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WELCOME Dear Friends, I want to extend a warm welcome to each of you attending this performance. Thank you for coming! I am honored to serve as Executive Director of Ogden Symphony Ballet Association and wish to express my gratitude for your support as I have become acclimated to this new role. As a life-long musician, administrator, and advocate for the arts I am inspired and motivated by the dedication and commitment I have seen from so many donors, patrons, and volunteers. I am extremely enthusiastic about what we can accomplish together. Looking ahead, I am excited about the increase in energy surrounding the blossoming arts scene in Ogden, and the strong consortium of cultural leaders we have around us. I believe that OSBA’s value lies in the ability to connect our community through music and dance; and to bring the countless positive benefits of the performing arts to as many in our community as possible. If you haven’t already, I invite you to join our efforts by sharing your passion with others; bring a friend, persuade a coworker to attend, introduce us to someone new in town. I cannot overestimate the impact of these activities. There are many other ways to make a difference, and I encourage you to contact a staff member if you would like to share your time, talents, or resources. I am eager to get to know each of you, and learn about the facets of OSBA that you enjoy, and where we have room for improvement. I am always open to your feedback—positive or negative. We can only succeed by working together to protect and grow our cherished organization. Melissa Klein, Executive Director
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS Dr. Robert Fudge President Mark Stratford President Elect Paul Kunz Past President Melissa Bennett Vice President Jennifer Webb Secretary Dr. David Malone Treasurer Steven Carter Robbyn Dunn Dr. Ann Ellis Linda Forest John Fromer John Gordon Dr. Val Johnson Russ King (OSBA Foundation) McClain Lindquist Dr. Robert Newman Nancy Pinto-Orton Dr. Carolyn Rich-Denson Dr. Jan Slabaugh
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ADVISORS Marlene Barnett Karen Fairbanks Alan Hall Robert Harris Thomas Moore Suzy Patterson FOUNDATION Russ King Chair Marti M. Clayson Secretary Richard White Treasurer Paul C. Kunz Andrea Lane Michael S. Malmborg Dr. Judith Mitchell Meg Naisbitt Ellen Opprecht Carolyn N. Rasmussen Sherm Smith Dr. Paul Sonntag Dotty Steimke
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OSBA 2018–19 SEASON
ENTERTAINMENT SERIES
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Bernstein on Broadway September 13
BalletX October 6
Pink Martini December 20
Stars of American Ballet November 2
My Fair Lady in Concert February 14
Jessica Lang Dance February 2
Troupe Vertigo April 18
BYU Living Legends February 28
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An American in Paris September 27
Here Comes Santa Claus December 17
Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos 3 & 4 December 6
Peter and the Wolf March 14
Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 March 21
Story Pirates April 16
Villegas plays Concierto de Aranjuez April 25
SPECIAL EVENTS Patriotic Pops June 29 Frank & Ella August 7 The Nutcracker November 23 & 24 The Queen’s Six February 19 Youth Benefit Concert May 8
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JESSICA LANG DANCE FEBRUARY 2, 2019 / 7:30PM / VAL A. BROWNING CENTER
Artistic Director JESSICA LANG Executive Director WILLIAM WAGNER Dancers PATRICK COKER, JULIE FIORENZA, EVE JACOBS, KANA KIMURA, LAURA MEAD, MILAN MISKO, THOMAS RAGLAND, RACHEL SECREST, JAMMIE WALKER Production Stage Manager DANIEL DILLER Lighting Supervisor SHANNON CLARKE Company Manager CALLEN GOSSELIN For booking information, please contact: Margaret Selby- President, Selby/Artists Mgmt: 212.382.3261 | mselby@selbyartistsmgmt.com |selbyartistsmgmt.com
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ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE us/we (2018) Choreography: Jessica Lang Visual Artist and Scenic Designer: José Parlá Costume Design and Creations: Moriah Black Video Creations: Jose Parla, Moriah Black and Jessica Lang Projections Designer and Engineer: Anja Hose Video Coordinator: Milan Misko Music: David Lang, RAM JAM, El Michel’s Affair Sound Concept and Recordings: Jessica Lang, José Parlá, and Milan Misko Sound Designer and Audio Engineer: Hayat Dominguez Lighting Design: Stuart Wilson Technical Director: Gregory Rowland
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Patrick Coker, Julie Fiorenza, Eve Jacobs, Kana Kimura, Laura Mead, Milan Misko, Thomas Ragland, Rachel Secrest, Jammie Walker
“O Maria, stella maris” Performed by Trio Mediaeval (p) ECM Records 2005. Used by arrangement with ECM Records, Munich.
