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ADF
2012 Season Opening Night
Introductions
Jodee Nimerichter
Gerri Houlihan
James Frazier
Presentation of the 2012 Season Dedication
to Mary B. Regan
by Jodee Nimerichter
Performance
Doug Elkins & Friends’ Fraülein Maria
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Durham Performing Arts Center
ADF Presents
DOUG ELKINS & FRIENDS’
FRÄULEIN MARIA
Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 7 pm
Durham Performing Arts Center
FRÄULEIN MARIA (2006)
Conceived and choreographed by Doug Elkins
Directed by Barbara Karger and Michael Preston
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II*
Presented in cooperation with Rodgers & Hammerstein: An
Imagem Company. www.rnh.com
*“I Have Confidence” and “Something Good” Music and Lyrics by
Richard Rodgers. All Rights Reserved.
Cast:
Daniel Charon, Carolyn Cryer, Doug Elkins, Krista Jansen,
Deborah Lohse, Kellie Ann Lynch, Cori Marquis,
Meghan Merrill, Donnell Oakley, Joshua Palmer, Michael
Preston, John Sorensen-Jolink, Sharrod Williams
Crew:
Lighting Designer: James Latzel
Technical Director: Heather Smaha
Costume Designers: Barbara Karger, Robin Staff
Rehearsal Director: Carolyn Cryer
Dramaturg: Anne Davison
General Manager: Amy Cassello
Doug Elkins was inspired to create Fräulein Maria after
countless viewings of the timeless movie classic The Sound
of Music with his young children Liam and Gigi.
Commissioned in 2006 by DanceNOW[NYC] for its
Dancemopolitan Holiday Series, and produced in partnership
with Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, Fräulein Maria was an
immediate hit. Fräulein was reprised at Joe’s Pub in
December 2007 and recognized with a coveted New York
Dance & Performance (BESSIE) Award. The citation to
Doug reads: “For creating a tender, rollicking excursion at
Joe’s Pub called Fräulein Maria, which took us from the
snow-capped peaks of Hollywood through the worlds of
“downtown” dance, Martha Graham, Willi Ninja, Balanchine,
hip-hop, voguing, stepping, stomping, whirling, and flying like
wild geese with the moon on their wings.” With the
encouragement of arts impresario Bill Bragin and the
addition of co-directors Barbara Karger and Michael Preston,
Fräulein Maria was expanded and moved uptown for Lincoln
Center Out-of-Doors in August 2008. The show, once again
produced by DanceNOW[NYC] in partnership with Joe’s
Pub, returned to the Pub for a final run there in December
2008. Now at home on a larger stage, Fräulein Maria has
toured to 16 cities and festivals including ADF, Dance
Theater Workshop in New York, Hartford Stage, and Jacob’s
Pillow. For additional information,
www.dougelkinschoreography.com
Running time: 65 minutes, performed without an intermission.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Doug Elkins (Choreographer, Dancer) is a 2012 John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Creative Arts
Fellow and two-time New York Dance and Performance
(BESSIE) Award-winning choreographer. He began his
dance career as a B-Boy, touring the world with break dance
groups New York Dance Express and Magnificent Force,
among others. Doug is a recipient of significant
choreographic commissions and awards from the NEA,
National Performance Network, Jerome Foundation, ChooSan Goh & H. Robert Magee Foundation, Dance Magazine
Foundation, Metropolitan Life/American Dance
Festival, Hartford Foundation, Arts International, The
Greenwall Foundation, and The Foundation for
Contemporary Performance Arts. In 1994, Doug received a
Brandeis University Creative Arts Medal, sharing the stage
with author Philip Roth and photographer Nan Goldin. In
2006, he was honored in New York City with the Martha Hill
Award for Career Achievement; in 2010, he was honored in
Boston with an Elliot Norton Award for Choreography (for
Doug Elkins & Friends’ Fräulein Maria, a loving
deconstruction of The Sound of Music). Doug has taught and
choreographed extensively in the US and Europe and has
created original work for Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company,
Flying Karamazov Brothers, MaggioDanza, Pennsylvania
Ballet, Union Dance, and CanDoCo of London, as well as a
number of university dance companies and the renowned
Mini & Maxi of Holland. His theater work includes
collaborations with Joanne Akalaitis and Philip Glass, Robert
Woodruff, Pavel Dubrusky, Annie Hamburger, Molly Smith,
Craig Lucas, David Henry Hwang, Barbara Karger and
Michael Preston (including Fräulein Maria), Anne
Kauffman, and Arin Arbus. A graduate of SUNY/Purchase,
he received his MFA in Dance from HU/ADF in 2007. Until
recently, he taught at The Beacon School on the Upper West
Side of Manhattan where his tenure is the subject of Where
the Dance Is, a short film by Marta Renzi.
