FEATURINGAkiko Aizawa*, Will Bond*, Antonio Brown, Rena Butler, Cain Coleman, Jr., Leon Ingulsrud*, Talli Jackson, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Ellen Lauren*, I-Ling Liu, Erick Montes Chavero, Jennifer Nugent, Joseph Poulson, Jenna Riegel and Stephen Duff Webber*

A Rite (2013)

Anne Bogart Artistic Director SITI Company

Bill T. Jones Artistic Director Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company

Janet Wong Associate Artistic Director Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company

Conceived, directed and choreographed by Anne Bogart, Bill T. Jones and Janet Wong in collaboration with the performers

Robert Wierzel** Lighting designJames Schuette** Costume design

PRODUCTION STAFFKyle Maude Director of Producing and TouringJoseph Futral Production ManagerStacey Boggs** Lighting SupervisorSam Crawford Associate Sound DesignerCarley Manion Stage Manager, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance CompanySunneva Stapleton* Stage Manager, SITI CompanyHannah Emerson Company ManagerNikhil Mehta Assistant Director

Anne Bogart and Bill T. Jones are members of SDC, the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, an independent national labor union.

* Denotes member of Actors Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

** Members of the United Scenic Artists Union (USA)

Text excerpts from: Brian Greene, Werner Herzog, Jonah Lehrer, Severine Neff, and testimonies from WWI veterans, plus

In Spring by Shuntaro Tanikawa (courtesy of The Japan Writers’ Association) and Gisela Cardenas’ English translation of Antigona

by Jose Watanabe. The role of musicologist is based upon interviews with Professor Severine Neff, of the University of North

Carolina.

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company & SITI Company: A Rite

Fri, Mar 6& Sat, Mar 7

Royce Hall8pm

RUNNING TIME: Approximately 65 minutes;

No intermission

SCA TERRACE SERIES PRE-SHOW EVENT:

Intersections: A night of interdisciplinary Dance

choreographed and performed by PhD Dance

majors Barry Brannum, Bernard Brown,

and Fangfei Miao.7 pm Royce Terrace

POST-SHOW EVENT: Q&A with the performers

Friday March 6 on the Royce stage. Meet and greet in

West Lobby follows.

CAP UCLA SPONSOR: Suported in part by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Endowment Fund.

MEDIA SPONSOR:

Excerpts from the following recordings of The Rite of Spring are heard in A Rite: Kirov Orchestra, 2001; Los Angeles Philharmonic, 2006; San Francisco Symphony, 1999; KBP by Daniel Bernard Roumain and Sam Crawford, 2013; and Darryl Brenzel and Mobtown Modern Big Band, 2012 and Birdsongs of the Mesozoic.

(Excerpts from) The Rite of Spring, as performed by Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, produced by Richard W. Harte, originally released on Magnetic Flip (Ace of Hearts AHS 10018), re-released on Dawn of the Cycads (Cuneiform Records Rune 274/275)”

Vocal score for The Augurs composed by Timothy Hambourger. Vocal score for Spring Rounds composed by Yayoi Ikawa.

English translation of In Spring by Shuntaro Tanikawa

What is this feeling?This invisible flow of energy

That comes up from the earth, into the soles of my feet Coming through my stomach, to my chest, then up into my throat

Welling up inside me, making me want to shout out loudWhat is this feeling?

Buds bursting out from the tips of tree branches, poking at my heart It is delight, but also grief

It is agitation, and yet tranquility It is longing, with hidden anger

Held in check by the dam in my heart But the whirlpools, held back, grow fierce

Trying to flood over What is this feeling?

I want to dip my hand into the sky’s blue All the people I’ve never met -

I want to meet them, I want to talk to them I wish tomorrow and the day after tomorrow would come all at once

I feel so impatient I want to walk beyond the horizon

And yet, I want to stay right here on this patch of grass, motionlessI want to call out to someone in a loud voice

And yet, I want to be alone in silenceWhat is this feeling?

A Rite was commissioned by Carolina Performing Arts at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Additional commissioning support provided by: The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College.

The creation of new work by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company is made possible by the Company’s Partners in Creation: Ellen Poss, Jane Bovingdon Semel & Terry Semel; Anne Delaney; Stephen & Ruth Hendel; Eleanor Friedman; and Zoe Eskin.

A Rite was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

With Special Thanks to: Yayoi Ikawa, Timothy Hambourger, Severine Neff and Daniel Bernard Roumain.

MESSAGE FROM THE CENTER: What is this feeling?

