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presents Ballet Hispanico Friday, June 20 & Saturday, June 21, 2014 at 8:00pm Durham Performing Arts Center Ballet Hispanico salutes Jody and John Arnhold for their visionary leadership and support. Through the generosity of the Arnhold family, Ballet Hispanico will continue to inspire communities around the world for the next 40 years and beyond. MetLife Foundation is the Official Tour Sponsor of Ballet Hispanico. American Airlines is the Official Airline of Ballet Hispanico. BalletHispanico.org Production Copyright 2014, Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Program is subject to change. The taking of video, audio, and photographs is strictly prohibited.

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Ballet Hispanico Friday, June 20 & Saturday, June 21, 2014 at 8:00pm Durham Performing Arts Center Ballet Hispanico salutes Jody and John Arnhold for their visionary leadership and support. Through the generosity of the Arnhold family, Ballet Hispanico will continue to inspire communities around the world for the next 40 years and beyond. MetLife Foundation is the Official Tour Sponsor of Ballet Hispanico. American Airlines is the Official Airline of Ballet Hispanico. BalletHispanico.org Production Copyright 2014, Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Program is subject to change. The taking of video, audio, and photographs is strictly prohibited.

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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Eduardo Vilaro THE COMPANY Lauren Alzamora Jamal Rashann Callender Mario Ismael Espinoza Johan Rivera Mendez Kimberly Van Woesik Christopher Bloom Kassandra Cruz* Melissa Fernandez Marcos Rodriguez Joshua Winzeler Martina Calcagno Alexander Duval Min-Tzu Li Vanessa Valecillos Jessica Alejandra Wyatt * Apprentice REHEARSAL DIRECTOR Michelle Manzanales PRODUCTION MANAGER Joshua Preston WARDROBE DIRECTOR Diana Ruettiger COMPANY GENERAL MANAGER Gregory Stuart STAGE MANAGER Nathan K. Claus FOUNDER Tina Ramírez

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SOMBRERÍSIMO (2013) Choreography Annabelle Lopez Ochoa Music Banda Ionica featuring Macaco el Mono Loco, Titi Robin, and soundscape by various artists Costume Design Diana Ruettiger Lighting Design Joshua Preston PERFORMERS Christopher Bloom, Jamal Rashann Callender, Alexander Duval, Mario Ismael Espinoza, Johan Rivera Mendez, Joshua Winzeler An absorbing exploration of identity, Sombrerísimo makes references to the surrealist world of the Belgian painter René Magritte, famous for his paintings of men in bowler hats. Sombrerísimo was commissioned by New York City Center for the Fall for Dance Festival. Pause • •

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SORTIJAS (2013) Choreography Cayetano Soto Music Lhasa de Sela Costume Design Talbot Runhof Lighting Design Joshua Preston Conceived by Cayetano Soto PERFORMERS Friday night: Kimberly Van Woesik and Joshua Winzeler Saturday night: Lauren Alzamora and Jamal Rashann Callender In Sortijas, a darkly lush duet full of emotional complexity, Cayetano Soto ponders the unavoidable pull of fate in our lives. Sortijas was made possible by the MetLife Community Connections Fund of the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project. Major support for NDP is also provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Intermission • •

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SHOW.GIRL. (2014) Choreography Rosie Herrera Music Earth, Wind & Fire, Ennio Morricone, 10cc, and Nino Rota Costume Design Diana Ruettiger Lighting Design Joshua Preston PERFORMERS Lauren Alzamora, Martina Calcagno, Kassandra Cruz, Min-Tzu Li, Vanessa Valecillos,* Kimberly Van Woesik, Jessica Alejandra Wyatt Christopher Bloom, Alexander Duval, Mario Ismael Espinoza, Johan Rivera Mendez, Marcos Rodriguez *soloist Miami-based choreographer and 2013 Princess Grace Award winner Rosie Herrera debuts her first work for Ballet Hispanico, one which uses the Cuban cabaret aesthetic to explore the Latina female identity. Show.Girl. was commissioned by ADF and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami- Dade County. ADF support provided by The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation and the Doris Duke/SHS Foundations Award for New Dance. Arsht Center support provided by Knight Foundation and Funding Arts Network. Intermission • •

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DANZÓN (2009) Choreography Eduardo Vilaro Music You’ve Changed by Carey/Fischer, arr. by D. Balakrishnan, Danzón by Paquito D’Rivera, arr. by M. Summer, A Night in Tunisia by Dizzy Gillespie/F. Paparelli, arr. by D. Balakrishnan Reorchestrated by Alex Brown Costume Design Diana Ruettiger Lighting Design Joshua Preston PERFORMERS Jamal Rashann Callender and Vanessa Valecillos Lauren Alzamora, Christopher Bloom, Martina Calcagno, Kassandra Cruz, Alexander Duval, Mario Ismael Espinoza, Min-Tzu Li, Johan Rivera Mendez, Marcos Rodriguez, Kimberly Van Woesik, Jessica Alejandra Wyatt, Joshua Winzeler Artistic Director Eduardo Vilaro has taken this traditional and quintessentially Cuban dance form and reinvented it with contemporary movement riffs. The work plays on the fusion of jazz improvisation and Cuban rhythms which propel the dancers into a joyous celebration of music and movement.

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Danzón was made possible through generous support from the Chicago Community Trust, The University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, and Strathmore in North Bethesda, MD. ADF performances of Ballet Hispanico are supported, in part, by The Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South at Duke University. ABOUT THE COMPANY Since its inception in 1970, BALLET HISPANICO’S contemporary repertory has reflected the ever-changing diversity of Latino cultures. Led by Artistic Director Eduardo Vilaro, the company’s multifaceted performances have featured beloved master works by Nacho Duato and Vincente Nebrada, cutting-edge premieres by Cayetano Soto and Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, and live music accompaniment by renowned artists such as Paquito D’Rivera. The company has performed for an audience of nearly 3 million, throughout 11 countries, on 3 continents. BIOGRAPHIES EDUARDO VILARO, a first generation Cuban-American, began as artistic director of Ballet Hispanico in August of 2009, becoming only the second person to head the company since it was founded in 1970. Mr. Vilaro has been part of the Ballet Hispanico family since 1985. As a dancer with Ballet Hispanico, he performed throughout the US, Latin America, and Europe and assisted founder Tina Ramirez with the development of dance education residencies. Mr. Vilaro’s passion for dance and Latino cultures began in the Southwest Bronx, where a role in a school musical ignited his journey. After training throughout New York City in dance institutions such as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center and the Martha Graham School, Mr. Vilaro received a BFA in dance at Adelphi University under the direction of Norman Walker. In 1999, he received an MA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Columbia College Chicago and was a recipient of their Albert P. Weissman Award. Upon his graduation from Columbia College, Mr. Vilaro founded Luna

