Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith, "Gloria" Program

OUR SEASON OF ANNIVERSARIES CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF LIVE ARTS AND 40 YEARS OF THE BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE COMPANY

Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith Gloria APR 8 & 9, 8PM Choreography and Performance by Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith Lighting Design by Thomas Dunn Sound Design by James Lo Cover Photo by Maria Baranova Running time: 1 hour

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We acknowledge and pay respect to Lenape people, elders, and ancestors past, present, and coming in the future. We acknowledge Indigenous people who may be present right now. We acknowledge and offer deep gratitude to Lenapehoking where we are now - the land, and waters of the Lenape homeland.

SPECIAL THANKS Molly and Eleanor say a heartfelt thank you to: The crew working on this show to make it all happen. Janet, Hannah, Kyle, and the rest of the team at New York Live Arts for supporting this project and our work over the years. Abrons Arts Center for the original commission and residency. Movement Research for the Artist-in-Residence Program.

Our generous board for the support of this work and others. James for everything always. Thomas for dreaming big no matter how small. Oren, Ruby, and Gloria.

FUNDING Gloria was commissioned by the Abrons Arts Center through the Performance AIRspace Residency, which is supported by the Jerome Foundation.

Gloria was made possible, in part, through the Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Program, funded, in part, by the Davis/Dauray Family Fund; Dance/NYC’s New York City Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program, made possible by The Andrew M. Mellon Foundation; the Harkness Foundation for Dance; and through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

BIOGRAPHIES Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith have been making dances in New York since 2006. Their feminist works use abstract dance to break down patriarchal systems of female degradation through physical paradigms.

Each work is developed within a non-hierarchical system that filters information and content between two bodies. Recent works include: gloria rehearsal (excerpt) (Baryshnikov Arts Center, 2022), Gloria (Abrons Arts Center, 2021), Body Comes Apart (New York Live Arts, 2019, Documented

by The New York Public Library, Jerome Robbins Dance Division and remounted for Live Artery, January 2020), Basketball (PS122 and Baryshnikov Arts Center for COIL 2017), Rude World (PS122 and The Chocolate Factory Theater for COIL 2015), Tulip (Roulette, 2013; Judson Now at Danspace Project, 2012), and Beautiful Bone (The Chocolate Factory Theater, 2012). Residencies and awards: 2021/2022 Artists in Residence at Movement Research, 2021 Jerome Hill Fellowship Finalists, 2020/2021 Jerome Foundation AIRSpace Residency at Abrons Art Center, FCA Emergency Grant for Basketball 2019, 2019 BACSpace Residency at Baryshnikov Art Center, 2018 Family Residency

at Mt. Tremper Arts, 2018 Bessie Schonberg Fellows at The Yard, 2018 DiP Residency Artists at Gibney, Featured as one of Alastair Macaulay’s “Best Dance of 2017” in The New York Times for Basketball, 2016 LMCC Process Space Residency, 2015 Rosas Summer Studios Recipient, PS122’s 2014/2015 RAMP Artist, 2014 BACSpace Residency at Baryshnikov Art Center, 2013 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award Nomination for Emerging Choreographer, and the 2013 NYFA Fellow Finalist Award.

Molly and Eleanor were Guest Artists at Connecticut College in 2015, co-taught at Sarah Lawrence in the Spring of 2018, and at The New School in Fall of 2019. Molly received a 2016 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for Outstanding Performance, works as a Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC), and has two daughters, Ruby, 4 years, and Gloria, 1 year. Eleanor is currently an MFA candidate in dance at Hunter College.

Thomas Dunn designs lighting throughout US and abroad as both a sculptural medium and a facet of stage design. Gloria is Thomas’ third production with Molly and Eleanor, previously Body Comes

Apart and Basketball. Other Ashley, Elizabeth Streb, and David selected design credits includes Behrman, and as an enterprise works with; JoAnne Akalaitis, software consultant for many Jonathan Bepler, Wally Cardona, major financial services and life Steve Cosson, Annie Dorsen, DD sciences companies.

Dorvillier, Daniel Fish, Beth Gill, Trajal Harrell, Ted Hearne, Jennifer Lacey, Noémie Lafrance, David Levine, Ong Keng Sen, Zeena Parkins, Tina Satter, Jay Scheib and Muna Tseng. Thomas is the recipient of a Kevin Kline Award for Outstanding Lighting Design as a Bessie Design Award.

James Lo (sound design) is a product of suburban Detroit, the New England Conservatory, and Columbia University. He has created scores for choreographers Vicky Shick, Oren Barnoy, Neil Greenberg, Elena Demyanenko, Katie Workum, Heather Olson, Mei-Yin Ng, Sarah Michelson, Maria Hassabi, Jennifer Monson, Levi Gonzalez, Ralph Lemon, RoseAnne Spradlin, and Lucy Guerin among others. As a younger man, he received New York Dance and Performance (BESSIE) Awards for John Jasperse’s furnished/unfurnished and for Donna Uchizono’s State of Heads and was named one of Treblezine.com’s 50 favorite drummers for his work with the bands Chavez and Live Skull. In addition to sound design, Lo has worked as an embedded systems engineer for Robert

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STAFF & BOARD Artistic Leadership

Executive Leadership

Board of Directors

Bill T. Jones Artistic Director

Kim Cullen Executive Director & CEO

Stephen Hendel Co-Chair

Janet Wong Associate Artistic Director

Ali Burke Chief of Staff

Richard H. Levy Co-Chair

Programming, Producing & Engagement

Development

Helen Haje Vice Chair

Dave Archuletta Chief Development Officer

Slobodan RandjeloviĆ Vice Chair

Erin Baskin Institutional Giving Manager

Alan Marks Treasurer

Candystore Development Assistant

Alanna Rutherford Secretary

Kyle Maude Producing Director Hannah Emerson Producer Veronica Falborn Producer Production Hillery Makatura Director of Production Grady Shea Technical Director Chanel Pinnock Production Manager Megan Dechaine Production Stage Manager Creative Director Bjorn G. Amelan Community Engagement & Education Bianca Bailey Community Engagement & Education Manager Communications Tyler Ashley Director of Communications Hannah Seiden Communications Coordinator Liliana Dirks-Goodman Graphic Designer Pentagram Pro-Bono Branding

Hans Rasch Institutional Giving Assistant Finance Nupur Dey Director of Finance Manathus Dey Finance Associate Operations Gregory English Operations Manager Aneudy Pilier Paulino Custodial Coordinator Adalid Nunez-Mendoza Custodial Assistant Human Resources ADP TotalSource Legal Services Lowenstein Sandler, PC Pro-Bono Counsel Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company Barrington Hinds, Dean Michael Husted, Jada Jenai, Shane Larson, s. Lumbert, Danielle Marshall, Nayaa Opong, Marie Paspe, Jacoby Pruitt, Huiwang Zhang

Bill T. Jones Artistic Director Ex-Officio Kim Cullen Chief Executive Officer Ex-Officio Bjorn Amelan Willard Ahdritz Sarah Arison Aimee Meredith Cox LaToya Ruby Frazier Charla Jones Colleen Keegan Darnell L. Moore Amy Newman Randy Polumbo Ellen M. Poss Matthew Putman Jane Bovingdon Semel Ruby Shang Catharine R. Stimpson Diana Wege Board Emeritus Derek Brown Terence Dougherty Eleanor Friedman Advisory Council Margaret Doyle, Chair Alberta Arthurs

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