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National Geographic Live: Kenny Broad Bernard-Henri Lévy, The Genius of Judaism The Peking Acrobats Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, Story/Time An Afternoon with Garrison Keillor Itzhak Perlman, In the Fiddler’s House Sarah Jones Douglas Brinkley, Presidents and the National Parks Maya Lin Joshua Bell, violin & Sam Haywood, piano
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5 Colson Whitehead
An Evening with the Author of, The Underground Railroad
9 Nā Lei Hulu I Ka Wēkiu with Masters of Hawaiian Music 12 Terry Tempest Williams, The Hour of Land 18 Compagnie Hervé KOUBI 19 An Evening with Isabel Allende 20 Thomas L. Friedman
23 Argentina’s Che Malambo 24 Luis Alberto Urrea
Ballet BC The 7 Fingers (les 7 doigts de la main) Odd Squad Live! Yuja Wang, piano & Leonidas Kavakos, violin Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox George Takei, Where No Story Has Gone Before Kamasi Washington and The Next Step The Chieftains with Paddy Moloney Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., Cancer and the Gene: Past, Present and Future Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour
A Field Guide to the 21st Century: How to Live in an Age of Acceleration
UCSB Reads Author of Into the Beautiful North
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Julian Lage & Chris Eldridge | Aoife O’Donovan Roomful of Teeth Murray Perahia, piano Best of NY Int’l Children’s Film Festival: Kid Flix Mix
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Yo-Yo Ma – Edgar Meyer – Chris Thile An Evening with David Sedaris Elizabeth Gilbert in Conversation with Pico Iyer Brooklyn Rider with Kayhan Kalhor
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Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour An Evening with Gloria Steinem Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca National Geographic Live: Anand Varma & Rodrigo Medellín Aaron Diehl with Cécile McLorin Salvant Dorrance Dance Igor Levit, piano An All-ages Rock Musical: Hansel & Gretel Alton Brown Live, Eat Your Science
Dorrance Dance
Mar 8 / Granada Theatre
Dear Arts & Lectures’ Friends and Supporters, Thank you for being here. Whether the “here” in this case is an elegant evening with pianist Yuja Wang and violinist Leonidas Kavakos, a roaring good Valentine’s Day with Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox (check them out, you will love them!), or a stimulating talk by Thomas Friedman, your Arts & Lectures program is dedicated to feeding the cultural vibrancy of this community. This past fall, we kicked off The Lynda & Bruce Thematic Learning Initiative (see opposite page) to deepen the impact of A&L visiting artists and lecturers and enable lasting connections to our community. From free quarterly book selections to public lecture demonstrations and post-performance discussions, Arts & Lectures is your place for entertainment and lifelong learning. As always, I’ll flag a few stand-out winter events for you – nights that are sure to nourish your spirit, open your mind, and chase away the winter blues. • Itzhak Perlman returns (Jan 23) to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his iconic klezmer album and PBS special, In the Fiddler’s House • Tony-winner Sarah Jones (Jan 24) performs excerpts from her new off-Broadway show Sell/Buy/Date • Maya Lin (Jan 30), the visionary artist and creator of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, will discuss her amazing large-scale and studio works • This winter the “fun factor” is high with The 7 Fingers of the Hand (Les 7 doigts de la main, Feb 6), the French Canadian cirque troupe that cooks as well as it flies! • The king of social media, George Takei (Feb 15) revisits his journey from a Japanese internment camp to legendary actor and activist • Oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee (Feb 23), whose cancer biography The Emperor of All Maladies was one of the most influential of all time, returns with The Gene • Activist Gloria Steinem (Mar 2) will address her vision of equality for all and share anecdotes from her latest book, My Life on the Road Lastly, if there is one way to upgrade your enjoyment and to share in ownership of Arts & Lectures, it’s this: join A&L’s Producers Circle today. Become a member and know that you too are helping to keep Santa Barbara the culturally vibrant place we love to call home. (See page 36 for membership benefits.) With deepest appreciation,
Celesta M. Billeci Miller McCune Executive Director
The Lynda and Bruce Thematic Learning Initiative The Lynda and Bruce Thematic Learning Initiative is a multi-year educational project from Arts & Lectures that brings experiential and contextual learning opportunities to UCSB and Santa Barbara. This year’s themes:
Creating a Better World: Social Justice, Human Rights, Economic Security Creative Culture: The Intersection of Art, Technology and Design Jan 20 Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company
MacArthur Fellow and Tony Award-winning choreographer
Jan 24 Sarah Jones
Tony Award-winning playwright and performer
Jan 30 Maya Lin
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Visionary artist, creator of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Feb 6 The 7 Fingers
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(Les 7 doigts de la main)
French Canadian cirque troupe renowned for its whimsy and innovation
Feb 15 George Takei
Legendary actor, activist and social media guru
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Mar 2 Gloria Steinem
Renowned activist and spokeswoman for human rights
Mar 8 Dorrance Dance
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MacArthur Fellow and acclaimed choreographer
Apr 5 Colson Whitehead
National Book Award-winning author of The Underground Railroad
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Apr 12 Terry Tempest Williams
John Muir Award winner and environmental activist
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1. Bill T. Jones 2. Sarah Jones 3. Maya Lin 4. The 7 Fingers of the Hand 5. George Takei 6. Gloria Steinem 7. Dorrance Dance 8. Colson Whitehead 9. Terry Tempest Williams
Pick up your FREE copy of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad at the Arts & Lectures Ticket Office (Bldg. 402 adjacent to UCSB Campbell Hall) or the Santa Barbara Public Library (40 E. Anapamu St.) beginning January 17. Available while supplies last.
With thanks to our visionary partners, Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin
Bernard-Henri Lévy The Genius of Judaism
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Sat, Jan 14 / 8 PM / Campbell Hall / FREE
Co-presented with the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies in cooperation with the UCSB Department of Religious Studies, Congregation B’nai B’rith, the Jewish Federation of Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara Hillel
Bernard-Henri Lévy is one of Europe’s most celebrated thinkers, lauded as a rock star of critical thought and a prophet who bridges high intellect with lowbrow pop culture. An intellectual maverick, Lévy has morphed into a master philosopher, journalist, activist and bestselling author. An advocate of ethics and justice, he broke ground as the leader of the New Philosophers in the 1960s. Maintaining his outspoken streak of activism, he served as a war reporter extensively covering the Middle East and Afghanistan. He has written more than three dozen books, including American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville and Who Killed Daniel Pearl? His 1977 book Barbarism with a Human Face launched an unprecedented controversy over the European left’s complicity with totalitarianism. His writing has appeared in a wide range of publications throughout Europe and the United States. As a filmmaker, Lévy gained renown for his documentary about the Bosnian conflict, Bosna!, after starting his career as a war reporter for Combat – the legendary newspaper founded by Albert Camus during the Nazi occupation of France – for which he covered the war between Pakistan and India over Bangladesh. He has also chronicled conflict in documentaries such as A Day in the Death of Sarajevo and his most recent film, Peshmerga. The absorbing documentary follows his journey along 1000km of enemy lines with a battalion of peshmerga battling ISIS. A moving and informative homage to a group of Kurdish freedom fighters, it reveals the war-ravaged landscape of the Iraqi frontier rarely seen by the wider world. The film was granted a late entry special screening in the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
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Lévy’s cultural commentary, novels and journalism have gained such widespread attention that The Guardian stated he is “accorded the kind of adulation in France that most countries reserve for their rock stars.” Vanity Fair has referred to Lévy as “a superman and prophet: we have no equivalent in the United States” and The New York Times has remarked, “Bernard-Henri Lévy does nothing that goes unnoticed. He is an intellectual adventurer who brings publicity to unfashionable political causes.” In 2009, Foreign Policy magazine ranked him 31st among the 100 Top Global Thinkers. In his insightful new book The Genius of Judaism, Lévy explains how his philosophy is shaped by the wisdom and beauty of Judaism – and why the global resurgence of anti-Semitism poses an existential threat to us all. Books are available for purchase in the lobby and a signing follows the event
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30th Anniversary Tour
The Peking Acrobats Sun, Jan 15 / 3 PM / Granada Theatre
Co-presented with The Granada Theatre photo: Tom Meinhold
Event Sponsor: Kay McMillan Family Fun series sponsor: With support from our Community Partner the Orfalea Family
Program (Approx. 1 hr. 45 min.)
- Intermission -
Pole Position Plate Spinning Hoop Diving Squeeze Play Darling Diablos Keep It Under Your Hat Contortion by Candlelight A “Strapping” Kung-Fu Ceremony
Lion Dance Five Girl Contortion A “Jar”-ring Experience! Wushu Kungfu Comedy Plates High Chair Flag Act / Human Pyramid Bicycle Pagoda Finale
The program for this performance will be selected from the above.
For the last 31 years, The Peking Acrobats have redefined audience perceptions of Chinese acrobatics. They perform daring maneuvers atop a precarious pagoda of chairs and display their technical prowess at such arts as trick-cycling, precision tumbling, juggling, somersaulting and gymnastics. They push the limits of human ability, defying gravity with amazing displays of contortion, flexibility and control. The Peking Acrobats are often accompanied by live musicians who skillfully play traditional Chinese instruments; the time-honored Chinese music coalesces with high-tech special effects and awe-inspiring acrobatic feats, creating an exuberant entertainment event with the festive pageantry of a Chinese carnival. Since their founding in 1986, The Peking Acrobats have been featured on numerous television shows and celeb-
rity-studded TV specials. These include Nickelodeon’s Unfabulous, Ellen’s Really Big Show (hosted by Ellen DeGeneres), The Wayne Brady Show, That’s Incredible, ABC’s Wide World of Sports and NBC’s Ring in the New Year Holiday Special. They have also appeared on HDNet TV’s In Focus series, and have appeared regularly in 3D on NBC/Comcast’s new 3D channel. The Peking Acrobats set the world record for the human chair stack on FOX Network’s Guinness Book Primetime television show in 1999: They balanced six people precariously atop six chairs 21 feet up in the air without safety lines, astounding audiences with their bravery and dexterity. The Peking Acrobats have also made their way onto the silver screen – company members were featured in Steven Soderbergh’s hit film Ocean’s Eleven playing alongside Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt
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and George Clooney. Peking Acrobats alumnus Shaobo Qin also appeared in that film’s two sequels, Ocean’s Twelve and Ocean’s Thirteen. The Peking Acrobats achieved another milestone in the fall of 2003, when they made their orchestral debut at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. They performed as part of the Hollywood Bowl’s Fireworks Season Finale, where the company blended their unique brand of acrobatics with the majestic sound of the 100-piece Hollywood Bowl Orchestra conducted by John Mauceri. Since their Hollywood Bowl debut, The Peking Acrobats have performed with many of the most prestigious symphony orchestras in North America today. These include the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; the Ravinia Festival Orchestra, featuring members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; the San Diego Symphony Orchestra; the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra; the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. The Peking Acrobats return often to the Hollywood Bowl, where they perform with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. Throughout their 31-year career, The Peking Acrobats have achieved international acclaim, dazzling audiences around the world. In February of 2005, The Peking Acrobats premiered in Italy on a five-week, 12-city tour. Their opening in Milan became a spectacular media event that was covered nationally by the Italian press. In city after city, The Peking Acrobats took the stage before sold-out crowds, and the reviews were filled with accolades attesting to their superb performances. Since their Italian debut, The Peking Acrobats have performed in seven European countries on their six European Tours since 2005. The Peking Acrobats are part of a time-honored Chinese tradition, rooted in centuries of Chinese history and folk art. Tradition demands that each generation of acrobats add its own improvements and embellishments; because of this, high honor is conferred upon those skilled enough to become acrobats. The Peking Acrobats seek to uphold this rich and ancient folk art tradition, bringing it to new technical heights while integrating 21st century technology. In the words of Clive Davis of the New York Post, “The Peking Acrobats [are] pushing the envelope of human possibility,” combining agility and grace in remarkable feats of “pure artistry.”
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The Peking Acrobats are produced by IMG Artists, LLC www.imgartists.com 7 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019 Telephone: (212) 994-3533 | FAX: (212) 994-3550 dshultz@imgartists.com AND International Asia, Inc. Ken T. Hai, President and Artistic Director Steven Hai, Creative Director Melinda Hai, Assistant to the President PO Box 546, Walnut, CA 91788 Staff for The Peking Acrobats: Ken T. Hai, Company Director Steven Hai, Artistic Director Yang Quan, Group Leader Zhang Ping, Technical Consultant Jiang F. Jun, Stage Manager Zhao Wen Xi, Orchestra Director Eli Schellinger, Technical Director Iseah Reeves, Assistant Technical Director Yu Fei, Translator Funded in part by the Community Events & Festivals Program using funds provided by the City of Santa Barbara in partnership with the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture
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Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company Story/Time
Fri, Jan 20 / 8 PM / Granada Theatre
Bill T. Jones, Co-Founder & Artistic Director Janet Wong, Associate Artistic Director
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Dance Series Sponsors: Annette & Dr. Richard Caleel Margo Cohen-Feinberg & Robert Feinberg and the Cohen Family Fund Barbara Stupay The Lynda and Bruce Thematic Learning Initiative: Creative Culture
Story/Time (2012, includes mature content) Conceived and Directed by Bill T. Jones Choreographed by Bill T. Jones with Janet Wong and members of the Company Music by Ted Coffey Text by Bill T. Jones Decor by Bjorn Amelan Lighting Design by Robert Wierzel Costume Design by Liz Prince Associate Set Design by Solomon Weisbard
Featuring Bill T. Jones and the Company: Antonio Brown, Rena Butler, Cain Coleman, Jr., Talli Jackson, Shane Larson, I-Ling Liu, Jenna Riegel, Christina Robson and Carlo Antonio Villanueva with Ted Coffey Production Staff: Hillery Makatura, Laura Bickford, Veronica Falborn and Sam Crawford
Co-commissioned by Peak Performances at Montclair State University and the Walker Art Center. Developed in residence at Arizona State University Gammage Auditorium, Bard College, Alexander Kasser Theater at Montclair State University, University of Virginia and the Walker Art Center. Rehearsed at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Costumes constructed by Carelli Costumes, Inc.
The development of new works by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company is made possible by the company’s Partners in Creation: Anne Delaney, Zoe Eskin, Eleanor Friedman and Carol Tolan. This engagement is supported in part by the Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, the MAP Fund, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council with special thanks to Council Member Corey Johnson, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, the Jerome Robbins Foundation, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, the Scherman Foundations and the Shubert Foundation.
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About the Company Over the past 34 years the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company has shaped the evolution of contemporary dance through the creation and performance of more than 140 works. Founded as a multicultural dance company in 1982, the company was born of an 11-year artistic collaboration between Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane. Today, the company is recognized as one of the most innovative and powerful forces in the modern dance world. The company has performed its ever-enlarging repertoire worldwide in over 200 cities in 30 countries on every major continent. In 2011, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company merged with Dance Theater Workshop to form New York Live Arts, of which Bill T. Jones is the Artistic Director.
de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government, and in 2000, The Dance Heritage Coalition named Jones “An Irreplaceable Dance Treasure.”
The repertory of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company is widely varied in its subject matter, visual imagery and stylistic approach to movement, voice and stagecraft and includes musically driven works as well as works using a variety of texts. Some of its most celebrated creations are evening length works including Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land (1990, Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music); Still/Here (1994, Biennale de la Danse in Lyon, France); We Set Out Early… Visibility Was Poor (1996, Hancher Auditorium, Iowa City, Iowa); You Walk? (2000, European Capital of Culture 2000, Bolgna, Italy); Blind Date (2006, Peak Performances at Montclair State University); Chapel/Chapter (2006, Harlem Stage Gatehouse); Fondly Do We Hope… Fervently Do We Pray (2009, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park, Ill.); Another Evening: Venice/Arsenale (2010, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy); Story/Time (2012, Peak Performances); and A Rite (2013, Carolina Performing Arts at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill). The Company is also currently touring Body Against Body an intimate and focused collection of duet works drawn from the Company’s 33-year history.
Arnie Zane (Co-Founder/Choreographer) (1948-1988) was a native New Yorker born in the Bronx and educated at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton. In 1971, Arnie Zane and Bill T. Jones began their long collaboration in choreography and in 1973 formed the American Dance Asylum in Binghamton with Lois Welk. Zane’s first recognition in the arts came as a photographer when he received a Creative Artists Public Service (CAPS) Fellowship in 1973. He was the recipient of a second CAPS Fellowship in 1981 for choreography, as well as two Choreographic Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1983 and 1984). In 1980, Zane was co-recipient, with Bill T. Jones, of the German Critics Award for his work, Blauvelt Mountain. Rotary Action, a duet with Jones, was filmed for television, co-produced by WGBH-TV Boston and Channel 4 in London.
