UMS Concert Program, March 20-21, 1993: Mark Morris Dance Group --

Season: 114th
Concert: 38th and 39th
Power Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan

University Musical Society
Presented in association with AT&T
MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP
Saturday Evening, March 20, 1993, at 8:00
Sunday Afternoon, March 21, 1993, at 3:00
Power Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Dancers
ALYCE BOCHETTE
TINA FEHLANDT
CLARICE MARSHALL
KRAIG PATTERSON
KEITH SABADO
JOE BOWIE
DANJOYCE '
RACHEL MURRAY
MIREILLE RADWAN-DANA
WILLIAM WAGNER
RUTHDAV1DSON DLIVIA MARIDJAN-KOOP
JUNE OMURA
GUILLERMO RESTO
MEGAN WILLIAMS
Artistic Director MARK MORRIS
General Director BARRY ALTERMAN
Managing Director NANCY UMANOFF
These performances of the Mark Morris Dance Group are sponsored by the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund.
The Mark Morris Dance Group's rehearsal and creation time has been supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The Mark Morris Dance Group's performances are presented with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts Dance Program and the New York State Council on the Arts.
These performances are pan of the A1XI Dance "Kxir.
ATtT
This project is supported by Arts Midwest members and friends in partnership with Dance on Tour, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs.
Special thanks to Ms. Susan Isaacs Nisbett for Saturday evening's Philips Pre-Concert Presentation.
38th and 39th Concerts of the 114th Season
22nd Annual Choice Series
PROGRAM March 20, 1993, at 8:00 pm.
Choreography by Mark Morris
BEDTIME
Music: Franz Schubert ("Wiegenlied," "Standchen," "Erlkonig") Lighting: James F. Ingalls Costumes: Susan Ruddie
ALYCE BOCHETTE, RUTH DAVIDSON, TINA FEHLANDT, OLIVIA MARIDJAN-KOOP, CLARICE MARSHALL, MARK MORRIS,
RACHEL MURRAY, JUNE OMURA, KRAIG PATTERSON, MIREILLE RADWAN-DANA, GUILLERMO RESTO, MEGAN WILLIAMS
BEAUTIFUL DAY
Music: attributed to J.S. Bach or Georg-Melchior Hoffmann
(Cantata "Schlage doch, gewiinschte Stunde," BWV 53)
Lighting: James F. Ingalls
Costumes: Susan Ruddie
JOE BOWIE, OLIVIA MARIDJAN-KOOP
THREE PRELUDES
Music: George Gershwin (Three Piano Preludes)
Lighting: James F. Ingalls
Costume: Isaac Mizrahi
MARK MORRIS
intermission -
GRAND DUO
Music: Lou Harrison (Grand Duo for Violin and Piano)
Prelude
Stampede
A Round
Polka
Lighting: Michael Chybowski Costumes: Susan Ruddie
COMPANY
intermission -
GLORIA
Music: Antonio Vivaldi (Gloria in D) Lighting: James F. Ingalls
ALYCE BOCHETTE, JOE BOWIE, RUTH DAVIDSON, TINA FEHLANDT,
OLIVIA MARIDJAN-KOOP, JUNE OMURA, KRAIG PATTERSON,
GUILLERMO RESTO, KEITH SABADO, WILLIAM WAGNER
PROGRAM March 21, 1993, at 3:00 pm.
Choreography by Mark Morris
A LAKE
Music: Franz Joseph Haydn (Horn Concerto No. 2 in D)
Lighting: James F. Ingalls Costumes: Martin Pakledinaz
ALYCE BOCHETTE, JOE BOWIE, DAN JOYCE,
OLIVIA MARIDJAN-KOOP, JUNE OMURA,
KRAIG PATTERSON, MIREILLE RADWAN-DANA,
KEITH SABADO, WILLIAM WAGNER, MEGAN WILLIAMS
THREE PRELUDES
Music: George Gershwin (Three Piano Preludes)
Lighting: James F. Ingalls
Costume: Isaac Mizrahi
MARK MORRIS
intermission -
GOING AWAY PARTY
Music: Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
("Playboy Theme," "Yearning," "My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You,"
"Goin Away Party," "Baby, That Sure Would Go Good," "Milk Cow Blues,"
"Crippled Turkey," "When You Leave Amarillo, Turn Out the Lights")
Original Lighting Design: Phil Sandstrom
Costumes: Christine Van Loon
ALYCE BOCHETTE, CLARICE MARSHALL,
MARK MORRIS, RACHEL MURRAY, KRAIG PATTERSON,
GUILLERMO RESTO, KEITH SABADO
intermission -
GLORIA
Music: Antonio Vivaldi (Gloria in D) Lighting: James F. Ingalls
ALYCE BOCHETTE, JOE BOWIE, RUTH DAVIDSON, TINA FEHLANDT,
OLIVIA MARIDJAN-KOOP, JUNE OMURA, KRAIG PATTERSON,
GUILLERMO RESTO, KEITH SABADO, WILLIAM WAGNER
BEDTIME
Music: Franz Schubert ("Wiegenlied," "Standchen," "Erlkonig")
Author unknown
WIEGENLIED
D498 November 1816; published in 1829
Schlafe, holder, siisser Knabe,
Leise wiegt dich deiner Mutter Hand;
Sanfte Ruhe, milde Labe
Bringt dir schwebend dieses Wiegenband.
