TPA 2023 Program: Dance Theatre of Harlem / Cécile McLorin Salvant / Manual Cinema

Dance Theatre of Harlem

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Thank you for joining us! We’re thrilled to welcome you to experience the best in new performance from around the world as part of the Texas Performing Arts 2022–23 Season.

This season, we’ve made a bold return to presenting international artists, with nine countries represented in the season. We are also amplifying our longstanding commitment to large-scale dance works, with visits from four major companies. Alongside these visiting productions, we wanted to showcase artists who call Austin home. Through our artist-in-residence program, you can take a peek behind the curtain of creativity as interdisciplinary artist and creative director Kenyon Adams, playwright Virginia Grise, and choreographer Deborah Hay develop and present their latest projects. New this season, the youngest audiences can experience adventurous art through our new series of creative performance for families.

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At Texas Performing Arts, we make sure engagement with the arts extends beyond the stage — a place where students, faculty, and the Central Texas community can connect, gather, and share ideas. Through workshops, discussions, masterclasses, and more, we strive for everyone to be able to feed their artistic spirit.

Our 22/23 Season kicked off in September with a full lineup of inspiring and adventurous performances, which will continue through April. Here are just few highlights of our campus and community activities from this fall. 1

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Members of Brooklyn’s acclaimed Sandbox Percussion led a masterclass with the Butler School of Music’s Percussion Studio.

Martha Gonzalez, collaborating resident artist with playwright Virginia Grise in Riding the Currents of the Wilding Wind, guided a songwriting workshop with the Draylen Mason fellows from Austin Soundwaves.

Theatre students from Georgetown’s middle schools got a peek behind the scenes of Texas Performing Arts’ stages.

UT Alum Evita Arce, a company member of SW!NG OUT, taught a Lindy Hop masterclass for dance students in the UT Department of Theatre and Dance.

Mexico’s Makuyeika Colectivo Teatral led a bilingual workshop at the Scottish Rite Theatre, culminating in an improvised rendition of a communal story.

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Dance Theatre of Harlem

FRI, FEB 10

Cécile McLorin Salvant

Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About A Terrible Monster

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Aizuri Quartet

The Art of Translation SAT, MAR 4

AizuriKids SUN, MAR 5

Vuyani Dance Theatre

Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Boléro

APR 19

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Farfalle

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Digitization project will make historic Hollywood film backdrops accessible to fans around the world

Texas Performing Arts’ Hollywood Backdrop Collection has garnered international attention in the past few years, as interest has grown in this important art form. Thanks to generous support from donors, the collection will soon be available to view and explore online.

These assets make up the largest and most extensive educational collection of Hollywood motion picture backdrops in the world.

Assistant Professor of Practice Karen Maness and Professor Emeritus Richard Isackes lovingly documented the history of the film backdrops in their award-winning publication, The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop (Regan Arts 2016). A cache of 68 historic paintings was generously donated to Texas Performing Arts by J.C. Backings and the Art Directors Guild Archives’ Backdrop Recovery Project.

The collection includes backings from iconic and critically acclaimed films such as National Velvet (1944), The Sound of Music (1965), Ben Hur (1959) and North by Northwest (1958). Following national coverage of the project on CBS’ Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley in February 2020 and two subsequent exhibitions hosted on the stage of Bass Concert Hall the following year, the Boca Raton Museum of Art opened Art of the Hollywood Backdrop in April 2022. The exhibition has attracted international media coverage, from the Wall Street Journal to the Times of London.

With generous support from Susan & Robert Morse, Texas Performing Arts is now digitizing the collection to make it even more widely available. A new website will launch and will serve as both digital archive and interactive teaching tool.

“It’s an exciting next step.” says Texas Performing Arts’ Executive and Artistic Director

Bob Bursey. “Sharing the collection digitally will allow us to celebrate these masters of illusion and perspective while inspiring the next generation of artists with access to material never before available.”

The website will showcase the backdrops in high-resolution detail, amplifying and preserving the techniques of backdrop painting and restoration pioneered by Hollywood’s uncredited lead scenic artists. Texas Performing Arts has captured direct instruction from Hollywood’s top motion picture scenic artists Michael Denering, Joe Francuz, and Donald MacDonald for the website.

While student training in these lost techniques continues in Texas Performing Arts’ Fabrication Studios, the digital archive will share detailed instruction for future caretakers how to preserve, stabilize and restore these works as the project continues to expand. The digitization of the collection will also help contextualize the work by connecting the backdrops to the iconic films in which they were featured, reaching audiences around the world.

Feb 10, 2023

Bass Concert Hall

Dance Theatre of Harlem

FOUNDERS

Arthur Mitchell

Karel Shook

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Virginia Johnson

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Anna Glass

RESIDENT CHOREOGRAPHER

Robert Garland

REHEARSAL DIRECTOR

Juan Carlos Peñuela

DANCE ARTISTS

Lindsey Donnell

Yinet Fernandez

Alexandra Hutchinson

Daphne Lee

Kamala Saara

Ingrid Silva

Amanda Smith

Alexandra Terry

Delaney Washington

Stephanie Rae Williams

Derek Brockington

Micah Bullard

Lucas Castro

Kouadio Davis

Keenan English

Christopher Charles McDaniel

Sanford Placide

Dylan Santos

David Wright

Dance Theatre of Harlem is deeply grateful for the generous support of our individual and institutional donors. Their support helps to ensure that DTH can continue to bring the best of classical ballet to communities in Harlem and beyond.

Media Sponsors: Austin PBS & KAZI-FM

AllianceBernstein, Alphadyne Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Arnhold Foundation, Inc., Art Attack Foundation, Bank of America, BET Networks, Bloomberg LP, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Con Edison, Cornell Family Foundation, Dance/NYC, Davis/Dauray Family Fund, The Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, Fortitude Re, Google, Henry and Lucy Moses Fund, Inc., Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation, Howard Gilman foundation, Inc., The Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Dubose & Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, JP Morgan Chase, The Jockey Hollow Foundation, Inc./Jockey, The Klein Family Foundation, The Reginald F. Lewis Foundation Inc., MAC Cosmetics, Madison Square Garden, The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, Margaret T. Morris Foundation, Masters Capital Management, LLC, Meta, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, National Endowment for the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts with support of the Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, New York City Council District 7, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with City Council, Tatiana Piankova Foundation, Charles H. Revson Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, William Talbot Hillman Foundation, The Thompson Family Foundation, Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation, Venable Foundation, Inc., Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, Wells Fargo, Yumiko.

ON TO THE FUTURE

Not even a world-wide pandemic could dim our commitment to Dance Theatre of Harlem cofounder Arthur Mitchell’s belief in the power of art to transform lives and open minds. The 2022/23 season at Dance Theatre of Harlem is a demonstration of that legacy. The DTH Company, School, and arts education program, “Dancing Through Barriers,” look forward to the coming season with delight. Once again, our studios will be filled with young people training in ballet, our community will be engaged by the power of our artistry and the company will be on the road again, carrying forward the important message that the art form of classical ballet belongs to and is for all.

The disruptions of the past two years have been challenging and while we are grateful for the support that poured in from so many, the thing that held us

together was maintaining focus on what is meaningful to us as artists. The social impact of Dance Theatre of Harlem’s national and international touring over the past 53 years is often noted, but it is the art that we produce that is central to our survival.

