Allegorical Penumbras
Movement Creation: Kate Monson, The Dancers, Pat Debenham, Nick Fife, and Braden Swanson
Movement Direction: Kate Monson
Dancers: Abby Andrus, Gigi Arrington, Kevin Giddons, Hannah Hardy, Julia Izu, Thomas Jenson, Amy Markgraf, Rick Robinson, Caler Tregeagle, and Baylee Van Patten
Music: “The Weight,” The Band; “Kangaroo,” Albert Mathias; “A Girl Like You,” Edwyn Collins
This has been a long and shifting process due to COVID-19 and other considerations I want to thank my cast for sticking through it and thank dancers who were in the original cast but not appearing in this cast: Pat Debenham, Nick Fife, and Braden Swanson for the important contributions that helped form this piece and the joy that they brought to this process
One Verse
M Aerialist: Steven Bangeter
Developed by Steven Bangeter with Coaching from Adam Dyer
Music: “Henry V - Two pieces for strings: 2. Touch her soft lips and part. (1988 Remastered),” William Walton, Sir Neville Marriner, and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Group Groove . . . . . .
Choreography: Marc Cameron, AKA Big Chocolate
Dancers: Abagail Steele, Abigail Katherine Leigh Hawkes, Abigale Hunting, Ashley Rasmussen Wilson, Aubrey Cristine Mejia Clavines, Bryli Taylor, Camila Alejandra Challis, Easton Cox, Elena Torgersen, Karli Van Wagoner Scott, Katie Griffiths, Kinley Chae Hartman, Lauren Dunn, Lindy Ham, Lizzie Ciccarello, Matthew Miller, Michelle Matsumori, Morgan Wadsworth, Pyper Gill, Raylene Keliiliki, Zach Fitzpatrick
Music: “Paid in Full,” Eric B. & Rakim
This groovy hip-hop piece brings its audience through a journey of music and style—displaying the unity that dance can bring We come together to groove as we find our community
AND
Choreography: Liz Dibble
Dancers: Kylee Jackman, Madeline Jennejohn, McKensie Peterson, Skylar Schmidt, Cassidy Schroyer, Emma Seegmiller, Kara Williams, Annelise Woolley, Liesel Wynn
Music: “Wonderful Life,” Katie Melua; “Lo Levad” and “Sunrise,” Hofesh Shechter & Cédric Klapisch
REM Laja Field of LajaMartin in collaboration with the BYU CDT cast of 2021–2022
Thursday and Saturday Evening: Abby Andrus, Clarisse Austin, Steven Bangerter, Savannah Brimhall, Dominique Cordon, Emerson Earnshaw, Maddy Jamison, Hannah Hardy, Jewel Hatch-Killpack, Megan Haymore, Thomas Jenson, Meg Nielsen, Mariah Sainsbury, Cassidy Schroyer, Bailey Smith, Tessa Stokes
Friday Evening and Saturday Matinee: Audrey Allen, Kyla Balser, Steven Bangerter, Makinley Butterfield, Dominique Cordon, Emerson Earnshaw, Maddy Jamison, Mia Felton, Jewel Hatch-Killpack, Lyric Ikeamu, Julia Izu, Thomas Jenson, Alyssa Liljenquist, Eleanor Ruegner, Mariah Sainsbury, Baylee Van Patten
Music: Original composition by Martin Durov with music excerpts from Trio Z Chotára, Trávnica Z Terchovej; “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” Tears for Fears; “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Queen; “Dreams,” Fleetwood Mac; movie excerpts from: All About Eve, Killing Them Softly, and Wizard of Oz
— INTERMISSION —
Sound System (2022)
Movement Director: Angela Rosales Challis
Dancers: Abagail Steele, Abigail Katherine Leigh Hawkes, Abigale Hunting, Ashley Rasmussen
Wilson, Aubrey Cristine Mejia Clavines, Bryli Taylor, Camila Alejandra Challis, Easton Cox, Elena Torgersen, Karli Van Wagoner Scott, Katie Griffiths, Kinley Chae Hartman, Lauren Dunn, Lindy Ham, Lizzie Ciccarello, Matthew Miller, Michelle Matsumori, Morgan Wadsworth, Pyper Gill, Raylene Keliiliki, Zach Fitzpatrick
Music: Nate Anderson
A collaboration with Trash Pandas, directed by Nate Anderson and Wachira Waigwa-Stone, and dancers from Kinnect 2022 Re-staged with Kinnect dancers 2023 Dancers join together to amplify their experiences, amplify their voices, and amplify their passion We watch and listen as we orchestrate our message When we connect we are a powerful system
