Playbill for ETHEL's Circus: Wandering City

Photo by Zach Gross

ETHEL & THE RINGLING PRESENT THE WORLD PREMIERE OF

HISTORIC ASOLO THE ATER

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JANUARY 26 – 27, 2018

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WORLD PREMIERE

ETHEL, in collaboration with The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, presents

JAN 26 – 27, 2018 Historic Asolo Theater

Circus: Wandering City was co-commissioned by The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art and Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)

COMPOSED AND PERFORMED BY THE MEMBERS OF ETHEL RALPH FARRIS VIOLA KIP JONES VIOLIN DOROTHY LAWSON CELLO CORIN LEE VIOLIN GRANT MCDONALD DIRECTOR ETHEL MUSIC SUPERVISION AND DIRECTION JOHN NARUN PROJECTION DESIGN JASON ARDIZZONE-WEST SCENIC DESIGN BETH GOLDENBERG COSTUME DESIGN OONA CURLEY LIGHTING DESIGN STOWE NELSON SOUND DESIGN KAREN JENKINS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER JENNEY SHAMASH PRODUCER

SPONSORED BY

Dr. Susan Brainerd and Alan R. Quinby Daniel Denton and Ramses Serrano Leon and Marge Ellin Charlotte and Charles Perret

KELLY SHAFFER ALLEN PRODUCTION & STAGE MANAGER SADIE ALISA ADVANCING PRODUCTION MANAGER SARAH STOLNACK ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER CONNOR MARTIN AUDIO/VIDEO TECHNICIAN ETHEL endorses the AVID family of software solutions and Alclair in-ear monitors.

Cello harness designed by Tom Kirchner and Eddie Caccavale.

FROM THE CURATOR

To fully appreciate the seemingly disparate facets of The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, it’s helpful to know that—in addition to being The Ringling’s first Executive Director—A. Everett Austin Jr. was also a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians. “Chick”—as he was known in the world of art—was a showman, adept in the skills of sleight of hand and a master manipulator of the smoke and mirrors of performance. He made no distinction between the artistry of old masters in a museum and the artistry of performers in an arena or onstage. In Chick’s eyes, it was all magic. So to an institution filled with the splendors of European paintings and sculpture, he added a Circus Museum and an 18th-century Italian theater. I like to think of it as the world’s only magical, three-ring museum of art—a place destined by its history to inspire and stage the world premiere of Circus: Wandering City.

Circus: Wandering City is triumph of imagination— informed with a generosity of spirit and powered with a plenitude of reverence and respect heard, seen, and felt in every passionately nuanced composition and brilliantly realized video. In Seat47C, by Corin Lee, the spectacle, magnitude, and energy of the circus unfolds before your eyes. The music of the Side Show Talker is captured with humor and wit in Grifters by Kip Jones.

Dorothy Lawson pays a tribute Sweet and Strong to the ladies of the high wire who, like herself, evoke beauty from the tension of tautly pulled strings. And the very heartbeat of the circus’s immortal soul pulses through the measures of Ralph Farris’s Out of the Ashes.

These are but four of the new works performed in the company of powerfully evocative imagery created by Grant McDonald and his team of fellow artists.

So tonight we have classically-trained musicians, inspired by circus performers to collaborate with video artists and museum archivists to create and perform a new work of 21st-century art before the portrait of a 15th-century Cypriot Queen in an 18th-century Italian theater. It could only happen at Chick Austin’s Ringling— and I like to think that he would be proud. I know that I am.

Dwight Currie Curator of Performance, The Ringling

Pavel Tchelitchew (American, born in Russia, 1898-1957), Ring Master (Mr. Austin), Paper Ball, Hartford Festival, 1936. The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.

SPECIAL THANKS TO MY COLLEAGUES HISTORIC ASOLO THEATER

Aaron Muhl

Managing Director

Michael Kohlmann

Guest Artist Manager

Sonja Shea

Project Coordinator THE ARCHIVES OF THE RINGLING

Deborah Walk

Tibbals Curator of Circus

Jennifer Lemmer-Posey Associate Curator

“The function of a museum is more than merely showing pictures.

The museum is the place to integrate the arts and bring them alive.”

