Hedwig Dances 30th Anniversary

MAY 15+16, 2015 7:30 PM ATHENAEUM THEATRE 2936 N. SOUTHPORT CHICAGO

Works by Founder/Artistic Director Jan Bartoszek and Company Member Edson Cabrera

H EDWIG DANCES’ 30 TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT

Artistic Staff Jan Bartoszek, Artistic Director/Choreographer/Founder Maray Gutierrez, Artistic Associate, Dancer Victor Alexander, Choreographer, Dancer Odbayar Batsuuri, Dancer Edson Cabrera, Choreographer, Dancer Sarah Carusona, Dancer Jessie Gutierrez, Dancer Molly Ross, Dancer Administrative Staff Rachel Molinaro, Production Associate Chris Frerichs, Development Consultant Vin Reed, Graphic Design Anna Singer, 30th Anniversary Logo and Micro-Site Designer Jill Chukerman, Public Relations Lauren Reed & Yujian (Jane) Deng, Interns Board Of Directors Kay Burnett, President Lisa Jenks, Treasurer Kathrene Wales, Director Daniel Weathersby, Director Jan Bartoszek, Artistic Director Jan Patterson, Emeritus Frank Fishella, Emeritus Sharon Eiseman, Emeritus Travel with Hedwig Dances through 30 moving years on our new microsite, a year-

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Hedwig Dances honors Maray Gutierrez and Victor Alexander Photo: Eileen Ryan

ASCENDance Photo: William Frederking

Program

BANGWEULU CHOREOGRAPHER DANCERS

MUSIC

Edson Cabrera in collaboration with the dancers Victor Alexander, Odbayar Batsuuri, Edson Cabrera, Sarah Carusona, Jessie Gutierrez, Maray Gutierrez, Molly Ross Eeinsturzende Neubauten

SOUND DESIGN

Aaron Quick

LIGHTING DESIGN

Maggie Dianovsky

COSTUME DESIGN

WORLD PREMIERE

Ken Bowen

Bangweulu, the site where the water and the sky meet, is a perfect realm to feel life at its deepest.

This is the law of the jungle. All, absolutely all creatures therein, have a way to show their strengths and their weaknesses. And all, without exception, are key players in the never-ending game of survival. Night and day become merged in an endless succession of approaches and retreats. Time has been and continues to be the unnoticed character. But no one can escape the attraction of such a compelling setting. Nature has been trying to play the outsider even when She knows for sure that She bore that apparently “freaky” environment.

And so it happens with lovers, friends and relatives in the other “jungle”. Conflicts pervade their relationships. Other kinds of crises arise. Some remain unsettled, some escalate and yet others have happy endings. But it is impossible to flee from this jungle. Events are unleashed in a random manner, but as each one ensues the other actors contemplate and wait for their turn to play their role. And the spectators, just like the mystic emela-ntuoka, keep peeping into these acts wondering whether they should intervene or just let things flow. After all, life is meant to be lived and efforts made so far to unravel its mysteries continue to be futile.

Bangweulu, el sitio donde se unen el agua y el cielo, es un terreno perfecto para sentir la vida en su forma mas profunda. Esta es la ley de la selva. Todas, absolutamente todas las criaturas ahí, tienen alguna manera de mostrar sus fortalezas y sus debilidades. Y todas, sin excepción, son factores claves en el infinito juego de la supervivencia. La noche y el dia se funden en una inacabada sucesión de encuentros y desencuentros. El tiempo ha sido y sigue siendo un actor inadvertido. Pero nadie puede escapar del encanto de un escenario tan lúgubre. La naturaleza ha estado tratando de manifestarse ajena aun a sabiendas de que fue ELLA quien dio a luz a ese medio tan aparentemente “raro”.

Y asi sucede con los amantes, los amigos y la familia en la otra “jungla”. Los conflictos permean sus relaciones. Aparecen otros tipos de crisis. Algunas quedan sin resolverse, otras se agravan y otras aun llegan a feliz desenlace. Pero se hace imposible salir de esta jungla. Los hechos se desatan de forma caotica pero mientras cada uno se desarrolla los demás contemplan y esperan por su turno para ejecutar su conflicto. Y los espectadores, lo mismo que el mitico emela-ntuoka siguen escudriñando estos actos preguntándose si debían intervenir o simplemente dejar que las cosas fluyan. Despues de todo la vida es para vivirla y los esfuerzos encaminados hasta ahora en aras de desentranar sus misterios siguen siendo inútiles.

