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Home , Alwin Nikolais, Bury a Friend, Murray Louis, The New Seekers

Department presents Fall Repertoire 2020

Artistic Director Chair of Dance Nancy Lushington

Technical Director Philip Treviño Costume Coordinator/ Wardrobe Supervisor Production Sound Designer Mondo Morales Dan Cooper 4. Collaboration 1. Direction Catherine Cabeen SPATIUM Film Editing Emily S. Ulrich Choreographer Alberto del Saz Sound & Music Design Carolyn M. Rupp in collaboration with Dancers Choreography Kate Altman, Natasha Arce, Carmela Music Come to Me Arcidi, Sophia Aste, Sophia Baker, Gregory Composer Chillout Bantugan, Brandon Barnes, Melissa Film Editing Alberto del Saz Barnhizer, Mya Bowden, Kayleigh Bowen, Sound Design Dan Cooper Nick Camarero, Kiva Carman-Frank, Beatriz Castro, Destiny Cloud, Gabriella Dimartino, Nancy Donnes, Allison Feller, Lucie Fink, Emily Freeny, Angelina Hahn, Kenley Hardwick, Chloe Hauge, Peyton 2. Processing... Havens, Yasmeena Jay, Evelyn Johnson, Choreographer Monique Smith Monet Jones, Kirsten Kauffmann, Jade Music I. Bury a Friend Kelley, Julia Kelson, Martin Kineavy, II. I Ingeborg Kolstad, Marissa Milan, Peter III. Ramirez, Azura Ramsay, Rebekka Ryan, Composers I. and KPH Meghan Stenwick, Laura Stile, Truus Van de II. Billie Eilish and Vox Freaks Graaf, Carlie Wenzel, Jasmine Williams, III. Billie Eilish and Cardo Granz Mari Witwer Film Editing Laura Stile ’22 Words of Inspiration From Natasha Bedingfield, George Bernhard Sound Design Dan Cooper Shaw, Dave Bixby, Emily Brennan, Patrick Blaisure, Buddha, Marc & Angel Chernoff; Chika, Hailey Cooke, A Dance Teacher of Gabrielle’s from years ago, Emily Dick son, Walt Disney, Albert Einstein, Team Fearless, Carrie Fisher, Erich Fromm, Robert 3. VULTUS Frost, Lady Gaga, Ingeborg’s Mom, Susan Choreographer Alberto del Saz Jeffers, Frida Kahlo, Kaleo, Frank Ocean, in collaboration with Dancers Tim McGraw, Mac Miller, Dan Millman, Music Daphnis 26 Marilyn Monroe, The New Seekers, Composer Biosphere Morgan Harper Nichols, Stevie Nicks, Keke Film Editing Alberto del Saz Palmer, Jacques Prévert, Riley’s Dad, Cheryl Sound Design Dan Cooper Strayed, Spencer Sutherland, Donna Tartt Special thanks to the family and friend who served as videographers. Dance Energies 6. (Excerpts) 1959 Choreographer May O’Donnell Reconstruction Nancy Lushington Composer Ray Green Film Editing MacKenzie England Sound Design Dan Cooper 5. AQUAM MANIBUS Choreographer Alberto del Saz Special thanks to the O’Donnell Green Music and Dance Foundation. in collaboration with Dancers Music Ikata Composer Biosphere Film Editing Alberto del Saz Sound Design Dan Cooper 7. BRIDGE Choreography | Writing | Narration The MMC Dance Company Concept | Filming | Editing Darshan Singh Bhuller Composer Julian Lynch

MoveOpolis!, among others. She directed Dance Theater, later renamed the Mur- the Dutch National Ballet. Jan received Darshan Singh Bhuller Hyphen, an interdisciplinary performance ray Louis and Nikolais Dance Company. his MA in Dance/Movement Therapy Company group from 2009-2019. The Times Mr. Del Saz has appeared for President from Drexel University. He has been a Darshan called Hyphen, “highly kinetic, complex… Reagan at the regular guest teacher at Ballet West, teaching Singh Bhuller visually exquisite,” and “beautifully per- in a CBS telecast featuring the Nikolais Company Class, Men’s Class and coaching was as dancer, formed.” Cabeen is currently an Associate Dance Theater as well as on PBS American Repertoire. Following an invitation of the choreogra- Professor of Dance at Marymount Manhat- Masters series in “Nik and Murray”, an Albanian Minister of Culture, he taught, pher, rehears- tan College (MMC). In her time at MMC, award winning documentary film by choreographed, and consulted for the al director Cabeen has created several new courses for Christian Blackwood. He has also repre- Tirana Opera Ballet, Tirana College of and teacher the college; one that looks at gender rep- sented the United States State Department Arts, and the Albanian Academy of Arts. with resentation in 20th century dance history, on a tour of India, appeared at the Paris Jan has set all major classical full-length Contempo- one that celebrates and explores American Opera Garnier