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Member FDIC Member DIF 12 In this Issue . 14 CEDAR LAKE CONTEMPORARY BALLET 22 TYLER TYLER 29 LIONEL LOUEKE TRIO 33 HUGH MASEKELA 37 Fine Arts Center Board and Staff 38 Friends of the Fine Arts Center 42 Evacuation Diagram 44 Patron Services Information 45 Symbols of Support 10 9 Saturday, October 2, 2010, 8:00 PM UMass Fine Arts Center Concert Hall CEDAR LAKE CONTEMPORARY BALLET Founder: Nancy Laurie Artistic Director: Benoit-Swan Pouffer Executive Director: Greg Mudd Company Manager: Pamela Vachon Production Manager: Anita Shah Ballet Master: Alexandra Damiani Technical Director: Andy Cappelli Production Stage Manager: Renata Braga de Almeida Audio Video Supervisor: Dave Rogge Lighting Supervisor: Jim French Wardrobe Supervisor: Lydia Frantz Production Electrician: Eric Schoenberger Costume Shop Manager/ Draper: Mathew Gnagy Booking: Margaret Selby, CAMI Spectrum LLC Company Members: Jubal Battisti, Jon Bond, Nickemil Concepcion, Vânia Doutel Vaz, Gwynenn Taylor Jones, Jason Kittelberger, Ana-Maria Lucaciu, Navarra Novy-Williams Oscar Ramos, Matthew Rich, Acacia Schachte, Harumi Terayama, Manuel Vignoulle, Ebony Williams, Golan Yosef Sponsored by: 14 PROGRAM SUNDAY, AGAIN Choreography: Jo Strømgren Assistant to the Choreographer: Alexandra Damiani Lighting Design: Jim French and Jo Strømgren Costume Design: Junghyun Georgia Lee Music: “Jesu, meine Freude,” Motet No. 3 in E minor, BWV 225-230 by Johann Sebastian Bach, Maitrise Des Petits Chanteurs de Versailles, Concert Saint Julien, Direction Jean-François Fremont Cast Full Company Duets: Jason Kittelberger/Acacia Schachte Jubal Battisti/Harumi Terayama Golan Yosef/Ebony Williams Gwynenn Taylor Jones/Ana-Maria Lucaciu Nickemil Concepcion/Navarra Novy-Williams Program notes: “‘Sunday, Again’ is first of all a piece that tries to reflect the diversity in Johann Sebastian Bach’s music. Abstract movement patterns are woven together in fugal ways, not unlike the baroque way of assembling melodic phrases and ornamentations. Secondly, and on an asso- ciative level, it thematically treats the domestic jungle of luxury problems and gender frictions. As the title suggests, there is always the irritating and inevitable Sunday which forces couples to test their coexistence abilities. Leisure time is not good for certain types of relationships.” –Jo Strømgren Jo Strømgren Jo Strømgren was born in 1970 and spent most of his early years skiing and playing football. In the eighties, American dance movies intoxicated him with dreams of dancing jazz ballet but he soon advanced to classical ballet and contemporary dance. At the age of 20 he was invited to to fill up some empty student space at the National College of Ballet and Dance in Oslo. After four years of study (three years with Classical Ballet and one year with Choreography) he was engaged by Carte Blance Dance Company in Bergen as a dancer and choreographer. In his three years with the company he gained a professional base for his later work, mixing his own dances with the varied repertory of Mats Ek, Rui Horta, Jorma Uotinen, Jens Östberg and Itzik Galili. After a major injury to his right knee, Jo became a full-time freelance choreographer. He has since injured his left knee in a football match and is now stiff in both legs. Artistic recogni- tion came suddenly with the self-financed and hysterically frantic ”Schizo Stories,” a 75-minute one-man show about nevrosis where his distinct body language and mix of absurd humor versus dark psychology stood out clearly. Intermission UNIT IN REACTION Choreography Jacopo Godani Assistant to the Choreographer Alexandra Damiani Lighting Design Jacopo Godani Costume Design Jacopo Godani Music Ulrich Müller and Siegfried Rössert of 48Nord Cast Nickemil Concepcion Vania^ Doutel Vaz Gwynenn Taylor Jones Matthew Rich Harumi Terayama Golan Yosef Program notes: “I became fascinated with pushing the dancers to their limits, in bursts of speed and tempo. It’s when the dancers are pushed that they release themselves from the cerebral and move to- ward the purely physical qualities of dance. In “UNIT