InnerLandscapes Dance Theater
works by: Nomi Bachar • Deborah Bailay • Alexandra Rieloff • Kathryn Sullivan

collaborating artists: Karl Dixon • Nicole Flender • Charles Parker • Robin Rapoport • Lejka Sievert • Bruce Tovsky • Melia Watras

performed by: Nomi Bachar • Deborah Bailay • Karl Dixon • Kate Francis • Sarae Garcia • Kristian Guillén • Riko Hase • Betina Hershey • Litsa Kioussi • Jon Kowalski • Toy Lavalle • Nyota Nayo • Jessica Perez • Alexandra Rieloff • Theodosia Sourelou • Jennifer Thompson • Melia Watras

lighting design • technical director: Stephen Petrilli
production stage manager: Jennifer A. Pesce
sound engineer: Nicolas Gardere
videographer: Star Reese
photographer: Ellen Crane
graphic design: Doug Barron

MERCE CUNNINGHAM STUDIO
55 Bethune Street, 11th Floor
(corner Bethune & Washington
ACEL subways to 14th St./8th Ave.

FRI • JAN 25 • 9 PM • 2002
SAT & SUN • JAN 25 & 27 • 8 PM • 2002

Tickets $15 • TDF vouchers
Reservations:  917.493.0228

Assisted by Dance Theater Workshop

Yamaha Disklazier is the official piano of the Merce Cunningham Studio.

Special thanks to: Bill Shaman, Joelle Evans, Mayra Colon, and all of you who have supported us this season and in the past.

program

Everlasting Solace/Never-Ending Murder
(premiere)
choreography: Alexandra Tejeda Rieloff
music: Dexter Gordon - "Body and Soul,"Daud Al Jerrahi - "Spiral Dance," Yorghos Stavianos - "Secret Love," Portishead - "Mourning Air"
performers: Alexandra Tejeda Rieloff, Nyota Nayo, Kristian Guillén
Special thanks to Nyota Nayo and Susie Lampert without whom this work might not have been realized.

Blind Blake Blues

(premiere)
choreography: Kathryn Sullivan
music: Arthur Blake
costumes: Kathryn Sullivan, party dresses courtesy of Deborah Bailay
performers: Sarae Garcia, Riko Hase, Jon Kowalski, Jessica Perez
Arthur Blake "Blind Blake" ranked as one of America's premier guitarists in 1926. Very little is known about his life other than his formal name and that he hailed from Jacksonville, Florida. His recording career lasted nearly six years and he died in complete obscurity.

Snakewoman

written: Nomi Bachar
conceived & choreographed: Nomi Bachar
costumes & make-up: Lejka Sievert
sound design: Bruce Tovsky
vocals: Nomi Bachar
performers: Mother Earth - Nomi Bachar- Snakewoman, Kate Francis - reptile, Toy Lavalle - human
text reading: English, Hebrew, & Arabic - Nomi Bachar, Japanese - Riko Hase, German - Paul Goebert
Special thanks to Rachel Grisi for her artistic insight, and to the dancers for their creative collaboration.

At Home

(premiere)
choreography: Kathryn Sullivan
viola: Melia Watras
costumes: Kathryn Sullivan
slide and painting: Charles Parker
performers: Betina Hershey, Melia Watras
Dedicated to Nicole for her inspiration and input into this work.
Special thanks to Greg and Chris.

DUOS

(premiere)
conceived & created by: Deborah Bailay & Robin Rapoport
choreography: Deborah Bailay
music: Iannis Xenakis, Paul Schoenfield
costumes, scenery, props & video: Robin Rapoport
producers: Robin Rapoport & Deborah Bailay
performers: Deborah Bailay, Litsa Kioussi, Theodosia Sourelou, Jennifer Thompson
Special thanks to Ritchie, Carmen Davis, Dionne Dong & H.T. Chen, Cheryl King and a couple of nice guys.
Special permission from Migdal Publishing for use of Paul Schoenfield's Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano. Iannis Xenakis' "Dikhthas" for violin and piano used by arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc. sole agent in the U.S., Canada and Mexico for Salabert, a BMG editons company, publisher and copyright owner.

photos by Ellen Crane.

works & process

Jan 13, at STEPS, an open rehearsal where ILDT presented excerpts of unbearable light and an inside view to our choreographic process along with a Q&A.

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