Bill T. Jones (Artistic Director/Co-Founder/Choreographer: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company; Artistic Director: New York Live Arts) is the recipient of the 2014 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award; the 2013 National Medal of Arts; the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors; a 2010 Tony Award for Best Choreography of the critically acclaimed FELA!; a 2007 Tony Award, 2007 Obie Award, and 2006 Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Callaway Award for his choreography for Spring Awakening; the 2010 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award; the 2007 USA Eileen Harris Norton Fellowship; the 2006 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreography for The Seven; the 2005 Wexner Prize; the 2005 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement; the 2005 Harlem Renaissance Award; the 2003 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize; and the 1994 MacArthur “Genius” Award. In 2010, Jones was recognized as Officier
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Jones choreographed and performed worldwide with his late partner, Arnie Zane, before forming the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in 1982. He has created more than 140 works for his company. Jones is the Artistic Director of New York Live Arts, an organization that strives to create a robust framework in support of the nation’s dance and movement-based artists through new approaches to producing, presenting and educating. For more information visit www.newyorklivearts.org.
Company Profiles Antonio Brown (Dancer), a native of Cleveland, Ohio, began his dance training at the Cleveland School of the Arts and received his B.F.A. from The Juilliard School. Brown has performed works by Ohad Naharin, José Limón, Jiří Kylián, Aszure Barton, Susan Marshall and Larry Keigwin and has worked with Malcolm Low/ Formal Structure, Nilas Martins Dance Company, Sidra Bell Dance New York and Camille A. Brown & Dancers. Currently, Brown also performs with The Dash Ensemble and is the Artistic Director of Antonio Brown Dance. Brown is also a founding member of the Elephant Room Ensemble. Brown joined the Company in 2007. Rena Butler (Dancer) is a native of Chicago, Ill. She has danced with Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion, David Dorfman Dance, Mettin Movement, as a guest with Luna Negra Dance Theater, Yara Travieso, Manuel Vignoulle and The Kevin Wynn Collection. She was featured in Dance Magazine, Refinery29. com, The Dance Enthusiast and Jordan Matter’s Dancers Among Us. She studied at The Chicago Academy for the Arts, Taipei
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National University of the Arts in Taiwan and received her B.F.A. from SUNY Purchase College. Her choreography has been featured on the Alvin Ailey School, The Joffrey Ballet School, New Orleans Museum of Modern Art and CHTV Stories in Switzerland. Butler joined the Company in 2013. Cain Coleman, Jr. (Dancer) trained at the Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase College and began his professional career with Philadanco under the direction of Joan Myers Brown and Debora Chase. He later joined The Martha Graham Dance Company. Coleman has performed works by Paul Taylor, George Balanchine, Talley Beatty, George Faison, Christopher Huggins and Ray Mercer. Coleman is also the co-founder and Artistic Director of ColemanCollective. Coleman joined the Company 2014. Talli Jackson (Dancer) was born and raised in Liberty, N.Y. He received his first training with Livia Vanaver at the Vanaver Caravan Dance Institute in upstate New York. He has been a recipient of full scholarships from the American Dance Festival in ’06 and ’08, the Bates Dance Festival and the Ailey School. In 2013, Jackson was honored with a Princess Grace Award in dance and was nominated for a Clive Barnes Award. He has been a member of the Company since 2009. Shane Larson (Dancer) was born and raised in Minnesota. He received his training at St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists and his B.F.A in Dance from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Larson has collaborated with punk musicians, filmmakers, improvisational music ensembles and site-specific visual artists. He also studied at SEAD in Austria. Larson joined the Company in 2016. I-Ling Liu (Dancer), a native of Taiwan, received her B.F.A. from Taipei National University of the Arts in 2005. She has performed with Ku and Dancers, Taipei Crossover Dance Company, Image in Motion Theater Company, and NeoClassic Dance Company and in works by Trisha Brown, Lin Hwai-Min and Yang Ming-Lung. Liu joined the Company as an apprentice in 2007 and became a member of the Company in 2008. Jenna Riegel (Dancer), a native of Fairfield, Iowa, has been a New York-based dancer, performer and teacher since 2007. Riegel holds an M.F.A. in Dance Performance from the University of Iowa and a B.A. in Theater Arts from Maharishi University of Management. She has performed and toured nationally and internationally as a company member of David Dorfman Dance, Alexandra/Beller Dances, Bill Young/ Colleen Thomas & Dancers, johannes weiland and Tania Isaac Dance. Riegel joined the Company in 2011.
Christina Robson (Dancer), originally from Tewksbury, Mass., received her early dance training from Tammy Ivers Aspell and graduated summa cum laude from Roger Williams University in 2009 under the direction of mentor Kelli Wicke Davis. She has also performed with The Sean Curran Company, David Dorfman Dance, Monica Bill Barnes and Company, Alexandra Beller, Heidi Henderson, Third Rail Projects and Deganit Shemy. Robson became a member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company in 2015. Carlo Antonio Villanueva (Dancer) was born and raised in Wallington, N.J. He received his primary movement training from Scott Chandler and TJ Doucette while touring with the Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps of Concord, Calif. He received his B.F.A. summa cum laude from Mason Gross School of the Arts, studied dance abroad at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and continued his training in classes and workshops provided by the Merce Cunningham Trust. Villanueva is roused by the work of Doug Elkins and Netta Yerushalmy and collaborates continuously with Miriam Gabriel. This season, he is also working on projects with Abby Zbikowski and Ashley Yergens. Villanueva joined the Company in 2015. Bjorn G. Amelan (Creative Director) was the partner of the late fashion designer Patrick Kelly from 1983 until Kelly’s death on January 1, 1990. Amelan moved to the United States to begin his collaboration with Bill T. Jones in 1993. Besides designing sets for the company since 1996, Amelan has designed the sets for the following works: Green and Blue (1997) for the Lyon Opera Ballet; How! Do! We! Do! (1999) for Bill T. Jones and Jessye Norman, in conjunction with Lincoln Center’s Great Performers show (1999). Amelan is the recipient of the 2001 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for his designs of The Breathing Show and The Table Project. Laura Bickford (Lighting Supervisor) grew up in NYC and studied at the Performing Arts High School, Feld Ballet and the Joffrey. She graduated from Smith College with a B.A. in Philosophy and Anthropology. Bickford has assisted lighting designer Robert Wierzel on many productions, both dance and opera. She has also worked as lighting supervisor for New York City Opera, New York City Ballet and Glimmerglass Opera. Bickford joined the Company in 2004. Sam Crawford (Sound Supervisor) completed degrees in English and Audio Technology at Indiana University in 2003. A move to New York City led him to Looking Glass Studios where he worked on film projects with Philip Glass and Björk. His recent sound designs and compositions have included works for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion, and Dave Dorfman Dance.
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He also plays lap steel and banjo in various groups, including Bowery Boy Blue (Brooklyn) and Corpus Christi (Rome). Hannah Emerson (Company Manager) completed her B.F.A. in Contemporary Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 2011. While enrolled, she studied with and was selected to perform works by many respected dance artists. She moved to New York City shortly after being awarded the William R. Kenan, Jr. Fellowship at the Lincoln Center Institute. Choosing to remain in the northeast, she has held administrative positions at New York Live Arts and The Yard while continuing to be artistically involved in the dance community. Emerson joined the Company in 2014. Veronica Falborn (Production Stage Manager) is incredibly excited to be working with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company. Other dance credits include New York City Ballet, School of American Ballet, Trisha Brown Dance Company, Vail International Dance Festival, Dances Patrelle and New Jersey Ballet. She is a proud graduate of SUNY Purchase College. Hillery Makatura (Production Manager) graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University with a B.F.A. in Theater. She has been touring both internationally and throughout the United States since 2006. She has worked as production manager for The Actors Studio, Big Art Group, Theater Mitu and Trisha Brown Dance Company. Kyle Maude (Producing Director) graduated from Drake University with a B.F.A. in Theater. She has worked with Ballet Tech/Feld Ballets New York, The Royal Ballet School of London, Buglisi-Foreman Dance and Lesbian Pulp-oRama! Maude joined the Company in 2003. Liz Prince (Costume Designer) designs costumes for dance, theater and film. She has designed numerous works for Bill T. Jones since 1990. Her costumes have been exhibited at: The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art; The 2011 Prague Quadrennial of Performance, Design and Space; Snug harbor Cultural Center and Rockland Center for the Arts. She received a 1990 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award and a 2008 Charles Flint Kellogg Arts and Letters Award from Bard College. Robert Wierzel (Lighting Designer) has worked with artists in theater, dance, new music, opera and museums, on stages throughout the country and abroad. He has worked with Bill T. Jones and his company since 1985. Projects include Blind Date, Another Evening/I Bow Down, Still/Here, Last Supper
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at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land and many more. Robert has also worked with Trisha Brown, Doug Varone, Donna Uchizono, Larry Goldhuber, Heidi Latsky, Sean Curran, Molissa Fenley, Susan Marshall, Margo Sappington, Alonzo King and Joann Fregalette-Jansen. Wierzel is currently on faculty of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and the Yale School of Drama. Janet Wong (Associate Artistic Director/Projection Designer) was born in Hong Kong and trained in Hong Kong and London. Upon graduation she joined the Berlin Ballet where she first met Bill T. Jones when he was invited to choreograph on the company. In 1993, she moved to New York to pursue other interests. Wong became Rehearsal Director of the Company in 1996 and Associate Artistic Director in August 2006.
Collaborator Profiles Ted Coffey (Composer) makes acoustic and electronic chamber music, interactive installations and songs. His work has been presented in concerts and festivals across North America, Europe and Asia, at such venues as Judson Church, The Knitting Factory, Symphony Space and Lincoln Center in New York City; The Lab, New Langton Arts, Southern Exposure and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco; the Walker Arts Center in Minnesota; Art Basel in Miami; the Korean National University of the Arts in Seoul; The Loos Foundation in The Hague, Netherlands; and ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany. Coffey’s electroacoustic composition has been featured at ICMC (2004, 2005, 2006), SEAMUS (2001, 2009, 2010, 2011), the Spark Festival (2009), the Third Practice Festival (2005, 2008, 2009) and the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (2010), among others. In The Open Space, Newton Armstrong described Coffey’s music as “subtle, weird and devoid of heroics. It’s the kind of music that resonates for days after you’ve heard it, and its spaces and gestures continue to form into new and extraordinary geometries.” His writings on the aesthetics and social politics of transmissive networks in the arts have been honored with significant awards from the Josephine de Kármán and Andrew C. Mellon Foundations. Coffey studied composition with Jon Appleton, Christian Wolff, Pauline Oliveros, Paul Lansky and others, earning degrees at Dartmouth (A.B.), Mills College (M.F.A.) and Princeton (M.F.A., Ph.D). Recordings of his work are available on the Ellipsis Arts, Everglade and EcoSono labels. He is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia, where he teaches courses in composition, music technologies, critical theory and pop. This is Coffey’s first collaboration with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.
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New York Live Arts Artistic Leadership
Bill T. Jones, Artistic Director Janet Wong, Associate Artistic Director
Executive Leadership
Kim Cullen, Executive Director & CEO
Board of Directors
Stephen Hendel, Co-Chair Richard H. Levy, Co-Chair Helen Haje, Vice Chair Slobodan Randjelovic, Vice Chair Helen Mills, Treasurer Terence Dougherty, Secretary Bjorn G. Amelan Sarah Arison Bill T. Jones Colleen Keegan Alan Marks Matthew Putman Alanna Rutherford Jane Bovingdon Semel Ruby Shang Catharine R. Stimpson David Thomson Derek Brown, Board Emeritus
Programming, Producing, and Engagement
Kyle Maude, Producing Director Isabella Hreljanovic, Senior Producer Hannah Emerson, Company Manager Rakia Seaborn, Education and Community Engagement
Production
Teresa Benavente, Production Manager Hillery Makatura, Production Manager Lauren Libretti, Lighting Supervisor Thomas Bowersox, Technical Director Veronica Falborn, Production Stage Manager Sam Crawford, Sound Supervisor
Development
David Archuletta, Chief Development Officer Janet Oh, Institutional Giving Manager Alexandra Burke, Individual Giving and Special Events Manager Tristan Powell, Development Assistant
Design, Marketing & Public Relations
Bjorn G. Amelan, Creative Director Heidi Riegler of Riegler Media & Marketing, Social Media/Marketing Liliana Dirks-Goodman, Director of Marketing Tyler Ashley, Special Projects Manager Austin Guerrazzi, Marketing and Front of House
Operations & Finance
Nupur Dey, Interim Director of Finance & Human Resources Seung Jae Lee, Bookkeeper
Audience Services
Renee Colbert, Audience Services Manager Samantha Lysagth, Shantelle Jackson, Hannah Seiden, Carlo Antonio Villanueva, Eli Tamondong, House Managers Matthew Perez, Shiloh Hodges, Charles Gowin, Denisa Musilova, Front of House Staff
Consultants
Robert Wierzel, Resident Lighting Designer Liz Prince, Resident Costume Designer Bill Katz, Artistic Consultant Marcum LLP, Certified Public Accounts, Inc. Paul B. Goode, Photographer Lowenstein Sandler, PC, Pro-Bono Counsel Located in the heart of Chelsea in New York City, New York Live Arts is an internationally recognized destination for innovative movement-based artistry offering audiences access to art and artists notable for their conceptual rigor, formal experimentation and active engagement with the social, political and cultural currents of our times. At the center of its identity is Bill T. Jones, world-renowned choreographer, dancer, theater director and writer. New York Live Arts serves as the home base for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and is the company’s sole producer, providing support and the environment to originate innovation and challenging new work for the company and the NYC creative community. New York Live Arts produces and presents dance, music and theater performances in its 20,000 square foot home, which includes a 184-seat theater and two 1,200 square foot studios that can be combined into one large studio. New York Live Arts offers an extensive range of participatory programs for adults and young people and supports the continuing professional development of artists and commissions. New York Live Arts 219 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011 212.691.6500 | Fax: 212.633.1974 | www.newyorklivearts.org North America Representation Opus 3 Artists 470 Park Avenue South, 9th Floor New York, NY 10016 212.584.7500 | info@opus3artists.com | opus3artists.com
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Beloved Former Host of A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer’s Almanac An Afternoon with
Garrison Keillor Sun, Jan 22 / 3 PM (note special time) / Granada Theatre
One of the most prolific American storytellers of all time, Garrison Keillor is a writer and humorist best known as the former host of the popular live radio variety show, A Prairie Home Companion, which attracted more than 4 million listeners on more than 600 public radio stations each week. Keillor is also host of the daily radio and online program The Writers Almanac and editor of several anthologies of poetry, including Good Poems: American Places. A bestselling author, he has published more than two dozen books including Lake Wobegon Days, The Book of Guys, Pilgrims, Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny and Homegrown Democrat. In 2006, Keillor played himself alongside a cast that included Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin and Kevin Kline in the critically-acclaimed film adaptation of A Prairie Home Companion directed by Robert Altman. A recipient of Grammy, ACE and George Foster Peabody Awards, Keillor has also been honored with the National Humanities Medal and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Offering insight and stories from his journey as one of America’s greatest storytellers, Keillor captivates audiences with his unique blend of comedy, charisma and wisdom.
Pre-signed books are available for purchase in the lobby
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Itzhak Perlman
20th Anniversary - In the Fiddler’s House
Featuring Hankus Netsky, Andy Statman and members of Brave Old World, Klezmer Conservatory Band, the Klezmatics and more! Mon, Jan 23 / 7 PM (note special time) / Granada Theatre Event Sponsors: Sara Miller McCune Anne & Michael Towbes photo: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco
Additional Support: Stephanie & Jim Sokolove With support from our Community Partner the Orfalea Family Education Sponsors: William H. Kearns Foundation, Sonquist Family Endowment Presented in collaboration with the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies
Itzhak Perlman, violin Hankus Netsky, Musical Director, piano Judy Bressler, vocals & percussion Frank London, trumpet Lorin Sklamberg, vocals Andy Statman, clarinet & mandolin Michael Alpert, vocals & accordion Ilene Stahl, clarinet Mark Berney, trumpet Mark Hamilton, trombone James Guttmann, bass Grantley Smith, drums Pete Rushefsky, tsimbl John Servies, sound engineer Joel Atella, tour manager
Program to be announced from the stage Photography is prohibited in the venue at all times. Please switch off your cell phones and other electronic devices.
Itzhak Perlman Undeniably the reigning virtuoso of the violin, Itzhak Perlman enjoys superstar status rarely afforded a classical musician. Beloved for his charm and humanity as well as his talent, he is treasured by audiences throughout the world who respond not only to his remarkable artistry, but also to his irrepressible joy for making music. Having performed with every major orchestra and at venerable concert halls around the globe, Perlman was granted a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, by President Obama in 2015, a Kennedy Center Honor in 2003, a National Medal of Arts by President Clinton in 2000, and a Medal of Liberty by President Reagan in 1986. He has also been honored with 16 Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Genesis Prize. In the 2016-2017 season, Itzhak Perlman performs season-opening gala concerts with the Baltimore Symphony and the Milwaukee Symphony, and appears with the
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Toronto, Cincinnati, Houston and San Diego symphonies, among others. He conducts the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Israel Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony at Ravinia Festival. Throughout the season, he performs with his regular collaborator, pianist Rohan De Silva, in recitals that take them across North America including Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. In Fall 2016, Warner Classics released a new album that Perlman recorded with one of the greatest pianists of our time, Martha Argerich. It was an historic first studio album for this legendary duo, exploring masterpieces by Bach, Schumann and Brahms. It had been 18 years since their last album together, a live recital from the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. Last year, Perlman recorded a bonus track for the original cast recording of the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof, released on Broadway Records in March 2016. The cast recording features Perlman on a track titled “Excerpts from Fiddler on the Roof,” arranged by John Williams. Over the past two decades, Perlman has become actively involved in music education through his work with the Perlman Music Program and the Juilliard School, where he currently holds the Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Chair.
