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Dark Lark

BAM 2013 Next Wave Festival sponsor

Support for new dance presentations in the BAM Fisher provided by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation

Major support for dance at BAM provided by The Harkness Foundation for DanceThe SHS Foundation

Kate Weare Company

Choreography by Kate Weare

DATES: Nov 6—9 at 7:30pm LOCATION: BAM Fisher (Fishman Space)

RUN TIME: Approx 60min no intermission

ARTIST TALK: Members of Kate Weare Company Moderated by Deborah Jowitt Fri, Nov 8, post-show BAM Fisher Free for same-day ticket holders

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Brooklyn Academy of Music

Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board

William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board

Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board

Karen Brooks Hopkins, President

Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer

KATE WEARE COMPANy

ARTISTIC DIRECTORKate Weare

ASSISTANT DIRECTORLeslie Kraus

REHEARSAL DIRECTORDouglas Gillespie

DARK LARK (New york Premiere)

CHOREOGRAPHy By Kate Weare

COSTUME DESIGNERSarah Cubbage

ASSISTANT COSTUME DESIGNERBrooke Cohen

LIGHTING DESIGNER Brian Jones

SET DESIGNER Kurt Perschke

COLLABORATING PERFORMERS Jacquelyn Elder, Douglas Gillespie,Leslie Kraus. Luke Murphy, T.J. Spaur

COMPOSER AND CELLIST Christopher Lancaster

Dark Lark is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund Proj-ect co-commissioned by Bates Dance Festival in partnership with Brooklyn Academy of Music, Florida Dance As-sociation, Juniata College and NPN. The Creation Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foun-dation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). Dark Lark has been made possible with generous support from the BAM Fisher Artist-In-Residence Program, a Juniata Presents technical residency, New Music USA’s 2013 Live Music For Dance Program, New york Foundation for the Arts BUILD Program, the Jerome Foundation, New york City Department of Cultural Affairs and The New york Community Trust.

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Kate Weare Company is committed to creating dances that explore a contemporary view of intimacy—both stark and tender —through the power and clarity of the moving body. Weare’s newest work, Dark Lark, is supported by the Nation-al Performance Network Creation Fund and the following co-commissioners: Bates Dance Festival, Brooklyn Acad-emy of Music, Florida Dance Festival, and Juniata Presents, which hosted the world premiere in September 2013. The New york premiere of Dark Lark in November 2013 marks the com-pany’s debut as part of the BAM Next Wave Festival. Kate Weare Company has also been selected to participate in BAM’s second Professional Develop-ment Program (PDP) which helps arts organizations expand their skill base, increase their institutional capacity, and build necessary foundations for their long-term success. Following the culmination of the PDP, the Company will return to BAM Fisher in February 2015 to celebrate its 10th Anniversary Season. KWCo’s other recent engage-ments include the Joyce Theater, the 92nd St. y’s Harkness Dance Festival curated by Doug Varone, the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, American Dance Festival, ArtPower at U.C. San

Diego, Dance Celebration Philadelphia, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Fall for Dance at New york City Center, Spring to Dance St. Louis, Walking Distance Dance Festival in San Francisco, and Bates Dance Festival in Lewiston, ME. Weare and her company have partici-pated in residencies, student commis-sions, and have taught at Princeton University, Juilliard, NyU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Virginia Common-wealth University, Long Island Univer-sity, Marymount Manhattan College, Bates Dance Festival, SUNy Brockport, Keene State College, and Hobart and William Smith Colleges. In addition, KWCo has enjoyed major support through development residencies from the Joyce Theater Foundation, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University, Joyce SoHo Residency, Dance New Amsterdam’s A.I.R. Program, and ODC Theater in San Francisco, as well as through pri-vate foundations such as the Greenwall Foundation, Bossak/Heilbron Founda-tion Manhattan Arts Community Fund, American Music Center Live Music for Dance, the O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation, New york State Council on the Arts, New york Foundation for the Arts BUILD, and New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project.

