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WELCOME We are proud to welcome renowned director, choreographer, and dancer Bill T. Jones back to the Armory to present and perform in the world premiere of his monumental new work, Deep Blue Sea. The production marks Jones’ first time performing in over 15 years. Using deconstructed texts from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” and Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, the highly personal work explores the interplay of single and group identities and the pursuit of the elusive “we” during fractious times. Deep Blue Sea is Jones’s second Armory commission this year, following Afterwardsness — a very moving work that was part of our Social Distance Hall commissioning initiative. It was performed by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company in the Wade Thompson Drill Hall in May 2021.

Deep Blue Sea commences with a solo by Jones and builds into a collective performance featuring 99 community members and dancers led by Jones. Conceived for the Drill Hall, Deep Blue Sea magnifies the vast space through a set design by Elizabeth Diller of the acclaimed architectural firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro and projections by renowned designer Peter Nigrini.

Through commissions like Deep Blue Sea, the Armory provides artists the support and the space to expand their creative practices in ways that would be unimaginable elsewhere. With this new work, Jones has harnessed the power of the Drill Hall once again to create a lyrical piece that is epic in size, emotion, and ambition. Inviting community members from across the city into his choreography adds a meaningful new dimension to Deep Blue Sea that takes on special resonance while exploring the importance of community and global inequality Jones has long possessed a particular skill for using the power of body-based movement as a narrative medium and a means to address contemporary issues. With Afterwardsness, he created a work that expressed the trauma and isolation of the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and ongoing racial violence. With Deep Blue Sea, he offers a glimpse of the salvation that can come with unity and community. Intertwining his dynamic choreographic style with elements of spoken word, music, and design, Deep Blue Sea is a crowning achievement for Jones and a perfect embodiment of the kind of interdisciplinary work we are committed to commissioning.

Rebecca Robertson Founding President and Executive Producer Pierre Audi Marina Kellen French Artistic Director

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PARK AVENUE ARMORY PRESENTS

DEEP BLUE SEA

BY BILL T. JONES

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2021 – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2021 A PARK AVENUE ARMORY PRODUCTION Creator & Director Choreography

Visual Environment, Video Projection & Lighting Design Composer & Music Director Electronic Score Lighting Design Sound Design Costume Design Dramaturg

Bill T. Jones Bill T. Jones, Janet Wong, and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company Elizabeth Diller - DS+R and Peter Nigrini Nick Hallett Hprizm aka High Priest, Rena Anakwe, and Holland Andrews Robert Wierzel Mark Grey Liz Prince Mark Hairston

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company: Barrington Hinds, Dean Husted, Jada Jenai, Shane Larson, s. lumbert, Danielle Marshall, Nayaa Opong, Marie Lloyd Paspe, Jacoby Pruitt, and Huiwang Zhang with Bill T. Jones Vocalists: Jay St. Flono, Phillip Bullock, Shaq Hester, Prentiss Mouton, and Stacy Penson and Community Participants from the New York City area

The performance runs approximately 105 minutes with no intermission.

Commissioned by Park Avenue Armory and Manchester International Festival in Association with the Holland Festival Produced and Developed by Park Avenue Armory in Collaboration with New York Live Arts

ARTIST TALK: DEEP BLUE SEA

Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 6:00pm

SEASON SPONSORS

PRODUCTION SPONSORS

Deep Blue Sea is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the city council.

The production is also supported in part by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Support for Park Avenue Armory’s artistic season has been generously provided by the Charina Endowment Fund, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Foundation, the Marc Haas Foundation, the Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation, the Leon Levy Foundation, the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, the Richenthal Foundation, and the Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation. The artistic season is also made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Additional support has been provided by the Armory's Artistic Council.

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DIRECTOR'S NOTE “Pip saw God’s foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore, his shipmates called him mad. So man’s insanity is heaven’s sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.” — Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Since March 13, 2020, when Deep Blue Sea’s technical residency at MassMOCA was abruptly ended by COVID-19 until the announcement of its premiere this September—a period of 18+ months—the work experienced a series of obstacles that at first were merely the postponement such a tumultuous era demanded, but which became ever more grave as I began to doubt the work could— or maybe should—exist!

The questions that undergird DBS: personal, social, and formal questions, have each come under fire.

The personal: what of memory in the face of time passing? What parts of identity persist, and what falls away?

The social: the pursuit of the “we” in our society, is it still a relevant question? “Who gets left behind, and what of it?”

The formal: The Armory’s space calls for a large-scale event. The work proceeds from the lone individual to the specialized community of ten to an even larger group that suggests an even more expansive demographic: the world?

All this under the mandate of social distancing and social unrest and grievances that, as ever - though more than ever - push us apart?

Miraculously, however, here we are!

We are grateful to the Armory and to our other co-producers for helping this work live.

I am grateful to my collaborators, Liz Diller, Peter Nigrini, Nick Hallett, Robert Wierzel, Liz Prince, Mark Grey, to our chorus of singers, Janet Wong, the performers of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, as well as to our community of guests who have lent body and spirit to what our initial dramaturg, Mark Hairston, called “communitas,” and to whom we are ever indebted.

I am likewise indebted to Kim Cullen and our bravely resourceful staff and Board of Directors at New York Live Arts, as well as to Pierre Audi, Rebecca Robertson, Michael Lonergan, and the Armory’s skilled and kind production staff, as well as to its board of trustees.

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TEXT & MUSIC Text Excerpts from W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” Kendrick Lamar, "Never Catch Me" Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Audio Recordings: “Get Right Church” (traditional), performed by Empire Jubilee Quartet; courtesy of Document Records “Black Gal (I Don’t Want No Jet Black Woman)” (traditional), performed by prisoners of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, recorded by Alan Lomax

The ribs and terrors in the whale Arched over me a dismal gloom While all God’s sunlit waves rolled by And left me deepening down to doom I saw the opening maw of hell, With endless pains and sorrows there; Which none but they that feel can tell — Oh, I was plunging to despair.

Text: Herman Melville

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CREATIVE TEAM BILL T. JONES CREATOR & DIRECTOR Bill T. Jones (Artistic Director/Co-Founder/Choreographer: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company; Artistic Director: New York Live Arts) is the Associate Artist of the 2020 Holland Festival and recipient of the 2014 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award; the 2013 National Medal of Arts; the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors; a 2010 Tony Award for Best Choreography of the critically acclaimed Fela!; a 2007 Tony Award, 2007 Obie Award, and 2006 Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Callaway Award for his choreography for Spring Awakening; the 2010 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award; the 2007 USA Eileen Harris Norton Fellowship; the 2006 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreography for The Seven; the 2005 Wexner Prize; the 2005 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement; the 2005 Harlem Renaissance Award; the 2003 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize; and the 1994 MacArthur “Genius” Award. In 2010, Jones was recognized as Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government, and in 2000, The Dance Heritage Coalition named Jones “An Irreplaceable Dance Treasure.”

Jones choreographed and performed worldwide with his late partner, Arnie Zane, before forming the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in 1982.

He has created more than 140 works for his company. Jones is the Artistic Director of New York Live Arts, an organization that strives to create a robust framework in support of the nation’s dance and movement-based artists through new approaches to producing, presenting, and educating.

JANET WONG ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, NEW YORK LIVE ARTS Janet Wong (Associate Artistic Director, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company) was born in Hong Kong and trained in Hong Kong and London. Upon graduation, she joined the Berlin Ballet, where she first met Bill T. Jones when he was invited to choreograph for the company. In 1993, she moved to New York to pursue other interests. Wong became Rehearsal Director of the Company in 1996, Associate Artistic Director in 2006, and Associate Artistic Director of New York Live Arts in 2016.

ELIZABETH DILLER VISUAL ENVIRONMENT, VIDEO PROJECTION & LIGHTING DESIGN Elizabeth Diller is a partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R). Alongside partner Ricardo Scofidio, Diller’s cross-genre work has been distinguished with TIME Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People” list and the first MacArthur Foundation fellowship awarded in the field of architecture. Most recently, she led the design of two cultural works significant to New York: The Shed and the expansion of MoMA. Diller also co-created, -directed and -produced The Mile-Long Opera, an immersive choral work staged on the High Line. She is working on two exhibition designs opening this fall: The Hare with Amber Eyes at the Jewish Museum in New York and Cartier and Islamic Art, which will be exhibited at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and the Dallas Museum of Art. Diller is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives and a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.

