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Choreography by Lucinda Childs

Film by Music by Sol LeWitt Philip Glass

Lighting by Original Costume Design by Beverly Emmons A. Christina Giannini

Produced By Pomegranate Arts

Lucinda Childs Dance Company: Robert Mark Burke, Katie Dorn, Kyle Gerry, Sarah Hillmon, Anne Lewis, Vincent McCloskey, Sharon Milanese, Matt Pardo, Lonnie Poupard, Jr., Caitlin Scranton, Shakirah Stewart

PHOTOGRAPHY © SALLY COHN The reconstruction of DANCE DANCE by Lucinda Childs was was commissioned by the made possible by the National Richard B. Fisher Center for the Endowment for the Arts’ Performing Arts at Bard College, American Masterpieces: with additional support from Dance initiative, administered The Yard, a colony for performing by the New England Foundation artists on Martha’s Vineyard. for the Arts. DANCE (1979)

The program is comprised of three dances; each is approximately 20 minutes in length, performed together without an intermission.

PERFORMERS (in order of appearance)*

Dance I & III Robert Mark Burke, Katie Dorn, Kyle Gerry, Sarah Hillmon, Anne Lewis, Vincent McCloskey, Sharon Milanese, Matt Pardo, Lonnie Poupard, Jr., Shakirah Stewart

Dance II Caitlin Scranton (*Casting is subject to change nightly)

Recorded music for Dance I and Recorded music for Dance II Dance III performed by the Philip performed by Philip Glass and Glass Ensemble. Michael Riesman.

DANCERS IN FILM (in order of appearance)*

Megan Walker Ande Peck Susan Osberg Erin Matthiessen Judy Padow Graham Conley Cynthia Hedstrom Daniel McCusker Lucinda Childs

PRODUCTION: Original Lighting Design Beverly Emmons Original Costume Design A. Christina Giannini LCDC Rehearsal Director Sharon Milanese Production Manager/ Lighting Director Tricia Toliver Company Manager Rachel Katwan Everyone is welcome to join us Off The Stage for workshops, masterclasses, and discussion panels. All visiting artists spend time in residency at NYUAD beyond their performances. Off The Stage connects you with the visiting artists through the sharing of creative insights, international experience, hands-on knowledge, and professional skills.

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PHOTOGRAPHY © SALLY COHN LUCINDA CHILDS

Lucinda Childs began her career at the Judson Dance Theater In New York in 1963. Since forming her dance company ten years later, she has created over fifty works, both solo and ensemble. In 1976, she was featured in the landmark avant-garde opera Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson, for which she won an Obie Award. She subsequently appeared in a number of Wilson’s productions, including I Was Sitting on My Patio This Guy Appeared I Thought I Was Hallucinating, Quartett, by Heiner Muller, Wilson and Glass’s opera White Raven, Wilson’s video project Video 50, and Maladie de la Mort by Marguerite Duras (opposite Michel Piccoli). Most recently, she appeared in Wilson’s production of Arvo Part’s Adam’s Passion and also recorded spoken text and collaborated on the choreography for Letter to a Man, which was based on Nijinsky’s diaries and performed by Mikhail Baryshnikov.

In 1979 Childs choreographed one of her most enduring works, Dance, with music by Philip Glass and film décor by Sol LeWitt, which continues to tour internationally and has been added to the repertory of the Lyon Opera Ballet, for which she has choreographed Beethoven’s Grande Fugue. In 2015 she revived Available Light, created in 1983 with music by John Adams and a split-level set by Frank Gehry. It was presented at the Festival d’Automne in Paris and the Manchester International Festival. In 2016, in an exhibit titled “Nothing Personal,” her choreographic scores were shown at the Thaddeus Ropac Gallery in collaboration with the Centre Nationale de la Danse, to which she has donated her archive.

