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SACRE BY CIRCA

Created by Yaron Lifschitz and the Circa Ensemble DIRECTOR Yaron Lifschitz MUSIC Philippe Bachman & Igor Stravinsky LIGHTING DESIGNER Veronique Bennett COSTUME DESIGN Libby McDonnell TECHINCAL DIRECTOR Jason Organ PRODUCER Danielle Kellie Media Sponsors

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Commissioned by Merrigong Theatre Company Co-produced by La Comete Circa acknowledges the assistance of the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

YARON LIFSCHITZ - DIRECTOR Yaron Lifschitz is a graduate of the University of New South Wales, University of Queensland, and National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA), where he was the youngest director ever accepted into its prestigious graduate director’s course. Since graduating, Yaron has directed over 60 productions including large-scale events, opera, theatre, physical theatre, and circus.

His work has been seen in 40 countries and across six continents by over one million people and has won numerous awards including six Helpmann awards and the Australia Council Theatre Award. His productions have been presented at major festivals and venues around the world including Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Barbican, Les Nuits de Fourvière, Chamaleon and all the major Australian festivals. His film work was selected for the Berlin and Melbourne Film Festivals. He was founding Artistic Director of the Australian Museum’s Theatre Unit, Head Tutor in Directing at Australian Theatre for Young People and has been a regular guest tutor in directing at NIDA. He is currently Artistic Director and CEO of Circa, and was Creative Director of Festival 2018: the arts and cultural program of the 21st Commonwealth Games. In 2020 Yaron directed the world’s first acrobatic staging of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and circus creations in collaboration with Urban Art Projects (UAP) and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

PHILIPPE BACHMAN - COMPOSER Philippe Bachman is a musician, artistic director and producer based in Paris.

After his studies at Paris Conservatoire (CNSMDP) and at SciencesPo Paris, he has been awarded Villa Medicis Hors-les- Murs (France) and Fulbright Scholar (USA), and lived in New York City. He has toured as a trio in a dozen

countries and he composes for international stage productions, including for Canadian director Robert Lepage.

In 2015, he was Chair of the National Committee for New Music Commissions (Ministry of Culture) and has worked for UNESCO, Paris “Cité de la Musique”, Ircam. He has been CEO of the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra (1997-2001) and the Chamber Choir Accentus (2002-2003).

Since January 2019, he is teaching a seminar on Being an Artist in today’s World: facts and fantasies at SciencesPo Paris (Europe, America & EuropeAfrica programs). Since 2004, he has been CEO & Artistic Director of La Comète - Scène nationale de Châlons-en-Champagne, a national performing arts venue (3 halls, 120 performances, including an international dance season), awarded one of the 8 European Artistic Hubs by French Ministry of Culture since 2018. He is founding member of Tour de Dance, an informal network bringing together dance venues and programmers from France, Belgium, Luxemburg and Germany sharing international dance projects and tours. In 2008, he created the 360° Network, bringing together 18 circular performing arts venues from eleven countries. Since 2013, he is the CEO and Artistic Director of War on Screen International Film Festival.

VERONIQUE BENETT - LIGHTING DESIGNER Veronique is a lighting, set and costume designer. As a lighting designer, Veronique’s credits include: Banging Denmark (Sydney Theatre Company); Wolves (Belvoir); The Smallest Hour (Griffin Theatre); John (Outhouse Theatre Co.) for which she was nominated for a Sydney Theatre Award; The Life Of Us (Hayes Theatre); Nosferatu (Old 505); Stupid Fucking Bird (New Theatre); Chorus, Anatomy of a Suicide, Permission to Spin, Howie the Rookie (Old Fitz); A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing (KXT). Veronique’s associate lighting designer credits include: Cursed! designed by Chloe Oglvie (Belvoir); No Pay? No Way! designed by Paul Jackson (Sydney Theatre Company); Prima Facie designed

by Trent Suidgeest (Griffin Theatre); Cry-Baby directed and designed by Alexander Berlage (Hayes Theatre Co); and Macbeth, The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream for Sport for Jove.

LIBBY MCDONNELL - COSTUME DESIGN Libby is a designer and choreographer and she is currently Head of Design at Circa. Libby works in diverse genres and forms. At the heart of her work is people and movement.

