SAKAFU: Repertory Performance Works Program

THE DANCE CENTER PRESENTS

Photos: William Frederking

SAKAFU: REPERTORY PERFORMANCE WORKS December 14–15, 2023

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ABOUT Tonight’s SAKAFU 2023 concert showcases works choreographed by professional dance artists for first year through fourth year students as the originating casts. Derived from the Arabic word for ceiling, the Swahili word sakafu (pronounced sah-KAHF) means both ceiling and floor since a ceiling is also the floor of an upper story. Learning dance lineages and techniques is the equivalent of standing on the shoulders of ancestors - embracing sakafu’s both/and reality as platforms that support both aspiration and evolution.

CREDITS settle my spirit CHOREOGRAPHER: Bevara Anderson DANCERS: Violet Czerwinski, Kaya Gross, Kayla Hansen, Jayda Heflin, Lydia Jacobson, Konnie Kakridas, Shannon Lane, Brittanyrose Lonergan, Adrean Maxwell, Aly Owens, Devon Saxman, Gabby Sheets, Caitlin Wonsowski, Rhianna Young MUSIC: I Understand by Samoht; Keep You Safe by The KutiMangoes; Spiritual Amnesia

by Samoht; Idioma by Tomaga; Let You Go by Samoht MUSIC MIX AND EDIT: Bevara Anderson This work is in dedication to Dr. Kariamu Welsh, progenitor and mother of Umfundalai.

It Lives Inside CHOREOGRAPHER: Dr. Ayo Walker with suggestions and inspiration from the dancers DANCERS: Taylor Davis, Aniya Fitzgerald-Magana, Najah Muhammed, Lauren Payne, Sophia Peck MUSIC: Antebellum (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): Opening, Burning Men, Battle Choir by Nate Wonder and Roman GianArthur MUSIC MIX: Taylor Davis

It Could Be CO-CHOREOGRAPHERS: Meghann Wilkinson with Konnie Kakridas and Caitlin Wonsowski DANCERS: Konnie Kakridas and Caitlin Wonsowski MUSIC: Michael Caskey POEM: Five AM in the Pinewoods by Mary Oliver; additional text by the performers This work was begun by choreographer Meghann Wilkinson and completed by the cast due to the ongoing work of the Administration and the Columbia Faculty Union to come to an agreement. “Thanks to Konnie and Caitlin for their unending patience and shine during this very disrupted process.”

INTERMISSION

Groundswell CO-CHOREOGRAPHERS: Dardi McGinley-Gallivan and Pamela McNeil with movement contributions from the dancers DANCERS: Milenka Aurelio, Rylee Binkley, Courtney Cooper, Sophie Daker, Nia Durlacher, Lola Jett-Beachley, Shayla Smith, Caroline Triche, Diamond Turner, Ava Winfrey MUSIC: Avichi by Emptyset; Optimist by Zoë Keating; Cleopatra by Nova Twins SOUND DESIGN: Mitch McNeil

Humanity Through The Line CHOREOGRAPHER: Michelle N. Gibson DANCERS: Violet Czerwinski, Kaya Gross, Kayla Hansen, Jayda Heflin, Lydia Jacobson, Konnie Kakridas, Shannon Lane, Brittanyrose Lonergan, Adrean Maxwell, Aly Owens, Devon Saxman, Gabby Sheets, Caitlin Wonsowski, Rhianna Young MUSIC: Healing Humanity by Sula Spirit; Instructions On Being by Tank and the Bangas; Southern Nights performed by Adonis Rose and The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra original composition by Allen Toussaint; Just A Closer Walk With Thee by Kermit Ruffins and Rebirth Brass Band COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO JAZZ ENSEMBLE: William Burgess, Paris Catura, Nate Freeman, Frank Logan, Fernando Montoya, Ramon Rodriguez, Miles Wilson COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO JAZZ ENSEMBLE DIRECTOR: Scott Hall Michelle N. Gibson’s visiting artist residency is made possible in part by Alphawood Foundation.

