OCT 5 – 7 Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center
Company Wayne McGregor Autobiography
Company Wayne McGregor, Autobiography, Sadler’s Wells. Photo by Andrej Uspenski.
Note from the
PRESIDENT & CEO 2018/2019
BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS Lisa Specht Board Chair
Diane G. Medina Secretary
Robert J. Abernethy Cindy Miscikowski Vice Chairs
Susan M. Wegleitner Treasurer
Rachel S. Moore President and Chief Executive Officer e spend many months, sometimes years, planning the engagements we present as part of Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center. Our own “R&D” is critical to ensure we bring the very best companies to Los Angeles audiences, and this 16th season of our dance series is no exception. In fact, we launch our 18/19 season with a company that challenges all our planning with a work that is never the same twice. Instead, Wayne McGregor’s Autobiography is continuously reinvented with each performance, reminding us of the accidental or unplanned nature of our own lives. What an incredible example of how dance can communicate the distinctiveness of who we are as human beings! I have such great respect for all the dancers who grace our stages but truly stand in awe of both the athleticism and the challenges faced by the dancers in Company Wayne McGregor. Much as I know they have practiced their parts repeatedly, each time they take the stage, the expectations are different. In fact, in a nod to his own genomic portrait, McGregor has created 23 different sequences in Autobiography and used a computer algorithm to determine the order. Neither the audience nor the dancers know what comes next. That’s the genius of this incredible choreographer who takes us on his own personal journey as he explores the connection of the body to movement. I am very pleased to have you join us for this performance and for a season of fearless, dynamic dance engagements with highly innovative and much-beloved performances from some of the world’s top dance companies. Our season continues immediately after Company Wayne McGregor with our presentation of L.A.’s own Diavolo I Architecture in Motion® on October 12-14, 2018, once again at The Music Center’s Ahmanson Theatre. Diavolo is returning to The Music Center following its success as one of the top 10 finalists in season 12 of NBC’s America’s Got Talent. I hope you will be there to witness these athletic daredevils who will wow us with their performances. I am also very excited to share that The Music Center will present JONI 75: A Birthday Celebration Live at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on November 6 and 7, 2018. These oncein-a-lifetime concerts will honor one of the world’s most iconic artists, Joni Mitchell, as she turns 75, with a remarkable lineup of singers and musicians including Brandi Carlile, Glen Hansard, Emmylou Harris, Norah Jones, Chaka Khan, Diana Krall, Kris Kristofferson, Los Lobos, Graham Nash, Seal, James Taylor and Rufus Wainwright. On both nights, they will perform songs from all stages of her life and her career. And, on the night of the second concert, we will present The Music Center’s Soiree: JONI 75, an exclusive birthday dinner and fundraiser, with proceeds benefiting The Music Center’s programs. That night, we will bestow Ms. Mitchell with The Music Center’s Excellence in the Performing Arts Award, acknowledging her innumerable artistic contributions. Tickets for the concerts are available now at musiccenter.org/joni, while special packages with prime seats for the November 7 concert and the gala dinner are available at musiccenter.org/joni75soiree. These will be two amazing nights to remember! As always, I value your support and welcome your ideas. Warmly,
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Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center Presents
Company Wayne McGregor Autobiography
OCTOBER 5 – 7 Support for this presentation is provided, in part, by: Glorya Kaufman Dance Foundation • Center Dance Arts • Dorothy Buffum Chandler Program Fund • Elisabeth Katte Harris • The Music Center Foundation • The Music Center Annual Fund Company Wayne McGregor, Autobiography, Sadler’s Wells. Photo by Andrej Uspenski.
PROGRAM
Company Wayne McGregor Autobiography World Premiere 4 October 2017, Sadler’s Wells Duration 80 mins (no interval) Concept, Direction and Choreography Wayne McGregor In collaboration with Dancers Rebecca Bassett Graham Jordan James Bridge Travis Clausen-Knight Louis McMiller Daniela Neugebauer Jacob O’Connell James Pett Fukiko Takase Po-Lin Tung Jessica Wright
Music Jlin
Sound Realisation Nick Sagar
Set Design and Projection Ben Cullen Williams
Animator Tom Scott
Lighting Design Lucy Carter Costume Design Aitor Throup Dramaturgy Uzma Hameed Autobiography algorithm Nick Rothwell Rehearsal Director Neil Fleming Brown Technical Director Christopher Charles Technical Manager Kate Elliot Relighter Geneviève Giron Lighting Programmer Jenny Kershaw
Set built by Joseph Waller Fabrications Music by Jlin in partnership with Unsound Ongoing Scientific Partners Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute Connecting Science — Wellcome Genome Campus Public Engagement Wellcome Genome Campus Society and Ethics Research University Medical Centre Utrecht With thanks to A.T. Studio.