Netsky received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in composition from New England Conservatory and his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University. He has been the recipient of a 2013 Forward Fifty award, a New England Conservatory Outstanding Alumni award, the Yosl Mlotek award for the perpetuation of Yiddish Culture, and NEC’s Louis Krasner and Lawrence Lesser awards for Excellence in Teaching. He has also taught at McGill University, Hampshire College, Wesleyan University and Hebrew College. His essays have been published by the University of California Press, the University of Pennsylvania Press, the University of Scranton Press, Hips Roads and the University Press of America, and Temple University Press published his book, Klezmer, Music and Community in 20th Century Jewish Philadelphia in 2015. Management for Itzhak Perlman Primo Artists, New York, NY 10001 www.primoartists.com Funded in part by the Community Events & Festivals Program using funds provided by the City of Santa Barbara in partnership with the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture
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Hankus Netsky Hankus Netsky is chair of New England Conservatory’s Contemporary Improvisation Department and founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, an internationally renowned Yiddish music ensemble. He is also musical director and arranger for “Eternal Echoes,” Itzhak Perlman’s much-acclaimed cantorial, Hasidic and Yiddish music collaboration featuring cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot (including a CD released on Sony Masterworks). His most recent project with Perlman, Rejoice, aired on PBS Great Performances in 2014. He has composed extensively for film, theater, and television; collaborated closely with such artists as Robin Williams, Joel Grey, Theodore Bikel and Itzhak Perlman; and produced numerous recordings, including ten by the Klezmer Conservatory Band. He cowrote two musicals with Robert Brustein, Shlemiel the First, produced by the American Repertory Theatre and The King of Second Avenue, produced in 2015 by the New Repertory Theatre in Watertown, Mass. He has also composed the music for numerous films, including Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem, released in the summer of 2014.
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Michael Douglas Visiting Artist An Evening with
Sarah Jones Tue, Jan 24 / 8 PM / Campbell Hall
photo: Tom Rauner
Co-presented with the UCSB Department of Theater and Dance
Event Sponsors: Jody & John Arnhold Corporate Sponsor: The Lynda and Bruce Thematic Learning Initiative: Creating a Better World
Called “a master of the genre” by The New York Times, Sarah Jones is a Tony® and Obie Award-winning playwright and performer. She is best known for her critically-acclaimed, multi-character solo shows, including her Broadway hit Bridge & Tunnel, which was originally produced by Oscar® winner Meryl Streep, and her current hit show Sell/Buy/Date which had its world premiere in New York at the Manhattan Theatre Club. The daughter of two physicians and the product of a multi-racial family and community, Sarah was educated at Bryn Mawr College and the United Nations International School, honing her sense of empathy for people from all backgrounds and the diverse voices that characterize her work. Sarah first began as a spoken-word performer at venues such as the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York. There she developed her first show, Surface Transit, which was later presented at The American Place Theatre and PS122 and garnered her first critical acclaim. Her next piece, Women Can’t Wait! was commissioned by The Ford Foundation and human rights group Equality Now to address laws discriminating against women and girls. A subsequent commission by The Ford Foundation and the National Immigration Forum yielded the piece that became the basis for Bridge & Tunnel, which ran off-Broadway at The Culture Project in 2004 and on Broadway in 2006. In the interim, Sarah was commissioned by the WK Kellogg Foundation to write an educational piece entitled A Right to Care, which tackled themes of inequality in health, and which premiered alongside keynote speaker President Jimmy Carter at WKKF’s 75th Anniversary Conference. She has also taught and performed at dozens of
colleges and universities and is an Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In addition to residencies from The MacDowell Colony, The Corporation of Yaddo, Civitella Rainieri, and Hedgebrook, Sarah has received numerous grants, commissions, and theater honors including a Drama League Award, a Helen Hayes Award, two Drama Desk nominations, a Lucille Lortel nomination, an Outer Critics Circle nomination, and HBO’s US Comedy Arts Festival’s Best One Person Show Award, as well as an NYCLU Calloway Award in recognition of Sarah as the first artist in history to sue the Federal Communications Commission for censorship. The lawsuit resulted in reversal of the censorship ruling, which had targeted her hip-hop poem recording, “Your Revolution.” Renowned as “a one woman global village,” she has also given multiple main-stage “TEDtalks” garnering millions of views, performed at The White House and United State of Women Summit at the invitation of President and First Lady Obama, and has given an historic performance at The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Sarah is also a long-standing advocate for the empowerment of women and girls and is known for her humanitarian activism, including her role as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador performing for audiences around the world. Sarah is currently developing multimedia projects based on her characters including launching an upcoming podcast for PRI. Learn more about Sarah’s ongoing projects at www.sarahjonesonline.com or via social media at @jonesarah on Twitter and @xosarahjones on Instagram and Facebook.
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Douglas Brinkley
Presidents and the National Parks: From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama Thu, Jan 26 / 7:30 PM / Campbell Hall (note special time) National Parks series sponsored by: Lillian Lovelace Sara Miller McCune With support from our Community Partner the Orfalea Family Presented in collaboration with Channel Islands National Park and the UCSB Natural Reserve System.
Douglas Brinkley is a Professor of History at Rice University, bestselling author and presidential historian for CNN, which has described him as “a man who knows more about the presidency than just about any human being alive.” He serves as a contributing editor for Vanity Fair. A frequent contributor to The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly, he is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Century Association and the Society of American Historians. In a recent profile, the Chicago Tribune deemed him “America’s new past master.” His newest bestselling book is Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America. In May 2012, Cronkite, Brinkley’s definitive biography of the CBS News anchorman, was selected as one of The Washington Post’s best books of 2012. Chris Matthews, writing in The New York Times, called Cronkite “evidence that a job can be done just about perfectly.” Other awardwinning biographies include Wheels for the World: Henry Ford and the Making of America and Rosa Parks: A Life. Brinkley wrote the pioneering biography Rosa Parks (2005), based on extensive interviews with the so-called “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.” Rightful Heritage is the third volume of his U.S. conservation history series. The first two volumes – The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America and The Quiet World: Saving Alaska’s Wilderness Kingdom, 1879 to 1960 – were published in 2009 and 2011, respectively. Both were major bestsellers.
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No less than eight of Brinkley’s books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Likewise, each of his most recent publications have been New York Times bestsellers: Voices of Valor: D-Day: June 6, 1944 (2004), Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War (2004), The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-Day and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion (2005), The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast (2006), The Reagan Diaries (2007), The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America (2009), The Quiet World: Saving Alaska’s Wilderness Kingdom, 1879 to1960 (2011) and Cronkite (2012). Brinkley completed his bachelor’s degree at Ohio State University and received his doctorate in U.S. Diplomatic History from Georgetown University in 1989. He then spent years at the U.S. Naval Academy and Princeton University teaching history. While a professor at Hofstra University, Brinkley spearheaded the American Odyssey course, in which he took students on numerous crosscountry treks to visit historic sites and meet seminal figures in politics and literature. Brinkley’s 1994 book The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey chronicled his first experience teaching this innovative on-the-road class, which became the progenitor to C-SPAN’s Yellow School Bus. Before coming to Rice, Brinkley served as Professor of History and Director of the Roosevelt Center at Tulane University in New Orleans. From 1994 until 2005, he was Distinguished Professor of History and Director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies at the University of New Orleans.
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On the literary front, Brinkley has edited Jack Kerouac’s diaries, Hunter S. Thompson’s letters, Theodore Dreiser’s travelogue and Woody Guthrie’s previously unpublished novel, House of Earth (co-edited with Johnny Depp). Brinkley has also been actively involved in the conservation community. Over the course of his career, he has held board or leadership advisory roles in the American Museum of Natural History, Yellowstone Park Foundation, National Audubon Society and the Rockefeller-Roosevelt Conservation Roundtable. In 2015, he was awarded the Robin W. Winks Award for Enhancing Public Understanding of National Parks by the National Parks Conservation Association.
Coming in Spring!
Terry Tempest Williams The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks
He won the Benjamin Franklin Award for The American Heritage History of the United States (1998) and the Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt Naval History Prize for Driven Patriot (1993). He was awarded the Business Week Book of the Year Award for Wheels of the World: Henry Ford, His Country, and a Century of Progress. He has received numerous honorary doctorates from top schools including Trinity College in Connecticut, Allegheny College, Westfield University, Hofstra University and the University of Maine for his work as an Americanist. Books are available for purchase in the lobby and a signing follows the event
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Wed, Apr 12 / 7:30 PM / Campbell Hall $20 / FREE for all students (with valid ID)
National Parks series sponsored by: Lillian Lovelace Sara Miller McCune With support from our Community Partner the Orfalea Family The Lynda and Bruce Thematic Learning Initiative: Creating a Better World Presented in collaboration with Channel Islands National Park and the UCSB Natural Reserve System
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2016 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient An Evening with the Visionary Creator of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
photo: Walter Smith/ Courtesy of Pace Gallery
Maya Lin
Mon, Jan 30 / 7:30 PM (note special time) / Campbell Hall
Event Sponsors: Martha & John Gabbert The Lynda and Bruce Thematic Learning Initiative: Creative Culture
Artist and designer Maya Lin interprets the natural world through history, politics and culture, creating a body of work that balances art and architecture. Lin’s installations, studio artworks, architecture and memorials, such as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, become a part of the land, merging physical and psychological environments and presenting a new way of seeing the world around us. In 2009 she was awarded the National Medal of Arts – the nation’s highest honor for artistic excellence – and in 2016 she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Lin’s memorials – the Vietnam Memorial which she designed as an undergraduate student at Yale, the Civil Rights Memorial in Alabama and the Women’s Table at Yale – address the critical social and historical issues of our time, making our history part of the landscape. Lin’s art explores how we experience and relate to landscape, setting up a systematic ordering of the land that is tied to history, memory, time, and language. Her interest in landscape has led to works influenced by topographies and geographic phenomena. Lin’s work asks the viewer to reconsider nature and the environment at a time when it is crucial to do so. A committed environmentalist, she is working on her last memorial, What is Missing?; a cross-platform, global memorial to the planet that calls attention to the crisis surrounding biodiversity and habitat loss.
of Chinese in America (2009) in New York City and the Riggio-Lynch Interfaith Chapel (2004) and Langston Hughes Library (1999) in Clinton, Tennessee. Current projects include the redesign of the Neilson Library at Smith College. Her designs create a close dialogue between the landscape and built environment, and she is committed to advocating sustainable design solutions in all her works. Maya Lin serves on the boards of the Bloomberg Foundation, Museum of Chinese in America, and the What is Missing? Foundation. She is an honorary board member of the Natural Resources Defense Council and is the recipient of the Presidential Design Award and honorary doctorates from Yale and Harvard, among others. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she has been profiled in Time, The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker. The 1996 documentary about her, Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision, won an Academy Award for Best Documentary. Her book about her work and creative process, Boundaries, is in its fifth printing with Simon & Schuster. Maya Lin: Topologies, a monograph spanning the past 30 years of her career was first released in fall 2015 by Skira Rizzoli and is in its second printing. Books are available for purchase in the lobby and a signing follows the event
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Joshua Bell, violin Sam Haywood, piano
photo: Richard Ascroft
Tue, Jan 31 / 7 PM (note special time) / Granada Theatre
With support from our Community Partner the Orfalea Family
Program
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Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Major, op. 12, no. 1 Allegro con brio Tema con variazioni. Andante con moto Rondo. Allegro
Kernis: “Air” for Violin and Piano
Brahms: Scherzo in C Minor, WoO posth. 2 from the F.A.E. Sonata Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, op. 108 Allegro Adagio Un poco presto e con sentiment Presto Agitato
Ysaÿe: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, op. 27 (“Georges Enescu”) Ballades; Lento molto sostenuto Allegro in tempo giusto e con bravura Rachmaninoff: “Vocalise,” no. 14 from op. 34, Fourteen Songs Sarasate: Carmen Concert Fantasy, op. 25 Allegro moderato Moderato Lento assai Allegro moderato Moderato
Joshua Bell With a career spanning more than 30 years as a soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and conductor, Joshua Bell is one of the most celebrated violinists of his era. An exclusive Sony Classical artist, Bell has recorded more than 40 CDs garnering Grammy, Mercury, Gramophone and Echo Klassik Awards and is recipient of the Avery Fisher Prize.
Named the Music Director of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields in 2011, he is the only person to hold this post since Sir Neville Marriner formed the orchestra in 1958. In September 2016, Sony Classical released Bell’s newest album, For the Love of Brahms, with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields cellist Steven Isserlis and pianist Jeremy Denk.
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Bell received his first violin at age 4 and at 14 performed with Riccardo Muti and the Philadelphia Orchestra, followed by his Carnegie Hall debut at 17. Perhaps the event that turned him into household name was his 2007 incognito performance in a Washington, D.C., subway station for a Washington Post article which thoughtfully examined art and context and earned writer Gene Weingarten a Pulitzer Prize. Valuing music as both a diplomatic and educational tool, Bell is a member of President Obama’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities and in April 2016, he participated in the U.S. government’s inaugural cultural mission to Cuba. He is involved in Turnaround Arts, a signature program of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities led by Michelle Obama, providing arts education to low-performing elementary and middle schools. Bell’s 2016-17 season includes season-opening appearances with the Atlanta Symphony and Minnesota Orchestra and performances with the New York Philharmonic under Alan Gilbert, Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel, plus the symphony orchestras of San Francisco, Seattle, Montreal and the National Arts Centre Orchestra. Abroad, he performs with the Vienna Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony and Czech Philharmonic. He embarks on four international orchestral tours: To the U.K., Benelux, Germany and Australia with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; to Switzerland with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra; to Austria, Germany, Italy and Sweden with the Swedish Radio Symphony under Daniel Harding; and to Korea and Japan with the Orchestra de Paris also with Harding. A highlight of the season features Bell in a week-long residency as 2016-2017 Artist-in-Residence at the Kennedy Center and National Symphony Orchestra. Performing and collaborating across artistic and educational mediums, Bell will examine the synergies between music, dance, the culinary arts, literature, education and technology. Featured events will include an evening with Gourmet Symphony, a collaboration with Brooklyn’s Dance Heginbotham, a recital with literature celebrating John F. Kennedy’s Centennial and a world premiere co-commission from Anne Dudley in a family concert based on the bestselling children’s book The Man with the Violin, inspired by Bell’s 2007 D.C. Metro performance. Bell performs on the 1713 Huberman Stradivarius violin.
Sam Haywood Sam Haywood has performed to critical acclaim in many of the world’s major concert halls. The Washington Post hailed his “dazzling, evocative playing” and “lyrical sensitivity” and The New York Times his “passionate flair and sparkling clarity.” Season highlights include solo and concerto performances at King’s Place, Saffron Walden and the Vienna Konzerthaus, as well as collaborations with Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis, Mark Padmore and the Elias Quartet. He will also be recording his second solo album for Hyperion and giving recitals on Chopin’s own Pleyel piano, part of the Cobbe Collection. In 2013, Haywood founded Solent Music Festival with his Greek wife Sophia Pagoni. The Lymington-based festival takes place annually in September and combines recitals by internationally-renowned artists with projects in the local community. This year’s opening concert will feature the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Haywood’s mentors have included David Hartigan, Paul Badura-Skoda and Maria Curcio. Following his early success in the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, the Royal Philharmonic Society awarded him the Julius Isserlis Scholarship. He studied both at the Universität der Künste in Vienna and at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Haywood enjoys working with young musicians. He has written a children’s opera and is regularly involved in family concerts, workshops and master classes. Summer of 2016 found him on the faculty at Domaine Forget in Canada. His “Song of the Penguins” for bassoon and piano is published by Emerson Editions. He is also the inventor of memorystars® which can significantly reduce the time needed to memorize a music score, or indeed any printed text. His varied passions include physics, natural history, technology, magic, fountain pens, kick-scooting and table tennis. samhaywood.com Funded in part by the Community Events & Festivals Program using funds provided by the City of Santa Barbara in partnership with the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture
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Ballet BC
Emily Molnar, Artistic Director Choreography by Crystal Pite, Sharon Eyal and Emily Molnar Fri, Feb 3 / 8 PM / Granada Theatre
photo: Michael Slobodian
Dance Series Sponsors: Annette & Dr. Richard Caleel Margo Cohen-Feinberg & Robert Feinberg and the Cohen Family Fund Irma & Morrie Jurkowitz Barbara Stupay
Program
16 + a room World Premiere, October 2013, Ballet BC
Choreography by Emily Molnar in collaboration with the artists of Ballet BC Music Arranged and Composed by Dirk P. Haubrich Lighting Design: Jordan Tuinman Lighting Direction: James Proudfoot
Costume Design: Kate Burrows Casting: Brandon Alley, Andrew Bartee, Emily Chessa, Livona Ellis, Alexis Fletcher, Scott Fowler, Racheal Prince, Justin Rapaport, Christoph von Riedemann, Gilbert Small, Peter Smida, Nicole Ward, Kirsten Wicklund
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Solo Echo Canadian Premiere, November 2015, Ballet BC; World Premiere, February 2012, Nederlands Dans Theater
Choreography by Crystal Pite Music by Johannes Brahms: Allegro non troppo from Cello Sonata No. 1 in E Minor, op. 38 Adagio affettuoso from Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Major, op. 99 Music recorded by Yo-Yo Ma, cello and Emanuel Ax, piano Recording used by arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment Canada, Inc.