DILLER, SCOFIDIO + RENFRO Founded in 1981, Diller Scofidio + Renfro is a design studio whose practice spans the fields of architecture, urban design, installation art, multimedia performance, digital media, and print. With a focus on cultural and civic projects, DS+R’s work addresses the changing role of institutions and the future of cities. DS+R completed two of the largest architecture and planning initiatives in New York City’s recent history: the adaptive reuse of an obsolete, industrial rail infrastructure into the High Line, a 1.5-mile-long public park; and the transformation of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ half-century-old campus. The studio also completed the 35-acre Zaryadye Park, adjacent to the Kremlin, St. Basil’s Cathedral and Red Square in Moscow. The studio has also worked with global cultural institutions to expand access to the arts. The Broad is a contemporary art museum in Los Angeles offering free admission, whose visitorship reflects a comparatively younger and more diverse contemporary arts audience, while the V&A Research and Collection Centre, under construction in London, will bring much of the collection out of storage and into public view for the first time. For more information, visit dsrny.com.

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PETER NIGRINI VISUAL ENVIRONMENT, VIDEO PROJECTION & LIGHTING DESIGN Peter Nigrini has for the past 15 years been a pioneer in the integration of digital media and live theater. In the commercial theater his designs include: Dear Evan Hansen; Ain’t Too Proud; David Byrne’s Here Lies Love; Fela!, a musical based on the life of Fela Kuti, the Nigerian pop star and political activist; Grounded directed by Julie Taymor for The Public Theater; and a series of adaptations with Robert Woodruff, including Dostoyevsky’s Notes From Underground, Bergman’s Autumn Sonata, and Fassbinder’s In a Year of 13 Moons. He works in a variety of disciplines and genres, including works such as Real Enemies, a multimedia piece conceived with Darcy James Argue and Isaac Butler for the 18-piece jazz ensemble The Secrete Society and BAM; the Grace Jones Hurricane Tour; Blind Date; an evening-long dance piece for Bill T. Jones; and a decade-long collaboration with Nature Theater of Oklahoma, for which he designed every aspect of the productions, including No Dice, Romeo and Juliet, and the multi-part work Life & Times.

NICK HALLETT COMPOSER & MUSIC DIRECTOR Nick Hallett is a musician, artist, and curator. His scores for the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Company include Deep Blue Sea (2021), What Problem? (2020), the Analogy Trilogy (2015-2017), A Letter to My Nephew (2015), and Fishkill/ Movements 1-45 (2014). He has served as vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and music director for the international tours of these works. Hallett received a 2017 Bessie Award with Ishmael Houston-Jones and Miguel Gutierrez for Variations on Themes from Lost & Found: Scenes from a Life and Other Works by John Bernd. In 2020, his opera collaboration with artist Shana Moulton, Whispering Pines 10, premiered in digital form at www.whisperingpines10.com. His music and transdisciplinary projects have been presented in New York at MoMA, the Whitney, the Guggenheim, Hayden Planetarium, BAM, Performa, New Museum, The Kitchen, Danspace, Roulette, and ISSUE Project Room. Hallett is on the faculties of The New School and School of Visual Arts.

HPRIZM AKA HIGH PRIEST ELECTRONIC SCORE Hprizm aka High Priest is an American avant-garde artist, composer, newmedia artist, and performer whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects. Formally trained as a visual artist, Hprizm later developed from the axis of poetry, hip hop, and the experimental arts community of the Lower East Side in the early '90s. Prizm is the founding member of the Antipop Consortium and a cited figure in the Afrofuturist canon. Prizm has shared stages with The Roots, Radiohead, MF Doom, Matthew Shipp, Vijay Iyer, Steve Lehman, and others. His musical compositions have been presented at the Whitney, Guggenheim, Walker, and The New museums, as well as MoMA PS1, Cal-Arts, and the Mazzoli Gallery. At his PRIZMLABS, his clients include Kehinde Wiley, Simone Leigh, Moor Mother, Ursula Rucker, The Barnes center, Bahamadia, The Banff Centre, Meredith Monk, and The So Percussion ensemble, among others.

RENA ANAKWE ELECTRONIC SCORE

Rena Anakwe is an interdisciplinary artist and performer working primarily with sound, visuals, and scent. Exploring intersections between traditional healing practices, spirituality, and performance, she creates works focused on sensory-based, experiential interactions using creative technology.

Most recently, she was awarded a 2021-2022 MacDowell Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Arts and a 2022 Jack Nusbaum Artist Residency at BAM. Anakwe has collaborated, produced, and shown work at NYC institutions, including: En Garde Arts/Brookfield Place, Weeksville Heritage Center, Dia Foundation, Fridman Gallery, Knockdown Center, Lincoln Center, MoMA PS1, CultureHub, Pioneer Works, and Montez Press Radio. She is based in Brooklyn, New York, by way of Nigeria and Canada.

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HOLLAND ANDREWS ELECTRONIC SCORE

LIZ PRINCE COSTUME DESIGN

Holland Andrews is an American vocalist, composer, improviser, and performance artist whose work is based on emotionality in its many forms.

In their work, Andrews focuses on the abstraction of operatic and extendedtechnique voice to build soundscapes encompassing both catharsis and the interplay between dissonance and resonance to tell stories of the interior worlds of humanity. Frequently highlighting themes surrounding vulnerability and healing, Andrews arranges music with voice and clarinet, harnessing the innate qualities of these instruments’ power and elegance to serve as a vessel for these themes. As a vocalist, their influences stem from a dynamic range of musical stylings, including contemporary opera, free jazz, and musical theater, as well as ambient, drone, and noise music. In addition to creating solo work, Andrews develops and performs soundscapes for dance, theater, and film, touring nationally and internationally. Andrews has gained recognition from The New York Times, Uncut magazine, Electronic Sound, NPR, and more.

Based in New York City, Andrews also performs solo music under the stage name Like a Villain.

Liz Prince designs costumes for dance, theater, and film. She has been designing for Bill T. Jones since 1991. Her work has been exhibited at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, 2011 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Rockland Center for the Arts, and Snug Harbor Cultural Center. She received a 1990 New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) as well as a 2008 Charles Flint Kellogg Arts and Letters Award from Bard College. She teaches costume design at Sarah Lawrence College.

ROBERT WIERZEL LIGHTING DESIGN Robert Wierzel has worked with artists in theater, dance, new music, opera, and museums throughout the country and abroad. He has worked with choreographer Bill T. Jones and his company since 1985. Projects include Blind Date, Another Evening: I Bow Down, Still/Here, You Walk?, Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land, How to Walk an Elephant, and We Set Out Early …Visibility Was Poor. Other works with Bill T. Jones include projects at the Guthrie Theatre, Lyon Opera Ballet, Deutsche Oper Ballet, Boston Ballet, Boston Lyric Opera, Welsh dance company Diversions, and London’s Contemporary Dance Trust. Wierzel has also worked with choreographers Trisha Brown, Doug Varone, Donna Uchizono, Larry Goldhuber, Heidi Latsky, Sean Curran, Molissa Fenley, Susan Marshall, Margo Sappington, Alonzo King, and JoAnn Fregalette-Jansen. Additional credits include national and international opera companies, Broadway, and regional theater. Wierzel is on the faculty of NYU Tisch and the Yale School of Drama.

MARK HAIRSTON DRAMATURG A native of Washington, D.C., Mark Hairston is a director, performer, and educator with a primary focus on American theater and theater of the African diaspora. He is particularly drawn to classical works, innovative literary adaptations, and theater for community development. His recent directing highlights include Julius Caesar, The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom, King Lear, The Cherry Orchard, and The Henry Dumas Project. Along with directing, Hairston has worked extensively as a professional actor with some of the nation’s leading theater companies. He is a graduate of the MFA Directing Program at Columbia University School of the Arts, received his BFA in Acting from Rutgers University, and was classically trained at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. Hairston is an Assistant Professor of Directing and Acting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

MARK GREY SOUND DESIGN Mark Grey is an Emmy Award-winning sound designer and composer who made history as the first sound designer for The New York Philharmonic (On the Transmigration of Souls, 2002, which also won the Pulitzer Prize in Music) and The Metropolitan Opera (Doctor Atomic, 2008, Nixon in China, 2011, Death of Klinghoffer, 2014, The Merry Widow, 2015, Bluebeard’s Castle/Iolanta, 2015, L’Amour de Loin, 2016). The opera he composed, Frankenstein, recently premiered at La Monnaie in Brussels. He also has had several commissions from the Atlanta Symphony and Los Angeles Philharmonic. He has collaborated intimately with composer John Adams and several others for nearly three decades. He designed and toured extensively with Kronos Quartet for nearly 15 years. His sound designs have been heard throughout most major concert halls, HD simulcast theaters, and opera houses worldwide.

