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Artistic Director
Lar Lubovitch
Executive Director
Richard J. Caples
Company
Jonathan Emanuell Alsberry Anthony Bocconi Fabrice Calmels
Attila Joey Csiki Tobin Del Cuore Kristen Foote Oliver Greene-Cramer
Victoria Jaiani
Rory Hohenstein Jesse Obremski Brett Perry
John Michael Schert Ricardo A. Zayas
Music Director
Ransom Wilson
Lighting Designer
Jack Mehler
Production Stage Manager
Maxine Glorsky
Company Manager
Leticia D. Baratta
The Lar Lubovitch Dance Company is supported, in part, by public funds from the
National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the
support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and the New
York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
The company also acknowledges the generous support of the Howard Gilman
Foundation, Little One Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Shubert Foundation,
USA Projects, A. Woodner Fund, New Music USA, Harkness Foundation for Dance, and
numerous additional generous individuals, corporations, and foundations.
Monday, July 11 at 7:00pm
Tuesday, July 12 at 8:00pm
Durham Performing Arts Center
Performance: 85 minutes including intermission
NORTH STAR, 1ST MOVEMENT (1978)
Choreography
Music
Costumes
Lighting
Original Lighting
Lar Lubovitch
Philip Glass, “North Star”
Clovis Ruffin
Jack Mehler
Craig Miller
Performers
Jonathan Emanuell Alsberry, Anthony Bocconi, Tobin Del Cuore,
Oliver Green-Cramer, Rory Hohenstein, Jesse Obremski,
Brett Perry, John Michael Schert, Ricardo A. Zayas
Rory Hohenstein appears courtesy of the Joffrey Ballet, Ashley Wheater, Artistic Director.
The Lubovitch company acknowledges the generous support for the reconstruction and
touring of North Star, which was made possible by “American Masterpieces: Dance,” an
initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, administered by the New England
Foundation for the Arts.
“Etoile Polaire” music composed by Philip Glass and produced by Philip Glass & Kurt
Munkacsi.
Copyright 1977. Dunvagen Music Publishers, Inc. Used by permission.
Choreography copyright © Lar Lubovitch 1978
PAUSE
SCRIABIN DANCES (1977)
Choreography Lar Lubovitch
Music Alexsandr Scriabin, Etudes #1, 6, 10
from “12 Etudes,” Opus 8
Costumes Reid Bartelme
Pianist George Shevtsov
Performer
Kristen Foote
Choreography copyright © Lar Lubovitch 1977
PAUSE
OTHELLO
A DANCE IN THREE ACTS
Act III Duet: The Final Reckoning (1997)
Choreography Lar Lubovitch
Music Elliot Goldenthal, “Othello”
(commissioned score)
Costumes Ann Hould-Ward
Assistant Choreographer Ginger Thatcher
OTHELLO Fabrice Calmels
DESDEMONA Victoria Jaiani
Fabrice Calmels and Victoria Jaiani appear courtesy of the Joffrey Ballet, Ashley
Wheater, Artistic Director.
Othello: A Dance in Three Acts was originally co-produced by American Ballet
Theatre and the San Francisco Ballet in collaboration with the Lar Lubovitch
Dance Company.
Choreography copyright © Lar Lubovitch 1997
PAUSE
DUET FROM CONCERTO SIX TWENTY-TWO (1986)
Choreography Lar Lubovitch
Music W. A. Mozart, “Concerto for Clarinet
and Orchestra in A Major,” K. #622
Lighting Craig Miller
Lighting Recreated Jack Mehler
Performers
Attila Joey Csiki & Tobin Del Cuore
Choreography copyright © Lar Lubovitch 1986
INTERMISSION
MEN’S STORIES:
A CONCERTO IN RUIN (2000)
Choreography
Audio Collage and Original Music
Costumes
Lighting
Staging
Lar Lubovitch
Scott Marshall
Ann Hould-Ward
Clifton Taylor
Jonathan Emanuell Alsberry
Performers
Tobin Del Cuore, Anthony Bocconi, Jonathan Emanuell Alsberry,
Rory Hohenstein, John Michael Schert, Brett Perry,
Oliver Greene-Cramer, Jesse Obremski, Ricardo A. Zayas
Part I: Allegro Giacoso
Part II: Adagio Maestoso
Part III: Schizo Scherzo
Rory Hohenstein appears courtesy of the Joffrey Ballet, Ashley Wheater, Artistic Director.
Choreography copyright © Lar Lubovitch 2000
ABOUT THE COMPANY
The Lar Lubovitch Dance Company was founded in 1968. Over the past
48 years it has gained an international reputation as one of America’s top
dance companies. Celebrated for both its choreographic excellence and
its unsurpassed dancing, the company has created more than 100 new
dances and performed before millions throughout the United States and
in more than 40 foreign countries.
LAR LUBOVITCH is one of America’s most versatile, popular, and
widely seen choreographers. His dances have been performed by major
companies throughout the world, such as American Ballet Theatre, New
York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, Royal Danish
Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Joffrey Ballet, and many
others. For ice-dancing, he has created works for Olympians, such as
John Curry, Peggy Fleming, Brian Orser, JoJo Starbuck and Paul Wylie,
and others, and he has created feature-length ice-dance specials for
television: The Planets for A&E (nominated for an International Emmy
Award, a Cable Ace Award and a Grammy Award) and The Sleeping
Beauty for PBS and Anglia TV, Great Britain. His work for theater and film
includes Sondheim/Lapine Into the Woods (Tony Award nomination),
The Red Shoes (Astaire Award), the Tony Award-winning revival of The
King and I on Broadway and London’s West End, Disney’s Hunchback
of Notre Dame in Berlin, and Robert Altman’s movie The Company
(American Choreography Award). In 2007, he founded the Chicago
Dancing Festival with co-Artistic Director Jay Franke. The festival is a
series of performances by major American dance companies that takes
place the last week of August at the Museum of Contemporary Art, the
Harris Theater, the Auditorium Theatre, and Chicago’s Millennium Park.