THE DANCE CENTER PRODUCTION CREW TECHNICAL DIRECTOR: Kevin Rechner LIGHTING DESIGN: Kevin Rechner LIGHT BOARD OPERATOR: Anna Schultz-Breef SOUND OPERATOR: Dante Giramma MEDIA/TECHNOLOGY COORDINATOR: Jane Jerardi

BIOS Bevara Anderson is a professional dance artist from the Maryland coast. Bevara focuses on the embodied research that lives within Umfundalai, House, Footwork, Horton, Contemporary Ballet, Improvisation, and many other contemporary movement styles. She is now rendering dance work based in narrative, abstraction, meditation, and continues to consider the experience of joy as a form of resistance in the Black American community. Bevara is of the final generation of dancers to study under the direct tutelage of Dr. Kariamu Welsh, and holds this feat with pride as she continues to share Dr. Welsh’s technique, Umfundalai.

Milenka Aurelio has been dancing for approximately eight years, is a graduate of the Chicago High-School for the Arts (ChiArts), and is now a First- year student. Milenka is working to graduate college with a BFA and go onto choreography and teaching.

Rylee Binkley is a sophomore attending Columbia College Chicago. She became a Dance major this year and has fallen more in love with dance. Once she graduates, she hopes to join a dance company and continue her career in event management.

William Burgess is a drummer, percussionist, and saxophonist from Chicago, IL.

Originally from Pleasanton, California, Paris Catura is a drummer with over fifteen years of experience. He specializes in Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Latin, Funk and many other styles. In his Junior year at Columbia College Chicago, Paris is a B.A. student studying Jazz.

Courtney Cooper is a gifted dancer from Washington, D.C. with over six years of training in Ballet, Modern, Contemporary, Jazz, Hip-Hop, and West African. Courtney is an NAACP ACT-SO regional gold medal winner in modern dance. Courtney has traveled locally and internationally, most recently as a featured performer at the International Association of Blacks in Dance in Toronto, CA. Courtney is a dynamic talent, with a love for people and exploring how her energy and ambition can uplift and positively influence humanity and culture. She is a bold artist with passion, enthusiasm, and a fierce curiosity for life and art.

Violet Czerwinski (she/her) is a sophomore year Dance BFA at Columbia College Chicago. She has been dancing for 15 years, 10 of which she performed competitively.

She trained in mostly Contemporary and Jazz work.

Sophie Daker is from the suburbs of Chicago and has been dancing for sixteen years. Now a freshman at Columbia College, Sophie begins her training to pursue a professional dance career in her nearby future.

Taylor Davis is a junior studying Film and Creative Writing.

She has danced her whole life and enjoys performing at Columbia as a way to continue her passion.

Nia Durlacher is a sophomore transfer student from Bloomington, Indiana, with a background in gymnastics and circus arts. She began dancing in college and hopes to use her unique movement training to enter the field of contemporary circus.

Aniya Fitzgerald-Magana is a Dance Major.

Nate Freeman is a freshman music student at Columbia who specializes in drumming and producing music.

Michelle N. Gibson is a consummate storyteller, employing body and mind to build a bridge between the culture and academia, but most importantly, humanity. On stage and in the classroom, Gibson intricately intertwines Black African American dance traditions, choreography, and associated scholarship linking the vibrant heritage of New Orleans through the Caribbean to the vast expanses of Africa, evoking the social, political, economic, and spiritual understandings central to building bonds within and across cultures. This journey, steeped in both tradition and innovation, encapsulates Gibson’s unwavering commitment to heal the world through the culture.

Kaya Gross is a Danish and American dancer, aerialist and performer. They are a Junior at Columbia College Chicago working towards a BA in Dance with a minor in Film and Television Studies. During high school Kaya spent a year studying dance at Efterskolen for Scenekunst, a performing arts boarding school in Denmark. She has also trained and performed with A-WOL Dance Collective in Portland, Oregon for many years as part of both their youth performance group, Aeros, and their preprofessional training company, Flyco.

