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February 3 - 6, 2011 • Power Center

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The performers in this production are undergraduate and graduate students and faculty in the SMTD. The designers are faculty and guests in the Dept. of Theatre & Drama. Scenery, costumes, properties, sound, and lighting were realized by the students and staff of University Productions, the producing unit of the SMTD. Ticket sales assist in providing SMTD students with practical training experience before live audiences. Thank you for supporting our educational mission.

Latecomers will be seated at a suitable break. As a courtesy to others, please set cellular phones and pagers to silent mode and refrain from texting during the performance. Photography, audio recording, and videotaping of any kind are not permitted.

The School of Music, Theatre & Dance acknowledges the generosity of McKinley Associates, Inc. whose support has helped make this production possible.

The University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre & Dance,University Dance Company presents

Artistic DirectorMusic Coordinator

Scenic DesignerCostume DesignerLighting Designer

Stage Managers

Judy RiceStephen RushKasia MrozewskaChristianne MyersMary ColeMichelle Elias, Ingrid Olson

Dancing Americas will run with brief pauses and one intermission.

DANCING A M E R I C A S

Choreography by Merce Cunningham,Melissa Beck, Sandra Torijano,

and Dianne McIntyre

A century ago, modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan proclaimed, “I see America dancing … from the Pacific, over the Plains, over the Sierra Nevadas, over the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic.” As our 2011 concert title suggests,

we envision many Americas dancing – to tango rhythms from Argentina; danzóns from Central America; jazz inspired by music of the southern United States and New York City; 1960s pop songs; and, in-keeping with Merce Cunningham’s dance aesthetic, choreography co-existing in the same temporal and spatial moment as its accompaniment but independent from it. Dancing Americas celebrates a multiplicity of styles across time, continents and cultures. Our students have embodied them with gusto, embraced the concept of artistic collaboration enthusiastically, and thrived through the experience. Tonight’s program is a testament to dance-music legacies being preserved through live performance and a prism through which to enjoy the rich array of talent and expertise within the School of Music, Theatre & Dance. Go dancers, musicians, and production team!

— Angela Kane, Chair, Department of Dance

The University Dance Company’s 2011 concert, Dancing Americas, celebrates the diversity of talent, dance, music, culture, and creativity across the decades and throughout North, Central, and South America.

Our acclaimed guest artist Dianne McIntyre premieres The Summit, a new work created in collaboration with dancers from the Department of Dance, musicians from the Department of Jazz, and Professor Stephen Rush. In her tradition of creating dance set to live music and her philosophy that dance is music moving, Dianne’s work honors the music of blues/rock and roll “originator” Bo Diddley, bebop master Dizzy Gillespie, and free jazz innovator Eric Dolphy, all major contributors to American and world music. Inspired by Gillespie’s “Kush,” McIntyre takes the music of all three artists and theatricalizes it with and through the skill and focus of the dancers and the dynamics

of the costumes, sets and lighting. Associate Professor Robin Wilson, who worked with McIntyre in New York City during the late 1970s and early 1980s, is also a collaborator for this work.

Melissa Beck creates Towards a sudden silence, based on poems by Marge Piercy — American poet, UM grad, and Hopwood Award-winner. Set in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the costumes and the movement connote both constraint and the struggle to break the societal restrictions of the era. Melissa’s choreographic vocabulary is resonant with emotional gestures and their role in the “core memory” of an individual and a community.

Sandra Torijano’s passionate Tango con la vida, “Tango with the life,” is set to the music of Latin American composers Astor Piazzolla and Compay Segundo performed by Latin American Grammy winners Ricardo Ramírez and Edín Solís. Choreographed after surviving two years of chemotherapy for leukemia, Sandra’s emotional new work is truly a celebration of life. 

The evening opens with a MinEvent by master American choreographer Merce Cunningham. A pioneer in the American avant-garde throughout his lengthy career, Cunningham is considered one of the most influential choreographers of our time. In the 1960s, Cunningham created the Event — evening-length performances consisting of fragments from dances in the company’s repertory so intermingled such as to constitute a new work. Often site specific, no two Events are the same. Our shorter MinEvent (a mini Event) has been constructed and staged by Jean Freebury, a dancer in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company from 1992-2003 and now an official re-stager of Cunningham’s works. It is a wonderful lead-in to the University Musical Society’s presentation of the MCDC’s Legacy Tour later this month.