Schlafe in dem siissen Grabe,
Noch beschiitzt dich deiner Mutter Arm,
Alle Wunsche, alle Habe
Fasst sie liebend, alle liebewarm.
Schlafe in der Flaumen Schoosse, Noch umtont dich lauter Liebeston, Eine Lilie, eine Rose, Nach dem Schlafe werd' sie dir zum Lohn.
Franz Grillpaner (1791-1872)
STANDCHEN
(first version)
D920July 1827; published 1891
Zogernd leise
In des Dunkels nacht'ger Hiille
Sind wir hier;
Und den Finger sanft gekriimmt,
Leise, leise,
Pochen wir
An des Liebchens Kammerthiir.
Doch nun steigend,
Schwellend, schwellend,
Mit vereinter Stimme, Laut
Rufen aus wir hochvertraut:
Schlaf du nicht,
Wenn der Neigung Stimme spricht!
Sucht' ein Weiser nah und feme Menschen einst mit der Laterne; Wieviel seltner dann als Gold Menschen, uns geneigt und hold Drum wenn Freundschaft, Liebe spricht, Freundin, Liebchen, schlaf du nicht!
Aber was in alien Reichen
War' dem Schlummer zu vergleichen
Drum statt Worten und statt Gaben
Sollst du nun auch Ruhe haben.
Noch ein Griisschen, noch ein Wort,
Es verstummt dir frohe Weise,
Leise, leise,
Schleichen wir uns, ja, schleichen wir uns wider fort!
LULLABY
Sleep, dear, sweet boy,
Your mother's hand rocks you softly.
This swaying cradle strap
Brings you gentle peace and tender comfort.
Sleep in the sweet grave;
Your mother's arms still protect you.
All her wishes, all her possessions
She holds lovingly, with loving warmth.
Sleep in her lap, soft as down;
Purely notes of love still echo around you.
A lily, a rose
Shall be your reward after sleep.
SERENADE
Softly, hesitantly,
Cloaked in night's darkness,
We have come here;
And with fingers gently curled,
Softly, softly
We knock
On the beloved's bedroom door.
But now, our emotion rising,
Swelling,
Surging, with united voice
We call out loud, in warm friendship:
'Do not sleep
When the voice of affection speaks.'
Once a wise man with his lantern Sought people near and far; How much rarer, then, than gold Are people who are fondly disposed to us And so, when friendship and love speak, Do not sleep, friend, beloved!
But what in all the world's realms
Can be compared to sleep
And so, instead of words and gifts,
You shall now have rest.
Just one more greeting, one more word,
And our happy song ceases;
Softly, softly
We steal away again.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
ERLKONIG
(fourth version)
D328 October 1815();
published in 1821 as Op 1
Wer reitet so spat durch
Nacht und Wind
Es ist der Vater mit seinem Kind:
Er hat den Knaben wohl in dem Arm,
Er fasst ihn sicher, er halt ihn warm.
"Mein Sohn, was birgst du so bang dein Gesicht" "Siehst, Vater, du den Erlkonig nicht Den Erlenkonig mit Kron und Schweif" "Mein Sohn, es ist ein Nebelstreif'
"Du liebes Kind, komm, geh mit mir! Gar schone Spiele spiel ich mit dir; Manch bunte Blumen sind an dem Strand, Meine Mutter hat manch gulden Gewand."
"Mein Vater, mein Vater, und hiirest du nicht, Was Erlenkonig mir leise verspricht" "Sei ruhig, bleibe ruhig, mein Kind: In diirren Blattem sauselt der Wind."
"Willst, feiner Knabe, du mit mir gehn Meine Tochter am diistem Ort Meine Tochter fiihren den nachtlichen Reihn Und wiegen und tanzen und singen dich ein."
