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• Kate Speer Biography •
Kate Speer is a third-year MFA candidate in dance with a secondary emphasis
in dance theory and scholarship. She has presented research at UCLA’s Dance
Under Construction Conference, Society of Dance History Scholars and Congress
on Research and Dance. She frequently attends Bates Dance Festival to get her
dance fix, where she has studied with such artists as David Dorfman, Doug Varone, Michael Foley, Chris Aiken and Cynthia Oliver. Highlights from her time at
CU have been: touring work to Philly and Boulder with co-choreographer Rachel
Oliver, her strip club debut in (anti)thesis by Gesel Mason and Nathan Blackwell’s
[ABSURDUS]corpus.
• Maren Waldman Biography •
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COMING UP NEXT:
A Workshop Production
At Buffalo
Dec. 6-7 | Atlas Black Box Theatre
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This project is funded by the University of Colorado Beverly Sears Graduate Student Award and the Department of Theatre and Dance’s ACE Performance Enhancement Fund.
Maren: Heartfelt gratitude to the dancers for their commitment, dedication and
creativity. To Gayan Gregory Long and Beth Miller, whose musical spirits and talents inspire us to dance from our hearts. Thank you Nada Diachenko, Beth Osnes,
Gesel Mason, Marda Kirn, Jill Sigman and my graduate cohort for your encouragement and challenging questions that nudged me forward. Deep appreciation
to my family and my sweetheart for catching me when I started to fall and for
accepting my process. Acknowledgment to all beings, known and unknown. May
this dance be of benefit to all.
This project is funded by the Department of Theatre and Dance’s ACE Performance Enhancement Fund. The continuation of this project in documentary form
is supported by the CU Environmental Center Board.
Space Within These
Lines Not Dedicated Enough
Concept and direction
Choreography and text
(in collaboration with the dancers)
Props and Costume Designer
Audra Blaser
• Special Thanks •
Kate: Thank you to my readers, Professor Donna Mejia, Professor Gesel Mason,
and Dr. Doreen Martinez, for insight and feedback during the creation process
as well as Professor Michelle Ellsworth, who was present for the first coffee-and
-beans experiment. While not dancing with us, Nathan Blackwell and Alexandra
Tenreiro Theis contributed movement and ideas that are still present on stage.
To my cast of collaborators: their intelligence, creativity, and investment have informed the work and brought it to life beyond my imagination. And to those
whom we have lost, you are loved and missed: Lillian Glazier – G. Allan Speer –
Salem Saberhagen.
Spilling Stories,
Tangled Testimonies
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Maren Waldman is a third-year MFA candidate in dance with a secondary emphasis in somatic studies. She earned a Permaculture Design Certificate from
the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute in 2012. She has presented body/earthrelated workshops and performances at Colorado Bioneers, Boston University, at
the national conference of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability
in Higher Education, and will be presenting at the 2014 conference of the BodyMind Centering Association. Her training at CU-Boulder in Gaga, house, transnational fusion, Alexander Technique and Body-Mind Centering have been especially influential to her growth.
The University of Colorado Boulder Department of Theatre & Dance
presents
Dramaturg
Director
Choreography and text
(in collaboration with the dancers)
Beth Miller
Vocalist, musical collaborator,
performer
Bob Shannon Mandy Greenlee
Performance space design
Lighting Designer
Projections Designer
Scenery Designer
Jesse Manno
MOMIX Botanica
Wednesday, Nov. 20, 7:30 p.m.
Macky Auditorium
Tickets start at $20
cupresents.org | 303-492-8008
Composer/Sound Designer
Rehearsal Director
Bob Shannon
Performance Space Design
Lighting Designer
Projection Designer
Scenery Designer
Maren Waldman &
Sadie Vermillion
Costume design
Gayan Gregory Long
Music Director and Composer
Sponsored by:
University Theatre Building, Irey Theatre
Nov. 15 and 16 at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 17 at 2 p.m.
Space Within These Lines Not Dedicated
Dancers ................................................... Ali Dorato
Britt Ford
Adam Griff
Mecca Madyun
Sexton McGrath
Amy Millennor
Jessica Troppmann
Kate Speer
Text used
Ceasefire by Avdo Sidran
Additional Music used
O mio babbino caro
Composed by Giacomo Puccini
Performed by Mirella Freni, Linda
Campanella
Two traditional Balkan Folk Melodies
Enough
Dancers ................................................... Alicia Brewer
Rosie Dooley
Mandy Greenlee
Lauren Noffert
Alex Valles-Medrano
Sadie Vermillion
Maren Waldman
• Space Within These Lines Not Dedicated •
Currently, our world is faced with multiple conflicts: the Palestinian
and Israeli divide, genocide in Sudan and Rwanda and even violent, racist acts within our own neighborhoods. Everywhere there
seem to exist exclusionary practices that attempt to draw territorial lines between neighbors and friends in order to designate an
“us” versus “them.” Additionally, the media discourse frequently
uses language to demonize an enemy and victimize a survivor, defining each group only in relationship to the conflict. As a result
the presence and agency of those living amid conflict are lost in
time and space.