We hope you enjoy this varied program indicative of the diversity of the Americas. — Judy Rice, Artistic Director

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ProgramSquaregame (1976)Music: Takehisa KosugiDesign: Mark Lancaster

Split Sides (2003)Music: Radiohead & Sigur RósDécor: Catherine Yass, Robert HeishmanCostumes: James HallLighting: James F. Ingalls

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M in E ventChoreography by Merce Cunningham • Staged by Jean FreeburyRehearsal Director Judy Rice • Research Assistant Michaela Wood

Costumes by Mark Lancaster

Music: “Cartridge Music” by John Cage Musicians: Digital Music Ensemble, directed by Stephen Rush

Michael Musick, Peter Raymond, Matthew Rose, Gabriel Saltman

Dancers: Lisa Chippi, Inae Chung, Lynsey Colden, Kelsey Connolly, Derek Crescenti, Jennifer LaFreniere, Sabrina Imamura,

Katie Muth, Francesca Nieves, Parisa Shahbaz, Colleen Shaughnessy, Katy Telfer, Jessica Trepka, Michaela Wood

Understudy: Jennifer LaFreniere

Note: A leader of the American avant-garde throughout his seventy-year career, Merce Cunningham (1919-2009) is considered to be one of the most important choreographers of our time. Through much of his life, he was also one of the greatest American dancers. With an artistic career distinguished by constant innovation, Cunningham expanded the frontiers not only of dance, but also of contemporary visual and performing arts. His collaborations with artistic innovators from every creative discipline yielded an unparalleled body of American dance, music, and visual art. 

Of all his collaborations, Cunningham’s work with John Cage, his life partner from the 1940s until Cage’s death in 1992, had the greatest influence on his practice. Together, Cunningham and Cage proposed a number of radical innovations. The most famous and controversial of these concerned the relationship between dance and music, which they concluded may occur in the same time and space, but should be created independently of one another. The two also made extensive use of chance procedures, abandoning not only musical forms, but narrative and other conventional elements of dance composition—such as cause and effect, and climax and anticlimax. For Cunningham, the subject of his dances was always dance itself.

A MinEvent  is an uninterrupted sequence of excerpts drawn from the work of Merce Cunningham. Constructed and staged by Jean Freebury (MCDC 1992-2003) expressly for U-M, the material for this MinEvent was drawn from the following dances: Scramble (1967), Inlets 2 (1983), Ground Level Overlay (1995), and Pond Way (1998).

Acknowledgments: Special thanks to Professor Jason Corey and the Department of Performing Arts Technology. Additional thanks to the University Research Opportunity Program for research assistant funding.

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TOWA R D S A S U D D E N S I L E N C EChoreography by Melissa Beck

Music: “In a Lonely Place,” “Only the Lonely” by Roy Orbison and Joe Melson, “In a Silent Way” by Joe Zawinul, “Goodbye” by Stephen F. Earle

I. My worst enemy is encoded in my bodyII. Old punishments still smoulder like a tire dump

III. Of the patience called forth by transitionIV. Core memory

Dancers: Jillian Hopper, Sean Hoskins, Isabella Ingels, Alexandra Reehorst, Allegra Romita, Parisa Shahbaz, Julia Smith-Eppsteiner,

Briana Stuart, Susie Thiel, Emily Wanserski

Choreographer’s Note: Inspired by poems by American poet, University of Michigan graduate, and Hopwood Award-winner, Marge Piercy.

Acknowledgments: “Goodbye” by Stephen F. Earle, played by Rustlers and Thieves. © EMI Virgin Music

Inc., Primary Wave Earle, and South Nashville Music. Used by permission.“In a Lonely Place” on Suites for Dance - Works for Cello and Piano, © Xtune Music,

Omelette Pan Productions. Used by permission.“In a Silent Way” by Joe Zawinul on Suites for Dance - Works for Cello and Piano, © Xtune

Music, Omelette Pan Productions. © Zawinul Estate. Used by permission.“Only the Lonely” by Roy Orbison and Joe Melson, played by Rustlers and Thieves. ©

Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Barbara & Roy Orbison Music Co. Used by permission.

