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DECEMBER 20171 • 8 p.m. 2 • 2 & 8 p.m.3 • 1 p.m.Berlind TheatreMcCarter Theatre Center

arts.princeton.edu/dancefestival

FESTIVAL

PRINCETONPrinceton University’s Program in Dance presents

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Princeton University’s Program in Dance presents

NOVEMBER 30 / 8 p.m. DECEMBER 1 + 2 / 8 p.m.DECEMBER 2 / 1 p.m.

Berlind TheatreMcCarter Theatre Center

LEWIS CENTER FOR THE ARTSChair Michael CaddenExecutive Director Marion Friedman Young

PROGRAM IN DANCEDance Faculty (2018-2019)Alexandra BellerElisa ClarkTina FehlandtLiza GennaroShannon GillenJudith Hamera, ProfessorDyane Harvey-SalaamRebecca Lazier, Senior LecturerMalcolm LowSusan Marshall, Director, ProfessorDean Moss Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, Arts Fellow Joseph SchlossRebecca StennAynsley VandenbrouckeSasha WelshRaphael Xavier Abby Zbikowski, Hearst Choreographer-in-Residence

Guest Artists (2018-2019)Alexandra DamianiMarguerite HemmingsRalph Lemon, Hearst Choreographer-in-ResidenceKaren Sherman, Hearst Choreographer-in-Residence

Ballet InstructorsLaurie AbramsonElaine MatthewsKathleen Moore Tovar

Conditioning InstructorSherry Greenspan

Yoga and Anatomy InstructorMecquel

PRODUCTION AND ADMINISTRATION Producer Darryl WaskowProduction Manager Chloë Z. BrownProduction Stage Manager Carmelita BecnelResident Musical Director/Composer Vince di MuraAssistant Stage Manager Rob Del ColleCostume Shop Manager E. Keating HelfrichAssistant Costume Shop Manager Julia KosanovichDraper Caitlin BrownTechnical Director Timothy GodinAssistant Technical Director Jesse FroncekTheater Technician Torrey DrumLighting & Stage Supervisor Matt PilsnerProps Master Allie GeigerScenic Artist Melissa RiccobonoMaster Carpenter Michael A. SmolaSound Engineer Kay RichardsonDance Program Associate Cindy RosenfeldDirector of Communications Steve RunkWeb & Multimedia Strategist Justin GoldbergMultimedia Specialist Zohar Lavi-HassonVisual Communications Specialist Tracy PattersonCommunications Associate Jaclyn SweetCommunications Assistant Hope VanCleaf

2018 PRINCETON DANCE FESTIVALCostume Designer: Mary Jo Mecca

Lighting Designer: Aaron CoppMusic Director: Vince di Mura

Production Stage Manager: Mary-Susan Gregson Faculty Production Advisor: Susan Marshall

RUSH HOUR (1998)Choreography: Robert BattleStaged by: Elisa ClarkMusic by: John MackeyOriginal Lighting by: Burke WilmoreOriginal Costumes by: Linda FitzgeraldDancers: Yolore Airewele ‘21, Sophie Blue ‘21, Runako Campbell ‘21, Sam Grayson ‘21, James Jared ‘19*, Aleksandra Kostic ‘20, Serena Lu ‘20, Liam Lynch ‘21, Sydney Maple ‘21, Marshall Schaffer ‘20*, Leila Ullmann ‘21, Esin Yunusoglu ‘19*

we free: time (premiere)Choreography: Marguerite HemmingsAssisted by: Lai-Yi OhlsenMakeup by: Bria McKenzieLive music by: Vince diMura with Mask Off by Migos, and Obafunke by King BrittDancers: Lauren Auyeung ‘19*, Sofia Bisogno ‘20*, Eric Ham ‘19, Evelyn Karis ‘19, Marshall Schaffer ‘20*

