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DOUG VARONE AND DANCERS Artistic Director

Doug Varone The Company Courtney Barth Hollis Bartlett Bradley Beakes Jake Bone Whitney Dufrene Hsiao-Jou Tang Doug Varone Aya Wilson Ryan Yamauchi With special guests artists Daniel Charon Natalie Desch RIRIE-WOODBURY DANCE COMPANY Yebel Gallegos Mary Lyn Graves Bashaun Williams Melissa Rochelle Younker

The University of Utah School of Dance

Brittany Noriko Bell Shaniece Brazwell Angela Lee Joanna Lees Berkeley Loper Ali Lorenz Madaline Maravillas Xochitl MĂĄrquez Katee Norris Kimberly Orozco Cedar Winters Annika Zuberbuehler

Lighting Designers Stacey Boggs David Ferri David Grill Tim Sullivan Robert Wierzel Costume Designer Production Manager Liz Prince Lynne Steincamp Stacey Boggs Interim Executive Director Administration Manager Michele Thompson Elizabeth Fort

Doug Varone and Dancersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; programs are supported in part by the Alphawood Foundation, Barbara Bell Cumming Charitable Trust, Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards, Dubose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Howard Gilman Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, and Shubert Foundation, as well as public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and New York State Legislature, and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. We also gratefully acknowledge our many individual supporters.

Program in the shelter of the fold (2016) Choreography by Doug Varone Music by Lesley Flanigan, Julia Wolfe, David Lang, Raz Mesinai, Kevin Keller Lighting Design by David Grill Costume Design by Liz Prince mass staged by Natalie Desch Rehearsal Assistant, Nichele Van Portfleet Faculty Assistant, Sara Pickett HOLLIS BARTLETT BRADLEY BEAKES JAKE BONE WHITNEY DUFRENE HSIAO-JOU TANG AYA WILSON RYAN YAMAUCHI With students from the University of Utah School of Dance:

Brittany Noriko Bell Shaniece Brazwell Angela Lee Joanna Lees Berkeley Loper Ali Lorenz Madaline Maravillas Xochitl Mรกrquez Katee Norris Kimberly Orozco Cedar Winters Annika Zuberbuehler

1. horizon

Hollis Bartlett, Jake Bone, Whitney Dufrene, Hsiao-Jou Tang, Aya Wilson, Ryan Yamauchi

2. folded

Hollis Bartlett and Bradley Beakes

3. shelter

Jake Bone, Whitney Dufrene, Aya Wilson

4. mass

Brittany Noriko Bell, Shaniece Brazwell, Angela Lee, Joanna Lees Berkeley Loper, Ali Lorenz, Madaline Maravillas, Xochitl Mรกrquez Katee Norris, Kimberly Orozco, Cedar Winters, Annika Zuberbuehler

5. hope

Hsiao-Jou Tang

in the shelter of the fold premiered on November 5, 2016 at the Performing Arts Center

at Purchase College, Purchase, NY and was created in residence at Skidmore College in Saratoga, NY with funding from the New York State Council for the Arts; the Bates Dance Festival in Lewiston, ME with funding from the National Performance Network, National Endowment for the Arts, other foundations and individual support; and Purchase College as a joint project between the Performing Arts Center and the Conservatory of Dance. folded was commissioned by BAM for the 2017 Winter/Spring season.

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Program INTERMISSION STRICT LOVE (1994) Choreography by Doug Varone Music by Radio Broadcast of Popular Music by Various Artists* Lighting Design by David Ferri Costume Design by Lynne Steincamp Doug Varone and Dancers HOLLIS BARTLETT JAKE BONE HSIAO-JOU TANG AYA WILSON Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company YEBEL GALLEGOS MARY LYN GRAVES BASHAUN WILLIAMS MELISSA ROCHELLE YOUNKER Strict Love premiered at Playhouse 91 in NYC as part of the 92 Street Y Harkness Dance Festival on December 9, 1994. It was created in residence at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA with generous support from the Carpenter Foundation.

