OUR SEASON OF ANNIVERSARIES CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF LIVE ARTS AND 40 YEARS OF THE BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE COMPANY
Raphael Xavier The Musician & The Mover MAR 3-5, 730PM Choreographed and Directed by Raphael Xavier Performed by Martha Bernabel, Joshua Culbreath, Raphael Xavier Music composed and performed by Richard Hill, Kimpedro Rodriguez, Sumi Tonooka, Raphael Xavier, Bobby Zankel Poetry by Raphael Xavier and Leigh Nelson Lighting Design by Chris Hudacs Run Time: 55 min Photo by Brian Mengini Fri, Mar 4 Stay Late Conversation moderated by Bill T. Jones
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FUNDING The Live Feed Residency program is supported in part by Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Partners for New Performance. The Musician & The Mover was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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BIOGRAPHIES Raphael Xavier is a self-taught Hip-Hop dancer and Breaking practitioner since 1983. Raphael has forged an exceptional approach to improvisation. Brenda Dixon Gottschild deemed Xavier, ‘A fine rhythm technician who transforms a bravado dance style into an introspective meditation.’ Xavier creates new ways to expand the vocabulary of the dance form. As the sound designer for his works, Xavier’s understanding of movement and musicality allows him to structure beats, noises and sounds into captivating music that draws upon emotion and coincides with his choreography. His extensive research in the Breaking form has led to the creation of Ground-Core, a Somatic dance technique that gives the practitioner a better understanding of the body within all dance forms. Joshua Culbreath’s breaking journey began after watching the movies “Breakin” and “Beat street”. In middle school Joshua got involved with a dance group called KRS Ent. There he learned how to perform on stage. Joshua joined Rennie Harris’s second dance company RHAW in 2009. Shortly after he met Raphael Xavier he performed in one of Xavier’s works
called The Unofficial Guide To Audience Watching Performance. Joshua continues to perform with both Xavier and Rennie Harris, learning the ropes, so he can create his own work and expand the possibilities of the Breaking Movement. Martha Bernabel, NY, has been immersed in dance since childhood. Although she was initially introduced to ballet, jazz and African dancing, her calling was Hip Hop. Martha began performing at 5 years old at recitals through George Connelly Dance School & public schools she attended. Throughout the years, she sought out and joined different dance groups so she could continue learning and expressing herself on the dance floor. In 2006, Martha was invited to a breaking practice in Queens and has not looked back since. Since then, she has competed at breaking events and performed at shows. Kimpedro Rodriguez (Percussion) is a product of the culturally diverse Spring Garden section of North Philadelphia. An illustrator, author and drummer, Kimpedro received his formal education in
fine arts, advertising illustration and graphics at not only The Museum School, Thomas Eakins’ House and Fleischer Art Memorial but also The Philadelphia College of Art, Hussian School of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and The Society of Illustrators in New York. His musical education began in his neighborhood, where the soundtrack of his life was the Afro Caribbean and Indigenous rhythms that filled the air.
scene since high school. Winner of the 2014 Clef Club of Jazz and Performing Art awards for bass, he has performed with Bobby Zankel, Sumi Tonooka, Wynton Marsalis, Nicholas Payton, Frank Foster, Jackie Mclean, Robert Glasper, Bilal, Mickey Roker, United States Army Band and various artists on the international scene. He has also recorded with Javon Jackson , Jill Scott , Touch of Jazz Studios and the Korean Broadcasting Network. 2019- 2020 was a resident composing Artist at the Kimmel Center of the Performing Arts Philadelphia PA.