Produced by Studio Wayne McGregor Co-produced by Sadler’s Wells, London, UK; Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg; Edinburgh International Festival, UK; Festspielhaus St Pölten, Austria; Carolina Performing Arts at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA; Movimentos Festwochen der Autostadt in Wolfsburg, Germany Co-commissioned by West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong; Festival Diaghilev. P.S., St Petersburg, Russia; Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães, Portugal; Seattle Theatre Group, USA (music); Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London, UK
ABOUT
McGregor founded his own company in 1992 as a creative engine for his pioneering projects and life-long choreographic enquiry into thinking through and with the body. Company Wayne McGregor sits at the heart of Studio Wayne McGregor and remains the crucible of McGregor’s creative energy where his most experimental work is realised. With over 30 works created by McGregor, the company has toured to more than 50 countries, visiting some of the world’s most prestigious theatres, as well as creating site-specific performances at venues such as the Roundhouse, Barbican Curve, and Secret Cinema, and performing at the Brits, New York Fashion Week and the BBC Proms. Company Wayne McGregor is a resident company of Sadler’s Wells. Studio Wayne McGregor is supported by Arts Council England. With gratitude to all our supporters, and principal supporter Quercus Trust.
Company Wayne McGregor, Autobiography, Sadler’s Wells. Photo by Andrej Uspenski.
WHO'S WHO
Photo by Pål Hansen.
Wayne McGregor CBE Choreographer and Director
Born in 1970, Wayne McGregor CBE is a multi-award winning British choreographer and director, internationally renowned for trailblazing innovations in performance that have radically redefined dance in the modern era. Driven by an insatiable curiosity about movement and its creative potentials, his experiments have led him into collaborative dialogue with an array of artistic forms, scientific disciplines and technological interventions. The startling and multidimensional works resulting from these interactions have ensured McGregor’s position at the cutting edge of contemporary arts for over 25 years. Studio Wayne McGregor is the creative engine of McGregor’s life-long choreographic enquiry into thinking through and with the body. It encompasses his own touring company of dancers, Company Wayne McGregor; creative collaborations across dance, film, music, visual art, technology and science; and highly specialized learning, engagement and research programmes. In March 2017, Studio Wayne McGregor moved into its own newly created studio space at Here East in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, a shared space for making where the creative brains of the day can exchange knowledge and invent together. Company Wayne McGregor is McGregor’s ensemble of highly skilled dancers. Founded in 1993, this was the original instrument through which McGregor evolved his distinctive visual style, revealing the movement possibilities of the body in ever more precise degrees of articulation. McGregor has made over 30 works for the company, and today it continues to be his laboratory for ambitious and experimental new choreography, touring his work across the UK and around the world. Company Wayne McGregor is resident company at Sadler’s Wells, London. McGregor is also resident choreographer at The Royal Ballet, where his productions are acclaimed for their daring reconfiguring of classical language. He is also regularly commissioned by and has works in the repertories of the most important ballet companies in the world, including Paris Opera Ballet, New York City Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, NDT 1, Australian Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet and San Francisco Ballet.
