Adamantine/Frame Dances

Wednesday, June 15-18, 2011 WED-FRI at 8pm | SAT at 5pm Frederick Iseman Theater 1156 Chapel Street, New Haven

ARTISTS Elton Bradman Project Credits: Susan Marshall & Company Choreography: Susan Marshall in collaboration with The Company ABOUT THE Lighting Design: PROGRAM Mark Stanley Scenic Design & Fabrication: Jeremy Lydic ADAMANTINE Costume Design: Olivera Gajic Adamantine dwells at the Sound Design: Jane Shaw intersection of dance, sound design, Original Score: Peter Whitehead visual art, and theater, the exposed Video Design & Projections: stage itself becomes a sonic Ryan Holsopple performance instrument as the Installation Lighting Design: amplified sounds of its workings blend Mark Stanley with the original score created and Costumes: Mary Kokie McNaugher performed live by composer Peter Stage Management: Lauren Parrish Whitehead. Performers are continually constrained by limits imposed by the Commissioned by Peak Performances @ shifting stage machinery and by the Montclair World Premiere lighting which, at times, narrows to Performance of ADAMANTINE March 26, 2009 at the Alexander Kasser Theater. mere pools or shafts. In this unpredictable environment the Score and live musical performance for ADA- dancers move with fierce violence and MANTINE commissioned by the Charles & Joan luxurious abandon. Revolving around Gross Family Foundation. contrasts – this dance juxtaposes light Susan Marshall & Company gratefully acknowl- and dark, freedom and constraint, edges receiving generous support for the shadow and reflection, formal and development of informal, joy and difficulty. Adamantine from: Altria Group, Inc. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Dancers: Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Kristen Hollinsworth, Luke H. Miller, Foundation Petra van Noort, Joseph Poulson, Joseph & Joan Cullman Foundation for the Ildiko Toth, Darrin Michael Wright Arts Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation Musicians: The Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation Peter Whitehead Harkness Foundation for Dance 47

International Festival of Arts & Ideas Adamantine/Frame Dances Lila Acheson Wallace Theater Fund. United States, Europe and Japan. Established in The New York International festivals at which the Community Trust by the founders of The Reader’s Digest Association company has performed include O.P. and W.E. Edwards Foundation the Edinburgh International Festival, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the National Endowment for the Arts Festival International de Nouvelle New York State Council on the Arts, a state Danse in Montreal, Spoleto Festival, agency the Los Angeles Festival, Vienna Tanz, SpringDanse (The Netherlands), the FRAME DANCES inaugural NY City Center Fall For Direction and Choreography by Dance Festival, and, most frequently, Susan Marshall in collaboration with Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next the Company Frame Dances is a video Wave Festival. Members of Susan installation that features dances creat- Marshall & Company premiered and ed and filmed within confined, framed toured in Les Enfants Terribles, a spaces. Marshall & Company combine dance/opera choreographed and dance and video to create metaphoric directed by Marshall in and fantastical worlds which straddle collaboration with composer Philip the line between visual art and dance. Glass and produced by International Audiences move freely through the Production Associates. Les Enfants space making choices about how they traveled to thirty-six cities in Europe view the various pieces. The Festival and the United States. In the early audience may choose to view Frame 1990s, Arts America sponsored a Dances before or after the live five-week tour of the company to performance of Adamantine. Eastern Europe, Cyprus and Turkey, Accompanying original score is by and Alive From Off Center Peter Whitehead. commissioned the creation of the film Contenders from the company. Designers: Including the BESSIE award given in Video Design & Projections: 2006 for the creation of Cloudless, Ryan Holsopple Marshall, her artistic collaborators and Composer: Peter Whitehead company members have received a Original Video & Projection Design: total of ten New York Dance and Roderick Murray Performance Awards (BESSIES) for Cast: their artistic achievements. Kristen Hollinsworth, Luke H. Miller, Petra van Noort, Joseph Poulson, Ildiko Toth, Darrin Michael Wright ABOUT SUSAN

Commissioning Credits: MARSHALL Susan Marshall has created over 40 Frame Dances is commissioned by dances in collaboration with the Peak Performances @ Montclair dancers of Susan Marshall & With additional commissioning and Company. Since 1985, the company residency support by Music has performed in many venues Theater Group. including international festivals such as Edinburgh International Festival, ABOUT THE Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the COMPANY Festival International de Nouvelle Danse, Spoleto Festival, the Los Susan Marshall & Company has Angeles Festival, Vienna Tanz, NY City performed the work of Artistic Center Fall For Dance Festival, and, Director/Choreographer Susan most frequently, Brooklyn Academy of Marshall in theaters throughout the Music’s Next Wave Festival. 48 International Festival of Arts & Ideas