The Chicago Dancing Festival reaches over 20,000 audience members
annually and is completely free to the public. Also in 2007, Lubovitch was
named “Chicagoan of the Year” (Chicago Tribune). The following year,
Lubovitch and Franke were named “Chicagoans of the Year”(Chicago
Magazine). This spring, to commemorate the anniversary of the founding
of St. Petersburg, Russia, he premiered a new dance based on the
Pushkin poem, The Bronze Horseman, at the city’s Mikhailovsky Theatre.
This fall, he begins a Distinguished Professorship at the University of
California, Irvine. Recently, Lubovitch has been honored with: the United
States Artists Ford Fellow and Dance/USA Honors Award (2011), Prix
Benois de la Danse for Choreography at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow
(2012), American Dance Guild Award for Lifetime Achievement (2013), an
Honorary Doctorate from The Juilliard School (2014), named to the list of
America’s Irreplaceable Dance Treasures by the Dance Heritage Coalition
(2015), and the Scripps /ADF Award for lifetime achievement (2016.)
THE COMPANY
JONATHAN EMANUELL ALSBERRY (Rehearsal Director and Dancer)
Alsberry first worked with the Lubovitch company in 2007. He is a dance
educator, creator, and coach focused on inspiring excellence and joy
in the study of ballet, jazz, and modern techniques with a constant
dedication to the exploration of artistry and the creative process. Born
in Normal, IL, he began dancing with his mother, Lyndetta. He graduated
from the Chicago Academy for the Arts where he has since been guest
faculty, creating over a dozen dances. In 2006, he received his Bachelor
of Fine Arts from The Juilliard School where he met Aszure Barton.
Jonathan a.k.a “Jojo” is also a dancer, rehearsal director, and creative
collaborator with Aszure Barton & Artists and has assisted Ms. Barton
in creating works for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Bayerische
Staatsballett, and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. Alsberry has performed
in Banff, Canada for Prince Edward, with Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Hell’s
Kitchen Dance, and Evolution with Alessandra Ferri and Herman Cornejo.
Alsberry has performed as a principal dancer with the Metropolitan
Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Chicago Opera Theater. Other
credits include Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company, Luna Negra Dance
Theater, Nilas Martins Dance Company, and Eisenhower Dance Ensemble.
He has worked independently with Randy Duncan, and MTV. Since 2007,
Alsberry has been teaching, coaching, and creating work at various
educational institutions including Harvard University, Lou Conte Dance
Studio, National Ballet School, and Ballet Hispanico.
ANTHONY BOCCONI (Dancer) Bocconi first danced with the Lubovitch
company in 2013. He was born in Brooklyn, NY and began his dance training
at the age of 13. The following year, he attended Fiorello H. La Guardia
High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, where he found his niche
in modern dance while studying Graham and Horton techniques. After
graduation, Bocconi continued his dance training in the Ailey/Fordham BFA
program under direction of Melanie Person and spent his summers at Jacob’s
Pillow Dance Festival, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Nederlands Dans
Theatre, and Springboard Dance Montreal. Since graduating in 2013, Bocconi
has performed for Lydia Johnson Dance, the Metropolitan Opera, and the
Santa Fe Opera. Since 2015, Bocconi has also been a member of MOMIX.
FABRICE CALMELS (Dancer) Born and raised in France, he began
ballet training at the age of three. At age eleven, Calmels entered the
prestigious, 300 year old Paris Opera Ballet School, under the direction of
Claude Bessy. Following his graduation from the Paris Opera Ballet School,
Calmels moved to the United States where he furthered his training by
joining The Rock School and danced with the Pennsylvania Ballet. At
Boston Ballet, under the direction of Anna-Marie Holmes, he learned
Russian technique, and Balanchine style at The School of American
Ballet. In 2002, Mr. Calmels established himself in Chicago with the
Joffrey Ballet, under the direction of company co-founder Gerald Arpino.
In 2004, Calmels became a lead dancer at the Joffrey Ballet, markedly
through his principal role as Apollo. He was also coached by the famous
Sir Anthony Dowell for the title role of Oberon in Ashton’s A Midsummer
Night’s Dream. In 2009, he performed the title role in the Joffrey Ballet’s
premiere of Lar Lubovitch’s Othello: A Dance in Three Acts, which he
reprised in 2013. Recently, Calmels was honored to perform the Othello
pas de deux for the 2016 Benois de la Danse Gala at the Bolshoi Theatre
in Moscow. Notably, in 2014 and 2016, he was a guest judge on the
hit Fox television show, So You Think You Can Dance and has received
numerous awards and accolades during his career including establishing a
Guinness World Record for Tallest Ballet Dancer in the World.
ATTILA JOEY CSIKI (Dancer) Csiki first danced with the Lubovitch company
in 2008. He began his training at the Canadian Dance Company in Toronto
before joining the National Ballet of Canada Academy. With a scholarship to the
School of American Ballet, he relocated to New York City. After graduation, Csiki
joined the Tokyo Ballet Company in Japan where he worked with prominent
choreographers including Jiri Kylian, Sir Peter Wright, William Forsythe, Nacho
Duato, Mauro Bigonzetti, Anthony Tudor, and Kenneth McMillan. While in
Japan, he was a guest artist with Noism Jo Kanamori, Star Dancers Ballet, K
Ballet, New National Ballet, and the Japan Ballet Association. After seven years
in Japan, Csiko joined the Du Capital ballet of Toulouse France as a soloist.
