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ALONZO KING LINES BALLET 2016 SUMMER PROGRAM
LINES Ballet Summer ProgramSession Two Showcase
Saturday, August 13, 2016 at 8:00pmThe Cowell Theaterat Fort Mason Center
Alonzo King LINES Ballet Summer Program
The LINES Ballet Summer Program offers two intense sessions each summer designed to immerse students from all over the country in the LINES Ballet training philosophy. Students audition in one of 17 cities around the country, and abroad, for the opportunity to come to San Francisco to train in preparation for their professional careers. Participants experience a rigorous schedule that includes Ballet, Pointe, Men’s Class, Improvisation, Modern, LINES Ballet Repertoire, and GYROTONIC®. Providing valuable exposure to process-oriented work, the curriculum uniquely includes collaboration with distinguished choreographers on the creation of a new work. All students have the opportunity to work with current and former members of LINES Ballet and a diverse group of master artists. Audition dates and locations for Summer 2017 will be announced in November of this year.
LINES Ballet Training Philosophy
“The cornerstone that shapes the training philosophy at LINES Ballet Summer Program is that art is within the artist. Creative intelligence is a part of mankind’s makeup as are heart, brain, and lungs. We believe that each individual has a singularly unique voice. Our aim is to strengthen and hone that interior voice in each student, while establishing in them a deep seated dance foundation. LINES Ballet Summer Program teaches movement as a science that extracts the best attributes of all dance forms with ballet (western classical dance) as our mainstay.
In LINES Ballet’s training philosophy, each individual’s interior facility is tapped, cajoled, nourished, and brought forth. By focusing on individual character, we are offering a key to knowledge and awareness that will be utilized whether or not the student chooses to pursue a performing career in dance.”
— Alonzo King
SUMMER PROGRAM 2016
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SESSION TWO 2016LINES Ballet Summer Program Faculty and Staff
Summer Program Director: Tammy CheneyProgram Administrators: Jackie Goneconti Gibbons & Lindsay Leonard
Faculty: Alonzo King, Peta Barrett, LeeWei Chao, Sandra Chinn, Prince Credell, Kai Davis, Arturo Fernandez, Amy Foley, Maurya Kerr, Dexandro Montalvo, Michael Montgomery, Anne-René Petrarca, Caroline Rocher, Molly Rogers, Debra Rose, Carmen Rozestraten, Amy Seiwert, Debbie Taylor, Keelan Whitmore
Accompanists: David Berryessa, Olga Blednova, Gabriel Daniels, Mike Dolman, Raymond Fabrizio, Julia Ganina, Maya Gorodetsky, Lucy Hudson, Luba Kardon-tchik, Monique Mallicoat, Joe Rayhbuck, Sky Tan, Dennis Tolly, Donald White, Adam Young
Production Team
Lighting Designer: Daniel WeiermannTechnical Director: Stephen CliffordMaster Sound Technician: Jeff GregoryHouse Manager: Fred LopezBox Office: Joselyn Franco, Erin GibbTheater Manager: Jane CasamajorPatron Services Manager: Jordan BattleStage Manager: Rossi Lamont WalterVideographer & Photographer: Andy Mogg
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Through our multiple education programs, Alonzo King LINES Ballet provides an environment for the unfolding of students’ own creative powers. The cornerstone that shapes the training philosophy at Alonzo King LINES Ballet is that art is within the artist.
ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS AT LINES BALLET
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Alonzo King LINES Dance CenterSince 1989, Alonzo King LINES Ballet has made its vibrant arts facility available to the public through the Alonzo King LINES Dance Center. Offering an extensive selection of open adult classes, there is something for everyone, beginner to professional. dancecenter.linesballet.org
Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training ProgramThe LINES Ballet Training Program is a two-year, year-round program designed for young professional and pre-professional dancers ages 17-24. Working with a world-class faculty that includes Company dancers, master teachers, and choreographers, the program’s goal is to help students reach their full artistic potentials, while pursuing professional careers in dance. training.linesballet.org
Alonzo King LINES Ballet BFA at Dominican University of California Alonzo King LINES Ballet and Dominican University of California join forces in this exciting and unique four-year program, which culminates in a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. During the program, students acquire the skills and knowledge needed for a professional dance career along with the life-long benefits of an excellent liberal arts education. bfa.linesballet.org
Teens @LINESTeens @LINES provides dynamic dance education that inspires unique artistry and strong technical training for youth ages 12-18. The program is born from the philosophy of Alonzo King and offers the young dancer a unique opportunity to strengthen the artist within, emphasizing creativity, and giving considerate attention to the development of the whole person and who they are in the world. linesballet.org/teen
Photos: Quinn B. Wharton and Rob Kunkle
Collective Array (Premiere)Choreographer: Dexandro MontalvoMusic: Forest Swords, PercLighting: Daniel WeiermannAssistant to the Choreographer: Cooper NeelyDancers: Meagan Ahern, Elena Carter, Bridgette Chrisco, Kennedy Gonzalez, Meagan Irby, Bethany Kellner, Antonio Lopez, Reid Newton, Megan Rancour, Jadyn Reddy, Lauren Russo, Cecily Shives, Aurora Vaughan, Jordan Wanderer, Taylor YocumChoreographer’s Note: Special thank you to all of the artistic contributions of the dancers and my assistant, Cooper. Their input and hard work greatly shaped the piece.
We Are Nothing Without You (Premiere)Choreographer: Amy FoleyMusic: Yasmine HamdanText: Lorrie Moore, from the short story, “People Like That Are the Only People Here”Lighting: Daniel WeiermannAssistant to the Choreographer: Calleja SmileyDancers: Londyn Alexander, Katherine Brady, Ashley Brandt, Kathryn Daniel, Lilia Deering, Margaux Gex, Jeffery Griffith, Nina Guevara, Alesandra Harper, Hannah Hartnett, DaJuan Johnson, Aimee Kilgore, Soroa Lear, Taylor Olson, Michael Shay, Anthony Spivey, Benjamin Waldvogel, Lin WelshChoreographer’s Note: Special thanks to the dancers for their fearlessness and immense creativity toward this piece.
(Premiere)Choreographer: Anne-René PetrarcaMusic: Greg Haines, Zoe KeatingLighting: Daniel WeiermannCostumes: Darleen VeenstraAssistant to the Choreographer: Tiffany Tonel Dancers: Nehemiah Aldrich, Maura Dickson, Beth Durnie, Christiana Hunte, Emily Jacobs, Olivia Johnson, Madana Kloss, Paige Kutschall, Eliana Lee, Rylee Lynch, Ally McGuire, Kelli Miles, Hyla Perillo, Angelica Pina, Elly Shin, Angus Wu, Mayling Zito, Amanda Harper ZoerhofChoreographer’s Note: is the Hebrew symbol for the word chai meaning “ alive” or “ living”. The symbol is made up of two letters from the Hebrew alphabet giving it a numerical value of 18 .
We Are One (Premiere)Choreographer: Arturo FernandezMusic: Original Composition by Dalmacio Payomo; “Oboe Concerto in C Major RV 447 Largo” by Antonio Vivaldi; “Oboe Concerto in D Major RV 453 Allegro” by Antonio VivaldiLighting: Daniel WeiermannDancers: Emily Ashdown, Martin Austin, Sallie Ann Browne, Christiane Catoe, Morgan Coyle-Howard, Tea Devereaux, Javon Jones, Nika Jurich, Kathryn Mantyh, Kyra McDonald, Morgan McNally, Jianna Neufeld, Megan Ostrowski, Ashley Simpson, Caroline Woodward, Antonio Wright
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We Are One continued...Choreographer’s Note: In this age of many beliefs, races and body types the most apparent and obvious thing that makes us unified is to know that we are all human. We are one.Thank you to the dancers who made this work possible.
INTERMISSION
Girls at Play (Premiere)Choreographer: Carmen RozestratenMusic: Emmio BossoLighting: Daniel WeiermannAssistant to the Choreographer: Hayley Bowman, Coral MartinDancers: Gabrielle Bejarano, Malik Burnett, Nikki d’Arnault, Hannah Feltham, Maria Gerasimou, Madeleine Hill, Nacoleon Hillsman, Kara Hunsinger, Sasha Lazarus, Mia Rosin, Anna Schlueter, Gioia von StadenChoreographer’s Note: Thanks to my wonderful assistents, Hayley and Coral.