My Body, My Temple
Choreography: Baylee Van Patten, in collaboration with Veena Bajavarajaiah
Dancer: Baylee Van Patten
Music: Dhobi Ghat, by Gustavo Santaolalla
This solo was choreographed in fall 2022, as part of a larger collaborative project between BYU dance majors and dance artists of other faiths During their 10-hour virtual collaboration, Baylee and Veena explored the shared metaphor of “body as temple” within Latter-day Saint and Hindu Lingayat traditions
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Drakōn Kyría
Choreography: Sarah Olmstead
Dancers: Emma Seegmiller, Sarah Olmstead, Evie Spotts, Cassidy Shroyer
Music: Gnossienne No. 4 “Lent,” Erik Satie; “Second Seance Pt. 3,” Colin Stetson; “Stranded” and “Ripples in the Sand,” Hans Zimmer; “Darkest Cavern,” unknown
Monsters reveal more about humans than one might think myths have long helped societies define cultural boundaries and answer the age-old question: What counts as human, and what counts as monstrous The Myth of Medusa is particularly enthralling as it reveals the particular way that female beauty is perceived to be both enchanting, yet dangerous or even fatal
Buscar
Choreography: Emily Hart and Dancers
Dancers: Savannah Brimhall, Makinley Butterfield, Athena Davis, Callie Rae Floyd, Jordan Gulledge, Thomas Jenson, Ashley Simmons, Aubree Sorenson, Jaime Thompson, Baylee Van Patten
Music: “Nuvole Bianche,” by Ludovico Einaudi, played by Devin Eastmon
“Happiness can be found in the darkest of times If one only remembers to turn on the light”- Albus Dumbledore Where can light be found? Sometimes we don’t open our eyes to see that light However, it is ever important to recognize that we can find light through others, in ourselves, or from the Ultimate Giver Light will always cast out the darkness
Genesis (2005)
Choreography: Marin Leggat Roper
Dancers: Hiedi Blackwelder (2002), Heather Spencer Dance (2006), Athena Davis (2022), Kelby Ellis (2005), Lori French (2007), Rick George (2003), Sarah Godfrey (2006), Tera Hastings Carlson (2006), Brittney Hester (2005), Michael D. Hoover (2002), Jessica Lewis (1999), Megen Lee Pectol (2000), Ginger Snow (2000), Julie Stoddard (2011), Susan Sudol (1987), Emma Mace (2022), Emalia Tillotson (2005), Lauren Wadsworth (2010), Adrienne Whitworth (2019), Tori Williams (2022)
Music: ”Japura River,” Philip Glass
Director Kate Monson
Production Manager Benjamin Sanders
Technical Director John Shurtleff
Lighting Design Benjamin Sanders
Stage Manager Crysta May Lamb
Sound Designer Troy Sales
Technical Support Troy Streeter, Mark Ohran, Kevin Anthony, & Jared Patching
College of Fine Arts and Communications: Dean Ed Adams
Department of Dance: Chair Curt Holman
Associate Chair Shayla Bott
Associate Chair Kori Wakamatsu
Full-Time Contemporary Area Faculty: Nathan Balser, Angela Rosales Challis, Liz Dibble, Adam Dyer, Keely Song Glenn, Karen Jensen, Kate Monson, Marin Roper, Kori Wakamatsu
Contemporary Dance Area Donors: Thank you so much for your support of our work! It means so much to us
Nathan and Suzie Balser, Janice M. Burton, William and Trilby Cope, Cynthia and Wayne Galbrait, Kevin Giddins and Lita Little-Giddins, Denae and Loren Lambert, David and MaryAnn Kirk, Dena Merrill, Quin and Kate Monson, Scott and Rhonda Rooker, Keely Song, Kori Wakamatsu
CONTEMPORARY AREA DANCE SCHOLARSHIPS AND RECIPIENTS FOR 2022-2023
ALGIE BALLIF CHOREOGRAPHY SCHOLARSHIP
This award honors Algie Ballif, an early member of the dance faculty at BYU, and grandmother of Gigi Ballif Arrington, also a former faculty member in the Contemporary Area The award acknowledges the choreographic contributions made by the recipient
Recipient: Spencer Waddell
CHERILL LIPTAK SCHOLARSHIP
Cherill Liptak was a lover of dance She and her husband donated a substantial sum of money to the Department of Dance that, in addition to other important ways, blesses two contemporary dancers each year