PAUSE TWO PIANO PIECES Nocturne (2017) Choreography by Doug Varone Music by Frederic Chopin, Nocturne in E Minor, Opus 72, #1 Lighting Design by Stacey Boggs DOUG VARONE Nocturne premiered on August 2, 2017, at Jacobâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pillow in Becket, MA.

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Program Short Story (2001) Choreography by Doug Varone Music by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Prelude in C Lighting Design by Tim Sullivan DANIEL CHARON NATALIE DESCH Short Story was commissioned by the Limon Dance Company and premiered on October 9, 2001, at the Joyce Theater in NYC.

PAUSE LUX (2006) Choreography by Doug Varone Music by Philip Glass, The Light Lighting Design by Robert Wierzel Costume Design by Liz Prince COURTNEY BARTH HOLLIS BARTLETT BRADLEY BEAKES JAKE BONE WHITNEY DUFRENE HSIAO-JOU TANG AYA WILSON RYAN YAMAUCHI Lux premiered on October 19, 2006 in San Luis Obispo, CA and was solely commissioned by the Daniel and Dianne Vapnek Family Fund. It was created, in part, while in residence at Summerdance, Santa Barbara, CA.

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Company Bio Each creative process is a tremendously collaborative event with the dancers, embracing all of our imaginations, instincts and artistry. My thanks and love to them for being such great, caring allies in the creation of the many dances that fall from my brain. --Doug Varone DOUG VARONE AND DANCERS The 2017/18 season marks the Company’s 31st year. Since its founding in 1986, Doug Varone and Dancers has commanded attention for its expansive vision, versatility, and technical prowess. On the concert stage, in opera, theater and on the screen, Varone’s kinetically thrilling dances make essential connections and mine the complexity of the human spirit. From the smallest gesture to full-throttle bursts of movement, Varone’s work can take your breath away. On tour, the company has performed in more than 125 cities in 45 states across the U.S. and in Europe, Asia, Canada, and South America. Stages include The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, San Francisco Performances, London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, Toronto’s Harbourfront, Moscow’s Stanislavsky Theater, Buenos Aires’ Teatro San Martin, the Venice Biennale, Marble Hall in Tokyo, and the Bates, Jacob’s Pillow and American Dance Festivals. In opera and theater, the company regularly collaborates on the many Varone-directed or choreographed productions that have been produced around the country. Doug Varone and Dancers are among the most sought after ambassadors and educators in the field. The company’s multi-discipline residency programs on tour capture their concepts, imagery and techniques across disciplines and for people of all ages and backgrounds, reaching out to audiences in unique ways that directly relate to their lives and interests. The company was selected to tour as part of 2013’s DanceMotionUSA(SM) program, a joint project between BAM and the US Department of State, touring, performing and teaching in Argentina, Paraguay and Peru for a month. This project culminated in in the premiere of a new commissioned work for Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, in collaboration with the Argentina-based Brenda Angiel Aerial Dance.   For the past 18 years, the company’s annual summer intensive workshops at leading universities attract students and professionals from around the globe. The DEVICES Program, a new mentoring initiative for emerging choreographers began its pilot year in 2014. This unique program mentors 12 artists over the course of several months in the creation of new works. On tour, the company’s multi-discipline residency programs capture their concepts, imagery and techniques across disciplines and for people of all ages and backgrounds, reaching out to audiences in unique ways that directly relate to their lives and interests. Varone, his dancers and designers have been honored with 11 Bessie Awards. In celebration of their 31st year, the Company will be touring and reconstructing major dances from past repertory, as well as recent new works and company premieres. To learn more about the Company, visit www.dougvaroneanddancers.org

