Vanessa Anspaugh "mourning after mornings" Program

Vanessa Anspaugh mourning after mornings NOV 10-12, 7:30PM Created by Vanessa Anspaugh in collaboration with the performers Performed by Anna Azrieli, Becky Serrell-Cyr, maura nguyễn donohue, Laura Osterhaus Rosenstone, Jo Warren, C Green, Pia, Umechi Born, Amelia Koper Heintzelman & Leah Fournier Sound Design by Vanessa Anspaugh & Soraya Odishoo with original compositions by Leslie Allison & Guillermo Galindo Leslie Allison for Claps, Rock the Baby & Harp Howl Scene 19 composed by & Guillermo Galindo courtesy of artist Additional sounds by: What Cheer Brigade, Lean Year, OKRAA, Sarah Devachi & Emilie Mosseri Lighting & Scenographic Design by Kathy Couch Costume Design by Becky Serrell Cyr (with an original Fringe piece by Jess Feury) Total running time: 1 hour 15 minutes Stay Late Discussion Nov 11 with Shoshona Currier

SPECIAL THANKS Thank Maura, Anna, and Becky, C, Jo, Laura, Pia & Umechi & Kathy for being who they are in the world, and for bringing fierce love, strength, critical thoughts and generosity to this process. They were patient and forgiving with me as I fumbled through the weeds trying to find my way. Thank You to Janet and Bill for giving me this opportunity.

Thank You Kati Payne for radical organization & positivity. Thank You Shoni Currier BDF, Jen Pollins, and SCDT for being a champion and friend to me as an artist and for continuing to support my work.

Thank You to my friends and community who show up to support me as an artist in all your many different and generous ways. Thank you Tara Willis, Cat Gallasco, Amber Bemak, Olga Dekalo & Connor Voss for taking the time at different stages in the work to give me thoughtful feedback. Thank you to our generous understudies: Aurelius Millspaugh-Robbins, hana huie, Erin Kouwe, Eddie Savage, & Sasa Yung. Thank you Linda Burton, Keltie Ferris & Anna Craycroft for cozy beds and coffee. My biggest Thank You to my sweetheart Hayes Handler, for holding my hand and believing in me the whole way. And of course, Thank you Mom, Dad, Tera, Roma and my Ocean.

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.

FUNDING This program is supported in part by Dance NYC’s Coronavirus Dance Relief Fund: New York State Edition, made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts; and New York Live Arts’ Live Feed Residency with support in part from Partners for New Performance.

Thank you to my community of donors: Tristan Koepke, Okwui Okpokwasili, Juliana May,Joan Handler, Peter Born, Kate, Faye Driscoll, David Thomson, Ezekiel Baskin, Lailye Weidman, Sophie Hamacher, Ruth Ann Binder, Nikki Zialcita, Reilly Anspaugh, Genevieve Nicolas, Rob Okun, MS, Kennis Hawkins, Kevin Carraher, Shannon Sennott, Serena Kabat-Zinn, Terri Carraher, Seth Warren, Marcia Heinegg, Jackie Schneider, Tsiambwom Akuchu, Jennifer Polins, Laura Nicoll, Alex Ripp, Tere O’Connor, Tori Lawrence + Co., Jacquelyn Moorad & Carolyn Hsu, Ava Berkofsky, Leslie O’Neill, Chaydha Plesant, Penny Cheng, Judy Allison, Nicholas Croft, Peggy Gillespie, Yarina Castro, Ira Jaffe, AC Hocek Architecture LLC, Dennie Eagleson, Roma, Whoopie, & Kevin Carraher.

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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.

BIOGRAPHIES Soraya Arjan Odishoo (she/ they) is from New York City. They have been a composer for work at Jacob’s Pillow, the Brooklyn Museum, and Dixon Place, among others. They were sound designer and composer on Company SoGoNo’s bird suite and Polybe + Seats’ Anna Asli Suriyah. A certified This Naked Mind Coach and Kula Yoga teacher, they practice @ A Little Thunder Coaching. Arjan Odishoo released their first podcast, Where is Everybody, about re-imagining connections in uncharted territories. They are now about to release their second podcast, We are the Content, focused on recovery and how we bring insight into our bodies.

Anna Azrieli emigrated from the Soviet Union/Ukraine at age seven. She danced for years with Miguel Gutierrez and freelanced with many artists including Abigail Levine, Vicky Shick, Mariangela Lopez, Heather Kravas, Yanira Castro, robbinschilds, Clarinda Mac Low, luciana achugar, and Wendy Perron. Her choreography

has been presented by the Chocolate Factory, Gibney Dance, the Kitchen, Danspace Project, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Elastic City, and other venues in NYC. Themes in her work have been her transformation through childbirth and childrearing and using repetitive movement to explore ritualized thoughts and feelings. She teaches dance, movement improvisation, yoga, and pilates. Thank you to Vanessa, Becky and Maura for this process.