Barbara Karger (Director, Costume Designer) was born and
raised in Vienna, Austria and received her MFA in Physical
Theater at the renowned Folkwang Hochschule in Essen,
Germany. She was a foundingmember of the theater
company, Antagon. As a performer she has worked with
various companies including Mummenschanz. Since the
early 90’s she has been directing productions both in the US
and abroad, including Peter and the Wolf in Amsterdam with
Doug Elkins and Michael Preston. She is an Associate
Professor of Theater and Dance at Trinity College, Hartford.
Michael Preston (Director, Dancer) was a member of the
Shaliko Company in New York City, founded by Leonardo
Shapiro. He also worked with such artists as John Sayles,
David Cale, Wynn Handman and Theodora Skipitares. From
1991 until 2000 he toured the world as one of the Flying
Karamazov Brothers, including three different runs on
Broadway. He co-directed Peter and the Wolf, with Barbara
Karger, which was choreographed by Doug Elkins, in
Amsterdam in 2001. He is currently an Associate Professor
of Theater and Dance at Trinity College, Hartford.
Daniel Charon (Dancer) has been in New York City since
1995 where he performed with Doug Varone and Dancers
(1999-2009), the Limón Company (1996-1999), and with
various other dance, opera, and theatre companies. As a
choreographer, he maintains a project-based company that
has been presented at many venues and as part of various
festivals. Daniel teaches regularly in NYC and at numerous
workshops around the world. A graduate of North Carolina
School of the Arts, he hails from Moorhead, MN.
Carolyn Cryer (Dancer) graduated with a BA in Dance from
Wesleyan University. She danced with Fraulein Maria from
December 2006 to March 2010, and is thrilled to be making
a comeback this year at ADF. Ms. Cryer is also a member of
STEELEDANCE (Teri and Oliver Steele) and has performed
with Miriam Hess, The Felecia Maria Project, Silver-Brown
Dance, the Hudson Vagabond Puppets, Loco 7, Earl Mosley,
and MayDance. Carolyn served as Education Programs
Manager/International Student Advisor at Dance New
Amsterdam from 2003-2010, and is a Licensed Massage
Therapist. She is also proud mom of 16-month-old Miles.
Krista Jansen (Dancer) began her training with Ellen
Robbins at the age of five and has been dancing and
choreographing ever since. She has performed with Levi
Gonzalez, Brynn Rosen, Rachel Wynne, Christine
Shallenberg, the Fly-by-Night Trapeze Dance Company and
others as well as performing her own choreography at
Jacob’s Pillow, The Fourth Street Arts Festival, and Dance
Theater Workshop. She is the Assistant Rehearsal Director
for this production.
Deborah Lohse (Dancer) is a New York City-based
performer, choreographer and video artist. She is the Artistic
Director of ad hoc ballet, which has performed at Synod
House at St. John the Divine, the Clark Theater at Lincoln
Center, the 92nd Street Y, West End Theater, and Joe’s
Pub. As a performer she has worked primarily with Doug
Elkins (including a collaboration with noted theater director
Anne Kauffman) and Monica Bill Barnes. In 2010, she began
to work with film while continuing to create live performance
work. www.adhocballet.com
Kellie Ann Lynch (Dancer) holds a BA in dance
performance from Rhode Island College and a MFA
from Smith College. She currently dances with Adele Myers
and Dancers in New York City and Wire Monkey Dance in
Massachusetts. Kellie’s recent freelance projects have
included dancing for Jennifer Archibald, Kyle Abraham, and
Bronwen MacArthur. She is a co-founder of Elm City Dance
Collective in New Haven. Her work has been commissioned
and performed throughout New England and NYC.
