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THE MO THERB MAY 13 -15, 7PM OARD SUITE

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Live Ideas 2021 is co-curated by Reynaldo Anderson and New York Live Arts in partnership with the Black Speculative Arts Movement (BSAM).

Live Ideas 2021

ALTERED-WORLDS: BLACK UTOPIA AND THE AGE OF ACCELERATION Contemporary Afrofuturism may be defined as an emerging social philosophy of the African diaspora and Africa.

Today, partly because of a crisis in globalization, social media and other technological advances, second wave Afrofuturism is emerging as the High Culture of the African diaspora and is the cultural vibranium of a rising virtual African civilization. The 2021 edition of Live Ideas, Altered-Worlds: Black Utopia and The Age of Acceleration, will explore this second wave of Afrofuturism as an alternative to the social anomie, reactionary impulses and neo-fascism of late capitalism. The five-day inter-disciplinary hybrid festival will unfold across multiple dimensions through installations, conversations and performances at the intersection of arts, techno-culture, sci-fi, social sciences, philosophy and the imagination.

SAUL WILLIAMS: THE MOTHERBOARD SUITE IN-PERSON @ LIVE ARTS: MAY 13-14, 7PM IN-PERSON @ TIMES SQUARE: MAY 15, 7PM (FATHER DUFFY SQUARE @ 46TH & BROADWAY)

ONLINE STREAMING: MAY 14-15, 7PM (EST) Original music by Saul Williams Directed by Bill T. Jones With choreography by Maria Bauman, Kayla Farrish, Marjani Forté-Saunders, d. Sabela grimes, Jasmine Hearn and Shamel Pitts|TRIBE Performed by Saul Williams and Aku Orraca-Tetteh and Maria Bauman, Morgan Bobrow-Williams, Kayla Farrish, Marjani Forté-Saunders, d. Sabela grimes, Jasmine Hearn and Samantha Spies Scenic & Projection Design by Jasmine Murrell Lighting Design by Serena Wong Alexander Allen, Stage Manager Sound Engineer Zach Prewitt Costume Design by Athena Kokoronis (Maria Bauman & Samantha Speis, Jasmine Hearn) and Kayla Farrish, Marjani Forte-Saunders, d. Sabela grimes, and Shamel Pitts.

Headpieces by Jasmine Murrell Produced by New York Live Arts Filmed by Essay Video

Live Ideas Festival House Crew: Patrick Calhoun, Sound Supervisor John Anselmo, Master Electrician Tom Goehring, Technical Director Olivia Reddick, Light Board Operator Mae Frankeberger, Production Coordinator Spoken Word Saul Williams These MTHRFKRS Cast Order of Time Jasmine Hearn Horn of the Clock-Bike Marjani Forte Saunders Think Like They Book Say Choreography by Shamel Pitts | TRIBE, Performed by Morgan Bobrow-Williams People Above the Moon Kayla Farrish Down For Some Ignorance Maria Bauman & Samantha Speis Encrypted and Vulnerable Jasmine Hearn We get what you deserve d. Sabela grimes The Noise Came From Here Marjani Forté-Saunders & Cast View the Lyrics here.

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Support for Live Ideas is provided by: Partners for New Performance: Julie Orlando (Chair), Alexes Hazen, Linda Hirschon, Andrea Rosen, Nina Stricker.

Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Ford Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Google, Marta Heflin Foundation, Alex Katz Foundation, Lambent Foundation, Alice Lawrence Foundation, The Poss Family Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Semel Charitable Foundation, Scherman Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

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BIOGRAPHIES Bill T. Jones (Artistic Director/ Co-Founder/Choreographer: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company; Artistic Director: New York Live Arts) is the recipient of the 2014 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award; the 2013 National Medal of Arts; the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors; a 2010 Tony Award for Best Choreography of the critically acclaimed FELA!; a 2007 Tony Award, 2007 Obie Award, and 2006 Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation CALLAWAY Award for his choreography for Spring Awakening; the 2010 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award; the 2007 USA Eileen Harris Norton Fellowship; the 2006 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreography forThe Seven; the 2005 Wexner Prize; the 2005 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement; the 2005 Harlem Renaissance Award; the 2003 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize; and the 1994 MacArthur “Genius” Award. In 2010, Mr. Jones was recognized as Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government, and in 2000, The Dance Heritage Coalition named Mr. Jones “An

Irreplaceable Dance Treasure.”