Since 1981 Childs has choreographed over thirty works for major ballet companies, including the Paris Opera Ballet and Les Ballet de Monte Carlo. She has also directed and choreographed a number of contemporary and eighteenth-century operas, including Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice for the Los Angeles Opera, Mozart’s Zaide for La Monnaie in Brussels, Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol and Oedipe, Vivaldi’s Farnace, Handel’s Alessandro, and John Adams’s Dr. Atomic for the Opera du Rhin. Her production of Jean Baptiste Lully’s Atys premiered at Oper Kiel in 2014 and her production of Jean-Marie Leclaire’s Scylla and Glaucus premiered there in 2017.

Childs is the recipient of numerous awards. She holds the rank of Commandeur in France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and in 2017 she received the Golden Lion award from the Venice Biennale and the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival award for lifetime achievement. In 2018, she was inducted into the Hall of Fame at the National Museum of Dance in Saratoga Springs, NY. PHILIP GLASS

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Philip Glass is a graduate of the University of Chicago and the Juilliard School. In the early 1960s, Glass spent two years of intensive study in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and, while there, earned money by transcribing Ravi Shankar’s Indian music into Western notation. By 1974, Glass had a number of innovative projects creating a large collection of new music for The Philip Glass Ensemble and for the Mabou Mines Theater Company. This period culminated in Music in Twelve Parts and the landmark opera Einstein on the Beach, for which he collaborated with Robert Wilson. Since Einstein, Glass has expanded his repertoire to include music for opera, dance, theater, chamber ensemble, orchestra and film. His scores have received Academy Award nominations (Kundun, The Hours, Notes on a Scandal) and a Golden Globe (The Truman Show). In the past few years several new works were unveiled including an opera on the death of Walt Disney, The Perfect American (co-commissioned by Teatro Real, Madrid and the English National Opera), a new touring production of Einstein, the publication of Glass’s memoir, Words Without Music, by Liveright Books, and the premiere of the revised version of Glass’ opera Appomattox, in collaboration with librettist Christopher Hampton, at the Washington National Opera in November 2015.

Glass celebrated his 80th birthday on January 31, 2017 with the world premiere of Symphony No. 11 at Carnegie Hall. His 80th birthday season featured curated programming around the globe, including the U.S. premieres of operas The Trial and The Perfect American, and world premieres of several new works, including Piano Concerto No. 3, String Quartet No. 8, and his firstPiano Quintet.

Other recent accolades include the U.S. National Medal of the Arts, presented to Glass by President Barack Obama in 2015. In 2016 Glass was named the eleventh recipient of the Glenn Gould Prize, a lifetime achievement award given to prominent musicians. He was also honored to hold Carnegie Hall’s Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair throughout the 2017-2018 season.

On January 10th, 2019, the Los Angeles Philharmonic will present the world premiere of Glass’ Symphony No. 12, based on David Bowie’s album Lodger and a completion of three symphonies based on Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy. Glass continues to perform solo piano evenings, chamber music evenings with world-renowned musicians, and regularly appears with the Philip Glass Ensemble. SOL LEWITT

Sol Lewitt was born in 1928. LeWitt was one of the first artists to formally define conceptual art as a phenomenon. He is best known for his deceptively simple geometric structures and architecturally scaled wall drawings, but his oeuvre also includes sculptures, photographs, prints, and films. LeWitt reduced art to a few basic shapes - spheres, triangles, quadrilaterals - colors, and types of lines, and organized these elements into guidelines. Much of his production for his drawings was in the form of a set of ideas or instructions that he gave to teams of assistants to carry out. His method permitted other people to participate in the creative process. During his lifetime, LeWitt was the subject of hundreds of solo exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world. BEVERLY EMMONS

Beverly Emmons’s lighting credits include Annie Get Your Gun, Jekyll & Hyde, The Heiress, Stephen Sondheim’s Passion, The Elephant Man, and Amadeus, for which she won a Tony Award. Her Off-Broadway work includes The Vagina Monologues and several works by Joseph Chaiken. She has also designed productions at the Kennedy Center, the Guthrie, Arena Stage, and the Children’s Theatre of Minneapolis. For Robert Wilson, she has lit eight productions, including Einstein on the Beach. Along with her work with Lucinda Childs, she has designed lighting for choreographers Alvin Ailey, Trisha Brown, Merce Cunningham, and Martha Graham. Her honors include seven Tony nominations, the 1976 Lumen award, 1984 and 1986 Bessies, a 1980 Obie for Distinguished Lighting, and several Maharam/American Theater Wing Design Awards.

