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NEW WORK 2009 – Not Yet Titled

Choreographed by: Jonathan Wolken in collaboration with Matt Del Rosario, Andrew Herro, Jeffrey Huang, Jun Kuribayashi, Jenny Mendez, Annika Sheaff and Christopher Whitney

Performed by 6 of the following: Matt Del Rosario, Andrew Herro, Jeffrey Huang, Jun Kuribayashi, Jenny Mendez, Annika Sheaff and Christopher Whitney

Music: TBD

Costumes: Liz Prince

Lighting: Neil Jampolis

OCELLUS (1972)

Choreographed by: Robby Barnett, Lee Harris, Moses Pendleton and Jonathan Wolken

Performed by: Andrew Herro, Jeffrey Huang, June Kuribayashi and Christopher Whitney.

Music: Moses Pendleton & Jonathan Wolken

Lighting: Neil Peter Jampolis

The revival of OCELLUS was made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts’ American Masterpieces: Dance initiative, administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts.

DARKNESS AND LIGHT (2008) Choreographed by: Basil Twist, Robby Barnett and Jonathan Wolken in collaboration with Andrew Herro, Jeffrey Huang, Jun Kuribayashi, Jenny Mendez, Manelich Minniefee, Edwin Olvera and Annika Sheaff Performed by: Matt Del Rosario, Andrew Herro, Jeffrey Huang, Jun Kuribayashi, Jenny Mendez, Annika Sheaff, Christopher Whitney Music: David Darling, Brian Eno and Harold Michael Rodach, Aaron Kurnis, Stephan Micus, Steve Tibbetts Soundscape: John Kilgore and Jonathan Wolken Costume Construction: Phoebe Katzin Lighting Consultant: Neil Peter Jampolis

DARKNESS AND LIGHT has been made possible by generous funding from the American Dance Festival, Darcy and Treacy Beyer, and the Xerox Foundation.

SYMBIOSIS (2001)

Choreographed by: Michael Tracy in collaboration with Otis Cook and Renée Jaworski

Performed by: Jenny Mendez and Jeffrey Huang

Music: “Morango...almost A Tango” by Thomas Oboe Lee was written for and performed by the Kronos

Quartet and appears on the Nonesuch recording White Man Sleeps.

“God Music” from “Black Angels” by George Crumb – used by arrangement with the publisher and copyright holder, C.F. Peters Corporation - and “Fratres” by Arvo Pårt were performed by the Kronos Quartet and appear on the Nonesuch recording Released 1985-1995. “Long-Ge” by Jack Body was written for and performed by the Kronos Quartet and appears on the recording Early Music.

Costumes: Angelina Avallone

Lighting: Stephen Strawbridge

This piece was made possible in part by funds from the Connecticut Commmission on the Arts.

RUSHES (2007)

Choreographed by: Inbal Pinto. Avshalom Pollak and Robby Barnett, based on original material developed with Talia Beck, Otis Cook, Josie M Coyoc, Matt Kent, Renée Jaworski and Andreas Merk, and created in collaboration with Andy Herro, Jeffrey Huang, Renée Jaworski, Jun Kuribayashi, Jenny Mendez, Manelich Minniefee, Edwin Olvera, and Annika Sheaff

Performed by 6 of the following: Matt Del Rosario, Andrew Herro, Jeffrey Huang, Jun Kuribayashi, Jenny Mendez, Annika Sheaff and Christopher Whitney Music: Eddie Sauter, Miles Davis, John Blow, Dukes of Dixieland, Arvo Part

Costumes: Avshalom Pollak, Inbal Pinto Lighting: Yoann Tivoli Film Animation: Peter Sluszka

RUSHES (2007) was co-commissioned by the American Dance Festival with support from the Doris Duke Awards for New Work and additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; by the Joyce Theater’s Stephen and Cathy Weinroth Fund for New Work; and by Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater, Florida. It was also made possible in part by generous contributions from the Office of Cultural Affairs, Consulate General of Israel in New York and from Jonathan M. Nadler.

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