The Calling (2006) (excerpt from Splendid Isolation II) Choreography: Jessica Lang Music: Trio Mediaeval Costume Concept: Jessica Lang Costumes: Elena Comendador Original Lighting: Al Crawford, Recreated by Nicole Pearce Julie Fiorenza This work was originally premiered by Ailey II in 2006.
PAUSE This project was made possible with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. This project was created in residency at and cocommissioned by Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. Additional creative residency credits for Krannert Center Performing Arts Center include Terri Ciofalo - Director of Production, Alec LaBau - Assistant Production Manager, Bobby Reynolds-Technical Director, Cathy Fazio - Stage Manager, Kiana Schalk - Assistant Lighting Design and Programmer, Edith Moreno - Assistant to the Costume Designer, and Grace Chariya - Assistant Stage Manager “our land our peace”, and “our common fate” by David Lang part of full work “national anthems” on album Los Angeles Master Chorale + the Calder Quartet ©2016 Cantaloupe Music “Black Betty” by RAM JAM on album RAM JAM. Sony Music Licensing ©1977 “El Pueblo Unido” by El Michels Affair on album Sounding Out The City ©2016 Big Crown Records
“All things are possible once enough human beings realize that the whole of the human future is at stake.” - Norman Cousins 14
Thousand Yard Stare (2016) Choreography: Jessica Lang Music: Ludwig van Beethoven Lighting Design: Nicole Pearce Costume Design: Bradon McDonald Patrick Coker, Julie Fiorenza, Eve Jacobs, Kana Kimura, Laura Mead, Milan Misko, Thomas Ragland, Rachel Secrest, Jammie Walker This work was generously underwritten by Geoff Fallon and was co-commissioned by Des Moines Performing Arts.
Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet No. 15, Op 132. Third movement: Adagio “Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart” (Holy song of thanksgiving of a convalescent to the Deity, in the Lydian Mode). Performed by Takás Quartet.
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ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE INTERMISSION This Thing Called Love (2018) Celebrating the music of Tony Bennett Choreography: Jessica Lang Visual Art: Anthony Benedetto/Tony Bennett Stage Design: Jessica Lang Lighting Design: Nicole Pearce Costume Design: Bradon McDonald Audio Recording: Concept by Jessica Lang Voice: Tony Bennett Recording: Milan Misko Excerpt from the COLE PORTER MEDLEY Artwork: New York City Skyline Patrick Coker, Julie Fiorenza, Eve Jacobs, Kana Kimura, Laura Mead, Milan Misko, Thomas Ragland, Rachel Secrest, Jammie Walker I LEFT MY HEART IN SAN FRANCISCO Artwork: Bridge in a Fog, San Francisco Milan Misko with Ensemble CRAZY RHYTHM Artwork: NYC Cab Ensemble
This work was originally commissioned by The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College, Director Seth Soloway. This work was sponsored by SHS Foundation and Helen Melchior and made possible by the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts. This work was created (in part) during a residency at Kaatsbaan International Dance Center in Tivoli, New York. Jessica Lang Dance would like to give a special thanks to Benedetto Arts and RPM Productions for helping make this work possible. “Cole Porter Medley” Performed by Tony Bennett, Courtesy of Concord Records, a division of Concord Music Also courtesy of Warner Chappell and The Cole Porter Musical and Literary Property Trusts. “It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing” Performed by Tony Bennett Courtesy of Concord Records, a division of Concord Music and BMI. “Smile” Performed by Tony Bennett Courtesy of Columbia Legacy Music by Charles Chaplin Words by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons ©Copyright by Bourne Co. Copyright (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved International Copyright Secured Used By Permission
SMILE Artwork: Central Park Snowstorm Kana Kimura and Jammie Walker with Patrick Coker, Julie Fiorenza, Eve Jacobs, Milan Misko, Thomas Ragland and Rachel Secrest
“Crazy Rhythm” written by Irving Caesar, Roger Wolfe Kahn and Joseph Meye. All rights on behalf of Irving Caesar Music and itself administered by WB Music Corp. Also courtesy of Columbia Records.
