33481 Nan Ath CVR_Layout 1 7/16/12 11:44 AM Page 2 July 23–28, 2012 Benjamin Millepied Artistic Director Friday, July 27th at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, July 28th at 6:30 p.m. Nantucket High School Mary P. Walker Auditorium 33481 Nan Ath CVR_Layout 1 7/16/12 11:44 AM Page 3 DANCE FESTIVAL COMMITTEE 2012 Jane A. Tyler Marcia P. Welch Dance Festival Co-Chairs Marion Martin, Honorary Chair Susan Ambrecht Kathleen Hay Samantha Sandler Mary Randolph Ballinger Kathryn Kay Denise Saul Maureen Bousa Barbara E. Jones Audrey K. Schuster Roxanne Casscells Orla Murphy-LaScola Randee Seiger Jeanne Cohane Curtis Livingston Catharine Soros Barbara G. Cohen John W. Loose Maria Spears Patti Deuster Judy Goyette MacLeod Esta-Lee Stone John Falk Bonnie F. McCausland Pamela Thomas Barbara J. Fife Mary Jane McLean Phoebe Tudor Al Forster Patricia Moran Cathy Weinroth Cosby George Jeanne C. Miller Mary Wolff Tim George Penny Nieroth Marcella Zimmerman Nan Geschke A. Steven Perelman Suzy Grote Gleaves Rhodes NANTUCKET ATHENEUM BOARDOF TRUSTEES Alice F. Emerson William G. Spears Chair Vice-Chair Marcia P. Welch Alan M. Forster Secretary Treasurer Susan Boardman Kathryn Kay David Ross William J. Charlton Jeanne Casey Miller Bernard L. Swain Barbara J. Fife Orla Murphy-LaScola Jane A. Tyler Timothy M. George Pamela J. Nieroth Jay M. Wilson Robert A. Greenspon A. Steven Perelman Ronald Winters William E. Hannum III Anne Phaneuf P. Rhoads Zimmerman Barbara Jones Chairman Emeritus Trustees Emeriti Executive Director John W. Loose Nan Geschke Molly C. Anderson Martha Groetzinger President Emeritus Nancy A. Newhouse Robert F. Mooney Honorary Trustees Mr. and Mrs. Robert Diamond Jr. Lucile W. Hays Mr. and Mrs. Richard Menschel Richard M. Scaife Margaret B. Scaife 33481 Nan Ath text_AtheneumDanceFestivalCovers10 7/17/12 8:18 AM Page 1 NANTUCKET ATHENEUM DANCE FESTIVAL 2012 Featuring stars of the American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet and The Royal Ballet Benjamin Millepied Artistic Director Ashley Bouder Maria Kowroski Tyler Angle Alina Cojocaru Tiler Peck Johan Kobborg Stella Abrera Sascha Radetsky Martin Harvey Daniil Simkin This year’s performances are dedicated to the memory of Joe Welch, friend and supporter of the Nantucket Atheneum. Cover photo by Paul Kolnik. Choreography by George Balanchine ©The George Balanchine Trust 1 33481 Nan Ath text_AtheneumDanceFestivalCovers10 7/17/12 8:19 AM Page 2 Welcometo the Nantucket Atheneum Dance Festival! For 178 years the Nantucket Atheneum has enriched our island community through top quality library services and programs. This year the library served more than 180,000 adults, teens and children year round with free access to over 1.4 million books, CDs, and DVDs, reference and information services and a wide range of cultural and educational programs. In keeping with its long-standing tradition of educational and cultural programming, the Nantucket Atheneum is very excited to present a multifaceted dance experience on Nantucket for the fifth straight summer. This year’s performances feature the world’s very best dancers from American Ballet Theater, New York City Ballet and the Royal Ballet under the exceptional artistic direction of Benjamin Millepied. The festival this week has offered a stimulating array of free community events including Lecture Demonstration with Benjamin Millepied, two dance films, First Position with film maker Bess Kargman and Pina, lecture with Jennifer Homans, author of Apollo’s Angels, Children’s Program and two youth master dance classes. As a public library, the Nantucket Atheneum receives limited funding from government sources. Therefore, cultural offerings, such as tonight’s dance performance, are only possible through the generous support of our donors. We wish to express our deepest appreciation to the festival sponsors who are listed in this program. Finally we send a special thank you to our wonderful Dance Festival Committee under the dynamic leadership of Jane Tyler and Marcia Welch for its hard work, passion, and commitment to bringing this exciting festival to our community. On behalf of the Atheneum Board of Trustees, the Atheneum staff and the Dance Festival Committee, we thank you for being part of the Nantucket Atheneum Dance Festival 2012. Enjoy tonight’s radiant performance! Molly C. Anderson Executive Director Nantucket Atheneum ONE INDIA STREET P.O. BOX 808 NANTUCKET, MA 02554 508 228 1110 WWW.NANTUCKETATHENEUM.ORG 2 33481 Nan Ath text_AtheneumDanceFestivalCovers10 7/17/12 8:19 AM Page 3 PERFORMANCE Nantucket High School Mary P. Walker Auditorium July 27 & 28, 2012 Known By Heart “Junk” Duet Music: Selections from Junk Music by Donald Knaack Choreography: Twyla Tharp ©Twyla Tharp Staged by: Stacy Caddell Original Costume Design: Santo Loquasto Original Lighting Design: Jennifer Tipton Dance Festival Lighting: Mark Stanley Premiere: 2001, Twyla Tharp Dance. LAPAC. This ballet is dedicated to the memory of Bob Patino. Ashley Bouder Sascha Radetsky In this dance, Tharp takes the formal