More than 100 years ago as Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring hit the Paris stage in a powerful explosion of never-before heard sounds and movement audiences found themselves asking this question. The Rite of Spring was provoking, it caused riots, it instigated critique and dialogue, and while the movement vocabulary of Vaslav Nijinsky and avant-garde compositional approach of Stravinsky confronted audiences at the time, the music is largely considered to be one of the most important works of the 20th century.

In honor of this iconic work at its 2013 centennial, two vital American artists and their companies dove headfirst into the feelings instigated by The Rite of Spring over the course of its revolutionary start and evolutionary influence.

SITI Company, as led by Anne Bogart, and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, are both known and revered for their sense of curiosity, for their collaborative spirit and commitment to cultural exchange. Working on A Rite provided a chance for two unique and likeminded artistic communities to work together and explore the potential of one another in service of artists who came before and cracked open profound new possibilities in the confluence of music, theater and dance.

And explore they did, for more than a year, with Jones constantly advocating for the performers and creators to embrace the visceral sensation of the source work, to “get the music into our bones,” while Bogart was driven by the cerebral, theoretical and historical and sociological ramifications of The Rite of Spring.

What you are about to experience tonight is a remarkable feat in the art of performance. This weekend’s two performances are among the final times these two extraordinary companies will share the stage together, sharing with us the profound results of the rites they collectively brought to life in service of art, of sensation, of inspiration, of converging themes, ideas and creative modalities.

We are proud to honor that collaboration here on this stage and in your company.

DIRECTORS’ NOTES A Rite is the resulting expression of the alchemy of two communities, of two companies – a dance company and a theater company – encountering the legacy of Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring one hundred years after its birth. The reverberations felt in the work’s vast wake are woven through world wars, the formation and disintegration of nations, the birth of global culture and scientific changes that did nothing less than alter the way we live now. How do we begin to grapple with the significance of Rite of Spring’s very existence? How do we create a rite for our modern world, informed by the legacy of the original but containing the complexities and paradoxes of our own times? Everything that you will see and that you will experience onstage tonight contains the original score in its bones. But we are also dealing with the fragility of memory, the legacy of the work’s existence and humanity’s never-ending curiosity about the nature of the universe.

– Anne Bogart

As our creative team struggled to “get our arms” around this project, a never-ending challenge was whose Rite of Spring were we considering? Was it Nijinky’s epic making movement choices at the service of Stravinsky’s/Nicholas Roerich’s libretto/synopsis situated in the archaism of Russia’s pagan past complete with “primitive” movements and a sacrificial virgin? Or was it to be Stravinsky’s modernist re-write of the rules of composition and orchestration? Though the apparition of what was staged that night in Paris and the scandal of the opening performance confronted us regularly, we have – for the most part – tried to look past the libretto and engage the music and the 100-years old discourse around it with as fresh and personal an approach as possible.

– Bill T. Jones

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE DANCE COMPANYOver the past 32 years the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company has shaped the evolution of contemporary dance through the creation and performance of over 140 works. Founded as a multicultural dance company in 1982, the company was born of an 11-year artistic collaboration between Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane. Today, the company is recognized as one of the most innovative and powerful forces in the modern dance world. The company has performed its ever-enlarging repertoire worldwide in over 200 cities in 30 countries on every major continent. In 2011, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company merged with Dance Theater Workshop to form New York Live Arts, of which Bill T. Jones is the Artistic Director.

The repertory of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company is widely varied in its subject matter, visual imagery and stylistic approach to movement, voice and stagecraft and includes musically-driven works as well as works using a variety of texts. Some of its most celebrated creations are evening length works including Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land (1990, Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music); Still/Here (1994, Biennale de la Danse in Lyon, France); We Set Out Early… Visibility Was Poor (1996, Hancher Auditorium, Iowa City, IA); You Walk? (2000, European Capital of Culture 2000,Bolgna, Italy); Blind Date (2006, Peak Performances at Montclair State University); Chapel/Chapter (2006, Harlem Stage Gatehouse); Fondly Do We Hope… Fervently Do We Pray (2009, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park, IL); Another Evening: Venice/Arsenale (2010, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy); Story/Time (2012, Peak Performances); and A Rite (2013, Carolina Performing Arts at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill). The Company is also currently touring Body Against Body, an intimate and focused collection of duet works drawn from the Company’s 30-year history.