RAW POWER (premiere)Choreography: Abby Zbikowski with contributions from the castAssisted by: D’lonte LawsonMusic by: clipping.: “Baby don’t sleep”, and “untitled”Dancers: Lauren Auyeung ‘19*, Jessica Bailey ‘19, Sofia Bisogno ‘20*, Fabiola Corral ‘21, Yasmine Eichbaum ‘19*, Austin Mejia ‘21, Sanghyun Chris Park ‘22, Auset Taylor ‘21, Phoebe Warren ‘21, Lillian Wilkins ‘19, Cooper Young ‘20*, Peter Wang GS

— INTERMISSION (15 minutes) —

IT’S HAPPENING, IT’S COMING, IT’S HERE (premiere)Choreography: Malcolm Low and the dancersAssisted by: Gentry GeorgeSoundscape by: Vince diMura, with Bang Bang by Sonny Bono, Unchained Melody by Alex North and Hy Zaret, and Mississippi, a traditional song.Dancers: Leah Emanuel ‘22, Jonathan Golden ‘22, Abigail Kostolansky ‘20*, Soyeong Park ‘20, JungWon Julie Shin ‘22, Michelle Yeh ‘19*

Excerpt of GRACE ENGINE (2012)World Premiere: January 31, 2012 by Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Maison de la danse, Lyon, FranceChoreography: Crystal PiteStaged by: Alexandra DamianiAssisted by: Clark Griffin ‘18Music by: Owen BeltonOriginal Lighting by: Jim FrenchOriginal Costumes by: Nancy Haeyung BaeDancers: Friday night and Saturday matinee: Yolore Airwele ’21, James Jared ’19*, Jhor van der Horst ’20*, Sam Grayson’21, Alternate: William Keiser ‘19*

Saturday night and Sunday matinee:Sophie Blue ’21, Sam Grayson ’21, Runako Campbell ’21, Michelle Yeh ‘19*

PACIFIC (1995)Choreography: Mark MorrisStaged by: Tina FehlandtMusic: Lou Harrison, Trio for violin, cello, and piano; 3rd movement (Dance: Rhapsody: Song) and 4th movement (Allegro) Original Costumes by: Martin PakledinezOriginal Lighting by: James F. IngallsMusicians: Emiri Morita ‘21, violin; Douglas Wallack ’16, cello; Vince di Mura, piano Dancers: Felicity Audet ’21, Sarah Betancourt ’20*, Jane Brown ’20 (11/30, 12/1 matinee), Peyton Cunningham ’20*, Abby de Riel ’22 (12/1 evening, 12/2), Jared Harbour ’22 (12/1 evening, 12/2), Dana Iverson ’20, William Keiser ’19*, Margaret King ’22 (11/30, 12/1 matinee), Rachel Mrkaich ’21, Angie Sheehan’22 (11/30, 12/1 matinee), Thea Zalabak ’21 (12/1 evening, 12/2)

Premiere: May 10, 1995, San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, CAMark Morris Dance Group company premiere: February 28, 2015, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

Music by arrangement with C.F. Peters Corporation, New York. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Mark Morris’ costumes have been recreated by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Costume Shop. The extraordinary collaborative effort of Caitlin Brown, Julia Kosanovich & Keating Helfrich is gratefully acknowledged!

* Denotes certificate student in the Program in Dance

PRODUCTION TEAMSound Engineer ..............................................................................................Kay Richardson Assistant Stage Manager ...................................................................................Rob Del ColleFabric Painters ................................................................. Susan DeConcini, Melissa RiccobonoLight Board Programmer ........................................................................................James LewisLight Board Operator ...........................................................................................Torrey DrumRail .......................................................................................................... Michael A. SmolaRun Crew.................................................................................................. Alexandra GeigerStagehands ........................................................................ Laura Sabatie, Magda StankowskaCostume Stitchers ..............................Chelsea Easter, Becky Erlitz, Kasey Gillette, Elisabeth Harmor Student Costume Stitchers ................Miranda Allegar ‘21, Katie Bushman ‘22, Giscelle Rosario ‘22, Billie Anna Runions ‘20, Abby Spare ‘20Wardrobe ......................................................................................................Chelsea EasterStudent Run Crew ....................................................................................Enver Ramadani ‘21

