White Oak Dance Project Thursday, August 3, 2000
The order of this evening's program will be: (please see program book for complete credits)
-I Huddle Created by Simone Forti ( 1961) {This piece will be seen on stage as the audience enters the theatre) Performers: Felicia Ballos, Elizabeth Hamilton, Amanda Loulaki, Osmany Tellez and the White Oak Dance Project dancers The performers in this piece are drawn from the White Oak Dance Project dancers and the New York dance community
-II- Visual collage with text Narrated by Mikhail Baryshnikov
-III- Chair lntro 2000 Dancer: Mikhail Baryshnikov
-IV- Chair I two times Constructed by David Gordon (1975) Dancers: Raquel Aedo, Emmanuele Phuon
-V- Single Duet Choreography by Deborah Hay (2000) Dancers: Deborah Hay, Mikhail Baryshnikov -VI Satisfyin Lover Choreography by Steve Paxton (1967) Performers: Felicia Ballos, Roslyn Black, Myrtle Church, PJ Dempsey, John DeMinico, Charlene Downing, Gary Echternach, Elizabeth Guarasci, Elizabeth Hamilton, Kimberly Hurdman, Lucy James, Lukas Keller, Teresa Kliokis, Peteris Krumins, Jean Lee, Amanda Loulaki, Theran MacNeil, Lauren Makrancy, Mary Makrancy, Daniel Marks, Gretchen Michaelfeld, Michael Mindlin, Liza Minno, Nora Minno, Joann Mitchell, Nicole Plett, Jack Richards, Skylier Ross, Howard Sacks, Vickie Schlegel, Paulette Sears, Valda Setterfield, Sarah Stead, Meghan Sudol, Osmany Tellez, Beatrice Terry, John Tucker, Steven Vrahnos, Mnikesa Whitaker and the White Oak Dance Project dancers. The performers in this piece are drawn from the White Oak Dance Project dancers and from the New York, Princeton, and Philadelphia communities.
-VII Homemade Choreography by Trisha Brown ( 1965) Danctr: Mikhail Baryshnikov
-VIII- After Many a Summer Dies the Swan Choreography by Yvonne Rainer (2000) Dancers: Raquel Aedo, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Emily Coates, Rosalynde LeBlanc, Michael Lomeka, Emmanuele Phuon
NOTES: TONIGHT'S PERFORMANCE IS APPROXIMATELY I l/2 HOURS IN LENGTH WITH NO INTERMISSION The dance images seen this evening were photographed by Peter Moore and provided courtesy of Barbara Moore/ Bound & Unbound. Lucinda Childs works, Carnation and Concerto are not included in the Princeton program. The pieces will be taught and rehearsed by our company in September, to be included in the Fall 2000 US Tour. The piece, HUDDLE, that happens in the lobby prior to the performance is performed by Gary Echternacht, Lucy James, Teresa Kliokis, Peteris Krumins, Jean Lee, Theran MacNeil, Daniel Marks, Michael Mindlin, Paulette Sears and Sarah Stead. White Oak Dance Project Friday, August 4, 2000
The order of this evening's program will be: (please see program book for complete credits)
Scramble Created by Simone Forti ( 1970) (This piece will be seen on stage as the audience enters the theater) Performers: Felicia Ballas, Elizabeth Hamilton, Amanda Loulaki, Osmany Tellez and the White Oak Dance Project dancers The performers in this piece are drawn from the White Oak Dance Project dancers and the New York dance community
Visual collage with text Created by David Gordon Jim Lewis and David Forni Narrated by Mikhail Baryshnikov
Overture to "The Matter" Constructed by David Gordon ( 1979) including "Broom" by A in Gordon Performers: Roslyn Black, Myrtle Church, P J Dempsey, John DeMinico, Charlene Downing, Kimberly Hurdman, Lucy James, Lukas Keller, Peteris Krumins, Jean Lee, Lauren Makrancy, Mary Makrancy, Gretchen Michelfeld, Liza Minna, Nora Minna, Joann Mitchell, Nicole Plett, Jack Richards, Vickie Schlegel, Paulette Sears, Valda Setterfield, Sarah Stead, Meghan Sudol, Beatrice Terry, John Tucker, Steven Vrahnos, Mnikesa Whitaker Mikhail Baryshnikov and performers from the Princeton community
Flat Choreography by Steve Paxton (1964) Dancer: Mikhail Baryshnikov Whizz Choreography by Deborah Hay (2000) Music by Alvin Lucier, Clocker (special version for Deborah Hay and the White Oak Dance Project) Dancers: Raquel Aedo, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Emily Coates, Rosalynde LeBlanc, Michael Lomeka, Emmanuele Phuon
Trio A Pressured #3 Choreography by Yvonne Rainer (1966) 1. Backwards: Rosalynde LeBlanc, Emmanuele Phuon 2. Facing: Raquel Aedo, Michael Lomeka 3. Forwards: Raquel Aedo, Emily Coates, Rosalynde LeBlanc, Michael Lomeka, Emmanuele Phuon
Homemade Choreography by Trisha Brown ( 1965) Dancer: Mikhail Baryshnikov