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Negra Dance Theater in Chicago, a company which served as a springboard for Latino dance throughout the Midwest. Under his ten-year artistic direction, Luna Negra amassed a distinguished repertory of works by Latino choreographers such as Ron De Jesús, Vicente Nebrada, and Gustavo Ramírez Sansano. Mr. Vilaro’s own choreography is devoted to capturing the spiritual, sensual and historical essence of the Latino cultures. He created over 20 ballets for Luna Negra and has received commissions from the Ravinia Festival, the Chicago Sinfonietta, the Grant Park Festival, the Lexington Ballet, and the Chicago Symphony. He has collaborated with major dance and design artists as well as musicians such as Paquito D’Rivera, Susana Baca, Luciana Souza, and Tiempo Libre. In 2001 he was a recipient of a Ruth Page Award for choreography, and in 2003 he was honored for his choreographic work at Panama’s II International Festival of Ballet. In 2011, Mr. Vilaro premiered Asuka, his first work for Ballet Hispanico, “an unexpected interpretation of [Celia] Cruz’s music…high-energy and colorful.” —Chicago Dance Digest Mr. Vilaro was an associate professor at the Dance Center of Columbia College and has served on the board of directors of Dance/USA. He has also served on panels for the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. He was a guest speaker at the Salzburg Global Forum for Young Cultural Leaders and the National Association for Latino Arts and Culture, and continues to speak to the growing need for cultural diversity and dance education. LAUREN ALZAMORA graduated from UNC School of the Arts in 2001. She has danced for Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Eliot Feld’s Ballet Tech, and Battery Dance Company in New York. Lauren has also collaborated with New York-based dance photographer Howard Schatz on several projects, including underwater dance photography. She is a fully certified Pilates instructor and enjoys teaching private clients as well as her fellow company members.

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CHRISTOPHER BLOOM is from Middletown, VA where he started training at the Vostrikov’s Academy of Ballet at the age of 15. Christopher trained as a scholarship student at the Ballet and Contemporary Dance Programs in the School at Jacob’s Pillow under Anna-Marie Holmes and Milton Myers. He holds a BFA from The Ailey/Fordham BFA Dance program where he had the opportunity to perform works by Sidra Bell, Francesca Harper, Camille A. Brown, Jennifer Muller, Paul Taylor, and Alvin Ailey. He has performed professionally with 360° Dance Company, Thang Dao Dance Company, VonUssar DanceWorks, Parsons Dance, The Peridance Contemporary Dance Company, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. MARTINA CALCAGNO began dancing in her native Italy, where she studied ballet in Sicily and Rome. She moved to London to train at the Elmhurst School for Dance. In London, she performed with the Birmingham Royal Ballet and toured throughout the United Kingdom and China. Martina has danced around the world, performing with Compagnia DanzItalia, Narciso Dance Company, and BHdos. JAMAL RASHANN CALLENDER began dancing at Ballet Tech in New York City. He attended the Professional Performing Arts School/The Ailey School under the late Denise Jefferson, while dancing at The Restoration Dance Theatre and the Harlem School of the Arts. Jamal also attended Perry-Mansfield and Springboard Danse Montreal. He graduated from The Juilliard School under Lawrence Rhodes, and has worked with Atlanta Ballet, Peridance Ensemble, Buglisi Dance Theater, Formal Structure Inc., and Hubbard Street 2. Jamal is a recipient of the 2012 Princess Grace Dance Award: Dance Fellowship. KASSANDRA CRUZ (Apprentice) was born in Venezuela and is a recent graduate of the Ailey/Fordham BFA program. She received training from the Ailey School, Lines Ballet, Professional Performing Arts High School, and Ballet Hispanico. Her performance experience includes dancing with Mestizo Dance Company, Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre, and at various schools and venues with BHdos, Ballet Hispanico’s second company.

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ALEXANDER DUVAL began his dance career at Teatro Popular Danzante under the direction of Professor Nereida Rodríguez. He received a scholarship to study classical ballet at Ballet Alina Abreu, and he later joined Ballet Folklórico Nacional as a soloist. In 2011, he joined Ballet Nacional Dominicano. He has danced various leading roles in neo-classical works and has performed in many international festivals around the world, including Venezuela, Haiti, and Martinique. MARIO ISMAEL ESPINOZA was born in Tijuana, Mexico. He graduated from the University of California, Irvine, where he performed with Donald McKayle’s Etude Ensemble. Since then, Mario has performed with Odyssey Dance Theatre in Salt Lake City, Utah; Company C Contemporary Ballet, Man Dance San Francisco, Peninsula Ballet, Liss Fain Dance, and ODC Dance in San Francisco, California. MELISSA FERNANDEZ is from Miami, Florida, and graduated from The Julliard School in 2012. Melissa has attended programs at American Ballet Theatre, Miami City Ballet, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, and Netherlands Dans Theater 2011, among others. In 2008 Melissa was selected as a modern dance finalist in the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (NFAA) YoungARTS competition. She was also featured in the HBO series Master Class. MIN-TZU LI, a native of Taiwan, enjoyed her education at The Boston Conservatory and gained many diverse experiences working with their faculty and students. Ms. Li has been fortunate to perform works by such masters as José Limón, Thomas/Ortiz, Martha Graham, and Murray Louis, as well as creating her own works. JOHAN RIVERA MENDEZ was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He began his dance training at School for the Performing Arts, PR under the direction of Waldo Gonzalez. Johan graduated, earning his BFA from New World School of the Arts in 2013. While there, he had the opportunity to perform works of Robert Battle, Darshan Singh Bhuller, Peter London, Merce Cunningham, Michael Uthoff, and Kyle Abraham as well as simultaneously working with local dance

