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July 30, 2016
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N e o s D a n c e T h e at r e Company Artistic Director, Robert Wesner Co-Founder, Brooke Wesner Lighting Designer, Dennis Dugan Stage Manager, Christopher J. K. Ha Special Effects, Andy Gardner Resident Choreographer, Mary-Elizabeth Fenn Graphic Design and Marketing volunteer, Kathy Hilton
Dancers: Mary-Elizabeth Fenn, Juliana Freude, Brianna Habel, Kassandra Lee, Ethan Michael Lee, Brian Murphy, Matthew Roberts, Anna Trumbo, Robert Wesner, Brooke Wesner Apprentices: Rebekah Grey, Katherine Tackett Guest Artist, Kasha Hilton
Board of Directors: Edward Reading, Cyndee Snider, Kara Stewart, Shauna Conzaman, Jody Thomae, Laurie Fike, Daniel Budke, Brooke Wesner, Robert Wesner, Neil Sapienza, Judith Shoaff-Reading
Advisory Board: Glenn Edgerton, Sylvia McNair, Cynthia Newland, Jane Startzman, Michael Uthoff Ballet @ the Brickyard VIP tent: Participants: Kelly Knowlton, Singer; Moveable Feast, Caterer; Cypress Hill And Phoenix Brewery - Local Beverages Sponsors: Shellie Gorman, Jody and Dale Thomae, M i s s i o n S tat e m e n t Neos Dance Theatre’s mission is to advance dance related education by student training, intensive summer study, and master classes; raise awareness of the dance arts; culturally enrich Northern Ohio through performance of high quality dance by obtaining and presenting the widest range of repertoire possible.
N e o s D a n c e T h e at r e Special Thanks to: Diana Hostettler, Chris and Laurie Fike, Richard and Helen Wesner, Mike and Natalie Goshinski, Jody and Dale Thomae, Mr. and Mrs. Gray, Mr. and Mrs. Edmonds, Downtown Mansfield Inc., Kathy Hilton, Summit Therapy and Performance Center, Drs. Heringhaus General Dentistry, Lydy Chiropractic, Cypress Hill Winery, Engwiller Properties, Brian Gladden, Raemelton Therapeutic and Equestrian Center, Judith and Loyal Bemiller, Jeanie and Bruce Haapalainen, Liberty Wells Combs, Tara Corrigan, Sarah Horrigan-Ramos and Marden Ramos, Richland Academy of the Arts Dance Department, Lori Thompson, The fabulous Neos Dance Theatre Board of Directors, Rick Kleschinski, Jane Startzman, Akron’s Civic Theatre, Renaissance Theatre, The Mansfield Memorial Museum, Sylvia McNair and Kevin Cole, Cody Nicolas, Kelly Knowlton, Athens Greek Restaurant, Lynd Media, Neil Sapienza, Dale Dong, Bryce Millikin, Kara Stewart, Richland Source and Jay Allred, For company Ballet Class: Juliana Freude, Brian Murphy, Kara Stewart, Shawna Conzaman, Christina Foisie, Brooke and Bobby Wesner
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Performance Season 20 1 6 -1 7 S ea s o n S p o n s o r