in a Homage to Alwin Niko- ballets and is a sought-after trainer/coach for rary Dance dance history through the lens of race/ lais and at the Next Wave Festival with Bill professional dancers and international Theatre racism/anti-racism, and one that focuses T. Jones and Arnie Zane Dance Company. ballet competitors. His Students include, from 1979 on the somatic experience of participating Mr. Del Saz is the Reconstruction among others, American Youth Grand to 1994 un- in Social Justice Movements. In addition Director of the Nikolais/Louis repertory Prix Finals Winner Male, Finals 2nd Place der Artistic Director Robert Cohan. He to teaching at MMC’s main Upper East and has staged the Nikolais/Louis reper- Female, and Prix de Lausanne Professional also danced as a member of Siobhan Da- Side campus, Cabeen teaches at Bedford tory on university and professional dance Level 1st prize. His work has been performed vies Dance Company in 1991 and was As- Hills Correctional Facility, a maximum- companies around the world. Among in Europe, Asia, and the United States. Jan sistant to the Director of Richard Alston security prison for women, through MMC’s others: (North Carolina School of the teaches and choreographs regularly in Dance Company from 1994 to 1996. He prison education program. Cabeen is also a Arts, The Juilliard School, Conservatoire Japan and has served as Director of multiple directed numerous dance theatre produc- certified yoga instructor and a teaching art- de la Danse de Paris, Ririe-Woodbury Summer Ballet Workshops over the years. tions & short films through his own com- ist for the Bill T Jones/ Arnie Zane Company. Dance Company, The Joffrey Ballet of pany Singh Productions since 1990 and Cabeen has also been a member of the dance Chicago, Ballet Met, University of Wash- Nancy Lushington was Artistic Director of Phoenix Dance faculties at Cornish College, University ington, University of Illinois, Rutgers State Theatre (UK) between 2002-2006. Cho- of Washington, and Middlebury College. University, , Embodying Historic Repertory reographic works for international compa- catherinecabeen.com. Centre National de Danse Contemporaine in N a n c y nies include CeDeCe and for Companhia Photo by Jaqi Medlock ’07. , Southern Utah University, George Lushington de Bailado Contemporaneo, (Portugal). Mason University, Boston Conservatory, graduated Scottish Dance Theatre, CandoCo Dance University of Utah, Georgia Tech, Hunter with de- Company, Nordic Dance Theatre, Rambert Alberto Del Saz College, Marymount College, partmental Dance Company, Opening Ceremony for Performance Beyond the Camera- Barnard College, Montclair State University, honors in the Millennium Dome and Shaolin Wheel Introdans, BallettCompagnie Oldenburg). dance from of Life (Shaolin Monks of China), Graeae Visual Stimuli and Aesthetics Mr. Del Saz has been with the Nikolais/ Adelphi and La Fura Dels Baus, Gravity & Lev- Louis Foundation for 37 years, at the University. ity and Graham 2 Dance Company (NYC) ALBERTO moment his focus is in preserving the She danced He continues to work internationally as DEL SAZ Nikolais/Louis technique, repertory and freelance choreographer and filmmaker. was born in legacy through his teaching and directing. as a solo- Bilbao, ist with Spain. At an the May O’Donnell Concert Dance Com- Catherine Cabeen early age he Jan Dijkwel pany for over 15 years. She has performed Collaboration studied ice- Psychology & Group Dynamics, professionally with the Joyce Trisler s k a t i n g , Danscompany, Theater Dance Collection, Dance and Civic Engagement which later and How it Relates to the Choreo- The Asolo Opera, and Verlezza Dance, as Cather i n e led to his first graphic well as in ’s “Mass” at Cabeen, MFA performing the Kennedy Center. She has appeared is an artist and career. In Process on television in May O’Donnell’s Dance teacher based 1980 Mr. del Energies, Mass, and was a featured dancer in NYC. She Saz became the Spanish National Cham- Jan Dijkwel in a national commercial choreographed is a former pion in figure skating and soon made his completed his by Lynne Taylor Corbett. She is one of dancer with debut with Holiday on Ice-International. BFA in Ballet the few dancers who set Ms. O’Donnell’s the Bill T His early dance training