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Cirque Mechanics: Jan. 17, 2020
Cirque Mechanics
42FT – A Menagerie of Mechanical Marvels Friday, Jan. 17, 7:30 p.m.
Program Act One
Opening Justin Finds the Circus Matinee Finale The Suitcase Circus Parade Charivari Juggling with Rosebud Duo Trapeze Zombie Cape Strong Man Bowling Balls Bravado Brothers Juggle Go Round
Act Two
Poster Wall Revolving Ladder Rosebud Returns Animal Trainer Knife Throwing Wheel Sword Swallowing Slack Wire Strong Man Log Russian Swing Justin Joins the Circus Finale
There will be one 20-minute intermission between acts one and two.
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Program notes
energy led him to “run away” with his own circus company, Cirque Mechanics.
Forty-two feet in diameter has been the measure of the circus ring for 250 years. Englishman Philip Astley discovered that horses galloping inside this ring provide the ideal platform for acrobatic feats. These equestrian acrobatics, along with clowns and flyers, are a large part of what we’ve all come to know as the circus.
Lashua believes that innovative mechanical apparatus and the relationship between performer and machine sets his company apart and is at the heart of what makes Cirque Mechanics unique. Lashua has delivered on this approach in the company’s theatrical productions. His innovative machines interact with acrobats, dancers, jugglers and contortionists on a 1920s factory floor in Birdhouse Factory, a gold rush-era town in Boom Town, accompany world renowned symphonies in the Orchestra Project and in a bicycle shop in Pedal Punk.
About 42ft – A Menagerie of Mechanical Marvels
This 250th anniversary of Astley’s circus inspired Cirque Mechanics to produce a one-ring traditional circus show in its own modern mechanical way. 42ft – A Menagerie of Mechanical Marvels follows the story of a down-and-out roustabout filled with wanderlust and enamored with the circus, willing to persevere in order to reach his dream of performing under the big top. 42ft displays life in a tent show by exposing the glamour inside the ring and the vitality of the back lot. To capture the authenticity of the traditional, Cirque Mechanics has assembled a veritable menagerie of circus acts worthy of the ring, like the strong man, the Russian swing, the trapeze, the ladder, slack wire and juggling. And to celebrate the important role animals have played in circus throughout its history, 42ft features a captivating performer riding on a stunningly lifelike mechanical horse! In 42ft, Cirque Mechanics dares us to let our imagination run away and jump inside this remarkable ring full of the lore, the beauty, the grit and the thrill of the circus.
Personnel
CHRIS LASHUA, FOUNDER – CREATIVE DIRECTOR – PRODUCER – MACHINE DESIGNER Company founder Chris Lashua hails from Boston, Massachusetts, where he spent most of his youth riding on a BMX bike. He was discovered by Cirque du Soleil and created/performed a BMX bike act that was entirely his own. He was then commissioned to build a “German Wheel” act for the company, an act he performed for several years in Cirque du Soleil’s production of Quidam, cementing his reputation as a visionary of circus gadgetry. His engineering chops and creative C-2
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Now, in 42ft – A Menagerie of Mechanical Marvels, Lashua continues to build on the might of his engineering mind, his passion for the circus and all things mechanical by designing a veritable menagerie of mechanical devices worthy of the generations of circus shows and acts the production aims to honor. When Lashua is not developing material for a theatrical show, he is building other wacky performance devices for events, most recently the Paddleship, a portable stage that not only floats, but that can also be navigated by pedalpowered paddle wheels. Lashua is a producing partner of the Vegas International Variety Arts Festival (VIVAFest). He was also recently featured as a guest lecturer at the annual Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference.