DTH has always been about creating opportunities outside of the traditional—whether it is the dancers on our stage or the repertoire they perform, ballets by our resident choreographer Robert Garland, George Balanchine, Helen Pickett, Claudia Schreier, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and William Forsythe reflect the richness of what is possible to express through the human body. The adventure continues. Ready, set, go!

Virginia Johnson Artistic Director

BALAMOUK

World Premiere October 5th, 2018

Choreography: Annabelle Lopez Ochoa

Music: Les Yeux Noirs, Lisa Gerrard, René Aubry

Costume Design: Mark Zappone

Lighting Design: Les Dickert

February 10th, 7:30pm

Commissioned by New York City Center for the Fall For Dance Festival, the development of Balamouk was supported through 50th anniversary commissioning support provided by the Seattle Theater Group and by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation through Dance Theatre of Harlem’s Women Who Move Us Initiative. Support for new dance works at City Center is provided by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

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THE DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM COMPANY DANCE ARTISTS

DAPHNE LEE ALEXANDRA HUTCHINSON YINET FERNANDEZ KAMALA SAARA

DELANEY WASHINGTON DEREK BROCKINGTON MICAH BULLARD LUCAS CASTRO KOUADIO DAVIS SANFORD PLACIDE

Sanford Placide

Christopher Charles McDaniel

Kamala Saara

Micah Bullard

Alexandra Hutchinson

Amanda Smith

Kouadio Davis

Ingrid Silva

Yinet Fernandez

Dylan Santos

Lucas Castro

Derek Brockington

Lindsey Donnell

Keenan English

Stephanie Rae Williams

Alexandra Terry Delaney Washington

David Wright

Daphne Lee

HIGHER GROUND

(Premiere January 22, 2022, Detroit Opera House)

Choreography by Robert Garland

Costume Design by Pamela Allen-Cummings

Lighting Design by Roma Flowers

February 10, 7:30 pm

“Look Around”

LINDSEY DONNELL KAMALA SAARA INGRID SILVA

DEREK BROCKINGTON CHRISTOPHER CHARLES MCDANIEL DAVID WRIGHT

“You Haven’t Done Nothin’”

DAVID WRIGHT

Lindsey Donnell Kamala Saara Ingrid Silva Derek Brockington Christopher Charles McDaniel

“Heaven Is Ten Zillion Light Years Away”

KAMALA SAARA CHRISTOPHER CHARLES MCDANIEL

Lindsey Donnell Ingrid Silva Derek Brockington David Wright

“Village Ghetto Land”

LINDSEY DONNELL

Kamala Saara Ingrid Silva Derek Brockington Christopher Charles McDaniel David Wright

“Saturn”

INGRID SILVA DEREK BROCKINGTON

Lindsey Donnell Kamala Saara Christopher Charles McDaniel David Wright

“Higher Ground” Company

Music Credits: “Look Around” by Stevie Wonder and Syreeta Wright ©1970; “Heaven Is Ten Zillion Light Years Away” & “You Haven’t Done Nothin’” ©1974, by Stevie Wonder; “Higher Ground” ©1973, by Stevie Wonder; “Saturn” by Michael Sembello and Stevie Wonder ©1975; “Village Ghetto Land” by Gary Byrd and Stevie Wonder ©1976 © Jobete Music Co Inc and Black Bull Music. All rights administered by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, 424 Church Street, Suite 1200, Nashville, TN 37219. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Commissioned by Northrop Auditorium, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Special thanks to Stevie Wonder and Tracey Rounds.

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BLAKE WORKS IV (THE BARRE PROJECT)

World Premiere January 20, 2023, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Penn Live Arts/Annenberg Center, Philadelphia, PA

Choreography, Stage: William Forsythe

Music: James Blake***

Lighting Design: Brandon Stirling Baker

Costume Design: William Forsythe, Katy A Freeman

Staging & Choreographic Assistance: Jodie Gates, Noah Gelber, Benjamin Peralta.

February 10th, 7:30pm

DEREK BROCKINGTON MICAH BULLARD KOUADIO DAVIS LINDSEY DONNELL

YINET FERNANDEZ ALEXANDRA HUTCHINSON DAPHNE LEE

CHRISTOPHER CHARLES MCDANIEL SANFORD PLACIDE

KAMALA SAARA DYLAN SANTOS INGRID SILVA AMANDA SMITH

DELANEY WASHINGTON DAVID WRIGHT

Blake Works IV (The Barre Project) (2023), a commission for the Dance Theatre of Harlem, is the latest installment in William Forsythe’s continuously evolving work The Barre Project. The work derives its inspiration from the propulsive and rigorously structured songs of composer James Blake, whose work appears primarily in the popular music idiom.

The Barre series began in 2021 at the height of the pandemic as a filmed dance that was streamed to a global audience facing the restrictions on live performance at the time. The live stage version for Dance Theatre of Harlem features newly choreographed sections that highlight the diverse and formidable talents of the ensemble and is a version of the ballet that is unique to this company alone.

***All songs written by James Blake Litherland (PRS) and performed by James Blake

“Buzzard &Kestrel,” published by Universal Music Publishing Group (GMR) and Buzzard and Kestrel LTD (ASCAP). Courtesy of Hessle Audio.

“Lindisfarne I,” published by Universal Music Publishing Group (GMR).

Courtesy of Universal Music Operations Ltd.

“Lullaby for My Insomniac,” published by Sony Smash Hits Music Publishing (GMR). Courtesy of Universal Music Operations Ltd.

“200 Press“, published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing (UK) Limited (GMR). Courtesy of 1-800-Dinosaur.

Originating from The Barre Project (Blake Works II), created and filmed in 2020 for its first broadcast on March 25, 2021, on the CLI Studio Digital Platform www.clistudios.com

Blake Works IV (The Barre Project) for Dance Theatre of Harlem in the 2022/23 season is made possible with support provided by the Penn Live Arts Accelerator Program at the University of Pennsylvania

THE DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM COMPANY

DEREK BROCKINGTON

Born: Chicago, IL and raised in Holland, MI. Training: Grand Rapids Ballet School, Interlochen Arts Academy, Ballet West and Pennsylvania Ballet Summer Intensives. Professional Experience: Dance Theatre of Harlem (fourth season), Cincinnati Ballet, Grand Rapids Ballet. Repertoire includes works by Claudia Schreier, Robert Garland, Stanton Welch, George Balanchine, Anabelle Lopez Ochoa, and Darrell Grand Moultrie.

MICAH BULLARD

Born: Houston, TX. Training: The Dance Center of Baytown, University of Oklahoma School of Dance (BFA 2019), Jacob’s Pillow

Contemporary Ballet Program, Dance Theatre of Harlem Summer

Intensive, Texas Ballet Theater

Summer Intensive. Professional

Experience: Oklahoma City Ballet, Hartel Dance Group, and Dance Theatre of Harlem (second season). Repertoire includes original works by Amy Hall Garner, Trey McIntyre, Colin Connor, as well as Alejandro Cerrudo’s “Lickety Split,” Merce Cunningham’s “How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run” and Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake.