–A. Everett Austin Jr., First Director of The Ringling / 1949

Ron Levere

Digital Manager

Heidi Connor Archivist

Heidi Taylor

Rights and Reproductions

FROM THE ARTISTS

Good evening, and thank you so much for joining us! We offer you this world premiere performance, inspired by The Ringling Museum’s expansive archives and interviews, as a tribute to the remarkable inhabitants of a world with which we’ve fallen in love.

Our production began (unwittingly) with a shutter click many decades ago, snaked its way through years of innovation and perspiration, and, many decades and miles later, gifted us with a creative gold mine. When The Ringling Museum’s Dwight Currie approached us with the idea of this commission to create an experience of original music and images with the Museum’s exceptional archives as its basis, we could barely contain our joy and excitement. What a rich and spectacular world! What wonder, what beauty!

Archival images revealed stories to us, interviews enlightened and delighted, and in the end, we discovered a process of collaborating with Circus history and legend, motivated by the Museum’s magnificent resources. Some of our musical compositions are images themselves, and some are responses to Ringling archive pieces. All were sparked by the Circus’s extraordinary people who embodied the stuff of dreams—to fly; to move mountains; to dance on air; to defy death. Their stories inspired us to create a work that celebrates the anticipation, sweat, fortitude, joy and transcendence that characterizes the lives under the Big Top. Of course, the Circus has never been free from scrutiny, perhaps most notoriously for the historic use of animals in performances. Our inclusion of this aspect of Circus in this evening’s imagery is not meant as a commentary on the subject, but rather an acknowledgement and awareness of that element of the Circus’s immense scope.

It is impossible to touch Circus, its grandeur and nobility, without being transformed in some fundamental way. As you’ll soon hear from Circus legend Dolly Jacobs, we too believe in our heart of hearts that the Circus will never die. This night of music and celebration is our attempt at ensuring that.

The amazing humans you’ll see projected here revealed to the world a trailblazing community that expressed itself through daring spectacle, remarkable effort, and seemingly super-human skill. The family that is Circus shows us that our differences are beautiful and to be celebrated, that strength and grace are not mutually exclusive, that human limitations can be overcome.

The full breadth of human love, transcendence, and positive expression that is inherently present in every aspect of the Circus could never be encapsulated in one night. The images we’ve selected are but a few of our favorites, inspired by and in honor of the great Circus tradition. We hope you’ll fall for them as well.

Finally, just like the Circus, there is a whole family who came together to build the show you see today – an entire village behind the scenes! We could not have done it without them, and we extend our thanks and eternal gratitude to our extraordinary design and production team.

And now, Ladies and Gentlemen, we give you…

Circus: Wandering City!

ETHEL and Grant McDonald

Photo by Zach Gross

CIRCUS: WANDERING CITY WORLD PREMIERE PROGRAM • JANUARY 26-27, 2018 PERFORMED WITHOUT INTERMISSION

A WONDROUS SPACE

3BWE

REDNOSOLOGY

SEAT 47C

CANVAS AND SILK

SWEET AND STRONG

NO NET

THE BREAKAWAY

AUGUSTE & THE TRAMP

JOEY FINK

DOROTHY LAWSON KIP JONES KIP JONES (Soloist) CORIN LEE RALPH FARRIS DOROTHY LAWSON (Soloist) DOROTHY LAWSON RALPH FARRIS RALPH FARRIS (Soloist) RALPH FARRIS

CLOWNSITION DOROTHY LAWSON GRIFTERS KIP JONES

THE PYRAMID

DOROTHY LAWSON

ON THE EDGE

CORIN LEE

OUT OF THE ASHES, PARTS ONE & TWO

A MOMENT IN THIS SHOW

RALPH FARRIS KIP JONES

WALTZ DOROTHY LAWSON TUMBLERS KIP JONES

CENTER RING (MOJO PERPETUO)

MOMENT OF TRUTH

RALPH FARRIS | CORIN LEE (Soloist) DOROTHY LAWSON

MEMORIES OF LIFE IN THE CIRCUS The interviews seen in Circus: Wandering City are from The Ringling’s onstage oral history program, Collecting Recollections. Launched in 2012, the program has captured more than 40 hours of priceless memories—freely shared by the legendary artists of Sarasota’s famed circus community. Featured in tonight’s performance are: NORMA FOX began her circus career at the age of 13 in her native Denmark and went on to become the internationally renowned trapeze artist, La Norma. Her artistry is forever preserved in Cecil B. DeMille’s Oscar-winning film, The Greatest Show on Earth, in which she performs as Betty Hutton’s stunt double.