Creative design team
ALOYSIA GAVRE, CO-DIRECTOR – CHOREOGRAPHER Aloysia Gavre co-founded both Cirque School and Troupe Vertigo in Los Angeles in 2009 after 22 years of touring internationally with the Pickle Family Circus, Cirque du Soleil and symphonies around the globe, including the Sydney Opera House and the Kennedy Center. Her passion and knowledge for the circus arts has led her to a career as a director, choreographer and educator, including Cirque Cracker - Phoenix Symphony, Cirque Broadway - Baltimore Symphony, Cirque Cinema - Indianapolis Symphony, as well as her own creations, including Tableaux. She has both coached and choreographed for film, television and the internet, including Water for Elephants, Pitch Perfect 2, Bravo, NBC and BuzzFeed. She
SEAN RILEY, SET DESIGNER – ARTISTIC RIGGER Sean Riley has a 20-year career combining suspension, kinetic movement and design with performance. Through scenic design, rigging design and mechanical design—often in concert with each other—he creates unique performance environments. Concentrating his design for performance on site-specific and nontraditional work, Riley has created installations with a wide spectrum of accomplished artists and collaborators. Known for his bold and often-surprising use of space and for largescale movement, Riley’s installations commonly reflect his lifelong obsession with gravity and Newtonian physics. His works have been installed from backyards to Broadway and continue to tour internationally. He is a founding member of Cirque Mechanics and his company Gravity Design, through which he has developed an arsenal of specialized tools, pushing the bounds of performance as well as industrial safety. Riley was the host of the National Geographic Television series World’s Toughest Fixes and the four part docuseries Speed, currently on Curiosity Stream. visiblegravity.com, gravitydesign.org, cirquemechanics.com MICHAEL PICTON, COMPOSER Michael Picton is an award-winning composer whose eclectic career spans film, television, advertising, theatre and circus. Picton has scored four Cirque Mechanics productions: Boom Town, the Cirque Mechanics Orchestral Project, Pedal Punk, and now 42ft. His circus career began as a performer, touring as keyboardist with Cirque du Soleil’s Quidam. He has written songs and score for six editions of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus: Bellobration, Funundrum, Dragons, Built to Amaze, Circus Xtreme, and the final edition Out of this World. Recently his live work has expanded to include superhero arena shows with Feld Entertainment’s Marvel Universe Live and Marvel Universe Live - Age of Heroes, currently
touring the United States. The winner of the Turner Classic Movies Young Film Composers Competition, Picton was chosen from a field of over 600 aspiring composers by a jury chaired by the legendary Elmer Bernstein. For TCM, he scored the silent films The Temptress and The Red Mill. Other film and television work includes Mutt & Stuff for Sid and Marty Krofft on Nickelodeon, the SyFy series Flash Gordon, the independent feature Little Chenier, and main title themes for I Want to Work for Diddy and Bates Motel. Picton has composed network themes for PBS, Amazon Originals, and CNN International, among others, as well as commercials and promos for a long list of clients. STEVEN RAGATZ, WRITER An original Birdhouse Factory, Boom Town and Orchestra Project cast member collaborator, plus lead writer for Pedal Punk, Steven Ragatz has been entertaining audiences with his juggling, physical comedy, stilt walking and general antics for the past three decades. As a 10-year veteran of Cirque du Soleil, Ragatz has toured throughout North, South and Central America, as well as Asia and Europe, performing multiple juggling acts as well as an eclectic array of characters. Ragatz is on the staff of Bloomington’s Stage Flight Circus Arts, where he teaches juggling and unicycle skills workshops. You can find him on stage currently touring his one-man show Under the Umbrella, Life is a Circus, an evening with a juggling virtuoso and stories from world-wide circus adventures. Ragatz holds a B.A. in variety theater and an M.S. in computer science from Indiana University. He studied mime, stage movement and circus arts with Fred Garbo, Tony Montanaro, George Pinney and Michael Moschen. He and his wife Lisa have two children, Melissa and Andrew, and currently live in Indiana, where they have perfected the art of making the perfect margarita. ANTHONY POWERS, LIGHTING DESIGNER Anthony Powers is a lighting designer and production manager who has worked on a wide array of shows across four continents. He has been working with Cirque Mechanics since 2010 and is excited to be designing his third show with them. Powers has had a hand in all of the CM touring shows, as either the lighting designer or the lighting and technical director on tour. Outside of Cirque Mechanics, Powers has · cupresents.org · 303-492-8008
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has been recognized in Dance Teacher Magazine, Dance Informa and speaking engagements with TED-X, Center Theater Group, Directors Lab, Chicago Circus Festival, AYCO and VIVAFest Las Vegas. She has been a long-time artistic collaborator with Cirque Mechanics, having had creative involvement in over four shows since 2004, after having met Chris Lashua while performing in Cirque du Soleil.
