Steps in the Garden: PRESENTS

OCTOBER 4, 2020 CHENEY MANSION | OAK PARK, IL

PRESENTS

Steps in the Garden: DANCE AT CHENEY MANSION

This project is made possible through a partnership with the Dance Program at the Park District of Oak Park.

THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR DONORS!

Winifred Haun & Dancers is generously supported, in part, by the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, MacArthur Fund for Arts & Culture at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, the International Connections Fund at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Oak Park Area Arts Council, in partnership with the Village of Oak Park, the Illinois Arts Council Agency and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, Chicago Academy for the Arts - Dance Department, Lou Conte Dance Studio at the Hubbard St. Dance Center, Historic Pleasant Home, Legere Dance Center, Principle Dance of Forest Park, Audience Architects, Voice of the City, a multi-arts organization and over 100 individuals.

Winifred Haun & Dancers is also supported by members of Wini’s Circle, a group of dedicated individuals who support the Company through substantial annual gifts of $500 or more.

Wini’s Circle Members Sarah Bixler Susan & Scott CaudellPam Crutchfield Dacry DeWolfe & Aaron Rappaport Patti Eylar Ginger Farley Frank Fishella Lisa Friedman Gia & Bart Gallegos Deborah Goodman Edna Hamburger Dolores Haun Young-Kee Kim & Sidney Nagel Tabatha KoylassMartha Milligan Newville Family Winifred Haun & Stephen Parke Meghan Premo-Hopkins Brenda M. Rodriguez Liz Roman Anonymous 1 Anonymous 2 Anonymous 3

Our Corporate Sponsors include: PrintPlace.com and Wynndalco Enterprises

PROGRAM

Steps in the GardenOriginal music composed and played by: Barry Bennett Choreography: Winifred Haun with Ariel Dorsey, Vernon Gooden, Grant Hill, Amanda Milligan, Michelle Reid, and Summer Smith

1. ACROSS THE WAY (an improvisation) Dancers: Ariel Dorsey, Vernon Gooden, Grant Hill, Amanda

Milligan, Michelle Reid, and Summer Smith

2. BREEZES ON THE PATIO Dancer: Ariel Dorsey

3. GREEN HOUSING Dancers: Grant Hill & Summer Smith

4. PLANTED Dancers: Amanda Milligan & Michelle Reid

5. WATER FALLING Dancer: Vernon Gooden

6. SUR LE FEU Dancers: Ariel Dorsey, Vernon Gooden, Grant Hill, Amanda Milligan,

Michelle Reid, and Summer Smith

“Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.” ~ MAYA ANGELOU

Production Manager: Brian Elston Production Assistant: Michael Gee

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Winifred Haun & Dancers was founded in Chicago in the 1990’s by award winning choreographer and dancer, Winifred Haun. In 2001, the Company went on hiatus for several years while Ms. Haun raised her young children. The Company re-located to Oak Park in 2006. In the two and a half decades since its founding, the Company has garnered numerous awards and accolades, including features in the Huffington Post, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, WTTW-TV (PBS), and WBEZ (NPR) Radio. The Company has also received Critic’s Choice awards from the Chicago Reader, and TimeOut Chicago, as well as reviews and articles at SeeChicagoDance.com, NewCity.com, Madison.com, and many others. In 2016, the Company received an award from the prestigious MacArthur Foundation for an international artistic collaboration with Australian circus artist Emma Serjeant.

In 2000, Winifred Haun & Dancers received the Ruth Page Award for “Outstanding Contribution to Dance in Chicago” for initiating and producing Chicago’s NEXT Dance Festival, which grew to be the Midwest’s largest dance festival for the new work of Chicago area artists. In 2014, the Company was chosen to present Vision, Faith & Desire: Dancemakers Inspired by Martha Graham at the Ruth Page Center, Pritzker Pavilion and Oak Park’s Pleasant Home, and in 2019, the Company received the Oak Park Area Arts Council’s coveted “Best in Class” Award.

The mission of Winifred Haun & Dancers is to create and present original, contemporary, innovative works that illuminate and elevate diverse artists, audiences, and global themes. Part of the Company’s artistic vision is to have dance viewed not only in the context of professional presentation, but also at the community level and in non-traditional performance venues. Winifred Haun (Artistic/Executive Director, Choreographer) was a soloist with the critically acclaimed Joseph Holmes Chicago Dance Theatre, under the direction of Randy Duncan, from 1985 to 1991. Ms. Haun won three Ruth Page Award nominations for Choreography and Performance and in 2000, she won the Ruth Page Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Dance Community. In 2014, she was chosen by the Martha Graham Dance Company to create a Lamentation Variation, in honor of Ms. Graham’s renowned solo. Ms. Haun’s choreography has been commissioned by Chicago Ballet, Aerial Dance Chicago, Zephyr Dance, Lonny Joseph Gordon and many other Midwest and national groups. She has taught contemporary dance and dance composition at the Joffrey Ballet’s Academy of Dance, Hubbard St. Dance Center, Dance Center of Columbia College, Chicago Academy for the Arts, Beijing National Dance Academy and at numerous festivals and workshops worldwide. Currently, Ms. Haun teaches modern dance and ballet at Legere Dance Center in River Forest, IL, and online on Zoom. She and her husband, theoretical physicist Stephen Parke, live in Oak Park and they have three daughters.

