2011 Next Wave Festival NOV 2011 Donald Baechler, Red + Blue Rose (detail), 2011 BAM 2011 Next Wave Festival sponsor Published by: BAM 2011 Next Wave Festival Brooklyn Academy of Music presents Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board Adam E. Max, Canyon Vice Chairman of the Board Karen Brooks Hopkins, BAM Harvey Theater President Nov 16—19, 2011 at 7:30pm Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer Approximate running time: 70 minutes, no intermission Choreography by John Jasperse Composed by Hahn Rowe Visual design by Tony Orrico Lighting design by James Clotfelter Created in collaboration Lindsay Clark with performers Erin Cornell Kennis Hawkins Burr Johnson James McGinn BAM 2011 Next Wave Festival sponsor Leadership support for the Next Wave Festival provided by the Ford Foundation. Support for Canyon provided by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Major support for dance at BAM provided by The Harkness Foundation for Dance and The SHS Foundation. John Jasperse’s CALIFORNIA, at BAM in 2004. Photo by Julieta Cervantes Canyon Musicians Olivia De Prato violin Ha-Yang Kim cello Doug Wieselman bass clarinet Hahn Rowe violin, guitar, electronics Original music composed by Hahn Rowe Visual design Tony Orrico Lighting design James Clotfelter Live sound mix Dave Cook Costume design John Jasperse Additional costume design Reid Bartelme Costume construction Fattah Abehal of Marrakech Production management James Clotfelter Canyon is commissioned as part of the BAM 2011 Next Wave Festival, and is co-commissioned by the Wexner Center for the Arts. Canyon is made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust. Canyon is supported by The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Canyon is commissioned through Meet The Composer’s Commissioning Music/USA program, which is made possible by generous support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Helen F. Whitaker Fund. Canyon is commissioned by the American Music Center Live Music for Dance Program. Canyon is supported, in part, by the Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation, the Harkness Foundation for Dance, the James E. Robison Foundation, and by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; and from the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative com- munities in New York State’s 62 counties. Canyon was developed in residencies at Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC), Tallahassee, FL, MASSMoCA, North Adams, Mass, and CPR – Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY. Special thanks to Joe Melillo, Karen Brooks Hopkins, and the incredible staff at BAM; Sue Killam, Eric Nottke, Rachel Chanoff, and the staff at Mass MoCA; Jennifer Calienes, Rachel Hunter, Russ Marsh, Chris Cameron, and the staff at MANCC; Chuck Helm, Andy Hensler and the Wexner Center for the Arts; Arnie Malina and the Flynn Theater; Susan Quinn and SEAD; James Frazier, Gerri Houlihan and the American Dance Festival; Stanford Makishi, Huong Hoang; Baryshnikov Art Center; Thomas Bell, Kirstin Kapustik and Center for Performance Research; Paz Tanjuaquio and Topaz Arts; Arthur Aviles, Charles Rice-González and BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance; Penny Dannenberg, Howie Seligman; Barbara Bryan, Julie Alexander, Bessie McDonough-Thayer, iele paloumpis, and the staff and Board of Thin Man Dance, Inc.; Neal Beasley; Eleanor Hullihan; Alex Escalante; Reid Bartelme; Rory Mulholland; Melinda Myers; Gabriel Rivera; Ernesto Pujol; Lauren Bakst; Janine Antoni; He-jin Jang; Manelich Minniefee; Sarah Procopio. Who’s Who John Jasperse Projects time-based art and performance projects as well John Jasperse has been living and working as as other varieties of artistic expression. a dance artist and choreographer based largely in New York City since graduating from Sarah Lindsay Clark (dancer) grew up in California Lawrence College in 1985. From 1985—90, and North Carolina. She has had the pleasure Jasperse created primarily shorter works of performing with Shen Wei Dance Arts, Faye including several shared evening performances, Driscoll, Jennie Mary Tai Liu, Yve Laris Cohen, in addition to working as a dancer with several Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People, choreographers here in New York City and with Vanessa Anspaugh, and Jack Ferver. She is Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker in Beligum. These currently working on a new project with Michelle performances of Canyon mark the 20-year Boulé. She was a 2010/2011 Fresh Tracks Artist anniversary of the premiere of his first evening- in Residence at Dance Theater Workshop. Clark length work, Eyes Half Closed, at PS 122 in holds an MFA from Hollins University. New York City’s East Village in 1991; they also