N.,,..11.1. ,I i 410= / T.rfs, DoC-7Q, BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC Harvey Lichtenstein, President & Executive Producer presents in the BAM Opera House January 16 - 21, 23 - 28 at 8pm January 21 & 28 at 2pm TWYLA THARP RED WHITE & BLUES NEW WORKS Twyla Tharp Stacy Caddell Melinda DeChiazza Petter Jacobsson Shawn Mahoney David Porter John Selya Shawn Stevens There will be one intermission. Leon Wieseltier, Musical Advisor and General Counsel r. Susan Scannella, Assistant to Ms. Tharp Jennifer Kelley, Production Coordinator Sanja Kabalin, Stage Manager 4 Major support has been provided, in part, by Hachette Filipacchi Magazines. Additional support has been provided, in part, by The Harkness Foundations for Dance and Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation. The dancers would like to thank the following people: Richard Aliq-Bicoy, Joan Bingham, Antoinette Bradlee, Marcia McGee Carter, Caroline & Paul Cronson, George Dant, Katherine Fitzhugh & John Martin, Jesse Frohman, Suzanne & Leonard Garment, Sue Landini, Michael Lewis, Bruce Marks, Kevin McKenzie, Larry McMurtry, Naima Prevots, Sheldon Schwartz BAM wishes to express its appreciation to Theatre Development Fund for its support of this season. TWYLA THARP (Choreographer/ Baryshnikov by Tharp which won Director) has excited audiences two Emmy awards as well as the worldwide for nearly 30 years. In Director's Guild of America Award addition to more than 70 works for Outstanding Directorial created for the Twyla Tharp Dance Achievement. Recipient of numer- Company from 1965 to 1987, she ous awards and foundation grants, created Deuce Coupe and As Time Ms. Tharp also received a 1992 Goes By for The Joffrey Ballet; MacArthur Fellowship. Brahms-Handel in collaboration with Jerome Robbins for New York STACY CADDELL was born in City Ballet; Rules of the Game and Norfolk, VA, and came to the Grand Pas: Rhythm of the Saints School of American Ballet on schol- for the Paris Opera Ballet; and arship at age 15. After one year she Push Comes to Shove, Bach was accepted into the New York Partita, The Little Ballet, Sinatra City Ballet. She was promoted to Suite and Brief Fling for American soloist and has danced principal Ballet Theatre. roles in Balanchine's Divertimento Demeter and Persephone, No. 15, A Midsummer Night's choreographed for the Martha Dream, Tin Soldier, and Tarantella. Graham Company, premiered in Since joining Twyla Tharp and the fall of 1993. Waterbaby dancers three years ago, she has Bagatelles premiered in the spring worked on the film I'll Do of 1994 with Boston Ballet and Anything, and toured the US, New Works in the fall of 1994 at Mexico, and Canada with Tharp the Kennedy Center in Washington, and Baryshnikov. She recently com- D.C. Push Comes to Shove, an pleted a European Tour and a tele- autobiography, is published by vision filming of Tharp's In the Bantam Books. Upper Room. Ms. Tharp has collaborated with film director Milos Foreman MELINDA DECHIAZZA from on Hair (1978), Ragtime (1980), Hanover, NH, trained with her par- and Amadeus (1984); with Taylor ents Joseph DeChiazza and Vicki Hackford on White Nights, and Mansfield at Dartmouth College Jim Brooks on I'll Do Anything until she was 15, and continued her (1994). Her television credits studies at the North Carolina include choreographing Sue's Leg School for the Arts with such for the inaugural episode of PBS' notable teachers as Melissa Hayden Dance in America; co-producing and Robert Lindgren. She joined and directing Making Television Tulsa Ballet Theatre in 1988, Dance, which won the Chicago Boston Ballet II in 1989, and International Film Festival Award; Boston Ballet in 1991. She has per- and directing The Catherine Wheel formed in Tharp's Brief Fling and (a collaboration with David Byrne) the world premiere of Waterbaby for BBC Television. Ms. Tharp co- Bagatelles in 1994, as well as directed the television special works by Bill T. Jones, Elisa -= Monte, and Merce Cunningham. SHAWN MAHONEY, a native of Other featured roles include a Waltham, MA, began his dance Cygnet in Swan Lake, Fairy of the training at the Boston Ballet Enchanted Garden from Petipa's School. He has danced as an The Sleeping Beauty, and Friend of apprentice for both American Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. Her Ballet Theatre and Boston Ballet. repertoire also includes the Mr. Mahoney joined the Boston Balanchine ballets Serenade, Ballet for the 1988-89 season. He