Sweet Air (Premiere)Choreographer: Amy Seiwert in collaboration with the dancersMusic: David LangLighting: Daniel WeiermannAssistant to the Choreographer: Anica BottomDancers: Adriana Ardila, Kennedy Brown, Ana Isabel Casquilho, William Clayton, Katerina Eng, Maxine Flasher-Duzgunes, Trevor Hansen, Maya Harr, Maia Kaimakliotis, Arden Lapin, Emily Sanchez, Katarina Smith, Alex Sprague, Hunter TurbyneChoreographer’s Note: For Sweet Air, the dancers worked with specific manipulation techniques to generate new material from my choreography. By doing this, we focused on creative problem solving as well as confidence in decision making. I then structured the piece, using the material we had developed. Had any one of these dancers not been in the room, the entire piece would look different. They were true collaborators, and their artistic voices are deeply present in this piece.
Children of Bhakti (2012)Choreographer: Keelan WhitmoreMusic: “Rosie” by Prisoners at Parchman Farm Mississippi; “Pharoah” by Sydney Carter; “Vocal Duet” by Anonymous; “Malkari Song” by Aborigines from Papua New Guinea; with additional music by Ben Juodvalkis. Music arranged and produced by Ben Juodvalkis.Lighting: Daniel WeiermannCostumes: Keelan Whitmore, DancersAssistant to the Choreographer: Dalmacio PayomoDancers: Rowan Catel, Deja Darbonne, Quaba Ernest, Marco Farroni, Dorchel Haqq, Heather Jefferys, Kozue Kasahara, Emma Kempson, Lauren Kotre, Olivia MacEachern, Sophia MacMillan, Jackie McCreavy, Sonny Shiu, Ally Shives, Megan Tabel, Anna Thornton, Brandy WhiteChoreographer’s Note: Bhakti is the Sanskrit word for devotion. Children of Bhakti was created with AKLB Training program in 2012 in response to the death of Trayvon Martin. As the dancers have changed, the piece has changed. However, the main goal as a training tool remains: for the dancers to find the inner strength to take themselves beyond the confines of their current constitution to the furthest extremes. They have worked so hard and I truly appreciate them taking this journey with me.
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CHOREOGRAPHER BIOGRAPHIES
ARTURO FERNDANDEZ is a native of Oakland, CA. He began dance training at the School of Performing Arts of USIU in San Diego. After only two years of intensive study he joined San Diego Ballet in 1976. Other companies he’s performed with are California Ballet, Arizona Ballet, New Jersey Ballet, Ballets Trocadero de Monte Carlo and Pittsburgh Ballet Theater. After moving back to California he joined Oakland Ballet for a short time and ODC/San Francisco (11 years) and there served as the assistant to the choreographers from 1988 until Spring of 1991. Fernandez has choreographed for the James Sewell Ballet, Inland Pacific Ballet, and Alonzo King LINES Ballet, among others, and has also demonstrated his work in self-produced concerts throughout the region. Since 1992 he has been the Ballet Master for Alonzo King LINES Ballet, as well as assisting Alonzo King in the creation of new work. Since 1998 he has coordinated and taught in Alonzo King’s Professional Workshop. In 2001 he directed the first ever summer Pre-Professional Program at LINES. For more than two decades he has been an integral part of the Alonzo King LINES Dance Center, the LINES Training Program and LINES Ballet BFA at Dominican. He has set Alonzo King’s ballets on companies and universities throughout the US including NYU, Washington University in St. Louis and Western Michigan University. Most notably he set Alonzo King’s HANDEL on the Royal Swedish Ballet in Stockholm.
AMY FOLEY is a dance-maker, teaching artist, and performer who is a long-time, active member of the Bay Area dance community. She danced with Robert Moses’ KIN for over a decade and has performed locally and nationally as a member of Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, ODC/Dance, Mary Carbonara Dances, Shift Physical Theater, RAWdance, project b., and Kambara+Dancers. She teaches advanced contemporary technique to teens through professionals. With her own, Bellwether Dance Company, she collaborates with admired artists in order to explore physical/conceptual versions of time and unsettling human experiences, ranging from the deeply personal to the laughably universal. Amy has shown her work through the WestWave Festival, Robert Moses’ KIN/BY Series, RAW Dance’s CONCEPT Series, Dance Mission’s Choreographers’ Showcase, the ODC Pilot Program, the ODC Dance Jam, and Alonzo King LINES Ballet Summer Program.