He is in demand as a choreographer for theatre (Old Vic, National Theatre, Royal Court) opera (La Scala/Royal Opera, ENO), film (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The Legend of Tarzan, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them 1 & 2, Sing, Mary Queen of Scots), music videos (Radiohead, Thom Yorke, The Chemical Brothers), fashion shows (Gareth Pugh at London Fashion Week 2017), campaigns (everyBODY for Selfridges) and TV (The 2016 Brit Awards Opening Sequence, Paloma Faith’s Brit Awards performance 2015). Some of the long list of artists who have partnered with McGregor through more than 20 years of collaborative multi-disciplinary work include John Tavener, Audrey Niffenegger, Jamie xx, Max Richter, Jlin, Olafur Eliasson, Ben Frost, Kaija Saariaho, Thom Yorke, Mark Wallinger, Random International, Jon Hopkins, John Pawson and Mark-Anthony Turnage. McGregor is Professor of Choreography at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, has an Honorary Doctor of Science from Plymouth University, an Honorary Doctor of Letters from University of Leeds, and is part of the Circle of Cultural Fellows at King’s College London. In 2017, he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the British Science Association. McGregor's work has earned him a multitude of awards including four Critics' Circle National Dance Awards, two Time Out Awards, two South Bank Show Awards, two Olivier Awards, a prix Benois de la Danse and two Golden Mask Awards. In 2011 McGregor was awarded a CBE for Services to Dance. Over the 2017-2018 season, McGregor’s projects include Autobiography, new work for Company Wayne McGregor, premiere Sadler’s Wells London, October 2017; Winged Bull in the Elephant Case film directed by Wayne McGregor, Robin Friend and Rhodri Huw, filmed at the National Gallery London, premiere BBC Two, March 2018; Yugen, new work for The Royal Ballet’s Bernstein centenary programme, premiere Royal Opera House London, March 2018; Sunyata, new work for Bayerisches Staatsballet as part of an all-McGregor programme with Kairos and Borderlands, premiere Staatsoper Munich April 2018; AFTERITE, new work for American Ballet Theatre, premiere Metropolitan Opera House New York, May 2018; Bach Forms, new work for Company Wayne McGregor and The Royal Ballet at The Grange Festival, Hampshire, June 2018; and Soma, in collaboration with fashion brand COS, performed by Company Wayne McGregor at Pitti Uomo, Florence, June 2018.
Jlin
Music Electronic musician Jlin, a former steel mill worker from Gary, Indiana, is credited with bringing a unique sound to the Chicagoborn footwork genre. She began producing music in 2008, and her track Erotic Heat was featured on the 2011 Planet Mu compilation Bangs and Works Vol. 2. The song was later used to accompany a 2014 Rick Owens fashion show, and her debut album, Dark Energy, was released in 2015 to critical acclaim. Dark Energy displayed a unique creative talent
that outgrew any easy genre tags, placing her in her own musical zone of hyper rhythmic cuts that displayed a tension between anger and colourful euphoria. Embarking on a world tour soon after the album release, Jlin grew a reputation as a formidable live act, and the album ended up in the top 10s and 20s of album lists for 2015 for lots of music publications. Her long-awaited second album, Black Origami, was released in May 2017, praised by Pitchfork as 'an overwhelming piece of musical architecture, an epic treatise on where rhythm comes from and where it can go.' She won the ‘Best Difficult Second Album’ award at the AIM Music Awards 2017. Planet Mu released Jlin’s original score for Autobiography in September 2018.
Ben Cullen Williams Set Design & Projection
Ben Cullen Williams is a London based visual artist. His work explores the boundaries between art and architecture and his distinctive aesthetic, which focuses and experiments with the sensory experience of light, space and form, informs the range of his work. He questions digital and physical fabrication processes to understand our evolving relationship to matter. He works in a range of mediums, from sculpture, installation and photography to film, crossing boundaries between disciplines. In 2016, he was invited by the polar explorer Robert Swan to Antarctica where he created his photographic series, Fragile Strength. Also that year, Calvin Klein commissioned a collaboration of his Sliced Vessel sculpture series to be produced and installed in Hong Kong. His commercial clients include Y-3, the British Fashion Council and Mackintosh. On these projects, he utilizes his range of media to create affective sculptures, installations, spaces and images. Ben’s work has been shown internationally, most recently at the Beaux Arts museum, Nantes. He studied at the University of Edinburgh and at the Royal College of Art respectively.
