American Dance Festival Annual Report 2017

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ANNUAL REPORT

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LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AWARDS & DEDICATIONS COMPANIES & CHOREOGRAPHERS SEASON PERFORMANCES EDUCATIONAL & PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL REACH CONTRIBUTORS

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dearfriends The 2017 season marked 40 years of performances, world-class dance classes, community outreach, dance film screenings, and panel discussions with visiting artists and educators in North Carolina! In appreciation of those who helped make the festival’s years in Durham possible, ADF presented dance by companies and choreographers with North Carolina ties such as dendy/ donovan projects, Tommy Noonan, Bill Young/Colleen Thomas & Co., Natalie Marrone and the Dance Cure, Kimberly Bartosik/daela, and the entire Opening Night program featuring Carolina Ballet, Elizabeth Burke & Luke Hickey, JOYEMOVEMENT, the African American Dance Ensemble, and Charlotte Ballet.

The Opening Night program began with a delightful performance by local North Carolina children from ADF’s Pilobolus Shadow Camp.

ADF continues to evolve as a center of cross-cultural activity for dancers and choreographers worldwide. In 2017 the ADF international community drew participants from 25 countries and 42 states and hosted 10 dancers and choreographers from across the globe as part of the International Choreographers Residency program. The 2017 season presented 71 performances with eight world premieres in 11 venues across three cities including the first ADF performances at The Cary Theater. Immediately following the season, ADF teamed up with DANCECleveland to present ADF in CLE, a fourday workshop with classes in modern, contemporary, hip hop, creative process, and repertory taught by ADF faculty. Workshop participants also attended performances by Pilobolus, Raphael Xavier, and Brian Brooks.

Our 40 years in North Carolina have been nothing short of amazing and we hope you join us again next summer as we celebrate our 85th anniversary as the premiere presenter and keeper of modern dance!

Best,

Jodee Nimerichter Executive Director

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Lucinda Childs was the recipient of the 2017 Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival Award for lifetime achievement.

The ceremony took place July 25 prior to Photo by the Footprints performance at Reynolds Cameron Wittig Industries Theater. Two of Ms. Childs’ classic works were set on ADF students and performed as a part of the Footprints program. Lucinda Childs began her career at the Judson Dance Theater in New York in 1963. Since forming her dance company in 1973, she has created over fifty works, both solo and ensemble. In 1976 she was featured in the landmark avant-garde opera Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson, for which she won an Obie Award, and she subsequently appeared in a number of Wilson’s productions including I Was Sitting on my Patio This Guy Appeared I Thought I Was Hallucinating, Heiner Muller’s Quartett, Wilson and Glass’s opera White Raven, Wilson’s video project Video 50, and Marguerite Duras’ Maladie de la Mort opposite Michel Piccoli. Most recently she also appeared in Wilson’s production of Arvo Pärt’s Adam’s Lament and collaborated on the movements and spoken text for Letter to a Man, based on Nijinsky’s diaries and performed by Mikhail Baryshnikov. Since 1981 she has choreographed over thirty works for major ballet companies, including Paris Opera Ballet and Les Ballet de Monte Carlo. Childs is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards. She holds the rank of Commander in France’s Order of Arts and Letters.

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awards & dedications

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BALASARASWATI/JOY ANNE DEWEY BEINECKE ENDOWED CHAIR

The 2017 Balasaraswati/Joy Anne Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching was presented to celebrated dance artist Liz Lerman on Saturday, July 15 at Baldwin Auditorium. Liz Lerman is a choreographer, Photo by performer, writer, educator, speaker, and the recipient of JS Rosenthal numerous honors, including a 2002 MacArthur “Genius Grant,” a 2011 United States Artists Ford Fellowship in Dance, and a Deutsch Fellowship. A key aspect of her artistry is opening her process to various publics from shipbuilders to physicists, construction workers to ballerinas, resulting in both research and outcomes that are participatory, relevant, urgent, and usable by others. She founded Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in 1976 and cultivated the company’s unique multigenerational ensemble into a leading force in contemporary dance until 2011. She was an artist-in-residence and visiting lecturer at Harvard University in 2011, and her most recent work, Healing Wars, toured across the US in 2014-15.

Liz conducts residencies on Critical Response Process, creative research, the intersection of art and science, and the building of narrative within dance performance at such institutions as Harvard University, Yale School of Drama, Wesleyan University, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and the National Theatre Studio, among others. Her collection of essays, Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer, was published in 2011

by Wesleyan University Press and released in paperback in 2014. In 2016 Liz was named the first Institute Professor at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University, where she is building a new ensemble lab focused on creative research.