Scott Hall began his association with Ramsey Lewis in 2007 arranging Lewis’ compositions for Ravinia Festival collaborations such as the Joffrey Ballet, Turtle Island Quartet, and the Abraham Lincoln celebration “Proclamation of Hope”. A classically trained trumpeter, he works predominantly as a jazz conductor, jazz trumpeter, arranger, producer, and educator. He has performed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., Teatro Manzini in Milan, Ravinia Festival, Chicago Theatre, Jazz Showcase, Peoria Civic Center, Beijing Dance Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, Conservatory of Puerto Rico, Jeonnam State University in South Korea, and the Conservatory Luisa D’Annunzio in Pescara, Italy. His premier of the Concerto for Jazz Trio and Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival featured his work as arranger and conductor for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with the Ramsey Lewis Trio. As an invited Conn Selmer clinician and teaching artist, he has mentored for the Sant’Anna Arresi Jazz Festival, Arcevia Jazz Festival, Pescara Jazz Festival, Illinois Music Educators Association, and the Straight Ahead Jazz Camp with the Jazz Institute of Chicago. He has contributed editorial reviews and articles for the Instrumentalist, Teaching Music through Performance in Jazz with Richard Miles and Ron Carter, and the ILMEA Illinois Music Educator’s Journal. Mr. Hall is currently Professor of Instruction and Coordinator of Contemporary Musicianship and Jazz at Columbia College Chicago and a Conn Selmer Trumpet Artist.

Kayla Hansen is a dancer and choreographer born and raised on the Northside of Chicago. Her early training comes from Rhoads Academy of Dance, Senn Arts Dance Company, and Southport Performing Arts Conservatory.

She has also worked with various companies including Gus Giordano, Joel Hall Dance Center, Still Inspired, Joffrey Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and Picture Us Different. Kayla has choreographed many works, which have been showcased at the Athenaeum Theatre, The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, and other venues. She is currently a junior BFA Dance major and Education minor at Columbia College Chicago.

Jayda Heflin is an emerging artist, performer, and choreographer from Dayton, Ohio approaching the completion of her BA program at Columbia College Chicago. She has trained with a variety of celebrated choreographers such as DeShona Pepper – Robertson former principal dancer at Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (DCDC) and current dance director at Stivers school for the arts, Emmy award winning choreographer Rodney Veal, competitive dance instructors Ashley Walton and Kirsten Ulrich, and DCDC members Sherri Sparkle Williams and Dawn Carter both who have traveled internationally and worked closely with world renowned choreographers. Her fluid passionate movement quality and determination has granted her the opportunity to perform in the 2023 Harvest Festival and labeled her as the 2019 Jeraldyne Blunden award recipient. Today she spends most of her time volunteering at Stivers School for the Arts with the youth teaching classes and setting choreography while building her representation as a performer.

Lydia Jacobson formed her dance career at Beth Fowler School of Dance in Genoa, Illinois. Commuting between her hometown of DeKalb, she trained in techniques such as Ballet (both on and off pointe), Jazz, Jazz-Funk, Hip-Hop, Contemporary, and Lyrical. After graduating and moving to Chicago, Jacobson furthered her dance training in Modern, West African, House, Breaking, and Improvisation techniques here at Columbia.

Lola Jett-Beachley is from Pittsburgh, PA where she danced with Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre for eight years and continued her studies at Bodiography Contemporary Ballet. Lola aims to pursue a career in performance and choreography and is a first year Dance BFA at Columbia.

Konnie Kakridas was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois.

She discovered her passion for dance at an early age studying at Forevermore Dance & Theatre Arts in Chicago, Illinois and is currently embarking on a creative journey studying at Columbia College Chicago to earn her BFA in Dance in the spring of 2025. Studying amongst Kerrie Grace, Darrell Jones, Carrie Hanson, and many more, Konnie has been able to spend her time indulging the ideologies and vocabulary these teachers have been able to provide her with in her own choreography and performance opportunities.

Shannon Lane is pursuing her BFA in Dance as a sophomore at Columbia College Chicago. She started dancing when she was 7 years old in her hometown Oak Park, Illinois, training primarily in Ballet and Modern techniques at the Academy of Movement and Music.

