Dear Friend, The success of our '.40th Anniversary Season surpassed even our historically high standards. Critics and dance audiences alike acclaimed and congratulated Sharir+Bustamante DanceWorks for unyielding artistic exploration in new dance and interactive performance technologies. They recognized us for twenty years of boundary-breaking contributions to the Austin arts community. We thank you, a faithful friend of Sharir+Bustamante DanceWorks, for helping us to complete twenty seasons of artistic excellence in Austin. Now with great pleasure and anticipation, we kickoff Season '.41. S+BD's '.41St season is titled Regarding Reflection. Our edge-cutting technology and teeth-gnashing artistry will regard who and where we are today, and will reflect the collective right now. We want to provide a resurgence of new life and new attitude to Austin's new dance community. We will not redo, rerun, or revisit. We have recovered from the scramble to regroup in the wake of continuing local and national redistribution of arts funding. We bring you two concerts this season with images of bodies in space and motion that will dance in your remembrance long after the blackout has settled. It's true, the work we seek to present you in Season '.41 is the very best from the edge of the most treacherous peak of artistic exploration. Our season premiere: Sex, Lies, and Fairytales, features six new works by six Austin-area choreographers using video, poetry, and pop culture to weave myth and legend, narrative and theatrical, sculptural and abstract. Thank you for joining us here tonight. Also at the McCullough Theatre on May 14th and 15th, you will see Reflex, a concert with new work by Yacov Sharir, artistic director, and Jose Luis Bustamante, resident choreographer. Our ambitious goals for the season require your help. We need the physical contribution of your attendance at our concerts, planted firmly in your theater seat with your eyes wide open. We need intellectual backers to interrogate and respond to our work. And we need financial support to insure that we continue to present the most contemporary new dance in Austin. The climate for public arts funding remains rocky as politics and policies shift away from building and fostering cultural institutions. We have held our ground, and it is only with participation from you-the audience and the community. Thankyou for helping us to make Season~,: Regarding Reflection a real success. For more information please visit our new web-site at www.sbdanceworks.org, or call 51'.4-'.43'.4 5333. Thankyou for your continuing support of the arts. Sincerely, Yacov Sharir Laura Cannon Artistic Director Managing Director Sharir+ Bustamante Danceworks 21st Season ARTisnc/ ExECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Yacov Sharir Board ofDirectors RESIDENT CHOREOGRAPHER: Jose Luis Bustamante PRESIDENT: Jeremy Gibson MANAGING DIRECTOR: Laura Cannon V1cE PRESIDENT: Andrea Keene LIGHTING DESIGNER & PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR: SECRETARY: Sally Partridge Amarante L. Lucero Treasurer: Amanda Kellam Chris Barrios Dancers Adrienne Longenecker Laura Cannon Aaron Thibault Theresa Hardy Andee Scott Yacov Sharir brings a broad intelligence to his contributions in the field of dance-as performer, choreographer, dance educator, lecturer,and as well as founder (in 198'.4) and Artistic Director of Sharir+Bustamante Danceworks. Sharir received a prestigious 199'.4 fellowship from the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada to develop Virtual Bodies: Travel Within, a pioneering collaborative work that explored the combination of virtual reality technologies with live dance performance. Sharir's choreography has been showcased at international festivals in Israel, France and at the Future Moves Festival for dance and new technologies in Rotterdam, Holland.As one ofthe world's foremost authorities on art and technology, Yacov lectures and conducts workshops throughout the world and was a featured speaker at the National Endowment for the Arts conference, Art '.41: Art Reaches Into the '.41St Century in the spring of 1994. He was featured in the ACARTE97 in Lisbon, Portugal and at the "Man, Technology and Society" conference in Stockholm, Sweden. In the summer of 1998, Sharir directed a team of high school students, teachers, computer technicians, and artists in the creation of Robo-City, an interactive installation at Austin Children's Museum that engaged participants and viewers in the creative possibilities for several computer applications. In '.4001, the company produced Yacov's most ambitious dance and technology performance, The Automated Body Project, which received rave reviews in Austin. Lighting Designer &Production Supervisor Amarante L. Lucero, has been designing for over '.45 years. His primary focus is modern, contemporary and new dance. He is currently the resident designer and production manager for Sharir+Bustamante Danceworks and Southwest Jazz Ballet in Houston. His international experience includes credits with the Recontres Choregraphiques Internationales de Seine-St.