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Bios DOUG VARONE (Artistic Director) Awardwinning choreographer and director Doug Varone works in dance, theater, opera, film, and fashion. He is a passionate educator and articulate advocate for dance. By any measure, his work is extraordinary for its emotional range, kinetic breadth and the many arenas in which he works. His New York City-based Doug Varone and Dancers has been commissioned and presented to critical acclaim by leading international venues for close to three decades. In the concert dance world, Varone has created a body of works globally. Commissions include the Limón Company, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Rambert Dance Company (London), Martha Graham Dance Company, Dancemakers (Canada), Batsheva Dance Company (Israel), Bern Ballet (Switzerland) and An Creative (Japan), among others. In addition, his dances have been staged on more than 75 college and university programs around the country. He is currently creating a new dance for Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance Company that will premiere at Lincoln Center in 2018. In opera, Doug Varone is in demand as both a director and choreographer. Among his four productions at The Metropolitan Opera are Salome with its Dance of the Seven Veils, the world premiere of Tobias Picker’s An American Tragedy, Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps, designed by David Hockney, and Hector Berloiz’s Les Troyens. He has staged multiple premieres and new productions for Minnesota Opera, Opera Colorado, Washington Opera, New York City Opera, and Boston Lyric Opera, among others. His numerous theater credits include choreography for Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional theaters across the country. His choreography for the musical Murder Ballad at Manhattan Theater Club earned him a Lortel Award nomination. Film credits include choreography for the Patrick Swayze film, One Last Dance. In 2008, Varone’s The Bottomland, set in the Mammoth Caves of Kentucky, was the subject of the PBS Dance in America: Wolf Trap’s Face of America. Last season, he directed and choreographed MASTERVOICES production of Dido and Aeneas at NY’s City Center, starring Tony Award winners Kelli O’Hara and Victoria Clark, alongside the Company. Most recently

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he staged Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer Prize winning oratorio, Anthracite Fields for the Westminster Choir and the Bang on a Can All-Stars. Varone received his BFA from Purchase College where he was awarded the President’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 2007. Numerous honors and awards include a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, an OBIE Award (Lincoln Center’s Orpheus and Euridice), the Jerome Robbins Fellowship at the Boglaisco Institute in Italy, two individual Bessie Awards, and four National Dance Project Awards. In 2015, he was awarded both a Doris Duke Artist Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Dance Guild. As an educator, Varone teaches workshops and master classes around the world for dancers, musicians and actors. He is currently on the faculty at Purchase College, teaching composition. COURTNEY BARTH is originally from Las Vegas, Nevada, and began her dance training at Las Vegas Academy of Performing Arts. She then attended SUNY Purchase where she received her BFA in dance and performed works by Kyle Abraham, Kevin Wynn, and Martha Graham. Courtney is currently based out of New York City and has worked with Shannon Gillen, Kensaku Shinohara, Loni Landon Dance Projects, and Hannah Garner’s 2nd Best Dance Company. She also performed as an original cast member of Polaris by Crystal Pite at Sadlers Wells. Courtney began working with Doug Varone and Dancers in 2017. HOLLIS BARTLETT is a performer, teacher, creator, and advocate for the arts. He was born and raised in the Midwest, and began dancing at a young age. His family moved to Massachusetts before he began high school and his love of performing followed him to the East Coast. In 2010 Hollis graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Since graduation he has had the pleasure of working with Brian Brooks, Adam Barruch, Steeledance, and the Metropolitan Opera. He teaches ongoing classes at Gibney Dance Center and has taught at the Bates Dance Festival, SUNY Purchase, UNC School of the Arts, and Moving Target in Boston, among others. In addition to dancing for Doug, he manages the licensing and staging