Upon returning to the U.S., Attila danced as a guest artist with Christopher
Wheeldon’s Morphoses, Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico, Peoria Ballet Illinois,
Dance Form Productions, Thomas/Ortiz Dance, and Rasta Thomas' Bad Boys
of Dance. While at the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Csiki premiered in
nine new works, appearing as a featured dancer in Elemental Brubeck, Men’s
Stories, Little Rhapsodies, and the Duet from Concerto Six Twenty-Two. In 2012
he partnered with Alessandra Ferri for her return to the stage in The Piano
Upstairs, written by John Weidman and starring Boyd Gaines. Since 2013 Csiki
has been a cast member of Christopher Wheeldon’s Tony Award winning
production of An American In Paris. He is the recipient of the 2015 Outstanding
Broadway Chorus award for his work in An American in Paris.
TOBIN DEL CUORE (Dancer) Del Cuore first danced with the Lubovitch
company in 2013. A native of Maine, he began his ballet training at the
Walnut Hill School in Natick, MA. He attended The Juilliard School under
the direction of Benjamin Harkarvy, graduating in 2001 with a Bachelor of
Fine Arts. Upon graduating, Del Cuore joined the artists of Hubbard Street
Dance Chicago, where he danced for six years and had the opportunity to
work with some of today’s most important choreographers. Since leaving
HSDC, Del Cuore has danced for Aszure Barton & Artists, Alessandra Ferri
Dance, Houston Grand Opera, The Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Ballet X. He
also frequently assists Aszure Barton in new creations and stages work for
HSDC resident choreographer, Alejandro Cerrudo.
KRISTEN FOOTE (Dancer) Originally from Toronto, Canada, Foote is a
New York City–based dancer, performer, teacher and Limón reconstructor
and coach. She joined the Limón Dance Company in 2000 and Dance
Heginbotham in 2011. A principal dancer in each of these companies, she
has performed solo roles by many noted choreographers including José
Limón, Isadora Duncan, Doris Humphrey, Anna Sokolow, Jiří Kylián, Donald
McKayle, Lar Lubovitch, Rodrigo Pederneiras, Susanne Linke, Murray Louis,
and John Heginbotham. Hailed by the New York Times as “marvelously
versatile” and "especially captivating," Foote has been recognized by
Dance Magazine as one of their “Top 25 To Watch” in 2005, as one of the
“Most Amazing Performers” of 2010, and a “Featured Artist” in 2011. In
2015, she developed her own solo dance project, The History of Her, which
explores the scope of femininity in modern dance. The project premiered
in Paris, France, followed by performances at Jacob’s Pillow. She performed
Scriabin Dances at the Chicago Dancing Festival 2015 Gala that honored
Lar Lubovitch. Foote also danced project solos at The Joyce Theater as
part of both Dance Heginbotham's debut NYC season and Limón's 70th
Anniversary Festival where she was lauded as being “imposing, musical
and subtle.” In addition, Foote has danced with the Radio City Rockettes,
Mark Morris Dance Group, and numerous other dance companies. She has
also been featured as a lead dancer in Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener’s 3D
Dance on Film project directed by Charles Atlas.
OLIVER GREENE-CRAMER (Dancer) Greene-Cramer first danced with
the Lubovitch company in 2013. Raised in Marlboro, VT, Greene-Cramer
received his early training at the Brattleboro School of Dance and
Burklyn Ballet Theatre. Oliver graduated with a BFA in Dance - Ballet
Concentration from SUNY Purchase College where he was given the
award for Outstanding Senior in Modern Dance. While at Purchase
he danced works by Merce Cunningham, George Balanchine, Lar
Lubovitch, Nicolo Fonte, John Heginbotham, Ori Flomin, and Jonathan
Riedel. Immediately after graduation Oliver joined the Lar Lubovitch
Dance Company before moving to Texas to dance with Ballet Austin. In
his two years in Austin, Oliver has been featured in works by Stephen
Mills, Pontus Lidberg, Pam Tanowitz, Nelly van Bommel, Jimmy Orrante,
and Jennifer Hart. Oliver also works with the project based company
Performa/Dance in Austin.
RORY HOHENSTEIN (Dancer) Hohenstein first danced with the Lubovitch
company in 2011. Born in Washington, DC, he started dancing tap and jazz
at the age of 6. At the age of 12, he began training at the Kirov Academy
of Ballet in Washington, DC. In his senior year, at 17, Hohenstein took a
job in Paris with Le Jeune Ballet de France while continuing his studies
abroad. In 2000, he joined the San Francisco Ballet as a corps member,
being promoted to soloist in 2006. Needing a change, in 2008 he moved to
New York city to join Christopher Wheeldon's new company Morphoses/
The Wheeldon Company. As a member with Morphoses for two years,
Hohenstein performed in the home season at Sadler Wells in London and
City Center in NY. In 2010, while working as a freelance artist, he danced
the summer season with the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company. In 2011, he
joined the Joffrey Ballet, where is currently a member. Hohenstein has
enjoyed working with such esteemed choreographers such as Christopher
Wheeldon, Lar Lubovitch, Wayne McGregor, Alexei Ratmansky, William
Forsythe, Krzysztof Pastor, Benjamin Peck, and Jorma Elo.
VICTORIA JAIANI (Dancer) Jaiani joined the Joffrey Ballet in August
2003. Born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgia, she began her training at the
age of ten at V. Chabukiani Ballet School. She continued her studies in
New York and in June 2003 was awarded a Bronze Medal at the New
York International Ballet Competition. Since joining the Joffrey, she has
danced leading roles in many ballets including: Christopher Wheeldon’s
Swan Lake (Odette-Odile), Stanton Welch’s La Bayadère (Nikia, Gamzati),
Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella (Cinderella), Giselle (Giselle), John Cranko’s
Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), Yuri Possokhov’s Don Quixote (Kitri), Ronald
Hynd’s The Merry Widow (Henna Glawari), Lar Lubovitch’s Othello: A
Dance in Three Acts (Desdemona), and the Sugar Plum Fairy in Robert
Joffrey’s The Nutcracker. Jaiani originated the lead pas de deux in
Edwaard Liang’s Age of Innocence and Woven Dreams, Possokhov’s Bells,
Welch’s Son of Chamber Symphony, and James Kudelka’s Pretty BALLET.