Cori Marquis (Dancer) has been living, dancing and
choreographing in New York since graduating from Stanford
University in 2008 with a BA in Psychology and Performing
Arts. Professionally, Cori has had the pleasure of dancing
with Hope Mohr, Liz Gerring, Kelley Donovan, Teri and
Oliver Steele, Parijat Desai, Anabella Lenzu, Hee Ra Yoo,
and others. Cori’s own work has been presented in New
York by the West End Theater, newsteps at Chen Dance
Center, the Loft, WAX, Movement Research, the
Amalgamate Artist Series, COOL New York, the Dance
Complex in Boston, and Conduit Dance in Portland, OR.
www.corimarquis.com
Meghan Merrill (Dancer) is originally from Moraga, CA, and
received her BFA in dance from NYU’s Tisch School of the
Arts in 2006. She currently dances with the Neta Dance
Company, directed by Neta Pulvermacher, with whom she
has toured to Albania as well as taught summer intensives at
the University of Florida. Meghan has also worked with
Noemie LaFrance, Kyle Abraham, John Heginbotham, the
Metropolitan Opera, Aimee Rials, and Lauren Hale. She is a
certified Pilates instructor.
Donnell Oakley (Dancer) grew up in Raleigh, graduating
from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a
BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography in 2001. She
attended the ADF in the summers of 1999 and 2001. After
moving to New York in 2002, Donnell co-founded everything
smaller with David Schmidt and Jessica Jolly, a Brooklynbased company driven by collaboration that existed
for 6 extraordinary years. She has continued making dances
and has had her work produced through Movement
Research, the 92nd Street Y, The West End Theatre, The
Flea, Triskelion Arts, Joyce SoHo, Dance New Amsterdam,
and Dixon Place. Donnell also teaches regularly at DNA and
at various universities. Inaddition to her own work, Donnell
currently loves performing with SteeleDance, Amy Chavasse
Dance & Performance, Liz Staruch, and Alex|Xan: The
Median Movement. www.donnelloakley.com
Joshua Palmer (Dancer), born and raised in central Maine,
began dancing at a local studio in his hometown. He
graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the
Arts in 2007 with a BFA in dance. Since graduating, he has
had the privilege of performing for Hilary Easton & Co.,
Douglas Dunn, James Martin, T. Lang, and Alethea Adsitt.
Josh currently lives in Brooklyn and dances for Gibney
Dance, Erica Essner Performance Co-op, and Cherylyn
Lavagnino Dance.
John Sorens en-Jolink (Dancer) trained at Oregon’s
Jefferson High School and graduated summa cum laude
from New York University’s Tisch School (BFA). Upon
graduating, he joined the American Repertory Ballet before
joining the national tour of Twyla Tharp’s Movin’ Out. Since
then he has spent his timedancing with Tino Sehgal,
Stephen Petronio, RIOULT, Tharp’s Come Fly Away, and
the groundbreaking off-Broadway production, Sleep No
More. John is based in Brooklyn where he continues to
create his own work. www.johns-j.com
Sharrod Williams (Dancer) is a native of Newark, NJ who
began his dance training at the age of 18. He graduated cum
laude from Montclair State University with a double major in
Communication Studies and Dance. While at MSU he
performed works by Bill T. Jones, Paul Taylor, Donald
McKayle, Frederick Earl Mosley, Robert Battle, Susan
Marshall, Doug Elkins, Jay T. Jenkins, and Nicole Smith.
Sharrod alsoappeared in various musicals including A
Chorus Line, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, and SHAKE IT UP
Miami 2012. He has trained at Earl Mosley’s Institute of the
Arts and Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company’s
NJSummerDance. His work has been performed at Jennifer
Muller/The Work’s annual HATCH Festival in 2011. Sharrod
is currently an apprentice with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane
Dance Company.
James Latzel (Lighting Designer) is the Director of
Performing Arts Production at Trinity College
in Hartford, CT. His recent lighting design credits include
Bette & Boo, Spring Awakening, Cloud Nine and Window to
the Street (all directed by Barbara Karger and Michael
Preston) and The Adventures of Charcoal Boy and Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland (for the Dreamworks Puppetry
Program at HERE Arts Center in New York). James worked
for six seasons as Lighting Supervisor at Jacob’s Pillow.
Heather Smaha (Technical Director) is a graduate of SUNY
Purchase’s MFA program in Lighting Design/Technology.
