SHARIR+BUSTAMANTE DANCEWORKS stuporwoman and other Dances of Mad Exhausting Beauty JUNE ?TH, 8TH, AND 9TH 2007 8:00 PM McCULLOUGH THEATRE Dear Friends, Thank you all very much for attending the final performance of Sharir + Bustamante Danceworks. We owe our deepest thanks to you and the hundreds of other individuals who have supported the Company with your dollars and your active presence at performances. Your support over the years has been invaluable. S+BD has been a fertile ground for dance development in Austin for 25 years, and now the time has come to disperse that energy into other paths and other projects. So much has changed in Austin since the Company's founding. Twenty-five years ago Austin's contemporary dance community was just emerging. Today we are proud to see that our city is home to numerous contemporary dance ensembles and many more independent dancers and choreographers working in contemporary idioms. We wish all the best to our colleagues old and new as they carry on the tradition of making and sharing dance in Austin, and we ask you to continue your support of dance in this community by attending their work. We also want to express our immense thanks to the University of Texas who generously donated rehearsal space and granted access to their extraordinary theaters and staff; to the City of Austin who provided critical financial support for our programs; to the Texas Commission on the Arts, the Mid-America Arts Alliance, the National Endowment for the Arts and the numerous other private and corporate foundations that have nurtured our work for the last quarter century. Thank you for sharing this moment with us. Warmest regards, Jose Luis Bustamante & Yacov Sharir SHARIR+BUSTAMANTE DANCEWORKS FOUNDER: Yacov Sharir ARTISTIC/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Jose Luis Bustamante LIGHTING DESIGNER: Michele Habeck DANCERS: Yebel Gallegos, Theresa Hardy, Erin Lane, Andee Scott BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Jose Luis Bustamante, Alison Hart, Andrea Keene, Adrienne Longenecker, Yacov Sharir SPECIAL THANKS: Carol Adams, Bill Bissell and Dance Advance, Jill & Manolo Bustamante, Adam Conaway, Julia Duffy, Rosaruby Glaberman, Charlotte Griffin, Tom Hudson, Priscilla Hutson, Kara Liotta, Manuel's, Bevin Mraw, Lauren Trojniar, Wei Yeh, Zocalo Design FRIENDS OF SHARIR+BUSTAMANTE DANCEWORKS 24TH SEASON CHOREOGRAPHER'S CIRCLE The City ofAustin Cultural Arts Division The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Theatre and Dance First Night Austin Texas Commission on the Arts COMMISSION SUPPORTERS Bill Dickson Patty & Rick Eason Annie & Mark McKinnon BENEFACTORS Sandy Dunn & Paul Harford Dr. & Mrs. Arvo Neidre Anonymous PATRONS Carol & Chris Adams Dr. Roseanne Butera Patti & Todd Clayton Margaret Menicucci & Michael Whellan DONORS Pamela Booton Tana & Joe Christie Maurice Dancer Susan B. Hammer Jane & Tony Hilfer Ellen & Mark Hoffman Vickie Tatum & Ken Manning Anonymous CONTRIBUTORS Laura Agnew Pat Gerson Christopher Middleton Diana Phillips Anonymous This performance is sponsored in part by the University ofTexas at Austin Department ofTheatre and Dance and is funded in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and a grant from the Cultural Arts Texas Commission on the Arts. Division TONIGHT'S PROGRAM THE SKYIS FALLING CHOREOGRAPHY: Michael Foley Music: Arvo Part COSTUMES: Amy Burrell . PERFORMERS: Theresa Hardy, Andee Scott T...4 ... 3 ... CHOREOGRAPHER: Nichole Canuso PERFORMERS: Nichole Canuso, Christy Lee, Heather Murphy Supported by Dance Advance, a program of the Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts and administered by The University of the Arts. stuporwoman A FORAYINTO ANEXPERIENCE OF MOTHERHOOD CHOREOGRAPHY: Tania Isaac TEXT: Tania Isaac Music: Naomi Hyman, John Zorn, Arvo Part, Hem, Traditional St. Lucien PERFORMED BY: Tania Isaac VIOLIN: K.C. Scharnberg Supported by Dance Advance, a program of the Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts and administered by The University of the Arts. INTERMISSION AERO CHOREOGRAPHY: Jose Luis Bustamante Music: Michael Kapoulas COSTUMES: Amy Burrell DANCERS: Jose Luis Bustamante, Yebel Gallegos, Theresa Hardy, Erin Lane, Andee Scott BIOGRAPHIES J0 S E LU IS BUSTAM ANTE assumed the pos1t10n of Artistic Director of Sharir+ Bustamante Danceworks in the fall of2004 after many years as co-Artistic Director with Yacov Sharir. Jose has choreographed for various companies in Mexico and is a recipient of numerous NEA grants. His work has r been selected for festivals in Israel, Greece, and