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"The Dance on Camera Festival is one of those NY stealth events, prized by its devotees...where the allusiveness of dance meets the intimacy of

film to create a new kind of magic" John Rockwell, The New York Times

U-M ANNUAL Dance on Camera Festival

Saturday & Sunday, February 12 & 13, 2011 at 7 pm Helmut Stern Auditorium, U-M Museum of Art

525 South State Street, Ann Arbor Same program both nights, FREE ADMISSION

Direct from New York City’s Dance on Camera Festival, this selection of screendance shorts from around the world represents the dynamic alchemy of dance, film/video and camera work at its best!

Sunday, February 13, 3:30 pm only: Special UMMA/UMS screening of Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance by Charles Atlas.

"The Dance on Camera Festival is one of those NY stealth events, prized by its devotees...where the allusiveness of dance meets the intimacy of

film to create a new kind of magic" John Rockwell, The New York Times

U-M ANNUAL Dance on Camera Festival

Saturday & Sunday, February 12 & 13, 2011 at 7 pm Helmut Stern Auditorium, U-M Museum of Art

525 South State Street, Ann Arbor Same program both nights, FREE ADMISSION

Direct from New York City’s Dance on Camera Festival, this selection of screendance shorts from around the world represents the dynamic alchemy of dance, film/video and camera work at its best!

Sunday, February 13, 3:30 pm only: Special UMMA/UMS screening of Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance by Charles Atlas.

U-M annual Dance on Camera FestivalSaturday & Sunday, February 12 & 13, 2011 at 7 PM

Helmut Stern Auditorium, U-M Museum of Art525 South State Street, Ann Arbor

Same program both nights, FREE ADMISSION

Direct from New York City’s Dance on Camera Festival, this selection of screendance shorts from around the world represents the dynamic alchemy

of dance, film/video and camera work at its best!

Sunday, February 13, at 3:30 PM only: Special UMMA/UMS screening of

Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance by Charles Atlas

“The Dance on Camera Festival is one of those New York stealth events, prized by its devotees...where the allusiveness of dance meets the intimacy

of film to create a new kind of magic” — John Rockwell, The New York Times

TA N G O CO N L A V I DAChoreography by Sandra Torijano

Asst. to the Choreographer: Francesca Nieves, Cara ZoncaMusic: “Adios Nonino” and “Verano Porteno by Astor Piazzolla,

“Chan Chan” by Compay SegundoArranged by Adrian Goizueta, on a live recording by the Latina Strings Ensemble

Dancers: Kelsey Connolly, Derek Crescenti, Rachele Donofrio, Allie Harris, Ellen Holme, Katie Muth, Francesca Nieves, Chrissy Papetti, Nola Smith, Michaela Wood, Cara Zonca

Choreographer’s Note: The last piece that I created for Power Center in 2010, La Luna Nueva, was a mystical, spiritual, and transcendent choreography to embrace faith and hope, to blossom and to be alive after confronting a diagnosis of leukemia. After finishing two years of chemotherapy, now is the time to “dance with the life” — to revive the passion of living, the blessing to be present, the joy of the music, to move and dance. Tango con la vida is a celebration of life.

Acknowledgments: Special thanks to Judy Rice, the outstanding cast, University Productions, Ricardo Ramírez, Edín Solís, and Glenn Bering.

“Adios Nonino” and “Verano Porteno” by Astor Piazzolla, © Warner Chappell. Used by permission.

“Chan Chan” by Compay Segundo, © General Society of Authors and Editors. Used by permission.

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T H E S U M M I TChoreography by Dianne McIntyre

Assoc. Rehearsal Director Robin Wilson • Research Assistant Samantha Parisi-Esteves Music Direction by Woody Goss & Stephen Rush

The music for The Summit was inspired by “Spanish Guitar” by Ellas McDaniel (Bo Diddley), “You Don’t Know What Love Is” by Gene de Paul, arranged by Eric

Dolphy, and “Kush” by John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie.

