This project is made possible through a partnership with the Program at the Park District of Oak Park. THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR DONORS! Winifred Haun & Dancers is generously supported, in part, by the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, MacArthur Fund for Arts & Culture at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, the International Connections Fund at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Oak Park Area Arts Council, in partnership with the Village of Oak Park, the Arts Council Agency and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, Academy for the Arts - Dance Department, Lou Conte Dance Studio at the Hubbard St. Dance Center, Historic Pleasant Home, Legere Dance Center, Principle Dance of Forest Park, Audience Architects, Voice of the City, a multi-arts organization and over 100 individuals.

Winifred Haun & Dancers is also supported by members of Wini’s Circle, a group of dedicated individuals who support the Company through substantial annual gifts of $500 or more. Wini’s Circle Members Sarah Bixler Susan & Scott Caudell Pam Crutchfield Dacry DeWolfe & Aaron Rappaport Patti Eylar Ginger Farley PRESENTS Frank Fishella Lisa Friedman Gia & Bart Gallegos Deborah Goodman Steps in the Garden: Edna Hamburger DANCE AT CHENEY MANSION Dolores Haun Young-Kee Kim & Sidney Nagel Tabatha Koylass Martha Milligan Newville Family Winifred Haun & Stephen Parke Meghan Premo-Hopkins Brenda M. Rodriguez Liz Roman Anonymous 1 Anonymous 2 Anonymous 3 Our Corporate Sponsors include: PrintPlace.com and OCTOBER 4, 2020 Wynndalco Enterprises CHENEY MANSION | OAK PARK, IL PROGRAM

Steps in the Garden

Original music composed and played by: Barry Bennett : Winifred Haun with Ariel Dorsey, Vernon Gooden, Grant Hill, Amanda Milligan, Michelle Reid, and Summer Smith

1. ACROSS THE WAY (an improvisation) Dancers: Ariel Dorsey, Vernon Gooden, Grant Hill, Amanda Milligan, Michelle Reid, and Summer Smith

2. BREEZES ON THE PATIO “For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. Dancer: Ariel Dorsey We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.” ~ FREDERICK DOUGLASS 3. GREEN HOUSING Dancers: Grant Hill & Summer Smith Yes, I’d like to make a contribution to Winifred Haun & Dancers!

4. PLANTED DONATION FORM Dancers: Amanda Milligan & Michelle Reid Enclosed is my contribution for: o $30 o $50 o $75 o $100 o $250 o $500 (Wini’s Circle) o Other 5. WATER FALLING

Dancer: Vernon Gooden NAME

6. SUR LE FEU ADDRESS Dancers: Ariel Dorsey, Vernon Gooden, Grant Hill, Amanda Milligan, CITY, STATE, ZIP Michelle Reid, and Summer Smith EMAIL

“Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.” Make checks payable and send to: ~ MAYA ANGELOU Winifred Haun & Dancers 228 S. East Ave. Oak Park, IL 60302 Production Manager: Brian Elston Production Assistant: Michael Gee You can also donate online at www.WinifredHaun.org 773.454.9843 Winifred Haun & Dancers was founded in Chicago in the 1990’s by award winning choreographer and dancer, Winifred Haun. In 2001, the Company went on hiatus for several years while Ms. Haun raised her young children. The Company re-located to Oak Park in 2006. In the two and a half decades since its founding, the Company has garnered numerous awards and accolades, including features in the Huffington Post, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, WTTW- Founder & Artistic/Executive Director: Winifred Haun TV (PBS), and WBEZ (NPR) Radio. The Company has also received Critic’s Choice Rehearsal Director: Deb Goodman awards from the Chicago Reader, and TimeOut Chicago, as well as reviews and Choreographer’s Assistants: Ariel Dorsey & Summer Smith articles at SeeChicagoDance.com, NewCity.com, Madison.com, and many others. Assistant Artistic Director: Solomon Bowser In 2016, the Company received an award from the prestigious MacArthur Foundation Artistic Administrator: Sarah Mazzulla for an international artistic collaboration with Australian circus artist Emma Serjeant. Digital Media Designs: Christina Tarrant Development & Organizational Consultant: Suzanne Griffith, Vega Partners In 2000, Winifred Haun & Dancers received the Award for “Outstanding Photographer: Matthew Gregory Hollis Contribution to Dance in Chicago” for initiating and producing Chicago’s NEXT Videography: Sean Rafferty Dance Festival, which grew to be the Midwest’s largest dance festival for the new Special Projects: Stephen Parke work of Chicago area artists. In 2014, the Company was chosen to present Vision, Website: CJ Harris, That’s So Creative Designs Faith & Desire: Dancemakers Inspired by Martha Graham at the Ruth Page Center, Pritzker Pavilion and Oak Park’s Pleasant Home, and in 2019, the Company received WH&D Board of Directors the Oak Park Area Arts Council’s coveted “Best in Class” Award. Susan Caudell Gia Gallegos The mission of Winifred Haun & Dancers is to create and present original, Lisa Friedman contemporary, innovative works that illuminate and elevate diverse artists, audiences, Edna Hamburger, President and global themes. Part of the Company’s artistic vision is to have dance viewed not Winifred Haun, Founder only in the context of professional presentation, but also at the community level and in Young-Kee Kim non-traditional performance venues.