Mr. Jones choreographed and performed worldwide with his late partner, Arnie Zane, before forming the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company in 1982. He has created more than 140 works for his company. Mr. Jones is the Artistic Director of New York Live 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.

Saul Williams has been breaking ground since his debut album, Amethyst Rock Star, was released in 2001 and executive produced by Rick Rubin. After gaining global fame for his poetry and writings at the turn of the century, Williams has performed in over 30 countries and read in over 300 universities, with invitations that have spanned from the White House, the Sydney Opera House, Lincoln Center, The Louvre, The Getty Center, Queen Elizabeth Hall, to countless, villages, townships, community centers, and prisons across the world. The Newburgh, New York native gained a BA

from Morehouse and an MFA from Tisch, and has gone on to record with Nine Inch Nails and Allen Ginsburg, as well as countless film and television appearances.

Williams’ most recent musical release, “Encrypted & Vulnerable” is the first album he’s ever categorized as ‘spoken word’ and is the second in a series of three albums and part of the multi-tiered MartyrLoserKing project. The album is selfproduced by Williams, mixed

by Warp artist Gonjasufi and features contributions from Dave Sitek, My Brightest Diamond, Grammy-winning trumpet player Christian Scott (Atoms For Peace), astrophysicist Bianca Rhym, producer King Britt, Orko Eloheim, Thavius Beck, CX KiDTRONiK, Paul Whiteman and Lippie. The album also acts as the score to his directorial debut musical, ‘Neptune Frost’, executive produced by Stephen Hendel based on the graphic novel Williams will be releasing in 2020 about African hackers living in a village made of upcycled computer parts. Of the album, Williams explains: “Encrypted & Vulnerable is simultaneously a personal and

intimately optimistic takedown on struggle, defiance, awareness, aloneness, and a takedown of heteronormative capitalistic patriarchal authoritarian politics in topics ranging from love, technology, religion, war, to migration.”

Marjani Forté-Saunders is a Mother, choreographer, performer, community organizer.

She is a 2020 recipient of the Foundation of Contemporary Arts Grants for Artists Award, and a 3 time NY Dance & Performance/Bessie Award winning choreographer and performer: she is one of twentyone Black Womyn and Gender Non-Conforming artists curated

by Eva Yaa Asantewaa, now operating as the collective Skeleton Architecture, to receive the 2017 Bessie Award for Outstanding Performance, and a two-time Bessie Award winner for her latest work Memoirs of a… Unicorn (Outstanding Visual Design & Outstanding Production).

Marjani is honored to be an inaugural recipient of the 3 distinguishing fellowships: UBW Choreographic Center Fellowship (2017), Jerome Artist Fellowship

(2018), and the DanceUSA Artist Fellowship (2019), as well as a 2 time Princess Grace Foundation awardee. Her work has been incubated in residencies at New York Live Arts, MANCC, LMCC Extended Life Residency invited by the late and mighty Sam Miller, BAX, 651 Arts, and Movement Research. Her latest work, Memoirs of a.. Unicorn recently had its international premiere in Brussels, Belgium at the Beursschouwburg Festival 2019 and will be presenting in Berlin at the Sophienseale in October 2020.

2019), Baryshnikov Arts Center (Nov 2019), The Yard (May 2020), and an inaugural Space Grant at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (July 2020).

They are also founding directors of ART & POWER (2018) an emerging platform for artists, writers, scientists, spiritualists, and scholars mobilizing regional and international communities through the transformative power of art, philosophy, spirituality, and practice.

Commercially, Saunders has Her work as an artist and worked as Movement Coach/ organizer is informed by years Creative Movement Director/and in anti-racist organizer training Choreographer with Sundance with the People’s Institute for Award Winning director Kahlil Survival and Beyond and as a lead Joseph (PROCESS, Pantene facilitator with UBW’s Builders ProV -“Strong Is Beautiful”, and Organizers and Leaders FLYPAPER), and on Joseph’s through Dance. video installation FLYPAPER at the New Museum featuring Ben Anchored in a steady Vereen and StoryBoard P. She has collaboration with partner and also worked with Director Kevin composer Everett Asis Saunders Willmott on the feature film (New Music USA Awardee), the The 24th, Kevin Everson’s short duo has emerged as 7NMS| film Black Bus Stop and Tracee Marjani Forte & Everett Ellis Ross’ product launch video Saunders (abbv. 7NMS| M + E). campaign for her new haircare Their new project A Prophet’s Tale line, PATTERNS . has been awarded residencies at BARD College (Jan 2019), The As an extension of her Petronio Residency Center (Sept choreography, and with support

from the SURDNA Foundation Thriving Cultures Grant, FortéSaunders curated a threemonth exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Art in Brooklyn, NY titled being Here… in Memory focusing on trauma and its historic impact on systematically oppressed communities and bodies.