Bios of Varone’s repertory and serves on the company’s Junior Board. Hollis joined Doug Varone and Dancers in 2011. BRADLEY BEAKES is a New York City based dance artist originally from Glendora, CA. A graduate of California State University, Fullerton, Bradley first moved to NYC in 2010 to attend the Ailey School. He later danced with Project 44, Naganuma Dance, and Visions Dance Theatre where he was named the 2010 Lester Horton Award Winner for “Outstanding Male Performance”. In 2011, Bradley joined Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company where he performed until 2016. Bradley was honored to dance with the Limón Dance Company from 2016-2017 as well as guest perform with Keith Johnson/Dancers and NOW-ID. He has served on rotating faculty for the Limón School since 2016 and also teaches at Peridance and Gibney 280. His choreography has been presented in venues including INKUBATE Dance Festival, American College Dance Festival, the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival, among others. Bradley joined Doug Varone and Dancers in the summer of 2017. JAKE BONE is originally from Dallas, Texas. He graduated summa cum laude with a BFA in Dance at the University of North Texas where he performed works by Bebe Miller, Kihyoung Choi, Anna Sokolow, and Bulareyaung Pagarlava. Jake’s choreography was selected for the adjudicated concert at the South-Central American College Dance Festival in 2012. Jake has had the pleasure of working with Gibney Dance, Xan Burley + Alex Springer, the Metropolitan Opera, and BARE Dance Company since moving to New York. He is the Programming Director for Awakening Movement, a faith-based dance organization. Jake joined Doug Varone and Dancers in 2015. WHITNEY DUFRENE, originally from Louisiana, is a performer, teacher, choreographer and musician based in Manhattan. She trained with Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre, Point Park University, and graduated with a BFA in dance from Belhaven University. Whitney performed with Ad Deum Dance Company, and has also served as company director for Dance du Coeur and director of dance for Creative Dreams Outreach Center. She has choreographed

work for Ad Deum, Dance du Coeur, Belhaven’s Dance Ministry, BRBT, and Weave Dance Collective. She has also danced in Jerusalem with the TDC as a part of the Feast of Tabernacles and is a current member of Awakening Movement in NYC. Her deepest passion and joy is working to see the arts bring breakthrough, justice, hope, healing and freedom in individuals. Whitney joined Doug Varone and Dancers in 2016. HSIAO-JOU TANG was born and raised in Taiwan where she studied ballet, modern, traditional Chinese dance and martial arts. 13 years ago she moved to New York to attend SUNY Purchase College, where she graduated with a BFA in Dance. Since graduating, Hsiao-Jou has had the great pleasure of working with a number of wonderful people and companies including Kyle Abraham / Abraham.in.motion, the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Shen Wei Dance Arts, Kevin Wynn Collection, Sidra Bell Dance New York, Daniel Charon Dance, Nora Petroliunas/The Pharmacy Project and Xan Burley + Alex Springer. Hsiao-Jou joined Doug Varone and Dancers in 2012. AYA WILSON is a dance artist currently residing in Brooklyn. Originally of Normal, Illinois, she graduated with a BFA in dance from the University of Iowa. In New York, Aya has had the pleasure of working with choreographers including Tara Willis, Kensaku Shinohara, Sarah Council Dance Projects, Mariah Maloney Dance, Nadia Tykulsker/Spark(edIt) Arts, Kendra Portier/ BAND|portier, Sarah A.O. Rosner/the A.O. Movement Collective, and most recently with Doug Varone and Dancers and David Dorfman Dance. She also enjoys teaching at Gibney Dance Center. Aya began working with Doug Varone and Dancers in 2015. RYAN YAMAUCHI was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii and began his dance training at the Mid-Pacific Institute School of the Arts. He later moved to New York and received his BFA in Dance from SUNY Purchase. Ryan has had the pleasure of working with a number of companies and choreographers in New York including Loni Landon Dance Projects, ProjectLIMB, David Norsworthy, and Sidra Bell Dance New York (Apprentice). Ryan began working with Doug Varone and Dancers in 2015.

