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BAM 2015 Winter/Spring Season #Sufjan Brooklyn Academy of Music Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board Karen Brooks Hopkins, President Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer Round-Up Sufjan Stevens Yarn/Wire BAM Harvey Theater Jan 20—25 at 7:30pm Running time: one hour and 15 minutes, no intermission Season Sponsor: Viacom is the BAM 2015 Music Sponsor The Steinberg Screen at the BAM Harvey Theater is made possible by The Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Charitable Trust Major support for Round-Up provided by The Frederick Loewe Foundation Major support for music at BAM provided by: Frances Bermanzohn & Alan Roseman Pablo J. Salame Round-Up FILM Director, Composer Sufjan Stevens Cinematographer Aaron Craig Cinematographer Alex Craig Co-Producer Lisa Moran Co-Producer We Are Films COMPANY Sound Mix Dan Bora Lighting Seth Reiser Stage Manager Mary-Sue Gregson Production Management Lisa Moran Live Projection & Design Josh Higgason Round-Up was filmed at the Pendleton Round-Up in eastern Oregon, September, 2013. Additional footage was shot in Brooklyn and upstate New York, July 2014. Courtesy We Are Films Courtesy We Are Films Who’s Who SUFJAN STEVENS was born in Detroit and WE ARE FILMS raised in northern Michigan. He attended Hope Alex and Aaron Craig discovered their passion for College in Holland, MI, and the masters program filmmaking in their early teens. With camcord- for writers at the New School for Social Research ers in hand, willing neighbors as actors, and the in New York City. He currently lives in Brooklyn. railroad tracks behind their family home in Rich- ardson, TX as the backdrop, the Craig brothers YARN/WIRE is a New York-based percussion pursued their burgeoning craft, dreaming of one and piano quartet comprising Ian Antonio and day getting their films onto the big screen. After Russell Greenberg, percussion, and Laura Barger high school, Aaron and Alex parted to pursue and Ning Yu, pianos. Noted for their “spellbind- their passions separately and eventually reunited ing virtuosity” and “restlessly curious” (Time Out in New York City and have never looked back. NY) programming, the ensemble is admired for From music videos, to documentaries, to brand- the energy and precision it brings to performanc- ed content, Alex and Aaron, under the banner es of today’s most adventurous music. Founded of We Are Films, have developed an impressive in 2005, Yarn/Wire is dedicated to expanding the portfolio of visually stimulating and thought- repertoire written for its instrumentation, through provoking work. Their most notable artistic commissions and collaborative initiatives that partnership is with Asthmatic Kitty Records. The aim to build a new and lasting body of work. In- brothers have crafted stunning music videos for fluenced by its members’ experiences with clas- a variety of artists on the label including Sufjan sical music, avant-garde theater, and rock music, Stevens, The Welcome Wagon, My Brightest the ensemble champions a varied and probing Diamond, and DM Stith. Other notable collabora- repertoire. Yarn/Wire appears nationally at promi- tions include Son Lux and Widowspeak and nent festivals and venues including New York’s documentaries in Iceland, Colombia, Ireland, Miller Theatre, River-to-River Festival, La MaMa and Alaska. Between the early days of indie ETC, and the Festival of New American Music. filmmaking in Dallas and professional work in Its new and ongoing series, Yarn|Wire|Currents, New York lie years of 100% pure artistic hustle. serves as an incubator for new experimental We Are Films has built its reputation in the in- music at ISSUE Project Room in Brooklyn. dustry one project at a time, combing a raw and yarnwire.org unrestrained visual approach with hard work, camaraderie, and attention to detail. The Craig Brothers are continuing their journey with music videos and documentaries, as well as a feature film currently in development. wearefilmsny.com Who’s Who SETH REISER (lighting design) in New York the Beach and Wilson’s The Life and Death of City has worked on Come and Back Again with Marina Abramovic. Bora’s live mixing and sound David Dorfman Dance at