Presents RONALD K. BROWN EVIDENCE Artistic Director RONALD K. BROWN Associate Artistic Director ARCELL CABUAG Dancers ARCELL CABUAG, SHAYLA CALDWELL, RODERICK CALLOWAY, VALERIEANE LOUISY LOUIS JOSEPH, ONYXX NOEL, COURTNEY PAIGE, WILLIAM ROBERSON, ANNIQUE ROBERTS, KEON THOULOUIS Rehearsal Director Technical Director Assistant Rehearsal Directors ANNIQUE ROBERTS TSUBASA KAMEI KEON THOULOUIS SHAYLA CALDWELL Costume Designers Wardrobe Manager OMOTAYO WUMNI OLAIYA KEIKO VOLTAIRE KEIKO VOLTAIRE Apprentices JOYCE EDWARDS, PARIS JONES, DAVID PARKER, LARRY ROSALES Booking Agent: Pamela Green CONTACT INFORMATION PMG ARTS MANAGEMENT EVIDENCE, A DANCE COMPANY 721 Broad Street Ste. 119 Ronald K. Brown, Artistic Director DURHAM, NC 27705 1368 Fulton Street Tel: 919-813-6092, Fax: 919-908-8200 Brooklyn, NY 11216 Email: [email protected] General: [email protected] www.pmgartsmgt.com www.evidencedance.com In Partnership with RestorationART Special thanks to Jodee Nimerichter and the administrative and technical staff of the American Dance Festival. Additional thanks to Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, RestorationArt, Colvin Granum, Dr. Indira Etwaroo, the RestorationART team, Reginald Van lee, Pamela M. Green, Sharon Luckman, Bruce Gordon, Tawana Tibbs, Fund for the City of New York, Mary McCormick, Doris Duke Charitable Foundations, The Bay and Paul Foundations, Inc., Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Inc., Newman’s Own Foundation, GE Foundation, Vera Wells, Janet Cox, Pierre Apraxine, the EVIDENCE Circle of friends, Fatima Jones, Torya Beard, Ayodele Casel, Farai Malianga. Thursday, June 28-Friday, June 29 at 8:00pm Saturday, June 30 at 7:00pm REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER Performance: 1 hour 50 minutes including pauses and intermission TORCH Choreography Ronald K. Brown Music Teddy Douglas & DJ Zinhle featuring Busiswa Gqulu mixed by RKB Lighting Design Clifton Taylor Costume Design Keiko Voltaire Performers The Company This piece was created in residence at the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation Youth Arts Academy. With generous support from Reggie Van Lee, Alvin Adell, New York Community Trust/The King Family Fund, and Friends of CELEBRATE BETH PAUSE LESSONS: MARCH (excerpt) 1995 Choreography Ronald K. Brown Text Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Music Bobby McFerrin Costume Design Omotayo Wunmi Olaiya Performers June 28 - Annique Roberts & Courtney Paige Ross June 29 - Shayla Caldwell & Keon Thoulouis June 30 – Annique Roberts & Courtney Paige Ross PAUSE WALKING OUT THE DARK (excerpt) 2001 Choreography & Text Ronald K. Brown Music Philip Hamilton & Sweet Honey and the Rock Costume Design Carolyn Meckha Cherry Lighting Design Brenda Gray Performers Arcell Cabuag, Shayla Caldwell, Annique Roberts, Keon Thoulouis meet me in the temple seeking/healing thank you celebration/faith/life Walking Out the Dark was co-commissioned by the American Dance Festival with support from the Doris Duke Awards for New Work and Philip Morris Companies, Inc., the Bessie Schonberg/First Light Commissioning program of New York’s Dance Theatre Workshop with funds from the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, and the Greenwall Foundation with additional funds provided by Chase Manhattan Bank, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Aaron Davis Hall Fund for New Work, and The University of Texas at Austin Topfer Endowment for the Performing Arts. Walking Out the Dark was 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 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Philip Morris Companies, Inc. INTERMISSION ON EARTH TOGETHER (excerpts) 2011 Choreography Ronald K. Brown Music Stevie Wonder Costume Design Omotayo Wunmi Olaiya Original Lighting Dalila Kee Lighting Design Tsubasa Kamei Performers Ronald K. Brown, Arcell Cabuag, Shayla Caldwell, Roderick Calloway, Valerieane Louisy, Louis Joseph, Onyxx Noel, Courtney Paige Ross, William Roberson, Annique Roberts, Keon Thoulouis, and the community of Durham, North Carolina Co-commissioning support provided by: NJPAC Alternate Routs/New Jersey Performing Arts Center, University of Florida Performing Arts, Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, Alabama Dance Council, and Reginald Van Lee. This piece was created in part during the residencies at The Tisch Dance Residency Festival ABOUT THE COMPANY Founded by Ronald K. Brown in 1985 and based in Brooklyn, NY, Evidence, a Dance Company focuses on the fusion of African dance with contemporary choreography and spoken word. This work provides a unique view of human struggles, tragedies, and triumphs. Brown uses movement as a way to reinforce the importance of community in African American culture and to acquaint