I. A gathering of nationsII. A sacred blending III. An ancient divide

Dancers (‡Feb. 3 & 5, 2011 *Feb. 4 & 6, 2011):

She Born of Two Tribes Allie Harris*, Briana Stuart‡

Warrior/Hunter NationLeader: Logan McClendon

The Young Woman: Lisa Chippi*, Tehillah Frederick‡The Nation: Kelsey Connolly‡, Shanna Cruzat*, Andrea Davis‡,

Isabella Ingels‡, Natalie Niergarth*, Molly Ross*

Cultivator/Gatherer NationLeader: Nola Smith*, Edith Freyer‡

The Young Man: Alejandro QuintanillaThe Nation: Lynsey Colden‡, Jennifer LaFreniere*, Samantha Parisi-Esteves*,

Tara Sheena‡, Kalila Kingsford Smith‡, Sadie Yarrington*

Musicians/Kushites: Julian Allen (drums), Anne Dearth (flute), Woody Goss (piano),

Jordan Harris (vocalist), Ethan Manilow (guitar), Ben Rolston (bass), Stephen Rush (trombone/toys), Andy Warren (trumpet)

Choreographer’s note: Inspiration for the dance comes from Dizzy Gillespie’s composition “Kush” in which he recalls that ancient African civilization also known as Nubia.

Acknowledgments: This new work has been commissioned by the UM Department of Dance. Special thanks to Associate Professor Robin Marie Wilson and Professor Stephen Rush for their research and collaborative efforts. Special thanks to Professor Ellen Rowe and the Department of Jazz. Additional thanks to the University Research Opportunity Program for research assistant funding.

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About the CAst JuliAn Allen sophomore, BFA Jazz & Contemplative Studies w/Drum conc., Evanston, ILlisA Chippi first-year, BFA Dance, Harbor Springs, MIinAe Chung grad student, MFA Dance, Seoul, South Korealynsey Colden first-year, BFA Dance, Arvada, COKelsey Connolly first-year, BFA Dance, Trumbull, CTdereK CresCenti senior, BFA Dance, Shelby Twp., MIshAnnA CruzAt junior, BFA Dance, Chicago, ILAndreA dAvis junior, BFA Dance/BA Spanish, Andover, MAAnne deArth senior, BM Flute Perf., Dearborn, MIrAChele donofrio junior, BFA Dance, Sault Ste. Marie, MItehillAh frederiCK sophomore, BFA Dance w/Movement Science minor, Oak Park, ILedith freyer junior, BFA Dance/BA Communication Studies, Grand Rapids, MIWoody goss senior, BFA Jazz & Contemplative Studies, Skokie, ILAllie hArris sophomore, BFA Dance, Saline, MIJordAn hArris first-year, BM Vocal Perf., Evanston, ILellen holme sophomore, BFA Dance, Gross Pointe Woods, MIJilliAn hopper grad student, MFA Dance, Davison, MIseAn hosKins grad student, MFA Dance, Bennington, VTsAbrinA imAmurA sophomore, BFA Dance, Plymouth, MIisAbellA ingels sophomore, BFA Dance/BA Psychology, Monroe, MIJennifer lAfreniere sophomore, BFA Dance/BS Biology, Monroe, MIethAn mAniloW junior, BFA Jazz & Contemplative Studies, Skokie, ILlogAn mCClendon senior, BFA Dance, Detroit, MImiChAel musiCK grad student, MA Media Arts, Boulder, COKAtie muth sophomore, BFA Dance, Chicago, ILnAtAlie niergArth sophomore, BFA Dance, Traverse City, MIfrAnCesCA nieves senior, BFA Dance/BA Sociology, Bronx, NYChrissy pApetti first-year, BFA Dance/BA History, Randolph, NJsAmAnthA pArisi-esteves first-year, BFA Dance/BA Latino Studies, Rochester, NYAleJAndro QuintAnillA sophomore, BFA Dance, Flint, MIpeter rAymond senior, BS Sound Engineering/BSE Computer Eng., Belleville, MIAlexAndrA reehorst sophomore, BFA Dance/BA English, Traverse City, MIben rolston senior, BFA Jazz & Contemplative Studies, Ann Arbor, MIAllegrA romitA senior, BFA Dance w/Movement Science minor, Baltimore, MDmAttheW rose senior, BS Sound Engineering, Farmington Hills, MImolly ross first-year, BFA Dance, St. Joseph, MIgAbriel sAltmAn junior, BFA Jazz & Contemplative Studies, Los Angeles, CApArisA shAhbAz sophomore, BFA Dance/BS Engineering, Howell, MIColleen shAughnessy junior, BFA Dance, West Bloomfield, MItArA sheenA senior, BFA Dance/BA English, Commerce, MIKAlilA Kingsford smith junior, BFA Dance/BA Anthropology, Philadelphia, PAJuliA smith-eppsteiner sophomore, BFA Dance/BA English, Rancho Santa Fe, CAnolA smith first-year, BFA Dance w/Movement Science minor, Brooklyn, NY