-Edson Cabrera

15 minute intermission

CHOREOGRAPHER

ONE GRAND DANCE

Jan Bartoszek

Victor Alexander, Odbayar Batsuuri, Edson Cabrera, Sarah Carusona, Jessie Gutierrez, Maray Gutierrez, Molly Ross

SET CONSTRUCTION

Bryan Saner

DANCERS

COSTUME DESIGN

SOUND DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN

Program

Maggie Dianovsky Aaron Quick

Ken Bowen

One Grand Dance is both the title of Hedwig Dances’ 30th Anniversary Concert and the linking of five select dances from my early career. Within this collection, I have taken the liberty to reshape and restage excerpts from my original dances into a collage. In some cases I embellish thematic ideas and choreographic structures, rather than present a literal re-creation of the work. I have integrated a set of two moveable walls. The walls serve as a motif that links and frames the overall work.

Waltz #3 (1993) appeared in Hedwig Dances’ production of Dances of Innocence and Desire at The Dance Center of Columbia College as a commentary on social mores and courtship. Lynn Book wrote and performed the text accompanied by Dave Pavkovic’s original score. The text is based on nineteenth century advice manuals that outlined codes of conduct for courtship and social dancing.

Original Cast: Amy Alt, Frank Fishella, Laurie Kammin, Todd Michael Kiech, Rebecca Rossen, Sheldon B. Smith The I Depend on Tango delves into the curious entanglement between dependence and independence.

I choreographed this dance for a performance workshop at MoMing in a shared evening with choreographers Timothy O’Slynne and Bebe Miller.

Original Cast: Kate Bertrand, Shashi Caudill, Lydia Charaf, Bill Dietz, James Lacey, Bisola Marignay, Leslie Ross, Laura Seno, Shelley Wilson Soft Sculpture Dolls: Jean Parisi Music: Tango Habanera Text composed by: Jan Bartoszek with writing by Jan and original cast Text spoken by: Shelly Wilson and Bill Dietz Sweet Baby, Baby Suite (1993) Original Cast: Amy Alt, Ann Boyd, Laurie Kammin, Rebecca Rossen Set design: Jan Bartoszek Ache of the Arc (2002) is a dance about the confusion wrought by fear. I built the dance around a set of ladders and walls after the attacks of 9/11.

Original Cast: Mei-Kuang Chen, Matthew Hollis, Peter Sciscioli, Denise Zdenek Original Music by Chris J. Johnson Original lighting by Margaret Nelson In the original Polka (1983), dolls emerged from barrels, as the dance took on the seemingly incongruous domains of heaven and beer. Polkas were an important part of social gatherings such as weddings and church picnics in the Polish American community where I grew up. My earliest dance memory is of dancing the polka.

Original Cast: Jan Bartoszek, Katherine Mitchell, Kathleen Maltese, Carrie Stern Original Costumes and set design: Jan Bartoszek Music: Traditional Polka

Post-Show Talk Friday, May 15

Thanks

I thank my company of dancers: Artistic Associate Maray Gutierrez, Victor Alexander, Jessie Gutierrez, Edson Cabrera, Odbayar Batsuuri, Molly Ross, and Sarah Carusona for their extraordinary talent and commitment to the creation of this performance. The dancers contributed movement material as part of the creative process.