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COMPANY BILL T. JONES / ARNIE ZANE COMPANY

BARRINGTON HINDS PERFORMER

Founded in 1982, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company has shaped the evolution of contemporary dance through the creation and performance of over 140 works. Recognized as one of the most innovative and powerful forces in the modern dance world, the company has performed its ever-enlarging repertoire worldwide in over 200 cities in 40 countries on every major continent. In 2011, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company merged with Dance Theater Workshop to form New York Live Arts, of which Bill T. Jones is Artistic Director and Janet Wong is Associate Artistic Director.

Barrington Hinds has worked professionally with Verb Ballets, NW Dance Project, Stephen Petronio Company, and Twyla Tharp’s Movin' Out (national tour). In 2011 Hinds was a finalist for the Clive Barnes Award for young talent in dance. He has worked with choreographers Lauri Stallings, Edgar Zendejas, Sarah Slipper, Helen Pickett, Thaddeus Davis, and Cherylyn Lavagnino. Hinds works as a choreographer and teacher; his choreography has been shown at Purchase College, Dixon Place, Warwick Summer Festival, Arts On Site, and The Tank. School training: Ballet Florida (Marie Hale); BFA Dance, SUNY Purchase College. Hinds joined the company in 2017. @bar_hinds, www.barringtonhinds.com

The repertory of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company is widely varied in its subject matter, visual imagery, and stylistic approach to movement, voice, and stagecraft and includes musically driven works as well as works using a variety of texts. Its most celebrated evening-length works include Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land (1990 Next Wave Festival, BAM), Still/Here (1994 Biennale de la Danse, Lyon, France), We Set Out Early …Visibility Was Poor (1996 Hancher Auditorium, Iowa City), You Walk? (2000 European Capital of Culture), Blind Date (2006 Peak Performances at Montclair State), Chapel/Chapter (2006, Harlem Stage Gatehouse), Fondly Do We Hope … Fervently Do We Pray (2009 Ravinia Festival), Another Evening: Venice/Arsenale (2010 Venice Biennale), Story/Time (2012, Peak Performances), and A Rite (2013, Carolina Performing Arts at UNC-Chapel Hill).

NEW YORK LIVE ARTS Home of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company (BTJ/AZ), New York Live Arts is a commissioning and presenting center of diverse artists notable for their conceptual rigor, formal experimentation, and active engagement with the sociocultural currents of our time. Live Arts fosters the creation of new work by artists at all stages of their career through residencies, commissions, and artist services under the executive leadership of Kim Cullen.

New work by BTJ/AZ is produced by Live Arts and made possible in part

by Partners in Creation: Anonymous, Anne Delaney, Zoe Eskin, Eleanor Friedman, Ruth & Stephen Hendel, James C. Hormel & Micheal P. Nguyen, Suzanne Karpas, Ellen M. Poss, Jane Bovingdon Semel, in memory of Linda G. Shapiro, Slobodan Randjelović & Jon Stryker. Additional commissioning support for Deep Blue Sea provided by The Mann Center for the Performing Arts with original support provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia, Carolina Performing Arts, Ed Bradley Family Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and Live Arts Board of Directors.

Deep Blue Sea was made possible in part 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.

ARNIE ZANE CO-FOUNDER/CHOREOGRAPHER Arnie Zane (1948-1988) was a native New Yorker born in the Bronx and educated at SUNY Binghamton. In 1971, Zane and Bill T. Jones began their long collaboration in choreography and in 1973 formed the American Dance Asylum in Binghamton with Lois Welk. Zane’s first recognition in the arts came as a photographer when he received a Creative Artists Public Service (CAPS) Fellowship in 1973. Zane was the recipient of a second CAPS Fellowship in 1981 for choreography, as well as two Choreographic Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1983 and 1984). In 1980, Zane was co-recipient, with Jones, of the German Critics Award for his work, Blauvelt Mountain. Rotary Action, a duet with Jones, was filmed for television, co-produced by WGBH-TV Boston and Channel 4 in London.

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DEAN HUSTED PERFORMER Dean Husted has performed in works by Merce Cunningham, Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane, and Christina Robson. He was selected for the Summer 2017 Contemporary Program at The School at Jacob’s Pillow, where he performed works by Marguerite Donlon, Jae Man Joo, Milton Myers, and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company. Husted studied in Berlin under the direction of Pamela Pietro and teachers Judith Sanchez-Ruiz, Ayman Harper, and Erion Kruja. From Virginia Beach, Husted began his training at Denise Wall’s Dance Energy and earned a BFA from NYU Tisch. Husted joined the company in 2020.

JADA JENAI PERFORMER Jada Jenai is from Brooklyn, New York. She has worked professionally with Helen Simoneau, Peridance Contemporary Dance Company, Wyckoff Collective, and Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion. Jenai is a graduate of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School and earned a BFA in Dance from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance studying under Jonathan Ridel, Kyle Abraham, Kevin Wynn, and Dylan Crossman, and Jean Freebury. She also studied abroad at Western Australia Academy for Performing Arts and Springboard Danse Montreal, working with Jonathan Alsberry and Shamel Pitts. Jenai joined the company in 2021.

SHANE LARSON PERFORMER Shane Larson was raised in Minnesota, where he received his early training at the Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists. He graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Dance and a minor in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Studies. He also studied at SEAD in Austria.

Since living in New York City, he’s branched out to collaborate with punk musicians, filmmakers, improvisational music ensembles, and site-specific visual artists. He is also a multimedia video artist who makes collage-based work about memory. Larson joined the company in 2015.

S. LUMBERT PERFORMER s. lumbert is a Brooklyn-based transgender dance artist. They earned a BS in both Dance and Exercise Science from Skidmore College and an MFA in Dance from The Ohio State University. lumbert sometimes makes and performs their own solo work and collaborates on duets with Rachel Sigrid Freeburg. After a brief hiatus from dance, lumbert is excited to be working on a new project with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company. lumbert joined the company in 2018.

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DANIELLE MARSHALL PERFORMER

PHILLIP BULLOCK VOCALS

Danielle Marshall is a native of Atlanta, Georgia. She received her early dance training from DeKalb School of the Arts, Phusion Performing Arts Alliance, and City Gate Dance Theater. In 2019, she graduated summa cum laude from the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program, studying Dance and Pre-Health for Physical Therapy. During her time at Ailey/Fordham, Marshall had the opportunity to perform works by her colleagues and notable choreographers such as Adam Barruch, Amy Hall Garner, and Maxine Steinman. Marshall is also a certified Horton instructor. Marshall joined the company in 2021.

Praised by Opera News for his “appealingly suave baritone,” Phillip K. Bullock is a native of Washington D.C. and has been featured in operas, recitals, and concerts throughout the United States and Europe. Most recently, Bullock made his debut with the Atlanta Opera in Porgy & Bess and returned to Cincinnati Opera for their production of Puccini’s Tosca. Other operatic highlights include his performance of Jake in Porgy & Bess at Dresden’s Sächsische Staatsoper and cover of the same role in The Royal Danish Opera’s new production. Bullock has been seen in concert performances of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and Kurt Weil’s Seven Deadly Sins with National Music Festival Orchestra. www.PhillipBullock.com.

NAYAA OPONG PERFORMER Nayaa Opong is from Cherry Hill, New Jersey. She began her dance training at The Bowman School of Dance and continued at Eleone Dance Unlimited.