A. CHRISTINA GIANNINI

A. Christina Giannini’s Dance credits include costumes for Alvin Ailey Dance Company, American Ballet Theatre, American Repertory Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Lucinda Childs Dance Company, and Pennsylvania Ballet Company, among others. International audiences have seen her work performed by the Ballet du Nord (France), Ballet of Flanders (Belgium), Royal Danish Ballet, Hong Kong Ballet, Teatro Colón Ballet Company (Argentina), and Ballet Terese Carrena and Ballet National de Caracas (both in Venezuela). She has also designed costumes for on and Off-Broadway theater and opera companies as well as New York Shakespeare Festival, Hartford Stage Company, Roundabout Theater, and Portland Stage. ROBERT MARK BURKE

Robert Mark Burke finds himself a New York-based dance artist. Performing both nationally and internationally, Robert is a company member of Lucinda Childs Dance Company, 10 Hairy Legs, and Megan Williams Dance Projects. He also performs regularly with Meagan Woods and Company, has worked with Bryn Cohn and Artists and has apprenticed with Doug Elkins. Burke has been a guest artist at Rutgers University and Rider University. He has been a guest lecturer at Montclair State University and has been commissioned to create work for high schools throughout the tri-state area. Burke has shown his work throughout the United States including the wild project, Dixon Place, Paramount Theater (Boston), Hofstra University, Rutgers University, Rider University, Dance New Amsterdam, Jersey City Theater Center and New Jersey Performing Arts Center. He has received numerous awards, including the 2015 Dance on the Lawn Emerging Choreographer Grant under the direction of Charmaine Warren, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center Jersey (New) Moves Fellowship in both 2015 and 2017, The 2016 CoLab Arts Space Grant, and The 2017 Eryc Taylor Emerging Choreography Grant. He is a graduate of Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. KATIE DORN

Katie Dorn is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where she earned a high school diploma and B.F.A. in Contemporary Dance. She completed her M.F.A. from the Hollins University/American Dance Festival M.F.A. program. In 2006 she received the Martha Hill Young Professional Award as an outstanding young performer. Since moving to NYC Katie has worked with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Gus Solomons Jr., Carlos Soto, and with Robert Wilson and Philip Glass on the revival of the opera, “Einstein on the Beach”. She performed James Lee Byars’s “The Mile Long Paper Walk”- a solo that was re staged by Lucinda Childs for the Marron Atrium at the MoMA in NYC in August 2014. Katie has been dancing for Lucinda Childs since 2009 and has set Ms. Childs work on students at the University of Michigan, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Barnard College, and on the Lyon Opera Ballet. She is the producer and host of the podcast Dance Journal NYC. KYLE GERRY

Kyle Gerry is a native of Eugene, Oregon. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University, with a degree in Political Science and Economics. He continued to study dance at the Merce Cunningham studio, where he has performed many of Cunningham’s dances, first as a guest with the Repertory Understudy Group and then through the Trust’s Fellowship Program. He has danced with Jessica Gaynor Dance, Rosario, and Kazuko Hirabayashi Dance Theater, and performed most recently in projects by Vanessa Walters, Christopher Williams, and his longtime teacher, June Finch. He also was featured in the Perm Opera Ballet’s Indian Queen, directed by Peter Sellars, and the National Opera of Bordeaux’s Dardanus, directed by Michel Fau. He joined the Lucinda Childs Dance Company last year. SARAH HILLMON

