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2015 // 16 SEASON

Northrop Presents MARK MORRIS GROUP AND MUSIC ENSEMBLE Wed, Mar 30, 7:30 pm Carlson Family Stage

DIDO AND AENEAS Dear Friends of Northrop, Northrop at the University of Minnesota Presents I count myself lucky that I’ve been able to see a number of Mark Morris Dance Group’s performances over the years—a couple of them here at Northrop in the 90s, and many more in New York as far back as the 80s and as recently as last MARK MORRIS year. Aside from the shocking realization of how quickly time flies, I also realized that the reason I am so eager to see Mark Morris’ work is because it always leaves me with a feeling of DANCE GROUP joy and exhilaration. CHELSEA ACREE SAM BLACK DURELL R. COMEDY* RITA DONAHUE With a definite flair for the theatrical, and a marvelous ability DOMINGO ESTRADA, JR. LESLEY GARRISON LAUREN GRANT BRIAN LAWSON to tell a story through movement, Mark Morris has always AARON LOUX LAUREL LYNCH STACY MARTORANA DALLAS McMURRAY been able to make an audience laugh. While most refer to BRANDON RANDOLPH NICOLE SABELLA BILLY SMITH his “delicious wit,” others found his humor outrageous, and NOAH VINSON JENN WEDDEL MICHELLE YARD he earned a reputation as “the bad boy of .” *apprentice But, as New York Magazine points out, “Like , , Paul Taylor, and , Morris has Christine Tschida. Photo by Patrick O'Leary, gone from insurgent to icon.” MARK MORRIS, conductor University of Minnesota. The journey probably started when he was eight years old, MMDG MUSIC ENSEMBLE saw a performance by José Greco, and decided to become a Spanish dancer. As a teenager, he forsook college to travel to Spain in pursuit of that goal. By the early 80s, he had his own 10-member dance troupe VOCAL SOLOISTS in New York—affectionately referred to by a former director as “the youth and pea-soup collective”—that MARGUERITE KRULL, soprano won acclaim after their first Next Wave Festival appearance in 1984. After earning commissions from SHEREZADE PANTHAKI, soprano major companies, winning a Guggenheim award, and choreographing some of his most acclaimed JAMIE VAN EYCK, mezzo-soprano and enduring works during his three-year stint as the director of dance of the Théâtre Royal de la JASON WEISINGER, tenor Monnaie in Brussels, Morris started looking less like a “bad boy” and more like the heir apparent to DOUGLAS WILLIAMS, baritone .

By 2001, after choreographing more than 100 works, Morris opened a brand-new cultural institution in Artistic Director Brooklyn bearing his name—just across the street from where his original company made their Next Wave MARK MORRIS Festival debut in 1984. It’s been 15 years since those Brooklyn studios opened, and 11 years since Mark Morris Dance Group has performed at Northrop—time flies, indeed! Executive Director NANCY UMANOFF Tonight, our presentation of Dido and Aeneas (created in Belgium in 1989) captures the dramatic narrative of Purcell’s opera through Morris’ movement. We share the choreographer’s commitment to live music, and are delighted to have a full orchestra, chorus, and soloists to share their vibrant presentation Major support for the Mark Morris Dance Group is provided by American Express, Anonymous, Sarabeth Berman and Evan Osnos, of this beautiful music with you. Thank you for being here! Morley and Frederick Bland, Allan and Bufferd, Cohen and Mark Selinger, Suzy Kellems Dominik, Duke Charitable Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation of Islamic Art, Judith R. and Alan H. Fishman, Shelby and Frederick Gans, The Howard Gilman Foundation, Sandy Hill, Ellsworth Kelly Foundation, The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, Suzanne Berman and Timothy J. McClimon, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Meyer Sound/Helen and John Meyer, Isaac Mizrahi & Arnold Germer, New England Foundation for the Arts, Sincerely, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Ellen and Arnold Offner, PARC Foundation, Poss Family Foundation, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The SHS Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Diane Solway and David Resnicow, Jane Stine and R.L. Stine, The White Cedar Fund, and Friends of MMDG.

The Mark Morris Dance Group is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Council Member Helen Rosenthal, Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams, the New York City Department for the Aging, the New York State Christine Tschida Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Director of Northrop

NEXT UP AT NORTHROP: Our season finale! presents a program of Balanchine classics plus a new work by , all accompanied by a live orchestra. Don’t miss this sumptuous This presentation of Mark Morris Dance Group is made possible by the voters performance AND the announcement of the 2016//17 Northrop Dance season on April 27! of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund, and a grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation Minnesota.

Cover: Photo by Susana Millman. 2 3 DIDO AND AENEAS

Music by HENRY PURCELL (1689) Libretto by NAHUM TATE

Choreography by MARK MORRIS

Set Design by ROBERT BORDO Costume Design by CHRISTINE VAN LOON Lighting Design by JAMES F. INGALLS

MMDG Music Ensemble Conducted by MARK MORRIS

By order of appearance Dancers Singers Belinda MICHELLE YARD SHEREZADE PANTHAKI Dido LAUREL LYNCH JAMIE VAN EYCK Second Woman RITA DONAHUE MARGUERITE KRULL Aeneas DOMINGO ESTRADA, JR. DOUGLAS WILLIAMS Sorceress LAUREL LYNCH JAMIE VAN EYCK First Witch NOAH VINSON SHEREZADE PANTHAKI Second Witch DALLAS MCMURRAY MARGUERITE KRULL Sailor LAUREN GRANT JASON WEISINGER

Courtiers, Witches, Spirits, Sailors, and Conscience SAM BLACK, RITA DONAHUE, LESLEY GARRISON, LAUREN GRANT, AARON LOUX, STACY MARTORANA, DALLAS MCMURRAY, NOAH VINSON, JENN WEDDEL, MICHELLE YARD

Premiere: March 11, 1989 – Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Théâtre Varia, Brussels, Belgium

This evening’s program will be performed without an intermission.

