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1994 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL 1994 NEXT WAVE COVER AND POSTER ARTIST ROBERT MOSKOWITZ NEDERLANDS DANS THEATER BAMBILL BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC Harvey Lichtenstein, President & Executive Producer presents in the BAM Opera House October 17, 1994, 7pm; October 18-22, 8pm and in the BAM Majestic Theater October 24-29, 8pm; October 30, 3pm NEIERLANIS IANS THEATER Artistic Director: JIRI KYLIAN Managing Director: MICHAEL DE Roo Choreographers: JIRI KYLIAN & HANS VAN MANEN Musical Director: CHRISTOF ESCHER Executive Artistic Directors: GLENN EDGERTON (NDT1), GERALD TIBBS (NDT2), ARLETTE VAN BOVEN (NDT3) Assistants to the Artistic Directors: HEDDA TWIEHAUS (NDT 2) & GERARD LEMAITRE (NDT 3) Rehearsal Assistant to the Rehearsal/Video Director Artistic Director Director ROSLYN ANDERSON ULF ESSER HANS KNILL Company Organization Musical Coordinator/ Manager (NDT 2) (NDT1&3) Pianist CARMEN THOMAS CARINA DE GOEDEREN RAYMOND LANGEWEN Guest Choreographers (1994/95 season) MAURICE BEJART CHRISTOPHER BRUCE MARTHA CLARKE PATRICK DELCROIX WILLIAM FORSYTHE LIONEL HoCtIE PAUL LIGHTFOOT JENNIFER MULLER OHAD NAHARIN GIDEON OBARZANEK PHILIPPE TREHET PATRIZIA TUERLINGS Guest Teachers BENJAMIN HARKARVY (Guest teacher, North American tour) CHRISTINE ANTHONY KATHY BENNETS JEAN-PIERRE BONNEFOUX OLGA EVREINOFF IVAN KRAMAR IRINA MILOVAN JAN NUYTS ALPHONSE POULIN LAWRENCE RHODES MARIAN SARSTADT Technical Director Marketing & Publicity Joop CABOORT KEES KORSMAN & EVELINE VERSLUIS Costume Department Tour Management JOKE VISSER WANDA CREMERS Pianist Dance Fitness Therapist Chiropractor JAN SCHOUTEN DAVID McNAMARA ERIC STEGEMAN Special support provided by European American Bank, ING Capital, The Netherland-America Foundation, The Harkness Foundations for Dance and Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. PROGRAM NOTES NEDERLANDSDANSTHEATERl PROGRAM A PROGRAMB October 17, 7pm; October 20 - 22, 8pm October 18, 19, 8pm No More Play Kaguyahime Petite Mort Part One Sarabande - Intermission - Falling Angels Part Two - Intermission Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes Whereabouts Unknown Duration: 2 hours 25 minutes NEDERLANDSDANSTHEATER2 October 24, 25, 27, 8pm Un Ballo Two - Intermission Petrol-Head Lover - Intermission Stamping Ground Duration: 2 hours NEDERLANDS DANS THEATER 3 October 26, 28, 29, 8pm; October 30, 3pm Evergreens Double You (World Premiere) Off White - Intermission - No Sleep Till Dawn of Day Dammerung Susto Duration: 2 hours 13 minutes Lighting equipment provided by BASH Theatrical Lighting. Freight transportation provided by Union-Transport Corporation. Hotel accommodations provided by Excelsior Hotel. The BAMGUIDE contains information about ticket sales, travel options, special offers and discounts, and all other services available at BAM. If you would like to receive a copy, please call (718) 636-4100, or pick one up at the box office. The design of the ties and scarves worn by the ushers has been generously donated by Isaac Mizrahi. These items are available for sale exclusively at the BAM Boutique. On the cover (clockwise from upper left): scenes from Whereabouts Unknown, Falling Angels and Susto. Portrait of Mr. Kylian by Joanne Savio. I PROGRAM NOTES NEDERLANDS DANS THEATER 1 Female dancers Nancy Euverink Male dancers Martin Muller Carolina Armenta Karine Guizzo Urtzi Aranburu Dylan Newcomb Bregjevan Balen Susan Laraghy Zane Booker Mario Radacovsky Lorraine Blouin Sol Leon Patrick Delcroix Miguel Rodriquez Cora Bos-Kroese Fiona Lummis Ivan Dubreuil Ken Ossola Philippa Buckingham Brigitte Martin Glenn Edgerton Aryeh Weiner Miranda Coney Megumi Nakamura Jorma Elo Stefan Zeromski Tessa Cooke Paula Sanchez Johan Inger Lisa Drake Elke Schepers Paul Lightfoot NEDERLANDS DANS THEATER 2 Female dancers Chisato Ohno Male dancers Sebastien Mari Shirley Esseboom Catherine Riesi Joe Kanamori Patrick Marin Yvonne Jakob Yvette Schipper Joeri de Korte Salvador Masclans Yolanda Martin Rei Watanabe Vaclav Kunes Fabrice Mazliah NEDERLANDS DANS THEATER 3 Female dancers Male dancers Martine van Hamel Sabine Kupferberg Gary Chryst Gerard Lemaitre TECHNICAL DEPARTMENT Technical Director Assistant Maintenance Joop Caboort Lucia Zuiderwijk Robert Streefland Nederlands Dans Theater 1 Lighting Stage Sound Wardrobe Tom Bevoort (head) Johan Maarhuis Dick Heuff Ankie Arts Rudo Blok (stage manager) Patty den Boer Petra van der Doorn Joost Biegelaar Jolanda de Kleine Arie Pols Kees Tjebbes Edo de Wit Nederlands Dans Theater 2 & 3 Lighting Stage Sound Wardrobe Henk Palmers (head) Ole Schaaff Richard Bron Helga Hoogstraten Koos Planken Koos Zwart Tina Tuit BOARD OF DIRECTORS Mr H. Bosma chairman K. Damen M. J. Drabbe Mrs. S. van Heemskerck Pillis-Duvekot I NDT 1 - PROGRAM A KAGUYAHIME A dance