IT DON’T MEAN A THING Artwork: Duke Ellington - Black Rain, Musicians Pori Jazz Festival ‘98 and Piano Player Pori Jazz Ensemble
“For Once in My Life” Performed by Tony Bennett, Courtesy of Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Columbia Records.
“I Left My Heart in San Francisco” Performed by Tony Bennett, Courtesy of Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Columbia Records.
FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE Artwork: New York Skyline Ensemble This Thing Called Love is dedicated to my mom and dad. - JL 801.399.9214
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ARTISTS’ PROFILES JESSICA LANG DANCE Since the company’s inception in 2011, Jessica Lang Dance (JLD) has been devoted to enriching and inspiring global audiences by immersing them in the beauty of movement and music. JLD’s diverse repertoire of original works, created by BessieAward winning Artistic Director Jessica Lang, embodies a genre-bending contemporary movement style that resists categorical definition. Hailed as “a master of visual composition” by Dance Magazine, Lang seamlessly incorporates striking design elements and transforms classical ballet language into artfully crafted, emotionally engaging works that feature gifted, graceful, and athletic performers. “Jessica Lang Dance is to movement what music is to sound.” - Mesa Performing Arts Examiner. The company has performed their repertoire of 25 unique works for audiences nationally and internationally in over 75 cities, 35 states, and 7 different countries. JLD’s trajectory is strongly influenced by a commitment to artistic collaboration with such renowned artists as architect Steven Holl, costume designer Bradon McDonald, lighting designer Nicole Pearce, and composer Jakub Ciupinski, as well as visual artist Shinichi Maruyama, among others. In 2017, Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival presented JLD in Lang’s rendition of Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater - hailed as “one of the most extraordinary experiences an opera-goer is likely to see … .” Her choreographic genius spans the breadth between these classical works and the legendary music of singer Tony Bennett, with the recent 2018 premiere of This Thing Called Love commissioned by the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College. JLD’s 2018-19 season began with two exceptional residencies to develop new work at White Oak and the coveted Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. JLD has been presented at premier venues and festivals worldwide including Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, BAM’s Next Wave Festival, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the 16
Harris Theater for Music and Dance, the Joyce Theater, the White Light Festival at Lincoln Center, Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center, Bolshoi’s Inversion Festival of Contemporary Dance, and Palacio de Bellas Artes, among many others. JESSICA LANG (Artistic Director) leads the creative vision of the organization which has garnered remarkable acclaim since the company’s founding in 2011. Under her artistic leadership, the company now offers more than 50 performances annually at some of the world’s most prestigious performing arts centers. Noted for her dedication to educational activities, Lang developed a unique curriculum for JLD called LANGuage, which is offered as part of the company’s programming on tour and locally in New York City, focusing on the Queens community. As one of the most celebrated choreographers of her generation, Lang choreographs and teaches throughout the world. She has created original works for companies including American Ballet Theatre, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, the National Ballet of Japan, and Joffrey, among many others. Lang has also worked in opera on the production Aida, directed by Francesca Zambello, for San Francisco Opera and Washington National Opera. She is the recipient of a 2014 Bessie Award and the 2017 Arison Award. Lang grew up in Bucks County, PA and has a diverse dance training background. She is a graduate of the Juilliard School under the direction of Benjamin Harkarvy and a former member of Twyla Tharp’s company THARP! PATRICK COKER (Dancer) grew up in Chester, Virginia. In May 2014, Coker graduated magna cum laude from the Ailey/Fordham BFA program, where he apprenticed with Ailey II in his final year. He has performed with Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Joshua Beamish’s MOVE: the company, Earl Mosley’s Diversity of Dance