"Mein Vater, mein Vater, und siehst du nicht dort Erlkonigs Tochter am dustern Ort" "Mein Sohn, mein Sohn, ich seh es genau: Es scheinen die alten Weiden so grau."
"Ich liebe dich, mich reizt deine schone Gestalt; Und bist du nicht willig, so brauch ich Gewalt." "Mein Vater, mein Vater, jetzt fasst er mich an! Erlkonig hat mir ein Leids getan!"
Dem Vater grausets, er reitet geschwind, Er halt in Armen das achzende Kind, Erreicht den Hof mit Miihe und Not: In seinen Armen das Kind war tot.
THE ERLKING
Who rides so late through
the night and wind
It is the father with his child.
He has the boy in his arms,
He holds him safely, he keeps him warm.
"My son, why do you hide your face in fear" "Father, can you not see the Erlking The Erlking with his crown and tail" "My son, it is a streak of mist."
'Sweet child, come with me, I'll play wonderful games with you; Many a pretty flower grows on the shore, My mother has many a golden robe.'
"Father, father, do you not hear
What the Erlking softly promises me"
"Calm, be calm my child:
The wind is rustling in the withered leaves."
'Won't you come with me, my fine lad
My daughters shall wait upon you;
My daughters lead the nightly dance,
And will rock, and dance, and sing you to sleep.
"Father, father, can you not see Erlking's daughters there in the darkness" "My son, I can see clearly: It is the old grey willows gleaming."
'I love you, your fair form allures me,
And if you don't come willingly, I'll use force.'
"Father, father, now he's seizing me!
The Erlking has hurt me!"
The father shudders, he rides swiftly, He holds the moaning child in his arms; With one last effort he reaches home; The child lay dead in his arms.
"Lullaby," "Serenade" and "The Erlking" English translations by RICHARD W1GMORE (1988) from Schubert: The Complete Song Texts reproduced by kind permission of Victor Gollancz Ltd., London.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
MARK MORRIS was born and raised in Seattle, Washington where he studied with Verla Flowers and Perry Brunson. He has performed with a diverse assortment of com?panies over the years, including the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Hannah Kahn Dance Company, Laura Dean Dancers and Musicians, Eliot Feld Ballet, and the Koleda Balkan Dance Ensemble. Since 1980, in ad?dition to creating over 60 works for his own modern dance company, he has created dances for the Boston Ballet, the Joffrey Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, the Paris Opera Ballet, the White Oak Dance Project and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens among others. In 1990 he and Mikhail Baryshnikov founded the White Oak Dance Project. Mr. Morris has also worked extensively in opera. In December of 1991 he directed a new production of Le Nozze di Figaro at the Theatre
Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels where from 1988-1991 he was Director of Dance. Mr. Morris was named a Fellow of the Mac Arthur Foundation in 1991.
MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP was formed in 1980 and gave its first concert in New York City that year. In addition to touring widely, the Group has been the subject of television specials for PBS Dance In America series and London Weekend Television's South Bank Show. From 1988-1991, the Group was the resident company of the Theatre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, Belgium.
ALYCE BOCHETTE began working with Mark Morris in 1988, A native Floridian, she has been dancing and involved in the theater since she was a child. Since graduating from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts, she has worked with the companies of May O'Donnell, Rachel Lampert, Doug Varone and Toby Towson. She has also taught gymnastics, ballet and modern dance technique.
Born in Lansing, Michigan, JOE BOWIE began dancing while attending Brown University. After graduating with honors in English and American Literature, he moved to New York and performed in the works of Robert Wilson, Ulysses Dove, and danced with the Paul Taylor Dance Company for two years before going to Belgium to work with Mark Morris.
RUTH DAVIDSON, a native New Yorker, began her serious dance training at the High School of Performing Arts where she was a recipient of the coveted Helen Tamiris Award. After attaining her B.F.A. from SUNY College at Purchase, she began her professional career with the Hannah Kahn Dance Company. Ms. Davidson later joined the Don Redlich Dance Company where she also had the honor of working with dance master Hanya Holm. She appears in "Hanya: Portrait of a Dance Pioneer," a biographical film on the career of Ms. Holm. She has been with the Mark Morris Dance Group since 1980.
TINA FEHLANDT grew up in Wilmington, Delaware. She has been a member of the Mark Morris Dance Group since its inception in 1980. She has staged Mr. Morris' work on Repertory Dance Company of Canada, Concert Dance Company of Boston, New York
"GOING AWAY PARTY" Mark Morris Dance Group
University Tisch School of the Arts, and assisted him on his work with the Boston Ballet and American Ballet Theatre. Ms. Fehlandt has also appeared with the White Oak Dance Project. During February 1992 she was a visiting artist at the University of Minnesota.
