An Evening with QUIXOTIC

Lied Center Presents

An Evening with QUIXOTIC Fusing technology, live music, movement and expressive emotion

Friday, November 9, 7:30 p.m.

This event is sponsored, in part, by the Lied Performance Fund.

QUIXOTIC QUIXOTIC Fusion is a collaborative ensemble of artists from various disciplines – dance, film, aerial arts, music and fashion. This inventive group of artists goes beyond the limits of any specific art form, challenging traditional perceptions and creating a total sensory experience unlike any other for its audience.

There will be no intermission during this performance.

Artistic Directors: Anthony Magliano – Founder, Artistic Director Mica Thomas – Associate Artistic Director Band: Shane Borth – Violinist, Composer Pat Adams – Drums Laura Scarborough – Keyboard, Vocals Anthony Magliano – Percussionist, Composer Brandon Draper – Percussionist Noel Selders – Co-producer, Composer Cast: Megan Stockman – Principal Aerialist Laura Jones – Principal Dancer Devan Smith – Aerialist/Dancer Lauren Winstead – Aerialist/Dancer Shenea Booth – Contortionist Jill Krutzkamp – Dancer (courtesy of the Kansas City Ballet) Angelina Sansone – Dancer (courtesy of the Kansas City Ballet) Genevieve Zander – Dancer Production Staff: Daniel Barickman – Business Manager Matt Bennett – Aerial Director Kyle Vasquez – Technical Director Daniel Parks – Lights/Projections Director Josh Inman – Lighting Assistant Justin Parr – Sound Engineer An Evening with Quixotic

Anthony Magliano (Founder, Artistic Director) leads the vision of QUIXOTIC and its ensemble of performers and technicians to create original, passionate and unpredictable works of theatre, drawing from his roots as a percussionist and composer to his internationally acclaimed career as a graphic and motion designer.

This passion and commitment assures that QUIXOTIC will continue to evolve, take chances and challenge our emotional boundaries. Visceral, eclectic and beautiful are not just words that describe QUIXOTIC’s body of work. They are words that have consistently followed founder and co-artistic director Magliano throughout his career.

“I want Quixotic audiences to feel the same thing I feel every single day. I want them to be challenged, to feel a little unsettled, to feel like it’s a little bit dangerous, to be excited by the sheer beauty and physicality and be moved by what they hear,” said Magliano. “To feel this every day of my life, I am truly grateful. To be given a chance to translate these feelings into performances with this amazing ensemble of performers, I am truly thankful.”

Mica Thomas (Associate Artistic Director) turns the conceptual into the real; takes lights, wood, steel and velvet and makes them as beautiful, exciting and integral as the performers themselves at QUIXOTIC every day. While this may be Thomas’s third award-winning season with the ensemble, it’s not the first time he’s received the accolades of his peers and community. As an undergraduate at Oregon State, he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in theatre. His graduate studies in lighting design at Penn State led to him being awarded the prestigious Creative Achievement Award. Thomas has been recognized time and time again for his creativity and unique ability to bring a production to life. While Thomas will be the first to admit that his cumulative experiences have led him to QUIXOTIC, it’s at QUIXOTIC where he’s been challenged, rewarded and found a home. The ensemble, as well as audiences around the world, is better off as a result.

Shane Borth (Violinist, Composer) was born in Olathe, a suburb of Kansas City.

He is the oldest of four children with three younger sisters – all of whom play violin. Borth took private lessons with the violin at age four and studied classical music through college. He graduated from the University of Missouri in Kansas City in 2003 with a Bachelor of Music in violin performance. During college, Borth studied with renowned performer Benny Kim and received lessons from Roland and Almita Vamos and Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg. Borth was in the Middle Youth Symphony of Kansas City from 1994-1995 and joined the Senior Youth Symphony in 1995-1998. He was the concertmaster in 1997.

In 2000, Borth started playing in the Irish music scene in Kansas City. This sparked a new interest for him – playing electric violin. He helped form a few bands and wrote songs while performing on guitar, piano and electric violin. In 2001, Borth was invited to join Shooting Star, a rock band that had a number one hit song on VH1. With this group he honed his skills with the electric violin, playing in front of thousands of fans all over the U.S. and in Puerto Rico. With Shooting Star, Borth opened for such bands as REO Speedwagon, STYX, Kansas, Heart and Nightranger.

