Directed by Anne Kauffman (The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window) and featuring Tony winner Chuck Cooper (Trouble in Mind), Eddie Cooper (Parade), Andrew Durand (Shucked), Drew Gehling (Waitress), RaminKarimloo (Funny Girl), Judy Kuhn (Fun Home), Jose Llana (Here Lies Love), Tony winner Bonnie Milligan (Kimberly Akimbo), Tony winner Brandon Uranowitz (Leopoldstadt), and Chip Zien (Harmony), Titanic is an epic musical theater event. This nearly sung-through show from creators Maury Yeston (Grand Hotel) and PeterStone (1776) remains a musical theater revelation, painting a heartrending portrait of the individuals whose dreams of America were dashed in the Atlantic.
Operatic in its style, historical inspiration, and ambition, Titanic may have seemed unlikely material for musical drama when Yeston and Stone began work. But by the time the show premiered on Broadway in 1997, cultural fascination with the “ship of dreams” had reached a fever pitch, and Titanic received critical and audience acclaim, as well as five Tony Awards including Best Musical. Pared down to its essence and highlighting the majestic score, our Encores! production meditates on the nature of ambition and the human scale of this epic tragedy, focusing on the class divides both illuminated and transcended by the ship’s inexorable sinking.
Costume Team:
Associate Costume Designer: MeganRutherford
Costume Coordinator: Deijah M.V.
Costume Shopper: Annie Hoeg
Hair Consultant: Amanda Miller
Makeup Consultant: Sarah Cimino
Costume Design Technicians (builds): Victoria Bek, Kimberly Manning, Tomoko Naka, Gilberto Designs Inc.
Photographs by: Curtis Brown https://www.nycitycenter.org/pdps/2023-2024/titanic/
FINAL EXTENSION! MUST CLOSE MAR 17.
From Tony® Award-winning composer JASON ROBERT BROWN (PARADE) comes a timely new musical about two talented young journalists on increasingly diverging paths. Set in the late 1990s amid a rapidly changing media landscape we meet a fast-rising journalist, Ethan Dobson, and an assistant copy editor, Robin Martinez, at the revered magazine The Connector. In a world that values the next big sensation, Ethan’s writing prowess and ambition force him to confront how far he’ll go for the ultimate scoop and Robin to consider how far she’ll go to stop him.
With a book by JONATHAN MARC SHERMAN, THE CONNECTOR will feature Brown leading the band at each performance and reuniting with THE LAST FIVE YEARS and SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD director DAISY PRINCE.
Choreography: KARLA PUNO GARCIA
Scenic Designer: BEOWULF BORITT
Costume Designer: MÁRION TALÁN DE LA ROSA
Costume Design Associate: AMY SUTTON
Costumes Builds: JENNIFER LOVE, VICTORIA BEK
Lighting Designer: JEANETTE OI-SUK YEW
Sound designer: JON WESTON
Orchestrations and arrangements: JASON ROBERT BROWN
Music Director: TOM MURRAY
Music Coordinator: KRISTY NORTER
Production Stage Manager: ERIN GIOIA ALBRECHT
Casting by PATRICK GOODWIN, CSA / THE TELSEY OFFICE
Associate Costume designer: AMY SUTTON
Make-up Consultant: SARAH CIMINO
Hair Designer: WIG ASSOCIATES
IS IT THURSDAY YET
Created, choreographed and performed by Jenn Freeman
Created, choreographed and directed by Sonya Tayeh
Composed and performed by Holland Andrews
Drummer: Price McGuffey
Creative Team:
Rachel Hauck – Scenic Design
Cha See – Lighting Design
Melanie Chen Cole – Sound Design
Joseph DiGiovanna – Media and Projection Design
Victoria Bek: Costume Design Technician
Make Up Consultant: Sarah Cimino
Photographs: Art Davison, Matthew Murphy, Alex hammer
A Dance of Discovery. A Brain in Motion. A Life on the Spectrum.
Is It Thursday Yet? is a stunning tapestry of dance, live music and home video footage that invites you into the unique complexities of dancer and choreographer Jenn Freeman’s life following her Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis at age 33. Since then, she has navigated an endless sea of epiphanies, examining childhood memories through this new lens.
Scored with original live music from composer and vocalist Holland Andrews with a set by Rachel Hauck (Tony Award® winner, Hadestown), this engrossing new work is co-created and co-choreographed by Freeman and the electrifying Sonya Tayeh (Tony Award winner, Moulin Rouge!) on as Director.