– J.B. Hedwig Dances would like to recognize the

SPECIAL THANKS to Jeffrey and Sophia Usow;

following people who have given generously

Hedwig Dances’ Production Associate Rachel

of their time and talent over the course

Molinaro; Jeff DeLong, Allan Chambers, Jerry

of Hedwig Dances’ 30 year history and

Kennedy and the staff at the Athenaeum

continue to support the company’s mission

Theatre; Ken Bowen; Vin Reed; Hedwig

and vision: All Company members past and

Dances’ Ensemble; Aaron Quick; Michael

present; Managers Ladonna Freidheim, Berryl

Stults and Lauren Girard of Bread & Roses,

Riley-Sawyers, Jane Siarny, Jacob Smith, Jay

Eileen Ryan Photography; Kathrene Wales;

Thompson; our Board Presidents Kay Burnett,

Vin Reed; Anna Singer and Masha Alexander;

Frank Fishella, Noel Hertz, Anne Larson,

Maggie Dianovsky; Nadia Oussenko; Bitter

Therese O’Shea, Jan Patterson, Andrew

Jester Creative; Roell Schmidt; Bryan Saner;

Schallmoser, Sharon Thacker; and, all Board

Margi Cole; Michelle Kranicke and Joseph

members past and present.

Ravens, Nadia Oussenko, Daniel Kullman and Nicholas DeGrazia of Bitter Jester Creative.

30 Years Hedwig Dances is delighted to present One Grand Dance, the company’s 30th Anniversary Concert, on the Athenaeum Theatre stage. Tonight’s performance serves as both a retrospective and a prelude—a look back in time as well as an anticipation of the future.

In this show, I present five formative works from my early career; debut a talented choreographer, company member Edson Cabrera; and, celebrate the significant contributions of Maray Gutierrez and Victor Alexander to Hedwig Dances.

As a choreographer, I have found the most pleasure in developing duets and probing the psychological connections and imbalances between individuals. Relationships of all stripes are a central theme in One Grand Dance, as I juxtapose dances from different eras.

Edson Cabrera’s Bangweulu is a passionate and demanding dance. Structured as a series of three interlocking duets, the dance focuses on timeless relationships between friends, family members, and lovers. Edson is artful in his ability to cultivate sophisticated movement from partnering techniques. I am thrilled to showcase his choreography for the first time in the United States.

Maray Gutierrez and Victor Alexander have graced Hedwig Dances’ performances for almost 13 years. Together and separately, they have been an integral part of Hedwig Dances’ growth and development during this time. Both have been principal dancers with Hedwig since moving to the United States from Cuba in 2002. At this pivotal point in their dance careers, Maray and Victor have announced their plan to retire from performing full time. I am pleased to share however that they will continue on in new ways with Hedwig Dances. Maray will take on a greater role in Hedwig Dances’ artistic leadership and Victor will remain a resident choreographer for the Company. Both will continue to appear as “guest” dancers moving forward.

The 30th Anniversary Concert is part of another ambitious year of activities. Hedwig Dances and the Havana-based DanzAbierta created Trade Winds/Aires de Cambio. Our two companies performed the work in Chicago in a co-presentation between Links Hall and the Dance Center of Columbia College (October, 2014), and, in Havana at the Teatro Nacional Sala Avellaneda (January 2015) to standing room only audiences.

Thank you for participating in our year-long celebration, a culminating tribute to Hedwig Dances’ 30 Moving Years, and beyond. At this milestone event, I relish this moment in Hedwig Dances’ history at the crossroads between our past and future accomplishments.

Jan Bartoszek Founder/Artistic Director Hedwig Dances

Company

Hedwig Dances is a contemporary dance theater ensemble celebrating its 30th year under the artistic direction of its founder, Jan Bartoszek. Named after Ms. Bartoszek’s paternal grandmother, Hedwig Dances’ bold, interdisciplinary collaborations combine poetic choreography with sculptural artifacts, projected images and haunting original music. The resulting dances resonate with complexity and depth and provoke emotion, connection and wonder.

Hedwig Dances has performed over 1,500 times at venues throughout Chicago, including the Ravinia Festival, the Dance Center of Columbia College and the Athenaeum Theater. The Company has also appeared at noteworthy events in Chicago such as the Grand Openings of Millennium Park and Navy Pier. Hedwig Dances tours to numerous colleges, festivals and theaters, including Yes, Virginia Dance Invitational (Richmond) Spring to Dance Festival (St. Louis) and Joyce SoHo (NYC). The Company has been honored with two Ruth Page Awards and a Chicago Dance Award.