QUIXOTIC hired Borth in 2006 to write original music and perform on the violin and mandolin. Now in its fifth year, Borth has played with QUIXOTIC at the Madrid Theatre, the Uptown Theater and Spencer Theatre in Kansas City, as well as the Paramount Theater and the Boulder Theater in Denver and Boulder, Colorado to rave reviews. lied.ku.edu | Lied Center Presents

Pat Adams (Drums) is the son of two classically trained musicians. He began formal percussion training at age 12, eventually playing in Youth Symphony and various rock bands through high school. Adams studied percussion and jazz drums at UMKC Conservatory of Music between 2005 and 2007 as well as additional private drum set study. His heroes include Vinnie Colaiuta, Ari Hoenig, Tony Williams, Dave Weckl and Jack DeJohnette.

Striving to play many styles, he has played jazz with Bobby Watson, Bill Crain, Wayne Hawkins, Mark Lowery, Danny Embrey and Bob Bowman among others. Past collaborations include rock gigs with The Blackbird Revue, playing bass guitar with The Old Number 5s and electronica with The Floozies.

In 2011, after developing a deeper interest in electronic percussion, Adams competed in the Roland V drums challenge and took second place at the national level. Implementations of electronic elements are increasingly common in his projects. In 2012, he officially became a member of the QUIXOTIC performance ensemble and spent the majority of the summer touring nationally and internationally. Adams also contributed to the TEDKC Event in September 2012, performing with the earth harpist Andrea Brooks.

Adams is a private instructor at Kansas City's main drum hub, Explorers Percussion, where he conducts clinics and group classes.

Laura Scarborough (Keyboard, Vocals) has worked with QUIXOTIC since 2006.

Her talents include singing, composing, playing keyboards, accordion, vibraphone, electronics and live laptop for the group. Her skills as an expressive vocal stylist and versatility as a multi-instrumentalist have contributed significantly in tailoring and developing QUIXOTIC’s sound.

In Austin, Texas, she received a degree in classical piano from UT Austin, began composing music for dance and multi-media in 2002, released and recorded multiple records and won Austin’s 2009 Keyboard Player of the Year. Aside from her passion for writing, performing and teaching music, she also runs HOOPCiRCLE.com – a business dedicated to promoting “hooping” as a revolutionary form of fitness.

Brandon Draper (Percussionist) has quickly become one of the most sought-after musicians in the U.S. since moving to Kansas City in 2006. In addition to freelancing and teaching, he currently performs and is live music director with QUIXOTIC, leads his own jazz group, performs with his projects Organic Proof, Afro-Breakbeats, Free Band Radio and is also a solo live looping artist and DJ. Draper has performed at many festivals, universities, concert halls and conventions in the U.S. including the PAS Day of Percussion in Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Percussive Arts Society International Convention, New Mexico Music Educators Association, Kansas and the Missouri Music Educators Associations. His extensive resume includes performances with both the New Mexico and Santa Fe Symphony Orchestras and the Kansas City Symphony. In contemporary and jazz settings, Draper has performed and/or recorded with Ottmar Liebert, Donna Summer, Mose Allison, Steve Coleman, Eddie Daniels, Bruce Dunlap, Steve Masakowskie, Dave Pietro, Brian Jordan, Doug Lawrence, Will Matthews, Bobby Watson and Kevin Hays.

Currently, he is on faculty at the University of Kansas and at the University of Missouri Kansas City, percussion director at Shawnee Mission West High School An Evening with Quixotic

and music director at Kansas City Academy. Draper holds a bachelor’s of arts degree in percussion from Bethany College in Lindsborg, KS, and a master’s of music in percussion from the University of New Mexico.

Draper maintains an active schedule as a performer, educator, composer, music curriculum consultant, drum circle facilitator and clinician at locations throughout the country. He strives to motivate and empower aspiring musicians of all ages.

Noel Selders (Co-Producer, Composer) has a wide and varied background in music production and sound design. In addition to creating music for QUIXOTIC Fusion since its founding in 2003, Selders has been writing award-winning music and sound design as resident composer for Bazillion, a Kansas City-based sound and animation studio. Founder Anthony Magliano and Selders have been coproducing music together for over 15 years.

