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FAD Dance Theatre Ensemble FAD Dance Theatre Ensemble Presents The Bill Evans Dance Company Friday, February 5,2010, at 8 PM Saturday, February 6,2010, at 2 PM and 8 PM Sunday, February 7,2010, at 2 PM Welcome to the second annual performance of the FAU Dance Theatre Ensemble. 1 created the FA UDance Theatre Ensemble to exhibit works by established and emerging artists, offering aforum for faculty collaborations using dance and to showcase the wide range, scope and diversity ofdance. This program has faculty representation from the School ofCommunications and Multimedia Studies andfrom several legs ofthe School of the Arts within the FA U Dorothy F. Schmidt College ofArts and Letters - Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance. The range of collaborations extends to my colleagues within the local dance community as well. If the dances you see inspire you to study dance, please reference the Department of Theatre and Dance course listings in FAU's online catalog (at wwwfau.edu) and/or the contact information for each club at the back of the program. Club participation is ongoing and open to FAU faculty, staff and students as well as to community members for a nominal fee. At the back ofthe program you will also .find a listing ofupcoming dance and theatre performances. Thank you for your patronage, Clarence Brooks, Assistant Professor/Director of Dance Impressions of Willow Bay (1978) Choreography: Bill Evans Music: David Sannella Dancers: Clarence Brooks, Don Halquist, Leanne Rinelli and Courtney World Text-N-Motion Choreography: Diana Mighdoll Hoffmaster Music: Sigur Ros Dancers: Jennifer Jimenez and Vanessa Rosen What's Your Story? Morning Glory (1974) Choreography: Bill Evans Music: Glenn Miller & His Orchestra Dancer: Clarence Brooks Climbing to the Moon (1997) Choreography: Bill Evans Music: Michael Cava Dancer: Don Halquist Be Free Choreography: Stacee Lanz Music: Tom Waits, Conrad Part II Dancers: Clarence Brooks, Diana Mighdoll Hoffmaster, Stacee Lanz and Rome Saladino INTER MIS S ION Reframed Choreography: Stacee Lanz Music: French Movie Songs: The Forties, Esquivel Set Design: Marianne Scaduto Dancer: Stacee Lanz dow n / sid e (2009) Choreography, Dancer, Voice: Clarence Brooks Music, Text, Film: Joey Bargsten "d 0 w n / sid e" text viewable at www.badmindtime.com Sweet in the Morning (1992) Choreography: Leni Wylliams Music: Bobby McFerrin Dancer: Clarence Brooks Coached by Dyane Harvey, score notated by Leslie Rotman, assisted by notator trainee, Patty Delaney (2001), revised by Patty Delaney (2003), by arrangement with the Dance Notation Bureau Brahms Waltzes (1967) Dedicated to Doris Humphrey Choreography: Charles Weidman Costumes: After Charles Weidman Music: Johannes Brahms Dancers: Maryann Fichera, Stephanie Fries, Emilia Kawashima, Vanessa Rosen, Elizabeth Sainvil, Stacey Todd and Michelle Zupo Coached by Clarence Brooks, staged by Richard A. Ploch from the Labanotation* score notated by K. Wright Dunkley (1973 -81), by arrangement with the Dance Notation Bureau PRODUCTION CREW Artistic Director Clarence Brooks + Technical Director Thomas M. Sharrock + Stage Manager Danielle Kehlmann Assistant Stage Manager CJ Inglehart Costume Designer Jane Lynch Light Board Operator Christina Breza Lighting Designers GUy Haubrich and Diana Mighdoll-Hoffmaster * Sound Design Dr. Richard Gamble + Sound Board Operator Stephanie Amico Projector Operator Christina Anderson-Lauar Properties Master Jordon Armstrong Running Crew Laura Morello and Bradley M. Phibbs House Manager Lysette Perez Usher Ariana Chapman, Brianna Goldsobel, Ashley Harris, Felicia Ramsaran and Katryna Vanande Publicity Clarence Brooks Poster Jocely Jangada Lobby Sculpture Arlyn Winston Playbill Clarence Brooks and Cassie Greer * * MFA Candidate + Faculty BIOS Joey Bargsten (composer, media artist) has had his music performed by the Indianapolis Symphony and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and has been broadcast on NPR's International Concert Hall. His website, BAD MIND TIME™, (www.badmindtime.com) has received awards from NEW MEDIA and PRINT magazines, and won the audience award at the Stuttgart Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media. It has been included in digital media exhibitions internationally. His latest film, Sticky Notes TM, was presented at the Zero Film Festival in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Bargsten taught at University of Iowa, Georgia Tech, Atlanta College of Art and University of Oregon before his current position at FAU. Clarence Brooks (dancer), assistant professor/director of dance, choreographs the Festival Repertory musicals, produces the Dances We Dance Performance Showcase and directs the FAU Dance Theatre Ensemble. He has performed with more than 50 American dance companies and toured the United States, Europe and Asia. Mr. Brooks can be seen