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2015 SENIOR COLLABORATIVE DANCE THESIS SHOW
Faculty Supervisor: Tina Fehlandt
Costume Designer: Mary Jo Mecca
Lighting Designer: Aaron Copp
Music Director: Vince di Mura
Stage Manager: Mary-Susan Gregson
Psyche
To every troubled mind, (presented in three parts)
Choreographer: Tula Strong ‘15* in collaboration w
​ ith dancers and Vince di Mura
Dancers: Ayla Allen ‘18, Raven DeRamus ‘16, Yasmine Eichbaum ‘18, Anna Kolstad ‘18,
Kimberly Perez ‘17, Victoria Navarro ‘17, Rachel Schwartz ‘17, Robert von der Schmidt ‘18, Bri White ‘16
Vocalists: Mariana Bagneris ’15, Caroline Hertz ‘15, Trust Kupupika ’17, Maddie Meyers ‘17,
Michaela Milgrom ‘16, Katherine Raber ‘16
To every troubled mind,
Be comforted.
With love,
Tula B. Strong & Cast
Prologue
Music: Pellucidity by Christopher Bissonette
Dancers: ​Company
INTERMISSION (15 minutes)
Benches
Music: Comfortable Expectations by Christopher Bissonette; Losing You by Solange;
Do The Astral Plane by Flying Lotus
Choreographer: Emily Hogan ’15* & dancers
Music: Compiled by Vince di Mura; inspired by Tchan Tchou Vidal
Dancers: Sophie Andreassi ‘16, Celina Culver ‘15*, Kamber Hart ‘16, Carson Hughes ‘16,
Anna Kimmel ‘18, Marisa Remez ‘16, Bri White ‘16, Lauren Wodarski ‘17, Leah Worthington ‘15,
Glenna Yu ‘16
LOWER LOBBY
Dancers: Ayla Allen ’18 and Anna Kolstad ’18
UPPER LOBBY
Dancers: Yasmine Eichbaum ’18, Rachel Schwartz ’17, and Robert von der Schmidt ’18
Break away (premiere)
THEATER
Dancers: Raven DeRamus ’16 and Bri White ‘16
Speaking Dancers: Victoria Navarro ’17 and Kimberly Perez ’17
Marvin
Choreographer: Gregory Dolbashian
Assisted by: Lauren Santos and Lilja Ruriksdottir
Music: Peter Broderick and Colleen
Dancers: Jessica Berry ’15* and Allison Metts ’15*
Cat’s Cradle
Choreographer: Asawari Sodhi ’15*
Music: Steve Mackey, Alexander Scriabin, Edith Piaf; arranged by Vince di Mura
Dancers: Tess Bissell ‘17, Carson Hughes ‘16, Rachel Schwartz ‘17, Bri White ‘16, Glenna Yu ‘16
Suspension
Choreographer: Kalin Stovall ’15*
Music: Steve Reich’s “Drumming” — Portland Percussion Group, “Songs and Poems For Solo Cello”
by Phillip Glass — Wendy Sutter, “Phrygian Gates” by John Adams, “Violin Phase” by Steve Reich
Dancers: Clark Griffin ’18, Katie Kubala ’18, Sara Krolewski ’18, Alexandra Loh ’17
* Denotes senior certificate student in the Program in Dance
Music: Track created by choreographer in collaboration with Vince di Mura (including
Come Sunday by Duke Ellington and various tracks by J. Cole); What’s Going On by
Marvin Gaye
Dancers: Company and vocalists
Echoes
Choreographer: Emily Hogan ’15* & dancers
Music: Compiled by Vince di Mura; inspired by Library Tapes and Hauschka
Dancers: ​Sophie Andreassi ‘16, Celina Culver ‘15*, Kamber Hart ‘16, Carson Hughes ‘16,
Anna Kimmel ‘18, Marisa Remez ‘16, Bri White ‘16, Lauren Wodarski ‘17, Leah Worthington ‘15,
Glenna Yu ‘16
Pardon My Affection © (2000)
Choreographer: Lar Lubovitch
Staged by: Katarzyna Skarpetowska
Music: “Ah, perdona al primo affetto” from La clemenza di Tito, K. 621 by W. A. Mozart in a
recording by Frederica Von Stade, Lucia Popp, Colin Davis and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dancer: Morgan Nelson ’15*
© Choreography copyright Lar Lubovitch 2000
Pardon My Affection is the third movement from Thus is All
The End/Zone
Choreographer: Silvia Lundgren ‘15*
Music: Original soundtrack compiled by Silvia Lundgren ‘15*, featuring “People Lie All the Time” by
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
and “Beg For It (feat. MØ)” by Iggy Azalea from the album Reclassified
Dancers: Lori Bin ‘17, Dana Fesjian ‘17, Rachel Schwartz ‘17, Clare Sherlog ‘17, and Grace Singleton ‘16
