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.