PRESS:
The San Diego Union-Tribune: La Jolla Playhouse’s Dance-Theater Piece ‘Is It Thursday Yet’ a Moving, Cathartic Journey of the Mind
Broadway World: Is It Thursday Yet? at La Jolla Playhouse
San Diego Reader: Is It Thursday Yet? at La Jolla Playhouse
Stage and Cinema: Review: Is It Thursday Yet?
Composer: Heather Christian
Director Lee Sunday Evans
Music Director Ben Moss
Scenic Designer: Kristen Robinson
Costume Designer: Márion Talán De La Rosa´
Assitant Costume Designer(s): Victoria Bek and Tiffany Chen
Lighting Designer: Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew
Sound Designer: Nick Kourtides
Latin Translation & Latin Consultant: Greg Taubman
Stage Manager: Jo Fernandez
Assistant Stage Manager: Kelsey Vivian
Photography: Ben Arons Kristen Robinson
Associate Director Keenan Tyler Oliphant
Assistant Director Liza Couser
Assoc. Music Director: Jacklyn RihaLink:
In this sweeping world premiere, composer Heather Christian infuses the classical oratorio with blues, gospel, jazz and soul. Oratorio for Living Things unfolds the complex layers of what it means to be alive and our relationship to time. Staged by Obie Award-winning director Lee Sunday Evans and featuring eighteen virtuosic singers and instrumentalists, the experience surrounds and uplifts, celebrating our curiosity, our wonder, and what we’re capable of becoming when in communion with each other. The resulting music-theater event heralds Christian as an undeniable artistic force.
“PROFOUNDLY STRANGE & OVERWHELMINGLY BEAUTIFUL – HEATHER CHRISTIAN’S RAPTUROUS NEW MUSIC-THEATER WORK TURNS A TINY AMPHITHEATER INTO A VAST CATHEDRAL OF SOUND”. – Jesse Green, The New York Times
“A WORK THAT SUCCESSFULLY ESTABLISHES A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE SACRED AND THE MUNDANE, BETWEEN THE INVISIBLE AND WHAT WE GRASP WITH OUR SENSES.” – Jose Solís, The New York Times
“EXHILARATING! BREATHTAKING! A TRANSCENDENT EXPERIENCE!” – Raven Snook, Time Out New York
“GORGEOUS – A MUST SEE! – Adam Feldman, Time Out New York
“A WHITEWATER CATARACT OF SOUND & MEANING” - Helen Shaw, Vulture
“RAVISHING! THIS COLLISION OF CLASSICAL MUSIC, EXPERIMENTAL THEATER, AND THEORETICAL PHYSICS GENERATES SO MUCH CREATIVE ENERGY, IT FEELS LIKE IT COULD POWER EVERY THEATER IN NEW YORK.” – Zachary Stewart, TheaterMania
Pilobolus is a rebellious dance company. Since 1971, Pilobolus has tested the limits of human physicality to explore the beauty and the power of connected bodies. We continue to bring this tradition to global audiences through our post-disciplinary collaborations with some of the greatest influencers, thinkers, and creators in the world. Now, in our digitally driven and increasingly mediated landscape, we also reach beyond performance to teach people how to connect through designed live experiences. We bring our decades of expertise telling stories with the human form to show diverse communities, brands, and organizations how to maximize group creativity, solve problems, create surprise, and generate joy through the power of nonverbal communication.
Pilobolus has created and toured over 120 pieces of repertory to more than 65 countries. Over the years we have performed our work for millions of people across the U.S. and around the world. Pilobolus has been featured on CBS This Morning, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, NBC’s TODAY Show, MTV’s Video Music Awards, The Harry Connick Show, ABC’s The Chew, and the CW Network’s Penn & Teller: Fool Us. Pilobolus has been recognized with many prestigious honors, including a TED Fellowship, a 2012 Grammy® Award Nomination, a Primetime Emmy® Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cultural Programming, and several Cannes Lion Awards at the International Festival of Creativity. In 2015, Pilobolus was named one of Dance Heritage Coalition’s “Irreplaceable Dance Treasures”. Pilobolus has collaborated with more than 75 brands and organizations in finance, retail, media, fashion, sports, and more to create bespoke performances for television, film, and live events.
