SPRING SEASON PROGRAM 2016

LaGuardia Performance Arts Center

WELCOME!I’m excited about the future of LPAC. We’ve had an

explosive year of success with Beyond Sacred, and we are building on that success all season in 15-16.

God Lives in Glass and Privitopia expanded on the topic of Beyond Sacred by looking at various pictures of God, and the

growing crisis of refugees in Europe and beyond. This year we are watching Sorry! Come to life in a full production of the show in January.

LPAC continues to celebrate emerging choreographers and their work with our third annual concert in partnership with Mare Nostrum Elements

Movement Theater. RIOULT will be here to present Bollero to an ever growing student audience. We welcome our CUNY Dace initiative (CDI) artists for 2016, Ms. Lauren Cox of Humans Collective and Bessie Award winner Miki

Orihara. The season for dance rounds itself out as Carolyn Dorfman brings her current project to life on LPAC’s Mainstage in April.

Our Unpacking American Identity devised theatre project adds another chapter by examining the Black Lives Matter movement while we relaunch the Muslim Identity piece from last year. This has become a great collaborative effort between myself and Stefanie

Sertich working with student actors from LaGuardia Community College. In addition to the continued devised work, The LAGCC Theatre Arts program is presenting Passing Strange in

May.

Stay tuned for news of our upcoming Rough Draft Festival. It sounds like there are some exciting pieces in the works. We are very excited to have our first international partnership emerging for this

festival as Handan Ozbilgin continues to build new work, and we welcome our newest team member Sanaz Ghajar.

As always we cannot do any of this without continuing support from our funding partners: The NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, The Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, APAP with support from the Doris Duke Foundation, and the

Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, and our newest partner, The Howard Gilman Foundation.

Come visit us and see some of this exciting work over the next few months.

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ROUGH DRAFT FESTIVAL A window into the creative process, The Rough Draft Festival is a showcase of exciting new work currently under development by

LPAC and other companies.

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SORRY / SHOOK ONES Sorry is a multimedia theatrical experience that

utilizes dance, spoken word and projection to tell a story about cultures colliding that’s

never been more relevant or necessary than today. Sorry is an immersive exploration

of contemporary interracial partnerships, narrated and annotated by the secret

Poet Laureate of the A train.

Shook Ones is choreographer, Cindy Salgado, writer/performer, Alejandro Rodriguez, and

multimedia artist, Yazmany Arboleda; they’re joined for Sorry by Yvon “Crazy Smooth” Soglo,

one of Canada’s premiere street dancers and the founding director of Bboyizm.

Jan. 13 at 2 & 8 PM

Jan. 14 at 8 PM

Jan. 15 at 8 PM

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EMERGING CHOREOGRAPHER SERIES

The Emerging Choreographer Series (ECS) is a participatory mentoring program providing new or aspiring choreographers with tools to create,

develop and premiere a new finished work.

Thanks to the partnership between LPAC and Mare Nostrum Elements (MNE) participating

choreographers receive up to 60 hours of free rehearsal space, artistic feedback from

established choreographers, production and logistic consultations as well as weekly meetings to exchange ideas

with fellow choreographers.

Participants also receive financial aid to remunerate themselves, their dancers,

cover the cost of costumes, props and other production expenses.

For more info visit www.mnelements.org.

Feb. 22 at 7 PM

Feb. 23 at 7 PM

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Carolyn Dorfman Dance CompanyFeaturing the New York Premiere of TRACES…

From the intimacy of the duet to powerful driving ensembles, the work of choreographer Carolyn Dorfman creates rich worlds for audiences to enter. Known as a creator of evocative dances that reflect her concern about the human condition, this program features the premiere of TRACES, an exploration of the forces that create and change us--divide and connect us. At its core, it is a work about memory, history, legacy and now and the fragility of our world and its connections. Featuring a commissioned score by Svjetlana Bukvich and video design andApr. 16 at 8 PM

technology by Kate Freer and Dave Tennent, Dorfman reunites with the award winning

collaborators of her visually stunning INTERIOR DESIGNS. Also on the program is

Dorfman’s newest work WAVES, featuring live music by cellist Jessie Reagen Mann, multi-

instrumentalist and human beat boxer Pete List and recorder player Daphna Mor, as well as the

viscerally sensuous KEYSTONE.