Marshall has also created dances for as in theatre she design for dance the Lyon Opera Ballet, Frankfurt and film. Her regional: Long Wharf Ballet, and Boston Ballet. Recently, Theatre, Two River; Riverside Theatre; Marshall provided the stage Playmakers Repertory Company; direction for “Book of Longing” by Theatre Works; American Stage.. Philip Glass and for the music As well as in theatre she design for ensembles Eight Blackbird and Bang dance. Her dance credits include on a Can’s Asphalt Orchestra. A 2000 Senior Dance Production, Juilliard recipient of a MacArthur fellowship, School, LKB-Dance, Company XIV and Marshall has received many awards Tami Stronach Dance. Olivera comes including three New York Dance and from Serbia where she designed the Performance Awards (BESSIES) for costumes for theater and film. She is Outstanding Choreographic maintaining her international career Achievement. Marshall began as trough exhibits and experimental Director of Dance at Princeton theater work. She has been part of University’s Lewis Center for the Arts the US National Exhibit at the 2004 in September 2009. & 2007 Prague Quadrennial. She is 2004 recipient of the NEA/TCG CDP BIOGRAPHIES for Designers. Elton Bradman (Musician) – is a Kristen Hollinsworth (Dancer) has percussionist, bassist, and collaborated with Susan Marshall & drummer who has worked with the Company since 1994. She has San Francisco Mime Troupe, restaged a number of Marshall’s world-music pioneer Jai Uttal, dances including the aerial duet Kiss world-renowned tabla artist Suphala, for Pacific Northwest Ballet. In NYC beatbox/loop phenom Kid Beyond, Kristen has worked with Doug Varone, San Francisco’s New Pickle Circus, Tami Stronach, Cherylyn Lavagnino, acoustic rock/soul queen Sparlha Nina Winthrop, Monica Gillette, and in Swa, and Polish Hare Krishna reggae San Francisco with Cheryl band Village of Peace, among others. Chaddick, Della Davidson, and Lea He has been an editor at Bass Player, Wolf. She danced with the editor-in-chief of Guitar World’s Bass Metropolitan Opera from 1998- 2008 Guitar magazine, and a freelance in numerous productions. Her own editor for Rolling Stone, Vibe, and the work has been presented in Cape City of New York. Cod, San Francisco , and New York at Dancespace Project, Dancenow Olivera Gajic (Costume Design) God’s Festival, the Flea Theater, and Joyce Ear (Vineyard Theatre) The Greeks; Soho. Kristen is the tour manager Edward II (The Juilliard School-drama) and residency coordinator for Susan A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Le Marshall & Company. Comte Ory (The Juilliard Ryan Holsopple (Projections) School-opera); Chekhov Lizardbrain associate projections designer with (Pig Iron); Uncle VanjaPlatonov (On designer William Cusick on The Clean Lake Lucille); The Necklace (Talking House and The Coast of Utopia at Band Production); Journey to the end Lincoln Center Theater and Arjuna?s of the night; Wonderland (The Flying Dilemma, BAM Next Wave 2008. Machine); Miss Julie Projections design for Smudge at The (Rattlestick); One Million Butterflies Women’s Project. The projections and (Primary Stages). Olivera designs sound designer for 31 Down, including extensively for the Berkshire Theatre 2010’s RED OVER RED. Festival Connecticut Repertory Theatre and Juilliard School. As well Jeremy Lydic (Scenic Design and 49 International Festival of Arts & Ideas