Lucy Carter Lighting Design
Lucy Carter is the winner of the Knight of Illumination Award for Dance in 2008 for Chroma and 2015 for Woolf Works (The Royal Ballet). She is a close creative collaborator of Wayne McGregor; they have worked together for many years across a multitude of works for both Company Wayne McGregorand The Royal Ballet, where McGregor serves as resident choreographer. Her credits for work with McGregor include +/-Human (Company Wayne McGregor & The Royal Ballet); Tree of Codes (Manchester International Festival, Company Wayne McGregor & Paris OperaBallet); Atomos, UNDANCE, FAR, Dyad 1909, Entity, Amu, AtaXia, Nemesis, Digit01 (Company Wayne McGregor); Multiverse, Obsidian Tear, Woolf Works, Tetractys: The
Art of the Fugue, Raven Girl, Machina, Carbon Life, Live Fire Exercise, Limen, Infra, Chroma, Qualia, Nimbus (Royal Ballet, London); Borderlands (San Francisco Ballet); Dido and Aeneasand Acis and Galatea (Royal Opera/ Royal Ballet, London); Outlier (New York City Ballet); Dyad 1929 (Australian Ballet); Kirikou and Karaba (musical); Alea Sands, L’Anatomie de la Sensation, Genus (Paris Opera Ballet); Skindexand Renature (Nederlands Dans Theater 1); 2Human (English National Ballet); Yantra and Nautilus (Stuttgart Ballet). Carter’s work extends to theatre and opera including The End of Longing (Playhouse Theatre) Medea, Blurred Lines and Emil and the Detectives (National Theatre), Husbands and Sons (National Theatre and Royal Exchange Manchester), La finta giardiniera (Glyndebourne), Lohengrin (Welsh National Opera and Polish National Opera). Other credits include: No Body (Installation at Sadler’s Wells), FLUX (Schlossmediale Werdernberg) and the lighting design for Paloma Faith’s performance at the Brit Awards 2015 (choreographed by McGregor).
Aitor Throup Costume Design
Aitor Throup is an Argentinian-born British designer, artist and creative director noted for his conceptual work exploring human anatomy. His multidisciplinary design house A.T. Studio works across numerous industries and is responsible for developing Throup’s conceptual clothing brand ‘New Object Research’. His debut runway show in 2016 was critically acclaimed for breaking the boundaries of the standard catwalk format by featuring life-size articulated puppets instead of models. Both the studio and the brand are committed to imagining and creating new ways of storytelling through design and the development and production of related materials. Throup is the former executive creative director of the Dutch clothing company G-Star RAW. During his time with the brand, he established the ‘Raw Research’ innovation line. This, along with his work for, and collaborations with, Damon Albarn, Kasabian, Flying Lotus, Umbro, C.P. Company and Stone Island are well known and often still studied.
Uzma Hameed Dramaturgy
Writer and director Uzma Hameed has previously collaborated with Wayne McGregor as dramaturg on Woolf Works, Obsidian Tear and Multiverse, all for The Royal Ballet. Autobiography is her first collaboration with Company Wayne McGregor. Hameed graduated from the University of Cambridge with a first in modern and medieval languages and trained in classical Indian dance. In 1997, she founded the Big Picture Company, an innovative theatre company combining new writing with choreography and film. Hameed’s credits with
the Big Picture Company included writing and directing A Dark River, Taj and Prophetess, all of which toured extensively around the UK. Hameed was also associate director at Derby Playhouse where her directing credits included Shirley Valentine, Dracula, Frankenstein and her own controversial adaptation of Schiller’s Mary Stuart, which drew parallels between the threat to Elizabethan England from Catholic Rome and Islamist terrorism today. Hameed has written reviews and features for Dance Theatre Journal, Dance Now, East, Animated and The Big Issue. Her first novel, The Kinship of Djinns (co-written with her sister Ambreen Hameed), is currently out on submission.
Nick Rothwell Autobiography Algorithm
Nick Rothwell is a composer, performer, software architect, coder and visual artist. He has built media performance systems for projects with Ballett Frankfurt and Vienna Volksoper (for choreographer Michael Klien) and interactive installations for Sonic Arts Network, TECHNE (Istanbul) and Kinetica (London). He has worked at STEIM (Amsterdam), CAMAC (Paris) and ZKM (Karlsruhe) and has composed soundtracks for choreographers Aydin Teker (Istanbul)and Richard Siegal (Trinity Laban), and performed with Laurie Booth (Dance Umbrella, New Territories), and at the Different Skies Festival (Arcosanti,Arizona), the ICA, and the Science Museum. As a collaborator with body>data>space he has developed performance systems, software visuals and sound scores for projects at CIANT (Prague), Vo'Arte (Lisbon) and in London, including the large-scale Collective Reality installation piece at Nesta's FutureFest. He has composed sound scores for Shobana Jeyasingh Dance and a quadraphonic score for Undercurrent Theatre's production about the life of evolutionary geneticist George Price, and developed algorithmic visuals with sculptor Simeon Nelson and composer Rob Godman for largescale outdoor installations in Poland (Skyway Festival), Estonia (Valgus Festival Tallinn), Cambridge Music Festival and Lumiere (London / Durham).
