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Merce Cunningham Centennial CNDC d’Angers/Robert Swinston SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2019 • 8PM Jackson Hall, UC Davis
This event features a post-show Q&A session with the audience. Q&A Moderator: Ruth Rosenberg, Director of Arts Education and Artist Engagement
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PROGRAM
Merce Cunningham Centennial CNDC d’Angers/Robert Swinston Beach Birds
Choreography: Merce Cunningham Music: Four 3 - John Cage First Performance: June 20, 1991 - Theater 11, Zurich, Switzerland Reconstruction: Robert Swinston Dancers: Marion Baudinaud, Antonin Chediny, Matthieu Chayrigues, Anna Chirescu, Pierre Guilbault, Gianni Joseph, Haruka Miyamoto, Catarina Pernão, Flora Rogeboz, Carlo Schiavo, Claire Seigle-Goujon Live Musicians: Gavin Bryars, Morgan Goff, Audrey Riley, James Woodrow Costume Designer: Marsha Skinner Costume Maker: Cathy Garnier Lighting Designer: Marsha Skinner Production: Centre national de danse contemporaine - Angers Courtesy of Merce Cunningham Trust and Peters Editions
BIPED
Choreography: Merce Cunningham Music: BIPED - Gavin Bryars First Performance: April 23, 1999 - Zellerbach Hall, University of California, Berkeley Reconstruction: Robert Swinston Assisted By: Ashley Chen et Cheryl Therrien Dancers: Guyonn Auriau, Marion Baudinaud, Matthieu Chayrigues, Antonin Chediny, Anna Chirescu, Xavier Gocel, Pierre Guilbault, Gianni Joseph, Adélie Marck, Haruka Miyamoto, Catarina Pernão, Flora Rogeboz, Carlo Schiavo, Claire Seigle-Goujon Live Musicians: Gavin Bryars, Morgan Goff, Audrey Riley, James Woodrow Projected Artwork By: Shelley Eshkar, Paul Kaiser Costumes Designer: Suzanne Gallo Light Designer: Aaron Copp Production: Centre national de danse contemporaine - Angers Thanks to Davison Scandrett Courtesy of Merce Cunningham Trust and Peters Editions All choreography by Merce Cunningham © Merce Cunningham Trust, all rights reserved. The music credit for BIPED in the license is: Used by arrangement with European American Music Distributors Company, sole U.S. and Canadian agent for Schott Music Ltd., London, publisher and copyright owner. The artists and fellow audience members appreciate silence during the performance. Please be sure that you have switched off cellular phones, watch alarms and pager signals. Videotaping, photographing and audio recording are strictly forbidden. Violators are subject to removal. MONDAVI CENTER 2019 –20 |
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PROGRAM NOTES
ABOUT BEACH BIRDS “I had three things in mind: one was birds, obviously, or animals or whatever, but also humans on the beach and also one of the things that I love so much on shores—the way you are looking at a rock and you go around it, and it looks different each time, as though it were alive, too. Those three images are part of what I worked at. In dividing the structures the way I always do, I used those three things as something to think about ...” —Merce Cunningham Cunningham said of his choreography for Beach Birds, “It is all based on individual physical phrasing. The dancers don’t have to be exactly together. They can dance like a flock of birds, when they suddenly take off.” A work for 11 dancers, the rhythm for Beach Birds was much more fluid than other Cunningham dances, so that the sections could differ in length from performance to performance. John Cage composed the music, and painter Marsha Skinner provided the costumes and decor. The dancers were dressed identically in all-white leotards and tights, with black gloves. Skinner’s backcloth was a white scrim on which the light varied in color and intensity, decided by a lighting plot that was devised using chance methods. While the timings did not relate to the dance structure, the gradual changes of light have been interpreted to imitate those that might occur from dawn to dusk on a beach. Beach Birds was adapted for film in the award-winning Beach Birds for Camera.
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ABOUT BIPED Cunningham has written: “The dance gives me the feeling of switching channels on the TV ... the action varies from slow formal sections to rapid broken-up sequences where it is difficult to see all the complexity.” Many people have commented on the elegiac nature of the closing moments of the piece. The decor for BIPED is an exploration of the possibilities of the animation technology of motion capture. Digital artists Paul Kaiser and Shelley Eshkar collaborated with Cunningham who, working with two dancers, choreographed 70 phrases that were transposed into digital images. These animated images, as well as abstract patterns (vertical and horizontal lines, dots, clusters), are projected on to a scrim at the front of the stage, behind which the live dancers may be seen. Cunningham also used computer software, DanceForms, to develop the choreography for the dance, which is in a number of sections: solos, duets, trios and ensemble dances. The music by Gavin Bryars, also called Biped, is partly recorded and partly played live on acoustic instruments. Suzanne Gallo’s costumes use a metallic fabric that reflects light. At one point in the dance, the men, clothed in pajama-like outfits in a transparent fabric, bring on tops in the same fabric for the women. Aaron Copp devised the lighting, dividing the stage floor into squares lit in what looked like a random sequence, as well as the curtained booths at the back of the stage that permit the dancers to appear and disappear.