Fabrication) is an interdisciplinary also performed in the work of Eun Me theater artist working, in equal Ahn, Keely Garfield, Molissa Fenley measures, as designer, director, writer, and currently in the companies of performer, and craftsman. Lydic Yanira Castro and Neil Greenberg. He operates a Props Design/Fabrication performed in the ’07 reconstruction studio (Lydic!Design) in Brooklyn of Martha Clarke’s Garden of Earthly where he recently fabricated custom Delights and acted as choreographic pieces for the Broadway premiere of assistant in it’s ’08 Off-Broadway Reasons to Be Pretty. Other recent restaging. His work has been shown clients include The New Group, at many venues throughout New Primary Stages, David Gordon/Pick up York City including The Joyce SoHo, Performance Company, MCC Theater, WAX, Galapagos, The Flea Theater, Atlantic Theater Company, and 59E59 M Shanghai and The Roxy.In the play Theaters. Previously, Lydic worked as Madama Fortuna, written/directed Associate Prop Master at The Public by Antonio Rodriguez and presented Theater/New York Shakespeare by Dixon Place at Chasama, Luke Festival, where he engineered and portrayed the role of BunnyTeddy and built Mother Courage’s wagon in Tony choreographed the production. He Kushner’s adaptation, starring Meryl co-directed and choreographed the Streep. There he built countless other play The Pet Goat with writer Brian props, large and small, for over 25 Boyles at WAX and performed as Ron productions, including Caroline or Reagan Jr. in Taylor Mac’s The Lily’s Change, and Passing Strange. He has Revenge. In film, he worked with worked as Prop Master for Primary David Neuman in the making of the Stages, Bard Summerscape Festival, WB production I Am Legend. The New Group, LAByrinth, Classic Stage Company, MCC Theater, and Lauren Parrish (Stage Manager) Naked Angles, amongst many Lauren holds a B.A. in dance from others. He worked as scenic designer Sarah Lawrence College. She has been of the premiere production of Noemie lighting shows and stage managing LaFrance’s Agora at the McCarren shows in New York City since 2006, Park Pool. Jeremy is the Artistic and touring domestically and Director of semi:theater, and a internationally since 2008. She has founding member of The stage-managed for Battleworks, Internationalists. Stephen Petronio Company, Misnomer Dance Theater, Keigwin + Co., and Luke Miller (Dancer), originally from TAKE Dance. Her lighting design has Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, studied been seen at the Ontological- dance at NYU’s Tisch school of the Hysteric Theater, The Chocolate Arts. He joined Susan Marshall & Factory, Symphony Space, Dance Company in 2003 and has since Theater Workshop, and the collaborated in the making of Sleeping Neo-Futurarium in Chicago. Lauren Beauty and Other Stories, Cloudless, is the Technical Director of the New Sawdust Palace and Frame Dances. York Neo-Futurists, the Production From repertory he performs Kiss, Manager and Lighting Designer for Arms and Fields of View. Luke has set the DanceNOW NYC Festival, and the the company’s work on students at production manager for Youth Wittenberg University, University of America Grand Prix. Lauren is very Wisconsin Steven’s Point, NYU’s Tisch excited to be working with Susan School of the Arts and has staged Marshall & Company. repertory on professional companies including Dance Alloy, Hubbard Street Joseph Poulson (Dancer) is from and Pacific Northwest Ballet. Luke has Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and 50 International Festival of Arts & Ideas graduated from the University of Iowa repertory including works for Peter with a degree in Dance. He has had Martins, Christopher Wheeldon, Susan the pleasure of working with many Stroman, Alexei Ratmansky, William different choreographers and dancers Forsythe, Kevin O’Day, Christopher while living in New York City. Joe was D’Amboise, Ulysses Dove, and many a member of David Dorfman Dance others. In addition, he has designed from 2001-2008 and continues to David Gordon, Doug Varone, Tim make new works with Terry Creach, Rushton, Nicolo Fonte, Lynn Taylor Bill Young and Colleen Thomas, Yanira Corbett, and numerous ballet Castro, Jeanine Durning and Susan companies across Europe and the Marshall. He has recently been on USA. Mr. Stanley previously served as Faculty at the University of Maryland Resident Designer for the New York and will be a Guest Artist in Residence City Opera, lighting over 20 new and Bennington College in the spring productions for the resident and of ‘09. His choreography has been touring companies. He has designed presented in New York City, plays for The Kennedy Center, The Washington D.C. and Vermont. Huntington Theatre Co., Long Wharf, The Ordway, Goodspeed, The Night Jane Shaw (Sound Design) Previously Kitchen Theater and on PBS for “Live with Susan Marshall: Cloudless, from Lincoln Center” and “Great Sawdust Palace, Other Stories, Performances”. Mr. Stanley heads the Sleeping Beauty. Off Broadway: lighting design program at Boston Hamlet, Merchant of Venice (TFANA/ University, is on the board of the RSC/National Tour), The Coward Gilbert Hemlsey Lighting Programs, (Lincoln Center 3), Wife to James and is the author of The Color of Light Whelan, Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd Workbook. (Mint), The Sneeze (The Pearl), Liberty City (NYTW), among others. Off-off Ildikó Tóth (Dancer) is from Germany, Broadway: The Wonder (Queen’s graduated from Rotterdam Dance Company), Rise and Fall of Annie Hall, Academy in the Netherlands, and CROOKED (Women’s Project), moved to New York City in 2005. Sounding (HERE), Septimus and She currently enjoys working with Bill Clarissa (Ripe Time/Red Bull). Dance: Young/Colleen Thomas and Dancers, Big Dance Theater (collaboration for and has had the pleasure of dancing over 12 years, Bessie Award, 2010), with Kota Yamazaki and Jimena Paz, Terry Creach, Koosil-ja, David among others. Dorfman. Regional theater includes: Denver Center Theatre Company, City Petra van Noort (Dancer) is a native Theater (Pittsburgh), Capital Rep of The Netherlands. She studied ballet (Albany), Yale Repertory, Dorset at Dansacademie Brabant (BA) and Theater Festival, Merrimack Repertory modern dance at Rotterdam Dance Theatre. Recipient: NEA-TCG Career Academy. She first came to NYC with Development Grant, Meet the a VSB grant in 1994. She danced in Composer. Nominations: Lortel, Holland for, most notably, Wies Merkx Connecticut Critics Circle. Graduate of (Dansend Hart) and Herman van Veen Harvard and Yale School of Drama. (Columbine Danstheater). The desire to dance for a company with a Mark Stanley (Lighting Design) has theatrical nature led her to move to collaborated with Susan Marshall since NYC in 1997 to join Jennifer Muller/ 1994. He is currently the Resident THE WORKS. This adventure Lighting Designer for the New York continued when she joined Susan City Ballet where since 1986, he has Marshall & Company in 2000. Since designed over 190 premieres for their 2004 she is also a member of the 51 International Festival of Arts & Ideas