Lighting: Tom Visser Set Design: Jay Gower Taylor Costumes: Crystal Pite and Joke Visser Staging: Eric Beauchesne Casting: Brandon Alley, Andrew Bartee, Emily Chessa, Alexis Fletcher, Scott Fowler, Christoph von Riedemann, Kirsten Wicklund
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Bill Canadian Premiere, May 2016, Ballet BC; World Premiere, May 2010, Batsheva Dance Company
Choreography by Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar Original Music and Soundtrack Design: Ori Lichtik Lighting Design: Omer Sheizaf Costume Design: Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar Staging: Osnat Kelner
Casting: Brandon Alley, Andrew Bartee, Emily Chessa, Livona Ellis, Alexis Fletcher, Scott Fowler, *Ria Girard, *Natassja Marc, Racheal Prince, Justin Rapaport, *Sabine Raskin, Christoph von Riedemann, Gilbert Small, Peter Smida, Nicole Ward, Kirsten Wicklund *Apprentice
About the Company Founded in 1986, Ballet BC has been under the leadership of Artistic Director Emily Molnar since 2009. Ballet BC is an internationally acclaimed collaborative and creation-based contemporary ballet company that is a leader and resource in the creation, production and education of contemporary dance in Canada. Bold and innovative, the Company’s distinctive style and approach has made a unique and valuable national contribution to the development of dance. Ballet BC’s dancers are a group of open-minded and deep-thinking artists, each unique for their dynamic movement while sharing an intuitive passion for dance. Ballet BC is committed to its role as a leader in the community through dancer training opportunities, community and audience outreach, and professional development activities. The Company presents a diverse repertoire of Canadian and international work from the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and is a hotbed for the creation and performance of new works. Since 2009, the Company has developed a repertoire of more than 35 new works by acclaimed Canadian and international choreographers including: William Forsythe, Itzik Galili, Jorma Elo, Cayetano Soto, Crystal Pite, Johan Inger, Walter Matteini, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, Jacopo Godani, José Navas, Emily Molnar, Nicolo Fonte, Lesley Telford, Wen Wei Wang, Medhi Walerski, Serge Bennathan, Fernando Hernando Magadan, Kevin O’Day, Shawn Hounsell, Gioconda Barbuto, Simone Orlando, Robert Glumbek and Aszure Barton among others. Under the artistic direction of Emily Molnar, former member of The National Ballet of Canada, Ballet BC and the Frankfurt Ballet, the Company actively fosters collabo-
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rations that support artists, choreographers and audiences alike, furthering the boundaries of contemporary dance. We embrace excellence in the practice of contemporary ballet, with its wide diversity of technique and style, honoring its roots and components. In our view, contemporary ballet is the ballet of today.
About the Choreographers Emily Molnar, C.M. As artistic director of Ballet BC, Molnar’s vision has steered the unique company of 18 dancers into a celebrated era of innovation and collaboration. Since the start of her tenure in 2009, the Company has developed a diverse repertoire that includes more than 40 new works by celebrated Canadian and international choreographers. Molnar is a graduate of the National Ballet School and a former member of the National Ballet of Canada, a soloist with the Frankfurt Ballet under director William Forsythe, and a principal dancer with Ballet BC. An internationally respected and critically acclaimed dance artist and choreographer, Molnar worked and toured extensively throughout Europe, Asia, Mexico, Canada and the U.S., where she created works for Alberta Ballet, Ballet Mannheim, Ballet Augsburg, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Pro Arte Danza, Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company and New York City Ballet’s Choreographic Institute, among others. Molnar’s most recent works for Ballet BC are between disappearing and becoming, Aniel, 16 + a room, and RITE, which premiered in May 2015. Named The Globe and Mail’s 2013 Dance Artist of the Year, Molnar is the 2016 recipient of the Vancouver Mayor’s
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Arts Award, BC Community Achievement Award and the YWCA Women of Distinction Award in Art, Culture & Design. She was recently appointed to the Order of Canada for her artistic leadership of Ballet BC and creative contribution to advancing dance in Canada. As an active mentor, advocate, and coach, Molnar follows her passion to nurture artists and choreographers, to educate and support the research and development of dance and artistic leadership, and explore the role of the artist in society. She currently serves as a director on the board of the BC Arts Council and a committee member of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Arts Based Initiative. In addition to her work with Ballet BC, Molnar is also artistic director of dance at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, a new position designed to guide and inform all Banff Centre dance initiatives throughout the year in collaboration with the Canadian and International dance community.
Crystal Pite Canadian choreographer and performer Crystal Pite is a former company member of Ballet BC and William Forsythe’s Frankfurt Ballet. Pite’s professional choreographic debut was in 1990, at Ballet BC. Since then, she has created over 40 works for companies such as Nederlands Dans Theater I, Cullberg Ballet, Frankfurt Ballet, The National Ballet of Canada, Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal (resident choreographer, 20012004), Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Ballet BC, and Louise Lecavalier/Fou Glorieux. She has also collaborated with Electric Company Theatre and Robert Lepage. Pite is associate choreographer of Nederlands Dans Theater I and Associate Dance Artist of Canada’s National Arts Centre. In 2013, she was appointed associate artist at Sadler’s Wells, London. In 2002, Pite formed Kidd Pivot in Vancouver. Integrating movement, original music, text, and rich visual design, Kidd Pivot’s performance work is assembled with recklessness and rigor, balancing sharp exactitude with irreverence and risk. The company’s distinct choreographic language – a breadth of movement fusing classical elements and the complexity and freedom of structured improvisation – is marked by a strong theatrical sensibility and a keen sense of wit and invention. Kidd Pivot tours nationally and internationally, performing such highly-demanded and critically acclaimed works as Dark Matters and Lost Action. Kidd Pivot’s residency at the
Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt (2010-2012) provided Pite the opportunity to create and tour her most recent works, The You Show and The Tempest Replica. Pite is the recipient of the Banff Centre’s Clifford E. Lee Award (1995), the Bonnie Bird North American Choreography Award (2004), and the Isadora Award (2005). Her work has received several Dora Mavor Moore Awards (2009, 2012), and a Jessie Richardson Theatre Award (2006). She is the recipient of the 2008 Governor General of Canada’s Performing Arts Award Mentorship Program, the 2011 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award, the inaugural Lola Award in 2012, and the Canada Council’s 2012 Jacqueline Lemieux Prize. Most recently, she received a Laurence Olivier Award (2015) for Outstanding Achievement in Dance.
Sharon Eyal Sharon Eyal was born in Jerusalem. She danced with the Batsheva Dance Company from 1990 until 2008 and began choreographing within the framework of the company’s Batsheva Dancers Create project. Eyal served as associate artistic director of Batsheva between 2003-2004, and house choreographer of the company between 2005-2012. In 2009 Eyal began creating pieces for other dance companies in the world: Killer Pig (2009) and Corps de Walk (2011) for Carte Blanche Dance of Norway; Too Beaucoup (2011) for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and Plafona (2012) for Tanzcompagnie Oldenburg, Germany. In 2013 Eyal launched L-E-V with her longtime collaborator Gai Behar. Eyal is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2004 Ministry of Culture Award for young dance creators and the 2009 Landau Prize for the Performing Arts in the dance category. In 2008, she was named a Chosen Artist of the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation.
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Artistic Director: Emily Molnar Rehearsal Director: Christophe Dozzi Dancers: Brandon Alley, Andrew Bartee, Emily Chessa, Livona Ellis, Alexis Fletcher, Scott Fowler, Ria Girard*, Natassja Marc*, Rachel Meyer, Racheal Prince, Justin Rapaport, Sabine Raskin*, Gilbert Small, Peter Smida, Christoph von Riedemann, Nicole Ward, Kirsten Wicklund, Lucas Wilson-Bilbro* (*Apprentice) Resident Teachers: Bev Bagg, Eva Carius, Justine Chambers, Artemis Gordon, Marquita Lester, Lesley Telford, Makaila Wallace, Wen Wei Wang Guest Teachers: Danielle Agami, Shahar Biniamini, Kevin Cregan, Lisa Gelley, Doug Letheren, Josh Martin, Francisco Martinez, Amy Raymond,
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Summer Lee Rhatigan Accompanists: Wendy Albrecht, Zabelita Fraser, Trevor Mc Lain, Michael Park, Gregg Schiller, Catherine Tseng
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Compagnie HervĂŠ KOUBI What the Day Owes to the Night
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Cuisine & Confessions Mon, Feb 6 / 7 PM (note special time) / Granada Theatre
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As individuals, we are ourselves composed of ingredients, a unique recipe of blood memories.
By perpetually blurring artistic boundaries, The 7 Fingers strive to reach the universal, extraordinary, indefinable, visceral and intimate worlds in each human being. Created in 2002 and now made up of 200 artists, administrators and technicians, the collective offers roughly 1,000 performances a year – both artistic collaborations and signature shows.
The Kitchen. Blood memories. A recipe passed through generations. A memory so deeply embedded in our conscious, it takes carefully concocted smells and tastes to bring it to the surface. Storytelling through food… This is the sweet taste of my childhood, of a summer breeze through a screen door. Or the hot-chocolate-dampened lips of a first kiss. Life happens in the kitchen. Late night confessionals over tisane and a pot of Nutella. Elaborately choreographed family meals. Lessons learned, secrets exchanged, bonds forged, reinforced by our most visceral of senses. Accompanying the usual eye-popping flight of acrobatic choreography and pulsating music are the other three senses – the touch of hands in batter, the smell of cookies baking, the taste of roasted oregano – leading us through a span of times and countries, all the while the iconic kitchen our common meeting point.
Nassib El-Husseini, C.E.O Political scientist, author (L’Occident Imaginaire, PUQ Editions), advisor and volunteer for dozens of national and international organizations, El-Husseini fell under the charm of a modern day tribe: The 7 Fingers. He ran away with the circus, as the saying goes, and took on the general direction of this jewel of the Montréal stage. El-Husseini is currently president of the International Exchange for the Performing Arts (CINARS) and a member of the board of the Conseil des arts de Montréal (CAM).
Shana Carroll, Director Shana Carroll is co-founding artistic director of Montreal’s The 7 Fingers, where she has co-directed and choreographed the company’s major touring shows, whether together with the collective (Loft, La Vie), with partner Gypsy Snider (Traces), with partner and husband Sébastien Soldevila (Séquence 8, Le Murmure du Coquelicot, Cuisine & Confessions) or alone (Psy, FeriAmuse). In 2013, Carroll directed the circus show of Queen of the Night at the Diamond Horseshoe in New York.
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In addition to her work within The 7 Fingers, Carroll’s circus directing and choreography credits include the acrobatics choreography in Cirque du Soleil’s Paramour, their performance at the 84th Annual Academy Awards (2012) and the acrobatic design and choreography of Iris at the Dolby (formerly Kodak) Theatre. She created four gold-medal-winning acts at the Festival de Cirque de Demain, Il Fait Dimanche for l’Ecole Nationale de Cirque de Montréal and Quebec’s 400th anniversary performance with 40 trapeze artists (2008). She also received a Drama Desk Award nomination for best choreography for Traces (2008) and a Bay Area Theatre Critics’ Circle nomination for best choreography for Circumstance (2003). A former trapeze artist, Carroll performed for 20 years in the air, within 7 Fingers shows Loft and La Vie (2002-2008) and with a wide variety of circus and dance companies around the world, most notably seven years as original solo trapeze artist for Cirque du Soleil’s Saltimbanco (19942001). Originally from Berkeley, Calif., Carroll first started circus at the age of 18 with San Francisco’s Pickle Family Circus (1988-1991), and then furthered her trapeze training at Montreal’s Ecole Nationale de Cirque (1991-1993) and France’s Ecole Nationale de Cirque de Rosny-sousBois (1993-1994). She currently lives in Montréal with her husband and daughter, in a renovated convent with other fellow-Fingers.
Sébastien Soldevila, Director Sébastien Soldevila co-directed Loft, La Vie, Séquence 8, Cuisine & Confessions and Le Murmure du Coquelicot, which he also wrote. He is an acrobatic coach for Montreal’s National Circus School and on most of the Company’s shows. In 2007, he won a gold medal at the Festival Mondial de Cirque de Demain in Paris with partner Émilie Bonnavaud for a hand-to-hand number choreographed by Shana Carroll. He choreographed the first part of the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, which was viewed around the world by three billion people. Soldevila is directing the opera Circus Princess for Moscow Musical Theatre (2016) as well as an immersive journey for Montreal’s 375th anniversary (2017).
Credits Production: Les 7 Doigts Direction: Shana Carroll & Sébastien Soldevila Cast: Sidney Iking Bateman, Héloïse Bourgeois, Melvin Diggs, Mishannock Ferrero, Anna Kachalova, Anna Kichtchenko, Nella Niva or Gabriella Parigi, Matias Plaul & Pablo Pramparo Co-producers: Châteauvallon-Scène Nationale (Ollioules, France), Espace Jean Legendre, Théâtre de Compiègne – Scène nationale de l’Oise en préfiguration (Compiègne, France), Grand Théâtre de Provence (Aix-en-Provence, France), Thomas Lightburn (Vancouver, Canada) & TOHU (Montreal, Quebec) Artistic Assistant and Stage Manager: Sabrina Gilbert Musical Direction: Sébastien Soldevila Sound Engineer: Colin Gagné Light Designer: Éric Champoux Scenography: Ana Cappelluto Props: Cloé Alain-Gendreau Costumes: Anne-Séguin Poirier Acrobatic Apparatus Design: Yannick Labonté Acrobatic Design: Jérôme LeBaut Acrobatic Coaching: Francisco Cruz Scenography Assistant: Clara Maria Gonzalez Kitchen Consultants: Mat & Alex Winnicki – Satay Brothers Production Manager: Luc Paradis Technical Director: Yves Touchette Original Music and Arrangement: Nans Bortuzzo, Raphaël Cruz, Colin Gagné, Spike Wilner, DJ Pocket Singer Alexandre Désilets and Frannie Holder Guitar Serge Nakauchi-Pelletier & Benoit Landry Video Teaser Olivier Tétreault Funded in part by the Community Events & Festivals Program using funds provided by the City of Santa Barbara in partnership with the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture
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Yuja Wang, piano Leonidas Kavakos, violin Mon, Feb 13 / 7 PM (note special time) / Granada Theatre
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Janáček: Violin Sonata, JW 7/7 Con moto Ballada Allegretto Adagio
Debussy: Sonata in G Major, L. 140 Allegro vivo Intermède: fantasque et léger Finale: très animé
Schubert: Fantasie in C Major, D. 934 Andante molto Allegretto Andantino Allegro Allegretto Presto
Bartók: Sonata No. 1 in C-sharp Minor, Sz. 75 Allegro appassionato Adagio Allegro
Yuja Wang Critical superlatives and audience ovations have followed Yuja Wang’s dazzling career. The Beijing-born pianist, celebrated for her charismatic artistry and captivating stage presence, is ready to register fresh achievements during 2016-17 when she returns to China’s National Centre for the Performing Arts as Artist-in-Residence. In addition to performing six concerts, Wang will also lead masterclass sessions and participate in outreach projects. Her NCPA residency promises to connect one of today’s finest artists with new audiences in Beijing and beyond.
Wang’s forthcoming schedule embraces a strikingly broad range of repertoire, encompassing everything from Chopin and Shostakovich to Ravel and Schubert. Bartók’s three piano concertos stand as focal points throughout her 201617 season, programmed individually for performances in Cleveland, Dallas, Guangzhou, Stockholm, Taiwan and Toronto and as a group for concerts in May and June with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and Gustavo Dudamel.