In 2024, the first book capturing the legacy of Pilobolus was written by author Robert Pranzatelli and published by the University Press of Florida. Pilobolus: A Story of Dance and Life tracks the company from its counterculture origins through its pop-culture triumphs and contemporary global acclaim. Piece: Warp and Weft
Artistic Directors and Creators: Renee Jaworski and Matt Kent
Dancers for Bloodlines: Hannah Klinkman and Marlon Feliz
Dancers For Warp and Weft: Heather Favretto, Krystal Butler and Casey Howes
Lighting Designer: Diane Ferry Williams
Costume Technician: Victoria Bek
Photographer: Brigid Pierce
The World Premiere in January 2019 of Julia Wolfe’s Fire in my mouth, a searingly vivid evocation of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, perfectly capped New York Stories: Threads of Our City, our exploration of New York’s roots as a city of immigrants.
Fire in my mouth, which the Orchestra co-commissioned, also featured The Crossing, conducted by Donald Nally, and the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, directed by Francisco J. Núñez. The New York Times called the work “ambitious, heartfelt, often compelling. … There is both heady optimism and a sense of dread in Ms. Wolfe’s music. … Mr. van Zweden led a commanding account of a score that … ends with an elegiac final chorus in which the names of all 146 victims are tenderly sung to create a fabric of music and memory.” The performance earned the coveted spot in the highbrow / brilliant quadrant of New York magazine’s Approval Matrix.
Director: Annie Kauffman
Commissioned by:
The New York Philharmonic; Cal Performances at the University of California, Berkeley; the Krannert Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and the University Musical Society at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Performed By:
New York Philharmonic; Jaap Van Zweden, conductor; The Crossing Choir, and The Young People’s Choir of NYC .
January 24-26, 2019; David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City
Awards:
The winner of the 2020 Brendan Gill Prize is composer Julia Wolfe for her magnificent oratorio, Fire in my mouth, a hauntingly beautiful retelling of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Regretfully, our annual awards reception, Celebrating the City, has been postponed in response to concerns about coronavirus. We hope to announce a new date soon.
Caleb Teicher is a New York City-based dancer, choreographer, and director regarded widely in the performing arts as a leading voice in interdisciplinary collaboration.
Teicher began their career as a founding member of Michelle Dorrance’s critically acclaimed tap dance company, Dorrance Dance, while also freelancing as a contemporary dancer, musical theater performer, and swing dancer. In 2015, Caleb shifted their creative focus towards concert dance work through Caleb Teicher & Company which led to commissions and presentations at some of America's most esteemed performing arts venues: Lincoln Center, The Joyce Theater, New York City Center, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and countless others.
Collaborations with celebrated musicians/composers followed, including: choreographing Regina Spektor's Broadway residency, dancing and singing on television with Ben Folds, performing as a tap dance soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra, choreographing AJR's "Bang" music video. Caleb has also contributed choreography to film and theater projects (Sister Aimee, Sugar Hill Nutcracker).
Caleb’s work in 2024 centers around three projects: SW!NG OUT, Caleb's acclaimed big-band-swing-dance show celebrating the present-day Lindy Hop community; Bzzz, a comedic music-theater work for tap dancers and world-champion beatboxers; and Counterpoint, a concert duo with composer and pianist, Conrad Tao. Alongside hometown engagements, Caleb’s work will be seen in over a dozen U.S. cities this year as well as international engagements in Paris and Seoul.
Caleb is the recipient of two Bessie Awards, a 2019 New York City Center Choreographic Fellowship, the 2019 Harkness Promise Award, the 2020 Gross Family Prize, and a 2019 NEFA National Dance Project Production Grant. Their work has been featured on NPR's Tiny Desk Concert (with Conrad Tao), on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (alongside Regina Spektor), and on countless media sources including The New York Times, Forbes, Vogue, Interview Magazine, and on the cover of Dance Magazine.
www.CalebTeicher.net / Instagram: @CalebTeicher / TikTok: @CalebTeicher1
Esperanza Spalding
Songwrights Apothecary Lab Tour 2022
Known as a jazz artist — an important genre that explores the possibility of music in some of its highest forms yet amazingly ranks the lowest when it comes to popularity these days — Spalding began as a classical musician in her home of Portland, Oregon. Motivated by seeing the great cellist Yo Yo Ma perform and converse on the infamous children’s TV show “Mister Roger’s Neighborhood” as a kid, Spalding knew what her path would be at an early age. As a teenager, her obvious talent and growing abilities would lead to scholarships at schools such as The Northwest Academy and the Berklee College of Music located across the country in Boston. Mentored and encouraged by jazz legends and Berklee instructors Pat Metheny and Gary Burton, Spalding also cultivated her impressive multi-octave singing voice while expanding her bass playing style.
