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Choreography by Neil Ieremia

Wednesday, March 22, 2017 â&#x20AC;˘ 7:30PM Please turn off all cell phones, pagers and other noisemakers. The taking of photographs, and audio or video recordings is strictly prohibited.

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Program CHOREOGRAPHER’S NOTES • All Choreography is by Neil Ieremia • Program order is subject to change Minoi (premiered 1999) Minoi fuses a traditional Samoan dance style known as Fa’ataupati (slap dance) and western contemporary dance. It also utilises live singing and vocalisations based on an old Samoan nursery rhyme. Music: Minoi Minoi (traditional), arranged by Neil Ieremia Lighting Design: Mark Burlace Pati Pati (premiered 2009) Pati Pati is a ritualistic dance made from the bones of older works dating back to the beginning of Black Grace and drawing on elements of traditional Pacific dance. Music: Original music from Surface (2003), Neil Ieremia and Juse Lighting Design: Nik Janiurek, adapted by Bonnie Burrill Pause Crying Men – Excerpt (premiered 2017) Filtered through a Pacific lens, this excerpt is the beginning of what will become a new full-length work exploring some of the challenges we face as males living in today’s world, struggling with the expectations of what it means to be a “real man”. Music: Redaction, Richard Nunns, Mark Lockett & Jeff Henderson Material Instinct, Richard Nunns, Mark Lockett & Jeff Henderson Two Minds, Richard Nunns & Mark Lockett Bully, TrinityRoots Lighting Design: Bonnie Burrill Pause Mother Mother (premiered 2013) Mother Mother was originally choreographed for a music video, on request of popular New Zealand band Fat Freddy’s Drop. “Mother Mother is a tribute to my mother who is often the unsung hero in my family. Even to this day she helps to prop me up when things get tough, knocks me back when I get ahead of myself, reminds me to never forget where I come from and to always be grateful for what I have.” – Neil Ieremia Music: Mother Mother, Fat Freddy’s Drop Lighting Design: Mark Burlace

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Program Intermission – 20 minutes As Night Falls (premiered 2016) While the creative process started with news stories from around the world, often dark and at times overwhelming, As Night Falls is essentially a dance about hope. The raw material included images of broken bodies littering the streets of war torn countries, terrorist attacks on innocent civilians, protests against police brutality and the aftermath of more natural disasters. It was an image of a father shielding his son, buried beneath the rubble of a collapsed building after another airstrike that simultaneously captured the best and worst of us, and it was at that moment I decided I needed to try and create some light from the darkness. I created the movement vocabulary based on this imagery and formed the overall compositional structures much like the layout of a broadsheet newspaper. I’m not sure exactly why I chose the music I did in the end, suffice to say that much to my surprise Vivaldi stuck when all the others fell away. While listening to some old gospel records I was reminded of a verse from a hymn I used to sing as a kid.

Photo credit: Duncan Cole

As Night Falls is my very small exchange of “beauty for ashes, oil of joy for mourning, a garment of praise for a spirit of heaviness.”

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Music Concerto in G Minor for 2 Cellos, Strings and Basso continuo, RV 531: I. Allegro, Ton Koopman, Yo-Yo Ma, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Jonathan Manson Concerto No. 8 in A Minor, RV 522: I. Allegro, Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Stabrawa & Nigel Kennedy Concerto in G Minor for 2 Cellos, Strings and Basso continuo, RV 531: III. Allegro, Ton Koopman, Yo-Yo Ma, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Jonathan Manson Nisi Dominus, RV 608: IV. Cum Dederit, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Ensemble Matheus & Philippe Jaroussky Little Sea Gongs, JPC Percussion Museum & Gareth Farr The Four Seasons, Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, RV 315, Op. 8 No. 2 “Summer”: I. Allegro non molto, Berliner Philharmoniker & Nigel Kennedy The Four Seasons, Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, RV 315, Op. 8 No. 2 “Summer”: III. Presto, Berliner Philharmoniker & Nigel Kennedy The Four Seasons, Concerto No. 4 in F Minor, RV 297, Op. 8 No. 4 “Winter”: I. Allegro non molto, Berliner Philharmoniker & Nigel Kennedy Concerto No. 8 in A Minor, RV 522: II. Larghetto e sSpiritoso, Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Stabrawa & Nigel Kennedy The Lord’s Prayer (In Samoan), Choir of Western Samoa Teachers’ Training College, Apia Concerto No. 8 in A Minor, RV 522: III. Allegro, Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Stabrawa & Nigel Kennedy LIGHTING DESIGN:

