The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - New Jersey Performing Arts ...

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Saturday, January 30, 2016 at 2pm & 5pm Sunday, January 31, 2016 at 2pm

NJPAC presents

10 HL Projects

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe World Premiere

Choreography Randy James Music Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Costumes Abraham Cruz Lighting and Scenic Design John Lasiter Production Manager Justin Partier

Members of 10 Hairy Legs Robert Mark Burke Derek Crescenti Nicholas Sciscione William Tomaskovic

10 Hairy Legs Projects Guest Artists Monica Gonzalez Sarah Housepian Keila Perez-Vega Jaclyn Rea Jennifer Roit

Swings Nicolette Alberti

Alexander Olivieri

This work was funded in part by a Major Grant from The Hyde & Watson Foundation. Major funding for 10 Hairy Legs is provided by

As a courtesy to the performers and fellow audience members, please be sure to silence all mobile devices. The use of recording equipment and the taking of photographs are strictly prohibited. This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts and by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. VIII New Jersey Performing Arts Center

Lucy.............................................................................................................................Monica Gonzalez Edmund......................................................................................................................... Derek Crescenti Mr. Tumnus............................................................................................................. Robert Mark Burke Nymphs................................................................................Keila Perez-Vega, Jaclyn Rea, Jennifer Roit The Wolf........................................................................................................................... Kyle Marshall The White Witch...........................................................................................................Sarah Housepian Beavers...................................................... Alex Biegelson, Kyle Marshall, Keila Perez-Vega, Jaclyn Rea, Jennifer Roit, Nicholas Sciscione, William Tomaskovic The Lion.......................................................................................................................... Alex Biegelson Evil Birds...............................................................................Keila Perez-Vega, Jaclyn Rea, Jennifer Roit Giants................................................................................................ Kyle Marshall, Nicholas Sciscione Swings.......................................................................................Nicolette Alberti and Alexander Olivieri The score is comprised of the following Mozart works: Serenade #9 in D. Major, I. 328 “Posthorn;” Concertante: Andanta grazioso Rondeau: Allegra ma non troppo; Concerto for Flute, Harp & Orchestra in C Major, K. 299 Andantino; Symphony #488 in G Minor, K 558 Andante; Clarinet Concerto in A Major KU 622

Rondo—Allegro; Adagio & Fugue in C Minor K. 546 Fugue; Symphony No. 32 in G Major, K 318 Allegro Spirtoso; Masonic Funeral Music KU. 477 (479a); Adagio & Fugue in C minor, KU 546 Adagio; La Betulla liberata, KU. 118/74C No. 9 Coro; Davide penitente KU 469 No. 7 Coro; Davide penitente KU. 469 No. 2 Coro.

About the Company

The Company Alex Biegleson Kyle Marshall

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10 HAIRY LEGS, founded by Randy James in 2012, is a dance company comprised entirely of men, performing James’ work as well as existing and newly commissioned works. 10 HL does not reflect a specific point of view about the male experience, but rather celebrates and explores the tremendous technical and emotional range of the male dancer. Randy James, at the forefront of this generation’s choreographers, educators and arts advocates, is the driving force of 10 Hairy Legs, serving as its Artistic Director. James was awarded his third Choreographic Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts in 2014. In 2015 10 Hairy Legs launched 10 HL Projects, which includes women for specific productions outside of the all-male company. The first of these is a new full-length work based upon C. S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, choreographed by James. “…since its formation in 2012, its rapid growth has been astonishing…The diversity of this programming is a treat for audiences…this company has also become a welcome source of choreographic commissions.” –Robert Johnson. Past artistic collaborators include choreographers Julie Bour, Seàn Curran, David Dorfman, Dan Froot, Doug Elkins, Heidi Latsky, Cleo Mack, Tiffany Mills, Luke Murphy, David Parker, Stephen Petronio, Claire Porter, Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor, Doug Varone, Manuel Vignoulle, Christopher Williams and Megan Williams; musicians Tigger Benford, Sarah Biber, Jane Chung, Lachlan Glen, Kyle Olson, Robert