BIOGRAPHIES

ROBERT BATTLE (Choreographer) has been the artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater since 2011, after being personally selected by Judith Jamison. In addition to expanding the Ailey repertory Mr. Battle also instituted the New Directions Choreography Lab to help develop the next generation of choreographers. Originally from the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, Florida, Mr. Battle studied dance at New World School of the Arts, under the direction of Daniel Lewis and Gerri Houlihan, as well as at The Juilliard School, under the direction of Benjamin Harkarvy, where he met his mentor, Carolyn Adams. He danced with The Parsons Dance Company from 1994 to 2001, where he also staged his work, and Mr. Battle then founded his own Battleworks Dance Company, which made its debut in 2002 in Düsseldorf, Germany, as the U.S. representative to the World Dance Alliance’s Global Assembly. Mr. Battle was honored as one of the “Masters of African-American Choreography” by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 2005, and he received the prestigious Statue Award from the Princess Grace Foundation-USA in 2007. He has honorary doctorates from The University of the Arts and Marymount Manhattan College. Mr. Battle was named a 2015 Visiting Fellow for The Art of Change, an initiative by the Ford Foundation.

ELISA CLARK (Stager) is an award-winning artist and educator, from the Washington, DC area, who trained at the Maryland Youth Ballet, prior to receiving a BFA from The Juilliard School, under Benjamin Harkarvy. Ms. Clark was a founding member of Robert Battle’s Battleworks Dance Company, where she also served as Company Manager (2001-2006). Additionally, she was a featured member of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (2013-2017), Lar Lubovitch Dance Company (2001, 2011-2012), and Mark Morris Dance Group (2006-2011), as well as performed with Nederlands Dans Theater and The Metropolitan Opera, in works by Jirí Kylián, and Crystal Pite, respectively. Since 2002, she has been assistant to Mr. Battle, and she frequently restages his work. Ms. Clark has held residencies and adjunct positions at the Ailey School, Alabama School of Fine Arts, Brown University, George Mason University, New World School of the Arts and Perry-Mansfield, and she is currently on faculty at the University of the Arts, Marymount Manhattan College, Princeton University, Jacob’s Pillow, MOVE (NYC) and the American Dance Festival, in addition to guest teaching nationwide. She is a Certified Life Coach and a 2008 Princess Grace Award Winner.

AARON COPP’S (Lighting Designer) recent projects include The New One by Mike Birbiglia on Broadway, One Line Drawn by Brian Brooks for Miami City Ballet, Newsies at Village Theater, Shahrazad for The Royal Ballet of Flanders, and Rules Of The Game, created by Jonah Bokaer, Daniel Arsham and Pharrell Williams at the Winspear Opera House in Dallas. Music projects include designs for The Silk Road Ensemble, Natalie Merchant,

The Goat Rodeo Sessions, SO Percussion, Maya Beiser and the Bang On A Can All-Stars. Aaron has designed for The Old Globe, The Kennedy Center, Dallas Theater Center, and other major theaters around the country. He has worked extensively in the dance world, and in 2008 received his second Bessie Award for Jonah Bokaer’s The Invention Of Minus One. He had a long association with Merce Cunningham, designing such pieces as Ground Level Overlay, Windows, and Biped, for which he also won a Bessie.

ALEXANDRA DAMIANI (Stager) is a French choreographer, artistic director and movement specialist based in New York City. She is a former dancer with Complexions, Donald Byrd/The Group and Ballet Jazz of Montréal, among others. Her choreographic works have been performed in New York, NY, Richmond, VA and Pittsburgh, PA to critical acclaims. She also brought her expertise to numerous commercials and film projects, including Colgate, Warby Parker, Black Swan and Adjustment Bureau. Damiani was the artistic director of Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet. During her decade-long tenure , she worked alongside and curated works by the most sought after contemporary dance choreographers in the world, such as Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Alexander Ekman, Ohad Naharin, Crystal Pite and Hofesch Schechter. Damiani is frequently invited to re-stage the work of Crystal Pite and conduct master classes around the world. She teaches movement for the Actors Studio Drama School, graduate program at Pace University and also for the Commercial Dance department. Since 2015, she is the artistic director of the NYCDA -produced winter dance intensive presented at the Juilliard studios. Damiani was recently invited to direct with Matthew Neenan the 2019 Contemporary Ballet summer program. She is a passionate teacher of Qigong and Taiji under the guidance of Sat Chuen Hon, Princeton ’78.

