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Thursday, March 1, 2017, at (Program A) and 9pm (Program B)Friday, March 2, 2017, at (Program B) and 9pm (Program A)

Saturday, March 3, 2017, at (Program A) and 9pm (Program B)Colwell Playhouse

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Welcome to Studiodance I. It is with great pleasure that I invite you to experience the work of these three outstanding choreographers.

Each of these artists has developed a mastery of their choreographic vision in the works you will see tonight. For the past year, we have been deep in conversation about the poetics of choreography and both the limits and limitlessness of the body’s capacity to organize our perception and theoretical frameworks. Charli Brissey researches the material entanglements of bodies to illuminate strategies for difference and survival in precarious times. Kendra Portier investigates color theory to generate a tightly charged choreography. The dancers move at specifically calibrated frequencies, weaving together an ever-shifting elliptical landscape. Chloe Nagle investigates the relationship of the self to the non-human: that space which calls us outside of our own subjectivity to attend to nuances of power as they intensify in the body. The choreography hums through us—the body of the audience—propelling us to new possibilities of attention and listening. In three distinctly different ways, these works generously and provocatively radicalize our physical potential.

—Jennifer Monson, concert director and professor

PROGRAMSTUDIODANCE I DANCE AT ILLINOISJennifer Monson, concert directorThursday, March 1, 2017, at (Program A) and 9pm (Program B)Friday, March 2, 2017, at (Program B) and 9pm (Program A)Saturday, March 3, 2017, at (Program A) and 9pm (Program B)Colwell Playhouse

PROGRAM A

mushroom witness smell figChloe Nagle

BurnishKendra Portier

PROGRAM B

MiragingCharli Brissey

This production will be presented with no intermission.

WELCOME TO STUDIODANCE I

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mushroom witness smell figCHOREOGRAPHYChloe Nagle

MUSICChloe NagleLuke Parker

COSTUME COORDINATORNicole Zausmer

LIGHTING DESIGNERKiana Schalk

SOUND DESIGNERSLuke Parker

DANCERSPhoebe BallardLang LeiChloe NagleSymone Sanz

Acknowledgments Thank you Phoebe Ballard, Symone Sanz, and Lei Lang for your contributions to the creative process. Your insight, curiosity, and brave experimentation was a privilege to work with.

BurnishCHOREOGRAPHYKendra Portier in collaboration with dancers

MUSICArranged by Luke Parker and Kendra Portier. Featuring music, used with permission, by Jaime Fennelly (aka Mind Over Mirrors) Bark & Barge and Brickfielder, Stephen Vitiello Rain 1, A Chime for the Fable, Nora 4 layers, Molly Berg and Stephen Vitiello Geese, found sound, and original music by Cody Jensen and Putu Hiranmayena.

REHEARSAL DIRECTOR:Phoebe Ballard

COSTUME DESIGNKendra Portier and cast

COSTUME COORDINATORNicole Zausmer

LIGHTING DESIGNERAlena Samoray

SOUND DESIGNERLuke Parker

DANCERSPhoebe BallardMary Kate FordKaitlin FoxLindsey JenningsAlexis MillerNatalie StehlyLeah Wilks

Acknowledgments Deep gratitude for the brilliance and endless openness this cast continues to offer. Without them, my maniacal tinkerings would have been tedious and unbearable, instead of moments filled with humor and delight. Big thanks to JMon and Laurie Hogin for pointing me towards directions I might not have otherwise pursued, and to Alena and Cody for teaching me.

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miragingCHOREOGRAPHYCharli Brissey

MUSICJake Metz

COSTUME COORDINATORNicole Zausmer

LIGHTING DESIGNERAlena Samoray

SOUND DESIGNERSCharli Brissey Jake Metz

DANCERSCharli BrisseyCatalina HernandezChloe NagleEm PikeDaisy RuedaNatalie Stehly

Notes miraging has emerged through on-going choreographic and theoretical research regarding entanglements of matter and materiality between human and nonhuman subjects and objects. The scope of this project is informed by several brilliant thinkers and makers also engaging with these questions, primarily Donna Haraway and Karen Barad, and their influence in my research in undeniable. Alongside these scholars, I believe that reconsidering our relationship to matter and environment is imperative in this current historical moment, and there is much political strategizing that can be revealed by deeply examining the constitution and expansion of the materials we engage with. I invite you to drift slowly and gently through this performance, to sink into an opportunity to see and experience something differently with us as we negotiate this work. Thank you for coming!

Acknowledgements Thank you to these incredible dancers for your fierce generosity and willingness to engage so deeply in this process. I have been changed by this experience, and by you. Also, biggest on-going thank you to Jennifer Monson for your continued support and mentorship.