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Maggio, Michael Wall, Dorian Wallace and Peter Whitehead; and designers Abraham Cruz, Oana Botez, Cindy Capraro, Benjamin Heller, John Lasiter, Mary Kokie McNaugher, Dennis O’Leary-Gullo, Lauren Parrish, Amanda Ringger, Amanda Shafran, Ken Tabatchnik and Olivier Theyskens. In addition to their work with 10 Hairy Legs, company members are currently featured artists with The Bang Group, Stephen Petronio Company, Doug Elkins Choreography, Etc., Tiffany Mills Company and Zvi Dance, among others. Education is an important component of the work at 10 Hairy Legs. The Company provides a wide range of programs suitable for all ages, whether for the aspiring professional, novice beginner or artist citizen, focusing on the many facets of maleness as expressed through dance. Since its founding, 10 Hairy Legs has served more than 30,000 patrons, students, artists and educators with our programs of performance and education throughout the NY/NJ region, in New York City at New York Live Arts, The 92nd Street Y, The Brooklyn Dance Festival, Modern Dance at Bryant Park, Dixon Place, Joe’s Pub, The West End Theatre as part of the Soaking Wet Festival, on Fire Island for the Dancers Responding to Aids Benefit Week End, Dance at Socrates, in Philadelphia as part of the Koresh Come Together Festival, on tour in The Cayman Islands and New England and broadcast nationally and internationally on The Meredith Vieira Show and Nick Cannon’s Red Nose Dancathon. njpac.org IX

Meet the Artists RANDY JAMES, Founding Artistic Director of 10 Hairy Legs, has made a significant impact in the field of dance for more than three decades locally, regionally, nationally and internationally as a highly regarded dancer, choreographer, teacher, guest lecturer, panelist and staunch advocate of the arts. His impact in the field led The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation to cite him as “The Patron Saint of New Jersey dance” in 2010. As a choreographer, James has created more than 40 works on his own companies and on 16 other professional companies throughout the United States, garnering positive reviews from The New York Times and The Village Voice. The New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State honored him three times with Choreography Fellowships in 1995, 2002 and 2014 in recognition of his artistic excellence and named him “Distinguished Teaching Artist.” As an Associate Professor of Dance, James has been a member of the dance faculty at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, since 1998. NICOLETTE ALBERTI was born and raised in Staten Island, NY. In 2015 she graduated Summa Cum Laude from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and received the Dance Express Award for consistently exceptional choreography. She has performed works by Sidra Bell, LeeSaar the Company, Larry Keigwin, Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor, and Keith Thompson. Nicolette spent some time abroad studying at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London and performing in an immersive dance theater project in Istanbul, Turkey titled Frozen Dream, choreographed by Julia Ritter and Ayrin Ersoz. She is also a current member of Company Stefanie Batten Bland and Von Howard Projects. ALEX BIEGELSON dances with Zvi Dance and has worked with The Bang Group, Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company, Nicole Smith, Project: Smith; Nimbus Dance Works, Randy James Dance Works, and toured internationally with Freespace Dance. Born and raised in New York City, Alex has been involved in theater and dance since the age of nine. He took a unique route to dance by working with Susan Slotnick touring around the tri-state area in 1997 in her work Figures in Flight. In 2001 he furthered his traditional dance training at the Professional Performing Arts High School in Manhattan and the Alvin Ailey School though the PPAS program as a fellowship student within the Junior Division. Alex earned his B.F.A. from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University in 2009. Alex also serves as the Associate Director of 10 Hairy Legs, and is a founding member of the company. ROBERT MARK BURKE, from Elmwood Park, NJ, graduated cum laude from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University with a B.F.A. in X New Jersey Performing Arts Center

Meet the Artists Dance. Aside from his work with 10 Hairy Legs, Robert performed with the North American tour of Cats and recently assisted choreographer Brian Brooks on Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Robert can also be seen dancing for Meagan Woods and Company and Arielle Petruzzella. Robert is co-producer and curator of The 12 by 12 Dance Initiative, as well as a certified personal trainer. This is his third season with 10 Hairy Legs. DEREK CRESCENTI is a Michigan native and received his B.F.A. from the University of Michigan in 2011. He has worked with choreographers Nejla Yatkin and Gierre Godley and danced with Spectrum Dance Theater/Donald Byrd in Seattle from 2011–2014. Derek has performed works by Donald Byrd, Cyrus Khambatta, Crispin Spaeth, Olivier Weavers, Doug Elkins, David Parker, and while at UM, Rennie Harris, Laura Dean, Paul Taylor and Merce Cunningham (arranged by Jean Freebury). He was awarded the 2011 Earl V. Moore Award in Dance from the University of Michigan. Other training includes San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, Merce Cunningham Studio, and the American Dance Festival where he performed a world premiere by Tatiana Baganova. Derek also dances with Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company. This is his second season with 10 Hairy Legs. MONICA GONZALEZ is a performer, choreographer, and video artist originally from Stockton, NJ. She attended Rutgers University with a presidential full-academic scholarship and graduated with a B.F.A. in Dance and a minor in Art History. She received the Margery Turner Choreographer Prize in her senior year. In recent months she has performed at Movement Research at Judson Church with Kyle Marshall Choreography, FABxAUNTS with Carlo Antonio Villanueva, and Dance on the Lawn with Robert Mark Dance. Additionally, she was commissioned to choreograph a new work based on Jae Ko’s installation for the Outlet Dance Project’s 11th Annual Festival of Women Choreographers at Grounds for Sculpture. SARAH HOUSEPIAN is originally from Southern California. She received her B.A from California State University of Fullerton in 2011. While on the west coast, she had the opportunity to work with Fuse Modern Dance, Vision’s Dance Theater, Colin Conner, Leann Alduenda, Francesca Lee, Sebastian Arango, and BARE Dance Company (CA). She also trained under the Limon Dance Company and Robert Moses Kin Company in San Francisco. Now on the east coast, she has worked with BARE Dance Company (NYC), Erica Essner Performance Co-Op, Yin Yue Dance Company, Indelible Dance, Shawn T. Bible Dance, NOW Dance Project, Awakening Movement, Robert Mark Dance, Jake Bone, Paul Vickers, and Julia