BAM; St. Matthew design have been praised as “deft,” “provocative Passion (Berlin Philharmonic/Park Ave Armory); and even poignant…” (The New York Times). Winners at Ensemble Studio Theater; Uncle Vanya at Pearl Theater Company; The Mysteries MARY-SUSAN GREGSON (stage manager) at the Flea; The Bad Guys at Second Stage; The has stage managed more than 25 productions Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs at The Pub- for the New Victory Theater beginning with the lic Theatre; the Obie Award-winning production Opening Celebration; she also opened the New of The Lily’s Revenge at HERE Arts; and Reggie 42nd season production coordinating for Lincoln Watts and Tommy Smith’s Radio Play at PS 122. Center Festival including the Anne Teresa De Regional theater projects include at the venues Keersmaeker retrospective, The Peony Pavilion, Syracuse Stage, Two River Theatre Company, The Druid, and Harold Pinter, Brian Friel, and Portland Center Stage, Trinty Repertory, Berkeley Beckett Festivals. At BAM: the 35th DanceA- Repertory, Seattle Repertory, Denver Center The- frica, Sizwe Bansi Is Dead, Tan Dun’s The Gate, atre Company, On the Boards, Woolly Mammoth, Sufjan Steven’s BQE, and The Ambassador. New American Repertory Theatre, and Playmakers York events include 24-Hour Play Festival, New Repertory, among others. Reiser received his Island Festival on Governor’s Island, Divina- MFA from NYU/Tisch. sethreiserdesign.com mente Festival, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, The Prince and The Pauper, The Jazz Nativity, DAN BORA (sound mix), a producer, engineer, Breaking the Code, and Les Liaisons Dangere- and sound designer of albums, film scores, and uses. For NJPAC: TD Moody Democracy of Jazz live sound, has worked with Marina Abramovic, Festival, line producer for NJ Hall of Fame. Antony, Philip Glass, Howard Shore, Nico Muhly, Regional: Princeton Lewis Center for the Arts and groups such as Alarm Will Sound, Kronos Dance Festivals, Montclair Peak Performances, Quartet, the Magnetic Fields, and Matmos. His McCarter Theatre, Yale Rep, Williamstown credits include the Academy Award-winning Theater Festival, Mass MoCA, The Huntington, Fog of War, the Academy Award-nominated The and the White House. Tours: Dance Theatre of Illusionist, Notes on a Scandal, The Reader, Harlem, Elisa Monte, Jennifer Muller, Pilobolus, Woody Allen’s Cassandra’s Dream, as well as the and Forbidden Christmas. revival of Robert Wilson/Philip Glass’ Einstein on Who’s Who LISA MORAN (production manager), principal of JOSHUA HIGGASON (video design) has recently The Art Counsel, specializes in performing arts designed for Radiolab’s Apocalyptical tour (video projects and artist management. A frequent col- and scenic for Workhorse Design Co; WNYC); laborator with Sufjan Stevens, she has facilitated Platonov; Or the Disinherited (video and scenic; projects from concept to completion including The Kitchen and La Jolla Playhouse); Powder national and international tours for Stevens’ Her Face (video; New York City Opera); Ich, albums Age of Adz, Illinois, Michigan, and Seven Kurbisgeist (video; Big Dance Theater); Sontag: Swans, as well as his multi-media cinematic Reborn (scenic; Builders Association); World suite, The BQE, which went on to win the of Wires (video and lighting; The Kitchen, Brendan Gill Prize from the New York Munici- Poland tour, France tour, ICA Boston); and Bel- pal Arts Society in 2008. Moran also manages lona—Destroyer of Cities (video; The Kitchen, Juno-nominated singer-songwriter Basia Bulat. France, ICA), among others. Higgason was video She is a member of the artistic committee for the engineer for Planetarium (BAM; Sufjan Stevens, annual Tibet House benefit concert at Carnegie Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner; designer: Deborah Hall, which is chaired by Philip Glass. Her Johnson for Candystations); Sufjan Stevens’ Age previous productions at BAM include Ethel’s of Adz (European tour; designer: Candystations). Documerica (2013), Kaleo LaBelle’s Beyond He has taught interactive media workshops at This Place (2011), BAM Takeover (2008), and Princeton, Duke, NYU, Bennington, and LIU: the aforementioned The BQE (2007). MFA..
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