In 2010, she was featured on the cover of Dance Magazine and was
named “Chicagoan of the Year” by the Chicago Tribune Arts Critic. In 2012,
Today’s Chicago Woman named her one of Chicago’s top women in the
arts. In 2013, Chicago Magazine named her “best dancer.”
JESSE OBREMSKI (Dancer) Obremski first danced with the Lubovitch
company in 2014. He is a native New Yorker who started his training at
The Ailey School. Later, at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, he was in
the musical productions A Chorus Line, Hairspray, and Guys and Dolls.
Obremski has also trained at Springboard Danse Montreal, Earl Mosley’s
Institute of the Arts (EMIA), Lar Lubovitch Dance Intensives, and Jacob's
Pillow (Contemporary Program). He is the recipient of the Father Fame
Award (2012) and Eagle Scout Rank (2010). In 2016, Obremski graduated
from The Juilliard School under the direction of Lawrence Rhodes, where
he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts. He has performed works by renowned
choreographers such as Kyle Abraham, Alvin Ailey, Robert Battle,
Madboots, Brian Brooks, Nacho Duato, Sharon Eyal, Martha Graham
(principal role), José Limón (soloist role), Ohad Naharin, Crystal Pite,
and Paul Taylor (principal role). He is a founding dancer/choreographer
with DaretoCreate Dance Collective and Zest Collective since 2013,
and he joined the Kate Weare Dance Company at BAM Fisher in 2015.
Obremski has been a guest faculty member across Hawai’i at Queen
Emma Ballet, Mid-Pacific High School, and The University of Hawai’i
at Manoa and in New York City at LaGuardia High School. In 2015,
Obremski was an Emerging Resident Artist with EMIA and toured across
Canada as a faculty member with FRESH Dance Intensive.
BRETT PERRY (Dancer) Perry first danced with the Lubovitch company
in 2015. He started dancing at the age of four at The Dance Company in
Indianapolis, IN, under the direction of Diane Gudat. After graduating
from The Juilliard School in 2008, Perry started his professional career
with Trey McIntyre Project in Boise, ID where he spent 6 years with the
company. He was a recipient of the prestigious Princess Grace Award
for Dance in 2010. Perry just finished up a season with Ballet BC and is
looking forward to working with LED (Lauren Edson and Dancers) and
Adam Weinert over the next year. Perry currently calls Boise home, and
when he is not on stage or in the studio he is working as a farmhand on
MeadowLark Farm. He is honored to be dancing with the Lar Lubovitch
Dance Company again. Congratulations to Lar on receiving the Samuel H.
Scripps/American Dance Festival Award!
JOHN MICHAEL SCHERT (Dancer) Schert first danced with the Lubovitch
Company in 2003. He currently serves as the inaugural Visiting Artist
and Social Entrepreneur at The University of Chicago Booth School of
Business and as an Executive Producer of Treefort Music Fest. Schert is
an artist and producer working in multiple sectors and translating across
many platforms. Originally from southern Georgia, he began his career
as a ballet dancer with American Ballet Theatre and Alonzo King LINES
Ballet. In 2004 he co-founded Trey McIntyre Project (TMP), serving as
the company’s Executive Director and a dancer for nine years. During
this time he gained a unique insight into the process and product of
art-making and realized the ability to translate the creative process
across domains. In 2013, he was appointed the first Visiting Artist and
Social Entrepreneur at Chicago Booth where in his current work, and as
a 2014 Associate Fellow with the NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts, he
studies, and lectures on, the utility of the creative process and how the
skills and behaviors of creatives can be of relevance and value to other
sectors. Schert presents on these ideas as a consultant and speaker in
cities around the world. He is thrilled to return to Lar Lubovitch Dance
Company for the third time, previously performing Men’s Stories in 2003
and 2013, and now 2016. Congratulations to Lar on the momentous
occasion of receiving the Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival
Award for lifetime achievement!
RICARDO A. ZAYAS (Dancer) Zayas began dancing with the Lubovitch
company this year. Originally from Brooklyn, NY, he graduated with
honors from Fordham University. Since then, Zayas has danced with Ailey
II, LINES Ballet, the Metropolitan Opera, and Shen Wei Dance Arts. His
theater credits include the workshop for Bill T. Jones' FELA!, Queen of the
Night, West Side Story with Carnegie Hall and most recently, Hamilton.
Zayas was named by Dance Magazine on their list of "25 to Watch."
KATARZYNA SKARPETOWSKA (Rehearsal Director) Skarpetowska first
worked with the Lubovitch Company in 2007. Originally from Warsaw,
Poland, she is an alumna of the New York City High School of Performing
Arts and received a BFA from The Juilliard School under the artistic
direction of Benjamin Harkarvy. In 1992, at age 15, she was cast as the
youngest member of the (first ever) Polish musical Metro, directed and
choreographed by Janusz Jozefowicz with music by Janusz Stoklosa. She
joined Parsons Dance where from 1999 until 2006 she performed lead
roles in the company’s repertoire. From 2006 until 2008, Skarpetowska
was a guest member of Battleworks Dance Company founded by former
Parsons Dance colleague and the present artistic director of the Alvin
Ailey American Dance Theater, Robert Battle. From 2007 until 2014, she
danced for the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company. She has had the privilege of
working as a repetiteur and assistant choreographer to Lar Lubovitch, David
Parsons, and Robert Battle. Her own choreography has been performed
by Richmond Ballet, Ailey II, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Parsons Dance,
Buglisi Dance Theater, Hubbard Street 2, Houston Metdance, Big Muddy
Dance Company, Owen/Cox Dance Group, and Bruce Wood Dance Project,
among others. In recognition for her choreographic efforts, she was named
Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2016. Skarpetowska is also a freelance
teacher holding workshops throughout the world.