Portugal. Jose is currently Chair of the Dance J Department at Austin Community College. YACOV SH AR IR is a dancer, choreographer, and multimedia artists who pioneered the inclusion of new and interactive technologies in education and performance practice. He is a frequent keynote speaker at arts and technology conferences/symposia in the USA and around the world. Sharir currently researches and speaks of issues related to wearable computers/devices, technologically charged interactive systems, virtual reality, interactive video art/games, and the creation of computer animated cyber human performers. In addition to teaching dance, improvisation, and choreography at the University of Texas, Sharir teaches computer-aided art courses in virtual reality/cyberspace, and multi-disciplinary art and technology graduate courses. Sharir was the founder of the American Deaf Dance Company, which pioneered the inclusion of deaf artists in professional dance. He subsequently founded Sharir Dance Company, He has choreographed and created technologically mediated works for companies around the world, along with over thirty original creations for Sharir Dance Company. Under his direction, Sharir Dance Company has produced, presented, and collaborated with companies such as the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, and the Trisha Brown Dance Company among many others. AMY BURRELL holds degrees from Indiana University in Dance, Virginia Marti School of Design in Cleveland, and the Paris Fashion Institute. She has danced with the Tom Everet Dance Company, Cleveland Ballet, Great Lakes Theater Company, and Sharir+Bustamante Danceworks. As a costume designer she has worked extensively with Austin choreographers Andrea Ariel, Sharir+Bustamante Danceworks, Andee Scott, and Kathy Dunn Hamrick . In New York City she designed costumes for Pepatian Dance Company performances in the Lincoln Center Outdoors series and Summer in Central Park. Amy recently returned from Brazil where she taught at the Federal University of Goias, teaching movement for actors and fashion design and costuming shows at the university and an international film festival for an aerial trapeze ensemble. NI CH 0 LE CANU S 0 began her professional dance career in Philadelphia in 1996 after graduating from Hampshire College. She co-founded and worked under the rubric of MOXIE dance collective from 1999-2004, and in 2004 became artistic director of Nichole Canuso Dance Company. In addition to her own choreographic projects, Canuso collaborates with several dance and theater companies, including Headlong Dance Theater, Pig Iron Theater Company, Karen Bamonte Dance Works, Group Motion Dance Company, Big Mess Theater, The Arden Theater, Theater Exile, and Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival. MICH A EL F 0 LEY has been involved in the world of professional dance for almost 20 years. He has performed internationally in the companies of over two-dozen choreographers and has taught workshops and master classes throughout the United States, Europe, Central America, Mexico and The Caribbean. He has received choreographic commissions around the globe from Harvard University, Texas Woman's University, Comish College of the Arts, University of Florida, University of Texas, d9 Dance Collective in Seattle, Steeledance in NYC, Moving Current in Tampa, Modem American Dance Company in St. Louis, Jus de la Vie Dance Company in Sweden, DoubleTrouble in Paris, Momentum Danza in Panama, Delfos Danza in Mexico and DanzAbierta in Cuba, among many others. He formed his own company, "Michael Foley Dance", in 1994 touring The United States and Europe. Michael received his MFA in Dance from the University ofWashington and has been the co-director ofthe Bates Dance Festival/Young Dancer's Workshop since 1996. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of South Florida where he teaches technique, dance history, and directs a study abroad program in Paris. YE BEL GALLE G 0 S is from El Paso, TX and is currently a senior at UT Austin where he will receive a B.F.A. in Dance. Yebel has been in two dance films this year and will be performing at the end of this month in the TexArts production of Carousel. Yebel has trained in Mazatlan, Mexico with La Escuela Profesional de Danza deMazatlan led by Delfos Contemporary Dance Company. Aside from performing inMexico he has also performed in Innsbruck, Salzburg, St. Johann, and Graz, Austria. MICHELLE HABECK has worked as a Lighting Designer in Austin for American Repertory Ensemble: Dialogues, TexArts: Big