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been the designer or production manager for concerts, festivals and events across the United States. He currently has the honor of being the general manager for the San Francisco office of Felix Lighting. If he wasn’t working in the lighting world, he would want to be a cheesemonger or an editor for Marvel Comics (if Joe Quesada or C.B. Cebulski are reading this—feel free to call him). Powers currently lives in Oakland, California, with his wife Jody and their dog Lemmy in an apartment way too small for his 11,000 comic books. CAROLINE ROGERS, COSTUME DESIGNER Caroline Rogers started at a young age as a ballerina. By the age of 16 and for the next decade, she was a professional aerialist traveling all over the world performing for private gala events. This is also how she met her husband, fellow cast member Kevin Rogers. Sewing skills she learned as a young girl and her experience onstage wearing costumes were the perfect background and skills to move into costume design and building. She has now been designing for almost a decade for various companies at live gala events, award shows, theme parks and tours, including Disney, DreamWorks and Cirque Mechanics. She is so excited to present her vision of a 1930s circus in 42ft! You can follow her work and crazy life on Instagram @ninesdesigns. NATA IBRAGIMOV, ARTIST – ILLUSTRATOR – POSTER AND HEADPIECE DESIGNER Originally from Baku, Azerbaijan, Ibragimov currently resides in Los Angeles. She was a national-level rhythmic gymnast for 11 years. After retiring from the sport at the age of 16, she pursued her other passions, such as visual and performing arts. Circus was a perfect outlet for her creativity; it gave her freedom to experiment and improve her skills. Ibragimov was an original cast member in Cirque Mechanics’ Pedal Punk, performing a solo hula-hoop act. She toured with Pedal Punk all four seasons. Ibragimov is currently a member of Troupe Vertigo and a coach at Cirque School LA. She is grateful that circus has given her the opportunity to meet some incredibly talented people who inspire her art every day. She is also a professional illustrator; her paintings have been included in private collections and displayed in galleries around the world. nataillustration.com
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AIDA LASHUA, CO-PRODUCER – COLLABORATOR Aida Lashua has been Chris’ co-producer and creative partner in life and work for over 20 years. Their partnership includes nearly a decade of touring and work experience with Cirque du Soleil (CDS), as well as over a decade running their own company, Cirque Mechanics. Lashua worked for CDS sponsor AT&T, implementing its multi-million dollar sponsorship agreement on tour, which included product placement, sales staff training and supervision of special sales promotions. She also worked as a box office supervisor and house manager for CDS, where she trained and managed a staff of 60 and implemented customer service policies, helped develop and revise training manuals and VIP Package tests. Thanks to her experience with CDS, Lashua has an appreciation for the business and a passion for the circus arts. She currently manages the day-to-day operations of Cirque Mechanics and family with poise, she is a creative force and a stabilizing influence. Lashua’s education and background in direct marketing allows her to use a targeted message approach in the development of the company’s website and social media presence. As a mother of three boys, Lashua is an avid supporter of the educational component and community outreach programs offered by Cirque Mechanics. She has written the education outreach support materials and study guides, as well as developed the structure of the educational workshops. Lashua, who is a native of Puerto Rico, feels most at home near the ocean. She hopes to one day become a published writer. JANEEN JOHNSON, CREATIVE TEAM LIAISON – DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION A maven of stagecraft for over 20 years, Janeen Johnson has served in stage management for dance, theatre and special events in both public and private sectors. In 2008, Johnson embarked upon her maiden voyage into circus with the tour Cirque Mechanics’ Birdhouse Factory. She continued her journey touring with the company’s succeeding productions: Boom Town and Pedal Punk, serving as production stage manager. Today, 11 years later, demonstrating her management prowess, Johnson has toured with Cirque Mechanics, managing the company’s seasonal touring productions in North America, Europe and Asia. She is delighted to return for the company’s latest production, 42ft – A Menagerie
JOE D’EMILIO, LIGHTING DESIGNER Joe D’Emilio is a New York City-based lighting designer with over a decade of experience in theatre, opera, dance and special events. He joined the Cirque Mechanics family in 2015 on Birdhouse Factory and continued on to tour with Pedal Punk. Additionally, D’Emilio has designed for Circus Juventas in St. Paul, Minnesota, Bindlestiff Family Cirkus in New York, and Circus Sarasota. His San Francisco designs include work with Ray of Light Theatre, Broadway By the Bay, Aurora Theatre and ACT. When not out on the road, D’Emilio works at the New York venues National Sawdust, The Box and the Met Museum. He is a proud member of United Scenic Artists Local 829. Portfolio available at joedemilio.com. MIKE BROWN, BULLWHIP TRAINER – COLLABORATOR Mike Brown is a performer and producer who loves to design, build and perform with unique fire manipulation props and devices—the bigger, the better. Overexposure to Indiana Jones movies has also led him to a healthy interest in bullwhips. Brown has performed in excess of 3,000 shows in 12 countries around the world, across Asia, Europe and North America, including performing a solo fire manipulation act for over seven years in Cirque Du Soleil’s prestigious Las Vegas production O. Other parts in the show involved manipulation of bullwhips as well as driving a mechanical floating horse. He also performed a large two-part fire stunt at the 74th Academy Awards ceremony (2002) as part of a 30-strong Cirque Du Soleil special events troupe. When he is not whipping and burning things he loves hiking and camping with his wife, traveling on exotic adventures and throwing knives, sometimes at the same time. He also likes long walks on the beach (with a metal detector) and meditation. He has been heard to remark that, “Finding treasure will not bring you a peaceful mind, but a peaceful mind might well bring you to find treasure!”