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Other highlights of Yuja Wang’s calendar include appearances at the 2016 Salzburg, Tanglewood and Verbier Festivals, a return to the Hollywood Bowl, season-opening performances with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick-Nézet-Séguin and major tours of Asia and Europe with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, respectively. In addition to her tour with violinist Leonidas Kavakos, she is set to tour with percussionist Martin Grubinger and will undertake a 13-concert European recital tour in March and April. Wang was born into a musical family in Beijing. After childhood piano studies in China, she received advanced training in Canada and at Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music under Gary Graffman. Her international breakthrough came in 2007 when she replaced Martha Argerich as soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Two years later she signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon and has since established her place among the world’s leading artists with a succession of critically acclaimed performances and recordings. Wang has been named as Musical America’s Artist of the Year for 2017. www.yujawang.com
Leonidas Kavakos Leonidas Kavakos is recognized as a violinist and artist of rare quality, known for his virtuosity, superb musicianship and the integrity of his playing. By age 21, Kavakos had already won three major competitions: the Sibelius (1985), Paganini and Naumburg competitions (1988). This success led to his recording the original Sibelius Violin Concerto (1903-4), the first recording of this work in history. It won Gramophone’s Concerto of the Year Award in 1991.
and play-conducts the Houston Symphony, in addition to his recital tour with pianist Yuja Wang in both Europe and the U.S. Other highlights include a European tour with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and a tour to Switzerland with the Mariinsky Orchestra. Kavakos has built a strong profile as a conductor and has worked with the Atlanta, Boston, London, Vienna Symphony Orchestras, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Budapest Festival Orchestra. This season, Kavakos makes conducting debuts with the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln and Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. An exclusive recording artist with Decca Classics, Kavakos’ first release on the label, the complete Beethoven Violin Sonatas with Enrico Pace (January 2013), resulted in the ECHO Klassik award Instrumentalist of the Year, followed by the Brahms Violin Concerto with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and Riccardo Chailly (October 2013) and Brahms Violin Sonatas with Yuja Wang (March 2014). His most recent recording Virtuoso was released in April 2016. His earlier discography includes recordings for BIS, ECM and Sony Classical. Kavakos was named Gramophone Artist of the Year 2014. Leonidas Kavakos plays the Abergavenny Stradivarius violin of 1724. www.leonidaskavakos.com www.facebook.com/leonidas.kavakos.violin Funded in part by the Community Events & Festivals Program using funds provided by the City of Santa Barbara in partnership with the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture
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Kavakos has developed close relationships with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Eschenbach/Chailly), Berliner Philharmoniker (Rattle), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Jansons/Gatti), London Symphony Orchestra (Gergiev/Rattle) and Gewandhausorchester Leipzig (Chailly); and, in the U.S., with the Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra. Kavakos is the Artist-in-Residence at the New York Philharmonic for the 2016-17 season, which will feature him in solo, play-conduct and recital performances. He also appears as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra
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Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox Tue, Feb 14 / 8 PM / Arlington Theatre
VIP ticket holders ($100): reminder to stay for a post-event Valentine’s Day party with the band! Imagine wandering into a nightclub somewhere on the outskirts of time. A classic jukebox in the corner plays timeless music with oddly familiar modern lyrics, incongruously marrying the 21st century party vibe of Miley Cyrus or the minimalist angst of Radiohead with the crackly warmth of a vintage 78 or the plunger-muted barrelhouse howl of a forgotten Kansas City jazzman. The dance floor is full of revelers twerking in poodle skirts, while at the bar well-heeled hipsters balance a martini in one hand with a smartphone in the other. If such a place actually exists, no doubt the soundtrack is Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox. Founded by pianist and arranger Scott Bradlee in 2009, the ensemble reimagines contemporary pop, rock and R&B hits in the style of various yesteryears, from swing to doo-wop, ragtime to Motown – or, as Bradlee himself puts it, “pop music in a time machine.” Bradlee conceived Postmodern Jukebox as a tonic for the autotuned vocals and programmed beats that populate today’s radio soundscape. Postmodern Jukebox combines a genuine appreciation for the melodies and songcraft of these recent hits with a passion for talented musicians playing real instruments.
Postmodern Jukebox is a rebuke to the contention that “they don’t make ‘em like they used to.” To echo Bradlee’s own invitation: “Dust off the turntable, fix yourself a stiff drink, and get comfy. Welcome to the world of Postmodern Jukebox.” Website: http://postmodernjukebox.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/postmodernjukebox Twitter: https://twitter.com/PMJofficial Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pmjofficial/ Funded in part by the Community Events & Festivals Program using funds provided by the City of Santa Barbara in partnership with the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture
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“I just wanted to make music in the classic styles of ragtime, blues, swing, doo-wop and Motown that I loved as a kid,” says Bradlee, “[with] breathtaking vocal performances, raucous horn solos, infectious dance rhythms and nostalgic melodies – all captured the way music was recorded in the Golden Age of the record industry: with everyone together, in the same room.”
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George Takei
Where No Story Has Gone Before Wed, Feb 15 / 7:30 PM / Arlington Theatre (note special time)
The Lynda and Bruce Thematic Learning Initiative: Creating a Better World With a career spanning five decades, George Takei is known around the world for his founding role in the acclaimed television series Star Trek, in which he played Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the Starship Enterprise. But George Takei’s story goes where few stories have gone before. From a childhood spent in a Japanese internment camp to becoming one of the country’s leading figures in the fight for social justice, LGBTQ rights and marriage equality, George Takei remains a powerful voice on issues ranging from politics to pop culture. In 2012, Mashable. com named Takei the No. 1 most-influential person on Facebook, currently with nearly 10 million likes and more than 1.81 million followers on Twitter. To Be Takei, Jennifer M. Kroot’s documentary on his life and career, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2014 to audience and critical acclaim. Takei’s Take, produced by AARP, is a YouTube series in which Takei explores the world of technology, trends, current events and pop culture. On his own YouTube channel, Takei and his husband Brad bring viewers into their personal life in the “heightened reality” webseries, It Takeis Two. In 2015, Takei made his Broadway debut with the premiere of Allegiance: A New American Musical. Inspired by Takei’s true-life experiences, Allegiance is an epic story of love, family and heroism during the Japanese American internment. It premiered at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego in 2012 to a packed house – the theater ended up extending the musical’s run, twice!
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Takei’s on-camera television credits include guest appearances on Lost Girl, The Neighbors, Hawaii Five-0, The New Normal, Supah Ninjas, Malcolm in the Middle, Scrubs, Miami Vice, MacGyver, The Six Million Dollar Man, Mission: Impossible, My Three Sons, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and The Twilight Zone. He has appeared on The Big Bang Theory, Psych, 3rd Rock from the Sun, and Will & Grace. In addition to a busy acting career, Takei regularly appears on Howard Stern’s Sirius XM satellite radio show and has provided narration on many projects including the 2009 PBS series The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, the 2006 Peabody Award-winning radio documentary Crossing East, centered on the history of Asian immigration to the United States, and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (cassette) which garnered Takei a Grammy nomination for Best Spoken Word Album. Takei has brought his voiceover talent to hundreds of characters in film, television, video games and commercials during his prolific career. In film, Takei can be heard voicing characters in such films as Mulan, Mulan II and Batman Beyond: The Movie. Free Birds (2013), a computer-animated 3D comedy film, features the voice of Takei along with Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson. Takei is also featured in the comedy film Larry Crowne (2011), starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts. He has voiced characters for numerous animated series including The Simpsons, Transformers: Animated, Kim Possible, Futurama, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Spider-Man, The Smurfs and George Lucas’ Star Wars: The Clone Wars. (Continued on page 42)
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(Continued from page 34) George Takei is an accomplished author, having co-written the science-fiction novel Mirror Friend, Mirror Foe with Robert Asprin and published his autobiography To the Stars. Takei also authored Lions and Tigers and Bears: The Internet Strikes Back and Oh Myyy! There Goes the Internet, released in paperback and e-Book in 2012; the latter ranked No. 10 on The New York Times e-Book nonfiction list. Takei, who is openly gay, has long been a passionate advocate for social justice. He has served as the spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign “Coming Out Project,” and was Cultural Affairs Chairman of the Japanese American Citizens League. He is also chairman emeritus and a trustee of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. He was appointed to the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission by former President Clinton and the government of Japan awarded Takei the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette, for his contribution to U.S.-Japanese relations. The decoration was conferred by His Majesty, Emperor Akihito, at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. In 2007, Asteroid 7307 Takei – located between Mars and Jupiter – was named in the performer’s honor in appreciation for his social work.
Coming in Spring!
Thomas L. Friedman
A Field Guide to the 21st Century: How to Live in an Age of Acceleration
Takei lives in Los Angeles with his husband Brad. Books are available for purchase in the lobby and a signing follows the event
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“Friedman wants to explain why the world is the way it is – why so many things seem to be spinning out of control… as a guide for perplexed Westerners, this book is very hard to beat.” The New York Times Pre-signed books will be available for purchase
Thu, Apr 20 / 8 PM / Arlington Theatre Tickets start at $25 $15 all students (with valid ID)
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Kamasi Washington and The Next Step Thu, Feb 16 / 8 PM / Campbell Hall
At the age of 13, Kamasi Washington started a lifelong quest discovering the many wonders of music. One night, his father left his soprano saxophone lying on the piano. Washington, filled with curiosity for all the beauty he heard from the instrument, picked up his father’s horn. Even though he didn’t know anything about the saxophone – in fact, had never even touched one – he played Wayne Shorter’s composition “Sleeping Dancer Sleep On,” his favorite song at the time. Within two years at the prestigious Hamilton High School Music Academy, Washington earned the lead tenor saxophone chair in the top jazz ensemble. At the same time, Washington joined the Multi School Jazz Band (MSJB), where he reunited with several childhood friends who were also pursuing their passion for music. During his senior year of high school, Washington formed his first band, The Young Jazz Giants, with childhood friends including Ronald Bruner, Stephen Bruner and Cameron Graves. After high school, Washington received a full scholarship to study ethnomusicology at UCLA, where he explored many of the non-western musical cultures around the world. During the summer after his freshman year, Washington recorded his first album with The Young Jazz Giants to spread new sounds of jazz all around the country. In his second year at UCLA, Washington went on his first national tour with hip-hop legend Snoop Dogg. Later that year, Washington joined the orchestra of one of his biggest heroes, Gerald Wilson, and later went on his first international tour with R&B legend Raphael Saadiq.
Over the years, Washington has performed and recorded with many of his musical heroes from various genres, including Gerald Wilson, McCoy Tyner, Freddie Hubbard, Kenny Burrell, George Duke, Lauryn Hill, Jeffrey Osborne, Mos Def, Quincy Jones, Stanley Clark, Harvey Mason and Chaka Khan. Washington’s own band The Next Step is a modern spin on a big band, which includes two drummers, two upright bass players, keyboard players, three horns players, a pianist and a vocalist. In addition, Washington is part of a west coast musical collective called the West Coast Get Down. Most recently, Washington worked on Kendrick Lamar’s acclaimed 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly. On May 5, 2016, Washington released his groundbreaking solo album The Epic on the trend-setting record label Brainfeeder. The Epic is a 172-minute, triple-disc masterpiece, featuring Washington’s 10-piece band The Next Step along with a full string orchestra and full choir. The Epic debuted at No. 1 on several iTunes Jazz charts, including the U.S., Canada, Australia, Russia and the U.K. Special thanks to
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The Chieftains with Paddy Moloney Tue, Feb 21 / 8 PM / Granada Theatre
Paddy Moloney, Musical Director, uilleann pipes, tin whistle and vocals Kevin Conneff, bodhrán, vocals Matt Molloy, flute Triona Marshall, harp, piano Ályth Mccormack, vocals Tara Breen, violin Jeff White, guitar Jon Pilatzke, fiddle, Ottawa Valley stepdancer Nathan Pilatzke, Irish stepdancer Event Sponsors: Anne & Michael Towbes Six-time Grammy Award winners, The Chieftains have been recognized for reinventing traditional Irish music on a contemporary and international scale. They are hailed as one of the most renowned and revered musical groups to this day for their ability to transcend musical boundaries and to blend tradition with modern music. As cultural ambassadors, their performances have been linked with seminal historic events, such as being the first western musicians to perform on the Great Wall of China, participating in Roger Water’s “The Wall” performance in Berlin in 1990 and being the first ensemble to perform a concert in the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. In 2010, their experimental collaborations extended out of this world, when Paddy Moloney’s whistle and Matt Molloy’s flute traveled with NASA astronaut Cady Coleman to the International Space Station. Although their early following was purely a folk audience, the range and variation of their music and accompanying musicians quickly captured a much broader audience. In Ireland, The Chieftains have been involved in many major national events, including Pope John Paul II’s visit to Ireland in 1979, when they performed to an audience of more than 1.3 million, and as part of Queen Elizabeth II’s historic visit to Ireland in 2011.
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In 2012, on The Chieftains’ 50th Anniversary, they received the inaugural National Concert Hall Lifetime Achievement Award at a gala event in Philadelphia hosted by The American Ireland Fund. The award was given “in recognition of their tremendous contribution to the music industry worldwide and the promotion of the best of Irish culture.” The group also celebrated their momentous 50th anniversary by inviting friends from all musical styles to collaborate on their latest album, Voice of Ages. Featuring some of modern music’s fastest-rising artists (Bon Iver, The Decemberists and Paolo Nutini among them), the album is proof that The Chieftains’ music transcends not only stylistic and traditional boundaries, but generational ones as well. The Chieftains are never afraid to shock purists and push the limits of their genre, and the trappings of fame have not altered their love of, and loyalty to, their roots. They are as comfortable playing spontaneous Irish sessions as they are headlining a concert at Carnegie Hall. After 55 years of making some of the most beautiful music in the world, The Chieftains’ music remains as fresh and relevant as when they first began.
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Paddy Moloney The Chieftains were formed in 1962 by Paddy Moloney, who enlisted top folk musicians including fiddler Martin Fay, flautist Michael Tubridy, tin whistle virtuoso Seán Potts and bodhrán player David Fallon. Moloney’s love of Irish music came from his parents’ native County Laois and the music that surrounded him at home. His first instrument was a plastic tin whistle, and by the age of eight, he was learning to play the uilleann pipes from the great pipe master Leo Rowsome. Moloney had a vision early on of the sound he wanted to create, a sound that had never been heard before. He knew it would take extensive experimentation with different combinations of instruments, so he formed several duets and trios with other musicians – in particular with Seán Potts, Michael Tubridy and Sean Keane, all of whom would later become Chieftains. It was not until he had formed the original lineup for The Chieftains in 1962 that he finally achieved the sound that had eluded him, a sound created by his inspired choice of instruments, styles and players. It was at this point that Moloney felt ready to give his group the title The Chieftains (a name which was inspired by the Irish poet John Montague) and confident enough to take his band into the studio to record the first of many award winning albums. As a result of The Chieftains’ ability to blend their traditional sound with a never-ending variety of musical genres from around the world, they have been able to collaborate with artists and groups including Elvis Costello, Sting, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Diana Krall and the Rolling Stones.
Kevin Conneff Kevin Conneff, the voice and rhythm of The Chieftains, joined the group in 1976, replacing Peadar Mercier. Vocals now became a new element in The Chieftain’s sound; up to that time, there had been no regular vocalist. Conneff was born in Donore, a rare musical suburb of Dublin and one of the city’s most historical places. At first a jazz fan, Conneff discovered traditional music in his teens and soon learned to play the bodhrán and develop his singing, particularly sean nós (or “old style,”) influenced by Paddy Tunney and Christy Moore.
who wanted to hear traditional music performed by well-known musicians playing together. Some of the musicians and performers who played in the club even included a Chieftain or two in a solo or duet setting. In the late 1960s, Conneff joined Christy Moore and others for the recording for the album Prosperous, which laid the groundwork for the group Planxty. He was asked by Moloney to record a couple of tracks with The Chieftains in London for the album Bonaparte’s Retreat and became a permanent member soon after. Conneff ’s singing is in the old style, which reflects interpretation and is generally unaccompanied. On the bodhrán, he can demonstrate a subtle rhythm or really heat things up. Conneff has also released a solo album, The Week Before Easter (1988).
Matt Molloy Matt Molloy was born in County Roscommon into one of the long lines of flute players for which the area is famous. He learned flute and whistle from his father, was playing in the school fife and drum band at the age of eight, and had won first prize in the major traditional music competitions by age 18. He moved to Dublin in the early 1970s to work for the Irish national airline as an engineer. Molloy started playing in the music scene, and became acquainted with Paddy Moloney. He co-founded The Bothy Band with Donal Lunny, and they recorded four albums in as many years, all highly regarded to this day. In his own words: “We made great music and had a great time but financially we were a bit of a disaster. We had too much of a good time!” Following the group’s demise, Molloy joined the reformed band Planxty before finally becoming a member of The Chieftains in 1979. In addition to his group work, Molloy is featured on many other albums and was featured soloist with the Irish Chamber Orchestra on the centerpiece of composer Micheal o Suilleabháin’s album Oileán/Island. Funded in part by the Community Events & Festivals Program using funds provided by the City of Santa Barbara in partnership with the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture
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Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D.