AntonioBrownDance
AntonioBrownDance was founded in 2013, and is composed of an incredibly talented group of performing artists from various cultural and training backgrounds. Connected together with a provocative movement vocabulary and emphasis on sound, the works of the company blend common human behavior with elements of social and political topics. Producing works that allow for the growing socio-political international climate to become conversation within our versatile communities.
Antonio Brown Dance has created and performed various works around the US including current touring with Grammy Award Winning Artist Esperanza Spalding.
Photographer: Chase Reynolds and the Appalachian Summer Festival
Sonya Tayeh is a New York City based choreographer and director. Since paving her professional career, her work has been characterized as a blend of powerful versatility and theatrical range.
Reclamation Map was a New York City Center commission with Sonya Tayeh and composer Heather Christian for the 15th annual Fall for Dance Festival 2018
Unveiling was a commission with Kaatsbaan and musically acclaimed singer Moses Somney at New York CIty Center 16th season Fall for Dance Festival 2019
Photographer: Joseph Digiovanna
2023 PARK AVENUE ARMORY GALA
OCTOBER 25, 2023
DIRECTED BY: TEDDY BERGMAN
Lighting Designer: JEANETTE YEW
EVENT:
Expect the unexpected as you journey through an immersive environment with entertaining artists and imaginative, pop-up performances that could only take place at Park Avenue Armory. Evening dedicated to the unmistakable energy and boundless creativity of our programming, and commitment to provide critical arts education programing in underserved schools in our city.
Choreographer and dancer José Limón is credited with creating one of the world’s most important and enduring dance legacies— an art form responsible for the creation, growth and support of modern dance in this country. Numerous honors have been bestowed upon both Limón and the Company he founded seventy-three years ago in 1946, including most recently the White House’s 2008 National Medal of Arts for Lifetime Achievement. José Immigrating to the United States from Mexico in 1918, Limón is considered one of Mexico’s greatest artistic exports, and a role model for Latino communities throughout the United States.
Premiered in 1956, “There is a Time” is based on the historic poem from the Bible, "Ecclesiastes" - "To Everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under the Sun." This poem, based on the cycle of universal human experiences, is rich in both ideas and words. The piece is conceived in 12 sections (with a round dance for both Prologue and Finale) and takes its inspiration from that passage in Chapter 3 of “Ecclesiastes” that starts: “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” Each of the temporal activities mentioned by the Old Testament scribe—”a time to laugh” . . . . “a time to mourn” . . . . “a time to dance,” etc. set to score by Norman Dello Joio.
This updated version of the piece was re-imagined through blind casting for the first time in the company’s history. It was live streamed from “Bubble Residencies” at The Kaatsbaan Cultural Park on December 17, 2020 by artistic director Dante Puleio.
Costume Technician: Victoria Bek
1. Work:
I FORGOT THE START
CHOREOGRAPHY: MATTHEW NEENAN
PHOTOGRAPHER: CHRISTOPHER ASH
MUSIC:
IN THIS HEART BY SINÉAD O’CONNOR, MACHU PICCHU BY THEATHER CHRISTIAN & THE ARBONAUTS, PAKA UA BY OZZIE KOTANI & DANIEL HO, ANTHEMS FOR A SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL BY BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE, AND FLINT BY SUFJAN STEVENS.
