Madison Ballet-Midsummer Nights Dream

W. Earle Smith, Artistic Director

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Artistic Director The Ballet’s History Cast of Characters Faculty & Staff Board of Directors A Tradition of Support Great Performance Fund

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream W. Earle Smith, Artistic Director

Overture Center for the Arts • March 19-20, 2011 Music Choreography Set Design Costume Design Lighting Design

Felix Mendelssohn Peter Anastos Steve Rubin Claudia Lynch Kenneth Ferencek

Company Madelaine Boyce Jacob Brooks Rachelle Butler Joseph Copley Anna Counts Bryan Cunningham Genevieve Custer Weeks Katy Fredrick

Megan Horton Juliana Lehman Marguerite Luksik Katrina Oeffling Philip Ollenburg James Stevko Yu Suzuki Jennifer Tierney Gabriel Williams

Music provided courtesey of Polygram Records and Sony Group Music edits provided by Paradyme Productions A Midsummer Night’s Dream was permanantly added to Madison Ballet’s Repetoire in 2002 through the generous support of Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation, Madison Community Foundation, Madison Civic Center Foundation, and Dane County Cultural Arts Commisssion.

Stage labor is represented by: International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Local 251 in Madison, WI The use of cameras or recording equipment of any kind is strictly forbidden.

Cover image courtsey of Andrew Weeks Photography.

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Artistic Director MADISON BALLET

W. Earle Smith, Artistic Director W. Earle Smith has over 25 years of professional experience choreographing, teaching and performing. This is Mr. Smith’s twelfth season with Madison Ballet as Artistic Director. As a dancer, D Magazine called Mr. Smith “meticulously chosen and prepared … who knows Balanchine.” The Wisconsin State Journal hails his choreography as “imaginative and … rhythmically smooth and lively,” with The Capital Times saying Artistic Director W. Earle Smith “more than delivered on every level.”

Some of Mr. Smith’s principal and soloist credits with Texas Ballet Theater (formerly known as Fort Worth Dallas Ballet) include Balanchine’s Western Symphony, Four Temperaments and Who Cares, and Meija’s Sonata, Eight by Adler, Sarasate, Seasons, The Nutcracker and Cinderella.

Favorite corps de ballet roles at Pacific Northwest Ballet and Fort Worth Ballet include Stowell’s Ravena, The Nutcracker (with sets and costumes designed by Maurice Sendak), Balanchine’s Stars and Stripes, Rubies, Western Symphony, Prodigal Son, Brahms Schoenberg, Agon, Concerto Barocco, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, Square Dance and Scotch Symphony, and Meija’s Brahm’s Waltzes, Les Noches, Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet.

Mr. Smith’s preparation for his role as Artistic Director goes beyond the traditional. He worked as a program counselor for inner-city youth in New York City, as a financial and buiness analyst, and as director of special projects for a national membership association.

Currently, Mr. Smith’s passion is passing on his knowledge and art through teaching and choreographing in the performing arts. He has taught workshops, conferences and master classes in the Balanchine technique and style both nationally and internationally, including guest teaching at Ballet Arizona, Ballet Pacifica and Ballet Chicago. Mr. Smith’s choreography credits in New York, New Orleans, Hawaii, Seattle, Texas and Madison include Cinderella, The Nutcracker, Night Dances, Le Luce d’ Amore, and Four Movements.

Mr. Smith has long believed that collaborating with other performing arts organizations not only expands his own personal artistic growth, but strengthens the performing arts community as a whole. His work as choreographer in Children’s Theater of Madison’s Hello Dolly, Madison Symphony Orchestra’s Viennese Ball and Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra’s Halloween Concert demonstrates this commitment to collaboration.

W. Earle Smith’s passion is sharing his love for ballet with young people. An important part of his artistic vision is to develop and expand education and outreach programs, making ballet affordable and accessible to all.

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The Ballet’s History MADISON BALLET

by Peter Anastos, Choreographer William Shakespeare’s play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream , was written around 1595 and, according to legend, performed at the wedding of an English nobleman. The title refers to a popular celebration called ‘midsummer night’, the night before June 24, the feast of St. John the Baptist. It is a night connected with merrymaking, dances, pageants, folk customs, and superstitions.

More than any other night of the year, ‘midsummer night’ suggests enchantment and witchcraft and brought forth in the people of the 16th century England an already strong belief in magical powers, the spirit world, fairies, hobgoblins, witches, and the like.

