T H E S M U M E A D O W S S C H O O L O F T H E A R T S D I V I S I O N O F D A N C E P R E S E N T S SPRING 2021 DANCE CONCERT

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B O B H O P E T H E A T R E O W E N A R T S C E N T E R SMU MEADOWS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS DIVISION OF DANCE P R E S E N T S Meadows Dance Ensemble 2021 Spring Dance Concert

March 17-20, 8:00pm March 21, 2:00pm

Bob Hope Theatre — Owen Arts Center

C H O R E O G R A P H E R S Molissa Fenley Silas Farley Mark Burrell

A R T I S T I C D I R E C T O R Leslie Peck

L I G H T I N G D E S I G N E R Joshua M anning

R E S I D E N T C O S T U M E D E S I G N E R Eugenia P. Stallings

R E S I D E N T S O U N D E N G I N E E R / D E S I G N E R Jason Biggs

D I R E C T O R O F D A N C E P R O D U C T I O N Christopher M. Ham

D I R E C T O R O F R E C O R D I N G S E R V I C E S Taylor Travelbee

P H O T O G R A P H E R Paul Phillips

P R O G R A M A N D P O S T E R D E S I G N Ru Ferguson D E D I C A T I O N The Division of Dance would like to dedicate the 2021 Spring Dance Concert to retiring professors Shelley Berg and Patty Harrington-Delaney. Professors Berg and Delaney cumulatively have spent more than six decades forming and developing the Division, each having devoted many years as Chair.

Shelley Berg trained at the Royal Ballet School in London and at The Place with Jane Dudley and Matt Mattox, Berg danced with the Slovene National Ballet and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens. She received her doctorate in performance studies from New York University, and has taught at NYU, SUNY-Purchase, City College of New York and the American Dance Festival. Dr. Berg, a past president of the Society of Dance History Scholars, is the author of Le Sacre du printemps: Seven Productions from Nijinsky to Martha Graham. Her articles have been published in Dance Research Journal, Dance Research (UK) and Dance Chronicle. A recipient of several Dance USA and National Endowment for the Arts grants for historical reconstructions, Berg received a Senior Ford Research Fellowship from SMU in 2006.

Patty Harrington Delaney is a specialist in Laban Studies and holds certifications in Laban Movement Analysis/Bartenieff Fundamentals, Directing from Labanotation Score and Motif Writing and was awarded Professional Notator status by the Dance Notation Bureau. Her Labanotation scores include José Limón’s La Malinche, Leni Wylliams’ Sweet in the Morning and Pilobolus' Alraune. Her educational DVD on La Malinche won a silver award at the Houston International Film Festival. She has also worked with the American Dance Legacy Institute to create educational materials for their Etude Project, which makes short études by master choreographers accessible for research and performance. Harrington Delaney, along with seven other alums of the B.F.A. and M.F.A. dance programs at SMU, was a founding member of Dancers Unlimited, a repertory company that remained an active force in the cultural life of Dallas for 25 years performing the works of renowned choreographers such as Judith Jamison, Moses Pendleton and Bill Evans.

The faculty, staff, and students of the Division of Dance would like to sincerely thank Shelley and Patty for their many years of contribution to the mission of the program and wish them well for many years to come. Ink Drawings by Hercules Barsotti (1959)

Costume concept art by Janice Rabian

R h y t h m F i e l d (Premiere, SMU 2021)

RHChoreographYy by Molissa TFenley, witHh choreographMic phrases contributed by the dancers * Music, Rhythm Field, an original score composed and performed by Jamal Mohamed ** Lighting Design by Joshua Manning Costume Design by Janice Rabian and Eugenia Stallings Rehearsal Direction by Myra Woodruff

~ Cast ~ Haley’ beth Cain, Adele Carlson, Jenna Davis, Grace Furst, Shaye Galen, Sebastian Garcia, Jordan Greenlee, Celia Handing, Oliver Howard, Zack Kushubar, Kiana Sanderson, Evan Schumacher, Emily Slater, Alexa Tapia, Sarah Waller, Amy Wentworth

*Rhythm Field is composed through the combination of Fenley’s choreographic phrases of rhythmic and spatial patterning with phrases created by the dancers.

**The music for Rhythm Field is an original score composed in response to both the rhythmic counting systems and the non-metric fields of the choreography.