Excerpts from New Love Song Waltzes (1982)
Choreographer: Mark Morris
Staged by: Tina Fehlandt
Music: Neue Liebeslieder-Walzer, Op. 65 (“Vom Gebirge Well auf Well”, “Weiche Graser im
Revier”, “Nun, ihr Musen, genug!”) by Johannes Brahms
Original Lighting Design: James F. Ingalls
Dancers: Jessica Berry ’15*, Celina Culver ’15*, Emily Hogan ’15*, Silvia Lundgren ’15*,
Allison Metts ’15*, Morgan Nelson ’15*, Asawari Sodhi ’15*, Tula Strong ’15*, Kalin Stovall ’15*
Musicians: Vince di Mura and Ethan Campbell ’16 [piano]
Vocalists: Sopranos Erika Baikoff ’16 and Cecily O’Leary ’16; altos Saunghee Ko ’17,
Paige Kunkle ’18, Marissa Rosenberg-Carlson ’18, and Rebecca Singer ’18; tenor Benjamin Spar ’16;
bass Kevin McElwee ’18
Premiered November 4, 1982, Dance Theater Workshop, New York, NY
Notes from the stager: New Love Song Waltzes is a dance for ten. I’ve made slight adjustments to
accommodate our cast of nine. The dancers will be performing three sections of the original fifteen songs.
2015 SENIOR DANCE CERTIFICATE STUDENTS
Jessica Berry
Celina Culver
Emily Hogan
Silvia Lundgren
Allison Metts
Morgan Nelson
Asawari Sodhi
Kalin Stovall
Tula Strong
Psychology
Woodrow Wilson School; certificate in Latin American Studies
Politics; certificate in Political Economy
History
Psychology
Slavic Languages & Literatures; certificate in Russian
and Eurasian Studies
Politics
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Comparative Literature
P RO D U C TI O N TE AM
Berlind Stage Operations ManagerMatt Pilsner
Berlind Master ElectricianAmber Faulhaber
Sound EngineerJosh Friedman
Costume StitchersJessica Sanders and Sarah Romaguole
Julie Aromi ’15, Annika Bennett ‘15, Julia Hammer ‘15
Tyler Lee ’15 and Julia Peiperl ’17
Run Crew Ben Malone and Jesse Parsons
Angel Fan ‘18 and Tiffany Miller ‘17
THE PROGRAM IN DANCE
The Program in Dance, part of the Lewis Center for the Arts, familiarizes students with creative,
performative, and analytical approaches to dance through exposure to professional choreographers,
dancers, critics, and scholars. While pursuing a liberal arts education, students have the opportunity
to undertake demanding, studio-based courses with dance professionals. The program provides
advanced courses for the pre-professional dancer in addition to offering courses open to students who
have never danced. The creation of original work, both choreographic and written, is emphasized
alongside rigorous technical training. The program supports multiple performance opportunities each
year, ranging from full professional productions in the Berlind Theatre — with choreography by faculty,
guests, and students — to site-specific interdisciplinary thesis projects and independent experimental
work. Students with a special, perhaps even a career, interest in dance can choose to earn a program
certificate. The curricular wing of the program offers courses in modern, contemporary, ballet,
experimental, urban and African dance techniques, repertory, and choreography, as well as in dance
history, analysis, and criticism. The program also provides special interdepartmental performance
collaborations, as well as annual interdisciplinary opportunities with the Atelier program. In addition,
co-curricular ballet, modern, and conditioning classes are offered on a daily and weekly basis. Yearly,
short- and long-term visiting artists enhance curricular offerings by choreographing original work and
staging the work of seminal choreographers for dance concerts, or by offering special workshops,
seminars, and master classes. A certificate from the Program in Dance is awarded to students who
successfully complete a substantial amount of work in the practical and academic areas of the
discipline.