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Biographies Neil Ieremia, ONZM

Choreographer/Artistic Director Neil Ieremia is one of New Zealand’s most accomplished choreographers, a creative entrepreneur and inspirational leader. Born in Wellington and of Samoan heritage, Mr Ieremia was raised in a tough working class neighbourhood in a country more focused on sporting prowess and agriculture rather than creative expression. At the age of nineteen and with no formal training, Mr Ieremia resigned from his banking job, left home, enrolled in a full time dance programme and broke his parents’ hearts. In his final year of training he was invited to join the prestigious Douglas Wright Dance Company whom he worked for until 1996. As a freelance professional dancer, Mr Ieremia also worked with many other leading New Zealand choreographers as well as creating a number of commissioned works. Motivated to provide a different perspective and a fresh voice in the dance scene, Mr Ieremia founded his own company, Black Grace, in 1995, with ten male dancers of Pacific, Maori and New Zealand heritage. Since then he has changed the face of contemporary dance in New Zealand and turned Black Grace into one of the most recognizable and iconic cultural brands. His company tours the length and breadth of New Zealand developing new audiences and a new appreciation for dance. Internationally his work has been presented in Australia, Canada, Germany, Holland, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, New Caledonia, South Korea, Scotland, Switzerland, Taiwan, France and the United States of America. Numerous ‘firsts’ for a New Zealand choreographer include sell-out performances at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival (USA debut 2004 and 2005), a four-week season on New York City’s 42nd Street, performances at the renowned Cervantino Festival in Mexico, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the 2010 Cultural Olympiad in Vancouver. Among his many other achievements, Mr Ieremia has received a 2005 Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Award, and the 2009 Paul D. Fleck Fellowship in the Arts from The Banff Centre, Canada. In 2009 Black Grace was BLACK GRACE

Biographies presented with a resolution passed by the Guam Legislator in recognition of their work with local communities, and 2010 saw the Mayor of Honolulu officially proclaim the 6th February 2010 as “Black Grace Day”. Black Grace received a Herald Angel Award at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In 2015, Mr Ieremia received a City of Porirua Anniversary Award and the Senior Pacific Artist Award from Creative New Zealand. Most recently, Mr Ieremia was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to dance.

Siaosi Mulipola

Creative Assistant Siaosi is a founding member of Black Grace, performing with the Company until 1998. In recent years, Siaosi has devised performances in Samoa and New Zealand reflecting Pasifika communities and addressing topics such as social disparities and health issues. His passion for developing Pacific performing arts gave opportunity to mentor and to strengthen choreographic assignments at the Pacific Institute of Performing Arts where he worked from 2011 2013. In 2015, Siaosi was invited and commissioned by Black Grace to choreograph a short work Tautua – To Serve for the special 20 For 20 New Zealand tour, in celebration of the Company’s 20th Anniversary.

DANCERS Sean MacDonald

(Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Raukawa) Sean performed with Black Grace in the Company’s inaugural season in 1995, and has worked with the Company on and off ever since. Sean started dancing at the age of 18, training at the Auckland Performing Arts School and the New Zealand School of Dance. He has worked with New Zealand’s leading choreographers and dance companies, performing extensively nationally and internationally. Highlights of Sean’s longstanding career with Black Grace include performances in Relentless, Surface and Gathering Clouds, and various international tours to North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

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Biographies Zoë Visvanathan

(Ngāti Kahungunu) Zoë completed a National Diploma in Dance Performance from the New Zealand School of Dance. Since graduating in 2005, she has worked with several New Zealand choreographers including; Ann Dewey, Douglas Wright and Raewyn Hill. Zoë first performed with Black Grace for the debut of Gathering Clouds in 2009 and has since become a fulltime member of the Company, performing nationally and internationally in Europe, Asia and North America. Zoë has also assisted rehearsals for domestic and international tours, as well as leading numerous Black Grace master classes.