In 1992, former Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs Commissioner Lois Weisberg invited Hedwig Dances to become the Dance Company-In-Residence at the Chicago Cultural Center. For two decades (through 2011) at the Center, Hedwig contributed its time and talent on behalf of the Chicago dance community by offering over 600 classes and workshops to more than 8,500 students, as well as more than 250 performance events for audiences totaling over 30,000. The company’s accomplishments include its seminal role in developing new programs such as DanceBridge, the Dance Discovery Series, and Dance for the Camera, among others. As Hedwig has recently moved from its artistic home for the past 20 years into a new chapter for the company, this move serves as a great catalyst for change as Hedwig has taken a step forward by building the company through a renewed commitment to Chicago-area programming, a new national touring program, and new international artistic exchanges.

Hedwig Dances’ mission is to create and perform contemporary dances that convey the essence of the human experience. Through its programs, Hedwig Dances trains and mentors professional dance artists, teaches dance and movement, and thereby enriches the cultural life of the individuals and communities it reaches. “...fluid, elegantly arranged, modern dance works...recognizable for their organic grace and unaffected virtuosity.” (Time Out Chicago)

Profiles JAN BARTOSZEK, Hedwig Dances’ Artistic Director/Choreographer/Founder, Ms. Bartoszek’s artistic credentials include fellowships from the NEA (1) and Illinois Arts Council (8), mentoring of numerous artists and a leadership role in making dance a vital force at the Chicago Cultural Center from 1992 to 2011. She has choreographed over 60 dances in her career that critics have described as “intelligent, accomplished, moving” (Chicago Tribune) and “poignantly human” (Chicago Reader). These dances have been presented in national performance venues and internationally in Cuba, Honduras, Brazil and Canada. Throughout her career, Ms. Bartoszek has fostered a spirit of collaboration with other artists; merging choreography, media, text and music.

Ms. Bartoszek received a Ruth Page Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Community; a 2008 Chicago Dancemakers Award; a 2014 National Performance Network Creation Fund Grant; and, has been honored in “100 Women Making a Difference” by Today’s Chicago Woman Magazine in recognition of her artistic contribution to the Chicago cultural community. Her choreography credits include work for Steppenwolf, Northlight, Live Bait and Court theaters, as well as with director Ping Chong. She toured nationally and internationally with Ping Chong & Company performing in BAM’s Next Wave Festival; Montreal’s Festival TransAmeriques; and at the Teatro Goldoni for the Venice Carnivale Festival and with the Charlie Vernon Performance Company at the American Dance Festival and Dance Theater Workshop, among many other venues. Ms. Bartoszek has served on the Advisory Board of the Arts & Business Council of Chicago, the Board of the Chicago Dance Coalition, and dance panels for the Illinois Arts Council and the Oregon Arts Commission. She has taught at Northwestern University as well as at the School of the Art Institute/Chicago; Roosevelt University and the University of Chicago. In recent years, she has taken an interest in dance made for the camera. She established and curated an annual dance film series at the Chicago Cultural Center (2007-2010) with Sarah Best; choreographed and directed Arch of Repose, a poetic dream-like dance film with cinematographer Daniel Kullman and producer Nicolas DeGrazia of Bitter Jester Creative (BJC), a film production company; and, is developing a behind the scenes documentary with BJC of Hedwig Dances’ recent collaboration with the Havana-based dance theater company, DanzAbierta.

EDSON CABRERA, Choreographer/Dancer, was born in Cuba and graduated from Escuela Nacional de Arte in Dance in 2005. There he participated in the ITS Festival in Netherlands under the direction of Feri de Geus and Noortje Bijvoets. After his graduation he joined the dance company Ballet Rakatan based in Havana, dancing as a soloist. In 2007, he became a member of Danza Contemporanea de Cuba, participating in several international tours to England, Mexico, Hungary, Poland, Spain, Netherland, Australia and the USA. He has also performed in the Sziget Festival in Budapest, Mercat de les Flors in Barcelona, Brisbane Festival, Manchester International Festival, The Bydgoszcz Opera Festival and Virginia Arts Festival. Cabrera was made Principal Dancer in 2010. During his time in Danza Contemporanea de Cuba, Edson worked with choreographers Rafael Bonachela, Carlos Acosta, George Cespedes, Julio C. Iglesias, Juan Kruz, Mats Ek, Itzik Galili and Pedro Ruiz and performed works by Jan Linkens and Kenneth Kvarstrom. In 2010, Edson moved to Chicago and soon after began dancing with Hedwig Dances. Bangweulu marks Edson’s premiere as a choreographer in the United States.