Opong chose to further her studies at Mason Gross School of the Arts-Rutgers University, where she earned a BFA in Dance and spent a semester at The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. Since graduating in May 2019, she performs with Hysterica Jazz Dance and has begun working with the BIRDHOUSE artist collective. Opong joined the company in 2019.

MARIE LLOYD PASPE PERFORMER Marie Lloyd Paspe is a native of Singapore and the Philippines who is from Boston. She graduated summa cum laude from the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program in 2016, studying dance performance and business administration.

Paspe toured with Carolyn Dorfman Dance and worked with choreographers Renee Jaworski, Peter Chu, Jae Mann Joo, Omar Carrum, Rami Be’er, Martin Harriague, and Manuel Vignoulle. In 2015, she studied in Israel at Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, and in 2017, she attended Springboard Danse Montreal. Paspe creates work, teaches Pilates and dance, and freelances as a commercial model. Paspe joined the company in 2018.

JACOBY PRUITT PERFORMER Jacoby Pruitt began his dance training in Miami, Florida, where he attended New World School of the Arts. He is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of Dance and a recipient of the Martha Hill Dance Fund’s “Young Professional Award.” He has worked professionally with Ailey II, Company XIV, Sean Curran Company, and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, among other freelance projects. His TV/film credits include Good Morning America, Comedy Central’s Alternatino, and the In the Heights film. Pruitt joined the company in 2021.

HUIWANG ZHANG PERFORMER

SHAQ HESTER VOCALS Off-Broadway: Antigone in Ferguson (Swing Soloist). Regional: The View UpStairs (Wes), Five Guys Named Moe (Little Moe). Hester has appeared with Bronx Opera and Trilogy Opera. He has performed as featured vocalist in the Pyer Moss “Sister” runway show. He also produced and performed live vocal arrangements with 22Gz for the Pyer Moss “Wat U Iz” Couture fashion show. Hester was featured vocalist in Ari Grooves’ Message From a Wanderer at Feinstein’s/54 Below. Artist collaborations include Aloe Blacc and Jason Michael Webb. Hester is a graduate of IU Jacobs School of Music and University of South Carolina School of Music.

PRENTISS MOUTON VOCALS Prentiss Mouton is thrilled to be working on Bill T Jones’s Deep Blue Sea at Park Avenue Armory. A Memphis, Tennessee native, he completed his undergraduate studies in vocal music performance at Louisiana State University, where he gained extensive performance experience with LSU Opera. His performance experience ranges from the operatic stage to cruise ship production casts to various musical theater productions. He was last seen in Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane’s productions of Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World as Man 1 and a 50th Anniversary Production of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar as Jesus.

STACY PENSON VOCALS Stacy Penson, a classically trained musician, has worked in New York, across the U.S., and all over the world performing a variety of styles of music. He has performed the roles of Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni, W. Mozart) and Don Alhambra (Gondoliers, A. Sullivan) as well as collaborations with Kathleen Battle, Marilyn Horne, Patti LaBelle, Angie Stone, Brian McKnight, and Alicia Keys. Penson is also an accomplished pianist and conductor and has been Music Director for many Broadway/Off-Broadway Shows.

Huiwang Zhang trained rigorously in physical disciplines such as Peking opera, martial arts, and classical dance in China. Prior to his career with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, he was a lead performer with the Chinese national theater in Beijing. He has also worked with PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER, Yin Mei Dance, and Paper Tiger Theater. His choreography has been featured in the United States, China, and Germany; his work attempts to portray the value of dance as a serious art form and critical research practice. Zhang joined the company in 2017.

JAY ST. FLONO VOCALS Jay St. Flono is a genderqueer classical singer, librettist and actor who has been performing professionally for 20 years. St. Flono has performed with the Boys Choir of Harlem, NYC Opera, Regina Opera, Feinstein’s/54 Below, Pyer Moss Tabernacle Drip Choir Drenched in the Blood, and as a guest soloist for musical organizations such as the Brooklyn Ecumenical Society. St. Flono studied Vocal Performance at Mannes School of Music (‘14 to ‘19) and was selected as a Librettist Fellow under the Composers and the Voice Program at The American Opera Project, where she further developed an original musical verse drama entitled Spirit in the Vine: A Sankopera.

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COMMUNITY PARTICIPANTS David “Twice Light” Adelaja Oza Agu Alyssa Alpine Beaudau Banks Taina Bey Roderick Blackwell DeAngelo Blanchard* Calvin C. Booker Caitlin “BurnBaby” Byrne Natalie Carabello Samuel Carabello Jay Carlon Héctor Cerna Serena Chang Natalie Yovanna Cloarec Dani Cole* Donna Costello Carl Ponce Cubero Emily Dail Avery “Kofi Kid” DaSilva Marsellette Davis Melani De Guzman* Treshelle Edmond Joshua Leon Eguia Maxine Ann Evangelista Drew “Drew” Farrow Asma Feyijinmi Havanna Fisher Algin “Algin Algins” Ford Jino Fort Jamel Gaines* Keely Garfield* Anna Gichan Lawrence Goldhuber Rasaan-Elijah “Talu” Green Kate Griffler Shelly Guy Lauryn Hayes Brian “HallowDreamz” Henry Amelia Hensley Elisa Hernandez Myles Langston Hunter Cyan Hunter Brat “HappyHips” James Rocka Jamez Malcolm Jones Paris Jones

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Brandon Kazen-Maddox* Tabitha Kelly Brandi Nik Kilbourne Joey Kipp Kai Ming Kleinbard Elise Knudson Abdoulaye Koita Erin Landers Julia Larcenaire Rayan Lecurieux-Durival Ariel Lembeck Danion “Kuts” Lewis Lia Lewis Kyle H. Martin Mieke Matteson Jordan McKinzie Johnnie Cruise Mercer* Breanna Myers Reché Nelson Jennifer Nugent* Maya Orchin Will Ordener-Waibel aka “Will” Lilach Orenstein Muriel “Murri-Lynette” Peterson Siena Rafter Ambika Raina Sabrina Herbosa Reyes Esther Sanchez MANUELA SANCHEZ (Manni) Gabriel Silva Paul Singh Katie Skinner Christina “CocoMotion” Smith* marion spencer Christopher Tabassi Vita Taurke Ladell “Mr. Ocean” Thomas Cherri Nelle Thompson Ciera R. Thorne Kamilah Udomsap Kamryn Vaulx Ella Dawn W-S Darnell Wickham Cece “Cece Moves” Wilson Shannon Yu 余香儒 Hara “Hara” Zi *Community Captain

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PRODUCTION STAFF Matthew Johnson Design Principal, Diller Scofidio + Renfro Alex Knezo Design Associate, Diller Scofidio + Renfro Dan Scully Associate Projection Designer Robert Figueira Projection Animator Michael Cunningham Associate Lighting Designer Bjorn Amelan Creative Director, New York Live Arts Kyle Maude Producing Director, New York Live Arts Veronica Falborn Producer, New York Live Arts Hannah Emerson Producer, New York Live Arts Olivia Edery Production Stage Manager Charles Cobbertt III Assistant Stage Manager Belynda M’Baye Assistant Stage Manager Kirrin Tubo Assistant Stage Manager Davison Scandrett Production Manager Sam Cortez Company Manager Olivia Brown Assistant Company Manager Rachel Baumann Production Assistant, Production Andrew Lulling Audio Engineer Cameron Hoffman Production Sound Dave “Tater” Polato Production Electrician Andrew Diamond Lighting Programmer Andrew Gusciora Video Engineer Anja Hose Production Video Ben Keightley Projection Programmer Carl Whipple Scenic Supervisor JJ Meraz Production Carpenter Victoria Bek Wardrobe Supervisor Brandon Kazen-Maddox/Body Language Productions ASL Coordinator Jessica Ames, Candace Divider, Emily Hart, Gloria Izaguirre-Vargas, Kat Katona, Brandon Kazen-Maddox ASL Interpreters

PRODUCTION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS BNW Rigging Five OHM Productions Mind the Gap Premier Stagehands Lighting, Video Equipment by 4Wall Entertainment Audio Equipment by Masque Sound Scenery by Rose Brand Rehearsed at Bethany Arts Community (Ossining, NY), Dancers’ Workshop (Jackson Hole, WY), MANA Contemporary (NJ), Lumberyard Contemporary Performing Arts (New York, NY), Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (North Adams, MA), and New York Live Arts (New York, NY)

SPECIAL THANKS Dancing in the Streets and It’s Showtime NYC!; Creative Outlet Dance Theatre of Brooklyn; Sam Crawford (Voice of Auctioneer); and Sharlyn Galarza.

