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December 2005 2005 Next Wave Festival Mary Heilmann, Last Chance for Gas Study (detail), 2005 BAM 2005 Next Wave Festival is sponsored by: ENCOREThe Performing Arts Magazine Altria 2005 ~ext Wave FeslliLaL Brooklyn Academy of Music Alan H. Fishman William I. Campbell Chairman of the Board Vice Chairman of the Board Karen Brooks Hopkins Joseph V. Melillo President Executive Producer presents Everywhere Wally Cardona Quartet Ethel Approximate BAM Harvey Theater running time: Dec 13, 15-17,2005 at 7:30pm 70 minutes, no intermission Choreography, direction, and setting by Wally Cardona Music composed by Phil Kline Lighting design Roderick Murray Dancers Wally Cardona, Joanna Kotze, Kathryn Sanders, Matthew Winheld, Kana Kimura Music performed by Ethel-viola Ralph Farris, cello Dorothy Lawson, violin Cornelius DuFallo, violin Mary Rowell Sou nd designer Dave Cook Production stage manager Philip Trevino Construction Scenicorp BAM 2005 Next Wave Festival is sponsored by Altria Group, Inc. Delta Air Lines is the official airline for BAM Dance, which also receives major support from the Harkness Foundation for Dance. Additional BAM Dance support is provided by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation. Support for Everywhere is provided by Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc. and The National Endowment for the Arts. Eve[ywbere _ Everywhere is a co-production of WCV, Inc. and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The project is co-commissioned by Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. The creation of Everywhere was supported in part by The Multi-Arts Production Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Rockefeller Foundation; the National Endowment for the Arts; and Altria Group, Inc. The music for Everywhere was commissioned by the American Music Center Live Music for Dance Program. These performances are made possible by support from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. The role of Wally Cardona in Everywhere has been commissioned in honor of Christina D. Burnett. Everywhere Commissioning Circle: Tania Balderrama, D. Graham &Christina D. Burnett, David G. Burnett & Claire L. Gaudiani, Donna & Louis F. Cardona, Lawrence Duffy & Edda S. Ponsa Flores, Natasha Kaiser & Matthew Kaiser, Hugh &Alissa Hsu Lynch, Joan &Terry Voltz, and Micki Wesson. Developmental residencies for the project took place at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival (Massachusetts), and the Cornell University Department of Theater, Film and Dance and the Cornell School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions (New York) with support of the New York State DanceForce. Rehearsals took place at BAM, the New 42nd Street Studios, Mark Morris Dance Center, and Kaatsbaan International Dance Center. Created in collaboration with Joanna Kotze, Kathryn Sanders, Matthew Winheld, and Kana Kimura. Additional support was provided by (and special thanks to) Caroline Amerikhas, Arthur Aviles, Ella Baff, Felicia Ballos, Nicole Borelli, Gregory Cary, Laura Colby, Alyce Dissette, Elizabeth Eastman, Cathy Edwards, Bob Eisen, Adriane Fang, Molissa Fenley, Ed Fitzgerald, Karen Graham, Neil Greenberg, Daniel C. Hall, Timothy Hess, Phyllis Lamhut, Barbara Mahler, Joe Melillo, Pick Up Performance, Bentley Roton, Jim Self, Karyn Treadwell, Laurie Uprichard, Martin Wechsler, and Ain Gordon. Wally Cardona QuartetlWCV, Inc. 140 Second Avenue #501 New York, NY 10003 Tel/Fax: 212.375.8283 Email: [email protected] Web: www.wcvismorphing.org Wally Cardona, Artistic Director Barbara Bryan, Producer Nora Painten, Administrative Associate Rick Bak, Web Design WCV, Inc. Board of Directors AI issa Hsu Lynch, President Natasha Kaiser, Treasurer Joan Voltz, Secretary Tania Balderrama Christina Duffy Burnett Benjamin Millepied Everywbere _ Wally Cardona Quartet (WC4) was founded in Hay's The Match, Herve Robbe's \I. O. U. S. , 1997 and officially debuted in 1998 at The Joyce and Jochen Ulrich's Get Up Early. He resides in Theater's Altogether Different Festival. Since then, Brooklyn, NY. WC4 has been presented at several U.S. venues, including at Danspace Project, Dance Theater Ethel (string quartet) has quickly emerged as a Workshop, Symphony Space, The 92nd Street powerful musical voice in New York City's ever Y Harkness Dance Project, Central Park Sum evolving concert scene. This all-star foursome has merstage, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, stretched itself far past the limits of convention, Sushi Performance, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, genre, and style to embrace a music that arises Washington Performing Arts Society, University from the context of our time. According to The of Massachusetts, and PICA's TBA Festival, and Los Angeles Times, "They're breaking down the festivals in France, Austria, Belgium, Hungary, traditional lines between composer and performer Portugal, Canada, Australia, Korea, and Mexico. and between performer and technology... Their use of amplification takes them outside the polite, Works created for WC4 include Monster Suite carefully balanced sound world of traditional (1997), Four