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ARTISTS’ PROFILES and the Mark Morris Dance Group (in The Hard Nut and L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato). Coker began working with choreographer Jessica Lang in 2015 and in January 2016 Coker became a member of JLD. JULIE FIORENZA (Dancer) was born in South Korea and grew up in Massachusetts where she trained at the Academy of Dance Arts and the Boston Ballet School. She earned a B.F.A. in Dance from The Ailey School/Fordham University, graduating with honors, and has performed throughout the country as a member of Ailey II, Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company and Adams Company Dance. Fiorenza has danced at the Metropolitan Opera in its productions of Turandot and Mark Morris’ Orfeo ed Euridice. She has performed with the Mark Morris Dance Group in Romeo & Juliet: On Motifs of Shakespeare, The Hard Nut, and L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, and appeared with MMDG in the television debut of L’Allegro which aired in March 2015 on Great Performances. In 2011, Fiorenza became a founding member of JLD. She has also worked with Lang in collaboration with visual artist Shinichi Maruyama appearing in the film White. EVE JACOBS (Dancer) is an NYC based dance artist from Chicago. She trained in ballet at North Carolina School of the Arts and received her B.F.A. in Dance from The Juilliard School in 2014. At Juilliard, Jacobs performed in works by iconic choreographers such as Pina Bausch, Ohad Naharin, and Lar Lubovitch, and began to create her own work. A recipient of the Hector Zaraspe Prize for Choreography, Jacobs’ work has been featured at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Brooklyn’s White Wave Dance, in Juilliard’s Performing Educational Programs, and in Bridge Production Group’s Richard III at Fourth Street Theater. Jacobs joined JLD in 2015. In addition to performing, she has staged Lang’s work for the Des Moines Dance Project and currently assists her for the American Ballet Theater’s Make A Ballet program. 801.399.9214
KANA KIMURA (Dancer) was born in Hiroshima, Japan, where she began her ballet training at the age of four and studied contemporary dance with Takako Asakawa. After graduating from The Juilliard School, Kimura worked with Wally Cardona Quartet. She also appeared in Nixon in China at The Metropolitan Opera, choreographed by Mark Morris, worked on a dance video performance for Shanghai Expo, and has also performed with Japanese Arts Organization J-Collabo in NYC. She was in an Off-Broadway show The Nutcracker Rouge with Company XIV. In 2011, Kimura became a founding member of JLD. She has also worked with Lang on collaborative projects with visual artist Shinichi Maruyama including the film White and print series Nudes. LAURA MEAD (Dancer) grew up in Austin, TX and Berkeley, CA. She received a B.F.A. in Dance from The Juilliard School, where she performed works by Jessica Lang, Ronald K. Brown, Eliot Feld and Paul Taylor, among others. Mead originated the principal role of Betsy in Twyla Tharp’s Broadway musical Come Fly Away, for which she received an Astaire Award nomination. Mead served as Dance Captain on a national tour of Tharp’s Movin’ Out. She has also performed with American Repertory Ballet, the Metropolitan Opera, Morphoses, Post:Ballet, and Los Angeles Dance Project. She has helped to stage Lang’s work on various schools and companies. Mead has been a member of JLD since the full company’s debut in 2012. MILAN MISKO (Dancer) was raised in Missouri, where he began his dance training with Jo Noth’s White Oak Dance Academy and the Kansas City Ballet School. He holds a BFA from the Purchase College Conservatory of Dance. Misko has worked with Kansas City Ballet, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Merce Cunningham Dance Company RUG, Kazuko Hirabayashi Dance Theater, Adams Company Dance, and Setsuko Kawaguchi Ballet, Japan. He has created dances for Take Dance, Bucknell University,
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ARTISTS’ PROFILES and directed his first short dance film, Transportation, which was selected for Lincoln Center’s Dance on Camera Festival 2013. Misko became a member of JLD in 2012. In addition to performing the work of Jessica Lang, Misko has staged her work on Rutgers University. THOMAS RAGLAND (Dancer) of Richmond, Virginia, began his dance training with Annette Holt and the Parks and Recreation City Dance Program. He then continued his training with The School of Richmond Ballet, eventually attending both its trainee and apprentice programs. Ragland attended the Juilliard Summer Intensive and danced with the City Dance Troupe. He was a member of Richmond Ballet for ten seasons. Ragland joined JLD in 2017. RACHEL SECREST (Dancer) is originally from Carmel, Indiana, where she grew up training under Suzann DeLay. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Ailey/Fordham BFA program with degrees in Dance and Political Science. There she had the opportunity to perform works by Alvin Ailey, Ronald K. Brown, Dwight Rhoden, Camille Brown, and Adam Barruch, among others. She has attended training programs at Hubbard Street, Joffrey Ballet, Northwest Dance Project, and Springboard Danse Montreal. Rachel has been a company member with Abarukas, and also worked with Omar Roman de Jesus, River North Dance Chicago, and Parsons Dance. In 2017, she began working with Jessica Lang Dance, where she is currently a company member. JAMMIE WALKER (Dancer) began his dance training at Western Arkansas Ballet under the direction of Melissa Schoenfeld. He earned his BFA from the University of Oklahoma School of Dance under the direction of Mary Margaret Holt. Walker has had the honor of touring in China and Austria with Oklahoma Festival Ballet. He danced with the Dayton Ballet for three seasons, performing works by such choreographers as Septime Webre, Amy Seiwart, 18
Jessica Lang, and Stuart Sebastian. He has performed with Dance Grand Moultrie as well as with Clawson Dances. Walker became a member of JLD in 2016. In addition to performing, Walker has staged Lang’s work on Dayton Ballet and currently assists her for the American Ballet Theatre’s Make A Ballet program. Collaborators: TONY BENNETT’s life and philosophy is the embodiment of the Great American Story. His career as the pre-eminent singer of the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented. He continues to be embraced and loved by audiences of all generations. Born in Queens, N.Y., in 1926, Mr. Bennett served in the Army during World War II and marched with Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma during the Civil Rights Movement, and was honored by the United Nations for his humanitarian efforts and ideals. As a musical performer he has received 19 Grammy Awards, is a Kennedy Center Honoree and an NEA Jazz Master and in 2017 became the first interpretive singer to receive The Gershwin Prize from the Library of Congress. With his wife Susan, he established Exploring the Arts to support arts education in public high schools. Tony Bennett is also an accomplished painter whose passion for the visual arts began as a child growing up in Astoria, Queens and has flourished throughout his life. Painting under his given name of Anthony Benedetto, he has three paintings in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC and has exhibited his artwork in museums and galleries throughout the world. Whether performing in concert for sold out audiences or painting in his art studio in New York City, Tony Bennett has used his exceptional creative talents to search for “truth and beauty” in his artistry. MORIAH BLACK (Costume Designer) is the clothing designer behind ren6; an ethical clothing concept specializing in one-of-kind
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ARTISTS’ PROFILES garments made from recycled clothing. Like paintings, her pieces are made in the technique or style alluding to décollage. Using a synchronistic application of fabric, her aesthetic reflects culture and current affairs, much like the city walls she reveres. She studied at Central Saint Martins in London and earned her BFA from Parsons the New School for Design. HAYAT DOMINQUEZ (Sound Design/engineer) originally from Kansas, is a 2nd year Graduate student studying audio at the University of Illinois. She’s had the pleasure of working in South Dakota, Colorado, and New Mexico with companies such as the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and the Santa Fe Opera. Hayat worked with Jessica Lang with sound design and engineering as a part of a creative process that is unique to the Krannert Center for Performing Arts residency at University of Illinois Urbana/ Champaign. After graduating Hayat plans to move to Colorado to freelance in Sound Design. ANJA HOSE greatly enjoyed the chance to collaborate with the Jessica Lang Dance Company and José Parla on us/we. Her passion has always been for dance, but in recent years she has designed a number of operatic productions with Lyric @ Illinois, including Don Giovanni, Hansel and Gretel, and The Light in the Piazza. Originally from beautiful Boulder, CO, she is currently finishing her MFA in Media Design at the University of Illinois. BRADON MCDONALD (Costume Designer) is a dancer turned designer and has had a diverse career in the performing and visual arts. A graduate of Juilliard, he performed with Mark Morris Dance Group for a decade, and also with the Limon Dance Company. Upon retiring from the stage, he returned to the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising Los Angeles where he earned two fashion design degrees. After his success on the Emmy award winning Project Runway Season 12, he has been creating custom garments for private clients, designing stage 801.399.9214