About the CAst briAnA stuArt junior, BFA Dance/BA Sociology, Detroit, MIKAty telfer sophomore, BFA Dance, Rockford, ILsusie thiel grad student, MFA Dance, Howell, MIJessiCA trepKA junior, BFA Dance/BS Political Science, Ann Arbor, MIemily WAnsersKi senior, BFA Dance/BA Political Science, Marietta, GAAndy WArren senior, BFA Jazz & Contemplative Studies/BSE Chemical Eng., Indianapolis, INmiChAelA Wood sophomore, BFA Dance/BS Mathematics, Saline, MI sAdie yArrington senior, BFA Dance/BS Anthropology, Ann Arbor, MICArA zonCA sophomore, BFA Dance, Howell, MI

About the Artists melissA beCK (Choreographer — Towards a sudden silence) is a lecturer in the Department of Dance. UM: Arcs in Time, The Bartered Bride, The Cradle Will Rock, Jackie O, Dance to the Music, Ann Arbor Dance Works. Regional Dance: Teacher for U-M Paul Taylor Summer Institute, Interlochen Arts Camp, Lincoln Center Institute, and Ohio Wolftrap; presented works at Chicago’s Around the Coyote Festival and Bates Dance Festival; adjudicator Ohio Dance Festival. Awards: 2006 recipient of the Maggie Allesee New Choreography Award presented by the Michigan Dance Council. Other: MFA Dance, BA English.

John CAge (Composer — MinEvent) was born in Los Angeles in 1912. He studied with Richard Buhlig, Henry Cowell, Adolph Weiss, and Arnold Schoenberg. In 1952, at Black Mountain College, he presented a theatrical event considered by many to be the first “Happening.” He was associated with Merce Cunningham from the early 1940s, and was Music Director of MCDC until his death in 1992. He was the author of many books, among them Silence (1961), A Year from Monday (1968), M (1973), Empty Words (1979), X (1983) and I–VI (the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures delivered at Harvard University in 1988–89). He died in New York City on August 12, 1992.

mAry Cole (Lighting Designer) is the lighting designer and technical director for the Dept. of Dance and Ann Arbor Dance Works. Regional: UM Dept. of Theatre & Drama’s Madmen & Specialists, Performance Network’s award winning productions of 9 Parts Desire and Fences, Lansing Community College’s Summer Repertory Season. Other: BS from EMU, master’s work at UM.

merCe CunninghAm (Choreographer — MinEvent) Born in Centralia, Washington on April 16, 1919, Cunningham began his professional modern dance career at 20 with a six-year tenure as a soloist in the Martha Graham Dance Company. In 1944 he presented his first solo show and in 1953 formed the Merce Cunningham Dance Company as a forum to explore his ground breaking ideas. Over the course of his career, Cunningham choreographed more than 150 dances and over 800 “Events.” Of all his collaborations, Cunningham’s work with John Cage, his life partner from the 1940s until Cage’s death in 1992, had the greatest influence on his practice. An active choreographer and mentor

About the Artists to the arts world until his death at the age of 90, Cunningham earned some of the highest honors bestowed in the arts including the National Medal of Arts (1990) and the MacArthur Fellowship (1985). Merce Cunningham passed away on July 26, 2009.

miChelle eliAs (Stage Manager — MinEvent, Towards a sudden silence, Tango con la vida) is a senior BFA candidate in the design and production program, concentrating on stage management. UM: The Elixir of Love, Uncommon Women and Others (Stage Mgr.); Armide, Arcs in Time, Ella Minnow Pea (1st ASM); As You Like It (ASM). Other: Ann Arbor Ballet Theatre: The Nutcracker (SM), Allure Dance Co: Allure (SM). Michelle also recently won the Region III Stage Management Fellowship at the KC/ACTF festival, and will attend the National competition this coming April in Washington D.C.