LUCAS CASTRO

Born: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Training: Centro de Dança Rio, City Dance Conservatory, The Washington School of Ballet, Jacob’s Pillow. Professional

experience: Dance Theater of Harlem (first season), Utah Metropolitan Ballet (Principal Artist), The Washington Ballet

(Trainee) and Cia Jovem de Ballet

Dalal Achcar. Repertoire: Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Jennifer Archibald, Jacqueline Colledge, Alan Hineline, Marius Petipa, Septime Webre, Mimmo Miccolis, Dalal Achcar, Eric Frederic and Andrea Sales.

KOUADIO DAVIS

Born: Oneonta, NY. Training: Holbrook-Wade School of Dance, Fokine Ballet, New York State Summer School of the Arts with Daniel Ulbricht, NYCB. Carolyn Adams. Alvin Ailey, Nutmeg Ballet, Charlotte Ballet, Alonzo King Lines, French Academie of Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Springboard Danse Montreal. 2019 Graduate of Ellison Ballet. Awards: Youth America Grand Prix in 2017 and 2018, where he and his partner won second and then first place in the contemporary Pas de Deux category. Professional Experience: Dance Theatre of Harlem (third season).

LINDSEY DONNELL

Born: Midland, TX. Training: A Petite Dance Studio, Midland Festival Ballet under Susan Clark. Education: cum laude graduate of Butler University, degree in Dance Arts Administration and Journalism. Professional Experience: Dance Theatre of Harlem (tenth season), Nashville Ballet (trainee). Repertoire includes works by Robert Garland, Nacho Duato, Ulysses Dove, George Balanchine, Donald Byrd, Elena Kunikova and Dianne McIntyre.

KEENAN ENGLISH

Born: Randallstown, MD. Training: Baltimore School for the Arts, Boston Ballet, and School of

American Ballet. Professional

Experience: Boston Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Carolina Ballet, and Dance Theatre of Harlem (second season). Repertoire includes ballets by Nacho Duato, George Balanchine, William Forsythe, Ulysses Dove, Helen Pickett, Robert Garland, Darrell Grand Moultrie, Val Caniparoli, Alvin Ailey, Septime Webre, Nicolo Fonte, Francesca Harper, Lynn Taylor Corbett.

YINET FERNANDEZ

Born: Mariano’ La Habana, Cuba.

Training: Provincial School of the Arts, National School of Ballet, Ballet Nacional de Cuba. Professional experience: Dance Theatre of Harlem (fifth season), Connecticut Ballet, Ballet Nacional de Cuba. Repertoire includes Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Giselle, Coppélia, La Fille mal gardée, Don Quixote and works by George Balanchine, Robert Garland, Christopher Wheeldon, Darrell Grand Moultrie and Dianne McIntyre.

ALEXANDRA HUTCHINSON

Born: Wilmington, DE. Training: The Washington School of Ballet, Wilmington Academy of Dance, and summer intensives with Alvin Ailey, Alonzo King, Carolina Ballet, Ballet

Chicago, and Nashville Ballet 2. Education: Bachelor of Science in Ballet, Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music. Professional

Experience: Dance Theatre of Harlem (fourth season), Nashville Ballet. Repertoire includes Orange by Stanton Welch; Return and New Bach by Robert Garland; Balamouk by Annabelle Lopez

Ochoa; Harlem on My Mind and

Vessels by Darrell Grand Moultrie; George Balanchine’s Valse Fantasie, Western Symphony, Swan Lake, Concerto Barocco, Divertimento No. 15, Emeralds, Rubies, and Giselle; Paul Vasterling’s Sleeping Beauty; Septime Webre’s and Michael Vernon’s The Nutcracker.

Alexandra is the recipient of The Pierians Foundation Incorporated 2018 Emerging Young Artist Award, Virginia Johnson Scholar, Washington School of Ballet Professional Training Program tuition stipend, 2010, 2011, and 2012.

DAPHNE MARCELLE LEE

Rahway, NJ. Training: Rahway Dance Theatre by her late mother

Jay Skeete-Lee, and the Dance Theatre of Harlem School.

Education: BFA in Dance, Ailey/ Fordham University, and MFA from Hollins University. Professional

Experience: Dance Theatre of Harlem (fourth season), Collage Dance Collective, Oakland Ballet, Alvin Ailey II, Black Iris Project. Repertoire includes works by Jessica Lang, Benoit Swan-Pouffer, Nicolo Fonte, Dwight Rhoden, Jennifer Archibald, George Balanchine, Amy Seiwart, Joyce Trisler, and Darrell Moultrie.

CHRISTOPHER CHARLES MCDANIEL

Born: East Harlem, NY. Training: Dance Theatre of Harlem School, LaGuardia School of Performing Arts, Ballet Academy East, Boston Ballet, Jacob’s Pillow. Professional Experience: Dance Theatre of Harlem (fifth season), Ballet San Antonio, Los Angeles Ballet. Repertoire includes works by Robert Garland, Ulysses Dove, Darryl Grand Moultrie, Colleen

Neary, Thordal Christensen, George Balanchine, Jiri Kylian, Gerald Arpino, Christopher Stowell and Kitty McNamee. Christopher is an accomplished ballet teacher and DTH Social Media Manager.

SANFORD PLACIDE

Born: Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Training: Ballet Etudes of South Florida, Manhattan Youth Ballet, The French Académie of Ballet, Nadege Hottier, American Ballet Theatre, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Ballet Austin, Ballet Hispanico, Lines Ballet, and Miami City Ballet.

Professional Experience: Dance Theatre of Harlem (third season), Alberta Ballet in Canada, Ballet West, Charlotte Ballet (formerly NCDT), Ballet Etudes of South Florida, Vorhees Ballet Theatre, Ballet Des Amériques, Fjkdance, Collage Dance Collective, Black Iris Dance Project, Boca Ballet Theatre, Ballet Northwest, Traverse City Dance Project, and Accent Dance. Special Honors: In commemoration of Haitian Flag Day 2018, Sanford partnered with the Consulate General of Haiti in New York to produce UNI, an art collective where he premiered the ballet MAGA. In 2019, Sanford produced Sans-Souci, the second staging in the UNI series and was honored by the Consulate General of Haiti in New York for his work in preserving Haitian culture. Repertoire includes works by George Balanchine, Nacho Duato, Glenn Tetley, Desmond Richardson, Robert Garland, Mark Diamond, Yukicchi Hattori, Wen Wei Wang, Aszure

KAMALA SAARA

Born: Los Angeles, CA. Training: Yuri Grigoriev School of Ballet,

School of American Ballet. Professional Experience: Dance Theatre of Harlem (second season). Kamala is a recipient of the Grow Annenberg Fellowship and a full scholarship for the School of American Ballet. She received 1st place Award for Training and the Performance Scholarship at the 2018 Bolshoi Ballet Academy and placed 2nd in the Classical category at the 2016 Youth American Grand Prix Paris, France.

DYLAN SANTOS

Born: São Paulo, Brazil. Training: Centro de Artes Pavilhao D under Ricardo Scheir and Harid Conservatory. Professional experience: Dance Theatre of Harlem (eighth season), Houston Ballet trainee, Orlando Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Ballet Chicago, and Paris Opera Ballet. Repertoire includes works by George Balanchine, Nacho Duato, Robert Garland, and Ulysses Dove, and Marius Petipa.