PROFILESCharli Brissey (Choreographer) is an interdisciplinary artist who works choreographically with various technologies and materials, including bodies, cameras, objects, instincts, and ecosystems. They are invested in movement practices to reveal strategies for bodies to coexist sustainably, with a particular interest in nonhuman agencies and interspecies entanglements. Their work is significantly influenced by the experimental video and performance pioneers of the 1960’s and 1970’s (such as Steina Vasulka, Joan Jonas, and Yvonne Rainer), and has been presented in various galleries, conferences, film festivals, and performance venues nationally and internationally. This includes the National Queer Arts Festival (San Francisco), Movement Research at Judson Church (New York City), The Eye Film Institute (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Dance on Camera at Lincoln Center (New York City), Center for Performance Research (New York City), Vancouver Queer Film Festival (Vancouver, British Columbia), Zurich Moves! Dance Festival (Zurich, Switzerland), The Arts in Society Conference (Budapest, Hungary), Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (Seattle), Queer Publics Symposium (Urbana), International Conference on the Image (Berkeley), and others. They received a BFA in dance and choreography and an MFA in kinetic imaging from Virginia Commonwealth University. Charli is an MFA Candidate in dance at the University of Illinois.

Jennifer Monson (Concert Director) uses choreographic practice as a means to discover connections between environmental, philosophical, and aesthetic approaches to knowledge and understandings of our surroundings. As Artistic Director of iLAND (interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature Dance), she creates large-scale dance projects informed and inspired by phenomena of the natural and the built environment. Her projects include BIRD BRAIN (2000-2006), iMAP/Ridgewood Reservoir (2007), Mahomet Aquifer Project (2009), SIP(sustained immersive process)/watershed (2010), Live Dancing Archive (2012-2014) and in tow (2014-2016). Jennifer has been on the faculty at the University of Illinois since 2008 and was a Marsh Professor at Large at the University of Vermont (2010-2016). She has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships, including the Doris Duke Impact Artist Award 2014, the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship 2004, the Foundation for Contemporary Art Fellowship 1998, and multiple National Endowment for the Arts fellowships.

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Charli Brissey (Choreographer) is an interdisciplinary artist who works choreographically with various technologies and materials, including bodies, cameras, objects, instincts, and ecosystems. They are invested in movement practices to reveal strategies for bodies to coexist sustainably, with a particular interest in nonhuman agencies and interspecies entanglements. Their work is significantly influenced by the experimental video and performance pioneers of the 1960’s and 1970’s (such as Steina Vasulka, Joan Jonas, and Yvonne Rainer), and has been presented in various galleries, conferences, film festivals, and performance venues nationally and internationally. This includes the National Queer Arts Festival (San Francisco), Movement Research at Judson Church (New York City), The Eye Film Institute (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Dance on Camera at Lincoln Center (New York City), Center for Performance Research (New York City), Vancouver Queer Film Festival (Vancouver, British Columbia), Zurich Moves! Dance Festival (Zurich, Switzerland), The Arts in Society Conference (Budapest, Hungary), Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (Seattle), Queer Publics Symposium (Urbana), International Conference on the Image (Berkeley), and others. They received a BFA in dance and choreography and an MFA in kinetic imaging from Virginia Commonwealth University. Charli is an MFA Candidate in dance at the University of Illinois.

Jennifer Monson (Concert Director) uses choreographic practice as a means to discover connections between environmental, philosophical, and aesthetic approaches to knowledge and understandings of our surroundings. As Artistic Director of iLAND (interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature Dance), she creates large-scale dance projects informed and inspired by phenomena of the

natural and the built environment. Her projects include BIRD BRAIN (2000-2006), iMAP/Ridgewood Reservoir (2007), Mahomet Aquifer Project (2009), SIP(sustained immersive process)/watershed (2010), Live Dancing Archive (2012-2014) and in tow (2014-2016). Jennifer has been on the faculty at the University of Illinois since 2008 and was a Marsh Professor at Large at the University of Vermont (2010-2016). She has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships, including the Doris Duke Impact Artist Award 2014, the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship 2004, the Foundation for Contemporary Art Fellowship 1998, and multiple National Endowment for the Arts fellowships.

Chloe Nagle (Choreographer) is a dance maker, performer, teacher, and third-year graduate student earning her MFA in dance at the University of Illinois. She received a BFA with Honors in performance and choreography from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee in 2015. Nagle has performed her choreography at Danceworks Milwaukee, In Touch Milwaukee, BATES Dance Festival Young Choreographer’s Showcase, and informal showings at the American Dance Festival. As a performer, she has worked with choreographers in academic contexts including Ping Chong, Reggie Wilson, Deb Loewen, Rebecca Stenn, Keely Garfield, Stephen Koplowitz, Luc Vanier, Elise Frost, and Li Chiao-Ping. She also performed in Trisha Brown’s Set and Reset: Reset as an undergraduate at UWM, reset by Melinda Myers.

