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A Cinderella Story 6 Choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot brings his unique sensibility to the classic fairy tale. By Jon To/ansky

Th e Rites Stuff 10 BAM 's "Dance Africa" festival continues to march to its own distinct drummer, with works from all over the world . By Lesley Alexander

Le s Boreades 38 After 240 years , Jean-Philippe Rameau's rarely seen 18th-century opera, "Les Boreades ," finally makes it to American shores. By Ellen Lampert-Greaux

The It List 4 Prog ram 21 Th e Movies 25 Upco ming Events Top: Muntu Dancers. Photo: Kwabena Shabu 35 Bottom: William Christie BAMdi rectory 38 Co\/pr Arti,t

Cecily Brown was born in 1969 in London. She earned a BA in Fine Arts at the Slade School of Art, and a B-TEC Diploma in Art and Design at Epsom School of Art in Surrey, England. Brown is represented by Gagosian Gallery (New York and Los Angeles), where she has had annual solo exhibitions since 1999. Her work has been featured in solo shows at Victoria Miro Gallery (London), Contemporary Fine Arts (Berlin), and Deitch Projects (New York). Brown has participated in a number of group shows at locations including Museum fur Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main); Center Cecily Brown on Contemporary Art, Seattle; P. S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Figure in a Landscape, 2002 Island City, NY; Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Jessica Fredericks Oil on linen, 80" x 80" Gallery, and David Zwirner Gallery (New York City), among others. Courtesy of Robert McKeeever/ Brown's short animated film , Four Letter Heaven , premiered at the Gagosian Gallery Telluride Film Festival. Her work is in public collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York) , Albright-Knox For BAMart information, Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY), and The Tate Gallery (London), and is contact Monika Wunderer at the subject of several books and catalogues, including essays 718.636.4174 x8 or by Klaus Kertess and Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen. Brown's first [email protected] museum solo exhibition will take place at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC . Her new work will be shown at a solo exhibition at Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, in early spring this year. 3 A Cinderella StorY

By Jon Tolansky also the centerpiece of Monaco Takes New York, a celebration of the principality that In 1993 Princess Caroline of Hanover invited takes place here from April 28-May 3. a charismatic and imaginative young chore­ ographer to become the new Director of the Maillot's quest to blend fantasy and reality is Ballets de Monte-Carlo, the descendant of realized both through his interpretations of Serge Diaghilev's legendary Ballet Russes de ballet scenarios and his general approach to Monte-Carlo. It did not take long for Jean­ dance movement. In particular, his produc­ Christophe Maillot to bring the company tions of Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella have major international success with his bold new radically reconsidered the ballet's traditiOnal artistic agenda and the high technical level of fairy-tale elements. In these works, Maillot the ensemble under his direction. seeks to create a deeper experience than some of his colleagues. Maillot is fundamentally preoccupied with the relationship between the past and today. In "It is much harder to give a dramatic dimen­ many of his own creations and also in some sion and a really interesting level of experi­ of the works of the distinguished guest ence in Cinderella than it is in Romeo and choreographers he has invited to the Juliet because there is no Shakespeare," he Company- William Forsythe, Jiri Kylian, admits. "So most of the time this ballet has

The forms and aesthetic codes have changed, but I don't see any difference in the human emotions of the time of Napoleon and those of 2003.

Lucinda Childs, and Jacopo Godani-there been shown as a caricature, for instance as it has often been a discreet fusion of tradition is with those two big ugly sisters in the and experimentation. Ashton version, taken by men.

That combination will be on display when his "But you know there is a dramatic dimension production of Cinderella (Cendrillon), set to in Cinderella. That poor girl has to face a the music of Sergei Prokofiev, comes to BAM new mother. And that is happening allover from April 29-May 3 , with a special gala the world all the time, especially in Europe performance on opening night. Cinderella is where two out of every five marriages break

6 A Cinderella StorY up. This re-composition of the family unit is very important," he adds. "In my production of Cinderella I have wanted to keep the double level: the duality of the magical fantasy and the disturbing reality."