Libby has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honors) in Visual Art from Queensland College of Art - Griffith University and an Associate Degree in Dance from Queensland University of Technology. Her professional career has included performing and making independent dance work, as an Artistic Director of Ballet Theatre of Queensland and Choreographer for Blue Roo Theatre Company. For eleven years Libby has worked with the team at Circa to imagine, develop and deliver their productions locally, nationally and internationally. During her time at Circa she has designed costumes for over thirty productions, co-directed three main stage productions and led many of the company’s engagement projects including the pilot of the Circability program.

Libby is based in Brisbane with her family.

JASON ORGAN - TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Jason graduated from Queensland University of Technology in 1988 and has had an extensive career as a Lighting Designer, Production Manager, Technician and Rigger. He has worked with companies such as Queensland Ballet, Queensland Theatre, La Boite Theatre Company, Kooemba Jdarra and festivals such as Out of the Box, Qld Music Festival and Brisbane Festival.

Jason was the co-founder of JLX productions, a lighting design and technical consultancy, based in Brisbane. Since 2010 Jason has been working exclusively with Circa as Technical Director. In this time, he has helped deliver more than 20 new productions and toured to 31 different countries presenting Circa’s work.

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Tuesday, February 22, 2022, 7:30 pm Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts

ENSEMBLE BIOGRAPHIES FRAN ALVAREZ: After a restless adolescence looking for an activity to focus his abundant energy on, Fran was introduced to circus at the age of 16. He went on to start his circus career at 18 at the preparatory school of Madrid, Carampa, and later at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts du Cirque de Bruxelles, specialising in hand to hand and group acrobatics.

With a focus on improving his core technique – and becoming a human trampoline – Fran continued his training in France and was involved in the creative development of several shows with highlevel acrobatic collectives across Europe.

In his free time, Fran enjoys Olympic-style weightlifting and reading epic fantasy books.

MARTY EVANS: Marty Evans came to circus by a more roundabout route than most. After watching nothing but circus videos during his lunchbreaks at Australia’s only nuclear reactor, Marty left behind his published scientific career, embracing his physical sports background to pursue a career in circus.

His first taste of circus came at the University of Sydney in 2010 as he tried to entertain himself during free periods by learning to throw people into the air and trying to catch them again. Marty trained at the National Institute of Circus Arts in Melbourne. He is a fiercely determined and hardworking hand-to-hand base that enjoys exploring new challenges and techniques.

Marty joined the Circa Ensemble full time in 2015, and has been involved in the creation of numerous Circa productions including When One Door Closes and Humans.

NANCY GUTIERREZ: Nancy Luna, an artist born in the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco Mexico on January 10th, 1997, began her training in circus at 15 years of age through aerial techniques. Her development and learning were shaped thanks to her previous acrobatics training at Fly Academy Gymnastics. At the age of 16 years, she began her professional career, joining the main cast of the Mexican production company Circo Dragón as an artist, With Circo Dragón, Nancy participated in many national and international festivals, while also continuing her training in circus, specialising in hand to hand and aerial hoop. Nancy participated as a guest artist in the gala presentations of three consecutive editions of the Periplo International Circus Festival, and won the third place as an aerialist (aerial hoop) in the National Circus Competition of Ficho International Festival of Circus and Show of Mexico in 2015.

In 2016, she started training at Ecole de Cirque de Québec. Today, Nancy dedicates her training and work to creating highly sensitive numbers that have the ability to connect with her audience, create a variation of emotions in her and at the same time possess a high level of exploration and technique. Recently, Nancy has performed in the Montreal Completement Cirque Festival in 2019, Midnight Circus in 2019, and Cirque Du Soleil’s Nysa in 2020.

SAM LETCH: Instead of paying attention at school, Sam Letch focused all of his energy on throwing himself around in the cold and rainy north west of England, where he grew up.

At the ripe old age of 15, Sam decided that doing back tucks off sand dunes wasn’t enough. The answer to his problem: Parkour. He trained for three years until his acrobatics took him to the National Centre for Circus Arts (London) where he picked up such skills as teeterboard, hand to hand, banquine, floor and group acrobatics.

After graduating Sam’s first job performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival lead him on to work with such companies as Cirque Eloize.

Sam’s primary love is performing, shortly after that is his moustache, followed by singing musicals at the top of his lungs for anyone who will listen.