Photo by Susana Millman. 4 5 SYNOPSIS LIBRETTO by Nahum Tate

Scene I. The Palace Overture SECOND WOMAN The Trojan war is over. Aeneas and his people have found themselves in Carthage after a treacherous sea What stubborn heart unmov’d could see voyage. His destiny, as decreed by the Gods, is to found Rome, but he has become obsessed with Dido, SCENE 1 Such distress, such piety? Queen of Carthage. Her sister and confidante, Belinda, and other optimistic courtiers urge her to enjoy her (The Palace. Enter Dido, Belinda and attendants.) good fortune, but the young widow Dido is anxious. Aeneas arrives to ask the Queen, again, to give herself DIDO to him. Belinda notices, with relief that Dido seems to be capitulating. Dido and Aeneas leave together. BELINDA Mine with storms of care oppress’d Love triumphs. Shake the cloud from off your brow, Is taught to pity the distress’d; Fate your wishes does allow; Mean wretches’ grief can touch Scene 2. The Cave Empire growing, pleasures flowing, So soft, so sensible my breast, The evil Sorceress summons her colleagues to make big trouble in Carthage. Dido must be destroyed Fortune smiles and so should you. But ah! I fear I pity his too much. before sunset. Knowing of Aeneas’ destiny to sail to Italy, the Sorceress decides to send a Spirit disguised as to tell him he must depart immediately. Since Dido and Aeneas and the rest are out on a hunt, CHORUS BELINDA and SECOND WOMAN the witches plan to make a storm to spoil the lovers’ fun and send everyone back home. The witches cast Banish sorrow, banish care, Fear no danger to ensue, their spell. Grief should ne’er approach the fair. The hero loves as well as you. Ever gentle, ever smiling, Scene 3. The Grove DIDO And the cares of life beguiling Dido and Aeneas make love. Another triumph for the hero. The royal party enters and tells a story for Ah! Belinda, I am press’d Cupids strew your paths with flowers Aeneas’ benefit. Dido senses the approaching storm. Belinda, ever practical, organizes the trip back to the With torment not to be confess’d. Gather’d from Elysian bowers. palace. Aeneas is accosted by the false Mercury with this command: “Leave Carthage Now.” He accepts his Peace and I are strangers grown. orders, then wonders how to break the news to Dido. He is worried. I languish till my grief is known, CHORUS Yet would not have it guess’d. Fear no danger to ensue Scene 4. The Ships The hero loves as well as you. Aeneas and the Trojans prepare for the journey. The Sorceress and her witches are quite pleased to see BELINDA Ever gentle, ever smiling, that their plot is working. Once Aeneas has sailed they will conjure an ocean storm. They are proud of Grief increases by concealing. And the cares of life beguiling. themselves. Cupids strew your paths with flowers DIDO Gather’d from Elysian bowers. Scene 5. The Palace Mine admits of no revealing. Dido sees the Trojans preparing their ships. Aeneas tries to explain his predicament and offers to break his Dance vow in order to stay with her. Dido is appalled by his hypocrisy. She sends him away and contemplates the BELINDA (Æneas enters with his train) inevitability of death. “Remember me but forget my fate.” Dido dies. Then let me speak; the Trojan guest Into your tender thoughts has press’d. BELINDA See, your royal guest appears; SECOND WOMAN How godlike is the form he bears! The greatest blessing Fate can give, Our Carthage to secure, and Troy revive. ÆNEAS When, royal fair, shall I be bless’d, CHORUS With cares of love and state distress’d? When monarchs unite, how happy their state; They triumph at once o’er their foes and their fate. DIDO Fate forbids what you pursue. DIDO Whence could so much virtue spring? ÆNEAS What storms, what battles did he sing? Æneas has no fate but you! Anchises’ valor mix’d with ’ charms, Let Dido smile, and I’ll defy How soft in peace, and yet how fierce in arms. The feeble stroke of Destiny.

