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LEWIS CENTER FOR THE ARTS Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Dance presents Chair Michael Cadden (on leave, Spring 2016) Acting Chair Stacy Wolf Administrative Director Marion Young PROGRAM IN DANCE Ballet Instructors Dance Faculty (2015-16) Laurie Abramson Martha Eddy Kathleen Moore Tovar Tina Fehlandt Pamela Levy Noah Gelber Pilates Instructor Judith Hamera, Professor Sherry Greenspan Dyane Harvey-Salaam* John Heginbotham* Yoga and Anatomy Instructor Mecquel K.J. Holmes Loni Landon Accompanists Rebecca Lazier, Senior Lecturer Jonathan Benjamin Susan Marshall, Professor David Broome Jimena Paz David Cheifer Joseph Schloss Dan Johnson Baye Kemit Stuart Singer David Tenney Rebecca Stenn Abdoulaye Toure Olivier Tarpaga Trisha Wolf Aynsley Vandenbroucke Judy Yeh Nicole Wolcott Raphael Xavier Pavel Zuštiak, Princeton Arts Fellow *Class of 1932 Visiting Lecturer in Dance PRODUCTION AND ADMINISTRATION Director Susan Marshall Producer Darryl Waskow Production Stage Manager Carmelita Becnel Resident Musical Director/Composer Vince di Mura Theater Operations Specialist Rob Del Colle Costume Manager E. Keating Helfrich Costume Shop Assistant Julie Kosanovich Costume Technician Caitlin Brown Technical Director Timothy Godin Assistant Technical Director Jesse Froncek Theater Technician Torrey Drum Prop Master Alexandra Geiger MARCH 2016 Scenic Artist Melissa Riccobono Friday 25 @ 8 pm Master Carpenter Michael A. Smola Dance Program Assistant Cindy Rosenfeld For more information Saturday 26 @ 2 & 8 pm Director of Communications Steve Runk about the Lewis Center Berlind Theatre at Web & Multimedia Strategist Justin Goldberg for the Arts visit: McCarter Theatre Center arts.princeton.edu Multimedia Specialist Zohar Lavi-Hasson Or contact: Director of Visual Communications Specialist Tracy Patterson Communications, Communications Associate Jaclyn Sweet Steve Runk at Communications Assistant Hope VanCleaf [email protected] The Lewis Center for the Arts Presents Excerpt from Toda Una Vida (A Full Life) (2010) Choreography: Gustavo Ramírez Sansano Staged by: Nigel Campbell Music: Bolero by Maurice Ravel UNDER PRESSURE Dancers: Colby Hyland ’16* and Emily Wohl ’16* 2016 Collaborative Senior Thesis Dance Concert INTERMISSION Production Advisor: Tina Fehlandt • Costume Designer: Mary Jo Mecca Music Director: Vince di Mura • Lighting Designer: Aaron Copp Pinion (premiere) Stage Manager: Mary-Susan Gregson Choreographer: Kamber Hart ’16* Music: Soundscape based on Sinister Resonance by Henry Cowell, mixed by Excerpt from Ligeti Essays (2006) Vince di Mura Choreography: Karole Armitage Dancers: Ellie Albarran ’16*, Emily Wohl ’16* Staged by: Megumi Eda Music: Sippal, dobbal, nádihegedüvel by György Ligeti – With pipes drums and coded.scripted.go (premiere) fiddles (2000); 4th Movement Choreographer: Glenna Yu ’16* Costume Design: Peter Speliopoulos Music: Composed by Jamie Chong ’15 Original Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor Dancers: Tess Bissell ’17, Yasmine Eichbaum ’18, Julz Goff ’16, Anna Kimmel ’18, Dancer: Marisa Remez ’16* Anna Kolstad ’18, Rachel Schwartz ’18, Jhor van der Horst ’19 Ligeti Essays is set to three song cycles by György Ligeti, on the poetry of fellow Hungarian, Sandor Weöres. As a composer, Ligeti used sources from all schools of thought to create some of the most arresting music of the late 20th century. In the songs that make up Ligeti Lamentation (1930) Essays, Ligeti uses haiku-like compression to reveal different states of mind - from the Choreography and costumes: Martha Graham sarcastic and humorous to the trivial or languorous. The dancers capture thought through Regisseur: Denise Vale movement based on a curvilinear, calligraphic dance vocabulary punctuated by rough, raw accents. The solo presented in Under Pressure is titled “Kuli” (“Coolie”) and is scored Music: Nein Klaierstucke, Opus, Number 2 by Zoltán Kodály for xylophone and three marimbas. The mezzo-soprano screams, wails, growls, whispers Pianist: Vince di Mura intensely with loud outbursts followed by quiet regressions as she laments her lot – that of Original lighting: Martha Graham as an aging coolie who cannot escape a punishing fate. Adapted by: Beverly Emmons Dancer: Kamber Hart ’16* Void (premiere) Premiere: January 8, 1930, Maxine Elliott’s Theatre, New York City Choreographers: Glenna Yu ’16* and Bree White ’16* Lamentation is a “dance of sorrow.” It is not the sorrow of a specific person, time or place, but Music: Litany for the Whale by John Cage and Amelia (I am waiting for my men) the personification of grief itself. The presentation of Lamentation has been made possible by a gift from Francis Mason in honor of William D. Witter. Additional support was provided by by David Lang, mixed by Vince di Mura the