BILL T. JONESBill T. Jones (Artistic Director/Co-Founder/Choreographer) is the recipient of the 2014 Doris Duke Artist Award; the 2013 National Medal of Arts Award; 2010 Kennedy Center Honors; a 2010 Tony Award for Best Choreography of the critically acclaimed FELA!; a

2007 Tony Award, 2007 Obie Award, and 2006 Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation CALLAWAY Award for his choreography for Spring Awakening; the 2010 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award; the 2007 USA Eileen Harris Norton Fellowship; the 2006 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreography for The Seven; the 2005 Wexner Prize; the 2005 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement; the 2005 Harlem Renaissance Award; the 2003 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize; and the 1994 MacArthur “Genius” Award. In 2010, Mr. Jones was recognized as Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government, and In 2000, The Dance Heritage Coalition named Mr. Jones “An Irreplaceable Dance Treasure.”

Mr. Jones choreographed and performed worldwide with his late partner, Arnie Zane, before forming the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in 1982. He has created more than 140 works for his company. Mr. Jones is the named Artistic Director of New York Lives Arts, an organization that strives to create a robust framework in support of the nation’s dance and movement-based artists through new approaches to producing, presenting and educating. For more information visit www.newyorklivearts.org.

ARNIE ZANEArnie Zane(Co-Founder/Choreographer) (1948-1988) was a native New Yorker born in the Bronx and educated at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton. In 1971, Arnie Zane and Bill T. Jones began their long collaboration in choreography and in 1973 formed the American Dance Asylum in Binghamton with Lois Welk. Mr. Zane’s first recognition in the arts came as a photographer when he received a Creative Artists Public Service (CAPS) Fellowship in 1973. Mr. Zane was the recipient of a second CAPS Fellowship in 1981 for choreography, as well as two Choreographic Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1983 and 1984). In 1980, Mr. Zane was co-recipient (with Bill T. Jones) of the German Critics Award for his work Blauvelt Mountain. Rotary Action, a duet with Mr. Jones, was filmed for television, co-produced by WGBH-TV Boston and Channel 4 in London.

NEW YORK LIVE ARTSLocated in the heart of Chelsea in New York City, New York Live Arts is an internationally recognized destination for innovative movement-based artistry offering audiences access to art and artists notable for their conceptual rigor, format experimentation and active engagement with the social, political and cultural currents of our times. At the center of this identity is Bill T. Jones, a world-renowned choreographer, dancer, theater director and writer.

New York Live Arts was formed in 2011 by the merger of Dance Theater Workshop and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Inspired by the legacies of Mr. Jones and Dance Theater Workshop, New York Live Arts is a vibrant hub of contemporary dance and movement based experimentation, offering audiences meaningful experiences that are both thought provoking and intimate. We commission, produce and present performances in our 19,326 square foot facility, which houses a 184-seat theater and two sizable studios that can be combined into one large studio. New York Live Arts serves as home base for the internationally acclaimed touring company of Mr. Jones, provides an extensive range of participatory programs for adults and young people and supports the continuing professional development of artists. Our influence extends beyond NYC through our international cultural exchange program that currently places artists in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. www.newyorklivearts.org.

New York Live Arts Board of Directors:Richard H. Levy, ChairHelen Haje, Vice ChairStephen Hendel, Vice ChairTerence Dougherty, SecretaryJean Davidson, Chief Executive Officer, Ex-OfficioBill T. Jones, Artistic Director, Ex-OfficioJoseph Azrack, Treasurer

Bjorn AmelanDerek BrownMuna El FituriColleen KeeganHelen MillsSlobodan RandjelovicJane Bovingdon SemelCatharine R. StimpsonDavid ThomsonKweli WashingtonJudith Zarin

New York Live Arts 219 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011+1 212 691-6500 / Fax: +1 212 633-1974www.newyorklivearts.org

North American Representation by: Opus 3 Artists470 Park Avenue South, 9th FloorNew York, NY 10016+ 1 212 584-7500 Email: info@opus3artists.com; opus3artists.com

European representation by: Gillian Newson AssociatesOffice + 44 20 7622 8549 Mobile + 44 7768 166381Email: gillian@gilliannewson.com

SITI COMPANYSITI Company is an ensemble-based theater company whose three ongoing components are the creation of new work, the training of young theater artists, and a commitment to international collaboration. SITI was founded in 1992 by Anne Bogart and Tadashi Suzuki to redefine and revitalize contemporary theater in the United States through an emphasis on international cultural exchange and collaboration. Originally envisioned as a summer institute in Saratoga Springs, New York, SITI has expanded to encompass a year-round program based in New York City with a summer season in Saratoga. SITI believes that contemporary American theater must necessarily incorporate artists from around the world and learn from the resulting cross-cultural exchange of dance, music, art and performance experiences.