BELINDA CHORUS A tale so strong and full of woe Cupid only throws the dart Might melt the rocks, as well as you. That’s dreadful to a warrior’s heart, And she that wounds can only cure the smart. 6 7 ÆNEAS SCENE 2 CHORUS SCENE 3 If not for mine, for empire’s sake. (The Cave. Enter Sorceress) Ho, ho, ho, etc. Ritornelle Some pity on your lover take; (The Grove. Enter Æneas, Dido, Belinda and their Ah! make not in a hopeless fire Prelude for the Witches FIRST and SECOND WITCHES train) A hero fall, and Troy once more expire. But ere we this perform SORCERESS We’ll conjure for a storm. BELINDA BELINDA Wayward sisters, you that fright To mar their hunting sport, Thanks to these lonesome vales, Pursue thy conquest, Love - her eyes The lonely traveler by night, And drive ‘em back to court. These desert hills and dales, Confess the flame her tongue denies. Who like dismal ravens crying So fair the game, so rich the sport Beat the windows of the dying, CHORUS Diana’s self might to these woods resort. CHORUS Appear at my call, and share in the fame. In our deep vaulted cell. To the hills and the vales, Of a mischief shall make all Carthage flame. The charm we’ll prepare, CHORUS To the rocks and the mountains, Appear! Appear! Appear! Appear! Too dreadful a practice Thanks to these lonesome vales, To the musical groves, and the cool shady fountains for this open air. These desert hills and dales, Let the triumphs of love and of beauty be shown. (Enter witches) So fair the game, so rich the sport Go revel ye Cupids, the day is your own. Dance of Furies Diana’s self might to these woods resort. FIRST WITCH The Triumphing Dance Say, Beldame, what’s thy will? SECOND WOMAN Oft she visits this lone mountain, CHORUS Oft she bathes her in this fountain. Harm’s our delight and mischief all our skill. Here, Actæon met his fate, Pursued by his own hounds; SORCERESS And after mortal wounds, The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate, Discover’d too late As we do all in prosp’rous state, Here Actæon met his fate. Ere sunset shall most wretched prove, Depriv’d of fame, of life and love. (A dance to entertain Æneas by Dido’s women) CHORUS Ho, ho, ho, etc. ÆNEAS FIRST and SECOND WITCHES Behold, upon my bending spear Ruin’d ere the set of sun? A monster’s head stands bleeding Tell us, how shall this be done? With tushes [tusks] far exceeding Those did Venus’ huntsman tear. SORCERESS The Trojan Prince you know is bound DIDO By Fate to seek Italian ground; The skies are clouded: The Queen and he are now in chase, Hark! How thunder Rends the mountain oaks asunder! FIRST WITCH Hark! Hark! The cry comes on apace! BELINDA Haste to town! this open field SORCERESS No shelter from the storm can yield But when they’ve done, my trusty elf, Haste to town! In form of Mercury himself, As sent from Jove, shall chide his stay, And charge him sail tonight with all his fleet away.

8 9 CHORUS SCENE 4 The Witches Dance for ‘tis enough, what e’er you now decree, Haste to town! This open field (The Ships) That you had once a thought of leaving me. No shelter from the storm can yield (Jack of the Lanthorn leads the Sailors out of Haste to town! SAILOR their way among the Witches) ÆNEAS Come away, fellow sailors, your anchors be Let Jove say what he please, I’ll stay! (The Spirit of the Sorceress descends to weighing, (Enter Dido, Belinda and women) Æneas in the likeness of Mercury) Time and tide will admit no delaying; DIDO Take a boozy short leave of your on the DIDO Away, away! SPIRIT shore, Your counsel all is urg’d in vain, Stay, Prince, and hear great Jove’s command: And silence their mourning To earth and heaven I will complain; ÆNEAS He summons thee this night away. With vows of returning, To earth and heaven why do I call? No, no, I’ll stay and Love obey. But never intending to visit them more. Earth and heaven conspire my fall. ÆNEAS To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, DIDO Tonight? CHORUS The only refuge for the wretched left. No, no, away, away, Come away, fellow sailors, your anchors be To Death I’ll fly SPIRIT weighing BELINDA If longer you delay. Tonight thou must forsake this land; Time and tide will admit no delaying; See, madam, see where Prince appears! Away, Away! The angry god will brook no longer stay. Take a boozy short leave of your nymphs on the Such sorrow in his look he bears Jove commands thee, waste no more shore, As would convince you still he’s true. (Exit Æneas) In love’s delights those precious hours And silence their mourning Allow’d by th’almighty powers With vows of returning, ÆNEAS But Death alas! I cannot shun; To gain th’Hesperian shore But never intending to visit them more. What shall lost Æneas do? Death must come when he is gone. And ruin’d Troy restore. How, royal fair, shall I impart The Sailor’s Dance The god’s decree, and tell you we must part? CHORUS ÆNEAS (Enter Sorceress and Witches) Great minds against themselves conspire, Jove’s commands shall be obey’d; DIDO And shun the cure they most desire. Tonight our anchors shall be weigh’d. SORCERESS Thus on fatal banks of the Nile But ah! What language can I try, See, see the flags and streamers curling, Weeps the deceitful crocodile; DIDO My injur’d Queen to pacify? Anchors weighing, sails unfurling. Thus hypocrites that murder act Thy hand, Belinda; darkness shades me, No sooner she resigns her heart Make heav’n and gods the authors of the fact! On thy bosom let me rest; But from her arms I’m forc’d to part. FIRST and SECOND WITCHES More I would but Death invades me; How can so hard a fate be took? ’s pale deluding beams ÆNEAS Death is now a welcome guest. night enjoy’d, the next forsook. Gilding o’er deceitful streams. By all that’s good - When I am laid in earth, may my wrongs create Yours be the blame, ye gods! for I Our plot has took, No trouble in thy breast, Obey your will; but with more ease could die The Queen’s forsook! DIDO Remember me! But ah! forget my fate. Elissa’s ruin’d, ho, o, ho, etc. By all that’s good, no more! All that’s good you have forswore. (Cupids appear in the clouds o’er her tomb) SORCERESS To your promis’d empire fly, Our next motion And let forsaken Dido die. CHORUS Must be to storm her lover on the ocean. With drooping wings ye Cupids come, From the ruin of others our pleasures we borrow; ÆNEAS And scatter roses on her tomb. Elissa bleeds tonight, and Carthage flames In spite of Jove’s commands I’ll stay, Soft and gentle as her heart; tomorrow. Offend the gods, and love obey. Keep here your watch, and never part. (Cupid’s Dance) CHORUS DIDO Destruction’s our delight, No, faithless man, thy course pursue; FINIS Delight our greatest sorrow; I’m now resolv’d, as well as you. Elissa dies tonight, No repentance shall reclaim And Carthage flames tomorrow. The injur’d Dido’s slighted flame; Ho, ho, ho, etc. 10 11 ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Photo by Amber Star Merkens.