costumes for Dance and Opera productions including ABT, PNB, and LAOpera, and has a dancewear collection: BRADON X CAPEZIO. JOSÉ PARLÁ (Artist) is a critically acclaimed, multidisciplinary artist in painting, large scale murals, photography, video and sculpture. Layers of paint, gestural drawing and found ephemera combine to evoke the histories of urban environments. Using the backdrop of world cities, he creates abstractions that can appear to be photorealist fragments of what he sees in the chaos and rush of the metropolis. His work reflects the ephemeral layers of walls that show a place that was, but no longer is—built over, renewed in some other configuration, in the present, engaging memory and imagination with the contemporary. His work has been exhibited at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; The SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah College of Art & Design, Georgia; The Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York; National YoungArts Foundation, Miami, FL; Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College, North Carolina; and The Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba, among others. Parlá’s work is in several public collections including, The British Museum, London, United Kingdom; The AlbrightKnox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, POLA Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan; and The National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba.Collaborative projects include, The 11th Havana Biennial with Wrinkles of the City: Havana, Cuba project, which was completed in 2012 between Parlá and French artist JR. Parlá also worked with the Caldera Arts Program at The Portland Art Museum where he collaborated with participating youth for his Signature Roots, workshop and installation. Permanent Public Arts projects include commissions by ONE World Trade Center, the University of Texas at Austin, the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Academy of Music, BAM Fisher, North Carolina State University’s Hunt Library by Snøhetta; and at Concord City Place, Toronto, Canada.
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ARTISTS’ PROFILES NICOLE PEARCE (Lighting Designer) Previously with Jessica Lang: 20 works (Jessica Lang Dance, National Ballet of Japan, Pacific Northwest Ballet, & American Ballet Theater). Selected dance with Mark Morris, Aszure Barton, Robert Battle, Sonya Tayeh, Andrea Miller, John Heginbotham, Brian Brooks, Alexander Ekman, Kyle Abraham, & Annabelle Lopez-Ochoa, and companies including Joffrey Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, Houston Ballet, Hubbard Street, Malpaso, Finnish National Opera, Gallim, Mark Morris Dance Group, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, & Nederlands Dance Theater. Selected theater credits includes work with directors: Edward Albee, Maria Mileaf, Amir Nazir Zuabi, Ed Sylvanus Iskandar, & Jade King Carroll. With companies including The Cherry Lane, The Play Company, McCarter Theater, Long Wharf Theater, Hartford Stage, Williamstown Theater Festival, Juilliard School Opera, & Minnesota Opera. www.nicolepearcedesign.com STUART WILSON (Lighting Designer) is a lighting design student in the final year of his masters program at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. Originally from Indiana, he has designed and worked on a number of professional and academic shows in the areas of theater, dance, and opera in the Midwest. He is both thrilled and thankful for the opportunity to work with Jessica Lang Dance following the workshop for us/we that took place in August of 2018. JLD would like to thank its Board of Trustees and generous donors who made tonight’s program possible. We are especially grateful to our Sponsors’ Circle members for making our 2018–19 touring season and the new work we create and present possible: Underwriting Sponsors Sarah Arison Jay Franke and David Herro Brian J. Heidtke Ann and Weston Hicks
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Presenting Sponsors Dau Family Foundation Deidra Wager and Rick Munsen Strelizia Foundation Supporting Sponsors Charlie and Debra Adelman Helen Melchior Elizabeth and Mark Striebeck We are also enormously grateful to our major funders who make everything possible: The New York Community Trust, Howard Gilman Foundation, Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, The SHS Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, the Jerome Robbins Foundation, the Irving Harris Foundation, the O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Dance/ NYC and the ArtsCONNECT program of Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.