MARGIE GEIGER was performing in the corps de ballet at Radio City Music Hall when she learned the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus was hiring dancers. She auditioned and was soon rehearsing at Winter Quarters in Sarasota, Florida. She went on to become an aerialist with the Great Wallendas.

WARD HALL ran away to join the circus when he was 14 years old; by time he was 21, he was the proprietor of his own sideshow. Now, after more than 70 years in “the business”—performing coast-to-coast and around the world­—he remains the undisputed King of the Sideshow (with plans to retire when he reaches 100.)

DOLLY JACOBS was born to parents who performed with the Ringling show (her father, the legendary Lou Jacobs), and Dolly herself would eventually earn the title, “Queen of the Air.” She has won the Dame du Cirque and Clown d’Argent in Monaco, and is the first circus artist to receive the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

JACKIE LECLAIRE was but a one-year-old when he first appeared with his parents in the 1929 edition of the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus. He went on to become both an aerialist and a clown (doubling for Cornell Wilde in The Greatest Show on Earth). He is Sarasota’s “Ambassador of Mirth.”

PEDRO REIS began circus training in his native South Africa at the age of 12 and went on to become one of the great aerialists of his generation. In 1994 he partnered with Dolly Jacobs to create their fabled aerial pas de deux. The duo would eventually marry and create Sarasota’s renowned Circus Arts Conservatory.

VICTORIA CRISTIANI ROSSI, of the fabled Cristiani Circus family, performed under the big top until the age of 19, when she was hurled from the trunk of an elephant. As an eyewitness to a world now “nowhere to be found,” she wrote her memoir, Spangles, Elephants, Violets, & Me.

ETHEL, left to right: Dorothy Lawson, cello Kip Jones, violin Ralph Farris, viola Corin Lee, violin Photo by Matthew Murphy

ETHEL

was established in New York City in 1998, quickly earning a reputation as one of America’s most adventurous string quartets—heirs to the likes of the Kronos Quartet and Soldier String Quartet, and part of a generation of young artists blending uptown, conservatory musicianship with downtown genre-crossing—by playing with the intensity and accoutrements of a rock band. The New York Times has described them as “indefatigable and eclectic,” and The New Yorker has deemed them “vital and brilliant.” Nearly two decades into their singular career, ETHEL has in turn become seminal in its own right, a pathbreaker for countless new genre-spanning ensembles, and a prolific commissioner of new music.

At the heart of ETHEL is a collaborative ethos—a quest for a common creative expression that is forged in the celebration of community. The quartet creates and tours rich, often multimedia, productions including the eveninglength ETHEL’s Documerica, inspired by the tens of thousands of images shot as part of the Environmental Protection Agency’s decade-long Project Documerica, launched in 1971; The River, a collaboration with Taos Pueblo flutist Robert Mirabal (album released June 2016); the introspective Grace, featuring ETHEL’s arrangements of music by Ennio Morricone and Jeff Buckley; and Blue Dress, which pays homage to women making their musical mark on the 21st century.

ETHEL has collaborated with artists including David Byrne, Bang on a Can All Stars, Kaki King, Todd Rundgren, Joe Jackson, Ursula Oppens, Juana Molina, Tom Verlaine, STEW, Andrew Bird, Thomas Dolby, Jeff Peterson, Laurence Hobgood, Jake Shimabukuro, and Vijay Iyer.

ETHEL’s self-titled debut album was a Billboard “Best Recording of ’03.” Light ranked #3 on Amazon.com’s “Best

of ’06.” Oshtali: Music for String Quartet, ’10, is the first commercial recording of American Indian student works, and Heavy, ’12, was a Q-2 “Album of the Week.” The recording of ETHEL’s Documerica, ’15, was featured by The New York Times’ Press Play and on iTunes’ classical front page. The River with guest artist Robert Mirabal debuted in 2016, and was nominated for a NAMMY award.