MARK MORRIS was born on August 29, 1956, in and has received twelve honorary doctorates The MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP was formed musicians, including cellist Yo-Yo , pianist , Washington, where he studied with Verla to date. He has taught at the University of in 1980 and gave its first performance that year in Emanuel Ax, mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe, and Flowers and Perry Brunson. In the early years of Washington, Princeton University, and Tanglewood New York City. The company’s touring schedule trio The Bad Plus, as well as leading orchestras his career, he performed with the companies of Music Center. He is a member of the American steadily expanded to include cities in the United and opera companies, including the Metropolitan , Hannah Kahn, Laura Dean, Eliot Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American States and around the world, and in 1986 it made Opera, English National Opera, and the London Feld, and the Koleda Balkan Dance Ensemble. He Philosophical Society, and has served as an its first national television program for the PBS Symphony Orchestra. MMDG frequently works formed the Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG) in Advisory Board Member for the Rolex Mentor and series Dance in America. In 1988, MMDG was with distinguished artists and designers, including 1980, and has since created close to 150 works for Protégé Arts Initiative. Morris has received the invited to become the national dance company painters Howard Hodgkin and Robert Bordo, set the company. From 1988 to 1991, he was Director Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival Award of Belgium, and spent three years in residence at designers Adrianne Lobel and Allen Moyer, costume of Dance at Brussels’ Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, for Lifetime Achievement, the Leonard Bernstein the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels. The designers Martin Pakledinaz and Isaac Mizrahi, and the national opera house of Belgium. In 1990, Lifetime Achievement Award for the Elevation of Dance Group returned to the United States in 1991 many others. MMDG’s film and television projects he founded the White Oak Dance Project with Music in Society, the Benjamin Franklin Laureate as one of the world’s leading dance companies. include Dido and Aeneas, The Hard Nut, Falling . Much in demand as a ballet Prize for Creativity, Cal Performances Award Based in Brooklyn, New York, MMDG maintains Down Stairs, two documentaries for the U.K.’s choreographer, Morris has created twenty of Distinction in the Performing Arts, and the strong ties to presenters in several cities around South Bank Show, and PBS’ Live From Lincoln Center. since 1986 and his work has been performed by Orchestra of St. Luke’s Gift of Music Award. In the world, most notably to its West Coast home, In 2015 Mark Morris’ signature work L’Allegro, il companies worldwide, including San Francisco 2015, Mark Morris was inducted into the Mr. and Cal Performances in Berkeley, California, and Penseroso ed il Moderato had its national television Ballet, , Ballet du Grand Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame its Midwest home, the Krannert Center for the premiere on PBS’ . While on Théâtre de Genève, and the Royal New Zealand at the National Museum of Dance in Saratoga Performing Arts at the University of Illinois at tour the Dance Group partners with local cultural Ballet. Noted for his , Morris has been Springs, New York. Morris opened the Mark Morris Urbana-Champaign. MMDG also appears regularly institutions and community organizations to described as “undeviating in his devotion to Dance Center in Brooklyn, New York, in 2001 to in New York, Boston, Seattle, and Fairfax. The present Access/MMDG, a program of arts and music” (The New Yorker). He began conducting provide a home for his company, rehearsal space company made its debut at the Mostly Mozart humanities-based activities for people of all ages performances for MMDG in 2006 and has since for the dance community, outreach programs for Festival in 2002 and at the Tanglewood Music and abilities. conducted at Tanglewood Music Center, Lincoln children and seniors, and a school offering dance Festival in 2003 and has since been invited to both Center, and BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music). classes to students of all ages and abilities. festivals annually. From the company’s many He served as Music Director for the 2013 Ojai London seasons, it has received two Laurence Music Festival. He also works extensively in opera, Olivier Awards and a Critics’ Award directing and choreographing productions for for Best Foreign Dance Company. Reflecting Morris’ the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, commitment to live music, the Dance Group has English National Opera, and The Royal Opera, featured live musicians in every performance since Covent Garden, among others. He was named the formation of the MMDG Music Ensemble in a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 1991 1996. MMDG regularly collaborates with renowned Photo by Hilary Scott. 12 13 ARTISTS' BIOGRAPHIES