Saunders was a touring artist for five years, with Urban Bush Women Dance Company (UBW) and one of two artists ever to perform Blondell Cumming’s American Masterpiece Chicken Soup. She continues to facilitate workshops for UBW’s BOLD Teaching Network, offering UBWs unique approach to dance training and community engagement.

Humbly, she defines her work by its lineage stemming from culturally rich, vibrant, historic, loving, irreverent conjurers!

Marjani is honored to be joining this power collective of artists and visionaries as part of Live Arts’ Live Ideas 2021, AlteredWorlds: Black Utopia and The Age of Acceleration.

Kayla Farrish/Decent Structures Arts is an emerging company combining filmmaking, storytelling, dance theater performance, and sound score. The company has been commissioned by Gibney Dance Inc (2020-2021), Louis Armstrong House Museum (2020), Danspace Project Inc (2019), Pepatian and BAAD! (2018), and beyond.

Farrish has been supported by creative residencies including Gibney Spotlight: New Voices, Barysnikov Arts Center (2020), Keshet Makers Space Experience, BAX Space Grant (2019), Pepatian Dance Your Future (2018), and Chez Bushwick (2017). Pieces sprouted outwards including “Black Bodies Sonata”, “The New Frontier (my dear America)” evening length and film, “With grit From, Grace”, “Spectacle” Film and Live Production evening length work, and anticipated “Martyr’s Fiction” that continued to push boundaries of form, voice, scene, narrative in an array of cinematic mediums. Her work has performed at venues like Judson Church, Danspace, Jacob’s Pillow, BAAD!, film festivals, and beyond. In addition, Farrish has freelanced with companies including Sleep No More NYC,

Kyle Abraham/AIM, Marjani Forte/7NMS, Kate Weare Company, Helen Simoneau Danse, Company SBB, Dendy/Donovan Projects, Arthur Aviles, Rashuan Mitchell/Silas Reiner, Nicole Von Arx, Danielle Russo, and others. d. Sabela grimes aka Ovasoul7, 2017 County of Los Angeles Performing Arts Fellow and 2014 United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow, is a transmedia storyteller whose creative practice draws directly from a mix of socio-historical observation, self-examination and speculative exploration through layers of interconnected sonic, visual and kinesthetic arrangements. Previous work, ELECTROGYNOUS, declares that Black gender qualities are infinite, multidimensional and distinct manifestations of wombniversal consciousness. His current project, Dark Matter Messages, dreams Octavia E. Butler’s body of work into modular multidisciplinary performance/ installation experience(s) that include “minting” digital art using blockchain technology. Each experience realizes quantum Blackness as a means to play within the nowness of recurring futures. On faculty at USC’s

Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, he continues to cultivate, Funkamental MediKinetics, a movement system that draws on the layered dance training, community building, and spiritual practices evident in Black vernacular and Hip Hop/Street dance forms.

Maria Bauman is a “Bessie” award winning multi-disciplinary artist and community organizer from Jacksonville, FL. She has been honored widely as an Urban Bush Women Choreographic Fellow, Jerome Foundation Alternate Fellow, 2021 BRIC Arts Fellow, Redtail Arts 2021 Artist in Residence and Columbia College Chicago 2020 Artist in Residence among others. She is also a sought-after facilitator and speaker on the topics of social justice practices within performing arts, embodied and arts-based leadership development, and racial equity in the arts. Bauman creates bold and honest artworks for her company, MBDance, based on physical and emotional power, insistence on equity, and intimacy.