LIGHTING, SET, AND VIDEO DESIGN: CHRISTOPHER ASH
COSTUME DESIGN: MÁRION TALÁN DE LA ROSA
COSTUME CONSTRUCTION: VICTORIA BEK
PERFORMERS: KATIE GARCIA, PEDRO GARCIA, ALANA JONES, TIARÉ KEENO, TY MORRISON, JOAN RODRIGUEZ, GUZMÁN ROSADO, JORDYN SANTIAGO
2. Work:
BLOQUEA'O
BY
JOAN RODRIGUEZ
ABOUT
CHOREOGRAPHY: JOAN RODRIGUEZ
ORIGINAL MUSIC: PEDRO OSUNA
FEATURING: SUUVI (CELLO), RICKY MATUTE (PERCUSSION)
ADDITIONAL RECORDINGS: LUIS CONTE (PERCUSSION)
ENGINEERING: NOAH HUBBELL
VIDEOGRAPHER: ERICK WAYNE
LIGHTING DESIGN: MICHAEL JARETT
COSTUME DESIGN: MÁRION TALÁN DE LA ROSA
PERFORMERS: KATIE GARCIA, PEDRO GARCIA, ALANA JONES, TIARE KEENO, TY MORRISON, JOAN RODRIGUEZ, GUZMÁN ROSADO, JORDYN SANTIAGO
Joe Salvatore creates live performances and video projects from interview-based data, found media artifacts, and historical events. He is the creator and director of the Verbatim Performance Lab, whose performed investigations include The Kavanaugh Files, No(body) but nobody, The Grab 'Em Tapes, The Moore/Jones Challenge, The Lauer/Conway Flip, and Of a Certain Age (in collaboration with The Actors Fund).
Joe is a Clinical Associate Professor of Educational Theatre at NYU’s Steinhardt School where he teaches courses in ethnodrama, ethnoacting, new play development, and applied/community-engaged theatre. He has presented about his verbatim documentary theatre and performance practice at SXSW EDU, MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences & Sloan School of Management, Yale University School of Management’s Education Leadership Conference, University of Massachusetts, AERA, ICQI, ISEEN Winter Institute, and at Tallaght Community Arts in Dublin, Ireland.
Collaborations with writer/director Joe Salvatore:
1. Her Opponent 2017
In 2017, Joe collaborated with economist Maria Guadalupe (INSEAD-France) to create Her Opponent, a verbatim re-staging of excerpts of the 2016 U.S. presidential debates with gender-reversed casting. The Off Broadway production of the project was nominated for an Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best Unique Theatrical Experience and has been covered by NPR, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Hollywood Reporter, out.com, Fox News, MSNBC, and ABC News, among others
Photo by Richard Termine
2. Ga(Y)ze - 2015
Ga(y)ze, a collaboration with Toronto-based scenographer and installation artist Troy Hourie, tackles the world of gay male “cruising” in the early 1900s compared to contemporary times in the form of a site-specific performance installation.
In the 1920s, 14th Street just east of Union Square, known then as the Rialto, was originally the theatre district and the center of gay culture. This devised, non-verbal work uses vernacular jazz and social dance of the 1920s (Lindy Hop, Charleston), to tell the story of gay subculture within New York City past and present and features choreography by Caleb Teicher. The piece premiered as part of NYU’s Forum on Site-Specific Performance in April 2015.
3. Whitall - 2015
An interactive, site-specific theatre piece commissioned by and created in collaboration with the local community to animate the historical site of the Battle of Red Bank, October 22, 1777...
4. In Real Time - 2015
In Real Time is a set of six one-act plays that come from a series of eighteen plays written throughout 2012. A mixture of funny moments and more serious considerations, each short play is inspired by a song, a news article, or a writing prompt. Three sisters argue around a box of memories, friends make important discoveries in casual circumstances, a married couple sees each other again after a long time, and even Marilyn Monroe makes an unlikely appearance.
5. Open Heart - 2010
open heart is an ethnodrama that illuminates and explores the experiences of gay male couples living in non-monogamous or “open” relationships. Thirteen couples and a therapist/researcher were interviewed, the audio recordings were coded and transcribed, and a verbatim interview theatre script emerged offering thoughts and opinions on the following questions: How do gay couples define open relationships? How do gay men in open relationships define the word “monogamy?” Why do gay couples choose to live in open relationships? What are the advantages and disadvantages of an open relationship arrangement?