To an Elizabethan audience the play immediately called up a state of mind known as ‘midsummer madness’ – a condition brought on by the heat of the day in which one has a heightened readiness for delusions and tricks of the imagination.

Shakespeare conceived a real and an unreal world and skillfully wove them together in a fantastic play of light and dark, substances and shadow. His elements consist of a faraway kingdom where an Athenian Duke marries the Queen of the Amazons; a comedy of errors involving two sets of lovers – Helena and Demetrius, and Hermia and Lysander – who fall victims to ‘midsummer madness’; an invisible fairy domain ruled by such willful and capricious creatures as Oberon and Titania, with the mischievous Puck casting spells on the innocents; and lowly village bumpkins who fall prey to magic powers beyond their reckoning.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is actually not so much a play as a dramatic series of dream images, containing all the contradictions and inconsistencies of the unrealistic world of imagination. ,/- -OSAIC "ALLET !D PDF 0-

Felix Mendelssohn wrote his “Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream� in 1826 when he was seventeen years old. It is a masterpiece of enchantment and imagery and perfectly captures Shakespeare’s delicate fantasy. In 1843 Mendelssohn was commissioned by Kaiser Frederick Wilhelm of Prussia to prepare some incidental music for a production of the play to open the Royal Theatre in Potsdam. To his already famous overture he added thirteen new numbers, and this comprises a suite loosely based on the action of the play.

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Cast of Charactors MADISON BALLET

Hippolyta................................Jennifer Tierney Theseus...................................Gabriel Williams Titania.....................................Genevieve Custer Weeks Oberon....................................Joseph Copley Puck.........................................Marguerite Luksik Hermia....................................Rachelle Butler Lysander..................................Bryan Cunningham Helena.....................................Yu Suzuki Demetrius...............................Phillip Ollenburg The Changeling Child........Zoe Tedesco Bottom....................................Zachary Guthier* Quince.....................................James Stevko

Titania’s Fairies

Madelaine Boyce Anna Counts Katy Fredrick Megan Horton Juliana Lehman Katrina Oeffling Members of the Royal Court

Madelaine Boyce Jacob Brooks Katy Fredrick Megan Horton Katrina Oeffling James Stevko Oberon’s Fairies** Natalie Asmus, Lara Banks, Claire Bolton, Lily Edgar, Campbell Hackbart, Shiori Horton, Kathy Krantz, Maurissa Powell, Sofia Pricer, Mary Elizabeth Raasch, Alyson Rutherford, Sophie Stalker-Herron, Ruby Sutherlin Sovern, Marcella Van Kan, Karen Walker, Diana Walker

*Zachary Guthier perfoming courtesey of School of Madison Ballet. ** Oberon’s Fairies courtesey of area dance schools whose involvement and support of Madison Ballet is greatly appreciated.

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Faculty & Staff MADISON BALLET

Staff W. Earle Smith Artistic Director

Amy Guthier

Director of Development

Gretchen Bourg

Education & Outreach Coordinator, School Registrar

Robin Baldah Office Manager

Faculty Kelle Adams Clarissa Booth Gretchen Bourg Madelaine Boyce Alissa Bratz

Faculty cont.

Rachelle Butler Bryan Cunningham Maelanie Kuzma Marguerite Luksik Katrina Oeffling Emily Plotkin

Production Staff Kenneth Ferencek

Music Staff Marina Hegge Principal Bernie Brink Patrick Christians Stacy Fehr-Regehr Carol D Hummel April Kang Hikari Maekawa Claire Mallory Mike Massey Jeff Stanek

Karen BrownLarimore

Lighting Designer

Neen Rock

Production Stage Mgr.

John Elliot

Technical Director

Costumer

Jen Trieloff

Property Master

Dan Klarer

Assistant Stage Mgr.

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A Tradition of Support MADISON BALLET

We are proud to acknowledge the wonderful generosity of the individuals, corporations, foundations and government agencies who support Madison Ballet. Every gift plays an important part in allowing Madison Ballet to continue offering exciting performances and excellent educational and outreach activities. We gratefully recognize the gifts received to our Annual Fund between September 1, 2008 and November 15, 2009.

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Great Performance Fund MADISON BALLET

Great Performance Campaign Diane Ballweg, Honorary Chair The following donors have made generous gifts to Madison Ballet’s endowment through the Great Performance Campaign to be held in a fund at the Madison Community Foundation. The Great Performance Campaign was established with a $23 million challenge grant from the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation to build endowments for nine Madison arts organizations. For more information, contact Amy Guthier, Director of Development, at 608-278-7990, ext. 224.

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