Ramonas (1998), Open House chamber music. They own their music, and when 01: Prime (1999), and October Trinary-marley, they want it to roar, they roar," and The New York light and grass (2002). Evening length works Times hails Ethel as "extraordinarily skilled, pas include Trance Territory (2001), Morph: Live sionate musicians. II Remix (2002), Him, There, Them. (2004), and Everywhere (2005). Since the group's appearance on the scene in 1998, Ethel has brought to its music an exciting, Collaborators have included composers Phil Kline, beautiful, and rare combination of tastes and Rhys Chatham, Joachim Kuhn, Walter Quintus, talents that has developed from each member's Ronald Lawrence, and Cecile Le Prado, drummer unique experiences in the music world. Members Jonathan Kane, pianist Koji Atwood, DJ $mall of Ethel have performed and/or recorded with <thange (James Dier), DJ Plexus, clothing de Bang on a Can, The Chamber Music Society of signer Jill Anderson, video artist Maya Ciarrochi, Lincoln Center, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, architect Douglas Fanning of DYAD Studio, and the New York Chamber Symphony, CONTINUUM, lighting designer Roderick Murray. and with Sheryl Crow, Roger Daltrey, and Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project, among many others. Wally Cardona (artistic director, dancer) was raised in California and New Mexico, where Phil Kline (composer) occupies a singular niche as a child he was a clarinetist and competi- in the new music world. The 2005-06 season tive gymnast. In 1986, he moved to New York will see such diverse premieres as a work for City to attend The Juilliard School (B.F.A.) and string quartet and orchestra written for Ethel and subsequently joined the Ralph Lemon Company the EOS Orchestra; Locus Solus, a violin concerto in 1987. In 1992, Cardona's first work, Solo for Todd Reynolds and the Talujon Percussion Alone/Add One, was performed at the Festival de Ensemble; a full-length mass for the early music Danse aCannes. In 1995, he received his first vocal group Lionheart; Around The World In A commission in New York City, Made In Voyage, Daze, a much-anticipated 5.01 surround-sound presented by Danspace Project. Later that year, DVD on the Starkland record label; and Silenzio, French choreographer Herve Robbe invited Car a new outdoor boom box piece to be presented dona to create a new work-a double purpose/a at the Winter Olympics in Turin. Kline's signature double emploi -for a cast of four American danc boombox composition Unsilent Night has become ers and Robbe's company, Le Marietta Secret. The a cult holiday tradition, and will be played in ten following year, Wally Cardona Quartet (WC4) was cities around the world this year. Kline's composi founded. Cardona has toured extensively as a solo tions have been performed at such ven ues as performer and teacher, also appearing in Deborah Lincoln Center, BAM, Miller Theatre, The Whitney Who's Wb~o _ Museum, Joe's Pub, MASS MoCA, Philadelphia's Varone, Nina Winthrop, Daniel Charon, Mimi Kimmel Center, and London's Barbican Centre. Garrard Dance Theater, and Company Appels. In Among his recent works are The Blue Room And December 2004 she choreographed a new piece, Other Stories, written for the string quartet Ethel Open Sentence, which was presented at Miami (and released on the Cantaloupe recording Ethel, University. Kotze joined WC4 in 2000. CA21017); and Zippo Songs, a widely acclaimed song cycle based on texts by American Gis in Kathryn Sanders (dancer) began her dance Vietnam, written for baritone Theo Bleckmann, training at MoMing in Chicago and over the past violin, percussion, and guitar (and released on the decade has practiced Klein Technique. She has Cantaloupe recording Zippo Songs, CA21019). danced with Naomi Goldberg, Koosil-ja Hwang, Barbara Mahler, Dean Moss, and Rachel Rosen Roderick Murray's (lighting design) lighting de thal, among others, and has shown her choreog signs have been seen nationally and international raphy in NYC at Danspace Project and University ly since 1992 on the works of Kimberly Bartosik, Settlement. Sanders received a B.A. from UCLA Ralph Lemon, Yanira Castro, Benjamin Millepied, and continues her research with NYC Dance Pepatian, Hot Mouth, Bill Young and Dancers, Surveyors. She has been dancing with WC4 since Dusan Tynek, and Kriota Willburg, among many 1995. others. He has worked extensively with the Wally Cardona Quartet since 1999 and received a 2001 Matthew Winheld (dancer) joined WC4 in 1999. Bessie Award for the design of Cardona's Trance He was raised in Endicott, New York by Mark and Territory. Prior to dedicating himself full time to Mary Louise Fuller Stanton Winheld. He studies design, he also performed for nine years with the with Barbara Mahler. He resides in Brooklyn award winning Circus Amok. with his fiancee Elizabeth. Kana Kimura (dancer) was born in Hiroshima, Ralph Farris' (viola) versatility is reflected in his Japan, where she began her ballet training at the collaborative performance history-from Joseph age of four at Sawada dance school. She contin Silverstein and Allen Ginsberg to Barry White and ued her contemporary dance training with Takako the Georgian pop band Mtziuri.