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companies in Miami, Florida. MARCOS RODRIGUEZ started his professional study of dance in the Ballet Concierto Dominicano Academy. In 2006, he received a scholarship for the Alicia Alonso University Dance Institute at the Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid, Spain. At this university he joined the Youth Ballet of Camara of Madrid as a principal dancer. In 2010, Marcos won the prize for the Support Program of Dance in Madrid as the only Dominican dancer. After graduation, where he received a degree in Choreography and Interpretation Techniques of Dance, and a Master in Performing Arts, Marcos joined the Dominican National Ballet as a soloist. He has been awarded the 2009 Personality of Culture Award by the Ministry of Culture of the Dominican Republic, the 2010 Latin Pride National Award as Dancer of the Year, and the Young Dominican Excellence Abroad by the Ministry of Youth. VANESSA VALECILLOS joined Ballet Nacional de Caracas under director Vicente Nebrada in 1989. After earning a BFA from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, she performed with Southern Ballet Theater, Chicago Lyric Opera, where she performed as a principal dancer in various productions, and with Luna Negra Dance Theater, where she was a founding member. Throughout her dance career, she has had the opportunity to teach students both nationally and internationally. KIMBERLY VAN WOESIK graduated from Southern Methodist University in 2011. She has trained at Chamberlain School of Performing Arts, American Ballet Theater, Miami City Ballet, the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, and San Francisco Conservatory of Dance. Kimberly has performed works by Ben Stevenson, Twyla Tharp, Arthur Mitchell, Alvin Ailey, Martha Graham, Alison Chase, Jessica Lang, Adam Hougland, Gerald Arpino, and George Balanchine.

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JOSHUA WINZELER was born in Miami, Florida. He began his ballet training with the Thomas Armour Youth Ballet and the Miami Conservatory. He furthered his training with the School of American Ballet, Miami City Ballet, and Joffrey Ballet. Joshua graduated from New World School of the Arts receiving his BFA in 2011. Joshua has performed works from Martha Graham, Darshan Bhuller, Robert Battle, and Michael Uthoff. JESSICA ALEJANDRA WYATT began her training at the School of Oregon Ballet Theater under the direction of Cuban teacher Haydee Gutierrez. She also studied with her mother, Elena Carter, former Dance Theater of Harlem and Ballet Nacional de Danza principal. In 2002 Miss Wyatt joined The Joffrey Ballet as an apprentice and participated in the filming of Robert Altman’s The Company. She later joined Luna Negra Dance Theater and was a company member from 2004-09. In 2012, Miss Wyatt was nominated for a Bessie Award. ROSIE HERRERA (Choreographer) is a graduate from New World School with a BFA in Dance Performance. She has been commissioned by the Miami Light Project in association with the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing and the American Dance Festival in 2010, 2011, and 2013 where her company has performed for sold-out audiences. Rosie is a classically trained lyric coloratura soprano and performs with the Performers Music Institute Opera Ensemble in addition to choreographing and staging operas independently throughout Miami. Rosie is a 2010 MANCC choreographic fellow and a 2011 Miami Dance Fellow. Most recently she was awarded a Princess Grace Choreographic Fellowship for her new work, Show.Girl. ANNABELLE LOPEZ OCHOA (Choreographer) is an award-winning Belgo-Colombian choreographer based in The Netherlands. She has created works for many companies around the world such as the Scapino Ballet, Dutch National Ballet, Djazzex, Royal Ballet of Flanders, Ballet du Grand Theatre du Geneve, BalletX, Luna Negra, BJM-Danse Montreal, Whim W’him, Ballet National de Marseille, Pennsylvania Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Ballet Hispanico, Ballet Austin, Atlanta Ballet, Ballet Nacional Dominicano, CND Madrid,

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Augsburg Ballet, and the Scottish Ballet. CAYETANO SOTO (Choreographer), originally from Spain, studied dance at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. Soto danced with IT Dansa and Ballet Theater Munich, where he created Fugaz, his first signature work. He has choreographed for companies such as Stuttgarter Ballet, the Royal Ballet of Flanders, and Northwest Dance Project, among others. Fascinated by the fashion label Talbot Runhof, Soto has collaborated with the designers for the costume design of Carmen at Dortmund Ballet and Sortijas for Ballet Hispanico. In 2006, he won first prize in the Uncontainable Project choreographic competition of the Royal Ballet of Flanders, and he was nominated in 2011 for the Golden Mask Award in Russia. Cayetano Soto is based in Munich, Germany. MICHELLE MANZANALES (Rehearsal Director) is a choreographer and dance educator originally from Houston, TX. She began working with Eduardo Vilaro in 2003 as a dancer for his company Luna Negra Dance Theater of Chicago, where she later became Rehearsal Director in 2006 and served as Interim Artistic Director 2009-2010. In 2007, Manzanales created Sugar in the Raw (Azucar Cruda) for LNDT which was applauded by the Chicago Sun-Times as “a staggering, beautiful, accomplished new work.” In 2010, her homage to Frida Kahlo, Paloma Querida, was hailed as a “visual masterpiece” by Lucia Mauro of the Chicago Tribune and was described by the Sun-Times as a “gorgeously designed, richly hallucinatory, multi-faceted vision of the artist…”. Her choreography has also been presented by Texas Contemporary Weekend, Spring to Dance (St. Louis, MO), Fort Worth Dance Festival, and Festival de Danza Córdoba (Veracruz, Mexico), and honored by the American College Dance Festival on four separate occasions. DIANA RUETTIGER (Costume Design) has served as wardrobe supervisor for Luna Negra Dance Theater and Costume Designer for Dance for Life Chicago, Columbia College, and The Chicago Academy for the Arts. She has worked as stitcher and crew for the Joffrey Ballet and numerous Broadway touring shows. Ms. Ruettiger

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owned and operated a costume shop for 25 years before moving to New York to begin her tenure as Wardrobe Supervisor with Ballet Hispanico. JOSHUA PRESTON (Production Manager, Lighting Design) hails from the verdant hills of central Kentucky. As a designer he has lit all kinds of plays, operas, buildings, trees, humans, and dancing humans most of all. There are few things that bring Mr. Preston more joy than lighting stuff and things. Josh went to school in sunny Chicago where he met the intrepid Mr. Eduardo Vilaro and the journey has not stopped since. Josh is eternally grateful to have worked as Technical Director for Luna Negra Dance Theater and equally appreciative to serve as Production Manager with Ballet Hispanico. NATHAN K. CLAUS (Stage Manager) has served as stage manager for Jennifer Muller’s The Works both domestically and internationally. He has worked on Broadway with the productions of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, God of Carnage, The Norman Conquests and November. Hailing from Fargo, North Dakota, Nathan began studying ballet at Dancenter North in Libertyville, IL before obtaining a BA in Theatre from Millikin University in Decatur, IL, where he also studied dance, music, and education. TINA RAMIREZ (Founder) founded Ballet Hispanico in 1970 and served as Artistic Director until 2009. Under her direction, over 45 choreographers created works for the company, many of international stature and others in the early stages of their career. Ms. Ramirez was born in Venezuela, the daughter of a Mexican bullfighter and grandniece to a Puerto Rican educator. Her performing career included international touring with the Federico Rey Dance Company, the inaugural Festival of Two Worlds in Italy with John Butler, the Broadway productions of Kismet and Lute Song and the television adaptation of Man of La Mancha. In addition to the National Medal of Arts, Ms. Ramirez has received countless awards and honors in recognition of her work, including the Dance Magazine Award, the Hispanic Heritage Award for Education, Capezio Dance Award, NYS Governor’s Arts Award, and the NYC Mayor’s Award of Honor for Arts & Culture.