IN REACTION” I am playing with geometric patterns that split, mutate and are in flux. There is a geometric architecture to this piece that is alive. I’m exploring our place in a world of mass communication and sensory overload. Think of how many communication messages and images we are bombarded with every minute. I think of the movement in this work like pixels on a video screen—moving, changing and reforming. Maybe the speed of all this ‘communication’ can become artful?” –Jacopo Godani 15 Jacopo Godani Italian-born, dancer-choreographer Jacopo Godani began studying classical ballet and modern dance techniques in 1984 at the Centro Studi Danza of La Spezia under the direction of Loredana Rovagna. He also pursued studies in the visual arts at the Fine Arts High School of Carrara. In 1986, Godani was accepted to further his studies at Maurice Bejart’s international dance centre, Mudra, in Bruxelles, Belgium. Jacopo Godani made his professional debut in 1988 performing with several Paris-based contemporary dance companies. As a dancer, Godani has worked with a range of international choreographers. In 1990, Godani formed his own Bruxelles-based company and began his choreographic career. His work in Bruxelles was produced by the theatre Atelier Saint’Anne and was supported by the arts festival Bruxelles Centra(a)l and the Plateau theatre. From 1991 to 2000, Godani was a leading soloist with William Forsythe’s Ballett Frankfurt and has collaborated with Forsythe on the choreographic creation of many of Ballett Frank- furt’s most representative pieces. Godani developed his career as a choreographer creating original works for a vast range of international companies. Intermission frame of view Choreography Didy Veldman Assistant to the Choreographer Alexandra Damiani Lighting Design Ben Ormerod Costume Design Miriam Buether Scenic Design Miriam Buether Music Arranged by Philip Feeney “K’in sventa Ch’ul Me’tik Kwadulupe” Music by Osvaldo Golijo arrangement with Ytalianna Music Publishing, publisher and copyright holder. “Mugam Sayagi (String Quartes No.3)” Written by Franghiz Ali-Zadeh. By arrangemenet with G. Schirmer, INC. publisher and copyright owner. Selections from “Gaite Parisienne, Written by Jacques Offen- bach, arranged by Emmanuel Rosenthal. Used by permission of The Ballet Foundation. “Ne Me Quitte Pas” (50% Interest) (Jacques Romain Brel) © 1961 & 2001 Warner Chappell Music France SAS (Ex Tutti Editions) & Pouchenel Editions Musicales. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permis- sion. “Anastaja” Written by Kimmo Pohjonen. Published by Zen Master Publishing Oy from the Kimmo Pohjonen album “Kielo” (Rockadillo Records). “Let’s Never Stop Falling in Love” Written by China F. Forbes and Thomas M. Lauderdale. Used by permission of Pink Martini/Thomas K. Lauderdale Music. “And the door is still open(to my heart)” Copyright 1955 Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Chuck Willis Music Co. All rights administered by Sony/ATV Publishing LLC, 8 Music Square West, Nashville, TN 37203. All rights reserved. Used by permission. Cast Jubal Battisti Vania^ Doutel Vaz Jason Kittelberger Ana-Maria Lucaciu Navarra Novy-Williams Oscar Ramos Acacia Schachte Manuel Vignoulle Golan Yosef LOCALLY OWNED SINCE 1969 2 0 1 0 Voted Best of the Valley for 22 Years THE NATHAN AGENCIES Amherst Insurance Agency Amherst Financial Services Complete Insurance & Financial Planning Auto Home Renter’s Business Life Health Disability Long Term Care 20 Gatehouse Rd., Amherst, MA 253-5555 www.nathanagencies.com Amherst Financial Services Agency provides Securities & Investment Advisory Services through Capital Analysts Incorporated: Member FINRA • SIPC. Capital Analysts Incorporated & Amherst Financial Services are independent non-affiliated entities. 3140204 16 Didy Veldman Dutch choreographer Didy Veldman trained at the Scapino Academy in Amsterdam. She has danced with Scapino Ballet, Ballet du Grand Grand Théâtre de Genève and Rambert Dance Company, working with international choreographers such as Jiri Kylian, Mats Ek, Ohad Naha- rin and Christopher Bruce, among others.