JeAn freebury (Stager — MinEvent) grew up in Canada where she studied ballet and danced in productions of the Alberta Ballet and the Edmonton Opera. She danced with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (1992-2003), and for various independent  choreographers; she currently dances with Pam Tanowitz. She has been a faculty member of the Merce Cunningham Dance School since 1996 and SUNY/Purchase since 2008. She has taught composition/repertory workshops at various schools and universities, and she most recently staged Merce Cunningham’s Inlets 2 (1983) for The American Dance Festival’s Past/Forward program in July 2010.

mArK lAnCAster (Costume Designer — MinEvent) was born in Yorkshire, England, and educated at Bootham School and the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He was Artist-in-Residence at King’s College, Cambridge, from 1968 to 1970. He moved to New York in 1974 when he first designed for MCDC. From 1974 - 1984 he designed scenery, costumes and/or lights for over twenty productions. In 1980 he was appointed Artistic Advisor to MCDC. He retired from the position in 1984, but returned to design for the company periodically including Five Stone Wind (1988) for which he received a “Bessie” Award. His paintings have been exhibited widely and are in numerous public and private collections.

diAnne mCintyre (Choreographer — The Summit) Awards include three Bessies (NY Dance and Performance Award), Guggenheim Fellowship, Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts/SUNY Purchase, American Dance Festival Distinguished Teaching Chair, Helen Hayes and AUDELCO awards (theatre) plus numerous grants. In New York she directed Sounds in Motion company and school. Choreography for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ailey II, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Dallas Black Dance Ensemble, GroundWorks, Dancing Wheels, many university and dance festival residences - Bates, Jacobs Pillow and ADF. Some music collaborators: Olu Dara, Cecil Taylor, Max Roach, Don Pullen, Hannibal, Lester Bowie and theatre Ntozake Shange and OyamO. Choreography for Broadway, regional and London theatre. Film/television choreography: Beloved (Harpo/Disney); for colored girls…(PBS); Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper (PBS) and Miss Evers’ Boys (HBO – Emmy nomination). A graduate in dance of Ohio State University, other mentors include Elaine Redmond and Gus Solomons jr. Recent performance tour: FLY: Five First Ladies of Dance.

About the Artists KAsiA mrozeWsKA (Scenic Designer) UM: (Re)Visionary Dances, Evita, Looking Back, Dancing Forward: A Centennial Celebration, Arcs in Time, Stravinsky Revisited, Antigone, The Shattered Mirror; Residential College: The Seagull, Blood Wedding, Darwin - Struggle for Existence. International Theatre: Krakow, Poland: The Kingfisher, The Man Who Came on Friday, Decameron.  Regional Theatre: Michigan Classical Repertory Theatre: Antigone, The Winter’s Tale, Medea, The Way of The World, Tartuffe, Mrs. Dulska’s Morality. Pioneer Theater Guild: Urinetown, Miss Saigon, The Who’s Tommy, The Wizard of Oz, Thoroughly Modern Millie.

ChristiAnne myers (Costume Designer) is an Asst. Professor in the Dept. of Theatre & Drama. UM: The Elixir of Love, Our Town, The Marriage of Figaro, Tartuffe, Ella Minnow Pea, Rent, As You Like It, and She Stoops to Conquer among others. Off-Broadway: Running Man, Oedipus, American Dreams: Lost & Found; Theatreworks/USA; The Public Theatre & Ma-Yi Ens.; Irondale Ens.; Lincoln Center Institute. New York: (In)Formations (Chor.: Stephan Kopliwitz), The Juilliard School. Regional Theatre: Purple Rose Theatre; Indiana Rep; Vermont Stage Co.; Clarence Brown Theatre; Syracuse Stage; Pine Mountain Music Festival. Other: BFA, Pace Univ.; MFA, New York Univ. 

ingrid olson (Stage Manager — The Summit) is a senior BTA candidate with a concentration in stage management. UM: Into the Woods, Trafford Tanzi (Stage Mgr.); Evita, (Re)Visionary Dances (1st ASM). MUSKET: Hair (SM); Kiss of the Spider Woman, Parade (1st ASM). Regional Theatre: West Virginia Public Theatre, Annie (PSM); Hairspray, 42nd Street, Joseph…Dreamcoat, The Full Monty (1st ASM).