In short, his ballet is not exactly Disney-esque -and that is just how Maillot wants it. "I hope this does not upset anyone, but Walt Disney, although he was a genius, was a huge pollution for the world-in the way that great geniuses are always a pollution. People want to copy achievers. With me it is the opposite. No matter how much I like something, how much I am inspired by it, I like to go away from it so that I can find myself," he says.

"If you say 'Cinderella' to most people, they will say or think 'Walt Disney' and in ballet terms that means divertissement. If you go to see it and you just want to enjoy yourself ~ watching a nice show, you certainly can . But if !!! ~ you want to read further and have another a kind of experience, you also can do so ," he that guy, or else .. .', then she would take her continues. "That is always the way I like to bike and leave home. " present dance and it's also how I like to live. With a friend, one moment I like to have a While circumstances and mores may have good relaxing time with cheese and wine and changed , admits Maillot, audiences still talk about the weather, and five minutes later I respond to the basics, whether it be a six­ like to have a searching reflection on life. I teenth-, eighteenth-, or 20th-century story. give both these levels in my work. I do believe "The forms and aesthetic codes have changed, every human being is made this way-it is but I don't see any difference in the human nothing exceptional. " emotions of the time of Napoleon and those of 2003," he notes. "It's an obsession with me to In his productions of great classical ballets, give a theatrical reality to audiences so that Maillot has often maintained the historical they see something on stage they can identify period in the staging and yet simultaneously with in the here and now, and yet when they made contemporary style innovations in the leave the theater they know they have seen manner of dancing and acting. "If you want to something different from the past." _ make a story of the eighteenth century realistic for today's dance audiences, I do not believe it Jean-Christophe Maillot will speak at BAM is a solution to displace it in time. Jerome Rose Cinemas on May 1, preceding the Robbins brought the theme of Romeo and performance of Cinderell a. Juliet forward wonderfully by creating a totally new scenario with new music in West Side Jon Tolansky is an arts and entertainment Story," he says. "But when you stage writer based in London. His in terview with Prokofiev'S Romeo and Juliet, based on Jean-Christophe Maillot will be broadcast on Sha kespeare's original play, it is far less the WQXR radio series, Making Music in straightforward making it work for today. My Monaco, this spring daughter is called Juliet and she is sixteen years old . If I were to tell her 'you must marry

7 DanceAfrica 2003

The Rites Stuff "We come together and show respect for one another because we are preserving the By Lesley Alexander traditions born in Africa and spread throughout the Diaspora," explains "Baba" Chuck Davis, Imagine a rainbow of colorful costumes and the festival's founder and artistic director. elaborate headpieces. Bodies sway to the "When you go out to a village in Africa, dance rhythms of distant drums from a far-off land, comes from the community." moving with acrobatic gyrations and pounding feet, culminating in a joyous outpouring of Davis knows whereof he speaks. He founded affection. There are shouts of "Agoo" (attention) the Chuck Davis Dance Company in 1967 in from the stage and "Amee" (I'm listening) from New York and went on to create the African the rapt crowd in one of the languages of American Dance Ensemble in Durham, North Ghana , West Africa. Carolina in 1982. Equally important, Davis has traveled extensively throughout the world Fortunately, there is no need to just imagine. searching for authentic African dance, folklore, These elements are all part of DanceAfrica and traditions. Many of the dancers he dis­ 2003, Rhythmic Rites and Rituals: Connecting covered along the way have been invited to Cultural Borders, to be held at BAM 's Howard participate in DanceAfrica festivals throughout Gilman Opera House from May 23-25. the years.

This year 's festival , sponsored by AT&T, Morgan One such company, appearing in this year's Stanley, and Con Edison, continues a 26-year festival, is the Resurrection Dance Theater of tradition of African and African-American dance Haiti, a troupe of young men (ages nine to 26) performances at BAM , and includes other from the St. Joseph's Home for Boys in Port­ events such as the popular DanceAfrica Bazaar, au-Prince, Haiti. The company was created in a sculpture exhibition, a film series, and live 1985 in order to help impoverished children music at BAMcafe. It also marks the sixth year improve their self-esteem and increase their of a fruitful partnership between BAM and the confidence. Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, a highlight of which is the BAM/ Restoration "Children on the street rarely see beauty in DanceAfrica Ensemble's performance in their lives, which makes it almost impossible DanceAfrica.