SITI Company is: Akiko Aizawa, J. Ed Araiza, Anne Bogart, Will Bond, Gian-Murray Gianino, Leon Ingulsrud, Ellen Lauren, Kelly Maurer, Charles L. Mee, Jr., Tom Nelis, Barney O’Hanlon, Neil Patel, James Schuette, Brian H Scott, Megan Wanlass, Stephen Duff Webber and Darron L West.

SITI MissionSITI Company was built on the bedrock of ensemble. We believe that through the practice of collaboration, a group of artists working together over time can have a significant impact upon both contemporary theater and the world at large.

Through our performances, educational programs, and collaborations with other artists and thinkers, SITI Company will continue to challenge the status quo, train to achieve artistic excellence in every aspect of our work, and offer new ways of seeing and of being as both artists and as global citizens.

SITI Company is committed to providing a gymnasium-for-the-soul where the interaction of art, artists, audiences and ideas inspire the possibility for change, optimism and hope.

Founded in 1992 by Anne Bogart, Tadashi Suzuki, and a group of likeminded artists, SITI Company began as an agreement to redefine and revitalize contemporary theater in the United States through an emphasis on international cultural exchange, training and collaboration. Originally envisioned as a summer institute in Saratoga Springs, New York, SITI expanded to encompass a year-round Season inclusive of touring, the creation of new work and running a Conservatory program for 9 months of the year to cultivate the next generation of independent theater artists. Based in New York City, SITI Continues to operate its international training program during its summer season in Saratoga. The Company

is known nationally and internationally as a top-level artistic collective that generates groundbreaking theater.

In addition to Co-Artistic Directors Anne Bogart, Leon Ingulsrud and Ellen Lauren, SITI Company is comprised of eight actors, four designers and a playwright. The company represents a change in thinking about the relationships between artists and institutions. Offering performances from our varied repertoire, and workshops in the unique theater training we champion, SITI Company is dedicated to establishing long lasting relationships with theater presenters and their communities around the world.

SITI Company Board of DirectorsAnne BogartGigi BoltBarbara Cummings (Vice-Chair)Rena Chelouche FogelChristopher L. Healy (Treasurer)Kim Ima (Secretary)Leon IngulsrudKevin KuhlkeEllen LaurenThomas MallonKelly MaurerCharles L. MeeRuth Nightengale (Chair) Annie Pell

Emeritus BoardNicole Borrelli HearnMatthew BregmanLynn & Ronald CohenMartha CoigneyJim CummingsJudy GuidoLeonard PerfidoDaniel C. SmithJaan Whitehead

ANNE BOGART (Co-Artistic Director) is one of the three Co-Artistic Directors of the SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. She is a Professor at Columbia University where she runs the Graduate Directing Program. Works with SITI include Persians, Steel Hammer, A Rite, Café Variations, Trojan Women (After Euripides), American Document, Antigone, Under Construction, Freshwater, Who Do You Think You Are, Radio Macbeth, Hotel Cassiopeia, Death and the Ploughman, La Dispute, Score, bobrauschenbergamerica, Room, War of the Worlds–the Radio Play, Cabin Pressure, Alice’s Adventures, Culture of Desire, Bob, Going, Going, Gone, Small Lives/Big Dreams, The Medium, Noel Coward’s Hay Fever and Private Lives, August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, and Charles Mee’s Orestes. She is the author of five books: A Director Prepares; The Viewpoints Book; And Then, You Act; Conversations with Anne, and What’s the Story.

SITI Company Exclusive Worldwide Tour RepresentationRena Shagan Associates16A West 88th StreetNew York, NY 10024(212) 873-9700 / (212) 873-1708 (fax)www.shaganarts.com

CAST AND CREW BIOS

AKIKO AIZAWA (Actor) joined SITI Company in 1997. With SITI: Persians, Steel Hammer, A Rite, Café Variations, Radio Macbeth, Trojan Women (After Euripides), American Document, Antigone, Under Construction, Who Do You Think You Are, bobrauschenbergamerica, Freshwater, Hotel Cassiopeia, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Intimations for Saxophone, La Dispute, War of the Worlds–the Radio Play, Culture of Desire and systems/layers. Theaters/festivals include BAM, the Public Theater, Wexner Center, American Repertory Theater, Arena Stage, Joyce Theater, ArtsEmerson, Krannert Center, Los Angeles Opera, New York Theatre Workshop, New York Live Arts, Carolina Performing Arts and Getty Villa. International festivals/venues include: Edinburgh, Dublin, Bonn, Bobigny, Helsinki, Tbilisi, Melbourne, Bogota, São Paulo, Tokyo, Toga and Moscow.