structure of the classical duet (an adagio, two solos and a coda) into a contemporary realm through the witty, fierce, sometimes combative, and always surprising relationship she creates between the partners. The piece is so named because it is set to a percussion piece, “Junk Music” by Donald Knaack, who composes and performs on found objects and materials that have been discarded by others, the Known By Heart (“Junk”) Duet allows dancers used to the classics to transcend their normal roles and perform with light-hearted give and take. 3 33481 Nan Ath text_AtheneumDanceFestivalCovers10 7/17/12 8:19 AM Page 4 Les Bourgeois Music: Les Bourgeois by Jacques Brel Choreography: Ben van Cauwenbergh Lighting: Mark Stanley Premiere: 2003, Ballet Des Hessischen Staatstheaters Wiesbaden; 2008 Gauthier Dance Theaterhaus Stuttgart Daniil Simkin European dancer and choreographer Ben Van Cauwenbergh set Les Bourgeois to the famous Flemish chanson singer Jacques Brel’s song of the same title, which was recorded in 1962. It is a dancing and acting tour de force featuring one male dancer. American Ballet Theatre’s Daniil Simkin has performed Les Bourgeois many times including at the International Ballet Competition in Helsinki, Finland in 2005, where he was awarded the Grand Prix, and on the FOX Television show “So You Think You Can Dance” in July of 2011. After The Rain Pas de Deux Music: Spiegel Im Spiegel by Arvo Pärt Choreography: Christopher Wheeldon Lighting: Mark Stanley Premiere: January 22, 2005, New York City Ballet, New York State Theater, New York, NY. Maria Kowroski Martin Harvey Christopher Wheeldon’s After the Rain is a ballet of bold movements and heartfelt emotion. The final pas de deux, danced to Arvo Pärt’s Spiegel im Spiegel, is a series of unfolding partnering moves, in which the dancers explore the shifting emotions of their relationship. At times they are close and tender with one another, while at other times they inhabit the same space but are separated and searching for one another. 4 33481 Nan Ath text_AtheneumDanceFestivalCovers10 7/17/12 8:19 AM Page 5 Two Hearts Pas de Deux (Friday, July 27 performance only) Music: Two Hearts by Nico Muhly Choreography: Benjamin Millepied Lighting: Mark Stanley after Brad Fields Premiere: May 10, 2012, New York City Ballet, David H. Koch Theater, NY. Tiler Peck Tyler Angle Two Hearts made its world premiere in May of 2012 at the New York City Ballet’s Spring Gala. Benjamin Millepied and composer Nico Muhly have created four pieces together since 2007. In this latest collaboration, they recieved their inspiration from a European folksong called “Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor” and the idea that the song’s story (the tale of a failed marriage) illustrated a strong sense of community. The ballet’s pas de deux was performed at the world premiere by Tiler Peck and Tyler Angle who reprise the dance for the Nantucket Atheneum Dance Festival. INTERMISSION The Leaves Are Fading Pas de Deux Music: Cypresses for string quartet, together with other chamber music for strings by Anton Dvorak Choreography: Anthony Tudor Lighting: Mark Stanley Premiere: July 17, 1975, American Ballet Theatre, New York State Theater, NY. Stella Abrera Sascha Radetsky Commissioned by the American Ballet Theatre, The Leaves Are Fading is a haunting meditation of youthful romance and time’s bittersweet passing, set to Dvorak’s ravishing score. This was one of Tudor’s last ballets, and it remains one of the major works in the choreographer’s remarkable canon. It marked Tudor’s return to American Ballet Theatre after an absence of nearly 25 years. The creation of Leaves Are Fading followed a five-year period of relative choreographic silence during which he made no major ballets, but did choreograph several short pieces for his students at the Julliard School. 5 33481 Nan Ath text_AtheneumDanceFestivalCovers10 7/17/12 8:19 AM Page 6 Bright Stream Pas de Deux Music: Dmitri Shostakovich Choreography: Alexei Ratmansky Lighting: Mark Stanley Premiere: 2003, Bolshoi Ballet; 2011, American Ballet Theatre, NY. Alina Cojocaru Johan Kobborg Zany and laugh-out-loud funny, The Bright Stream celebrates the illusory nature of love in all of its baffling, maddening detail with mistaken identities, hilarious deceptions and happy resolutions. During a harvest festival on a collective farm in the Russian steppes, a Moscow dance troupe arrives to entertain the workers, upsetting the applecart to humorous effect. Dmitri Shostakovich’s vivid folk music reveals the soul of his actor-dancers with a zest for deft characterization in movement. Stars & Stripes Pas de Deux Music: Liberty Bell and El Capitan by John Philip Sousa Adapted and orchestrated by Hershey Kay. Choreography: George Balanchine, ©George Balanchine Trust Lighting: Mark Stanley Premiere: January 17, 1958, New York City Ballet, City Center of Music and Drama, NY. Ashley Bouder Daniil Simkin For all its exuberant patriotic touches, Stars and Stripes contains as much pure dancing as many full-length classical ballets.