DREW FOUARGE, CREW – MERCHANDISE MANAGER – RINGMASTER – ACROBAT – RUSSIAN SWING Drew Fouarge was born in Oxnard, California, and currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. His acrobatic background comes from competitive cheerleading, parkour and gymnastics. He combines all these in his circus performance, which ranges from a variety of disciplines and includes tumbling, parkour, trampoline, trampwall, stilt walking, bouncing stilts, hand-to-hand, banquine, clowning and other general circus skills. Fouarge has been performing for over 10 years around the country, including making it to the semi-finals on season seven of America’s Got Talent, and has been with Cirque Mechanics as a performer and crew member for about two years. On 42ft he helps with set-up and tear down as a crew member, sells merchandise, and understudies the Ringmaster, acrobat and Russian-swing pusher. Fouarge is known as SuperDrew by friends, a nickname he received in college. When not on tour he is an avid hockey player, both roller and ice. His best friend is his four-year-old miniature australian shepherd Krypto (The SuperDog). When not performing, he coaches Allstar cheerleading, parkour, tumbling and gymnastics.
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WES HATFIELD, CAPTAIN – COACH – ACROBAT Wes Hatfield was born in California. His parents raised him in Germany, where he got his start in gymnastics. At age 10 he joined T&T (Trampoline and Tumbling) when he and his family moved to Colorado. In the world of trampoline competition, his resume includes several state and national championship titles. At 19, he quit competition and became a circus performer, traveling around the world wowing audiences with his technical prowess and zany comedic antics. Hatfield has been an integral cast member in all of Cirque Mechanics touring productions: Birdhouse Factory, Boom Town and Pedal Punk. He performs trampoline, Chinese pole, cyr wheel, and general acrobatics along with group choreography. Over the years Hatfield has become part of the Cirque Mechanics production team, acting as team leader for the cast and head artistic rigger for the setup of the show. Hatfield now lives in Las Vegas, where he continues his work with Cirque Mechanics. He is a fan of avocados, needing only a spoon to enjoy them. His favorite breakfast · cupresents.org · 303-492-8008
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of Mechanical Marvels in its second season. Johnson continues to find joy in supporting the performing arts (local and beyond) and provides onsite event management, project-planning strategies and producing community arts events in between tours. janeen-johnson.com
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entree is steak and eggs with hash browns … not potato chunks … hash browns … and don’t forget the ketchup. JUSTIN THERRIEN, CLOWN Justin Therrien has been working in theatre and circus as a self-taught performer for nearly a decade. He has focused most of his efforts into weaving together traditional circus and sideshow skills with a theatrical element. He hopes this approach gives new breath to these familiar and loved art forms. Following the footsteps of the vaudeville greats and legendary circus clowns has brought him to many amazing stages across the world, including giant theaters, traditional circuses, operas, circus festivals, competitions, even refugee camps all over the Middle East and Europe. He has seen comedy bring many different types of people together and believes that lightness and laughter could be a good starting place to change the world. Justin appeared on The Gong Show and America’s Got Talent as a contestant and was also awarded a Guinness World Record for “longest string pulled through the nose and mouth in one minute.” Off the stage you can find him cutting a rug on the dance floor, exploring roadside attractions or traipsing through the forest looking for edible mushrooms. AUSTIN BRADLEY, ACROBAT Austin Bradley began his acrobatic training in high school, thanks to the popularity of parkour and freerunning. His parkour skills and experience would eventually lead him to the circus, but first he completed an invaluable tour with the United States Air Force. Bradley started training, coaching and performing with HKPK - Hardkore Parkour after leaving the Air Force. He then became a cast member on Dolly Parton’s Pirates Voyage Dinner and Show in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. It was during his time with Pirates Voyage that Bradley sharpened his more traditional acrobatic and aerial circus skills on devices such as Chinese poles, Russian swing and Spanish web, plus he acquired aquatic performance expertise in three-meter diving and high diving. He hopes to take his talents and experience even further and show the world what he can accomplish. Austin is thrilled to start life on tour with Cirque Mechanics in 42ft – A Menagerie of Mechanical Marvels.
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BRYSEN BISHOP, ACROBAT At a young age, Brysen Bishop always had a passion for performing and acrobatics, but it was being cast in an episode of So You Think You Can Dance in high school that enlightened him to the idea of performing as a career. While in college, Bishop performed duo trapeze and ground acrobatics with an on-campus troupe of circusinspired theatre students. After college, Bishop had intentions of becoming an anesthesiologist, but he instead pursued a different opportunity and became an acrobat for Dolly Parton’s Pirates Voyage Dinner and Show in Myrtle Beach. During his three-year tenure at Pirates Voyage, Bishop learned a variety of circus skills, such as tumbling, diving, sword fighting, trampoline, tramp wall, Russian swing and Chinese pole. He even performed as a back-up voice character, adding some voice acting to his repertoire. Confident with the skills he acquired at Pirates Voyage, Bishop moved to Las Vegas to audition for Cirque du Soleil. He attended a workshop with The Catwall Acrobats and was later hired as a Russian swing performer on the limited run show Rebel by Cirque du Soleil in Andorra. Bishop continues to train hard and learn as many disciplines as he can to broaden the opportunities of performing. TAYLOR STEVENS, ACROBAT Taylor Stevens was raised in Myrtle Beach, where she was exposed to gymnastics at an early age. She quickly fell in love with the sport and dedicated the majority of her life to it. In her gymnastics career, Stevens was able to successfully medal in the South Carolina state championships. She graduated with a degree in project and organizational management, but decided to use her gymnastics experience and education to pursue her dreams of performing instead, especially within the world of circus. She started her acrobatic career at Dolly Parton’s Pirates Voyage Dinner and Show in her hometown. She began as a generalist, but was later promoted to Captain Red Scarlet, the show’s female lead role. Pirates Voyage afforded her the opportunity to learn and improve her skills on a variety of different performance apparatus, solo and group acts, such as the teeterboard, Russian swing, Chinese poles, aquatic diving and duo trapeze. She recently moved to Las Vegas to keep chasing her dreams. Stevens absolutely loves her animal child Otto, going to the movies, Boba tea and simply enjoying what life has to offer.
