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UA DANCE 2014/15 SEASON

THE TEN SERIES

EXPERIENCE

2014/15 UA DANCE SEASON

THE ARTISTRY WITHIN

Last year the UA Dance Ensemble celebrated ten years of performing in the Stevie Eller Dance Theatre. Powered by 140 dancers, all trained in ballet, modern and jazz, our TEN SERIES will reach back to the past, reveal the present, and with you as our audience take part in defining the future. The UA Dance Ensemble has made thirteen trips to eight different countries, and has performed in important venues in this country as well, including the Kennedy Center in D.C. and most recently the Joyce Theatre in NYC. But Stevie Eller Dance Theatre is our home, and you as our audience will share in those precious moments when, “in the blink of an eye,” something never done before takes place on the Stevie Eller stage. TEN not only acknowledges the past decade, but refers to our aspirations for excellence. Like Nadia Comaneci, the first female gymnast to score a 10 in an Olympic event, we believe in dreams. This is your invitation to dream with us!

-Jory Hancock, Director School of Dance, Stevie Eller Endowed Chair

EXPERIENCE

2014/15 UA DANCE SEASON

CONCERT CALENDARPREMIUM BLEND

Thursday October 23 7:30pm

Friday October 24 7:30pm

Saturday October 25 7:30pm

Sunday October 26 1:30pm

Thursday October 30 7:30pm

Friday October 31 7:30pm

Saturday November 1 7:30pm

Sunday November 2 1:30pm

IN FOCUS STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

Thursday December 4 7:30pm

Friday December 5 7:30pm

Saturday December 6 7:30pm

Sunday December 7 1:30pm

COLOR WHEEL

Wednesday February 25 7:30pm

Thursday February 26 7:30pm

Friday February 27 7:30pm

Saturday February 28 1:30pm

Saturday February 28 7:30pm

Sunday March 1 1:30pm

SPRING COLLECTION Friday April 24 7:30pm

Saturday April 25 7:30pm

Sunday April 26 1:30pm

Friday May 1 7:30pm

Saturday May 2 7:30pm

Sunday May 3 1:30pm

BOUNDLESS STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

Thursday April 23 7:30pm

Saturday April 25 1:30pm

Thursday April 30 7:30pm

Saturday May 2 1:30pm

BOX OFFICEOnline: tickets.arizona.eduPhone: (520) 621 - 1162Fax: (520) 626 - 8052In person: lobby of Marroney TheatreHours: 12 - 4pm

NEW LEGACY GIFTSCreating legacies of their own are:

Tom and Cande Grogan for the Grogan Initiative for Advanced Theatre Technology

Ken and Linda Robin for development of the Ken and Linda Robin Costume Lab and the Ken and Linda Robin Fund for Ballet Masterworks

Thom Sherwood and John Fikkan for the Fikkan and Sherwood Fund for Dance

SEASON SPONSORS

Photos by Ed Flores featuring UA Dance Ensemble members. Front cover from left to right: Hutch Hagendorf, Matthew Lynady, Joe Novak, Brandon Coleman, Alex McBride and Danielle Farzanegan. Left page featuring Danielle Farzanegan and Maxwell Foster. This page featuring Kevyn Butler, Nicholas Frey, Alexandra Yonkovich, Daniel Burgueno and Alexa Huey.Costume design by Jeremy Bernardoni. Program design by Ashley Bowman. Photo shoot concept by Melissa Lowe and Ashley Bowman.

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TRANSPORTSTEVIE ELLER DANCE THEATRE

Synonymous with UA Dance is the world-class Stevie Eller Dance Theatre. Not just a theatre, but a launching pad for innovative creative endeavors, a place where rigorous training meets limitless possibility.