VINCE DI MURA (Music Director) is a composer, arranger, jazz pianist and musical director, appearing on concert stages and theaters throughout North America, Canada, Europe and Latin America. He has conducted theater seasons in virtually every region of the United States. He is best known for his arrangements of “My Way: A Tribute to the Music of Frank Sinatra,” “Simply Simone,” and “I Left My Heart,” (with over 700 productions nationally). He is also the author and curator of “A Conversation With The Blues,” a 14-part web instructional series on improvisation through the Blues produced by Soundfy Inc. He holds composition and jazz fellowships from the William Goldman Foundation, Temple University, Meet the Composer, CEPAC, the Union County Foundation, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Puffin Cultural Forum, and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. No stranger to the recording studio, he has six CDs on the market: the 2000 release, “Imperfect Balance;” the 2007 release, “A Darker Shade of Romance;” 2008 release, “For Lost Words;” and the 2010 release, “California Sage” (with James Leary on Bass and Fritz Wise on drums); the 2012 release, Love Was,” and his most recent release “Meditations on the Sacred Heart.” All of which are available at CDBaby.com and other internet outlets. He is the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Resident Music Director and Composer.

TINA FEHLANDT (Stager) was an integral part of the Mark Morris Dance Group for twenty years and performed in over 50 works choreographed by Mark Morris. With the Group she toured the world and appeared in several television specials, most notably as “Louise” in Mr. Morris’ production of The Hard Nut. She has been the subject of feature articles in Self-Magazine, Dance Magazine, and Dance Teacher. In Ballet Review, Ms. Fehlandt was hailed as “one of the most beautiful dancers anywhere.” Ms. Fehlandt has staged Mark Morris’ work at San Francisco Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Royal New Zealand Ballet, English National Ballet, Royal Ballet Covent Garden, Boston Ballet, Miami City Ballet, Houston Ballet, Dutch National Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Washington Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Princeton University, Indiana University, New York University, Rutgers University, Marymount Manhattan College, Barnard College, Juilliard, Long Island University, and the White Oak Dance Project. Ms. Fehlandt is a full-time Lecturer in Dance at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts where she teaches all levels of Ballet and Modern Dance. She continues her association with MMDG as an instructor in the Summer Intensives and as Faculty at The School teaching Professional/Advanced Ballet.

MARY-SUSAN GREGSON’S (Stage Manager) last show in Princeton was 2018 Senior Dance Thesis Show. Recent credits include Gabriel Kahane’s 8980: Book of Travelers, Lincoln Center’s Global Exchange: Art for Good, A Proust Sonata for Da Camera Chamber Music, Narcissus Now Festival for the Onassis Cultural Center, Sufjan Steven’s Round Up and Gabriel Kahane’s The Ambassador, both at BAM. At The New Victory Theater she has stage-managed over twenty shows in the last 20 years. She spent 20 summers production coordinating for

Lincoln Center Festival including Peony Pavilion and the Druid, Harold Pinter, Brian Friel and Beckett Festivals. She has production managed Divinamente Festival NY and the New Island Festival on Governor’s Island. Shows at BAM include Dance Africa, Infernal Comedy with John Malkovich, Sizwe Banzi is Dead , Tan Dun’s The Gate and Sufjian Stevens’ BQE. Other New York credits include His Holiness the Dalai Lama, The Prince & The Pauper, The Jazz Nativity, Breaking the Code and Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Regional credits include McCarter Theatre, Yale Rep, Williamstown Theater Festival, The Huntington, and the White House. She has toured with Dance Theatre of Harlem, Elisa Monte, Jennifer Muller, Pilobolus and internationally with Forbidden Christmas starring Baryshnikov.