Harkness Foundation for Dance. Martha Graham Resources, a division of the Martha Dancers: Glenna Yu ’16* and Bree White ’16* Graham Center for Contemporary Dance, is responsible for the facilitation of productions of Graham dance worldwide. For more information contact [email protected] come to the park they say is dead (premiere) Choreographer: Sophie Andreassi ’16* This Is Another (Excerpt from There Might Be Others) Music: “Secrets” by Caroline Reese; “When the Roses Bloom Again” Woody Choreographer: Rebecca Lazier, in collaboration with the performers Guthrie; “I don’t do nobody nothing” by South Carolina Chain Gang; “Beast” by Music: Dan Trueman, in collaboration with Sō Percussion and Mobius Percussion Caroline Reese; “Cuckoo Bird” by Hobart Smith; “New Tricks” by Caroline Reese; Lighting Design: Davison Scandrett “Angel Fire” by Caroline Reese; “The Old Country Church” by The Heritage Musicians: Mobius Percussion (David Degge, Mika Godbole, Yumi Tamashiro, Singers; “Moonshiner” by Roscoe Holcomb and Wade Ward; “Moonshine” by Frank Tyl), Alex Appel, Dylan Greene, Jessica Tsang Caroline Reese, mixed by Vince di Mura Science Advisors: Naomi Leonard, Kayhan Özcimder, Biswadip Dey Guitar and Vocals: Caroline Reese Dancers: Ellie Albarran ’16*, Sophie Andreassi ’16*, Kamber Hart ’16*, Colby Dancers: Ellie Albarran ’16*, Maia Ezratty ’18, Swanee Golden ’19, Trent Kowalik ’17, Hyland ’16*, Marisa Remez ’16*, Grace Singleton ’16*, Ogemdi Ude ’16*, Bree Alexa Pugh ’16, Bree White ’16*, Stevie Yang ’18 White ’16*, Emily Wohl ’16*, Glenna Yu ’16* * Denotes senior certificate student in the Program in Dance 2016 SENIOR DANCE CERTIFICATE STUDENTS - MAJORS (CERTIFICATES) NIGEL CAMPBELL (Stager), a native of The Bronx, New York, received his training from Creative Outlet Dance Theater, LaGuardia Arts High School (‘04), and from The Juilliard Ellie Albarran German (Dance, European Cultural Studies) School (‘08). He has danced full time with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, the Saarlandisches Sophie Andreassi History (Dance, European Cultural Studies, French) Staatstheater, Luna Negra Dance Theater, and the GöteborgsOperans DansKompani. He Kamber Hart Psychology (Dance, Neuroscience, Spanish) has also been a guest artist for Kyle Abraham’s Abraham.In.Motion and for Sidra Bell Dance Colby Hyland Molecular Biology (Dance) New York. Currently, Nigel is an Artistic Associate with Gibney Dance Company in New York Marisa Remez Anthropology (Dance) City. There his position includes performing, community advocacy, and the creation of new programing. A sought after master teacher and répétiteur, Nigel has set dances and given Grace Singleton Religion (Dance, European Cultural Studies) workshops throughout the United States and abroad. In 2016, along with his partner Chanel Ogemdi Ude English (Dance, Theater) DaSilva, Campbell co-founded MOVE(NYC), a rigorous, tuition free, summer dance intensive Bree White Art & Archaeology, Program 2 (Dance) geared exclusively towards talented New York City teenagers. Additionally, he is the recipient Emily Wohl Molecular Biology (Dance) of a 2011 Princess Grace Award, a United States Presidential Scholar in the Arts, a National Glenna Yu Computer Science (B.S.E.) (Dance) YoungArts first level Award Winner, and an NAACP ACT -SO Gold Medalist. Nigel is featured in the 2004 National PBS documentary American Talent. PRODUCTION TEAM AARON COPP (Lighting Designer) has recently provided lighting designs for Natalie Berlind Stage Operations Manager Matt Pilsner Merchant, Yo-Yo Ma, Philip Glass, Merce Cunningham, Eliot Feld and Laurie Anderson. Copp has worked extensively in the dance world, most recently receiving his second “Bessie”Award Berlind Master Electrician Justin Hoffecker for Jonah Bokaer’s The Invention of Minus One. He has had a long association with Merce Sound Engineer Daniel Jurcisin Cunningham, designing such pieces as Ground Level Overlay, Windows and Biped, for which Run Crew Michelle Poulaille he also won a “Bessie.” Copp holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama and a BA from Student Run Crew Ayla Allen ’18, Emily Libresco ’17, Stanley SUNYBinghamton. Mathabane ’17, Lauren Wodarski VINCE DI MURA (Resident Musical Director and Composer for the Lewis Center for the Costume Stitchers Jessica Sanders and Lisa Raymond Arts), best known for his arrangements of My Way: A Tribute to Frank Sinatra, and I Left My Student Costume Stitchers Kasia Kalinowska ’19, Remi Shaull-Thompson ’19, Heart, A Tribute to Tony Bennett, is a veteran performer and musical director, appearing on Alex Vogelsang ’18, Cara Cavanaugh ’16, Amelia concert stages and theaters throughout North America, Canada, and Latin America. He has (Mimi) Kenna ’19, and James Jared ’19 also conducted many shows and fulfilled numerous compositional commissions