Cedar Lake Daybill - Adelaide Festival

Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet
Two explosive shows
Choreography by
Hofesh Schechter,
Crystal Pite, Jiří Kylián
and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Mixed Rep and Orbo Novo
Australian Premiere
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Cedar Lake
Contemporary Ballet
Fri 6 Mar – Sun 8 Mar
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FOUNDER Nancy Laurie ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Alexandra Damiani
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Gerald Halpern ASSOCIATE CHOREOGRAPHER Crystal Pite
REHEARSAL DIRECTOR Brian Reeder COMPANY MANAGER Jen De Santo
PRODUCTION MANAGER Julie Ana Dobo TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Tony Crawford
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Renata Braga de Almeida AUDIO VIDEO SUPERVISOR Ken Hypes
LIGHTING SUPERVISOR Rob Fabrizio WARDROBE SUPEVISOR Lydia Frantz
COSTUME COORDINATOR Kelli Haase BARBARA MYERS Director of Operations
BUILDING MANAGER Jorge Castillo BOOKING Margaret Selby, CAMI Spectrum
PERFORMING COMPANY Patrick Coker, Jon Bond, Nickemil Concepcion, Vânia Doutel Vaz,
Joseph Kudra, Navarra Novy-Williams, Raymond Pinto, Guillaume Quéau, Matthew Rich, Ida Saki,
Joaquim de Santana, Rachelle Scott, Ebony Williams, Jin Young Won and Madeline Wong
Physical therapy provided by PT Plus, P.C. at City Center – Marijeanne Liederbach, PhD, PT, ATC, CSCS
This engagement is supported by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International in partnership
with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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CEDAR LAKE CONTEMPORARY BALLET
Since its inaugural 2003-2004 season, New Yorkbased Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet has been
recognised for its exceptionally talented dancers
and an emphasis on cultivating collaborations with
the world’s most sought-after choreographers.
Cedar Lake has amassed one of the most diverse
repertoires in dance, which includes works by such
dance makers as Alexander Ekman, Crystal Pite,
Hofesh Shechter, Jo Strømgren, Andonis Foniadakis,
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Ohad Naharin and Jiří Kylián.
Through their daring, athletic movement and
integration of ballet into contemporary and popular
forms, the dancers of Cedar Lake take audiences on
a choreographic journey that explores the infinite
possibilities of movement and multimedia.
Mixed Rep
Fri 6 Mar 8pm and
Sun 8 Mar 8pm
Indigo Rose
(NINE DANCERS, 30 MINUTES)
CHOREOGRAPHY Jiří Kylián ASSISTANTS TO THE CHOREOGRAPHER
Aurélie Cayla and Amos Ben-Tal
COSTUME DESIGN Joke Visser
DECOR DESIGN Jiří Kylián LIGHT DESIGN (ORIGINAL) Michael Simon
LIGHT RE-DESIGN Kees Tjebbes
(Nederlands Dans Theater II, 2005)
VIDEO/CAMERA Hans Knill
VIDEO/EDITING Rob de Groot ASSISTANTS TO THE CHOREOGRAPHER
Amos Ben Tal, Aurelie Cayla
MUSIC Robert Ashley, ‘Factory Preset’ (1993)
used by permission of Robert Ashley; François
Couperin, from l’Apothéose de Lully, ‘Plainte des
Memes’ (1725); John Cage, from Three Dances
for Two Prepared Pianos, ‘Dance No. 1’ (1945);
J.S. Bach, from Das wohltemperierte Klavier,
‘Fugue No. 8 in E-Flat minor’ (1722)
World Premiere: November 11, 1998, Nederlands Dans
Theater (NDTII), Lucent Danstheater, The Hague,
The Netherlands
Cedar Lake Premiere: February 8, 2013, TITAS,
AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas, TXPROG\
PROGRAM NOTE
Jiří Kylián created Indigo Rose in 1998 to
commemorate the 20th anniversary year of
NDT 2. After an absence from choreographing
for junior company and feeling compelled to
return to the youthful qualities of its members,
he created a dance celebrating the transient
nature of youth and human relationships.
Indigo Rose embodies an unattainable ideal.
Kylián summons the dancers to seek the idyllic
with fervour while shrewdly understanding
perfection is impossible to achieve.
JIŘÍ KYLIÁN
Jiří Kylián (born Prague, 1947) began his dance
career at Stuttgarter Ballet and made his debut
as a guest choreographer for Nederlands Dans
Theater (NDT) in 1973. His successful first dance
for NDT, Viewers, was followed by a series of
50 works created for NDT. In 1978 Kylián made
his international breakthrough with Sinfonietta.