For the love of rehearsal Constructed by David Gordon (2000) Dancers: Raquel Aedo, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Emily Coates, Rosalynde LeBlanc, Michael Lomeka, Emmanuele Phuon
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Harrison • Princeton 609.921.6234 This evening's program will be a selection from: "For the Love of Rehearsal" "Homemade" Constructed by David Gordon (2000) Choreography by Trisha Brown (1965) Music by Johann Sebastian Bach Film by Babette Mangolte Six Preludes from The Cello Suites Lighting by Les Dickert Rehearsal Assistant: Karen Graham Dancer: Mikhail Baryshnikov Costume Coordinator: Deanna Berg Dancers: Raquel Aedo, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Emily Coates, Rosalynde LeBlanc, The original "Homemade," which was performed by Ms. Brown, was a sequence of Michael Lomeka, Emmanuele Phuon discreet movements drawn from her personal life and memory. Mr. Baryshnikov 's own personal material has been integrated into this new version. Commissioned by The White Oak Dance Project, work was begun in June with Karen Graham, Scott Cunningham and Tadej Brdnik, and completed on the White Oak compa "Huddle" ny in July, 2000. -D. G. Created by Simone Forti (1961) Rehearsal Assistant: Nancy Duncan Overture to "The Matter" Constructed by David Gordon (1979) including "Broom" by Ain Gordon The performers in this piece are drawn from the White Oak Dance Project dancers Music by Leon Minkus and from the New York and Princeton dance community Entrance of the shades from La Bayadere The dancers climb, support, are a singular form, a sculpture in space. Rehearsal Assistant: Karen Graham Performers: Mikhail Baryshnikov and performers from the Princeton community "Scramble" "The Matter" was performed by 20 students in 1971 during a teaching residency at Created by Simone Forti (1970) Oberlin College in Ohio and dedicated to Camilla Gray Prokofieva who died suddenly that Rehearsal Assistant: Nancy Duncan winter at the Black Sea. The performers in this piece are drawn from the White Oak Dance Project dancers The second version was performed at the Cunningham Studio in New York in 1972 and from the New York and Princeton dance community with 40 volunteer dancers and civilians. I added a solo for Valda Setterfield based on pho A steady state activity, like an ongoing flocking of birds. tographs by Eadweard Muybridge. The third version in New York in 1979 had 23 dancers and sections were later video taped for the PBS Dance in America. "Chair I two times" The original overture was the improvised design of a structure by a single person with Constructed by David Gordon ( 197 5) stop action timing which, when completed, was disassembled by the cast. (I used to make Rehearsal Assistant: Scott Cunningham a living doing window display.) The entrance of the performers to music from La Dancers: Raquel Aedo, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Emmanuele Phuon Bayadere, and the broom solo were added in 1979. Valda Setterfield and I used to do four versions of "Chair." The original, the symmet Unlike writing a book or a play or painting a picture, dances are made on people. Their rical, with repeats, and with singing. The first performances were at the Paula Cooper abilities and idiosyncratic behavior, their response to direction and to music inform and Gallery in New York. - D.G. color the material. I am terrifically sorry not to have the room here to name all of the peo ple who have danced in this piece. I remember them.- D. G. "Beethoven" Constructed by David Gordon (1998) "Whizz" Music by Ludwig van Beethoven Choreography by Deborah Hay (2000) String Quartet in F major: Lento Assai E Cantante Tranquillo Music by Alvin Lucier: Clockers Rehearsal Assistant: Karen Graham Dancers: Raquel Aedo, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Emily Coates, Rosalynde LeBlanc, Costume Coordinator: Deanna Berg Michael Lomeka, Emmanuele Phuon Dancers: Raquel Aedo, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Emily Coates, Emmanuele Phuon Whizz is laced with choreographed strategies that heighten and simplify the dancers' First performed as part of "Illustrated Radio Shows" at Soho Rep in New York, this moment-to-moment experience of performance, in and of itself. The supposition is that piece was made on Tadej Brdnik, Tine Byrsted, Julie Ramirez and Karen Graham. I use a audiences can then access similar