B I O G RAP H I E S
AARON COPP (Lighting Designer) has recently provided lighting designs for Natalie Merchant,
Yo-Yo Ma, Philip Glass, Merce Cunningham, Eliot Feld and Laurie Anderson. Copp designed the
highly regarded Kennedy Center revival of The Glass Menagerie, directed by Gregory Mosher and
starring Sally Field; he has also designed frequently at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego and was
awarded a San Diego Theater Critics Award for Joe Hardy’s production of Bus Stop. Copp has worked
extensively in the dance world, most recently receiving his second Bessie Award for Jonah Bokaer’s
The Invention of Minus One. He has had a long association with Merce Cunningham, designing such
pieces as Ground Level Overlay, Windows, and Biped, for which he also won a Bessie. Copp holds
an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama and a B.A. from SUNY–Binghamton.
VINCE DI MURA (Resident Musical Director and Composer for the Lewis Center for the Arts), best known for his
arrangements of My Way: A Tribute to Frank Sinatra, and I Left My Heart, A Tribute to Tony Bennett, is a veteran
performer and musical director, appearing on concert stages and theaters throughout North America, Canada
and Latin America. He has also conducted many shows and fulfilled numerous compositional commissions
including his 1999 Barrymore Award-nominated score More Grimm’s Tales. Di Mura has commercially
released five jazz CDs: A Darker Side of Romance, Imperfect Balance and his spoken word/jazz fusion opera
For Lost Words, with text by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Yusef Komunyakaa, and California Sage. His most
recent CD is Love Was.
GREGORY DOLBASHIAN (Choreographer) Born and raised in New York City Gregory made his
professional stage debut at the age of eight with the Glimmerglass Opera Company. Soon after, he was cast
in the Philip Glass/Robert Wilson world tour of Einstein on the Beach. Gregory received his dance training
at the Alvin Ailey School on a fellowship scholarship and then graduated cum laude from SUNY Purchase
dance conservatory. He has gone on to dance and choreograph with a variety of artists, performing with
Patrick Corbin, Nelly van Bommel, and Sylvain Emard. Dolbashian is a recipient of The Bessie Schoenberg
Residency at The Yard, winner of The Pretty Creatives Competition for Northwest Dance Project, and of The
Hubbard Street 2 International Choreographic Competition. He also placed second in Ballet Austin’s New
American Talent competition and has received commissions from Atlanta Ballet, TU Dance in Minnesota,
CityDance Ensemble in D.C. He has created school commissions at SUNY Purchase, University of Minnesota,
The Hartt School and the Juiliard School. He debuted his own company, The DASH Ensemble, in December
2009 at JOYCE SoHo. The company has gone on to present works at the Skirball Center, DTW, The
Gershwin Hotel, Riverside Theater, Summer Stage, and The JOYCE Theater. The DASH received the audience
award at NYC’s DanceNOW challenge at Joe’s Pub. The company also participated in ABT Principal Daniil
Simkin’s INTENSIO, collaborating on a work with Gregory Dolbashian for members of ABT set to premiere at
Jacob’s Pillow 2015. In addition to his choreography, Gregory, alongside Loni Landon, is the co-founder of
The Playground, a choreographic initiative that was voted 25 to Watch in 2013 by Dance Magazine.
TINA FEHLANDT (Stager) was an integral part of the Mark Morris Dance Group for twenty years, from its
inception in 1980 to January 2000, appearing in over 50 works choreographed by Mark Morris. With
the Group she toured the world and appeared in several television specials, most notably as “Louise” in Mr.