Built in 2003, the 29,000 square foot complex houses a 300-seat state-of-the-art theatre, costume and scene shops, a Pilates studio, dressing rooms, and a 3500 square foot studio overlooking the UA campus. Recognized with two AIA awards, and included as one of “Arizona’s Greatest Architectural Wonders,” the Stevie Eller Dance Theatre is where the UA Dance experience begins. We invite you to join us as it unfolds.A SPACE THAT INSPIRES

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PREMIUM BLEND

The inaugural performances of our TEN SERIES begin with a piece we did ten years ago! Unbreakable, by Sam Watson and Christina Ernst, was selected to open the very first concert ever performed in Stevie Eller Dance Theatre. The piece, using 8 dancers to explore the intricacies of glass, is presented again to commemorate the decade of UA Dance performances on the Stevie Eller stage. Other pieces coming back include Michael Williams HER/HIM and, to the music of the brilliant composer, Astor Piazzolla, Amy Ernst’s clever Twisted Tango. Also capturing the power of major composers will be a new ballet by James Clouser called Five Studies in Locomotion. Showcasing music from Mozart to Moon Dog, including Shostakovich, Hough and Glazunov, this piece will keep you at the edge of your seat.

Not seen since first performed on Mainland China in 1988 will be a moving work called You Again, by Douglas Nielsen. This duet was originally created for identical twin dancers in the Guangdong Dance Company. To music by Chopin, and with a fresh look at partnering, this work will be re-staged for our UA Dance audience. Anchoring the program is Ben Stevenson’s masterwork, Four Last Songs.Set to Richard Strauss’s poignant, haunting songs of farewell, this work was hailed by The New York Times as “exquisite.” Four Last Songs has been performed by prestigious dance companies across the world including San Francisco Ballet, Chile’s Ballet de Santiago, and London’s English National Ballet.

OCTOBER 23 - 26OCTOBER 30 - NOVEMBER 2

SINGLE TICKET PRICESAdult $31Senior, Military $29UA Employee $29Student $15

Photo by Ed Flores featuring UA Dance Ensemble members Maxwell Foster, Diane Diamond and Benjamin Koehl in Ben Stevenson’s Four Last Songs.

Four Last Songs made possible through the generous support of: Mary Jo GhoryLoraine GroverSandy and Elliot HeimanSara NaylorHerschel and Jill Rosenzweigand the Ken and Linda Robin Fund for Ballet Masterworks

IN FOCUSSTUDENT SPOTLIGHT

Our TEN SERIES, reflecting a goal of some perfect score, might generate a number of questions. Have you wondered, for example, what our dancers’ schedules demand of them? What preparation must be done prior to your viewing the performance itself? In Focus refers to the drive and determination to be the best. The Student Spotlight concerts showcase student creativity through choreography and performance, and the work is fresh, engaging, sometimes edgy, and always danced with an esprit de corps that only the UA Dance Ensemble can offer. Our dancers are recruited from all parts of the country, and from Canada and Mexico as well. They gather in Tucson as our fall season starts, and from the first day they are FOCUSED on excellence and on the dream of becoming the most mature dance artists possible. What they do as members of the UA Dance Ensemble determine perhaps the next ten or twenty years of their professional careers. So they are focused on scoring a 10, and they are prepared to impress...

DECEMBER 4 - 7

SINGLE TICKET PRICESAdult $25Senior, Military $23UA Employee $23Student $12

Photo by Ed Flores featuring UA Dance Ensemble members Daniel Burgueno, Andrew DiGerolamo and Alexa Huey. Costume design by Jeremy Bernardoni.

In Focus- Student Spotlight is made possible through the generous support of Lori Mackstaller.

COLOR WHEEL

“In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.” Who doesn’t recall this memorable line from Locksley Hall, Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem of the 1800’s? Color Wheel, while not meant to be a concert about love, will play during our Sonoran Desert’s “spring season,” and certainly passion in all colors will be on display. The bill will include the return of James Clouser’s vivacious Con Spirito, dressed in a rainbow of apricot, raspberry and lime. To the overture of Bedrich Smetana’s Bartered Bride, this ballet quickly became Houston Ballet’s signature piece during Clouser’s time as artistic director, and has been in the repertoire of Washington Ballet, Ballet Chicago and Ballet International in London.