In particular, Bauman’s siteresponsive dance work centers the non-linear and linear stories and bodies of Black queer people

in multiple immersive ritual Joyce SoHo, Hollins University, settings. She draws on her study BAAD, Danspace Project, BAM, of English literature, capoeira, Dixon Place, BRIC, Dance improvisation, dancing in living Place, and The Kelly Strayhorn rooms and nightclubs, as well as Theater. Speis has developed a concert dance classes to embody teaching practice that explores interconnectedness, joy, and pelvic mobility as the root of tenacity. Bauman brings the same powerful locomotion and as a tenets to organizing to undo point of connection to the stories, racism in the arts and beyond experiences and lineages that with ACRE (Artists Co-creating reside in each of us. She has Real Equity), the grassroots been a guest artist and teacher group she co-founded with Sarita throughout the U.S., South Covington and Nathan Trice and America, Senegal, and Europe. she is also a mentor with Queer Recent projects include Walking Art Mentorship Project. with Trane co-choreographed Latest artwork: with Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and www.desire.mbdance.net her collaboration with Chanon Judson-Johnson and Raelle Samantha Speis, Co-Artistic Myrick-Hodges on Hair and Other Director of Urban Bush Women, Stories. is a mother and movement improviser intrigued with rigor, Jasmine Hearn is from the risk, and experimentation. She ancestral lands of the Karankawa has worked with Gesel Mason, and Atapake people, now The Dance Exchange, Jumatatu known as Houston, TX. A Poe, Deborah Hay (as part interdisciplinary artist, director, of the Sweet Day curated by choreographer, organizer, Ralph Lemon at the MoMA), teaching artist, and a 2017 Bessie Baba Israel, Marjani Forte, and award winning performer with Liz Lerman. Speis was the Skeleton Architecture, they have recipient of the Alvin Ailey New crafted and shared collaborative Directions Choreography Lab dance theater performances and was awarded a Bessie for rooted in identity, memory, Outstanding Performer. Her work and the facilitation of creative has been featured at the Kennedy space for feelings and fantasy.

Center, Long Island University, They are currently a company

member with Urban Bush Women and a 2019 Jerome Foundation Jerome Hill Fellow. Jasmine has creatively collaborated with multidisciplinary artists, Solange Knowles, Alisha B. Wormsley, Vanessa German, Ayanah Moor, Staycee Pearl, Holly Bass, slowdanger, BANDPortier, and Jennifer Nagle Myers, which have produced solo and collective dance choreography or performances at the Guggenheim Museum, The Getty Center, Venice Biennale 2019, the Ford Foundation, New York Live Arts, and the Houston Arts Alliance.

Their commitment to dance is an expansive practice that includes performance, collaboration, sound, and garmentry.

Shamel Pitts 2020 Guggenheim Fellow Shamel Pitts is a performance artist, choreographer, conceptual artist, dancer, spoken word artist, and teacher. Born in Brooklyn New York, Shamel began his dance training at LaGuardia High School for Music & Art and the Performing Arts and, simultaneously, at The Ailey School. He is 2003 YoungArts Finalist and a first prize (level 1) winner of the YoungArts competition. Shamel then went

on to receive his BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School and was awarded the Martha Hill Award for excellence in dance. He began his dance career in Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Hell’s Kitchen Dance and BJM_Danse Montreal.

Shamel danced with Batsheva Dance Company for 7 years, under the artistic direction of Ohad Naharin and is a certified teacher of Gaga movement language.

Shamel has created a triptych of award winning multidisciplinary performance art works known as his “BLACK series” which has been performed and toured extensively to many festivals around the world since 2016.

He is an adjunct at The Juilliard School and has been an artist in residence at Harvard University.

Shamel is the choreographer of the play “Help” by acclaimed poet and playwright Claudia Rankine, directed by Taibi Magar, and commissioned at The Shed in New York. He is the recipient of a 2018 Princess Grace Award in Choreography, a 2019 NYSCA/ NYFA Artist Fellowship Award winner in Choreography, and a 2020 Jacob’s Pillow artist in residence. Shamel is the artistic director/founder of TRIBE, a New York based multidisciplinary arts collective. TRIBE is a 92Y

Harkness Dance Center’s Artist In Residence for the 2020-2021 season. Shamel Pitts | TRIBE is also a New York Live Arts Live Feed artist in residence. For more information, visit www.shamelpitts.com www.itsatribe.org.

Morgan Bobrow-Williams is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary, conceptual and performance artist creating work at the intersection of movement/ dance, live performance, music, film, photography, collage, sculpture, and installation. Born and raised in Augusta, Georgia, Morgan began training in the performing arts, primarily in dance, at John S. Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School. They moved to New York City to attend Marymount Manhattan College from 2014-2018 and received a BFA in Dance Performance with a concentration in Choreography.