10 DanceAfrica 2003 to see the beauty in themselves, their country, In addition to Kulu Mele and Resurrection, their history or their culture," says founder Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago returns to the Michael Geilenfeld. "Once they find themselves festival for the first time in nearly 20 years. in a place where their souls are nourished, the Beyond the native rhythms of Africa, this com­ beauty is easier to see and live." pany's influences include the Caribbean and American jazz. Extensive research is done to Many of the dances performed by the company ensure the authenticity of the dance steps, and relate to the boys' personal experiences. Take every movement tells a story. Muntu (which The Dance of New Life , one of the four pieces means the essence of humanity) accents their scheduled for the mainstage of this year's dances with such instruments as the koutero, festival. It tells the story of Sony Derazin, a doumdoum, and djembe drums as well as the young man with cerebral palsy who was saved shakere, a wooden vase adorned with beads. by the boys of St. Joseph 's and went on to join the dance company. The company celebrates the human body in all its forms, with members' body types running Joining DanceAfrica for the first time is the the gamut from straight lines to round curves, and Kulu Mele Dance Company of Philadelphia, participants ranging in age from sixteen to 48. which combines Cuban and West African dance, and utilizes the bata and djembe drums In addition to these companies, the young to crea te an authentic sound. One of its dances dancers of the BAM/Restoration Dance Africa is Obatala, which is based on a Nigerian folk Ensemble will perform at the Festival. Even the tale about the king of the white cloth who youngest already know about the importance of dances with the tail of a white horse in order to tradition . To begin the proceedings, a libation is cleanse the earth. poured outside the theater so that the dancers can perform in a rarefied place. Says Davis , The second dance-which follows a major "Negativity is caught and trapped in the gutter drum interlude-is Fula Fare. This dance of the so you come in with positive attitude." ~ Fulani People, one of the largest ethnic groups in West Africa , celebrates the seventh day in Lesley Alexander writes frequently on the arts. Her the life of a newborn and utilizes the calabash theater. concert, and CD reviews can be heard regu­ (a dried gourd) as a musical instrument. larlyon WRTN-FM/WVOX-AM, where she is also the host of Spotlight an interview program on the arts.

DanceAfrica 2003-Festival Events DanceAfrica 2003 BAMcinematek BAM Howard Gilman Opera House May 22 Looking for Life and Laviche May 23 & 24, 7:30pm Q&A: director Jean-Rene Revil May 24, 2pm post-7:30pm screening May 25, 3pm May 23 DanceAfrica Bazaar That's My Face! Q&A: dir. Thomas May 24, noon to Wpm Allen Harris post-7pm show May 25, noon to Bpm May 25 May 26 (Memorial Day) noon to 7pm That's My Face! Intro by Thomas BAMcafe Live Allen Harris, reception post-Bpm show May 17, 9pm Dance Africa: Dance Africa Master Classes International Garifuna Band May 25 May 24, Wpm Dance Africa: Source Noon-1:30pm Families (adults/children) Sculpture Exhibition, BAMgarden 2pm-3:30pm Intermediate/ Advanced May 24-26 Call 71B.636.4130 xl for details. Artwork by students from Bedford­ Stuyvesant Restoration Corp. Check www.bam.org for the latest information.

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19 BAM 2003 Sorioe: Brooklyn Academy of Music Alan H. Fishman William I. Campbell Chairman of the Board Vice Chairman of the Board Karen Brooks Hopkins Joseph V. Melillo President Executive Producer

presents The Island

Approximate BAM Harvey Theater running time: Apr 1-5, 8-12, 2003 at 7:30pm; 1 hour and 20 Apr 6 & 13 at 3pm, Apr 12 at 2pm minutes, no intermission The Royal National Theatre and The Market Theatre of Johannesburg By Athol Fugard , John Kani , and Winston Ntshona Originally directed by Athol Fugard Lighting design by Mannie Manim Cast John Kani and Winston Ntshona Stage manager Martha Knight

The Company wishes to thank Peter Brook for his assistance in the restaging of th is production

John Kani and Winston Ntshona are appearing with the permission of Actors' Equity Association.

