PLACES PLEASE! STARRING NICOLE WOLCOTT & LARRY KEIGWIN

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1 and Co-present PLACES PLEASE! STARRING NICOLE WOLCOTT & LARRY KEIGWIN Friday, June 22 at 7:00pm & 10:00pm Saturday, June 23 at 10:00pm Sunday, June 24 at 5:00pm & 7:00pm Rubenstein Arts Center Performance: 50 minutes

2 PLACES PLEASE! STARRING NICOLE WOLCOTT & LARRY KEIGWIN Choreography & Performances Conceived by Sound Design by Costumes by Production Management Nicole Wolcott and Larry Keigwin Larry Keigwin Omar Zubair Fritz Masten, Liz Prince, and Karen Young Randi Rivera Complete List of Music in Score 1. Ready for This, by Weird Together 2. Crazy, Sung by Patsy Cline, lyrics by Willie Nelson 3. Opening: I Hope I get it (A Chorus Line Ensemble), music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban 4. Dusty Road, by Fanfare Ciocarlia, Balkanbeats album 5. You are Woman I am Man, Sung by Barbara Streisand, composed by Bob Merrill / Jule Styne 6. Dynasty Theme Music, composed by Bill Conti 7. People are People, composed and performed by Depeche Mode 8. Ne me quitte pas, performed by Nina Simone, composed by Jacques Brel 9. Opening: I Hope I get it (A Chorus Line Ensemble), music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban 10. Something Wonderful, performed by Peggy Lee, composed by Richard Rogers for The King and I 11. Shadows of the Night, performed by Pat Benetar, composed by D.L. Byron 12. Trois Gymnopédies: Gymnopédie No. 1 (Lent et Douloureux) 13. Rum Tum Tugger, composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber for the musical CATS 14. The Love Boat, performed by Jack Jones, composed by Charles Fox (music) and Paul Williams (lyrics) This work was commissioned and originally produced by DANCE NOW at Joe s Pub for its Commissioned Artist s Series, and made possible through DANCE NOW s Silo Artist Residency program. Places Please was also generously supported by DANCEworks.

3 LARRY KEIGWIN is a native New Yorker and choreographer (and former ADF student!) who has danced his way from the Metropolitan Opera to downtown clubs to Broadway and back. He founded KEIGWIN + COMPANY in 2003 with Nicole Wolcott, and as artistic director, he has led the company as it has performed at theaters and dance festivals around the world. KEIGWIN + COMPANY has performed at The Kennedy Center, The Joyce Theater, Works & Process at the Guggenheim, and New York City Center, among many other venues. Keigwin has created dozens of dances for himself and his dancers, as well as for Paul Taylor s American Modern Dance, Royal New Zealand Ballet, the Martha Graham Dance Company, The Juilliard School, Vail International Dance Festival, and many others. His work in musical theater includes Tales of the City at ACT in San Francisco, the off-broadway production of Rent, and the 2013 Broadway musical If/Then starring Idina Menzel. NICOLE WOLCOTT is a choreographer, teacher, and performer based in Brooklyn, NY, and the Co-Founder and Education Director for KEIGWIN + COMPANY. Called One of today s finest dance comedians and a knockout dancer by the New York Times, Nicole has enjoyed a long career with dance companies, rock bands, and video artists around the country and has been the subject of a feature article in Dance Teacher magazine. Highlights of her career include dancing for the Metropolitan Opera, being a featured dancer in Across The Universe, an Oscar-nominated feature film directed by Julie Taymor, working as the Associate Choreographer for the original Broadway production of If/Then starring Idina Menzel, and touring Africa last year with K+C as cultural diplomats as part of Dance USA. Currently she facilitates a dance conversation between a cohort of international artists called The Year of the Dog at dancedialogue.org OMAR ZUBAIR utilizing the skills developed and continually honed through art practice, scientific experimentation, and trans-ethnographic participation has been focusing on expanding the scope of reality by creating a process of bringing back artifacts from the dream place, catalysing the growth of new sensory organs via confocal synaesthetics, and building placetimes and languages from which multi-species groups can come together into temporary superorganisms. He has created sound for the Wooster Group, Lady Gaga, French perfume commercials, movie trailers, spiritual gatherings... and has been travelling the country for a number of years developing a new national anthem

4 LAUREN PARRISH holds a BA in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College, where she graduated in She has been the production stage manager and lighting supervisor for Battleworks Dance Company, KEIGWIN + COMPANY, Susan Marshall & Company, BODYTRAFFIC, and others. Lauren is the Production Manager/Lighting Designer for DanceNOW NYC and the Production Manager for Bessie Award winning Camille A. Brown & Dancers, who premiered their newest piece, ink, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts this past winter. In the next year, she looks forward to a new DanceNOW premiere in collaboration with Megan Williams and tours with the critically acclaimed EnGarde Arts. KEIGWIN + COMPANY, founded in 2003 by Artistic Director Larry Keigwin and Nicole Wolcott, creates and presents Keigwin s electrifying brand of contemporary dance. K+C reaches national and international audiences and invigorates diverse communities with a refreshing vision of dance that embodies a theatrical sensibility of wit, style, and heart. Education and community projects seek to physically engage audiences and aspiring dancers in movement and the choreographic process, and bring opportunities for individuals to become more invested in dance. Since K+C s premiere performance at Joyce Soho in 2003, Keigwin has created 35 dances, including the acclaimed large-scale community project, Bolero, which has been commissioned in eleven communities across the country, Runaway (2008), a fashion-inspired choreographic ride, proclaimed a thrilling coup d theater by James Wolcott of Vanity Fair, and Canvas (2013), heralded as intricate, neat, rapturous by The New York Times. Over the past decade, K+C has presented performances around the world at venues including The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Summerdance Santa Barbara, New York City Center, The Joyce Theater, the American Dance Festival, Bates Dance Festival, the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain, and more. K+C celebrated its 10th Anniversary Season in 2013, generously supported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. In 2017, K+C embarked on a tour to Cote d Ivoire, Ethiopia, and Tunisia as a part of the sixth season DanceMotion USA, a program sponsored by Brooklyn Academy of Music and the US Department of State. In 2017/2018, K+C looks forward to sharing a special program in celebration of Leonard Bernstein s centennial in cities coast to coast through K+C Celebrates Bernstein. Follow the conversation on Instagram and and #KcoTour.

5 UPCOMING SHOWS COMING HOME: ADF ALUMNI RETURN Featuring Burr Johnson, Raja Feather Kelly, Julio Medina, Chafin Seymour, Alex Springer REYNOLDS INDUTRIES THEATER Saturday, June 23 at 7:00pm Sunday, June 24 at 2:00pm PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Tuesday, June 26 & Wednesday, June 27 at 8:00pm RONALD K. BROWN/EVIDENCE REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER Thursday, June 28 & Friday, June 29 at 8:00pm Saturday, June 30 at 7:00pm Children s Saturday Matinee Saturday, June 30 at 1:00pm

Photos by Robin Gallant

Photos by Robin Gallant GASPARD LOUIS is the Founder and Artistic Director of Gaspard&Dancers, which he founded in 2009. A native of Haiti, Louis performed with the world-renowned Pilobolus Dance Theater