What Problem? - Live Artery PRIMETIME Program

BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE COMPANY JAN 10, 730 PM

Bill T. Jones Co-Founder & Artistic Director

Janet Wong Associate Artistic Director

Featuring The Company J. Bouey, Vinson Fraley, Jr., Barrington Hinds, Chanel Howard, Dean Husted, Shane Larson, s. lumbert, Marie Lloyd Paspe, Nayaa Opong, Huiwang Zhang with Bill T. Jones Musicians Holland Andrews, Nick Hallett, HPrizm aka High Priest with The Mason University Singers, conducted by Stan Engebretson and Community Participants from the Northern Virginia area Filmed at Center for the Arts at George Mason University on February 1, 2020

What Problem?

Conceived and Directed by Bill T. Jones Choreography by Bill T. Jones with Janet Wong and the Company Original Composition by Nick Hallett and Produced by HPrizm aka High Priest in creation with Holland Andrews Lighting Design by Robert Wierzel* Sound Design by Samuel Crawford Costume Design by Liz Prince Dramaturgy by Mark Hairston Text by Bill T. Jones and Mark Hairston *Denotes Member of the United Scenic Arts Union (USA)

Text excerpts from: Martin Luther King, Jr. I Have a Dream Speech Herman Melville, Moby Dick Yvonne Rainer, No Manifesto Musical excerpts from: “Get Right Church” courtesy of Document Records “Black Gal (I Don’t Want No Jet Black Woman)” performed by prisoners of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, recorded by Alan Lomax Programming & Production Staff Kyle Maude, Producing Director Veronica Falborn, Production Stage Manager and Producing Associate Hillery Makatura, Director of Production Lauren Libretti, Lighting Supervisor Samuel Crawford, Sound Engineer Lindsay Kipnis, Stage Manager

FUNDING Adapted from Deep Blue Sea which was originally commissioned by Park Avenue Armory and Manchester International Festival in collaboration with Holland Festival. Additional commissioning support provided by The Mann Center for the Performing Arts with original support for Deep Blue Sea provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia. What Problem? Commissioning support provided by Carolina Performing Arts, Indiana University Auditorium, George Mason University and Dancers’ Workshop. Additional Support provided by Lumberyard Center for Film and Performing Arts, Mana Contemporary and Bethany Arts Community.

What Problem? was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Ed Bradley Family Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The creation of new work by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company is made possible in part by the company’s Partners in Creation: Anonymous, Anne Delaney, Zoe Eskin, Eleanor Friedman, Ruth & Stephen Hendel, James C. Hormel & Michael P. Nguyen, Suzanne Karpas, Ellen Poss, Jane Bovingdon Semel, in memory of Linda G. Shapiro, Slobodan Randjelović & Jon Stryker.

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PROGRAM NOTES “For the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line . . . the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men . . . And yet, being a problem is a strange experience,—peculiar even for one who has never been anything else.” - W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903) I have long accepted Dr. King’s immortal words “We Shall Overcome” mixed with the scripture of our democracy as formed and shaped by we the people. And yet there’s always been an uneasy recognition of the truth at the base of the great W.E.B. Du Bois statement concerning “the Problem”. The “Color Line” for Du Bois represented the epitome of otherness, yet we now understand this is much more complex. In our fractious era, I am compelled to elaborate on this “line” in terms of sexual politics, gender identity, class struggles, and especially at this moment in time, immigration.

These ideas collide in my mind and my creative self like tectonic plates.

Tectonic activity creates land formations, volcanic eruptions and rearranging of whole continents. What Problem? is the latest result of this social/political/spiritual grinding and reformation.

Are you a problem? And what does it mean to be a problem?

All of my work is in pursuit of the “we”. What Problem? is the notion of “WE THE PEOPLE”.

The Hymn Text: Herman Melville Melody: Chanel Howard The ribs and terrors in the whale Arched over me a dismal gloom While all God’s sunlit rays rolled by And left me deepening down to doom I saw the opening maw of hell, With endless pains and sorrows there; Which none but they that feel can tell— Oh, I was plunging to despair.