Profiles Victor Alexander, Choreographer/Dancer, is a native of Pinar del Rio, Cuba. He trained at the National Dance School in Havana and was a principal dancer for the National Contemporary Dance Company of Cuba for ten years. Victor has toured and danced throughout Europe, the U.S. and the Caribbean and has participated in dance festivals such as the American Dance Festival at Duke University, the Holland Dance Festival in Amsterdam and the International Dance Festival in Germany. He was the first prize winner of the Fourth National Union of Writers and Artists Contest in Cuba in 1992. Victor has danced with Hedwig Dances since 2002. He has also performed with Luna Negra Dance Theater; Concert Dance Inc (CDI); the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Houston Grand Opera ballet; and, as a guest artist with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (2008). He was nominated for an Emmy Award as a Dancer (2008) with the Ruth Page Foundation’s production of Billy Sunday. In 2012, Victor was awarded an Illinois Arts Council Individual Artists Grant and became a Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist. Dance Magazine honored him as one of “25 to Watch 2013.”

Recently, Alexander was selected one of the choreographers for the first edition of the AfroLatina Festival 2014 Among Us and received an award from Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s International Commissioning Project 2014 for his world premiere of Parting Shadows.

Alexander serves as both director of the Ruth Page School of Dance and co-director of the Ruth Page Civic Ballet.

Odbayar Batsuuri, Dancer, graduated from the Music and Dance College of Mongolia in 2004. He was a member of the Tumen Ekh National Song and Dance Ensemble, with which he toured to children’s theater festivals in Seattle, Toronto and Alberta, Canada, as well as to Korea’s Ulaanbaatar Cultural Day and Japan’s Mask Dance International Festival.

Batsuuri followed his interest in contemporary dance to the American Dance Festival’s satellite programs in Mongolia 2005 - 2006, and with Hubbard Street, the Dance Center of Columbia College, the Chicago Moving Company, Joel Hall and the American Dance Festival. He was awarded an Honor Certificate from Mongolia’s Ministry of Education, Science and Culture.

Batsuuri became an HS2 Apprentice in August 2013. This is his first season with Hedwig.

Sarah Carusona, Dancer, graduated from the University of Iowa in 2012. While there, she performed numerous works with faculty members along with a few guest choreographers and danced with the university’s dance company before graduating a year early with a BA in Dance. In Chicago, she trained with Claire Bataille, Ben Wardell, Robyn Mineko Williams, and a many others. In 2013 she spent 5 months in Israel training with the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company. Sarah began dancing with Hedwig Dances in 2014.

Maray Gutierrez, Artistic Associate/Dancer, is a native of Havana, Cuba where she trained at the National School of Dance. She was a principal dancer for Danza Contemporanea de Cuba for 10 years and worked with esteemed choreographers Giovanni de Cicco, Donald McKayle, Joaquin Sabaté, Jan Linkens, and Marianela Boan, among others. She has performed throughout Europe, the U.S., and the Caribbean, as well as for British television and the Venice Opera.

Maray has participated in the American Dance Festival; The International Dance Festival in Berlin, Germany; The Holland Dance Festival; and the International Ballet Festival in Genoa, Italy. Since relocating to the U.S., she has danced with Hedwig Dances for 11 years, Luna Negra Dance Theater, Concert Dance Inc; the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Houston Grand Opera. She was an Emmy-nominated dancer in 2008 performing Billy Sunday (Ruth Page Foundation). Maray has choreographed three works for Hedwig Dances, and was featured in the film Arch of Repose produced by Hedwig Dances in 2009. Maray was selected by “See Chicago Dance” as one of the 10 Top Women in 2006 for her choreography, Eterno

Profiles Despertar for Luna Negra Dance Theater. She has choreographed for Ballet Hispanico of New York (2010) and Milwaukee Ballet II (2013). Maray has taught at Hedwig Dances; Faubourg School of Ballet; School of DanceWest Ballet; Southeast Missouri State University; Kansas State University; and, the Milwaukee Ballet School.