River, and The Music Man. Her Broadway credits include: Slide Artist: Thoroughly Modem Millie, Associate Lighting Designer: The Boy from Oz; King Hedley II; Assistant Lighting Designer: Movin' Out; Thoroughly Modem Millie; King Hedley II. Opera -Associate Lighting Designer: Julie Taymor's Grendel. Michelle's designs have been seen at many Regional Theatre venues including Steppenwolf, The Goodman Theatre, Centerstage, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, The Alliance, The Court and others .. THERES A HARDY graduated from UT Austin with a BFA in Dance, and since then has worked locally with Sharir + Bustamante Danceworks and Sally Jacques. She has also had the pleasure of working with David Dorfman, Barak Marshal and Inbal Pinto of Israel and Alexasndre Pepelyaev of Russia. In 2000, Theresa was invited to attend the Yard to work with Clare Byrne and Heather Kravitz. In 2001, Ms. Hardy received the Austin Critics Table Award for Outstanding Female Performer. Currently, Theresa is an adjunct faculty member at UT Austin, a Pilates instructor, and is pursuing a degree in Physical Therapy. TAN I~ IS AAC was last year honored as one of the country's leading young choreographers in Dance Magazme's "25 to watch for 2006." Weaving together movement, text, and video, Tania Isaac Dance has toured though the US, the UK and Japan. Additionally, Ms. Isaac has been a Resident Artist at Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia, and a US/JAPAN Exchange Artist. She is a former member of Urban Bushwomen and Rennie Harris Puremovement. Her company, Tania Isaac Dance, creates projects, performance, and residencies that invite audiences into the process of giving voice to individual experience. MIC HAEL KAPOULAS was born in 1964 in Athens, Greece. In 1986 he moved to the United States where he has been active in the field of electronic music. He has received numerous commissions from dance companies and has also worked as a composer and arranger in music for films, theater, and var ious albums released in Europe. ERi N LANE grew up in San Angelo, Texas were she studied ballet under Eckhard Heidrich, Susan Olsen, and Brynar Mehl. She moved to Austin and began her training with Eugene Slavin while attending UT Austin where she will receive a B.F.A. in Dance. Through her studies, she has had the opportunity to dance in New York, Washington D.C., and Austria. Erin also studied at La Escuela Profesional de Danza de Mazatlan under the direction of Delfos Contemporanea. CH RISTY LEE is a Philadelphia based choreographer, dancer and shop owner. Check out www.pad-home.com. HEATH ER MU RP HY has been performing and creating dances in Philly for over 12 years while also touring both the nation and internationally. She is a co-founder ofMoxie Dance Collective (1999-2004), a former company member of Group Motion Company and is currently dancing (and sometimes swim ming with) the fabulous Headlong Dance Theater, whom she has worked with for 10 years, as well as working with the lovely Nichole Canuso Dance Company and choreographing for the Opera Company of Philadelphia. Heather is also the creator and founder of "Baby Loves Disco." AN DEE SC OTT is an Assistant Professor at UT Austin, teaching Ballet, Modem, and Pilates, among other courses. She is a member of Sharir+Bustamante Danceworks, and also performs independently as a solo and duet artist with partner Theresa Hardy. Until recently, Andee collaborated and performed with Blue Lapis Light, a site-specific aerial dance company directed by Sally Jacques. Currently she is working on a solo commissioning project which involves US and international choreographers Ann Carlson, Lenka Flory, Elizabeth Gillaspy, Claudia Lavista, and Kyung-eun Lee, all creating work for her to perform. Andee has taught nationally and internationally, and has created work for Sharir+Bustamante Danceworks, Dance Repertory Theatre, and Texas Christian University. She is a certified Pilates Instructor and registered massage therapist. She received her MFA from Texas Woman's University. This is her eighth season with Sharir + Bustamante Danceworks. K. C. SCH ARN BERG works in public affairs for the UT Austin Department of Theatre and Dance and is on the board and staff of dance and music company American Repertory Ensemble. As a freelance musician, K.C. has recorded with Austin band The Sad Accordions, performed in an installation piece at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary museum in Dallas, and is a member of the all-female quirky string band, The Chickpeas. i or ale 462.0043