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Bios RIRIE-WOODBURY DANCE COMPANY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Jena C. Woodbury ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Daniel Charon THE COMPANY: Yebel Gallegos*, Mary Lyn Graves*, Megan McCarthy, Dan MontEton, Bashaun Williams*, Melissa Rochelle Younker* EDUCATION DIRECTOR: Ai Fujii Nelson *performing this evening Ririe-Woodbury (Rī-rē Woŏd-bûr-ē) Dance Company is Utah’s most established institution for contemporary dance. The Company actively embraces and commissions the work of contemporary choreographers, tours worldwide, and develops dynamic education and community outreach programming. Through performance and educational undertakings, the Company pursues its mission to make dance a viable part of everyone’s life– whether it be as creators, performers, dance educators, critics, or as participating audience members. Over the 54 years of its history, Ririe-Woodbury has toured nationally and internationally, always advocating the philosophy that “dance is for everybody.” Under the direction of Executive Director Jena Woodbury, Artistic Director Daniel Charon, and Education Director Ai Fujii Nelson, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company is committed to building upon the vision of its founders as it continues to evolve as an important voice for innovation in contemporary dance and dance education. DANIEL CHARON (Artistic Director, guest performer) Artistic Director of Salt Lake City’s Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company since 2013, Daniel Charon has been active as a choreographer, teacher, and performer for over twenty-five years. While based in New York City, Daniel maintained a project-based company and primarily danced with Doug Varone and Dancers (1999-2010) and the Limón Dance Company (1997-1999). He is a BFA graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts and an MFA graduate of the California Institute of the Arts in Choreography and Integrated Media. As Ririe-Woodbury’s Artistic Director, Daniel has created multiple original works for the

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stage, gallery installations, and has designed video for his and other choreographers’ works. He has presented multiple full evening concerts in New York City, has been produced by various theaters, and has been commissioned to choreograph new works for many companies, universities, and festivals around the country. Daniel has choreographed The Pearl Fishers, Aida, and Moby-Dick at the Utah Opera. Daniel regularly teaches master classes and workshops nationally and internationally and has taught at the Metropolitan Opera, the Bates Dance Festival, Salt Dance Fest, North Carolina School of the Arts Summer Comprehensive, Varone Summer Dance Workshops, and Limón Summer Workshops. He has been a guest artist and adjunct professor at numerous universities and has staged the works of José Limón, Jirí Kylián, and Doug Varone at schools and companies around the world. YEBEL GALLEGOS is a dance artist originally from El Paso, TX. He played an important role in the founding of Cressida Danza Contemporánea in Yucatán, MX, where he served as company teacher, rehearsal director, and principal dancer for five years. Yebel holds a BFA in Dance from the University of Texas at Austin and joined the Company in 2013. MARY LYN GRAVES is from Tulsa, OK where she trained at the Tulsa Ballet Center of Dance Education and was a member of Tulsa Ballet II. She holds a BFA in Dance from the University of Oklahoma. Since joining the Company in 2012, Mary Lyn has performed in Utah and throughout the United States in works by Daniel Charon, Ann Carlson, Joanna Kotze, Alwin Nikolais, Doug Varone, and Netta Yerushalmy, among others. BASHAUN WILLIAMS started dancing in Texas at the age of 16 with Ballet Lubbock under Yvonne Racz-Key. He was the captain of his Varsity basketball team at Lubbock High School, but decided to attend the University of Utah Department of Ballet on both academic and artistic merit scholarships. He graduating with his BFA in 2011. Bashaun joined the Company in 2011. A native of Southern California, MELISSA YOUNKER is a movement artist based in Salt

Bios Lake City, Utah. Since joining Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company in 2014 she has had the privilege to embody an array of works by Artistic Director, Daniel Charon, along with choreographers Adam Barrach, Ann Carlson, Tzveta Kassabova, Joanna Kotze, Alwin Nikolais, Netta Yerushalmy, among others. Melissa holds a BFA from California State University, Long Beach and has toured throughout the United States as a performer and dance educator. NATALIE DESCH (Staging for mass, guest performer) Natalie Desch (Juilliard BFA, University of Washington MFA, YogaWorks NYC certified) performed for five seasons with the Limón Dance Company, for eleven seasons with Doug Varone and Dancers, and was a faculty member at Hunter College in NYC from 2005-2012. Having taught regularly at various NYC studios including the Limón Institute, Peridance, Dance New Amsterdam, and the 92 nd Street Y, she has also been on faculty at summer intensives including those of the Limón and Varone companies, Ballet West Academy, the Bates Dance Festival, the Canadian Contemporary Dance Theater, the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company. Natalie was guest faculty at Weber State University in 2015, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 2016, and the Beijing Dance Academy in 2017. She has staged the works of Varone, Limón, and Jiri Kylián on companies and universities around the world, and her choreography has been presented at venues throughout the US. Natalie currently teaches for Westminster College, Utah Valley University, Salt Lake Community College, and several other dance schools in the area. STACEY BOGGS (Production Manager and Lighting Designer) is a New York based Lighting Designer and Production Manager. She comes to Doug Varone and Dancers from working as the Lighting Director for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. She has designed for choreographers Bill T. Jones, Troy Powell, Robert Moses, Christopher Wheeldon, Chang Yong Sung, and Stephane Boko. She has also designed The Wizard of Oz (Dancer’s Workshop), 8-Track

