presents KEIGWIN + COMPANY LARRY KEIGWIN Artistic Director ANDREA LODICO WELSHONS Executive Director NICOLE WOLCOTT Co-Founder/Education Director BRANDON COURNAY Rehearsal Director & Company Manager RANDI RIVERA Production & Stage Manager DANCERS ZACKERY BETTY, KACIE BOBLITT, BRANDON COURNAY, KILE HOTCHKISS, GINA IANNI, EMILY SCHOEN, JACLYN WALSH, NICOLE WOLCOTT 1 KEIGWIN + COMPANY EPISODES (2014) LOVE SONGS (2006) CHOREOGRAPHY Larry Keigwin CHOREOGRAPHY Larry Keigwin with the Company LIGHTING DESIGN Burke Wilmore LIGHTING DESIGN Burke Wilmore COSTUMES Sarah Laux COSTUMES Fritz Masten MUSIC On the Town – Three Dance Episodes, Leonard Bernstein MUSIC Roy Orbison “Blue Bayou” and “Crying” DANCERS Zackery Betty, Kacie Boblitt / Gina DANCERS Emily Schoen & Brandon Cournay Ianni*, Brandon Cournay, Kile Hotchkiss, Emily UNDERSTUDY Gina Ianni Schoen, Jaclyn Walsh MUSIC Aretha Franklin “Baby, I Love You” and “I Episodes was commissioned by the John F. Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)” Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and DANCERS Jaclyn Walsh & Zackery Betty the National Symphony Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach, Music Director, as part of the 2014 MUSIC Nina Simone “Ne Me Quitte Pas” NEW Moves: Symphony + Dance. and “I Put a Spell on You” *alternating cast DANCERS Nicole Wolcott & Larry Keigwin Love Songs was created in part with generous CONTACT SPORT (2012) support from The Greenwall Foundation. CHOREOGRAPHY Larry Keigwin MUSIC “Monotonous,” Lyrics by June Carroll & TRIPTYCH (2009) Music by Arthur Siegel; Performed by Eartha CHOREOGRAPHY Larry Keigwin Kitt; “C’mon a My House,” Written by Ross Bagdasarian & William Saroyan; Performed by MUSIC “Triptych” by Jonathan Melville Pratt Eartha Kitt; “It Was a Very Good Year,” Written LIGHTING DESIGN Burke Wilmore by Ervin Drake; Performed by Eartha Kitt; “Easy to Love,’’ Written by Cole Porter; Performed by COSTUMES Karen Young Eartha Kitt DANCERS Zackery Betty, Kacie Boblitt, Brandon LIGHTING DESIGN Burke Wilmore Cournay, Kile Hotchkiss, Gina Ianni, Emily Schoen, Jaclyn Walsh COSTUMES Marion Talan DANCERS Zackery Betty, Brandon Cournay, Triptych was created in part with the generous Kile Hotchkiss, Jaclyn Walsh support of The Greenwall Foundation and The Royce Family Fund. Contact Sport was commissioned by the American Dance Festival with support from the SHS Foundation. 2 KEIGWIN + COMPANY Founded in 2003 by Artistic Director Larry Keigwin, KEIGWIN + COMPANY creates and presents Keigwin’s electrifying brand of contemporary dance. K+C reaches national and international audiences and invigorates diverse communities with a refreshing vision of dance that embodies a theatrical sensibility of wit, style, and heart. Education and community projects seek to physically engage audiences and aspiring dancers in movement and the choreographic process, and bring opportunities for individuals to become more invested in dance. Since K+C’s premiere performance at Joyce Soho in 2003, Keigwin has created 35 dances, including the acclaimed large-scale community project, Bolero, which has been commissioned in 12 communities across the country, Runaway (2008), a fashion- inspired choreographic ride, proclaimed “a thrilling coup de théâtre” by James Wolcott of Vanity Fair, and Canvas (2013), heralded as “intricate, neat, rapturous” by the New York Times. Over the past decade, K+C has presented performances around the world at venues including The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Summerdance Santa Barbara, New York City Center, The Joyce Theater, the American Dance Festival, Bates Dance Festival, the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain, and more. K+C celebrated its 10th Anniversary Season in 2013, generously supported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. In 2015, K+C broadened its artistic vision with its commission of Adam Barruch and Loni Landon, providing a platform for young, emerging choreographers and this season, looks forward to the world premiere of Bolero Silicon Valley at Stanford University, a new collaboration with NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and more. The company is thrilled to embark on a tour to Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, and Tunisia as a part of the sixth season of DanceMotion USASM, a project of the U.S. Department of State/BAM. K+C also plans to present a new evening-length duet created by K+C co-founder Nicole Wolcott, Places Please, at Joe’s Pub next spring, commissioned by DANCE NOW. Follow the conversation on Instagram and Twitter @keigwinandco and #KcoDMUSA. 