COMPANY HISTORY Over the past 38 years the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company has shaped the evolution of contemporary dance through the creation and performance of over 140 works. Founded as a multicultural dance company in 1982, the company was born of an 11year artistic collaboration between Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane. Today, the company is recognized as one of the most innovative and powerful forces in the modern dance world.

The company has performed its ever-enlarging repertoire worldwide in over 200 cities in 30 countries on every major continent. In 2011, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company merged with Dance Theater Workshop to form New York Live Arts of which Bill T. Jones is the Artistic Director and Janet Wong is the Associate Artistic Director.

The repertory of the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Company is widely varied in its subject matter, visual imagery and stylistic approach to movement, voice and stagecraft and includes musically driven works as well as works using a variety of texts. Some of its most celebrated creations are evening length works including Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land (1990, Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music); Still/ Here (1994, Biennale de la Danse in

Lyon, France); We Set Out Early…

Visibility Was Poor (1996, Hancher Auditorium, Iowa City, IA); You Walk? (2000, European Capital of Culture 2000,Bolgna, Italy); Blind Date (2006, Peak Performances at Montclair State University); Chapel/Chapter (2006, Harlem Stage Gatehouse); Fondly Do We Hope… Fervently Do We Pray (2009, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park, IL); Another Evening: Venice/ Arsenale(2010, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy); Story/Time (2012, Peak Performances); and A Rite (2013, Carolina Performing Arts at the University of North CarolinaChapel Hill). The Company is also currently touring Body Against Body an intimate and focused collection of duet works drawn from the Company’s 36-year history.

BILL T. JONES (Artistic Director/ Co-Founder/Choreographer: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company; Artistic Director: New York Live Arts) is a multi-talented artist, choreographer, dancer, theater director and writer, has received major honors ranging from the Human Rights Campaign’s 2016 Visibility Award, 2013 National Medal of Arts to a 1994 MacArthur “Genius” Award and Kennedy Center Honors in 2010. Mr. Jones was honored with the 2014 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award,

recognized as Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 2010, inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2009 and named “An Irreplaceable Dance Treasure” by the Dance Heritage Coalition in 2000. His ventures into Broadway theater resulted in a 2010 Tony Award for Best Choreography in the critically acclaimed FELA!, the new musical co-conceived, co-written, directed and choreographed by Mr. Jones. He also earned a 2007 Tony Award for Best Choreography in Spring Awakening as well as an Obie Award for the show’s 2006 offBroadway run. His choreography for the off-Broadway production of The Seven earned him a 2006 Lucille Lortel Award.

Mr. Jones began his dance training at the State University of New York at Binghamton (SUNY), where he studied classical ballet and modern dance. After living in Amsterdam, Mr. Jones returned to SUNY, where he became co-founder of the American Dance Asylum in 1973. In 1982 he formed the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company (then called Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane & Company) with his late partner, Arnie Zane. Mr. Jones is currently Artistic Director of New York Lives Arts, an organization that strives to create a robust framework in support of the nation’s dance and movement-based artists through

new approaches to producing, presenting and educating.

His work in dance has been recognized with the 2010 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award; the 2005 Wexner Prize; the 2005 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement; the 2003 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize; and the 1993 Dance Magazine Award. His additional awards include the Harlem Renaissance Award in 2005; the Dorothy B. Chandler Performing Arts Award in 1991; multiple New York Dance and Performance Bessie Awards for his works The Table Project (2001), The Breathing Show (2001), D-Man in the Waters (1989) and the Company’s groundbreaking season at the Joyce Theater (1986). In 1980, 1981 and 1982, Mr. Jones was the recipient of Choreographic Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 1979 he was granted the Creative Artists Public Service Award in Choreography.

Mr. Jones was profiled on NBC Nightly News and The Today Show in 2010 and was a guest on the Colbert Report in 2009.

Also in 2010, he was featured in HBO’s documentary series MASTERCLASS, which follows notable artists as they mentor aspiring young artists. In 2009, Mr. Jones appeared on one of the final episodes of Bill Moyers

Journal, discussing his Lincoln suite of works. He was also one of 22 prominent black Americans featured in the HBO documentary The Black List in 2008. In 2004, ARTE France and Bel Air Media produced Bill T. Jones–Solos, highlighting three of his iconic solos from a cinematic point of view. The making of Still/Here was the subject of a documentary by Bill Moyers and David Grubin entitled Bill T. Jones: Still/Here with Bill Moyers in 1997. Additional television credits include telecasts of his works Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land (1992) and Fever Swamp (1985) on PBS’s “Great Performances” Series. In 2001, D-Man in the Waters was broadcast on the Emmy-winning documentary Free to Dance.