audiences with the beauty of African forms and rhythms. Evidence tours to some 30 communities in the United States annually. It has traveled to Cuba, Brazil, England, France, Greece, Hungary, Hawaii, Ireland, Holland, Mexico, Columbia, South Africa, Nigeria, and Senegal and in 2010 joined the US State Department’s DanceMotion USA tour to perform, teach master classes, and conduct demonstrations. Annually, the company reaches and audience of more than 30,000. WHO’S WHO IN THE COMPANY RONALD K. BROWN (Founder/Artistic Director) founded Evidence, A Dance Company in 1985. He has worked with Mary Anthony Dance Theater, Jennifer Muller/The Works, and other choreographers and artists. Brown has set works on Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ailey II, Cleo Parker Robinson Ensemble, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Jennifer Muller/The Works, Jeune Ballet d’Afrique Noire, Ko-Thi Dance Company, Philadanco, Muntu Dance Theater of Chicago, Ballet Hispanico, MalPaso, and TU Dance. He won an AUDELCO Award for his choreography in Regina Taylor’s award- winning play Crowns, and received two Black Theater Alliance Awards, and a Fred & Adele Astaire Award for Outstanding Choreography in the Tony Award winning Broadway and national touring production of The Gershwins' Porgy & Bess, adapted by Suzan Lori Parks, arranged by Diedre Murray, and directed by Diane Paulus. In addition Brown was named Def Dance Jam Workshop 2000 Mentor of the Year and has received the Doris Duke Artist Award, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Choreographers Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, United States Artists Fellowship, a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” award, and The Ailey Apex Award. Brown is a member of Stage Directors & Choreographers Society and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Restoration Dance Youth Ensemble at Restoration ART. ARCELL CABUAG (Associate Artistic Director/Dancer) is a Filipino American native of San Jose, CA. In 1995, he moved to New York and attended the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center where he was first introduced to Ronald K. Brown. His professional experience includes Rock the House for Paramount Pictures (California), The Shoji Tabuchi Show in (Branson, MO), and the Richard Rodgers Centennial Production of The King and I. Arcell can be seen in the episode Choreographed on Law and Order SVU and a Codorinu commercial with Pilobolus shot and aired in Barcelona. He serves his community as a dance professor at Long Island University (Brooklyn Campus), as the Co-Artistic Director of the Restoration Dance Youth Ensemble at Restoration ART, and as a masterclass instructor locally and abroad. Cabuag has also set Evidence repertory at UMASS, Boston Arts Academy, the Peridance Certificate Program, The Ailey Fordham BFA Program, UArts, and Boston Conservatory. Cabuag has assisted Brown in creating repertory on Philadanco Dance Company, MUNTU, Ballet Hispanico, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and MalPaso of Havana, Cuba, and is the associate choreographer for the Tony Award winning Broadway and national touring production of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. Arcell joined Evidence in 1997 and won a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” award in 2004. “I am forever grateful for the unconditional support from my family, friends, teachers and ancestral angels that have paved my path… ALWAYS follow your bliss.” SHAYLA ALAYRE CALDWELL (Assistant Rehearsal Director/Dancer) is a native of New Haven, CT. She became heavily influenced by traditional West African dance after being introduced to the Guinean culture by mother and dance mentor Shari Caldwell. She has worked under the instruction of Ali Tatchol Camara and Yamoussa Camara. She attended Educational Center for the Arts under the direction of Susan Matheke, Earl Mosley, and Freddie Moore. She then went on to attend Virginia Commonwealth University where she was honored to work with faculty Scott Putman, Christian Von Howard, and Autumn Proctor. She presently works at The Caldwell Dance Center as Artistic Director/instructor. Shayla joined Evidence in 2011.“I am extremely humbled and privileged to continue my journey with Evidence and I thank God, my family and friends for the unconditional love and support.” RODERICK CALLOWAY (Dancer) of Boston, MA, grateful to Boston Arts Academy for guiding his artistic journey with great magnitude. However, he was first introduced to formal training in Boston Ballet's City dance intensive program and the Topf Center for dance education. Jose Mateo's Ballet Theater, The Boston Conservatory, Earl Mosley's Institute of the Arts, and the Ailey School School have awarded