INGRID SILVA

Born: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Training: Projeto Dan-cando Para Nao Dancar, Escola de Danca Maria Olenewa, and Centro de Movimento Debora Colker. Education: Universidade da Cidade. Professional experience: Dance Theatre of Harlem (tenth season), Grupo Corpo (apprentice), Dance Theatre of Harlem Ensemble, Dançando Para Não Dançar, Armitage Gone! Dance, and the Francesca Harper Project. Repertoire includes works by Arthur Mitchell, Donald Byrd, George Balanchine, Dianne McIntyre, John Alleyne, Darrel Grand

Moultrie, Francesca Harper, Robert Garland, David Fernandez, Carol Armitage, Deborah Colker, Rodrigo Pederneiras ans Annabelle LopezOcha. In 2017 Silva was the first African Brazilian to be on the cover of Pointe Magazine and appeared on the cover of Vogue Brasil November 2020. She is the Founder of EmpowHerNY & Co Founder of Blacks in Ballet.

AMANDA SMITH

Born: Orange County, CA. Training: Charlotte Ballet, SUNY Purchase, Joffrey Ballet School, Anaheim Ballet, Pointe of Grace, Ballet Pacifica. Professional Experience: Dance Theatre of Harlem (fifth season), Charlotte Ballet, New York Theatre Ballet, Black Iris Project. Repertoire includes works by George Balanchine, Mark Diamond, Sasha James, Dwight Rhoden, Alonzo King, Jiri Killian, Dianne McIntyre, and Helen Pickett.

ALEXANDRA TERRY

Born: New Canaan, CT. Training: New England Academy of Dance, Ellison Ballet, San Francisco School of Ballet, Jessica Saund, Elena Kunikova, Karin Averty, and Irina Dvorovenko. Professional experience: Ballet West II, Repertoire includes works by Sir Fredrick Aston, George Balanchine, Marius Petipa, and Annabelle Lopez-Ochoa, Alexandra was named one of Dance Spirit Magazine’s 2018 Up and Coming Black Ballerinas.

DELANEY WASHINGTON

Born: San Francisco Bay area. Training: Lise la Cour’s LaCademy, The Ailey School/Fordham University, and Jacob’s Pillow

Summer Program 2021 under the direction of Helen Pickett and Milton Myers. Professional Experience: Palm Beach Dance Festival, Dance Theatre of Harlem (second season). Repertoire includes works by Dwight Rhoden, Helen Simoneau, Yusha MarieSorzano, Maurya Kerr, Pedro Ruiz, and Andre Zachery. Delaney is the recipient of the Alvin Ailey Artistic Scholarship.

STEPHANIE RAE WILLIAMS

Born: Salt Lake City, Utah. Training: Dallas Dance Academy with Lyndette Galen and Fiona Fairrie, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Springboard Danse Montreal, The Juilliard School, Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet, and Houston Ballet Academy. Professional experience: Dance Theatre of Harlem (12th season), The Francesca Harper Project, ARC Dance Seattle, Complexions Contemporary Dance Company, Ballet Black, and Texas Ballet Theatre. Repertoire includes works by Pam Tanowitz, Nacho Duato, Jose Limon, Helen Pickett, Arthur Mitchell, Donald Byrd, George Balanchine, John Alleyne, Dianne McIntyre, Darrel Grand Moultrie, Francesca Harper, Liam Scarlett, Robert Garland, and David Fernandez. Stephanie is the recipient of The Dallas Dance Council’s 2017 Natalie Skelton Award, 2013 Dance Magazine

“On the Rise”, 2006 National Foundation for the Arts Award, 2006 Youth America Grand Prix finalist, Oprah Winfrey Fellowship recipient at the Ailey School, 2004 Texas Commission on the Arts Young Master.

DAVID WRIGHT

Born: Ft. Polk, Louisiana. Training: Infiniti Performing Arts Center, Indiana Ballet Conservatory, Orlando Ballet School. Professional Experience: Orlando Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem (second season).

Repertoire: Jorden Morris’ Moulin Rouge, Val Caniparolis’ Lamberna, Orlando Ballet’s Nutcracker, and Carmina Burana. David was Finalist at Beijing International Ballet and Choreography Competition 2019.

were recorded for broadcast on PBS, network television and cable. Her choreographic credits include the television film Ancient Voices of Children, and works for Goucher College, Dancers Responding to AIDS, the Second Annual Harlem Festival of the Arts, Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center, and Marymount Manhattan College, where she was an adjunct professor.

VIRGINIA JOHNSON (Artistic Director)

Virginia Johnson, Artistic Director of Dance Theatre of Harlem, was a founding member and principal dancer with the company for twenty-seven years. Born in Washington, DC, she graduated from the Academy of the Washington School of Ballet and briefly attended the School of the Arts at New York University as a University Scholar before joining DTH in 1969.

Universally recognized as one of the great ballerinas of her generation she is perhaps best known for her performances in the ballets Giselle, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Fall River Legend. During her years with the company, she performed most of the repertoire, with principal roles in Concerto Barocco, Allegro Brillante, Agon, A Streetcar Named Desire, Fall River Legend, Swan Lake, Giselle, Voluntaries, and Les Biches, among others, several of which

While still performing, her interest in journalism led her to Fordham University. After retiring from performing, she received an Independent Artist Grant from The Field that opened doors to arts producing. She attended the School of Visual Arts where she studied drawing, film making and television production before the opportunity to create Pointe Magazine presented itself. She was founding editor-in-chief from 2000-2009. Her honors include a Young Achiever Award from the National Council of Women, Outstanding Young Woman of America, the Dance Magazine Award, a Pen and Brush Achievement Award, the Washington Performing Arts Society’s 2008-2009 Pola Nirenska Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2009 Martha Hill Fund Mid-Career Award and honorary doctorates from Cornish College of the Arts and Juilliard. She is an honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and The Society, Inc. In February 2016 she was honored by First Lady Michelle Obama at the White house for her contribution to the field of dance. In 2018 she held the Brackett Visiting Artist Chair at the University of Oklahoma and is the recipient of the Mary Day Award from the Washington Ballet and the

2019 CORPS de Ballet International Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2020 she was presented with a medal of honor from the Actor’s Fund. She serves on the Advisory Board of The Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU, and Dance NYC and serves on the Board of Works & Process.

performances in a broad spectrum of roles. Upon learning of the death of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and with financial assistance from Mrs. Alva B. Gimbel, the Ford Foundation and his own savings, Mr. Mitchell founded Dance Theatre of Harlem with his mentor and ballet instructor Karel Shook.

ARTHUR MITCHELL (Co-Founder)

Arthur Mitchell is known around the world for creating and sustaining the Dance Theatre of Harlem, the internationally acclaimed ballet company he co-founded with Karel Shook in 1969. Following a brilliant career as a principal artist with the New York City Ballet, Mr. Mitchell dedicated his life to changing perceptions and advancing the art form of ballet through the first permanently established African American and racially diverse ballet company.

Born in New York City in 1934, Mr. Mitchell began his dance training at New York City’s High School of the Performing Arts, where he won the coveted annual dance award and subsequently a full scholarship to the School of American Ballet. In 1955, he became the first male African American to become a permanent member of a major ballet company when he joined New York City Ballet. Mr. Mitchell rose quickly to the rank of Principal Dancer during his fifteen-year career with New York City Ballet and electrified audiences with his

With an illustrious career that spanned over fifty years, Mr. Mitchell was the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors, a National Medal of the Arts, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the New York Living Landmark Award, the Handel Medallion, the NAACP Image Award, and more than a dozen honorary degrees.