Space Within These Lines Not Dedicated is influenced by memoirs
written during the Bosnian War (1992-1995). While reading these
memoirs, I was struck by how these individuals from half a world
away had lives, memories and emotions very similar to my own.
Thus, this work highlights our shared experiences of living a life
full of humor, some absurdity and the persistence of human connections. My belief is that in generating empathy and understanding, we can resist both physical and mental acts of violence. To
share our stories from our own words is as simple and as profound
as sharing a cup of coffee, a ritual that signifies hospitality and the
importance of taking the time to listen and relate.
-Kate Speer
• Enough •
We are within a biosphere, not on a planet. -Nala Walla
Stage Manager ........................................ Katie Laursen
Assistant Stage Manager ......................... Jordan Cate
Assistant Stage Manager .......................... Cassandra Eron
Assistant Costume Designer ..................... Leigh Salamon
Water is a connecting force. It connects continents and oceans,
ground and sky, human and planet, you and me. Our bodies are
75 percent water; water moves through the earth and through us
in identical ways – flowing, shaping, dripping, pooling. Due to climate change, the earth’s water is beginning to shift to extremes.
Communities worldwide are facing lack or overflow; millions of
people do not have access to clean drinking water. In the past year
in Boulder we experienced severe drought and devastating flood,
and over the next 20-50 years we will have to choose to allocate
limited water resources.
Run Crew
Scientific research overwhelmingly indicates that humans are contributing to Earth’s destruction. These changes reverberate within
us as our bodies – our individual ecosystems – are impacted.
Production Team
Lighting Technicians ................................ Bethany Gehler
Brea Gerber
Sound/Video Technicians .......................... Ellen Reynerson
Katelyn MacCory
Deck Crew ............................................... Hailey Heinberg
Heather Woolley
In Enough, we use our bodies and voices to make the visceral and
visual connection that water moves the same way in us as it does
on the planet. We created and now perform this work to remember
our connection and our responsibility, and that our choices matter
to each other and to the planet. Our dance is a prayer, a testimony
on behalf of Earth, and a call to action. How much is enough?
-Maren Waldman
Theatre & Dance Department staff
Department Chair ............ Bud Coleman
Director of Dance ............. Erika Randall
Production Coordinator .... Connie Lane
Theatre Technical
Director ......................... Kerry Cripe
Dance Technical
Production Director ........ Bob Shannon
Lighting, Sound and
Projections Advisor ........ Jason Banks
Scene Shop Foreman ... Stephen Balgooyen
Costume Shop Manager .... Ted Stark
Costume Shop Foreman .... Brenda King
Dance Events
Coordinator ................... Erinn Liebhard
Dance Production
Assistant Coordinator ..... Jessica Page
Costume Stock/Rental
Manager ................ December Mathisen
Costume Shop Administrative
Assistant ......................... Alexa Brown
Wardrobe Coordinator ........ Haley Layne
Dance Costume
Coordinator ..................... Sadie Vermillion
Loft Production
Coordinator ..................... Jenn Calvano
Dance Video
Recording/Archivist .......... Rachel Oliver
Front of House
Manager .......... Hadley Kamminga-Peck
House Managers ................. Bailey Anderson
Roxxy Duda
Sara Roybal
Heidi Schmidt
CU Presents staff
Executive Director ......... Joan McLean Braun
Marketing Director ....... Laima Haley
PR Director ................... Clay Evans
PR and Marketing
Coordinator ................ Daniel Leonard
PR and Marketing
Assistants ................... Emily Scraggs
Colin Wichman
Rachel Dodson
Operations Manager ...... Nick Vocatura
Box Office Manager ........ Andrew Metzroth
Box Office Services
Coordinator ...................... Katie DeVore
Box Office Assistants ......... Ciara Artem
Harper Nelson
Lucas Munce
Melanie Shaffer
Starla Doyal
Sydney Bogatz
Dance Production Assistants
Anthony Alterio • Jamie Mullin Holzman • Katherine Laursen • Samantha Lysaght
• Benjamin Smith • Jordan Thompson • Alejandra Valles-Medrano
Costumes
Shop employees • Sara Adler • Satya Chavez • Alexa Frank • Hayley Gocha •
Jillian Goodman • Brittany Handler • Amanda Herrera • Tucker Johnston •
Brendan Milove • Brianna Provda • Aly Ray • Reba Todd • Misha Zimmerman •
Costume practicum • Michael Bernacchi • Alexa Brown • Elizabeth Jamison
• Kassandra Kunisch • Haley Layne • Gina Lovell • Jackson Smith • Jessica
Troppmann • Willa Wilde
Scenery and Electrics
Tech studio • Carissa Kessel • Madeleine Ours • Shannon Teppert • Tina Taylor
Scene shop employees • Michael Bateman • Sarah Baughman • Kate Boyles •
Karter Deane • Forest Fowler • Elizabeth Jamison • Kassandra Kunisch • Kelly
McDermott • Tina Taylor • Kayla Wall • Dmitriy Yunda