Jessie Gutierrez, Dancer, is native of Havana, Cuba. She studied at the National School of Art in Havana, during which time she participated in Holland’s International Theater School Festival. In 2002 she performed with Danza Contemporanea de Cuba, touring to England, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Italy, Hong Kong, Mexico, Austria and Hungary. She became a principal dancer in 2006 and worked with internationally recognized choreographers Jan Linkens, Cathy Marston, Rafael Bonachela, Carlos Junior Acosta, Samir Akika, Luca Bruni and Kenneth Kvarnstrom. She moved to Chicago in 2008 and started working with Hedwig Dances.

Molly Ross, Dancer, is a Chicago based performer and dance maker. Originally from Michigan, she began her training under the direction of Eileen Cropley (Paul Taylor Dance Company). She has studied at the University of Michigan, The London Contemporary Dance School, and recently spent time training at the Kibbutz Gaaton Dance Village in northern Israel before relocating to Chicago.

Lynn Book, Writer/Vocalist, has a 25-year history of interdisciplinary artistic practice that traverses boundaries between performance art, dance, theater, writing and new music forms.

Critics from the New York Times, Village Voice and Chicago Tribune have called her work “bold,” “inspired,” and “unlike anything anyone else is doing“. Her diverse works have received citations, fellowships, and awards from the NEA, IACA, Franklin Furnace, Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, and MacArthur Foundation funding for a radio drama based upon her performance piece, Gorgeous Fever.

Ken Bowen, Lighting Designer, has served as Teacher, Designer, and Technical Director at Latin School of Chicago for the past 19 years. He designed and built 75 major productions in that time, managed all other lectures and events in the school theatre, and taught Stagecraft and Computer Drafting. For the previous 15 years he was a freelance designer, stage manager, and touring road manager, primarily for dance. He worked with Hedwig, Mordine & Company, Joel Hall, and a host of other dance organizations which have since slipped into memory, designing over 500 new works. The Chicago Dance Coalition honored him three times with Ruth Page Awards. He later served on their board of directors. He is sincerely honored and delighted to be designing dance in Chicago again.

Maggie Dianovsky, Costume Designer, is a Chicago-based costume designer and fashion stylist. Maggie began designing costumes for her own dances as well as for her peers. After Maggie received her BA in dance from Columba College, she started her first line Peggy Davis Design, which she sold in local Chicago boutiques. The line started as reconstructed vintage items mixed with modern new fashion, creating only one of a kind pieces. Combining her dance education with technical fashion training, Maggie creates custom pieces in collaboration with choreographers to help their visions translate on stage. Maggie has had the pleasure of working with Kate Corby & Dancers, The Dance COLEctive, Visceral Dance Chicago, Brian Enos, Monica Cervantes, Chicago Dance Crash, Inaside Dance Chicago, Brandon DiCriscio, Robert McKee, Banning Bouldin, and Sidra Bell. Maggie is excited to be working Hedwig Dances for their 30th anniversary.

Profiles Chris J. Johnson, Composer, runs a small recording and editing studio and consults and designs for theatre, dance, installations, multimedia projects, and film. Chris has been nominated for one Joseph Jefferson Award and two Joseph Jefferson Citations for his work as a designer and composer.

Jean Parisi, Sculptor, is an artist, performer, and educator. Jean performs in the improvised physical tradition of Commedia dell’Arte presenting her work throughout Chicago, the US, and Italy. She exhibits annually at Pilsen Open Studios creating large-scale interactive installations. Jean is the recipient of an IAC Individual Artist’s Fellowship, the Public/Community Service Award from the Illinois Alliance for Arts Education, and several Neighborhood Arts Project grants from the City of Chicago. She co-founded the Pros Arts Studio, now known as ElevArte, a community based arts organization in Pilsen where she taught and worked as Executive Director until 2008. Jean Parisi has an MFA in performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA in sculpture from the Philadelphia College of Art. Dave Pavkovic, Composer, is a composer and drummer who has relocated to Austin Texas.