(Shadowlands), #9, Marco Millions (based on lies) and The|King|Operetta (Waterwell). Other designs include Soundtrack 63 (651 Arts), The Diary of Anne Frank (Theatre Three), I Love a Piano (National Tour), and Urinetown (Saint John’s University). She has designed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Carnegie Hall on numerous occasions. She has also worked as a Lighting Supervisor for The Wooster Group and as the Technical and Lighting Director for Ailey II. She was the Production Manager for The Civilians Undertaking (UMD, Connecticut College, BAM Next Wave) and Miriam (MassMoCa, BAM Next Wave, EMPAC). She has worked at the Glimmerglass Opera, Florida Grand Opera, and Michigan Opera Theater. She has worked with Jennifer Tipton, Chris Akerlind, Robert Wierzel, Mark McCullough, Beverly Emmons, Guy Simard, Traci Klainer, Robert Henderson, Kendall Smith, and Seth Reiser. She graduated from NYU’s Graduate Design program in 2005 and a member of USA 829. DAVID FERRI (Lighting Designer) was born in Pennsylvania. He received a BFA in photography from Rochester Institute of Technology. He was resident lighting designer/technical director at PS 122 from 1985-1991, and has designed for countless artists including Eric Bogosian, Jane Comfort, Viveca Vasquez, and Ethel Eichlberger. He was production manager for Piña Bausch’s 1996 west-coast tour of NUR DU, and her 1999 tour of NELKEN. David is also the Production Manager for the American Dance Festival and the recipient of two New York Dance and Performance Awards (Bessies): the first, in 1988 for his design of Varone’s Straits; the second, a 2001 award for Sustained Achievement in Lighting Design. DAVID GRILL (Lighting Designer) a tentime Emmy Award Nominee and three-time Primetime Emmy Award winner. He also won a 2015 and 2016 Telly Award for his Lighting. Dance credits include The American Dance Machine, works for the Milwaukee Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, Ballet Met, Houston Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, Ballet Austin, Ballet NY, Northern Ballet Theatre, Cincinnati Ballet, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Dayton Ballet, ABT 2, Dances Patrelle (Resident Designer) and Numerous

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Bios Choreographers. Mr. Grill is also responsible for lighting the Clinton Global Initiative and also provides Lighting Direction for the National Memorial Day and July 4th. Concerts and for over 10 Super Bowl Half-time Shows. He has been featured in numerous publications and is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Design / Technology Program at Purchase College, State University of New York. ROBERT WIERZEL (Lighting Designer) has worked with artists from diverse disciplines and backgrounds in theatre, dance, new music and opera on stages and museums throughout the country and abroad. Mr. Wierzel has a long history (30 years) with choreographer Bill T. Jones and his company, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company (several Bessie Awards, along with productions at the Lyon Opera Ballet and Berlin Opera Ballet). Other dance collaborations include choreographers Larry Goldhuber and Heidi Latsky, Worse Case Scenario (Bessie Award), Margo Sappington, Alonzo King, Sean Curran, Molissa Fenely, Susan Marshall, Trisha Brown, How long…, and Doug Varone, Orpheus and Euridice (Obie Award-Special Citation). Other creditsBroadway: Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar & Grill, staring Audra McDonald; FELA! (TONY Award nomination); David Copperfield’s Dreams and Nightmares. Regional: A.C.T. San Francisco; Arena Stage; Shakespeare Theatre DC; Hartford Stage; Long Wharf Theatre; Goodman Theatre; The Guthrie; Mark Taper Forum; Berkley Rep; Milwaukee Rep; Chicago Shakespeare; Westport Country Playhouse, among many others. Opera companies of Paris (Garnier); Berlin; Tokyo; Toronto; Montreal; Boston; Glimmerglass Festival; NYCO; San Diego; San Francisco; Houston; Washington; Seattle; Virginia; Portland; Vancouver; and Chicago (including Lyric Opera and Chicago Opera Theatre). Mr. Wierzel is currently on the faculty of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. LIZ PRINCE (Costume Designer) designs costumes for dance, theater and film and has had the great pleasure of designing costumes for Doug Varone since 1997. Her work has been exhibited at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 2011 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Space and