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Pilobolus ARTISTIC DIRECTORS Robby Barnett Michael Tracy ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTORS Renée Jaworski, Matt Kent DANCERS Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern, Benjamin Coalter, Matt Del Rosario, Eriko Jimbo, Jordan Kriston, Nile H. Russell, Mike Tyus CO-DANCE CAPTAIN Matt Del Rosario CO-DANCE CAPTAIN Nile Russell EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Itamar Kubovy CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, DEVELOPMENT Lily Binns SALES & TOURING Karen Feys

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DIRECTOR OF FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION Jeffrey Bledsoe DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION Shane Mongar SENIOR COMPANY MANAGER Kirsten Leon PRODUCTION MANAGER Kristin Helfrich EMINENCE GRISE/LIGHTING DESIGNER Neil Jampolis PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Shelby Sonnenberg LIGHTING SUPERVISOR Mike Faba STAGE OPS Eric Taylor ARTISTIC ASSOCIATE Jun Kuribayashi VIDEO TECHNICIAN Chris Owens DANCER APPRENTICE Derion Loman MARKETING & MEDIA COORDINATOR AJ Radford ASSOCIATE PRODUCER Hannah Cohen

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EDUCATION COORDINATOR Emily Kent SALES ASSISTANT Maarten Verbeuren ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Kate Olsen ASSISTANT COMPANY MANAGER Hannah Abair DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT Isabella Joslin ARTISTIC INTERN Zita Nyarady US Touring: IMG Artists Tel: +1.212.994.3500 E-mail: [email protected] International Sales and Commercial Work: Karen Feys E-mail [email protected] US +1.860.717.0517 UK +44.207.193.9877 General inquiries: Tel +1.860.868.0538 E-mail [email protected] Visit our website: www.pilobolus.org Pilobolus Lab is supported by a major award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art, and by the American Dance Festival with support from the SHS Foundation. Thursday, June 26-Saturday, June 28, 2014 at 8:00pm Durham Performing Arts Center

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Pilobolus is a tax-exempt, not-for-profit corporation, supported in part by funds from the Department of Economic and Community Development/Connecticut Office of the Arts and the Connecticut Arts Endowment Fund, and by grants from The Arnhold Foundation, The Beyer Family Foundation, The Dau Family Foundation, The Diebold Foundation, The Gilman Foundation, Goldman Sachs Gives, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, Hyde & Watson Foundation, Jean and Julien Levy Foundation for the Arts, The NewAlliance Foundation, The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation, Newman’s Own Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, The Silver Mountain Foundation, and The Xerox Foundation. If you wish to contribute to Pilobolus, please call or write us. PILOBOLUS IS A FUNGUS Edited by Oriel Pe’er and Paula Salhany Score by Keith Kenniff ON THE NATURE OF THINGS (Premiere) Created by Robby Barnett, Renée Jaworski, Matt Kent, and Itamar Kubovy in collaboration with Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern, Benjamin Coalter, Matt Del Rosario, Eriko Jimbo, Jordan Kriston, Jun Kuribayashi, Derion Loman, Nile Russell, and Mike Tyus Performed by Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern, Eriko Jimbo, and Mike Tyus

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Music Michelle DiBucci and Ed Bilous Lighting and Set Design Neil Jampolis On The Nature Of Things was commissioned by The Dau Family Foundation in honor of Elizabeth Hoffman and David Mechlin, Treacy and Darcy Beyer, the American Dance Festival with support from the SHS Foundation and the Charles L. and Stephanie Reinhart Fund, and by the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes a great nation deserves great art. DANIELLE Directed by Anthony Cerniello SKYSCRAPERS (2012) Based on original concept and choreography by Trish Sie for Skyscrapers, the music video for OK Go (2012). Created by Trish Sie, Paula Salhany, and Renée Jaworski in collaboration with Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern, Eriko Jimbo, Jordan Kriston, Jun Kuribayashi, Manelich Minniefee, and Nile Russell Performed by Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern, Benjamin Coalter, Eriko Jimbo, Jordan Kriston, Derion Loman, and Nile Russell Music Skyscrapers written by Damien Kulash, performed by OK Go, courtesy of Paracadute

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Video Paula Salhany Costumes Phoebe Katzin and Trish Sie Lighting Shelly Sabel This International Collaborators Project work was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. EXPLOSIONS Film by Dumt & Farligt KOROKORO (2011) Choreographed by Takuya Muramatsu of Dairakudakan, Renée Jaworski, and Michael Tracy in collaboration with Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern, Winston Dynamite Brown, Matt Del Rosario, Eriko Jimbo, Jordan Kriston, Jun Kuribayashi, and Nile Russell Performed by Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern, Matt Del Rosario, Eriko Jimbo, Jordan Kriston, Nile Russell, and Mike Tyus

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Music Von Oswald, Truby Trio, Flim, and Noto and Sakamoto Costumes Liz Prince Lighting Neil Peter Jampolis Photographer/Digital Projection Artist John Kane Commissioned by the American Dance Festival with support from the SHS Foundation and the Japan Foundation, New York, with additional major funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Intermission • • THE INCONSISTENT PEDALER (Premiere) Created by Shira Geffen, Etgar Keret, Robby Barnett, Renée Jaworski, Matt Kent, and Itamar Kubovy in collaboration with Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern, Benjamin Coalter, Matt Del Rosario, Eriko Jimbo, Jordan Kriston, Jun Kuribayashi, Derion Loman, Nile Russell, and Mike Tyus Performed by Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern, Benjamin Coalter, Matt Del Rosario, Eriko Jimbo, Jordan Kriston, Nile Russell, and Mike Tyus