Season Dedication

ADF dedicated its 84th season to longtime friend and board chairman, the late Allen D. Roses, MD. The ceremony honoring Roses took place Thursday, June 15th at 6:30pm prior to the season’s opening night gala performance at the Durham Performing Arts Center. Roses, who joined the ADF board in 1999 and became board chairman in 2011, was a Photo by researcher whose team of scientists identified two genes that put Jared Lazarus healthy people over 65 at higher risk for Alzheimer’s disease. Roses, a clinical neurologist, spent most of his career at Duke and was the senior vice president for genetics research and pharmacogenetics at GlaxoSmithKline. In his research, he determined the chromosomal locations for more than a dozen other diseases, including Parkinson’s, Lou Gehrig’s, and muscular dystrophy.

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MONICA BILL BARNES & COMPANY

Co-presented with the NC Museum of Art

HILLEL KOGAN

Co-presented with The Town of Cary

OPENING NIGHT

African American Dance Ensemble, Carolina Ballet, Charlotte Ballet, Elizabeth Burke & Luke Hickey, JOYEMOVEMENT, Pilobolus Shadow Camp Dancers

TOMMY NOONAN CLAIRE PORTER & SARA JULI BILL YOUNG/COLLEEN THOMAS & CO. NATALIE MARRONE & THE DANCE CURE CHERDONNA

Presented in association with Living Arts Collective

BETH GILL PILOBOLUS SEAN DORSEY DANCE PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY

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HEIDI LATSKY DANCE YOSSI BERG & ODED GRAF DANCE THEATRE

Co-presented with Nasher Museum of Art

dendy/donovan projects KIDD PIVOT AND ELECTRIC COMPANY THEATRE ROY ASSAF ATE9 DANCE COMPANY MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP JENNIFER NUGENT/PAUL MATTESON KIMBERLY BARTOSIK/daela FOOTPRINTS

Lucinda Childs, Gregory Dolbashian, Shay Kuebler, Gesel Mason

BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE COMPANY Photo by Paul B Goode

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season performances ADF Commissions • BETH GILL-BRAND NEW SIDEWALK • CAROLINA BALLET-DIALOGUES • CLAIRE PORTER & SARA JULI-THE LECTERN • PILOBOLUS-ECHO IN THE VALLEY • dendy/donovan projects-ELVIS EVERYWHERE • GREGORY DOLBASHIAN-HIVEMIND • SHAY KUEBLER-ANNEX 7-25-17 • GESEL MASON-YOU DON’T SAY...

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ADF Company/ Choreographer Debuts • CAROLINA BALLET • CHARLOTTE BALLET • ELIZABETH BURKE & LUKE HICKEY • JOYEMOVEMENT • HILLEL KOGAN • TOMMY NOONAN • BILL YOUNG/COLLEEN THOMAS & CO. • CHERDONNA • SEAN DORSEY DANCE • KIDD PIVOT AND ELECTRIC COMPANY DANCE THEATER • ROY ASSAF • JENNIFER NUGENT/PAUL MATTESON • KIMBERLY BARTOSIK/daela • SHAY KUEBLER • GESEL MASON

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KIDS!

CHILDREN’S SATURDAY MATINEE SERIES

The Children’s Saturday Matinee series presented performances by three of the celebrated professional dance companies from the season, Pilobolus, Paul Taylor Dance Company, and Mark Morris Dance Group. These one-hour shows were specially curated to ignite and inspire the imaginations of children. Additionally, each one was followed by a FREE Kids’ Party in the DPAC lobby, complete with live music, face-painting, fairy hair, snacks, and additional kid-friendly activities.

KIDS NIGHT OUT

ADF’s Kids Night Out program gave 278 youth between the ages of six and seventeen the opportunity to watch season performances for free with the purchase of a regularpriced adult ticket.

MEMORY FOR MOVEMENT

Dr. Ruth Day, Duke Professor and ADF’s Cognitive Scientist in Residence, continued ADF’s Dancers & Audience Memory Program throughout the 2017 season. The program, based on both dance and cognitive science principles, used post-performance check-ups, structured class observations, lab experiments, and other methods to answer questions such as, “How do dancers learn and remember?” and “How do audiences perceive and remember?” This year, the M4M lab compared dancers’ ability to learn and remember pieces both with and without cognitive reminders and completed a 20-year study of the memory cues that dancers use and whether they match or mismatch the cues given by their dance instructors.

Post Performance Discussions (PPDs)

22 discussions were held at Reynolds Industries Theater and DPAC. These PPDs, led by James Sutton, offered audiences the unique opportunity to meet the artists, ask questions, and gain insight into the creative process.

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commissioning credits

Opening Night Performance Supported in part by the SHS Foundation, the North Carolina Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, Duke University, and the SunTrust Foundation.

Carolina Ballet Dialogues was commissioned by ADF, in part, with support from the SunTrust Foundation.