Judy riCe (Artistic Director/Rehearsal Director — MinEvent) is a graduate of Canada’s National Ballet School and has performed extensively across the U.S. including The Joffrey Ballet and American Ballet Comedy. Teaching: 20 years experience teaching for regional companies and festivals as well as Company Dance, DMA, DEA, CNADM, 3D Dance Network, The Joffrey Ballet, Steps and Broadway Dance Ctr., and Dance Masters Teacher Training School. Co-founder of Behind Barres with pianist Paul Lewis and producer Rob Martens, producing eleven albums of ballet class music and seven DVD’s. Associate Professor of Dance, UM. TV: Fame, All My Children, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

stephen rush (Music Coordinator) UM: Professor and music director, Dept. of Dance; director, Digital Music Ensemble.  Composition:  Compositions recorded by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Stolzman, Roscoe Mitchell and others; music performed recently in Korea, Switzerland and England. Recordings on Centaur, EPS Disk’, Engine, and CALA labels. Performs with Roscoe Mitchell, Pauline Oliveros, his jazz trio jazz Yuganaut, and Listening Music from the Age of the Crystal Moon Cone. Awards: Grants from the Kellogg Foundation, American Music Center and Meet the Composer. Other: DMA in Composition, studying with Samuel Adler and Gunther Schuller, Eastman School of Music. 

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SCHOOL OF MUSIC, THEATRE & DANCEDean .........................................................Christopher Kendall

DEPARTMENT OF DANCEChair .....................................................................Angela KaneAdministrative Coordinator........................... Samantha StrayerFaculty .... Melissa Beck, Amy Chavasse, Mary Cole, Clare Croft, Bill DeYoung, Sandra Torijano DeYoung, Jessica Fogel, Beth Genne, Christian Matjias, Judy Rice, Stephen Rush, Biza Sompa, Peter Sparling, Amy West, Khita Whyatt, Robin Wilson

UNIVERSITY PRODUCTIONSDirector ................................................................Jeffrey KurasDepartment Administrator ............................. Fatima AbdullahOffice Assistant III/Usher Coordinator .................Shelda SmithMarketing & Communications Dir. ........... Kerianne M. TupacGraphic Design ...............................................Don HammondPhotographer .................................... Peter Smith PhotographyInformation Systems Manager .........................Henry ReynoldsFacilities Manager ................................................Shannon RiceHouse Manager ............................................ Dianne WidzinskiSenior Backstage Operations Mgr. .........................Barry LaRueBackstage Operations Mgrs. ........Mark Gordon, David Pickell, Kurt Thoma, Donald C. WatkinsAdministrative Office Assistants ................. Zoë Allen-Wickler, Allison Brown, Abrielle Case, Sara Shvartzman, Kevin Tan

PRODUCTION STAFFProduction Manager .....................................Amanda MengdenProduction Stage Manager...................................Nancy UffnerProduction Office Assistants ....................................Bianca Lee, Brandon Penberton, Elise WootenTechnical Director (Power) ............................ Douglas EdwardsMaster Carpenter (Power) .................................Michael BraicoCarpenter (Power) ......................................... Brandon CarruthTechnical Director (Walgreen) ...............Richard W. Lindsay, Jr.Charge Scenic Artist ...........................................Toni Y. AulettiScenic Artist .....................................................Beth SandmaierProperties Master ................................................Arthur RidleyAsst. Properties Master ........................................Patrick DroneMaster Electrician............................................Mark Allen BergSound Engineers .......................Roger Arnett, Henry ReynoldsCostume Shop Manager ................................... Lynn HolbrookAssoc. Costume Shop Manager .......................... George Bacon

Cutter/Drapers ...........................................Virginia R. Luedke, Lea M. Morello, T J WilliamsonCrafts Artisan ...........................................Elizabeth GundersonCostume Stock Administrator .............................. Renae Skoog