Neil Fleming Brown Rehearsal Director
Born in Glasgow, Neil Fleming Brown danced for Company Wayne McGregor from 2006 to 2010. He is now a Studio Wayne McGregor dance artist as rehearsal director, a member of the Learning and Engagement team and a re-stager of McGregor works by dance schools and other companies. He has re-staged Polar Sequences for Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, Chroma for the National Ballet of Poland and Infra for The Australian Ballet.
DANCERS
Jordan James Bridge
Born in Manchester, Bridge started dancing at the age of 14. He went on to train at London Contemporary Dance School where he worked with Kerry Nicholls, Richard Alston and Tony Adigun. After graduating, he joined Alexander Whitley Dance Company performing The Measures Taken and The Grit In The Oyster nationally and internationally. Bridge has also toured with Tavaziva Dance Company in 2015/16 and 2017 in the evocative work Africarmen. In 2016, he joined Michael Clark Company, performing a featured role in LAND during the critically acclaimed To a Simple, Rock and Roll… Song which toured nationally and internationally. He has been commissioned to create his own work at various institutions and is currently resident choreographer for Berkshire County Dance Company Youth, which was awarded Best Performance at the 2016 U.Dance Awards from Youth Dance England. He has also taught extensively in the UK. Bridge joined Company Wayne McGregor in 2017.
Rebecca BassettGraham
Born in Ontario, Canada, BassettGraham trained at the New Zealand School of Dance, graduating in 2011. She interned with New Zealand Dance Company during their 2012 Rotunda development project, and with DanceNorth during director Raewyn Hill’s work Bolera. She performed in DanceNorth’s Townsville Queensland season and through the Australian Ballet’s Melbourne season. Bassett-Graham moved to London in 2013 where she worked with Lewis Major, performing at Sadler’s Wells and the TEDx conference in London. She performed her own works When All is Said and Done at the Australian & New Zealand Festival of Literature and Arts in London, and It’s Complicated and the assessor, the latter co-choreographed by Jono Selvadurai at the C12 Dance Theatre Emerge Festival in 2015. She has worked closely with Beyond Repair Dance Company and has participated in research and development for The Light Surgeons. Bassett-Graham joined Company Wayne McGregor in 2017.
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Travis ClausenKnight
Born in Cape Town, South Africa, ClausenKnight moved to England and later graduated from the Arts Educational School, Tring Park in 2009. While in training, he won several awards for dance and choreography within the school and outside, including at the National Youth Ballet and the International Competition of Dance in Spoleto, Italy. Since graduating, he has performed with Matthew Bourne’s world tour of Swan Lake and was featured in the 3D film of the production. He was involved in Michael Clark’s TH residency at Tate Modern in 2011. He also performed with Tavaziva Dance in their re-mount of Double Take and was part of the creation of Sensual Africa. His other credits include work with A.D. Dance and Combination Dance. Since joining Company Wayne McGregor in 2013, Clausen-Knight has also pursued creative work in fashion, featuring in several collections for upcoming brands such as Kawakey and Jamie Elwood, as well as in campaigns for Cerruti 1881. His passion for choreography and creation also drives his successful collaborations with other artists as well as his commitments to mentoring and teaching young creatives.
Louis McMiller
Born in the UK in 1990, McMiller started dancing at the age of seven. He graduated from The Royal Ballet School in 2010 with a Professional Diploma in Dance. He danced in the Annual Performances at the Royal Opera House; then, in his graduate year, he toured Japan and performed in many productions with The Royal Ballet. He is a model with First Model Management and has been featured in Charlotte Tilbury, NOWNESS, What Lies Beneath by Rick Guest and the album artwork for FKA Twigs. His work also includes campaigns for Patrik Ervell, Westfield Shopping Centre and Uniqlo. McMiller joined Company Wayne McGregor in 2010.
Daniela Neugebauer
Born in Switzerland, Neugebauer started her professional dance training with Cathy Sharp in Basel after which she joined the Ballet School of John Neumeier in Hamburg and Codarts Rotterdam, University of the Arts. She received the MigrosGenossenschafts-Bund scholarship from 2000-2003. She danced for Ballet Gulbenkian under direction of Paulo Ribeiro and Dance Works Rotterdam under Ton Simons. She has also worked with Paul Selvyn Norton, Itzik Galili, Dana Casperson, Bruno Listopad, Sjoerd Vreugdenhil, Vaclav Kunes, Rob Binet and Renaud Wieser. Neugebauer joined Company Wayne McGregor in 2010.