Off-Broadway: Lebensraum (Abingdon Theatre Co.). New
York City: Mo(or)town/Redux ( Joyce SoHo), ART (The Wild
Project), Charles Winn Speaks (Cherry Lane Studio
Theatre),Together This Time (NYC Fringe 2010), Ruby’s
Story, and The White Cliffs (Stella Adler Studio of Acting).
Production Electrician: The Inexplicable Redemption of
Agent G (Beckett, Theatre Row), Miranda (HERE
Arts), Assistant Master Electrician: The Agony and The
Ecstasy of Steve Jobs (The Public Theater), Lighting
Director: Monica Bill Barnes & Company 2010-2011.
Anne Davison (Dramaturg) is a freelance dramaturg whose
recent projects include Jane Comfort and Company’s Beauty
( Jacob’s Pillow, La Mama), Doug Elkins’ Mo(or)town/Redux,
and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Public Theater and
Broadway) . She also works in casting. Recent casting
credits include Recall (The Wild Project), upcoming indie
films Milkshake and Concussion, and HBO’s Game Change.
Artistic associate of the Obie Award-winning theater
company Les Freres Corbusier. MFA in Dramaturgy &
Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama.
Amy Cassello (Tour Producer) is General Manager of Doug
Elkins Choreography, etc. In addition, she is General
Manager for United States Artist Ford Fellow and Alpert
Award winning choreographer Nora Chipaumire. She serves
as an Advisor within the Strategic Planning Intensive of
Bloomberg Philanthropies Arts Advancement Initiative (a
national capacity building program directed by Michael
Kaiser of The Kennedy Center), and additionally consults
with independent choreographers including Souleymane
Badolo, Stefanie Batten Bland, Faye Driscoll, and Adele
Myers. Amy is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College.
Fräulein Maria is made possible through the generous
support of The Vapnek Family Foundation: thank you Dianne
and Dan for your friendship and faith. Our gratitude as well
to Ted Chapin, Bert Fink, and Brian Sherman of the
venerable Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization,
www.rnh.com, for allowing a wide berth in the re-telling of
this story. We are eternally grateful to the show’s original
producer, DanceNOW[NYC] – Robin Staff, Tamara
Greenfield, Sydney Skybetter – who were tireless in their
devotion to assist Doug and Friends in the creation and
development of this
work from 2004 through 2008, www.dancenownyc.org.
This production came to be through a thousand favors.
Fräulein Maria is dedicated to the memory of vogue diva
Willi Ninja, one of our favorite (Miss) Things; to the many
grandparents and parents who took us to see the original
movie; and to the children in our lives who keep all of us
young at heart. Former and alternate cast members and
guest artists who helped shape the show include: Arthur
Aviles (our first Fräulein Maria), Ephrat ‘Bounce’ Asherie,
Madeline Best, Hilary Brown, Devin Buchanan, Archie
Burnett, Cindy Chung Camins, Therman Christopher, Alberto
Denis, Alexander Dones, David Dorfman, Moe Felican,
Kevin Fitzgerald Ferguson, Niles Ford, Keely Garfield, Halley
Gerstel, Mark Gindick, Gui Greene, Jeffrey Kazin, Malcolm
Low, Scott Lowe, Lindsey Dietz Marchant, Jennifer Miller,
Yuriko Miyake, Johnnie Moore, Alexis Murphy, Lisa
Niedermeyer, Jennifer Nugent, Alethea Pace, MiRi Park,
David Parker, Hunt Parr, Fritha Pengelly, Lisa Race,
Christina Reaves, Charemaine Seet, Amber Sloan, Allison
Smith, Nicole Marie Smith, Jennifer Sydor, Nicole Wolcott,
and Yin Yue. Hats off to The Bang Group,
www.thebanggroup.com; our very dear Frequent Frauleiners
(Britt, Peg, Demi, Andrea, Steve, Jacob, Mandy, Kelley, and
others); and our tech-savvy friends Lynn J. Smith and
Kristine Mudd, muddpuppy.net. Thank you to Jodee
Nimerichter, David Ferri, Sarah Tondu, and everyone at
American Dance Festival 2012 for this heady opening night:
we are grateful for the honor of an encore.
Summer stops: Martha’s Vineyard Performing Arts Center
presented by The Yard ( July 25 and 26); Hanna Theater in
Playhouse Square presented by DANCECleveland (August
10 and 11); and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival (August 2226).
