2014 Ringling International Arts Festival

2014 RINGLING INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL SARASOTA / BRADENTON, FL

Treviso

A full-service restaurant inside the Visitor Pavilion of the Museum – serving lunch and dinner 10/16/14 Thursday 11:00 AM – 9:00 PM 10/17/14 Friday 11:00 AM – 9:00 PM 10/18/14 Saturday 11:00 AM – 9:00 PM

Banyan Café

A grab-n-go café serving sandwiches, burgers, fish and chips, etc. across from the Circus Museum 10/16/14 Thursday 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM 10/17/14 Friday 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM 10/18/14 Saturday 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Starbucks

Proudly serving Starbucks coffee, pastries and sandwiches above the Museum store 10/16/14 Thursday 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM 10/17/14 Friday 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM 10/18/14 Saturday 10:00 AM – 5:30 PM

5401 Bay Shore Road Sarasota, FL 34243 941.359.5700 ringling.org

Steven High Executive Director

Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums GOVERNOR

The Honorable Rick Scott THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY

Dr. Garnett S. Stokes Interim President

OFFICE OF THE PROVOST

Dr. Sally E. McRorie Interim Provost

COLLEGE OF VISUAL ARTS, THEATRE & DANCE

Peter Weishar, Dean

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Steven High

On the cover: Keigwin + Company photo by Matt Murphy; The Table photo courtesy of the artist; Pedrito Martinez photo by Michael Weintrob.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Michael E. Urette, Chair Paul G. Hudson, Vice Chair Nancy Parrish, Treasurer Jane Skogstad, Secretary Martin A. Arch Madeleine H. Berman Thomas J. Charters Daniel J. Denton Rebecca Donelson George R. Ellis Kenneth J. Feld Frances D. Fergusson Darrel E. Flanel Casey Gonzmart Priscilla M. Greenfield Patrick J. Hennigan Jeffrey R. Hotchkiss Dorothy C. Jenkins Thomas W. Jennings Jr. Patricia R. Lombard Thomas B. Luzier Michael R. Pender Jr. Michéle D. Redwine Ina L. Schnell Linda Streit Howard C. Tibbals James B. Tollerton Clifford L. Walters, III EX-OFFICIO BOARD MEMBERS

Friends and Members, Welcome to the 6th Annual Ringling International Arts Festival. It promises to be a fantastic experience with artists hailing from Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East as well as the US, who touch on all aspects of performance, from classical piano to high-energy radio theater.

New this year are gatherings at the Visitors Pavilion Gatehouse Patio where food, drink, and impromptu conversations will occur. Jazz Sunsets on the Bay continue, and I extend many thanks to the Sarasota Jazz Society for providing the programming. I also encourage you to enjoy Treviso Restaurant and Morton’s Café while attending the Festival.

This year’s RIAF marks an important milestone as we embrace artistic oversight of the programming, having concluded five-year artistic direction from the Baryshnikov Arts Center. As we move forward, we are building new partnerships locally, nationally, and internationally which enable us to attract sought-after artists.

On the local level we are working with New College of Florida, who is providing us an additional venue at the Mildred Sainer Pavilion. Nationally, Dwight Currie, The Ringling’s Associate Director and Curator of Performance continues to work with the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance, and specifically with Kristy Edmunds, Executive and Artistic Director, Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA. I want to thank Kristy for providing guidance during this year of transition.

Internationally, we have entered into partnership with Stanford Makishi, Deputy Director and Director of Programs for the Asian Cultural Council.

In anticipation of the opening of our Asian Art Study Center, RIAF 2015 will offer a snapshot of today’s Asia through the vibrant work of a variety of dance, music, and theater artists. In a previous role, Stanford was the executive director of the Baryshnikov Art Center and played a significant role in the founding and development of RIAF. We are pleased to welcome him back and hope you will join us in 2015 for another amazing RIAF. Thanks finally go to all of you, our Festival patrons and loyal volunteers. It is through your support at the box office, through sponsorships, and tireless service that RIAF will continue. I wish you all a wonderful RIAF Experience.

Roberta Schaumleffel, Chair, Volunteer Services Advisory Council Barbara Swan, Chair, Docent Advisory Council

Steven High Executive Director

Photo by Matt Murphy

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Photo by Jimmy Katz

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The Ringling International Arts Festival is back with performers from across the US, Central and South America, the Middle East, Europe, and Great Britain in a full roster of dance, jazz, comic puppetry, world music, a touch of circus, and even intergalactic space adventure.

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Tangram

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Duo Amal

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The Pedrito Martinez Group

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Keigwin + Company

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The Table

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Vijay Iyer Trio

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The Intergalactic Nemesis

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Art Of Performance 2014 – 2015

WE INVITE YOU TO ENHANCE YOUR RIAF EXPERIENCE

BY ENJOYING THE FOLLOWING: GATEHOUSE GATHERINGS THU – SAT, OCT 16 – 18, 3:00 – 5:00 PM In between afternoon performances, stop by the Gatehouse Patio at The Ringling Visitors Pavilion for lite-bites, libations, and lively conversations.

No admission fee. Food and beverage are available for purchase.

JAZZ SUNSETS With Heffner & Hefner THU & FRI, OCT 16 & 17, 5:00 – 8:00 PM Join us under the tent on Sarasota Bay for the jazz of Stan ‘the Man’ Heffner and Katt Hefner. Free of charge with any Festival Stage production or Museum Admission ticket for the day.

Food and beverages are available for purchase.

THE RINGLING THU – FRI, OCT 16 – 17, 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM SAT, OCT 18, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM Those holding tickets to Festival stage productions may enjoy the galleries and gardens of The Ringling free of charge during RIAF 2014.

OPENING NIGHT WED, OCT 15

OPENING NIGHT PERFORMANCES

TANGRAM BY CRISTIANA CASADIO AND STEFAN SING

THE PEDRITO MARTINEZ GROUP FEATURING ARIACNE TRUJILLO

Historic Asolo Theater

Cook Theatre

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DUO AMAL: BISHARA HARONI AND YARON KOHLBERG Mildred Sainer Pavilion SEE PAGE 6

Tangram photo by Ben Hopper; Pedrito Martinez photo by Michael Weintrob; Duo Amal photo courtesy of the artist.

Duo Amal is exclusively represented by Itzik Becher, Aviv Productions Inc. www.aviv2.com itzik@aviv2.com.

COURTYARD CELEBRATION FEATURING BOLERO SARASOTA Inspired by Maurice Ravel’s iconic score, choreographer Larry Keigwin created his first Bolero in partnership with Nicole Wolcott for the 2007 American Dance Festival.

Since that time, KEIGWIN + COMPANY has collaborated with communities across the country from New York to Chicago to Santa Barbara to capture and celebrate the uniqueness of each locale.

Tonight, Sarasota joins that roster of communities with Bolero Sarasota – a choreographic event boasting a cast

of area dancers in a celebratory tribute to our city – all climaxing with the annual RIAF Fireworks Display.

Nightly rehearsals for Bolero Sarasota began Monday, September 29 – all leading to RIAF Opening Night 2014.

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TANGRAM

BY CRISTIANA CASADIO AND STEFAN SING PRODUCED BY AURORA NOVA Tangram redraws the boundaries between classical dance and circus. In this beautiful heart-felt duet between a ballet dancer and a juggler, the unlikely couple explores the trials and tribulations of a relationship with both furious passion and tenderness. Whether she is gracefully hanging from her partner’s fingertips like a marionette or he is shielding himself from balls that land on him like missiles, control shifts constantly. Tangram questions what it is to surrender to love and asks us, who is in control?

Tangram evolved from the word’s meaning – an ancient seven-shape puzzle, from which it’s possible to create almost every other shape. “With simple elements you can create infinite forms,” says Stefan Sing. “We have two bodies, with which we are able to create infinite movements and pictures.”

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CRISTIANA CASADIO began her career as a rhythmic gymnast on the Italian national team. She was named national champion in April 1993. After retiring from professional gymnastics, Cristiana embarked upon a period of intensive study of ballet and contemporary dance. She received several grants including those from the Merce Cunningham Studio and the Peridance Center in New York. From 1999 to 2009, Cristiana danced with ballet companies across Europe and took part in several productions directed by Vittoria Ottolenghi.

She was featured soloist in many productions, notably Balletto dell’Esperia directed by Paolo Mahovich. Cristiana has performed pieces by internationally celebrated choreographers including Marius Petipa, Bronislav Rosnos, Libor Vaculìk, Inmacolada Rubio, Hervè Costa, Eugenio Scigliano, Laura Corradi, and Paolo Mohovich.

STEFAN SING, a master of contemporary juggling, has been developing his unique style since 1985. Stefan completed his university studies in philosophy and German literature and went on to study performance technique and dance at ICAT in Berlin, Germany. From 2000 to 2006, Stefan performed with his solo act, Rain is Falling, across Europe after which he toured with the new circus company, Cellar and Sky. His duo juggling act, Catch Me If You Can with Phillip Meyhöfer played shows and festivals around the world. In 2009, Stefan was named a laureate by new circus company, Aiuaio of Jeunes Talents Cirque. In the same year, he created his new solo production, Pigeon, Why do you scare me? Stefan continues to teach at circus schools across Europe including ESAC in Brussels, Lido in Toulouse, and Circus Space in London.