The site goes on to explain how Cunningham approached collaborations by sharing that:
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he website managed by the Merce Cunningham Trust, MerceCunningham.org, offers some fascinating insight into the way Merce Cunningham created. For example, of his willingness to take chances with choreography, the site explains the following: One of Merce Cunningham’s most influential strategies was his use of chance and randomness as a creative tool. Cunningham would often flip coins, roll dice, or even consult the I-Ching to guide the way he structured his choreography. This strategy, also favored by John Cage, challenged traditional notions of storytelling in dance. Cunningham described randomness as a way to free his imagination from its own clichés, counterbalancing his own rigorous creative process with unexpected moments of wonder.
In the 1940s, Merce Cunningham and his life partner, composer John Cage, developed a radical new concept: Music and dance could exist independently within the same performance. The dancers’ movements would no longer be tied to the rhythms, mood and structure of music. Instead, all forms of art could stand alone, simply sharing a common space and time. This idea would become a cornerstone of Cunningham’s artistic practice and frame his collaborations with a range of visual artists, composers, filmmakers, dancers and designers, whom he brought together in this generous spirit and encouraged to experiment and create. These concepts are represented in Merce Cunningham’s works BIPED and Beach Birds. Learn more about Merce Cunningham’s unique approach to work by visiting the “About Merce Cunningham” page on MerceCunningham.org, which you can access via our blog, mondaviarts.org/blog.
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
ABOUT MERCE CUNNINGHAM Merce Cunningham (1919–2009) is widely considered to be one of the most important choreographers of all time. His approach to performance was groundbreaking in its ideological simplicity and physical complexity: He applied the idea that “a thing is just that thing” to choreography, embracing the notion that “if the dancer dances, everything is there.” Cunningham was born in Centralia, Washington, and attended the Cornish School in Seattle. There, he was introduced to the work of Martha Graham (he would later have a six-year tenure as a soloist with her company) and met John Cage, who would become the greatest influence on his practice, his closest collaborator and his life partner until Cage’s death in 1992. In 1948, Cunningham and Cage began a relationship with the famed experimental institution Black Mountain College, where in 1953 Cunningham first formed a dance company to explore his convention-breaking ideas. The Merce Cunningham Dance Company (originally called Merce Cunningham and Company) would remain in continuous operation until 2011, with Cunningham as artistic director until his death in 2009. Over the course of his career, Cunningham choreographed 180 dances and over 700 events. Across his 70-year career, Cunningham proposed a number of radical innovations to how movement and choreography are understood, and sought to find new ways to integrate technology and dance. With long-term collaborations with artists like Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Charles Atlas and Elliot Caplan, Cunningham’s sphere of influence also extended deep into the visual arts world. Cunningham earned some of the highest honors bestowed in the arts, and his dances have been performed by groups including the Paris Opera Ballet, New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, White Oak Dance Project, the Lyon Opera Ballet, Ballett am Rhein and London’s Rambert. Through the Merce Cunningham Trust, his vision lives on, regenerated time and time again through new bodies and minds.
ABOUT ROBERT SWINSTON Robert Swinston (artistic director) graduated from the Juilliard School with a B.F.A in Dance. His experiences as a dancer began with the Martha Graham Apprentice Group. He performed with the companies of Kazuko Hirabayashi and José Limón, before joining Merce Cunningham Dance Company (MCDC) in 1980. In 1992, he became assistant to the choreographer. After Cunningham’s death in 2009, Swinston became director of choreography and maintained
the company’s repertoire during the Legacy Tour (2010– 11). During this period, he assembled 25 events for MCDC, concluding with the final event performances at the Park Avenue Armory. While director of choreography for the Merce Cunningham Trust (2012), Swinston created Four Walls/Doubletoss Interludes, an adaptation of John Cage’s Four Walls (1944) and Cunningham’s Doubletoss (1993) for Baryshnikov Arts Center. In January 2013, he became artistic director of the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine (CNDC) in Angers, France. In October 2017, Moving Numbers, a feminist declaration, and his collaboration with French-American violinist Elissa Cassini and French visual artist Agnès Thurnauer, was presented in Angers. He has staged Cunningham works for companies such as the White Oak Dance Project, Rambert Dance Company, New York City Ballet and the Paris Opera. In 2003, Swinston was awarded a Bessie for the reconstruction and performance of How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run (1965). Compagnie CNDC-Angers performs Swinston’s creations (the latest entitled Le Festin de l’Araignée on a musical program of the composer Albert Roussel, in collaboration with Orchestre national des Pays de la Loire), as well as his reconstructions of Cunningham’s choreography (Event, Four Walls Doubletoss Interludes, Deli Commedia Variation, Place, Inlets 2, How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run and Beach Birds). In September, 2018 the company premiered a restaging of BIPED (1999) at the Biennale de Lyon in celebration of Merce Cunningham’s Centenary.