Sarah Hillmon is a native of Rochester, NY. There, she trained with Garth Fagan, Timothy M. Draper and was a member of the Rochester City Ballet. She graduated with a BFA in Dance from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where she had the privilege of performing works by talented artists including Sidra Bell, Lucinda Childs, Gus Solomons Jr, and Charles Weidman. While in New York City, Sarah has danced for Lucinda Childs Dance Company, Suzanne Beahrs Dance, BodyStories, AMS Project, and MATYCHAK. She is a founding member of RedCurrant Collective. ANNE LEWIS

Anne Lewis was born in Des Moines, Iowa, and is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, where she earned a B.A. in Critical Social Thought and Dance. Prior to attending Mount Holyoke, she trained at the Harid Conservatory in Boca Raton, Florida, on a full tuition scholarship. Anne has been with the company since 2009. VINCENT McCLOSKEY

Vincent McCloskey received his earliest dance training at the Washington School of Ballet, and continued his studies at the Chicago Academy of the Arts, Alvin Ailey, and the Joffrey Ballet School. He has worked with many choreographers, including Dusan Tynek, Mark Morris, Laura Scozzi, Pam Tanowitz, Helen Pickett, Karole Armitage, Rebecca Lazier, and Vanessa Walters. As a teacher, he has appeared as an adjunct professor at Barnard, taught at Gibney Dance Center, ADF, and served as rehearsal director for Patricia Hoffbauer. He began working with Lucinda Childs in 2009. SHARON MILANESE

Sharon Milanese is a teaching and performing artist based in New York City. She holds a BFA in Dance Performance from Southern Methodist University, is a certified Pilates instructor, and teaches professional ballet classes worldwide. Sharon has performed with New York Theatre Ballet, Cortez and Company Contemporary/Ballet, Verb Ballets, Ramon Oller and the Peridance Ensemble, Corbindances, Liz Gerring Dance Company, Heidi Latsky Dance, Motley Dance, Patricia Hoffbauer, Dusan Tynek Dance Theater, and Robert Wilson & Philip Glass in the opera, “Einstein on the Beach”. Sharon is a dancer and the rehearsal director for the Lucinda Childs Dance Company. MATT PARDO

Matt Pardo has danced with Eisenhower Dance Ensemble, River North Chicago Dance Company (apprentice), Pittsburgh Opera, Groundworks Dance Theatre, “Einstein on the Beach” (Olivier Award – Best Opera), Lucinda Childs Dance Company (company member/company class instructor), among others. Dance Europe magazine selected him as a “Top 100 dancer in the world” for 2010/2011 and called him “an artist to watch”. Pardo is a co-founder of the Pittsburgh-based organization, The Blanket (theblanket.org), which has been featured in Dance magazine- online, Departures Magazine (American Express), and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Recent choreographic and teaching credits include the American Dance Festival, Point Park University, Elon University, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School, Broadway Dance Center, and Slippery Rock University. Upcoming writing includes an article in the Journal of Dance Education discussing the use of experiential observation in developing a practice of performance. Pardo is an assistant professor at Shenandoah University. (matt-pardo.com) LONNIE POUPARD, JR.

Lonnie Poupard, Jr. grew up in Monroe, MI and attended Western Michigan University where he was honored as the Presidential Scholar in the Dept of Dance. Since moving to New York, Lonnie has worked with many artists including Mark Morris, Jody Oberfelder, Gabrielle Lansner & Co., Mark Dendy, Catherine Miller, Neta Pulvemacher, and has been a member of the Lucinda Childs Dance Company since 2011. He was distinguished in New Yorker magazine as one of the “Ten Best Dance Performances of 2009” for his duet performance at City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival, and has been a featured dancer for both film & television including Law & Order: SVU. Lonnie also majored in Aviation Flight Science and holds a private pilot’s license. CAITLIN SCRANTON

