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Adamantine/Frame Dances
Wednesday, June 15-18, 2011
WED-FRI at 8pm | SAT at 5pm
Frederick Iseman Theater
1156 Chapel Street, New Haven
ARTISTS
Susan Marshall & Company
ABOUT THE
PROGRAM
ADAMANTINE
Adamantine dwells at the
intersection of dance, sound design,
visual art, and theater, the exposed
stage itself becomes a sonic
performance instrument as the
amplified sounds of its workings blend
with the original score created and
performed live by composer Peter
Whitehead. Performers are continually
constrained by limits imposed by the
shifting stage machinery and by the
lighting which, at times, narrows to
mere pools or shafts. In this
unpredictable environment the
dancers move with fierce violence and
luxurious abandon. Revolving around
contrasts – this dance juxtaposes light
and dark, freedom and constraint,
shadow and reflection, formal and
informal, joy and difficulty.
Dancers:
Kristen Hollinsworth, Luke H. Miller,
Petra van Noort, Joseph Poulson,
Ildiko Toth, Darrin Michael Wright
Musicians:
Peter Whitehead
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Elton Bradman
Project Credits:
Choreography: Susan Marshall in
collaboration with The Company
Lighting Design:
Mark Stanley
Scenic Design & Fabrication:
Jeremy Lydic
Costume Design: Olivera Gajic
Sound Design: Jane Shaw
Original Score: Peter Whitehead
Video Design & Projections:
Ryan Holsopple
Installation Lighting Design:
Mark Stanley
Costumes: Mary Kokie McNaugher
Stage Management: Lauren Parrish
Commissioned by Peak Performances @
Montclair World Premiere
Performance of ADAMANTINE March 26, 2009
at the Alexander Kasser Theater.
Score and live musical performance for ADAMANTINE commissioned by the Charles & Joan
Gross Family Foundation.
Susan Marshall & Company gratefully acknowledges receiving generous support for the
development of
Adamantine from:
Altria Group, Inc.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Bossak/Heilbron Charitable
Foundation
Joseph & Joan Cullman Foundation for the
Arts
Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels
Foundation
The Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation
Harkness Foundation for Dance
International Festival of Arts & Ideas
Lila Acheson Wallace Theater Fund.
Established in The New York
Community Trust by the founders of The
Reader’s Digest Association
O.P. and W.E. Edwards Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
New York State Council on the Arts, a state
agency
FRAME DANCES
Direction and Choreography by
Susan Marshall in collaboration with
the Company Frame Dances is a video
installation that features dances created and filmed within confined, framed
spaces. Marshall & Company combine
dance and video to create metaphoric
and fantastical worlds which straddle
the line between visual art and dance.
Audiences move freely through the
space making choices about how they
view the various pieces. The Festival
audience may choose to view Frame
Dances before or after the live
performance of Adamantine.
Accompanying original score is by
Peter Whitehead.
Designers:
Video Design & Projections:
Ryan Holsopple
Composer: Peter Whitehead
Original Video & Projection Design:
Roderick Murray
Cast:
Kristen Hollinsworth, Luke H. Miller,
Petra van Noort, Joseph Poulson,
Ildiko Toth, Darrin Michael Wright
Commissioning Credits:
Frame Dances is commissioned by
Peak Performances @ Montclair
With additional commissioning and
residency support by Music
Theater Group.
ABOUT THE
COMPANY
Susan Marshall & Company has
performed the work of Artistic
Director/Choreographer Susan
Marshall in theaters throughout the
United States, Europe and Japan.
International festivals at which the
company has performed include
the Edinburgh International Festival,
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the
Festival International de Nouvelle
Danse in Montreal, Spoleto Festival,
the Los Angeles Festival, Vienna Tanz,
SpringDanse (The Netherlands), the
inaugural NY City Center Fall For
Dance Festival, and, most frequently,
Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next
Wave Festival. Members of Susan
Marshall & Company premiered and
toured in Les Enfants Terribles, a
dance/opera choreographed and
directed by Marshall in
collaboration with composer Philip
Glass and produced by International
Production Associates. Les Enfants
traveled to thirty-six cities in Europe
and the United States. In the early
1990s, Arts America sponsored a
five-week tour of the company to
Eastern Europe, Cyprus and Turkey,
and Alive From Off Center
commissioned the creation of the film
Contenders from the company.
Including the BESSIE award given in
2006 for the creation of Cloudless,
Marshall, her artistic collaborators and
company members have received a
total of ten New York Dance and
Performance Awards (BESSIES) for
their artistic achievements.
ABOUT SUSAN
MARSHALL
Susan Marshall has created over 40
dances in collaboration with the
dancers of Susan Marshall &
Company. Since 1985, the company
has performed in many venues
including international festivals such
as Edinburgh International Festival,
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the
Festival International de Nouvelle
Danse, Spoleto Festival, the Los
Angeles Festival, Vienna Tanz, NY City
Center Fall For Dance Festival, and,
most frequently, Brooklyn Academy of
Music’s Next Wave Festival.