The play enjoyed a sold out run at La MaMa as part of the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival and is excerpted in Johnny Saldaña's book, Ethnotheatre: Research from Page to Stage (Left Coast Press). The full performance text is available through the digital theatre library, Indie Theater Now.
http://www.joesalvatore.com
Anthony Morigerato is a tap dancer, producer, director, content creator, writer, and Emmy nominated choreographer. Anthony is the executive producer and artistic director for AM Dance Productions. AM Dance Productions, short films include:
Echo ( 2023)
Starring: John Michael Fiumara and Peter Francis James
Directed by: Anthony Morigerato
Written by: Anthony Morigerato and Makayla Ryan
Choreographer: John Michael Fiumara
Associate Choreographer: Dario Natarelli
Dance Double: Evan DeBenedetto
Assistant Director: Makayla Ryan
DP: David Spadora
Gaffer: Jake Horgan
Camera OP: Julian Velez
Gimbal OP: Kurt Csolak
G&E Swing: Scott Vicari
Ast. Camera/DIT: Stephen Kalogridis and Josh Timpko
Sound: Mariya Chulichkova
Costume Design: Marion Talan de la Ross
HMU: Eva Notis and Christina Lammardo
Music Supervisor: Andrew Atkinson
Composer: Logan Evan Thomas
Production Assistance: Taytum Buford, Jessee Robinson, Tommy Wasiuta, and Jayme Overton
Produced by: AM Dance Productions and Eight Flow Studio
To: Everything I Love (2022)
Starring: Chantelle Good, John Manzari, and Logan Evan Thomas
Writing and Direction: Anthony Morigerato
Choreography: Anthony Morigerato and Makayla Ryan
DP, Editing, and Color: Kurt Csolak
Gaffer: David Spadora
Swing/Camera Op: Jake Horgan
1st Ac: Gus Thornton
Sound: David Burdzy
Hair and Make Up: Eva Notis
Costume Design: Marion Talan de la Rosa
Music Supervisor: Andrew Atkinson
VFX: Midnight Snacks, KT Evans and Ken Walz
Music Composition: Logan Evan Thomas and Hoagy Carmichael
Recorded and Engineered: David Kowalski and Teaneck Sound
Production Assistants: Makayla Ryan, Michael Zinkham, and Andrea Saum
Produced by: AM Dance Productions and Solarc Productions
When Snow Falls (2020)
Starring: Ted Louis Levy and Barbara Duffy
Director, Co-Choreographer & Writer: Anthony Morigerato
Co-Choreographer: Luke Hickey
Producer: Jess Weiss
Director of Photography and Editor: Kurt Csolak
Steadicam Operator and 1st AC: Justin Zverin
Gaffer: Jake Horgan
Key Grip: Leroy Prompakdee
Color: Daniel Orentlicher
Production Design: Christopher Pasi
Production Assistant: Samuel Smith
Costume Design: Marion Talan del Rosa
Make Up Dept Head: Mollie Parks
Musical Director and Film Score Arrangement: Andrew Atkinson
Musicians: Andrew Atkinson, Toru Dodo, Nancy Harms, and Michael O’Brien
Music By: Irving Berlin and Claude Thornhill
Heading Into Night: a clown play about…. [forgetting]
A world premiere clown work exploring the heartbreak and humor of the aging process. Created by and starring Cirque du Soleil alum Daniel Passer, in collaboration with Cherry Collective director Beth F. Milles.
“Looking through the lens of clown, and bringing a sense of joy and childlike innocence to the theme of memory, has been a rich landscape to explore. I love collaborating with Beth and dreaming up the impossible and striving to bring it to life.” – Daniel Passer
PRODUCTION:
Performed by: Daniel Passer.
Recorded voices: Sandra Milles, Jean Parelman with Holly Adams, Cristian Amigo, Samuel Buggeln, Quin Frederich, Francine Wilson Jasper, Beth Milles, Rob Natoli, Daniel Passer, Sarah Plotkin, Ravi Ramakrishna, Jennifer Schilansky
Director: Beth F. Milles
Composer/sound design: Cristian Amigo
Associate sound design: Rob Natoli
Costume design: Márion Talán de la Rosa
Lighting design: Ashley Crespo
Projection design: Nils Hoover
Properties design: Tim Ostrander
Rigger: Josh Letton
Flight consulting: Amy Cohen
BALLET X
Norbert De La Cruz III’s premiere Talsikan was created to music composed especially for it by Ben Juodvalkis
Dancers:
Edgar Anido, Chloe Felesina, Francesca Forcella , Gary W. Jeter II, Zachary Kapeluck, Skyler Lubin, Daniel Mayo, Caili Quan, Richard Villaverde and Andrea Yorita
Photographers: Alexander Iziliaev and Bill Herbert
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
Fold By Fold
Dancers: Craig Black, Katherine Bolanos, Sadie Brown, Samantha Klanac Campanile, Emily Proctor, Seia Rassenti, Joseph Watson, Paul Busch and Peter Anthony Franc
Photographer: Rosalie O'Connor
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet's production of Fold by Fold (2013) was made possible through the generosity of Kelli and Allen Questrom with additional support from the Wolf Trap Foundation and The Princess Grace Foundation-USA.