Cancer and the Gene: Past, Present and Future
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Thu, Feb 23 / 7:30 PM (note special time) / Campbell Hall
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Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., Ph.D., is a leading cancer physician and researcher. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician at the CU/NYU Presbyterian Hospital. In his most recent text, The Gene: An Intimate History, Mukherjee has written a biography of the gene as deft, brilliant and illuminating as his extraordinarily successful biography of cancer. Weaving science, social history and personal narrative to tell us the story of one of the most important conceptual breakthroughs of modern times, Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices. Throughout the narrative, the story of Mukherjee’s own family – with its tragic and bewildering history of mental illness – cuts like a bright, red line, reminding us of the many questions that hang over our ability to translate the science of genetics from the laboratory to the real world. In superb prose and with an instinct for the dramatic scene, he describes the centuries of research and experimentation – from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Mendel and Darwin, from Boveri and Morgan to Crick, Watson and Franklin, all the way through the revolutionary twenty-first century innovators who mapped the human genome. Ten years in the making, his first book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer is a magnificent “biography” of this shape-shifting and formidable disease that has plagued and riddled humanity for thousands of years.
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From the first known reference to cancer on an ancient Egyptian scroll, to the epic modern battles to conquer it, Mukherjee approaches this crucial subject with the passion and fixation of a biographer and the flourish of a novelist. The Emperor of All Maladies is a story that touches on the brilliance and tenacity that frequently make scientific history – and also on the serendipitous discoveries. Mukherjee introduces audiences to key figures such as Sidney Farber, the father of modern chemotherapy, holed up in the cellar of a Boston hospital and characterized by a colleague as a “cancer maniac,” and William Halsted, bewhiskered, obsessive, and addicted to cocaine, who created and perfected the radical and super-radical mastectomies that became the norm in cases of breast cancer for decades. They learn about the accidental discovery during World War I of mustard gas as a method for killing cancer cells, and from there the experimental evolution into the specialized chemicals that are just deadly enough to kill cancerous cells without killing normal cells. Mukherjee tells these stories with the grand sweep that marks The Emperor of All Maladies as a work of major literature, seamlessly weaving significant moments in cultural history into the narrative. It is also something more personal: audiences will be moved by Mukherjee’s observations about his own coming of age as a physician – especially in his thoughtful and compassionate consideration of his patients as they soldier through toxic, bruising, and draining regimens to battle a relentless disease that fully envelops their lives.
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In the past 50 years, Americans have watched as various strategies in the “War on Cancer” have earned the attention of politicians, physicians, the media and, of course, the public. By the end of 2010, cancer is projected to become the leading cause of death worldwide. Cases of cancer doubled globally between 1975 and 2000, and will double again by 2020, nearly tripling by 2030. In America, one in two men and one in three women will get cancer during their lifetime; one in four will die. Mukherjee and The Emperor of All Maladies could not deliver a more timely message, and he presents it with such clarity and verve that audiences will feel enlightened, even uplifted, despite those grim figures. A Rhodes Scholar, Mukherjee graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, and Harvard Medical School and was a Fellow at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and an attending physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He has published articles in Nature, New England Journal of Medicine, Neuron, Journal of Clinical Investigation, The New York Times, and The New Republic. He lives in New York with his wife and daughters. As The New Yorker said of his first book, The Emperor of All Maladies, “It’s hard to think of many books for a general audience that have rendered any area of modern science and technology with such intelligence, accessibility, and compassion… An extraordinary achievement.” Riveting, revelatory, and magisterial history of a scientific idea coming to life, and an essential preparation for the moral complexity introduced by our ability to create or “write” the human genome, The Gene is a must-read for everyone concerned about the definition and future of humanity. This is the most crucial science of our time, intimately explained by a master. Pre-signed books are available for purchase in the lobby
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Author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller Sapiens, a summer reading pick for President Obama, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg!
Yuval Noah Harari
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow Mon, Feb 27 / 7:30 PM (note special time) / Campbell Hall / FREE
Co-presented with the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind With support from our Community Partner the Orfalea Family Yuval Noah Harari was born in Haifa, Israel, in 1976. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 2002, and is now a lecturer in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He specializes in world history, medieval history and military history, and his current research focuses on macro-historical questions: What is the relation between history and biology? What is the essential difference between Homo sapiens and other animals? Is there justice in history? Does history have a direction? Did people become happier as history unfolded?
World History 18:3, 2007); “Military Memoirs: A Historical Overview of the Genre from the Middle Ages to the Late Modern Era” (War in History 14:3, 2007); “Combat Flow: Military, Political and Ethical Dimensions of Subjective Well-Being in War” (Review of General Psychology 12:3, September 2008); and “Armchairs, Coffee and Authority: Eye-witnesses and Flesh-witnesses Speak about War, 11002000” (The Journal of Military History 74:1, January 2010). Books are available for purchase in the lobby and a signing follows the event
Harari also teaches a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) titled A Brief History of Humankind. More than 80,000 students from throughout the world participated in the first run of the course in 2013. Harari twice won the Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality, in 2009 and 2012. In 2011 he won the Society for Military History’s Moncado Award for outstanding articles in military history. In 2012 he was elected to the Young Israeli Academy of Sciences. He has published numerous books and articles, among which are: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. (London: Harvill Secker, 2014); Special Operations in the Age of Chivalry, 1100-1550 (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2007); The Ultimate Experience: Battlefield Revelations and the Making of Modern War Culture, 1450-2000 (Houndmills: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008); “The Concept of ‘Decisive Battles’ in World History,” (The Journal of
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An Evening with
Gloria Steinem Thu, Mar 2 / 7:30 PM (note special time) / Arlington Theatre
photo: Glenn Lowson
Event Sponsors: Sara Miller McCune Lynda Weinman & Bruce Heavin
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With support from our Community Partner the Orfalea Family The Lynda and Bruce Thematic Learning Initiative: Creating a Better World
Gloria Steinem is a writer, lecturer, political activist and feminist organizer. She travels in this and other countries as an organizer and lecturer and is a frequent media spokeswoman on issues of equality. She is particularly interested in the shared origins of sex and race caste systems, gender roles and child abuse as roots of violence, non-violent conflict resolution, the cultures of indigenous peoples and organizing across boundaries for peace and justice. She now lives in New York City and is the author of the recentlyreleased travelogue My Life on the Road. In 1972, she co-founded Ms. magazine and remained one of its editors for 15 years. She continues to serve as a consulting editor for Ms. and was instrumental in the magazine’s move to join and be published by the Feminist Majority Foundation. In 1968, she had helped to found New York magazine, where she was a political columnist and wrote feature articles. As a freelance writer, she was published in Esquire, The New York Times Magazine and women’s magazines as well as for publications in other countries. She has produced a documentary on child abuse for HBO, a feature film about the death penalty for Lifetime and been the subject of profiles on Lifetime and Showtime. Her books include the bestsellers My Life on the Road, Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, Moving Beyond Words, Marilyn: Norma Jean (on the life of Marilyn Monroe) and, in India, As If Women Matter. Her writing also appears in many anthologies and textbooks and she was an editor of Houghton Mifflin’s The Reader’s Companion to U.S. Women’s History.
Steinem helped to found the Women’s Action Alliance, a pioneering national information center that specialized in nonsexist, multiracial children’s education, and the National Women’s Political Caucus, a group that continues to work to advance the numbers of pro-equality women in elected and appointed office at a national and state level. She also co-founded the Women’s Media Center in 2004. She was president and co-founder of Voters for Choice – a prochoice political action committee – for 25 years, then with the Planned Parenthood Action Fund when it merged with VFC for the 2004 elections. She was also co-founder and serves on the board of Choice USA (now URGE), a national organization that supports young pro-choice leadership and works to preserve comprehensive sex education in schools. She is the founding president of the Ms. Foundation for Women, a national multi-racial, multi-issue fund that supports grassroots projects to empower women and girls, and a founder of its Take Our Daughters to Work Day. She was a member of the Beyond Racism Initiative, a three-year effort on the part of activists and experts from South Africa, Brazil and the United States to compare the racial patterns of those three countries and to learn cross-nationally. She is currently working with the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College on documenting the grassroots origins of the U.S. women’s movement and on a Center for Organizers in tribute to Wilma Mankiller, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. As links to other countries, she helped found Equality Now, Donor Direct Action and Direct Impact Africa. As a writer, Steinem has received the Penney-Missouri Journalism Award, the Front Page and Clarion awards, National Magazine Awards, an Emmy Citation for excellence
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in television writing, the Women’s Sports Journalism Award, the Lifetime Achievement in Journalism Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Society of Writers Award from the United Nations and the 2015 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award.
Coming in Spring! 2016 National Book Award-winner
Steinem graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Smith College in 1956 and then spent two years in India on a Chester Bowles Fellowship. She wrote for Indian publications and was influenced by Gandhian activism. She also received the first Doctorate of Human Justice awarded by Simmons College, the Bill of Rights Award from the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, the National Gay Rights Advocates Award, the Liberty Award of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Ceres Medal from the United Nations and a number of honorary degrees. Parenting magazine selected her for its Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995 for her work in promoting girls’ self-esteem, and Biography magazine listed her as one of the 25 most influential women in America. In 1993, she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, N.Y. In 2014, she received The Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Medal Award and in 2013, President Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor. Rutgers University is now creating the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies.
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An Evening with the Author of The Underground Railroad
Steinem has been the subject of three television documentaries, including HBO’s Gloria: In Her Own Words and she is among the subjects of the 2013 PBS documentary Makers: Women Who Make America, a continuing project to record the women who made America. She was the subject of The Education of a Woman, a biography written by Carolyn Heilbrun. Books are available for purchase in the lobby and a signing follows the event
Funded in part by the Community Events & Festivals Program using funds provided by the City of Santa Barbara in partnership with the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture
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Wed, Apr 5 / 7:30 PM (note special time) Campbell Hall
$20 / FREE for UCSB students (with valid ID) Books will be available for purchase and signing
Presented in cooperation with the UCSB MultiCultural Center With support from our Community Partner the Orfalea Family The Lynda and Bruce Thematic Learning Initiative: Creating a Better World
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Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca La Ronde
Fri, Mar 3 / 8 PM / Campbell Hall
Featuring Soledad Barrio and Juan Ogalla, Manuel Gago, Salva de María, Eugenio Iglesias, Emilio Florido, David “Chupete” Rodriguez, Marina Elana and Hamed Traore Martín Santangelo, Artistic Director and Producer Sharon Levy, Executive Producer S. Benjamin Farrar, Resident Designer & Production Manager Mitchell Dufanal, Company Manager
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La Ronde
Performed by The Company Choreography by Martín Santangelo
- Intermission -
Sin Paredes
Performed by Juan Ogalla
La Bohème
Performed by Manuel Gago
Soleá
Performed by Soledad Barrio All Choreography by Martín Santangelo and Company members Music by Eugenio Iglesias, Salva de María, David “Chupete” Rodriguez and Hamed Traore Vocal arrangements by Manuel Gago and Emilio Florido
About the Company The mission of Noche Flamenca is to create a diverse theatrical body of performance through song, music and dance that expresses a rigorous, spell-binding aesthetic in the form of flamenco; one that exceeds the highest artistic expectations. The company strives to captivate its audiences through its live performances and to evoke in them the vivid and expansive sea of passion and emotion that is flamenco. Through its educational outreach and residency programs, the company seeks to educate and enlighten persons of all ages, races and economic backgrounds regarding the authentic form of flamenco – a form born of ancestral cultural repression and racial expulsion.
Under the direction of Martín Santangelo, the award-winning Noche Flamenca is recognized as one of the world’s premier touring companies. Formed in 1993 by Santangelo and his Bessie Award-winning wife, Soledad Barrio, who was honored with a 2015 Dance Magazine Exceptional Artist award, the company tours across the globe. Hailed by critics everywhere for its transcendent and deeply emotional performances, Noche Flamenca is recognized as the most authentic flamenco touring company in the field today.
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Santangelo has successfully brought to the stage the essence, purity and integrity of one of the world’s most complex and mysterious art forms. All aspects of flamenco – dance, song and music – are interrelated and given equal weight, creating a true communal spirit within the company – the very heart and soul of flamenco. Noche Flamenca has been recognized with awards from the National Dance Project, the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, the MAP Fund and the Lucille Lortel Award for Special Theatrical Experience, among others. Martín Santangelo (Artistic Director) founded Noche Flamenca in 1993. He first experienced flamenco at the impressionable age of 4, when flamenco masters Mario Maya and Carmen Mora lived with him and his mother, Luly Santangelo, a dancer with the Martha Graham and Alwin Nikolais companies. He studied dance and theater at New York University and trained for six years with jazz legend Luigi and Polish director Jerzy Grotowski. After rediscovering flamenco in the early 1980s, Santangelo relocated to Madrid where he studied with Ciro, Paco Romero, El Guito, Manolete and Alejandro Granados. He has performed throughout Spain, Japan and North and South America, appearing with Maria Benitez’s Teatro Flamenco, the Lincoln Center Festival of the Arts and Paco Romero’s Ballet Espanol. He also appeared in Julie Taymor’s Juan Darien at Lincoln Center. He choreographed and performed in Eduardo Machado’s Deep Song, directed by Lynne Taylor-Corbett; choreographed a production of Romeo and Juliet at the Denver Theater Center; and directed and choreographed Bodas de Sangre, The Lower Depths, La Celestina and A Streetcar Named Desire, among many other productions in Spain and Buenos Aires. He has collaborated with many artists, but his most fulfilling collaboration has been with his wife, Soledad Barrio, and his daughters, Gabriela and Stella. Soledad Barrio (Choreographer & Dancer) was born in Madrid. She has appeared as soloist with Manuela Vargas, Blanca del Rey, Luisillo, El Guito, Manolete, Cristobal Reyes, El Toleo, Ballet Espanol de Paco Romero, Festival Flamenco and many other companies. She has performed throughout Europe, Japan and North and South America with such artists as Alejandro Granados, El Torombo, Isabel Bayón, Jesus Torres, Miguel Perez, Belen Maya, Manolo Marin, Javier Barón, Merce Esmeralda, Rafael Campallo and Belen Maya. Barrio has won awards in more than 15 different countries for her excellence in dance, including a Bessie Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement and a 2015 Dance Magazine Exceptional Artist award. She is a founding member of Noche Flamenca.
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Salva de María (Guitarist) was born in Madrid. He is the son of Basilio de Cadiz and the singer/dancer Maria Fernandez and the grandson of legendary singer Antonio “La Chaqueta.” He began his career in the peña flamenca Chaqueton, accompanying singers Carmen Linares, José Merce, Vicente Soto, Chaqueton and others. He moved to Barcelona to work with Maite Martin, La Chana, Guinesa Ortega and other mythic figures in flamenco. He went on to work with Carmen Cortes and Gerardo Nuñez in Lorca’s Yerma. Since 2001, he has collaborated with guitarist Chicuelo, working with artists Miguel Poveda, “La Susi,” Maite Martin Chano Lobato, Israel Galvan, Isabel Bayón, Javier Latorre and “Duquende.” Manuel Gago (Singer) was born in Cádiz, Spain, to a family of flamenco singers, and began singing at the age of 5. By 14, he was singing in flamenco festivals with such well-known singers as Juan Villar, Charo Lobato and Rancapino. Later, he began singing for dancers, including Joaquin Cortez, Sara Varas, Belen Maya, El Guito, Manolete, Javier Barón and Cristobal Reyes. Manuel has traveled the world, singing in Europe, Asia, South America and the United States. Eugenio Iglesias (Guitarist) began playing professionally at a very young age, working in the important tablaos (flamenco clubs) in Sevilla. He then began touring with various companies and has accompanied many dancers such as Antonio Canales, Farruco, Farruquito, El Guito, La Tona, Javier Barón, Sara Varas, Manuela Carrasco, Israel Galvan, Mario Maya, Angelita Vargas and Alejandro Granados, among others. He has also accompanied many of the greatest flamenco singers in Spain, including Lole Montoya, La Negra, Chiquetete, La Susi, Carmen Montoya, Juan Villar and El Potito, among many others. He is currently working on his own flamenco show as composer and songwriter. Juan Ogalla (Dancer) was born in Cádiz, Spain. He started as a professional at the very young age of 15. He was a member of the Company Manuel Morao, Ballet de Cristina Hoyos, Manuela Carrasco, Company of Maria Pages and many others. Ogalla also participated in the following festivals: Festival Internacional de Mont de Marssans, Festival de Música y Danza de Granada and Festival Querencias en Ceret. He has performed in tablaos in Spain such as Casa Patas, El Arenal, Los Gallos, as well as in many theaters in Europe, Japan and the U.S., Festival de Jerez, Paris Opera and the most important theaters in Spain as a soloist. He is currently working on a production with Manuela Ríos and Arcángel. This is his ninth season with Noche Flamenca. Emilio Florido (Singer) was born in Cádiz, Spain. He began singing at a young age and performed professionally all over Spain as a solo singer. He has accompanied such dancers as
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Adrian Galia, Domingo Ortega, Luis Ortega, Belen Maya, Yolanda Heredia and Miguel Angel Espino, among others. He has worked with the companies of Cristina Hoyos, El Ballet de Madrid and La Raza. He has toured extensively in Japan, South America and Europe. He has been performing with Noche Flamenca for nearly 14 years.