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PARK AVENUE ARMORY STAFF Rebecca Robertson, Founding President and Executive Producer Pierre Audi, Marina Kellen French Artistic Director

ARTISTIC PLANNING & PROGRAMMING Michael Lonergan Producing Director Seth Shepsle General Manager, Programming Jessica Wasilewski Senior Producer Jenni Bowman Producer Samantha Cortez Program Coordinator Amelia Parenteau Program Coordinator

ARTISTIC PRODUCTION Paul King Director of Production Claire Marberg Deputy Director of Production Nicholas Lazzaro Technical Director Lars Nelson Technical Director

ARTS EDUCATION Cassidy L. Jones Chief Education Officer Monica Weigel McCarthy Director of Education Aarti Ogirala, Associate Director of Education School Programs Chelsea Emelie Kelly Director of Youth Corps Pip Gengenbach Education Manager, Youth Corps Sharlyn Galarza Special Projects Coordinator Drew Petersen Education Special Projects Manager Kate Bell, Donna Costello, Alexander Davis, Asma Feyijinmi, Hawley Hussey, Larry Jackson, Hector Morales, Peter Musante, Drew Petersen, Leigh Poulos, Neil Tyrone Pritchard, Vickie Tanner Teaching Artists Emily Bruner, Nancy Gomez, Stephanie Mesquita, Ashley Ortiz, Biviana Sanchez, Catherine Talton Teaching Assistants

BUILDING & MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS Jenni Kim Chief Operating Officer Marc Von Braunsberg Director of Building Operations Aurelio Roman Director of Facilities Patricia English Security Director Darrell Thimoleon Office Manager William Say Superintendent Chris Sperry Assistant Building Engineer Leandro Dasso, Mayra DeLeon, Mario Esquilin, Jeferson Avila, Olga Cruz, Jazmin Dominguez, Howard Johnson Kariema Levy, Cristina Moreira Maintenance Staff Dion Bullock Chief Information Officer Oku Okoko Network Engineer Bobby Wolf Senior House Manager Daniel George House Manager Zipporah Aguasvivas, Jacqueline Babek, Emma Buford, Catie Carlisle, Stephanie Cobb, Sarah Gallick, Daniel Gomez, Eboni Green, Nariah Green, Kevin Joyce, Saygin Karadurak, Sandra Kitt, Christine Lemme, Beth Miller, Drew O'Bryan, Katy O'Connor, Regina Pearsall, Kedesia Robinson, Eileen Rourke, Heather Sandler, Jessica Sandler, Kin Tam, Kathleen White Ushers Liz Bickley, Sheree Campbell, Ryan Chapman, James Clements, Wednesday Derrico, Lauren Graneto, Kristi Hess, Lisa Lamothe, Patricia Roques, Bleu Santiago, Julie Tadlock Covid Compliance Team

CAPITAL PROJECTS & COLLECTIONS Kirsten Reoch Director of Capital Planning, Preservation, and Institutional Relations David Burnhauser Collection Manager

Rosemarie Albanese, Wilson Castro, Daniel Gomez, Maxim Ibadov, Cynthia Lopez, Paola Ocampo Teaching Associates Anai Ortiz, Ashley Guerrero Soriano, Brian Espinal, Brianna Trivino, Dorsen Sween, Hillary Ramirez Perez, Janneurys Colon, Jason Quizhpi, Jo(anne) Melo, Mariama Bah, Melina Jorge, Mohamed Adesumbo, Nassim White, Raven Garcia, Taylor Maheia, Terry Beaupierre, Widlany Ferol, Yao Adja, Youth Corps

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DEVELOPMENT Melanie Forman Chief Development Officer Charmaine Portis Executive Assistant to the Chief Development Officer Allison Kline Senior Director of Institutional Giving Rachel Risso-Gill Director of Individual Giving Michael Buffer Database Manager Kaitlin Overton Manager of Institutional Giving Jennifer Ramon Manager of Individual Giving Yejin Kim Special Events Coordinator Adithya Pratama Individual Giving Coordinator

EXECUTIVE OFFICE Lori Nelson Executive Assistant to the President Nathalie Etienne Administrative Assistant, President’s Office Simone Elhart Project Manager

FINANCE Susan Neiman Chief Financial and Administrative Officer Christy Kidd Controller Khemraj Dat Accountant

MARKETING, COMMUNICATIONS & BOX OFFICE Lesley Alpert-Schuldenfrei Director of Marketing Nick Yarbrough Senior Digital Marketing Manager Allison Abbott Press and Editorial Manager Joe Petrowski Director of Ticketing and Customer Relations Monica Diaz Box Office Manager Stephanie Scherr, Nicholas Maggio, Tony Tirador, Sara Salt, Alex Allwine, Janel Ridley, Mary McDonnell Box Office

PUBLIC PROGRAMMING Tavia Nyong’o Curator, Public Programming Darian Suggs Associate Director, Public Programming

PRESS REPRESENTATIVES Resnicow + Associates, Inc.

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ABOUT PARK AVENUE ARMORY Part palace, part industrial shed, Park Avenue Armory fills a critical void in the cultural ecology of New York, supporting unconventional works in the performing and visual arts that cannot be fully realized in a traditional proscenium theater, concert hall, or white wall gallery. With its soaring 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall and an array of exuberant period rooms, the Armory enables a diverse range of artists to create, students to explore, and audiences to experience epic, adventurous, relevant work that cannot be done elsewhere in New York.

When the pandemic set in, the Armory dedicated itself to continue to provide support to the artistic community. By taking advantage of vast expanse of the Wade Thompson Drill Hall, the Armory created a very safe Social Distance Hall, for which it commissioned four new works by Bill T. Jones and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company; David Byrne, Christine Jones, and Stephen Hoggett; Jason Moran and Laurie Anderson; and Rob Icke. The works were presented between March and July 2021 and provided thousands of hours of creativity and employment to a devastated cultural sector, which had lost 70% of its job base.

Programmatic highlights from the Wade Thompson Drill Hall include Ernesto Neto’s anthropodino, a magical labyrinth extended across the Drill Hall; Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s harrowing Die Soldaten, in which the audience moved “through the music”; the event of a thread, a site-specific installation

by Ann Hamilton; the final performances of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company on three separate stages; an immersive Macbeth set in a Scottish heath with Kenneth Branagh; WS by Paul McCarthy, a monumental installation of fantasy, excess, and dystopia; a radically inclusive staging of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion staged by Peter Sellars and performed by Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker; eight-time Drama Desk-nominated play The Hairy Ape, directed by Richard Jones and starring Bobby Cannavale; Hansel & Gretel, a new commission by Ai Weiwei, Jacques Herzog, and Pierre de Meuron that explored publicly shared space in the era of surveillance; FLEXN and FLEXN Evolution, two Armory-commissioned presentations of the Brooklyn-born dance activists group the D.R.E.A.M. Ring, created by Reggie “Regg Roc” Gray and Director Peter Sellars; Simon Stone’s heralded production of Yerma starring Billie Piper in her North American debut; The Let Go, a site-specific immersive dance celebration by Nick Cave; Satoshi Miyagi’s stunning production of Antigone set in a lake; Sam Mendes’ critically acclaimed production of The Lehman Trilogy; and the Black Artists Retreat hosted by Theaster Gates, which included public talks and performances, private sessions for the 300 attending artists, and a roller skating rink.

Among the performers who have appeared in the Recitals Series and the Artists Studio in the Armory’s restored Veterans Room or the Board of Officers Rooms are: Christian Gerhaher; Ian Bostridge; Jason Moran; Lawrence Brownlee; Barbara Hannigan; Lisette Oropesa; Roscoe Mitchell; Conrad Tao and Tyshawn Sorey; Rashaad Newsome; and Krency Garcia (“El Prodigio”).