Caitlin Scranton grew up in Iowa and lives in New York City. She studied dance at Dance Theater of Iowa, Idyllwild Arts Academy and the Ailey School, and also holds a BA in History from Smith College. In New York she has worked with Cornfield Dance, Mark Dendy, the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Paul Singh, Ramon Oller and the Peridance Ensemble, and currently dances for Christopher Williams. Caitlin is a freelance teacher, most recently spending a year as a Visiting Artist at Point Park University in Pittsburgh. In 2015 she co-founded The Blanket, a Pittsburgh-based organization that seeks to promote and expand modern dance in Pittsburgh. Caitlin joined the Lucinda Childs Dance Company in 2009. SHAKIRAH STEWART

Shakirah Stewart began her professional training at LaGuardia High School of Music & Performing Arts. While there, she worked with Troy Powell, Jamel Gaines, Penny Frank, and Elisa King. She earned a BFA in dance from Purchase College, where she performed works by Lauri Stallings, Paul Taylor, Ori Flomin, Megan Williams, and Kevin Wynn. While at Purchase, she also worked with Mark Morris, performing his Gloria there, as well as at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. After graduating, Stewart went on to dance at the New Dance Group, Forces of Nature, and with Amanda Selwyn, at Notes in Motion. She has also performed works by Sidra Bell at Purchase College, Jacob’s Pillow, and the Modern Dance Festival at Alvin Ailey. TRISHA TOLIVER

Trisha Toliver is a technical artist who uses all the tools of our time to support the emotional expression of theatre artists. In his time, Josh has engineered performances in airplane hangars and train stations, toured with shows to 35 countries, and worked with such notables as Robert Wilson, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Robert Rauschenberg, and the Flying Karamazov Brothers. A highlight of his career was the years spent as resident lighting designer for Merce Cunningham, who taught him how to see again. Josh loves being the bridge between concept and reality, empowering artists to realize their visions through whatever means necessary. Josh’s latest big adventure was traveling overland from Guatemala to Argentina over the span of two years. POMEGRANATE ARTS

For the past twenty years, Pomegranate Arts has worked in close collaboration with a small group of contemporary artists and arts institutions to bring bold and ambitious artistic ideas to fruition. Founder and Director Linda Brumbach, along with managing director Alisa E. Regas produced the Olivier Award-winning revival of Einstein on the Beach, the multi-award winning production of Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music and the Drama Desk Award winning production of Charlie Victor Romeo. Since it’s inception, Pomegranate Arts has produced over 30 major new performing arts productions and tours for Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Lucinda Childs, Dan Zanes, London’s Improbable, Sankai Juku, Batsheva, and Bassem Youssef and collaborated on new productions with the Kronos Quartet, Leonard Cohen, Robert Wilson, and Frank Gehry. Pomegranate Arts hope to continue to build a community of institutions and individuals that are inspired by artists that help bring beauty and truth into the world, ask important questions, and take bold risks.

WORLDWIDE TOUR REPRESENTATION FOR LUCINDA CHILDS DANCE COMPANY:

Pomegranate Arts www.pomegranatearts.com [email protected]

Founder and Director Linda Brumbach Managing Director, Creative Alisa E. Regas Business Manager Adam Thorburn Associate General Manager Rachel Katwan Production Manager Jeremy Lydic Office Manager Brit Katke Production Assistant Willa Folmar

THE ARTS CENTER TEAM

Bill Bragin Jennifer Hind Executive Artistic Director Technical Staff

Chris Pye Nico Jahns Director of Production Technical Stage Manager

Mohannad Al Bakri Christian Lear Director of External Relations Director of Business Operations

Alana Barraj Adam Mills Senior Producer Assistant Lighting Manager

Linsey Bostwick Jonathan Pettigrew Senior Producer Technical Staff

Claire Carroll Clive Primrose Video Supervisor Director of Marketing

Leila Debbazi Gareth Roberts Manager of Administration Assistant Rigging Manager

Tiece Edwards Roger Scheepers Front of House and Audio Supervisor Box Office Manager Josie Simm Simon Fraulo Technical Staff Lighting Supervisor Subin Thompson Estelle Galloway Technical Staff Assistant Audio Supervisor

Interns Jude Al Qubaisi, Sarah Booth, Eunsu Choi, Nabiha Nahyan Helal, Sakurako Naka, Daniel H Rey Rosas, Dina Saleh, Yagmur Unal, Anastasiia Zubareva.