ETHEL has appeared as a guest artist on over a dozen music labels, to include: Laurence Hobgood’s tesseterra (label TBD, 2017); The Paha Sapa Give-Back by Jerome Kitzke (Innova, 2014); Cold Blue Two (Cold Blue Music, 2012); Glow by Kaki King (Velour Recordings, 2012); Blue Moth by Anna Clyne (Tzadik, 2012); The Duke by Joe Jackson (Razor & Tie, 2012); A Map of the Floating City by Thomas Dolby (Redeye Label, 2011); John the Revelator: A Mass for Six Voices by Phil Kline (Cantaloupe Music, 2008) with vocal group Lionheart; and the Grammy Awardwinning, Dedicated to You: Kurt Elling Sings the Music of Coltrane and Hartman (Concord Records, 2009).

The quartet regularly performs works by all of the members of the ensemble, alongside music by Philip Glass, Julia Wolfe, John King, Phil Kline, David Lang, Dan Friel, John Zorn, Missy Mazzoli, Anna Clyne, Steve Reich, Don Byron, Aleksandra Vrebalov, Marcelo Zarvos, Pamela Z, Evan Ziporyn and Terry Riley. Over the past five years, ETHEL has premiered 150+ new works, many of them commissioned by the quartet.

ETHEL is the Resident Ensemble at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Balcony Bar and Ensemble-in-Residence at Denison University, where the quartet members were awarded honorary doctorates during the 2017 commencement exercises. www.ethelcentral.org.

Representation: Baylin Arist Management / 267.888.3750 / baylinartists.com

THE COMPANY RALPH FARRIS (Artistic Director, Viola) is a founding member of ETHEL. He is a Grammy-nominated arranger, an original Broadway orchestra member of The Lion King and the former musical director for The Who’s Roger Daltrey. He has collaborated with Leonard Bernstein, Martin Scorsese, Depeche Mode, Natalie Merchant, Harry Connick Jr., Allen Ginsberg, Yo-Yo Ma and Gorillaz. A three-time Tanglewood Fellow and a graduate of Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Ralph earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from The Juilliard School, earning the school’s William Schuman Prize. He has received composition commissions from NYU’s Aquila Theatre, flute/marimba visionaries Lawler + Fadoul, dance mavericks Monkeyhouse and Las Vegas darlings Jarrett & Raja. www.ralphfarris.com KIP JONES (Violin) is known for his ebullient and innovative solo performances in a style he describes as “experimental folk.” A modern musical troubadour, Kip has performed at scores of eclectic venues such as Ecuador’s Ministry of Economic Inclusion; Tirana’s Liceu Artistik “Jordan Misja”, two miles inside Chom Ong Tai cave in Laos; the summer homes of nomadic Mongolian herders; and platforms of most subway systems in North America. As a composer, his work has been commissioned by ensembles that include the Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra and A Far Cry. A native of Minnesota, Kip earned his degree in Violin Performance from the Berklee College of Music. www.kipjones.net DOROTHY LAWSON (Artistic Director, Cello) is a founding member of ETHEL. She has performed with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the White Oak Dance Project, Philharmonia Virtuosi, the American Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and numerous new music ensembles. Dorothy served 10 years as faculty of Joseph Fuchs’ Alfred University Summer Chamber Music Institute, and she teaches in the Preparatory Division of Mannes College at the New School in New York City. An original orchestra member of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years, and Broadway’s The Woman in White, she is a member of acclaimed Brazilian jazz ensemble, Marcelo Zarvos +Group, and the Ron Carter Nonet. Dorothy hails from Canada.

CORIN LEE (Violin) is one of the most sought-after violinists of his generation. He has appeared on the great American stages, traditional and otherwise - from Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium to The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery; from Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center to EDC Las Vegas. Corin’s performances have been broadcast on Fox, CBS, and NBC News. His “musically marvelous” (Steve Reich) electronic arrangements have set the new standard for innovation in solo string performance. Corin received degrees from Juilliard (BM) and Yale School of Music (MM). In addition to concert work, he directs Liberated Performer, a program that guides and trains musicians to defeat performance anxiety. www. liberatedperformer.com