PRODUCTION CREWAsst. Stage Manager...........................................Gee Hoon LimAsst. Costume Designer .......................................Yonit OlshanScenery (Power) ............................... Ariel Halt, Justin Megrete, Megan Sawyer, Anna StotlandPaint ....................Neha Bhat*, Carissa Bledsoe, Claire DiVizio, Steve Eddy, Austin Kozlowski, Alicia Moore, Jordan Schroeder, Trevor St. John-Gilbert*, Nicolas Ward, students of Theatre 250Props .................. Rachael Albert, Daniel Belnavis, Jane Bruce*, Kerry Concannon*, Holland Grossman, Erik Heitz, Tyler Jones, Catherine Keys, Louis King, Mary Little*, Ashley Park*, Erika Peterson*, Trevor St. John-Gilbert, Dereck Seay*, Paige Silvester*, Erik Skoog, Katherine Thomas, Danny Wilfred*, students of Theatre 250Professional Stitchers ..................Patty Branum, Laura Kantner, Rene Plante, Suzanne YoungCostumes .......... Joshua Beurer, Amalea Chininis, Corey Davis, Elizabeth Evans*, Carrie Fisk, Catherine Herron, Austin Hoeltzel, Laura Irion, Adrienne Johnson, Shawn McCulloch, Maura Niemisto, Desiree Oakley, Yonit Olsham, Devon Perry*, students of Theatre 250 & 252Lighting ....................Rachael Albert, Mary Clare Blake-Booth, Carisa Bledsoe, Michelle Bryan, Andrew Burkhardt, Nathaniel Daly, Kimberly Hunter, Jennifer Jacobs, Claire Jaffe, Andrew Lott, Charles Malott, Adam McCarthy, Tess Nugent, Sarah Petty, Amanda Rutishauser, Aaron Tacy, William Welch, Andrew Wysocki, students of Theatre 250

RUNNING CREWScenery .................................... Lynsey Colden, Shanna Cruzat, Tyler Dean, Ellen Holme, Natalie Niergarth, Charles Olken, Cassara Overton, Sarah Ring, Ellen Sachs, Parisa Shahbaz, Colleen ShaughnessyLight Board Operator ..................................Yemisi OdetoyinboLighting ................................. Michael Hartung, Kelsey MooreWardrobe .......... Corey Davis‡, Daniel Carlin, Paul Grosvenor, Michael Martin, Ginger Ann Neslund, Kelli Yapp

‡ Crew Head * Practicum Student

About the Artists sAndrA toriJAno (Choreographer — Tango con la vida) Assoc. Professor of Dance. Freelance dancer/teacher/choreographer throughout Europe, Latin America and USA. Dancer/Soloist: The National Dance Company of Costa Rica. Danza UNA; guest dancer Gyory Ballet Company in Hungary; Institut del Teatre in Barcelona, Spain; Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico; participated in several international festivals around the world. Awards: Awarded for her works in Wisconsin, Maryland, Detroit, Costa Rica. Invited by Nobel Winner Oscar Arias to stage choreography for his holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet. Other: Summer faculty, Point Park University. Her work was performed in Bejing, China in 2009.

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lAteComer poliCy

Latecomers will be seated at a suitable break or scene change.

pAgers, CellulAr phones, WAtCh AlArms

Please set pagers to silent mode. Cellular phones should be deactivated. Please deactivate your electronic watch alarm so it will not interrupt the performance. Please refrain from texting during the performance.

emergenCy proCedure

In the event of fire or severe storm, you will be instructed by an announcement from the stage indicating the best method of exit. Please notice the multiple red exit signs in the theatre. For your safety, please exit in a calm and orderly manner.

CAmerAs And reCording deviCes

The use of cameras — with or without a flash — recorders, or other electronic devices inside the theatre is strictly prohibited.

food And drinK

No food or drink is allowed in the theatre.

Children

As a courtesy to our audience and the performers, children under the age of three will not be admitted to performances. All children must have a ticket. If your child proves disruptive or excessively restless, you may be asked to leave by House Management.

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pArKing

For your parking convenience, we recommend arriving early. Prepaid parking passes are also available at the League Ticket Office.

ACCessibility

Accessible ramps, elevators, parking, restrooms, and wheelchair seating are

available for patrons with disabilities. Accessible restrooms are located off the main lobby.

sound enhAnCement

The theatre is equipped with an infrared listening system for

listening enhancement. Lightweight, wireless headsets are available free of charge from House Management.

lArge print progrAms

Large print programs are available free of charge from House Management.

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Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rehearsal) from (Re)Visionary Dances, Feb. 2010