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Marshall has also created dances for
the Lyon Opera Ballet, Frankfurt
Ballet, and Boston Ballet. Recently,
Marshall provided the stage
direction for “Book of Longing” by
Philip Glass and for the music
ensembles Eight Blackbird and Bang
on a Can’s Asphalt Orchestra. A 2000
recipient of a MacArthur fellowship,
Marshall has received many awards
including three New York Dance and
Performance Awards (BESSIES) for
Outstanding Choreographic
Achievement. Marshall began as
Director of Dance at Princeton
University’s Lewis Center for the Arts
in September 2009.
BIOGRAPHIES
Elton Bradman (Musician) – is a
percussionist, bassist, and
drummer who has worked with the
San Francisco Mime Troupe,
world-music pioneer Jai Uttal,
world-renowned tabla artist Suphala,
beatbox/loop phenom Kid Beyond,
San Francisco’s New Pickle Circus,
acoustic rock/soul queen Sparlha
Swa, and Polish Hare Krishna reggae
band Village of Peace, among others.
He has been an editor at Bass Player,
editor-in-chief of Guitar World’s Bass
Guitar magazine, and a freelance
editor for Rolling Stone, Vibe, and the
City of New York.
Olivera Gajic (Costume Design) God’s
Ear (Vineyard Theatre) The Greeks;
Edward II (The Juilliard School-drama)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Le
Comte Ory (The Juilliard
School-opera); Chekhov Lizardbrain
(Pig Iron); Uncle VanjaPlatonov (On
Lake Lucille); The Necklace (Talking
Band Production); Journey to the end
of the night; Wonderland (The Flying
Machine); Miss Julie
(Rattlestick); One Million Butterflies
(Primary Stages). Olivera designs
extensively for the Berkshire Theatre
Festival Connecticut Repertory
Theatre and Juilliard School. As well
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as in theatre she design for dance
and film. Her regional: Long Wharf
Theatre, Two River; Riverside Theatre;
Playmakers Repertory Company;
Theatre Works; American Stage..
As well as in theatre she design for
dance. Her dance credits include
Senior Dance Production, Juilliard
School, LKB-Dance, Company XIV and
Tami Stronach Dance. Olivera comes
from Serbia where she designed the
costumes for theater and film. She is
maintaining her international career
trough exhibits and experimental
theater work. She has been part of
the US National Exhibit at the 2004
& 2007 Prague Quadrennial. She is
2004 recipient of the NEA/TCG CDP
for Designers.
Kristen Hollinsworth (Dancer) has
collaborated with Susan Marshall &
Company since 1994. She has
restaged a number of Marshall’s
dances including the aerial duet Kiss
for Pacific Northwest Ballet. In NYC
Kristen has worked with Doug Varone,
Tami Stronach, Cherylyn Lavagnino,
Nina Winthrop, Monica Gillette, and in
San Francisco with Cheryl
Chaddick, Della Davidson, and Lea
Wolf. She danced with the
Metropolitan Opera from 1998- 2008
in numerous productions. Her own
work has been presented in Cape
Cod, San Francisco , and New York
at Dancespace Project, Dancenow
Festival, the Flea Theater, and Joyce
Soho. Kristen is the tour manager
and residency coordinator for Susan
Marshall & Company.
Ryan Holsopple (Projections)
associate projections designer with
designer William Cusick on The Clean
House and The Coast of Utopia at
Lincoln Center Theater and Arjuna?s
Dilemma, BAM Next Wave 2008.
Projections design for Smudge at The
Women’s Project. The projections and
sound designer for 31 Down, including
2010’s RED OVER RED.
Jeremy Lydic (Scenic Design and
International Festival of Arts & Ideas
Fabrication) is an interdisciplinary
theater artist working, in equal
measures, as designer, director, writer,
performer, and craftsman. Lydic
operates a Props Design/Fabrication
studio (Lydic!Design) in Brooklyn
where he recently fabricated custom
pieces for the Broadway premiere of
Reasons to Be Pretty. Other recent
clients include The New Group,
Primary Stages, David Gordon/Pick up
Performance Company, MCC Theater,
Atlantic Theater Company, and 59E59
Theaters. Previously, Lydic worked as
Associate Prop Master at The Public
Theater/New York Shakespeare
Festival, where he engineered and
built Mother Courage’s wagon in Tony
Kushner’s adaptation, starring Meryl
Streep. There he built countless other
props, large and small, for over 25
productions, including Caroline or
Change, and Passing Strange. He has
worked as Prop Master for Primary
Stages, Bard Summerscape Festival,
The New Group, LAByrinth, Classic
Stage Company, MCC Theater, and
Naked Angles, amongst many
others. He worked as scenic designer
of the premiere production of Noemie
LaFrance’s Agora at the McCarren
Park Pool. Jeremy is the Artistic
Director of semi:theater, and a
founding member of The
Internationalists.