Monica Bill Barnes & Company The presentation of Happy Hour was made possible by PNC. Hillel Kogan The presentation of We Love Arabs was made possible with support from Israel’s Office of Cultural Affairs in North America and The Consulate General of Israel to the Southeast Region.

Beth Gill Brand New Sidewalk was commissioned by ADF with support from the Doris Duke/SHS Foundations Award for New Works.

Yossi Berg & Oded Graf Dance Theatre Come Jump With Me was made possible with support from Israel’s Office of Cultural Affairs in North America, The Consulate General of Israel to the Southeast Region, and The Israel Center of the Jewish Federation of DurhamChapel Hill.

Claire Porter & Sara Juli The Lectern was commissioned by ADF with support from the Doris Duke/SHS Foundations Award for New Works and The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation. Additional support provided by Hilton Durham near Duke University.

Roy Assaf The presentation of Roy Assaf was made possible with support from Israel’s Office of Cultural Affairs in North America, The Consulate General of Israel to the Southeast Region, and The Israel Center of the Jewish Federation of Durham-Chapel Hill.

Pilobolus Echo in the Valley was commissioned by ADF with support from the SHS Foundation and the Reinhart Fund.

Ate9 Dance Company The presentation of Ate9 Dance Company was made possible with support from The Consulate General of Israel to the Southeast Region and The Israel Center of the Jewish Federation of Durham-Chapel Hill.

Heidi Latsky Dance The presentation of ON DISPLAY was in association with Duke Homestead.

Footprints Program support provided by the Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Foundation.

dendy/donovan projects Elvis Everywhere was commissioned by ADF with support from the Doris Duke/SHS Foundations Award for New Works.

Cherdonna ADF performances of Clock That Mug or Dusted part II of one great, bight, brittle altogetherness by Jody Kuehner was made possible by 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.

HiveMind by Gregory Dolbashian, You Don’t Say …

by Gesel Mason, annex 7-25-17 by Shay Kuebler, were commissioned by ADF with support from the SHS Foundation.

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company The company’s performances and residency activities were funded, in part, by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council. Analogy/Ambros: The Emigrant was commissioned by ADF with support from the Doris Duke/SHS Foundations Award for New Works and the Reinhart Fund.

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& professional programs Under the direction of Dean Leah Cox, the 2017 ADF School hosted students from around the world, giving them the opportunity to be immersed in contemporary dance training, explore dance as an art form, and to discover how innovation and tradition come together in new and unexpected ways.

SIX WEEK SCHOOL

The 6WS program offered 32 classes a day each Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday for students ages 18 and older. These classes were supplemented by WFSS classes (Wednesdays, Friday evenings, Saturdays, and Sundays) that offered additional ways for 6WS students to expand, deepen, and rejuvenate their movement studies in conjunction with their daily scheduled classes. Students also had the opportunity to audition for ADF’s Footprints program, as well as repertory classes learning the work of Bill T. Jones, Merce Cunningham, William Forsythe, and Charles Anderson, among others. Classes included modern, ballet, and African techniques, repertory, composition, improvisation, hip hop, dance notation, yoga, Pilates, text into performance, and more.

THREE WEEK SCHOOL The 3WS for Pre-Professional Dancers provided intensive dance training for intermediate and advanced dancers, ages 13-17, with an emphasis on building leadership skills and community-mindedness. The 3WS became an audition-based program, which enhanced the quality of the training provided.

Students took classes in modern technique, ballet, repertory, hip hop, and African Monday through Friday, with additional classes scheduled on weekends and select evenings. In repertory class, students collaborated with their teacher and fellow dancers to create a new piece to perform for the ADF community. In addition, students participated in community discussions, social activities, and attended performances by outstanding national and international dance companies.

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DANCE PROFESSIONALS WORKSHOP

This summer, working dancers and teachers from across the field attended one of two different workshop experiences: the DPW Sampler and the DPW Intensive. The programs provided the unique opportunity to study with ADF faculty in classes that were specifically designed to address the needs and interests of dance practitioners and educators as well as the freedom to explore the breadth of dance training available through the festival’s Six Week School. The DPW Intensive was led by Gerri Houlihan and included special workshops with the 2017 Balasaraswati/Joy Anne Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching awardee, Liz Lerman. The DPW Sampler offered two separate weeks with unique tracks: Dance Without Walls: An Architecture For Liberation led by Nia Love, and Pedagogic Ethics and Adaptivity: Keeping the Classroom Current, led by Jesse Zaritt. This season, 42 professionals immersed themselves in the programs through classes, performances, panel discussions, and more. Scholarships were funded by Pamela and Issac Green in honor of Donna Faye Burchfield and Dr. Charles R. “Chuck” Davis and the new Jones Family scholarship avaivlable for North Carolina public school educators.