ABOUT THE DANCERS AND MUSICIANS GUYONN AURIAU Guyonn Auriau (dancer) was born in 1995. Since 2018, she has danced at the Opéra Théatre de Metz (Laurence Bolsigner-May, director) and at the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine d’Angers (Robert Swinston, director). From 2016 to 2017, she danced at the New York Theater Ballet–Cecchetti based company, Diana Byer, director. She apprenticed at the Martha Graham Dance Company in New York from 2015 to 2016 and at the CCNBallet de Lorraine directed by Petter Jacobsson from 2014 to 2015. She studied dance at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris from 2010 to 2014 and also studied art history. MARION BAUDINAUD Marion Baudinaud (dancer) was born in 1989. Since 2014, she has been a freelance dancer for different companies: La Parenthèse, directed by Christophe Garcia (L’ambition d’être tendre and Lettre pour Éléna, choreographed by Christophe
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Garcia); le Centre National de Danse Contemporaine d’Angers, directed by Robert Swinston (BIPED and Beach Bird, choreographed by Merce Cunningham and reconstructed by Robert Swinston; and Paysages Poétiques, choreographed by Robert Swinston); and le Ballet d’Europe, directed by Jean-Charles Gil (Complicités and Folavi). From 2010 to 2013, she was a permanent dancer in the Ballet d’Europe directed by Jean-Charles Gil, where she worked with different choreographers such as Sharon Fridman and Mathilde van de Wiele. From 2009 to 2010, she was a permanent dancer for the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg directed by Anna Vita, where she worked with Ivan Alboresi, Youri Vamos and Anna Vita. GAVIN BRYARS Gavin Bryars (musician) studied philosophy at Sheffield University and became a professional jazz bassist and a pioneer of free improvisation, working especially with Derek Bailey and Tony Oxley. In the late 1960s he worked with John Cage and this influenced early works such as the indeterminately scored The Sinking of the Titanic (1969) and the iconic Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet (1971). Bryars’ catalogue includes an extensive body of works for dance. In 1999 he wrote Biped with Merce Cunningham, and in 2002 he worked with Carolyn Carlson on Writings on Water for the Venice Biennale. In recent years Bryars has worked with Edouard Lock on a number of projects. Bryars’ opera Medea (1984) was not only his first stage work but also his first work using orchestral forces, and among his first works for voice. He has since written three more operas. Bryars’ has written two chamber operas: The Paper Nautilus (2006) and Marilyn Forever (2010–13). The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (2018) is Bryars’ most recent opera. Bryars is particularly drawn to music for voice, resulting in a rich catalogue of choral and vocal works. The Fifth Century for choir and saxophone quartet win a 2018 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance. Bryars has produced a large body of chamber music, much of it written for his own ensemble, and works for string orchestra. His work has been widely recorded on labels including ECM, Hyperion, Point, Philips, Argo, Touch, Mode and his own GB Records. MATTHIEU CHAYRIGUES Matthieu Chayrigues (dancer) was born in 1993. He began his dance education in 2003 at the conservatory of Grenoble and at the National Superior School of Dance in Marseille. He continued his studies at the Palucca Hochschule für Tanz in Dresden. After graduating, he joined the CCN of Rillieux-laPape as an apprentice before joining the CCN-Ballet de Lorraine under the direction of Petter Jacobsson. He remained in that company for four years and danced pieces by Merce Cunningham, William Forsythe, Trisha Brown, Andonis Foniadakis, Alban Richard, Mathilde Monnier, Cindy Van Acker, Twyla
Tharp, Maud le Pladec and Jan Martens. He joined CNDC d’Angers in 2017 and also works for the Cie Greffe under the direction of Cindy Van Acker. ANTONIN CHEDINY In 2018 and 2017, Antonin Chediny (dancer) worked with several choreographers and companies: Compagnie La Parenthèse (Minuscule with director Christophe Garcia); Centre National de Danse Contemporaine d’Angers (Beach Birds and BIPED with director Robert Swinston); Oriantheatre Dance Company (KA-F-KA with director Medhi Farajpour) and Compagnie La Halte-Garderie (Vilains with director Johan Amselem). He danced for Matteo Sedda (In(NATURAL)) and participated for the video clip Did You Really Say No with Oren Lavie featuring Vanessa Paradis (choreography by Rachel Erdos). Before, he worked with different companies such as La HalteGarderie, Objets Fax, Igor & Moreno, Kidd Pivot and Punchdrunk Physical Theatre. He graduated with a BA with Honors from the London Contemporary Dance School in 2015, and studied dance at Ecole Nationale Superieure de Danse de Marseille from 2010 to 2012. ANNA CHIRESCU Anna Chirescu (dancer) was trained in classical dance at the Conservatory of Paris before joining the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP) in contemporary dance. In 2005, she obtained her certificate, receiving high honors for her performance in the duet L’Eau Vive, choreographed by Christine Bastin. In the CNSMDP’s Junior Ballet, she toured in works by Paco Decina, Karin Waehner, Pedro Pauwels and Hervé Robbe. A one-year stay at UC Irvine allowed her to participate in Yvonne Rainer’s workshops. She subsequently worked with various contemporary choreographers, notably Jean-Claude Gallotta in Hamlet (Un Songe), and companies like Le Guetteur Luc Petton, Marie-Laure Agrapart, Le Nouveau Jour, Les Cavatines, Paul les Oiseaux, Dance Theater Luxembourg and Bill Young/Colleen Thomas & Co. At the same time, Chirescu graduated with a master’s degree in modern literature from Sorbonne University and in public affairs from Sciences Po Paris. She joined CNDC-Angers/Robert Swinston in 2013. XAVIER GOCEL Xavier Gocel (dancer) was born in 1995. He earned a National and Superior Diploma for Professional Dancers (DNSPD) at the CNDC Superior School of Contemporary Dance. Since 2018, he has danced with the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine d’Angers/Robert Swinston in Beach Birds and BIPED. In 2019, he danced in Karine Saporta’s works Spectre and La Pâleur du ciel.