GEORGE SHEVTSOV (Pianist) Pianist George (Yegor) Shevtsov’s solo
and chamber performances have been singled out for their “Mozartean
elegance,” “perfect lucidity” (The New York Times), and “superb
musicianship” (The Miami Herald). His recording of the piano music of
Debussy and Boulez was selected by rhapsody.com as one of the top
25 classical albums of 2013. Among Shevtsov’s most significant dance
collaborators are choreographers Mark Morris and John Heginbotham.
As a chamber musician, he has appeared in concert with members of the
American String Quartet, Mivos Quartet, International Contemporary
Ensemble, Bang on a Can, red fish blue fish, Alarm Will Sound, and
Argento Ensemble, among others. Among the composers who have heard
him perform their works are Pierre Boulez, John Luther Adams, Louis
Andriessen, Elliott Carter, Charles Wuorinen, Steve Reich, and George
Crumb. Shevtsov teaches at Manhattan School of Music and is an avid
flamenco dancer. More on yegorshevtsov.com
ELLIOT GOLDENTHAL (Composer) is a composer whose film credits
include Frida (Academy Award and Golden Globe winner), Interview With
the Vampire and Michael Collins (Oscar nominations), Public Enemies,
Heat, The Butcher Boy, Julie Taymor’s The Tempest, Across The Universe,
and Titus. For Broadway he has composed Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass
(five Tony nominations including Best Score), and The Green Bird. OffBroadway credits include Grounded, The Transposed Heads, and Liberty's
Taken. At Theatre for a New Audience he has composed The Tempest, The
Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, The Green Bird, and A Midsummer
Night’s Dream. Goldenthal wrote the original two-act opera Grendel for
which he was named one of two finalists for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in
music. He was commissioned by American Ballet Theatre to compose
Othello: A Dance in Three Acts, choreographed by Lar Lubovitch, which
debuted at the Metropolitan Opera. He wrote the large-scale symphonic
piece, Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio commissioned by Pacific
Symphony. Most recently his Symphony in G# Minor received its
European premiere with the Bruckner Orchester Linz in Austria.
SCOTT MARSHALL (Composer) is a sound artist, illustrator and art director.
He collaborated with Lar Lubovitch on the soundscape for the acclaimed
full-length work Men’s Stories: a Concerto in Ruin. His other audio
compositions include works for Woody Allen (Small Time Crooks) and for
choreographers Scott Rink, Karla Wolfangle, and Takehiro Ueyama. As an
illustrator, in partnership with Ethan Persoff, Marshall is creating a graphic
memoir of underground publishing pioneer John Wilcock (serialized online
at ep.tc/john-wilcock/ and boingboing.net). scottmarshall.org.
RANSOM WILSON (Music Director) has long been recognized
internationally as one of the greatest flutists of his generation. Of late, he
is turning increasingly to a career in orchestral and operatic conducting.
He founded Solisti New York orchestra in 1981 and has been a member
of the musical staff at the Metropolitan Opera since 2006. Additionally,
he is Artistic Director and conductor of Le Train Bleu, which received
rave reviews for its debut performance at New York City’s innovative
Galapagos Art Space. He has appeared as guest conductor with England’s
London Symphony Orchestra and Hallé Orchestra, the Hermitage State
Orchestra in Russia, the Cracow Philharmonic (Poland), KBS Symphony
(South Korea), the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Houston Symphony,
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (with Sir James Galway), Orchestra of
St. Luke’s, New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival, New Jersey Symphony,
Budapest Strings, Hartford Symphony, and Berkeley Symphony.
REID BARTELME (Costume Designer) began his relationship with the
Lubovitch company in 2009 as a dancer. Born and raised in New York City,
the bulk of his education was music based. In addition to the Lubovitch
company, he has danced for companies throughout North America
including Ballet Met, Alberta Ballet, and Shen Wei Dance Arts. He has
done project-based performance work for Kyle Abraham, Christopher
Williams, Douglas Dunn, Catherine Miller, Liz Santoro, Burr Johnston,
and Jack Ferver. Bartelme has a degree in Fashion Design from F.I.T. and
has done costume design work for Jack Ferver, Christopher Wheeldon,
Lar Lubovitch, Justin Peck, Pam Tanowitz, Kyle Abraham, Trey McIntyre,
Mathew Neenan, Michelle Boulé, Liz Santoro, Andrea Miller, Mauro
Bigonzetti, Avi Scher, Zvi Gotheiner, Gwen Welliver, Kate Skarpetowska,
and Burr Johnson, among others.
ANN HOULD-WARD (Costume Designer) is the US Representative for the
International Design Quadrennial in Prague and a recipient of the Fashion
Institute of Technology’s Patricia Zipprodt Award. Most recently, Ms. HouldWard’s work can be seen at The Salzburg Festival’s West Side Story and at
the Mikhailovsky Theatre in Lar Lubovitch’s new dance based on The Bronze
Horseman. Her costume designs can be seen in the following operas and
ballet companies: Peter Grimes at the Metropolitan Opera, The Most Happy
Fella at the New York City Opera, Mahagonny at the Los Angeles Opera,
Regina at the Miami Opera, Amelia at the Seattle Opera, Alvin Ailey, the
American Ballet Theatre, and at the Norwegian National Ballet. Ms. HouldWard’s Broadway credits include The Color Purple, The Visit, The People in
the Picture, A Free Man of Color (Drama Desk nomination), A Catered Affair
(Drama Desk nomination), Company, Beauty and the Beast (Tony Award,
American Theatre Wing’s Design Award, Ovation Award, Oliver nomination,
Best Costume Design), Into the Woods (Tony, Drama Desk nominations,
Outer Critics Circle nomination, L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award), Falsettos,
and Sunday in the Park with George (Tony, Drama Desk Nomination.