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Design, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Rockland Center for the Arts and Snug Harbor Cultural Center. She received a 1990 New York Dance and Performance Award (BESSIE) for costume design and a 2008 Charles Flint Kellogg Award from Bard College for achievement in her field. LYNNE STEINCAMP (Costume Designer) has worked with numerous choreographers over the course of her long association with dance including Gina Gibney, Shapiro & Smith, Susan Marshall and Alyson Pou. She was Costume Consultant for the Trish Brown Company for over a decade. Her association with Doug Varone began in 1990 designing many of the company works including Force Majeure, Rise, Possession and Bel Canto. She now lives on a horse farm in Connecticut with her husband, artist Power Boothe. MICHELE THOMPSON (Interim Executive Director) has more than 25 years of experience in cultural and educational administration, fundraising, and external relations at leading institutions including The 92nd Street Y, Trisha Brown Dance Company, Carnegie Hall, American Ballet Theater, and Vanderbilt University. She has consulted with The Jewish Museum, Urban Bush Women, and the Kennedy Center, among others. She is an adjunct faculty member in Arts and Entertainment Management at Pace University where she works with upper level undergraduates who are about to enter the field in diverse disciplines. She holds both a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Vanderbilt University. ELIZABETH FORT (Administration Manager) has built a career combing her passion for the arts and her talent for branding and marketing. Elizabeth has helped brand some of New York City’s beloved arts institutions, The Joyce Theater and New York City Opera. She began her career at Carnegie Hall, as part of the team that planned the Hall’s Centennial Season celebration. In between she helped build strategic, branded experiences and integral marketing and communication campaigns for a broad spectrum of clients including financial institutions, NGOs, media and e-commerce companies. Elizabeth has a BA in International Relations from Brown University. Her love of dance began in Mrs. Bisceglie’s ballet class.

Bios DOUG VARONE AND DANCERS is incorporated as DOVA, Inc., a not-for-profit tax-exempt organization founded in 1995. Contributions to the Company’s work are tax-deductible and greatly appreciated. Please make your gift payable to: DOVA, Inc. 260 West Broadway, Suite 4, New York, NY 10013 USA Website: www.dougvaroneanddancers.org Email: info@dougvaroneanddancers.org Board of Directors, DOVA, Inc. John Lanasa, Chair Chad Bolton Richard J. Caples Kiara Downey Larry Greene Jeanne Murphy Doug Varone Carol Walker Pearl Zuchlewski Elizabeth Geiger, Chair emeritus Bob Sanders, Chair emeritus Junior Board of Directors, DOVA, Inc. Katryn Geane, Chair Hollis Bartlett Alexander Thompson Abigail Oliver DOUG VARONE AND DANCERS Artistic Director: Doug Varone Interim Executive Director: Michele Thompson Administration Director: Elizabeth Fort Development Officer: Ed Friedman Rehearsal Directors: Hollis Bartlett, Hsiao-Jou Tang Company Manager: Jake Bone Production Manager: Stacey Boggs Tour Manager: Aya Wilson Costume Manager: Hsiao-Jou Tang Media & Archive Design/Videography: Alex Springer Workshop Coordinator: Jenny Gram Design & Graphics: Sondra Graff/ rpm:projects

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