Kate WeareChoreographer-Artistic Director

Kate Weare is the inaugural BAM Fisher artist-in-residence of 2013, a 2011 Mellon Foundation awardee

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Photo: Jacquelyn Elder and T.J. Spaur by Keira Heu-Jwyn Chang

through the Joyce Theater’s Fellow-ship Program, and a 2009 Princess Grace Award recipient in choreography. Weare received her BFA from CalArts in 1994, and in 2005 founded the New york-based Kate Weare Company, now known for its startling combina-tion of formal choreographic value and visceral, emotional interpretation. In recent years, Weare has been awarded a Joyce Theater residency, a Jacob’s Pillow residency and project commis-sion, and a Dance New Amsterdam residency. Weare has also been awared first prize in New york City’s The Award Show, a Danspace project commission, a Bates Dance Festival residency, a choreographic fellowship at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, several Dance The-ater Workshop project commissions, and support grants from foundations such as the O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, NDP, NPN and BUILD. For Weare’s last three large works, she commissioned original scores and premiered the works with live music, collaborating with extraordinary talents such as Brooklyn-based cellist and composer Christopher Lancaster, San Francisco-based old time string band The Crooked Jades, New york-based contemporary chamber group Argento Chamber Ensemble, and Brooklyn-based indie band One Ring Zero. Recent commissions for other com-panies include: ODC (in collaboration with Brenda Way and K.T. Nelson, San Francisco), Scottish Dance Theater (Dundee, Scotland), Buzz Dance The-atre (Perth, Australia), Groundworks (OH), and Barbara White’s chamber opera, Weakness, at Princeton Univer-sity. Recent teaching includes adjunct

faculty at Princeton University, NyU Tisch School of Dance, and Virginia Commonwealth University.

Jacquelyn Elder Dancer

Jacquelyn Elder was a member of the Martha Graham Dance Company from 2005 to 2011. She has performed solo roles in Martha Graham’s Diversion of Angels, Cave of the Heart, Satyric Fes-tival Song, and Serenata Morisca. Elder has had new works created on her by Aszure Barton, Larry Keigwin, and Rob-ert Wilson. A former member of Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, Elder is an avid practitioner and teacher of yoga, a self-taught piano and guitar player, and is currently producing and directing a documentary on The Martha Graham Dance Company. This is her first season with KWCo.

Douglas GillespieDancer-Rehearsal Director

Douglas Gillespie received his BFA in dance from Florida State University and worked with choreographers Ben Mu-nisteri, Heather McArdle, and Tennille Lambert before joining KWCo in 2007. Born in California and raised in Florida, Gillespie serves as rehearsal director for the company as well as Weare’s directorial assistant for outside com-missions. Gillespie regularly teaches on behalf of KWCo, most recently at NyU Tisch Summer Program, the Juilliard School, and Virginia Commonwealth University, as well as independently

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at dance centers and colleges around the country. Gillespie’s own student commissions include a group work for Sante Fe College in Gainesville, FL, which was showcased at the American College Dance Festival Association in 2013, and a quartet for Cleveland State University in 2014. As The Village Voice described Gillespie’s dancing with KWCo, “…he hurls himself into complicated connections the way an Olympian runs into their pole vaults.”

Leslie KrausDancer-Assistant Director

Leslie Kraus graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a BFA in dance and choreography in 2003, and danced with Curt Haworth and Robbinschilds as well as in her own work in New york. Kraus joined Kate Weare Company in 2006. In 2009, she was recognized for her outstanding dancing in the Dance Magazine an-nual list of “Top 25 Dancers to Watch.” Kraus routinely acts as Weare’s assis-tant director, most recently for a com-missioned work at NyU’s Tisch School of Dance. In 2012 Kraus joined the company Punchdrunk and currently plays Lady Macbeth in the hit Punch-drunk production Sleep No More. In 2009, critic Deborah Jowitt wrote of her dancing in Weare’s 2009 Lean-to, “Kraus is amazing—both demon and angel...”