The MMDG MUSIC ENSEMBLE, formed in 1996, and ABT) and Twyla Tharp’s 50th Anniversary Broadway shows, most recently performing in for PD®. He first appeared with MMDG in 2005 and is integral to the Dance Group. “With the dancers Tour (US and NY State Theatre). Recent design the Tony Award winning musical Jersey Boys. A became a company member in 2007. come the musicians…and what a difference it for opera includes the world premiere of Kaija seasoned church musician, Fowler is currently makes” (Classical Voice of North Carolina). The Saariaho’s Only the Sound Remains (Dutch National the organist at Marble Collegiate Church on Fifth DURELL R. COMEDY, a Ensemble’s repertory ranges from 17th century Opera) and Iolanta/ (Festival D’Aix-en- Avenue and also leads services and concerts at native of Prince Georges works by John Wilson and Henry Purcell to more Provence), both directed by Peter Sellars. Recent Park Avenue Synagogue, where he has served as County, Maryland, began recent scores by Lou Harrison and Henry Cowell. theatre designs include Desdemona, also directed Music Director since 2012. As a classical soloist dancing at the age of six The musicians also participate in Access/MMDG by Peter Sellars (UCLA/CAP, Melbourne and Sydney and collaborative artist, he has performed and with Spirit Wings Dance —the Dance Group’s educational and community Festivals) and DruidShakespeare, directed by Garry recorded with many world renowned musicians Company. He graduated programming at home and on the road. Hynes (Galway, Irish tour and Lincoln Center and ensembles, including Deborah Voigt and the from the Visual & Festival). He often collaborates with Melanie Rios Los Angeles Philharmonic. He began to collaborate Performing Arts program ROBERT BORDO (scenic design) is the recipient of Glaser and The Wooden Floor dancers in Santa Ana, with the Mark Morris Dance Group in 2005 and of Suitland High School in the 2014 , Sr. Painting Award. He California. has since then performed over 40 pieces with the 2004 and magna cum laude lives and works in New York City and Columbia company on almost every keyboard instrument from George Mason University, receiving his B.F.A. County, New York. Since the mid-1980s, Bordo has MATTHEW ROSE possible, including the harmonium and toy piano, Degree in Dance Performance in 2008. Since then, shown his paintings internationally in numerous (rehearsal director) began and has conducted performances of Mozart he’s worked and performed with The Metropolitan one-person and group exhibitions. He has had his dance training in , , and The Hard Nut. Hailed Opera, Troy Powell, and Kyle Abraham, among numerous one-person shows in NYC, most Midland, Michigan, with by as “invaluable” and “central others. Comedy was a member of the Limón recently at Alexander and Bonin Gallery in 2013. Linda Z. Smith at the age to Morris’ music,” he was appointed music director Dance Company from 2009-2015, performing His collaborations with Mark Morris include sets of 17. After receiving his in 2013. principal and soloist roles. He’s also appeared as for Dido and Aeneas, Paukenschlag, Stabat Mater B.F.A. in dance from the a soloist dancer in Baltimore Opera Company’s and The Death of Socrates. Bordo is Associate University of Michigan in CHELSEA ACREE grew up Aida and worked with Washington National Opera Professor of Art at The Cooper Union, New York, 1992, he moved to New in Baltimore, Maryland, from 2013-2014 as a and dance where he leads the painting program. York City. He was a soloist where she began her captain. He was a former fellowship student at the with the Martha Graham Dance Company from dance training with Sharon Ailey School and a 2014 adjunct faculty member CHRISTINE VAN LOON (costume design) was born 1993-1996, and in 1997 began working with MMDG. Lerner, then continued at George Mason University’s School of Dance. in Hoeilaart, Belgium and has studied commercial After several years of performing full-time with at Carver Center for the Comedy began his apprenticeship with MMDG in art, costume, and set design. At the Théâtre Royal the Dance Group, he began assisting Morris Arts and Technology. November 2015. de la Monnaie in Brussels, she worked in both the with the creation of new works. He has been the Since receiving her B.F.A. set and costume departments and with Maurice company’s rehearsal director since 2006. in dance from Purchase RITA DONAHUE was Béjart’s Ballet of the 20th century. Van Loon has College in 2005 she has had born and raised in Fairfax, designed the costumes for several Mark Morris COLIN FOWLER (music the opportunity to work with a variety of artists Virginia, and attended productions, including Behemoth, Looky, and director, harpsichord) including SYREN Modern Dance, Laura Peterson, George Mason University. L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato. began his musical study at Hilary Easton + Company, and Michael and the Go- She graduated magna cum the age of five in Kansas Getters. Acree is on the faculty at The School at laude in 2002, receiving a JAMES F. INGALLS (lighting design) has designed City and went on to the Mark Morris Dance Center, where she teaches B.A. in English and a B.F.A. several pieces for Mark Morris including Orfeo ed study at the prestigious kids and adults how to move through space. She in dance. Donahue danced Euridice (Metropolitan Opera); King Arthur (English Interlochen Arts Academy. began working with MMDG in 2007 and joined the with bopi’s black sheep/ National Opera); Sylvia, Sandpaper Ballet, Maelstrom, He continued his education company in 2011. dances by kraigpatterson and Pacific (); Platée (Royal at The Juilliard School, and joined MMDG in 2003. Opera House, Covent Garden, and New York where he received his SAM BLACK is originally City Opera); Mozart Dances, Romeo and Juliet: Bachelor of Music in 2003 and his Master of from Berkeley, California, On Motifs of Shakespeare, L’Allegro, il Penseroso Music in 2005. While at Juilliard, he studied piano where he began studying ed il Moderato and Dido and Aeneas. Recent with Abbey Simon, organ with Gerre Hancock tap at the age of nine with designs for dance include The Weight of Smoke, and Paul Jacobs, harpsichord with Lionel Party, Katie Maltsberger. He Dill Dilly and Sullivaniana (Paul Taylor’s American and conducting with James dePriest and Judith received his B.F.A. in Dance Modern Dance), The Nutcracker (Pacific Northwest Clurman. A versatile musician and conductor, from SUNY Purchase, and Ballet/Seattle), The Sleeping Beauty, choreographed Fowler works in many areas of the music scene currently teaches MMDG by Alexi Ratmansky (Teatro alla Scala Ballet in New York City. He is a veteran of numerous master classes and Dance Dorrance Dance with Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely in The Blues Project. Photography © Christopher Duggan. 14 15 ARTISTS' BIOGRAPHIES