"Many thanks to all sixteen dancers, to Myra Woodruff and to Jamal Mohamed; it has been a delight to share the process of Rhythm Field with you." — Molissa Fenley Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando by Edgar Degas (1879)

Costume design by Jacob's Ladder by William Blake Eugenia P. Stallings (circa 1799-1806)

M e a d o w s S e r e n a d e (Premiere, SMU 2021)

BOUChoNreography Dby Silas FaLrley ESS Music, "Serenade for Strings" composed by Kyle Werner (Commissioned by SMU Meadows Division of Dance) World Premiere Recording Performed by Professor Aaron Boyd, Violin 1 Valory Hight, Violin 2 Tim Tyler, Viola Hua Huang, Cello Jeremiah Rupp, Bass Lighting Design by Joshua Manning Costume Design by Eugenia P. Stallings

I. Allegro II. Aria III. Finale

~ Cast ~ W E D N E S D A Y ( 3 / 1 7 ) , F R I D A Y ( 3 / 1 9 ) , S U N D A Y ( 3 / 2 1 )

Zackary Kushubar Kieng Vannak

Caeli Blake Haley 'beth Cain Anika Crouser Shaye Galen M'Shiari Gonzales Katie Hopsicker Ryan Jaffe Sydney Maddox Sarah Massar Solé Mitchell Karmen Moore Katherine Pawlowski Mia Philippon Amy Wentworth

O P E N D R E S S ( 3 / 1 6 ) , T H U R S D A Y ( 3 / 1 8 ) , S A T U R D A Y ( 3 / 2 0 )

Ru Ferguson Evan Schumacher

Matthew Bejarano Jenna Davis Marissa Ferm Maria Ferraro Grace Furst Olivia Heigel Annalise Jackson Jalen Jones Kate Kauffman Kiera Mays Natasha Schmid Emily Slater Emmerson Stephens Alexa Tapia Progress Pride Flag designed by Daniel Quasar

Black Lives Matter symbol

Costume concept art by Eugenia P. Stallings

W e T h e P e o p l e (Premiere, SMU 2021)

UNChoreogrIaphy bTy Mark BurErell D

Music, Human Family by Maya Angelou from Caged Bird Songs La Bohemia by Electro Dub Tango But The World Goes ‘Round performed by Liza Minnelli Phenomenal Woman recited by Maya Angelou (mixed with Borges Y Paraguay by Bajofondo) Hair by Lady Gaga

Lighting Design by Joshua Manning Costume Design by Janice Rabian, Eugenia P. Stallings Assistant to the Choreographer, Annabelle Daniels

~ Cast ~ Caeli K. Blake, Mary-Rose Campos, Anika Crouser, Liana Forss, M’Shiari Gonzales, Katie Hopsicker, Ryan Jaffe, Jalen Michael Jones, Talia Markowski, Karmen Moore, Sydney Mora, Brennan Shackelford, Skye Todaro, Kieng Vannak, Crystal Wang, Caroline Waters C H O R E O G R A P H E R S

Molissa Fenley has choreographed and performed her work since 1977, the same year that she founded Molissa Fenley and Company, and has since created over 85 dance works during her ongoing career. Her work has been choreographed for ensembles, her own dance company as well as for others by commission, and as solo works created in collaboration with contemporary visual artists, composers, and poets. Molissa was born in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1954, and she grew up in Ibadan, Nigeria traveling there with her family in 1961. There she completed all of her early education in International Schools, and she spent her last two years of high school in Spain. She returned to the US in 1971 to study dance at Mills College in Oakland, California. Upon graduation in 1975, she moved to New York and founded her company. With her company, Molissa Fenley and Company, and as a soloist working in collaboration with visual artists and composers, she has performed throughout the United States, Canada, South America, Europe, Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Her work has been commissioned by the American Dance Festival, the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, the Dia Art Foundation, Jacob’s Pillow, the Joyce Theater, Lincoln Center, the New National Theater of Tokyo, The National Institute of Performing Arts in Seoul, The Kitchen, and Dance Theater Workshop/New York Live Arts. Both Cenotaph and State of Darkness were awarded a Bessie for Choreography in 1985 and 1988 respectively. Molissa has also set many works on ballet and contemporary dance companies, most recently for the Oakland Ballet (Redwood Park), Pacific Northwest Ballet, (State of Darkness), Repertory Dance Theatre (Energizer), Barnard/Columbia (Amdo), Robert Moses' Kin (The Vessel Stories), and the Seattle Dance Project, (Planes in Air). In 2008, Molissa was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. She has also enjoyed residencies at Yaddo, the Bogliasco Foundation, the Baryshnikov Art Center, Djerassi and is a twice recipient of awards from the Asian Cultural Council to visit Japan. Molissa is Professor Emerita of Dance at Mills College. She taught one semester a year from 1999 to 2020 in the dance department. She continues to be active in the mentorship of younger artists. In 2015, Seagull Press/University of Chicago published Rhythm Field: The Dance of Molissa Fenley.