ELIJAH NEWTON, ACROBAT Elijah Newton has been training acrobatics with his partner Nikki Unwin for over six years. In 2016, they moved from Eugene, Oregon, to San Diego to train more seriously at the San Diego Circus Center, where they worked on perfecting their hand-to-hand and duo aerial skills. In addition to his circus acts, Newton performs puppetry. You may have seen Newton at the San Diego Zoo, where he performs seasonally for Wray Creations. He is eager to travel the country with Cirque Mechanics and the national tour of 42ft. ESTHER dE MONTEFLORES, SLACKWIRE PERFORMER – JUGGLER Esther de Monteflores is one of a tiny handful of circus performers in the United States specializing in slackwire walking. In her work, de Monteflores seeks a balance between technical skill and expressive movement, and her unique take on circus has been seen across North America. De Monteflores’ recent touring credits include Bindlestiff Family Cirkus (New York), Circus Bella (San Francisco) and her own company, A Frayed Knot Circus (Seattle). Her work has received grant funding from 4Culture (Seattle) and Artist Trust (Washington). She is an original 42ft cast member and is excited for the second season on tour with Cirque Mechanics. She maintains a keen interest in building puppets and masks, enjoys commuting by bicycle and loves small, green, vintage mugs.
BROOKE NEILSON, ACROBAT Brooke Neilson has been a gymnast most of her life. She majored in dance performance at Valencia College in Orlando, Florida, where she was born and raised. After college she performed at Universal Studios Orlando in the Superstar Parade, Terminator 2:3D experience, The 8th Voyage of Sinbad stunt show, the Macy’s Holiday Parade and Mardi Gras Parade. Neilson got her first break into the circus world at Sea World San Diego’s summer show Cirque De La Mer. There, she performed Chinese pole and tramp wall with aquatic dismounts. She continued to develop her circus skills on the Carnival Dream Cruise Ship, performing hand-to-hand, Chinese pole, tumbling and dancing acts. She recently moved to Las Vegas. Neilson spent last summer bouncing on tramp wall at the San Diego Zoo. She is obsessed with traveling and horses and she spends all her money on both: travel adventures and her horse Echo. MICHAEL RUBINO, ACROBAT Michael Rubino started out in gymnastics at the gym his parents owned. His mother would carry him in a sling while she coached until he was old enough to walk. He moved around for a few years, changing gyms and states. Rubino was also involved in theatre. At the age of 17, combining his acting and gymnastics experience and skills, he landed his first acrobatic job at Legoland California as a firefighter for a kids show. In the past seven years Rubino has performed in shows at Disneyland California, Cirque De La Mer, Cirque Electrique, San Diego Zoo, Six Flag in New Jersey, Circulation Locale in Belgium and Milord Entertainment in Canada. He enjoys being outdoors and finding the best shady spot to take naps. TATIANA VASILENKO, JUGGLER Tatiana Vasilenko was born into a circus family in a small city in Russia, where she always dreamed about performing on a circus stage. She began circus skills training by practicing tricks with her dad (who is a juggler); she learned hula-hooping and general acrobatics. Inspired by a bouncejuggling act she first saw on video, she decided to pursue it. Following in her dad’s footsteps, Vasilenko became a juggler. She graduated from the Moscow Circus School, before moving to Las Vegas in 2014. Vasilenko has worked all over the world in places like Moscow, Paris, Singapore and Vietnam. She has been a featured · cupresents.org · 303-492-8008
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NIKKI UNWIN, ACROBAT Nikki Unwin has been performing circus arts since 2012. She began as an aerialist at Pendulum Aerial Arts in Portland, her main disciplines being dance trapeze and same-size duo work. Her love for performance began with participating in their contemporary in-house shows as well as corporate gigs for various Oregon-based companies including Intel, Nike and Travel Portland. Since moving to San Diego in 2017, she has focused on training hand-to-hand and duo trapeze with her partner Ely at the San Diego Circus Center. Aside from training in San Diego, Unwin has been booked for yearly spring and summer contracts performing hand-to-hand, juggling, and puppetry with Wray Creations at the San Diego Zoo. She is overjoyed to join the Cirque Mechanics team for the national tour of 42Ft!