DOMINGO ESTRADA, JR., Out New York, , the book Meet BRIAN LAWSON began his STACY MARTORANA a native of Victoria, Texas, the Dancers, appeared in PBS’s Live From Lincoln dance training in Toronto at began her dance training studied martial arts and Center and ITV’s The South Bank Show, and was Canadian Children’s Dance in Baltimore, Maryland, at earned his black belt in a subject for the photographer Annie Leibovitz. Theatre. There he worked the Peabody Conservatory. 1994. He danced ballet Before joining MMDG, Grant moved to New York with choreographers In 2006 she graduated folklorico through his City from her hometown of Highland Park, Illinois, such as David Earle, from the University of church for 11 years. Estrada and earned a B.F.A. from NYU’s Tisch School of Carol Anderson, and North Carolina School earned his B.F.A. in ballet the Arts. She and her husband David Leventhal Michael Trent. Lawson of the Arts with a B.F.A. and modern dance from (former MMDG dancer and current Dance for PD® spent a year studying in . Texas Christian University Program Director) are proud parents of son Zev, at the Rotterdamse She has danced with and had the honor of working with the late born March 2012. Dansacademie in The Netherlands and graduated the Amy Marshall Dance Company, the Neta Fernando Bujones. During his undergraduate summa cum laude in 2010 from Purchase College, Dance Company, Helen Simoneau Danse, Kazuko studies he attended the American Dance Festival Possessed of keen where he was also granted the President’s Award Hirabayashi Dance Theater, Daniel Gwirtzman where he had the privilege of performing Skylight, musical intelligence and for his contributions to the dance program. Dance Company, and Rashaun Mitchell. From a classic work by choreographer Laura Dean. a vocal range from high Lawson has had the pleasure of performing with 2009-2011 she was a member of the Repertory He debuted with MMDG in 2007 and became a lyric mezzo-soprano to Pam Tanowitz Dance, Dance Heginbotham, and Understudy Group for the Merce Cunningham company member in 2009. Estrada would like to soprano, MARGUERITE Nelly van Bommel’s NØA Dance, among others. He Dance Company. She joined MMDG in 2012. thank God, his family, and all who support his KRULL (soprano) is joined MMDG as an apprentice in 2011 and became passion. passionate about bringing a company member in 2013. DALLAS McMURRAY, to life works that have been from El Cerrito, California, LESLEY GARRISON grew forgotten or neglected. AARON LOUX grew up began dancing at age up in Swansea, Illinois, Recent appearances in in Seattle, Washington, four, studying jazz, tap, and received her early this vein include Harbison’s Mirabai Songs (New and began dancing at and acrobatics with Katie dance training at the York Philharmonic), Alice Parker’s Songs for the Creative Dance Maltsberger and ballet Center of Creative Arts Eve, premiere performances of Elena Ruehr’s Center as a member of with Yukiko Sakakura. in St. Louis, Missouri, and cantata Averno, in Handel’s Alceste with Kaleidoscope, a youth He received a B.F.A. in Interlochen Arts Academy in the American Classical Orchestra, Énone in modern dance company. dance from the California Interlochen, Michigan. She Charpentier’s La descente d’Orphée aux enfers He began his classical Institute of the Arts. studied at the Rotterdamse with Gotham Opera, and Alix in Gretry’s 18th- training at the Cornish McMurray performed with the Limón Dance Dansacademie in The century opéra-comique Le Magnifique. Other College Preparatory Dance Company in addition to works by Jiří Kylián, Alonzo Netherlands and holds a B.F.A. from Purchase operatic roles include Emilia in Handel’s Flavio, Program and received his B.F.A. from The Juilliard King, Robert Moses, and . McMurray College. She first performed with MMDG in 2007 Belle in ’s La belle et la bête, the title School in 2009. He danced at The Metropolitan performed with MMDG as an apprentice in 2006 and became a company member in 2011. Garrison role of Martín y Soler’s La capricciosa corretta, Opera and with Arc Dance Company before and became a company member in 2007. teaches at The School at The Mark Morris Dance and four leading Rossini heroines in Il barbiere joining MMDG in 2010. Center and for the Dance for PD® program. di Siviglia, La gazza ladra, La donna del lago, and Otello at Caramoor International Music LAUREL LYNCH began LAUREN GRANT has Festival. She has appeared at La Monnaie in her dance training at danced with MMDG Brussels, Belgium, Argentina’s Teatro Colón, the Petaluma School of Ballet since 1996. Performing New York City Opera, Teatro Colón in Bogotá, in California. She moved leading roles in The Hard Colombia, and Lyric Opera of Chicago. to New York to attend Nut and Mozart Dances, The Juilliard School where Grant has appeared in over she performed works by 50 of Mark Morris’ works. Robert Battle, Margie Gillis, She is on the faculty at José Limón, and Ohad The School at the Mark Naharin. After graduation Morris Dance Center, leads Lynch danced for DušanTýnek Dance Theatre, master classes around the globe, sets Morris’ Sue Bernhard Danceworks, and PatCatterson. work at universities, and frequently leads classes Lynch joined MMDG as an apprentice in 2006 and for the company. Grant has been featured in Time became a company member in 2007. Many thanks Dorrance Dance with Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely to Gene and Becky. in The Blues Project. Photography © Christopher Duggan. 16 17 ARTISTS' BIOGRAPHIES