Luke MurphyDancer

Luke Murphy is originally from Cork City, Ireland. He trained at Point Park University where he earned a BFA in dance and English. Murphy is an original cast member of Punchdrunk’s award-winning productions of Sleep No More in Boston (2009—10) and New york (2011— 13), and has ap-peared in Martha Clarke’s Angel Reap-ers (2010—11), and Pavel Zustiak’s Painted Bird Part III. In addition, he has danced in the companies of Janis Brenner, Dûsan Týnek, Seán Curran, Heidi Latsky, and in special proj-ects with Jonah Bokaer, John Kelly, and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. His own work has been presented in New york City, Pitts-burgh, Ireland, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He was a 2011—12 associate artist at DanceIreland and is a 2011—13 resident artist at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, a 2012—13 resident artist at Duo Multicultural Arts Center, a 2013 resident artist at Dance New Amsterdam, and will be a 2014 Bessie Schoenberg resident art-ist at the yard. Murphy joined KWCo in October, 2011.

T.J. Spaur Dancer

T.J. Spaur began dancing at the age of 10 in Des Moines, IA. He moved to Los Angeles after high school and performed with Mandy Moore, Paula Morgan, Sir Ryan Heffington,

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and Psycho Dance Sho, and was a member of Adam Parson’s Commonal-ity Dance Company. In 2006, Spaur graduated cum laude from California State University, Long Beach where he danced works by Keith Johnson and Doug Nielsen. From 2006 to 2010, Spaur was a member of Ririe-Wood-bury Dance Company in Salt Lake City, performing in repertory by Karole Armitage, Charlotte Boye-Christensen, John Jasperse, Larry Keigwin, Wayne McGregor, and Doug Varone. Spaur has also toured internationally to France and Italy with Alwin Nikolais Dance Theater. This is his third season with KWCo

Nicole Diaz Apprentice Dancer

Nicole Diaz danced with Momentum Dance in Miami, FL from 2007 to 2009, performing as part of Art Basel and Miami Dance Festival, as well as in Momentum’s annual residency in Oaxaca, Mexico. Diaz recently received her BFA in dance from the University of South Florida, where she worked with Doug Varone, Michael Foley, Rosie Herrera, and Ben Munisteri. She has studied and performed solo work in Paris, France as part of USF’s Dance in Paris Program. Diaz is thrilled to be apprenticing with KWCo.

Ryan Rouland Smith Apprentice Dancer

Ryan Rouland Smith hails from Colorado where he graduated from the

Denver School of the Arts. A recipient of the Carpenter Scholarship, Smith graduated cum laude from Virginia Commonwealth University with a BFA in dance and choreography and performed works by guest choreog-raphers Stephanie Batten Bland and Kate Weare. For the last two summers, Smith has been a scholarship recipi-ent at American Dance Festival, where he worked with John Jasperse and Reggie Wilson, and performed in the first reconstruction of Bill T. Jones’ Love Redefined. This is his first season ap-prenticing with KWCo.

Ryan Van Compernolle Apprentice Dancer

Ryan Van Compernolle graduated from NyU Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in dance and a minor in psychol-ogy in 2012. At NyU, Van Compernolle performed in works by Aszure Barton, Robert Battle, Jill Johnson, Jessica Lang, Benoit-Swan Pouffer, and Kate Weare. In January of 2013, she joined Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, where she currently performs as a dancer-actor in a number of roles. She became an apprentice with KWCo this past September.