Since 2009, Cristiana Casadio and Stefan Sing have co-created pieces on the cutting edge of new circus, dance, and physical theatre. They have been performing Tangram since October 2011.

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DUO AMAL BISHARA HARONI AND YARON KOHLBERG Presented in partnership with New College of Florida

FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828) Fantasia in F minor Allegro molto moderato Largo Scherzo. Allegro vivace Finale. Allegro molto moderato AVNER DORMAN (1975 - ) Karsilama DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975) Concertino for two pianos in A minor Op. 94 Adagio Allegretto Adagio Allegro Adagio Allegretto SERGEI RACHMANINOFF (1873-1943) Suite No. 1 Fantaisie-Tableaux for two pianos Op. 5 Barcarolle Allegretto in G minor La nuit... L’amour... Adagio sostenuto in D major Les Larmes Largo di molto in G minor Pâques Allegro maestoso in G minor

Duo Amal is exclusively represented by Itzik Becher, Aviv Productions, Inc. www.aviv2.com itzik@aviv2.com Photo courtesy of artist

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Protégés of Maestro Zubin Mehta, Palestinian Bishara Haroni and Israeli Yaron Kohlberg decided to join forces for a peace concert at the Oslo Opera House in 2011. The concert’s tremendous success resulted in a permanent partnership, aptly titled Duo Amal – a musical collaboration that transcends political and national differences. Amal, the Arabic word for ‘hope,’ reflects the meaningful message behind this duo’s work.

Together, they are not only a unique collaboration, but also aim to spread the urgent message for peace, within the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Duo Amal have performed before enthusiastic audiences in many significant venues worldwide. Among these are the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, Beethovenfest Bonn, Melbourne Arts Festival, Beijing Concert Hall, Tokyo’s Musashino Center, and Korea’s Goyang Center of the Arts. They have also performed with some of the world’s leading orchestras, such as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

Known for their mixture of humor, playfulness, and absolute meticulousness, Duo Amal are rapidly becoming a highlight in the international scene of classical music and a true testament that music can indeed break through the greatest of boundaries.

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YARON KOHLBERG, born in 1983, is the winner of many prestigious international prizes, including the second prize in the 2007 Cleveland International Piano Competition and first prizes in the Shostakovich Competition in Hanover and the Parnassos International Competition in Monterrey. Venues in which he performed include Carnegie Hall in New York, the Kremlin in Moscow, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the Beethovenhalle in Bonn, Severance Hall in Cleveland, Salle Cortot and Les Invalides in Paris, the United Nations hall in Geneva, and Bellas Artes in Mexico City. He has appeared as soloist with major orchestras around the world and with all the leading orchestras in Israel, including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Jerusalem and Haifa Symphony Orchestras, the Camerata, and the Raanana Symphonette. He performs regularly in chamber music concerts with the American duo Parnas and with Danish cellist Toke Moldrup. He has collaborated with leading Israeli chamber music groups including the Ariel String Quartet, Percadu, the Quartet for Contemporary Music, and the Carmel Quartet. His piano teachers are Luise Yoffe, Eitan Globerson, and Arie Vardi.

BISHARA HARONI, born in 1983, concertizes regularly as a soloist and chamber musician, and collaborates with major orchestras, conductors, and instrumentalists. As a concert soloist he has enjoyed associations with orchestras in Europe, the United States, Asia, and the Middle East, and has recently performed as a soloist with the London Philharmonic under the baton of Maestro Lorin Maazel, with a chamber music ensemble with Maestro Daniel Barenboim, and with the Israel Philharmonic under the baton of Maestro Zubin Mehta.

Haroni has given recitals in several major halls in the world including Carnegie Hall in New York. He performs frequently in international chamber music festivals, and has played concerts with Guy Braunstein and Daishin Kashimoto, concertmasters of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. This season Haroni has been invited by Sir Simon Rattle to perform with the first players of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in a chamber music series. He will be also touring as a soloist with Maestro Daniel Barenboim in Salzburg festival and as a chamber musician at the BBC-Proms in the UK. His piano teachers are Esther Balasha, Eitan Globerson, and Arie Vardi.

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THE PEDRITO MARTINEZ GROUP FEATURING ARIACNE TRUJILLO The Pedrito Martinez Group has its roots planted firmly in the Afro-Cuban Rumba tradition and in the bata rhythms and vocal chants of the music of Yoruba and Santeria. Ben Ratliff summed it up aptly for the New York Times calling it, “complex, blenderized Africa-to-the-New-World funk.”

Since its formation in the current lineup in 2008, the group has developed into an extraordinarily tight and creative unit with a home base gig in Midtown Manhattan at Guantanamera. They have built a fan base that includes Steve Gadd, Ravi Coltrane, Taj Mahal, Eric Clapton, John Scofield, Roger Waters, Derek Trucks, Herlin Riley, and Will Lee. The Pedrito Martinez Group has self-released two live albums. An album by Pedrito Martinez, Rumba de la Isla, featuring the music of flamenco great, Camarón de la Isla was released on Calle54/Sony in March 2013.

Their first studio album, The Pedrito Martinez Group, was released, October 8, 2013 on Motema Music. The album was produced by Steve Gadd and Pedrito Martinez and features special guests Wynton Marsalis, John Scofield, Steve Gadd, Marc Quinones and Gary Schreiner.

The Pedrito Martinez Group has appeared at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Apollo Theater, The Newport Jazz Festival, globalFest, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, TED Conference and TEDx, The Montreal Jazz Festival, The Red Sea Festival, Montreux Jazz Fest, The Sydney Festival, Bonnaroo, Yoshi’s/San Francisco, The Umbria Jazz Festivals, Saratoga Jazz Festival, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival/San Francisco, Festival Internationale, Playboy Jazz Festival, SF Jazz, The Barbican, The Jazz Standard and Joe’s Pub NYC.

Photo by Micheal Weintrob

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PEDRITO MARTINEZ was born in Havana, Cuba, September 12, 1973. He began his musical career at the age of 11, performing as vocalist and percussionist playing with such Cuban legends as Tata Güines, Muñequitos de Matanzas. In 1998, he was brought to Canada by Jane Bunnett to tour with her group, Spirits of Havana. His decision to remain in North America to pursue his career proved to be an auspicious one when, two years later, the annual Thelonious Monk Institute Competition showcased AfroLatin Hand Drumming for the first time ever; he entered and won first place.

Martinez was a member of the highly successful Afro-Cuban/ Afro-Beat band, Yerba Buena with which he recorded two albums and toured the world opening for bands including the Dave Matthews Band, Willie Nelson, and Ray Charles. In addition, he has also lent his talents to more than one-hundred records and collaborated with artist such as Paquito D’Rivera, Issac Delgado, Eliane Elias, Stefon Harris, Steve Turre, Eddie Palmieri, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Conrad Herwig, Meshell Ndegeocello, Bill Summers and Los Hombres Calientes, Arturo Chico O’Farrill, Bebo Valdés, Cassandra Wilson, Joe Lovano, and Sting (for his rainforest benefit with Elton John and Bruce Springsteen). He was also featured in the documentary film on Cuban music, Calle 54, and his singing and percussion playing were featured in the 2011 Academy Award-nominated film, Chico and Rita.

A scholarship from Berklee College of Music brought bassist ÁLVARO BENAVIDES to the United States from his native Venezuela. Like Trujillo, he is a brilliant soloist with unshakeable timing that allows him to shoulder the entire groove when the rest of the musicians drop out, or to power the band to a devastating bomba climax with wicked thumps, slaps and slides that congeal and combust with Pedrito’s cajón to produce as powerful and uplifting a rhythmic surge as the largest and most aggressive Cuban bands.

Photo by Tom Ehrlich

Born in Havana, ARIACNE TRUJILLO began her career as a child-prodigy concert pianist. Blessed with perfect pitch, she was able to graduate with honors from Cuba’s hyper-competitive ISA conservatory while working as a singer and dancer at the legendary Cabaret Tropicana. Since arriving in New York City in 2002, Ariacne has performed or recorded with Paul Simon (Song of the Capeman Brooklyn Academy of Music, 2008), Paquito D’Rivera, Johnny Pacheco, Oscar de Leon, Luis Enrique, Isaac Delgado, and Savion Glover.

Such impressive bona fides aside, the most important qualities Trujillo brings to the mix are her ability to improvise both form and content and her truly relentless sense of time. It is standard Cuban practice to break down to piano, clave, and kick drum, but PMG repeatedly breaks down to piano – just piano – and you have to experience it in concert to believe the unstoppable groove that Trujillo lays down – often while singing lead in her powerful and endlessly flexible voice.