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act in Rose.Rabbit.Lie at the Cosmopolitan Hotel and Casino and in Tommy Wind Magic Show and Streetmosphere at the Venetian Hotel and Casino. Vasilenko is a fan of football (soccer) and astronomy—you may find her looking up at the sky and dreaming about flying to the moon or playing soccer, hopefully with Leo Messi someday. TULGA – BATTULGA BATTOGTOKH, STRONGMAN Born and raised in the Gobi desert in Mongolia, Battulga Battogtokh trained in traditional wrestling, acrobatic and circus arts. He decided to join the circus after he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in history. He came and performed in America for the first time with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, where he performed point ballet acrobatics, aerial straps and his Mongolian Strongman act all while touring the country on Ringling’s historic one-mile long circus train. In a showcase of unbelievable strength, this strongman demonstrates a herculean display of human dexterity as he juggles bowling balls, acrobats and lifts large cumbersome telephone poles and performs unbelievable displays of strength and agility. He won the Golden Elephant at the international circus festival in Spain. He’s performed in nine different television shows around the world, including America’s Got Talent, Das Supertalent in Germany, La France a un Incroyable Talent, Tu Si Que Vales in Italy, World’s Got Talent in China and Australia’s Got Talent.
About Cirque Mechanics
Cirque Mechanics was founded in 2004, by Boston native and German Wheel artist Chris Lashua after the success of his collaborative project with the Circus Center of San Francisco, Birdhouse Factory. Cirque Mechanics quickly established itself as a premier American circus, with its unique approach to performance, inspiring storytelling and innovative mechanical staging. Spectacle Magazine hailed it as “the greatest contribution to the American circus since Cirque du Soleil.” Cirque Mechanics, although inspired by modern circus, finds its roots in the mechanical and its heart in the stories of American ingenuity. The shows, rooted in realism, display a raw quality, rarely found in modern circus, that makes their message timeless and relevant. The stories are C-8
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wrapped in circus acrobatics, mechanical wonders and a bit of clowning around. The troupe has created four extraordinary productions: Birdhouse Factory, Boom Town, Pedal Punk, and now 42ft – A Menagerie of Mechanical Marvels.
A note of thanks from the producers
We want to thank our family—our three wonderful sons, Zion, Quinn and Iago—for their unconditional love and support, their enthusiasm and their imagination and for adopting the spirit of a true circus family by discussing act ideas, narrative and plot points at the dinner table and helping in the shop with painting, building and clean up! Our parents for taking us to the circus as children and allowing us to dream. Our cast and crew for their tireless efforts and their collaborative energy. Marc Baylin and his team at Baylin Artists Management for believing in our company and setting us on a new path. Lori Pullen and the University of Las Vegas for their sponsorship. Armand Thomas for his continuing support of us, our family and our projects. Bo Bogatin and Kurt Nelson for keeping us honest and legal. Andy Espo for his friendship, clear head and objectivity. Bryan Schuette and the boys at United Machine for fabricating and creating and trusting us with their equipment. Terry Pittman at The Bike Shop in Henderson for helping to make the mechanical horse go. Michael Brown of Blue Sky Circus Productions for the many sessions of whip training. Don Seiersen at Vishnu Creative for his great graphic support. Maike Schulz Photography for her wonderful and stunning images. Brendan Mullenix for his dedication, positive attitude and willingness to learn. Skye Strauss for studying and documenting the process. Renee Clinton for being a champion of our work. And our friends and family at Cirque du Soleil for continuing to set the bar higher. The creation process was long and arduous but extremely rewarding. We had so much fun designing and exploring, training and rehearsing. Our goal is that you are entertained and our hope that you are moved. Finally, thank you to our audiences for your loyalty and your faith in our company, for the laughs, the applause and the appreciation for the circus arts.
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Kronos brings the years that changed America to Boulder By Becca Vaclavik During the height of the civil rights movement, scholar Clarence B. Jones served as personal attorney, adviser, and speech writer to Martin Luther King, Jr. In fact, Jones helped draft the original notes that would become King’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech. What many don’t know, however, is that the most memorable parts of that speech were completely impromptu. Mahalia Jackson, King’s favorite gospel singer, stood with him on stage.
