September / October 2003 BAM 2003 Next Wave Festival

Roy Kortick, ear arch with fountain, 2003

BAM 2003 Next Wave Festival ENCORE is sponsored by: Altria 2003 ~ext Wave FesfuLaJ'-.----

Brooklyn Academy of Music Alan H. Fishman William I. Campbell Chairman of the Board Vice Chairman of the Board

Karen Brooks Hopkins Joseph V. Melillo President Executive Prod ucer

presents Sleeping Beauty and Other Stories Susan Marshall & Company

Approximate BAM Harvey Theater running time: Oct 21-25, 2003 at 7:30pm 1 hour and 35 minutes with Choreographer and artistic director Susan Marshall one intermission Lighting design by Mark Stanley Set design by Douglas Stein Costume design by Kasia Walicka Maimone Sound design by Jane Shaw

Dancers Rachel Shao-Lan Blum Mark DeChiazza Kristen Hollinsworth Jill A. Locke Luke Miller Petra van Noort Darrin M. Wright

BAM 2003 Next Wave Festival is sponsored by Altria Group, Inc.

Next Wave Dance support is provided by The Harkness Foundation for Dance.

The opening night reception is supported by The Brooklyn Brewery. ErogffiillL---- ,

Kristen Hollinsworth in Sleeping Beau/y. Photo, Paul H. Taylor Sleeping Beauty (New York Premiere)

Choreography Susan Marshall in collaboration with the Company

Lighting design Mark Stanley Set design Douglas Stein Costume design Kasia Walicka Maimone Music composition David Lang and Annie Gosfield Remixing, additional music composition, and Sound design Jane Shaw

Compositions by Annie Gosfield include excerpts from "Nickolaievski Soldat" and "The Manufacture of Tangled Ivory" from her CD Burnt Ivory and Loose Wires (Tzadik 7040), and "EWA7" from her CD Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery (Tzadik 7069). David Lang's composition "Stick Figure" can be found on the CD Child performed by Sentieri Selvaggi (Cantaloupe Records).

Dancers Kristen Hollinsworth with Mark DeChiazza, Petra van Noort, Rachel Shao-Lan Blum, Luke Miller, Jill A. Locke, Darrin M. Wright

-Intermission- Jill Locke and Mark DeChiaua in Other Stories, photo by Paul H. Taylor Other Stories (New York Premiere)

Choreography Susan Marshall in collaboration with the Company Lighting design Mark Stanley Set design Douglas Stein Costume design Kasia Walicka Maimone Original music composition and Sound design Jane Shaw

Many thanks to Danny Blume, Chris Kelly, and Liminal for the use of their piece "MPC Reworked." Music also includes excerpts of "Thinvette" from Tin Hat Trio's CD Memory is an Elephant (Ropeadope Records); "No Bavarean" ("Kein Boarischer") from Die Knodel's album Overcooked Tyroleans (Koch International L.P.); and "Rhino Jockey" from Amon Tobin's Supermodified (Just Isn't Music). Used by permission pending. All rights reserved.

Dancers Rachel Shao-Lan Blum, Mark DeChiazza, Kristen Hollinsworth, Luke Miller, Petra van Noort, Jill A. Locke, Darrin M. Wright

Sleeping Beauty and Other Stories has been commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music and has been made possible by the Doris Duke Fund for Dance of the National Dance Project, a program administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Altria Group, Inc. 'JMJo's Wb~o _