Sarah Baron

Sarah, of NZ European descent, is a 2007 graduate of the New Zealand School of Dance. Sarah was awarded a scholarship to attend the 2007 Cultural Traditions Programme at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts, USA, directed by Neil Ieremia. Sarah joined Black Grace in 2011 for the national tour of Verses and since then has performed in the debut seasons of Vaka, Xmas Verses and As Night Falls, and enjoyed touring extensively to Germany, Luxembourg, North America, Edinburgh, South Korea, France and the Netherlands.

Callum Sefo

Callum is of Samoan and Scottish heritage and was raised in Porirua, New Zealand. Callum completed a degree in Performing Arts at Whitireia Polytechnic and in 2013 was invited to join Black Grace for performances throughout North America and New Zealand, performing in Vaka, Amata, Xmas Verses, Siva and most recently in As Night Falls. Callum has also enjoyed performing with Black Grace in South Korea, Scotland, France, the Netherlands, and Taiwan.

Brydie Colquhoun

(Ngā Puhi/Te Rarawa) Brydie is from Ahipara, New Zealand, and is a 2012 graduate of the New Zealand School of Dance. Brydie has performed with Black Grace since 2012 nationally and internationally in Vaka, Human Language, Amata, Mother Mother, Xmas Verses and Pati Pati. She has also worked on the World of Wearable Arts Awards Show and danced with Footnote New Zealand from 2015 - 2016. BLACK GRACE

Biographies Otis Herring

Originally from Georgia, USA, Otis earned a BFA from Howard University in Washington, D.C. before working for several companies in New York City, including Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, A Dance Company and Camille A. Brown & Dancers. In 2013 Otis moved to New Zealand to join Black Grace, and has since performed throughout New Zealand in Vaka, Xmas Verses, Siva and Another Letter from Earth, As Night Falls, and on international tours to Europe, South Korea and the USA.

Demi-Jo Manalo

Demi-Jo, of Malaysian and Filipino descent, is originally from Sydney, Australia, and graduated from the New Zealand School of Dance in 2015 with a Diploma in Dance Performance. During her training she worked with numerous New Zealand and international choreographers. Demi-Jo made her professional debut touring with Black Grace to France and the Netherlands, including the Holland Dance Festival in 2016, performing in Human Language, Mother Mother and Gathering Clouds, before returning to Auckland for the season of Another Letter from Earth as well as performing with the Company in Taiwan.

Shane Tofaeono

A New Zealand born Samoan, Shane was raised in Te Puke and discovered his passion for dance at High School before moving to Auckland to study towards a Bachelor in Performing and Screen Arts majoring in Contemporary Dance at Unitec, where he graduated in 2015. Shane joined Black Grace in 2016, making his professional debut on an international tour to France and the Netherlands, and performed in Neil Ieremia’s Another Letter from Earth as part of the Auckland Arts Festival, as well as the premiere season of As Night Falls.

Paige Shand

(Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi) Paige Shand was born and raised in Wellington and is a 2014 graduate of the New Zealand School of Dance. Since graduating, Paige has worked with Aotearoa Aerial Theatre Company, Tawata Productions, and has also modelled and danced for the World Of Wearable Art Awards Show in New Zealand and China. Paige has worked with Footnote New

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Rodney Tyrell

Of Samoan descent, Rodney grew up in West Auckland and first discovered dance at high school, participating in cultural performances and Hip Hop dance competitions. Rodney studied dance at Unitec, graduating with a Bachelor in Performing and Screen Arts majoring in Contemporary Dance in 2015. This tour marks Rodney’s debut with Black Grace.

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Black Grace Credits Founding Artistic Director/CEO Neil Ieremia, ONZM

Sustaining Partner Creative New Zealand

Choreographer Neil Ieremia, ONZM

Funding Partner Foundation North

Company Manager/Tour Manager James Wasmer

Funders Auckland Council Albert-Eden Local Board

Creative Assistant/Stage Manager Siaosi Mulipola Tour Administrator Abby Ieremia Rehearsal Assistant/Company Teacher Zoë Visvanathan Dancers Sean MacDonald Zoë Visvanathan Sarah Baron Callum Sefo Brydie Colquhoun Otis Herring Demi-Jo Manalo Shane Tofaeono Paige Shand Rodney Tyrell Zildjian Robinson (Apprentice Dancer) Technical Manager Jax Messenger The Black Grace Trust Haydn Wong (Chair) Sam Sefuiva Bernice Mene Neil Ieremia, ONZM

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