The range of expression in Ariacne’s playing and singing encompasses classical, Afro-Cuban, opera, ballet, blues, jazz R&B, soul, and funk. In 2005, Ariacne joined The Pedrito Martinez Group. Ari and Pedrito have since developed an astoundingly close musical connection.

Born in Perú and raised in New York, JHAIR SALA spent his formative years studying intensively with Pedrito Martínez having met Pedrito when he was ten years old. He is now in high demand as a session musician and bandleader in his own right, but there is an uncanny magic when he plays with Pedrito. Jhair’s touch, timing, and feel are truly remarkable, and with literally thousands of hours of studying, performing, and jamming together, the two drummers play as one.

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KEIGWIN + COMPANY ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: LARRY KEIGWIN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Andrea Lodico Welshons LIGHTING DESIGNER: Burke Wilmore STAGE MANAGER: Lauren Parrish DANCERS: Matthew Baker, Ashley Browne, Brandon Cournay, Kile Hotchkiss, Emily Schoen, Jaclyn K. Walsh

Keigwin + Company: Ashley Browne, Brandon Cournay, Kile Hotchkiss, Emily Schoen, Matthew Baker, Jaclyn Walsh Photo by Erin Baiano

MATTRESS SUITE STRAIGHT DUET (2003) Choreography: Larry Keigwin & Nicole Wolcott Music: Sposa Son Disprezzata by Antonio Vivaldi Lighting Design: Burke Wilmore Costumes: Salvation Army Dancers: Ashley Browne & Matthew Baker SUNSHINE (2001) Choreography: Larry Keigwin Music: Ain’t No Sunshine by Bill Withers Lighting Design: Burke Wilmore Costume: Underwear Dancer: Matthew Baker THREE WAYS (2004) Choreography: Larry Keigwin Music: La Traviata Di Provenza il mr, il suol by Giusppe Verdi Light Design: Burke Wilmore Costumes: Elizabeth Payne Dancers: Matthew Baker, Brandon Cournay & Kile Hotchkiss AT LAST (2004) Choreography: Larry Keigwin & Nicole Wolcott Music: At Last by Mack Gordon & Harry Warren Lighting Design: Burke Wilmore Costumes: Elizabeth Payne Dancer: Ashley Browne Mattress Suite was funded by and created in residence at SUMMERDANCE Santa Barbara.

Performances by KEIGWIN + COMPANY at The Ringling International Arts Festival are funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs.

CONTACT SPORT (2012) Choreography: Larry Keigwin Music: Monotonous, Lyrics by June Carroll, Music by Arthur Siegel, Performed by Eartha Kitt; C’mon a My House, Written by Ross Bagdasarian & William Saroyan, Performed by Eartha Kitt It Was a Very Good Year, Written by Ervin Drake, Performed by Eartha Kitt Easy to Love, Written by Cole Porter; Performed by Eartha Kitt Lighting Design: Burke Wilmore Costumes: Marion Talan Dancers: Matthew Baker, Brandon Cournay, Kile Hotchkiss & Jaclyn K. Walsh Contact Sport was commissioned by the American Dance Festival with support from the SHS Foundation.

LOVE SONGS (2006) Choreography: Larry Keigwin with the Company Lighting Design: Burke Wilmore Costumes: Fritz Masten Music: Blue Bayou and Crying by Roy Orbison Dancers: Emily Schoen & Brandon Cournay Music: Baby, I Love You and I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You) by Aretha Franklin Dancers: Jaclyn K. Walsh & Matthew Baker Music: Nina Simone, Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood and I Put a Spell on You Dancers: Ashley Browne & Kile Hotchkiss Love Songs was created in part with generous support from The Greenwall Foundation.

TRIPTYCH (2009) Choreography: Larry Keigwin Music: Triptych by Jonathan Melville Pratt Lighting Design: Burke Wilmore Costumes: Karen Young Dancers: Matthew Baker, Ashley Browne, Brandon Cournay, Kile Hotchkiss, Emily Schoen, Jaclyn K. Walsh Triptych was created in part with the generous support of The Greenwall Foundation and The Royce Family Fund.

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Founded in 2003 by Artistic Director Larry Keigwin, KEIGWIN + COMPANY creates and presents Keigwin’s electrifying brand of contemporary dance. K+C reaches national and international audiences and invigorates diverse communities with a refreshing vision of dance that embodies a theatrical sensibility of wit, style, and heart. Education and community projects seek to physically engage audiences and aspiring dancers in movement and the choreographic process, and bring opportunities for individuals to become more invested in dance. Since K+C’s premiere performance at Joyce Soho in 2003, Keigwin has created 29 dances, including the acclaimed large-scale community project, Bolero, which has been commissioned in seven communities across the country, and Runaway (2008), a fashion-inspired

LARRY KEIGWIN (Artistic Director)

Theatre in San Francisco, and the new production of Rent, for

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and back. He founded KEIGWIN + COMPANY in 2003 and as Artistic Director, Keigwin has led the company as it has performed at theaters and dance festivals throughout New York City and across the country. KEIGWIN + COMPANY, which celebrated Photo by Erin Baiano

choreographic ride, proclaimed “a thrilling coup d’theater”

by James Wolcott of Vanity Fair. Over the past decade, K+C has presented performances throughout New York City and nationwide at venues including The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Summerdance Santa Barbara, New York City Center, The Joyce Theater, the American Dance Festival, Bates Dance Festival, and more. K+C celebrated its 10th Anniversary Season in 2013, generously supported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. In 2014, the company looks forward to engaging broad audiences at Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina, the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida, Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, and much more.

its 10th Anniversary in 2013, presents Keigwin’s electrifying brand of contemporary dance on a myriad of stages including, The Kennedy Center, The Joyce Theater, Works & Process at the Guggenheim, New York City Center, among others. Since his company’s

premiere performance at Joyce Soho in 2003, Keigwin has created dozens of dances for himself and his dancers, as well as for the Royal New Zealand Ballet, The Martha Graham Dance Company, New York Choreographic Institute, The Juilliard School, Vail International Dance Festival, and many others. His work in musical theater includes choreography for the 2011 production of the musical Tales of the City at the American Conservatory

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Keigwin has designed and choreographed special events including Fashion’s Night Out: The Show in New York, which was produced by Vogue magazine and featured more than 150 of the industry’s top models. Keigwin also has mounted several versions of Bolero, his acclaimed large-scale community project that has been commissioned by communities across the country.

Keigwin has created Keigwin Kabaret, a fusion of modern dance, vaudeville, and burlesque presented by the Public Theater at Joe’s Pub and by Symphony Space. As a dancer, Keigwin has danced at the Metropolitan Opera in Doug Varone’s Le Sacre Du Printemps and Julie Taymor’s The Magic Flute, in addition to his work with Mark Dendy (receiving a Bessie Award in 1998 for his performance in Dream Analysis), Jane Comfort, John Jasperse, Doug Elkins, Zvi Gotheiner, and David Rousseve. He appeared in the Broadway show Dance of the Vampires, the Off-Broadway show The Wild Party and the Julie Taymor, Oscar nominated film Across the Universe. He is a co-founder of the Green Box Arts Festival in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado, a multi-disciplinary festival designed to increase cultural opportunities in the region, as well as provide creative residencies to young, emerging choreographers. Keigwin is a member of the Stage Directors & Choreographers Society.

KEIGWIN + COMPANY MATTHEW BAKER (Dancer) originates from Ann Arbor, Michigan, where, before launching into the dance world, he began his movement exploration as a gymnast and soccer player. Prior to relocating to New York City, Matthew received his BFA in Dance from Western Michigan University in April 2008. Aside from his work with K+C, Matthew currently dances for Kyle Abraham/ Abraham.In.Motion. Since joining the company in February 2009, Matthew has loved dancing and learning with the artists of K+C and is looking forward to the discoveries still to come.

He would like to thank his family and friends for their love and continued support.

ASHLEY BROWNE (Company Manager & Dancer) is a native of Los Angeles, California and a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she received a BFA in Dance.

Ashley has enjoyed creating and performing with KEIGWIN + COMPANY since 2007. Dance critic Simone Sobers raves, “Ashley Browne stands out as a stunning creature” in the 2010 premiere of Keigwin’s Bird Watching. Ashley has been an arts administrator and bookkeeper for the past four years and is currently working with Fourth Arts Block, No Longer Empty, and Gotham Arts Exchange.

BRANDON COURNAY (Dancer) is originally from Detroit, Michigan and has had an exciting journey performing in both commercial and concert dance. Brandon has performed in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular; can be seen in TV commercials/industrials for Puma, Sesame Street, and Target; and is featured in the dance film, Musical Chairs. Brandon has performed with the New York Theatre Ballet, the Mark Morris Dance Group, Morphoses and is currently dancing with KEIGWIN + COMPANY. Brandon received his BFA from The Juilliard School.