Susan Marshall & Company, celebrating its choreographed and directed Les Enfants 20th anniversary season this fall, has Terribles, in collaboration with composer Philip performed the work of Artistic Director/ Glass in 1996, and has also created dances for Choreographer Susan Marshall in theaters the Lyon Opera Ballet, Frankfurt Ballet, Boston throughout the United States, Europe, and Ballet, and Montreal Danse. Her signature Japan. International festivals at which the aerial duet, Kiss, is in the current repertory of company has performed include the Edinburgh Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. She has International Festival, the Festival International collaborated with director Francesca Zambello de Nouvelle Danse in Montreal, Spoleto on operas staged for the Los Angeles Music Festival, the Los Angeles Festival, Vienna Tanz, Center and the New York City Opera. A 2000 Springdance Festival (The Netherlands), recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Marshall Pepsico Summerfare, and has appeared has also received a Dance Magazine Award, a frequently at BAM's Next Wave Festival. Guggenheim Fellowship, a Brandeis University Members of Susan Marshall & Company Creative Arts Citation, and the American traveled and performed in Les Enfants Choreographer Award. She has received five Terribles, a dance/opera choreographed and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, directed by Marshall in collaboration with two New York Foundation for the Arts composer Philip Glass and produced by Fellowships, and two New York Dance and International Production Associates. Les Performance Awards (Bessies) for Outstanding Enfants toured to sixteen cities in Europe and Choreographic Achievement. The first Bessie 21 cities in the U.S. including its presentation came in 1985 following the company's premiere as part of BAM's Next Wave Festival in the fall concert at Dance Theater Workshop, and the of 1996. In the early 1990s, Arts America second came in 1997 for her collaboration sponsored a five-week tour of the company to with Philip Glass on Les Enfants Terribles. Eastern Europe, Cyprus, and Turkey, and Alive From Off Center commissioned the creation of Rachel Shao-Lan Blum (dancer) joined Susan the fi Im Contenders from the com pa ny, bri ngi ng Marshall & Company in 2002. Prior to that, in Mark Obenhaus to direct and collaborate on she worked with Janis Brenner & Dancers, the translation of this stage work for film. JoAnna Mendl-Shaw, and Tanz Theater Marshall, her artistic collaborators and compa­ Darmstadt in Germany. Blum's own work has ny members have received a total of nine New been presented in New York, New Jersey, and York Dance and Performance Awards (Bessies) Chicago. She also directs community dance for their artistic achievements. projects with performers of mixed abilities.