Tiffany Mills Company. In New York Internationally his work has been used she has additionally had the in over a dozen countries for pleasure of dancing for Mimi television & radio, and at home it has Garrard (on film), Isabel Gotzkowsky been featured frequently on NPR and Friends, Company Rindfleisch radio & PBS television. Currently he is and Leda Meredith, amongst others. working on a documentary series for Petra has taught dance technique and KQED television in San Francisco. His repertory classes for Susan Marshall music is available on Out of Round & Company, Tiffany Mills Company, Records, an independent label he Jennifer Muller/ THE WORKS and for co-founded in 2001. He has traveled Dansend Hart (NL) and has much extensively in South East Asia & North enjoyed assisting with the creation Africa, collecting music & of and also the re-staging of various instruments along the way. Originally Susan Marshall & Company repertory from England, he now divides his time on college and high school students between New York & San and soon also on fellow professionals Francisco. in Salt Lake City. Faith in ‘the powers of intention and human touch’ Darrin M. Wright (Dancer) Darrin M. continues to inspire her to study and Wright is a native of Los Angeles, share the amazing benefits of California where he started tap Reflexology, Metamorphosis and dancing at the age of six. His early Prana Yoga in private practice. She training began with Ian Gary, Janet likes to thank her colleagues for Roston and Rudy Perez. In 1997, sharing the crazy catalytic struggles Darrin joined the Bella Lewitzky Dance and unpredictable journeys of Company as part of its farewell tour. creation, thanks to Susan and thanks He received his BFA in dance from the to my family and Marc for your faith, University of Illinois, Urbana- love and support! Champaign in 2002. Since graduation, Darrin has had the Peter Whitehead (Composer/ pleasure of working with Susan Musician) is a composer, performer, Marshall, Terry Creach, Bill Young/ songwriter and instrument builder. He Colleen Thomas, Yanira Castro, Jack creates scores for film and dance and Ferver, Tami Stronach, Amber Sloan, performs solo work using a variety of Jane Comfort, Linsey Bostwick and homemade sound sources, plus an Nina Winthrop. He received a 2010 array of more conventional Bessie Award for Yanira Castro’s Dark instruments, electronic keyboards and Horse/Black Forest. Darrin teaches sampling. He was a founder member master classes in technique, composi- of Mobius Operandi a multi-media tion and improvisation throughout performance group known for its the country. Currently Darrin lives in large scale, sight specific events. He Brooklyn, New York. is also a member of Closer To Carbon, a trio featuring electronic, acoustic & This project has been made toy instruments. In the Dance world possible by the National he has made music for Mikhail Endowment for the Arts as Baryshnikov, Susan Marshall & part of “American Master- Company, Anna Halprin, Charles pieces: Three Centuries of Moulton and has had a long Artistic Genius.” association with Sarah Shelton Mann & Contraband. In the Film world he has made music for a number of independent directors including Matt Dillon & Ralph Arlick. 52