Currently, she is a dance teacher for the Park District of Oak Park.

Frank Logan, a dedicated family man, seized the pandemic as an opportunity to return to education after nearly 30 years, enrolling in and recently graduating from Harold Washington College. Despite the generation gap and technological changes, he pursued multiple musicrelated tracks, securing certifications in Music Business, Music Education, and Music Performance. Now, he continues his educational journey at Columbia College Chicago, further solidifying his musical craft & style.

Brittanyrose Lonergan is a senior Dance BA. She grew up in the military and has danced all over in places like North Carolina, South Korea, and Maine.

Adrean Maxwell started his Dance journey at Mt. Pilgrim Missionary Baptist church where he learned Praise/ Liturgical Dance. Since then, Adrean has dedicated his life to studying and mastering his craft within West African dance. Adrean is currently pursuing his Bachelor of Arts in Dance at Columbia College Chicago while performing as a Company 2 performing and teaching artist with Muntu Dance Theater. Prince Adrean has choreographed and taught works for Signature Dance Company, Lincoln Center of the Arts, Dance Works, Rhythm Works!, and more.

Dardi McGinley-Gallivan is a Professor of Instruction in the Dance Department who specializes in Pedagogy and Modern Technique courses. Dardi is a founding member of Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak Dance Company, performed for Mordine & Company Dance Theatre, and Colleen Halloran Performance Group (live and dance for camera). She received the Louis Sutler Prize for the Arts as an undergraduate and a Ruth Page Award in Chicago for Performance. Dardi has a long history of teaching residencies for Antares Danza Contemporeanea in Hermosillio, Mexico and received two Faculty Development Grants to facilitate projects with Antares company member, Isaac Chau. She received her BA in Art History with a Minor in Dance from Emory University and her MA in Dance from The Ohio State University.

Pamela McNeil has been teaching at the Dance Center and been active in the dance community as a performer, teacher, and choreographer for the past 30 years. After dancing professionally in New York, where she trained extensively in Hawkins Technique and worked with the Erick Hawkins Dance Company, McNeil moved to Chicago and joined Mordine & Company Dance Theatre with whom she performed for over nine years. She has presented her work at The Field, DIA Art Foundation, and Aglaia Middle Collegiate Church in New York, at Wellspring in Kalamazoo, MI, and in Chicago at Links Hall, and at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago.

Fernando Montoya is a composer and multiinstrumentalist who has experience in different genres like Latin, Jazz, and Classical music. He grew up playing tuba, valve trombone, and timbales in a Mexican Banda group.

Najah Muhammed is a dedicated mover who’s been dancing for 4 years now. With a background in Musical Theater, this is Najah’s second dance performance and she’s so excited to help share this piece with the world.

Aly Owens started her dance career at Debra Collier’s School of Dance. Through their programs she found a passion for music and dance at a very young age. Through her dance school she got to attend events like CNADM and work with diverse choreographers. She now attends Columbia College Chicago and has performed at Harvest Fest.

Lauren Payne is a sophomore at Columbia College Chicago, majoring in Dance and minoring in Arts Management. She has danced since the age of four under Kathi Nallia, and has trained and performed for the past eleven years around the greater Kansas City area.

Sophia Peck is a sophomore working towards her Dance degree at Columbia College Chicago. After 12 years of training under Jeri Pinnell and working with several notable choreographers, Sophia is excited to be furthering her dance education.

Ramon Rodriguez is a sophomore Musical Theater major.

He plays trombone for the Jazz and Latin ensembles and can be also seen working on theatre projects around campus.

Devon Saxman is a Contemporary-Modern dancer in their second year at Columbia College Chicago as a BFA Dance major. Coming from southwest Florida, they have studied dance for 7 years with a focus in Modern, Contemporary, West African, and Hip-Hop, with minor studies in Flamenco, Afro-Modern, Pointe, and Choreography.