Luke Miller (Dancer), originally from
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, studied
dance at NYU’s Tisch school of the
Arts. He joined Susan Marshall &
Company in 2003 and has since
collaborated in the making of Sleeping
Beauty and Other Stories, Cloudless,
Sawdust Palace and Frame Dances.
From repertory he performs Kiss,
Arms and Fields of View. Luke has set
the company’s work on students at
Wittenberg University, University of
Wisconsin Steven’s Point, NYU’s Tisch
School of the Arts and has staged
repertory on professional companies
including Dance Alloy, Hubbard Street
and Pacific Northwest Ballet. Luke has
also performed in the work of Eun Me
Ahn, Keely Garfield, Molissa Fenley
and currently in the companies of
Yanira Castro and Neil Greenberg. He
performed in the ’07 reconstruction
of Martha Clarke’s Garden of Earthly
Delights and acted as choreographic
assistant in it’s ’08 Off-Broadway
restaging. His work has been shown
at many venues throughout New
York City including The Joyce SoHo,
WAX, Galapagos, The Flea Theater,
M Shanghai and The Roxy.In the play
Madama Fortuna, written/directed
by Antonio Rodriguez and presented
by Dixon Place at Chasama, Luke
portrayed the role of BunnyTeddy and
choreographed the production. He
co-directed and choreographed the
play The Pet Goat with writer Brian
Boyles at WAX and performed as Ron
Reagan Jr. in Taylor Mac’s The Lily’s
Revenge. In film, he worked with
David Neuman in the making of the
WB production I Am Legend.
Lauren Parrish (Stage Manager)
Lauren holds a B.A. in dance from
Sarah Lawrence College. She has been
lighting shows and stage managing
shows in New York City since 2006,
and touring domestically and
internationally since 2008. She has
stage-managed for Battleworks,
Stephen Petronio Company, Misnomer
Dance Theater, Keigwin + Co., and
TAKE Dance. Her lighting design has
been seen at the OntologicalHysteric Theater, The Chocolate
Factory, Symphony Space, Dance
Theater Workshop, and the
Neo-Futurarium in Chicago. Lauren
is the Technical Director of the New
York Neo-Futurists, the Production
Manager and Lighting Designer for
the DanceNOW NYC Festival, and the
production manager for Youth
America Grand Prix. Lauren is very
excited to be working with Susan
Marshall & Company.
Joseph Poulson (Dancer) is from
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and
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graduated from the University of Iowa
with a degree in Dance. He has had
the pleasure of working with many
different choreographers and dancers
while living in New York City. Joe was
a member of David Dorfman Dance
from 2001-2008 and continues to
make new works with Terry Creach,
Bill Young and Colleen Thomas, Yanira
Castro, Jeanine Durning and Susan
Marshall. He has recently been on
Faculty at the University of Maryland
and will be a Guest Artist in Residence
and Bennington College in the spring
of ‘09. His choreography has been
presented in New York City,
Washington D.C. and Vermont.
Jane Shaw (Sound Design) Previously
with Susan Marshall: Cloudless,
Sawdust Palace, Other Stories,
Sleeping Beauty. Off Broadway:
Hamlet, Merchant of Venice (TFANA/
RSC/National Tour), The Coward
(Lincoln Center 3), Wife to James
Whelan, Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd
(Mint), The Sneeze (The Pearl), Liberty
City (NYTW), among others. Off-off
Broadway: The Wonder (Queen’s
Company), Rise and Fall of Annie Hall,
CROOKED (Women’s Project),
Sounding (HERE), Septimus and
Clarissa (Ripe Time/Red Bull). Dance:
Big Dance Theater (collaboration for
over 12 years, Bessie Award, 2010),
Terry Creach, Koosil-ja, David
Dorfman. Regional theater includes:
Denver Center Theatre Company, City
Theater (Pittsburgh), Capital Rep
(Albany), Yale Repertory, Dorset
Theater Festival, Merrimack Repertory
Theatre. Recipient: NEA-TCG Career
Development Grant, Meet the
Composer. Nominations: Lortel,
Connecticut Critics Circle. Graduate of
Harvard and Yale School of Drama.