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FRIENDS OF OSBA OSBA thanks the following individuals, corporations, foundations, and public funding sources for their generous donations! Ogden Symphony Ballet Association is an exempt organization as described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The following is a list of contributors from June 2018 through May 2019. Please contact OSBA's Development Director, Taylor Knuth, at 801-399-9214 if you would like to make a donation or if your name has been inadvertently left off the following list or is misspelled. Thank you again for your generous support!
Season Sponsor ($100,000+) OSBA Foundation Stewart Education Foundation
Weber County RAMP
Series Sponsor ($25,000+) Alan & Jeanne Hall Foundation The Standard- Examiner
Val A. Browning Charitable Foundation
Concert Sponsor ($10,000+) Lawrence T. Dee & Janet T. Dee Foundation Matthew B. Ellis Foundation Richard K. & Shirley S. Hemingway Foundation Robert & Marcia Harris
Norman C. & Barbara L. Tanner Charitable Trust National Endowment for the Arts The Pinto Foundation Utah Division of Arts & Museums
Diamond ($5,000 – $9,999) George S. & Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation Beaver Creek Foundation
Ogden City Arts Merril Lynch - Bank of America
Platinum ($2,500 – $4,999) MSL Family Foundation Dr. Robert Fudge & Sylvia Newman Dr. William & Barbara Hughes
Keith & Ellen Opprecht Marty & Carolyn Rasmussen
Gold ($1,000 – $2,499) Glen & Genette Biddulph Evan & Geraldine Christensen Dr. & Mrs. Fred Clayson Dr. Rosemary Conover & Luckey Heath Brent & Vicki Cox Foundation Ralph Nye Charitable Foundation Bean Family Foundation
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Donna & Ralph Friz George & Mary Hall Dean Hurst Dr. Val Johnson Michael & Sharon Lloyd Jean & Richard Miller Dr. Judith Mitchell Robert & Jelean Montgomery
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FRIENDS OF OSBA Silver ($500 – $999) Kay Ballif Marlene Barnett Melissa & William Bennett Taylor Knuth & Sean Bishop Melissa & Jon Klein Mary & Lee Forrest Carter Lynne & Steven W. Carter Dr. Douglas Deis Dr. Ann Ellis Rick & Karen Fairbanks Doug & Shelley Felt
Willis McCree & John Fromer John & Heather Gordon Marlin Jensen Paul C. & Cindy Kunz Allan & Kay Lipman Val & Karen Lofgreen Dr. David Malone & Madonne Miner Dr. Rand & Cynthia Mattson Dr. Mark & Meg Naisbitt Maurine Naisbitt Ornata Motor Company
Scott & Pam Parkinson Suzy Patterson Patrick E. Poce & Deon Gooch Eloise Runolfson Greg & Susan Shreeve Jan & Mike Slabaugh Jonathan Beverly Souder Richard & Judy Webber Hal Wheelwright
Thomas Fearn Jill Flamm Christopher Ford William & Anita Ford Linda Forest Pat Fuller John Gingrich David & Ruth Ann Gladwell Nancy Green Jeff Gyllenskog David & Joan Hadley Mardee Hagen Austin Halbritter Kim & Becky Hale Tina & Robert Herman Jeanne Hinchman Robert & Rula Hunter Robert Irvine Carol Jackson Dr. Michael & Lori Jacobazzi Eric & Becky Jacobson Dorothy Johnson Steve Johnston William & Jackie Jones Melba & Denis Kirby Knights of Columbus #14399 Paul Kriekard Andrea Lane Kent & SannDee Lindquist William & Sarah Lindsay Jeanette Long Eugene & Pat Low Melba L. Lucas