Michelle Talán Photographer
talanfoto@gmail.com
Talan Foto
www.talanfoto.com/
Al Blackstone is an Emmy-nominated director, choreographer, and educator. His passion for bringing people together to experience something meaningful drives him to make dances, tell stories, and encourage joyful connection. Born in New Jersey and raised in a dance studio, he has called New York City home for more than a decade. In that time he has created emotional work for the stage and screen, thrown dance parties for charity, and introduced hundreds of people to one another.
ANNA was a piece commissioned by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society in honor of Agnes de Mille. Originally performed on March 25th, 2019 at the George Abbott Awards 60th Anniversary Gala, ANNA tells the story of a quiet young lady that is searching for a way to express herself. The piece featured Bri Ki, Danielle Kelsey, Mary Page Nance, and Ricky Ubeda with costumes by Marion Talan.
Jerome Robbins’ Noh-inspired dance piece follows a male figure (New York City Ballet principal dancer Joaquin De Luz, who retires this fall) through scenes from his youth, each moment of his journey conveyed in studied, deliberate articulations. Framed by lunar and seasonal transitions, this rarely performed work—beautifully reimagined for BAM’s Fishman Space stage by director-choreographer Luca Veggetti—is a rumination on experience and memory, named for the beloved Long Island town. Featuring composer Teiji Ito’s score for six musicians—prominently featuring the shakuhachi, the 13th-century flute played by Buddhist priests—and dancers from Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College, SUNY, Watermill is a study of time that still quietly resonates nearly a half-century after it was first staged.
Chanel DaSilva is a multifaceted artist whose work reflects her deep connection to the transformative power of the arts. A native of Brooklyn, NY Chanel has been immersed in the field of dance for the entirety of her life
SWEPT
Dancers: Nigel Campbell and Leal Zielinska
Photographer: Scott Shaw
The Juilliard Dance Ensemble (2006-2016)
Photographers:
Michelle Talan, Norbert de la Cruz, Nir Arieli, Rosalie O'Conner and Victoria Bek
GLACIER
Choreographer: Liz Gerring
Dancers:
Adele Nickel
Jessica Weiss
Claire Westby
Brandon Collwes
Brandin Steffensen
Tony Neidenbach
Jake Szczypek
Benjamin Asriel
Photographer: Julieta Cervantes
glacier is an evening length choreographic work for eight dancers based on composer Michael J. Schumacher's 2007-2012 work Glacier. Originally commissioned and premiered by Peak Performances @ Montclair State (NJ) it has been presented at The Joyce Theater, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival and Bryn Mawr University.
Contact Sport
Choreographer Larry Keigwin
Photographer:
Matthew Murphy of Murphy Made Photography.
SORRY IN MONTREAL
October 2019
Sorry
Created by Shook Ones
Directed by Mauricio Tafur Salgado
Choreographed by Cindy Salgado and Yvon “Crazy Smooth” Soglo
Written by Alejandro Rodriguez
Multimedia Design by Yazmany Arboleda and Francis-Olivier Metras
Performed by Yvon “Crazy Smooth” Soglo, Cindy Salgado, Julio Trinidad, James Dean Palmer, Kyle Vincent Terry, Ryan Broussard
Sound Design by Will Stone
Set and Lighting Design by Paul Hudson
Stage Managed by Emlyn VanBruinswaardt
In October of 2019, Sorry will be remounted for the 4th time! This time in Montreal at CCOV (Centre de Creation O Vertigo). The show will happen on October 16th and 17th.
Sorry is a multimedia theatrical experience that utilizes dance, spoken word and projection to tell a story about cultures colliding that’s never been more relevant or necessary than today. Sorry is an immersive exploration of contemporary interracial partnerships, narrated and annotated by the secret Poet Laureate of the A train.