states of spontaneous alertness. - D.H. videotape of their dancing to teach this material. - D. G. The spoken language in this dance is derived from the writing and purported death-bed "Single Duet" utterances of Marlene Dietrich, Sigmund Freud, Nancy Graves, Anthony Hopkins, Henry Choreography by Deborah Hay (2000) James, Herbert Muschamp, Vladimir Nabokov, Katha Pollit, Belle Rainer, Yvonne Rainer, Music by Morton Feldman: Four Hands Alvin Taylor, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Pancho Villa, and others. The language does not nec Dancers: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Deborah Hay essarily represent the views of those who speak it. "Single Duet" was choreographed specifically for Mikhail Baryshnikov and Deborah Imbedded in the dance are homages to Simone Forti , Peter Moore, and Steve Paxton. Hay. "What if two artists, with decades of devotion to a practice but with entirely differ ent approaches to their discipline, are onstage together, and revealed through their differ -Program/Casting Subject to Change - ences?" - D.H. 1 \ "Satisfyin Lover" About the Choreographers Choreography by Steve Paxton (1967) TRISHA BROWN In 1960, at the age of 1994, Brown was the recipient of the Samuel Rehearsal Assistant: Nancy Duncan 23, Trisha Brown became one of the leaders H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award; The performers in this piece are drawn from the White Oak Dance Project dancers of New York's Judson Street Dance Theater, in 1996 she was awarded the Prix de la Danse and from the New York and Princeton community the revolutionary movement that changed de la Societe des Auteurs et Compositeurs modem dance forever. After founding the Dramatiques; in 1999 she received the New "Flat" Trisha Brown Dance Company in 1970, she York State Governor's Arts Award; and in began a series of large-scale theatrical pro 2000 she was Chevalier dans 1' ordre des Arts Choreography by Steve Paxton (1964) ductions that transformed traditional stage et des Lettres. Brown served on the National Dancer: Mikhail Baryshnikov space, collaborating with such artists as Council on the Arts from May 1994 to "Satisfyin Lover" and "Flat" are early examples of pedestrian choreography. - S.P. Robert Rauschenberg, Donald Judd, Laurie November 1997, and was inducted as an Anderson, Nancy Graves, Fujiko Nakaya, Honorary Member of the American "Trio A Pressured #3" and John Cage. Ms. Brown typically works Academy of Arts and Letters in 1997. in cycles of three or four dances. Her music Choreography by Yvonne Rainer (1966) cycle began with MO. (1995), a 55-minute SIMONE FORTI began dancing in 1955 Music by The Chamber Brothers: In the Midnight Hour dance set to Bach's Musical Offering, and with Anna Halprin, who was doing pioneer Assistant to the Choreographer: Pat Catterson culminated in her highly acclaimed produc ing work in improvisation and developing a 1. Backwards: Rosalynde LeBlanc, Emmanuele Phuon tion of Monteverdi's opera, L'Orfeo, which workshop process. Forti went on to study 2. Facing: Raquel Aedo, Michael Lomeka had its world premiere at the Theatre Royal with Robert Dunn who introduced her to the 3. Forwards: Raquel Aedo, Emily Coates, Rosalynde LeBlanc, de la Monnaie in Brussels in May, 1998. Ms. scores of John Cage and to a conceptual Michael Lomeka, Emmanuele Phuon Brown is currently at work on a full-evening approach to composition. Out of these two jazz trilogy, with original music by compos influences, which still inform her work, she "After Many a Summer Dies the Swan" er Dave Douglas, visual presentation by created her first concert titled Five Dance Choreography by Yvonne Rainer (2000) renowned artist Terry Winters, and lighting Constructions and Some Other Things. Music: Arietta (Edvard Grieg); Ode to Joy (Beethoven's 9th Symphony); design by Jennifer Tipton. The entire trilogy Dance critic Jennifer Dunning wrote in a River Deep, Mountain High (Ike and Tina Turner) was presented at the American Dance 1997 New York Times review, "Simone Forti Lighting by Les Dickert Festival in June, 2000. The first woman to presented her first dance program in 1960 Assistant to the Choreographer: Pat Catterson 1 receive the coveted MacArthur Foundation and since then has had a steadily increasing Fellowship in choreography, Trisha Brown influence on post-modernist choreographers Dancers: Raquel