Bill T. Jones’s interest in new media and digital technology has resulted in collaborations with the team of Paul Kaiser, Shelley Eshkar and Marc Downie, now known as OpenEnded Group. The collaborations include After Ghostcatching – the 10th Anniversary re-imagining of Ghostcatching (2010, SITE Sante Fe Eighth International Biennial); 22 (2004, Arizona State University’s Institute for Studies In The Arts and Technology, Tempe, AZ); and Ghostcatching – A Virtual Dance Installation (1999, Cooper Union, New York, NY).

He has received honorary doctorates from Yale University, Art Institute of Chicago, Bard College, Columbia College, Skidmore College, the Juilliard School, Swarthmore College and the State University of New York at Binghamton Distinguished Alumni Award, where he began his dance training with studies in classical ballet and modern dance.

Mr. Jones’s memoir, Last Night on Earth, was published by Pantheon Books in 1995. An in-depth look at the work of Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane can be found in Body Against Body: The Dance and Other Collaborations of Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane, published by Station Hill Press in 1989. Hyperion Books published Dance, a children’s book written by Bill T. Jones and photographer Susan Kuklin in 1998.

Mr. Jones contributed to Continuous Replay: The Photography of Arnie Zane, published by MIT Press in 1999. Jones’s most recent book, Story/Time: The Life of an Idea, was published in 2014 by Princeton University Press.

In addition to his Company and Broadway work, Mr. Jones also choreographed Sir Michael Tippet’s New Year (1990) for Houston Grand Opera and Glyndebourne Festival Opera. His Mother of Three Sons was performed at the Munich Biennale, New York City Opera

and the Houston Grand Opera. Mr. Jones also directed Lost in the Stars for the Boston Lyric Opera.

Additional theater projects include co-directing Perfect Courage with Rhodessa Jones for Festival 2000 in 1990. In 1994, he directed Derek Walcott’s Dream on Monkey Mountain for The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, MN. ARNIE ZANE (Co-Founder/ Choreographer) (1948-1988) was a native New Yorker born in the Bronx and educated at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton. In 1971, Arnie Zane and Bill T. Jones began their long collaboration in choreography and in 1973 formed the American Dance Asylum in Binghamton with Lois Welk. Mr. Zane’s first recognition in the arts came as a photographer when he received a Creative Artists Public Service (CAPS) Fellowship in 1973. Mr. Zane was the recipient of a second CAPS Fellowship in 1981 for choreography, as well as two Choreographic Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1983 and 1984). In 1980, Mr. Zane was co-recipient, with Bill T. Jones, of the German Critics Award for his work, Blauvelt Mountain. Rotary Action, a duet with Mr. Jones, was filmed for television, co-produced

by WGBH-TV Boston and Channel 4 in London.

BIOGRAPHIES PERFORMERS

J. BOUEY (Performer) is a current member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and founder and co-host of The Dance Union Podcast. J. performed with Elisa Monte Dance as an apprentice, Christal Brown’s INSPIRIT Dance Company, AntonioBrownDance, Germaul Barnes’ Viwesic Dance, and Maria Bauman’s MBDance. As a choreographer, J. Bouey has shown their original work at The Chocolate Factory, New York Live Arts, Judson Church, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Gibney Dance, BAAD!, CPR – Center for Performance Research, La Mama Experimental Theatre and South Mountain Center for Performing Arts. J. Bouey received a BFA in Dance from Arizona State University. jbouey.com VINSON FRALEY, JR. (Performer) hails from Atlanta, Georgia. He began his training at the age of 14 under the direction of Lynise and Denise Heard. Vinson studied at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and was most recently a company dancer for Abraham.

In.Motion. Vinson has been fortunate enough to work with many choreographers and instructors including Rashaun Mitchell, Cora Bos Kroese, Gus Solomons Jr., Cindy Salgado, Sean Curran and many

more. Vinson joined the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Company in 2017.