A contemporary work by new faculty member Tamara Dyke-Compton and a dance for three couples by Michael Williams, called Hearts a Mess, will add to the passion of the evening. George Balanchine’s effervescent Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux provides punch and affectionate interplay to the evening’s offerings. This famous pas de deux was first performed in 1960 by dance icons such as Violette Verdy and Edward Villella. Our audience was treated last year to a visit by Villella while here to coach Tarantella. And an award winning group dance by Douglas Nielsen takes a fascinating path to creativity. First commissioned by Pasadena Dance Theater, with a score condensed and compiled, as Nielsen explains, with “every song on my ipod with the word ‘love’ in it,” this piece offers a twist to our 19th century poet laureate’s musings about passion and the passing of time. The title, you ask? Here it is -- If You Don’t Leave Me, I’ll Find Someone Who Will. Join us for Color Wheel (and wear something bright…!)

FEBRUARY 18 - 22

SINGLE TICKET PRICESAdult $29Senior, Military $26UA Employee $26Student $12

Photo by Ed Flores featuring UA Dance Ensemble members Kevyn Butler, Drew Robinson, Brooke Brady, Alexandra Yonkovich, Jordon Merritt and Malaika Cambridge. Costume design by Jeremy Bernardoni.

Tchaikovsky Pas De Deux made possible through the generous support of Jean Wagner and the Ken and Linda Robin Fund for Ballet Masterworks.

SPRINGCOLLECTION

Aptly titled, this concert is always a collection of faculty and guest choreography to celebrate the close of another season of UA Dance. The bouquet is fresh! New works by faculty include a small ensemble modern piece by Amy Ernst, a large ensemble ballet by Elizabeth George, and a jazz dance by Michael Williams designed to close the concert. Sam Watson will contribute new jazz choreography; Barbea Williams will mount a dance with African roots; and James Clouser will stage an intimate ballet piece. Douglas Nielsen, with a knack for creating work that asks questions, will present a new group piece entitled The Wrong Dance. Inspired by a photograph by artist John Baldessari, which was taken deliberately at a ‘wrong’ angle – breaking conventional logic – this dance explores the notion that in art (and dance) there is no wrong. Please join us for this concert and for the season! A subscription to the TEN SERIES will put you in a place where there is no wrong-- only energy, hope and exploration.

APRIL 24 - MAY 3

SINGLE TICKET PRICESAdult $29Senior, Military $26UA Employee $26Student $12

Photo by Ed Flores featuring UA Dance Ensemble member Bethany Schimonsky. Costume design by Jeremy Bernardoni.

This spring’s Student Spotlight is titled Boundless. Why?

Because our students, like so many on our UA campus, go beyond expectations, and beyond themselves. They uncover the past and reveal the future. They are the next generation of dance artists, about to break from the stage and fan out across a bigger world.

Their energy on stage pulses-- a shock wave of creativity from ground to air and back again, and they do have the power to make a difference. If you, as audience, have seen them you know, because they have made a difference for you.

The UA Dance Ensemble is part of the University of Arizona’s brand. The time spent on this campus is precious, especially for those who understand that they are “at the intersection of history and culture and research and vision.”

Our young artists are bound by their dedication to dance, but boundless in their dreams about what their futures will be.

APRIL 23 - MAY 2

BOUNDLESSSTUDENT SPOTLIGHT

SINGLE TICKET PRICESAdult $25Senior, Military $23UA Employee $23Student $12

Boundless - Student Spotlight is made possible through the generous support of Lori Mackstaller.

OUTSIDE YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONINSIDE YOUR CALENDAR

Can a collection of photographs be considered a dance?Can an exhibition, or even a single image, be perceived as a performance? UA Dance Professor Douglas Nielsen has been collecting contemporary photography since the 1970’s. Like a dance, a collection is assembled step by step. Every photograph is a choice – and any exhibit can be viewed as a choreographic work – arranged in a sequence with a rhythm all it’s own. Granted, without dependency on music, but as John Cage once said, “There is no such thing as silence”. Over 100 images from the personal collection of choreographer Douglas Nielsen represent 60 prominent fine art photographers including Diane Arbus, John Baldessari, Nancy Burson, Jo Ann Callis, Jimmy De Sana, Nan Goldin, Philippe Halsman, Duane Michals, Bruce Nauman, Catherine Opie, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, and Joel Peter-Witkin. A series of dance performances by UA School of Dance students will be offered in the CCP galleries in response to the collection throughout the opening and closing dates of the exhibition.