He was most active in rock and jazz music in Chicago from 1992 – 2004. David Pavkovic has composed a considerable amount of music for theater and dance. He was awarded the 2008 Jeff Award (Chicago professional theater award) for best original music, for the production Nelson Algren: For Keeps and a Single Day, which was presented by the Lookingglass Theater Company at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art. He was also awarded the 2001 Jeff Citation for best original music for the production Rachel’s Love presented by Red Moon Theater.

Aaron Quick, Sound Designer, is excited to work with Hedwig Dances for the first time.

He has been a sound and projection designer for theatre since graduating from Northwestern in 2012. His designs have been heard at theatres such as Light Opera Works, Emerald City Theatre Company, Raven Theatre, Prop Thtr, Pegasus Theatre, Fleetwood-Jourdain, Northwestern University, Piccolo Theatre (where he is an ensemble member), and the Black Ensemble Theater (where he serves as Resident Sound and Projection Designer). Recent highlights include Waa-Mu 2015: Gold (Northwestern), Sounds So Sweet (Black Ensemble), and The Venetian Twins (Piccolo).

Bryan Saner, Set Construction, is a theatre artist currently working in Chicago. He is the founder of his company Saner Productions and an Adjunct faculty member, mentor and advisor in the Interdisciplinary Arts graduate program at Columbia College Chicago.

Bryan Saner is an interdisciplinary art practitioner focusing on the creation of performances, activist art events, neighborhood evolution and appropriately designed objects. He teaches workshops, mentors and lectures locally, nationally and internationally on the subject of performance, the body, neighborhood design, movement and collaboration. From 1995 to 2009, Bryan worked as a performing artist with the recently retired Goat Island Performance Group. During this time, the company toured internationally, performing at venues including the Venice Biennale, Bristol’s Arnolfini Theatre, the Eurokaz festival in Zagreb and the New Territories Festival, Glasgow.

HEDWIG DANCES’ 2015

Summer Intensive August 17-22 | 10 AM - 4 PM Ruth Page Center for the Arts 1016 N. Dearborn Chicago, IL 60610 Hedwig@hedwigdances.com

Fridays May 22 – June 19 10:00 – 11:30 am I $15 Ruth Page Center for the Arts 1016 N. Dearborn Chicago, IL 60610

Friday, June 19 10 AM – 1 PM $15 (includes class) Ruth Page Center for the Arts 1016 N. Dearborn Chicago, IL 60610

Led by Hedwig Dances’ artistic director Jan Bartoszek, the Summer Dance Intensive is an immersion in the Company’s aesthetics and processes. The Intensive is open to intermediate, advanced and professional dancers. Classes are easily accessible via public transportation. Take the whole workshop or drop in for individual classes with the Company.

Read more at HedwigDances.Org.

Open Company Class

Taught by Edson Cabrera and Jessie Gutierrez

Company Audition

Donors HEDWIG DANCES WISHES TO THANK OUR DONORS FOR THEIR GENEROUS SUPPORT OF OUR PROGRAMS! Heather Adkerson Adalena & Ming Ahmad Abby Anderegg Craig Anderson Victor Alexander Michael & Jean Banasiak Diane & Doug Bancel Lois & Ronald Barliant Jan Bartoszek Marc Beem & Susan Berkowitz Mary Margaret Bell & Stan Izen Bette Rosenstein & John Brix Victoria Burneikis Eric Engdahl & Kay Burnett Mel Smith & Janet Carl-Smith Paula Carlin Marie Casimir Victor Cassidy Mr. & Mrs. Bill Conlon Sonia Cooke Larry & Diane Cooper Frith Crandall Pamela Crutchfield Gina Dambrosio Walter Carlson & Debora De Hoyos Gina Demos Susan Manning & Douglas Doetsch Denise Stewart & George Engeln Bob Shapiro & Ginger Farley Daniel Favero & Melinda Herron Hillary Feather Frank Fishella