Born in Swindon, of Irish and Jamaican descent, O'Connell studied at Swindon Dance for five years while performing with Swindon Youth Dance Company. In 2015, he was awarded the BBC Young Dancer title in the contemporary category, where he performed solos by Amanda Britton and Alexander Whitley at Sadler’s Wells, broadcast on BBC2. During and after studying at Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, O'Connell performed with Rambert Company in Tomorrow and other works and toured with Ross McKim’s Moving Vision Company and internationally with INALA, choreographed by Mark Baldwin. He has also created and collaborated on choreographic works at Sadler’s Wells, Mr Wonderful and at Cloud Dance Festival. O'Connell joined Company Wayne McGregor in 2017.
James Pett
James Pett competed as a gymnast for 10 years, representing Great Britain at the World Gymnastrada in Austria in 2007. He trained at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, graduating in 2011 with a first class BA (Hons) degree, and was awarded The Marion North Award for outstanding achievement in performance. In 2010, he worked with Patricia Lent on a revival of Merce Cunningham’s Scramble, dancing the original Cunningham solo. In 2011, he worked with Kerry Nicholls on a collaborative piece with Meridian Brass, Ave Maris Stella. The work was performed at the Royal Festival Hall celebrating the 60 th anniversary of the 1951 Festival of Britain. From 2011 to 2013, Pett danced for Richard Alston Dance Company. In addition to touring internationally with the company, he has performed in Dance Umbrella 2011, working with Robert Cohan on a revival of In Memory and, in 2012, The Bride and the Bachelors exhibition at the Barbican Centre, working with Jeannie Steele on a collective of Cunningham’s works. The performance of the duet Pett danced in Richard Alston’s Unfinished Business was the New York Times critics’ top dance pick for 2013. Pett is a model for W Model Management and is a creative ambassador for his home town of Eden Court in Scotland. He also works in southern Italy teaching and choreographing his own work. Pett joined Company Wayne McGregor in 2013.
Fukiko Takase
Takase was born in New York and raised in Japan by her mother Takako Takase, herself a respected dancer. She was a recipient of a three-year Cultural Affairs Fellowship from the Japanese government to study at the Codarts Rotterdam Dance Academy and London Contemporary Dance School from where she gained a Certificate in Contemporary Dance in 2006. She completed the Postgraduate Diploma Programme in Contemporary Dance the following year. From 2006 to 2010, Takase
worked for Henri Oguike Dance Company, assisting Henri with Tread Softly, a commission for Rambert Dance Company, and Da Gamba, for Ballet Black. In 2013, she danced with Thom Yorke in the Atoms for Peace music video Ingenue, choreographed by McGregor, and she was featured in an AnOther magazine dance film, and the winter campaign for UNIQLO 2015. In Japan, Fukiko has worked as a freelance dancer and choreographed Landing, a full-length work for Theatre X Cai, and Autumn Hunch for the National Theatre, Tokyo. Her choreographic work Cultivate a Quiet Joy was selected for Draft Works at the Royal Opera House in 2015. She collaborated with Goshka Macuga, Mira Calix and Mbulelo Ndabeni on End of the Line, as part of Frieze Art Fair, which premiered at the David Robert Art Foundation in 2016. In 2017, she choreographed music videos for Daniel Brandt (Nowness), and Forevermore by Hikaru Utada. Takase joined Company Wayne McGregor in 2011.
Po-Lin Tung
Born in Yilan, Taiwan, Tung is Atayal, one of the Taiwanese aboriginal tribes. From 2009 to 2013, he studied dance performance at the Taipei National University of the Arts. He toured Taiwan and the United States in 2012 as a member of Fang Yi Sheu and Artists for a year while studying in the school. In 2013, he worked with the Gelsey Kirkland Ballet in New York City for one season, followed by the Mexican company Tania PérezSalas Compañía de Danza in Mexico City and in the United States from 2014 to 2015. In 2015, Tung worked as a freelance dancer in New York City with a number of companies while training with Zvi Gotheiner and Jon Ole Olstad. Tung joined Company Wayne McGregor in 2016.
