2012 AIDS Walk New York Benefit Performance

AIDS Walk New York Proudly Presents

An Evening of Dance to Benefit AIDS Walk NY and GMHC with

In-Sight Dance Company

Friday, May 11, 2012

Performing Selections From

An Extraordinary Echo a contemporary story ballet that addresses the issues and

events affecting the Y, or Echo Boom, Generation

This Is…Next Stop… an abstract work that creates an emotional landscape that explores themes of inspiration,

degradation, and elevation.

100% of tonight’s proceeds will go toward the critical services provided by GMHC and

other local HIV/AIDS service organizations. For more information on GMHC, visit GMHC.org.

Tonight’s performance is presented by AIDS Walk New York

Staff Friends & Family, in collaboration with

In-Sight Dance Company and the Helen Mills Theater.

Technical Advisor: Mark Unthank

In-Sight Dance Company

Artistic/Executive Director: Leeanne M. G-Bowley

Assistant Director: Donna Galván

Board of Directors: Nathan Ashker, Leeanne M. G-Bowley, Jori O’Neale

In-Sight Dance Company Dancers: Mishi Castroverde, Lina Zahirah Kent,

Dora Novak, Cody Potter, Shauna Sorensen

Communications Manager: Christina Babu

Costume Design: Dora Novak

Photo Credit: Jenica Miller

Choreography by: Leeanne M. G-Bowley, Donna Galván

Choreography created in collaboration with the dancers.

Tonight’s Performers:

Sara Bridge, Mishi Castroverde, Angela Gorman,

Lina Zahirah Kent, Heather Lowe, Katherine Lupke, Dora Novak, BJ Olson,

Alexandra Pernice, Cody Potter, Olga Sokolovskaya,

Shauna Sorensen, Sylvana Tapia

Act I: Selections From An Extraordinary Echo

Music by: Ian Axel and Chad Vaccarino from Ian Axel’s albums This Is the New Year and

I’m onto you

Waltz Mishi Castroverde, Dora Novak, Cody Potter, Shauna Sorensen

Waltz Intro Lina Zahirah Kent

Afterglow Sara Bridge, Angela Gorman, Katherine Lupke

Girl, I Got A Thing Angela Gorman, BJ Olson

The Music That Haunts Lina Zahirah Kent, Katherine Lupke, Olga Sokolovskaya

Cannonball and Say Something Lina Zahirah Kent, Shauna Sorensen

This Is the New Year Sara Bridge, Heather Lowe, Katherine Lupke, BJ Olson, Olga Sokolovskaya, Sylvana Tapia

Home Dora Novak, Shauna Sorensen

We Are Mishi Castroverde, Lina Zahirah Kent, Dora Novak, Cody Potter, Shauna Sorensen

Gone Mishi Castroverde, Cody Potter

- Intermission -

Act II: Selections from This Is…Next Stop…

Music by: Jerry Fuentes, Rachel Platten, The Paper Raincoat, Josiah Venter

Brooklyn Blurs…The Paper Raincoat

Mishi Castroverde, Cody Potter, Shauna Sorensen

Remark…Rachel Platten

Shauna Sorensen

What It Is…Jerry Fuentes

Sara Bridge, BJ Olson, Alexandra Pernice, Cody Potter, Olga Sokolovskaya

Nothing Ever Happens…Rachel Platten

Mishi Castroverde, Lina Zahirah Kent, Dora Novak, Shauna Sorensen

Another Life…Jerry Fuentes

Mishi Castroverde, Lina Zahirah Kent

Enough to Go Around…Josiah Venter

Katherine Lupke, BJ Olson

Rough Cut…The Paper Raincoat

Mishi Castroverde, Lina Zahirah Kent, Dora Novak, Shauna Sorensen

Hangman…Ian Axel and Chad Vaccarino

Company

About AIDS Walk New York

Since 1986, AIDS Walk New York has raised more than $122 million for HIV pro-grams and services in the tri-state area and has grown into the largest AIDS fund-raising event in the world. In 2011 alone, 45,000 participants, many of whom were members of more than 3,000 corporate and community teams, raised over $6.2 million for GMHC and 50 other tri-state area AIDS service organizations. For more information, please visit aidswalk.net/newyork.

About In-Sight Dance Company

In-Sight Dance Company is a professional, grassroots dance company based in Queens, NY. In-Sight Dance Company’s mission is to create dance that inspires critical thought and reasoned discussion, raise the profile of Queens’ dance while working to improve society through performance, community partnerships, and service. Our connection with our community cultivates an environment where we can create innovative artistic work that is accessible. We focus on creating dance that has an emotional, cultural, psychological, or sociological motivation. We draw audiences in so that we can present stories, themes, and questions that challenge them to think critically and provoke reasoned discussion. Inspiration is a vital part of the human experience. Dance, as with all art, is a powerful source of inspira-tion. Learn more about In-Sight Dance at www.insightdance.org and watch us dance at www.youtube.com/insightdancecompany.

Special Thanks To The Staff of AIDS Walk New York, The Staff of the Helen Mills Theater,

Charles Tannenbaum, Inbar Sharon, Brian Handell, Clive White, Mike Galván, Mark Unthank, Topaz Arts, Paz Tanjuaquio,

The Secret Theatre, Fractured Atlas, Nathan Ashker, Jori Howard, the Musicains—for donating their music so that we can create to it,

the Dancers—for donating their time and talent, and YOU for supporting this worthy cause.