY HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO COMMISSIONED BY RIVER NORTH CHICAGO DANCE IN 1989. DANCED BY Gerald Espinosa and Re’Sean Pates COMPANY IN 2006. DANCED BY Will Clayton, Gerald Espinosa, CHOREOGRAPHED BY Daniel Ezralow DANCED BY Kelly Allen, Will Clayton, PRESENTS Kelsey Landers, Vanessa Nichole, and David Parsons Junji Dezaki, Gerald Espinosa, Najla Gilliam, Re’Sean Pates MUSIC BY Igor Stravinsky’s Concertino Isaac Huerta, Kelsey Landers, COSTUMES BY Jackson Lowell for Twelve Instruments V a n e s s a N i c h o l e , R e ’ S e a n P a t e s , A n t h e a Y o u n g MUSIC BY Thom Willems MUSIC BY David Lang Two lead dancers in the Paul Taylor Dance ORIGINAL LIGHTING DESIGN BY Howell Binkley COSTUMES BY Jackson Lowell Company borrowed the studio key and snuck Daniel’s first of five commissioning works by ORIGINAL LIGHTING DESIGN BY Ryan O’Gara in during the wee hours of the night to create Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is inspired EZRALOW DANCE this choreography. It is an homage to being “Ezralow gives the process of creation by Artist Robert Longo’s work titled “Men in a Brother and having a Brother, which they its due in ‘Pulse,’ a playful and profound the Cities” and the mathematical thesis “The ARTISTIC DIRECTOR both have. homage to the great unknown. Company Daniel Ezralow Divine Proportion.” This work is about modern members, clad in Jackson Lowell's shimmery humanity and the necessity of structure and SVSPLKT diaphanous costumes, repeat a mesmerizing form. Influenced by architecture books and COMMISSIONED FOR BATSHEVA series of slides across the stage. At times, DANCE COMPANY IN 1986. the inevitability of gravity, soft balls were a magnetic force seems to draw couples DANCED BY Kelly Allen, Will Clayton, thrown at dancers during rehearsals to together then swiftly break them apart. David Junji Dezaki, Gerald Espinosa, Najla Gilliam, explore their reflexive reaction and codify it Lang's spherical compositions entwine with Isaac Huerta, Kelsey Landers, Vanessa Nichole, into movement. With a commissioned score Ezralow's propulsive choreography to create PRIMO PASSO Re’Sean Pates, Anthea Young by Thom Willems, long time collaborator an almost molecular sense of quietude. The MUSIC BY Tom Waits of William Forsythe’s, …“Daniel Ezralow`s dancers, through flowing gestures, appear to This was number two of five commissions `SUPER STRAIGHT is coming down` is a spin imaginary helixes.” CONCEIVED BY Daniel did for Batsheva Dance company. dance to bring the house down-which is what - Chicago Tribune 2006 ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND Juxtaposing western urban lifestyles with it did Friday night at the opening of Hubbard CHOREOGRAPHER Daniel Ezralow and Arabella Ezralow Balinese rural country gives this piece a Street Dance Companys’ two-weekend spring CHROMA Daniel Ezralow conflicted internal feeling. At the time of season in the Civic Opera House.” – Richard CREATED IN 2003. Christiansen, Chicago Tribune, April 30, 1989 ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PERFORMED BY the commission, Russian immigrants were DANCED BY Kelly Allen, Will Clayton, Arabella Ezralow streaming across Israel’s borders and the Junji Dezaki, Gerald Espinosa, Najla Gilliam, Kelly Allen, Will Clayton, Joachim Cooder, Junji Dezaki, dance explores the experience of being SF Isaac Huerta, Kelsey Landers, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR accepted and of being left out. The title was COMMISSIONED BY HUBBARD STREET DANCE V a n e s s a N i c h o l e , R e ’ S e a n P a t e s , A n t h e a Y o u n g Gerald Espinosa, Najla Gilliam, Isaac Huerta, Kelsey Landers, CHICAGO IN 2004. Jeff McLaughlin designed to reveal as little as possible about MUSIC BY S t r a u s s , B l u e D a n u b e W a l t z Re'Sean Pates, Vanessa Nichole, Anthea Young DANCED BY Kelly Allen, Will Clayton, the work, so as not to have expectations. COSTUMES BY A m e r i c a n A p p a r e l LIGHTING DESIGNER Junji Dezaki, Gerald Espinosa, Najla Gilliam, Isaac Huerta, Kelsey Landers, Dan Weingarten MUSIC BY T H I S I B E L I E V E FOREIGN TAILS Vanessa Nichole, Anthea Young CREATED BY ISO DANCE THEATER IN 1986. DANCED BY Kelly Allen, Will Clayton, VIDEO PROJECTION Igor Stravinsky’s Concertino for Twelve Instruments, Chanson de COSTUMES BY Jackson Lowell DANCED BY Junji Dezaki, Isaac Huerta, Junji Dezaki, Gerald Espinosa, Najla Gilliam, Marc Rosenthal Trouvieres, Claude Debussy, Thom Willems, Ludovico Einaudi, MUSIC BY Leonard Bernstein Kelsey Landers, Anthea Young Isaac Huerta, Kelsey Landers, Tom Waits, David Lang, Johann Strauss and Joachim Cooder ORIGINAL LIGHTING BY Ryan O’Gara CHOREOGRAPHY BY Daniel Ezralow, V a n e s s a N i c h o l e , R e ’ S e a n P a t e s , A n t h e a Y o u n g STAGE MANAGER To move… to jump… to dance… to escape Jamey Hampton, Ashley Roland and LIVE MUSIC BY J o a c h i m C o o d e r Garrett