KILE HOTCHKISS (Dancer) was born in Half Moon Bay, California and trained with Bruce Alan Ewing as a member of Repertory Dance Theater in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He studied at the Joffrey Ballet School on scholarship, at LINES Ballet School, and at The Ailey School in the Fellowship Program. Kile graduated from the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program in 2010. He is also a member of TAKE Dance and Skybetter and Associates. Kile was a guest dancer in Runaway for the 2010 season and is thrilled to be a part of KEIGWIN + COMPANY. EMILY SCHOEN (Dancer) is from Wisconsin where she began her training under Kellie Plath. She attended the University of Arizona where she graduated summa cum laude with honors, with her BFA in Dance and a BS in Nutritional Sciences. She has danced for the Metropolitan Opera in Mark Morris’ production of Orfeo, Nejla Yatkin/NY2 Dance, Nicholas Andre Dance, Lauren Hale, and the Steps Repertory Ensemble. She has graced stages in Germany, Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama, and Russia.

In addition to performing, Emily is a working choreographer, creating her own work in New York and fulfilling commissions in Arizona and Wisconsin. Dance Magazine chose Emily as one of their “Top 25 to Watch” in 2011.

JACLYN K. WALSH (Dancer) began dancing at Walker’s Dance in Lowell, Massachusetts, furthering her training at the Walnut Hill School, where she had the privilege to perform in Germany and France. Jaclyn is a BFA graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she received the Tisch Achievement Scholarship for Dance. Her choreography has been presented at The Joyce Theater and various festivals throughout New York City. She teaches at Broadway Dance Center as well as master classes, and judges competitions across the country. Jaclyn is currently a member of Brook Notary’s The Pulse Project and KEIGWIN + COMPANY.

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BLIND SUMMIT PRESENTS

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THE TABLE DIRECTOR: Mark Down PUPPET: Nick Barnes DEVISED AND DIRECTED BY BLIND SUMMIT THEATRE CAST: Mark Down , Sean Garratt , Laura Caldow CO-DEVISERS: Nick Barnes, Sarah Calver, Mark Down, Sean Garratt, Mabel Jones, Irena Strateiva, Ivan Thorley MUSIC: Lemez and Fridel ARTISTIC CONSULTANT: Andrew Dawson PRODUCER: Stephanie Hay TECHNICAL MANAGER: Fergus Waldron COMPANY MANAGER: Fiona Clift ADMINISTRATOR: Andrew Hughes

ABOUT BLIND SUMMIT Blind Summit’s mission is to present new puppets, in new places, in new ways to new audiences. Founded in 1997 by Mark Down & Nick Barnes, we are dedicated to reinventing puppetry for modern adult audiences and pioneering new methods of performing with puppets. Blind Summit draws on the traditional Japanese form of Bunraku puppetry in which three puppeteers combine to operate one beautifully crafted puppet. The puppets communicate through finely detailed movement and gesture, creating an intimate and intense personal world where the characters’ thoughts become physically realized in the action on the stage. The power of puppetry is in the simplicity of their movements combined with the complexities of their implications. They live in a world where everything may suddenly come alive, or suddenly die.

Supported By Arts Council England And Jackson’s Lane.

Based on an original commission by YAD Arts and JCC. Blind Summit would also like to thank Jeremy Gordon, Josephine Burton, Mekella Broomberg, Maeve O’Neill and Rich Howell for their roles in the creation of The Table.

Moses meets and greets the audience after each show for photos and encourages them to send them in using this hashtag: #poseswithmoses Facebook: www.facebook.com/blind Summit Website: www.blindsummit.com You tube: www.youtube.com/blindsummittheatre Photo courtesy of artist

The puppet in this show was originally made for another show - our adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 - in which he was going to play the leader of the secret underground resistance, Emmanuel Goldstein. He was based on a Nazi anti-semitic propaganda poster. We didn’t use him in the show in the end, partly because he seemed too cute.

Six months later, we were commissioned by the Jewish Community Centre in London to make a show for something called The Other Seder. The Seder is part of the Passover, a meal shared with family, friends, strangers, in which Jews remember their faith by re-enacting the story of the Exodus guided by a book called the Haggadeh. This is the meal that Jesus is celebrating as the Last Supper in Christianity. One of the strange aspects of this retelling is that they leave Moses out of the story to emphasize that God is the rescuer of the Jews.

As we studied Moses, we became more and more fascinated by his absolute mortality, his lack of divinity. He is a prophet, a mouthpiece for God, but in no way is he more than human.

This is most clear in the story of his death which God himself undertakes, burying him in an unmarked grave. The whole story is about asserting God’s divinity and Moses’s humanity.

This existential inquiry into the nature of man and of God seemed to be a very suitable one for exploring with a puppet and three puppeteers.

Along the way we also referred, of course, to Beckett, Sartre, Yves Klein, and lots of stand up comedians. Our idea was to put Moses back on the table in puppet form. Audiences loved our puppet Moses immediately and in so doing rehabilitated a hateful propaganda image.

Mark Down, Artistic Director

MARK DOWN (Director and Performer) is Artistic Director of Blind Summit Theatre, which he founded in 1997 with Nick Barnes.

He originally qualified as a doctor and retrained as an actor at Central School of Speech and Drama in London. For Blind Summit, Mark is a director, performer, and writer.

NICK BARNES (Puppet maker and designer) is an Associate Artist of Blind Summit Theatre, which he originally founded in 1997 with Mark Down. Nick studied drama at Hull University in England, and theater design at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. He trained in puppetry with Philippe Genty at the International Institute of the Marionette in France. Nick designs and makes puppets for theatre, opera, and musicals at home and abroad, including Blind Summit.

SEAN GARRATT (Performer) has been a performer with Blind Summit for over two years. He trained at East 15 Acting School, graduating in 2008. At that time he also took a first step into comedy, trained by the late Ken Campbell in competitive comedy improvisation.

Now his work includes performing, puppetry, movement direction, sketch comedy, improvisation, television and radio.

LAURA CALDOW (Performer) originally trained in classical ballet at the Central School of Ballet and works as a freelance artist in contemporary dance, physical theatre, opera and film, as a performer and choreographer. She began working with Blind Summit in 2008 in Will Tuckett’s Faeries at the Royal Opera House and subsequently worked with the company on Madam Butterfly and The Puppet Monologues.

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VIJAY IYER TRIO

MILDRED SAINER PAVILION THU

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VIJAY IYER PIANO STEPHAN CRUMP BASS MARCUS GILMORE DRUMS Presented in partnership with New College of Florida Acclaimed pianist-composer, Vijay Iyer and his colleagues Marcus Gilmore (drums) and Stephan Crump (bass) have updated the classic jazz piano trio, creating a powerful, cutting-edge new music that is firmly grounded in groove and pulse, but also rhythmically intricate and highly interactive; fluidly improvisational, yet uncannily synchronized; emotionally compelling, as well as innovative in texture, style, and musical form. Their original music is influenced by the jazz piano titans such as Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, Andrew Hill and Cecil Taylor; the classical sonorities of composers such as Reich, Ligeti, Debussy, and Bartok; a wide range of rock, soul, funk, hip-hop, dub, electronica, and African music; and the rhythmic vitality and melodic nuance of the music of Iyer’s Indian heritage.

Howard Reich wrote in The Chicago Tribune: “The three players practically have become a single rhythmic organism... one of the great rhythm units of the day.”

March 2012 marked the release of The Vijay Iyer Trio’s Accelerando on ACT Music + Vision, and nine months later the album reached #1 in Rhapsody’s annual critics poll, JazzTimes annual critics poll, and topped ‘Best of Year’ lists for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio, PopMatters.com, DownBeat, and on CMJ Radio. This trio is also documented on Vijay’s albums Reimagining (Savoy/ Pi, 2006), Tragicomic (Sunnyside, 2008), and Historicity (ACT, 2009).

VIJAY IYER IS A STEINWAY ARTIST

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Grammy-nominated composer-pianist, VIJAY IYER (pronounced “VID-jay EYE-yer”) was described by Pitchfork as “one of the most interesting and vital young pianists in jazz today,” by the Los Angeles Weekly as “a boundless and deeply important young star,” and by Minnesota Public Radio as “an American treasure.”

He was recently named DownBeat Magazine’s 2014 Pianist of the Year, a 2013 MacArthur Fellow, and a 2012 Doris Duke Performing Artist. Iyer received an unprecedented “quintuple crown” in the 2012 DownBeat International Critics Poll (winning Jazz Artist of the Year, Pianist of the Year, Jazz Album of the Year, Jazz Group of the Year, and Rising Star Composer categories), a “quadruple crown” in the JazzTimes extended critics poll (winning Artist of the Year, Acoustic/Mainstream Group of the Year, Pianist of the Year, and Album of the Year), the Pianist of the Year Awards for both 2012 and 2013 from the Jazz Journalists Association, and the 2013 ECHO Award (the “German Grammy”) for best international pianist.

In March 2014, Iyer released Mutations, his “spectacular debut on the ECM label” (ABC Spain), featuring his original music for piano, string quartet and electronics. The first album to document his chamber works, Mutations “extends and deepens his range... showing a delicate, shimmering, translucent side of his playing” (Chicago Tribune). His previous release, Holding It Down: The Veterans’ Dreams Project (2013), is his third collaboration with poet Mike Ladd, based on the dreams of veterans of color from America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It was hailed as #1 Jazz Album of the Year by the Los Angeles Times and described in JazzTimes as “impassioned, haunting, [and] affecting.”