KAREL SHOOK (Co-Founder)

Karel Shook played a key role as teacher and mentor to African American dance artists in New York in the 1950s. In addition to cofounding Dance Theatre of Harlem with Arthur Mitchell in 1969, he also was a ballet master, choreographer, and author. Born in 1920, Mr. Shook was a native of Renton, Washington. Encouraged to study ballet, at age 13 he was a protégé of Nellie Cornish and received a scholarship to the Cornish School of Allied Arts in Seattle. While his performance career was brief, he appeared on Broadway and danced with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and New York City Ballet. Mr. Shook’s brief performance career led to teaching and choreographing, mainly in Europe but also in New York. In the early 50s he opened Studio Arts, one of the few dance studios in the city where African Americans could study ballet.

Among his students were Carmen de Lavallade, Pearl Primus, Geoffrey Holder, Louis Johnson, Alvin Ailey, and Arthur Mitchell, who first came to him at age 17. Mr. Shook left New York in 1959 to become the ballet master of the Dutch National Ballet, where he was when his former student, Arthur Mitchell, asked him to return to New York to help create the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Mr. Shook was an advocate of the universality of classical ballet. His book, Elements of Classical Ballet explores the development of classical ballet in such countries across the globe as China, Turkey, Iran, Japan, Cuba, and Mexico. In 1980 he was awarded the United States Presidential Award for “Excellence and Dedication in Education.”

His commercial work has included music videos, commercials, and short films, including the children’s television show Sesame Street, a Nike commercial featuring New York Yankee Derek Jeter, the NAACP Image Awards, a short film for designer Donna Karan, and the “Charmin Cha-Cha” for Proctor and Gamble. Mr. Garland holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Juilliard School in New York City.

ROBERT GARLAND (Resident Choreographer)

“Robert Garland was a member of the Dance Theatre of Harlem Company achieving the rank of principal dancer. After creating a work for the DTH School Ensemble, Arthur Mitchell invited Robert Garland to create a work for The Dance Theatre of Harlem Company and appointed him the organization’s first Resident Choreographer. He is Director of the DTH school.

In addition to choreographing several ballets for DTH, Mr. Garland has also created works for New York City Ballet, Britain’s Royal Ballet, Oakland Ballet, and many others.

JUAN CARLOS PEÑUELA (Rehearsal Director)

A native of Cali, Colombia, Juan Carlos Peñuela began dancing at the age of 12 with Incolballet, a ballet-centered secondary school. After graduation, Mr. Peñuela was invited by Artistic Director, Gloria Castro to join Ballet de Cali, Colombia’s National Company as a soloist, where he performed in a variety of leading roles in contemporary works as well as classical pieces. Mr. Peñuela has danced with Ballet Arizona, Dance Theater of Harlem, Pennsylvania Ballet, Maximum Dance Ballet Gamonet, Chamber Dance Project and Ballet NY.

Juan Carlos has served as guest Ballet Master and Repetitur with Compania Colombiana de BalletIncolballet in Colombia, Chamber Dance Project, Lexington Ballet, The Ajkun Ballet Theatre in New York City, Alvin Ailey’s American Dance Theatre, Ena Ballet Company in Japan & Earl Mosley’s Institute

of the Arts International Summer Intensive in Kent, CT. In 2011, he was invited to Malaysia where he taught at their international festival, restaged Don Quixote, and coached artists from all over the world for their International Gala of the Stars.

From 2014 to 2018 Juan Carlos held the position of Ballet Master with Ballet Hispanico company in New York City as well Senior Ballet Teacher for the School of Dance. He has served as a faculty member at Joffrey Ballet School, Marymount Manhattan Collage, Ballet Academy East in New York city, Alvin Ailey, a guest teacher at The Juilliard School and Dance Theatre of Harlem’s professional company.

Mr. Penuela holds a Romana’s Pilates certification and teaches Pilates designed for dancers. In 2011 he became certified in The American Ballet Theatre National Training Curriculum. During the summer of 2013 he was invited to teach in Italy as a faculty member of Alvin Ailey School. Since 2017 has been teaching at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet summer program. In 2014 and 2017 he attended the CPYB teacher’s workshop and 2017 was featured in the August edition of Dance Teacher Magazine. For the last 7 years he has been invited to Panama City as guest teacher and as adjudicator to Danza Activa Competition and Ecuador Danza Ciad competition.

ANNA GLASS (Executive Director)

Anna has been involved in the performing arts as both an artist and arts administrator for over twenty years. She produced Carmen de Lavallade’s solo show, As I Remember It, an intimate portrait of this legendary artist. Anna previously served as the Managing Director of 651 ARTS, a presenting/ producing arts organization dedicated to celebrating contemporary performing arts of the African Diaspora. While at 651 ARTS, she co-produced numerous projects, including the highly regarded national tour of FLY: Five First Ladies of Dance.

Anna has served as a consultant providing strategic planning and fundraising guidance to various non-profit arts organizations, including Urban Bush Women and the Weeksville Heritage Center. She currently serves on the board of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters. She has served as a Hub Site for the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project grant program. After receiving her Juris Doctor from the University of Dayton School of Law, Anna became the Artist Representative for the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, a company she performed with for three years (DCDC2). She is a licensed attorney in the State of New York and lives in Harlem with her husband and daughter.

STAFF LIST

Board of Directors

Ackneil M. Muldrow III, Chairman

Leslie Wims Morris, Vice-Chairman

Martino R. Moore, Secretary

Nancy Pforzheimer Aronson

Kevin M. Cofsky

Richard E. Constable III

Molly Hall

Isabel Kallman

Sharon Madison

Erika Munro Kennerly

Tangela Richter

Scott Simpson

Bonita Stewart

Peter Sung

China White

Administrative Staff

Virginia Johnson, Artistic Director

Anna Glass, Executive Director

Dance Theatre of Harlem National Advisory Board

Dr. Ruby Herd

Leontyne Price

Alex Radin

Morleen Rouse

Jackie Rush

Kerry E. Schaeffner

Edward I. Tishelman, Esq.

Ben Vereen

Lena Horne *

Jessye Norman*

Judith Peabody

Cicely Tyson*

Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts III*

*In Memorium

Jordan Oldham, Events & Venues Operations Manager

Ebonie C. Pittman, Sr. Director of Development

Sharon Duncan, Director of Individual Giving

Kristine Liwag, Director of Institutional Giving

Seth Bauer, Manager of Individual Giving

Jessica Frazier, Development Associate

Keyana K. Patterson, Marketing Manager

Destiny Rosa, Marketing Assistant

Billy Zavelson, General Press Representative

Alexandra Hutchinson, Dereck Brockington, Social Media Coordinators

Marc Martin, Sr. Director of Finance & Administration

Stephen Foster, Manager of Finance and Administration

Hero Doucas, Human Resources Manager

Andrea Lujan, Kenneth Thomas, Building Operations

Alberto Recinos, Marco Recinos, Maintenance

Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc. Everett Center for the Performing Arts 466 West 152nd Street | New York, NY 10031-1814 (212) 690-2800 | (212) 690-8736 fax www.dancetheatreofharlem.org

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Company Staff

Resident Choreographer

Rehearsal Director

Interim General & Company Manager

Production Stage Manager

Lighting Supervisor

Wardrobe Supervisor

Assistant Stage Manager

Manager of Booking & Touring Productions

Physical Therapy & Wellness

Dance Theatre of Harlem School & Community Programs

Director

Associate Director Lower/Upper School

Associate Director, Tendu Program

Student Affairs Officer

Accountant

Dancing Through Barriers Liaison

Robert Garland

Juan Carlos Peñuela

Melinda Bloom

Alexandra Tenenbaum

Andrea Sala

Katy Freeman

Alicia Thompson

Derrick McBride

Alison Deleget, Joshua Honrado, Molly McEvoy

Harkness Center for Dance Injuries

Robert Garland

Augustus van Heerden

Rachel Sekyi

Karen Farnum-Williams

Najeree Wallace

Rachael Davidson

Ingrid Silva, Dylan Santos and Choong Hoon Lee in Return

Photo by Rachel Neville.

