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NOVEMBER–DECEMBER 2019 The Bellevue Collection Shop. Sip & Celebrate at The Collection. Make your holidays memorable. Enjoy the magic of the nightly Snowfl ake Lane parade with falling snow and festive music. Shop over 200 stores, explore an expansive Dining District and delight in extended holiday shopping hours with free parking—All in One Place. bellevuecollection.com THE BELLEVUE COLLECTION BELLEVUE SQUARE • BELLEVUE PLACE • LINCOLN SQUARE Located between NE 4th and NE 8th on Bellevue Way. 425-454-8096 Untitled-8 1 11/5/19 12:04 PM November/December 2019 | Volume 16, No. 2 WELCOMEFrom Seattle Theatre Group, a non-profit arts organization Welcome! As we continue our 2019/2020 Performing Arts Season, we close out a memorable year with a lineup of performances featuring musicians and dancers of the highest caliber, as well as entertaining productions that are fun for the entire family! First up is Love Heals All Wounds, which we present for one night only at Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, featuring the intricate and urban choreography of Jon Boogz and Lil Buck, the stirring message of spoken word artist Robin Sanders, and an all-star cast of movement artists. Focusing on the issues of climate change, mass incarceration, and immigration, this piece addresses the wave of questioning and criticism that has cast a wide shadow over real, everyday obstacles that have plagued our communities for decades. On November 21, we honor one of the most influential jazz labels of all time with the Blue Note Records 80th Birthday Celebration. Featuring performances by vocalist/pianist Kandace Springs, James Carter Organ PAUL HEPPNER President Trio, and pianist James Francies and his trio, this evening will offer a MIKE HATHAWAY Senior Vice President spectacular celebration of the iconic label, as well as jazz music today. KAJSA PUCKETT Vice President, Sales & Marketing Next, we welcome the back to The Moore on GENAY GENEREUX Accounting & Seattle Rock Orchestra Office Manager November 30 in a concert featuring music from Led Zeppelin’s explosive Production debut and sophomore releases, featuring songs such as “Babe I’m Gonna SUSAN PETERSON Vice President, Production Leave You,” “Whole Lotta Love,” “Ramble On,” and many more. JENNIFER SUGDEN Assistant Production Manager We kick off December with a week-long run of the percussive hit STOMP, ANA ALVIRA, STEVIE VAN BRONKHORST Production Artists and Graphic Designers an audience favorite that appeals to all ages. This explosive production Sales now features some new surprises and updated sections, including two MARILYN KALLINS, TERRI REED new full-scale routines, as well as the the classic sequences everyone San Francisco/Bay Area Account Executives knows and loves. BRIEANNA HANSEN, AMELIA HEPPNER, SHERRI JARVEY, ANN MANNING Seattle Area Account Executives Rounding out 2019 is MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize finalistTaylor CAROL YIP Sales Coordinator Mac, taking on the holidays with two performances of Holiday Sauce. Marketing Backed by a spectacular band, Mac reframes a lineup of holiday classics SHAUN SWICK Brand & Creative Manager for a festive evening of music and comedy celebrating the season in all of CIARA CAYA Marketing Coordinator its dysfunction. Encore Media Group 425 North 85th Street • Seattle, WA 98103 We invite you to join us in giving an unforgettable sendoff to 2019 with 800.308.2898 • 206.443.0445 these incredible performances and look forward to seeing you in the [email protected] encoremediagroup.com new year! Encore Arts Programs and Encore Stages are published Jack McLarnan monthly by Encore Media Group to serve performing arts events in the San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Seattle Manager of Fine Arts Programs Area. All rights reserved. ©2019 Encore Media Group. Reproduction without written permission is prohibited. encorespotlight.com 3 CORNISH PLAYHOUSE AT SEATTLE CENTER Jon Boogz and Lil Buck (MAI) NOVEMBER 19 LOVE HEALS ALL WOUNDS Created and directed by MAI - Jon Boogz and Lil Buck Spoken Word Poetry by Robin Sanders Choreographed and performed by MAI in collaboration with artists: Marcus Battle, Nao Campbell, Reimy Jones, Trent Mendoza, Ron Myles, Alexa Nof, Quentin Robinson, Olga Sokolova, and Jason Yang. Dramaturg: Talvin Wilks Writer/Creative Director: Robin Sanders Original Music: Jason Yang Projection Design: Lianne Arnold Lighting Design: John E. D. Bass Costume Design: Castille Ritter & Colin Hornett / Yöggx Rehearsal Director: Reimy Jones Assistant Choreographer: Nao Campbell Costume Construction: Abby Stroot & Pincushion Las Vegas Additional music by Chizzy, DBR, Parker & Marshall Mulherin, Izzy Beatz Featured Voice Narration: Bryan Stevenson Production Director/Producer: Chisa Yamaguchi Producer: Rika Iino / Sozo Artists & MAI Love Heals All Wounds was made possible by The Quiet Fund and the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Additional support was provided by The Arnhold Foundation and MHCS. Love Heals All Wounds was workshopped at Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts in Northridge, CA, and produced by Sozo Artists Inc. and MAI in partnership with Sozo Impact Fund and its fiscal sponsors Silicon Valley Community Foundation and WACO Theater Center. 