Susan Marshall (artistic director/choreographer) Mark DeChiazza (dancer) has been a member has created more than 27 dance works in of Susan Marshall & Company since 1993. collaboration with the dancers of Susan He has also performed and toured with other Marshall & Company including One and Only groups including John Jasperse, Jennifer You, The Most Dangerous Room in the House, Muller/The Works, Via Theater, and the Spectators at an Event, Fields of View, Arms, Metropolitan Opera. Most recently he appeared Interior with Seven Figures, and Kiss. in New York Theatre Workshop's revival of Marshall's collaboration with the dancers of Martha Clarke's Vienna: Lusthaus. DeChiazza Susan Marshall & Company has been the received his BFA from North Carolina School of ma in infl uence on the development of her the Arts. choreographic process and work. Marshall Loreen Domijan (production stage manager) Her collaborative work includes three projects has worked with Ohio Ballet, Kansas City with choreographer Lea Wolf and a project with Ballet, Hartt Dance at University of Hartford, Mark DeChiazza that was presented in San Pacific Northwest Ballet, and most recently Francisco, Cape Cod, and New York. with New York City Ballet. Other stage management credits include extensive work David Lang (composer) is co-founder and with Walt Disney World in Orlando and small co-artistic director of New York's legendary stints off-Broadway in NYC. Originally from music festival, Bang on a Can, and Composer­ Norwich, CT, Domijan holds a BFA degree in in-Residence at the American Conservatory stage management from North Carolina School Theater in San Francisco. In addition to collab­ of the Arts. orating on Sleeping Beauty, he has composed the scores for Susan Marshall's The Descent Annie Gosfield (composer) is based in down­ Beckons, and The Most Dangerous Room in town New York. Her music has been performed the House, the latter for wh ich he received a worldwide by her own ensemble and by the Bessie Award. Recent projects include the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Newband/The Harry amplified orchestra piece The Passing Measures; Partch instruments, Agon Orchestra, The West The Difficulty of Crossing a Field-an opera Australian Symphony Orchestra New Music for the Kronos Quartet with libretto by Mac Group, FLUX Quartet, Raw Fish Quartet, Wellman and direction by Carey Perloff; the Silesian String Quartet, Rova, Present Music, opera Modern Painters about the curious and Zeitgeist, cellists Joan Jeanrenaud and Felix tragic life of art critic John Ruskin; the evening­ Fan, and many others, at festivals including length piano solo Psalms without Words, and Warsaw Autumn, ISCM World Music Days, the comic book opera The Carbon Copy the Bang on a Can Marathon, The Santa Fe Building, with cartoonist Ben Katchor, Bob Chamber Music Festival, Festival Musique McGrath and the Ridge Theater, and composers Actuelle in Victoriaville, Wien Modern, Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe. Lang holds OtherMinds, Company Week, and three degrees from Stanford University and the "Radical New Jewish Culture" festivals curated University of Iowa, and received his doctorate by John Zorn. Her discography includes two from the Yale School of Music in 1989. He has solo releases on the Tzadik label, and CDs on studied with Jacob Druckman, Hans Werner Sony Classical, CRI, Harmonia Mundi, Wergo, Henze, and Martin Bresnick. His work is Caprice, Cantaloupe, Rift, EMF, Innova, recorded on the Sony Classical, BMG, Point, Atavistic, ORF, and Starkland. Chandos, Argo/Decca, CRI and Cantaloupe labels. Lang's music is published by Red Poppy Kristen Hollinsworth (dancer) has worked (ASCAP) and distributed by G. Schirmer, Inc. with Susan Marshall since 1994. She has also danced with the Metropolitan Opera since Tia Tibbitts Levinson (managing director) has 1998 in numerous productions. In New York, provided management for Susan Marshall & she has had the pleasure of working with Company since 1998. She worked at New Karen Graham, Cherylyn Lavagnino, Doug York's Dance Theater Workshop for ten years, Varone, and in San Francisco with Cheryl as Managing Director and Director of Artists Chaddick and Della Davidson. She is featured Services, where she co-edited, along with in two dance films choreographed by Nina David R. White and Lise Friedman, the third Winthrop and directed by Morleigh Steinberg. edition of The Poor Dancer's Almanac (1993, Du ke University Press) as well as developed been a company member of Neta Dance under and directed Public Imaginations, DTW's Artistic Director Neta Pulvermacher. Miller resident artist program. Many, many years ago, collaborates with choreographer Marisa Beatty Levinson was a dancer with Concert Dance, and currently performs in the creative works of Inc. of Chicago, the Fort Worth Ballet, and the Fiona Marcotty. Miller thanks Susan Marshall Wisconsin Ballet Company. She received a and the other company members for welcoming masters' degree in Interdisciplinary Arts from him into their strange, beautiful world. Columbia College, Chicago, has served on the boa rds of Da nce/U SA and the Artists Petra van Noort (dancer) is a native of the Community Federal Credit Union, and is a Netherlands, where she studied at recipient of the Albert P. Weisman Award in Dansacademie Brabant and Rotterdam Dance Communications. Academy and danced for Wies MerkxlCharles Corneille, Herman van Veen, Ron Bunzl, Raz, Jill A. Locke (dancer) began her dance training Djazzex, and Feri de Geus. She first came to in Atlanta with former Agnes DeMille dancer New York City on a grant in 1994, then moved Ruth Mitchell and continued her training with to the States in 1997 to join Jennifer the Atlanta Ballet. She received a BFA in Dance Muller/THE WORKS with whom she danced, Performance from Southern Methodist acted and taught for four years. Van Noort has University in 1999. Since graduating, she has been a member of Susan Marshall & Company danced with Zenobia Taylor and Alex Beller. In since 2000. She has also danced for Leda April 2002, Locke performed the role of Meredith, Elke Rindfleisch, Pascal Rekoert, Sara/Stella Van Pratt for the company's New Gabriele Kroos, Lynne Wells, Mimi Garrard, York performances of One and Only You. and Sally Schuiling. Her passion for 'a human touch' led her to become a certified reflexolo­ Kasia Walicka Maimone (costume designer) gist, Reiki practitioner, Prana Yoga Teacher, and designs for theater, dance, and film and has Cranio Sacral I practitioner. worked with Susan Marshall for the last seven years. Their latest collaborations include One Jane Shaw's (composer, sound designer) and Only You, The Most Dangerous Room in sound design credits include Monster with the House, and Les Enfants Terribles, the Michael Greif; In the Penal Colony with Joanne Marshall/Glass dance opera. She has also Akalaitis; Romola & Nijinski (Deux Mariages) at designed for Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Primary Stages; Big Dance Theater's Girl Gone, Project, Via Theatre, Anne Bogart, Kyle Simple Heart, Shunkin, Another Telepathic DeCamp, Sarah Skaggs, Ballet Hispanico, Thing; and Mac Wellman's Antigone at Dance David Dorfman, Donald Byrd/The Group, Theater Workshop. Other favorites include: Jonathan Larson for En Garde Arts, and Twyla Machinal, Bloody Poetry, Silence (Synapse Tharp. Her film credits include Jesus' Son with Productions), 8/124 (Will Knapp), Antony and Billy Crudup and Samantha Morton and Song Cleopatra and Lucky Chance with the Queen's Catcher with Janet McTeer and Aidan Quinn. Company, Firecracker with Michael Mao, and an ongoing collaboration with Capital Rep in Luke Miller (dancer) studied dance at the Albany. Shaw has been the sound engineer for Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera Academy and Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Susan received a BFA from Tisch School of the Arts in Marshall, Richard Daniels, PerksDance­ May of 2001. He danced in two New York MusicTheatre, and Lucinda Childs. She is a premieres of work by Eun Me Ahn and has graduate of the Yale School of Drama and a native of Lawrence, KS. Mark Stanley (lighting designer) has previously the Guthrie Theater and Garland Wright during worked with Susan Marshall designing the Wright's tenure as Artistic Director. A graduate premieres of One and Only You, The Descent of the Yale School of Drama, he has taught at Beckons, The Most Dangerous Room in the New York University, Princeton University, the House, Fields of View, and Spectators at an School of Visual Arts in New York City and Event. He is currently the lighting director of Fordham University, and has served on the the New York City Ballet, where he has boards of Theatre Communications Group and designed more than 140 premieres. He has Theatre for a New Audience in New York City. worked with many choreographers including Peter Martins, William Forsythe, Christopher Darrin M. Wright (dancer) started his dance Wheeldon, Christopher D'Amboise, Kevin training in Los Angeles, CA. He studied with O'Day, Ulysses Dove, David Gordon, Lar Rudy Perez and Janet Roston and in 1997 he Lubovitch, Laura Dean, and others. Stanley's joined the Bella Lewitzky Dance Company. In work is in the repertory of numerous dance, 2002, Wright received his BFA in dance from ballet, and opera companies both in the U.S. the University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign. and Europe. In addition, he has designed for After graduating, he moved to New York and regional theaters, off-Broadway, Live From currently dances with Terry Creach/Company Lincoln Center, and Great Performances. He is and Susan Marshall & Company. Wright is very the author of The Color of Light Workbook and excited to be underta ki ng new adventu res with he is on the Board of Directors of the Gilbert V. Susan Marshall & Company. Hemsley Internship in Lighting.