BAM 2003 Spring Season is sponsored by Altria Group, Inc.

Special support for The Island is provided by The Feinberg Foundation Inc.

The opening night reception is supported by Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York.

Leadership support for BAM Theater is provided by The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation.

BAM Theater supporters: The Shubert Foundation, The SHS Foundation, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust, and Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust.

BAM thanks Theatre Development Fund for its support of this season. The Island

Setting: Robben Island , 1973 The Is/and-Robben Island-is a small island in the Atlantic Ocean about seven miles from Cape Town. Its history goes back further than that of the mainland itself. In the early seventeenth century, the Dutch East India Company attempted to make it a refreshment station for ships on Far East routes. The island proved too inhospitable for this purpose. In subsequent history, Robben Island has been used as a leper colony, lunatic asylum, and is now South Africa's maximum security prison for African political offenders.

Note on The Island by Peter Brook

In 1974, in London , a play from South Africa burst into the Royal Court Theatre like a bomb. On an empty stage, for fifteen minutes, the only sound heard was that made by the repetitive movements of two men- two young black actors, moving from one side of the stage to the other in a mime of incredible precision : digging, filling wheelbarrows, pushing them, emptying them, filling them again. Great drops of sweat poured from the two men. Each muscle of their bodies, every fiber of the ir being showed a complete, a crushing reality that they absolutely had to express.

For them, that empty space was the quarry on Robben Island, the island where Nelson Mandela and so many other brave men were imprisoned, where the isolation was so total , the security so tight, that the only news that got through was whispered from mouth to ear, or scribbled on tiny scraps of paper.

The Island was the play's title. It was a collective creation by the two young actors, John Kani and Winston Ntshona, and the writer Athol Fugard. Fugard was a tremendous hero of the South African opposition. He had written many polemical plays in his country, but this was the first time that a "white" South African had worked in complete collaboration with two "blacks." The th ree men together gave birth to this play, day after day, hidden in a little flat, lent by another "white," the marvelous actress Yvonne Bryceland. For day after day the trio explored, improvised on the information they received, through members of their fami lies, on the conditions on the island. But day after day they grew to suspect that this was an unrealizable project. How could they speak of a place that no one could penetrate, of which no one knew anything?

They were about the abandon the idea when, from the window of the little Cape Town flat, they saw Robben Island facing them, far away, its contour perfectly defined. It must be spoken of, life is stronger than doubt and despair. They had to go on.

In 1973, a draft version was presented twice in Cape Town. Then, as Athol Fugard had an invitation from the Royal Court in London , they decided that The Island would be created there. Note on The Island

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""c '"o .c z11 c ~ 3 But how to obtain visas? Winston had a job in a grocery store. But John had no work and it was as "gardener" to Athol Fugard that he presented himse lf to the English authorities. A visa was granted at Heathrow airport. The definitive performance of The Island could take place. A new move­ ment had crossed the barriers, escaped the terrifying vigi lance of the South African police. It was a theater of life, fed by vital street humor. The actors had an innate talent for play, for improvisation; they had a swift intelligence, they brilliantly used every cell in their bod ies . They gave off an extraordinary energy, an energy that nothing and no one could repress.

In 1999, for the second time, the Bouffes du Nord organized a South African season. In October we were pleased and proud, as part of this season, to welcome to Paris the two great actors, John Kani and Winston Ntshona in a revival of the original version of The Island, which had never been seen in Paris. The season pays homage to Barney Simon (Founder Member and former Artistic Director of the Market Theatre, Johannesburg), who sadly is no longer with us. It also pays homage to all those who created and continue to create a living theater in South Africa. The need is still there, the need to express through theater the fierce joy and bitter anger, which have made survival possible.