For more information about Molissa Fenley and her company, visit molissafenley.com Silas Farley currently serves as The Armstrong Visiting Artist in Residence in Ballet in The Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University (SMU) for the 2020-2021 academic year. He is also the incoming Dean of The Trudl Zipper Dance Institute at The Colburn School in Los Angeles, CA. He received his training at King David Christian Conservatory, Charlotte Ballet, and The School of American Ballet (SAB). From 2012-2020, he danced with New York City Ballet (NYCB), where he performed principal roles in the works of George Balanchine and Christopher Wheeldon and originated roles in ballets by Wheeldon, Lauren Lovette, and Justin Peck. Farley has taught nationally and internationally, including at SAB, NYCB, Slovak National Ballet, The Colburn School, The Peabody Conservatory, The Hartt School, The Chautauqua School of Dance, and The Kennedy Center. He has choreographed for SAB, The New York Choreographic Institute, Columbia Ballet Collaborative at Columbia University, and Works & Process at The Guggenheim. In 2017, Farley collaborated with poet Ilya Kaminsky on the ballet adaptation of Kaminsky’s book, Deaf Republic, at Grace Farms Foundation. In the fall of 2017, Farley was commissioned by MetLiveArts to choreograph a site-specific work at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. That work, Songs From The Spirit, was made in collaboration with the Ear Hustle podcast and was set to music by currently and formerly incarcerated musicians from San Quentin State Prison. The ballet premiered at The Met Museum in 2019. Mr. Farley was an inaugural Jerome Robbins Dance Division Research Fellow at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. He has written for Dance Magazine and lectured for NYCB, The New York Philharmonic, Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Park Avenue Armory, and The Museum of Modern Art. Farley is writer and host of the NYCB podcast, Hear The Dance. He is an Amplify Artist at The Colburn School. He is an Alumnus Trustee of Professional Children’s School (PCS) and serves on the Board of The George Balanchine Foundation. Mark Burrell is a Visiting Artist-In-Residence at Southern Methodist University. He is best known for his work on Broadway and abroad. Mark received his BFA from The Juilliard School and his MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Wilson College. He is a dance educator, choreographer, director, and filmmaker who specializes in practices that prove cultural and historical context for the musical theatre genre. Burrell teaches practical and theoretical classes in the US and abroad and is recognized for his Fosse style, theatrical jazz, and pageantry. He is a proud member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA, AGMA, AGVA, and other industry-focused unions. His groundbreaking documentary film, The Mask and The Armor, was invited by BBC Films as a work-in- progress to screen at a possible upcoming virtual summit.

Mark has worked extensively on Broadway in PIPPIN, for the First National Tour and International Tours, as an Assistant Director, Associate Choreographer, Dance Captain, and Swing performer; Radio City Music Hall’s Christmas Spectacular for 11 years, in New York City and Tours, as an Assistant Choreographer, Dance Captain, and Swing performer; and in the other musicals including, Fosse, CATS, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and Broadway for Hillary. He has also appeared on film in The Producers: A Movie Musical. His television credits include, The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, So You Think You Can Dance (Israel), and Dancing with The Stars. He also appeared in industrial works for Macy’s, Ford, IBM, and Tupperware.

For more information about Mark, visit themarkburrell.com C O M P O S E R S

Jamal Mohamed has been a featured artist in many international music events having performed with Sting, Mark O’Connor, Giovanni Hidalgo and many other well-known artists. He has presented percussion workshops at venues worldwide, including Berklee College of Music in Boston; the National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico City; the Tokyo School of Music in Tokyo, Japan; the American University in Cairo, Egypt; the Center for World Music in Bali, Indonesia; and the University of Hong Kong, to name a few.

A native of Lebanon, Jamal grew up in the Chicago area, where he was exposed to rich blues and jazz traditions as well as the Middle Eastern music he heard at home, and studying with the illustrious Roy Knapp, known as the “Dean of Percussion” at the famous Frank’s Drum Shop on Wabash Street. Known for his virtuosity on the doumbek, Jamal has incorporated many innovative jazz and Latin styles with this ancient instrument. He is acknowledged as a master craftsman and builds many of his own instruments. In 2010 Toca Percussion introduced three “Jamal” signature doumbeks, Arabic goblet drums he designed with Toca. In 2018 Toca introduced five more “Jamal” signature drums including a riq (Arabic tambourine), three frame drums and two mazhars (large deep shelled tambourines).

Jamal is currently on the faculty at “Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University” where he teaches percussion, and directs the “Meadows World Music Ensemble” He is also the founder and director of SMU in Bali”, a study abroad program that explores the arts and culture of Indonesia. He is also active as a performer currently with Balinese group, “Mandala”, the improvisational group “Drum and Wind” and leads his own World Music group, the “Jamal Mohamed Ensemble”.