© Doug Elkins 2012
www.dougelkinschoreography.com
ADF Presents
STEPHEN PETRONIO COMPANY
Friday, June 15 & Saturday, June 16, 2012 at 8 pm
Durham Performing Arts Center
UNDER LAND
Concept and Choreography: Stephen Petronio
Music: Nick Cave
Courtesy of EMI Music, Film & TV and Mute Song Ltd.
Music Producer: Tony Cohen
Soundscape: Paul Healy
Costumes: Tara Subkoff
Visual Design: Ken Tabachnick
Video: Mike Daly
Assistant to the Artistic Director: Gino Grenek
Lighting Supervisor: Joe Doran
Production Stage Manager: Veronica Falborn
Performed by Stephen Petronio Company
with Guest Artists Brandon Collwes & Reed Luplau
Descent into Underland: Stephen Petronio
Mah Sanctum: Davalois Fearon & Reed Luplau
Mercy Strings: Gino Grenek
Wild World: The Company
Wild Wild World: The Company
The Carny: Davalois Fearon, Joshua Green, Gino Grenek,
Barrington Hinds, Natalie Mackessy, Jaqlin Medlock,
Nicholas Sciscione, Emily Stone, Joshua Tuason
Prelude to Weep: Emily Stone
The Weeping Song: Davalois Fearon, Joshua Green,
Barrington Hinds, Reed Luplau, Natalie Mackessy, Jaqlin
Medlock, Nicholas Sciscione, Joshua Tuason
The Ship Song: Davalois Fearon, Gino Grenek,
Emily Stone, Joshua Tuason
Stagger Lee: Duet: Barrington Hinds & Natalie Mackessy
Quartet: Gino Grenek, Reed Luplau,
Nicholas Sciscione, Joshua Tuason
After Lee: Solo: Joshua Green; The Company
The Mercy Seat The Company
Prelude to Death Davalois Fearon
Death is Not the End The Company
Running time: 60 minutes, performed without an intermission
Casting subject
UNDERLAND was commissioned by the Sydney Dance
Company and had its world premiere at the Sydney
Opera House on May 27, 2003. UNDERLAND has been made
possible by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of
American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius. This
presentation of Underland is made possible by the New England
Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead
funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and
additional funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and
the Boeing Company Charitable Trust.
PROGRAM NOTES
In 2003, Sydney Dance Company approached me about
creating a work for the Sydney Opera House.
Without hesitation I responded, “I’ll do anything with Nick
Cave.” The dark beauty of his music, its rawness, pain and
redemption speak directly to my artistic motor. I knew it
would be a dream project for me. UNDERLAND is built as a
“place,” a kind of subconscious world “beneath the surface,”
that locates the heart of Cave’s music. It is a non-narrative,
non-linear look at the emotional tones of his work, rather
than a literal depiction of them. To collaborate on
UNDERLAND, I called together a talented mix of artists from
New York and Sydney: visual/lighting designer Ken
Tabachnick and fashion designer Tara Subkoff, Tony Cohen,
Paul Healy, video artist Mike Daly, and, of course, the
talented dancers of Sydney Dance Company. The result was
UNDERLAND, and it had an exciting life throughout
Australia. But I longed for it to be transferred to the dancers
of Stephen Petronio Company. Here it is at last. I am
proud to present UNDERLAND and I look forward to its new
life throughout the United States and Europe. –Stephen
Petronio
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Acclaimed by audiences and critics alike, Stephen Petronio
is widely regarded as one of the leading dance-makers of his
generation. New music, visual art and fashion collide in his
dances, producing powerfully modern landscapes for the
senses. He has built a body of work with some of the most
talented and provocative artists in the world including,
composers Nico Muhly, Fischerspooner, Rufus Wainwright,
Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Son Lux, James Lavelle,
Michael Nyman, Sheila Chandra, Diamanda Galás, Andy
Teirstein, Wire, Peter Gordon, Lenny Pickett and David
Linton; visual artists Cindy Sherman, Anish Kapoor, Donald
Baechler, Stephen Hannock, Tal Yarden, Arnaldo Ferrara,
and Justin Terzi III; fashion designers Jillian Lewis, Adam
Kimmel, Benjamin Cho, Michael Angel, Tony Cohen,
Rachel Roy, Tara Subkoff /Imitation of Christ, Tanya
Sarne/Ghost, Leigh Bowery, Paul Compitus, Manolo,
Yonson Pak and H. Petal; and Resident Lighting Designer
Ken Tabachnick. Founded in 1984, Stephen Petronio