DAN JOYCE, from Stuart, Virginia, began his professional dance training at the North Carolina School of the Arts, where he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1983. He danced for one season with the Maryland Dance Theater before joining Concert Dance Company of Boston for four years. With Concert Dance Company, he performed dances by Merce Cunningham, Murray Louis, Laura Dean, Kei Takei, Mark Morris and David Gordon, among others. He joined the Mark Morris Dance Group in 1988.
OLIVIA MARIDJAN-KOOP, born in Brussels, studied for four years at the Folkwang Hochschule in Germany where she worked with several choreographers and performed her own work. In October 1987 she performed with Pina Bausch in her "Sacre du Printemps." Ms. Maridjan-Koop has worked with Mark Morris since September 1988.
CLARICE MARSHALL was born in California and grew up in Texas. She moved to New York to study dance at New York University. She has danced in the work of Rosalind Newman and Ruby Shang, toured with the White Oak Dance Project, and acted in the work of the Performance Group and Mabou Mines. Her own work has been performed in the U.S., Europe and Asia and filmed for Public Broadcasting System's "Alive From Off Center." She was on the faculty of New York University Tisch School of the Arts for many years.
RACHEL MURRAY began her dance training in Vancouver, B.C. at Simon Fraser University. She then went on to perform with Betty Jones' Dances We Dance Company in Honolulu and in Senta Driver's "Harry" in New York City.
JUNE OMURA received her early dance training at the University of Alabama in Birmingham and then attended Barnard College, graduating in 1986 with honors in Dance
and English. She has danced for Mark Morris since 1988, previously performing in New York with Kenneth King, Sally Silvers, Richard Bull, Peter Healey and Hannah Kahn.
KRAIG PATTERSON "The belief that becomes truth for me ... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into actions." (Andre Gide)
MIREILLE RADWAN-DANA was born in Beirut, but grew up in Rome, Italy, where she attended Tersicore from 1978-1986. She then moved to Brussels to attend the Mudra School from 1986-1988. She joined the Mark Morris Dance Group in 1988.
GUILLERMO RESTO, recipient of a New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie), has danced with Mark Morris since 1983.
KEITH SABADO, born in Seattle, joined the Mark Morris Dance Group in 1984 and has danced with the companies of Pauline Koner, Hannah Kahn, Jim Self and Rosalind Newman.
WILLIAM WAGNER is from Larchmont, New York. He studied at the Martha Graham School of Dance and is an English graduate from the State University of New York at Purchase. Mr. Wagner has performed with the Martha Graham Ensemble, Judith Gary and Dancers, the Anthony Morgan Dance Company and in the role of Hung Ch'angch'ing in the 1988 Edinburgh Festival production of Nixon in China.
"GLORIA" Mark Morris Dance Group
MEGAN WILLIAMS was born in Southern California and later moved to Toronto, Canada where she began her dance training. She graduated with a B.F. A. from The Juilliard School, New York, in 1984 where she was the recipient of the Jose Limon Memorial Scholarship and the Rockettes Alumnae Award. Since then she has danced professionally with Ohad Naharin Dance Company, GlennLundDance and Mark Haim and Dancers.She joined the Mark Morris Dance Group in September 1988.These performances are dedicated to Joanna, in loving memory.
MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP STAFF
Technical Director: Johan Henckens
Development Director: Karen Hershey
Asst. to the Managing Director: Tom Geyer
Lighting Supervisor: Michael Chybowski
Musical Director: Linda Dowdell
Costumer: Susan Ruddie
Computer Systems Advisor: Peter Prunka
Accountant: Kathryn Lundquist, CPA
Legal Counsel: Mark Selinger (Kaye, Scholer,
Fierman, Hays &. Handler)
Thanks to Maxine Morris and God.
Sincerest thanks to all the dancers for their dedication, support and incalculable contribution to the work.
This concert was arranged through the tour representation of Sheldon Soffer Management, Inc., 130 West 56th Street, Suite 702, New York, NY 10019; Tel.: (212) 757-8060; Fax: (212) 757-5536.
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Additional funding has been received from the AT&T Foundation, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Consolidated Edison, Cowles Charitable Trust, Dance Ink, Dover Fund, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation Inc., The Fund for Dance, Fund for U.S. Artists, Howard Gilman Foundation, Harkness Foundations for Dance, Sydney & Francis Lewis Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Joyce Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Philip Morris Companies Inc., Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund and the Friends of the Mark Morris Dance Group.
The Mark Morris Dance Group receives additional support from Philip Morris Companies Inc., Times Mirror and Time Warner through employee matching contributions programs.