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MORGAN GOFF Morgan Goff (musician) is based in London. He works extensively as a session, chamber and solo violist/violinist and has a busy freelance career in the West End. He was the violist for the Kreutzer Quartet for 10 years. The Quartet are the dedicatees of well over 200 works for string quartet and have recorded cycles of quartets by Gloria Coates, Roberto Gerhard, David Matthews, Michael Tippett, Anton Reicha, Michael Finnissy, Thomas Simaku and Jeremy Dale Roberts, among others. He also has a busy performing and recording schedule with numerous chamber ensembles in London, including the Locrian Ensemble, the Gavin Bryars Ensemble, the Fiorini Trio, the English Piano Trio, Auroura Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta. He has been involved in a more commercial capacity in session work for many Hollywood films, video games and pop music. He has worked closely with the late pianist Raphael Terroni, with whom he has performed and recorded much of the English viola repertoire. His instrument is a Daniel Parker viola, made in London in 1715. PIERRE GUILBAULT Pierre Guilbault (dancer) was raised in Vancouver. He trained in ballet and contemporary styles at the North Carolina School of The Arts and has also studied film and theater acting. In school, he performed repertory from Alonzo King, Ethan Stiefel, Paul Taylor, Jerome Robbins, Alwin Nikolais and Merce Cunningham, and has also starred in a documentary by Steve Childs, And We Will Dance. After graduating with a BFA in dance in 2012, he moved to New York where he has done extensive work in and around the Merce Cunningham Trust workshops. Since moving to New York he has worked with Mary Seidman, Mari Meade, John Zullo, Pam Tanowitz, Helen Simoneau, Rebecca Lazier, Lise Houlton, Katie Rose McLaughlin, Emery LeCrone, Sally Silvers, Dr. Roz Newman, Pat Catterson, Richard Curtis, Liz Gerring, Jody Oberfelder, Ellen Cornfield and Bill Young. He joined CNDC d’Angers in 2017. GIANNI JOSEPH Gianni Joseph (dancer) had his first dance experience in Fontenay-le-Comte. He continued his training at the Conservatory of Angers and then enrolled in the school of the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine–Angers (CNDC), from which he graduated in 1997. He has danced in works choreographed by Carolyn Carlson, Mathew Hawkins, Joëlle Bouvier, Régis Obadia, Charles Cré-Ange and Patrick Le Doare. He founded his own company in 2002. He also shares his experiences by teaching workshops for amateurs as well as professionals at companies such as Le Labo (St Nazaire), Les Quais de la Danse (Nantes), CNDC d’Angers, CNSMD Paris, CNSMD Lyon, CNR La Rochelle, CNS Genève, Ballet Preljocaj, Cie
no Limit, Cie M’Bira and el Colegio del Cuerpo Carthagene. He joined CNDC d’Angers in 2013. ADÉLIE MARCK Adélie Marck (dancer) was born in 1997. From 2012 to 2018, she studied contemporary dance at the CNSMDP. She graduated with a bachelor of science degree, a certificate of interpretation in contemporary dance and a DNSPD in contemporary dance. In 2018 she began a collaboration with the CNDC company for Merce Cunningham’s BIPED under Robert Swinston’s direction. She participated in workshops with different choreographers (Jos Baker, Laura Toma, Martin Kilvady, Cecile Loyer, Jean-Christophe Paré). She was also an intern with Yuval Pick’s CNN in Rillieuxla-Pape (Acta est fabula, Are friends electric?, Playbach and Loom). HARUKA MIYAMOTO Haruka Miymoto (dancer) was born in 1989 in Japan, and now lives in France. From 2008 to 2012, she studied at the National Ballet school in Marseille. Prior to that, she studied dance at the Higashi High School. She is a dancer for several companies: La Parenthese with director Christophe Garcia; National Dance Contemporary Company d’Angers with director Robert Swinston; Ridz Company with director Simonne Rizzo. She worked with different choreographers: Fréderic Flamand (Ballet de Marseille), Daniel Larrieu, Hayo David, Yasuyuki Endo, Hervé Robbe, Agnes Nortenius and Jean-Christophe Paré. She received prizes at the following ballet competitions: 6th National Ballet competition in Tokyo, Uirou prize in Nagoya and the special artistic prize in Tottori. CATARINA PERNÃO Catarina Pernão (dancer) was born in Lisbon, and trained at the Portuguese National Conservatory Dance School (EDCN) where, among others, she performed with the Portuguese National Ballet (CNB) and at international galas and competitions. She then joined the Cinevox Junior Company, with which she toured Switzerland. Later, she attained a first-class honors degree in Contemporary Dance from the Trinity Laban Conservatory of Music and Dance (UK). Over her studies, she staged her own choreography, worked for fashion designers (V&A; London Fashion Week) and film projects (Valerie Preston-Dunlop), and conducted her own dance science research (T. Edel Quinn). While performing and teaching internationally, Pernão has taken master classes and courses including ones with the Royal Ballet School, English National Ballet School, Centro de Danza Victor Ullate, Tavaziva Dance and Michael Clark. Pernão has also worked with choreographers such as Ken Ossola, Jackeline Beck, Lizzi Kew Ross, Dam Van Huynh, Olaf Schmidt and Giulia Jurza. She joined CNDC-Angers/ Robert Swinston in 2015.