Crouch gravity and the homogeneity of society Morleigh Steinberg - ISO Dance COSTUMES BY J o a n i e C o y o t e and become yourself. Life is a marvelous COSTUMER ORIGINAL COSTUMES BY ISO Dance Program kaleidoscope of countless simple actions that This I Believe is an excerpt from Daniel Joanie Coyote MUSIC BY Claude Debussy are as unique as each and every one of us. Ezralow’s PEARL, the new and original dance Tonight’s program will feature a selection From the family tree of Pilobolus and theater play inspired by the life of writer and LIVE MUSIC The expression of life is in itself a dance… MOMIX, co-mingled with Paul Taylor and humanitarian, Pearl S. Buck, which opened Joachim Cooder from the following works. even the most imperceptible shiver can be pure gymnastic talent, Daniel Ezralow, beautiful. - Daniel Ezralow at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater Brothers 2015. Daniel traveled to Zhenjiang, China to COMPANY MANAGER Jamey Hampton, Ashley Roland and Morleigh research the life of Pearl S. Buck., conducting Sarah Haggerty SVSPLKT Steinberg created the magical Foreign Tails SPARK (excerpts) in an old Connecticut barn, surrounded COMMISSIONED BY BALLET FLORIDA IN 1996. intensive dance workshops discovering new Foreign Tails international talent to complement Ezralow EZRALOW DANCE by nature and rural farmlands. Classical DANCED BY Kelly Allen, Will Clayton, REHEARSAL DIRECTOR SUPER STRAIGHT is coming down whimsy mixed with movement invention. Junji Dezaki, Gerald Espinosa, Najla Gilliam, Dance Company’s signature performers. This Anthea Young Isaac Huerta, Anthea Young new multi-cultural collaboration of talent SF not just mirrors a life, but brings to life the FILM BY Daniel Ezralow - Tour of Holland PRODUCTION ASSISTANT SPARK (excerpts) legend of PEARL. "The ambitious, episodic Elijah Solomon spectacle is a vivid example of what Mr. PULSE Ezralow’s program bio calls his “unique style DOCUMENTARIAN CHROMA of physical expression.” - The Wall Street Elijah Ezralow Journal 2015 This I Believe JULY 13-14, 2017 Bram Goldsmith Theater Running time: One hour and 50 minutes, including a 20 minute intermission PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P9 About the Artists About the Artists EZRALOW DANCE award-winning dance specials Windows (Bravo), Company, Boston Court, Open Fist, Echo Theater ANTHEA YOUNG (Ezralow Dance Rehearsal “Welcome to Episodes Josh Groban in Concert A movement based ensemble known internationally for its explosive (PBS) and (PBS) and Companies, Long Beach Opera, Chicago Opera Director) is a native of Kingston, JA, growing up in the wild and has choreographed music videos and staged shows Theatre, Ensemble Theatre of Santa Barbara, SBT, Washington, DC. She trained at Creative Dance physicality, originative thought and playful humor. Founding artistic for musicians including Josh Groban, Andrea Bocelli, Actors Gang, 24th St. Theatre, Universal Studios Center, Dance Institute of Washington and the DTH wonderful world director and choreographer, Daniel Ezralow, has assembled a Sara Bareilles, Sting, David Bowie and U2. Hollywood. Awards include: LADCC, LA Weekly, the Residency. She received her B.F.A. from Marymount diverse and talented group of world class performers to fuel Ezralow’s work has earned him two American Garland and the Dramalogue. Professor of Theatre Manhattan College and is fl uent in contemporary of Daniel Ezralow.” invention, collaboration and play, while making a creative home for Choreography Awards for innovative and Design at California State University Northridge, MFA ballet and modern. Anthea is in her fi fth year with OPEN - Victoria Looseleaf, outstanding choreography, a Choreographic Media in Design and Production from CalArts. Ezralow Dance, most recently performing in his expansive and eclectic body of work. The breadth of Ezralow’s Honors Award, an Emmy Award, Emmy nomination, (Wallis Annenberg Center 2016), PEARL (Lincoln Fjord Review 2016 creative work includes the development and touring of signature the Premio Positano (Italy), a Nijinsky Award, an MARC ROSENTHAL (Video Projection Designer) Center David H. Koch Theatre 2015), Ezralow Dance works; a catalogue of international commissions spanning and Ischia Award and an NEA Choreographic Award winning Producer/Designer, specializing in (Ford Theatres 2014), Olympics (Sochi 2014) mingling the disciplines of dance, theatre, film, visual arts, opera Fellowship. This past fall he received the McCallum Projection, Lighting and Show Control: Theater, workshop, The Getty Center (Site specifi c work DIRECTOR’S NOTE Theater Choreographic lifetime achievement award. opera, dance, ballet; cruise ships, theme parks, 2013), and OPEN’s European Tour. Anthea recently and performance; unique workshops designed to awaken and inspire concerts, spectacles, interactive art installations.
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