Gabby Sheets (she/her) is a Senior BFA Dance major at Columbia College Chicago. She gravitates specifically towards Contemporary dance styles, with a mix of improvisation. Gabby has had a handful of amazing opportunities to perform works created by Columbia faculty, as well as work created by her fellow peers.

Shayla Smith is a first-year student from Saint Louis majoring in Dance.

Caroline Triche is a first-year student at Columbia College Chicago. She has been dancing for 13 years in the Seattle area and is pursuing a major in Dance with a minor in American Sign Language. She is studying at Columbia with the goal of pursuing a lifelong career in dance performance.

Diamond Turner is an extremely talented and wellrounded dancer from the Southside of Chicago, IL. She has been dancing for almost 10 years now and has been trained in Ballet, Modern, Contemporary, Jazz, Hip-Hop, West African, and even Ballroom dance. She is a dancer who’s very passionate about the artistry of the craft, as she uses dance as an outlet for self-expression!

Dr. Ayo Walker is a Performance Studies Practitioner, Choreographer, and Dance and African American Studies Educator. As an anti-racist educator, her praxis is committed to substantiating the techniques, vernaculars, and genealogies and embodiment of historically marginalized and othered dance aesthetics. Her work is rooted in visibilizing the “blood memories,” “aesthetic of the cool,” and the “get down” qualities evident in Africanist and Black dance aesthetics. Employing social justice choreography representative of anti-essentialist movement that is at once exposing and undoing stereotypical assumptions historically signifying the Black body politic, her works challenge what performing Blackness is and isn’t.

Meghann Wilkinson has been an ensemble member with Lucky Plush Productions since 2004, where she has originated roles in over a dozen devised works and has toured the country and abroad. She has also performed with Mordine & Company Dance Theater and The NeoFuturists and has choreographed for Walkabout Theater, Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, Cecchetti Council of America, and Evanston Dance Ensemble. Working toward regenerative practices for people and planet, Meghann has participated in Urban Bush Women’s Summer Leadership Institute, attended immersive programming at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, and completed certificates in permaculture design with Midwest Permaculture and Earth Activist Training with Starhawk.

My name is Miles Wilson. I’m a trumpet player in many of Columbia College Chicago’s ensembles and bands. I have been playing jazz for seven years and have been heavily impacted by the man I was named after, Miles Davis. I want to become a jazz player with my style, just as he did.

This is only the start of my journey, so keep watching over me!

My name is Ava Winfrey and I am a first year Dance major here at Columbia! I was born and raised here in Chicago and have been dancing since I was three years old. I have trained in a couple different forms of dance (Ballet, Jazz, Hip-Hop to name a few). I’m very grateful to have worked on this wonderful piece with everyone and watch us all grow over the course of the semester!

Caitlin Wonsowski is a senior BA Dance student at Columbia College Chicago. She began her training at USA Ballet in her hometown, Bloomington, Illinois when she was three years old. In addition to her childhood training, she danced at Illinois State University and around Chicago in programs such as the CREATE intensive with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and as a performer with Inside Out Professional. Her artistry emphasizes collaboration and draws inspiration from improvisation and fusing contemporary dance styles.

Rhianna Young was born and grew up in Frankfort, Illinois. She trained at Braemar Dance Center for ten years where she took classes in a variety of styles, was on the competition team, and taught and assisted classes.

She also choreographed multiple award-winning solos for herself throughout this time. Now, she is in the third year of her pursuit of a BFA in Dance at Columbia College Chicago. Rhianna focuses on contemporary forms and ideas of dance within her movement, along with the influence of the plethora of other styles she has taken.

DANCE CENTER PRODUCTION BIOS Michael Caskey is a drummer, composer, dance-music-maker, cartoon-drawer, treeplanter, and amateur juggler. He performs and tours nationally and internationally with The Claudettes (theclaudettes.com) and has created original music for Lucky Plush Productions, The Neo-Futurists, and countless Chicago dance companies and artists. He has been a dance accompanist at Columbia College for nearly two decades and records original music under the name Bunny Patootie.