Company has been presented at prestigious venues on six
continents and Petronio has been commissioned by
premiere modern and ballet companies throughout the
world.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Stephen Petronio (Artistic Director/Choreographer) was
born in Newark, New Jersey, and received a BA from
Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, where he began
dancing in 1974. Initially inspired by the dancing of Rudolf
Nureyev and Steve Paxton, Petronio was the first male
dancer of the Trisha Brown Company (1979–1986). He has
gone on to build a unique and powerful language of
movement in a career that spans over 25 years. He has
received numerous accolades, including a John Simon
Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as awards from the
Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts,
New York Foundation for the Arts, an American
Choreographer Award, and a New York Dance and
Performance “Bessie” Award. Petronio has created over 35
works for his company, and has been commissioned by
some of the world’s most prestigious modern and ballet
companies, including William Forsythe’s Frankfurt Ballet
(1987), Deutsche Oper Berlin (1992), Lyon Opera Ballet
(1994), Maggio Danza Florence (1996), Sydney Dance
Company (2003, full evening), Norrdans (2006), the
Washington Ballet (2007), and The Scottish Ballet (2007).
His company repertory works have been set on The Scottish
Ballet, Norrdans in Sweden, Dance Works Rotterdam,
National Dance Company Wales, X Factor Dance
Company in Edinburgh, Ballet National de Marseille, Ballet
de Lorraine, and London Contemporary Dance Theater. In
spring 2009, Petronio completed an evening-length work,
Tragic Love for 30 dancers in collaboration with composer
Ryan Lott (aka Son Lux) for Ballet de Lorraine. The dance
premiered in Montpellier, France on June 27, 2009. He
completed another new work with Ryan Lott, titled By
Singing Light, for the National Dance Company Wales that
premiered in Cardiff in October 2010. Recent projects
include The Social Band, a commission for Other Shore
Dance Company in New York that premiered on
February 10, 2011 at the Historic Asolo Theatre in Sarasota,
Florida and Prometheus Bound, a musical for
the American Repertory Theater, in collaboration with
director Diane Paulus (HAIR), writer and lyricist
Steven Sater (Tony award, Spring Awakening) and
composer Serj Tankian, which had its premiere on
March 4, 2011. Petronio recently performed at the TEDMED2012 conference at the Kennedy Center Opera House in
Washington, DC. He is currently planning a new evening
length work with Ryan Lott called Like Lazarus Did, based
on the mythology of resurrection, and continues to work on
his memoir-inprogress, “Slippery Grace: Notes from a Life in
Motion.”
Brandon Collwes (Guest Artist) received his early dance
training at the Pittsburgh CLO, Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, and
the Creative and Performing Arts High School in Pittsburgh,
PA. He attended The Juilliard School and SUNY Purchase.
Collwes studied as a scholarship student at the Martha
Graham Center for Contemporary Dance and twice at the
ADF. He became a member of the CDF Repertory
Understudy Group in October 2003 and joined The Merce
Cunningham Dance Company in January
2006 where he danced up until the close of the Company in
December 2011. Most recently he has worked with Michael
Clark and also performed Doubletoss, a Cunningham piece
restaged by Robert Swinston at the Baryshnikov Arts Center.
Collwes is thrilled to be performing as a guest artist with the
Stephen Petronio Dance Company.
Davalois Fearon (Dancer) is a graduate of the SUNY
Purchase BFA program. She was born in Jamaica and
raised in New York City. She began her dance training in the
Professional Performing Arts/ Alvin Ailey High School dance
program. Fearon also received training from Alvin Ailey
Professional Division, Merce Cunningham Studio, and the
Martha Graham School on scholarship. She has worked
with Troy Powell, Kevin Wynn, Nankama International, and
Forces of Nature.
Joshua Green (Dancer) was born in Minnesota, where he
also received his early dance training. He earned his BFA in
Dance with honors from New York University’s Tisch School
of the Arts in 2010. After graduation, Green performed with
Lucinda Childs.