Two tremendously acclaimed and influential albums, Accelerando (2012) and Historicity (2009), both feature the Vijay Iyer Trio (Iyer, piano; Marcus Gilmore, drums; Stephan Crump, bass), recently described by PopMatters as “the best band in jazz.”

Accelerando was voted #1 Jazz Album of the Year for 2012 in three separate critics polls surveying hundreds of critics worldwide, hosted by Downbeat, Jazz Times, and Rhapsody, respectively, and also was chosen as jazz album of the year by NPR, the Los Angeles Times, PopMatters, and Amazon.com.

Historicity was a 2010 Grammy Nominee for Best Instrumental Jazz Album, and was named #1 Jazz Album of 2009 in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Detroit Metro Times, National Public Radio, PopMatters.com, the Village Voice Jazz Critics Poll, and the Downbeat International

Critics Poll. The trio won the 2010 Echo Award for best international ensemble and the 2012 Downbeat Critics Poll for jazz group of the year.

Previously Iyer was voted the 2010 Musician of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association, and named one of 2011’s “50 Most Influential Global Indians” by GQ India. His other honors include the Greenfield Prize, the Alpert Award in the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, the India Abroad Publisher’s Special Award for Excellence, and numerous composer commissions. Iyer’s many collaborators include Steve Coleman, Wadada Leo Smith, Roscoe Mitchell, Butch Morris, George Lewis, Amina Claudine Myers, William Parker, Graham Haynes, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Rez Abbasi, Craig Taborn, Ambrose Akinmusire, Liberty Ellman, Steve Lehman, Matana Roberts, Tyshawn Sorey, Miya Masaoka, Pamela Z, John Zorn, Mari Kimura, Dead Prez, DJ Spooky, Himanshu Suri of Das Racist, High Priest of Antipop Consortium, Karsh Kale, Suphala, and Talvin Singh; filmmakers Haile Gerima, Prashant Bhargava, and Bill Morrison; choreographer Karole Armitage; and poets Mike Ladd, Amiri Baraka, Charles Simic, and Robert Pinsky. His compositions have been commissioned and performed by Bang on a Can All-Stars, The Silk Road Ensemble, ETHEL, Brentano String Quartet, JACK Quartet, American Composers Orchestra, Hermès Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble, and Imani Winds.

A polymath whose career has spanned the sciences, the humanities and the arts, Iyer received an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in the cognitive science of music from the University of California, Berkeley. He has published in Journal of Consciousness Studies, Wire, Music Perception, JazzTimes, Journal of the Society for American Music, Critical Studies in Improvisation, in the anthologies Arcana IV, Sound Unbound, Uptown Conversation, The Best Writing on Mathematics: 2010, and in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies. Iyer has taught at Manhattan School of Music, New York University, and the New School, and he is the Director of The Banff Centre’s International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music, an annual 3-week program in Alberta, Canada founded by Oscar Peterson. Iyer recently finished a multi-year residency with San Francisco Performances, performing and working with schools and community organizations. In 2014 he began a permanent appointment at Harvard University’s Department of Music, as the Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts.

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VIJAY IYER TRIO

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Memphis-bred, Grammy-nominated bassist/composer STEPHAN CRUMP is a rising star on the New York music scene. Shunning barriers of genre, he has performed and recorded in the US and across the globe with a diverse list of artists - from late blues legend Johnny Clyde Copeland to Portishead’s Dave McDonald, Patti Austin, The Violent Femmes’ Gordon Gano, Big Ass Truck, Dave Liebman, Billy Hart, Sonny Fortune, Greg Osby, Kenny Werner, The Mahavishnu Project and Bobby Previte, among others. As a longtime collaborator with adventurous jazz composers (since 1999 with Vijay Iyer) as well as guitar wizard Jim Campilongo and radiant singer-songwriter Jen Chapin, he has become known for the elegance and purposeful groove of his acoustic and electric bass playing, and for transforming his instrument into a speaking entity with magnetic pull on audiences. As a composer, Crump is emerging as a singular voice, one who “avoids obvious routes but manages never to lose his way” (New York Times). His music can be heard in numerous films and on his six critically acclaimed albums, the latest of which, Reclamation, featuring his all-string Rosetta Trio, has been lauded by The New Yorker for its “ingenious originals”, named one of the year’s best by NPR and declared “a low-key marvel” by JazzTimes. Crump launched his solo performance

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career as an invited artist at the 2009 International Society of Bassists conference and has since released two recordings documenting his free-improvised duo collaborations with both alto saxophonist Steve Lehman and pianist James Carney. He is currently working on another duo collaboration with visionary guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson.

MARCUS GILMORE (born 1986) was inspired by the music of his grandfather, legendary drummer Roy Haynes, who gave him his first set of drums at age 10. He has performed around the world and recorded with some of today’s best known contemporary artists, including Chick Corea, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Natalie Cole, Clark Terry, Cassandra Wilson, Steve Coleman, Ravi Coltrane, Dave Douglas, John Clayton, Christian Scott, Flying Lotus and many others. In 2012, DownBeat magazine named him its top Rising Star Drummer in its long-running Critics Poll. Gilmore joined Vijay Iyer’s group in 2003, at the age of 16. He also leads his own ensemble, and recently debuted a commissioned suite of his music, titled American Perspicacity.

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Comic books, sound-effects gadgets, posters, shirts, and Zygonian Slime available in the lobby at intermission

THE INTERGALACTIC NEMESIS BOOK 1: TARGET EARTH A LIVE-ACTION GRAPHIC NOVEL

and after the performance. The cast

WRITTEN BY CHAD NICHOLS AND JASON NEULANDER

will be signing books after the show.

ADAPTED AND DIRECTED BY JASON NEULANDER ADAPTED FROM THE RADIO DRAMA BY Ray Patrick Colgan, Jessica Reisman, Julia Edwards, and Lisa D’Amour BASED ON AN ORIGINAL IDEA BY RAY PATRICK COLGAN COMIC BOOK ARTWORK: Tim Doyle COLOR ART: Paul Hanley and Lee Duhig PRODUCTION DESIGNED: Jason Neulander SOUND EFFECTS: Created by Buzz Moran IMPROVISED SCORE: Graham Reynolds SOUND ENGINEERING: George R. Stumberg IV COMPANY MANAGER: Jessie Douglas CAST (in order of appearance) RACHEL LANDON Molly Sloan, Bird, Lead Hive Voice, Aughy, Claire, Queen of Zygon, Little Girl BROCK ENGLAND Timmy Mendez, Assassin, Jeeves, Shopkeeper, Clint, X-7, Silcron, Zygonian guard JEFFERY MILLS (October 16 performance) Vlad, Ben Wilcott, Driver, Mysterion the Magnificent, Lord Crawford, Thug, Omar, Jean-Pierre Desperois, Elbee-Dee-Oh CHRISTOPHER LEE GIBSON (October 17 – 18 performances) Vlad, Ben Wilcott, Driver, Mysterion the Magnificent, Lord Crawford, Thug, Omar, Jean-Pierre Desperois, Elbee-Dee-Oh CAMI ALYS Foley Sound Effects HARLAN HODGES Piano and Organ There will be a 15-minute intermission.

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This production received its world premiere at the Long Center for the Performing Arts in Austin, Texas, 2010. New York premiere at the RINGLING New VictoryINTERNATIONAL Theatre, 2012. ARTS FESTIVAL 19

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE INTERGALACTIC NEMESIS In 1996, Ray Colgan approached Jason Neulander about the idea of creating a science-fiction radio serial to be performed live in installments and maybe event to be aired on the radio. Neulander jumped on the idea. He invited Jessica Reisman, Julia Edwards, and Lisa D’Amour to join Ray on the writing team and The Intergalactic Nemesis was born. The original conceit was that the writers would provide two 15-minute scripts per week for five weeks. Neulander got these scripts on a Friday, rehearsed with actors and sound on Saturday, and performed the two episodes on Sunday for five weeks at Little City coffeehouse. Because the process was so quick, the writers named the main characters after the actors who played them: Ben Willcott, Molly Rice, and Japhy Fernandez.

Buzz Moran grabbed stuff out of his kitchen to make the lastminute sound effects. The first week, more than 100 people showed up at Little City to catch the show and week after week the crowds stuck it out. Moran captured the show on a cassettetape four track and the next summer KUT aired the show in serial format on their Sunday morning show Soundsight. And that was that. Or so they thought...

In 2000, Buzz bought a portable digital recording studio and suggested to Jason that SVT remount the show, cut it down to an evening-length format, perform it again and record a true broadcastquality recording. Again, Neulander jumped and asked Ray and Jessica to help him rewrite it. On Memorial Day 2000, the crew set up shop at the State Theatre to a capacity crowd. The only original cast member was Ben Willcott, so the names of the other two main characters were changed. The performance was received so well that Ray and Jason immediately knew that the next summer they would have to create a sequel, which they did. Return of the Intergalactic Nemesis was performed and recorded in June 2001, both shows were performed in rep in 2002, and KUT aired a three-part edit of the show on its Best of Public Radio series. And that was that. Or so they thought...