Oberlin Dance Festival, June 24, Tappan Square, Oberlin, OH Oberlin Dance Intensive @ Oberlin College Heinz Poll Summer Dance Festival, July 22 and 23, Firestone Park, Akron, OH Ballet @ the Brickyard, July 30, @ the Brickyard, Mansfield, OH Featuring Sylvia McNair and other local artists Masque of the Red Death, Guest Appearance - Oct. 29, Akron’s Civic Theatre, Symbiosis, November 12, Akron OH, Akron Art Museum, funded in part by National Endowment for the Arts A 1940’s Nutcracker December 9 and 10, Mansfield, OH With Mansfield Symphony Orchestra through a gift by The Richland County Foundation December 16 and 17, Findlay, OH First Night Akron ~ December 31, Akron, OH Cleveland Pops concert, January 21, Severance Hall, Cleveland, OH Akron Symphony Orchestra, March 17, E.J. Thomas Hall, Akron, OH Oberlin Dance Company: Guest Appearance, April 28 and 29, Oberlin, OH February – April, ongoing residency at Oberlin College World Premiere of Holly Handman-Lopez work for Neos Dance Theatre Boots and Ballet, A Night at the Races, May 6, Raemelton Therapeutic Equestrian Center, Mansfield, OH online @ neosdancetheatre.org
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Evening Preshow Cody Michael Nicolas, Singer Richland Academy of the Arts Dance Department Hands of Time Music: Tick Tock from A Singleman soundtrack by Abel Korzeniowski Choreographer: Marden Ramos Dancers: Lauren Beard & Jillian Cordial Waltz of a Scarecrow (excerpt) Music: Olafur Arnalds Choreographer: Marden Ramos Dancer: Lauren Beard Tied Down Music: Olafur Arnalds Choreographer: Marden Ramos Dancers: Lauren Beard, Jillian Cordial, Kylee Dettmer, Maria Gallo, Star Henthorn, Rhapsody Howell, Olivia Kouns, Lilianna Kunkel, Schuyler Kunkel
Karelia Suite Choreography, Bobby Wesner Music, Sibelius Costumes, Wesner Lighting Design, Dennis Dugan Dancers: Mary-Elizabeth Fenn, Juliana Freude, Rebekah Grey, Brianna Habel, Kassandra Lee, Ethan Michael Lee, Brian Murphy, Matthew Roberts, Katherine Tackett, Anna Trumbo, Brooke Wesner This work will be performed with the Akron Symphony Orchestra on March 17th, 2017 at E.J. Thomas Hall.
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In the Grace of Whit Choreography, Stephanie Martinez Assistant choreographer, Hanna Elizabeth Brictson Music, varied artists Costumes, Irene Lighting Design, Dennis Dugan Dancers: Mary-Elizabeth Fenn, Juliana Freude, Rebekah Grey, Brianna Habel, Kasha Hilton, Kassandra Lee, Ethan Michael Lee, Brian Murphy, Matthew Roberts, Katherine Tackett, Bobby Wesner, Brooke Wesner Music notes: In the Grace of Whit, of Tongue, and Face artist: Ralph Fiennes & Theatre of Early Musiccomposer: Walter Raleigh; Improv #10 - One Last Thought artist: The Daydream Club composer: Pickering & Walker; Tokka artist/composer: Agnes Obel; Step Right Up artist/composer: Tom Waits; Chick A Boom (Hidden Track) artist: Tom Waits composer: Tom Waits & Kathleen Brennan; Music for Pieces of Wood artist: Pierre-Laurent Aimard composer: Steve Reich This work is made possible by the generous support of The University of Akron’s School of Dance, Theatre and Arts Administration and the Dance Institute.