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Music TBA Lighting Neil Jampolis Costume & Prop Design Gregory Laffey Sound Design Carmen Borgia The Inconsistent Pedaler was commissioned by the American Dance Festival with support from the SHS Foundation and the Charles L. and Stephanie Reinhart Fund, and by the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes a great nation deserves great art. WIND Directed by Robert Löbel MEGAWATT (2004) Choreographed by Jonathan Wolken in collaboration with Mark Fucik, Andrew Herro, Renée Jaworski, Matt Kent, Jennifer Macavinta, Manelich Minniefee, and Matthew Thornton

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Performed by Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern, Benjamin Coalter, Matt Del Rosario, Renée Jaworski, Eriko Jimbo, Jordan Kriston, Derion Loman, Nile Russell, and Mike Tyus Music Primus, Radiohead, and Squarepusher Costumes Liz Prince Lighting Neil Peter Jampolis This piece was commissioned by Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater FL, to celebrate its 20th Anniversary Season and was premiered there on January 30, 2004. It was also made possible in part with funds from The Thomas F. Peterson Foundation, The Beyer Foundation, an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art, and the Connecticut Commission on Arts, Tourism, Culture, History and Film. ABOUT THE COMPANY PILOBOLUS—named after a barnyard fungus that propels its spores with extraordinary speed, accuracy, and strength—is a dance company founded by a group of Dartmouth College students in 1971. Pilobolus continually forms diverse collaborations that break down barriers between disciplines and challenge the way we think about dance. Physically and intellectually, the company engages and inspires audiences around the world through performance, education, and consultation.

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Pilobolus propels itself in a variety of directions to reach these goals. The original company, Pilobolus Dance Theater, has been touring its 115 pieces of repertory to more than 64 countries over the last 42 years. Pilobolus’s Shadowland, the company’s evening-length show currently touring Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, has been seen by more than a half- million people in the five years since it was created. Pilobolus’s collaborative, creative, and educational work takes place through the Pilobolus Lab, in which the company both convenes diverse artists in the development of new work and teaches its creative method to individuals and institutions. To date, the Pilobolus Lab has produced collaborations with Penn & Teller, the MIT Distributed Robotics Laboratory, Art Spiegelman, Maurice Sendak, OK Go, Radiolab, and many others. The Lab’s educational programming—which applies Pilobolus’s unique collaborative process to help all kinds of groups work better and achieve common goals—includes workshops, master classes, residencies, and children’s programming. Educational partners include Brooklyn Academy of Music and NYC and CT Public Schools. Pilobolus Creative Services applies this same method of invention to business, offering a wide range of educational, directorial, design, and movement services for film, advertising, publishing, and corporate groups and events. The company has collaborated with clients such as Avon, UTC, Wharton Business School, Google, the US Olympic Committee, the NFL Network, Pfizer, and many others. Pilobolus has been featured across the world at the 79th Annual Academy Awards (2007), and on Sesame Street, Oprah, 60 Minutes, and Late Night with Conan O’ Brien. It has been recognized with prestigious honors such as the Berlin Critic’s Prize, the Scotsman Award, the Brandeis Award, the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cultural Programming, the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement in Choreography, and a TED Fellowship for presenting at the TED conference in 2005. Pilobolus holds the 2011 Guinness World Record for fitting the most people into a

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Mini Cooper (26), and in 2012, the company was nominated for a Grammy® Award for its interactive music video collaboration with OK Go and Google Chrome Japan, All is Not Lost. Recently, Pilobolus was honored as the first collective to receive the Dance Magazine Award, which recognizes artists who have made lasting contributions to the field. Want more Pilobolus? Join us at our home studio in Washington this summer for weeklong creative movement workshops for adults, teens, and kids. We love having participants with no experience in dance! Our founders had no experience in dance! Check our website pilobolus.org for more information or write Education Coordinator Emily Kent at ekentpilobolus.org. BIOGRAPHIES ROBBY BARNETT (Artistic Director) was born and raised in the Adirondack Mountains and attended Dartmouth College. He joined Pilobolus in 1971. MICHAEL TRACY (Artistic Director) was born in Florence and raised in New England. He met the other Pilobolus founders at Dartmouth in 1969 and became an Artistic Director after graduating magna cum laude in 1973. Michael toured with Pilobolus for 14 years—for eight as the only touring Director—and continues to choreograph and direct the company. He has set his work on the Joffrey, Ohio, Hartford, Nancy, and Verona Ballets and choreographed a production of Mozart’s Magic Flute with John Eliot Gardiner, the Monteverdi Choir, and the English Baroque Soloists, and a national tour production for the National Theater of the Deaf. Michael taught at Yale University for two decades and lives in northwestern Connecticut. ITAMAR KUBOVY (Executive Producer) oversees the many moving parts of Pilobolus. He founded and co-curates Pilobolus’s critically acclaimed International Collaborators Project, which opens

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the choreographic process to artists and thinkers from diverse fields. Recent collaborators include the MIT Distributed Robotics Lab, Steve Banks, head writer of SpongeBob SquarePants, choreographers Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, comics artist Art Spiegelman, puppeteer Basil Twist, masters of trickery Penn & Teller, and writers Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen. Itamar is one of the creators of Pilobolus’s Shadowland, the evening-length hit show in its fourth year touring internationally. He also evolved Pilobolus Creative Services, collaborating with clients such as Google, IBM, Boston Consulting Group, the US Olympic Committee, the NFL Network, Pfizer, and many others to develop movement for film, advertising, publishing, and corporate events. Pilobolus’s interactive music video collaboration with OK Go and Google Chrome Japan, All is Not Lost, was nominated for a 2012 Grammy® Award. In keeping with Pilobolus’s traditionally collective approach to creative work, Itamar now focuses his efforts on developing the Pilobolus Lab, where the company convenes creative minds to produce imaginative physical entertainment and distribute it on diverse platforms. Prior to joining Pilobolus, Itamar studied philosophy at Yale, ran theaters in Germany and Sweden, directed plays by John Guare, co-directed the 2002 season finale of The West Wing, and made a film, Upheaval, starring Frances McDormand. LILY BINNS (Co-Executive Director, Development) oversees all internal and external communications, builds Pilobolus’s extended communities of supporters and outreach program participants, and oversees the effective integration of all the moving parts of Pilobolus toward a sustainable future. Together with Kubovy, she developed Pilobolus’s critically acclaimed International Collaborators Project, which opens the choreographic process to artists and thinkers from diverse fields. Before joining Pilobolus in 2008, Lily worked in the world of food as Managing Editor of Saveur magazine and as a book editor at Ten Speed Press. She is the co-author of The Hungry Scientist Handbook (Harper Collins, 2008) and author of the fiction chapbook The First American Wilderness (JR Vansant, 2011). She graduated from Columbia University in 2003 with a degree in English and Creative Writing.