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AUDREY RILEY Audrey Riley (musician) studied at the Guildhall School of Music with Leonard Stehn. As an arranger and improvising cellist, she has contributed to many rock and pop recordings. Between 2001 and 2011 she toured with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and continues to perform BIPED and the works of John Cage with CNDC d’Angers and in concert. She is researching the performance practices of the composer/musicians of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, with a special emphasis on the works of John Cage, as part of a Ph.D. at De Montfort University. She has been a member of contemporary music group Icebreaker since 1989, and its music director since 2009. She teaches composition and arranging, as well as advanced ensemble skills at ICMP Music College London, and cello at Goldsmiths, University of London. FLORA ROGEBOZ Flora Rogeboz (dancer) began dancing at the Conservatory of Besancon, where she trained in contemporary and classical dance. She continued her training in contemporary dance in Paris Conservatory and obtained a diploma in choreographic studies with honors. She began her performing career in 2008 working with various companies. Rogeboz continued her studies, participating in ateliers and master classes in France and in New York at the Merce Cunningham Trust at City Center. In 2010, she began studying Labanotation and obtained her degree as notator at the CNSMD Paris in 2013, after having notated excerpts of dances by Philippe Découflé from Octopus and Désert d’amour by D. Bagouet. She joined CNDC d’Angers/ Robert Swinston in 2013. CARLO SCHIAVO Carlo Schiavo (dancer) was born in Naples, Italy, in 1994. He began dancing at the age of 6, first studying ballroom dancing and then ballet. He studied at the Rosella Hightower school in Cannes, France, later joining its Jeune Ballet and received his Baccalaureate and his National Diploma of Dance with a License in Arts. In 2015, he entered the Professional Integration Cell of the CCN-Ballet de Lorraine, directed by Petter Jacobson. In 2016, he joined Ballet Preljocaj and also danced in the Opera de Marseille. He has danced in choreographic works by Hervé Koubi, Jean-Claude Gallotta, Cindy Van Acker, Bruno Roque, Jean-Christophe Maillot, Davide Bombana and Jirí Kylián. He joined Compagnie CNDC d’Angers/Robert Swinston in 2017. CLAIRE SEIGLE-GOUJON Claire Seigle-Goujon (dancer) has an eclectic training acquired at various Parisian schools. Seigle-Goujon joined the company Esquisse for a creation by French choreographer Régis Obadia called Passion. She toured in France and abroad with Esquisse for two years. Thereafter,
she worked for various choreographers and companies, including Cie Charles Cré-Ange, Geisha Fontaine, Pierre Cotreau, Cie Mille Plateaux Associés, Cie Gianni Joseph, Cie Gilles Schamber, Johanne Madore for La Damnation de Faust at the Opera Bastille, Cie Isira Makuloluwe, Cie de l’Alambic, Christian Bourigault and Compagnie NGC 25 Hervé Maigret. At the same time, she participated in numerous workshops to raise awareness of contemporary dance and has been pursuing a dance project in hospitals with the company ACM for the last four years. She joined Compagnie CNDC d’Angers/Robert Swinston in 2013. JAMES WOODROW James Woodrow (musician) trained at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester. He is a member of the Gavin Bryars Ensemble, Icebreaker, A Change of Light and Cathal Coughlan’s Grand Necropolitan Quartet. He also gives numerous regular performances as soloist and ensemble player with the London Chamber Symphony, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, London Sinfonietta, BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and The New London Chamber Choir. He has worked with a number of contemporary dance companies, including Richard Alston, London Contemporary Dance, Rambert, Phoenix Dance Company, Siobhan Davies, Shobana Jeyasingh, Royal Ballet and Scottish Ballet. From 1999 until its closing in December 2011, he worked with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, performing Gavin Bryars’s Biped, but also working with Takehisa Kosugi, Christian Wolff and many other composers in improvisation. Woodrow also plays with a number of jazz ensembles, including his own quartet, CandyTime. ABOUT THE Q&A MODERATOR RUTH ROSENBERG Ruth Rosenberg directs the Mondavi Center’s Arts Education & Engagement programs, including the School Matinee Series, residency activities by touring artists and local teaching artists, pre/post-performance talks and Q&A sessions with the artists, the Mondavi Center’s partnership with the Esparto Unified School District, its Dance for Parkinson’s program as well as student engagement initiatives for UC Davis students. Rosenberg started her career as a dancer. She was artistic director of the Sacramento-based Ruth Rosenberg Dance Ensemble from 1990 to 2001, and performed with Sacramento Ballet, Capitol City Ballet and Ed Mock & Dancers of San Francisco. She is featured in the 2017 documentary Unstoppable Feat, The Dances of Ed Mock.