WILL BOND (Actor), is a founding member of SITI Company. International tours include The Medium, Small Lives/Big Dreams, Bob ( Drama Desk Nomination best solo performance), War of the Worlds, bobrauschenbergamerica, Death and the Ploughman, Radio Macbeth, Antigone, and Persians - commissioned by and performed at the Getty Villa in Los Angeles this past summer. He has toured in Tadashi Suzuki’s Dionysus and Robert Wilson’s Persephone. Original works include I’ll Crane For You, a solo dance work commissioned from Deborah Hay; The Perfect Human V.1, Option Delete, and a 2013 EMPAC DANCE MOViEs commission Lost & Found all with Marianne Kim. He is newly published in the 2013 Routledge Companion to Stanislavsky.

ANTONIO BROWN (Dancer) a native of Cleveland, OH, began his dance training at the Cleveland School of the Arts and received his B.F.A. from The Juilliard School in 2007 under the direction of Lawrence Rhodes. While there, he performed works by Ohad Naharin, Jose Limon, Jiri Kylian, Eliot Feld, Aszure Barton, Jessica Lang, Susan Marshall and Larry Keigwin, among others.

Mr. Brown has also worked with Malcolm Low/Formal Structure, Stephen Pier, Nilas Martins Dance Company, Sidra Bell Dance New York and Camille A. Brown & Dancers. In addition to working with the company, Mr. Brown also performs with Gregory Dolbashian’s “The Dash Ensemble” and has choreographed on Verb Ballets, August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble, Perry Mansfield Performing Arts School and Camp and various other companies, schools and intensives across the United States. Mr. Brown’s work has also been shown at The Juilliard School, Center for Performance Research, NYC Summer Stage, Riverside Church and Hunter College. Mr. Brown joined the company in 2007 and is grateful to share his gifts and talents with the world.

RENA BUTLER (Dancer) is a native of Chicago, IL. She studied under the instruction of Anna Paskevska and Randy Duncan at The Chicago Academy for the Arts high school. Ms. Butler received her B.F.A from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance, and also studied dance abroad at Taipei National University of the Arts in Taiwan. She graduated cum laude and was the recipient of the Bert Terborgh Dance Award. Ms. Butler has also danced for Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion, David Dorfman Dance, Luna Negra Dance Theater, Mettin Movement and salsa dance company Pasos Con Sabor. Ms. Butler was featured in Dance Magazine’s March 2013 article ‘On the Rise’, FORMA collective magazine and online fashion and culture site, ‘Refinery29’.

CAIN COLEMAN, JR. (Dancer) started his dance training in high school at The Center for The Arts at Henrico High. He later joined The City Dance Theatre of Richmond, VA. After training at the Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase, he began dancing with Philadanco and The Martha Graham Dance Company. He has performed works by Paul Taylor, George Balanchine, Martha Graham, Talley Beaty, George Fazon, Christopher Huggins, Ray Mercer and many more. He has been seen on Good Morning America, Good Morning New York and So You Think you Can Dance. As an emerging choreographer he has presented works at

Purchase College, Regional Dance Association, The Girl Effect Project, Bare Bones Dance Project, and has produced a few of his own shows. Mr. Coleman joined the Company in 2014.

LEON INGULSRUD (Co-Artistic Director and Actor), is one of the three Co-Artistic Directors and helped found SITI Company. He has appeared in Orestes, Seven Deadly Sins (New York City Opera), Nicholas & Alexandra (LA Opera), bobrauschenbergamerica, Hotel Cassiopeia, Who Do You Think You Are, Radio Macbeth, Under Construction, Antigone, American Document with Martha Graham Dance Company, War of the Worlds–the Radio Play, Trojan Women (After Euripides), Café Variations, Continuous Replay with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and A Rite with SITI and BTJ/AZ. Previous to SITI, Mr. Ingulsrud was a member of the Suzuki Company of Toga for seven years, during which time Mr. Ingulsrud also served as a resident director at the ATM Arts Center in Mito, Japan. Mr. Ingulsrud served two years as the Associate Artistic Director of Swine Palace in Baton Rouge, LA. Mr. Ingulsrud has taught in workshops and universities around the world, translates Japanese theater texts into English, and holds an MFA in directing from Columbia. He also appears in AMC’s western series Hell On Wheels.

TALLI JACKSON (Dancer) was born and raised in Liberty, NY. He received his first training with Livia Vanaver at the Vanaver Caravan Dance Institute in upstate New York. He has been a recipient of full scholarships from the American Dance Festival in ‘06 and ’08, the Bates Dance Festival, and the Ailey School. Since moving to New York City in 2006, Mr. Jackson has had the pleasure of working with Francesca Harper, Paul Matteson and Erick Montes. In 2013, Mr. Jackson was honored with a Princess Grace Award in dance. He has been a member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company since 2009.