MARGUERITE HEMMINGS, (Choreographer) performance artist and educator, is Jamaican born, raised in New Jersey, and has been living in the NYC area for over a decade. She graduated from Columbia University in Education and Urban Studies. Hemmings is a movement improviser that specializes in street and social dance styles. She has been working inside of a dance practice called Experimental Dancehall, a term she uses to reference her connection to and study of one of her homelands, Jamaica, and to more broadly reference her belief in social dance practices as a real time embodying of liberation, reparation, and social change. Hemmings’ work centers itself in liberation. She has been subverting, working, and creating with youth as a teaching artist for a very long time. She has received grants from the Jerome Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council, Harlem Stage, University Settlement, and Dancing While Black to further her work as an artist/youth organizer. She is most recently a recipient of the 2017-18 Urban Bush Women Choreographic Center Fellowship, and through that, also the Projecting All Voices Fellowship at ASU. She, along with 19 other comrades, is a 2017 recipient of the Bessie Award for Outstanding Performer in Eva Yaa Asantewaa’s Skeleton Architecture. She is currently working on a self- directed, multimedia endeavor called we free. we free is a multi-media project that looks at the millennial approach to liberation through its music, social dance and social media.

MALCOLM LOW, (Choreographer) from Chicago, first trained with Joseph Holmes, Hubbard Street, Homer Bryant and the Ruth Page Foundation. He performed with Joseph Holmes Chicago Dance Co., Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal, Ballet British Columbia, Ronald K. Brown, Stephen Petronio, Complexions, Zvi Gotheiner and Dancers, Margo Sappington, Reggie Wilson, Crystal Pite/Kidd Pivot, and he spent five years with Bill T. Jones. Malcolm currently works with Ralph Lemon, David Thomson, and Patricia Hoffbauer. Malcolm choreographed “One Forgotten Moment” on Alvin Ailey 2 in 2012. He has been showing his own work since 1999, in recent years at Brooklyn Arts Exchange (2011), Summer Stage at Red Hook Park (2011), Main Stage (2012), and Dixon Place (2014). Malcolm was awarded a Fund for New Work/Harlem Stage Gatehouse Grant (2009), a BAX Passing It Down Award (2011), a Choreographic Fellowship in Robert Battle’s New Directions Choreography Lab at Alvin Ailey (2011), the MCAF from the LMCC (2012), the MCAF and LMCC Space Residency Grant (2014) and recently, two more MCAFs (2015 and 2016). Malcolm was Artist in Residence at Queensborough Community College for 2014 and was awarded a MAP Fund grant for his work “In The Thrust Towards The Future…I Want To Leave Something Of Use” (2014), which premiered at Hostos Community Center in The Bronx in November 2014. “In The Thrust…” was presented at Tanz Farm in Atlanta in 2015 before performances at Harlem Stage in New York. Malcolm’s newest work, “Speakeasy,” was commissioned and presented by Gibney Dance and premiered on February 24, 2016. Malcolm was a Visiting Artist at Princeton in 2016-2017.

MARY JO MECCA’s (Costume Designer) work includes: Ellen Cornfelds’ Raw Footage; Aaron Landsman’s Empathy School & Love Story at Abrons Art Center; Joanna Kotze’s Find Yourself Here at Baryshnikov Arts Center (2015); Liz Magic Laser’s Like You (2014); Laura Petersons’ Forever at The Kennedy Center (2013); Rashaun Mitchell’s Interface at Baryshnikov Arts Center and Nox at Danspace Project; Rebecca Lazier’s There Might Be Others at New York Live Arts (2016), Coming Together/Attica (2012/13) at the Invisible Dog and I Just Like This Music, Terminal (2009); Zvi Gotheiner’s Escher/Bacon/Rothko, Surveillance (2014) at New York Live Arts, Sky and Water (2013) at the MUSA! Festival; Jody Sperling’s Time Lapse-Fantasy at Danspace Project; Laura Peterson Dance’s Atomic Orbital and traceroute ; Barkin/Sellisen Project’s Differential Cohomology (2011); Susan Marshall’s Atelier project (2010); Brian Brooks’ Landing ; Deganit Shemy’s Narrowline; Jill Johnson’s Folding Articulation; Graham Lustig’s Vault; and Raja Kelly’s Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth. Mecca has

designed for the Theater and Dance Programs at Princeton University since 2009. She studied Couture Design with Miss Alice Sapho of Paris and New York. For more information, please visit: www.mjmecca.com