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Ehrstrand. She has performed domestically, as well as internationally in Bulgaria. KYLE MARSHALL is a dance artist working in New York City. He tours nationally/internationally with Doug Elkins Choreography Etc, Tiffany Mills Company and is a founding member of 10 Hairy Legs. A driven dance-maker, Kyle created Kyle Marshall Choreography in 2014 to help support his choreographic process. He is curious how histories, cultural pulls and personal experiences dictate how people create social groups and interact with their environments. Kyle’s dances have been performed at the Dumbo Dance Festival, Movement Research at Judson Church, Green Building, Dixon Place, Triskelion Arts, Upstart Festival at BAX, STUFFED, AUNTS, Rutgers University and the Dance+ Festival in Portland, OR. He has also received residencies from the Jamaica Performing Arts Center and Lustig Dance Theater. Roam, Kyle’s current work, is inspired by urban planning and is set to premiere at Take Root at Greenspace April 14th and 15th, 2016. Kyle graduated Magna Cum Laude from Rutgers University with a B.F.A. in Dance. ALEXANDER OLIVIERI grew up in Newark, Delaware, and graduated from Boston College with degrees in Philosophy and Theatre Arts in 2012. After college, he continued his training at the two-year Pushing Progress Professional Training Program under the direction of Chris Hale and Calen Kurka. Since living in NYC, he has apprenticed with 10 Hairy Legs and has had the pleasure of dancing works by Chris Masters, Bryn Cohn, Randy James, Cleo Mack, Rachel Hettinger, Alyson Laury and Calen Kurka. Alexander currently dances with Abarukas Dance Company, BARE Dance Company, Shawn T. Bible Dance, Robert Mark Dance and Pushing Progress Contemporary Dance. KEILA PEREZ-VEGA is a 2015 B.F.A. University of the Arts graduate. While there Keila trained and performed works by Sidra Bell, Mark Caserta, Christine Cox, Gary Jeter, Roni Koresh, Dara Stevens-Meredith, Matthew Neenan, Dwight Rhoden, Katie Swords, Tommie Waheed Evans, Shawn-Lamere Williams and Jesse Zaritt. In addition, Keila spent her summers training at the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem and Alvin Ailey. In 2012 Keila joined Eleone Dance Theatre where she danced and performed as a principle dancer for three years. After graduation in 2015, Keila became involved in the Philadelphia dance scene as she performed in projects with Dance Iquail and Annielille Gavino-Kollman/Malayaworks. JACLYN REA earned her B.F.A. from SUNY Purchase in 2012. There she danced works by Mark Morris, Nelly Van Bommel and Ethel Winter. She also studied at London