In that same year Jiří Kylián was appointed
artistic director of NDT, a post that he held for
25 years and during which he created many of
his most renowned works. Kylián has received
various awards, including the Edinburgh Festival
Critics Award (1996, 1997), Joost van den Vondel
Award (1997), Officer of the Order of Orange
Nassau (1997) and Golden Lion for Lifetime
Achievement from the International Festival
of Contemporary Dance (2008). The Czech
Ministry of Culture has recognised Jiří Kylián
with the Lifetime Achievement Award for dance
and theatre.
Ten Duets on a
Theme of Rescue (THREE MEN, TWO WOMEN, 16 MINUTES)
CHOREOGRAPHY Crystal Pite
COSTUME DESIGN Junghyun Georgia Lee
LIGHTING DESIGN Jim French
MUSIC Selections from the original motion
picture sound track of Solaris by Cliff Martinez.
Fox Film Music Corporation (BMI)
World Premiere: January 10, 2008, by Cedar Lake at
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY
PROGRAM NOTE
I love the word ‘rescue.’ It captures a whole
story in a single word. Similarly, the body
can convey narrative through the simplest
of actions. For me, this work for Cedar Lake
was an act of excavation. After creating the
choreography, I searched within it for images
that specifically evoked rescue. There are many
of them. They exist inside the dancing like
fragments of an untold narrative. I suppose the
presence of rescue in this work is twofold, as I
tried to liberate and expose these images for
brief contemplation before releasing them back
into the dance: saving and holding one picture
of rescue in each of the ten duets.
Crystal Pite
CRYSTAL PITE
Canadian choreographer and performer
Crystal Pite is a former company member of
Ballet British Columbia and William Forsythe’s
Ballett Frankfurt. Pite was named Associate
Choreographer of Cedar Lake in spring 2014.
Pite’s professional choreographic debut was
in 1990, at Ballet British Columbia. Since then,
she has created over 40 works for companies
such as Cullberg Ballet, The National Ballet of
Canada, Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal (Resident
Choreographer, 2001-2004) and Louise
Lecavalier/Fou Glorieux. Crystal is Associate
Choreographer of Nederlands Dans Theater I,
Associate Dance Artist of Canada’s National
Arts Centre and Associate Artist at Sadler’s
Wells, London. In 2002, she formed Kidd Pivot
in Vancouver. Pite is the recipient of the Banff
Centre’s Clifford E. Lee Award (1995), the
Bonnie Bird North American Choreography
Award (2004), the Isadora Award (2005), several
Dora Mavor Moore Awards (2009, 2012) and is
the recipient of the 2008 Governor General of
Photo: Sharen Bradford
Canada’s Performing Arts Award, Mentorship
Program. Most recently, she was awarded the
2011 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award, the inaugural
Lola Award in 2012, and the Canada Council’s
2012 Jacqueline Lemieux Prize.
Violet Kid
(14 DANCERS, 34 MINUTES)
CHOREOGRAPHY AND MUSIC Hofesh Shechter
ASSISTANT TO THE CHOREOGRAPHER
Bruno Guillore
LIGHTING DESIGN Hofesh Shechter, Jim French
COSTUME DESIGN Hofesh Shechter,
Junghyun Georgia Lee
World Premiere: September 29, 2011, by Cedar Lake at
Theater Bonn, Bonn, Germany
PROGRAM NOTE
Violet Kid, Hofesh Shechter’s second work for
Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, is accompanied
by a score created by the choreographer and
performed by a cello, viola, and double bass
ensemble. In Violet Kid Shechter continues
his unique examinations of man’s struggle
for harmony within a complex and sometimes
horrifying universe. In constant shifts between
exhilarating charges and contradictory retreats,
victims and aggressors, a glimpse into the
essence of existence emerges. As New York Times
dance critic Roslyn Sulcas wrote of one of his rare
American appearances: “The fragmented, rich,
disordered world [that Shechter’s works] show is
the one we live in now.”