Sarah CubbageCostume Designer

Dance: Drop Down, Light, Garden, Bright Land, and Lean-to (Kate Weare Company); Idyll (Paradigm, choreo-graphed by Kate Weare); Radio Show, Brick, and Number 6 (Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion). Off-Broadway:

Reflections of a Heart, A Year with Frog & Toad. Regional: Evita, The Wizard of Oz, 39 Steps, I Hate Hamlet (Northern Stage); The Ladies Man, Corpse! (Curtain Call Theatre); Catch-22 (Aquila Theatre Company). Film: A Clerk’s Tale (James Franco, dir.); So Over You (Karen Odyniec, dir.), Seconds (Marcin Stawarz, dir.); Welcome (Maja Milanovic, dir.). Other New york City productions: Hater (Ohio Theatre); The Magic Flute, Gargoyle Garden (Manhattan School of Music); Don Giovanni (Hofstra Uni-versity); As You Like It, The Tempest (New york Shakespeare Society); Alice In Wonderland (Center for Contem-porary Opera). She received an MFA from NyU/Tisch School of the Arts and is a member of United Scenic Artists 829.

Brian JonesLighting Designer

Brian Jones has developed a close collaborative relationship with Kate Weare through works including The Light Has Not The Arms to Carry Us (revived 2012), Garden (2012), Bright Land (2011), Lean-to (2009), Bridge of Sighs (2008), and other works in repertory. Other dance col-laborations include works with Amy Seiwert (Under Covers, Dear Ms. Cline, Requiem, Slow Ride), Larry Keigwin (Caffeinated), Charlotte Boye-Christensen (Walls), and Misnomer Dance Theater among others. His lighting has premiered at New york City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival, the Joyce Theater and Joyce Soho, as well as Jacob’s Pillow (MA), Wash-

ington Ballet (DC), and yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco). New york theater: Perfect Harmony (Acorn), Mother (Wild Project), The Actor’s Rap (Baruch Performing Arts), Like Love (NyMTF). Regional theater: Northern Stage (VT), Hudson Valley Shakespeare (Ny), Stoneham Theater (MA), Actors Theater of San Francisco (CA). He received an MFA from NyU/Tisch School of the Arts and is a member of United Scenic Artists.

Christopher LancasterComposer-Cellist

Christopher Lancaster is an electro-acoustic cellist composer living in Brooklyn. He trained as a classical cellist and continues that discipline in his work with technology. Lancaster’s inspiration comes from his many col-laborators in film, dance, and music, and he is always reshaping and recreating the sounds and songs his instrument can create. His solo work focusses on live performance; he is a devout believer in the transformative power of live music and art. In the field of dance, Lancaster has worked with Bill T. Jones, Kate Weare, Brian Brooks, Marina Mascarelli, Ned-erlands Dans Theater, Lyon Opera Ballet, Dance Forum Taipei, Skånes Dansteater, Staccato Dança Contem-porânea, Nicholas Leichter, Camille Brown, Seán Curran, Para-digm, Complexions, and others. He had the privilege of performing his music for President Obama at the Kennedy Center Honors in 2010 and is a founding member of the bands Tranimal and Loving you.

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Kurt PerschkeSet Designer

Kurt Perschke is an artist based in Brooklyn working in public space, sculpture, video, and collage. His most acclaimed work, RedBall Project, is a traveling public project that has taken place in Paris, London, Barcelona, Lausanne, Portland, Sydney, Taipei, Chicago, and Toronto, among other cit-ies. The project won a National Award from Americans for the Arts Public Art Network. Perschke has exhibited with institutions such as Museum of Contem-porary Art Barcelona and the Contempo-rary Art Museum in St. Louis. His video work has been screened in Europe and the US, and at the Bronx Museum dur-ing an AIM Fellowship. This is his third set design for Kate Weare Company.

Shelby Sonnenberg Production Assistant-Stage Manager

Shelby Sonnenberg is a stage manager, production assistant, and electrician based in New york City. She currently works for Kate Weare Company and Summation Dance Company as well as at New york Live Arts, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Abrons Art Center, the Connelly Theater, and other dance venues in New york City. Sonnenberg graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012 with a BFA in dance, and she has completed production apprenticeships at Bates Dance Festival and New york Live Arts.

SPECIAL THANKS:

My heartfelt gratitude to Joe Melillo and the many wonderful people here at BAM for supporting the development of this work and for offering me the inau-gural residency here at BAM Fisher—a truly amazing experience.

