A.I.M 49 A.I.M Emmett Robinson Theatre at June 1, 7:00pm; June 2, 2:00pm and 7:30pm; College of Charleston June 3, 3:00pm and 8:00pm Artistic Director Kyle Abraham Executive Director Joe Stackell General Manager Hillary Kooistra Production Manager and Dan Stearns Lighting Supervisor Dancers Matthew Baker Kayla Farrish Tamisha Guy Keerati Jinakunwiphat Claude “CJ” Johnson Catherine Ellis Kirk Marcella Lewis Jeremy “Jae” Neal 1 hour, 15 minutes | Performed with one intermission Strict Love (1994) Choreography Doug Varone Restaging Alex Springer Music Radio broadcast of popular music by various artists* Lighting Design David Ferri Costume Design Lynne Steincamp Dancers Matthew Baker, Tamisha Guy, Keerati Jinakunwiphat, Claude “CJ” Johnson, Catherine Ellis Kirk, Marcella Lewis, Jeremy “Jae” Neal *Popular Music Credits: “Spirit in the Sky,” written and performed by Norman Greenbaum; “I Want You Back,” written by Berry Gordy, Freddie Perren, Alphonzo Mizell, Deke Richards, performed by Jackson 5; “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” written by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, performed by Diana Ross. Pause Excerpt from Dearest Home (2017) Choreography Kyle Abraham in collaboration with A.I.M Lighting Design Dan Scully Costume Design Kyle Abraham Dancers Tamisha Guy and Jeremy “Jae” Neal Pause Program continues on the next page 50 A.I.M The Quiet Dance (2011) Choreography Kyle Abraham Music “Some Other Time” by Leonard Bernstein, played by Bill Evans Lighting Design Dan Scully Costume Design Kristi Wood Dancers Catherine Ellis Kirk (soloist), Matthew Baker, Kayla Farrish, Tamisha Guy, Marcella Lewis Intermission Drive (2017) Choreography Kyle Abraham in collaboration with A.I.M Music Theo Parrish and Mobb Deep, with additional sound editing by Sam Crawford Lighting Design Dan Scully Costume Design Karen Young Dancers Matthew Baker, Kayla Farrish, Tamisha Guy, Keerati Jinakunwiphat, Claude “CJ” Johnson, Catherine Ellis Kirk, Marcella Lewis, Jeremy “Jae” Neal Drive was commissioned by New York City Center for the 2017 Fall for Dance Festival with generous support from the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. Special funding for Drive provided by Jay Franke & David Herro, and by Rick Beyer. Drive was developed, in part, through a residency at White Oak Conservation, made possible by the Howard Gilman Foundation. The 2018 dance series is sponsored by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina. These performances are made possible in part through funds from the Spoleto Festival USA Endowment, generously supported by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America. A.I.M 51 LYNNE STEINCAMP (costume designer, Strict Love) has About the Company worked with numerous choreographers over the course of her long association with dance, including Gina Gibney, Shapiro & The mission of A.I.M is to create an evocative interdisciplinary Smith Dance, Susan Marshall, and Alyson Pou. She was costume body of work. Born into hip-hop culture in the late 1970s and consultant for the Trisha Brown Dance Company for more than grounded in an artistic upbringing of classical cello, piano, and a decade. Her association with Doug Varone began in 1990; she the visual arts, Kyle Abraham creates movement with a goal of designed many company works, including Force Majeure, Rise, exploring identity in relation to a personal history. The work Possession, and Bel Canto. She now lives on a horse farm in entwines a sensual and provocative vocabulary with a strong Connecticut with her husband, artist Power Boothe. emphasis on sound, human behavior, and all things visual in an effort to create an avenue for personal investigation and KRISTI WOOD (costume designer, The Quiet Dance) has exposing that on stage. A.I.M is a representation of dancers designed for David Dorfman Dance’s Come and Back Again, Kyle from various disciplines and diverse personal backgrounds. Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion’s Live! The Realest MC, How We Combined together, these individualities create movement that Process with Camille A. Brown, August Wilson Center Dance is manipulated and molded into something fresh and unique. Ensemble’s Time Stands Still (concert), The Way of Water For more information, to get involved, or purchase your A.I.M (film), andPeel (film). Her costume production credits include: merchandise, please visit abrahaminmotion.org. the Metropolitan Opera (current assistant costume production supervisor for new operas); on Broadway, War Horse (original Broadway cast principal dresser) and A Chorus Line (Broadway Artistic Team revival production wardrobe supervisor); in dance, Jacob’s Pillow (wardrobe supervisor) and Les Ballets Trockadero de KYLE ABRAHAM (artistic director Monte Carlo (wardrobe supervisor and diva specialist); and and choreographer), from Pittsburgh, in television: America’s Next Top Model (set dresser), All My Pennsylvania, is a 2016 Doris Duke Children (set continuity), and Damages (set continuity). Wood Artist Award recipient, a 2015 City also designs and tailors couture gowns for elite drag queens. She Center Choreography Fellow, and a 2013 would like to dedicate her work to her father, Joseph Earnest