Highlights from the public programs include: symposiums such as Carrie Mae Weems’ day-long event called The Shape of Things, whose participants included Elizabeth Alexander, Theaster Gates, Elizabeth Diller, and Nona Hendryx; a day-long Lenape Pow Wow and Standing Ground Symposium held in the Wade Thompson Drill Hall, the first congregation of Lenape Leaders on Manhattan Island since the 1700s; salons such as the Literature Salon hosted by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, whose participants included Lynn Nottage, Suzan Lori-Parks, and Jeremy O. Harris, and a Spoken Word Salon co-hosted with the Nuyorican Poets Cafe; and most recently, 100 Years | 100 Women, a multi-organization commissioning project that invited 100 women artists and cultural creators to respond to women’s suffrage.

Current Artists-in-Residence at the Armory include two-time Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright Lynn Nottage; Obie winner and Pulitzer short-listed playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Carmelita Tropicana; Reggie “Regg Roc” Gray and the D.R.E.A.M. Ring; singer and composer Sara Serpa; Tony Award-winning set designer and director Christine Jones and choreographer Steven Hoggett; and Mimi Lien, the first set designer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. The Armory also supports artists through an active commissioning program including such artists as Bill T. Jones, Lynn Nottage, Carrie Mae Weems, Michael van der Aa, Tyshawn Sorey, Raashad Newsome, Julian Rosefeldt, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, and others.

The Armory also offers creativity-based arts education programs at no cost to thousands of underserved New York City public school students, engaging them with the institution’s artistic programming and outside-the-box creative processes.

The Armory has undertaken an ongoing $215-million renovation and restoration of its historic building designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron, with Platt Byard Dovell White as Executive Architects.

In its historic period rooms, the Armory presents more intimate performances and programs, including its acclaimed Recital Series, which showcases musical talent from across the globe within the intimate salon setting of the Board of Officers Room; the Artists Studio series curated by MacArthur “Genius” and jazz phenom Jason Moran in the newly restored Veterans Room, which features a diverse array of innovative artists and artistic pairings that reflect the imaginative improvisation of the young designers and artists who originally conceived the space; and Interrogations of Form, a public talks program that brings diverse artists and thought-leaders together for discussion and performance around the important issues of our time.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS Chairman Emeritus Elihu Rose, PhD Co-Chairs Adam R. Flatto Amanda J.T. Riegel President Rebecca Robertson Vice Chair Wendy Belzberg

Marina Abramović Sir David Adjaye obe Abigail Baratta Martin Brand Joyce F. Brown Cora Cahan Hélène Comfort Paul Cronson Tina R. Davis Marc de La Bruyère Emme Levin Deland Sanford B. Ehrenkranz David Fox Andrew Gundlach Marjorie L. Hart Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Founding Chairman, 2000–2009 Wade F.B. Thompson Vice Presidents Ken Kuchin Pablo Legorreta Emanuel Stern Treasurer Gwendolyn Adams Norton

Edward G. Klein, Major General NYNG (Ret.) Mary T. Kush Ralph Lemon Heidi McWilliams Jason Moran Joel Press Janet C. Ross Joan Steinberg Mimi Klein Sternlicht Deborah C. van Eck Peter Zhou Directors Emeriti Harrison M. Bains, Jr. Angela E. Thompson

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NEXT AT THE ARMORY THE SHAPE OF THINGS

RECITAL SERIES

December 1 – December 31

“[Carrie Mae Weems] has made her career creating spaces for contemplation in the place of absence, rooting a troubled present in a painful past with projects that feel resolutely forward-looking and idealistic.”

“With the exquisite renovation of the Board of Officers Room … the Armory now has a space for chamber music which marries excellent acoustics and an austerely elegant Gilded Age interior.”

— The New York Times

— The New York Times

UPCOMING RECITALS

Carrie Mae Weems, an artist who has consistently and poignantly addressed the conditions of race in the United States, will create a multiwork installation and series of performances titled The Shape of Things.

Weems’s unflinching gaze at what she describes as the “pageantry” and “circus-like” quality of contemporary American political life find form in a series of large-scale installations and a cyclorama (a panoramic image on the inside of a cylindrical platform) of six to eight projections of new and existing film footage where Weems addresses the turmoil of current events and the “long march forward.” Suggestive of a 19th-century carnival with dioramas based on spontaneous street memorials, peep shows, and a Pepper’s Ghost, The Shape of Things is an incisive, powerfully emotional, and critical reflection on events both deeply embedded in American culture and history and the explosive events of the past year. This monumental series of installations is accompanied by “Land of Broken Dreams,” an ambitious convening and concert series that will activate the Armory with a wide range of events, performances, and talks with invited artists, readings by poets, singers, dancers, and discussions by scholars on the most urgent issues of the day.

WILL LIVERMAN & MYRA HUANG

ARTISTS STUDIO “... it was a block of music that made you think, as the [Veterans] room does: Take note. Listen deeply. The rest of the world is not like this ... that sublime and exclusive room, almost too opulent for this world.”

October 10 & 11, 2021

Baritone Will Liverman brings his “velvet voice” (NPR) and “nuanced, heartfelt storytelling” (The Guardian) to the Armory’s Board of Officers Room alongside pianist Myra Huang for a program highlighting Black composers and writers as well as works from the traditional classical music canon. Liverman will perform songs by Black composers Brian McKnight, Damien Sneed, and Alma Androzzo. The program also includes works by Ravel, Rachmaninoff, and Strauss.

JAMIE BARTON & WARREN JONES

November 19 & 21, 2021

Charismatic American mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton partners with the incomparable Warren Jones on a program of Brahms, Schubert, and Heggie, with special attention to female composers. Recipient of the Beverly Sills Artist Award, Richard Tucker Award, and BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition (both Main and Song Prizes), and a Grammy nomination, Barton is navigating a huge career on the opera and recital stage. “Leader of a new generation of opera stars” (The New York Times), Barton brings this leadership to what promises to be stirring and engaging performances. Barton will showcase the sheer beauty of her voice in the intimate Board of Officers Room.

—The New York Times

UPCOMING PERFORMANCE CAROL SZYMANSKI & JAIMIE BRANCH October 13, 2021

One of today’s outstanding avant-garde trumpeters, jaimie branch, and Rome Prize-winning sculptor Carol Szymanski team up for the first time to present the Phonemophonic Alphabet Brass Band.

Szymanski and her obsession with the shape of sound will fill the intricate architecture of the Veterans Room with a collection of instrument sculptures consisting of 26 brass horns whose shapes are based on the alphabet. The aural animation of this installation will be led by branch and joined with a large ensemble of fellow brass musicians.

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JOIN THE ARMORY FRIEND $100 $70 is tax deductible » Members-only pre-sale or preferred access for performance tickets » Free admission for you and a guest to visual art installations » Invitations to visual art VIP preview parties, plus admission to installations for two » Discount on Armory Guided Tours*** » Discounts at local partnered restaurants » 20% discount on Members Subscription Packages

AVANT-GARDE STARTING AT $350 The Avant-Garde is a forward-thinking group for individuals from their 20s to 40s that offers a deeper, more intimate connection to the unique and creative concepts behind the Armory’s mission: to support unconventional works in the performing and visual arts that cannot be fully realized in a traditional proscenium theater, concert hall, or white wall gallery.

EDUCATION COMMITTEE STARTING AT $5,000

SUPPORTER $250

$200 is tax deductible All benefits of the Friend membership plus: » Fees waived on ticket exchanges* » Two free tickets to Armory guided tours *** » Discount on tickets to the Malkin Lecture Series, Artists Talks, and Public Programs*

ASSOCIATE $500 $370 is tax deductible All benefits of the Supporter membership plus: » Access to concierge ticket service » Free admission for two additional guests (a party of four) to Armory visual art installations » Two complimentary passes to an art fair**

BENEFACTOR $1,000 $780 is tax deductible All benefits of the Associate membership plus: » Recognition in Armory printed programs » No-wait, no-line ticket pickup at the patron desk » Handling fees waived on ticket purchases* » Invitation for you and a guest to a private Chairman’s Circle event » Two complimentary tickets to the popular Malkin Lectures*

CHAIRMAN'S CIRCLE STARTING AT $2,500 Chairman’s Circle members provide vital support for the Armory’s immersive arts and education programming and the restoration of our landmark building. In grateful appreciation of their support, they receive unique and exclusive opportunities to experience the Armory and interact with our world-class artists.