In January 2009, Neulander approached artist Tim Doyle, who had created the backdrops for various productions, about developing a comic book version of the story. As the two collaborators began work on the comic book, Cliff Redd asked Neulander to bring the show into Dell Hall at the Long Center.

In that meeting, Neulander came up with the idea of combining the comic book artwork with the live show. In September 2010, the Long Center premiered this new form of entertainment to an audience of over 2,100 people. Currently, the project has spawned two sequels and is in the midst of a multi-year international tour, including the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, the New Victory in New York City, and more than 100 venues around the globe.

The adventure continues in the form of podcasts, web series, and more at theintergalacticnemesis.com or by following the project on Facebook and Twitter.

To be continued…

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THE INTERGALACTIC NEMESIS RACHEL LANDON (Molly Sloan, Aughy, Queen of Zygon, et al.) is happy to be performing in her first season with The Intergalactic Nemesis. She hails from Houston, Texas, and attended The University of Evansville in Indiana for her bachelor’s degree.

Rachel has performed as an actor and singer all over the country.

You may have last seen her on Broadway eating a jumbo soft pretzel. Some of her favorite regional credits include Emma in Tell Me On a Sunday, Mrs. Walker in The Who’s Tommy, Rona in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Diana in Next to Normal, Jean in Dead Man’s Cell Phone, and Bernie Bernstein in Bigfoot and Other Lost Souls. Rachel is also a founding member and Artistic Director of Standing Room Only Productions in Houston, Texas.

BROCK ENGLAND (Timmy, Shopkeeper, Webster, et al.) is an actor, director, and producer and has been active in stage and film for over twenty years. He has either performed or Photos courtesy of artist assisted in a performance of just about every major musical you can name, toured the country with an equestrian circus, and is an accomplished Shakespearean actor. He has been seen in numerous short films, and his first feature film, Zero Charisma, premiered at the South By South West Film Festival in 2013 garnering the audience award for Best Narrative. He was awarded Best Lead Actor by the Austin Critic’s Table for his performance in Hidden Room Theatre’s original practices production of Rose Rage, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry VI plays. He also writes and co-produces an original web series called Clown vs Mime. In his spare time, he enjoys running, sailing, working on his motorcycle(s), and singing.

JEFFERY MILLS (Ben Wilcott, Mysterion, Jean-Pierre, et.al / Oct 16) is an interdisciplinary theatre artist currently based out of Austin, Texas. He has worked with numerous theatre companies in Austin over the years including, The Rude Mechs, Salvage Vanguard, Breaking String, Hidden Room, and the SITI Company (NYC). Jeff spent the past year in Adelaide, Australia helping to produce theatre for young people with the highly acclaimed Windmill Theatre Company. Previously, he served as Workshop Coordinator for The Muppets in New York City helping to produce the 2011 feature film, The Muppets.

CHRISTOPHER LEE GIBSON (Ben Wilcott, Mysterion, Jean-Pierre, et.al / Oct 17 & 18) is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (1990). He has acted for several producing companies in Tampa, Florida, including The Loft Theatre, The Tampa Players, American Stage Theatre, The Off-Center Theatre, B.O.B. (theatrical palindrome), and The Hillsborough Moving Company. He has also served as Producer of the Orlando International Fringe Festival (20012004), Production Manager at Orlando’s Mad Cow Theatre (2005), and actor for Mad Cow, The Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, The Austin Playhouse, Zach Scott Theatre, Salvage Vanguard Theatre, and The Da! Theatre Collective.

CAMI ALYS (Foley Artist) has toured with The Intergalactic Nemesis since 2011. Additional touring credits include: Julie Jessup, in The Rude Mechanicals’/ Center Theatre Group’s I’ve Never Been So Happy (Kirk Douglas Theatre, Arena Stage); Isabelle Belle, La Putain Avec Les Fleurs (Toronto Next Fest, Orlando International Fringe Festival, Kansas City Fringe). Austin, Texas credits include: General Jinjur in Daniel Alexander Jones’, Bright Now Beyond, a new musical based on The Marvelous Land of OZ, Masha in Three, Timothy Braun’s adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, and lead and back-up vocals as studio musician with composer, Peter Stopschinski.

Currently, she co-hosts with Chris Gibson, in collaboration with Austin artists, an original evening of entertainment, Industry Night - Austin’s new old-school variety show. Professional and collegiate training includes: Physical Theatre, Stella Adler Studio of Acting; Sight-Reading and Musicianship, The Juilliard School; Jazz Performance, Florida State University; BA in Musical Theatre, University of Central Florida.

HARLAN HODGES (Piano and Organ) is a Pianist, Composer, and Producer from West Texas who has been actively performing and collaborating within a wide range of musical styles and performance mediums over the past decade. Along with other leading musicians, artists, and creators he has produced works that range from Orchestra and Big Band to Electronic and Multimedia Art Installations. He studied Piano Performance, Jazz, and Composition at Texas Tech University. Now residing in Austin, Texas, he is regularly performing on the music scene and writing for film and television.

GEORGE “JEDI” STUMBERG IV (Technical Director/FOH Audio) Episode II - George is returning for his second year helping to rid the Universe of Zygonians. He began his career in audio in 2005 as the first graduate of Mediatech Institute Austin. Since then he has worked with over 2,000 bands. He worked for several years at SXSW; a 10 day Music/Film/Fashion festival in Austin, Texas, for brands like The Roxy, The Viper Room, and CNN/PRG. He has also worked at Bass Concert Hall in Austin as Audio Department Head and Soundboard Op for the nation’s largest touring company, Broadway Across America for shows including South Pacific, In the Heights, and West Side Story. George has enjoyed working with comedians including Jerry Seinfeld, Chelsea Handler, Daniel Tosh, and Mike Epps. Some of George’s favorite musicians he has worked with in various capacities are Widespread Panic, A Great Big World, Neil Young, Levon Helm, Yo Yo Ma, Sir Paul McCartney, and David Crosby and Graham Nash.

He returns to The Intergalactic Nemesis as a lifelong comic book and science fiction fan. George is a 6th-generation Texan and a full time Jedi. Confirmed Zygonian kills (CLASSIFIED). Contact: george@theintergalacticnemesis.com

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JESSIE DOUGLAS (Company Manager) This year will be Jessie’s fourth season on the road with The Intergalactic Nemesis. Jessie spent last summer as the Assistant Stage Manager on ZACH Theater’s production of One Night with Janis. Her other credits include: At ZACH (Austin, Texas): Rehearsal Assistant Stage Manager for Hairspray, Assistant Stage Manager for August: Osage County, Assistant Stage Manager and in the ensemble for Rent, the Assistant Stage Manager for Our Town, and running crew for The Grapes of Wrath. OTHER CREDITS: Stage Manager for Barefoot in the Park at Unity Theater in Brenham, Texas; Proof, produced by Thunder Mountain Theater Project in Juneau, Alaska.

Jessie spent a year in Juneau, Alaska working for Perseverance Theatre as the Company/Stage Management Fellow. She is a graduate from Texas State University, San Marcos, where she earned her BA in Theater with a Business minor.

GRAHAM REYNOLDS (Composer) Called “the quintessential modern composer” by the London Independent, Austin-based composer-bandleader Graham Reynolds creates, performs, and records music for film, theater, dance, rock clubs and concert halls with collaborators ranging from Richard Linklater and Jack Black to DJ Spooky and Ballet Austin. Heard throughout the world in films, on TV, on stage, and on radio, from HBO to Showtime, Cannes Film Festival to the Lincoln Center, and BBC to NPR, he recently scored Before Midnight with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, as well as Bernie featuring Jack Black. With the jazz-based but far reaching Golden Arm Trio, Reynolds has repeatedly toured the country and released four critically acclaimed albums. As Co-Artistic Director of Golden Hornet Project with Peter Stopschinski, he has produced more than fifty concerts of world-premiere alt-classical music by more than sixty composers. The Intergalactic Nemesis is one of his many collaborations with writer-director Jason Neulander. Find out more at grahamreynolds.com BUZZ MORAN (Sound Effects Designer) has been performing live sound effects for The Intergalactic Nemesis since developing sounds for the first production in 1996. Since then, he has worked steadily as a sound designer for countless (he has not yet counted them) theater productions. Buzz is responsible for the sporadically-performed Foleyvision shows in Austin, Texas, wherein odd foreign films receive new music, voices, and sound effects performed live in the theater. Also in Austin, Mr. Moran helps run The Dionysium, a monthly show featuring lectures, drinking, and debates. On the music side of audio, Buzz has recorded, mixed, and produced several cds, which are small silver disks that can play sounds. Often working closely with Graham Reynolds, Buzz is a Music Editor on such films as Bernie starring Jack Black, and Before Midnight starring Ethan Hawke. You can learn more about sound effects by watching Buzz’s PBS web series, What’s That, Buzz?, available on the internet’s YouTube.