Feb 11, 2023

Bass Concert Hall

Cécile McLorin Salvant

Cécile McLorin Salvant – Voice

Sullivan Fortner – Piano

Marvin Sewell – Guitars

Alexa Tarantino – Flutes

Yasushi Nakamura – Bass

Keita Ogawa - Percussion

Media Sponsors: Austin PBS & KUTX-FM

ABOUT CÉCILE MCLORIN SALVANT

Cécile McLorin Salvant, is a composer, singer, and visual artist. The late Jessye Norman described Salvant as “a unique voice supported by an intelligence and full-fledged musicality, which light up every note she sings.” Salvant has developed a passion for storytelling and finding the connections between vaudeville, blues, theater, jazz, baroque and folkloric music. Salvant is an eclectic curator, unearthing rarely recorded, forgotten songs with strong narratives, interesting power dynamics, unexpected twists, and humor.

Salvant won the Thelonious Monk competition in 2010. She has received three consecutive Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Vocal Album for The Window, Dreams and Daggers, and For One To Love, and was nominated for the award in 2014 for her album WomanChild. In 2020, Salvant received the MacArthur fellowship and the Doris Duke Artist Award. Nonesuch Records released Ghost Song in March 2022.

Born and raised in Miami, Florida, of a French mother and Haitian father, she started classical piano studies at 5, sang in a children’s choir at 8, and started classical voice lessons as a teenager.

Salvant received a bachelor’s in French law from the Université Pierre-Mendes France in Grenoble while also studying baroque music and jazz at the Darius Milhaud Music Conservatory in Aix-enProvence, France.

Salvant’s latest work, Ogresse, is a musical fable in the form of a cantata that blends genres (folk, baroque, jazz, country). Salvant wrote the story, lyrics, and music. It is arranged by Darcy James Argue for a thirteen-piece orchestra of multi-instrumentalists. Ogresse, both a biomythography and an homage to the Erzulie (as painted by Gerard Fortune) and Sara Baartman, explores fetishism, hunger, diaspora, cycles of appropriation, lies, othering, and ecology. It is in development to become an animated feature-length film, which Salvant will direct.

Salvant makes large-scale textile drawings. Her visual art can now be found at Picture Room in Brooklyn, New York.

Feb 25, 2023

McCullough Theatre

Texas Performing Arts

Smart Art for Kids presents

Manual Cinema — Leonardo!

A Wonderful Show

About

A Terrible Monster — Inspired by the books of Mo Willems

CAST

Lily Emerson Narrator, Character Voices, Vocals

Lindsey Noel Whiting Leonardo, Voice and Puppeteer

Julia Miller Sam Puppeteer

Shay Turnage Kerry Puppeteer

Texas Performing Arts’ Smart Art for Kids is generously supported by the Carolyn Bartlett Charitable Foundation.

Commissioned by The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts with additional commissioning support from Utah Presents

Special Thanks to David Kilpatrick, Chicago Childrens Theater and Laura Colby

Media Sponsor: Do512 Family

CREATIVE AND PRODUCTION TEAM

Sarah Fornace

Director

Manual Cinema Adaptation

Ben Kauffman and Kyle Vegter

Music, Lyrics & Sound Design

Drew Dir

2D Puppet Design

Lizi Breit

Hand & Rod Puppet Design

Mieka Van der Ploeg

Costume & Wig Design

Trey Brazeal with Nick Chamernik

Lighting Design

Megan Alrutz

Dramaturg

Maydi Díaz

Stage Manager

Video Mixing

Live Sound Effects

Leonardo.

Photo by Ben Kauffman

SYNOPSIS

Leonardo is a terrible monster. He tries so hard to be scary, but he just... isn’t. Then Leonardo finds Sam, the most scaredy-cat kid in the world. Will Leonardo finally get to scare the tuna salad out of someone? Or will it be the start of an unlikely friendship? The plot thickens when this pair meets Kerry and Frankenthaler, an even scaredier-cat and her monster friend. Kerry and Sam need to make a big decision: will they just be scaredy cats or can they become friends?

ABOUT THE SHOW

Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster is inspired by two books by author Mo Willems: Leonardo, the Terrible Monster and Sam, the Most Scaredy-Cat Kid in the Whole World. The production was created by Manual Cinema, a Chicago-based performance collective specializing in cinematic shadow puppetry and original music. Leonardo! was originally commissioned by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts through the Education Artist-inResidency of Mo Willems. Originally slated to open in early 2021, the world premiere production was canceled due to the pandemic; instead, Manual Cinema and the Kennedy Center pivoted to create Leo & Sam, an online paper-puppet movie inspired by Mo’s books, which was streamed on demand to families and schools through the Kennedy Center’s Digital Stage. Last year—thanks to the support

of author Mo Willems and the original Kennedy Center team—the live production received its longawaited debut in Chicago at the Chicago Children’s Theatre before moving to the New Victory Theater for its New York premiere.

Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster uses hundreds of illustrated paper puppets, book pages, twodimensional props, furry monster puppets and songs to bring Mo’s books to life. Manual Cinema wanted to recreate the experience of holding one of Mo’s book pages, which are big, bold, colorful, and full of visual rhythm, with a playful use of scale. Like all Manual Cinema productions, you’re invited to watch the big screen like a traditional movie, or to watch the artists below as they create the story in real time. (There is no wrong way to watch the show!)

THE COMPANY

Manual Cinema is an Emmy Award winning performance collective, design studio, and film/video production company founded in 2010 by Drew Dir, Sarah Fornace, Ben Kauffman, Julia Miller, and Kyle Vegter. Manual Cinema combines handmade shadow puppetry, cinematic techniques, and innovative sound and music to create immersive stories for stage and screen.

Using vintage overhead projectors, multiple screens, puppets, actors, live feed cameras, multi-channel sound design, and a live music ensemble, Manual Cinema transforms the experience

of attending the cinema and imbues it with liveness, ingenuity, and theatricality. The company was awarded an Emmy in 2017 for The Forger, a video created for The New York Times and named Chicago Artists of the Year in 2018 by the Chicago Tribune. In 2020 they were included in 50 of Chicago theater Rising Stars and Storefront Stalwarts (Newcity). Their shadow puppet animations were featured in the 2021 film remake of Candyman, directed by Nia DaCosta and produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions. In 2022 they premiered their newest live work, Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About A Terrible Monster, an adaptation of two books by celebrated children’s author Mo Willems. Leonardo is now touring the globe and had its Edinburgh Fringe Festival debut in August, 2022.