mark Jasperse’s fourth appearance as part of James Clotfelter (lighting design) is committed BAM’s Next Wave Festival, preceded by Giant to the creation of collaborative and socially Empty in 2001, CALIFORNIA in 2004 and conscious work for theater and dance. He misuse liable to prosecution in 2007. Through is an artistic associate with Pig Iron Theatre this time, Jasperse has largely worked as an Company (Chekhov Lizardbrain, Welcome independent dance artist. Following several to Yuba City), resident lighting designer and prizes in both the Rencontres Chorégraphiques production manager for Miro Dance Theatre (Lie Internationales de Seine-Saint Denis in France as to Me, Punch), company member of johannes well as the Suzanne Dellal International Dance wieland (Progressive Coma, newyou), and Competition in Tel Aviv, Israel, the non-profit co-founder of Mlab, a laboratory for innovations organization Thin Man Dance, Inc. was created and design technologies in the live arts. Recent in 1996 to support his choreographic work. collaborations include work with Sara Shelton Largely a project-based production structure, Mann, Bill Shannon, Rainpan 43, Thaddeus under the name John Jasperse Company, it has Phillips, Reggie Wilson, David Szlasa, and presented live performances of contemporary Lubelski Teatr Tanca. Premieres for 2011 include dance and engaged in a broad range of residency works with longtime collaborators Rennie Harris activities in the US and abroad. We are taking (Heaven) and Marc Bamuthi Joseph (red, black, this special occasion of our 20-year anniversary and GREEN: a blues). jcld.net since Jasperse’s first evening-length work to rename the organization John Jasperse Projects, Dave Cook (live sound mix), a native New reflecting perhaps more accurately the core of Yorker, has been a sound engineer for almost 30 our work all along. We have never seen ourselves years and comes from a background immersed as a dance company in the traditional sense. in recording studios, theaters, and concert Our key mission is one of innovation and artistic settings. His work in the pop/rock world has experimentation. Now more than ever, we see landed him gold and platinum album credits ourselves as a production structure supporting with artists such as 10,000 Maniacs, the B-52’s collaborative artistic projects, initiated and driven (he engineered everyone’s favorite backyard by John Jasperse, with independent artists barbecue song, “The Love Shack”), and others working in a variety of media. We honor our including Nick Cave, Hugo Largo, Graham history of artistic projects in which dance is the Parker, the Golden Palominos, Juliana Hatfield, central vehicle. As we move into the future, we and many more. He has engineered and mixed see this new name expressing our core values, broadcast events with David Bowie, Radiohead, allowing for a flexibility for how those projects and Morphine, among others. Cook has also might manifest themselves, across media which engineered sessions with jazz artists such as include dance as well as other forms, to include Dave Holland, Kenny Washington, George Mraz, John Jasperse’s Misuse liable to prosecution, at BAM in 2007. L-R: Michelle Boulé, Levi Gonzales, Kayvon Pourazar, Eleanor Hullihan. Photo: Alex Escalante. Who’s Who Misuse liable to prosecution, L-R: Michelle Boulé, Kayvon Pourazar, Eleanor Hullihan, Levi Gonzales. Photo by Julieta Cervantes Jimmy Cobb, and Warren Bernhardt. Past and with Jasperse. Cornell thanks Jennifer Way, Tom present live concert engineering credits include Rawe, Shawn Dulaney, Yoshin David Radin, Elvis Costello with the Charles Mingus Orchestra, Marshall Hagins, and her mother, Claire. Carly Simon, Nine Circles Chamber Theatre, Maya Beiser, Ravi Shankar, Anoushka Shankar, Olivia De Prato (violin), an Austro-Italian Terry Riley, Marc Cohn, Natalie Merchant, Laurie violinist internationally recognized as a soloist Anderson, and Medeski, Martin and Wood. Cook as well as a chamber musician, has been lives with his family in Saugerties, NY. described as “flamboyant… convincing” (The New York Times) and an “enchanting violinist” Erin Cornell (dancer) received a BFA from Tisch (Messaggero Veneto, Italy). Since moving to School of the Arts at NYU. She has worked New York City she has quickly established herself with Jennifer Lacey, Sara Rudner, Cathy Weiss, as a passionate performer of contemporary Patricia Hoffbauer, Jennifer Monson, Alain and improvised music, breaking boundaries of Buffard, Loic Touze, Chamecki/Lerner, Yasuko the traditional violin repertoire and performing Yokoshi, and Miguel Gutierrez. Cornell has also regularly as a soloist as well as an ensemble performed in several incarnations of Zeena and player in Europe, South America, China, and the Plastic Girls with music goddess Zeena the US.