Umechi Born is a ferocious fifth grader who loves creating her own dances, baking, crocheting, calligraphy, Venetian glass, playing the cello and especially hanging out with her friends.

She has previously appeared in Abigail DeVille: Empire State Works in Progress at the Whitney and Sitting on a Man’s Head at Danspace Project.

Kathy Couch is an artist, educator, and Bessie Awardwinning designer in Northampton, MA. Working with light, space, and improvisation, Couch

creates visual landscapes for performance. She works collaboratively with a canary torsi and collaborates with Adele Myers + Dancers and Deborah Goffe. Her work has been experienced at Danspace Project, the Chocolate Factory, the New Museum, and numerous locations nationally and internationally.

She is co-director of A.P.E. (Available Potential Enterprises), an organization stewarding arts space in Northampton, MA. Kathy is a founding member of the Northampton Community Arts Trust which seeks innovative ways to preserve space for creativity and imagination.

Becky Serrell Cyr (M.A.Ed., Lincoln Center Scholar) explores strategies to deepen artistic expression through movement.

She received a NY Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for her work with Donna Uchizono, was nominated for her work with RoseAnne Spradlin, and performed works by other artists including Jeremy Nelson, Amanda Loulaki, and Anna Sperber. Her choreographic work has been presented at The Kitchen (Dance As Process), JACK, Movement

Research at the Judson Church, Dance Theater Workshop (Fresh Tracks), AUNTS, and CATCH. She taught in North America and China and currently designs and teaches curriculum for students in the NYC DOE. maura nguyễn donohue (she/ they) Director of MFA in Dance at Hunter College. From 1995-2005, her work was produced regularly in this space once known as Dance Theater Workshop. She’s toured the world playing mortals and goddesses in La MaMa’s Great Jones Rep Co since 1997 and her ongoing Tides Project uses reclaimed plastics to examine the legacy of bodies ecological and diasporic. She has written for Danspace Project, Gibney, Dance Magazine and Culturebot. She co-curates the estrogenius festival, serves on the Bessies Steering Committee and thanks the ancestors and offspring for keeping the path clearly lit.

Leah Fournier is a dancer and dance-maker based in Brooklyn.

She has performed with artists including Angie Hauser, Chris Aiken, Barbie Diewald, Juli

Brandano, Sara Shelton Mann, Amelia Koper Heintzelman and Nancy Stark Smith. Her is a dancer based in New York own choreographic work is City. Amelia has been an Artistin collaboration with Amelia in-Residence at Chashama Heintzelman. They have been ChaNorth, Chez Bushwick, School supported by Fresh Festival (CA), for Contemporary Dance and Centre Pompadour (FR), Center Thought, a Fellow at University for Performance Research, Settlement, and Associate Artist Chez Bushwick, The School studying under Deborah Hay for Contemporary Dance and at Atlantic Center for the Arts.

Thought (MA), Chashama, The Her work has been presented Floor, and University Settlement. at Contemporary Arts Center, Leah currently works for Essex Flowers Gallery, Lubov Movement Research and Contact Gallery, Center for Performance Quarterly.

Research, and other spaces throughout the US and France.

C Green is Vermont-based As a performer, she has had the farmer, choreographer, performer honor of working with Phoebe and poet. Their work is full of Berglund, Christine Bonansea, the fear, hurt, vigor and anger of Juli Brandano, Jemila MacEwan, the world today and attempts Sara Shelton Mann, Alexis to straighten it all into an order Zaccarello and collaboratively that they can understand. This with Leah Fournier. year they have shared two poems as a part of a poetry exhibition, Laura Osterhaus Rosenstone collaborated with Maria BC on is Minneapolis-based artist and a music video for their song The educator excited by dance as a Only Thing and choreographed medium to explore the various and performed a duet with Leila and simultaneous duets we move Faulstitch-Hon in Vermont. They within daily. She was a member are thrilled to be making their of Zenon Dance Company New York City dance debut with (2016-2019) and is the artistic Vanessa and this incredible group director of Slo Dance Company. of performers.

Throughout her professional career, she has performed in the

work of luciana achugar, Stefanie Batten-Bland, Michelle Boule, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Sam Kim, and Colleen Thomas, among others. She is a member of Kia the Key & Company, a Hip-Hop and street dance company led by Shakia Barron, and an instructor at the St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Arts.

Pia is a fierce Brooklyn-born artist who enjoys writing music, making dances and creating graphic novels. She is currently studying guitar and piano alongside her 6th grade peers.

She has appeared in several episodes of Liquid Science, hosted by GZA on Netflix; was casted in a campaign ad for Hilary Clinton; featured on Sesame Street’s “The Letter C” episode and made appearances in music videos: “Baby Shark” with Drag Queen Marti Gould Cummings and “What are you gonna do/ Qu’est-ce que tu veux être?” by Dana and Le Petit Punks. She is proud to be making her stage debut at New York Live Arts.