Morris’ production of The Hard Nut. Fehlandt has staged Mark Morris’ work at Princeton University, New York
University, Rutgers University, University of Minnesota, University of Texas, Marymount Manhattan College,
Barnard College, the Juilliard School, Long Island University, and American Ballet Theatre, San Francisco
Ballet, Royal New Zealand Ballet, English National Ballet, Royal Ballet Covent Garden, Boston Ballet, Miami
City Ballet, Houston Ballet, Dutch National Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Washington Ballet, Pittsburgh
Ballet Theatre and the White Oak Dance Project. She is a full-time Lecturer in Dance at Princeton University
and a frequent guest teacher at the Mark Morris Dance Center. Her choreography has been performed by
Houston Ballet II, Barnard College, Trinity College, Deep Ellum Ensemble, ABT Summer Intensives and as part
of Princeton University’s Evening of Enchantment and Spring Dance Festival. Last December she premiered a
new work, Such Company, for the Dance Program at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus.
MARY-SUSAN GREGSON’s (Stage Manager) last show in Princeton was 2015 Spring Dance Festival. Recent
credits include Sufjan Steven’s Round Up and Gabriel Kahane’s The Ambassador, both at BAM. Last year she
premiered Ballet Next at The Joyce. At The New Victory Theater she has stage-managed over twenty shows
in the last 17 years. This summer marked her 17th season production coordinating for Lincoln Center Festival
including Peony Pavilion and the Druid, Harold Pinter, Brian Friel and Beckett Festivals. She has production
managed Divinamente Festival NY and the New Island Festival on Governor’s Island. Shows at BAM include
Dance Africa, Infernal Comedy with John Malkovich, Sizwe Banzi is Dead, Tan Dun’s The Gate and Sufjian
Stevens’ BQE. Other New York credits include His Holiness the Dalai Lama, The Prince & The Pauper, The
Jazz Nativity, Breaking the Code and Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Regional credits include McCarter Theatre,
Yale Rep, Williamstown Theater Festival, The Huntington, and the White House. She has toured with Dance
Theatre of Harlem, Elisa Monte, Jennifer Muller, Pilobolus and internationally with Forbidden Christmas starring
Baryshnikov.
LAR LUBOVITCH (Choreographer), trained at The Juilliard School, founded the Lar Lubovitch Dance
Company in NYC in 1968. Now celebrating its 47th season, with over 120 dances, it has gained an
international reputation as one of America’s top dance companies. His works are also included in the
repertoires of major dance companies throughout the world. Othello - A Dance in Three Acts, created for
American Ballet Theatre, appeared on PBS’s Great Performances (Emmy nomination). Film and television
dances include Fandango (International Emmy), My Funny Valentine for Robert Altman’s film The Company
(American Choreography Award nomination) and, in 1988, Concerto Six Twenty-two and North Star for
BBC. Lubovitch has also made a notable contribution to the advancement of ice-dancing with pieces for
numerous Olympic skaters, as well as ice-dance specials for television: The Sleeping Beauty (PBS), The
Planets (A&E) (International Emmy nomination, Cable Ace Award, Grammy Award). His work on Broadway
included Into the Woods (Tony nomination), The Red Shoes (Astaire Award) and Tony Award-winning revival
of The King and I. In 2007, Lubovitch founded the Chicago Dancing Festival, in collaboration with the City
of Chicago, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, which includes performances by leading American
dance companies. The festival reaches over 18,000 people annually and is completely free to the public.
Recent awards include: 2007, Chicagoan of the Year (Chicago Tribune); 2008, Chicagoan of the Year
(Chicago Magazine); 2011, Ford Fellow (US Artists); 2011, Dance/USA Honors Award; 2012, Prix
Benois de la Danse for Choreography, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow; 2013, American Dance Guild Lifetime
Achievement Award; Honorary Doctorate from The Juilliard School.
MARY JO MECCA (Costume Designer) recently designed for Liz Magic Laser’s Like You in Switzerland.