Jamal Mohamed plays and endorses: Toca Percussion Sabian Cymbals Pro-Mark drum sticks

For more information about Jamal Mohamed, visit jamalmohamed.com Kyle Werner is a composer whose interest in showcasing performers’ expressive capabilities has lead to collaborations with world-class musicians and ensembles such as the Chicago Chamber Musicians, Grand Rapids Symphony, Axiom Brass, Windscape, guitarist Jordan Dodson, and members of eighth blackbird. His works have been performed at the Colburn School, Hindemith Music Centre, Manhattan School of Music, Midwest Composers’ Symposium, MusicX Festival, Opera on Tap, Palais de Fontainebleau, Society for American Music Annual Conference, University of Cincinnati, University of Michigan, Redeemer Presbyterian Church, Tenth Presbyterian Church, Emmanuel Presbyterian Church, Marble Collegiate Church, the Yamaha Piano Salon, Greenwich House Music School, and as part of Works & Process at The Guggenheim. He has also been composer-in-residence at Chamber Music Campania in Varano, Italy. He completed the Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees in Composition at Manhattan School of Music, where he received the Lloyd Gelassen Fellowship Fund Scholarship and the Nicholas Flagello Award; he previously completed a Bachelor of Music in Composition, summa cum laude, at the University of Cincinnati College- Conservatory of Music, in addition to summer study at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France. His primary teachers have included Joel Hoffman, Michael Fiday, Susan Botti, and J. Mark Stambaugh. A passionate music educator, Dr. Werner is currently a member of the faculty at MSM Precollege, the Geneva Conservatory, and the School of Mahanaim. Also an avid sailor, he holds certifications from US Sailing and the American Sailing Association, and has sailed in the Bahamas, Cyclades (Greece), Florida Keys, Great Lakes, New York Harbor, and the San Juan Islands. D I V I S I O N O F D A N C E Chair Christopher Dolder Coordinator Heather Guthrie

Faculty Carter Alexander, Shelley Berg, Christie Bondade, Mark Burrell, Brandi Coleman, Patty Harrington Delaney, Silas Farley, Alex Karigan Farrior, Christopher M. Ham, Leslie Peck, Anne Westwick, Myra Woodruff

Musicians Richard Abrahamson, Jamal Mohamed, Martin Morgan, Mina Polevoy, Natalja Sawal, Edward Lee Smith

Program and Ru Ferguson Poster Design

H O P E D A N C E C O N C E R T P R O D U C T I O N C R E W Production Manager Christopher M. Ham Stage Manager Christie Bondade

Assistant Stage Managers Fiona DeMott, Anne Hulme and Gel Changers

Light Board Operator Jadyn Rozzano-Keefe Sound Board Operator Serena Nixon

Wardrobe Head Bailey Gioino

Fly Crew Hayley Allen, Macy Dunn

Additional Thanks and Acknowledgements A special thank you to Heather Guthrie, Coordinator; the Division of Dance, SMU, and the Meadows Production Staff; Jay Hengst and the staff of Meadows Operations and Events; Taylor Travelbee, the Director of Recording Services; Lee Gleiser and the staff of the Meadows Box Office; and Eugenia P. Stallings and Melissa Panzarello, and the staff of the Meadows Costume Shop. S O U T H E R N M E T H O D I S T U N I V E R S I T Y Chairman, Board of Trustees Robert H. Dedman Jr. President R. Gerald Turner Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs Elizabeth G. Loboa

M E A D O W S S C H O O L O F T H E A R T S Algur H. Meadows Dean Samuel S. Holland Senior Associate Dean Kevin Paul Hofeditz Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Barbara Hill Moore Associate Dean for Administration David Sedman Associate Dean for Institutional Research, Planning Corinna Nash-Wnuk and Effectiveness Associate Dean for Communications and Strategy Karen Drennan and Chief of Staff Director of Recording Services Taylor Travelbee

P R O D U C T I O N S T A F F Production Manager Dawn Askew Technical Director Justin Mosher Assistant Technical Director Steve Leary Costume Studio Supervisor Melissa Panzarello Sound Designer/Engineer Jason Biggs Prop Supervisor JT Ringer Production Electrician R y a n B u r k l e Costume Cutter/Draper Eugenia P. Stallings

S T U D E N T S T A F F Lighting Assistants Kendall Barnes, Cole Bresnehen, Kayla Earl, Caleb Mosley, Matthew Reno Costume Assistants Josh LeBlanc, Alyssa Marchant Sound Assistants Angelica McEwan

M E A D O W S T I C K E T O F F I C E Director of Audience Development Lee Gleiser – 214.768.2787 12:00pm to 5:00pm Monday–Friday Office opens one hour prior to performances. Tickets for upcoming performances at the Meadows School of the Arts may be purchased by phone with an approved credit card, in person with cash, check or credit card at the Meadows Ticket Office, or online at meadows.smu.edu

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