Dante Giramma is a composer, multimedia artist, and sound engineer from Western Massachusetts. His work spans fixed media, generative composition, composition for dance and film, CGI & interactive media, sound sculpture, and multimedia installation. He is incredibly invested in creating artistic experiences that are both playful and impactful, using installation work and collaboration with dancers as a catalyst to explore interactivity and physicality in art and sound.

Jane Jerardi serves as the Media/Technology Coordinator for the Dance Center, providing video documentation for the Presenting Series and its academic programs.

As a part of its faculty, she teaches video for dance and choreography courses.

She has documented and edited over 250 performances, workshops, and events, providing essential documentation to artists and adding to the Dance Center’s leading, regional archive of materials dating from 1980 to the present. An artist working in performance, choreography, and video installation, her work has been presented at galleries and theaters in Chicago, New York, and Washington, DC. Kevin Rechner has been Production Manager and Technical Director for the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago since 1996. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Theatre from Illinois State University and spent 3 years in Paris, France studying Movement Theatre with Jacques Lecoq and Daniel Stein. He has created four solo performance works including I AM HUGO and performed in Emily Johnson’s Thank You Bar at the Dance Center. Technically, he has worn many hats for The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Daniel Stein, Akira Kasai, Kota Yamazaki, Momenta!, Hedwig Dances, Urban Bush Women, HT Chen and Dancers, Natya Dance Theatre, Mordine and Company Dance Theatre, The Seldoms and many more. Kevin’s work with Lucky Plush Productions includes Cinderbox 18, The Sky Hangs Down Too Close, Punk Yankees, The Better Half, Cinderbox 2.0, Trip the Light Fantastic: The Making of Superstrip, and Rink Life. Recent lighting designs include Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, and Junie B. Jones, The Musical for The Young People’s Theatre of Chicago.

Anna Schultz-Breef (she/her/hers) is a Stage Manager for Theater and Dance, as well as a Theatre Artisan with an adoration for Lighting and Carpentry. Her most recent work consists of: Stage Manager for Owensboro Dance Theater’s Nutcracker, Lighting Designer for Northwestern University’s Emperor of Atlantis, Asst. Stage Manager for the Joffrey Ballet’s Frankenstein, Asst. Stage Manager for Joffrey Ballet’s Chicago and D.C. run of Anna Karenina, the Master Electrician for the Northwestern University Opera department, and Stagehand for Columbia College Dance Center.

Anna graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University in 2021 and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Theatre Arts. Along with a double minor in Theatre Design & Technology, and Asian Studies.

THE DANCE CENTER Founder Shirley Mordine

Jane Jerardi

Chair of Dance Lisa Gonzales

Hau Kum Leung Kneip

Associate Chair Dardi McGinley-Gallivan

Pamela McNeil

Dean, School of Fine and Performing Arts Dr. Rosita M. Sands

Emily Stein

Faculty Bevara Anderson Lisa Gonzales Susan Imus Darrell Jones Dardi McGinley-Gallivan Kelsa “K-Soul” RiegerHaywood Dr. Ayo Walker Jessica Young Adjunct Faculty T. Ayo Alston Keesha Beckford Malik Camara Zineb Chraibi Shaker Cohlmia Allen Desterhaft Emma Draves Colleen Halloran

Mary Klonowski Michael McGinn Jimmy Payne Trae Turner Meghann Wilkinson Thomas Zwergel Staff Michael Caskey Music Director, Accompanist Coordinator Dan DiLuciano Director of Facilities and Operations Raynner Garcia Box Office/Reception Caity Gee Administrative Assistant/ Communications Ize Heinzen House Manager Jane Jerardi Media/Technology Coordinator Ambe’r Johnnson Box Office Associate

Carrie Hansen

Angelika Lewis Box Office Associate

Daniel “BRAVEMONK” Haywood

Pamela McNeil Academic Manager

Matthew Hollis

Mia Nelson Box Office/Reception Disha Patel Box Office/Reception Kevin Rechner Technical Director and Production Manager Roell Schmidt Dance Presenting Series Producing Director Meredith Sutton Dance Presenting Series Artistic Director

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