Near the middle of his speech she called out, “Tell them about the dream, Martin! Tell them about your dream.” King set Jones’ notes aside, grabbed the lectern and didn’t look down at the prepared speech again. Recalling that pivotal moment years later in interviews, Jones said he turned to the person next to him and said, “These people don’t know it, but they’re about to go to church.” 20
Just a few years ago, David Harrington, violinist and founder of the Kronos Quartet, had the honor of hearing Jones share this anecdote. The story, he says, moved him deeply. “It’s so inspiring. It’s not only that these amazing people surrounded Martin Luther King, but they were both musicians: Clarence himself was a Julliardschooled musician in his teens. And of course then there was Mahalia Jackson. Here I am hearing this story, and I just couldn’t believe that I never knew this! And that two musicians made this moment happen. And I thought, we’ve got to find a way to celebrate this.” Harrington discovered that Jones lives in Palo Alto, California (not far from Kronos’ San Francisco base). Harrington got in touch, and Jones recounted the entire story to both him and composer Zachary Watkins. “Jones doesn’t claim to have literally written the speech,” confesses Harrington. “What he says is that he heard Martin Luther King’s voice inside of him— the cadence, and the rhythm, and the intonation of
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together in concerts and in public events, especially at this time.”
“And I’ve worked with enough composers over the last 46 years to know that many composers speak about hearing their music that same way.”
Harrington and the rest of Kronos—John Sherba, violin; Hank Dutt, viola; and Sunny Yang, cello—hope the performance leaves Boulder audiences feeling energized by the apt message.
That conversation would inspire Peace Be Till, Watkins’ work about those moments before King’s speech and now the first part of the Kronos Quartet concert, “Music for Change: The 60s, The Years That Changed America.” Coincidentally, at the same time that Harrington and Jones connected, Kronos was working on another piece, a work by Chicago-based composer Stacy Garrop that featured interviews by broadcaster Studs Terkel with none other than Mahalia Jackson. The connections kept colliding. Not long after, Kronos was performing for a third-grade class in San Francisco’s public schools. The students had memorized the lyrics to We Shall Overcome by Pete Seeger and Kronos played along for them. Seeger’s song, of course, was something of an anthem for the Civil Rights movement. “And so we began to have something that felt like it belongs together,” says Harrington. “We are amassing a body of work that I think brings together not only interests that we have, but I think that kind of belong
“I want audiences to be able to separate fact from fiction and understand that each of us has more power than we think. And that everybody’s energy is really important and can be useful. “If we gather together and use our best thinking, our best ideas, and our most charitable and wide-ranging visions for making the world a better place—a safer place for our kids, and grandkids, and great grandkids—then we’re doing something.” ARTIST SERIES The Kronos Quartet will perform “Music for Change: The 60s, The Years That Changed America” March 19 in Macky Auditorium. Tickets start at $20. Photos from left: Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial where he delivered his famous, “I Have a Dream,” speech during the Aug. 28, 1963, march on Washington, D.C., photo sourced from Wikimedia Commons; Clarence B. Jones (keynote speaker) at the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the “I Have a Dream” speech organized by the Canton of Geneva and The Graduate Institute of Geneva with the support of the U.S. Mission and the Pictet Foundation, August 26, 2013 at the WMO offices in Geneva, photo by U.S. Mission Geneva/Eric Bridiers and made available under an Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Creative Commons license; Performance by Mahalia Jackson in Concertgebouw, the Netherlands, in 1961, photo by Dave Brinkman and sourced from Nationaal Archief NL/Anefo; Kronos Quartet, photo by Jay Blakesberg.
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Third Annual Distinguished Lectureship hosts awardwinning leaders of the Sphinx Organization By Pranathi Durgempudi On Tuesday, Feb. 25, the College of Music’s third annual Distinguished Lectureship in Music, Diversity and Inclusion comes to Grusin Music Hall with a lecture by social entrepreneurs and arts leaders Aaron and Afa Dworkin from the award-winning Sphinx Organization. Titled “Throwing the DICE that Fuel Inclusion: A Wager on Diversity, Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship in the Arts,” the Dworkins will dive into the role that diversity and the arts play in society.
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When Chase’s students began to experiment with her directions, they started to literally cling to each other and lean on each other—out of fear, as the story goes—and the classwork developed into a sort of physics-based partnering. The first piece they developed was called “Pilobolus”, named for a lightloving fungus that Jaworski says made sense, given the context. “It’s this tiny little fungus, but it’s strong. It’s one of the fastest accelerating organisms on the planet. And, it bends and twists and turns and looks for the light, shooting its spores off in far-reaching directions.”
Like the spores, the name stuck. The group’s reputation, too, rapidly accelerated.