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THE INTERGALACTIC NEMESIS TIM DOYLE (Artwork, Target Earth) is an illustrator and print-maker working out of Austin, Texas.

Growing up in the suburban sprawl of the Dallas area, he turned inward and sullen, only finding joy in comic books and television and video games. Moving to Austin, Texas in 1999 to fulfill a life-long dream of not living in Dallas, Doyle began painting and showing in galleries in 2001. He self-published a diary zine, Amazing Adult Fantasy from 2001-2003. He has held many nerd-friendly jobs, including running a small chain of comic book stores, as well as designing t-shirts and art-directing the poster series for the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. Doyle left ‘jobs’ behind and launched his company- www.Nakatomiinc.com in January of 2009. In the summer of 2009, Tim Doyle along with artist Clint Wilson built their own screen printing studio, NakatomiPrint.com, in which they and other artists work. Since then, he has produced art for companies such as ABC/Disney’s Lost Poster project, Mattel’s He-Man art show in LA, has had artwork used by Lucasfilm/ILM, Hasbro, IDW, among others. He has had several sold-out solo art shows hosted by SpokeArt in San Francisco and has exhibited in galleries all over the world. Doyle lives and works in Austin, Texas with his wife and two children. You can see more of his work at www.MrDoyle.com.

CHAD NICHOLS (Co-Author) received his MFA in screenwriting and fiction from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. Chad has collaborated with Jason Neulander and Ray Colgan through many stages of The Intergalactic Nemesis project, contributing to all three parts of the trilogy. Known for introducing such crowd-pleasing characters as Heinrich Heinemuellerschlossenschlagermeisterschloss and Sujeet Ranamaharavna, Chad hopes to bring the same level of nominal absurdity to his screenplays.

Chad sings for the Texas-noir band The Transgressors and plays guitar with both The Damn Times and T. Tex Edwards & the Texwardians. He also speaks in funny voices for the trash-film celebrating Foleyvision troupe, and his deadpan delivery caused Austin Chronicle critic Wayne Alan Brenner to dub him the “Charles Grodin of Austin.”

JASON NEULANDER (Co-Author, Director, Producer) is an internationally-acclaimed writer, director, and producer whose work fuses multiple artistic disciplines with technology to create unique and original theatrical and literary experiences. In the 90s, Neulander founded the avant-garde company Salvage Vanguard Theater in Austin, Texas, and during his fifteen-year run as Artistic Director developed and directed more than 50 original experimental plays and music-theater productions. During his tenure he was named “Best Theatre Director” three times by the readers of the Austin Chronicle and won numerous awards for his work. In his final years at Salvage Vanguard Theater, he designed and oversaw the construction of the company’s current home, a venue with two small theaters and a gallery for visual art.

Of his work, the Austin American-Statesman said: “Neulander aims to change the world… Unlike most of his artistic compatriots, he is winning.” His current project, the independently-produced transmedia sci-fi multiverse The Intergalactic Nemesis takes the form of graphic novels, radio plays, podcasts, novels, e-books, web series, and live stage productions. The Live-Action Graphic Novel Intergalactic trilogy has been booked into more than 140 venues around the world, including runs on Broadway and sold-out performances at the Kennedy Center. It was named “Best of Austin” in 2011 and has been featured on PBS, NPR’s All Things Considered and TBS’s CONAN (with Conan O’Brien as a performer). The webseries version of the project is available through PBS Digital. The graphic novels are available in print and through comiXology. He is currently expanding the Intergalactic universe into a noir-inspired series of novels and podcasts entitled SALT, featuring the enigmatic Jean-Pierre Desperois.

For more information, visit www.theintergalacticnemesis.com SPECIAL THANKS Cliff Redd, Derek Rosenstrauch, Mical Trejo, Shana Merlin, Molly Rice, Japhy Fernandez, (The Real) Ben Willcott, John Weiss, Tony Nozaro, Lindsay Doleshal, Corey Gagne, Dan Dietz, David Sangalli, Ben Anderson, John DeFore, Rachel Koper, Laura Phelan, Peter Stopschinski, Lee Eddy, Brent Werzner, Shannon McCormick, Mike D’Alonzo, David Higgins, LB Deyo, Jon Watson, Diana Duecker, Derek Menningen, Cynthia Patterson, Charles Leslie, Pebbles Wadsworth, Conrad Haden, Texas Performing Arts, Christine Tschida, Rena Shagan, Seth Goldstein, The Splinter Group, Bill Hofstetter/Agency 212, Mammoth Advertising (NYC), Rob Nuell, Maria Quinn, Pam Lubell, Leanne Schanzer, Jeff Croiter, Jonathan Herzog, Jeremy Lee, Robert Fried, Neil Patel, Bridget Klapinski, Carter Jackson, Robert Faires, The Austin Chronicle, KUT-FM, Ratgirl, Cliff and Cynthia Chapman, Adam Russell, Lars Nilson, Henri Mazza, Tim and Karrie League, the managers and staff of Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas, The HighBall, Fantastic Fest, STAPLE!, Chris Nicholas, Rebecca Campbell, Dragon’s Lair, Tribe Comics, Austin Books & Comics, Amy’s Ice Creams, House Pizzeria, Donna Taylor, Little City Espresso Bar & Cafe, Book People, Paul, Mark, Shaady, Kyle, Eric, Jim, and the rest of the staff at the Long Center for the Performing Arts, Sarah André, and the thousands of people who’ve seen and loved the show since its inception back in 1996.

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THANK YOU TO OUR 2014 SPONSORS

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER

Bank of America

DIRECTOR

Gerri Aaron Charles L. Huisking/Huisking Fund at Community Foundation of Sarasota County Charlotte and Charles Perret Publix Super Markets Charities Ina Schnell SpringHill Suites by Marriott

PATRON

Blalock Walters, P.A. The Cowles Charitable Trust Cumberland Advisors Dan Denton and Ramses Serrano Franklin Templeton Investments Guest Services, Inc. dba Treviso Icard Merrill Macy’s Dick and Betty Watt Nimtz Nancy and Chuck Parrish The L. Marie Charitable Fund/Lisa Reese Tana Sandefur Stephen and Judith Shank Willis Smith Construction Woman’s Exchange Inc.

WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK OUR IN-KIND SPONSORS

Florida Trend Magazine McMurry/TMG-Arrive Magazine Sarasota Magazine Scene Magazine

SpringHill Suites by Marriott SRQ Media Group WEDU-Florida West Coast Public Broadcasting WUSF Public Media

THANK YOU TO THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS FOR THEIR DONATIONS TO RIAF 2014

Lucia and Steven Almquist Barbara and Martin Arch Dr. Susan M. Brainerd and Alan R. Quinby

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Mezzacorona Papered Heart Photography Transatlantic Wine & Spirits of Florida U.S. Tent Rental, Inc.

The Ringling International Arts Festival is funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs.

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ART OF PERFORMANCE

Photo & Design by Angélica Macklin

THE 2014 – 2015 ART OF PERFORMANCE SEASON CONTINUES NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE $20 General Admission $18 for Members This fall, we launch National Theatre Live with HD-screenings of productions from the U.K.'s National Theatre. Each broadcast was filmed in front of a live audience with cameras positioned throughout the theater to ensure that cinema audiences get the “best seat in the house.”

FRANKENSTEIN

OCT 24, 7:30 PM Oscar-winner Danny Boyle directs Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch as Victor Frankenstein and his creation.

MEDEA

NOV 14, 7:30 PM

CAMBALACHE:

Helen McCrory returns to the National Theatre in the title role of Euripides' tragedy, in a new version by Ben Power, directed by Carrie Cracknell.

NOV. 7 & 8 7:30 PM

SKYLIGHT

UNA HISTORIA DE FANDANGO $30, $25, $20 $25, $20, $15 for Members From East LA comes Cambalache with a fiery fandango of music and dance that celebrates 500 years of bringing together the Spanish, African, and indigenous cultures of Latin America.

DEC 12, 7:30 PM Bill Nighy and Carey Mulligan are featured in the highly anticipated production of David Hare’s Skylight, directed by Stephen Daldry.

Cambalache is presented in conjunction with The Ringling Museum of Art exhibition, Behind Closed Doors: Art in the Spanish American Home, 1492-1898.

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE will continue through the

“A CELEBRATION OF MUSIC AND DANCE!” – NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO

spring of 2015. Please visit ringling.org for updates on titles, dates, and screening times for upcoming productions.

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ART OF PERFORMANCE

NEW STAGES 2015 RE:IMAGINED A FIVE-PART EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE Dwight Currie, Associate Director, Curator of Performance FEB – MAR 2015 Historic Asolo Theater If you have participated in a public conversation with an artist, you know the first question is likely to be, “where do you get your ideas?” Where — we all wonder — is the font of creativity?

What triggers the imaginative powers to make art? If we should put these questions to the artists of New Stages 2015, I suspect they would agree with the British writer, Colin Wilson (1931-2013), who observed, “The imagination’s power lies in its receptivity, not in any power to ‘invent’.”