Mark Stanley (Lighting Design) has
collaborated with Susan Marshall since
1994. He is currently the Resident
Lighting Designer for the New York
City Ballet where since 1986, he has
designed over 190 premieres for their
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repertory including works for Peter
Martins, Christopher Wheeldon, Susan
Stroman, Alexei Ratmansky, William
Forsythe, Kevin O’Day, Christopher
D’Amboise, Ulysses Dove, and many
others. In addition, he has designed
David Gordon, Doug Varone, Tim
Rushton, Nicolo Fonte, Lynn Taylor
Corbett, and numerous ballet
companies across Europe and the
USA. Mr. Stanley previously served as
Resident Designer for the New York
City Opera, lighting over 20 new
productions for the resident and
touring companies. He has designed
plays for The Kennedy Center, The
Huntington Theatre Co., Long Wharf,
The Ordway, Goodspeed, The Night
Kitchen Theater and on PBS for “Live
from Lincoln Center” and “Great
Performances”. Mr. Stanley heads the
lighting design program at Boston
University, is on the board of the
Gilbert Hemlsey Lighting Programs,
and is the author of The Color of Light
Workbook.
Ildikó Tóth (Dancer) is from Germany,
graduated from Rotterdam Dance
Academy in the Netherlands, and
moved to New York City in 2005.
She currently enjoys working with Bill
Young/Colleen Thomas and Dancers,
and has had the pleasure of dancing
with Kota Yamazaki and Jimena Paz,
among others.
Petra van Noort (Dancer) is a native
of The Netherlands. She studied ballet
at Dansacademie Brabant (BA) and
modern dance at Rotterdam Dance
Academy. She first came to NYC with
a VSB grant in 1994. She danced in
Holland for, most notably, Wies Merkx
(Dansend Hart) and Herman van Veen
(Columbine Danstheater). The desire
to dance for a company with a
theatrical nature led her to move to
NYC in 1997 to join Jennifer Muller/
THE WORKS. This adventure
continued when she joined Susan
Marshall & Company in 2000. Since
2004 she is also a member of the
International Festival of Arts & Ideas
Tiffany Mills Company. In New York
she has additionally had the
pleasure of dancing for Mimi
Garrard (on film), Isabel Gotzkowsky
and Friends, Company Rindfleisch
and Leda Meredith, amongst others.
Petra has taught dance technique and
repertory classes for Susan Marshall
& Company, Tiffany Mills Company,
Jennifer Muller/ THE WORKS and for
Dansend Hart (NL) and has much
enjoyed assisting with the creation
of and also the re-staging of various
Susan Marshall & Company repertory
on college and high school students
and soon also on fellow professionals
in Salt Lake City. Faith in ‘the powers
of intention and human touch’
continues to inspire her to study and
share the amazing benefits of
Reflexology, Metamorphosis and
Prana Yoga in private practice. She
likes to thank her colleagues for
sharing the crazy catalytic struggles
and unpredictable journeys of
creation, thanks to Susan and thanks
to my family and Marc for your faith,
love and support!
Peter Whitehead (Composer/
Musician) is a composer, performer,
songwriter and instrument builder. He
creates scores for film and dance and
performs solo work using a variety of
homemade sound sources, plus an
array of more conventional
instruments, electronic keyboards and
sampling. He was a founder member
of Mobius Operandi a multi-media
performance group known for its
large scale, sight specific events. He
is also a member of Closer To Carbon,
a trio featuring electronic, acoustic &
toy instruments. In the Dance world
he has made music for Mikhail
Baryshnikov, Susan Marshall &
Company, Anna Halprin, Charles
Moulton and has had a long
association with Sarah Shelton Mann
& Contraband. In the Film world he
has made music for a number of
independent directors including Matt
Dillon & Ralph Arlick.
Internationally his work has been used
in over a dozen countries for
television & radio, and at home it has
been featured frequently on NPR
radio & PBS television. Currently he is
working on a documentary series for
KQED television in San Francisco. His
music is available on Out of Round
Records, an independent label he
co-founded in 2001. He has traveled
extensively in South East Asia & North
Africa, collecting music &
instruments along the way. Originally
from England, he now divides his time
between New York & San
Francisco.
Darrin M. Wright (Dancer) Darrin M.
Wright is a native of Los Angeles,
California where he started tap
dancing at the age of six. His early
training began with Ian Gary, Janet
Roston and Rudy Perez. In 1997,
Darrin joined the Bella Lewitzky Dance
Company as part of its farewell tour.
He received his BFA in dance from the
University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign in 2002. Since
graduation, Darrin has had the
pleasure of working with Susan
Marshall, Terry Creach, Bill Young/
Colleen Thomas, Yanira Castro, Jack
Ferver, Tami Stronach, Amber Sloan,
Jane Comfort, Linsey Bostwick and
Nina Winthrop. He received a 2010
Bessie Award for Yanira Castro’s Dark
Horse/Black Forest. Darrin teaches
master classes in technique, composition and improvisation throughout
the country. Currently Darrin lives in
Brooklyn, New York.
This project has been made
possible by the National
Endowment for the Arts as
part of “American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of
Artistic Genius.”
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