Gino Grenek (Dancer, Assistant to the Artistic Director) is
originally from Rochester, New York. He is a graduate of
both Dartmouth College (Engineering Sciences and Studio
Art, 1994) and New York University’s Tisch School of the
Arts (MFA in Dance, 1996). As a member of the original
Broadway cast, Grenek performed in Matthew Bourne’s
award-winning reinterpretation of Swan Lake (1998-1999).
For eight years, he toured with the Stephen Petronio
Company across five continents (1999-2007). He has
assisted Mr. Petronio with the creation of new works for
NorrDans (Sweden, 2004), Washington Ballet (US, 2007),
Ballet de Lorraine (France, 2009), and National Dance
Company Wales (United Kingdom, 2010). In 2007, Grenek
was honored with a New York Dance and Performance
“Bessie” Award for his body of work with Stephen Petronio.
He returned to the company in 2009.
Barrington Hinds (Dancer) is from West Palm Beach,
where he began his training at the School of Ballet Florida
under the direction of Marie Hale. He holds a BFA in Dance
from SUNY Purchase College and has also trained a
semester abroad at the Taipei National University of the Arts
in Taiwan. Hinds has worked professionally with VERB
Ballets, North West Professional Dance Project, and has
performed in the national tour of Twyla Tharp’s Broadway
show, Movin’ Out. This year, Hinds was honored as a finalist
for the Clive Barnes Award in young talent for dance. He
joined the company in 2008.
Reed Luplau (Guest Artist) is from Perth, Australia where he
trained at his mother’s studio, Jody Marshall Dance
Company. At the age of 15, Luplau was accepted into the
Australian Ballet School, where he continued his training. In
2004, he was invited by then Artistic Director Graeme
Murphy to join Sydney Dance Company. Other
choreographers include Stephen Petronio, Meryl Tankard,
Raphael Bonachela, Aszure Barton, AC Ciulla, Cherice
Barton, Julie Bour and Jonah Bokaer. Luplau is currently a
dancer with Lar Lubovitch Dance Company. As an actor, he
has appeared in the 2010 Nickelodeon Teen Nick Promo,
Mao’s Last Dancer, and most recently finished filming Alan
Brown’s new film, Five Dances, soon to be released in early
2013.
Natalie Mackessy (Dancer) is originally from Columbus
Ohio. She is a graduate of Point Park University with a BA in
Dance. Since graduating, Mackessy has danced as a
scholarship student with Mark Morris Dance Group, as well
as Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre. Most recently, she was
named a finalist for the 2011 Clive Barnes Award in Dance.
Mackessy joined the Stephen Petronio Company in
November 2009.
Jaqlin Medlock (Dancer) is a native of New York, and holds
a BFA in Dance and Photography from Marymount
Manhattan College. Upon graduation, Medlock began her
own photography business specializing in movement. She
has performed for companies including STEPS Repertory
Ensemble, DreDance, NY2, DeMa Dance Company, and
Bennyroyce Dance Productions. She was also assistant
to choreographer Warren Adams while working with Phoenix
Dance Theater in Leeds, England. This is Medlock’s first
season with Stephen Petronio Company.
Nicholas Sciscione (Dancer) was born and raised in
Elizabeth, New Jersey. He graduated magna cum laude with
a BFA in Dance from Mason Gross School of the Arts at
Rutgers University. He has performed works by Benoit-Swan
Pouffer, Randy James, Xiao-xiong Zhang, Danielle Agami,
and Ohad Naharin and has also worked with Nimbus Dance
Works and Freespace Dance.
Emily Stone (Dancer) is originally from Colorado, where she
began dancing with the Boulder Ballet. Stone attended
SUNY Purchase Dance Conservatory and received her BA
in Dance from Empire State College. She completed the
professional training program at the Merce Cunningham
Studio and has performed with Cornfield Dance and Terrain
Dance Company. Stone joined the Stephen Petronio
Company in May 2009.
Joshua Tuason (Dancer) was born and raised in San
Francisco and began his training with the San Francisco
Ballet School. He earned his BFA in Dance from Marymount
Manhattan College under the direction of Katie Langan. After
graduation, he was a member of the Martha Graham
Ensemble and has worked professionally with Lane Gifford
and Ian Spencer Bell. He joined the Stephen Petronio
Company in February 2009.