© Peter Brook, November 1999 J)u Kani, Ntshona, and Fugard by Donald Woods

One day, if a historic assessment is made of the most effective opponents of the apartheid system in South Africa, two remarkable actors will be well to the forefront of the heroes of that era . John Kani and Winston Ntshona, through their art and passion as well as the great courage it took to do what they did in that time, broke new ground politically as well as artistically in defiance of the most vicious of all the apartheid regime's Security Police-those of the Eastern Cape.

These were the Security Police who killed Steve Biko and many others who dared to stand up against the system, and, being from the Port Elizabeth area of the Eastern Cape, Kani and Ntshona worked right under the observation of the worst of these brutal functionaries. Their friendship and collaboration with South Africa 's greatest playwright, Athol Fugard, at a time when all three were young and fearless, openly defied everything the apartheid state stood for, friendships between blacks and whites being the very antithesis of the whole notion of apartheid, and it also began the long association which produced a succession of wonderful plays that formed South Africa's greatest body of dramatic work for the stage. The Island is one of the greatest of these great plays, and one of the many things which make it great is the fact that through it reflected South African reality at a particular time, it also reflects universal rea lities in all ages, wherever and whenever one group of human beings tries to oppress another.

Any faithful re-staging of the play will emphasize this, though what it cannot quite recapture is the original political atmosphere in South Africa in which The Island was the first performed. I remember so well the anticipation and sense of political danger that accompanies Kani, Ntshona, and Fugard in those early days of the Serpent Players, as they called themselves, travelling from Port Elizabeth to East London and various other centers in the Eastern Cape, trying out their exciting experiments in drama-defiance.

And in the midst of the their courageous crusade they had time for friendship and some backyard cricket with those of us who admired them. John, I seem to recall, was a somewhat reckless batsman, but Winston was a good off spin bowler with nagging accuracy and flight. And they were both accomplished celebrators afterwards, with few liquor supplies proving adequate to their vast enjoyment of what the brewers and distillers of the land could provide.

They worked hard and played hard, but were never less than totally professional on the stage, so that even now, more than 30 years after Kani, Ntshona, and Fugard

those initial plays, it is exciting to see that these prodigies have all become more prodigious. Always actors of obvious talent, even as young men, John and Winston have developed into masters of their arts and craft and are today, in my opinion, at the peak of their greatness. And Fugard, of course, is a phenomenen, whose genius is acknowledged internationally. What a trio! We of the Eastern Cape are justifiably proud of them, and we are no strangers to greatness, having also produced in our area such great names as Mandela , Biko, Sisulu, and Mbeki.

For me one of the defining moments of life during the dark days of apartheid involved John Kani and Winston Ntshona, who had been arrested and imprisoned without trial for unspecified offenses-other than the obvious "crime" then of ridiculing our rulers from the stages of our township theaters. After several tense weeks, during which their friends could learn nothing of their situation or state of health in detention, I happened to be in a bar in the huge Port Elizabeth township of New Brighton, when I suddenly felt a slap on the back and heard gales of familiar laughter. It was John and Winston, freshly released and celebrating the fact at the nearest bar l

They were in top form, without a word about their prison conditions or being beaten up or anything other than the all-important thought of ordering another round of beer. And I remember thinking then that, pitted against the likes of these two men, the apartheid system could never win. They were so much bigger than it.

How appropriate, also, that through their many great plays as The Island, they and Athol Fugard were able to light flames of political defiance all over South Africa as well as spreading throughout the world the realization that economic and diplomatic presures against apartheid from the international commun ity cou ld save many lives by shortening the lifespan of apartheid.

These things actually happened. People like them made them happen.

© Donald Woods, September 2000

Donald Woods, who was arrested and driven into exile from South Africa for his anti-apartheid journalism, was recently awarded the CBE for services to human rights. \Nho's \ALho