BARRINGTON HINDS (Performer) is from West Palm Beach, Florida.

He began his training at the School of Ballet Florida under the direction of Marie Hale. Hinds holds a BFA in dance from SUNY Purchase College and has worked professionally with VERB Ballets, Northwest Professional Dance Project, and the national tour of Twyla Tharp’s Broadway show, Movin’ Out. In 2011 Hinds was honored as a finalist for the Clive Barnes Award for young talent in dance. He has worked with leading choreographers including Laurie Stallings, Edgar Zendejas, Sarah Slipper, Helen Pickett, Thaddeus Davis, and Cherylyn Lavagnino to name a few. Hinds recently danced with the Stephen Petronio Company, freelances in commercial, TV, and print work, and is a choreographer and teacher. Mr. Hinds joined the company in 2017.

CHANEL HOWARD (Performer) Originally from Georgia, Chanel Howard began her dance training with DanceMakers of Atlanta, under the direction of Lynise and Denise Heard. While attending Dekalb School of the Arts, Chanel participated in the National High School Dance Festival where she received the 2014 young

choreographer award. Thereafter, the contemporary program at The she moved to Philadelphia to major School at Jacob’s Pillow during in dance at The University of The the summer of 2017, where he Arts as a director’s full scholarship performed the works of Marguerite recipient. While studying at The Donlon, Jae Man Joo, Milton Myers, School of Dance, she worked with and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane noted choreographers: Mark Haim, Dance Company. During his time at Helen Simoneau, Mark Caserta, NYU Tisch he was chosen to study Tommie Waheed Evans, Wayne St. abroad in Berlin under the direction David, Netta Yerushalmy and Bobbi of Pamela Pietro where he studied Jene Smith as well as performed with Judtih Ruiz-Sanchez, Ayman in the works of Robert Battle, Troy Harper, and Erion Kruja. Dean has Powell, and Benoit Swan Pouffer. had the opportunity to perform Chanel participated as a School works by Merce Cunningham, Bill of Dance Ambassador at The T. Jones/Arnie Zane, and Christina Montpellier Danse 30 Festival in Robson. This is Dean’s first season Montpellier, France and studied with the company. with Ballet Preljocaj’s Professional Training Program in Aix En Provence, SHANE LARSON (Performer) was France. She represented UArts raised in Minnesota, where he School of Dance at the National received his early training at the St. College Dance Festival 2015 and Paul Conservatory for Performing made her independent artist debut Artists. He graduated from NYU’s presenting her choreography at the Tisch School of the Arts, with a Center for Performance Research in BFA in Dance and a minor in Child Brooklyn, NY in 2017. Chanel earned and Adolescent Mental Health her BFA in Dance with honors in May Studies. He also studied at SEAD in 2018 and has most recently joined Austria. Since living in New York City, The Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance he’s branched out to collaborate Company. with punk musicians, film makers, improvisational music ensembles, DEAN HUSTED (Performer) was and site-specific visual artists. He born and raised in Virginia Beach, is also a multimedia video artist Virginia where he began his training making collage-based work about at Denise Wall’s Dance Energy under memory. Shane joined the Company the direction of Denise Wall and in 2015.

Victoria Flores Cooke. Dean holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from New S. LUMBERT (Performer) is a York University’s Tisch School of Brooklyn based transgender dance the Arts. He was selected to attend artist. They earned a BS in both

Dance and Exercise Science from Skidmore College and an MFA in dance from The Ohio State University. s. sometimes makes and performs their own solo work, and collaborates on duets with Rachel Sigrid Freeburg. After a brief hiatus from dance, s. is excited to be working on a new project with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company.

MARIE LLYOD PASPE (Performer) is a native of Singapore and Philippines who grew up in Mississauga, ON, Canada, and Bellingham, MA. She received her early dance training from Jessica Wilson at MetroWest Ballet and graduated summa cum laude from the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program in 2016, studying dance performance and business administration. Paspe performed on tour with Carolyn Dorfman Dance, and worked with choreographers Renee Jaworski, Peter Chu, Jae Mann Joo, Omar Carrum, Rami Be’er, Martin Harriague, and Manuel Vignoulle. In 2015, she studied abroad in Israel at Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company’s International Dance Program, where she also premiered her first work. She attended Springboard Danse Montreal in 2017, performing works-in-progress

by Peter Chu and Eva Kolarova.