Founder & Artistic/Executive Director: Winifred HaunRehearsal Director: Deb Goodman

Choreographer’s Assistants: Ariel Dorsey & Summer Smith Assistant Artistic Director: Solomon Bowser

Artistic Administrator: Sarah Mazzulla Digital Media Designs: Christina Tarrant

Development & Organizational Consultant: Suzanne Griffith, Vega Partners Photographer: Matthew Gregory Hollis

Videography: Sean Rafferty Special Projects: Stephen Parke

Website: CJ Harris, That’s So Creative Designs

WH&D Board of Directors Susan Caudell Gia Gallegos Lisa Friedman

Edna Hamburger, President Winifred Haun, Founder

Young-Kee Kim Tabatha KoylassStephen Parke

Brenda Rodriguez

Special thanks to: All of the Dancers, Banks Performance Project, Deb Goodman, Genevieve Garcia, Susan Crane, Stephen Parke, Athena Parke, Selene Parke, Iris Parke, Sarah Robinson Mazzulla,

and the Dance Program at the Park District of Oak Park

Company ArtistsAriel M. Dorsey (Assistant Choreographer, Company Dancer) is a Chicago native, where she began her formal dance training at Chicago Academy for the Arts under the direction of Anna Paskevska and Randy Duncan. Ms. Dorsey went on to further her studies at SUNY Purchase College in New York where she graduated with a BFA in dance. Ms. Dorsey other performance credits include Banks Performance Project (guest artist), Moonwater Dance Project, and Porchlight Musical Theatre productions of “Memphis” and “Sophisticated Ladies.” Ariel joined Winifred Haun & Dancers in 2013, and she was appointed Assistant Choreographer in 2016. Vernon Gooden (Company Dancer) a Dallas,Texas native, began dancing at the age of 11. He started in the traditional dance form of West African. In 2001, he graduated from Booker T. Washington High School For The Performing Visual Arts. He received a Level I ranking by the National Foundation For The Advancement In The Arts (NFAA) for college scholarship for high school seniors. Mr. Gooden was nominated by NFAA and named by The White House Commission for a 2001 Presidential Scholar in the Arts. Mr. Gooden later trained at The Juilliard School under the direction of the late Benjamin Harkarvy and Larry Rhodes. He has performed with noted companies such as Paul Taylor 2, Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Theatre, Helanius Wilkins/ Edgeworks Dance, South Chicago Dance Theatre, Joel Hall Dancers, and Deeply Rooted Dance Theatre. He has performed the works of noted choreographers such as Paul Taylor, Jose Limon, Katherine Dunham, Donald McKayle, Bill T. Jones, Milton Myers, Cleo Parker Robinson, Nai-Ni Chen, Ronald K. Brown, and Jessica Lang. This is his second season with WH&D. Grant Hill (Guest Artist) holds a BFA in Dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign. While attending U of I, he trained with Endalyn Taylor, Linda Lehovac, C. Kemal Nance, Cynthia Oliver, and others. Mr. Hill has trained with the Dance Theatre of Harlem, Deeply Rooted Dance Theater and Mark Morris Dance Group, and he has performed at the American Dance Guild in 2017 and 2018, and with Aerial Dance Chicago, and Banks Performance Project. This is his first performance with Winifred Haun & Dancers. Amanda Milligan (Company Dancer) attended the University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music where she received her BFA in Ballet Performance. Her previous professional experience includes participation in the Dallas tour of Jeanne Mam-lufts’ Pieces (2012), guest artist and choreographer for the Performance Time Arts series at Cincinnati’s Contemporary Dance Theater(2010-2014) and most recently Dance Kaleidoscope (2014-2017) based in Indianapolis, IN. Mandy joined WH&D in the fall of 2017.

Michelle Reid (Company Dancer) is a dancer, photographer and aerialist. After obtaining her BFA in dance from The Ohio State University in 2013, she moved to Chicago to pursue a professional career in the arts. Since then she has performed with Joel Hall, Emerald City Theatre, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Banks Performance Project. She has also worked with Visual Artist, Brendan Fernandes during his dance-based installation at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. This is Michelle’s second season with Winifred Haun & Dancers.

Summer Smith (Assistant Choreographer, Company Dancer) grew up in South Jersey, where she began dancing at a young age. Summer began her professional dance training in high school at The Rock School for Dance Education in Philadelphia. During this time, she received scholarships to study at Orlando Ballet, Ballet Met, and in New York, at American Ballet Theatre. Summer attended The University of the Arts where she received her BFA in Dance and Painting with honors. After college, she went on to dance with Chicago’s Ballet 5:8 where she served as a Company Artist, and the production designer. Summer also dances for Moonwater Dance Project, and choreographs for Digital Dance Project. She joined WH&D in 2017, and she was appointed Assistant Choreographer in 2018.

Deb Goodman (Rehearsal Director) began her dance training at Northern Illinois University under the guidance of Randall Newsome. In 1990, she moved to New York to study at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance where she received a full scholarship and took part in the reconstruction of Ms. Graham’s original work, “Sketches from Chronicle”. From 1998-2005, Deborah worked with Yuriko as her assistant and demonstrator. In 2006, Deborah moved back to Chicago where she danced for MOMENTA for 10 years. Deb is currently a modern dance instructor at Loyola University and the Chicago Academy for the Arts. She was appointed Rehearsal Director for WH&D in 2015.