Athol Fugard (playwright) has been worki ng in the theater as a playwright, director, and actor since the mid-fifties in South Africa, England, and the U.S. His plays include No-Good Friday; Non-Gogo; The Blood Knot; People are Uving There; Hello and Goodbye; Boesman and Lena; The Coat; Dimetos ; Statements After An Arrest Under The Immortality Act; Orestes; The Island; Sizwe Banzi is Dead; The Drummer; A Lesson from Aloes; 'Master Harold'... and the Boys; The Road to Mecca; A Place with the Pigs ; My Children' My Africa'; Playland; Valley Song; The Captain's Tiger, and most recently, Sorrows and Rejoicings , which had its world premiere at the McCarter Theatre, Princeton, its South African premiere at the Theatre, he has directed Goree and Blues Baxter Theatre, and was performed in London , Africa Cafe by Matsamela Manaka, Kagoos by New York , and Los Angeles in 2002. He has Kessie Govender, and The Meeting by Jeff been seen on the stage in South Africa and Stetson . He is the recipient of a Merit Award London, and in the U.S. both on and off from the National African Federated Chamber Broadway and in regional theater. His film of Commerce for his contribution to the credits include The Road to Mecca, Gandhi, advancement of culture in South Africa and the The Killing Fields , Meetings with Remarkable Rotary Club's Pau l Harris Fellowship Award . In Men, Marigolds in August, Boesman and Lena, 1995, was awarded an honorary doctorate of and The Guest. He has written two books, the philosophy from the University of Westville, novel Tsotsi , and the autobiographical Cousins. Durban, and in 1998, and honorary doctorate from Rhodes University in Grahamstown. He is John Kani (playwright, actor) is an actor, executive trustee of the Market Theatre, the director, and playwright. His appearances at founder and director of the Market Theatre the Market Theatre in Johannesburg include Laboratory, and chairman of the National Arts My Children! My Africa! (for which he won an Council of South Africa. Kani received the AA Life Vita Award in 1990 for his role as Mr. Hiroshima Foundation for Peace and Culture M); and Sizwe Banzi is Dead and The Island, Award for the year 2000. both of which he also co-wrote with Athol Fugard and Winston Ntshona and for which Winston Ntshona (playwright, actor) formed he was awarded a Tony for Best Actor (1974- the Serpent Players with Athol Fugard and 75). Previously at the Royal National Theatre in John Kani. He has appeared in more than 20 London, he performed in 'Master Harold'... and productions including, in South Africa, Phaedra the Boys, and My Children! My Africa!, for at the Civic Theatre, Johannesburg; and The which he received an Olivier nomination. He Island, Kagoos, and The Death of Bessie recently received the Avante Hall of Fame Smith at the Market Theatre, Johannesburg. awaard from the South African film, Television Elsewhere, he appeared in Waiting for Godot and Advertising Industry. At the Market on U.K. and U.S. tours, and Sizwe Banzi is Who's \J\/ho Dead on tour in South Africa, the U.K., and the South African Academy of Arts and Science. He U.S. His television appearances include The is co-founder of the Market Theatre, serves on Island, Sizwe Banzi is Dead, and The Children its Board of Governors, Chairman of the and I. Film credits include The Wild Geese, National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, and is Ashanti, Marigolds in August, Dogs of War, a member of the State Theatre Board. He is Gandhi, The Stick, A Dry White Season, Director of the Baxter Theatre Centre at the Perfume of the Cyclone, The Air Up There, University of Cape Town . The Power of One, Tarzan and Jane, The Store Keeper, and I Dreamed of Africa. He has also Martha Knight (stage manager) recently devised, with Athol Fugard and John Kani, worked with The Next Ice Age at the The Island and Sizwe Banzi is Dead. He is the Eisenhower Theater. She has stage managed recipient of an honorary doctorate from the at Arena Stage for more than sixteen years, University of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. working on such productions as A Streetcar Named Desire , Candide, Uncle Vanya, The Mannie Manim (lighting designer) is in his Revenger's Comedies , Merrily We Roll Along , 47th year working in the theater. He has The Cocoanuts, and On the Town. From 1962 designed lighting for theater, opera, music, until the mid-1980s, Knight worked on and ballet, and dance for the last three decades. He off-Broadway and on national tours, including has