Jan & Jerome Luger Ivaloo Lund Verlene Lund Sharon Macfarlane Dwayne Manful Debra Marin Frank & Sharon Markos Erika Martin Sandy & Phillip Maxwell Evalyn McBurnie Andy & Susan Mccrady James & Jennifer McGregor Arturo & Sarah Mendoza Wayne & Nada Miller Karen Miner Dr. & Mrs. Noel Nellis Wendy Nelson Gary & Marilyn Newman Arthur & Ruth Nielsen Claude Nix Jason & Kristina Olsen Cheryl Orme Donald Pantone Val & Marlene Parrish Jeff Paulson Paul & Sandra Perkin Janet Petersen Matt Pollard Joan & Paul Powell Keith & Mary Sue Rasmussen Juergen Sass Howard Schuyler Jackie Shafer
Bronze ($100 – $499) Anonymous Lyle & LaVon Allen Vickie Anderson Zana Anderson Lee Badger Paul & Georgia Bennion Phil & Melanee Berger Lisa Brasher Kathleen P. Browning Arthur & Marian Budge Janice Burk Jeffry & Linda Burton Brad & Lynn Carroll Kitty Chatelain Dr. Allen & Janis Christensen Cathay Christiansen Franco Cirilo Ellie Cole Clark & Pat Combe Phyllis Combe Kim & Becky Crumbo Lynn & Natalie Dearden Carolyn Deru Allan & Kellie Diersman DeLoris & Dale Dorius Kathy Douglas Diana Dunkley David & Robbyn Dunn John Eckstein David & Lisa Edwards Ogden Chapter of MacDowell Ensemble Janet & Steven Evans
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FRIENDS OF OSBA Bronze ($100 – $499) continued. Lawanna Shurtliff Darin & Jo Sjoblom Denise Sly Carolyn Smith Sempre Musical Society Paul & Carol Sonntag Keith & Marlys Sorbo Forrest & Rolayne Staffanson Dr. John & Colleen Starley Edward & Mari Lou Steffen Dorothy Steimke
Ned & Sheila Stephens Darlene Stoddard Edna Stratford Mark & Elizabeth Stratford Jeneile Tams Jeane Taylor Joann Taylor Jan Thurston Patti Van Aarle Harold & Emily Vonk Lucinda & Phillip Wagner
A. Steven Waldrip Melvin Walker Andrew & Suzanne Wall Bruce Wallace Brent & Gloria Wallis Sheldon & Janice Ward Barbara & Gerald West Kent & Trudy Whiteman Helgard Wolfram Larry Zaugg
I Fly I Float The Front Industrial Art & Design Dr. Michael & Jennifer Webb Julie Johnson Kaffe Mercantille Klymit Linda Forest Mainstreet Music Mount Ogden Golf Course Northrop Grumman Conference Center Ogden Athletic Club Ogden School Foundation Ogden’s Own Distillery
Play Like a Pro Tennis Academy REAL Salt Lake Red Butte Gardens Red Pine Adventures Roosters Brewing Schneiter’s Golf Course Sean Slatter Social Axe Sylvia Newman Taggart’s Talisman Brewing Company Utah Museum of Natural History Utah Royals Wendy Roberts WSU Lindquist College Zucca Trattoria
In-Kind Donors Alamexo ALSCO Argo House Attention to Detail Bella Muse Bhav Yoga Den Bigelow Hotel CenterPoint Legacy Theatre Color Me Mine Corn Belly’s Maze at Thanksgiving Point Costa Vida at the Junction Eccles Art Center Egan Auto Farr Better Ice Cream Hale Centre Theatre
MEMORIAL DONATIONS In Memory of Robert & Joyce Anderson In Memory of Marie Irvine Michael & Sharon Lloyd Zana Anderson
In Memory of Bob Lewis Sempre Musical Society
In Memory of Charles Combe Phyllis Combe
In Memory of Dorothy Jones Ann Alene Dunn William & Lorna Kennedy
In Memory of Nyla Petersen Sharon Macfarlane Jan Thurston
In Memory of Roseanne Peery King Keith & Ellen Opprecht
In Memory of Bruce E. & Rella Wallace Bruce Wallace
In Memory of Joseph Dixon Karen Miner In Memory of Joseph Draper Sharon Macfarlane
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