in the video documentary, The World ofAlwin Nikolais. He received his MFA in dance from University of Washington, BPA in dance from Oklahoma City University and holds a certification in Laban Movement Analysis. Mr. Brooks is a member of Florida Dance Association and a board member of the Florida Dance Education Organization (an affiliate ofthe National Dance Education Organization). Dance Notation Bureau (established in 1940) for 70 years has committed itself specifically to the preservation of dance. Labanotation is a symbol-based language used to analyze, describe, and document movement. Labanotation scores, in the form of manuscripts, preserve not only the choreographic work but vital directorial and production information as well. To learn more about, please visit the DNB at www.dancenotation.org. Bill Evans (choreographer), has choreographed more than 200 works for professional dance companies, including Bill Evans Dance Company, Repertory Dance Theatre, Stars of American Ballet Theatre at Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival, Pacific Northwest Ballet, German Opera Ballet (West Berlin), Ballet West, North Carolina Dance Theatre, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, Concert Dance Company of Boston and many others. He has been awarded several choreography fellowships and company grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Fellowship in recognition of his choreography. He has performed in all 50 states and in 22 other countries. He has worked as a guest artist in virtually every department of dance in North America, and has created or restaged three individual works and two full-evening productions under the National College Choreography Initiative and American Masterpieces, Dance-College Components programs of the National Endowment for the Arts. He founded the Bill Evans Dance Company in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1975, moved it to Seattle, WA, in 1976, and to Albuquerque, NM, in1988. The company has performed at the American Dance Festival, the Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, and many other major venues. He is a distinguished professor of dance emeritus at the University of New Mexico and has been a visiting professor/guest artist at The College at Brockport since August 2004. He was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Dance Education Organization in 2005 and was named one of America's three favorite tap artists in the most recent readers' poll of Dance Magazine, which invited Bill Evans to write the "Why I Dance" article in the January 20:1.0 issue. Maryann Fichera (dancer), a FAU student pursuing a BS in mechanical engineering, was trained at Southern Dance Theatre in multiple dance disciplines. Stephanie Fries (dancer), a FAU sophomore studying exercise science and health, performed in The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Spartacus and International Dance Festival productions ofthe Space Coast Ballet. Saybel Guzman (graphic design artist) is a FAU graduate student with more than three years experience in the field of graphic design. She has served on the board of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AlGA) Miami chapter for four years. For further information, please visit s7Ybel.wordpress.com. Don Halquist (dancer) has danced with the Bill Evans Dance Company for 25 years, touring the USA, Canada, Mexico, Finland, France, Hungary, Australia and New Zealand. He has performed with the New Mexico Ballet and St. Louis Dancers and in the companies of many independent choreographers. He premiered his first solo concert in spring 2006 and his second in spring 2008. He is a Certified Teacher of Evans Laban-Based Method of Teaching Modern Dance Technique, which he has taught at The College at Brockport/SUNY, the University of New Mexico, Santa Fe Community College, Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers, and the Evans Intensive Summer Workshops for :1.3 years. He earned a PhD in language, literacy and sociocultural studies from the University of New Mexico and is an assistant professor of the education and human development department and an adjunct professor at The College at Brockport/SUNY. Guy Haubrich (lighting designer) began his technical theatre production studies at Broward College after years of crewing shows in professional houses and running lights and sound as a nightclub OJ. As an FAU senior he has designed lights for several department productions and hopes to continue pursuing his studies at the master's level. Diana Mighdoll Hoffmaster (lighting designer, choreographer, dancer), a MFA student in the Department of Theatre and Dance at FAU, teaches dance technique classes as part of her assistantship and will complete her degree in Arts Administration in fall 20:1.0. After receiving her BFA in dance performance from the University of South
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