Currently she teaches pilates and dance, collaborates/choreographs, and freelances commercial modeling. Paspe is incredibly

grateful to begin her first season with BTJAZ. NAYAA OPONG (Performer) is from Cherry Hill, New Jersey. She began her dance training at The Bowman School of Dance and latter continued at Eleone Dance Unlimited Nayaa choose to further her studies at Mason Gross School of the Arts— Rutgers University where she earned a BFA in dance and was able to spend a semester at The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. Since graduating in May 2019 she performs with Hysterika Jazz Dance, has begun working with the BIRDHOUSE artist collective, and Nayaa has started her first season with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company.

HUIWANG ZHANG (Performer) danced with China Opera and Dance Drama Company and Paper Tiger Theater Studio in Beijing.

He joined the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company in 2017 after the completion of his Master study in Dance and Choreography from the U.S and Germany under great mentorships of Stephen Koester, Sharee Lane, Ellen Bromberg and Katharina Christl. He has also performed with Pearsonwidrig dance theater and Yin Mei Dance.

Huiwang’s movement research and teaching are inspired by his traditional training in Chinese Classical Dance, Martial Arts and

all teachers like Jennifer Nugent, Sarah Pearson, Leah Cox, Patrik Widrig, Tao Ye, Eric Handman, and Janet Wong. His choreography, often through a sociocultural lens, gives voices to communities at risk of social exclusion and people whose stories are lost in the official narratives, carefully structuring an alternative history from the personal and private stories of individual. His work has been exposed internationally in China, U.S and Germany. Huiwang voluntarily edits a dance e-journal upsidedown in China where he writes and translates perspectives in contemporary dance making into Chinese language.

COMPANY & COLLABORATOR PROFILES BJORN G. AMELAN (Creative Director) was the partner of the late fashion designer Patrick Kelly from 1983 until Mr. Kelly passed away on January 1, 1990.

Mr. Amelan moved to the United States to begin his collaboration with Bill T. Jones in 1993. He has designed sets for the following works by Bill T. Jones: Green and Blue (1997) for the Lyon Opera Ballet; How! Do! We! Do! (1999) for Bill T. Jones and Jessye Norman, in conjunction with the Lincoln Center’s Great Performers Show (1999), You Walk? (2000), The Table Project (2001), Another Evening

(2002), Verbum (2002), World Without/In (2002), Black Suzanne (2002), Reading, Mercy andThe Artificial Nigger (2003), Mercy 10 x 8 on a Circle (2003), Chaconne (2003) and Blind Date (2005) for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Mr. Amelan is the recipient of the 2001 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for his designs of The Breathing Show and The Table Project.

SAM CRAWFORD (Sound Designer / Sound Engineer) completed degrees in English and Audio Technology at Indiana University in 2003. A Move to New York City led him to Looking Glass Studios where he worked on film projects with Philip Glass and Björk.

His recent sound designs and compositions have included works for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company (Venice Biennale, 2010), Kyle Abraham (Pavement, 2012), Camille A. Brown and Dancers (BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play, 2016), and David Dorfman Dance (BAM Next Wave, 2013). La Medea, Crawford’s live multi-media collaboration with director Yara Travieso premiered at PS122’s Coil Festival in 2017.

VERONICA FALBORN, (Producing Associate) is incredibly excited to be working with the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Company. Other dance

credits include The New York City Ballet, School of American Ballet, Trisha Brown Dance Company, Vail International Dance Festival, Dances Patrelle, and NJ Ballet.

She is a proud graduate of SUNY Purchase.