Kendra Portier (Choreographer, BANDportier) is an New York City-based artist, whose work manifests through choreography, teaching, and visual art. Currently, her creative research delves into Color and abstracts empathy and absence. Her work has been supported throughout the United States by a variety of professional and educational institutions, such as Gowanus

Art+Production (New York), Dixon Place (New York), Tisch School of the Arts (New York), Zenon Dance Company (Minnesota), and Dance New Amsterdam (New York). Her work as a guest artist is extensive, teaching and creating work for students at over thirty colleges, universities, and festivals. She has taught and performed internationally, from the Midwest to Tajikistan, serving as faculty at Bates Dance Festival (Maine), Mark Morris Dance Group (New York City), and Gibney Dance Center (New York City), among others; and will join the faculty at University of Maryland as Artist in Residence Fall 2018. Kendra is a senior company member with David Dorfman Dance, whom she has created and toured with since 2010. In addition, she has performed in project based works, including those of Lisa Race, Nicole Wolcott, Alexandra Beller, and Vanessa Justice. She trained at BalletMet (Ohio), received a BFA with Honors in Dance from The Ohio State University, and is an MFA candidate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Adriane Binky Donley (Properties Master) is the properties director at Krannert Center, as well as the head of the properties design and management MFA program for the Department of Theatre. Before moving to Champaign, Binky was an Assistant Professor at Ithaca College, heading the areas of props and scenic art. She has also worked as a prop master at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville’s Humana Festival, and The University of Virginia. As a prop artisan, she has worked at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Alley Theatre, Hanger Theatre, Seaside Musical Theatre, Virginia Shakespeare, among others. She has a BA from the University of South Florida and an MFA from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

Shea Hittman (Stage and Production Manager) is a first-year MFA stage management student at the University of Illinois. She is an ensemble member at Theatre B in Moorhead, Minnesota. At the U of I, Shea has worked as the assistant stage manager on productions of Hansel and Gretel and February Dance. Other recent stage management credits include Theatre B’s productions of Equivocation, 33 Variations, and Gruesome Playground Injuries.

Maddy Paez (Stage Manager) is a BFA stage management student at the University of Illinois. At the U of I, Madison was the assistant stage manager for February Dance (2016), Studiodance I (2016), Viva Verdi!, The Minotaur, Travesties and the production assistant for 1984. This past summer, Maddy was the stage management intern at the Lyric Repertory Company in Logan, Utah, where she was the assistant stage manager for The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), Wait Until Dark, and Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Luke Parker (Sound Designer) is a second-year MFA student in sound design. His previous roles at Krannert Center include Sound Design for All the King’s Men, as well as Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea and Viva Verdi! He has also held roles as Audio Engineer on In the Next Room, The Light in the Piazza, and Mr. Burns: a post-electric play. His other work this season includes audio engineer for Barbeque.

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Bobby Reynolds (Technical Director) is a second-year MFA candidate in the scenic technology program. He hails from the flat lands of Ohio where he received his BA from Wittenberg University. Prior to his arrival at the University of Illinois, he worked at Playhouse on the Square for productions such as Mary Poppins, Memphis, American Idiot, and Kiss Me, Kate. Bobby recently served as a trusty carpenter for the Heritage Festival at the University of Virginia for the summer.

Alena Samoray (Co-Lighting Designer) is a first-year MFA lighting design candidate at the University of Illinois. She received her BA at California State East Bay with an emphasis in production and design before filling a variety of positions around the country. Previous projects supported by EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute include being first AC for Tesseract (Director Charles Atlas), Lighting Director for After (Director Andrew Schneider), and Lighting Designer for You Sad Legend (Director Wu Tsang).

Kiana Schalk (Co-Lighting Designer) is a junior studying lighting design with Level 21 at the University of Illinois. Other design credits include The Aliens and An Iliad at the Armory Free Theatre, The Addams Family Musical at Oak Park and River Forest High School, and Orchesis Spring Showcase 2015 with OPRF Orchesis. She was also recently a part of the lighting team for several productions at Krannert Center, Studiodance I is Kiana’s first time designing a show at Krannert Center.

Nicole Zausmer (Costume Coordinator) is a third-year MFA costume design student at the U of I who received her BA from Indiana University (2012). Recent designs include In The Next Room (Illinois Theatre), Failure: A Love Story (Illinois Theatre),Mr. Burns, a post-electric play (Illinois Theatre), Man of La Mancha (Bigfork Summer Playhouse), Boeing-Boeing (Town Hall Arts Center),and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Oklahoma City Theatre Company).