SHEREZADE PANTHAKI’s BRANDON RANDOLPH Morris, Paul Taylor, LarLubovitch, Doug Varone, NOAH VINSON is originally (soprano) international began his training with the , Larry Keigwin, Susan Marshall, from Springfield, Illinois, success has been fueled School of Carolina Ballet and Susan Shields. Smith’s own piece, 3-Way Stop, and received his B.A. in by superbly honed Theater in Greenville, was selected to open the 2006 American College dance from Columbia musicianship, “shimmering South Carolina, under the Dance Festival Gala at Ohio State University and College Chicago. He was sensitivity” (Cleveland Plain direction of Hernan Justo. his original for a production of Bye named one of Dance Dealer), a “radiant” voice At age 14, he was accepted Bye Birdie garnered much critical praise. An actor Magazine’s “Dancer on the (The Washington Post), into the South Carolina as well, Smith’s regional theater credits include Rise” in 2009 and assisted and vividly passionate Governor’s School for Tulsa in Gypsy, Mistoffelees inCATS , and Dream Mark Morris in the creation interpretations, “mining the Arts and Humanities, Curly in Oklahoma!. Smith danced with Parsons of his most recent work for deep emotion from the subtle shaping of the where he studied with Stanislav Issaev and Bobby Dance from 2007-2010. He joined MMDG as a , The Letter V, which premiered in lines” (The New York Times). An acknowledged Barnett. Randolph received his B.F.A. in dance company member in 2010. May 2015. He began dancing with MMDG in 2002 star in the early-music field, Panthaki has from Purchase College in 2012. There he had the and became a company member in 2004. ongoing collaborations with leading early music opportunity to perform with Dance Heginbotham JAMIE VAN EYCK (mezzo- interpreters including Nicholas McGegan, as well as repertory by Stephen Petronio, Lar soprano) appeals to JENN WEDDEL received her Simon Carrington, John Scott, Matthew Halls, Lubovitch, Paul Taylor, and George Balanchine. audiences and critics alike early training from Boulder and Masaaki Suzuki, with whom she made her Randolph began working with MMDG in 2013 and as a compelling young near where New York Philharmonic debut. Highlights of her became a company member in 2014. artist in opera and concert. she grew up in Longmont, past and current seasons include Messiah with This season, she reprises Colorado. She holds a B.F.A. Bach Collegium Japan, the National Symphony NICOLE SABELLA is the roles of Dido and the from Southern Methodist Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic, and the originally from Clearwater, Sorceress with MMDG in University and also studied Nashville and San Antonio Symphonies, Saul with Florida, where she studied Dido and Aeneas, sings at Boston Conservatory, the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Belinda in Dido at the Academy of Ballet Ruggiero in Alcina with Colorado University, and Aeneas and Galatea in Acis and Galatea with Arts and the Pinellas New York’s WhiteBox Art Center, and debuts with and The Laban Center, the Mark Morris Dance Group, Solomon with the County Center for the Arts the Alabama Symphony as Hansel in Hansel and London. Since moving to New York in 2001, Weddel Radio Kamer Filharmonie, Handel at Carnegie Hall at Gibbs High School under Gretel. She returns to the Colorado Symphony for has created and performed with RedWall Dance with William Christie, Christmas Oratorio with the Suzanne B. Pomerantzeff. In Handel’s Messiah, and is a guest artist for multiple Theater, Sue Bernhard Danceworks, Vencl Dance Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Mozart’s Exsultate jubilate 2009, she graduated from organizations including Baylor University, where Trio, Rocha Dance Theater, TEA Dance Company, and Requiem with the Washington Bach Consort, the University of the Arts she is an Assistant Professor of Voice. Van Eyck and with various choreographers including and St. John Passion, St. Matthew Passion, and in Philadelphia, PA, earning her B.F.A. in Modern will spend the summer touring South Africa in Alan Danielson and Ella Ben-Aharon. Weddel Brahms Requiem with St. Thomas Fifth Avenue. Dance Performance and the “Outstanding concerts featuring the songs of Johannes Brahms. performed with MMDG as an apprentice in 2006 Panthaki’s repertoire extends well beyond the Performance in Modern Dance” Award. She was a She is a recording artist with Bridge Records of and became a company member in 2007. music of the Renaissance and Baroque to Orff’s performer with Zane Booker’s Smoke, Lilies, and New York, and can be heard on the American Carmina Burana with the Houston Symphony, Jade Arts Initiative. Sabella first performed with Symphony Orchestra’s recording of Beethoven’s Rachmaninoff’sVocalise and Strauss Lieder at the MMDG in 2013 and became a company member Symphony No. 9. She has been featured at the Bari International Music Festival, Britten’s War in 2015. Tanglewood Music Festival and Ojai Music Requiem with Louisville Choral Arts Society, as Festival, among others, and has sung leading roles well as solos in Stravinsky’s Les Noces, Poulenc’s BILLY SMITH grew up in with opera companies such as Arizona Opera, Stabat Mater and Gloria. Panthaki holds an Artist Fredericksburg, Virginia, Boston Lyric Opera, and Wolf Trap Opera. An avid Diploma from the Yale School of Music. and attended George proponent of contemporary American music, Van sherezadepanthaki.com Mason University under Eyck has sung two world premiere performances a full academic and at Carnegie Hall, including a new song cycle by dance talent scholarship. Ned Rorem. At the Tanglewood Music Center, she He graduated magna performed the role of Mama in the premiere of cum laude in 2007 and Elliott Carter’s What Next? under the baton of received achievement . Her performance can be seen on awards in performance, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s DVD release of choreography, and academic endeavors. While at the opera. George Mason he performed the works of Mark