The Armory’s arts education program reaches thousands of public school students each year, immersing them in the creative process of exceptional visual and performing artists and teaching them to explore their own creative instincts. Education Committee members are invited to special events, meetings, and workshops that allow them to witness the students’ progress and contribute to the growth of the program.

ARTISTIC COUNCIL The Artistic Council is a leadership group that champions and supports groundbreaking “only at the Armory” productions with the world’s most sought-after artists. Members get an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at how works are brought to life by taking part in monthly events that include intimate discussions with artists, private performances, and special travel opportunities.

This group is by invitation only and is generously supported by Cartier.

LEGACY CIRCLE The Armory’s Legacy Circle is a group of individuals who support Park Avenue Armory through a vitally important source of future funding, a planned gift. These gifts will help support the Armory’s out-of-the-box artistic programming, Education Programs, and historical preservation into the future. Members of the Legacy Circle are invited to special behind-the-scenes events and intimate receptions to enrich their Armory experiences.and intimate receptions to enrich their Armory experiences.

Each membership applies to one household, and one membership card is mailed upon membership activation.

For more information about membership, please contact the Membership Office at (212) 616-3958 or members@armoryonpark.org.

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ARTISTIC COUNCIL Co-Chairs Noreen Buckfire Caryn Schacht and David Fox Heidi and Tom McWilliams

Anne-Victoire Auriault/Goldman Sachs Gives Abigail and Joseph Baratta Wendy Belzberg and Strauss Zelnick Sonja and Martin J. Brand Elizabeth Coleman Hélène and Stuyvesant Comfort Caroline and Paul Cronson Emme and Jonathan Deland Jennie L. and Richard K. DeScherer Krystyna Doerfler Lisa and Sanford B. Ehrenkranz The Lehoczky Escobar Family Adam R. Flatto Kim and Jeff Greenberg

Barbara and Andrew Gundlach Anita K. Hersh Wendy Keys Ken Kuchin and Tyler Morgan Almudena and Pablo Legorreta Christina and Alan MacDonald Jennifer Manocherian Kim Manocherian Gwen and Peter Norton Lily O’Boyle Valerie Pels Amanda J.T. and Richard E. Riegel Susan and Elihu Rose Janet C. Ross Stacy Schiff and Marc de La Bruyère

Diane and Tom Smith Joan and Michael Steinberg Emanuel Stern Mimi Klein Sternlicht Jon Stryker and Slobodan Randjelović Deborah C. van Eck Mary Wallach Peter Zhou and Lisa Lee

Wendy Belzberg and Strauss Zelnick Emme and Jonathan Deland Adam R. Flatto Ken Kuchin Heidi McWilliams Gwen Norton

Amanda Thompson Riegel Rebecca Robertson and Byron Knief Susan and Elihu Rose Francesca Schwartz Joan and Michael Steinberg

LEGACY CIRCLE Founding Members Angela and Wade F.B. Thompson

Co-Chairs Lisa and Sanford B. Ehrenkranz Marjorie and Gurnee Hart

SUPPORTERS

Park Avenue Armory expresses its deep appreciation to the individuals and organizations listed here for their generous support for its annual and capital campaigns.

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$250,000 to $499,999

$25,000 to $99,999

$10,000 to $24,999

Charina Endowment Fund Citi Empire State Local Development Corporation Marina Kellen French Barbara and Andrew Gundlach Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Malkin and The Malkin Fund, Inc. Richard and Ronay Menschel New York City Council and Council Member Daniel R. Garodnick New York City Department of Cultural Affairs New York State Assemblymember Dan Quart and the New York State Assembly The Pershing Square Foundation Susan and Elihu Rose The Arthur Ross Foundation and J & AR Foundation Joan and Joel Smilow The Thompson Family Foundation Wade F.B. Thompson* The Zelnick/Belzberg Charitable Trust Anonymous

American Express Michael Field and Doug Hamilton Adam R. Flatto Ford Foundation Ken Kuchin and Tyler Morgan The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation The Rockefeller Foundation Marshall Rose Family Foundation

The Avenue Association Emma Bloomberg The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Foundation Noreen and Ken Buckfire The Cowles Charitable Trust Caroline and Paul Cronson Emme and Jonathan Deland Krystyna Doerfler The Lehoczky Escobar Family Lorraine Gallard and Richard H. Levy Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation Andrew L. Farkas, Island Capital Group & C-III Capital Partners Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Janet Halvorson Anita K. Hersh Kaplen Brothers Fund The Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation Christine and Richard Mack Marc Haas Foundation Andrea Markezin Press and Joel Press NewYork-Presbyterian Lily O'Boyle Katharine Rayner Rhodebeck Charitable Trust Genie and Donald Rice Amanda J.T. and Richard E. Riegel Rebecca Robertson and Byron Knief The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation The Shubert Foundation Sydney and Stanley S. Shuman Amy and Jeffrey Silverman Sanford L. Smith Howard & Sarah D. Solomon Foundation Jon Stryker and Slobodan Randjelović TEFAF NY Tishman Speyer Robert and Jane Toll Mary Wallach Peter Zhou and Lisa Lee Anonymous (5)

AECOM Tishman Anne-Victoire Auriault / Goldman Sachs Gives Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation Harrison and Leslie Bains Marian and Russell Burke Elizabeth Coleman Con Edison Jennie L. and Richard K. DeScherer William F. Draper Teri Friedman and Babak Yaghmaie Barbara and Peter Georgescu Kiendl and John Gordon Kim and Jeff Greenberg Karen Herskovitz Lawrence and Sharon Hite The Charles & Lucille King Family Foundation Suzie and Bruce Kovner Leon Levy Foundation George S. Loening Christina and Alan MacDonald Steve and Sue Mandel Kim Manocherian Danny and Audrey Meyer Cynthia Woods Mitchell Fund of the National Trust for Historic Preservation The Donald R. Mullen Family Foundation, Inc. Nardello & Co. Michael Peterson Joan and Joel I. Picket Fiona and Eric Rudin May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc. Mrs. William H. Sandholm Lise Scott and D. Ronald Daniel Dr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Sculco Brian S. Snyder Michael and Veronica Stubbs Barbara Tober and Donald Tober* Anonymous (4)

$500,000 to $999,999 Bloomberg Philanthropies Lisa and Sanford B. Ehrenkranz Almudena and Pablo Legorreta The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Adam R. Rose and Peter R. McQuillan Donna and Marvin Schwartz Emanuel Stern

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$100,000 to $249,999 The Achelis and Bodman Foundations R. Mark and Wendy Adams Linda and Earle Altman Abigail and Joseph Baratta Booth Ferris Foundation Sonja and Martin J. Brand Hélène and Stuyvesant Comfort Howard Gilman Foundation Marjorie and Gurnee Hart Kirkland & Ellis LLP Mary T. Kush Leonard & Judy Lauder Fund Mr. and Mrs. Lester Morse National Endowment for the Arts New York State Assembly New York State Council on the Arts Stavros Niarchos Foundation Gwendolyn Adams Norton and Peter Norton Donald Pels Charitable Trust Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Mrs. Arthur Ross Caryn Schacht and David Fox Stacy Schiff and Marc de La Bruyère Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust Joan and Michael Steinberg M K Reichert Sternlicht Foundation Mr. William C. Tomson Deborah C. van Eck The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