Jessica Wright
Wright trained at Central School of Ballet, London, before joining D.A.N.C.E., an interdisciplinary programme based in Brussels, Aixen-Provence and Dresden. During this time, she performed with the Forsythe Company in Human Writes and danced in new works by McGregor, Preljocaj and Flamand. She has restaged excerpts of Company Wayne McGregor works Entity and FAR for Milano City Ballet and Compagnie Grenade (Aix en Provence). Wright also makes dance films in collaboration with choreographer Morgann Runacre-Temple, commissioned by Channel 4, Big Dance and English National Ballet (in partnership with TATE Liverpool and Manchester International Festival). Their films have screened at international festivals including FIFA (Montreal), Cinedans (Netherlands), Agite y Sirva (Mexico) and ScreenDance (Sweden). The Try Out was nominated for two awards at IMZ’s prestigious DanceScreen Festival (2016). Curing Albrecht (2017) was commissioned by English National Ballet as a curtain-raiser to Akram Khan’s Giselle and was subsequently shown on BBC iPlayer, Canal+ TV (France) and at the ICA. It was awarded Best Dance Film at the New Renaissance Film Festival (UK) and Best Director at Portland Dance Film Festival (USA) in 2017. Wright joined company Wayne McGregor in 2008.
The Music Center Thanks Its Supporters Donors listed as of August 1, 2018
INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILY FOUNDATIONS $1,000,000 and above Robert J. Abernethy Glorya Kaufman Dance Foundation Ring-Miscikowski Foundation / The Ring Foundation / Cindy Miscikowski Merle and Peter Mullin $250,000–$999,999 Fredric Roberts Lisa Specht $100,000–$249,999 Helen and Peter Bing The Blue Ribbon Dorothy B. Chandler Program Fund Edgerton Foundation Helen Funai Erickson Kiki and David Gindler Anita Mann Kohl and Allen D Kohl Jerry & Terri Kohl Family Foundation Freya and Mark Ivener David and Jody Lippman Barbara and Joel Marcus Jeffrey S. Saikhon Marc and Eva Stern Foundation Julia Strickland and Timothy Wahl $50,000–$99,999 Field Family Foundation Marcia Israel Foundation Lauren Leichtman & Arthur E. Levine Family Foundation Charlotte and Leslie Moore Foundation Teresita and Shelby Notkin Alyce Williamson $25,000–$49,999 Pamela and Dennis Beck Linda Maddocks Brown Lisa Gilford Lee Graff Foundation Nancy and Michael Harahan Gloria and Glen Holden Tylie Jones and John Towey Marla and Cary Lefton LSMK Investments Diane G. Medina Beth and Leslie Michelson
Cynthia M. Patton Karen Kay Platt and Lawrence B. Platt Max Ramberg Allison and Richard Roeder Laura and James Rosenwald Lisa See and Richard Kendall Marie H. Song Catharine and Jeffrey Soros Wendy and Jay Wintrob $10,000–$24,999 Gay and Harry Abrams Jane Arnault-Factor Susan Baumgarten Lynn A. Booth JoAnn and Wayland Bourne Maynard and Linda Brittan / Traub-Brittan Family Foundation Dwight Broadneax and Greg Moesser Carsey Family Foundation Walter and Ruth Chameides Otis and Elizabeth Chandler Foundation Ana and Robert Cook Jennifer Diener Dr. Annette Ermshar and Dan Monahan Dorskind Family Foundation Michael Dreyer Maxine Dunitz Maude and Richard Ferry Richard E. Fiock and Diego Castrejón Joan A. Friedman, PhD and Robert N. Braun, MD Vera and Paul Guerin Cornelia Haag-Molkenteller, MD Ariella Herman Joan Herman and Richard Rasiej Darryl Holter and Carole Shammas Gerry Ibanez and Aja Bell Jane Jelenko Randi and Richard Jones Carol and Patrick Kinsella Rini and Arthur Kraus Liz Levitt Hirsch Cathy and Mark Louchheim Nigel Lythgoe Rao Makineni
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CORPORATIONS, FOUNDATIONS AND GOVERNMENTS
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$10,000–$24,999 Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Consulate General of Canada in Los Angeles Dizzy Feet Foundation Edison International The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation Fox Rothschild LLP / Darrell D. Miller I.N. and Susanna H. Van Nuys Foundation The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation LLWW Foundation The Louis and Harold Price Foundation The Lucille Ellis Simon Foundation Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP Nova Ortho-Med Inc. The Sidley Austin Foundation $5,000–$9,999 Chevron Corporation Colburn Foundation Gladys Turk Foundation Hollywood Foreign Press Association Kaiser Permanente Socius Group, LLC Thelma Pearl Howard Foundation
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