Jo Warren is a New York based artist working at the intersection of dance, performance,

image-making, writing, tattoo, relationship and healing practice. Their practice as a Breathworker, tattooer and embodiment practitioner blurs with their creative work - which slides between embodiment and dissociation, reclamation and the dissolution of the self.

As a maker, dancer and human in the world, Jo is interested in catharsis, transcendence, and the kind of connection that reminds us we are not alone. They are a current company member with the acrobatic dance group LAVA and collaborator with Lena Engelstein.

LIVE ARTS CONTRIBUTORS New York Live Arts is deeply grateful to all the individuals listed below for their vital gifts to New York Live Arts over the last year: $1MM and higher Slobodan Randjelović & Jon Stryker $500,000-$999,999 Anonymous $100,000-$499,999 Anonymous Eleanor Friedman Ruth & Stephen Hendel Alex Katz Foundation Ellen M. Poss Jane Bovingdon Semel & Terry Semel | Semel Charitable Foundation $50,000 - $99,999 Jody & John Arnhold | Arnhold Foundation Lorraine Gallard & Richard Levy Helen & Peter Haje Suzanne Karpas Barbara & Alan D. Marks Matthew Putman $25,000 - $49,999 Ylva Cavalli-Björkman & Willard Ahdritz David Dechman & Michel Mercure Zoe Eskin Adam Flatto Agnes Gund Michael P.N.A. Hormel in memory of Linda Grass Shapiro Charla Jones Colleen Keegan Darnell L. Moore Amy Newman & Bud Shulman Alanna Rutherford Jennifer & Jonathan Soros Starry Night Fund at The Chicago Community Foundation Diana Wege | Wege Foundation $10,000 - $24,999 Caroline & Paul Cronson Claire Danes & Hugh Dancy Alexes Hazen Julie Orlando Andrea Rosen Nina & Gabriel Stricker Pat Stryker

$5,000 - $9,999 Patricia Blanchet | Ed Bradley Family Foundation Paula Cooper & Jack Macrae Joan Davidson Anne Delaney Laura & Richard Hunt Glenn Ligon Jeffrey B. & Wendy Liszt Robert Longo Margaret Morton Jeffrey Schneider Melissa Schiff Soros Cindy Sherman Catharine R. Stimpson Kristalina & Jack Taylor Billie Tsien & Tod Williams Steve Wilson $1,000 - $4,999 Derrick Adams Rosio Alvarez & Jennifer Brody Anonymous Alberta Arthurs The Brant Foundation, Inc. Jill Brienza Catherine & Paul Buttenwieser Reggie Browne Carmine Boccuzzi Rose C. Cali in Memory of John J. Cali Jeannie Colbert Joan Davidson Lil & Jim DeMarse Beth Rudin DeWoody Dobkin Family Foundation Margaret Doyle Terence Dougherty & Pierre Duleyrie Gina Duncan Nancy & Stephen Gabriel Mimi Garrard Michael & Deborah Goldberg Thomas & Barbara Gottschalk Deborah Hellman & Derek Brown Tom Hennes Jenny Holzer Scott Hudziak Joanie Johnson Judy Johnson The Joyce Theater Foundation Emil Kang Amir Karby

Hedy Klineman Oscar Mack Nancy Meyer & Marc Weiss Susan Micari Linda Murray Wangechi Mutu Samira Nasr Richard Plepler Randy Polumbo | Plant Construction Margaret Selby Jeffrey Seller Céline Semaan & Colin Vernon Caroline Shapiro & Peter Frey Shinique Smith Temple St. Clair & Paul Engler The Susan Stein Shiva Foundation Mickalene Thomas Robyn Trani JP Versace James J. Williams, III Jacqueline Woodson Timothy Wu & Eric Murphy

$500 - $999 Stewart Adelson Mary Ann Ashley Arthur Aviles Carol Bryce-Buchanan John Fitzgibbon William Floyd Jeremy Henderson Karen B. Hopkins Brinton T. & Francis C. Parson, Jr Robert Ross John Sansone Ellynne Skove Deborah Swiderski Wade Turnbull Gilbert Williams Gifts and commitments between 7/1/2021-6/30/2022

Support for New York Live Arts is provided by the Arnhold Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Ed Bradley Family Foundation, The Brant Foundation, Inc., Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Dance/ NYC, Ford Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Marta Heflin Foundation, Alex Katz Foundation, Lambent Foundation, Alice Lawrence Foundation, Samuel M. Levy Family Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Performance Network, New England Foundation for the Arts, NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund in the New York Community Trust, One World Fund, The Poss Family Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Jerome Robbins Foundation, The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, San Francisco Foundation The Semel Charitable Foundation, Scherman Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Tides Foundation Corporate support for New York Live Arts includes Con Edison, Google, Tito’s Handmade Vodka.

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