CAST & COMPANY BIOS

Maydi Díaz (Stage Manager, Video Mixing & Live Sound Effects) is a Chicago based stage manager. Since completing a BA in Arts Management from Columbia College Chicago and a MA in Theatre Production from the National University of Ireland Galway, Maydi has worked on multiple areas of technical theater. Her stage management credits include Caucasian Chalk Circle (Mick Lally Theatre), Back In The Day (UrbanTheater Company), The Delicate Tears of the Waning Moon and La Peor de Todas (Water People Theater), Kiev (Aguijón Theater Co), and various shows with PlayMaker’s

Laboratory. When she’s not at the theater, you can find Maydi folk dancing or doing calligraphy.

Lily Emerson (Narrator, Musician) is a multifaceted performer, producer, collaborator, and all-around creative weirdo. Lily is the co-creator of Adventure Sandwich, a Chicago-based group that produces family-friendly video, music, live performances and events. She served as the Artistic Director of Opera-Matic, an interdisciplinary arts organization that produces participatory art experiences in the parks, from 2018-2020. She is also the founder of Lucid Street Theatre, a performance collective that created original works from 2007-2011. Lily has performed throughout the US, Belarus, the Czech Republic, and France, and has been recognized with various awards and residencies, including the Lisa Dershin LinkUP Residency, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum’s Artist in Residence, and the Chicago Digital Media Production Fund. More information about Lily can be found at creative-weirdo.com.

Julia Miller (Co-Artistic Director, Sam) is a director, puppeteer, and puppet designer. With Manual Cinema she has directed Mementos Mori and The End of TV as well as created original roles in Frankenstein (The Creature/ Elizabeth), Ada/Ava (Ada), Lula del Ray (Lula’s Mother), The Magic City (Helen), and Hansel und Gretel (Hansel). In Chicago, she has worked as a performer and puppeteer with Redmoon Theatre

and Blair Thomas and Co. She spent several years training in devised theatre, clown and mask with Double Edge Theatre, Carlos García Estevez and at the Accademia dell’Arte in Arezzo, Italy.

Sharina Latrice Turnage (Kerry) is from the sensational Southside of Chicago. Recent credits include: Mementos Mori, The End of TV, and No Blue Memories (Manual Cinema), The Silence in Harrow House (Rough House Theater) The American Revolution (Theater Unspeakable), and Los Milagros (Free Street Theater). Sharaina has researched and performed theater historical done by slaves called “Du” theater in Suriname, South America and was amongst one of the first actors to perform “Du” theater in the United States. Sharaina received her B.A. at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville where past credits include: Mayme (Intimate Apparel), LaWanda/Topsy Washington/ Normal Jean (The Colored Museum), and Bernice (Servy N Bernice 4ever). Sharaina thanks her family and close friends for the constant support. “The greatest pleasure in life is DOING what people say you CANNOT do.”

Lindsey Noel Whiting is a Chicagobased performer and teaching artist. Her theatrical credits include Lookingglass Alice, Mr. & Mrs. Pennyworth, and The Great Fire at Lookingglass Theatre, Christmas Carol and Dracula at Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Snow Queen at Victory Gardens, and The Year I Didn’t Go to School with Chicago

Children’s Theatre. She has also appeared in numerous shows with Redmoon Theatre, including the world premier of The Cabinet and Once Upon a Time. Additionally, Lindsey is an Associate Artist with The Actor’s Gymnasiums where she has performed in over ten original circus productions.

Mo Willems is an author, illustrator, animator, playwright, and the inaugural Kennedy Center Education Artist-in-Residence, where he collaborates in creating fun new stuff involving classical music, opera, comedy concerts, dance, painting, and digital works with the National Symphony Orchestra, Ben Folds, Yo-Yo Ma, and others.

Willems is best known for his #1 New York Times bestselling picture books, which have been awarded three Caldecott Honors (Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Knuffle Bunny, Knuffle Bunny Too), two Theodor Geisel Medals, and five Geisel Honors (The Elephant & Piggie series).

Mo’s art has been exhibited around the world, including major solo retrospectives at the High Museum (Atlanta) and the New-York Historical Society (NYC). Over the last decade, Willems has become the most produced playwright of Theater for Young Audiences in America, having written or cowritten four musicals based on his books.

He began his career as a writer and animator on PBS’ Sesame Street, where he garnered six Emmy Awards (writing). Other television work includes two series

on Cartoon Network: Sheep in the Big City (creator + head writer) and Codename: Kids Next Door (head writer). Mo is creating new TV projects for HBOMax, where his live action comedy special Don’t Let the Pigeon Do Storytime! currently streams.

His papers reside at Yale University’s Beinecke Library.

Leonardo, Lindsey Noel Whiting.

Photo by Ben Kauffman

Texas Performing Arts Staff

Bob Bursey

Executive and Artistic Director

Bianca Hooi

Assistant to the Executive and Artistic Director

B USINESS OFFICE

Robert Cross General Manager

Kristi Lampi

Associate Director, Business Operations

Leigh Remeny

Business Operations Manager

DEVELOPMENT

Anna Langdell Director of Development

Amy Burgar

Associate Director, Development

Miguel Robles Development Associate

EDUCATION & ENGAGEMENT

Tim Rogers Director of Education and Engagement

Brenda Simms

Program Coordinator, Education & Curriculum Development

FABRICATION & ACADEMIC PRODUCTION

Jeff Grapko

Director of Fabrication and Academic Production

Scott Bussey

Facility Manager and Senior Technical Director

J. E. Johnson

Associate Director, Fabrication

Karen Maness

Associate Director, Fabrication

Jason Huerta

Operations Manager, Fabrication

David Tolin

Project Manager, Fabrication

Carolyn Hardin

Properties Manager

Hank Schwemmer Lead Fabricator

Ashton Bennett Murphy Project Specialist, Fabrication

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

Phil Rosenthal Director of Marketing and Communications

Brady Dyer

Associate Director, Communications

Lizzie Choffel Cantu

Senior Graphic Designer

Erica De Leon

Marketing Specialist, Digital Media

Romina Jara

Marketing Manager

PRODUCTION

Jim Larkin

Director of Production

Blake Addyson

Production Supervisor

Kat Carson

Production Supervisor

Travis Perrin

Staging and Rigging Supervisor

Sarah Cantu

Master Electrician

Michael Shanks

Assistant Lighting Supervisor

Drew Millay

Audio Video Supervisor

Chris Braudt

Assistant Audio Video Supervisor

PROGRAMS & EVENTS

Eleanor Stefano

Associate Director, Booking and Sales

Amber Goodspeed

Associate Director, Event Management

Ellie Holm

Event Manager

TICKETING & GUEST EXPERIENCE

Tara Vela

Director of Ticketing and Guest Services

Amanda Adams

Associate Director, Guest Services

Shade Oyegbola

Associate Director, Ticketing

Meredith Delay

Patron Services Manager

Dianne Whitehair

Ticketing Systems Manager

Basil Montemayor

Ticketing Manager

Texas Performing Arts is also proud to acknowledge the hundreds of part-time and volunteer staff who play a critical role in presenting our annual season of world-class performing arts events to the Austin community.