New York City companies and choreographers for which she has designed include: Laura Peterson’s Forever
at The Kennedy Center; Rashaun Mitchell’s Interface at Baryshnikov Arts Center and Nox at Danspace
Project; Rebecca Lazier’s Coming Together/Attica at the Invisible Dog and I Just Like This Music, Terminal; Zvi
Gotheiner’s Sky and Water at the MUSA! Festival; Jody Sperling’s Time Lapse-Fantasy at Danspace Project;
Laura Peterson Dance’s Atomic Orbital and traceroute; Barkin/Sellisen Project’s Differential Cohomology;
Susan Marshall’s Atelier project; Brian Brooks’ Landing; Deganit Shemy’s Narrowline; Jill Johnson’s Folding
Articulation; Graham Lustig’s Vault; and Raja Kelly’s Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth. Mecca has
designed for the Theater and Dance Programs at Princeton University since 2009. She studied Couture Design
with Miss Alice Sapho of Paris and New York.
MARK MORRIS, “the most successful and influential choreographer alive, and indisputably the most musical”
(The New York Times) was born on August 29, 1956, in Seattle, Washington, where he studied with Verla
Flowers and Perry Brunson. He formed the Mark Morris Dance Group in 1980, and has since created more
than 150 works for the company. From 1988-1991, he was Director of Dance at the Théâtre Royal de
la Monnaie in Brussels, the national opera house of Belgium. In 1990, hefounded the White Oak Dance
Project with Mikhail Baryshnikov. Much in demand as a ballet choreographer, Morris has created eighteen
ballets since 1986 and his work is in the repertory of companies worldwide. He also works extensively in
opera, directing and choreographing at the Metropolitan Opera, The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, among
others. Morris opened the Mark Morris Dance Center in 2001 to provide a home for his dance group,
rehearsal space for the dance community, community programs for local children and seniors, and dance
classes for students of all ages and abilities.
KATARZYNA SKARPETOWSKA (Stager) For more information visit www.skarpetowska.com.
LEWIS CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Chair Michael Cadden
Administrative DirectorMarion Young
PROGRAM IN DANCE
Dance Faculty (2014-15)
Martha Eddy
Tina Fehlandt
Ori Flomin
Marjani Forté
Zvi Gotheiner*
Judith Hamera, Professor
Dyane Harvey-Salaam*
John Heginbotham*
Rebecca Lazier, Senior Lecturer
Susan Marshall, Professor
Joseph Schloss
Stuart Singer
Rebecca Stenn
Aynsley Vandenbroucke
Nicole Wolcott
Raphael Xavier
*Class of 1932 Visiting Lecturer in Dance
Guest Artists (2014-15)
Jodie Gates
Jennifer Lott
Luke Miller
David Neumann
Stephen Petronio
Ballet Instructors
Laurie Abramson
Bernd-Roland Burgmaier
Kathleen Moore Tovar
Yoga And Conditioning Instructor
Mecquel
Hybrid West African Dance Instructor
Olivier Tarpaga
Accompanists
Jonathan Benjamin
David Cheifer
Baye Kemit
Emi Nakamura
David Tenney
Abdoulaye Toure
Trisha Wolf
Judy Yeh
PRODUCTION AND ADMINISTRATION
Director Susan Marshall/Rebecca Lazier
Producer Darryl Waskow
Production Stage Manager Carmelita Becnel
Theater Operations Manager
Rob Del Colle
Costume Manager Keating Helfrich
Costume Shop Assistant Julie Kosanovich
Costume Technician Caitlin Brown
Technical Director Timothy Godin
Assistant Technical Director
Nora Hyland
Theater TechnicianTorrey Drum
Prop MasterAlexandra Geiger
Scenic ArtistMelissa Riccobono
Master Carpenter William Wilson
Resident Musical Director & Composer Vince di Mura
Academic Support Cindy Rosenfeld
Director of Communications Steve Runk
Web & Multimedia Strategist Justin Goldberg
Multimedia SpecialistZohar Lavi-Hasson
Visual Communications Specialist
Tracy Patterson
Communications Associate
Jaclyn Sweet
Communications Assistant Hope VanCleaf
For more information about the Lewis Center for the Arts visit: arts.princeton.edu
Or contact: Director of Communications, Steve Runk at [email protected]