WINTER INTENSIVES

Celebrating its 22nd year, ADF’s annual Winter Intensive in New York City was attended by 49 students for 9 days of classes, performances, workshops, and panel discussions. In addition to taking classes with distinguished faculty, students had the opportunity to attend a performance by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and learn the repertory work of choreographer Abby Zbikowski. They also participated in a panel discussion moderated by Leah Cox, Amanda Loulaki, Johnnie Cruise Mercer, and Emily Wexler about living and making work that matters in NYC. ADF held its third annual five-day California Winter Intensive in Pasadena. 22 students studied with Gerald Casel, Stuart Singer, Keith Johnson, and Jess Humphrey, taking technique, repertory, and creative process classes each day. In addition, Stuart Singer, Ana Maria Alvarez, and Ariel Osterweis led students in a discussion about dance-making.

SCHOLARSHIPS

In 2017, 24 scholarship auditions took place in 19 cities and 14 states, giving students an open invitation to apply for financial tuition assistance awards. In total, 310 students attended scholarship auditions. Partial or full tuition scholarships were given to 59% of 2017 ADF students, thanks

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to generous support from many individuals and foundations. Special scholarships were offered in the names of 315 Fund, Suzanne Begnoche, Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Enterprise Holding Foundation, Fox Family Foundation, Paul Gabrielson and Mary May Love, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, Martha Hill, Gerald E. Myers, Martha Myers, The Reinhart Fund, Terry Sanford, Bessie Schönberg, Estelle Sommers, Lou Wall, Jonathan Wolken, Lyell and Paul Wright, Jacqueline M. Zinn, and Allen D. Roses, MD.

INTERNSHIPS

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ADF offered 26 internships in various areas of arts administration and performance production during the 2017 season. The internship program is designed to give participants hands-on experience in arts administration or performance production where they serve as an integral part of ADF. Interns had the opportunity to take dance classes, attend performances, and participate in weekly seminars on relevant issues in the arts including arts accessibility, arts education in the public schools, fundraising, programming, and the challenges of running an independent dance company. Production interns worked on the crew at Duke University’s Reynolds Industries Theater, The Nasher Museum of Art, Baldwin Auditorium, Duke Homestead, Schaefer Theater, Durham Performing Arts Center, The PSI Theatre at Durham Arts Council, NC Museum of Art, Living Arts Collective, and Durham School of the Arts Carr Dance Studio.

ADF BEYOND NC

ICONS: Graham Cunningham Taylor took place on Sunday, March 19 at Lincoln Center in New York City. Co-produced by Paul Taylor American Modern Dance and the American Dance Festival, the performance featured the Paul Taylor Dance Company in Martha Graham’s Diversion of Angels and Paul Taylor’s Promethean Fire, and guest artists from Lyon Opera Ballet in Merce Cunningham’s Summerspace, all of which originally premiered at ADF. The evening marked the first time that works by these giants of American modern dance shared a program.

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ADF went to Cleveland in August for ADF in CLE presented by Dance Cleveland, a four-day workshop with classes in modern, contemporary, hip hop, creative process, and repertory. Classes were taught by Charles O. Anderson, Pamela Pietro, Otto (Aquaboogy) Vazquez, Brian Brooks, and Raphael Xavier. The intensive was geared towards professional and intermediate to advanced level dancers ages 16 and up. Workshop participants also had the opportunity to see performances by Pilobolus, Raphael Xavier, and Brian Brooks.

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communitye ADF strives to provide arts education for all by offering year-round community engagement opportunities. ADF encourages everyone–dancers and non-dancers–to take part in modern dance.

ADF'S SAMUEL H. SCRIPPS STUDIOS

More than 659 participants of all ages attended classes at ADF’S Samuel H. Scripps Studios during 2016-2017.

Programs at ADF’s studios are dedicated to providing a sound scientific and aesthetic base for all levels of training.

ADF’s studios serve as a center for creative activity in which students learn in a welcoming and non-competitive environment from faculty who are experts in their fields.

Besides our regular lineup of classes for youth and adults, we offered master classes with Liz Lerman, Gerri Houlihan, Pilobolus, Clint Lutes, Sara Juli and Claire Porter, Gabrielle Revlock, Murielle Elizeon and Tommy Noonan, Jesse Zaritt, Leah Wilks, Jenn Nugent, Jody Kuehner, Saar Harari, Elizabeth Corbett, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, and Andrea Weber. We offered a series of contact improvisation jams open to the community during the summer, plus workshops in anatomy, Dance for Parkinson’s, Pilates for Parkinson’s, Community Movement, hoop dance, and improvisation. We also offered a number of free events for the community such as open showings and a roundtable discussion on movement and Parkinson’s.