House Managers

Dina Black

Virginia Bosman

Margaret Byron

Nancy Carrales

Sheri Dildy

Janine Dos Remedios

Tony C Garcia

Sam Hallam

Leslie Hawkins

Carlos Hernandez-Heine

Olga Kasma-Carnes

Charlotte Klein

Tamara Klindt

Sharon Kojzarek

Eric Lee

Lara Miller

Mad Poarch

Kimberly Reaves

Jessica Reed

Lee Rodgers

Mary Ruiz

Micah Sall

Student Employees

Alina Almaraz

Leah Austin

Nahla Beltran

Sarah Bhalla

Zoe Bihan

Cassiy Bivens

Ezra-Rose Bolender

Mathaly Carranza

Ciara Casarez

Benjamin Cervantes

Demian Chavez

Shivani Chidambaram

Kathyrn Clark

Audrey Clay

Bridgette Clifford

Maria Dalton

Kaila Delafance

Vio Dorantes

Melissa Elkins

Sarah Elliot

Laine Farber

Carla Garcia

Indigo Giles

Isabelle Gilmore

Gabriel Gomez-Reyes

Trinity Gordon

Alisse Guerra

Joshua Hale

Samuel Hallam

Catherine Heeman

Faith Hilchey

Isabella Hollis

Ari Jamison

Victoria Jefferson

Nereida Jimenez

Haley Johnson

Bindi Kaplan

Lucy Kulzick

Abigail Lantis

Austin Luchak

Gilbert Martinez

Angela Mata

Jonah Maughan

Elias Merlo

Eliza Moldawer

Samantha Moles

Genevieve MonterrosoSyevens

Aria Morgan

Lauren Mural

Hannah Nelson

Gracie Sanders

Hasina Shah

Andrea R Stanfill Castro

Debra Thomas

Kristine Tydlacka

Leah Waheed

Marty Watson

Tonya Woods

Sally Zukonik

Braden Newlun

Lanna Nguyen

Benjamin Nunn

Samuel Oladejo

Humberto Ortega

Leila Rabah

Morgan Randall

Zackary Reed

Bryce Riggle

Natalia Rodenzo

Hayley “Lee” Rodgers

Sabrie Rodriguez

Daniel Ruiz Bustos

Victoria Salazar

Simon Salinas

Hasina Shah

Lance, Shook

Matthew Smith

Nguyen Tang

Jeffrey Tran

Michelle Upham

Isabel Velasquez

Sydney Villaruel

Rylee Vines

Julia Yelvington

Jacob Zamarripa

Leadership Board

The Texas Performing Arts Leadership Board is a group of volunteer leaders in the arts, business, and philanthropy. The Board is dedicated to expanding Texas Performing Arts’ world-class programming, positioning the organization as an international leader in the performing arts, and strengthening the bond between the performing arts and the communities we serve.

Donors

Board Members

Brian Haley, Chair

Carly Christopher

Jaime Davila

Tamara Dorrance

Dennis Eakin

Deborah Green

Michael Herman

Steve Kahng

Nancy & Angus Littlejohn

Chris Mattsson

Lauren Reid

Marc Seriff

Lisa B. Thompson

Texas Performing Arts is a nonprofit supported by generous patrons and donors. We extend a special thank you to the following major supporters:*

$100,000+ Anonymous

Carly & Clayton Christopher

William & Anita Cochran

Dennis Eakin

Deborah Green and Clayton Aynesworth

Caroline & Brian Haley H-E-B Tournament of Champions

Abbey & Mike Herman

Steve Kahng

Angus & Nancy Littlejohn

Julia Marsden

Chris Mattsson

Susan & Robert Morse

Marc & Carolyn Seriff

St. David's Healthcare Texas Capital Bank Tocker Foundation

$50,000–99,999

Carolyn Rice Bartlett Charitable Foundation

Special gratitude to donors who have established endowments at Texas Performing Arts to provide long-term funding for mission-driven projects and programs:

Alex and Dee Massad Endowment Fund Arts Education Endowment

Joann and Gaylord Jentz Endowment for Student Engagement

Kathy Panoff Texas Performing Arts Student Engagement Endowment

Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Concert Hall Endowment

William & Anita Cochran Endowment for Performing Arts Access & Education

Phillip Auth Endowed Dance Fund for Texas Performing Arts

Performing Arts Center Endowment for Performing Excellence

Robert L. Tocker Endowed Excellence Fund for Student Volunteerism

Topfer Endowment for Performing Arts Production

Z. T. Scott Family Endowment for the Performing Arts

*Gifts pledged or received Sep 1, 2021 through Dec 1, 2022

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Texas Inner Circle Members

Texas Performing Arts gratefully acknowledges the financial support of our members. Each year, members help fund robust education and engagement initiatives, affordable student tickets, and critical student employment opportunities that make Texas Performing Arts so much more than what you see on our stages.

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Gretchen and Lance Kroesch

Julia Marsden

Mary G. Yancy

PRODUCER’S CIRCLE

$3,000–9,999

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Chris and Melissa Knox

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Cathy and James Kratz

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*Corporate Circle members

Kari Nations and Michael Gibertini

Jacqueline and Shawn O’Farrell

Wayne Orchid

Janis and Joe Pinnelli

Alicia Pounds

Javier Prado and Family

Debbie and Jim Ramsey

Gina and Don Reese

Chuck Ross and Brian Hencey

Michael Regester

Kenneth Sandoval

Syd Sharples

Robyn and Bret Siers

Laura and David Starks

Shari and Eric Stein

Carole Tower and Matthew St. Louis

Louann and Larry Temple

Claudia and Bill Wilson

Annie Zucker and Michael Regester

DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE

$1,500–2,999

Mandy and Heather Andress

Bonnie L. Bain

Addison, Sydney, Kori, and David Baker

Carolyn R. Bartlett

Becky Beaver

Carolyn and Andrew Birge

Grizelda and Tim Black

Casey Blass and Lee Manford

Tahra and Michael Boatright

Kara and Shelby Brown

Peggy and Gary Brown

Kimberly Brown

Shellie and Martin Campos

Barbara Cappa

Kelli and John Carlton

Martha Carr

Carol and Shannon Casey

Sue and Kevin Cloud

Anita and William Cochran

Niccolo and Natasha De Masi

Margaret Denena and Cliff Knowles

Ken Dockser

Susan and David Donaldson

Lyzz Donelson

Barbara Ellis and Alex McAlmon

Kevin Espenlaub and John Hampton

Laura L. Estes and Joyce A. Lauck

Carol and Clint Fletcher

Pamela and David Frager

Sandra Freed

Kelli Furrer

Susan Gammill

Nancy Gary and Ruth Cude

Cheryl and

R. James George, Jr.

Susan and Barry Goodman

Melissa and Rick Gorskie

Karen and Rowland

Greenwade

Sven Griffin

Cheri Gross

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Jeffery Hammerberg

Jennifer and Randall Harris

Gunnar Hellekson

Anne and Thomas Hilbert

David Honeycutt

Amy and Jeffrey Hubert

Jeanine Hudson

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Jennifer and Christian Loew

Yadira and Delfino Lorenzo

Peggy Manning

Art Markman

Leslie and Charles Martinez

Richard McCathron

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