SHAYLA-VIE JENKINS (Senior Dancer), originally from Ewing, NJ, received her primary dance instruction from Watson Johnson Dance Theater and Mercer County Performing Arts School. In 2004, she graduated with honors from the Ailey/Fordham B.F.A.

program. She has performed with The Kevin Wynn Collection, Nathan Trice Rituals, Kazuko Hirabayashi, The Francesca Harper Project, Yaa Samar Dance Theater, and A Canary Torsi. In 2008, she was featured in Dance Magazine’s “On The Rise” performers. Ms. Jenkins joined the Company in 2005.

ELLEN LAUREN (Co-Artistic Director and Actor) is one of the SITI’s three Co- Artistic Directors, a founding member and head of SITI’s Educational Programming. Her credits include Persians; Trojan Women (After Euripides) (Getty Villa); A Rite with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company; Café Variations; Under Construction; Radio Macbeth; Who Do You Think You Are; American Document with Martha Graham Dance Company; Death and the Ploughman; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Room; bobrauschenbergamerica; Hotel Cassiopeia; systems/layers; War of the Worlds–the Radio Play; Cabin Pressure; The Medium; Culture of Desire; Going, Going, Gone and Orestes. Festivals include Bonn Germany, Iberoamericano Bogota, BAM Next Wave, Humana, Bobigny, Melbourne, Edinburgh, Singapore. Wexner Center, Krannert Center and Walker Art Center. In New York: New York Live Arts, NYTW, CSC, The Women’s Project, Miller Theatre, The Public Theater, City Opera at Lincoln Center and Joyce Theater. Regional credits with SITI include San Jose Rep, ART Cambridge, Court Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare and Actors Theatre of Louisville. Additional credits include The Women (Hartford Stage), Seven Deadly Sins (New York City Opera, Kosovar Award for Anna II) Marina: A Captive Spirit, all with Anne Bogart. Resident company member: StageWest Theatre, Mass; The Milwaukee Repertory; The Alley Theatre, Houston. Associate artist WITH The Suzuki Company of Toga (SCOT) under the direction of Tadashi Suzuki. Credits include: Dionysus, Oedipus, Waiting for Romeo, and King Lear. For over 6 years headed the Toga International Suzuki Training Summer Program in Toga, Japan. Ongoing faculty member at The Juilliard School of Drama since 1995 and in 2014 directed the final show for Group 44. Fox Fellowship recipient for Distinguished Achievement in 2008- 2010. Published in American Theater, January 2011 – In Search of Stillness.

I-LING LIU (Dancer), a native of Taiwan, received her B.F.A. from Taipei National University of the Arts in 2005. She has performed with Ku and Dancers, Taipei Crossover Dance Company, Image in Motion Theater Company, Neo-Classic Dance Company and in works by Trisha Brown, Lin Hwai-Min and Yang Ming-Lung. Ms. Liu joined the Company as an apprentice in 2007 and became a member of the Company in 2008.

ERICK MONTES CHAVERO (Senior Dancer), originally from Mexico City, trained at the National School of Classical and Contemporary Dance. In 2004 he was featured in Dance Magazine’s “25 To Watch”. He holds a fellowship in choreography from The New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2009, he was part of the program In the Company of Men at Dance New Amsterdam. He has been part of the River to River Festival in collaboration with DJ Spooky, The Boogie Down Dance Series at Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, and has been presenting his work in collaboration with the choreographers Bill Young and Colleen Thomas for the Gorillas-Fest and The LIT Festival, The Tank at DCTV, and E-Moves at The Gatehouse/Harlem Stage. In 2010 he worked in collaboration with choreographers Jennifer Nugent and Yin Mey in the creation of a Ballet for the National Dance Academy of Beijing, China. He has presented his choreography in Mexico, Colombia and Spain. Mr. Montes-Chavero joined the company in 2003.

JENNIFER NUGENT (Dancer), is originally from Miami, FL. She was a member of David Dorfman Dance and has performed with Martha Clarke, Daniel Lepkoff, Lisa Race, Nina Winthrop, Kate Weare, Bill Young, Colleen Thomas, Gerri Houlihan, and Dale Andre. She has been a guest artist at universities and dance festivals throughout the U.S., Russia, Korea and Vietnam. Ms. Nugent joined the Company in 2009.