New this year, ADF’s Studios teamed up with Poe Wellness Solutions and NC Dance for Parkinson’s to create the Parkinson’s Movement Initiative, a program fully grantfunded by the Parkinson’s Foundation. The program offers

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engagement three free weekly movement classes in dance and Pilates created for people living with Parkinson’s, as well as 6 special on-site workshops and 6 outreach classes into the community. Through funds raised by Moving Day® North Carolina, a walk for Parkinson’s, all classes offered through the Parkinson’s Movement Initiative are free for people living with PD and their caregivers. This program also offers periodic volunteer training sessions for those in the community who wish to be involved in the program on a volunteer basis to assist with the classes.

Through generous donations, ADF was able to offer 56 scholarships to Durham and Triangle youth to attend camps and weekly classes at the studios.

In June, ADF continued the tradition of teaming up with Pilobolus for its fifth annual Shadow Camp. We had 21 participants, 6 of whom were on scholarship. In this captivating week-long camp, participants invented new worlds, designed props, and learned to tell stories through movement. This summer, the camp culminated with opening the program for ADF’s Opening Night at Durham Performing Arts Center.

COMMUNITY YOGA EVENTS

ADF and lululemon have paired up for a fourth summer to offer the yoga event Movement in the Moonglow, held at dusk on Duke’s east campus. More than 100 first-time and seasoned yogis alike attended this free restorative movement class.

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ADF PROJECT DANCE

Developed in 1998 in collaboration with the Durham Parks and Recreation Department, ADF Project Dance is a special program designed to expose the Triangle community to dance. Those involved participate in a wide range of activities, which gives them an opportunity to learn and experience dance.

Over the years, ADF Project Dance has worked with community partners such as the public school system, senior centers, Duke Hospital, and community centers, as well as the Durham Parks and Recreation Department. ADF Project Dance provides master classes with professional teaching artists and guest performers as well as opportunities to attend live dress rehearsals and performances.

In 2016-2017, ADF offered over 188 classes to more than 3999 participants in Triangle area.

ADF Project Dance is made possible with major support from the SHS Foundation and additional contributions from Central Park School for Children, Duke Energy Foundation, Durham Merchants Association Charitable Foundation, and individual donors.

ADF GO

ADF Go is designed to make modern dance more accessible and affordable to young arts lovers. Audience members ages 18-30 had the opportunity to purchase $10 tickets to most DPAC or Reynolds Industries Theater performances. Over 1,400 tickets were sold in 2017. The 2017 ADF Go program was sponsored by PNC.

ADF TOURS

Led by Director of ADF School Tours Joseph Fedrowitz, ADF Tours offered individuals, families, and community groups a rare opportunity to go behind the scenes and experience the world-renowned ADF faculty and dancers hard at work. This summer, ADF staff and volunteers led 25 tours, giving 348 visitors the chance to learn the history of the festival as well as details about the season.

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onalreach INTERNATIONAL CHOREOGRAPHER’S RESIDENCY (ICR) PROGRAM

Since 1984, the ICR program, directed by James Sutton, has enriched the festival’s culturally diverse atmosphere by bringing 486 choreographers from 93 countries on 6 continents to ADF. Participation in the ICR program creates lifelong friendships among choreographers and dancers from every corner of the world, all centered around a passion for dance. The 2017 ICR program featured 10 choreographers and dancers from Germany, Indonesia, South Africa, France, Cambodia, Thailand, Korea, Spain, and Taiwan. For six and a half weeks, the international choreographers took part in Six Week School classes, master classes, choreographic collaborations, discussions, and an informal showing for the ADF community and public.

ADF’s MOVIES BY MOVERS

Under the direction of Cara Hagan, ADF’s Movies By Movers is a bi-annual festival dedicated to the celebration of the conversation between the body and the camera. Movies by Movers screens films at ADF in the summer and Appalachian State University in the fall.

This year the festival screened 37 films in 3 different locations around Durham, NC, and 40 films in 3 different locations around Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. Of the 37 selected films, 10 were student works.

ARCHIVES

The American Dance Festival Archives continued its ongoing documentation of the summer festival by recording performances, showings, classes, and other special events. Several new collections, including the personal papers of Dr. Charles “Chuck” Davis, were acquired, and the archives is working on making them available to researchers.