3 KEIGWIN + COMPANY LARRY KEIGWIN (Artistic Director) is a the Metropolitan Opera in Doug Varone’s Le native New Yorker and choreographer who Sacre Du Printemps and Julie Taymor’s The has danced his way from the Metropolitan Magic Flute, in addition to his work with Mark Opera to downtown clubs to Broadway and Dendy (receiving a Bessie Award in 1998 back. He founded KEIGWIN + COMPANY for his performance in Dream Analysis), Jane in 2003 and as Artistic Director, Keigwin Comfort, John Jasperse, Doug Elkins, Zvi has led the company as it has performed Gotheiner, and David Rousseve. He appeared at theaters and dance festivals around the in the Broadway show Dance of the Vampires, world. KEIGWIN + COMPANY presents the Off-Broadway show The Wild Party and Keigwin’s electrifying brand of contemporary the Julie Taymor, Oscar nominated film Across dance on a myriad of stages including The the Universe. He is a co-founder of the Green Kennedy Center, The Joyce Theater, Works & Box Arts Festival in Green Mountain Falls, Process at the Guggenheim, New York City Colorado, a multi-disciplinary festival designed Center, among others. Since his company’s to increase cultural opportunities in the premiere performance at Joyce Soho in 2003, region, as well as provide creative residencies Keigwin has created dozens of dances for to young, emerging choreographers. Keigwin himself and his dancers, as well as for Paul is a member of the Stage Directors & Taylor’s American Modern Dance, Royal New Choreographers Society. Zealand Ballet, The Martha Graham Dance Company, New York Choreographic Institute, ANDREA LODICO WELSHONS is the The Juilliard School, Vail International Dance executive director of KEIGWIN + COMPANY, Festival, and many others. His work in having joined the company in 2008 as its musical theater includes choreography for first full-time administrative staff member. the 2011 production of the musical “Tales Since the start of her tenure, Welshons has of the City” at the American Conservatory managed sold-out, heralded seasons at Theatre in San Francisco, and the off- The Joyce Theater; expanded KEIGWIN + Broadway production of “Rent,” for which he COMPANY’s fundraising efforts; increased received the 2011 Joe A. Callaway Award touring activities nationwide; and oversaw from the Stage Directors and Choreographers the company’s 10th Anniversary Season, for Foundation. In 2013, Keigwin choreographed which she secured major capacity-building the Broadway musical If/Then, starring support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Idina Menzel. She has served as a member of Dance/ USA’s Board of Trustees and is the Chair Keigwin has designed and choreographed of the Managers Council of organizations special events including “Fashion’s Night Out: with budgets $750K and below. Welshons The Show” in New York, which was produced serves as a mentor through Dance/ by Vogue magazine and featured more than USA’s Institute for Leadership Training 150 of the industry’s top models. Keigwin and has been featured on several panels also has mounted several versions of Bolero, to discuss online audience engagement, his acclaimed large-scale community project dance marketing, and branding. Welshons that has been commissioned by communities was first introduced to the world of dance across the country. Keigwin has created administration in 2003 with an internship Keigwin Kabaret, a fusion of modern dance, at the Paul Taylor Dance Company. She vaudeville, and burlesque presented by the graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. Public Theater at Joe’s Pub and by Symphony from Connecticut College in 2004, where Space. As a dancer, Keigwin has danced at she danced with choreographers including 4 KEIGWIN + COMPANY Dan Wagoner, David Dorfman, Jeremy Ballet, The Chase Brock Experience, The Nelson, and Heidi Henderson. Prior to New York Theatre Ballet, and in the Radio joining KEIGWIN + COMPANY, Welshons City Christmas Spectacular. Film/TV credits: worked in development at New York City Musical Chairs (HBO) and commercials Center, the Paul Taylor Dance Company, and for Puma, Sesame Street, and Target. City Parks Foundation. Andrea is a registered He has performed with the Mark Morris yoga teacher and was certified in 2014 at Dance Group in productions of L’Allegro, il mang’Oh Yoga in NYC. Penseroso ed il Moderato, The Hard Nut, and in the television debut of L’Allegro on ZACKERY BETTY (Dancer) Zackery Betty PBS’ Great Performances. In addition to his is a native of Maine, but now calls the Big work with K+C, Brandon also dances with Apple his home. Zackery received his B.F.A. Schoen Movement Company. in Dance with a concentration in Jazz from Marymount Manhattan College and while KILE HOTCHKISS (Dancer) was born in Half studying, performed works by Twyla Tharp, Moon Bay, CA, and trained with Bruce Alan Emery LeCrone, Larry Keigwin and Cherice Ewing in Oak Ridge, TN. He later studied at Barton. Zackery performs and choreographs Joffrey Ballet School, The Ailey School, and with his husband for N Squared Dance LINES Ballet School. Kile received his BFA Company and also works for Tami Stronach from the Ailey/Fordham Program in 2010. Dance in Brooklyn. He was a guest artist for He enjoys teaching and presenting his own KEIGWIN + CO for Keigwin Kabaret 2014 choreography across the country. Kile joined and performed Exit Like An Animal at the KEIGWIN + COMPANY in 2011 and has Joyce Theatre 2015. Zackery is excited to be also danced with TAKE Dance and skybetter working with KEIGWIN + CO! & associates. He is thankful for the love and support from family and friends. KACIE BOBLITT (Dancer) was born and raised in Houston, Texas, where she began GINA IANNI (Dancer), a native of St.