Bobby Zankel (Saxophone).The Brooklyn born composer/alto saxophonist first began attracting national attention around 1971, while a student at the University of Sumi Tonooka (Piano).Tonooka Wisconsin as a member of the NEA (pronounced To-NO-ka) has been Jazz Master and MacArthur Fellow called a “fierce and fascinating Cecil Taylor’s “Unit Core Ensemble”. composer and pianist” (Jazz Times), Downbeat described Zankel as “a “provocative and compelling” (New skillful young altoist with powerful York Times), and “continually music at his fingertips”. Zankel inventive, original, surprising, and was combining his performing and a total delight,” (Cuadranos de Jazz, research with Taylor while working Madrid). with master drummer George Brown’s quartet that featured the During a career spanning more brilliant underappreciated organist than 30 years that has taken Melvin Rhyne. His “underground” her from bases in Philadelphia & reputation grew on the New York Boston, to New York & Seattle, “Loft Scene” (73-75), where he Tonooka has been developing a performed with the likes of William body of work that surprises and Parker, and Ray Anderson. delights audiences – quietly piling up accolades from jazz writers and Richard Hill (Bass) has been fellow musicians. immersed in the Philadelphia Music
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 Anonymous Lorraine Gallard & Richard Levy Suzanne Karpas $25,000 - $49,999 Anonymous Patricia Blanchet / Ed Bradley Family Foundation David Dechman & Michel Mercure Zoe Eskin Adam Flatto Helen & Peter Haje Alexes Hazen James C. Hormel & Michael P. Nguyen in memory of Linda Grass Shapiro Charla Jones Amy Newman & Bud Shulman Barbara & Alan D. Marks Randy Polumbo / Plant Construction Matthew Putman Alanna Rutherford Starry Night Fund at The Chicago Community Foundation Diana Wege / Wege Foundation $10,000 - $24,999 Colleen Keegan Julie Orlando Andrea Rosen Ruby Shang Nina & Gabriel Stricker Leslie Weinberger
$5,000 - $9,999 Deborah Hellman & Derek Brown Paula Cooper & Jack Macrae Caroline & Paul Cronson Claire Danes & Hugh Dancy Anne Delaney Agnes Gund Bill T. Jones & Bjorn Amelan Jeffrey B. & Wendy Liszt Robert Longo Deborah Ronnen Melissa Schiff Soros Cindy Sherman Temple St. Clair & Paul Engler Kristalina & Jack Taylor Williams Family Foundation $1,000 - $4,999 Jody & John Arnhold | Arnhold Foundation Anonymous The Angelson Family Foundation Jonathan J. Cohen Charitable Fund Jeannie Colbert Kim Cullen Emily Dalton Joan Davidson Lil & Jim DeMarse Dobkin Family Foundation Margaret Doyle John Fitzgibbon Mimi Garrard Judith & Steven Gluckstern Michael & Deborah Goldberg Thomas & Barbara Gottschalk Jeanine Heriveaux Jenny Holzer Otho Kerr Spike Lee Nancy Meyer & Marc Weiss Susan Micari Meridee Moore & Kevin King Thomas Nichols & Daniel Chadburn Mark O’Donnell Deborah Pines Rita Salzman The Susan Stein Shiva Foundation Catharine R. Stimpson Megumi & Bruce Williams Timothy Wu & Eric Murphy
$500 - $999 Arthur Aviles Timothy Benning The Marshall Frankel Foundation Sharon Gerstel Tom Hennes Lauren Hutton Olivia Katz Kenneth Machlin Wayne Norbeck John Sansone Deborah Swiderski Gifts and commitments between 7/1/2020-6/30/2021 Support for New York Live Arts is provided by the Arnhold Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Ed Bradley Family Foundation, The Brant Foundation, Inc., Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Dance/ NYC, Ford Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Marta Heflin Foundation, Alex Katz Foundation, Lambent Foundation, Alice Lawrence Foundation, Samuel M. Levy Family Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Muriel Pollia Foundation, National Performance Network, New England Foundation for the Arts, NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund in the New York Community Trust, The Poss Family Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Jerome Robbins Foundation, The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, San Francisco Foundation The Semel Charitable Foundation, Scherman Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Tides Foundation Corporate support for New York Live Arts includes Con Edison, Google, Tito’s Handmade Vodka. Public support for New York Live Arts is from Humanities New York, National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Correction, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Manhattan Borough President, and the New York State Council on the Arts.
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