Theater in Boston, White Bird in Portland, The McCarter in Princeton, The Royal Conservatory in Toronto and The Zellerbach Playhouse in Berkeley. Farrar has worked as a guest designer at New York University Gallatin School and Grinnell College in Iowa. He is a graduate of the University of Iowa and Vanderbilt University.
David “Chupete” Rodriguez (Percussionist) was born in Sevilla, where he began playing percussion as a child, accompanying his brother the renowned dancer, Antonio “El Chupete.” Rodriquez studied in La Universidad de Sevilla and in the Conservatorio de Triana. In Europe, he has worked in festivals such as La Suma Flamenca de Madrid, Festival de Berlin and La Bienal de flamenco de Sevilla, among others. Throughout his career he has worked with Antonio “Chiquetete” Cortés, Juan “El Lebrijano” Peña, Arcángel, Antonio Canales, Pastora Soler, David Peña Dorantes, Pedro Sierra, Manolo Franco, Niño de Pura, Pastora Galván, Laura Vital, Manuel Cuevas, María de la Colina, Jose Ángel Carmona, Romero San Juan and Agustín “El Bola” Carbonell.
Sharon Levy (Executive Producer) is the president of Dovetail Productions, formed in 1997 to develop and produce new work. She was producer of the joint production between St. Ann’s Warehouse, La MaMa, Mabou Mines and piece by piece for Lee Breuer’s La Divina Caricatura; Shalom Shanghai for the Shanghai Arts Festival; Baba Brinkman’s The Rap Guide to Evolution; Mabou Mines DollHouse; Lee Breuer and Bob Telson’s The Gospel at Colonus; the jazz opera Lulu Noire and the Tribute to King Oliver. She was manager to trumpeter Jon Faddis, worked with the British Theatre of the Deaf and the Theatrical Outfit in Atlanta where she produced more than 40 plays and musicals.
Marina Elana (Dancer) began her studies in Spanish classical dance and flamenco with Adela Clara and continued her training with La Mónica and Yaelisa in the San Francisco Bay Area. In Spain, she studied in Sevilla and Madrid with artists such as Juana Amaya, Yolanda Heredia and Rafaela Carrasco. Elana made her performance debut with Theatre Flamenco of San Francisco, sharing the stage with Pastora Galvan and Jose Anillo. She also appeared with Maria Benitez’s Teatro Flamenco in 2007 in Santa Fe. Marina was a soloist and company member of Caminos Flamencos, where she performed in San Francisco’s premier venues and with artists such as Andres Peña and Miguel Rosendo. Hamed Traore (Guitarist & Bassist) is a guitarist/multi-instrumentalist from New York City. Born of West African parents, he was exposed to West African rhythms and instrumentation at an early age. At 14, he began to formally play guitar and bass and has since performed in the New York City Area, including at The Bitter End, Sullivan Hall, Arlene’s Grocery and Rockwood Music Hall. He instructs year-long ensembles at The Beacon School and has composed music for past Noche Flamenca productions, including Antigona. He is currently a student at SUNY Purchase College studying studio production and audio engineering. S. Benjamin Farrar (Resident Designer & Production Manager) is a freelance designer of scenery, lighting and projection for live performance. He has worked in many venues in New York City, including The Public Theater, The Joyce Theater and The Lortel Theatre. He has designed throughout the U.S. and Canada in venues such as The Majestic
Mitchell Dufanal (Company Manager) was born and raised in New York City and earned his M.S. in Urban Policy Analysis and Management at the Milano School of International Affairs at the New School University in New York City. Dufanal has since worked as a grant and program consultant for non-profit organizations, including the New York Child & Family Support Services and La Casita Comunal de Sunset Park.
Special Thanks Noche Flamenca would like to thank its funders: National Endowment for the Arts, The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, the Howard Gilman Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, The New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The MAP Fund, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The company also extends its special thanks to: Wendy vanden Heuvel, Etta Brandman, Aurora Santangelo, Frances McDormand, Joel Coen, Annatina Miescher, Mary Frank, Barbara and Donald Tober, Eric Cocco, Lee Breuer, Maude Mitchell, Eric Hoisington, Martin Weschler, Cathy Eilers, The Joyce Theater, Gabriela and Stella for being patient, Hamed Traore, Phil Esparza, Luis Valdez and Kinan Valdez of El Teatro Campesino, Jackie Shue, Patricia Zohn …and our many friends and individual donors. Noche Flamenca is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts. For information on Noche Flamenca and to join our mailing list: www.nocheflamenca.com
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Jelly and George
Celebrating the Music of Jelly Roll Morton and George Gershwin
photo: JohnAbbot_
featuring Aaron Diehl, Adam Birnbaum and Cécile McLorin Salvant Tue, Mar 7 / 8 PM / Campbell Hall
Event Sponsors: Marcia & John Mike Cohen
Aaron Diehl, piano Adam Birnbaum, piano Cécile McLorin Salvant, vocals Paul Sikivie, bass Lawrence Leathers, drums Corey Wilcox, trombone Evan Christopher, clarinet Brandon Lee, trumpet
A native of Columbus, Ohio, Diehl is a graduate of The Juilliard School where his teachers included Kenny Barron, Eric Reed, and Oxana Yablonskaya. His honors include Lincoln Center’s prestigious Martin E. Segal award in 2004, winner of the 2003 Jazz Arts Group Hank Marr Jazz Competition, and Outstanding Soloist at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2002 Essentially Ellington Competition. Immediately following graduation from high school he toured with the Wynton Marsalis Septet.
Aaron Diehl
Adam Birnbaum
Aaron Diehl is the 2011 Cole Porter Fellow in Jazz of the American Pianists Association. His distinctive interpretations of the music of Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, Art Tatum, Duke Ellington, and other masters pays homage to the tradition while establishing his own original voice. Diehl has performed with the Wynton Marsalis Septet, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Benny Golson, Hank Jones, Wycliffe Gordon, Victor Goines, Wessell Anderson, Loren Schoenberg, and has been featured on Marian McPartland’s NPR radio show Piano Jazz. His international touring has included major European jazz festivals as well as performances in South America and Asia. In addition to his Mozart Jazz trio album, he has recently released Live at Caramoor, from his solo performance at the prestigious festival in the summer of 2008. His latest trio CD is entitled Live at the Players.
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Diehl currently resides in Manhattan where he serves as pianist for St. Joseph of the Holy Family Church in Harlem.
Adam Birnbaum is emerging as one of the top young voices in jazz piano. Since receiving a graduate Artist’s Diploma in jazz studies from The Juilliard School in 2003, he has become a presence on the New York City scene as a leader and sideman, performing in such venues as the Village Vanguard, the Blue Note, Birdland, the Jazz Standard and Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola. He has also performed on many national and world stages, including the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, the Kennedy Center, the Montreal Jazz Festival, The Spoleto Festival, The Red Sea Jazz Festival, The Rockport Chamber Festival, NPR Jazz Christmas, and the Capetown Jazz Festival.
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As a leader, Birnbaum has released four albums under his name in Japan and the U.S. His first release, Ballade Pour Adeline, received a Gold Disk award from Swing Journal as one of the top albums of 2006. Adam’s U.S. debut Travels, released in 2009 under the Smalls record label, received enthusiastic reviews from Allmusic.com, All About Jazz and JazzTimes. Birnbaum’s recent release Three of a Mind, featuring bassist Doug Weiss and drummer Al Foster, was hailed as “an eloquent dispatch from the heart of the contemporary piano trio tradition” by the New York Times, and received an Editor’s Pick and four star review in Downbeat magazine. As a sideman, Birnbaum’s wide-ranging versatility and artistry have made him a first call for a wide variety of ensembles. He has performed or toured with established jazz legends such as Al Foster, Greg Osby, Wallace Roney, Eddie Henderson, Eddie Gomez, The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, as well as with young artists such as Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, Pedro Giraudo, Marshall Gilkes, Dominick Farinacci, and Cécile Mclorin Salvant. Birnbaum has appeared as a sideman on more than 15 albums. Birnbaum is also recognized as a composer and arranger. Allmusic.com reviewer Ken Dryden said “Birnbaum’s compositions prove immediately infectious, each with a hook that draws the listener along for the ride.” A review of Travels in JazzTimes praised the album’s “stellar originals.” In 2009 Birnbaum premiered Dream Songs, a trio suite based on the poetry of John Berryman. The work was commissioned by Chamber Music America. In 2012 Birnbaum was a guest artist at the Chelsea Music Festival in New York, arranging Debussy and Japanese folk songs for his trio, strings, koto, woodwinds and operatic singers. Born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, Birnbaum studied at the New England Conservatory of Music before moving to New York City in 2001, one of two pianists selected to participate in The Juilliard School’s inaugural jazz studies program. In 2004 he won the American Jazz Piano Competition and became the American Pianists Association’s Cole Porter fellow in Jazz. That same year, he became the first jazz pianist to present a recital at the prestigious Gilmore Rising Stars Recital Series. In 2006, he received the first-ever “special mention” prize at the Martial Solal Jazz Piano Competition in Paris. He has toured West Africa and Asia sponsored by Jazz at Lincoln Center and the U.S. State Department. Adam has studied with Danilo Perez, Kenny Barron, and Fred Hersch.
Cécile McLorin Salvant Shortly before the release of Cécile McLorin Salvant’s debut Mack Avenue album WomanChild, critic Ben Ratliff made a bold prediction in the pages of the New York Times. McLorin Salvant, he claimed, “is still mostly unknown to jazz audiences” – then added: “though not for much longer.” McLorin Salvant has more than validated that forecast. The last few years have been a whirlwind of success and acclaim for the young vocalist, who first came to the attention of jazz fans with her triumph at the 2010 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. WomanChild went on to earn a bevy of honors, including a Grammy Award nomination and selection as Jazz Album of the Year by the DownBeat International Critics Poll. That magazine also honored McLorin Salvant in three other categories including Best Female Jazz Vocalist. A few months later, the Jazz Journalists Association selected McLorin Salvant as Up-and-Coming Jazz Artist of the Year and as Top Female Vocalist. NPR also took notice, honoring WomanChild as the Best Jazz Vocal Album of the Year in its annual critics’ poll. In short, no jazz singer of recent memory has garnered up more honors more quickly than Cécile McLorin Salvant. Now she has released her follow-up Mack Avenue album, For One to Love – which won Salvant her first Grammy Award, in the Best Jazz Vocal Album category – a more intimate and confessional project that reveals new dimensions of this young vocalist’s artistry. “I’m not playing anyone else here but myself,” McLorin Salvant explains. “I can look at many of these songs, and see that this is an event that really happened, or a feeling I’ve lived through myself. “That’s what makes it so difficult to share. It’s almost like a diary entry.” McLorin Salvant grew up in a bilingual household in Miami, the child of a French mother and Haitian father. She started piano studies at age five, and at eight began singing with the Miami Choral Society. After graduating from Coral Reef Senior High, a premier Miami magnet school, McLorin Salvant decided to pursue her education in Aix-en-Provence in the south of France, where troubadours invented the Western love song almost one thousand years ago. In this unlikely setting, McLorin Salvant embarked on a new career as a jazz performer, while pursuing a degree in French law and her training as a classical and baroque singer.
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Three years later, McLorin Salvant returned to the U.S. as a semifinalist in the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. She had entered the contest at the urging of her mother, but almost missed the submission deadline. “On the last day, I mailed the audition recording with an apology for not getting it in sooner,” she recalls. Then the call came inviting her to Washington D.C. for the contest. Here an illustrious panel of judges – Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dianne Reeves, Kurt Elling, Patti Austin and Al Jarreau – took note of McLorin Salvant’s remarkable voice and striking ability to inhabit the emotional space of every song she heard and turn it into a compelling personal statement. This surprise contender, the unheralded American jazz singer from France, took the top spot in the jazz world’s most demanding competition. “She brought down the house,” The Washington Post told its readers the next day. Less than three years after first performing with a jazz band, writer Anne Midgette noted, McLorin Salvant was already singing “like a seasoned pro. Her marathon is just beginning.” Others were now taking notice. “She has poise, elegance, soul, humor, sensuality, power, virtuosity, range, insight, intelligence, depth and grace,” announced Wynton Marsalis. “If anyone can extend the lineage of the Big Three – Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald – it is this 23-year-old virtuoso,” added Stephen Holden in the New York Times. The release of WomanChild both backed up these claims and introduced McLorin Salvant’s music to a host of new listeners. The up-and-coming vocalist was now a legitimate jazz star. In more recent months, McLorin Salvant’s work has moved beyond the jazz world and entered into the broader culture. You can hear it on commercials for Chanel, or in the soundtrack for the HBO show Bessie. But this crossover success has come without compromise. As critic Nate Chinen aptly notes, “whatever else you might say about her,” McLorin Salvant sounds “clearly, unmistakably like a jazz singer.”
On the new album, McLorin Salvant again shows her uncanny knack of channeling her own personality into the work of her predecessors, both the acclaimed (Bessie Smith) and the less well-known (Blanche Calloway, whose fame during her lifetime was eclipsed by her brother Cab). “I’ve made some choices about celebrating strong women,” McLorin Salvant explains. “And I want to celebrate independence, the courage not to look or act a certain way.” McLorin Salvant is increasingly making her strongest musical statements via her own compositions, which stand out as the centerpiece on the new project. Five of the tracks on For One to Love feature her songs, and here she reminds us of those other great jazz singers, from Billie Holiday to Abbey Lincoln, who found that the most powerful expressions of moods and feelings often came via their own compositions. And McLorin Salvant also shares her vision as a visual artist in the design of the album. This field has been a focus in recent years: both at home in Harlem and on the road, she works on painting and drawing, and is currently preparing for her first exhibition. “Music chose me,” she reflects; “in a way, I stumbled upon it. But illustrating is something I’ve chosen to do.” In short, her distinctive artistry shapes every aspect of this project. For One to Love serves as proof positive that Cécile McLorin Salvant has not only arrived, but she is still going places. For more information on Cécile McLorin Salvant, please visit cecilemclorinsalvant.com Special thanks to
Now McLorin Salvant makes an even bolder statement with For One to Love. This may be the defining jazz statement on romance in the new millennium, a heartfelt album that both embodies the full range of the American popular song idiom, but distills it into a distinctly personal expression of a modern-day poet-troubadour.
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Michelle Dorrance, Artistic Director Wed, Mar 8 / 8 PM / Granada Theatre
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ACT I Excerpts from SOUNDspace (2013)* Direction and Choreography: Michelle Dorrance, with solo improvisation by the dancers Dancers: Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie, Elizabeth Burke, Warren Craft, Michelle Dorrance, Leonardo Sandoval, Byron Tittle, Gabe Winns, Nicholas Van Young *Originally a site-specific work that explored the unique acoustics of New York City’s St. Mark’s Church through the myriad sounds and textures of the feet, “SOUNDspace” has been adapted and continues to explore what is most beautiful and exceptional about tap dancing — movement as music. The creation of “SOUNDspace” was made possible, in part, by the Danspace Project 2012-2013 Commissioning Initiative, with support from the New York State Council on the Arts. As part of Danspace Project’s Choreographic Center Without Walls, Dorrance received a production residency supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
A Note From the Artistic Director During the winter of 2012-2013, when this piece was created, I was asked to consider my influences, lineage, legacy – “the web of connections that new generations of artists trace with the past through their work” – and I would argue that no dancers call upon specific individual influences of so many of their masters and their form’s innovators
(our ancestors, if you will) more directly and more often than tap dancers. Their personalities and unique styles live deeply within most of us. I have had the honor of studying with and spending time with a great number of our tap masters before they passed away: Maceo Anderson, Dr. Cholly Atkins, Clayton “Peg-Leg” Bates, Dr. James “Buster” Brown, Ernest “Brownie” Brown, Harriet “Quicksand” Browne, Dr. Harold Cromer, Gregory Hines, Dr. Jeni Legon, Dr. Henry LeTang, LeRoy Myers, Dr. Fayard and Harold Nicholas, Donald O’Connor, Dr. Leonard Reed, Jimmy Slyde and Dr. Prince Spencer. I would also like to honor our living masters whom I am constantly influenced by: Arthur Duncan, Dr. Bunny Briggs, Brenda Bufalino, Skip Cunningham, Miss Mable Lee and Dianne Walker. While we are exploring new ideas in this show, we are also constantly mindful of our rich history. Dr. Jimmy Slyde was the inspiration for my initial exploration of slide work in socks (in the original work) and his influence continues to guide that work. In order to tap dance on the original wood floor of St. Mark’s Church, we had to turn away from aluminum taps towards using different surfaces on the soles of our feet. Leather soles and wood taps pre-date aluminum taps as they were used in the late 1800s when the form was still called “Buck Dancing” or “Buck and Wing." There is a bit of a historical refer-
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ence in some of the leather-soled work we explored, in that we explore the sounds of early tap dancing (imagine Bill “Bojangles” Robinson on the balls of his feet) before introducing the power of the rich bass in the heels. Tap master, John Bubbles, the game changer, is known for revolutionizing the tap dance in this way. We invite you to experience tap dancing with fresh pairs of eyes and ears, with both an acknowledgement towards the past and a look into the future.