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Sylvia McNair Two-time Grammy Award winner and regional Emmy Award winner Sylvia McNair’s three-decade career has spanned the musical realms of opera, oratorio, cabaret, and musical theater. Her journey has taken her from the Metropolitan Opera to the Salzburg Festival, from the New York Philharmonic to the Rainbow Room, from the pages of The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal to the London Times and the cover of Cabaret Scenes. A soloist multiple times with nearly every major opera company and symphony orchestra in the world, this songbird has flown the classical coop, finding new sides to the work of Gershwin, Porter, Bernstein, and Sondheim. This flight has included numerous pops appearances with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, and the Pittsburgh Symphony, among others. A review of her performance with Marvin Hamlisch and the Milwaukee Symphony enthused: “… she is that rare opera type who really gets the popular song. She reined in the vibrato and played to the microphone perfectly. Her matchless enunciation not only delivered the words and their sentiments, but also helped to etch the rhythms. Her wonderfully pure ‘Summertime,’ purged of all diva carrying-on, is among the best I’ve ever heard.” (Third Coast Digest) Sylvia’s most striking performance invitations include singing the Bach B-minor Mass with the Vienna Philharmonic for Pope John Paul II at The Vatican (2000) and a recital for the U.S. Supreme Court by special request of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor (1998), and two performances with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Her engagements of the past decade reflect her passionate new direction: ten seasons at the Ravinia Festival performing with Broadway legends John Raitt, George Hearn and Brian Stokes Mitchell; a three-season national tour of Gershwin’s ‘Here To Stay’ with pianist Kevin Cole and many of the country’s top orchestras; musical theater productions of ‘Most Happy Fella’ (Ravinia 2007), ‘Camelot’ (Ravinia 2009), ‘A Little Night Music’ (Indiana Repertory Theater 2013) and performances of her one-woman show ‘Subject To Change!’ from New York to San Diego and Chicago to Palm Beach. After her opening at the famed Oak Room of the Algonquin, critic Rex Reed swooned, “I could get used to this kind of ecstasy.” In 2016, Sylvia’s newest recording, Subject to Change!, a cabaret show about her life in music, recorded at the Aspen Festival, will be released. This release is the latest in a discography of more than 70 recordings ranging from Mozart arias with Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St.-Martin-in-the-Fields, to the music of Jerome Kern and Harold Arlen with pianist Andre Previn. In 2011, Sylvia released a Christmas CD, Peace, which sold out its first run in a matter of weeks. In 2012, Romance, a disc of Latin jazz standards was released to a rave review from Fanfare Magazine’s Lynn Rene Bayley: “… here the record is, and it’s fabulous. In fact, it’s the biggest surprise of its kind I’ve encountered since Diana Ross’s live album of Billie Holiday standards.” A proud Buckeye from Mansfield, Ohio, Sylvia earned a Masters degree with Distinction from the Indiana University School of Music. She received honorary doctorates from Westminster College (1997) and Indiana University (1998), the Ohio Governor’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in Arts and Entertainment (1999), the Indiana Governor’s Arts Award (2011).
About Neos Company History With a new office home at The University of Akron and a highly valued performance and education presence throughout Northeast Ohio — especially in Cuyahoga, Hancock, Lorain, Richland and Summit counties — Neos has gained a reputation for artistic excellence, adventurous programming, and passionate community collaborations. Energized by classical and contemporary choreography, Neos has showcased works by Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s resident choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo, Heinz Poll, George Balanchine, and Penny Saunders. Neos director and Co-Founder Bobby Wesner has choreographed four evening-length ballets for Neos Dance Theatre and produced an additional ballet by resident choreographer MaryElizabeth Fenn. Sought-after as a performer and partner, Neos has and/or is collaborating with the Akron Art Museum (November 2016), Akron Symphony (March 2017), City of Akron’s Heinz Poll Summer Dance Festival, Akron Civic Theatre, Ashland’s Guy C. Meyers Bandshell, Ashland Regional Ballet, Ashland Symphony, Ashland University, Belhaven University in Mississippi, Cain Park, Cleveland’s Playhouse Square, Cleveland Pops Orchestra, Dance Institute and Dance Program at The University of Akron, Dancing Wheels, Downtown Akron Partnership, Findlay Academy of Ballet, Lakeside Chautauqua, Mansfield Symphony, Oberlin College, The Ohio State University, Verb Ballets, and many more. And, reaching beyond Northeast Ohio, Neos has toured to 10 states, including Georgia where it performed along the coast this past season.
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About Neos Company History con’t In April 2014, for example, Neos joined forces with The University of Akron’s Dance Institute, Dance Program, and E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall for a new full-length ballet titled Snow White and the Magic Mirror, A Grimm Tale. This December, Neos presents A 1940s Nutcracker in both Mansfield, at the Renaissance Theatre featuring the Mansfield Symphony Orchestra, and Findlay at the Marathon Performing Arts Center. In March 2016, Neos received a significant and highly competitive arts challenge grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. With Knight’s support, Neos’ dance.r.evolution will expand and engage audiences, by bringing together its classically trained choreographers with local urban dancers, graffiti artists and urban/pop musicians to learn from each other. After a yearlong creative process, the group will blend their different styles to produce a performance throughout the Akron community.