A history—and biology— of Pilobolus By Becca Vaclavik Not many modern dance companies last beyond 50 years. And not very many outlast their founders. But Pilobolus, which has toured over 120 pieces of repertoire to more than 65 countries over the past several decades, is positioned to do both. “To be in a place where we’re on the cusp of all of that is very exciting. It’s very scary at the same time. It feels like a lot of responsibility,” says Renee Jaworski, co-artistic director of the dance company. Pilobolus began at Dartmouth College in 1971. At the time, Dartmouth had an all-male student body, and Alison Chase, choreographer-in-residence and assistant professor of dance, was one of the only women on campus. Her classes were mostly taught to students without any experience. As such, her classes were not technique-based. “They were more about using your body to tell stories and create movement using movement that your body innately knows how to do even when you’re a child, like running, jumping, rolling,” says Jaworski. 24
“People started taking notice, and they started to realize that it didn’t look like anything else that was on the dance stages at the time,” says Jaworski. “I think that it was a time where revolution was a big thing. People were looking out for that, to not conform to what people had seen already was a big thing.” Fifty years on, the revolution continues. “Every 10 years or so, Pilobolus has had to reinvent itself in some way. We’re constantly trying to adapt to the world around us.” For their Boulder performance, titled “Come to your senses,” reinvention looks like videos of vintage science experiments, words spelled in “foot font,” dancers wearing giant eyeballs on their heads, and a dance about fraternity and brotherhood. Some of it is funny and quirky and kinetic; some of it is lyrical and beautiful. “You experience all these different kinds of feelings when you’re watching live dance that sometimes you don’t understand until a day or two later, or a week or two later, or a year or two later,” shares Jaworski. “In ‘Come to your senses,’ come and feel the sweat, hear the sounds of the music, of the dancers, pounding. You’ll really watch an entire world unfurl in front of you.”
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Supporter ($500-$999) Patricia Butler Carolyn and Don Etter Anne Heinz and Ran Yaron Robert Kehoe Carol and Tony Keig Eileen and Walter Kintsch Joan and Harold Leinbach Patricia and Robert Lisensky Kim Matthews Virginia Newton Neil and Martha Palmer David and Susan Seitz Andrew Skumanich Kathleen Sullivan Lawrence and Ann Thomas Alison Craig and Stephen Trainor Contributor ($250-$499) Phil and Leslie Aaholm Dean and Ellen Boal Virginia Boucher Pauline and Noel Clark JoAnn and Richard Crandall Robbie Dunlap
Bruce and Kyongguen Johnson Albert T. Lundell Lise Menn Helen Stone Anthony and Randi Stroh Patricia Thompson Caroline and Richard Van Pelt Member ($100-$249) Neil Ashby and Marcia Geissinger Maria and Jesse Aweida Ingrid Becher Diana and Kevin Bunnell Shirley Carnahan Charlotte Corbridge Barbara and Carl Diehl Nancy and Keith Hammond John D. and Ruthanne J. Hibbs Elizabeth and Jonathan Hinebauch William Hoffman Ruth and Richard Irvin Margaret J. Kamper Mireille Key Keith Kohnen
Judah and Alice S. Levine Heidi and Jerry Lynch Carrie Malde Professor John McKim Malville and Nancy Malville Maxine Mark Annyce Mayer Carol and Dennis McGilvray Christine Arden and David Newman Margaret Oakes Faith and Roy Peterson Wayne and Julie Phillips Joanna and Mark Rosenblum JoAn Segal Todd and Gretchen Sliker Grietje Sloan Katherine Van Winkle Betty Van Zandt Lois and Gordon Ward, Jr. Barbara Warner Jeffrey Zax
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Personnel CU Presents
Macky Auditorium
College of Music
Executive Director Joan McLean Braun
Social Content Creator Erika Haase
Director Rudy Betancourt
Dean Robert Shay
Marketing and PR Director Laima Haley
Video Producers Evan Boretz Vanessa Cornejo
Assistant Director for Patron Services Matthew Arrington
Associate Dean for Graduate Studies Margaret Haefner Berg
Box Office Manager Christin Woolley
Assistant Director for Administration Sara Krumwiede
Assistant Dean for Concerts and Communications Joan McLean Braun
Assistant Director for Production JP Osnes
Senior Associate Dean John Davis
Operations Director Andrew Metzroth Director of Communications, College of Music Jessie Bauters Marketing Manager Daniel Leonard Public Relations Manager Becca Vaclavik Publications Specialist Sabrina Green Digital Communications Assistant Tiara Stephan Marketing Assistant Kearney Newman
Box Office Services Coordinator Adrienne Havelka Box Office Assistants Kaleb Chesnic Elisabeth Collins Alex Herbert Josh Mundt Gabriel Ramos Jenna Samuelson House Manager Rojana Savoye
Production Managers Richard Barrett Trevor Isetts House Manager Kelly Gratz Assistant House Manager Devin Hegger
Recording Engineer Kevin Harbison
Director of Strategic Initiatives and Special Assistant to the Dean Alexander George Assistant Dean for Budget and Finance Carrie Howard Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Enrollment Management Matthew Roeder Assistant Dean for Advancement Courtney Rowe
Public Relations Assistant Pranathi Durgempudi
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Parking
Paid parking is available in the Euclid Parking Garage, and in Lots 310 and 204. Contact the box office or check the CU Presents website for more information.
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