Internationally, Ms. Hould-Ward’s work can be seen at Dear World (West
End), Schuh Des Mantu (Germany), and Imagine This (West End). She
has designed costumes for numerous dances created by the Lubovitch
company, including Elemental Brubeck, Jangle, and the company’s coproduction of Othello: A Dance in Three Acts.
JACK MEHLER (Lighting Designer) has been designing for Lar Lubovitch
since 2004, including Othello: A Dance in Three Acts for the Joffrey Ballet
and over twenty dances for the Lubovitch company. He has also designed
Lubovitch works for San Francisco Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance, and José
Limón. His work has also been seen with Alvin Ailey American Dance
Theater, Ballet Memphis, BalletMet, Buglisi Dance Theatre, Donald Byrd/
Spectrum Dance, Cleveland Playhouse, Joffrey Ballet, Manhattan Theatre
Club, North Shore Music Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, Seattle Rep,
Syracuse Stage, Walnut Street Theatre, The Working Theatre, and the WPA
Theatre, among many others. He won the 2012 Korean Musical Theatre
equivalent to the Tony Award for Elisabeth and the 2013 award for Rebecca.
MAXINE GLORSKY (Production Stage Manager) has worked with the
Lubovitch company since 1970. She has been the stage manager for
Martha Graham Dance Company, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Joyce
Trisler Danscompany, Elisa Monte Dance Company, Buglisi/ Foreman
Dance, Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project, Dance Connecticut, Maria
Benitez Teatro Flamenco, Gala Des Etoiles of Montreal, Peridance, Miki
Orihara's solo concert, and numerous other troupes in the modern,
ballet, and ethnic disciplines. She was the co-founder of Tag Foundation
(1971-1981), which produced the Dance Umbrella and the New York
Dance Festival. Currently, she is the production stage manager for the
Lubovitch company and stage manager for Juilliard Dances Repertory.
With the Lincoln Center Library of the Performing Arts, she created
two symposiums: “Martha Graham: Steps of a Giant” and “Alvin Ailey:
Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright.” Her commitment to dance and a career was
celebrated at The Joyce Theater in 2000 with “A Party for Max.”
LETICIA D. BARATTA (Company Manager) has been with the Lubovitch
company since 2008. She first worked with Lubovitch as the stage
manager for San Francisco Ballet on productions of Othello: A Dance in
Three Acts, ...smile with my heart, and Elemental Brubeck. Born in New
York and raised from coast to coast, she has produced, stage managed,
and company managed on five continents for organizations including
Ballet Folkórico de México de Amalia Hernandez, Batsheva Dance
Company, BAM (Jonathan Miller’s St. Matthew Passion), Limón Dance
Company, Oregon Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet (Olivier Award for
London season), and Trisha Brown Dance Company. As a presenter she
worked with a diverse range of artists and groups, including Alvin Ailey
American Dance Theater, Celia Cruz, Itzak Perlman, Bette Midler, and St.
Petersburg Ice Ballet, presenting numerous performances of dance, music,
opera, ice-skating, and puppetry.
RICHARD J. CAPLES (Executive Director) In his 32 years as Executive
Director of the company (one of the field’s longest and most
accomplished tenures), Caples has provided the resources that have
facilitated Lubovitch’s creation of more than 70 new dances for the
company. Caples has produced more than 1,500 performances seen live
by more than a million people in more than 20 foreign countries and 30
American states. He has served on the boards and on panels of various
national and regional arts organizations and currently serves on the
boards of the Lubovitch company and Doug Varone and Dancers. He was
educated at Yale (BA, special honors), Johns Hopkins (MA), and Cornell
(JD). After practicing law in New York City with Shearman & Sterling,
in 1983 he was appointed Executive Director of the Santa Fe Festival
Theatre. In 1984, he returned to New York and joined the Lubovitch
company in his present capacity. In 2010, Dance/USA (the national service
organization for non-profit professional dance) presented him with the
Ernie Award in honor of his service to the field of dance.
LAR LUBOVITCH DANCE COMPANY
Artistic Director, Lar Lubovitch
Executive Director, Richard J. Caples
229 West 42nd Street, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10036-7205
Web: www.lubovitch.org E-mail: [email protected]
Music Director Rehearsal Directors
Production Stage Manager
Company Manager
Lighting Supervisor
Program Manager
Wardrobe Managers
Press Representation
Graphic Designer
Legal Services
Accountants
Ransom Wilson
Jonathan Emanuell Alsberry &
Katarzyna Skarpetowska
Maxine Glorsky
Leticia D. Baratta
Joshua Monroe
Corey Hathaway
Fritz Masten, Naomi Luppescu
Janet Stapleton
Vin Design
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Yeboa & Lawrence CPAs, LLP
Board of Directors
President Lewis R. Steinberg Vice President Dale L. Ponikvar Treasurer Ronald E. Creamer Jr.