C o m pa n y B i o g r a p h i e s BOBBY WESNER, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, his career as a professional dancer with Ballet Arizona, under the direction of Michael Uthoff (now Ib Anderson). During his stay in Phoenix, he had the honor of working with American Classics such as Fredrick Franklin, Daniel Ezralow, Moses Pendelton of Momix, the Artistic Directors of Pilobolus, Kevin O'Day, Jowali Willa Jo Zolar of Urban Bush Woman, and his wife Brooke Wesner. Other great masterpieces that Wesner has performed are the "Profiteer" in The Green Table by Kurt Josse; "Iago" in The Moore's Pavone by Jose Limon; "Tico" in Company B by Paul Taylor, (also in Taylor's Esplanade); three works of Anthony Tudor: Lilac Garden, Leaves are Fading and Continuo; and The Jester in Earnst Uthoff's Carmina Burana. Independently, Wesner has traveled and performed with various companies all over the northeast region of the US and in Italy. As Director and Co-Founder Bobby has choreographed four evening length ballets for Neos Dance Theatre and produced an additional ballet by resident choreographer Mary-Elizabeth Fenn. Neos also performs many of Wesner’s repertory works including Spinning Plates, Various Principals, Norm and Cleo, and more. Bobby and Brooke live in Ashland, Ohio where they raise their four beautiful daughters, Genevieve, Ella, Mekah, and Arowyn. BROOKE WESNER, CO-FOUNDER, started dance at age five under Hellie Schussler for her pre-professional training. Her presence on stage has been said to offer "lyrical melodrama" and "a most prominent...elegance"(The Arizona Republic and the Arizona Daily Star). After studying with master teachers such as Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, Patricia McBride, and Basil Thompson, Brooke started her professional career with the Milwaukee Ballet. With Ballet Arizona she performed the "Snow Queen" and "Arabian" in Ib Anderson's Nutcracker, "Dark Angel" in Balanchine's Serenade, Paul Taylor's Company B; and "Desdemona" in Jose Limon's The Moore's Pavon. Brooke also performed as a soloist in Giselle; the Greentable by Kurt Josse; Lady Lost Found by Danny Ezralow; the original "Bird" in Moses Pendelton's Opus Cactus; HELLBLONDEGROOVE by Kevin O'Day; a "Saloon Girl" in Billy the Kid (while six months pregnant); and Apollo, The Four Temperaments, Agon, Rubies, and Serenade by George Balanchine. She performed with Momix in an international tour where she danced for the President of Italy and shared the stage with James Taylor. Brooke has appeared many times with the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra as a guest artist and with the Arizona Opera in Aida. Her performance quality and technical stamina has intensified now that she is a mother of four. Brooke is the co-founder of Neos Dance Theatre with her husband, Bobby, and they are the parents of four beautiful daughters, Genevieve, Ella, Mekah, and Arowyn. JULIANA FREUDE is a native of Akron, Ohio and trained for twelve years at The University of Akron Dance Institute where she performed as the soloist in The Snow Maiden and received the Gena Carroll Scholarship. Juliana has appeared with The University of Akron Repertory Dance Company in many roles including a soloist in Onda 9 by Ana Lobe, and Letting Go by Travis Gallin. Juliana performed with Nashville Ballet as a trainee in the Nutcracker and was also an apprentice with the Charleston Ballet Theatre. While dancing with the Charleston Ballet she has performed original works such as Rite of Spring, Sleeping Beauty, and Great Gatsby choreographed by Jill Eathorne Bahr. She has worked with Ohio Dance Theatre performing in ballets such as Swan Lake, Fairy Forest, and has danced with Dancing Wheels performing the leading role of Helen Keller, A Tribute to her Teacher choreographed by Christopher Fleming, and Alice in Wonderland by Bobby Wesner. MARY- ELIZABETH FENN, RESIDENT CHOREOGRAPHER, a Wisconsin native trained at Milwaukee Ballet School, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Joffrey Ballet School-NYC, BalletMet, and Point Park University. She has also attended summer programs at Dance New Amsterdam, Juilliard, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and recently attended Northwest Dance Project’s LAUNCH intensive. She was a featured soloist in the DVD live performance of “Unwigged and Unplugged” with Spinal Tap. Mary-Elizabeth has been teaching and choreographing for various studios in Wisconsin for the past five years. She graduated in December 2010 with honors and a BFA in dance from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She also had the privilege to perform in works by Luc Vanier, Alwin Nikolais, Simone Ferro, Suniti Dernovsek, Janet Lilly, Garth Fagan, and Ed Burgess. Mary-Elizabeth has choreographed the full length Creole Cinderella and the repertoire piece Hello Mother for Neos Dance Theatre.