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The Aboytes Family Ezra and Beulah Amsterdam Russell and Elizabeth Austin Robert and Susan Benedetti Don and Kathy Bers Edwin Bradley Richard Breedon, Pat Chirapravati, and Rosa Marquez Marguerite Callahan Cantor & Company, A Law Corporation Margaret Chang and Andrew Holz
Allison P. Coudert Jim and Kathy Coulter* Terry Davison Joyce Donaldson* Matt Donaldson and Steve Kyriakis Noel Dybdal Karl Gerdes and Pamela Rohrich David and Erla Goller Dr. Eva G. Hess Sharna and Mike Hoffman Ronald and Lesley Hsu Martin and JoAnn Joye* Barbara Katz Nancy and John Keltner Robert and Cathryn Kerr Joseph Kiskis and Diana Vodrey Charlene R. Kunitz Thomas Lange and Spencer Lockson Francie and Artie Lawyer* Hyunok Lee and Daniel Sumner Bob and Barbara Leidigh Lin and Peter Lindert David and Ruth Lindgren Richard and Kyoko Luna Family Fund Natalie and Malcolm MacKenzie* Dennis H. Mangers and Michael Sestak Susan Mann Betty Masuoka and Robert Ono Janet Mayhew In Memory of William F. McCoy Sally McKee Mary McKinnon and Greg Krekelberg Katharine and Dan Morgan Craig Morkert Augustus B Morr Rebecca Newland John Pascoe and Susan Stover J. Persin and D. Verbeck Nancy Petrisko and Don Beckham Linda and Larry Raber Kay Resler* Marshall and Maureen Rice Dwight E. and Donna L. Sanders Christian Sandrock Ed and Karen Schelegle Bonnie and Jeff Smith Janet Shibamoto-Smith and David Smith Edward Speegle Maril and Patrick Stratton Geoffrey and Gretel Wandesford-Smith Dale L. and Jane C. Wierman Susan and Thomas Willoughby Verena Leu Young* And 3 donors who prefer to remain anonymous
ENCORE CIRCLE $700–$1,749
Drs. Ralph and Teresa Aldredge Michael and Shirley Auman* Laura and Murry Baria In Memory of Marie Benisek Al Patrick and Pat Bissell Muriel Brandt Craig and Joyce Copelan Robert and Nancy Crummey Gayle Dax-Conroy In Memory of Jan Conroy Dotty Dixon* Anne Duffey John and Cathie Duniway Melanie and Robert Ferrando Doris Flint Jennifer D. Franz Florence Grosskettler Mae and David Gundlach Robin Hansen and Gordon Ulrey Rick and Zheyla Henriksen Leonard and Marilyn Herrmann Ralph Hexter and Manfred Kollmeier B.J. Hoyt
James and Nancy Joye Peter G. Kenner Paul Kramer Paula Kubo Ruth M. Lawrence Michael and Sheila Lewis* Robert Medearis Roland and Marilyn Meyer John and Carol Oster Celia Rabinowitz John and Judith Reitan C. Rocke Tom and Joan Sallee Elizabeth St. Goar Sherman and Hannah Stein Karen and Ed Street* Eric and Pat Stromberg* Mont Hubbard and Lyn Taylor Cap and Helen Thomson Virginia Thresh Roseanna Torretto* Henry°and Lynda Trowbridge* Rita and Jack Weiss Steven and Andrea Weiss Dan and Ellie Wendin Kandi Williams and Frank Jahnke Paul Wyman Gayle K. Yamada and David H. Hosley Karl and Lynn Zender Karen Zito and Manuel Calderon de la Barca Sanchez And 3 donors who prefer to remain anonymous
ORCHESTRA CIRCLE $350–$699
Dorrit Ahbel Susan Ahlquist Andrew and Ruth Baron Paul and Linda Baumann Mrs. Marie C. Beauchamp Delee and Jerry Beavers Carol Benedetti Jane D. Bennett Robert Bense Ernst Biberstein Robert Biggs and Diane Carlson Biggs Brooke and Clay Brandow Meredith Burns Anne and Gary Carlson* Bruce and Mary Alice Carswell* Simon and Cindy Cherry Dr. Jacqueline Clavo-Hall Mr. and Mrs. David Covin Gwendolyn Doebbert and Richard Epstein Daniel and Moira Dykstra Nancy and Don Erman Helen Ford Edwin and Sevgi Friedrich* Joyce and Marvin Golman Paul N. and E.F. (Pat) Goldstene Tom Graham and Lisa Foster Darrow and Gwen Haagensen Sharon and Don Hallberg* Marylee Hardie Dione and Roy Henrickson Michael and Margaret Hoffman Jan and Herb Hoover Robert and Marcia Jacobs Don and Diane Johnston Weldon and Colleen Jordan Susan Kauzlarich and Peter Klavins Helen L. Krell, M.D. Bill and Laura Lacy Allan and Norma Lammers Ellen J Lange Larkin Lapides Sevim Larsen Carol Ledbetter Randall Lee and Jane Yeun Barbara Levine Ernest and Mary Ann Lewis Bunkie Mangum Joan and Roger Mann Dr. Maria I. Manea-Manoliu
David and Martha Marsh Katherine F. Mawdsley* Susan and David Miller Elaine and Ken Moody Robert and Susan Munn William and Nancy Myers Margaret Neu* Suzette Olson Frank Pajerski Sue and Jack Palmer Jill and Warren Pickett James D. and Lori K. Richardson Ms. Tracy Rodgers and Dr. Richard Budenz Ron and Morgan Rogers Sharon and Elliott Rose Shery and John Roth Bob and Tamra Ruxin Roger and Freda Sornsen Tony and Beth Tanke Robert and Helen Twiss Ardath Wood Iris Yang and G. Richard Brown Wesley Yates Melanie and Medardo Zavala And 8 donors who prefer to remain anonymous