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JASON WEISINGER (tenor) Mark Morris Dance Group production of Handel’s MMDG MUSIC ENSEMBLE most recently appeared Acis and Galatea, and he performs the role this with The Orchestra Now fall with Boston Early Music Festival. A recording Orchestra under the baton of Gerard with the group will be released in 2015. Other Schwarz performing the recent appearances include “Laurence” in Grétry’s Violin Cello tenor solos in Stravinsky’s Le Magnifique with Opera Lafayette (recorded GEORGY VALTCHEV, concertmaster WOLFRAM KOESSEL, principal Pulcinella at The Town Hall. for Naxos) and “Aeneas” in Dido and Aeneas with ADDA KRIDLER ALEXANDER SCHEIRLE This past summer he was the Boston Early Music Festival. His recording of MICHELLE ROSS featured with the Boston Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers KEATS DIEFFENBACH Bass POPS in their “satisfying, with BEMF won the 2015 Grammy Award for LOGAN COALE occasionally sublime” revue “Simply Sondheim,” Best Opera Recording. Williams’ “superb sense of Second Violin (Boston Globe) performing at both Symphony drama” (The New York Times) is as apparent on the BENJAMIN RUSSELL, principal Theorbo Hall in Boston and The Koussevitzky Music Shed concert stage as it is in opera. Concert highlights ANNA LUCE HANK HEIJINK in Lenox, MA. In Seiji Ozawa Hall, appearances include a performance at Carnegie Hall with JONATHAN DINKLAGE with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra James Levine and the MET Chamber Ensemble of Harpsichord include Berlioz’s Nuits d’été with Stéphane Denève Charles Wuorinen’s It Happens Like This; Handel’s Viola COLIN FOWLER and scenes from Mozart’s Idomeneo with Ken- Messiah with the Detroit and Houston Symphony JESSICA TROY, principal David Masur. Weisinger has appeared in many Orchestras; Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with IRENA MCGUFFEE concerts with Cincinnati Opera including The the Cathedral Choral Society; Elgar’s Dream of Ricky Ian Gordon Songbook with the composer at Gerontius with New Haven Symphony, and Bach’s Chorus the piano and The Legacy of Jewish Songsmiths St. John Passion with Les Talens Lyriques. His on Broadway. He will appear as a semi-finalist 2015-2016 season features performances and a Soprano Tenor in the “Joy in Singing” competition at the Bruno new recording of Scarlatti’s La Gloria di primavera LAURA INMAN JHASOA AGOSTO Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center. Weisinger with conductor Nicholas McGegan and the MARIE MASCARI KEVIN ROSE has a M.M. from the University of Cincinnati— Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and a reprisal JULIE STEVENS RILEY College-Conservatory of Music and a B.M. from of his role of “Caronte” in Monteverdi’s Orfeo CARLA WESBY JASON WEISINGER SUNY Fredonia in vocal performance. He is also an with the dance company Sasha & Guests in accomplished collaborative pianist, freelancing Berlin, Bergen, and Baden-Baden and Opera Lille Alto Bass and coaching throughout New York City and in France. YISELLE BLUM ANDY COOK-FELTZ Long Island. Visit jasonweisinger.com for more ELISE GAUGERT TIM KROL information. MICHELLE YARD was born YONAH GERSHATOR MICHAEL MALIAKEL in Brooklyn, New York. She KRISTIN GORNSTEIN EDMUND MILLY DOUGLAS WILLIAMS began her professional (bass-baritone) combines dance training at the a “formidable stage NYC High School of the presence” (Seattle Times) Performing Arts and with “a bass voice of continued her studies as For biographies of the MMDG Music Ensemble please visit mmdg.org/bios. splendid solidity” (Music a scholarship student at Web International), making Alvin Ailey American Dance him one of the most Theater. She graduated appealing singing actors with a B.F.A. from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. of his generation. He has Yard teaches Pilates as well as master classes for collaborated with leading conductors including Access/MMDG programs. She joined MMDG in Nicholas McGegan, Helmut Rilling, Sir Neville 1997. Mom, thank you. Marriner, John Nelson, and Christoph Rousset, in such prestigious venues as Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Stuttgart’s Mozart-Saal, and the Frankfurt Alte Oper. Williams was highly acclaimed as “Polyphemus” in the world premiere

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Northrop Presents MIAMI CITY BALLET Wed, Apr 27, 7:30 pm

Serenade Symphony in Three Movements Heatscape with live orchestra

Classical technique meets modern movement in this sizzling and sultry repertoire

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Miami City Balletʼs Emily Bromberg in Balanchineʼs Serenade.Photo © Daniel Azoulay.