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the people behind the scenes HONORARY CHAIRPERSONS

Mrs. Laura Bush • Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton Mrs. George Bush • Mrs. Nancy Reagan (1921-2016) Mrs. Rosalynn Carter • Mrs. Betty Ford (1918-2011)

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Curt C. Myers, Chairman • Jodee Nimerichter, President • Russell Savre, Treasurer Nancy McKaig, Secretary • Charles L. Reinhart, Director Emeritus Jennings Brody • Mimi Bull • Nancy P. Carstens • Rebecca B. Elvin Richard E. Feldman, Esq. • James Frazier, Ed.D. • Thomas R. Galloway Jenny Blackwelder Grant • Susan T. Hall, Ph.D. • Dave Hurlbert • Carlton Midyette Adam Reinhart, Ph.D. • Arthur H. Rogers III • Judith Sagan

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Robby Barnett • Brenda Brodie • Martha Clarke • Laura Dean • Mark Dendy Garth Fagan • Wiliam Forsythe • Eiko and Koma • Anna Halprin • Stuart Hodes Gerri Houlihan • Betty Jones • Bill T. Jones • Alex Katz • Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Donald McKayle • Meredith Monk • Carman Moore • Mark Morris Marth Myers, Dean Emeritus • Ohad Naharin • Stephen Petronio Jeannette Schlottmann Roosevelt • Ted Rotante • Yoko Shinfune and Akaji Maro Nancy Sokal • Paul Taylor • Twyla Tharp • Michael Tracy Doug Varone • Shen Wei • Jawole Willa Jo Zollar

ADF STAFF

Jodee Nimerichter.................................................................................Executive Director Leah Cox...................................................................................................................... Dean Cynthia Wyse...........................................................Director of Finance & Administration Sarah Tondu..................................................... Director of Communications & Marketing Dean Jeffrey............................................................... Director of Archives & Preservation Nicolle Wasserman....................................................... Director of School Administration Alyssa Harrison............................................................ School Administration Coordinator Gaspard Louis......................................................................Director of ADF Project Dance Mollie O’Reilly.................................................. Marketing & Audience Services Associate Chris Cherry.............................................................................................Graphic Designer Diana Hoffmaster......................................Director of Grants & Development Operations Kelsey Favret................................................................................. Development Associate Kimberly Hall.................................................................................Administrative Assistant Shannon Drake........................................... Performances & Special Projects Coordinator Kathy Bedell.............................................................................................Finance Assistant Julia Pleasants...................... Manager of Studio Programs and Community Engagement

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MAJOR SUPPORT FOR ADF’S 2017 SEASON PROVIDED BY:

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VISIONARY ($100,000+) Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Duke University SHS Foundation

INNOVATOR ($50,000+) 315 Fund National Endowment for the Arts North Carolina Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of North Carolina and the National Endowment for the Arts PRODUCER ($25,000+) Ann Saunders Roses, Stephanie Roses, & Maija Roses City of Durham The Shubert Foundation SUSTAINER ($10,000 - $24,999) Anonymous Arnhold Foundation Fox Family Foundation, Inc. Thomas R. Galloway Giorgios Hospitality & Lifestyle Group and Parizäde* Hilton Durham near Duke University* PNC Parkinson Foundation The Esther and Otto Seligmann Foundation The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation PIONEER ($5,000 - $9,000) Anonymous Brenda Brodie Carolina Woman+ Tom and Nancy Carstens Richard and Ford Hibbits Israel’s Office of Cultural Affairs in North America Thomas S. Kenan, III, in memory of Jaqueline Zinn Carlton Midyette Curt C. Myers Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University North Lodge Fund Charles L. Reinhart Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Foundation Judith Sagan Russell Savre South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts SunTrust Foundation Taiwan Academy of TECRO/ Ministry of Culture in Taiwan The Harkness Foundation for Dance CREATOR ($3,000 - $4,999) Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts Jim Cronin Susan T. Hall Nancy McKaig Florence and James Peacock Caroline and Arthur Rogers The Consulate General of Israel to the Southeast Region The Duke Energy Foundation The Israel Center of the Durham-Chapel Hill Jewish Federation The Palace International* West Queen Studio*