Douglas Stein (set designer) has collaborated Susan Marshall & Company on five productions with Susan Marshall, Staff & Production including Sleeping Beauty and Other Stories. Their prior work together has included One and Susan Marshall, Artistic Director Only You, The Descent Beckons, The Most Tia Tibbitts Levinson, Managing Director Dangerous Room in the House, and Marshall's Missy Pfohl Smith, Development Associate adaptation with Philip Glass of Jean Cocteau's Kristen Hollinsworth, Company Tour Manager Les Enfants Terribles. His Broadway credits Mark Stanley, Production Manager include Dirty Blond, Falsettos, Our Town, Loreen Domijan, Production Stage Manager Largely New York, Fool Moon, Timon of Athens, Jane Shaw, Sou nd Su pervisor The Government Inspector, The Moliere Peter K. Sander, Assistant Set Designer Comedies, and John Leguizamo's Freak. His Rena Shagan Associates, Exclusive Booking off-Broadway credits include 36 Views (2002 Representatives Lucille Lortel Award, Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk nominations), Bill Irwin's The Regard of Flight, Scapin, and Texts for NoJhing (aBlE Award), March of the Falsettos, Falsettoland, Saved (aBlE Award), and Through the Leaves (OBI E Award) for the Women's Interart Theater in New York City. He has designed for all the major regional theaters including a special ten-year relationship with WlJo's Wb~o _