NICK HALLETT (Composer) has been a collaborator of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company since 2014. His scores include all three evenings of the Analogy Trilogy, A Letter to my Nephew, and Fishkill/Movements 1-45. He is the recipient of a 2017 “Bessie” award for Best Revival, with Ishmael Houston-Jones and Miguel Gutierrez, for Variations on Themes from Lost & Found: Scenes from a Life and Other Works by John Bernd. His opera, Whispering Pines 10 (2010), a collaboration with artist Shana Moulton, was presented internationally and earned the duo a Creative Capital grant to be adapted for the internet. gutcity.com MARK HAIRSTON (Dramaturg) A native of Washington, DC, Mark H. is a director, performer and educator with a primary focus on American theater and theater of the African diaspora. He is particularly drawn to classical works, innovative literary adaptations, and theater for community development. His

recent directing highlights include Julius Caesar, The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom, King Lear, The Cherry Orchard, and The Henry Dumas Project. Along with directing, Mark has worked extensively as a professional actor with some of the nation’s leading theater companies. He is a graduate of the MFA Directing program at Columbia University School of the Arts, received his BFA in Acting from Rutgers University, and was classically trained at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. Mark is an Assistant Professor of Directing and Acting at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

HPRIZM aka HIGH PRIEST (Music Producer) Professionally known as -Hprizm is an American AvantGarde Artist, Composer, New Media artist and Performer whose work spans performance art, pop music and multimedia projects.

Formally trained as a visual artist, Prizm, later developed from the axis of poetry, hip hop and the experimental arts community of the Lower East Side in the Early Nineties. Noted for evoking images of “Sun Ra and Africa Bambatta at once…” (Jesse Sewer XL8R Magazine) Austin is the founding member of the critically acclaimed Hip Hop collective, the Antipop Consortium and cited figure in the Afrofuturist canon. With a career

that spans the last 20 years, Prizm of these instruments’ power and has shared the stages with a wide elegance to serve as a vessel array of artists ranging from The for these themes. As a vocalist, Roots,Radiohead and ,MFDoom their influences stem from a to Matthew Shipp, Vijay Iyer and dynamic range of musical stylings Steve Lehman As a composer his including contemporary opera, pieces have been presented in The free jazz, musical theater, as well Whitney (NYC) The Guggenheim, as ambient, drone, and noise PS1/Moma The Walker Museum, music. In addition to creating The New Museum, Cal Arts as well solo work, Andrews develops and as the Mazzoli Gallery (ITALY) performs the soundscapes for As the Creative Director of dance, theater, and film, and whose PRIZMLABS his recent client base work is still toured nationally includes Kehinde Wiley, Simone and internationally. Andrews Leigh, Moor Mother, Ursula Rucker, has gained recognition from The Barnes Center (Philadelphia) publications such as The New York Bahamadia. & The Banff Center, Times, Uncut Magazine, Electronic Meredith Monk, The So Percussion Sound, NPR, and more. Holland Ensemble, Loris Greaud, Snorks Andrews is currently based in New (feat. David Lynch and Charlotte York City. Andrews also performs Rampling) amongst others. solo music under the stage name Like a Villain.

HOLLAND ANDREWS (Musician) is an American vocalist, composer, LINDSAY KIPNIS (Stage Manager): improviser, and performance Clueless The Musical (TNG/ artist whose work is based on Dodgers); Then They Forgot…, emotionality in its many forms. In Scissoring (INTAR); Nothing Gold their work, Andrews focuses on Can Stay (Partial Comfort); Calling the abstraction of operatic and All Kates (ATF); A Midsummer extended-technique voice to Night’s Dream (SITS, SSS); Book of build soundscapes encompassing Will, Twelfth Night, Love’s Labour’s both catharsis and the interplay Lost (HVSF); Comedy of Errors between dissonance and Mobile Unit, Under the Radar resonance to tell stories of the (The Public Theater); American interior worlds of humanity.

Realness Festival; Beauty and the Frequently highlighting themes Beast (BTG); Mala Hierba (Second surrounding vulnerability and Stage); La Fille du Regiment, Cold healing, Andrews arranges Mountain (Santa Fe Opera); Side music with voice and clarinet, Show (La Jolla Playhouse); Various harnessing the innate qualities PSM/PM credits at NYU Tisch

New Studio on Broadway; Various credits at The Juilliard School Apprentice Program.

LAUREN LIBRETTI (Lighting Supervisor) Dance credits include working with Jody Oberfelder, Kate Weare Dance Company, Lori Belilove, Isadora Duncan Dance Company, Jose Limon Dance Company and Ailey II. Her designs have been seen for DamageDance, The Umbrella Collective, The Staten Island Ballett, and Ann Liv Young’s Elektra. She was the lighting director with Martha Graham Dance Company, where she redesigned the classic, Errand into the Maze.