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INVESTOR ($1,000 - $2,999) 21c Musem Hotel Durham* Anonymous American Tobacco Campus Richard and Deidre Arnold Association of Performing Arts Professionals, Inc. Melinda Beck and David Thomas Suzanne Begnoche and Pavan Reddy Alison S. Bowes Bunn DJ Company* Dan and Kathy Burns, in memory of Allen D. Roses, MD Sharon M. Connelly Deborah Demott Durham Arts Council Durham Merchants Association Charitable Foundation Bruce and Rebecca Elvin John and Carolyn Falletta Dr. James A. Frazier B. Gail Freeman and Susan Gidwitz Gateway Building Company Pamela and Isaac Green EiIeen Greenbaum and Larry Mintz Laura and Bob Gutman Angela Hodge and Adnan Nasir David Hosford, in memory of Allen D. Roses, MD Dave Hurlbert Drs. Samuel Katz and Catherine Wilfert Mark Day Company* Tom Mitchell and Jill Over New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project Jodee Nimerichter and Gaspard Louis Noël Family Fund of Triangle Community Foundation Eugene Oddone and Grace Couchman David D. Orr Parker & Otis and Chet Miller* Vicky Patton and Bob Chapman Susan Rosenthal and Michael Hershfield Francine and Benson Pilloff Jim Sanders, in memory of Dora Sanders Anne Sena, in memory of Sue Crawford Angela Sessoms Jim and Mary Siedow Connie and Elliot Bossen, Silverback Foundation Smitten Boutique Helen and Richard Tapper The Rickhouse* Dianne and Daniel Vapnek Tim Walter Andrew Witty, in memory of Allen D. Roses, MD Lyell and Paul Wright Wells Fargo WUNC+ LEADER ($500 - $999) All About Beer, LLC* Marcia Angle and Mark Trustin Fund of Triangle Community Foundation Eileen and Lowell Aptman Atelier N Fine Jewelry Bano Boutique Sarah and Christopher Bean Blackman & Sloop Certified Public Accountants Mimi Bull Bunn DJ Company* Kenneth L. Caneva Chet Miller Classic Graphics*

Christopher and Angela Combs Margaret and Richard Crandall Catherine Crumpton Jennifer and Scott Donner Duke Homestead* Elkin Family Fund Eno Ventures Dawn E. Enochs Suzanne Faber, in memory of Helen Post Jim and Jane Finch For Alma Home Hamilton Hill Jewelry Happy + Hale Hodge & Kittrell Sotheby’s International Realty, Jack Arnold Inhabit Real Estate Joe Van Gogh* Kate Kadoun, in memory of Stephanie Reinhart Myra and Kevin Kane Gene and Diane Linfors Mecklenburg Aquatic Club, Inc., in memory of Allen D. Roses, MD Morgan Imports Northgate Associates LLLP One Forty Salon & Blow Dry Bar Pappas Capital Ms. Patricia Peterson Francine and Benson Pilloff David and Ingrid Pisetsky Anne and Billy Pizer Pure Barre RED Collective, Connie Semans + Chloë Seymore Mary Regan Sam’s Quik Shop and Sam’s Bottle Shop* Rebekah Shoaf Guy and Mindy Solie State Employees Combined Campaign Alice and Clarke Thacher Charitable Fund Debara Tucci and Kevan VanLandingham Ward Design Group Myra and Nils Weise Widmark Family Fund of Triangle Community Foundation Scott and Linda Wishart Heather and David Yeowell Yoga Off East COLLABORATOR ($250 - $499) Patrick Akkari, in memory of Allen D. Roses, MD Lex and Ann Alexander Jane Altman Phillips, Peak Swirles & Cavallito Properties Kathryn Andolsek Ellen and Phil Baer Glenna Batson David and Michelle Beischer Lisa Berot and Jeff Lackey Julia Borbely-Brown Gay Bradley and Gerry Riveros Kristen Brogdon and David Ulaszek Nicola Bullock Betty Burton and Mitch de Long Rosie Canizares Diane and Chuck Catotti Janice Christensen Betsy and Charles Collie Jeffrey Collins and Rose Mills Linda Y. Cooper Leah Cox and Bob Bursey

contributors Craven Allen Gallery/House of Frames* Lou Anne and John Crumpler Rachel Davies Robin Dennis Stephen and Katherine Eck Jenny and Monty Favret Fearrington Village* Foster’s Market* Pete and Julie Gaskell Frederick Goldwater Dale and Paula Graff Jenny Blackwelder Grant John and Lucy Grant Judith Hallman Michael and Mary Justice Bobby and Claudia Kadis John and Joy Kasson Jane Kestenbaum and Stewart Johnson Dr. Kevin LaBar Shelli Lieberman Theo Luebke The Mad Popper* Henry Majestic Rikki Mangrum Edward and Connie McCraw Lisa J. McQuay Ingrid Michael Andreas Monsch, in memory of Allen D. Roses, MD Jeanne and Brian Murray Leon Myers Barry Nakell and Sandra Mascia Paul and Genese Newman John Victor Orth Richard Paschal Patricia Pertalion Brenda Pomeroy Melodie Griffin Pugh Maureen Quinn Daniel Robinson and Cathy Collie-Robinson Redfin Peter Reynolds Gay Bradley and Gerry Riveros Susan Ross and Tom Hadzor Anya Peterson Royce, in memory of Jonathan Wolken Katherine Seligmann Vincent and Ethel Simonetti Dr. and Mrs. Dallas Stallings Thomas Swason, in memory of Allen D. Roses, MD Willie Covington and Sharon Taylor Anne Wall Thomas Nancy Trovillion and Jamie Wallace USA Copiers Svetkey - van der Horst Fund of Triangle Community Foundation, in honor of Diane Robertson Allen and Claire Wilcox Tim Warmath and Ed Comber Wilkie and Linda Wilson Steve Wilton, in memory of Allen D. Roses, MD Senator Mike Woodard and Sarah Woodard Patricia Petersen and Douglas Young ENTHUSIAST ($100 - $249) Anonymous Elizabeth Balkite Julie and Bill Beard Catherine Bergel Sasha and Sara Berghausen Evelyn S. Bloch, Bill Neal, and Thea Bloch-Neal