RE:Imagined is a five-part exhibition of contemporary performance created in response to received influences both historic and anticipated. There is no question as to source of inspiration;

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but as the artists’ minds and bodies perform in service to received words, images, and ideas, newly re-imagined artistry emerges to magnify and amplify the power of the source material. With each work, we engage not only with the creative powers of the artists on stage, but also with the aesthetic and cultural stimuli that inspired their performance.

Julian Sands in A Celebration of Harold Pinter (February 6-7) “embodies the notion of the actor as a transparent vessel through which we see the thoughts and feelings of others” (Ben Brantley, New York Times).

The “other,” in this case, is Harold Pinter — arguably the most influential

dramatist of his generation. Yet it is not Pinter’s dramatic literature that Sands brings to the stage, but rather his poetry. The plays, Sands says, came from “another place;” the poems came “from himself.” It is a lesser-known Pinter — the private man — that is revealed in Sand’s portrayal. He is still “abrasively self-assured and often hostile and foul-mouthed,” but through Sands (as directed by John Malkovich) we see the writer who, in his own words, was “only dimly conscious of the grounds of my activity.”

The source material for ETHEL’S Documerica (February 20-21) is an archive of powerful photographs commissioned in 1971 by the

EPA to document the state of our environment. Working in collaboration with projection designer Deborah Johnson, the musicians of ETHEL tap the archive’s evocative potential by juxtaposing the music of today’s composers with the imagery of the photographs. The result is a dramatic portrait of a tumultuous era that is by turns urban, rural, pastoral and gritty. It is a generous act of creative reimagining that restores the visual and emotional impact of culturally significant photographs by bringing them into dialogue with a new century.

Choreographer Dušan Týnek will draw his inspiration from The Ringling’s art collection to create a new work for Camera Illuminata, performed

by Dušan Týnek Dance Theatre (March 6-7) a program that already includes intimate solos and duets inspired by such artists as Caravaggio, Degas, and Schiele. Widely hailed for his sophisticated command of structure and space, Týnek evokes the

imagery of the camera obscura in the visualization of tableaux that recall the atmosphere and emotion of the paintings. Then, as he enlivens each work with a dance vocabulary that is distinctly his own, he opens our eyes to see the movement of the artist’s hand as it is re-imagined on the canvas of his choreography.

In Cinema Vivant (March 20-21), the gypsy jazz of The Hot Club of San Francisco transports you to the French countryside of the 1930s, when caravans of entertainers played music as the flickering imagery of silent cinema was projected on a barn. In reviving this entertainment, The Hot Club has created scores for the cinematic miracle of early stopaction animation. Three vintage films of the early twentieth century (two by the European filmmaker Ladislaw Starewicz and one by the American Charley Bowers) are projected on screen as the musicians play their guitars and fiddles, matching every

movement with characteristic virtuosity, passion, and humor.

For the past ten years, the imagery of human figures at the mercy of surging waters has prompted conceptual artist Lars Jan to explore our baffling response to the devastating effects of climate change. It is the anticipation of catastrophe that informs Holoscenes (March 25-28), an exploration of our capacity for empathy and long-term thinking that presents movement art in a large aquarium wherein the performers are threatened and engulfed by rising waters. Presented in the open air on The Ringling’s waterfront, the performance site itself ­— predicted to be underwater by the close of this century — plays an integral role in a visceral and involving engagement with vulnerability.

HISTORIC ASOLO THEATER PERFORMANCES FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS AT 7:30 PM $30, $25, $20 $25, $20, $15 for Members NOTE: Holoscenes is a non-ticketed installation performed on the grounds of The Ringling Museum.

Clockwise: ETHEL’s Documerica, photo by Stephanie Berger; The Hot Club of San Francisco, photo courtesy of the artist; Dušan Týnek Dance Theatre, photo by Tom Caravaglia; Julian Sands in A Celebration of Harold Pinter, photo courtesy of the artist.

Re:Imagined is part of The Ringling’s 2014-15 Art of Our Time initiative, supported in part by a grant from Gulf Coast Community Foundation.

PLAN NOW TO EXPERIENCE

RIAF 2015!

To herald the opening of The Ringling’s Asian Art Center, RIAF 2015 presents the vibrant works of contemporary performers representing the vast geography and many cultures of Asia. While the full roster of productions will be finalized for announcement in February 2015, here is a sampling of artists who will bring compelling perspectives on beauty, innovation, and virtuosity to RIAF 2015.

NRITYAGRAM DANCE ENSEMBLE South India’s Nrityagram Dance Ensemble transports the audience to enchanted worlds of magic and spirituality.

TAO DANCE THEATER With theatrical impact and technical virtuosity, one of China’s premiere contemporary dance companies stretches the boundaries of the human form.

JEN SHYU Ecstatic musical experiences are realized by this American-East Timorese-Taiwanese experimental jazz artist.

PENI CANDRA RINI This Indonesian composer and singer is hailed for her mastery of traditional music and creativity in musical exploration.

RONNORANG KHAMPHA Exquisitely trained in the traditional dances of Northern Thailand, Ronnarong Khampha explores contemporary aesthetics with mesmerizing solo performances.

ORKES SINTEN REMEN Led by the charismatic Djaduk Ferjanto, the Indonesian musicians of Orkes Sinten Remen transform traditional folk music into a delectable mélange of musical sounds.

PHARE: THE CAMBODIAN CIRCUS Phare empowers youth from the streets, orphanages, and struggling families of Cambodia to express themselves in an explosion of passion and talent.

RIAF 2015 Artists subject to change

RONNARONG KHAMPHA PENI CANDRA RINI

PHARE: THE CAMBODIAN CIRCUS TAO DANCE THEATER

NRITYAGRAM DANCE ENSEMBLE

ORKES SINTEN REMEN

JEN SHYU

OCTOBER 15 – 18 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE WEDNESDAY, OCT 15

THURSDAY, OCT 16

FRIDAY, OCT 17

2:00 Keigwin + Company

Gatehouse Gatherings 3:00 – 5:00 PM

3:00

5:00 Tangram

6:00

The Pedrito Martinez Group

The Intergalactic Nemesis

The Pedrito Martinez Group

Tangram

The Table

The Intergalactic Nemesis

SATURDAY, OCT 18

Vijay Iyer Trio

Gatehouse Gatherings 3:00 – 5:00 PM

Vijay Iyer Trio

Duo Amal

Keigwin + Company

Keigwin + Company

Duo Amal

The Intergalactic Nemesis

The Table

Gatehouse Gatherings 3:00 – 5:00 PM

The Table

OPENING NIGHT CELEBRATION CHAMPAGNE TOASTS

Tangram

The Pedrito Martinez Group

Vijay Iyer Trio

Museum of Art Searing Wing open until 5:00 PM

MILDRED SAINER PAVILION COOK THEATRE HISTORIC ASOLO THEATER

7:00 Tangram

8:00

Duo Amal

Jazz Sunsets 5:00 – 8:00 PM

The Pedrito Martinez Group

COURTYARD CELEBRATION FEATURING BOLERO SARASOTA

Duo Amal

Keigwin + Company

Jazz Sunsets 5:00 – 8:00 PM

The Table

Museum of Art open until 8:00 PM

Tangram

The Pedrito Martinez Group

The Intergalactic Nemesis

Vijay Iyer Trio

Museum of Art open until 8:00 PM

8:00 - 11:00 PM

9:00

FESTIVAL THEATERS Harold E. and Esther M. Mertz Theatre Built in 1903 as an opera house in Dunfermline, Scotland.

Historic Asolo Theater America’s only 18thcentury European theater from Asolo, Italy.

Jane B. Cook Theatre A contemporary space designed for audience/ actor intimacy.

Mildred Sainer Pavilion New College of Florida

FESTIVAL BOX OFFICE Historic Asolo Theater John M. McKay Visitors Pavilion Phone: 941.360.7399 or online: www.ringlingartsfestival.org WED THU FRI SAT

OCT 15 OCT 16 OCT 17 OCT 18

10:00 AM – 5:30 PM 10:00 AM – 9:00 PM 10:00 AM – 9:00 PM 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

RINGLING ART OF PERFORMANCE STAFF DWIGHT CURRIE, Curator of Performance AARON MUHL, Managing Director MICHAEL KOHLMANN, Guest Artist Manager

FSU Center for the Performing Arts Box Office is open one hour before performances.

SONJA KIDA, Project Coordinator

Box Office personnel will be in the lobby of the Mildred Sainer Pavilion for Will-Call tickets one hour before performances.

Festival productions employ I.A.T.S.E. Local 412 Stagehand and Technicians

❚ All performances begin promptly.

There are no refunds for late comers. ❚ Cameras and tape or video recorders are not permitted in the theaters. ❚ Please turn off cell phones, beepers, wristwatch alarms and PDAs. ❚ Wheelchair seating is available in all theaters, must be requested in advance. ❚ All theaters are equipped with hearing assistance systems.

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