Secretary Jeffery Sholeen
President Emeritus Virginia Kinzey
Members
Richard J. Caples Ronald E. Creamer Jr. Lar Lubovitch
W. Patrick McMullan III Dale L. Ponikvar Jeffery Sholeen
Lewis R. Steinberg Beth D. Tractenberg
Junior Board
Amanda Brown Germimah Clarke Connie Coddington Claire
Czerniuk
Laurence Falicon Bernitza Lafleur Rene Melchor
Angelo Miranda Alisa K. Seminara Sasha Terris-Maes Amelia
Zwecher
Rehearsed at the NEW 42ND STREET® Studios
Presents
PROVINCIAL DANCES
THEATRE
Thursday, July 14 at 8:00pm
Friday, July 15 at 8:00pm
Saturday, July 16 at 7:00pm
Reynolds Industries Theater
Performance: 85 minutes including intermission
MAPLE GARDEN (1999)
Choreography and Staging Tatiana Baganova
Music Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung,
Moscow Art Trio
Lighting Design Andrey Pleshakov
Costumes Olga Pautova and Viktoriya Mozgovaya
Maple Garden presents strong, compelling, and mysterious visions. A
bare-branched tree, bird sounds, and a man with a large butterfly net are
just some of the images that make this work appear part fairytale and
part grim dream. Beautiful, if grotesque, and bewitching.
Maple Garden was originally created as part of the American Dance Festival’s 1999
International Choreographers Program with support from Philip Morris Companies
Inc., the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Trust for Mutual Understanding. The Russian
premiere took place in Yekaterinburg in October of 1999 with support from the Omega
Group. Maple Garden won the 2001 Golden Mask award for best choreography and best
production and has been presented in the United States, Thailand, Germany, Sweden,
Italy, Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Georgia, Estonia, and 16 cities in Russia.
INTERMISSION
SEPIA (2010)
Choreography and Staging Tatiana Baganova
Music Avet Terteryan, Symphony №8 (fragments)
Andrey Pleshakov
Lighting Design Nina Indrikson
Decorations and Costumes Anastasia Sokolova
Tatiana Baganova’s Sepia is a work capturing the atmosphere of Kōbō
Abe’s book Woman in the Dunes. The sand in the piece becomes a symbol
of time, the habitat of heroes, and is a symbolic element in the changing
of consciousness. The endlessness of the rolling sand is highlighted by the
long slow sounds of Avet Terteryan’s symphony.
Sepia was commissioned by the American Dance Festival with support from the
SHS Foundation and was presented as part of the International Choreographers
Commissioning Program in 2010. The Russian premiere took place in November 2011.
Provincial Dances Theatre is presented by ADF with support from the
Trust for Mutual Understanding.
ABOUT PROVINCIAL DANCES THEATRE
PROVINCIAL DANCES THEATRE held its first performance in 1990. Today, the
repertoire of the company includes 25 productions along with independent dance/
movement miniatures. One of first avant-garde troupes in post-reform Russia,
Provincial Dances Theatre has become internationally known as an original dance
company with performances that synthesize innovative choreography, movement,
and theater arts, creating a unique and easy-to-recognize style. The company strives
to be fluid, constantly looking for new ideas, information, and means of visual
expression. It focuses not on becoming a strict structure, but on interaction with
various art forms. Provincial Dances Theatre is looking to not only present Russian
themes and ideas (which is simply a part of the mentality), but to create art that has
a timeless, cosmopolitan, widely appealing character.
Foreign choreographers Joachim Schlömer and Christine Brunel (Germany), Anouk
van Dijk and Shusaku Takheuchi, and Uri Ivgi and Johan Greben (Netherlands) have
created performances exclusively for the company. The company currently consists
of ten dancers and a few apprentices.
ABOUT THE ARTIST: TATIANA BAGANOVA
TATIANA BAGANOVA is the Choreographer and Artistic Director of Provincial
Dances Theatre, which has received several Russian Golden Mask National Theater
Awards. After graduating from the choreography department at the Moscow State
Art and Cultural University, Tatiana started working as a dancer in Yekaterinburg’s
Provincial Dances Theatre, where she later became an artistic director and created
more than ten productions.
In 1993 and 1994, she was in residence at the American Dance Festival. She
has taught at the ADF Six Week School numerous times since 1999. Tatiana
created five ADF-commissioned works for the International Choreographers
Commissioning Program and the Past/Forward program: Maple Garden, Lazy
Susan, Wings at Tea, Post-Engagement. Diptych. Part II, and Sepia. All of them
were later staged at the Provincial Dances Theatre and were recognized in
Russia and abroad. Maple Garden won the 2001 Golden Mask award for best
choreography and best production. Post-Engagement won the 2008 Golden
Mask award for best modern dance. Tatiana’s 2000 staging of Stravinsky’s Les
Noces won a Golden Mask and has been called “the first icon in new Russian
dance”. In 2013 Tatiana was invited by the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow to stage
Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring as a part of the international project Century of
The Rite of Spring–Century of Modernism, which won a Golden Mask for best
modern dance work and best producer’s work in musical theater.
As a dancer, Tatiana took part in the productions of many Russian and foreign
choreographers. She is a frequent collaborator in international projects and
has worked in France, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, Austria, and Germany. In
the 2003-2004 Bolshoi Theater season, she took part in staging The Fiery Angel
opera by S. Prokofiev. As a choreographer, Tatiana participated in the production
of the first Russian epoch musical Catherine the Great: Musical Chronicles
of the Imperial Ages (2008) and the musical The Pit (2013) at the Sverdlovsk
State Academic Theater of Musical Comedy. In 2015, she choreographed for
the productions of The Little Mermaid (Yekaterinburg Theater for the Youth,
produced by Roman Theodori), Lulu (Bavarian State Opera, produced by Dmitriy
Chernyakov), and Carmen (Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theater, produced by
Aleksandr Titel). She also was one of the choreographers in the second season of
the Big Ballet TV project on the Kultura channel.
BIOGRAPHIES
EVGENIA TURUSHKINA (Dancer, 2015–present) graduated in 2015 from the
Chelyabinsk State Academy of Arts and Culture. In 2012-2014, she interned
at the Olga Pona Dance Company in Chelyabinsk. In 2011-2014, she was a
dancer in the Malachite student ensemble, which received grand prizes in
competitions in France and Italy. In 2013-2014, she was a participant in a
modern dance lab with choreographers Stephanie Thomasen and Mark Philip
in Denmark. In 2014-2015, she choreographed and staged the works A Road
Home and Phase 3 for Mad2Jay Dance Company in Yekaterinburg.