GRANT MCDONALD (Director) has collaborated internationally as Director or Projection Designer on dozens of concerts, theatrical productions, installations and live events. Recent collaborations include Stars on Ice (US & Canada Tours), The Official Prince Tribute (Xcel Energy Center), Esperanza Spalding’s Emily’s D+ Evolution (World Tour), Black Mountain Songs (The Barbican/BAM) and The Internet’s Ego Death (Camp Flog Gnaw). McDonald has also served as projection consultant on productions across the globe, most recently Adam Savage’s Brain Candy (World Tour), Mariah Carey’s Number One to Infinity (Caesar’s Palace residency), and Alt-J’s This is All Yours (World Tour). www.grantmcdonald.com JOHN NARUN (Projection Design) has theatre credits that include Born For This at the Arena Stage, The Secret Life of Edward Gorey at the Sheen Center, The Tallest Tree in the Forest and The Laramie Project at BAM, What I Did Last Summer at The Signature Theatre (NYC), Blueprints for Freedom at Kansas City Rep, The Darrell Hammond Project at The La Jolla Playhouse, Mughal-e-Azam at the NCPA in Mumbai, India, and The Radio City Christmas and Spring Spectaculars. His visuals have also shared the concert stage with Madonna, Ricky Martin, Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Lopez, Celine Dion, Britney Spears, and The Spice Girls. John’s work has appeared on television on “The Oprah Show”, and on ABC, CBS, NBC, HBO, Fox, Discovery, E!, HGTV, and TV Guide.

His projection design work has earned him a Drama Desk Award nomination, a Henry Hewes Design Award nomination, 2 Craig Noel Award nominations, and an NYIT Award nomination.

His broadcast work earned him an Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Title Design in 2002. www.johnnarun.com JASON ARDIZZONE-WEST (Set Design) is a set designer based in Yonkers, NY. Recent designs include: Illyria, Hungry, What Did You Expect?, Women of a Certain Age (The Public Theater, with Susan Hilferty), Lana Del Rey (World Tour), 36th Marathon of One Act Plays (The Ensemble Studio Theater), Caroline, Or Change (Tantrum Theater), Bullets Over Broadway (National Tour, NETworks Presentations), Adele, Live in NYC (NBC, with Es Devlin). Current & upcoming designs include: Jesus Christ Superstar Live (NBC), Uncle Vanya (The Old Globe), One Thousand Nights & One Day (Prospect Theater), The Royale (Cleveland Playhouse), Three Wise Guys (TACT).

Jason received a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art & Planning, a Masters of Fine Arts from New York University, Department of Design for Stage & Film, and is a member of USA 829. www.ardizzonewest.com BETH GOLDENBERG (Costume Design) is a New York based costume designer working in opera, theatre and multimedia performance. Design credits include include Stabat Mater, choreographed by Jessica Lang, the little match girl passion, directed by Francesca Zambello, and Macbeth directed

by Anne Bogart and co-designed with James Schuette at

the Glimmerglass Festival. Her designs have been seen at Second Stage Theatre, The New Group, Juilliard, Red Bull Theater, Ma-Yi Theatre, Lesser America, La Jolla Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Dallas Theatre Center, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Barrington Stage Co., Heartbeat Opera and On Site Opera, among others. She received an MFA from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts. www. bethgoldenbergdesign.com OONA CURLEY (Lighting Design) is a lighting and scenic designer from New York City specializing in new and devised work. She recently designed the Obie Award Winning production of Underground Railroad Game at ArsNova and for an international tour. Her work has been seen in New York (ArsNova, Atlantic Theater Co., The Cherry Lane, Joe’s Pub, JACK, La MaMa, The New Ohio, Theater for the New City, NYU/Tisch, Columbia Stages, M34 Productions), Philadelphia (The Arden Theatre, Opera Philadelphia, FringeArts, The Kimmel Center, The Bearded Ladies Cabaret, Inis Nua Theatre Co., Theater Horizon, Team Sunshine Performance Co., Shakespeare in Clark Park, anonymous bodies, Carbon Dance Theatre), and regionally (Sharon Playhouse, Brown/Trinity Rep, Gamm Theater, Chester Theatre). Oona earned her MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she received the J.S. Seidman Award for Design Excellence, the Dean’s Fellowship, and was NYU’s nominee for a Princess Grace Award. She holds a BA from Brown University, where her designs earned the Zonta Award for Theatre Arts and the Weston Award for Theatre Design. Oona is an associate artist with the Bearded Ladies Cabaret in Philadelphia. www.oonacurley.com.