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REBEKAH GRAY began training with Ihda Rather Be Dancing and then in high school moved on to the Dance Institute with the University of Akron. While at the Dance Institute, Rebekah trained under Christina Foisie, Kara Stewart, Kay Eichman, and Frank Kosik. Along with her training at the Dance Institute, Rebekah attended Firestone High School under the direction of Kelly Berick. She has had the privilege of performing in various University Of Akron Dance Company pieces, Groundworks’ 2013 performance of the Rite of Spring, and Neos Dance Theatre’s performance of Snow White and the Magic Mirror: A Grimm Tale. Rebekah performed the lead role in the Dance Institute’s performance of the Snow Maiden and will stay on campus at the University of Akron to receive a BA in Dance and a minor in Business. BRIANNA HABEL is happy to be returning to her hometown. She began her training at Nan Klinger’s Excellence in Dance Studio. This led her to become a member of the Cuyahoga Valley Youth Ballet, now known as Ballet Excel Ohio. Following summer studies at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet and American Ballet Theater in New York City, Brianna earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ballet at the University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music. While earning her BFA, Brianna performed principle roles in Walpurgisnacht and Raymonda. During her senior year she was invited to the Cincinnati Ballet as a trainee where she danced for two seasons. She continued her career by spending two seasons with Nashville Ballet. Brianna was most recently dancing with the Nevada Ballet Theater, highlights there included a collaboration with Cirque du Soleil and two Balanchine performances, Serenade and Who Cares. Brianna is excited to be continuing her career with Neos Dance Theater. When not dancing, Brianna is an avid reader and enjoys spending time with her family and rediscovering the local scene. KASSANDRA LEE began her training at SODT under the instruction of Nancy Brenstuhl and Denise Gula. Kassandra spent many years as a pre-profeesional dancing alongside Ohio Dance Theatre in annual productions of the Nutcracker. She also performed in many story ballet’s including Snow White and Peter & the Wolf. Kassandra took her studies to New York City to the Joffery Jazz and Contemporary summer intensive. Since joining Neos Dance Theatre Kassandra has performed in Count…the Legend of Dracula, A 1940’s Nutcracker, and Illustrious Disillusion choreographed by Robert Wesner; works by resident choreographer Mary-Elizabeth Fenn are Nothing In Particular and Nowhere; and guest choreographers work Flight by Penny Saunders. ETHAN MICHAEL LEE is from Canton, Ohio, where he trained at the Canton Ballet for 10 years under the artistic direction of Cassandra Crowley. He also trained with Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Joffrey Ballet, and Chautauqua Institution in New York. Ethan has performed with the Canton Ballet dancing the roles of Sugar Plum Cavalier and Nutcracker Prince, among others. He has also appeared in performance with Erie Dance Conservatory, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s Nutcracker, Dance Takes Flight in Zanesville, and Wayne Center for the Arts’ Cinderella and The Nutcracker. He is currently on the faculty at A Time to Dance in North Canton as a ballet and contemporary teacher, and also as the artistic director of A Time to Dance Junior Company. This is Ethan’s third year with Neos Dance Theatre. BRIAN MURPHY, DANCER AND CHOREOGRAPHER, has been dancing professionally for 25 years with companies such as Nashville Ballet, Cleveland San Jose Ballet, Richmond Ballet, BalletMet, New Orleans Delta Ensemble, Verb Ballets, GroundWorks Dance Theatre, and Ohio Ballet. As a guest Brian has appeared in Neos Dance Theatre’s Romeo and Juliet as Mercutio, as well as various tours to Portland, Maine and Winston-Salem North Carolina. This is his first full season with Neos Dance Theatre and he is excited to perform a diverse range of classical and contemporary work and teach company classes. Brian will utilize the dancers of Neos Dance Theatre for upcoming independent educational programs and public performances. He and his wife Suzy Rauh Murphy operate Pilates by Murphys in Akron with many faithful clients.