Dorothy Rose Borden Alison Lee Bory Kayla Briggs Pamela Brinkley, in memory of Allen D. Roses, MD Karen Campbell and Bob Galloway Carol Cappelletti Carolina Ballet* The Joann and William L. Cassell Family Fund Charlotte Ballet* Chavez for Charity Ellen Messina Ciompi Gail Cohen, in memory of Allen D. Roses, MD Couto Family John Michael Cullen Janet Dale Susan E. Davidson, in memory of Allen D. Roses, MD Christopher and Jennifer Dawson Ann and Bob DeMaine Sarah Deutsch Mia and Scott Doron Courtney Ellis Richard and Susan Ellman Dr. Richard Elmore and Mr. Sidney Klotz Curt and Judy Eshelman Muki W. Fairchild and Charles Keith Joseph Fedrowitz and Mitchell R. Vann Suzanne Gilden-Chiang Amy Ginsberg and Andy Maynard Lauren Goslin Thurman Grove and Tracy Traer John Hanks and Rebecca Hutchins Helen Holland Rosaland Hopkins Joseph P. Horrigan Mary Ann Huey Marie Hull Kevin and Kista Hurley Lori N. Jones Nathanael and Brianne Kibler Marlene Kibler Judy Kinberg, in honor of Jodee Nimerichter Annette Kirshner Jim and Lorre Koontz Gigi Krapels Sarah Louisa Lanners Judi Lilley Elaine and Lee Marcus Ruth Marinshaw Deborah Marion Norman G. Owen and Roberta Yule Owen Richard and Janice Palmer Andrew Pearson Doren Madey Pinnell Margaret and Justin Potnick Alison Rabil, on behalf of Joan Klein Floalice Reaves Gaile Renager Dennis Rickey, in memory of Allen D. Roses, MD David Saltonstall Dabney and Walker Sanders Max and Patricia Saunders Allison Savicz Steve Schewel and Lao Rubert Kevin Schulman and Brenda Berlin Anne Shotton David and Olivia Singleton Dana L. Smith Smitten Boutique Staff, in honor of Nancy McKaig

Steven and Wendy Sorin Karen Soskin Kathleen Spitz Ellen Stone Mary Thacher Larry and Lee Ann Tilley Mary H. Trabert Amy and Pete Tyler Robert W. Upchurch Art Waber and Alyson Colwell-Waber Russell G. Walker, jr.

Laura Weisberg and David Wong Lynn E. Whitaker Cheryl and Madison Young Dr. and Mrs. Michael and Sandra Zellinger

FRIEND (≼$99) Jennifer Albright Rachel Ash Richard and Carol Beck Carol Burgess Jody and Ronnie Cassell Chris Chinchar Harry Dawley and D. Dickerson Ginny and Jean Ditzel Daniel Ellison Emily Feldman-Kravitz and Rich Kravitz, in honor of Rebecca Elvin Donald G. Fornoff Alfred and Denise Friedrich Milo Fryling and Pamela Alberta Priscilla A. Guild Bob and Lisa Gwyther Sonal Halburnt, in memory of Allen D. Roses, MD Deborah C. Hall Tom and Polly Harris Deborah Hauser, in memory of Patricia Vincent Scott and Richard Hill Jane Hoppin Ken Howell Emma Jakoi, in memory of Allen D. Roses, MD Robert Jankowski Jesse Kaufmann The Kearns Dance Project Annette Kirshner Martha and Peter Klopfer William Lynch Patricia E Manning Chandra McCloud Marelle Molbert Ann and Jim Morris Geraldine Pesacreta, in memory of Allen D. Roses, MD Nancy D. Pinckney Joyce Riffer, in memory of Allen D. Roses, MD Sandra Scheuber Tanya Schreiber Scott Shore and Rebecca Boston Deborah E Swain Kevin Dwyer and Mari Szymanski Wayne and Cassandra Taylor Katrin A. Thompson, in honor of Gerri Houlihan Chloe Thumgreene, in honor of Zoe Cohen Justin Tornow Gale Touger The Walling Family Gwinn Ward Alice Watkins, in memory of Allen D. Roses, MD Tovah Wax and Lucjan Lodzak

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