-Denis, France; the Abderdeen Festival, Scotland; the Jakarta International School in Indonesia; La Compania N acional de Danza de Costa Rica; La Compania Nacional de Ballet de Ecuador; and the International Festival de Teatro por la Paz in Costa Rica. Additionally, he has worked in Venezuela, Peru, El Salvador, Mexico, Costa Rica, Holland, Tel Aviv, and Ecuador. Amarante also recently designed two performances for Eos Music at Lincoln Center in New York City. A 1989 Fulbright Scholar, Amarante's primary research focuses on cutting-edge digital technology, including the use of automated lighting for theatrical and dance events. In addition to dance, his work can be found in children's theater, television, music videos, operas and plays. His U.S. credits include the Old Globe Theatre, Pacific Conservatory for the PerformingArts, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Seattle Children's Theatre, and Childsplay in Phoenix, Arizona. Having received numerous awards and honors, Amarante in on the faculty of the Department ofTheatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin. Through The Mountain thick is the darkness, there is no light; he can see neither behind him nor ahead ofhim. CHOREOGRAPHY: Andrea Beckham Music: Billy Wolfe PERFORMERS: Laura Cannon, Shonna Walden, Jillian Ardoin (Friday only), Andrea Beckham (Saturday only) CosTUMES: Laura Cannon LIGHTING: Jessica LaBaugh Rapier TEXT: Gilgamesh, translated from Sin-leqi-unninnf version by John Gardner and John Maier (Random House Vintage Books, ©1984) Andrea Beckham Collaborative Dance is grateful to acknowledge assistance from the Friends of Gilgamesh Foundation, Inc. Compassionate Resolution of the Psychological Dilema CHOREOGRAPHY: Theresa Hardy DANCERS: Jose Luis Bustamante, Laura Cannon, Theresa Hardy' Allison Orr Music: Rooms by Jim Fredley, The Gash by The Flaming Lips VIDEO: Theresa Hardy CosTUMES: Theresa Hardy LIGHTING DESIGN: Jessica LaBaugh Rapier A Few Questions about Eurydice CoNCEPTIPERFORMER: Andee Scott NARRATOR: Abe Louise Young VIDEO EDITOR: DEB NORRIS LIGHTING DESIGN: GORDON w. OLSON Text contains excerpts from Bulfinch's Mythology Please note: This piece is for mature audiences only as it contains images of violence against women. Viewer discretion is advised. Members of the audience will be given the opportunity to leave the theatre before the performance of this piece. Intermission Extraordinary Day CHoREOGRAPHYNIDEOGRAPHY: Holly Williams ORIGINAL Music: Tim Kerr DANCERS: Andrea Beckham, David Justin, Scott Marlowe, Molly MacGregor, Daria Brigitte Neidre VIDEO PROJECTION DESIGN/CoNSTRUCTION: Rusty Cloyes VIDEO PERFORMERS: Kristen Glennon, Kelly Hasandras, Lindsey Taylor, Daria Brigitte Neidre, Jake Jackson, Zell Miller III, Nova Stanley ORIGINAL PoETRY: Zell Miller III VIDEO PRODUCTION Ass1sTANCE: Andrew Johnson, Scott Marlowe LIGHTING DESIGN: Jessica LaBaugh Rapier Rise CHOREOGRAPHY: Leslie Dworkin DANCERS: Laura Cannon, Leslie Dworkin, Nicole Russell, Ray Eliot Schwartz SouNDSCORE CONSTRUCTION: Kent De Spain CosTUMES: Laura Cannon LIGHTING DESIGN: Gordon W. Olson Special thanks to the dancers for their input in the creation of this piece. The King and I CHOREOGRAPHY: Allison Orr DANCERS: Karly Dillard, Terry Hardy and Allison Orr with C.B. Lawrence, Donnie Roberts and Victor Solimine SPECIAL Ass1sTANCE BY: David Quin, Benjamin Serrato, Blake Trabulsi Music: It's Impossible, Hurt, and Never Been to Spain by Elvis Presley CosTUMES: Laura Cannon LIGHTING DESIGN: Gordon W. Olson Production Manager: Amarante L. Lucero Stage Manager: Michael Madison Technical Director: Rusty Cloyes Bios SHARIR + BUSTAMANTE DANCEWORKS COMPANY MEMBERS This is Laura Cannon's sixth season performing with Sharir+Bustamante Danceworks and her second as their managing director. Laura has also performed with Sally Jacques, Deborah Hay and David Dorfman. She was nominated in boththe ~001 and ~oo3AustinCritics TableAwards for her performances inAustin's most cutting-edge dance productions. She has designed costumes for Deborah Hay, Andrea Beckham, Sharir+Bustamante Danceworks and Sally Jacques. Laura moonlights as a magician's assistant in a touring magic show, is a Pilates instructor, anACE certified personal trainer, and a silent movie actress. Theresa Hardy received her BFA in Dance from the University of Texas @Austin. Theresa has been a member of Sharir+ Bustamante Danceworks since 1997. During this time she has had the opportunity to workwith outside artists such as David Dorfman, Inbal Pinto of Israel andAlexandre Pepelyaev of Russia. Theresa also completed a residency at The Yard in ~ooo. Currently Theresa is a Pilates instructor. Andee Scott is an independent choreographer based in Austin, TX. Her work has been nominated by theAustin Critic's Table for Best Choreography (~001) and selected as as semi-finalist for the Recontres Choregraphiques Internationales de Seine-St.