HOFESH SHECHTER
Hofesh Shechter is recognised as one of the
UK’s most exciting artists and is renowned
for composing the musical scores for his
dance creations with his raw, atmospheric
music complementing his Company’s unique
physicality. Hofesh graduated from the
Jerusalem Academy for Dance and Music before
moving to Tel Aviv to join the world renowned
Batsheva Dance Company, where he worked
with artistic director Ohad Naharin and other
choreographers including Wim Vandekeybus,
Paul Selwyn-Norton, Tero Saarinen, and Inbal
Pinto. Hofesh began drum and percussion
studies whilst in Tel Aviv and continued later in
Paris at the Agostiny College of Rhythm. In 2002
Hofesh arrived in the UK. His choreographic
debut, Fragments, for which he also created
the score, immediately attracted international
attention. Under the banner of Hofesh Shechter
Company, in 2009 Hofesh produced The
Choreographer’s Cut, commissioned by Sadler’s
Wells. Alongside his work for Hofesh Shechter
Company, Hofesh’s works have been taken into
the repertory of many UK and international
dance companies including Carte Blanche Dance
Company (Norway), Bern Ballett (Switzerland),
Scottish Dance Theatre (UK), CandoCo (UK) and
Nederlands Dans Theater (The Netherlands).
Hofesh is an Associate Artist of Sadler’s Wells
and Hofesh Shechter Company is Resident
Company at Brighton Dome.
Orbo Novo Sat 7 Mar 8pm and
Sun 8 Mar 2pm
(FULL COMPANY, 77 MINUTES)
Photo: Julieta Cervantes
World Premiere: July 8, 2009,
Jacob’s Pillow Festival, Becket, Massachusetts
CHOREOGRAPHER Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
ASSISTANT TO THE CHOREOGRAPHER
James O’Hara
ASSISTANT TO THE CHOREOGRAPHER
Alexandra Damiani
LIGHTING DESIGN Jim French
SCENIC DESIGN Alexander Dodge
COSTUME DESIGN Isabelle Lhoas
COSTUME DESIGN ASSISTANT Frederic Denis
MUSIC Szymon Brzóska, performed by the
Mosaic String Quartet
TEXT Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor from her original work
My Stroke of Insight. For the full version of Jill
Bolte-Taylor’s speech, visit TED.com
PROGRAM NOTE
Orbo Novo – ‘the New World’ – explores a
construct of the mind. Inspired by Jill Bolte
Taylor’s memoir My Stroke of Insight, in which
she expresses her experience of having a
stroke, Orbo Novo creates a universe where
past and future meet. The piece tackles issues
of freedom, contamination, perspective,
loneliness and enlightenment. In this work,
Cherkaoui searches for the perfect balance
between left and right sides of the brain,
chaos and logic. It is an exploration of the now
– a physical manifestation of an attempt to
untangle the future from the past. The set by
Alexander Dodge provides a structure for these
explorations, while Szymon Brzóska’s original
score adds direction, rhythm and emotion to the
movements on stage.
“I see it not so much as choosing to hope, but
more as hoping for the ability and insight to
choose. Or to quote Jill Bolte Taylor, ‘I believe,
that the more time we spend choosing to run
the deep inner peace circuitry of our right brain
hemispheres, the more peace we will project
into the world, and the more peaceful our planet
will be, and I thought that was an idea worth
spreading.’”
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Photo: Julieta Cervantes
SIDI LARBI CHERKAOUI
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s debut as a choreographer
was in 1999 with Andrew Wale’s contemporary
musical, Anonymous Society. Since then he
has made more than 20 choreographic pieces
and picked up a slew of awards, including the
Fringe First award in Edinburgh, the special
prize at the BITEF Festival in Belgrade, the
promising choreographer prize at the Nijinsky
Awards in Monte Carlo, the Movimentos award
in Germany and the Helpmann award from
Australia in 2007. In 2008 Sadler’s Wells named
him an Associate Artist and in 2009 the Alfred
Toëpfer Stiftung conferred its Kairos prize to
him in recognition of his artistic philosophy
and his quest for cultural dialogue. In 2008
and 2011 he was declared Choreographer of
the Year by the dance magazine Tanz, while in
2011 he triumphed at the 2011 Laurence Olivier
Awards, winning best new dance production
and outstanding achievement in dance for
Antony Gormley. While Cherkaoui’s initial
pieces were made as a core member of the
Belgian collective Les Ballets C de la B, he also
undertook parallel projects that both expanded
and consolidated his artistic vision. In 2008
Cherkaoui premiered Sutra at Sadler’s Wells.
This award-winning collaboration with Antony
Gormley and the Shaolin monks continues
to tour the world to great critical acclaim. He
launched his new company Eastman in 2010,
and triumphed at the 2011 Laurence Olivier
Awards with Babel(words), winning best new dance
production and outstanding achievement in
dance for co-choreographer Antony Gormley.
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Eastman received their
second Olivier Award in April 2014 with Puz/
zle winning the 2014 award in the category of
Best New Dance Production. Sidi Larbi also was
named by the Belgian king this year in the list of
royal honours as Commandeur de la Couronne
(Commander of the Crown).
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