HAMISH MCCOURTY: Hamish McCourty is an acrobat and musician. He began his circus journey at Cirkidz in Adelaide at the age of 8. After graduating from the performance program, he's been creating his own work touring nationally and internationally.

Hamish is currently working on fusing together his passion for music and circus on stage. His main specialties are tumbling and basing pair and group acrobatics and he prides himself on making people laugh and being a loon onstage. Hamish is a keen performer and multi-talented acrobat with his sights set on leaving his mark in the world of circus.

DANIEL O’BRIEN: Daniel has been physically active throughout his whole life, primarily focusing on his gymnastics training in his hometown of Maryborough and a few small gyms along the Queensland coastline.

After attending National Institute of Circus Arts for three years, where he specialised in hand-balancing and aerial straps, Daniel joined Circa as an ensemble member in 2015. Having fostered an immense passion for circus, he has since performed in many iconic Circa works including What Will Have Been, Closer and Humans.

He spends his spare time feeding his unhealthy addiction to video games or reading whatever he can get his hands on.

KIMBERLEY O'BRIEN: Kimberley O’Brien grew up competing in athletics and playing representative AFL. After seeing one of Circa’s shows, Kim joined Circa’s youth performance troupe Circa Zoo in 2008. After two years of training and performing Kim was given the opportunity to be the first member of Fast Track, a program designed for young and aspiring performers within Circa.

In 2011, Kim left Circa Zoo to be a full-time ensemble member. Since

then, Kim has toured numerous shows in various countries and performed in over 30 Circa shows. One of her highlights was performing Wunderkammer at the Sydney Opera House in 2012.

JARROD TAKLE: Jarrod Takle is an Australian raised, Montrealbased, free-range circus artist specializing in hand-balancing and teeterboard with a splash of banquine and solo and group acrobatics.

He spent a glorious childhood decade training and performing with Australia's leading youth circus, The Flying Fruit Fly Circus, which inspired a life-long passion for the art-form.

After honing his craft at l’École Nationale de Cirque de Montreal, completing four years of higher education in Circus Arts, he has since worked with some of the world’s leading contemporary circus and performance companies.

Outside of his artistic pursuits, Jarrod spends the remainder of his time and energy in search of good coffee and/or avoiding the type of people who stand directly in front of the baggage train at airports.

LUKE THOMAS: As a child, Luke Thomas was always driven to pursue an acrobatic career, constantly found swinging upside down on the hills hoist in his backyard. At age 11, he joined Circus 35° South, and trained aerials, tumbling and manipulation for seven years before studying at the National Institute of Circus Arts, graduating in 2017.

During his study, Luke specialised in tissue, foot juggling and group acrobatics. Luke co-created and performed Out of This World Children’s Show, with seasons at Woodford Folk Festival and Melbourne Fringe Festival. Luke also performed in One Fell Swoop’s By a Thread at Mullumbimby Circus Festival, Perth Fringe Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival and the Circa Festival at Auch, France.

Luke joined the Circa Ensemble in 2018, performing in the world premiere of Circa's Peepshow.

GEORGIA WEBB: Born and raised in outback Western Australia, Georgia was a competitive gymnast and dancer for 13 years. This background gave her the discipline and work ethic which now informs her circus practice.

After both parents insisted that their only child join the military, Georgia decided to forgo those plans to follow her own dream of running away with the circus. Graduating from the National Institute of Circus Arts in 2019, Georgia joined Circa as a full-time ensemble member in January 2020.

In her spare time, Georgia enjoys motorbike riding, surfing and free diving. She also hopes to travel the world skydiving someday.

CHRISTINA ZAUNER: Christina grew up on the country side in Austria. She started dancing when she was four years old, and participated at her first competition at the age of 6. Christina graduated with a Bachelor in Classical and Contemporary Dance at MUK Vienna. During her education she started to train aerials and vertical dance.

After graduating, she worked at the Vienna State Opera as an Aerial Double, followed by a role in the musical Cats in Switzerland.

Christina worked with the Irish Company Fidget Feet and as a performer and Choreographer at Krystallpalast Varieté Leipzig.

Christina found her way into the circus world as a self-taught Aerialist, specialized in Straps. At the age of 24, she started to enjoy to climb on people or have them climb on her. A very determined person, Christina loves to challenge herself and explore what her body is capable of. She also plays accordion and loves to design and sew costumes.