For more information, check out this link:
https://ccov.org/en/sorry-crazy-smooth/
Choreographer: Billy Bell
Photographer:
Director, Choreographer, Dancer: Zack Winokur,
Photographer: Micheal Hart
Images from Balloon
Trio La Dame A La Licorne
As a choreographer, Bryan is the recipient of the First Place and Audience Choice awards for his work 'Without Notice' at the Sixth Copenhagen International Choreography Competition, nominated for the Rolex mentor and protégé award, a 2017 winner of the Princess Grace Choreography Fellowship Award and the recipient of the 2018-19 Jacobs Pillow Fellowship Award. Bryan has choreographed for the Juilliard School, Netherlands Dance Theater 2, Hessisches Staatsballet (Germany), The Scottish Ballet, Tanz Lucerne Theater, Ballet Theater Basel, The Paul Taylor Company, Charlotte Ballet, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, and the Gibney Company.
JACOB’S PILLOW
A Rather lovely thing
Dancers: Spencer Theberg, Ana Maria Lucaciu, and Jermaine Spivey
Photographer: Christopher Duggan
GIBNEY
A Thousand Million Seconds
Dancers: Nigel Campbell, Amy Miller, Zui Gomez, Katie Lake, William … Julia …
Photographer: Scott Shaw
JUILLIARD SCHOOL
Photographer Rosalie O’Conner
CHARLOTTE BALLET
When Breath Becomes Air
Photographer
In the Press…
“Arias’s approach is similar to the magic mixture in Wes Anderson’s films: The silliness is graced by sincerity, and the poignancy glows with humanity.” -Janine Parker of The Boston Globe. Read the full review.
The following works are interactive projects that consist of collaborating with artists of different disciplines. These include multi media artists, animators, sound and music designers, actors, acrobats, athletes, and of course a live audience.
1. As above, So below
A video mapping projection installation, conceived by a group of six artists, John Ensor Parker, Farkas Fulop, Johnny Moreno, Simon Anaya, Richard Jochum, & Ryan Uzilevsky.
The artists developed a multi-perspective 3D installation on the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage in Brooklyn.
Creation of the piece incorporates green screen film shoots, Kinect 3D scanning, stop-motion animation, computer modeling and a host of visual effect programs.
2. Play/Date
An immersive and voyeuristic theatrical experience set throughout the three levels of Fat Baby, a nightclub and lounge on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. During the performance, the lines between reality and fiction are blurred, as guests move through the bar, lounge and mezzanine – following scenes as they move or constructing their own adventure.
3. ANTECHAMBER
3. Ga(y)ze, a collaboration with Toronto-based scenographer and installation artist Troy Hourie and Director Joe Salvatore, tackles the world of gay male “cruising” in the early 1900s compared to contemporary times in the form of a site-specific performance installation.
In the 1920s, 14th Street just east of Union Square, known then as the Rialto, was originally the theatre district and the center of gay culture. This devised, non-verbal work uses vernacular jazz and social dance of the 1920s (Lindy Hop, Charleston), to tell the story of gay subculture within New York City past and present and features choreography by Caleb Teicher. The piece premiered as part of NYU’s Forum on Site-Specific Performance in April 2015.
Reset
Choreographers: Troy Ogilvie
http://troyogilvie.squarespace.com
Photographer: Jubal Battisti
Photographer: Michael hart
Match Box Dances is a short, four-part dancefilm shot on the streets, sidewalks and loading docks of DUMBO, one of New York’s most quickly changing neighborhoods. The product of an inter-disciplinary collaboration, Match Box Dances is a snapshot of ongoing investigations of portraiture in dance on camera. The project explores the intersection of public, private and personal gestures, while employing a creative and technical regard to immediacy similar to that of an instant Polaroid: The content, creation and production arise necessarily ‘of-the-moment’, and produce an artifact that functions as both document and art object.
Please visit www.matchboxdances.com to learn more.
Premiered at the Tangente Festival Montreal, QC October 2009
Firemakers is a collaborative dance that uses objects, projections, and humor to explore self-invention and self-imposed obstacles.
Choreography: Adam H Weinert
Dancers: Logan Frances Kruger, Roarke Menzies, Michelle Mola, Zack Winoker Sound Design: Jakub Ciupinski
Costume Design: Márion Talan
Set Design: Meagan Grimley
Animation: Jennifer Myers
Lighting Design: Anila Mazhari, Michealjon Slinger, Evan Teitlebaum
Project RUIN
October 2012 at Center for Performance Research
Dancers:
Aaron Carr
Lucie Baker
Carlye Eckert
Allysen Hooks
Timothy Ward.
Photographer: Hope Davis
Masks by Alyssa Eckert: www.thebrightmerchant.bigcartel.com