Official opening September 18, 2014. Other dates and times will be posted in advance of each event.

Please visit creativephotography.org for more information.

CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE DOUGLAS NIELSEN COLLECTION

CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY

Jo Ann Callis, Performance, 1985©Jo Ann Callis courtesy of Rose Gallery

August 9, 2014 – January 4, 2015

JAZZ in AZ ONE ACT ONE HOUR

September 30, October 1, October 2, 2014 - 7:30pm

JAZZ in AZ is One Act and One Hour. This fast paced show has a sampling of jazz, tap and contemporary dance. The repertoire includes guest choreographer Sherry Zunker’s Evolution of a Dream, Michael Williams’s Her/Him, Michael and Gianni Howell’s PuckerUP and Michael and Tamara Dyke-Compton’s La Danza de Dominación. Other works to round out this appealing program are Amy Ernst’s And So… and excerpts from Sam Watson’s Tales and Rhymes.

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Please note that JAZZ in AZ and the contemporary photography event are not part of your season subscription.

Photo by Ed Flores featuring UA Dance Ensemble member, Gianni Howell.

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The UA Dance Ensemble is comprised of 140 premier dancers from across the country, and the world, pursuing a rigorous degree in dance at the University of Arizona School of Dance. Trained in ballet, modern, and jazz, the dancers of the UA Dance Ensemble embody the now and are the sculptors of tomorrow’s cultural landscape.

With your support, we achieve excellence in dance education, artistic innovation, and bring meaningful dance experiences to the Tucson community and beyond.

Photo by Ed Flores featuring UA Dance Ensemble members Alex McBride, Terra Kell, Allyson March, Brandon Coleman, Danielle Farzanegan, James Pfleger, Jadyn Reddy, Matthew Lynady, Hutch Hagendorf, Diane Diamond, Brooke Brady and Joe Novak. Costume design by Jeremy Bernardoni.

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A SEASON SUBSCRIPTION

If there is a basketball game which coincides with a UA Dance performance, and you, as a season subscriber, have purchased parking on the mall, you will still have a parking space on the mall. Guaranteed! There may be occasion when a rain contingency plan is put in place due to the lawns being too soaked to accommodate parking. In the event of rain and voucher permit displacement, the permits will be honored at the Second Street garage. The monitor will be moved to the entrance of the garage to welcome patrons and to provide them with a swipe exit pass. Also a 6-passenger golf cart will be provided on the SE corner outside the garage for guests and visitors wanting a ride to the Stevie Eller Dance Theatre.

Your parking pass will display the following language:• Due to inclement weather, if lawn is closed, vehicles will either be directed to park along curb of University or if occurs on same date of Men’s Basketball game, will be accommodated in the Second Street garage with cart service courtesy of UA Dance.• NO REFUNDS/NO EXCHANGES

IF there is a basketball game which coincides with a UA Dance performance, and you have NOT purchased parking on the mall, there will be parking available in the Second Street Garage, and a shuttle will take you to and from Stevie Eller Dance Theatre. Parking in that garage will carry a $5 pre-pay charge for those without mall passes, but the shuttle service is free to you. (Shuttle courtesy of UA Dance.)

WITH CONVENIENT PARKING

Parking is available in the Cherry Avenue Garage. Street parking and handicapped parking is available along Hawthorne near Warren and on 2nd Street. Meters are not enforced on evenings or weekends. There are surface lots on First Street between Martin and Campbell and on Sixth Street, directly south of The Stevie Eller Dance Theatre. Both lots are usually available on evenings and weekends as well.

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In FocusStudent Spotlight

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Boundless Student Spotlight

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DANCE. ARIZONA .EDU Photo by Ed Flores featuirng UA Dance Ensemble members Tamara Dyke-Compton and Christopher Compton in Douglas Nielsen’s, “Music of Regret.”