LIZ PRINCE (Costume Designer) designs costumes for dance, theater and film and has had the great pleasure of designing for Bill T. Jones since 1991. Her work has been exhibited at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 2011 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Space and 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) and a 2008 Charles Flint Kellogg Arts and Letters Award from Bard College. She teaches costume design at SUNY Purchase College and Manhattanville College.

HILLERY MAKATURA (Director of Production) graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University with a B.F.A. in Theater. She has been touring both internationally and throughout the U.S. since 2006.

She has worked as production manager for The Actors Studio, Big Art Group, Theater Mitu and Trisha Brown Dance Company.

KYLE MAUDE (Producing Director) graduated from Drake University with a B.F.A. in Theatre. She has worked with Ballet Tech/Feld Ballets New York, The Royal Ballet School of London, Buglisi-Foreman Dance, and Lesbian Pulp-o-Rama!

Ms. Maude joined the Company in 2003.

ROBERT WIERZEL (Lighting Designer) has worked with artists in theatre, dance, new music, opera and museums, on stages throughout the country and abroad.

He has worked with choreographer Bill T. Jones and his company since 1985. Projects include Blind Date, Another Evening/I Bow Down, Still/Here, You Walk?, Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land, How To Walk An Elephant, and We Set Out Early, Visibility Was Poor. Other works with Bill T. Jones include projects at the Guthrie Theatre, Lyon Opera Ballet, Deutsche Opera Ballet (Berlin), Boston Ballet,

Boston Lyric Opera, the Welsh dance company Diversions, and London’s Contemporary Dance Trust. Robert has also worked with choreographers Trisha Brown, Doug Varone, Donna Uchizono, Larry Goldhuber, Heidi Latsky, Sean Curran, MolissaFenley, Susan Marshall, Margo Sappington, Alonzo King and Joann FregaletteJansen. Additional credits include national and international opera companies, Broadway and regional theater. Mr. Wierzel is currently on the faculty of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and The Yale School of Drama.

JANET WONG (Associate Artistic Director) was born in Hong Kong and trained in Hong Kong and London. Upon graduation she joined the Berlin Ballet where she first met Bill when he was invited to choreograph on the company. In 1993, she moved to New York to pursue other interests. Ms. Wong became Rehearsal Director of the Company in 1996, Associate Artistic Director in August 2006 and Associate Artistic Director of New York Live Arts in 2016.

LIVE ARTS CONTRIBUTORS New York Live Arts is deeply grateful to all the individuals listed below for their vital gifts to New York Live Arts over the last year: $500,000 and higher Anonymous Slobodan Randjelović & Jon Stryker

Deborah Ronnen Temple St. Clair & Paul Engler Billie Tsien & Tod Williams

$100,000-$499,999 Booth Ferris Foundation Ruth & Stephen Hendel Ellen M. Poss

$1,000 - $4,999 Gerald Appelstein Robby Browne Charlotte & Charles Buchanan Jeannie Colbert Elizabeth Diller Philip Gallo Morton Glickman Michael & Deborah Goldberg Deborah Hellman & Derek Brown Judith and Steven Gluckstern Michael Keegan James Krents Kyung-Lim Lee Turrell & James A. Turrell Glenn Ligon Robert Longo Anna Maltby & Akshay Patil Tommy McCall & Victor Zonana Nancy Meyer & Marc Weiss Susan Micari Helen Mills & Gary Tannenbaum Pat Minard Thomas Nichols & Daniel Chadburn Anonymous Mark O’Donnell PR Consulting Inc. Rita Salzman Amy Schulman Cindy Sherman Catharine R. Stimpson Kristalina & Jack Taylor Kate Whitney & Franklin Thomas Bruce & Megumi Williams Timothy Wu &Eric Murphy