MARK MORRIS (Choreographer) was born on August 29,1956, in Seattle, Washington, where he studied dance with Verla Flowers and Perry Brunson. In the early years of his career, he per formed with Lar Lubovitch, Hannah Kahn, Laura Dean, and the Koleda Balkan Dance Ensemble. He formed the Mark Morris Dance Group in 1980, and has since created 150 works for the company. From 1988 to 1991, he was Director of Dance at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, the national opera house of Belgium. In 1990, he founded the White Oak Dance Project with Mikhail Baryshnikov. Much in demand as a ballet choreographer, he has created eight works for the San Francisco Ballet since 1994 and received commissions from many others. Morris, named music director of the 2013 Ojai Music Festival, has been described as “undeviating in his devotion to music.” He has conducted performances for the Mark Morris Dance Group since 2006 and has worked extensively in opera, directing and choreographing at the Metropolitan Opera, The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, among others. In 1991, he was named a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation and has received eleven honorary doctorates to date. In recent years, he has received the Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement (2007), the Leonard Bernstein Lifetime Achievement Award for the Elevation of Music in Society (2010) and the Cal Performances Award of Distinction in the Performing Arts (2013). Morris opened the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn, NY in 2001 to provide a home for his company, rehearsal space for the dance community, outreach programs for local children and seniors, and a school offering dance classes to students of all ages and abilities.

CRYSTAL PITE, (Choreographer) a Canadian choreographer, is a former company member of Ballet British Columbia and William Forsythe’s Ballett Frankfurt. Pite’s professional choreographic debut was in 1990, at Ballet British Columbia. Since then, she has created over 50 works for companies such as The Paris Opera Ballet, The Royal Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theater I, Cullberg Ballet, Ballett Frankfurt, The National Ballet of Canada, Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal (Resident Choreographer, 2001-2004), Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, and Ballet British Columbia. She has also collaborated with Electric Company Theatre and Robert Lepage. Crystal is an Associate Choreographer of Nederlands Dans Theater, Associate Dance Artist of Canada’s National Arts Centre, and Associate Artist at Sadler’s Wells, London. In 2002, she formed her own company Kidd Pivot in Vancouver. Kidd Pivot tours nationally and internationally, performing works such as Dark Matters and Lost Action. Kidd Pivot’s residency at the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt (2010-2012) provided Pite the opportunity to create and tour The You Show and The Tempest Replica. Currently touring is the Kidd Pivot / Electric Company Theatre production of Betroffenheit, co-created by Pite and Jonathon Young.

ABBY ZBIKOWSKI (Choreographer) is a choreographer, Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and faculty member at the American Dance Festival. Her choreographic work with her company, Abby Z and the New Utility, has been presented by the Gibney Dance Center, Movement Research at Danspace Project, and most recently the Abrons Arts Center where the company had a sold out run of its latest evening-length piece, abandoned playground. Zbikowski has been an Artist-in-Residence as part of the nEW Festival in Philadelphia, the American Dance Festival, and the Bates Dance Festival. She has studied intensively at Germaine Acogny’s L’École de Sables in Senegal, holds a B.F.A. in dance from Temple University, and an M.F.A. in dance from Ohio State University, where she worked closely with mentors Bebe Miller and Vickie Blaine. As a performer, Zbikowski has worked with Charles O. Anderson/Dance Theater X, Vincent Mantsoe, and the Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project. She has been on faculty at the Ohio State University and has taught technique and creative process abroad at the Academy of Culture in Riga, Latvia as part of Global Practice Sharing, sponsored by Movement Research. She is an inaugural Hearst Choreographer-in-Residence at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts. Thank you to this amazing cast of movers for their energy, sweat, and power!