After college Morgan went on to dance as a full-time company member at Staatstheater Kassel in Germany under the direction of Johannes Wieland from 2018-2020. While working at Staatstheater Kassel Morgan also choreographed a solo work on company dancer

Alison Adnet entitled HYPHEN in 2019 and in 2020 created a film, STANKONIA3000, in which they were the director, performer, editor, and composer.

In January 2020 Morgan began the conceptualization of The Running Project (TRP), a research and development piece that lives as a continuous and evolving gallery of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary art works and live performances, centered on developing vocabulary that engages with and investigates the multi-dimensional embodiment of the BIPOC identity running. As the initiation for TRP they were a 2020 Tanz Farm Artist in Residence and will continue with a second residency this Spring 2021. To learn more about Morgan and his work visit morganbobrowwilliams.com.

Co-curator of the Live Ideas Festival Dr. Reynaldo Anderson currently serves as an Associate Professor of Communication and Chair of the Humanities department at Harris-Stowe State University in Saint Louis Missouri. Reynaldo has earned several awards for leadership and teaching excellence and he is currently the

Past Chair of the Black Caucus of the National Communication Association (NCA). Reynaldo has not only served as an executive board member of the Missouri Arts Council, he has previously served at an international level working for prison reform with C.U.R.E. International in Douala Cameroon, and as a development ambassador recently assisting in the completion of a library project for the Sekyere Afram Plains district in the country of Ghana. Reynaldo publishes extensively in the area of Afrofuturism, communication studies, and the African diaspora experience. Reynaldo is currently the executive director and cofounder of the Black Speculative Arts Movement (BSAM) a network of artists, curators, intellectuals and activists. Finally, he is the co-editor of the book Afrofuturism 2.0: The Rise of Astro-Blackness published by Lexington books, co-editor of Cosmic Underground: A Grimoire of Black Speculative Discontent published by Cedar Grove Publishing, the forthcoming volume The Black Speculative Art Movement: Black Futurity, Art+Design to be released by Lexington press in 2018, and the co-editor of Black Lives,

Black Politics, Black Futures, a forthcoming special issue of TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies.

CALENDAR & EVENTS Virtual Events MAY 10 7PM

Live Ideas Gala 2021 Digital Gala | $100 Digital Event Tickets

MAY 12 6PM

Insighting and Foresighting: The Extraordinary Prescience of Octavia Butler INTERSPACE | Tickets start at $10

MAY 12 7PM

Interspace Exhibition Opening INTERSPACE | FREE with RSVP

MAY 13 5PM

AFROFUTURIST INVERSE INTERSPACE | FREE with RSVP

MAY 14 1PM

Live Ideas Symposium INTERSPACE | Tickets start at $15

MAY 14 7PM

Saul Williams: The Motherboard Suite Livestream | Tickets start at $20

MAY 14 8PM

ALTER-WORLDS (( COSMIC FUNK )) AFTER-PARTY Livestream | FREE

MAY 15 12PM

Upcycling Movement Revolutions & Re:INCARNATION INTERSPACE | Tickets start at $25

MAY 15 7PM

Saul Williams: The Motherboard Suite Livestream | Tickets start at $20

Box Office

Tickets can be purchased at newyorklivearts.org.

Discounts

FESTIVAL PASSES: $50/$35/$25 virtual pass Use code liveideas2021 and get 50% off the virtual pass when you buy 1 live in-person ticket to The Motherboard Suite or Drexcia Redux: An Afrofuturist Cabaret.

Installation Theater Hours: May 12 7pm-10pm, May 13 following the Viewing Hours performance, approx. 8pm-10pm, May 14 following the performance, approx. 8pm – 10pm, May 15 2pm – 8pm Lobby Hours: May 12-14 3pm-10pm, May15 2pm-8pm Studio Hours: May 12 8:30-10pm, May 13-14 5pm- 7:30pm & 9:30pm-10p, May 15 2pm – 8pm

Live In-person MAY 11 7PM

Installation Opening: Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another, Baïlaurâ & Drexciya Redux FREE with RSVP