PRODUCTION STAFFCONCERT DIRECTORJennifer Monson

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGERShea Hittman

STAGE MANAGERMaddy Paez

TECHNICAL DIRECTORBobby Reynolds

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERJenna Keefer

ASSISTANT TECHNICAL DIRECTORAlexander Gill

COSTUME COORDINATORNicole Zausmer

CO-LIGHTING DESIGNERAlena Samoray

CO-LIGHTING DESIGNERKiana Schalk

SOUND DESIGNER/AUDIO ENGINEERLuke Parker

PROPERTIES MASTERBinky Donley

MASTER ELECTRICIANTony Rajewski

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PROPERTIES RUNNING CREW[Name][Name]

COSTUME RUNNING CREW HEAD[Name]

COSTUME RUNNING CREW[Name][Name]

MAKEUP RUNNING CREW HEAD[Name]

MAKEUP RUNNING CREW[Name][Name]

VIDEO CREWLauren MendelsonSarah Stearn

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6 Imago Theatre: La Belle, Lost in the World of the Automaton

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9-10 Dublin Irish Dance: Stepping Out

17 Free Family Fun Concert: Sonia De Los Santos

17 Sinfonia da Camera: An Anniversary Celebration

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4 M-Prize Winner: Calidore String Quartet

8-9 Mark Morris Dance Group with Silk Road Ensemble: Layla and Majnun

8-11 Illinois Theatre: Twelfth Night, or What You Will

9 Sinfonia da Camera: Beethoven’s Apotheosis of the Dance

10 Staatskapelle Weimar

13 Zakir Hussain, tabla with Rakesh Chaurasia, bansuri

14 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Gold Medalist

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22 Krannert Center Debut Artist

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NECESSARIESRestrooms are located in the foyers of Foellinger Great Hall, Tryon Festival Theatre, and Colwell Playhouse; the east entrances on the Lobby level; and in each elevator lobby on Level 1 and Level 3. Lobby restrooms and one restroom in each elevator lobby are fully accessible and contain baby-changing stations.

Ushers will be happy to provide you cough drops courtesy of St. Joseph Apothecary, or disposable foam earplugs if the place starts rockin’.

If you or a companion needs medical assistance, contact an usher or other staff member.

Please take a moment before the performance to note the theatre exits nearest to you. If it becomes necessary to evacuate the theatre, please remain calm, follow the instructions of the house staff, and exit in an orderly fashion to the appropriate safe meeting location, which will be announced to you.

SIGHTS AND SOUNDSThe use of cell phones, cameras, and recording devices during performances is strictly prohibited unless otherwise announced from the stage. Turn them off and immerse yourself in the perfor-mance—but at intermission, consider tweeting about your experience!

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LOST ITEMSIf you are in need of Lost and Found, please visit the Ticket Offi ce. We will do our best to reunite object and owner!

TICKET RETURNS If you fi nd you can’t attend a performance, return your tickets by 6pm the day before the performance for a full credit, issued in the form of Krannert Center gift certifi cates which never expire and can be used for tickets or at the bar, cafe, or gift shop. We never charge a handling fee for any ticket purchase, exchange, or return.

SERVICESKrannert Center for the Performing Arts is committed to making experiences accessible for all patrons, and we are delighted to provide a number of services to assist you. Krannert Center theatres are equipped with wheelchair-accessible and easy-access seating, and large-print programs, Braille programs, and American Sign Language interpreters are available with three weeks’ advance notice.

For assistance regarding your visit, please email:Para ayuda en relación con su visita, favor de enviar un email a:Pour vous aider dans votre visite, prière de nous envoyer un courriel à:

PATRONSERVICES@KRANNERTCENTER.ILLINOIS.EDU217.333.9716 TTY for patrons who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, or speech-impaired: 217.333.9714

WE’RE SO GLAD YOU’RE AT THE CENTERWe work to create the best possible setting for the experiences you seek and fi nd here.

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DINING AND GIFT SHOPOur lobby services are open day and evening to serve you:

WHY WAIT? Order before you head into the theatre, and we’ll have your food and

beverages waiting for you at intermission or after the show.

SHOWCASE AND SHOPSMOOTH SELECTIONS AND

ARTISANAL APPETIZERSSUSTAINABLE SPECIALS AND

EVERYDAY INDULGENCES

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Come as you are. Leave different.

U of I students, come on in. In whatever clothes, whatever state of mind, from whatever world of experience, you are welcome here. We don’t have a dress code, we don’t have an opinion code, and we want the Center to be your kind of place. Because of the vital support of Krannert Center donors and the Krannert Center U of I student fee, U of I students never pay more than $10 for a ticket, and dozens of events each year are completely free.

Your presence helps to make Krannert Center a place like nowhere else—and what you can experience here makes your education like nobody else’s. If you are inspired by what you fi nd here, invite others to join you.

When you come to Krannert Center, we promise that you’ll leave different: refreshed, reaffi rmed, renewed!