MAINSTAGE CIRCLE $125–$349
M. Aften Elizabeth Allen* Penny Anderson Nancy Andrew-Kyle* Elinor Anklin Alex and Janice Ardans Antonio and Alicia Balatbat* Charles and Diane Bamforth Michele Barefoot and Luis Perez-Grau Carole Barnes Jonathan and Mary Bayless Lynn Baysinger Lorna Belden Merry Benard Kristen and Alan Bennett Bevowitz Family Dr. Robert and Sheila Beyer Elizabeth Ann Bianco Roy and Joan Bibbens* John and Katy Bill Sharon Billings and Terry Sandbek Dolores Blake Dr. Caroline Bledsoe Fredrick and Mary Bliss Judith Blum Brooke Bourland* Jerry and Verne Bowers—Advent Consulting Services Jill and Mary Bowers Carol Boyd* Melody Boyer and Mark Gidding Dan and Mildred Braunstein* Linda Brown Alan and Beth Brownstein Mike and Marian Burnham Dr. Margaret Burns and Dr. W Roy Bellhorn William and Karolee Bush Edward Callahan Nancy Callahan Richard and Marcia Campbell Nancy and Dennis Campos* James and Patty Carey Ping Chan* Bonnie and LeRoy Chatfield Amy Chen and Raj Amirtharajah Carol Christensen* Craig Clark and Mary Ann Reihman Gail Clark Linda Clevenger and Seth Brunner James and Linda Cline Sheri and Ron Cole Steve and Janet Collins Richard and Katie Conrad Terry Cook Nicholas and Khin Cornes Fred and Ann Costello Catherine Coupal* Victor Cozzalio and Lisa Heilman-Cozzalio Crandallicious Clan
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Tatiana and Virgil Cullen Fitz-Roy and Susan Curry Laurence Dashiell Doug and Joy Daugherty Nita A. Davidson Relly Davidson Judy and Mike Davis Judy and David Day Ann Denvir Carol Dependahl-Ripperda Linda and Joel Dobris Marjorie Dolcini* Jerry and Chris Drane Karen Eagan James Eastman and Fred Deneke Laura Eisen and Paul Glenn Carol Erickson and David Phillips Eleanor E. Farrand* Michael and Ophelia Farrell Les and Micki Faulkin Janet Feil Cheryl and David Felsch Robin and Jeffrey Fine Maureen Fitzgerald and Frank DeBernardi Dave and Donna Fletcher Dr. and Mrs. Fletcher Glenn Fortini Daphna Fram Marion Franck and Bob Lew Marlene J. Freid* Larry Friedman and Susan Orton David Fudala In Memory of David Gatmon Barbara Gladfelter Ellie Glassburner Marnelle Gleason* and Louis J. Fox Mark Goldman and Jessica Tucker-Mohl Pat and Bob Gonzalez* Drs. Michael Goodman and Bonny Neyhart Joyce and Ron Gordon Karen Governor Halley Grain Jeffrey and Sandra Granett Jim Gray and Robin Affrime Paul and Carol Grench Don and Eileen Gueffroy Abbas Gultekin and Vicky Tibbs Cary and Susan Gutowsky Wesley and Ida Hackett* Myrtis Hadden Bob and Jen Hagedorn Jane and Jim Hagedorn Kitty Hammer William and Sherry Hamre M. and P. Handley Jim and Laurie Hanschu Susan B. Hansen
Alexander and Kelly Harcourt Kay Harse Anne and Dave Hawke Mary A. Helmich Rand and Mary Herbert Calvin Hirsch, MD Pamela Holm David Kenneth Huskey Lorraine J Hwang L. K. Iwasa Diane Moore and Stephen Jacobs Vince Jacobs and Cecilia Delury Karen Jetter Mun Johl Gary and Karen Johns* Michelle Johnston Andrew and Merry Joslin David Kalb and Nancy Gelbard Shari and Tim Karpin Steve and Jean Karr Patricia Kelleher* Sharmon and Peter Kenyon Leonard Keyes Nicki King Ruth Ann Kinsella* Camille Kirk Don and Bev Klingborg John and Mary Klisiewicz* Kerik and Carol Kouklis Sandra Kristensen Roy and Cynthia Kroener C.R. and Elizabeth Kuehner Kupcho-Hawksworth Trust Leslie Kurtz Kit and Bonnie Lam* Nancy Lazarus and David Siegel Peggy Leander* Evelyn A Lewis Barbara Linderholm* Motoko Lobue Joyce Loeffler and Ken McNeil Mary Lowry and Norm Theiss Karen Lucas* Melissa Lyans and Andreas Albrecht Ariane Lyons David and Alita Mackill Dr. Vartan Malian and Nora Gehrmann Drs. Julin Maloof and Stacey Harmer Theresa Mann Pam Marrone and Mick Rogers J. A. Martin Leslie Maulhardt* Keith and Jeanie McAfee Karen McCluskey* and Harry Roth* Jim and Jane McDevitt Tim and Linda McKenna Thomas R. McMorrow
Artistic Ventures Fund
We applaud our Artistic Ventures Fund members, whose major gift commitments support artist engagement fees, innovative artist commissions, artist residencies and programs made available free to the public. James H. Bigelow Ralph and Clairelee Leiser Bulkley John and Lois Crowe Patti Donlon Richard and Joy Dorf