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The CoStars is a special group of volunteers who generously donate not only $500 per person, but also their talent and time. The invaluable CoStars support Jorgensen through community advocacy by creative fund-raising activities, and by hosting pre- and post-concert receptions that often feature world-class luminaries. The CoStars have been instrumental in the purchase of the new portable chamber stage and acoustical shell, a new Steinway Model D Concert Grand Piano, funding the JOY! Conservatory Program, the installation of the exterior Jorgensen message center, the renovation of the Jorgensen Gallery, and continued support of Jorgensen programming. By becoming a CoStar, you’ll join with other vibrant, thoughtful and devoted arts lovers who have made Jorgensen’s success a priority.

CoStars receive an honorary membership in the Jorgensen Circle of Friends at the Producers Circle level. Benefits include early ticket ordering privileges for one full year from the date of enrollment; reserved lower-level parking in the North Garage, providing a speedier exit after each Jorgensen event; and recognition in the Jorgensen playbill.

As a Special Thank You... An Invitation to the CoStars CoStar members receive an exclusive invitation to attend the Annual Sneak Peek hosted by Jorgensen Director Rodney Rock. This party offers attendees an exciting preview of the coming season – prior to the public announcement. Join the CoStars and be the first to know what’s new!

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Critics Circle $25/person, $50/couple

Dr. & Mrs. Ed & Susan Grace John & Lynn Haney Mr. Henry Krisch Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Linonis Mr. & Mrs. Wesley Lord Joe & Nancy Madar Ms. Donna Matulis Katherine & Alan Miller Sari & James Rosokoff Patricia Tanaka

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Anonymous Mona & Greg Anderson In honor of Giovanni Favretti & in jjjsupport for the Arts Diane & Joseph Briody Maidie Cohen Carol Colombo Mr. Thomas French Jennifer & Eric Person Nancy & John Silander NICABM: Donation from jjDr. Ruth Buczynski The Verizon Foundation

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Endowed Sponsorship Program The Endowed Sponsorship Program provides individuals and families with the opportunity to support Jorgensen by sponsoring any concert or other program. Benefits to Endowed Sponsors will include name recognition in the Jorgensen playbill, additional recognition in the community through press releases provided by the University, and an opportunity to visit with the guest artist.

Sponsorship could be a means of celebrating a special holiday or anniversary, or of dedicating an event to a loved one. Most importantly, by contributing to the cost of current programs, sponsors would help ensure that the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts will continue to present wonderful music and other programs in the future. Your gift would benefit not only Jorgensen, but also the community at large.

Patrons interested in sponsoring an event should contact Rodney Rock at 860-486-1983 or rodney.rock@uconn.edu for further information.

Jorgensen Outreach for Youth Funded through private contributions as well as corporate support, JOY! provides school-age children, many from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, with access to live performances and special enrichment programs. Now in its 15th season, the JOY! Conservatory program offers instrumental and vocal students in grades 9-12 the opportunity for a rigorous course of study including private lessons, ensemble rehearsals and coaching, and basic musicianship courses. For more information, contact Jorgensen director Rodney Rock at 860-486-1983.

Corporate / Foundation Sponsors SBM Charitable Foundation

Diamond / $1000+ Carol Colombo Jean & John Lenard Nancy & John Silander Nora Stevens

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Ruby / $300+

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Lenard Chamber Music Endowment Fund The Lenard Chamber Series is made possible through the generosity of longtime patrons Jean and John Lenard and the Lenard Chamber Music Endowment.

Thanks to the generous philanthropy of patrons Jean and John Lenard, chamber music, one of the hallmarks and most dearly loved elements of the programming at Jorgensen, is secure well into the future. Also thanks to the Lenard Endowment, UConn students, nonUConn students, and area youth are invited to attend all chamber music events for free.

Please join this giving community and make your contribution today. To make a gift, contact Jorgensen Director Rodney Rock at rodney.rock@uconn.edu or 860-486-1983, or visit jorgensen.uconn.edu/online/article/lenard-endowment.

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jorgensen.uconn.edu The Lenard Chamber Music Series is made possible through the Lenard Chamber Music Endowment. Thanks to the Lenard Endowment, UConn students, non-UConn students, and youth under 18 are invited to attend all chamber events for free.

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