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RENÉE JAWORSKI (Associate Artistic Director) received her BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Upon graduating she began work with MOMIX, performing and teaching throughout the world as well as creating her own work in Philadelphia. She began performing with Pilobolus in 2000, working on exciting projects such as the 2007 Academy Awards. She has served as dance captain, master teacher, rehearsal director, and most recently director and choreographer for many of the company’s collaborations with artists and entities such as Dan Zanes, Steven Banks, Takuya Muramatsu, the rock band OK Go, Michael Moschen, Radiolab, and Sidi Larbi Cherkoui. In 2010 her alma mater honored her with the university’s Silver Star Alumni Award for work as an artist in the field of dance. Renee lives in Connecticut with her husband and daughter. MATT KENT (Associate Artistic Director) has worked with Pilobolus since 1996 as a dancer, collaborator, creative director, choreographer, and associate artistic director. Past Pilobolus projects include Head Choreographer for Andre Heller’s Magnifico, a large-scale circus production, choreographer for a Sports Emmy-nominated teaser created in collaboration with the NFL Network, and choreographer for a television appearance on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Matt is one of the creators of the Pilobolus’s European hit Shadowland, and he has performed in over 24 countries and on Pilobolus’s appearance on the 79th Academy Awards. Outside of Pilobolus, he has worked as zombie choreographer for AMC’s hit series The Walking Dead and as movement consultant on the Duncan Sheik musical, Whisper House. Matt lives in Connecticut with his wife and two sons. SHAWN FITZGERALD AHERN (Dancer) grew up climbing trees and skipping stones in Dublin, New Hampshire. After graduating from rural public school and the Monadnock Performing Arts Academy, both located in his native New Hampshire, Shawn moved to Vienna, Austria to continue his studies in dance and visual arts. He later returned to New Hampshire, where he worked in steel construction and pursued his undergraduate degree at Keene State College. He graduated magna cum laude from Keene as a Theatre and Dance major under the mentorship of William Seigh. Shawn owes his passion for movement and for learning to the inspired

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instructors at MPAA, KSC, and the American Dance Festival. He is truly excited each day to collaborate, travel, and perform with Pilobolus! Shawn thanks you for sustaining the arts, and he thanks his family from the bottom of his heart for all of the unending support and love they bring into his life. BENJAMIN COALTER (Dancer) is from Hurricane, WV. He began his undergraduate work in Engineering and International Affairs at Marshall University. During his second year at Marshall, Ben took his first formal dance class. He continued training for the next five months under the direction of Ella Hay, after which he transferred to the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, graduating in 2012 with a BFA in Contemporary Dance. Ben can’t thank his parents enough for supporting him in his career change into the arts and putting their trust in God that he would have a job upon graduation. Ben joined Pilobolus in the fall of 2012. MATT DEL ROSARIO (Co-Dance Captain) was born and raised in Hawaii. He began formal dance training at age 20 under the guidance of Paul Maley, who inspired him to earn a BFA in Contemporary Dance at the North Carolina School of the Arts. In his free time, Matt loves to surf, spear dive, dance Hula, and play the ukulele. A special thanks to his Ohana for their love and support. ERIKO (ERICA) JIMBO (Dancer) was born in Japan, raised all over the States, and earned her BFA in Dance from North Carolina School of the Arts. Since then, she has danced professionally with several different companies, productions, and choreographers, and broadened her movement knowledge through aerial work, wushu, Capoeira, hip hop, house, waacking, vogue, breakin, African, swing, hustle, and more. She has a special passion for the NYC underground house and hip hop culture and won House Dance International in 2009. When time permits, she performs and engages in events with her crew, MAWU. Jimbo has traveled throughout the world to perform and teach and aspires to continue exploring the globe while sharing her passion. She joined Pilobolus in 2009.

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JORDAN KRISTON (Dancer) was born in Illinois and grew up in Phoenix, AZ. She earned a BFA in Dance Performance from Arizona State University while performing with Movement Source Dance Company of Phoenix. In 2006 she moved to Brooklyn, NY. During her time in New York, Jordan performed with H.T. Chen and Dian Dong, Douglas Dunn, and Karl Anderson. She was overjoyed to start a full-time position with Pilobolus in August 2010. She takes pride in making new work with Pilobolus and is grateful to be able to share and teach all over the world. Jordan also enjoys writing, caring for horses, and National Geographic Magazine. She will always be thankful for the family and friends who have helped shape who she is and encouraged her along the way. DERION LOMAN (Dancer Apprentice) was born and raised in Fairfield, CA. His interest in dance came from his involvement in color guard where he had the opportunity to tour with the World Championship Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corp. Derion graduated in 2012 with a BA in Psychology and a BFA in Dance from the University of California Santa Barbara. During his time at UCSB he trained primarily in release-based modern with influences from other notable choreographers such as Limón, Lubovitch, and Horton. He participated in the UCSB Dance Company where he performed Speeds, a work created by Jennifer Muller. Most recently he was a pioneer member of BHdos, Ballet Hispanico’s Second Company, where he performed for a variety of events and venues including Symphony Space Theatre,The FBI, and the presidential inauguration. Derion would like to thank all his colleagues, mentors, friends, family, and you the audience for allowing him to cultivate and share his artistry. NILE H. RUSSELL (Co-Dance Captain) is originally from Baltimore, MD. In 2004, he received a BA in Dance from Connecticut College, where he was fortunate enough to have the guidance of wonderful dancers and teachers such as Dan Wagoner, Lan Lan Wang, Jeff Rebudal, Robyne Watkin, Eddie Taketa, and Jeremy Nelson. In 2002, inspired by his love for Indian culture, Nile traveled to India to study temple architecture and Bharatanatyam dance at the University of Mysore. Since moving to New York in 2004, Nile has danced with Silver- Brown Dance, LeeSaar The Company, Luis Lara Malvacias,

