ARTISTIC

STAFF

Artistic Director | Dante PuleioLighting Designer | Jeremy W. Hodges

Costume Coordinator | Brittany Dee BodleyStage Manager | Veshonte Brown

Projections Designer | Jeremy W. Hodges Sound Designer | Chris Rich

Graphic Design | Mayra Aldape

PRODUCTION

STAFF

Assistant Stage Managers | Michaela Bird, Savanna JohnseyRehearsal Assistants | Madison Williams, Hannah Echols, Blayke Adkinson, Kiser Olds, Shaina Trumer, Makayla Wade

Wardrobe Supervisor | Timothy SwiftWardrobe | Suzanne Shugart, Kelsi Mills, and Madison McCall

Wardrobe Swings | Aspen Battles and Chanda HawthorneProperties Manager| Melissa K. Dillon

Fly Crew Captain | Jackson SanfordFly Crew | Malik Howard

Light Board Operator | Rogelio Ramirez HernandezSound Board Operator | Silver Wallace

Projection Operator | Silver WallaceMaster Electricians | Joseph Crawford, Suzanne Shugart

Technical Director | Frank MarquetteAsst. Technical Director, Scene Shop | Trey D. Clark

Box Office Manager | Madison Antinazi, Tori BeauchampMarketing Manager | Lacey Alexander

Marketing & Publicity Team | Kezia Moore, Olivia Black, Emma Twiggs, Anne Greve-Knutzen, Caitlin Hicks

MASTER PIECES is an immersive dance experience. It is an opportunity to witness the revitalization of classic masterworks alongside brand new, cutting edge choreography.

The evening is a bold, fresh approach filled with inspiring works of music, paintings, sculptures and dance.

Indulge in this unforgettable performance that exposes how centuries of the most extraor-dinary choreography is giving life to the next generation of masterpieces to be.

— Dante Puleio

ACT I

CHOREOGRAPHIC

OFFERING

Choreography | José Limón

Rehearsal Director | Dante Puleio

Music | “Musical Offering” by Johann Sebastian Bach

First performed by the José Limón Dance Company August 15, 1964, at the American Dance Festival

A homage to one of the founders of modern dance, José Limón created this masterpiece to honor his mentor Doris Humphrey. Choreographic Offering is an extraordinary display of choreographic craft and technical prowess. It is based on movements from her dances, and contains variations, paraphrases, and motifs from: Gigue, Sarabande, Water Study, Dionysiaques, The Pleasures Of Counterpoint, Circular Descent, Handel Variations, Air On A Ground Bass, Rudepoema, New Dance, With My Red Fires, Passacagalia And Fugue In C Minor, Ruins And Visions, and Invention.

February 22 - 25Porter GrubbsAngelene KendallMiche’SmithA’Lexus CroomsKatie BrelandEmma ShepardNikita RuffaloKacey TinneyCaitlynn QuintelaCarly SmithHannah EcholsNeely AaronTaylor Randolph

March 1 - 3Makayla WadeMadison BrownAnna CummingsKenzie HaynesAnne KnutzenMadison AntinaziSydney WingateAbigail HowardKiser OldsJosette LoScalzoEmma TwiggsBrooke WhighamJordan Prough

CAST

REMEMBRANCES

Choreography | Dominique Angel

Music | “Concerto No. 21 in C Major for Piano and Orchestra” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Inspired by the works of Mozart and Monet, this piece is a quiet reflection of past and present.

CASTFebruary 22 Kenzie HaynesEmma Shepard

February 23Katie BrelandBrooke Whigham

February 24Kenzie HaynesEmma Shepard

February 25Katie BrelandBrooke Whigham

March 1 Katie BrelandBrooke Whigham

March 2Kenzie HaynesEmma Shepard

March 3Katie BrelandBrooke Whigham

UNDERNEATH THE

PAINTED SKY

Choreography | Tracy Gilland-Shillabeer

Music | “The Beginning” by Factor Eight

A community of people experiencing the curves and lines of life under the same vast sky.

CAST

February 22 - 25 Abigail HowardAli KurhajecKatie BrelandMiche’SmithMadison BrownAngelene Kendall Caitlynn QuintelaBirdie HowellBrooke BatesHannah Echols

March 1 - 3Abigail HowardAli KurhajecKatie BrelandMiche’ SmithMadison BrownAngelene Kendall Caitlynn QuintelaBirdie HowellBrooke BatesHannah Echols

March 2 Abigail HowardAli KurhajecKatie BrelandMiche’SmithMadison BrownShayla Mosley Caitlynn QuintelaBirdie HowellBrooke BatesHannah Echols

March 3Abigail HowardAli KurhajecKatie BrelandMiche’ SmithMadison BrownShayla Mosley Caitlynn QuintelaBirdie HowellBrooke BatesHannah Echols

FLIGHT

Choreography | Takehiro Oeyama

Rehearsal Director | Dominique Angel

Music | “Passages: Meeting Along the Edge” by Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar

This work is inspired by the beauty of nature that again revealed itself to me as I observed a flock of starlings at play in the sky. These birds and their movements far surpassed any chore-ography I had yet seen, as they danced in the heavens I found myself wishing that I too could “take flight.”