MacArthur Fellow. Previous awards Wood (1956 – 2007). include being named a 2012 United States Artists Ford Fellow, a Creative Capital KAREN YOUNG (costume designer, Drive) creates costumes Fellow, and receiving a 2012 Jacob’s for dance, performance, and contemporary art that have been Pillow Dance Award. In 2010, he received a prestigious Bessie seen in theaters and museums internationally. Recent projects Award for Outstanding Performance in Dance for his work in include Wendy Whelan’s Restless Creature, Third Rail Projects’s The Radio Show, which was presented at Spoleto Festival USA highly acclaimed immersive show Then She Fell, and teaching in 2012, and a Princess Grace Award for Choreography. The at the Rhode Island School of Design. Design work for dance previous year, he was selected as one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to includes: the Martha Graham Dance Company, Brian Brooks, Watch.” Over the past several years, Abraham has created works Armitage Gone! Dance, American Ballet Theatre, Morphoses, for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Wendy Whelan’s Restless Dusan Tynek, Pam Tanowitz, and Keigwin + Company, among Creature, and three works for Alvin Ailey American Dance many others. Design for video art includes: David Michalek’s Theater. In 2011, OUT magazine labeled Abraham as the “best Slow Dancing, Matthew Barney’s Cremaster 5 and Cremaster 1, and brightest creative talent to emerge in New York City in the Toni Dove’s Lucid Possession, and Eve Sussman’s 89 Seconds at age of Obama.” Alcazar. Karenyoungcostume.com DOUG VARONE (choreographer, Strict Love) is an award- DAVID FERRI (lighting designer, Strict Love) has worked with winning choreographer and director working in dance, theater, such prominent choreographers and companies as Pina Bausch, opera, film, and fashion. His New York City-based Doug Varone Shen Wei, Doug Varone, Yin Mei, Eiko and Koma, Jane Comfort, and Dancers has been commissioned and presented to critical David Rousseve, Jody Sperling, and Ballet Preljocaj. He has been acclaim by leading international venues for close to three the production manager for the prestigious American Dance decades. On tour, the company has performed in more than 125 Festival since 1996, training upcoming designers in America. cities in 45 states across the US, and in Europe, Asia, Canada, He is the recipient of a 1987 – 88 Bessie Award for his design and South America. In the concert dance world, Varone has of Doug Varone’s Straits, and a 2000 – 01 Bessie Award for created a body of works globally. Commissions include the Paul Sustained Achievement in Lighting Design. Ferri is the resident Taylor Dance Company, Limón Company, Hubbard Street Dance lighting designer and technical director for The Vassar College Chicago, Rambert Dance Company (London), Martha Graham dance department, and was also resident lighting designer and Dance Company, Dancemakers (Canada), Batsheva Dance technical director at PS 122 from 1985 – 91. Ferri lives in New Company (Israel), Bern Ballet (Switzerland), and An Creative York between his travels and projects. (Japan). Numerous honors and awards include a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, an OBIE Award (Lincoln Center’s Orpheus and Euridice), the Jerome Robbins Fellowship at the Boglaisco Institute in Italy, and a Doris Duke Artist Award. In 2015 he was given the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Dance Guild. 52 A.I.M DAN SCULLY (lighting designer, Dearest Home and The Quiet Dance/lighting and scenic designer, Drive) is a New York-based Dancers lighting and projection designer, and has been designing for Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion for more than 10 years, including MATTHEW BAKER (choreographic the full-length evening works Pavement, Live! The Realest M.C., associate/dancer) hails from Ann Arbor, and the Bessie Award-winning The Radio Show. Recent work Michigan. He received his BFA (’08) in includes Rocky (Broadway), Jedermann (Salzburger Festspeile), dance from Western Michigan University. The Orchestra Rocks! (Carnegie Hall), and Another Night (Alvin In New York City, he worked with such Ailey American Dance Theater). In the New York region, his choreographers as Mark Dendy and work has been seen at Trinity Rep, Geva Theatre Center, Asolo Keith Thompson before joining Keigwin Repertory Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Hudson Valley + Company, under the artistic direction Shakespeare Festival, and Two River Theater Company. MFA- of Larry Keigwin and co-founder Nicole NYU/Tisch. Wolcott, from 2009 – 14. As choreographic associate for A.I.M, Baker works with the artistic director and his colleagues to ALEX SPRINGER (restaging, Strict Love) is a Brooklyn- maintain and develop the company’s repertory. Baker was the based performer, choreographer, teacher, and video artist. He recipient of a distinguished alumni award from his alma mater has had the pleasure of working with Alexandra Beller, Heidi in 2014. He joined Abraham.In.Motion in 2011. Henderson, the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, among others, and was a member of Doug Varone and Dancers from 2007 KAYLA FARRISH (dancer) was born – 17.