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Stefanie Nelson Dance Group, and Naganuma Dance. He will forever thank his friends, family, and mother, Sharon, for their love and support. Nile joined Pilobolus in August 2009. MIKE TYUS (Dancer) was born in Seattle, WA but grew up in the entertainment capital, Los Angeles. After undergoing reconstructive leg surgery and being prescribed dance as physical therapy, dance became his passion. He started his training with jazz competitive dance, which led him to audition for the renowned Cirque du Soleil. Mike worked with Cirque Du Soleil from 2008 to 2012, which gave him the opportunity to share and experience dance throughout the entire world. This experience also helped mold his sense of discipline, work ethic, and pride in movement. Mike wants to specifically thank Alfonso Coro for supporting him through the rough stuff. This is Mike’s first season with Pilobolus. JUN KURIBAYASHI (Artistic Associate) was born in Japan and raised in the US since age five. Before pursuing a career in dance, he was a competitive swimmer and breakdancer and studied various martial arts. At age 22, he began learning dance technique at the University of Kansas, where he earned his BFA. He debuted professionally with MOMIX in 2004 and shortly after joined Pilobolus. He toured as a dancer, then dance captain and communications liaison for ten years. He gives special thanks to the dance faculty at KU, families (Kuribayashi and Jones), and friends who have always shown unwavering support, and especially to his wonderful wife, Casey, who always keeps him grounded and level headed. Jun joined Pilobolus in August 2004. SHANE MONGAR (Director of Production) is originally from Chattanooga, TN. KRISTIN HELFRICH (Production Manager) holds a BA in Lighting Design and Photography from Columbia College in Chicago, IL. She started working for Pilobolus in 2008 as Production Stage Manager. Prior positions include Production Manager for the Kelly Strayhorn Theater in Pittsburgh, PA, Production Manager and Lighting Supervisor for Deeply Rooted Dance Theater in Chicago, IL, Master Electrician for the American Dance Festival in Durham, NC,

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and Assistant Lighting Designer and Master Electrician for the National Playwrights Festival at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in New London, CT. MIKE FABA (Lighting Supervisor) is a graduate of the Professional Theater Arts Training Program in Lighting Design at the Seattle Repertory Theater and holds a BA in Drama from Vassar College. He worked as the Production Stage Manager and Lighting Supervisor for the Kate Weare Company and for Radiolab Live: In The Dark, a collaboration between WNYC’s Radiolab and Pilobolus. Mike was the Lighting Supervisor for Martha Clarke’s Angel Reapers and spent two summers working as the Master Electrician at the American Dance Festival. CHRIS OWENS (Video Technician) is from the great state of Nebraska. He attended Doane College in Crete, NE, and earned a BFA in Theatre, Journalism, and Media. Since college, Chris has been a media technology intern at Actors Theatre of Louisville, video intern at New York Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Theatre, and a directing intern at Wooly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, DC, for their production of The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity. Chris currently resides in Chicago as a freelance director and videographer. SHELBY SONNENBERG (Production Stage Manager) was born and raised in Wisconsin. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a BFA in Dance in 2012 and completed production apprenticeships at Bates Dance Festival and New York Live Arts in 2013. She would like to thank her mom and dad for all their love and support. ERIC TAYLOR (Stage Ops) is from Tennessee, where he still spends his time off from touring working as a rigger and stagehand for area theater productions and corporate events. Eric has enjoyed touring with Pilobolus since 2011.

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SHIRA GEFFEN (Creative Collaborator) was born in Tel Aviv in 1971. A playwright, director, children`s author, and actress, she studied at the Nissan Nativ Drama Studio and has performed at the Habimah National Theater as well as at the Cameri and Khan Theaters. In 2005 she started Knafyim, a theater group for retarded actors. Geffen has published three books for children. She was awarded First Prize at the Haifa Children’s Drama Festival in 1998 and the Hadassah Prize for children’s book writing in 2003. In 2007 Geffen wrote and co-directed her first feature film Jellyfish (Meduzot), which won 3 prizes in the Cannes Film Festival, including the prestigious Camera d’Or. In 2014 she wrote and directed Self Made which was selected for Critiques Week at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014. ETGAR KERET (Creative Collaborator) was born in Tel Aviv in 1967. His writing has been published in The New York Times, Le Monde, The Guardian, The New Yorker, Granta, Harper’s Magazine, and the Paris Review. His work has been translated into 34 languages and published in over 38 countries. In 2007, Keret and Shira Gefen won the Cannes Film Festival’s Camera d’Or award for their movie Jellyfish and the Best Director award of the French Artists and Writers’ Guild. In 2010, Keret received the Chevalier Medallion of France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He currently lectures at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. TAKUYA MURAMATSU (Choreographer) joined the internationally known Butoh company Dairakudakan in 1994. Muramatsu also founded his own dance company, Butoh-ha Dattan in 2000 and performed Gyudankin at the Fringe Dance Festival at Shinagawa Sphere Mex. In 2001, he released a Kochuten piece, Ushiro no Shomen and in 2002 performed the same piece at Japan Society in New York. In 2003, for his performance in Takara Jima (Treasure Island) at the American Dance Festival, he was described by The New York Times as a butoh artist who is as charismatic as Akaji Maro. In 2005, Muramatsu choreographed Uchyudou Theater Company’s Kazekairou. In 2006, he stayed in the US for 200 days as a trainee under the Japanese Government Overseas Programme for Artists and participated actively in workshops and ADF performances of the International

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Choreographers Commissioning Program (ICCP) and at various dance schools in New York. In 2007, he created Dobu at Theatre Tram in Setagaya, Tokyo, and performed in Paris in 2009. Also in 2009, Muramatsu joined and collaborated with Australia’s dance company Zen Zen Zo. In 2010, he directed the piece Kochuten in Tokyo. Takuya Muramatsu is the head instructor of Butoh Workshops in Dairakudakan. TRISH SIE (Creative Collaborator) has a background in freaky, low-budget filmmaking, modern dance, ballet, ballroom dancesport, and music, and conceptualizes, creates, choreographs, and directs projects for film, television, and the internet. She has collaborated with OK Go to conceive, produce and direct many of OK Go’s music videos, including the Grammy-winning treadmill video, Here It Goes Again and the dancing dog video, White Knuckles. Sie, a Featured Director at Saatchi & Saatchi’s New Director Showcase in Cannes in 2007, won a Grammy® award for Best Short-Form Music Video and a YouTube Award for Most Creative Video for her work on OK Go’s Here It Goes Again, plus garnered another Grammy nomination and seven Cannes Golden Lions at the International Ad Fest for her collaboration with OK Go and Pilobolus with the Google Chrome Experiment, All Is Not Lost. JONATHAN WOLKEN (1949-2010) (Choreographer) co-founded Pilobolus in 1971 and remained one of its Artistic Directors as well as Director of Development until his death on June 13, 2010. Mr. Wolken graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in Philosophy. During his career he created 46 works for Pilobolus, in collaboration with its other artistic directors, with guest artists, and as sole choreographer. He also choreographed for the Glyndebourne Festival Opera’s production of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are and created Oneiric, featured in a jointly produced Danish television feature for members of the Royal Danish Ballet. Over the years he taught many workshops and was dedicated to the furtherance of Pilobolus technique not only in dance but as a model for creative thinking in any field.