Recipient: Audrey Allen and Tessa Stokes
SUSAN NEWTON PARSONS SCHOLARSHIP
Endowed by Francis Joseph and Eileen Smythe Parsons in 1979, this award recognizes excellence in Contemporary/Modern Dance performance Susan Newton Parsons, mother of the donor and grandmother of Kathie Parsons Debenham, a graduate of the Dance Department and former faculty member, was a life long seeker of light and truth Her life was guided by the following words: Know Thyself–Socrates, Control Thyself–Cicero, Give Thyself–Jesus Christ
Recipient: Jewel Hatch-Killpack
DEE R WINTERTON SCHOLARSHIP
“To dance is to appreciate and to celebrate one of the most basic and perhaps most personal gifts of God to Man—The physical body Man’s basic need to experience the creative process is fulfilled in direct and personal ways when the body is used as the means of expression ” —Dee R Winterton
Dee Winterton was a founding faculty member of the Department of Dance whose larger than life persona pervaded the halls of the RB His clear philosophies and ideas about what BYU dance might be continue to shape who we have become The Dee R Winterton Spirit of Dance scholarship is given in acknowledgement of one who manifests the best in dance and life through sharing gifts of the spirit as exemplified by Dee Because Dee was a prolific journal writer, the award also includes a blank journal
Recipients: Dominique Cordon and Cleo Ong
CONTEMPORARY AREA DANCE SCHOLARSHIPS AND RECIPIENTS FOR 2022-2023
CATHY BLACK SCHOLARSHIP
From teaching tap dance in her basement as a teenager in Edmonton, Canada, to her retirement after more than 40 years at Brigham Young University, Cathy Black has dedicated her life to the education and development of thousands of young artists from around the world Cathy has always loved her students, and has had a keen interest in helping them succeed, both in dance and in life as a whole While she taught many courses in dance history, music theater, choreography, and modern dance, it was her open door policy which nurtured and inspired her students Her heart was caring and generous, and her mind and energy were driven to lead her students to success
Recipient: Kyla Balser
SARA LEE GIBB DANCE
EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP
“Talents are gifts of the spirit and are divinely given As seekers of meaning in dance, we discover the beauties and mysteries of the earth, as well as eternal truth The art of movement celebrates the unspoken language of the soul ” —Sara Lee Gibb
The Sara Lee Gibb Endowment Fund was established for the purpose of assisting outstanding dance education students in their pursuit of excellence as teachers It honors the service and contributions made to the Department of Dance by Sara Lee Gibb, who founded and shaped the Dance Education degree program Sara Lee served as Department Chair, Associate Dean, and Dean of the College of Health and Human Performance She championed dance at every administrative level, yet she always maintained a love for her role as a teacher in the dance classroom This scholarship is awarded to a dance education major who shows promise as a dance educator while embodying integrity and gospel values Such are the qualities of the dancer and teacher after whom this award is named
Recipient: Lyric Ikeomu
MABEL SMITH HANKS DANCE EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP
“The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart solely her own opinions, but to motivate minds and thereby become eternal in the lives of her students, could anyone wish a greater reward?” —Mabel
Smith HanksThis award is given annually to enable those who best exemplify this philosophy to complete certification for entering the teaching profession
Recipient: Alyssa Lilenquist