ACT II Excerpts from ETM: DOUBLE DOWN ** Created by Michelle Dorrance and Nicholas Van Young Artistic Director: Michelle Dorrance Original Tap Instrument Design: Nicholas Van Young Choreography: Michelle Dorrance and Nicholas Van Young, with Ephrat Asherie, and solo improvisation by the dancers Original Music Composed and Improvised by: Gregory Richardson, Donovan Dorrance, Nicholas Van Young, Aaron Marcellus, Warren Craft, with Michelle Dorrance Additional Music by: Adele Adkins, Karin Dreijer Andersson, Olof Dreijer, Justin Vernon, Patrick Watson Dancers: Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie, Elizabeth Burke, Warren Craft, Michelle Dorrance, Leonardo Sandoval, Gabe Winns Byron Tittle, Nicholas Van Young Musicians: Donovan Dorrance, Aaron Marcellus, Gregory Richardson Bass and Guitar: Gregory Richardson Vocals: Aaron Marcellus Piano: Donovan Dorrance Drums and Percussion: Nicholas Van Young with Warren Craft, Michelle Dorrance Controllerist: Donovan Dorrance Original Lighting Design: Kathy Kaufmann Costume Design: Shiori Ichikawa with Amy Page and Len Burton
Artist Statements This work is the initial exploration of a new world and a new collaboration. Constantly inspired by the range of possibilities inherent in being both dancers and musicians, in the visual and aural, we also embrace embodying the organic and inorganic, the acoustic and the electric. None of this work is remotely possible without tap dancer, percussionist and innovator, my longtime friend, Nicholas Young. He is the man behind the curtain. He has been developing the instruments you see here and has been experimenting with the technologies you will see at work tonight for years in order to make this world possible. I also want to acknowledge our musical collaborators and friends, Gregory Richardson, Aaron Marcellus, Warren Craft and Donovan Dorrance who, with intuition, incredibly open minds and a wonderful sensitivity to collaborating with the sounds of tap dance, have created some inspiring compositions. It has been a dream of mine for almost a decade to collaborate with my dear friend and multi-form dancer, Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie, whose visual percussion, musical phrasing and dynamic range of movement inspire me tremendously. Tap dance was America’s first street form and is deeply rooted in the foundations of Hip Hop and House dance. These communities have long been connected on the streets and in the club but are less likely to be found on the concert stage. As we enter the world of electronic music, looping and sampling, these worlds become even closer and that connection ever more important. Getting back to the beginning, I want to say thank you – Thank you Nicholas Young, for your artistry, your creativity, your tireless and endless work, your inventive mind, your friendship and your trust. I feel incredibly blessed to have been so warmly invited into your world to play and create. – Michelle Dorrance
** ETM: The Initial Approach was co-commissioned and created, in part, during a Creative Development Residency at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, with support from the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award Initiative.
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It started with the simple need to find a way to amplify tap dance without feedback, so I could dance with a live band. Many people have used contact microphones (Gregory Hines, Tap Dogs, etc.) so I knew that was a possibility, and it led me to experimenting with guitar pedals and effects. I started out looping hand and body percussion with live and affected tap dance. Being a drummer as well, and working with electronic music since the early days of EDM, I’ve stayed in touch with what’s happening in the music production and DJ community. I knew contact mics could be doubled as drum triggers and I was already playing around with a masterful piece of software called Ableton: a live performance software, digital audio workstation. I got the idea to create small trigger boards to dance on – essentially wooden drum pads. In conjunction with my main dance board and effects this added a whole new sound set for me to experiment with. Over time I took online courses in Ableton and began to understand the limitless possibilities. Soon I was able to play notes, arpeggios, chords, sound bites and quotes and began composing scores in real time with improvised tap dance. The synthesized possibilities are endless and the combination of this with the acoustic sound and attack of tap dance was a very exciting frontier for me to explore. The only thing missing was Michelle Dorrance. Being a company member of Dorrance Dance, Michelle had given me my first opportunity to perform a solo using this electronic set up in an evening length performance in Boston, presented by Thelma Goldberg in 2012. We, as kids, had dreams about experimenting with altered soundscapes for tap dance. We jokingly called it “Tap to the Max.” I was creating solos with my “Compositional Tap Instrument” but had visions of several dancers across a number of platforms and boards. Dancing out elaborate choreographed phrases while simultaneously playing the musical composition. Once Michelle asked to me to collaborate on this show I knew it “was on.” Her expansive creativity in tap choreography and movement, along with her sophisticated musical phrasing started to unlock possibilities in our set that were getting us both so excited. Simple ideas led to large discoveries and every time we workshopped an idea, 20 more were born. Needless to say, here we are. Pushing ourselves to explore the sonic potential in tap dance and tap instruments. In some ways we have created the ultimate tap dancers playground. Where you can let your imagination and your feet run wild. Enjoy. – Nicholas Young
Company Profiles Michelle Dorrance, founder and artistic director of Dorrance Dance, is one of the most sought after tap dancers of her generation and “one of the most imaginative tap choreographers working today” (The New Yorker). A 2015 MacArthur Fellow, 2014 Alpert Award Winner, 2013 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award winner, 2012 Princess Grace Award Winner, 2012 Field Dance Fund Recipient and 2011 Bessie Award Winner, Dorrance performs, teaches and choreographs throughout the world. Mentored by Gene Medler, Dorrance grew up performing with the North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble and has since performed with: STOMP, Manhattan Tap, Savion Glover’s “Ti Dii,” JazzTap Ensemble, Barbara Duffy & Co., Rumba Tap, Derick Grant’s Imagine Tap and Jason Samuels Smith’s Chasing the Bird to rave reviews. She holds a bachelor’s degree from New York University and teaches on faculty at Broadway Dance Center. www.michelledorrance.com Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie is a New York City-based bgirl, dancer and choreographer. As artistic director of Ephrat Asherie Dance (EAD), she has presented work at the Apollo Theater, Jacob’s Pillow, New York Live Arts, Summerstage, the Yard and elsewhere. Ephrat has received numerous awards to support her work, including a Mondo Cane! commission from Dixon Place, a Workspace residency from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, a Travel and Study Grant from the Jerome Foundation and two residencies through the CUNY Dance Initiative. Ephrat is on faculty at Broadway Dance Center and the Joffrey Jazz and Contemporary Program. www.ephratasherie.com. Elizabeth Burke (Rehearsal Director/Dance Captain) has been working with Dorrance Dance since the company’s inception in 2010/2011 and prior to that spent 11 years under the tutelage of her mentor, Gene Medler, in the acclaimed North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble (NCYTE). She also works with Nicholas Young’s SoundMovement Dance Company and Caleb Teicher & Company, among others. Burke is an alumna of the School at Jacob’s Pillow and Marymount Manhattan College (Bachelor of Arts, Political Science; Bachelor of Arts, Communication Arts; magna cum laude, 2014). When not working with Dorrance Dance, Burke teaches and pursues her own choreographic work. Warren Craft is a New York City tap dancer who has trained in ballet with both the American Ballet Theatre and the School of American Ballet. He has been a member of Brenda Bufalino’s New American Tap Dance Orchestra, Max Pollak’s RumbaTap and Dorrance Dance. He moves with “bizarre physicality,” and “unconventional eloquence” (The New York Times).
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Donovan Dorrance hails from Chapel Hill, NC, where he studied piano, guitar, drums and voice before attending the University of North Carolina for a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. After singing in an a cappella group, drumming in an indie-rock band and receiving a degree fit for waiting tables for the rest of his life, Dorrance moved to Brooklyn to assist his sister’s company and pursue his passion for music. In his spare time, he composes music with Greg Richardson for Dorrance Dance, takes online business courses and is occasionally published in his UNC professors’ books in the field of philosophy.
Caleb Teicher is a founding company member of Dorrance Dance. A 2011 Bessie Award winner for Outstanding Individual Performance and one of Dance Magazine’s 2012 “25 to Watch,” favorite performance credits include The Chase Brock Experience, The Bang Group, Syncopated City Dance Company, West Side Story (Int’l Tour), Irma La Douce (City Center Encores!) and many others. Currently an artist-in-residence at the American Tap Dance Foundation and CUNY Queens College, he creates and presents work under the banner of Caleb Teicher & Company. www.CalebTeicher.net @CalebTeicher
Aaron Marcellus, singer, vocal coach, writer, musician, dancer and actor from Atlanta started in gospel music and has performed around the world. He has recorded albums and was voted top 24 on American Idol in 2011. After a world tour, Marcellus was featured in a ChapStick commercial, NBC’s Next Caller and is a cast member of STOMP. Marcellus also hosts a burlesque show at Duane Park. Most importantly, he founded both Surrender To Love, LLC, a foundation that supports arts programs and seeks to feed the hungry, and Adventure Voice, a training program offering vocal classes for groups and individuals.
Byron Tittle is from New York City and began dancing at age 5, studying tap, ballet and other genres. Tap became of chief interest upon studying with David Rider and joining the American Tap Dance Foundation’s Tap City Youth Ensemble. Through the Ensemble, he met Michelle Dorrance. Before committing to Dorrance Dance, Tittle worked in film, television and live performance in Los Angeles. He recently performed at the 2015 BET Awards in a tribute to Janet Jackson. He continues to be challenged and enthralled with all that Dorrance Dance has to offer and cannot wait for the future with this cast.
Gregory Richardson (composer and multi-instrumentalist) was born in Tucson, Ariz., and learned Rhythm and Blues at an early age from a family of musicians in which everyone could play at least a little piano and everyone was expected to sing. As a member of the band Darwin Deez, Richardson has performed at many of the world’s largest music festivals. In recent years he’s found a second home with the New York City tap dance community, composing for and/or performing in several shows with Dorrance Dance, including Myelination, which was commissioned by the Fall For Dance Festival and premiered at New York City Center.
Nicholas Van Young is a dancer, musician and choreographer, and a 2015 Bessie Award recipient. He previously was a member of the off-Broadway sensation STOMP, where he performed the lead role, acted as rehearsal director and spent 10 years with the show. Van Young began his professional career at the age of 16 with Tapestry Dance Company of Austin, Texas. Since moving to New York City, Van Young has performed with multiple tap companies and shows and is thrilled to have found a home with Michelle Dorrance’s Dorrance Dance. Van Young is currently working on ETM: Double Down, a collaborative effort with Michelle Dorrance.
Brazilian tap dancer Leonardo Sandoval is gaining a reputation in the tap world for his musicality and for adding his own Brazilian influence. Sandoval co-founded the Companhia Carioca de Sapateado in Rio de Janeiro, bringing tap dance to a wider audience in Brazil. In 2013, Sandoval moved to New York City and has performed at the Chicago Human Rhythm Project’s Rhythm World, the D.C. Tap Fest, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Tap City and American Tap Dance Foundation’s Rhythm in Motion as an artist in residence. Sandoval recently premiered his own show, Music from the Sole, a creation with bassist and composer Greg Richardson.
Kathy Kaufmann (Lighting Designer) is a resident designer at Danspace Project whose work has been seen throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe. She is a two-time Bessie Award recipient and was nominated for her work on Rebecca Davis’s Bloowst Windku at Here in 2015. She was also honored to be included in Curtain Call: Celebrating 100 Years of Women in Design at the New York Performing Arts Library and currently teaches lighting at Sarah Lawrence. Most recent projects include designs for Joanna Kotze, David Parker, Eiko & Koma, Jillian Peña, Larissa Velez Jackson and Dorrance Dance (The Blues Project, SOUNDspace and ETM).
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Christopher Marc (Production Manager/Sound Engineer) Credits: The Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences: Elephant & Piggie’s We Are in a Play!; National Tour: Clifford the Big Red Dog Live!; Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival: Forever Plaid, Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, The Fantasticks. Design Credits: Off-Broadway: The Black Book; Aquila Theatre National Tour: Wuthering Heights, The Tempest, Fahrenheit 451, Twelfth Night.
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Michelle Rose (Assistant to Artistic Director) moved to New York City to pursue an M.A. in Multimedia Choreography from NYU Gallatin. She has worked with ABT II, Monica Bill Barnes & Company, Batsheva Dance Company, This American Life, as well as brief stints in Broadway Theater Production (Wicked) and reality TV. When she was 8 years old, Rose was featured in a K-Mart commercial with Martha Stewart. Courtney Runft (Managing Director) hails from Wichita, Kan., and presently resides in New York City. She is a graduate of Friends University and holds a B.A. in Business Management (magna cum laude). In addition to her work with Dorrance Dance, Runft is the former director of the American Tap Dance Foundation’s Tap City Junior Ensemble, Tap City’s summer youth program and education associate/registrar. A passionate educator, Runft is also the lower school dance teacher at St. Luke’s School in New York City. Serena Wong (Lighting Supervisor) is a Brooklyn-based freelance lighting designer for theater and dance. Her designs have been seen at New York Live Arts, Irondale Arts Center, the New Ohio and Danspace. She enjoys biking, beekeeping and bread baking. Funded in part by the Community Events & Festivals Program using funds provided by the City of Santa Barbara in partnership with the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture
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Var.XIII: Vivace Var.XIV: Grave e maestoso Var.XV: Presto Scherzando Var.XVI: Allegro Var.XVII: Allegro Var.XVIII: Poco moderato Var.XIX: Presto Var.XX: Andante Var.XXI: Allegro con brio – Meno allegro – Tempo primo Var.XXII: Allegro molto, alla ‘Notte e giorno faticar’ di Mozart Var.XXIII: Allegro assai
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Igor Levit Winner of Gramophone’s Recording of the Year 2016 award, Igor Levit manifests his position as one of the most relevant pianists of his generation – as an artist “built to last” (The Guardian). The 2016-17 season marks Igor Levit’s debuts with the Staatskapelle Dresden (Christian Thielemann), the Bavarian State Orchestra (Kirill Petrenko) and London Symphony Orchestra (Fabio Luisi) and reunites him with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra (Sondergard), NDR Elphilharmonie Orchestra (Thomas Hengelbrock), Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich (Lionel Bringuier) and San Francisco Symphony (Fabio Luisi). The season includes major recital debuts at Carnegie Hall (Zankel Hall), Chicago’s Symphony Center, Boston’s Celebrity Series as well as at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and with Lisbon’s Gulbenkian Foundation. Also in recital, the season finds Levit returning to the Lucerne Festival, Zurich’s Tonhalle, Laeiszhalle Hamburg and Cologne Philharmonie. Further, the season includes the start of full Beethoven sonata cycles at London’s Wigmore Hall and at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. As well, he performs the trias of variation works, Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations and Rzewski’s The People United Will Never Be Defeated in his hometown, Hannover, as well as in his adoptive hometown at the Berlin Philharmonie. In October 2015, Sony Classical released Igor Levit’s third solo album for the label featuring all three variation works in cooperation with the Festival Heidelberger Frühling. The album has been voted Gramophone’s Instrumental Award winner 2016.
Royal Philharmonic Society’s Young Artist Award 2014 and the ECHO Klassik 2014 for Solo Recording of the Year (19th Century Music/Piano). Born in Nizhni Nowgorod in 1987, Levit moved at age 8 with his family to Germany where he completed his piano studies at Hannover Academy of Music, Theatre and Media in 2009 with the highest academic and performance scores in the history of the institute. Levit has studied under the tutelage of Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Matti Raekallio, Bernd Goetze, Lajos Rovatkay and Hans Leygraf. As the youngest participant in the 2005 Arthur Rubinstein Competition in Tel Aviv, Igor Levit won the Silver Prize, the Prize for Best Performer of Chamber Music, the Audience Favorite Prize and the Prize for Best Performer of Contemporary Music. Previously, he had won the First Prize of the International Hamamtsu Piano Academy Competition in Japan. Since 2003 Igor Levit has been a scholarship student at Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes as well as at Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben. In Berlin, where he makes his home, Igor Levit is playing on a Steinway D Grand Piano kindly lent to him by the Trustees of Independent Opera at Sadler’s Wells. Igor Levit is an exclusive recording artist of Sony Classical World Management: IMG Artists, LLC | New York City Exclusive Manager: Kristin Schuster | kschuster@imgartists.com
Highlights of past seasons include orchestral debuts with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (Lionel Bringuier), Berliner Philharmoniker (Riccardo Chailly), Cleveland Orchestra (Franz Welser-Möst) and National Symphony Orchestra (Jiří Bělohlávek). In spring 2014, Levit celebrated both his recital and orchestral debut on the main stage of Vienna’s Musikverein to great critical acclaim: jumping in for Maurizio Pollini in June 2014 and for Hélène Grimaud (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with Andris Nelsons) respectively in March 2014. Only four days earlier, on March 12, 2014, Igor Levit made his New York City recital debut at the Park Avenue Armory to unsurpassed critical acclaim by both The New Yorker and The New York Times. An exclusive recording artist for Sony Classical, Levit’s debut disc of the five last Beethoven Sonatas won the BBC Music Magazine Newcomer of the Year 2014 Award, the
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