Megan Stockman (Principal Aerialist) is native to Kansas City. She has studied dance in Kansas City, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. As a student, Stockman trained in ballet with the Kansas Regional ballet, an RDA honor company under Kathy and Dennis Landsman. She has worked with choreographers such as Sonya Tayeh, Tokyo Kevin Inouye, Keelan Whitmore, Judi Rice, Robert Battle, Gary Abbott and Dreya Weber. Stockman is a member of QUIXOTIC Fusion as a dancer, choreographer and principal aerialist.

Stockman has developed a unique and effective dance style evolving her experience from ballet, modern, street dance and African dance. Her esthetic goes beyond technique to share a deeper understanding of movement and sound.

Laura Jones (Principal Dancer), originally from Hamilton, Montana, began attending the North Carolina School of the Arts at the age of 14, where she later graduated from high school with a major in ballet. Jones went on to dance professionally with the second company of Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet and with the Missouri Contemporary Ballet. Jones has studied with the Boston Ballet, Houston Ballet, and has worked as a guest artist with the Garden City Ballet. This is Jones’s fourth year as a member of Quixotic.

Angelina Sansone (Dancer – courtesy of the Kansas City Ballet) has lived in numerous locations throughout her life. She most recently hails from Charlotte, North Carolina. Sansone left home at age 14 to attend the Harid Conservatory with a full tuition scholarship. After completing her education at Harid, she spent two seasons with the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago where she appeared in Robert Altman's 2003 film The Company. Following her stay with Joffrey, she worked toward her Bachelor of Science degree in ballet at Indiana University before she joined Kansas City Ballet in 2005. Last April, she had the opportunity to perform Ben Stevenson's End of Time at the International Dance Festival of Colombia. Sansone has spent the past five summers involved with QUIXOTIC Performance Fusion, and has enjoyed being a part of the growth and development of the company. Sansone has been featured in Elemantra, Emovere, Esoterra and Lux as a dancer and an aerialist.

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Devan Smith (Aerialist, Dancer) is from Lee’s Summit, Missouri. A dancer since the age of three, Smith has trained and performed in ballet, modern, jazz, tap, contemporary, and hip-hop. She majored in Modern Dance and Ballet in the Conservatory at the University of Kansas City Missouri. She won Top Gun Hip Hop three consecutive years at NDA (National Dance Alliance) camp and has been a member of NDA on college and high school level for five years. Smith has won numerous awards as a dancer and choreographer including the National Championship in hip-hop at Lindenwood University at UDA, two state championships for Lee’s Summit North’s dance team, and scholarships to New York City Dance Alliance. Smith won the Future Star Award and was featured in Dance Spirit Magazine, has danced in an auto insurance commercial, is the face of OXYjEN dance wear by Jennifer Balanga, and featured on Parisi coffee packaging. She performed in Afternoon of the Faun at UMKC choreographed by Jerri Kumery. She has performed with the cast members of the Broadway show Wicked for a benefit show and worked with many choreographers including, Mia Michaels, Travis Wall, Many Castro, Chris Moss, Gary Abbott, NYCDA faculty, and more. Smith has been a member of QUIXOTIC for two years, performing as a dancer and aerialist in hand loop, gyroscope, and net acts.

Lauren Winstead (Aerialist, Dancer) was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, and has been dancing off and on since the age of four. At the age of seven she began competing numerous dance styles with Miss Dianna's School of Dance under the direction of Diana Pfaff and Marisa PfaffClevenger, where she won several different regional and national dance titles with organizations such as KAR and Stage One. In 2006, she graduated high school and began studying ballet and modern at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. QUIXOTIC's contemporary vision appealed to Winstead in September of 2011. As the newest dance member of QUIXOTIC, she has been training on several different aerial apparatuses and has performed with them in many festivals and venues throughout the country.

Bringing her own contemporary flare and whimsical personality to QUIXOTIC's non-traditional vision has enhanced the quality and clarity of both Winstead and the performances.

Shenea Booth (Contortionist), an "acrobatic actress," performs worldwide and continues to be a featured performer with Cirque Du Soleil Special Events and has appeared on NBC, Bravo Channel, Style Network, America's Got Talent, the Today Show, Dancing with the Stars and So You Think You Can Dance. Her specialty act provides exquisite entertainment for private events, galas, theater productions, commercials, movies, corporate events and after parties.

Genevieve Zander (Dancer) attended UCLA and currently resides in Los Angeles, California where she is a dancer with Lucent Dossier.

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