TRACES and WAVES were made possible, in part, by creation space grants from LaGuardia

Performing Arts Center and Kaatsbaan International Dance Center. WAVES is made possible, in part, by grants from New Music

USA, The O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation with generous support from the

Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation.

The creation of KEYSTONE was supported in part by a 2011 Choreography Fellowship

from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts (NJSCA).

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Unpacking American Identity: Black Lives Matter In conjunction with Carnegie Hall’s Somewhere Project and utilizing the music and themes of The Brown Rice Family, Unpacking American Identity: Black Lives Matter is an original theatre production that engages millennials

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about issues pertinent to this contemporary movement.

Crafted by LPAC Artistic Director, Steven Hitt, and the LAGCC Program Director of Theatre, Stefanie Sertich, Unpacking American Identity utilizes volunteerism as the core mechanism in addition to a variety of devised theatre ideas to craft an original set of playlets to look at social justice through the lens of performing arts.

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Feb. 24 at 2.30 & 7 PMMar. 21 at 2.30 & 7 PMMar. 22 at 6 PM

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PASSING STRANGE

PASSING STRANGE LaGuardia Performing Arts Center presents in collaboration with Carnegie Hall’s Neighborhood Concerts:

Hard-driving rhythms drummed with athleticism make Soh Daiko one of the most exciting taiko groups in the world. Soh Daiko honors the ancient Japanese drumming tradition in every performance by playing drums constructed by group

members from oak wine barrels and ox hides.

Adding to the exotic mix and making its sound more robust, Soh Daiko also plays the bamboo flute, brass bells, conch shells, gongs, the African gourd shekere, and Tahitian toere (wooden slit drum).

Carnegie Hall’s Neighborhood Concerts is a program of the Weill Music Institute.

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May 11 invited dress at 7.30 PMMay 12 at 2.30 & 7.30 PMMay 13 & 14 at 7.30 PMMay 15 & 18 at 2.30 PM

May 19 at 2.30 & 7.30 PMMay 20 at 7.30 PMMay 21 closing night at 7.30 PM

MUSIC

BROWN RICE FAMILY Brooklyn-based world roots band Brown Rice Family is a high-energy, eight-member ensemble that combines an eclectic mix of musical influences encompassing reggae, hip-hop, Brazilian, Afrobeat, jazz, rock, Latin, and funk. With members hailing from all over the world, the Brown Rice Family draws on its diverse backgrounds to create a colorful,

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rhythm-driven, and highly danceable sound. This concert will also feature new works inspired by the song “Somewhere” from West Side Story and written by young people in the Queens community in collaboration with Brown Rice Family as part of The Somewhere Project, a citywide creative learning project that honors Carnegie Hall’s 125th anniversary.The Somewhere Project is made possible in part by generous support from Martha and Bob Lipp.

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SOH DAIKO

SOH DAIKO LaGuardia Performing Arts Center presents in collaboration with Carnegie Hall’s Neighborhood Concerts:

Hard-driving rhythms drummed with athleticism make Soh Daiko one of the most exciting taiko groups in the world. Soh Daiko honors the ancient Japanese drumming tradition in every performance by playing drums constructed by group

members from oak wine barrels and ox hides.

Adding to the exotic mix and making its sound more robust, Soh Daiko also plays the bamboo flute, brass bells, conch shells, gongs, the African gourd shekere, and Tahitian toere (wooden slit drum).

Carnegie Hall’s Neighborhood Concerts is a program of the Weill Music Institute.

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