February 22 & 24Neely AaronBlayke AdkinsonMadison AntinaziTaylor BagleyKatie BrelandA’Lexus CroomsMcCall DonohoAbigail HowardAngelene KendallJordan ProughRaquel TravareEmma ShepardCarly SmithErin SmithMakayla WadeKathryn Williams

February 23 & 25Neely AaronBlayke AdkinsonMadison AntinaziCaitlynn QuintelaShelby Buchannan A’Lexus CroomsKenzie HaynesJosette LoScalzo

CASTAngelene KendallJordan ProughRaquel TravareEmma ShepardCarly SmithErin SmithMakayla WadeKathryn Williams

March 1 - 3Neely AaronBlayke AdkinsonMadison AntinaziCaitlynn QuintelaShelby Buchannan A’Lexus CroomsKenzie HaynesJosette LoScalzoTaylor RandolphJordan ProughRaquel TravareEmma ShepardCarly SmithErin SmithMakayla WadeKathryn Williams

INTERMISSION

ACT IACT II

LE CORSAIRE

Choreography | Marius Petipas

Rehearsal Director | Dominique Angel

Music | “Le Corsaire” by Drigo

A timeless classical ballet rich in history.

February 22 James Boyd Abigail Howard

February 23James BoydAbigail Howard

February 24James Boyd Abigail Howard

February 25James BoydAbigail Howard

CASTMarch 1James Boyd Emma Shepard

March 2James BoydEmma Shepard

March 3James Boyd Emma Shepard

THE SOUL

Choreography | Nicki Loud

Music | “Fjogur Piano” by Sigur Ros

Oh Soul,You have seen your own strength.You have seen your own beauty.You have seen your golden wings.Of anything less, why do you worry?You are in truththe soul, of the soul, of the soul. -Rumi

February 22 - 25Katie Breland A’Lexus CroomsKenzie HaynesCarly SmithErin Smith

CASTMarch 1 - 3Katie Breland A’Lexus CroomsKenzie HaynesCarly SmithErin Smith

GLOWING LIMBS

Choreography | James Boyd

Music | “Haegt Kemur ljósið” by Ólafur Arnalds “Pau Hafa Sloppið Undan Punga Myrkursins” by Óla-fur Arnalds

A choreographic work combined with world class lighting inspired by Darwin’s Theory of Evolution.

February 22 - 25Shelby SillimanSarah Beth GaneyKatey FlemmingMorgan BrownBrooke WhighamDrake DombroskiKathryn Williams

CASTMarch 1 - 3Kenzie HaynesJordan ProughBlayke AdkinsonSydney WingateErin SmithEmma TwiggsAllyson Trimble

ENCORE

Choreography | Daniel Gwirtzman

Rehearsal Director | Dante Puleio

Music | Jerome Kern, Jelly Roll Morton, Art Hickman, Milton Ager, Count Basie, Ballard MacDonald, and James Hanley

Encore gives audiences insight into a troupe of dancers preparing to go on the road under the pressure of a fastidious choreographer, alternating between the artifice of the stage, depicted through vibrant, theatrical numbers, and the reality of life in the studio.

February 22 - 25Neely AaronTaylor BagleyKatie BrelandA’Lexus CroomsHannah EcholsLily EverettKenzie HaynesAbigail HowardMaya JaramilloAli KurhajecCaitlynn QuintelaErin SmithMakayla Wade Brooke Whigham

CAST

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Dr. Jack Hawkins, Jr., ChancellorMrs. Janice Hawkins

Dr. Earl Ingram, II, SVC, Academic AffairsDr. Don Jeffrey, SVC, Dothan Campus

Dr. Larry Blocher, Dean, CCFAMr. Buddy Starling, Dean, Admissions

Pam Allen, Chair, Department of Art and DesignDerrick Brewster, Assistant Dean, Student Services

Bradly Crenshaw, Event Management ServicesEd Noriega, Director, <<DTI>>Mayra Aldape, Intern, <<DTI>>

RICOH Copy CenterMark Moseley, TROY Photography

Greg Phillips, TROY Marketing & Communications Matt Clower, TROY Marketing & Communications

Aaron Taylor, TrojanVision Shelia Jackson, City of Troy

Bill Hopper, Johnson Center for the ArtsSteve Stubblefield, Townhouse Photography

Hope Rangel, TROY Cinematography SocietyTROY Theatre & Dance Students, Faculty, and Staff

DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE & DANCE

FACULTY & STAFF

Tori Lee Averett, Department ChairDeborah Chappell Hicks, Coordinator of Dance

Chris Rich, Coordinator of TheatreDominique Angel, Lecturer, Dance

Joyce Bamman, Lecturer, Costume ShopBrittany Dee Bodley, Assistant Professor, Costume Design

James Boyd, Lecturer, DanceTrey Clark, Lecturer, Scene Shop

Quinton Cockrell, Associate Professor, Theatre John Galas, Adjunct, Theatre

Jesse Graham, Lecturer, TheatreJeremy W. Hodges, Adjunct, Lighting

Frank Marquette, Professor of Practice, Design & TechAdena Moree, Associate Professor, Theatre

Tommy Newman, Lecturer, TheatreDante Puleio, Assistant Professor, Dance

Tracy Shillabeer, Adjunct, DanceJane Barwood, Departmental Secretary II

UPCOMING EVENTS

February 24 | Day of DanceApril 19-24 | COMPANY, a musical by Stephen Sondheim

April 21 | Day of Musical TheatreJuly 9-13 | Summer Spotlight: Spotlight on Dance

July 15-20 | Summer Spotlight: Creative Drama CampJuly 22-28 | Summer Spotlight: Performance Intensive, Tech

& Management Intensive