JOSEPH POULSON (Dancer), originally from Philadelphia, PA, received undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Iowa and Bennington College, respectively. From 2000 to 2010 he was a member of Susan Marshall & Company, David Dorfman Dance, Bill Young/Colleen Thomas and Dancers, Creach/Co and Acanarytorsi, receiving a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award in 2009. He has also performed with Elena Demyanenko, Jeanine Durning, Mark Morris Dance Group, Lisa Race, Susan Scorbatti, Peter Schmitz, Will Swanson and Punchdrunk’s New York production of Sleep No More. Mr. Poulson joined the Company in summer 2012.

JENNA RIEGEL (Dancer), a native of Fairfield, IA, has been a New York-based dancer, performer and teacher since 2007. Ms. Riegel holds an M.F.A. in Dance Performance from the University of Iowa and a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Maharishi University of Management. She has performed and toured nationally and internationally as a company member of David Dorfman Dance, Alexandra/Beller Dances, Bill Young/Colleen Thomas & Dancers, johannes weiland and Tania Isaac Dance. Ms. Riegel began working with the Company as a guest artist in 2010 and was ecstatic to join the Company in 2011.

STEPHEN DUFF WEBBER (Actor), has performed with SITI all over the world since 1994 in Persians; Steel Hammer; A Rite; Café Variations; American Document; Antigone; Radio Macbeth (Macbeth); Hotel Cassiopeia; Under Construction; Freshwater; Death and the Ploughman; War of the Worlds–the Radio Play (Orson Welles), bobrauschenbergamerica; systems/layers (with Rachel’s); La Dispute; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Cabin Pressure; Going, Going, Gone; Culture of Desire; The Medium; Private Lives; Hay Fever and Short Stories. New York: Death and the Ploughman (CSC), War of the Worlds–the Radio Play, Hotel Cassiopeia, A Rite (BAM), Culture of Desire (NYTW), Trojan Women 2.0 (En Garde Arts), Freshwater (Women’s Project), The Golden Dragon (PlayCo), Radio Macbeth (Public), American

Document (Joyce), Antigone (NYLA) and Radio Play (Joe’s Pub). Regional: American Repertory Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville (Betrayal, Glengarry Glen Ross), Milwaukee Repertory Theater, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Magic Theatre, Portland Stage Company, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Court Theatre and Stage West.

STACEY BOGGS (Lighting Supervisor) is a New York-based lighting designer whose works include Theatre Three’s The Diary of Anne Frank, CAT’s Inside/Out, 651’s Soundtrack 63, Waterwell’s Marco Millions (based on lies), The|King|Operetta, #9, I Love a Piano (national tour). She has designed with choreographers Robert Moses, Troy Powell, Christopher Wheeldon and Mina Yoo. She has worked as a Lighting Supervisor for The Wooster Group and as the Technical and Lighting Director for Ailey II. Ms. Boggshas worked at Glimmerglass Opera, Florida Grand Opera and Michigan Opera Theater. Ms. Boggs has designed the lighting for many window displays in the New York City area. She graduated from NYU’s Graduate Design program in 2005. Ms. Boggs joined the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in 2013.

SAM CRAWFORD (Sound Supervisor, Associate Sound Designer) completed degrees in English and Audio Technology at Indiana University in 2003. A move to New York City led him to Looking Glass Studios where he worked on film projects with Philip Glass and Björk. His recent sound designs and compositions have included works for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company (Venice Biennale, 2010), Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion (Pavement, 2012), and David Dorfman Dance (Lincoln Center Out of Doors, 2012). He currently holds positions as both Sound Supervisor for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and Music Director for David Dorfman Dance. He also plays lap steel and banjo in various groups, including Bowery Boy Blue (Brooklyn) and Corpus Christi (Rome).

HANNAH EMERSON (Company Manager) completed her BFA in Contemporary Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 2011. While enrolled, she studied with and was

selected to perform works by many respected dance artists. She moved to NYC shortly after being awarded the William R. Kenan, Jr. Fellowship at the Lincoln Center Institute. Choosing to remain in the northeast, she has held administrative positions at New York Live Arts and The Yard while continuing to be artistically involved in the dance community. Ms. Emerson joined the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in 2014.