STOWE NELSON (Sound Design) New York: The Wolves (LCT); Miles for Mary, The Essential Straight & Narrow, Samuel & Alasdair (Drama Desk Nom, The Mad Ones); Animal Wisdom (Bushwick Starr); Animal (Atlantic); The Skin of Our Teeth` (Theatre for a New Audience); Small Mouth Sounds (Lortel Nom, Ars Nova); Indian Summer (Playwrights Horizons); The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek, The Wayside Motor Inn (Signature). Regional Theatre: Actors Theatre of Louisville, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Hudson Valley Shakespeare.

More info: www.wingspace.com/stowe

KELLY ALLEN (Production & Stage Manager) has been a stage manager and production manager for a variety of companies and venues across many disciplines. She is based in Brooklyn where she likes to eat cookies and listen to the radio with her dog and daughter. Credits include: Lincoln Center Out of Doors and Midsummer Night Swing (2014-2017); Let the Right One In and Black Watch (Nat’l Theatre of Scotland); This Was the End (Mallory Catlett/Chocolate Factory); Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage (Banana Bag & Bodice); Chekhov Lizardbrain (Pig Iron Theatre Co.); Silence! The Musical (Tesseract Theatre Co.); Brief Encounter (Kneehigh Theatre); Bellona: Destroyer of Cities (Jay Scheib); Romeo & Juliet and Euro-Asian Tour of Life & Times Episodes 1 & 2 (Nature Theater of Oklahoma); Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead (File 14 Productions).

KAREN JENKINS (Executive Producer), Executive Director and Director of Development of ETHEL’s Foundation for the Arts, was executive producer for ETHEL’s Documerica, premiered at the BAM Next Wave Festival. As an arts administrator, program developer and fundraising counsel, she has worked for the Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham Companies, The Joffrey Ballet, Bandaloop, Circle in the Square, Dance Theater of Harlem, MASS MoCA, The New Museum, New York Hall of Science, New York Studio School, Tribeca New Music Festival, and ISSUE Project Room among other organizations. Ms. Jenkins holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design.

JENNEY SHAMASH (Producer) is a New York based performing arts producer and manager. She has worked with several major producing organizations including Park Avenue Armory, Irish Repertory Theatre, and the Tony Award winning Signature Theatre Company. She has collaborated on productions around the United States and internationally with artists such as Peter Sellars, Bill Irwin, Taryn Simon, Monica Bill Barnes, Charles Mee, Athol Fugard, Annie Baker, Tina Landau, Sam Shepard, Martha Clarke, and Naomi Wallace. She has a degree in Theater & Dance and French from Amherst College.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Board of ETHEL’s Foundation for the Arts The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art: Dwight Currie, Deborah Walk, Michael Kohlmann, and Aaron Muhl The Hermitage Artist Retreat: Bruce Rodgers, Patricia Caswell Hudson Hall: Gary Schiro, Tambra Dillon, Sage Carter Immersive Music Project: Jesse Lewis, Kyle Pyke and Shauna Barravecchio Bindlestiff Family Cirkus: Keith Nelson and Stephanie Monseu

Alice Austin, Coco Bentley, Walt Bostian, Elizabeth Bradley, Robert L. Brashear, Hilary Chaplain, Randy Crafton, Jenna Clark Embrey, Judy Finelli, Susan Frankel, Ting He, Kathy Horejsi, Ching-chu Hu, Noelle Jones, Alison Kavey and QueBA HM, Christine LeBeau, Sharyn Lonsdale, Leonard McGill, Zach Miller, Joseph V. Melillo, Mike Morris, Michael Picton, Jason Tate, Nolan Thies, Limor Tomer, John H. Towsen, and Bill Weeden.

And of course, our brilliant interview subjects: Dolly Jacobs, Jackie LeClaire, Victoria Cristiani Rossi, Ward Hall, Pedro Reis, Margie Geiger, Norma Fox, and Herta Klauser Cuneo. Thank you, and we love you ALL! ETHEL’s Foundation for the Arts thanks the Double R, Samuels, Scherman, and Thompson Family Foundations and the New York Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts for support of Circus: Wandering City.