worked in most theaters in South Africa Foxfire, Annie, Over Here!, and The Me and has lit South African productions on tours Nobody Knows . For the past 26 years, she has internationally since 1977. He has worked worked in many Washington , D.C. theaters extensively throughout the U.S., the U.K., on plays, musicals, and numerous freelance Europe, Australia, and Japan . Most recently he programs, including many years of stage has designed the lighting for The Island at the managing the Helen Hayes Awards. Old Vic in London; in Toronto, where he won Best Lighting Design 2001/2002; at the The Market Theatre , Johannesburg, opened its Kennedy Center in Washington; Bizet's Carmen doors in 1976 as the Theater of the Struggle­ and The Mysteries at Wilton's Music Hall in non-racial and not-far-profit. It has become the London; at the International Theatre Festival in creative crucible for indigenous South African Perth and at the Queen's Theatre in London; work and artists. For nearly two decades, the Athol Fugard's Sorrows and Rejoicings at the Market Theatre provided the only outlet for Baxter Theatre Centre, Cape Town; and the indigenous theater in Johannesburg. It was Tricycle Theatre in London. He designed the responsible for the development of some of the lighting for John Kani's Nothing But the Truth best black theater while providing a platform in Grahamstown and at the Baxter. In 1980 he for black artists. Over the years, the Market received the Shirley Moss Award for the Theatre grew into a cultural complex for Greatest Practical and Technical Contribution to theater, music, dance, and the allied arts. Theatre in South Africa , and in 1981 , he The complex now houses three theaters- the received the South African Institute of Theatre Market Theatre, the Barney Simon Theatre, Technology Award for Outstanding Achievement and the Laager Theatre-the Market Theatre as a Theatre Technician, Administrator and Laboratory, Market Art Galleries, the Market Lighting Designer. In 1985, Manim received Photography Workshop, and a flea market. In the first Vita Award for the Most Enterprising 1999, the Market Theatre was awarded the Produce r. Since the inception of the Vita American Jujamcyn Theatre Award as an Awards in South Africa in 1985 he has acknowledgement of its "having proved that received the Best Original Lighting Award ten art can change a society." For the courage times. In December 1990, Manim was made and artistic quality of its work, the Market Chevalier des Artes et des Lettres by the French Theatre has won 21 international and 351 Government and in 1996 he was awarded a local theater awards. gold medal for Theatre Development from the In conjunction with BAM's presentation of The Island, the Harvey Theater ro lobby has been adorned with an exquisite exhibition of authentic South u African artwork and furniture. Ranging from an exclusive line of naturally ~ dyed, hand-woven rugs with African designs, minimalist African furniture, 4- and artwork by noted and emerging South African artists, you are invited « to immerse yourself in this country's amazing and varied artistic legacy. BAM is particularly honored to exhibit a series of limited-edition lithographs, My Robben Island, by Mr. Nelson Mandela, the former South African president ....c: and Nobel laureate, inspired by his memories of the eighteen years he was -+--' imprisoned on "The Island." Proceeds from the sale of the lithographs will :::::s be awarded to the Nelson Mandela Trust, a charity that distributes funds 0 to programs and projects that Mr. Mandela personally supports. Cf) Our heartfelt thanks go to Conan & Ivelisse Brooks, the owners of Antiquarius gallery for generously loaning their beautiful artwork, furniture, and rugs to 4- BAM for this special exhibition. We encourage you to visit and experience 0 the complete Antiquarius collection. 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34 UocominQ BAM Events Cinderella Under the presidency of H.R.H. the Princess of Hanover Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo Directed and choreographed by Jean-Christophe Maillot April 29 at 7pm (BAM Spring Gala) May 1-3 at 7:30pm BAM Howard Gil man Opera House BAMdia/ogue with Jean-Christophe Mail/at,. May 1, 6pm DanceAfrica 2003: Rhythmic Rites and Rituals: Connecting Cultural Borders Chuck Davis, Artistic Director BAM/Restoration DanceAfrica Ensemble; Kulu Mele African American Dance Ensemble (Philadelphia); Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago; Resurrection Dance Theater (Haiti)