KSENIIA KAPLUN (Dancer, 2011–present) graduated from the Sverdlovsk State
College of Arts and Culture. She worked as a dancer in Natalia Kasparova’s Kannon
Dance Company in St. Petersburg and interned at Kibbutz Dance Company and
Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak Dance Company in Israel. She has participated in
international projects by Uri Ivgi & Johan Greben (the Netherlands) and Fabrice
Lambert (France). She participated in the production of The Rite of Spring by Tatiana
Baganova for the Bolshoi Theater.
ANASTASIA SOKOLOVA (Dancer, 2001–present) graduated from the
Yekaterinburg Theater Institute. Prior to that, she was a member of a modern
dance ensemble. Since joining Provincial Dances Theatre in 2001, she has
participated in two theater residencies at ADF and has toured with the company
in Italy, France, Germany, Belgium, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus,
Georgia, Thailand, and Taiwan. In 2003, she graduated from the Ural Architecture
Academy and has worked on several performances as the production designer
(such as Baganova’s Sepia which was nominated for a Golden Mask National
Theater Award in 2012). She also works as a director for animated films.
SVETLANA MAKARENKO (Dancer, 2014–present) graduated from the Diaghilev
Lyceum in Yekaterinburg in 2007. In 2012, she graduated from the Liberal Arts
University, also in Yekaterinburg. Prior to joining Provincial Dances Theatre, she
worked as a dancer at Aleksandr Gurvich’s Okoyom Dance Company.
TATIANA SHCHIPKO (Dancer, 2013–present) graduated from the Altai Academy
of Culture in Barnaul in 2009. After graduation, she worked as a dancer at
Natalia Kasparova’s Kannon Dance Company in St. Petersburg. In 2011, she
joined Elena Prokopyeva’s Krepostnoy Ballet Company (also in St. Petersburg)
where she participated in dance projects by John Allen, Anna Zakusova, and Ivan
Belozertcev. She attended modern dance classes at the ImpulseTanz summer
school in Vienna and Open Look Festival in St. Petersburg. In 2013, she joined
Provincial Dances Theatre where she participated in the production of The Rite
of Spring for the Bolshoi Theater. During the summer of 2014, she attended
classes at the Spellbound Dance Company in Italy. For the past eight years, she
has been teaching masterclasses and producing her own dance works.
ALEKSANDRA STOLIAROVA (Dancer, 2015–present) graduated from the
Liberal Arts University (Yekaterinburg) in 2013. Prior to joining Provincial Dances
Theatre in 2015, she worked as a dancer at Aleksandr Gurvich’s Okoyom Dance
Company in Yekaterinburg.
ARTEM KHROMYKH (Dancer, 2014–present) graduated from the Chelyabinsk
State Academy of Arts and Culture in 2014 and joined Provincial Dances Theatre
shortly after. He interned at the Olga Pona Dance Company in Chelyabinsk and
has received awards at many international dance competitions.
ANTON LAVROV (Dancer, 2008–present) graduated from the Chelyabinsk
Pedagogical University in 2006. Since 2008, he has worked as a lead dancer at
the Provincial Dances Theatre. He interned at Kibbutz Dance Company and Inbal
Pinto & Avshalom Pollak Dance Company and attended classes at the Batsheva
Dance Company in Israel. He has worked with many Russian and European
choreographers and has danced parts in This is not a love song and Forgot to Love
by Uri Ivgi & Johan Greben (the Netherlands). He participated in the production of
The Rite of Spring for the Bolshoi Theater.
ALEKSEI SLUTSKII (Dancer, 2015–present) graduated in 2012 from the North Art
College for the Gifted Children in Khanty-Mansiysk. In 2015, he graduated from
Moscow State Art and Cultural University. In 2012-2013, he worked as a dancer at the
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug’s Ensemble of song and dance in Yugra and in 20142015 worked as a dancer at the Smola Dance Theater in Khanty-Mansiysk. Aleksei
joined Provincial Dances Theatre in 2015.
EVGENII KALACHEV (Dancer, 2014–present) graduated from the Samara State
University of Architecture and Civil Engineering. In 2012-2013, he attended the
Samara State School of Arts and Culture and in 2013-2014, the Sverdlovsk State
College of Arts and Culture. For four years he was a dancer at the Skrim Modern
Dance Company in Samara. He has been with Provincial Dances Theatre since
2014. Evgenii teaches yoga classes and has 8 years of yoga practice experience.
ANTON LUKYANOV (Company Manager, 2015–present) graduated from
Columbia College in Columbia, MO in 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in Business
Administration. In 2014, he graduated from Seattle Pacific University with a master’s
degree in Business Administration. He has worked with choreographers such as
Marlo Martin (BadmarmarDANCE, Seattle, WA), Anna Conner (Anna Conner Dance
Company, Seattle, WA) and Iyun Harrison (Ashani Dances, Baltimore, MD). In 20132014, he was a company manager for Ashani Dances. In 2013-2015, he was actively
involved with the University of Washington World Series program.
MAKSIM SERGACHEV (Lighting Designer, 2014–present) graduated from the
Ural Institute of Stock Markets in Yekaterinburg in 2010. He currently works
as a lighting designer at the Nutcraker Ballet Theater in Yekaterinburg and is a
touring staff member of Provincial Dances Theatre. He has created most of the
light plans to Provincial Dances’ works and has also worked on a special project
with Fabrice Lambert in France.
ADF PRESENTS
Provincial Dances Theatre
IN NEW YORK CITY
at The Joyce Theater
Monday, August 1-Wednesday, August 3, 2016
at 7:30pm
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