THANKS

Al Bloom, Fabio Piano, Mona Louca, Nada Messaikeh, Lily Burns-Hernandez, Maya Allison, Linda Brumbach, Sandra Peters, Alisa Regas, Gregor Stemmrich, The NYUAD Art Gallery, Attitude Dance Society and The Factory

موسم WELCOME Welcome Home. Community, and Excellence. Cultures, genres, and styles meet and cross- SEASON Your home for performances, fertilize in a schedule spotlighting talks, and workshops exceptional artists at the top of their where the finest artists fields. Through its electric programming and inventive opportunities for SEP 5&6 SEP 12&13 SEP 21,22&24 of our time share their collaboration, The Arts Center creates creativity with you. platforms to cultivate emerging artistic voices. Our multifaceted relationship with the local and global arts We are thrilled to share The Arts communities speaks to the role of NYU Center’s fourth season with you. A Abu Dhabi as a place that supports rich schedule of theater, dance, music, and develops innovative work by artists DANCE - LOVE AND REVENGE / GATZ - family shows, film, spoken word, from the UAE and around the world. LUCINDA CHILDS DANCE COMPANY A TRIBE CALLED RED ELEVATOR REPAIR SERVICE and Off The Stage events fills our calendar. We invite you to come watch, In addition to the public performances experience new works, and take part in and workshops, visiting artists also OCT 10&11 OCT 19 OCT 25&26 workshops and conversations. become deeply embedded in the University’s academic mission, with The Arts Center strives to foster artists visiting numerous classes across creativity in the UAE by bringing campus, and artist developmental diverse people together through residencies serving as platforms of shared artistic experiences to create specially created classes. Consistent CHAÂBI FLAMENCO - a deeper sense of community and JINN WATER IN THE DESERT: with NYUAD’s interdisciplinary JUAN CARMONA AND PTIT MOH A ZAYED LEGACY personal connection. Whether approach, we believe that the arts are a celebratory concert or a for everyone, and that they create new groundbreaking theater piece, a kinetic ways of seeing and understanding the NOV 8-17 NOV 9,16,23,30 NOV 28 dance performance or a heart-tugging world and our common humanity. DEC 7,14,21 film, performances and events create JAN 11,18,25 shared memories for the people of the The best way for us to understand UAE. They open dialogue and showcase the impact of our work is by hearing some of the best the world has to offer. directly from you. Thanks for sharing your feedback via email, social media JUDO + Over our first three seasons, The Arts (we’re on Facebook, Twitter, and TANGLE – REMOTE ABU DHABI BALANCE & IMBALANCE - Center has welcomed more than Instagram), and in the lobby before and POLYGLOT THEATRE RIMINI PROTOKOLL BEREISHIT DANCE COMPANY 55,000 attendees to over 250 shows after shows. Above all, the arts spark and 500 Off The Stage outreach events. conversation, and we love hearing what Every day, we are inspired by the you have to say. Please stay in touch. DEC 5 warm reception you give our artists, by your willingness to come with open Thank you for your ongoing support, minds and open hearts to explore the we look forward to continuing this unfamiliar, and by your enthusiastic journey with you. engagement in important conversations surrounding the work on our stages. FALL CREATIVE RESIDENCY - HEKAYAH | THE STORY AFRA ATIQ With over 80 performances and 160 Off Bill Bragin The Stage events, our 2018-19 lineup is inspired by the themes of Connection, Executive Artistic Director SEP 5 The Red Theater WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, & DANCE 8 | 6

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