MAY 12 730PM

Drexciya Redux: An Afrofuturist Cabaret Studio | Tickets start at $20

MAY 13 7PM

Saul Williams: The Motherboard Suite Theater | Tickets start at $45

MAY 13 830PM

Drexciya Redux: An Afrofuturist Cabaret Studio | Tickets start at $20

MAY 14 7PM

Saul Williams: The Motherboard Suite Theater | Tickets start at $45

MAY 14 830PM

Drexciya Redux: An Afrofuturist Cabaret Studio | Tickets start at $20

MAY 15 7PM

Saul Williams: The Motherboard Suite Times Square | FREE

MAY 15 8PM

Cosplay @ Time Square Times Square | FREE

COVID precautions

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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 $100,000-$499,999 Eleanor Friedman Ruth & Stephen Hendel Alex Katz Foundation Ellen M. Poss Jane Bovingdon Semel & Terry Semel / Semel Charitable Foundation $50,000 - $99,999 Zoe Eskin Suzanne Karpas Barbara & Alan Marks $25,000 - $49,999 Anonymous Patricia Blanchet / Ed Bradley Family Foundation David Dechman & Michel Mercure Adam Flatto Lorraine Gallard & Richard H. Levy Helen & Peter Haje James C. Hormel & Michael P. Nguyen in memory of Linda Grass Shapiro Charla Jones Amy Newman & Bud Shulman Randy Polumbo / Plant Construction Matthew Putman Alanna Rutherford Diana Wege $10,000 - $24,999 Bloomberg Philanthropies Alexes Hazen Colleen Keegan Julie Orlando Andrea Rosen Ruby Shang $5,000 - $9,999 Derek Brown & Deborah Hellman Paula Cooper & Jack Macrae Agnes Gund Bill T. Jones & Bjorn Amelan Jeffrey B. & Wendy Liszt Deborah Ronnen Melissa Schiff Soros Cindy Sherman Williams Family Foundation

$1,000 - $4,999 Anonymous Gerald Appelstein Charlotte & Charles Buchanan Jonathan J. Cohen Charitable Fund Jeannie Colbert Kim Cullen Joan Davidson Lil and Jim DeMarse Dobkin Family Foundation Margaret Doyle Philip Gallo Mimi Garrard Judith & Steven Gluckstern Michael & Deborah Goldberg Otho Kerr Glenn Ligon Anna Maltby & Akshay Patil Tommy McCall & Victor Zonana Nancy Meyer & Marc Weiss Susan Micari Meridee Moore & Kevin King Thomas Nichols & Daniel Chadburn Deborah Pines Rita Salzman The Susan Stein Shiva Foundation Catharine R. Stimpson Kristalina & Jack Taylor Kate Whitney & Franklin Thomas James & Azin Wilcox Bruce & Megumi Williams Timothy Wu & Eric Murphy $500 - $999 Arthur Aviles Timothy Benning The Marshall Frankel Foundation Sharon Gerstel Olivia Katz Kenneth Machlin John Sansone Deborah Swiderski Gifts and commitments between 4/1/2020-3/31/2021

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

Davin DeCicco Producing Assistant

Candystore Development Assistant

Kim Cullen Chief Executive Officer Ex-Officio

Hans Rasch Institutional Giving Assistant

Bjorn Amelan

Production Hillery Makatura Director of Production

Finance & Operations

Creative Director

Nupur Dey Director of Finance

Programming, Producing & Engagement

Bjorn G. Amelan Communications Tyler Ashley Director of Communications

Gregory English Rentals Coordinator

Alan Marks Treasurer Alanna Rutherford Secretary Bill T. Jones Artistic Director Ex-Officio

Sarah Arison Aimee Meredith Cox LaToya Ruby Frazier Charla Jones Colleen Keegan Amy Newman Randy Polumbo

Human Resources

Ellen M. Poss

ADP TotalSource

Matthew Putman Jane Bovingdon Semel

Mayadevi Ross Digital Media Coordinator

Legal Services

Ruby Shang

Hannah Seiden Front of House Coordinator

Lowenstein Sandler, PC Pro-Bono Counsel

Catharine R. Stimpson

Liliana Dirks-Goodman Graphic Designer Pentagram Pro-Bono Branding Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist Raja Feather Kelly 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

Diana Wege Board Emeritus Derek Brown Terence Dougherty Eleanor Friedman Advisory Council Margaret Doyle, Chair Alberta Arthurs Beverly D’Anne Lisa Frigand Jenette Kahn Susan Micari Alton Murray Lorraine Gallard Lois Greenfield Martha Sherman