Aedo, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Emily Coates, has received many other honors and awards, interested in exploring "natural," or non-for Rosalynde LeBlanc, Michael Lomeka, Emmanuele Phuon l including five fellowships from the National malist, movement and dance." From her "I must constantly remind myselfof the importance ofmistakes, failures, interruptions, Endowment for the Arts and two John early minimalist dance constructions, breakdowns, "inappropriate" interventions, accidents, muddles, mix-ups ... and chance Simon Guggenheim Fellowships. In 1987, through her animal studies, news animations occurrences." -Yvonne Rainer she received both a Dance Magazine Award and land portraits, Forti has always worked "I am by no means sure that I should prefer a continuation of my work by others for "twenty-five years of sustained innova with an eye towards creating idioms for to a change in the way people live which would make all these questions superflu tions" and the Laurence Olivier Award for exploring natural forms and behaviors. Since ous."- Ludwig Wittgenstein "most outstanding achievement in dance." In the early 1980's, she has been developing Logomotion, an improvisational dance/nar Residency grant to work with the Guthrie Yvonne Rainer, Trisha Brown and others. Scandinavia, London, Germany, and Italy rative form wherein movement and words Theater where he directed and choreo A co-founder of the Judson Dance Theater, between 1964 and 1972, and at the Festival spontaneously weave together creating cohe graphed The Firebugs in 1995, and a 1996 NYC 1962, and Grand Union, 1971. He d' Automne in Paris in 1972. In 1968 she sive images of subjects ranging from world National Dance Residency Project grant. In instigated Contact Improvisation in 1972, began to integrate short films into her live news to the roots of a cabbage plant. Simone 1999 he directed and choreographed The which continues today as an international performances and by 197 5 she had made a Forti has performed and taught throughout First Picture Show (text by the Gordons) network of dancers who convene to practice complete transition to filmmaking. Some of the world and has received various grants commissioned by the Mark Taper Forum in this form and who publish news and research her better known dances and theater pieces including six NEA fellowships. In 1995 she collaboration with ACT. Currently, Gordon in Contact Quarterly (Northampton, MA), are Terrain (1963), The Mind is a Muscle received the New York Dance and is working on a music theater adaptation of for which he is a contributing editor. Mr. (1966-68), Continuous Project-Altered Performance Award ("Bessie"), for sustained The Wind in the Willows for American Paxton lives in Vermont. He received a New Daily (1969-70),WAR (1970), and This is achievement. She is the subject of a chapter Conservatory Theater. York Dance and Performance Award the story of a woman who ... (1973). Since in Sally Banes's book Terpsichore in ("Bessie") for on-going choreography in 1972 Rainer has completed seven Sneakers. Her own book, Handbook in DEBORAH HAY Born in Brooklyn in 1987, and grants from National feature-length films, beginning with Lives of Motion, which was published in 1974 by the 1941, Hay grew up dancing and was an early Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Performers and more recently Privilege Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and participant in Judson Dance Theater. In 1964 Foundation, Contemporary Performance (1990, winner of the Filmmakers' Trophy at Design, is currently being republished in she danced with the Merce Cunningham Arts Foundation, and Change, Inc. In 1994, the 1991 Sundance Film Festival, Park City, French translation by the Belgian dance Dance Company. Hay left New York in 1970, he received the Vermont Governor's Award Utah, and the Geyer Werke Prize at the 1991 magazine Nouvelle de Danse. to live in a community in northern Vermont. for Excellence in the Arts. In 1995 he International Documentary Film Festival in Her daughter Savannah was born one year received a grant from the Contemporary Munich), and MURDER and murder (1996, DAVID GORDON performed in the com later. It was here that she began to follow a Performance Arts Foundation and was winner of the Teddy Award at the 1997 panies of James Waring and Yvonne Rainer. rigorous daily performance practice which awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Berlin Film Festival and Special Jury Award Choreographed for the original Judson continues to inform her as a student, teacher, at the 1999 Miami Lesbian and Gay Film Church performances. A founder of the and dancer. In 197 6 she moved to Austin, YVONNE RAINER was born in San Festival). All of her films have been shown 1970's group Grand Union. He started the Texas. From 1980 through 1996 she con Francisco in 1934. She trained as a modem throughout the U.S. and at major internation Pick Up Performance Company in 1971. ducted fifteen annual large group work dancer in New York from 1957 and began to al film festivals. She is the recipient of Guggenheim Fellow (1981 and 1987.) shops, each lasted four months and culmi choreograph her own work in 1960. She was numerous awards and fellowships, notably Served as panelist and chairman at the NEA' nated in public performances. The group one of the founders of the Judson Dance two Guggenheim Fellowships, a MacArthur dance program. Video work appeared on dances became the fabric for her solo perfor Theater in 1962, the genesis of a movement Fellowship, a Wexner Prize, seven NEA KTCA Alive TV, PBS Great Performances, mance repertory. Her book Lamb at the that proved to be a vital force in modem awards, three Rockerfeller Fellowships, and The BBC and Channel 4 I Great Britain. The Altar: The Story of a Dance, Duke dance in the following decades. Between four Honorary Doctorates. Her latest book, A Mysteries and What s So Funny?, written University Press, 1994, documents that 1962 and 1975 she presented her choreogra Woman Who ... : Essays, Interviews, Scripts, and directed in 1992 won a New York Dance unique creative process. Hay received a 1983 phy throughout the United States and was published by Johns Hopkins University and Performance Award ("Bessie") and an Guggenheim Fellowship in Choreography, Europe, notably on Broadway in 1969, in Press in 1999. Obie and was published in Grove New and numerous National Endowment for the American Theater edited by Michael Arts Choreography Fellowships. She was AbotJt the Dancers Feingold. The Family Business, written with also the recipient of a 1996 Rockefeller Ain Gordon (Associate Director of the Pick Foundation Bellagio Fellowship in collabo RAQUEL AEDO was born in Miami, MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV was born in Up Company) won an Obie in 1994. Gordon ration with the Austin sculptor, Tre Arenz. Florida, where she trained with Gerri Riga, Latvia, of Russian parents. He began directed and choreographed Shlemiel the She tours extensively as a solo performer Karuncho and went on to attend The New studying ballet in Riga, and after a few First for the American Repertory Theater and teacher. Her third book, My Body, The World School of the Arts. She has per years, was accepted by the Vaganova and The American Music Theater Festival. It Buddhist, will be available Fall 2000, pub formed with the Ballet Theater of Miami, School in Leningrad where he studied was performed at American Conservatory lished by Wesleyan University Press. and the Frederick Bratcher Contemporary under the renowned teacher Alexander Theatre (ACT) in San Francisco 1996 and Dance Company. Since coming to New Pushkin. At 18, he entered the Kirov Ballet won the 1997 Dramalogue Awards for STEVE PAXTON Born in Phoenix, York in 1991, she has studied at the Merce as a soloist and remained with the compa Direction and Choreography at the Geffen Arizona, U.S.A., schooled in modern dance Cunningham Studio and toured with ny from 1968 to 1974, when he left Russia. Playhouse in Los Angeles. Gordon was and ballet. Performed with the Merce Douglas Dunn and Dancers from 1992 to From 1974 to 1979, he danced with ballet awarded Pew Charitable Trust grants in both Cunningham Dance Co., Jose Limon Co., 1994. She joined White Oak Dance and modern companies around the world. theater and dance: A National Theatre Artist Pauline Koner, Pearl Lang, Tamiris-Nagrin, Project in 1994. He was a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet from 1979 to 1980, and Wright, Susan Klein, and Barbara Mahler from 1980 until 1989 he was Artistic and voice with Ridley Chauvin. She joined McCarter Associates Director of American Ballet Theatre. In White Oak Dance Project in October 1999. 