My thanks to the co-commissioners, along with BAM, of Dark Lark: Laura Faure of Bates Dance Festival, Bill Doolin of Florida Dance Festival, and a special thanks to Chad Herzog of Juniata Presents for hosting the world premiere. Thank you to Ken Maldonado, whose belief set me on this path. Thank you to our board and advisory board who support in count-less ways the development of this company: Karen Brumer, David Stein, Kurt Perschke, Jeanne Collins, and John Elderfield.

Thank you to the dancers for their artistic contributions to and brilliant performances in Dark Lark: Leslie Kraus, Douglas Gillespie, T.J. Spaur, Luke Murphy, and Jacquelyn Elder. Thanks also to our understudies: Nicole Diaz, Ryan Rouland Smith, and Ryan VanCompernolle. A special thank you to Adrian Clark, Leslie Kraus, and Douglas Gillespie, my company’s founding members, for the belief, artistry, and commitment they’ve poured into my work over the years.

To my Dark Lark collaborators: Christo-pher Lancaster, Sarah Cubbage, Brian Jones, and Kurt Perschke—what a wild ride this one was —thank you for all of it. To my company manager, Keira Heu-Jwyn Chang: without your smarts and sensibility I may not have survived this year. My gratitude to Megan Dunn, our development director, Shelby Sonnen-berg, our stage manager, Mike Faba, our theatrical genie, and to my advisors and friends: Melanie Maar, Monica Bill Barnes, Arianna Ortiz, and Brenda Way. Thank you to our wonderful assistant costume designer, Brooke Cohen, and costume interns, Chelsea, and Maria. Special thanks to the crafty Bruce Amedick for help building the set, to Deborah Jowitt for her intelligence and insight about dance, and to Leslie Bachrach for believing in me.

My heartfelt love to my incredible husband, Kurt, and our baby girl, Lily, and to each of her wonderful grand-parents: Sally and Shane Weare, Lynne Parsons and Ernest Giannini, and Walter Perschke.

To our donors and benefit attendees, and all of our audience members: Thank you so much for being here! We look forward to seeing you again in February 2015 when we return to BAM to celebrate our 10th Anniversary Season!

—Kate Weare

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Photo: Dougas Gillespie and Jacquelyn Elder by Keira Heu-Jwyn Chang

Kate Weare Company thanks the fol-lowing individuals for their generous support:

Bruce Amedick & Deborah CamplinLeslie BachrachKaren BrumerSarah and Simon CollierJeanne Collins & John ElderfieldJohn DachauerAnke Dening-VolckerAbner GreeneLynne Feintech & Tony BernardtKate Hawkinson & Joe SluskyLucia KellarRichard KiehlEileen Gallagher Labiner Joan Lazarus DobkowskiLeslie Mack & Michael WalshEve and Dennis MykytynLynne ParsonsVinnie & Rick SchwarzJoan & James ShapiroFrank ShawlJoyce SilverJohn SpohlerDavid Stein & Susan HilfertyMelissa StradaRachel and Derrick StrumSally and Shane WeareJennifer Worstell & Ian PerschkeStephanie Zaborowski

KATE WEARE COMPANy10TH ANNIVERSARy SEASONBAM FISHERFEBRUARy 2015

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Kate Weare, Artistic DirectorKeira Heu-Jwyn Chang, Managing DirectorMegan Dunn, Development DirectorShelby Sonnenberg, Production Assistant and Stage ManagerSam Crawford, Dark Lark Sound EngineerMaria Ozmen and Chelsea Kutun, Dark Lark Costume Interns

Board of Directors:Kurt Perschke, PresidentDavid Stein, Vice President and TreasurerKaren Brumer, Secretary

Advisory Board:Jeanne CollinsJohn Elderfield

DONATIONS: Kate Weare Company depends on the generosity of individual donors; your support is crucial to our ability to make heartfelt work in a chal-lenging climate. To offer support and to get involved with our company, please visit us online at: kateweare.com

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Photo: Leslie Kraus by Keira Heu-Jwyn Chang

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