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EDWARD BILOUS (Composer) is a composer and Founding Director of the Center for Innovation in the Arts at the Juilliard School. His compositions feature works for film, stage, dance, and multimedia including Lucid Dreams for the American Composers Orchestra, Night of the Dark Moon for Pilobolus Dance Theater and Mission Eternity for The Juilliard School. His film credits include the scores to Scottsboro (2001 Academy Award nominee) and Portraits of Grief - A Tribute to the Victims of the September 11th Tragedy (New York Times Television) and Forgiveness (PBS). Bilous is also the creator of BASETRACK, a multimedia theatrical experience that tells the stories of the one-eight Marines in Afghanistan. BASETRACK begins a national tour of performing arts centers and military bases in the fall of 2014. He recently joined the creative team as composer and music director for SACRED, a global-documentary event and multimedia concert produced by WNET-New York Public Television. CARMEN BORGIA (Sound Designer) has worked with sound and music for over forty years as a composer, musician, sound designer, and mixer for live theater, bands, and film. Carmen has designed sound for PBS Nature documentaries, including An Original Duckumentary, which won a 2013 News and Documentary Emmy. He mixed the film U-Carmen E Khyalitshe, winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. Past collaborations include sound design and score for Kriota Willberg’s faux dance documentary, The Bentfootes. Solo work includes two CDs, North and The Red Circle Line, and he has created animations for his own songs It’s Love, Boys and Jesus Was A Baby. His original musical, South, for which he wrote the story, book, and score, premiered in NYC in 2009. He has previously worked with Pilobolus on a film for the US Olympic Committee 100 Days to Sochi Times Square event. Carmen splits his time between studios in the Bronx and Catskill, NY. OK GO (Composers) has been called “the first post-internet band” and is at the forefront of an emerging class of independent creative entrepreneurs making art that is both digital and physical. OK Go’s self-produced videos have been viewed over 175 million times on YouTube. The band’s critically acclaimed release Of the Blue Colour of the Sky has garnered much praise, with a 4 star review in People Magazine, and the Alternative Press writing that “it fills you with hope

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for the next decade’s musical offerings.” Their previous collaboration with Pilobolus, made in collaboration with Google Japan and Trish Sie, was an innovative HTML5 video for All Is Not Lost which was nominated for a Grammy® and recently won five Cannes Golden Lions awards. Their other recent award-winning videos include Needing/Getting (debuted at the Super Bowl, and since viewed nearly 21 million times), a collaboration with Sesame Street, and a fan-favorite pairing with the Muppets. Last year, they released the live album 180/365 on their newly launched independent label, Paracadute. They are currently writing and recording music for their fourth full-length album, due in 2013. PHOEBE KATZIN (Costume Designer) graduated from Endicott College in 1979 and began her career working for Kitty Daly, who was designing and constructing costumes for MOMIX and Pilobolus dance companies. She moved to New York in 1984 and worked for various designers constructing costumes for many theatrical productions. After several years’ hiatus to raise her three children, she began working again in 1998 for Pilobolus and MOMIX. LIZ PRINCE (Costume Designer) has worked extensively with Bill T. Jones, designing numerous works for his company as well as his work on the Boston Ballet, Berlin Opera Ballet, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Other design credits include works by Doug Varone, Jose Limón Dance Company, Trey McIntyre, Mark Dendy, Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project, Neil Greenberg, Jane Comfort, Bebe Miller, Lawrence Goldhuber, David Dorfman, Arthur Aviles, Ralph Lemon, and Pilobolus, among many. Prince’s costumes have been exhibited at The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. She received a 1990 New York Dance and Performance award (Bessie) for costume design and in 2008 a Charles Fling Kellogg award from Bard College for achievement in her field. NEIL PETER JAMPOLIS (Éminence Grise/Lighting Designer) has been lighting Pilobolus since 1975, creating more than 50 new works for the company. He has also had an active career as a set, lighting, and costume designer for Broadway (where he has four Tony

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Nominations and a Tony Award) and for off-Broadway, dance, regional theater, and opera. His designs, large and small, have appeared on every continent. His most recent New York outing was lighting the Metropolitan Opera’s Iphigenie en Tauride in November of 2007. In addition, Neil is Professor of Theater at UCLA. SHELLY SABEL (Lighting Designer) draws inspiration from her long-standing love affair with New York City. Her design career spans numerous arenas and mediums, resulting in credits including Streb vs Gravity (Lincoln Center), collaborations with choreographer Savion Glover, As You Like It (The Public Theater), and the off-Broadway musical Debbie Does Dallas. Her light-based sculptures and installations have been seen at the Ubon Gallery (Manhattan), The Future Perfect (Brooklyn), Design within Reach for DIFFA, and Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS. She works with a variety of unconventional and found materials including umbrellas, safety pins, and Jell-O (she is also a champion Jell-O mold maker). Other work includes lighting design for the windows at the Ralph Lauren and Donna Karan Madison Avenue flagship stores. Shelly is the Director of Corporate Design for WorldStage: Scharff Weisberg/Video applications, and holds an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she is a faculty member. GREGORY LAFFEY (Props & Costume Designer) is a designer and maker from Pittsburgh, PA. He specializes in sets, props, and costumes for dance, theater, and occasionally film. Favorite Pilobolus projects include work on Shadowland and Radiolab Live: In the Dark. PAULA SALHANY (Video) is a filmmaker and editor who worked with Pilobolus, Ok Go, and Trish Sie on the music video All is Not Lost, which in 2012 was nominated for a Grammy® and won five Cannes Lions awards. Paula has worked on many dance film projects as well as editing, shooting, and co-producing the most recent Ok Go video, Skyscrapers, with Trish Sie.