1990, with Mark Morris, Mr. Baryshnikov The McCarter Trustees and Board of Associates express appreciation to the following contributors for their extraordinary generosity in making this season possible. In addition to these gifts, McCarter fo~nded White Oak Dance Project. He is MICHAEL LOMEKA was born in the Theatre has received hundreds of contributions below $250 and has benefited from thousands of the 1997 recipient of a New York Dance Philippines and began dancing in the island hours of volunteer service. The* denotes individuals who are McCarter Rising Stars - individuals and Performance Award "Bessie"). of Guam under the direction ofTeri Knapp. who increased their giving level from the previous year. To become a McCarter Associate or Rising He was accepted into the Juilliard School, Star, please call the Development Office at 609-258-6544. EMILY COATES began her dance train under the direction of Benjamin Harkarvy, ing with the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre where he performed in works by Jose GRAND SPONSORS School. She continued her training at the Limon, Agnes de Mille and Paul Taylor. Aetna/US Healthcare J. Seward Johnson Sr. Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. School of American Ballet, where she was Upon graduation, he joined the Broadway American Airlines Charitable Trusts National Endowment for the Arts awarded the Mae L. Wien Award for Arts Challenge Fund Johnson & Johnson Family NJ Hospital Association company of The King and I and has also AT&T of Companies New Jersey State Council on the Outstanding Promise in 1992 and was been a part of the Broadway production of A Bell Atlantic The Joyce and Seward Johnson Arts/Department of State asked to join the New York City Ballet Christmas Carol, choreographed by Susan Bloomberg Financial Markets Foundation The Pew Charitable Trusts/Theatre (NYCB) that same year. During her six Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Lambert Communications Group Stroman, as well as the pre-Broadway pro The BWF Foundation, Inc. The Blanche and Irving Laurie PNC Bank, N.A. years with NYCB, she danced in many duction of Romeo and Juliet The Musical, Helen and Martin Chooljian Foundation Princeton University roles in the Balanchine, Robbins and with choreography by Christopher The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Duncan and Nancy MacMillan* Prudential Foundation Martins repertoire. This is her second sea of America Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. Matthews The Shubert Foundation d' Amboise. Mr. Lomeka toured with White The Educational Foundation Sharon and Herbert Mayo* The Starr Foundation son with White Oak Dance Project. Oak Dance Project in 1998 and is excited to of America The Curtis W. McGraw Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John L. Steffens* return this season. Liz Fillo Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Harold and Mimi Steinberg ROSALYNDE LeBLANC was born in William Randolph Hearst Mercedes-Benz/Princeton Charitable Trust Foundation Motorsport, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. William M. Swain, Jr. Baltimore, Maryland where she began danc EMMANUELE PHUON is French Betty Wold Johnson and Merck & Co. Inc. Tribune New York Foundation ing at the Peabody Preparatory. She received Cambodian. She was raised in Asia where Douglas F. Bushnell Lila Wallace - Reader's Digest Fund a BFA in dance in 1994 at the State she studied traditional Cambodian dance ANGELS University ofNewYork at Purchase. In 1993, and ballet. In New York she has danced Ms. LeBlanc began her professional career AmericanRe Fleet Bank Lucent Technologies with the Elisa Monte Dance Company ABB Energy Ventures, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. John P Hall* PSE&G dancing with Bill T. Jones in the duet Shared from 1989 to 1994, the Kevin Wynn Dow Jones & Company Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Reed Smith Shaw & McClay LLP Distance. She remained with Bill T. Collection, Buglisi/Foreman Dance, and Drinker Biddle and Reath LLP Ernestine and Herbert Ruben Jones/Arnie Zane Company until 1999. Martha Clarke's production of Orpheo for TRENDSETTERS Currently, she studies dance with Christine the New York City Opera. American Home Products Ginny and Bob Hendrickson George A. Ohl, Jr. Trust Corporation Mr. and Mrs. Allen N. Jones The Perkins Charitable Foundation WHITE OAK DANCE PROJECT to Natalie Moody and the wonderful staff at The Howard Mary