Tabatha Koylass Winifred Haun (Artistic/Executive Director, Choreographer) was a soloist with Stephen Parke the critically acclaimed Joseph Holmes Chicago Dance Theatre, under the direction Brenda Rodriguez of Randy Duncan, from 1985 to 1991. Ms. Haun won three Ruth Page Award Special thanks to: All of the Dancers, Banks Performance Project, nominations for Choreography and Performance and in 2000, she won the Ruth Deb Goodman, Genevieve Garcia, Susan Crane, Stephen Parke, Page Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Dance Community. In 2014, she was chosen by the Martha Graham Dance Company to create a Lamentation Athena Parke, Selene Parke, Iris Parke, Sarah Robinson Mazzulla, Variation, in honor of Ms. Graham’s renowned solo. Ms. Haun’s choreography and the Dance Program at the Park District of Oak Park has been commissioned by Chicago , Aerial Dance Chicago, Zephyr Dance, Lonny Joseph Gordon and many other Midwest and national groups. She has taught and dance composition at the ’s Academy of Dance, Hubbard St. Dance Center, Dance Center of Columbia College, Chicago Academy for the Arts, Beijing National Dance Academy and at numerous festivals and workshops worldwide. Currently, Ms. Haun teaches and ballet at Legere Dance Center in River Forest, IL, and online on Zoom. She and her husband, theoretical physicist Stephen Parke, live in Oak Park and they have three daughters. Company Artists Ariel M. Dorsey (Assistant Choreographer, Company Dancer) is a Chicago Michelle Reid (Company Dancer) is a dancer, photographer and aerialist. After native, where she began her formal dance training at Chicago Academy for obtaining her BFA in dance from The Ohio State University in 2013, she moved to the Arts under the direction of Anna Paskevska and Randy Duncan. Ms. Dorsey Chicago to pursue a professional career in the arts. Since then she has performed went on to further her studies at SUNY Purchase College in New York where she with Joel Hall, Emerald City Theatre, and Banks Performance graduated with a BFA in dance. Ms. Dorsey other performance credits include Project. She has also worked with Visual Artist, Brendan Fernandes during his dance- Banks Performance Project (guest artist), Moonwater Dance Project, and Porchlight based installation at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. This is Michelle’s Musical Theatre productions of “Memphis” and “Sophisticated Ladies.” Ariel second season with Winifred Haun & Dancers. joined Winifred Haun & Dancers in 2013, and she was appointed Assistant Choreographer in 2016. Summer Smith (Assistant Choreographer, Company Dancer) grew up in South Jersey, where she began dancing at a young age. Summer began her professional Vernon Gooden (Company Dancer) a Dallas,Texas native, began dancing dance training in high school at The Rock School for Dance Education in Philadelphia. at the age of 11. He started in the traditional dance form of West African. In During this time, she received scholarships to study at Orlando Ballet, Ballet Met, and 2001, he graduated from Booker T. Washington High School For The Performing in New York, at Theatre. Summer attended The University of the Arts Visual Arts. He received a Level I ranking by the National Foundation For The where she received her BFA in Dance and Painting with honors. After college, she Advancement In The Arts (NFAA) for college scholarship for high school seniors. went on to dance with Chicago’s Ballet 5:8 where she served as a Company Artist, Mr. Gooden was nominated by NFAA and named by The White House and the production designer. Summer also for Moonwater Dance Project, and Commission for a 2001 Presidential Scholar in the Arts. Mr. Gooden later trained choreographs for Digital Dance Project. She joined WH&D in 2017, and she was at The Juilliard School under the direction of the late Benjamin Harkarvy and Larry appointed Assistant Choreographer in 2018. Rhodes. He has performed with noted companies such as Paul Taylor 2, Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Deb Goodman (Rehearsal Director) began her dance training at Northern Illinois Theatre, Helanius Wilkins/ Edgeworks Dance, South Chicago Dance Theatre, Joel University under the guidance of Randall Newsome. In 1990, she moved to New York Hall Dancers, and Deeply Rooted Dance Theatre. He has performed the works of noted choreographers such as Paul Taylor, Jose Limon, , Donald to study at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance where she received McKayle, Bill T. Jones, Milton Myers, Cleo Parker Robinson, Nai-Ni Chen, Ronald a full scholarship and took part in the reconstruction of Ms. Graham’s original work, K. Brown, and Jessica Lang. This is his second season with WH&D. “Sketches from Chronicle”. From 1998-2005, Deborah worked with Yuriko as her assistant and demonstrator. In 2006, Deborah moved back to Chicago where she Grant Hill (Guest Artist) holds a BFA in Dance from the University of Illinois at danced for MOMENTA for 10 years. Deb is currently a modern dance instructor Urbana -Champaign. While attending U of I, he trained with Endalyn Taylor, Linda at Loyola University and the Chicago Academy for the Arts. She was appointed Lehovac, C. Kemal Nance, Cynthia Oliver, and others. Mr. Hill has trained with Rehearsal Director for WH&D in 2015. the , Deeply Rooted Dance Theater and Mark Morris Dance Group, and he has performed at the American Dance Guild in 2017 and 2018, and with Aerial Dance Chicago, and Banks Performance Project. This is his first performance with Winifred Haun & Dancers.

Amanda Milligan (Company Dancer) attended the University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music where she received her BFA in Ballet Performance. Her previous professional experience includes participation in the Dallas tour of Jeanne Mam-lufts’ Pieces (2012), guest artist and choreographer for the Performance Time Arts series at Cincinnati’s Contemporary Dance Theater(2010-2014) and most recently Dance Kaleidoscope (2014-2017) based in , IN. Mandy joined WH&D in the fall of 2017.