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MATTHEW ROBERTS is an Ohioan who, at the age of 10, discovered he was bilingual and his real native language was dance. After studying at an Institute and University in Akron, he moved to New York looking to become more fluent and graduated from Marymount Manhattan College in 2013 with a BFA in Dance and concentration in Choreography. There he performed works by Lar Lubovitch, Robert Battle, Jessica Lang, Shen Wei and after graduating performed with Lustig Dance Theatre, Oakland Ballet Company and Awakening Movement. He loves creating dances of his own to share with others and hopes to have a company of his own one-day. This is his first season with Neos Dance Theatre. KATHERINE TACKETT was born in Akron, Ohio. She started dancing at the age of three at a small studio called Abbey Dance Center. When she was six she started to train at the Dance Institute at the University of Akron. There she studied under Ana Lobe, Christina Foise and Kay Eichman just to name a few. While at Dance Institute she performed at the Heinz Poll Summer Dance Festival for many years. She spent summers training at the Dance Institute and the School of American Ballet. Katherine went to the University of Cincinnati’s CollegeConservatory of Music where she graduated with her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ballet. During a summer intensive at Cincinnati Ballet at the age of 20 she was asked to join the company as a trainee. Katherine danced with the company in the Nutcracker and other various performances with the Cincinnati Ballet Second Company. This is Katherine’s first season with Neos. ANNA TRUMBO originally from Seattle, Washington, trained at Cornish Preparatory Dance and with Stephanie Saland before continuing her training at the Joffrey Ballet School in New York City. Her most noted performance while at Joffrey was as “Cowgirl” in Agnes De Mille’s “Rodeo,” of which The New York Times referenced her performance saying, it was “danced with verve, with [Anna] as an appealingly wistful Cowgirl...” Other performances during her study in New York included Septime Weber’s “D-Construction,” Kathryn Posin’s “San Cubano” and “Piano Concerto,” and Gerald Arpino’s “Viva Vivaldi,” and the pas de trois from “Italian Suite.” After receiving her BFA from the New School University, Anna moved to San Francisco to dance with the Oakland Ballet. During her time at Oakland Ballet she performed Ron Guidi’s “Nutcracker,” Robert Garland’s “Joplin Dances, “ Carlos Carvajal’s “Crystal Slipper,” and Michael Lowe’s “Double Happiness.” Anna moved to the area in order for her husband to study at Oberlin’s Conservatory of Music. KASHA HILTON began her dance training at The School of Ohio Dance Theatre in Oberlin, Ohio. She has attended summer intensive programs at Ohio Dance Theatre, American Ballet Theatre, and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. After graduating high school she joined Ohio Dance Theatre while pursuing her college education at Lorain County Community College. In the summer of 2014 she received her Associates of Arts degree and moved to Chicago to continue her professional dance training under scholarship with Claire Bataille at the Lou Conte Dance Studio. While in Chicago, Kasha has performed in Thodos Dance Chicago’s New Dances and Ruth Page Civic Ballet’s The Nutcracker, in roles as Snow and Marzipan. Kasha is very excited to have the opportunity to perform with Neos while being able to spend time with family this summer.
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