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Contemporary Dance School in 2010, performing at the Robin Howard Dance Theatre on exchange. Following graduation she joined Graham 2 and became a member of 360 Dance Company. Ms. Rea is a certified Pilates Instructor and a faculty member at AMDA College. In addition to 10HL Projects, Jaclyn is currently dancing with Ariel Rivka Dance Company, Jennifer Conley and JKing Dance Company with whom she has performed internationally.  JEN ROIT was recently selected for the Breaking Glass Project, a mentorship program offering artistic and administrative consultation for emerging female choreographers. She has presented work for BalaSole Dance Company, Spoke the Hub, MaD Circle Dance, Bailout Theater at Judson Church, NYU’s Alumni Choreographic Workshop with Stephen Petronio, The Moving Beauty Series, Jennifer Mueller’s HATCH, Amalgamate Artist Series, Dance 2 Dance by Art Helix, TRANSLATE at Dixon Place, The Intimate Series, WAXworks at Triskelion, the Outlet Dance Project’s International Film Festival, and Ticino in Danza in Switzerland. Proud of her West Coast origins, Jen received a B.F.A. from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, working with choreographers Karole Armitage, Bill Young, and Dwight Rhoden. She continued a diverse dance career with Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company, Jennifer Archibald/Arch Dance Company, Nathan Trice/ Rituals, Transcendance Group, Mark Dendy, Daniel Holt/DIRT and Randy James/10HL Projects. In addition to performing, she is the editor for Dance Magazine’s College Guide, project manager for the TERP system for directing human movement, and a member of three innovative dance-related projects: NACHMO’s Artist Committee, Dances for Solidarity, and the Dance/NYC Junior Committee. NICHOLAS SCISCIONE hails from Elizabeth, New Jersey. In addition to his work with us, he is a member of Stephen Petronio Company, and has worked with Nimbus Dance Works and Freespace Dance. He graduated magna cum laude with a B.F.A. in Dance from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University in 2011. There he performed works by Danielle Agami, Randy James, Ohad Naharin, BenoitSwan Pouffer and Xiao-Xiong Zhang. Nick is a founding member of 10 Hairy Legs. WILL TOMASKOVIC, originally from Flemington, NJ, is a graduate of Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts with his B.F.A. in Dance. After graduation Will has apprenticed for Keigwin + Company for its 10 th anniversary Joyce season and joined Julia Ritter/Ayrin Ersotz for their site-specific dance theater production of Donmus Ruya/Frozen Dream in Istanbul. Aside from working with 10 Hairy Legs, Will is a member of ZviDance, Michael Susten and Company and Bryn Cohn + Artists.  njpac.org XI

Meet the Artists ABRAHAM CRUZ (Costume Design) has spent the last decade designing dresses and sportswear for major fashion houses, where he learned the business of fashion and the mindset of women who find their own self-expression through dress. He was formally trained as an artist at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. In the summer of 2012, Abraham launched Isaac Cruz, a New Yorkbased women’s wear label. Abraham has also worked on short films, including designing costumes for the Sundance-nominated film Babyland, and designing dance costumes for a variety of performance pieces by Randy James Dance Works.

JOHN LASITER (Lighting Design) has created numerous scenic and lighting designs for Randy James most notably the critically acclaimed sets and lighting designs for A View from the Hudson and Looking East. He has worked with choreographers James, Licia Perea, Lee Connor, Irene Hultman, Nora Reynolds, Stephen Petronio, Shapiro & Smith and others. Other lighting and scenic design credits include Actors Theatre of Louisville, Ballet Memphis, Cincinnati Playhouse, Curtis Institute of Music, George Street Playhouse, Goodspeed Musicals, Glimmerglass Opera and many others. On Broadway John designed High starring Kathleen Turner. He holds a Fine Arts Degree from Rutgers University.

Philip Levy, President Dennis Benson, Vice President Dorothy Bitetto, Secretary Patricia A. Mayer, Treasurer Tom Nicola David Rogoff Paulette Sears Nidia Stone Ann Tsubota Constance H. Poster (1921–2013)

Artistic Advisors Jeffrey Friedman, PhD Susannah Newman Diann Sichel

Saturday, January 30, 2016 at 6pm & 8:30pm

NJPAC presents

West Side Story to Wicked: Broadway with the Callaways

10 HAIRY LEGS Board of Trustees

Michael Aiduss Brad C. Armstrong Carol Byrne Ruth Clark Randy James Pamela Gallagher Mingle

The Chase Room

featuring Advisors Alice M. Greenwald Rita Levy Baraka Sele Joel Sobo Thomas A. Waldman, Esq., Corporate Counsel

Ann Hampton Callaway Liz Callaway Larry Yurman, piano Jered Egan, bass Ron Tierno, drums

10 HAIRY LEGS Staff There will be no intermission during this performance. Artistic Director Randy James

Director of Finance Macada Brandl

Executive Director Elizabeth Shaff Sobo

Performance Coach Diann Sichel

Associate Director Alex Biegelson

Production Manager Jason Flamos

Education Program Coordinator Lindsey Rizkalla Della Serra Information Technology Brunswick Media

Graphic Design John Agnesini Video Editor Alex Rosenberg Interns Jennifer Cosgrove LJ Boyce Tori DiCandia

The American Songbook series at NJPAC is presented, in part, through the generous support of the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation and David S. Steiner and Sylvia Steiner Charitable Trust

As a courtesy to the performers and fellow audience members, please be sure to silence all mobile devices. The use of recording equipment and the taking of photographs are strictly prohibited.

10 Hairy Legs–PO Box 4452–Highland Park, NJ 08904–10HL.org–[email protected]–@10HairyLegs Artist Representation: Pentacle Booking Agency. Contact: Harold Norris, Director of Booking 212-278-8111, ext. 3431, [email protected] 10 Hairy Legs is a 505 (c) (3) not for profit professional dance company.

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