Owen Borden Foundation Lord & Taylor Princeton Area Community Artistic and Fundraising Consultants ...... Sam Miller, Gilman Foundation. Suzanne Wei! Mr. and Mrs. James E. Burke Cheryl and Brad Mills Foundation, Inc. Dramaturg ...... James Lewis Funding for the creative costs of Yvonne Rainer's "After Mr. and Mrs. Shawn Ellsworth The Jay B. Nash Foundation James and Amy Regan Community Outreach Programs Director ...... Nancy Duncan Many a Summer Dies the Swan" was provided by James H. The Alex J. Ettl Foundation Nexus Properties Inc. Rhodia Inc. Assistant General Manager ...... Huong Hoang Duffy in memory of his late wife, Martha Duffy. First Union National Bank Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals Inc. The Billy Rose Foundation Assistant to the Director ...... Karen Graham The video component of PastForward was made possible by a Emily and Bill Gindin Caroline S. and F. Helmut Weymar Production Manager ...... Greg Rowland grant from the National Initiative to Preserve America's Lighting Supervisor ...... Les Dickert Dance (NIPAD), a program under the umbrella SAVE AS : PACESETTERS Company Manager ...... Meg Kowalski DANCE, underwritten by the Pew Charitable Trusts and Mr. and Mrs. David R. Atkinson Jacqueline and James Johnson* George and Estelle Sands* Wardrobe Supervisor ...... Deanna Berg administered at Dance/USA. Stage Manager ...... Lisa Porter Elliot and Joanne Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Jusick Grant and Cynthia Schaumburg Production Associate ...... Ann-Marie Brady Additional funding by Phillip Morris and Merrill Lynch. Commodities Corporation LLC Mr. and Mrs. William L. Keefauver Janet and Winthrop Short Video/Camera ...... Peter Richards New works created by David Gordon, Deborah Hay, and Mary and Theodore Cross Laporte, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. W.S. Gerald Skey Physical Therapist ...... Susan Edgerton, P.T. Yvonne Rainer have been commissioned by The Baryshnikov Mr. and Mrs. John T. Curnbler Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Lescroart* Mr. and Mrs. Arnold H. Snider Bookkeeping/Clerical Volunteer ...... Virginia Sterner Dance Foundation for White Oak Dance Project. Custodial Trust Company Jackie and Cy Meisel Summit Bank ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Fred and Barbara Fields Mobil Foundation, Inc. Special thanks to Doug Stein, Andy Jackness, and The Studio, Happy and Jack Wallace Our deep appreciation to Sue Wei! and Sam Miller who have and to Howard Sacks. William M. Green, M.D. and The New York Times Company Neil and Vicki Weisfeld* been our guides throughout this project. Diane Ruble Foundation, Inc. Myra and VanZandt Williams, Jr. Also many thanks to Bruce Allardice for his support and counsel. Accountant ...... Bruce Nadell, Robert and Sally Huxley Tim and Kathleen Nolan* Anonymous Padell Nadell Fine & Weinberger Janssen Pharmaceutica Products, L.P Jacquie and Woody Phares/West The Baryshnikov Dance Foundation is supported, in major Travel Arrangements ...... Ilene Furgang Travel Service Chemical Products, Inc. part, by The Howard Gilman Foundation. Our heartfelt thanks Consulting Orthopedist ...... William G. Hamilton M.D. PR ODUCERS Dorothy and Charles Mr. and Mrs. William T. Bob and Anita Foster*: AC Compacting Presses, Inc. Plohn, Jr. Lifland Richard and Judith Fuller Robert Y. Garrett Ill so Alter Asset Beth and Venkat Reddy John and Mary Loetscher Carol and Andrew Golden For all your you want Management, Inc.* David and Harriet Robertson Mrs. Sylvia B. Mann Marsha and Mark Gordon Jermain J. and Ellis B. Dr. Albert L. and Carol A. Livia and Joseph McCarthy*: Francis Greenburger and a look at our f Ad Anderson Rosenthal*: NJ Commission for the Blind Judy Willows Mr. and Mrs. William D. Mr. and Mrs. William H . and Visually Impaired language famous sea Ou Randall and Mary Hack Baird, Jr.*: Scheide Ilana Pachter and Bill Wynn Kathleen M. Hanes and • Mr. and Mrs. Peter Benchley William and Valeria Mr. C.N. Pond*: Henry A. Scimeca, M.D. Katherine Benesch*: Schiemann Dr. and Mrs. Leon neecls Archer and Tom Harvey c1pes The Bernstein Education Steve and Sally Schroeder*: Rosenberg*: Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Hayes Through the Arts Vivian and Harold Shapiro Dr. and Mrs. Lewis G. Sandy Mr. and Mrs. John Healey*: Fund, Inc. Ricky and Andrew J. 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