Acknowledgements Special thanks to the dancers for their artistry Susan Marshall & Company has received and seemingly inexhaustible ingenuity and generous support this year from the National contributions to the work; collaborators Mark Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Stanley, Douglas Stein, Kasia Walicka Council on the Arts, a State Agency; Altria Maimone, and Jane Shaw for their inspiring Group, Inc.; Bossak/Heilbron Charitable thoughts and creations; to the John D. and Foundation; O.P. and W.E. Edwards Catherine 1. MacArthur Foundation for their Foundation, Inc.; Harkness Foundation for life-changing fellowship; to Marshall Jones, Dance; Murial McBrian Kauffman Foundation; Beverly Jones, Chris Renino and Eileen Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; The National Thomas for their wise and loving counsel; and Dance Project, administered by New England all the past company dancers who helped to Foundation for the Arts; New York Foundation bu iId an artistic fou ndation upon wh ich we sti II for the Arts (both the Artist's Fellowship depend. Program and the Arts and Technology Technical Assistance Program); the William J. and Many heartfelt thanks to our individual Dorothy K. O'Neill Foundation; Lila Acheson contributors: Sponsors Marshall Jones, Beverly Wallace Theater Fund; Fan Fox and leslie R. Jones, Paul O'Neil, Elizabeth Young, Judy and Samuels Foundation; Mary Duke Biddle Steve Gluckstern, Theodore and Mary Tibbitts; Foundation; Amy's Bread; Black Betty; Supporters Frank & MaryAnn Arisman, Andrew Cupcake Cafe; Dean & Deluca; Fairway Boynton and Jorge Patrisso, Bruce and Carol Market; Hope Deli; Jever Beer; Ruby & Violette; Bryce-Buchanan, Ellen Pearre Cason, Cynthia Uncle Nick's; WAX-Williamsburg Art Nexus; J. Y. K. Mayeda, Constance Poster, Rachel and Sal Anthony's Movement Salon. Pivnick, Joseph Richards, Peter Stewart, Micki and Howard Wesson, Mark and Diana Wright; From the Artistic Director and to our many friends whose contributions I would like to express my warm gratitude to helped to make this project possible. the entire staff of the Brooklyn Academy of Music for their committed support of this Susan Marshall & Company is a project of production and to all the inspiring people whose Dance Continuum, Inc., a not-for-profit, tax­ generosity, assistance, and artistry helped to exempt organization. Contributions in support make this project possible: Phil Reynolds, of the company's work are always welcomed, Randy James, Danny Blume, Chris Kelly, Annie and may be sent to: Dance Continuum, Gosfield, David lang, Bill Bragin, Perry Silvey, Inc., 269 Peekskill Hollow Road, Putnam Tom Maher, Marissa Beatty, Melissa Rednon, Valley, NY 10579. Visit our website at Brian Brooks, David Tiros, Daniel Giel, Ed www.susanmarshallandcompany.org. Ravens, Jason Thompson, Kevin"Scarpin, George Smallwood, Brian Smallwood, David For inquiries regarding the company, please and Gisella Gamper, John and Suzy O'Neill, contact Rena Shagan Associates, 16A W. 88th loreen Domijan, Tia Tibbitts levinson, Missy Street, NY, NY 10024, 212.873.9700, Pfohl Smith, Cara Czekanski, Peter Ksander, www.shaganarts.com . lou Hockett, Christine Tschida, April Wanstall, Felicitas Willems, and Rena Shagan.