4 SEATTLE THEATRE GROUP STG’s Broadway Inclusion Program This year, Seattle Theatre Group has launched a new initiative called the Broadway Inclusion Program. Working in partnership with the Northshore Senior Center in Bothell, STG offers classes that provide theatre arts programming to adult participants with cognitive and physical disabilities. Once a week during the season, participants meet with four STG teaching artists to explore elements of musical theatre, dramatic arts and movement-based activities in a creative, safe and welcoming environment. As each quarter comes to an end, participants are engaged in a final share presentation where family and community members can attend and observe what the class has been working on over the past several months. We are thrilled to be presenting this new class and encourage any community or school groups interested in Inclusion Programs to contact STG. You can learn more about all of our Broadway programs by visiting stgpresents.org/education/broadway. Photos by Christopher Nelson Christopher by Photos encorespotlight.com 5 Jon Boogz and Lil Buck (MAI) (CONTINUED) ABOUT LOVE HEALS ALL WOUNDS ARTIST STATEMENT Love Heals All Wounds brings together an exceptional myriad of artistry. Mixing the On a daily-basis, we are bombarded by brutal Creating Love Heals All Wounds has been an incomparable words of Robin Sanders, 24-hour news cycles that reveal the inhumane amazing process and is a true embodiment original music by Jason Yang, Daniel Bernard realities of this world, the relentless social of all the powerful work MAI has created in Roumain and Chizzy, and an unparalleled media updates and a slew of misguided the last few years. The show tackles a range of mastery of street dance styles such as popping microaggressions that project a fabricated potent issues - from environmental racism, and Memphis Jookin, this collaborative work value on our lives. systematic oppression, police brutality, and strives to bring awareness to important social many ideologies that keep humans from and global issues and how they affect us all. Love Heals All Wounds goes past headlines connecting to one another and the world Giving a one-of-a-kind experience through to explore the heartstrings of our shared around them. This work has been a trans- the inimitable lens of MAI, Love Heals All consciousness in relation to police brutality, formative challenge for the cast and creators Wounds aspires to have positive social impact mass incarceration and how the cycle of - we’ve not only had to develop the right in communities around the world by uniquely trauma on life needs to end. MAI has created movement language alongside the narrative, it using art as a tool to help inspire action a dynamic work interwoven with spoken was essential to face our own mental barriers and ultimately lead to positive, sustainable word, original music and projections to chart and to thread those discoveries into the change. a movement towards reflection, growth and work. The vision of Love Heals All Wounds ~ Lil Buck healing through sharing the dreams and is to inspire audiences to look deeply within visions of a world we create together. themselves in the hopes that together, we ABOUT MOVEMENT ART IS (MAI) will carve pathways forward to creating real solutions for true healing. Co-founded by Jon Boogz and Lil Buck, ~ Jon Boogz MAI is an organization that uses movement artistry to inspire and change the world while elevating the artistic, educational, and social impact of dance. Through movement art films, workshops, performances, and exhibitions, MAI is resetting the spectrum of what dance is. MAI’s award-winning short film “Color of Reality” featuring the art of Alexa Meade went viral in 2016. The film has gone to receive coverage internationally, won Great Big Story’s Art as Impact Award; Best Experimental at Toronto International Short Film Festival; and Concept Video of the Year from World of Dance, among others. MAI’s recent projects include: a short film featuring Bryan Stevenson entitled “AM i A MAN”; a performance entitled “Honor Thy Mother” at TED Conference in Vancouver; a VR film in collaboration with director Terrence Malick and Facebook which launched at SxSW and Tribeca Film Festival in 2018, and a new work for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago with original music by Dev Hynes. MAI is currently developing a feature film. The duo’s creative process behind this production of Love Heals All Wounds is the subject of a Netflix documentary coming out in spring 2020. http://movementartis.com 6 SEATTLE THEATRE GROUP CORNISH PLAYHOUSE AT SEATTLE CENTER NOVEMBER 19 MFA IN BIOS Robin Sanders | @rsanders182 ARTS LEADERSHIP Robin Sanders (Writer, Creative Director) is Jon Boogz | @jonboogz a captivating communicator and her energy Jon Boogz is a visionary director, choreog- and passion are infectious.