Born and raised in New York, DEXANDRO “D” MONTALVO began dancing professionally at age 14. D continued on to dance professionally for 16 years and finished his dance career after dancing with Robert Moses’ Kin for six seasons. Some of D’s choreographic experience includes works on Robert Moses’ Kin Dance Company, Dance Theater of San Francisco, Liss Fain Dance Company, Concept o4, LINES Ballet Training Program/Summer Program, The Black Eye Peas, Amp Live, Sleepy Hollow Performing Arts Center, University of San Francisco Dance Ensemble, Marin School of the Arts, & ODC’s Youth Company. In 2015 D
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Dexandro Montalvo continued...won an Isadora Duncan Award for his choreographic work in Art behind bars which took place in Alcatraz, and was nominated for the “Outstanding Choreography” for his work Impulse which was choreographed for the Robert Moses’ Kin Dance Company. D currently serves as the artistic director of Dance Theatre of San Francisco.
ANNE-RENÉ PETRARCA is the artistic director of sculpted motion, creating choreographic works that stimulate the viewer viscerally, emotionally and kinesthetically with an athletic and sensuous aesthetic. She is currently on faculty with the LINES Ballet Training Program, LINES Ballet BFA at Dominican, Mills College, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center and travels as a visiting guest artist. New York City was her home for twenty years and there she was on faculty at DNA (Dance Space), assistant faculty at The Juilliard School and guest artist at Sarah Lawrence College, Long Island University/Brooklyn, The Next Stage Project and the Joffrey Jazz Summer Intensive.
CARMEN ROZESTRATEN is a founding member of Alonzo King LINES Ballet and danced with the company from 1978-1996. She is a senior faculty member for the LINES educational programs and teaches company class. A native of Amsterdam, she has toured the world as a performer and educator, teaching at major ballet companies such as Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, Opera de Lyon, Spain’s Compañía Nacional de Danza, Alvin Ailey, and the Julliard School. Carmen has also made two award-winning dance films.
AMY SEIWERT enjoyed a nineteen-year performing career dancing with the Smuin, LA Chamber and Sacramento Ballets. As a dancer with Smuin Ballet she became involved with the “Protégé Program” where her choreography was mentored by the late Michael Smuin, and became Choreographer in Residence there upon her retirement from dancing in 2008. Named one of “25 to Watch” by Dance Magazine, her first full evening of choreography was named one of the “Top 10” dance events of 2007 by the SF Chronicle. Twice she has worked with dancers from New York City Ballet, participating in the NY Choreography Institute at the invitation of Peter Martins. Collaborations include works with visual designers Marc Morozumi and Matthew Antaky, composers Daniel Bernard Roumain and Mason Bates, media designer Frieder Weiss and spoken-word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph. She is honored to have been an Artist in Residence at ODC Theater from 2013-15 and to have works in the repertory of Ballet Austin, BalletMet, Smuin, Washington, Atlanta, Oakland, Sacramento, Colorado, Louisville, Cincinnati, Carolina, Oklahoma City, Dayton, Milwaukee and American Repertory Ballets as well as Robert Moses’ KIN.
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KEELAN WHITMORE, from Rockford, Illinois, trained at the Rockford Dance Company, the Joffrey Ballet School/New School University, and graduated from Michigan’s Interlochen Arts Academy. As a member for five seasons of Kansas City Ballet, Whitmore performed works by choreographers including George Balanchine, Nacho Duato, Jerome Robbins and Twyla Tharp. In 2006, Whitmore became a member of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet. His choreography has been showcased in workshop and gala performances, presented by Kansas City Ballet, Virginia School of the Arts, the LINES Ballet Training Program and Regional Dance America, which presented Whitmore with its National Choreography Recognition Award in 2005. That same year, he co-founded Kansas City–based multi-disciplinary ensemble Quixotic Fusion. Whitmore danced with LINES Ballet from 2006-2013. He is currently a soloist with TanzTheater Muenster in Germany.
Alonzo King LINES Ballet Summer Program is supported, in part, by:
Additional thanks to:
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