was received at the Performance works both in the US and abroad. She Jones/Arnie Nikolais/Louis Dance Lab from the great at the Dutch has choreographed over 30 works for Zane Compa- teachers of the technique: , National colleges, universities and regional ny, the Mar- , , Claudia Ballet companies. Ms. Lushington has taught tha Graham Gitelman, Tandy Beal, Beverly Blossom Acad- internationally in Cyprus, Graz Aus- Dance Company, and Richard Move’s and others. In 1985 Mr. Del Saz made his emy, the Netherlands after which tria and at Bolzano Danza in Italy. debut as a lead soloist with the Nikolais Dijkwel performed extensively with She has also taught Master Classes in Ferrara, Barcelona, London and through- NEC, NJSO, NYNME, NYYS, Seattle Sym- April of 2018 Mondo was selected to show out the United States. She has served on the Dan Cooper phony - Octave 9, American Composers Or- at Fashion Week and was awarded faculty at Adelphi University, Montclair Sound Designer chestra - Sonic Festival, Talujon, Tenth In- a City Citation by the Brooklyn Borough State University (1989-2019), Jacob’s Pil- tervention, Walter W. Naumburg Fund, and President. When not behind his sketchpad low Dance Festival, The New York School Dan Cooper was born and raised in Zentripetal Duo, among others. Cooper is or sewing machine, Mondo also works as for Film and Television, Stephens College Manhattan, and educated at Horace Mann, currently on the faculty of Marymount a freelance Make-Up Artist for dancers, and was the Artistic Director of the Dance Columbia, NEC, Princeton, Conservatoire Manhattan College, as well as SUNY-FIT, performance artists, and bridal parties. In Education Fund, Inc for 19 years. She is de Nice, and Fontainebleau. The recipient where he has created new SUNY General Mondo is also currently in collaboration currently Associate Professor of Dance at of an composition fellow- Education Requirement courses in Ameri- with the legendary photographer, Thomas Marymount Manhattan College, and Chair ship to Tanglewood, Cooper composed can Music, European-Classical Music, and Evans, on “Femme the Man;” a photo series of the Dance Department. She also serves and produced incidental music for several Latin-American and Caribbean Music. In that challenges gender identity stereotypes. on the Board of Directors of the O’Donnell acclaimed Shakespeare & Company addition, Cooper teaches composition at Green Foundation for Music and Dance. productions: ‘A Midsummer Night’s 92Y School of Music, and music and Shake- Dream,’ ‘Coriolanus,’ ‘King Lear,’ and ‘The speare classes at Greenwich House Senior Philip Treviño Monique Smith Winter’s Tale.’ As a multi-instrumentalist Center. Cooper helped create the Commu- Technical Director specializing in 7-string bass guitar and nity Arts program at Goddard Riverside, Using Today’s Climate to Develop also flute with electronics, Cooper has and is a co-director of the 501(c)(3) cham- Philip Treviño (Technical Director) is a Artistic Style performed all over the world, as a mem ber music series and Compos- 2010 recipient of a New York Dance and ber of singer Ute Lemper’s trio, as well as ers Concordance, distributed by Naxos. Performance Award (BESSIE) for his lighting the groups Barbaric Yawp, Erbium, Free Monique and scenic design for Pam Tanowitz’s Be Radicals, Nine Live, Sound Liberation, In The Gray With Me. He is also the scenic Smith is an Tilted Axes, Vision Into Art, and The Mondo Morales Honors grad- designer for Camille A. Brown and Company’s Yorkvillians, among others. Venues have Costume Designer Mr. Tol E. Rance, which won a 2014 BESSIE uate of the included Anadolu Auditorium Istanbul, A Fordham/ for Outstanding Production. Recently, he ustrian Cultural Forum, Berlin Philhar- Mondo Morales, a graduate of Marymount designed lights for Jenn Freeman/Freemove Ailey BFA monic Hall, Bohemian National Hall, Manhattan College, has spent his post P r o g r a m . Dance ...it’s time... at 14th Street Y, Catherine Bunkamura Orchard Hall Tokyo, Casino collegiate years shaping and shifting the Cabeen/Hyphen Give Me More at Theater for Performance de Paris, CBGB’s, Chicago Theater, Davies costume design field. His background in both credits in- the New City, and Pioneers Go East Collective’s Hall, Dom Omladine