Nick Cave (Composer) is best known for his work as a frontman of the critically acclaimed rock band Nick Cave and the
Bad Seeds. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have most
recently released re-mastered reissues of eight classic
albums, spring 2011.
Mike Daly (Video Artist) is an Australian filmmaker, visual
effects artist, and motion graphics designer. He has recently
been signed for representation in Australia by Exit Films.
Tara Subkoff (Costume Designer) recently launched her
latest venture called Imitation. UNDERLAND is her third
major collaboration with the Stephen Petronio Company.
Kenta Bachnick (Resident Lighting Designer; Visual
Design) has an extensive background in both the
management and the creative sides of the arts, where he
has worked for more than 30 years. Some companies with
whom he has collaborated include the Bolshoi and Kirov
companies, Paris Opera Ballet, Martha Graham Dance
Company, and Trisha Brown Company. Tabachnick was
recently named Deputy Dean of Tisch School of the Arts at
NYU. Prior to that, he was Dean of the School of the Arts
at Purchase College and General Manager at New York City
Ballet. He has also served as the resident lighting director at
New York City Opera, and had his own private practice in
entertainment and intellectual property law. Tabachnick is a
trustee of Dance/USA and the Stephen Petronio Company,
and has been lighting Petronio’s work since 1985.
Joe Doran (Lighting Supervisor/Technical Director)
Broadway: Magic/ Bird (Asst. LD), In the Heights
(2nd National, Asst. LD); Off Broadway: H4 and
Shakespeare’s Slave. NYC Dance credits include:
Sean Curran Company, Armitage Gone! Dance, Elisa Monte
Dance Company, HT Chen and Dancers, Gabrielle Lansner
and Co., and Martha Graham Dance Company, among
others. Doran serves as Producing Artistic Director and
resident designer of Equilateral Theatre Company. Doran
recently designed an adaptation of The Tempest directed by
and starring Olympia Dukakis. He also designed Cyclops,
the Rock Opera and Matchmaker, Matchmaker, I Will Settle
with the NY Musical Theatre Festival. Regional Credits
include: Alpine Theatre Project, The Atlanta Ballet, Swift
Creek Mill Theatre and Theatre IV/ Barksdale Theatre. He is
the 2008 and 2009 recipient of the Richmond Theatre Critics
Circle Award. He also received the 2010 US Army
Recreation Program Award for Outstanding Lighting
Design of a Musical. Joe Doran is a graduate of the North
Carolina School of the Arts, and a member of Resonance
Ensemble and USA Local 829. www.joedorandesign.com
Veronica Falborn (Production Stage Manager) is very
excited to have recently joined Stephen Petronio Company.
She also works closely with the Trisha Brown Dance
Company in their production department. Previous theater
credits include The Builders Association’s House/Divided;
Atlantic Theatre Company, 10x25 and Dusk Rings a Bell
(Off-Broadway); Girlfriend, Venice, The Bacchae, and
EWG Readings (The Public Theater); Secrets of the Trade
(Primary Stages.) She is a proud graduate of SUNY
Purchase.
The Stephen Petronio Company would like to send a heartfelt
thanks to Jodee Nimerichter and the entire
staff and crew at American Dance Festival. We are pleased to be
performing in this engagement.
Stephen Petronio Company’s 2011-12 season is made possible
in part with public funds from The National
Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts,
NYC Department of Cultural Affairs,
and with additional support from the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance,
Joseph & Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, and the Lila
Acheson Wallace Theater Fund at the New York
Community Trust.
STEPHEN PETRONIO DANCE COMPANY, INC .
www.stephenpetronio.com
Co-Executive Directors: Craig Hensala and Janet Stapleton
Marketing & Tour Coordinator: Yvan Greenberg
Press Representative: Janet Stapleton
For North American booking inquiries: Harold Norris, H-ART
Management, [email protected]
ADDITIONS TO
2012 ADF Annual Fund Contributors
(May 15, 2012 through May 22, 2012)
Partner ($240+)
Naila Gazale Lowe
Friend ($120+)
Laura Benedict and John Morris
Jim and Jane Finch
Michael and Elizabeth Schoenfeld
Contributor (Gifts under $120)
The Art of Cool Project§
Charles and Cheryl Hall
Wendy Hower Livingston
Eric Smith
Robert W. Upchurch
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