Anne Foley Frank Henneburg & Sharon Frey Joan & Howard Friedman Mark Glazer Marc Neuman & Seth Goldberg Marsha Feder Goldstein David Narefsky & Linda Goodman Kenneth & Kay Hamel Alicia Healy Molly Mason & Joseph Hetherington Myrna Hill Lisa Jenks Diane McKeever & Eric Jensen Ivan & Kathy Kane Maggie Kast Alvin & Liz Katz Michelle Kranicke Laura Schreisheim & Bob Kriss Lois A. Baum & David Krupp Peter Silverman & Patricia Lane Daniel & Cathy Luchins Corinne Lyon Marguerite Tompkins & Michael Mensik Richard & Sara Mesirow Dan & Mary Miller Laurie Kammin Mitchell Michael & Marina Morelli Claudia & John Morris Jade & Mary Newburn Timothy Noworyta Thomas P. Olexa Karel Bekker & Debbie Olk

IN-KIND DONATIONS

HEDWIG DANCES IS FUNDED IN PART BY

Arts & Business Council of Chicago Art Encounter Athenaeum Theatre Copperbridge Foundation Eileen Ryan Photography Emergence Dance Theatre Instituto Cervantes Kathrene Wales Links Hall McDermott, Will & Emery LLP Multi-Lingual Connections Nike Whitcomb & Associates The Saints Vin Design

The Arts Work Fund for Organizational Development, a donor advised fund of the Chicago Community Foundation; The MacArthur Fund for the Arts and Culture at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation; The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation International Connections Fund; The Albert Pick, Jr. Fund; The Illinois Arts Council Agency; The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation; CityArts Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events; The National Performance Network (NPN Performance Residency Program); The Forth Fund; The Dolores Kohl Education Fund from the Morris & Dolores Kohl Kaplan Fund.

Charles Osgood James D. & Janis G. Patterson Catherine Peponis Karen Prena D. Elizabeth Price Charlene Podolsky David Sinski & Julio Rodriguez Leonard & Arlene Rosenberg Karan & George Ruhlen Nancy Salmon Lester Savit Georgina & Paul Scholl Charles Vernon & MaryBeth Schroeder Ralph & Nancy Segall Robert Gordon & Joann Shrier Alida & David Szabo Cynthia Toennies Nancy Tom TransUnion Lisa M. Tylke Jeffrey Usow Karen VanderLinde Leonard VanderLinde Gray Vogelmann Emily Wagner Kathrene Wales Daniel Weathersby Vanessa Weathersby Keith & Jan Willner Nancy & Web Young Dorothy & Eric Wolff Amanda & Kent Zinn

Hedwig Dances is supported by New Stages for Dance II, administered by Dance/USA in partnership with Audience Architects. Leadership Support for the New Stages for Dance II Initiative is provided by the MetLife Foundation.

YOUR GIFT IS ALWAYS WELCOME!

Donations may be made online at HedwigDances.org or sent to: Hedwig Dances 4410 North Ravenswood, Suite 101 Chicago, IL 60640

30th Anniversary Honorary Committee Petra Bachmaier

Andrea Miller

Marianela Boรกn

Shirley Mordine

Ken Bowen

Amaniyea Payne

Ping Chong

Susana Pous

Margi Cole

Hema Rajagopalan

Barbara Cooper

Jackie Radis

Nicolas DeGrazia

Eileen Ryan

Glenn Edgerton

Judith Sanchez Ruiz

Jan Erkert

Peter Sciscioli

Ginger Farley

Deb Siegel

Matthew Ferraro

Sheldon B. Smith

William Frederking

Joel Valentin Martinez

Sandra Kaufmann

Charlie Vernon

Michelle Kranicke

Richard Woodbury

Daniel Kullman

Lisa Wymore

Clockwise from left: Short Stories; Christy Munch and Sheldon B Smith, photo by Eileen Ryan; still from Arch of Repose; Sweet Baby, Baby Suite (1993) photo by Tony Cifani.

Clockwise from top: Rein, Bellow (2007); Matthew Hollis and Mei-Kuang Chen; Peter Sciscioli and Denise Zdenek, photo

by Eileen Ryan; Polka (1983) photo by Stacy Nigrelli.

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