JOSEPH FUTRAL (Production Manager) has worked offstage for the dance world for over 20 years. Previous work includes Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Jose Limon Dance, American Dance Festival, Pilobolus, Charleston Ballet Theatre, Augusta Ballet including productions with Wynton Marsalis Septet and Odeon, Spoleto Festival, USA; New York International Fringe Festival, and Fred Garbo’s Inflatable Theatre Company. Lighting design includes Atlanta’s Theatrical Outfit, Saiah Arts International’s Terminus and Moby Dick, Moving in the Spirit, choreographer Blake Beckham, Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre, Ballethnic Dance Company, Lee Harper and Dancers, Jomandi Theatre, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, events for Amherst College, Yale University, Saab, and Buick and serving on the Board of Directors for Full Radius Dance. Mr. Futral joined the company in 2015.

CARLEY MANION (Stage Manager) is an Oregon native. While studying at the University of Oregon for her B.F.A. in dance, she started stage management. She continued work in dance at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival and there worked with many companies throughout four years. The Pillow served as the perfect doorway into the dance world and Ms. Manion stepped through it eagerly. Before taking her position as Stage Manager for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in 2014, she worked with the Trisha Brown Dance Company, Kyle Abraham and Camille A. Brown among others.

KYLE MAUDE (Director of Producing and Touring) graduated from Drake University with a BFA in Theatre. She has worked

with Ballet Tech/Feld Ballets New York, The Royal Ballet School of London, Buglisi-Foreman Dance, and Lesbian Pulp-o-Rama! Ms. Maude joined the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in 2003.

JAMES SCHUETTE (Costume Designer) has designed over 15 productions for SITI Company. Recent work includes set and/or costume designs for Paula Vogel’s Civil War Christmas directed by Tina Landau (New York Theatre Workshop), Carmen directed by Anne Bogart (Glimmerglass), Sweet Bird of Youth directed by David Cromer (Goodman Theatre), The March written and directed by Frank Galati (Steppenwolf), Norma (Washington National Opera), Belleville (Steppenwolf), Champion directed by James Robinson and Pirates of Penzance directed by Sean Curran (Opera Theatre of St Louis). His work has been seen at the American Repertory Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, American Conservatory Theater, Arena Stage, Berkeley Rep, Court Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Minneapolis Children’s Theatre, Long Wharf, La Jolla Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Theatre Workshop, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, Papermill Playhouse, Seattle Rep, Trinity Rep, Vineyard Theatre, Yale Rep, Boston Lyric Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera, New York City Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and Minnesota Opera. Upcoming projects include Dolores Claiborne (San Francisco Opera), Ricky Ian Gordon’s 27 (Opera Theatre of St Louis) and Dr. Sun Yat-Sen (Santa Fe Opera).

SUNNEVA STAPLETON (Stage Manager) is beyond excited to be joining SITI and BTJ on this production. Other credits include The Untitled Feminist Show (YJLTC), Horsedreams (Rattlestick), The Tenant (Woodshed Collective), Civilization (Clubbed Thumb), We’re Gonna Die (YJLTC/13P), Roadkill Confidential (Clubbed Thumb), Zero Hour (13P), Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War (Mad Ones), Signs of Life (Amas Musical Theatre), Creature (New Georges/Page 73 Productions), I Have Been to Hiroshima Mon Amour (Voice & Vision/Crossing Jamaica Avenue),

Frequency Hopping (Hourglass Group), Beebo Brinker Chronicles (Harriet Leve), Serenade (Jaradoa Theater), Trouble in Paradise (Hourglass Group). BFA from Webster University.

ROBERT WIERZEL (Lighting Designer) has worked with choreographer Bill T. Jones and the BTJ/AZ Dance Company since 1985. Projects include Blind Date, Another Evening/I Bow Down, Still/Here, You Walk?, Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land, How To Walk An Elephant, and We Set Out Early, Visibility Was Poor, among many others. Additional works with Bill T. Jones include projects at the Guthrie Theatre, Lyon Opera Ballet, Deutsche Opera Ballet (Berlin), Boston Ballet, Boston Lyric Opera, the Welsh dance company Diversions, and London’s Contemporary Dance Trust. Robert has also worked with choreographers Trisha Brown, Doug Varone, Donna Uchizono, Larry Goldhuber, Heidi Latsky, Sean Curran, Molissa Fenley, Susan Marshall, Margo Sappington, Alonzo King, Liz Gerring and Andrea Miller. Additional credits include national and international opera companies, Broadway (FELA!) and many regional theaters throughout the USA and Canada. Mr. Wierzel is currently on the faculty of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in NYC.

JANET WONG (Associate Artistic Director) was born in Hong Kong and trained in Hong Kong and London. Upon graduation she joined the Berlin Ballet where she first met Bill T. Jones when he was invited to choreograph on the company. In 1993, she moved to New York to pursue other interests. Ms. Wong became Rehearsal Director of the Company in 1996 and Associate Artistic Director in August 2006.

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