$50,000 - $99,999 Jane Bovingdon Semel & Terry Semel Zoe Eskin Eleanor Friedman Helen & Peter Haje Suzanne Karpas Alex Katz Foundation Barbara & Alan D. Marks Matthew Putman $25,000 - $49,999 Anonymous Patricia Blanchet David Dechman & Michele Mercure Adam Flatto Alexes Hazen James C. Hormel & Michael P. Nguyen In Loving Memory of Linda Grass Shapiro Charla Jones Lorraine Gallard & Richard H. Levy Amy Newman & Bud Shulman Diana Wege $10,000 - $24,999 Bloomberg Philanthropies The Brant Foundation, Inc. Claire Danes & Hugh Dancy Colleen Keegan Jonathan D. Lewis & Mark Zitelli Julie Orlando Pace Prints Phillips Andrea Rosen Alanna Rutherford Ruby Shang Nina & Gabe Stricker Pat Stryker $5,000 - $9,999 Zaire Baptiste & Voodo Fé Agnes Gund Bill T. Jones & Bjorn Amelan Jeffrey B. & Wendy Liszt

$500 - $999 Irene Barth Kathleen Chalfant Sheron Davis & Nat Lipstadt Maribeth Gainard & Hal Goltz Sharon Gerstel Jamie & Jeffrey Harris The Marshall Frankel Foundation Jan Paschal Gifts and commitments between 9/30/2019-9/30/20

Support is provided by the Alice Lawrence Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Arnhold Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Con Edison, Dance/NYC, The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc., Ford Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Humanities New York, Hyde & Watson Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Joseph & Joan Cullman Foundation, MAP Fund, Marta Heflin Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, National Performance Network, New England Foundation for the Arts, New Music USA, O’Donnell Green Music & Dance Foundation, Samuel Levy Foundation, Scherman Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Studio Institute, Tito’s Handmade Vodka, William Penn Foundation.

New York Live Arts is supported by public funds from Humanities New York, National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with City Council with special thanks to Council Speaker Corey Johnson, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

STAFF & BOARD Artistic Leadership

Executive Leadership

Board of Directors

Bill T. Jones Artistic Director

Kim Cullen Executive Director & CEO

Stephen Hendel Co-Chair

Janet Wong Associate Artistic Director

Development

Richard H. Levy Co-Chair

Dave Archuletta Chief Development Officer

Helen Haje Vice Chair

Kyle Maude Producing Director

Ali Burke Individual Giving & Special Events Manager

Slobodan RandjeloviĆ Vice Chair

Hannah Emerson Producing Associate

Erin Baskin Institutional Giving Manager

Veronica Falborn Producing Associate & Production Stage Manager

Bianca Bailey Member Services & Education Coordinator

Production

Hans Rasch Institutional Giving Assistant

Hillery Makatura Director of Production

Finance

Sarah Arison

Creative Director

Nupur Dey Director of Finance

Aimee Meredith Cox

Bjorn G. Amelan

Artlin Hawthorne Finance Associate

Colleen Keegan

Communications

Gregory English Rentals Coordinator

Programming, Producing & Engagement

Tyler Ashley Director of Communications Mayadevi Ross Digital Media Coordinator Candystore Communications Assistant

Alan Marks Treasurer Alanna Rutherford Secretary Bill T. Jones Artistic Director Ex-Officio Kim Cullen Chief Executive Officer Ex-Officio Bjorn Amelan

Alden Henderson Facility Services Coordinator Human Resources ADP TotalSource

Hannah Seiden Front of House Coordinator

Legal Services

Liliana Dirks-Goodman Graphic Designer

Lowenstein Sandler, PC Pro-Bono Counsel

Charla Jones Amy Newman Randy Polumbo Ellen M. Poss Matthew Putman Jane Bovingdon Semel Ruby Shang Catharine R. Stimpson Diana Wege Board Emeritus Derek Brown

Pentagram Pro-Bono Branding

Terence Dougherty

Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist

Advisory Council

Faye Driscoll Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company Vinson Fraley, Jr., Barrington Hinds, Chanel Howard, Dean Michael Husted, Shane Larson, s. Lumbert, Marie Paspe, Nayaa Opong, Huiwang Zhang

Eleanor Friedman

Margaret Doyle, Chair Alberta Arthurs Beverly D’Anne Lisa Frigand Jenette Kahn Susan Micari Alton Murray Lorraine Gallard Lois Greenfield Martha Sherman