-Denis (~oo~). She is a member of Sharir+Bustamante Danceworks in addition to performing with Sally Jacques. She has also performed with David Dorfman Dance, Michael Foley Dance andAlienNation Co., under the direction ofJohannes Birringer. Andee has been on faculty at ACC, and is currently on faculty at the University of Texas and The American Dance Festival in Durham, NC. She is also a certified Pilates instructor and registered massage therapist. GUEST ARTISTS Andrea Beckham has deep roots in Texas, and has maintained an ongoing relationship with the Sharir Dance Company (now Sharir + Bustamante Danceworks) since 1983, first as a dancer, and now as a guest artist and choreographer. She has also performed with Llory Wilson's Tallulah Dance Company in Seattle, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in New York, and John Mead & Company in Tokyo, Japan. Her choreography has been presented since 1989 inTexas, New York, theArts on the Hill Festival inWyoming, the Avignon-Off Festival in France, the Cyprus International Festival twice, several small venues around Europe, and her collaborations with Yacov Sharir in Holland, Portugal and Beijing, China. Andrea is currently teaching in both the Theatre and Dance areas at UT Austin, as well as running the Pilates-evolved Movement and Physical Conditioning Laboratory there, and (always) working on collaborative projects with her own pick-up company,Andrea Beckham Collaborative Dance. Leslie Dworkin has been choreographing, teaching, and performing throughout the U.S., and in Europe for the past 15 years. She was a member of the Leah Stein Dance Company and the Melanie Stewart Dance Company, and has performed in the works of Ralph Lemon and Bebe Miller, among others. Her choreography has been produced in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Ohio, North Carolina, and in Missouri. She has toured throughout the U.S., including performances at The Kitchen, Judson Church, and the Knitting Factory in New York City; at Jacob's Pillow; and in the Edinburgh Dance Festival in Scotland. She has received choreographic fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Philadelphia Repertory Development Initiative, and Movement Research Exchange, and was awarded artistic residencies at both Djerassi in California, and at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida. She has taught as a guest artist in the dance departments at UCLA, UNCG/Greensboro, Oberlin College, Bryn Mawr College, and at Ohio University. Leslie has an MFA in Choreography from Temple University and is a certified Trager bodywork practitioner. Allison Orr is an independent choreographer and dance educator who creates dances with unexpected performers in unexpected settings. Her work has included dances for maintenance men, City of Austin Firefighters, guide dogs and their owners, and most recentlyVenetian gondoliers. Orr has an MFA in Performance and Choreography from Mills College and currently is a faculty member at Austin Community College. She also teaches creative dance to preschoolers and elementary school students and assists with a modern dance program for high-school students with disabilities. Orr directs Forklift Danceworks, an organization committed to creating dances with non-traditional performers in unconventional places.This summer, the company will travel to the Kennedy Center inWashington, DC, to partipate in the VSA International Conference for Arists with Disabilities. Holly Williams, an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin, has performed nationally and internationally with the companies of Mark Morris, Laura Dean and Jose Limon. Ms. Williams' choreography for the Houston Grand Opera, Dallas Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Austin Theatre Alliance, Dallas Theatre Center and the concert stage have won her international acclaim. She has presented concerts of her own work in Austin and at the Cunningham Studio in NewYork, and her choreography has been commissioned by companies in California, Kansas, Oklahoma and throughout Texas. She is currently developing works for the Ballet Austin Academy and the American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive programs. A writer and dance critic, she has contributed to the Dallas Morning News, Austin American Statesman and the New York Times. She has twice received fellowships to the American Dance Festival Dance Critic's Conference. She holds a BA from Barnard College/Columbia University and an MFA from Texas Woman's University. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Dance Critic's Association and the American College Dance Festival Association. A Native Texan, Tim Kerr is an internationally sought-after record producer and song arranger, having worked with a number of independent bands too large to count. In the late 1970s, he helped found the seminalAustin punk band The Big Boys and has continuously played in many other bands, including Poison 13, Bad Mutha Goose and the Brothers Grimm, MonkeyWrench, Lord High Fixers, and his latest, Total Sound Group DirectAction Committee. His music covers a wide variety of styles from free jazz to soul and funk to traditional. He earned a degree in painting and photography from UT and has recently begun showing his work in galleries in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and etc. Tim currently works as a graphic designer for the General Libraries. This is his third music collaboration with Holly. Billy Wolfe is a pianist and composer living in Austin. He composed music for the Believe In Me Project, a dance education program in local area schools, and produced three CDs of solo piano music. He composes music for Ballet Austin's creative movement division as well as a new series of instructional dance videos for young children, Creative Dance Adventures. Dr. Rosanne Butera Chiropractor Chiropractic Consultant for B