Nancy McRae Fisher Wanda Lee Graves and Steve Duscha Anne Gray Barbara K. Jackson° Rosalie Vanderhoef
Endowment Giving
Thank you to the following donors whose support will leave a lasting impact on Mondavi Center programs. James H. Bigelow Karen Broido Chan Family Fund Sandra Togashi Chong and Chris Chong John and Lois Crowe Richard and Joy Dorf
Mary B. Horton Barbara K. Jackson° Dean and Karen Karnopp Debbie Mah and Brent Felker Diane Marie Makley Rosalie Vanderhoef Verena Leu Young
Karen Merick and Clark Smith Joe and Linda Merva Cynthia Meyers Beryl Michaels and John Bach Leslie Michaels and Susan Katt Maureen Miller and Mary Johnson Sue and Rex Miller Vicki and Paul Moering James Moorfield Hallie Morrow Marcie Mortensson Rita Mt. Joy* Robert and Janet Mukai Bill and Diane Muller Robert Nevraumont and Donna Curley Nevraumont Kim T. Nguyen R. Noda Jay and Catherine Norvell Jeri and Clifford Ohmart Jim and Sharon Oltjen Andrew and Sharon* Opfell Mary Jo Ormiston* John and Nancy Owen Mike and Carlene Ozonoff Thomas Pavlakovich and Kathryn Demakopoulos Pete Peterson The Plante Family Jane Plocher Bonnie A. Plummer Harriet Prato Otto and Lynn Raabe Lawrence and Norma Rappaport Olga Raveling Catherine Ann Reed Fred and Martha Rehrman* Maxine and Bill Reichert David and Judy Reuben Russ and Barbara Ristine Jeannette and David Robertson Denise Rocha Jeep and Heather Roemer Ron and Mary Rogers Maurine Rollins Carol and John Rominger Richard and Evelyne Rominger Warren Roos Janet F. Roser, Ph.D. Cathy* and David Rowen Cynthia Jo Ruff* Paul and Ida Ruffin Joy and Richard Sakai* Jacquelyn Sanders Elia and Glenn Sanjume Fred and Pauline Schack Patsy Schiff
Leon Schimmel and Annette Cody Dan Shadoan and Ann Lincoln Jeanie Sherwood Jennifer Sierras Jo Anne S. Silber Teresa Simi Robert Snider and Jak Jarasjakkrawhal Jean Snyder Nancy Snyder William and Jeannie Spangler* Curtis and Judy Spencer Tim and Julie Stephens Judith and Richard Stern Deb and Jeff Stromberg George and June Suzuki Bob Sykes Yayoi Takamura and Jeff Erhardt Stewart and Ann Teal Julie Theriault, PA-C Virginia Thigpen Henry and Sally Tollette Victoria and Robert Tousignant Justine Turner* Ute Turner* Sandra Uhrhammer* Ramon and Karen Urbano Ann-Catrin Van Marian and Paul Ver Wey Richard Vorpe and Evelyn Matteucci Craig Vreeken and Lee Miller Kim and James Waits In memory of Carl Eugene Walden Andrew and Vivian Walker Don and Rhonda Weltz* Doug West Martha S. West Robert and Leslie Westergaard* Nancy and Richard White* Sharon and Steve Wilson Janet G. Winterer Suey Wong* Jessica Woods Jean Wu Timothy and Vicki Yearnshaw Jeffrey and Elaine Yee* Dorothy Yerxa and Michael Reinhart Chelle Yetman Phillip and Iva Yoshimura Phyllis and Darrel Zerger* Marlis and Jack Ziegler Linda and Lou Ziskind Dr. Mark and Wendy Zlotlow And 23 donors who prefer to remain anonymous
Legacy Circle
Thank you to our supporters who have remembered the Mondavi Center in their estate plans. These gifts make a difference for the future of performing arts and we are most grateful. Wayne and Jacque Bartholomew Karen Broido Ralph and Clairelee Leiser Bulkley John and Lois Crowe Dotty Dixon Nancy DuBois° Jolán Friedhoff and Don Roth Anne Gray
Benjamin and Lynette Hart L. J. Herrig° Mary B. Horton Margaret Hoyt Barbara K . Jackson° Roy and Edith Kanoff° Robert and Barbara Leidigh Yvonne LeMaitre° Jerry and Marguerite Lewis Robert and Betty Liu Don McNary°
Ruth R. Mehlhaff ° Joy Mench and Clive Watson Trust Verne Mendel Kay Resler Hal° and Carol Sconyers Joe and Betty° Tupin Lynn Upchurch And one donor who prefers to remain anonymous
If you have already named the Mondavi Center in your own estate plans, we thank you. We would love to hear of your giving plans so that we may express our appreciation. If you are interested in learning about planned giving opportunities, please contact Nancy Petrisko, director of development, 530.754.5420 or npetrisko@ucdavis.edu. Note: We apologize if we listed your name incorrectly. Please contact the Mondavi Center Development Office at 530.754.5438 to inform us of corrections. * Friends of Mondavi Center
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