production by Jifi Kylian Music: Maki Ishii Choreography: Jirf Kylian Scenery and lighting: Michael Simon Costumes: Ferial Simon Premiere: 1 June 1988, Nederlands Dans Theater 1 THE LEGEND In the tenth century Japanese story Kaguyahime, a bamboo cutter discovers a tiny crea ture-a girl of radiant beauty-in a bamboo stem. Enchanted, he takes her home and raises her as his own daughter. She grows quickly into a young woman, and tales of her great beauty attract many suitors who try in vain to catch a glimpse of her. Five particular young men per sist. She sets each of them an impossible task. Their failure ensures that she remains untouched. The villagers hold a feast to celebrate the girl's coming of age and give her the name Kaguyahime-"she who shines through the night." The peace of the village is suddenly dis turbed by noblemen curious to see the famed beauty of Kaguyahime. Fighting breaks out between the villagers and the noblemen. The Emperor (Mikado) is informed of the increasing violence. In order to see for himself the cause of so much unrest amongst his people, he arranges to meet Kaguyahime. Moved by her beauty, the Emperor asks her to live at his palace. She refuses, and finally explains that she has been sent down from the moon to spend only a short time on earth. At the next full moon, Kaguyahime knows she must return. The Emperor refuses to accept this, and orders a guard of his men to prevent her escape. However, as the full moon rises, its light is so powerful that the Emperor and his guards are blinded, thus enabling Kaguyahime to ascend, unharmed, back to the moon. -a synopsis by Fiona Lummis ABOUT THE PRODUCTION The moment I became acquainted with the legend of Kaguyahime I could not resist its fan tastic and timeless reality, which only exists in legends and myths. Naturally, at once I felt confronted with the essential problem of how-or whether at all-legends can be transposed into another culture. However, I was encouraged by the fact that traces of some basic sources of wisdom and knowledge are common to many cultures-like invisible roots which some where underground entangle and meet one another. Whenever a choreographic idea is confronted with a literary subject, unorthodox solutions become almost inevitable. Dance and literature are too different to become a substitute for each other. Accepting these incongruities as a worthwhile challenge and very special learning process, we soon realized that a confinement to simple means would lead us to desirable solutions. We decided to make use of existing devices and general theatre equipment (pipes, bars, plastic floor, make-up boxes, mirrors etc.). By assigning them a different function they attained a new meaning-and so were transformed into surrealistic images. Bearing a sense of duality now, these objects created the "magical" space we had intended, encompassing the opposing ele ments: literary subject and choreographic idiom, European and Asian cultures. It also provid ed a solution to our attempt to melt the four main components (music, dance, stage and light) into one organic body, telling a story conceived some 1000 years ago somewhere in Asia. -Jifi Kylidn Kaguyahime by Maki Ishii, used by arrangement with European American Music Distributors Corporation, sole U.S. and Canadian agent for Moeck Verlag, publisher and copyright owner. I NDT 1 - PROGRAM B NO MORE PLAY Choreography by Jirf Kylian Music: Anton Webern: Five pieces for string quartet, opus 5 Scenery: Jiff Kylian Costumes: Jirf Kylian Lighting: JooP Caboort Premiere: 24 November 1988, Nededands Dans Theater 1 The basic idea for this choreography is inspired by a small sculpture of Alberto Giacometti: a simple, slightly deformed board-game with little craters and ditches and two pieces of wood resembling human figures. One might feel like having been invited to a game, the rules of which are being kept secret, or have never been determined. But as you begin to play this mysterious game, you start to learn its laws-only sometimes too late. Anton Webern's music has a fascinating feeling of essentiality and inevitability. Its sound and structure create captivating transparency and dynamic tension. These qualities assembled by Webern's uncompromising genius become a source of energy which has a direct influence on anything that might be simultaneously happening on stage. The seriousness of much of what we set out to undertake, often results in no more than a grotesque grimace, but it should be accepted as such, and become a valid part of our being. So this choreographic play of bod ies, mind, sound and light in time and space is merely a metaphor of a game with extremely severe rules, which someone wrote in a long forgotten language. -Jift Kylidn Five pieces for string quartet, opus 5 by Anton Webern, used by arrangement with European American Music Distributors