Beograda, Galapa- dance and styling is apparent in his work; Gemini Stars/Scorpio Stars at La MaMa and clude Aftergos Art Space, Grande Auditório do Centro His costumes move effortlessly with their Midnight CowboysCowgirls at JACK directed by Gian Cultural de Belém Lisbon, Hong Kong City wearer and embody ’s style, Marco Lo Forte. Some of his other credits in (Broadway), Hall, Irving Plaza, Joe’s Pub, Jordan Hall, merging urban fashion with contemporary Memphis lighting and scenic design can be seen in works Konserthuset Stockholm, Koseinenkin dance-wear. He has costumed for artists by Brian Brooks Moving Company, Camille Hall Osaka, Le Poisson Rouge, Lisner Audi- such as The American Dance A. Brown and Dancers, Henning Rübsam’s (Broadway), Hot Feet (Broadway), and torium, Mäntyniemi Helsinki, Massey Hall, Theater, Marymount Manhattan College, dance companies including Philadanco, Sensedance, Kymera Dance, Pam Tanowitz National Opera Center, NYPL for the Per- The Steps Ensemble, Jennifer Archibald, Dance and Chris Tanner/Brandon Olson’s Sonya Tayeh Dance, and Forces of Nature forming Arts - Lincoln Center, 92Y, Palau The Fosse Foundation, Hope Boykin, Earl Dance Company. She has performed for Ravaged by Romance at LaMaMa. His work de la Música Catalana, Piccolo Teatro di Mi- Mosley, Sonya Tayeh, Pascal Rioult and has toured nationally, internationally and Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square lano, Pori Jazz Festival, Rockefeller Center, Jeremy McQueen, among others. Mondo Garden and the New York Philharmonic at such notable venues as BAM, The Joyce, Rockwood Music Hall, Royal Albert Hall, acted as The Alvin Ailey School’s Costume Joyce Soho, DTW, Lincoln Center Out of and is a Fred and Adele Astaire Award Staatsoper Berlin, Sydney Opera House, Coordinator/Wardrobe Supervisor from nominee. She has taught at numerous dance Doors, The Kitchen, La MaMa ETC., New Symphony Space, Teatro Albeniz Madrid, 2012-2015 and is currently on staff at York City Center and Jacob’s Pillow. He has schools across the country for over twenty Teatro Cultura Artística São Paulo, Teatro Marymount Manhattan College as their years. Monique is a teacher and adjudica- Stage Managed for Trisha Brown Dance Grand Rex Buenos Aires, Tenri Cultural Costume Coordinator. In addition, Mondo Company and José Limón Dance Company tor for National Dance Showcase and Youth Center, The American Airlines (Selwyn) works as a photo stylist and art director, America Grand Prix. She has also worked as well as Production Stage Managed for Theatre, The American Museum of Natu- collaborating with dance artists such as Wally Cardona Quartet’s Everywhere and as choreographer for Fantasia Barrino at ral History, The Note, Town Hall, and Sidra Bell, Jeremy McQueen, and Christian Circle of Sisters, and Savion Glover’s As- SITE, Kate Weare Company, Christopher Weill Recital Hall / Carnegie Hall, amon- Von Howard, and photographers such as Williams’ The Golden Legend and many more. sociate Choreographer for Don’t Bother gothers, plus broadcasts on NBC, BBC, Ra- Jaqi Medlock, Jubal Battisti and Matthew Me, I Can’t Cope at City Center. She is He is a proud alumnus of State dio France, Bravo, and RAI. Cooper’s music Murphy. In 2016, Mondo had a solo University where he received a BA in Drama currently the Associate Choreographer has been recognized with various awards, exhibit, “Skinetic Moments,” presented for Caroline, or Change on Broadway. and a Minor in Music. Philip is the current commissions, premieres, readings, perfor- at G Lounge Chelsea and ALOFT Technical Director for the Dance Department mances, recordings, showcases, and resi- Hotel Harlem, showcasing a series at Marymount Manhattan College where he dencies from Absolute Ensemble, Albany of images exploring color and paint as teaches Stagecraft for Dance. Complete details — Production — Symphony, ASCAP, Artists International, dancers’ apparel. In Feb of 2018, Mondo available at http://www.philiptrevino.com./ Avaloch Music Institute, Cary Trust, ESYO, releasedhis first collection featured in a Engine 27, Harlem Chamber Players, Imani short film Directed by Angelo Soriano Winds, June in Buffalo, NARAS, NEA, and Choreographer Angelica Stiskin. In — DANCERS —

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