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$5,000 to $9,999 Jody and John Arnhold Franklin and Marsha Berger Leslie Bluhm and David Helfand Nicholas Brawer Catherine and Robert Brawer Arthur and Linda Carter Mayree Clarke and Jeff Williams Betsy Cohn Jessie Ding Jeanne Donovan Fisher Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg Foundation Leland and Jane Englebardt Dr. Nancy Eppler-Wolff and Mr. John Wolff Mike and Beth Fascitelli The Felicia Fund Andrew and Theresa Fenster Mary Ann Fribourg Bart Friedman and Wendy A. Stein The Georgetown Company George and Patty Grunebaum Agnes Gund Molly Butler Hart and Michael D. Griffin Bill Lambert Fernand and Nicole Lamesch Chad A. Leat Denise Lefrak Robert Lehman Foundation Gail and Alan Levenstein Shelly and Tony Malkin James C. Marlas and Marie Nugent-Head Marlas Moncler usa Inc. Beth and Joshua Nash Enid Nemy, Dorothy Strelsin Foundation Jesse and Stéphanie Newhouse Michael and Elyse Newhouse David Orentreich, md / Orentreich Family Foundation pbdw Architects Susan Porter Anne and Skip Pratt Preserve New York, a grant program of Preservation League of New York The Ripple Foundation Ida and William Rosenthal Foundation Chuck and Stacy Rosenzweig Deborah and Chuck Royce Reed Rubin and Jane Gregory Rubin Seymour and Robyn Sammell Eva Sanchez-Ampudia and Cyrille Walter Susan and Charles Sawyers Claude Shaw and Lara Meiland-Shaw Lea Simonds Ted Snowdon Patricia Brown Specter Dr. and Mrs. Eugene E. Stark, Jr. Beatrice Stern The Jay and Kelly Sugarman Foundation Allen and Meghan Thorpe Michael Tuch Foundation L.F. Turner Ronald and Christie Ulrich Mr. and Mrs. Jan F. van Eck Anastasia Vournas and J. William Uhrig Saundra Whitney Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation, Inc. Gary and Nina Wexler Francis H. Williams and Keris A. Salmon W. Weldon and Elaine Wilson Maria Wirth Cynthia Young and George Eberstadt Judy Francis Zankel Bruce and Lois Zenkel Anonymous $2,500 to $4,999 Abigail Kirsch Catering David and Amy Abrams Allen Adler and Frances Beatty Susan Heller Anderson Jonathan and Marjaleena Berger Stephanie Bernheim Carolyn S. Brody Amanda M. Burden Mary and Brad Burnham Marissa Cascarilla Sommer Chatwin Dominick Coyne and Michael Phillips

Ellie and Edgar Cullman Richard and Barbara Debs Antoinette Delruelle and Joshua L. Steiner Anne Delaney Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Deborah and Ronald Eisenberg Foundation Edmée and Nicholas Firth Megan Flanigan Ella M. Foshay and Michael B. Rothfeld Gwen and Austin Fragomen Eleanor Friedman and Jonathan J. Cohen Emanuel E. Geduld Martin and Lauren Geller Sylvia Golden and Warren Friedman Robert S. Gregory Ian and Lea Highet Johanna Hudgens and Matthew Wilson Judith Jadow Ann Jones Jeanne Kanders Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation Nancy Kestenbaum and David Klafter The David L. Klein, Jr. Foundation Kameron Kordestani Douglas and Judith Krupp George & Lizbeth Krupp John Lambert and Ramona Boston Barbara and Richard Lane Lazarus Charitable Trust Phyllis Levin Gina Giumarra MacArthur Charles and Georgette Mallory Iris Z Marden Judith and Michael Margulies Marian Goodman Gallery Joanie Martinez-Rudkovsky Bonnie Maslin Nina B. Matis Diane and Adam E. Max* Peter and Leni May Constance and H. Roemer McPhee Robert and Stacey Morse Saleem and Jane Muqaddam Nancy Newcomb and John Hargraves Peter and Susan Nitze Kathleen O'Grady Robert Ouimette and Lee Hirsch Madison J. Papp Lee and Lori Parks Richard and Rose Petrocelli Phyllis Posnick and Paul Cohen Diana and Charles Revson Richenthal Foundation Alexandra Robertson Marisa Rose and Robin van Bokhorst Marjorie P. Rosenthal Bonnie J. Sacerdote Jane Fearer Safer Susan Savitsky Paul H. Scarbrough, Akustiks, llc.

Louisa Serene Schneider Benjamin Schor and Isabel Wilkinson Schor Nicholas and Shelley Schorsch Sara Lee and Axel Schupf Stephanie and Fred Shuman Denise Simon and Paulo Vieiradacunha Laura Skoler Shelley Sonenberg Daisy M. Soros Stephen and Constance Spahn Michael and Marjorie Stern Leila Maw Straus Studio Institute Ellen and Bill Taubman Thomas and Diane Tuft Union Square Events Christine van Itallie Ambassador William J. vanden Heuvel* and Mrs. Melinda vanden Heuvel Kate Whitney and Franklin Thomas Toni Young Zubatkin Owner Representation, llc Anonymous (4) $1,000 to $2,499 Marina Abramović Katie Adams Schaeffer Eric Altmann Diane Archer and Stephen Presser John and Jennifer Argenti Assouline-Lichten Foundation armoryonpark.org

Jenny & Michael Baldock Diana Barco Stephen Berger and Cynthia Wainwright Judy and Howard Berkowitz Richard Berndt and Marie-Camille Havard Elaine S. Bernstein Katherine and Marco Birch Hana and Michael Bitton Boehm Family Foundation Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Richard and Susan Braddock Mark and Anne Brennan John and Elaine Brouillard Dr. Joyce F. Brown and Mr. H. Carl McCall Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Brown Spencer Brownstone Cora Cahan Thomas and Ann Charters Alexandre and Lori Chemla Orla Coleman and Rikki Tahta Alexander Cooper Krista and James Corl Sophie Coumantaros Mimi Ritzen Crawford Andrew and Abby Crisses Charles and Norris Daniels John Charles and Nathalie Danilovich Richard and Peggy Danziger Luis y Cora Delgado Linda L Dennery David desJardins and Nancy Blachman Thomas and Elizabeth Dubbs Christopher Duda David and Frances Eberhart Foundation Inger McCabe Elliott Patricia Ellis Cristina Enriquez-Bocobo Dasha Epstein Femenella & Associates Robert and Kimia Finnerty Walter and Judith Flamenbaum Gail Flatto Barbara G. Fleischman Kristin Gamble Flood Michael and Jill Franco Betsy Frank Peter Frey and Carrie Shapiro Bruce and Alice Geismar Heather Hoyt Georges Sarah Jane and Trevor Gibbons Ryan Gillum Gregory Gilmartin Steven and Jan Golann Carol Gold Nina DeKay Grauer Jan M. Guifarro Frances and Gerard Guillemot Kathleen and Harvey Guion Nohra Haime Lana and Steve Harber In memory of Maria E. Hidrobo Kaufman William T. Hillman Bruce Hoffman Lily and Joel Hoffman Mr. Joseph C. Hoopes, Jr. Peter Hunt William and Weslie Janeway Morton and Linda Janklow Alan K. Jones Christopher and Hilda Jones Hon. Bruce M. Kaplan and Janet Yaseen Kaplan Adrienne Katz Jordan Katz Peter Kendall and Lisa Kelland Kay Kimpton Walker and Sandy Walker Claire King Jana and Gerold Klauer Major General Edward G. Klein, nyng (Ret.) Phyllis L. Kossoff Kate Krauss Barbara Landau Judith Langer Christopher and Alida Latham Ralph Lemon John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Match65 Larry and Mary McCaffrey Rebecca Gold Milikowsky Naveen and Courtney Nataraj Stephanie Neville and Alan Beller Deborah Nevins

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Lisbeth Oliver Dr. Catherine Orentreich Peter and Beverly Orthwein Katherine Peabody Sally Peterson and Michael Carlisle Brian and Emilia Pfeifler Geri and Lester Pollack Natalya Poniatowski David and Leslie Puth Martin and Anna Rabinowitz Jennifer Reardon Jill Reiter and Eric Riha Anthony and Susan Roberts David and Meg Roth Susan Rudin Nathalie Solange Regnault Jonathan and Rachel Schmerin Pat Schoenfeld Amy Schulman Laura Schwartz and Arthur Jussel Stephen and Amy Shapiro Gil Shiva Chia-jen Siao Sheree Silvey Bonnie Simon Albert Simons III Richard Smith Squadron A Foundation Stacy, Passionate about the Arts Colleen Stenzler Tricia Stevenson Bonnie and Tom Strauss Stella Strazdas and Henry Forrest Elizabeth Stribling and Guy Robinson Jos Stumpe and Karen van Bergen Maria Vecchiotti Alexander and Ashley von Perfall Caroline Wamsler and DeWayne Phillips Michael Weinstein Lauren and Andrew Weisenfeld Katherine Wenning and Michael Dennis Henrietta Whitcomb Shelby White Anonymous (6) List as of August 31, 2021 * Deceased

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