May 23 & 24 at 7:30pm; May 24 at 2pm; May 25 at 3pm Cinderella. Photo, Yann Coatsaliou BAM Howard Gilman Opera House

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35 Les Boreades

At Long Last Lovers That peformance was something of a home­ coming. Les Boreades was originally set to by El len Lampert-Grea ux debut in Paris in 1763, but it was abandoned during rehearsals at the Royal Academy of In a classic case of "better late than never, " Music, the forerunner of the Paris Opera. When Jean-Philippe Rameau's baroque eighteenth­ Rameau died the following year, the opera was century opera, Les Boreades , is finally coming shelved-for more than two centuries. to U.S. shores-{)ver 200 years after it was written. The plot is no more fantastical than many operas. "It tells the story of a young queen Fortunately for BAM audiences, William who is forced into a marriage with one of the Christie's Baroque music ensemble Les descendants of Boreas, the god of the North Arts Florissants, which has made twelve Wind. She decides she would rather abdicate previous appearances at BAM , is bringing this her throne to marry the man she loves extraordinary work to the Howard Gilman instead," says Carsen . "Then Apollo steps Opera House on June 9, 11 , 13, and 15. in as the deus ex machina to solve it all, and there is a happy ending," Lest Americans feel slighted, even the French didn't get to see any kind of performance until That said, Carsen does not find the plot 1982 at the Aix-en-Provence opera festival simplistic. "The opera is basically a conflict (where it was conducted by John Eliot Gardiner about what you are forced to do and what you and performed by the English Baroque Soloists want to do. It was written in the eighteenth and the Monteverdi Choir.) century, yet seems to strongly support the idea of women's liberty, and the struggle between "This is only the fourth time in history that public duty and private desire." the opera has been performed," says Robert Carsen, director of the new production, In many ways , Les Boreades is not your which premiered last month at the Paris Opera . father 's opera. "It has an unusual style,"

38 Les Boreades

explains Carsen . "The dance pieces are interlaced with the action and interrupt th e dramatic narrative. It was a challenge-I had never directed a French opera ballet."

With the dance element playing such an important role in the opera, Carsen turned to contemporary choreographer Edouard Lock, the artistic director of the company La La Human Steps, whose style is very physical. "I am very pleased that his company is performing in Les Boreades ," says Carsen. "This brings dance of a very high quality to an opera. I wanted the dance style to reflect the severe nature of the piece, with women on point."

In directing the piece, Ca rsen found that this As might be expected, Les Boreades is sung in operatic genre called for very spec ific decisions French (with English surtitles). In this case, in terms of the set and costumes, both of however, the cast is almost entirely French as which are designed by Michael Levine. "Th e well, and well-versed in this style. "Modern space has to be dance-friendly, but not a singers are used to Baroque music and sing realistic opera space where dance takes place," Mozart regularly, as well as Handel's operas Carsen notes. "It is not meant to be a realistic that are performed more frequently now," cou rt." Carsen says.

Indeed, Levine's remarkable decor stresses the Carsen notes that Rameau has his own mythological nature of the piece, which ca ll s particular style, one he expects audiences to for forces of nature such as winds, storms, and find to their liking. "People are surprised to falling leaves to be person ified on stage. see how free the music actually is. It's as if Rameau threw it all into the wind (pun intended) The action has been updated to the present, and created an astonishing score," he says. "I with 20th-century costumes-including Dior- think BAM audiences shou ld respond to the

It is a very surprising piece, very robust and sophisticated with many different styles. It's as fluid and as exciting as possible.

inspired evening gowns-with the cast divided vigor and excitement of the music, especially into two camps. "The Boreades represent the the music written for a couple that has to aristocratic group with all their rules and regu­ struggle to be together." lations, while the followers of Apollo are much freer and easier going." In fact, Carsen expects Les Boreades to be a crowd-pleasing, and provocative, experience. As he has been doing for the past several "It is a very surprising piece, very robust and years, Carsen also co-designed the lighting for sophisticated with many different styles," the project, this time in conjunction with Peter he says. "It's as fluid and as exciting as van Praet. The palette for the lighting moves possible." _ from dark storms to brighter colors as nature is Ellen Lampert Greaux writes about performing arts and seen in different seasons. architectural design and technology for Lighting Dimensions, Entertainment Design, and Archi-Tech magazines.

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