Mozartiana, and Tchaikovsky's danced for Twyla Tharp in the '94 Piano Concerto No. 2. world premiere of Waterbaby Bagatelles, and in such roles as the PETTER JACOBSSON was born in male lead in E. Virginia Williams' Stockholm, Sweden, and trained at Sea Alliance, Puss 'n Boots in The the Royal Swedish Ballet School, the Sleeping Beauty, the male soloist in Vaganova Academy in Leningrad William Forsythe's Love Songs, the under Konstantin Shatilov, and at Gypsy Man and a Matador in Don the School of American Ballet under Quixote, the Solo Boy in Stanley Williams. In 1982, Mr. Balanchine's Theme and Jacobsson joined the Royal Swedish Variations, and the Pas de Quatre Ballet. In 1983, he became a soloist in Fernando Bujones' Raymonda with the London Festival Ballet and Act III. His repertoire also in 1984 was invited to join the includes roles in ballets by Jiii Sadler Wells Royal Ballet as a princi- Kylian, Sir Frederick Ashton, and pal, where he danced all of the Maurice Bejart. He has also major classical roles. Mr. Jacobsson danced in the premiere of Bebe has toured extensively throughout Miller's Paisley Sky and Bill T. the world and has appeared as a Jones' Broken Wedding. guest artist with many companies including the Basel Ballet and Teatro DAVID PORTER, a native of la Scala. He has worked with Sir Fayetteville, NC, received his for- Frederick Ashton and Sir Kenneth mative training at the Boston MacMillan, and had roles created Conservatory of Music. In 1987 he for him by Glen Tetley, David joined Boston Ballet II and in 1989 Bintley, and Heinz Spoerli. Mr. became a member of Boston Ballet. Jacobsson has appeared in various Mr. Porter has appeared in numer- television documentaries for Swedish ous classical ballets, as well as television and the BBC. He also works by Maurice Bejart, James appeared in Ingmar Bergman's The Kudelka, Bruce Wells, Jamie Magic Flute, and played Nijinsky in Jamerson, Bruce Marks, and many the off-Broadway production of Balanchine ballets. At Boston Ballet Russe. He joined Twyla Tharp Ballet, Mr. Porter has worked with and Dancers in 1993. Last year he Twyla Tharp on the world pre- completed a European tour and the miere of Waterbaby Bagatelles as television filming of Tharp's In the well as In the Upper Room. Upper Room. JOHN SELYA, a native of New SHAWN STEVENS, born in York City, trained at the School of Houston, TX, grew up in Hope, American Ballet, where he received AR, and began studying dance at a the Mai L. Wien Award for Most studio in Little Rock. When she Promising Student. Mr. Selya joined was 14 she moved to Boston to American Ballet Theatre in 1988, enroll at Walnut Hill, a performing where he has performed principal arts school. After two years, in the roles in Merce Cunningham's fall of 1980, she moved to New Duets, Jill Kylian's Sinfonietta, York City to start studying at the Mark Morris' Drink to Me Only School of American Ballet. The fol- with Thine Eyes, Glen Tetley's Le lowing winter she became an Sacre du Printemps, and Vladimir apprentice with the New York City Vasiliev's Don Quixote. Mr. Selya Ballet. In 1982 she joined the New has danced in Twyla Tharp's Brief York City Ballet as a member of Fling and James Kudelka's Cruel the corps de ballet. In July 1991, World. He has also participated as she left the New York City Ballet to a choreographer in ABT's work with Twyla Tharp. She has Choreographer's Workshop in 1989 toured Japan on a three week and 1990. He choreographed Jack engagement with Twyla Tharp and and Jill and Moodance at ABT in Dancers. She also worked on the YY 1992, and Untitled for the 1993 film I'll Do Anything. Last year she SAB New Choreographer's completed a European tour and Workshop. television filming of Tharp's In the Upper Room. The performance of New Works, containing all Tharpsm Ballets, is presented under license with W.A.T., Limited, and has been produced in accordance with Tharpsm Standard services. New Works © September 1994, Twyla Tharp. Lighting equipment provided by BASH Theatrical Lighting. Freight transportation provided by Union-Transport Corporation. The BAMGUIDE contains information about ticket sales, travel options, special offers and discounts, and all other services available at BAM. If you would like to receive a copy, please call (718) 636-4100, or pick one up at the box office. The design of the ties and scarves worn by the ushers has been generously donated by Isaac Mizrahi. 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