Betroffenheit
BetroffenheitA production ofKidd Pivot and Electric Company TheatreJonathon YoungWriterCrystal PiteChoreographer and DirectorFriday Evening, March 17, 2017 at 8:00Saturday Evening, March 18, 2017 at 8:00Power CenterAnn Arbor47th and 48th Performances of the 138th Annual SeasonDance SeriesInternational Theater Series
Tonight’s supporting sponsors are Joel Howell and Linda Samuelson.Funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.Special thanks to Grace Lehman and the Ann Arbor Y, Joel Howell, Morgan Lamonica, and Clare Croft fortheir participation in events surrounding this weekend’s performances.Betroffenheit appears by arrangement with Menno Plukker Theatre Agent, Inc.In consideration of the artists and the audience, please refrain from the use of electronic devices duringthe performance.The photography, sound recording, or videotaping of this performance is prohibited.
CASTPerformers / Bryan Arias, David Raymond, Cindy Salgado, Jermaine Spivey,Tiffany Tregarthen, Jonathon Young*Apprentice / Haley HeckethornC R E AT I V E T E A MWriter / Jonathon YoungChoreographer and Director / Crystal PiteComposition and Sound Design / Owen Belton, Alessandro Juliani, Meg RoeSet Design / Jay Gower TaylorLighting Design / Tom VisserCostume Design / Nancy BryantRehearsal Direction / Eric BeauchesneAdditional Choreography / Bryan Arias (salsa), Cindy Salgado (salsa),David Raymond (tap)Set Construction / Scene IdeasScenic Painters / Patrick Spavor, Daniel DumitriuPuppets / Heidi Wilkinson, Omanie EliasCostume Assistant and Builder / Nicola RyallCostume Cutter / Linda ChowStitcher / Patrice YappStitcher and Builder / Wendy DallianProduction Manager and Technical Director / Jeremy Collie-HolmesAudio Technician/Show Control / Eric ChadStage Manager / Jaimie Tait*Stage Carpenter / Isaac Robinson*Appears with the permission of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association.This evening’s performance is approximately two hours in duration and isperformed with one intermission.Following Friday evening’s performance, please feel free to remain in yourseats and join us for a post-performance Q&A with members of the company.3
A NOTE FROM THE DIRECTORJonathon Young’s personal storyof trauma and loss — his ownbetroffenheit — is at the heart of thisventure. Jonathon has challenged meto use our art form to grapple withthe question of suffering, and he hassteadied me with his courage. I am sograteful for this opportunity to standbeside him for a while, to look out atthis difficult territory, and to navigateit with this earnest act of creating.I’ve been surprised by the joy withinour process, and profoundly moved byJonathon’s curiosity and open heart.Throughout his deeply sought effort,Jonathon has made room for us tocatch glimpses of grace.Jonathon and I want toacknowledge and thank the brilliantteam of dancers — Bryan, Cindy,David, Tiffany, and Jermaine — fortheir countless artistic contributions,which have been utterly essential to4creating both the form and content ofthis production. A huge thank you alsogoes out to our extraordinary designteam — AJ, Meg, Owen, Jay, Nancy,and Tom — for their vision, hard work,attention to detail, and collaborativespirit. Thank you as well to BlakeBrooker and Kevin Kerr for inspirationand guidance. And finally, our eternalgratitude for the technical team andproduction support staff — Eric B,Jan, Jeremy, Eric C, Jim, Jessie, andour teams at Kidd Pivot and ElectricCompany Theatre — whose ingenuity,foresight, patience, and problemsolving have been instrumental ingetting this production here tonight.This production is dedicated toKim Collier, Stuart Collier, and ElaineConway.— Crystal Pite
ARTISTSIntegrating movement, original music,text, and rich visual design, Kidd Pivot’sperformance work is assembled withrecklessness and rigor, balancing sharpexactitude with irreverence and risk. Underthe direction of internationally renownedCanadian choreographer Crystal Pite,the company’s distinct choreographiclanguage — a breadth of movement fusingclassical elements and the complexity andfreedom of structured improvisation — ismarked by a strong theatrical sensibilityand a keen sense of wit and invention.Kidd Pivot tours extensively aroundthe world with productions that includeThe Tempest Replica (2011), The YouShow (2010), Dark Matters (2009), LostAction (2006), and Double Story (2004),created with Richard Siegal. Kidd Pivotreceived the 2006 Rio Tinto AlcanPerforming Arts Award, and was residentcompany at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm,with the support of Kulturfonds FrankfurtRheinMain, in Frankfurt, Germany from2010 to 2012. For more information, pleasevisit www.kiddpivot.org.Electric Company Theatre is one ofCanada’s leading creators of live theater,rich in spectacle and adventurous inform, challenging theatrical conventionswhile preserving a strong sense of story.The company was originally formed as acollective in 1996 by Siminovitch Prizewinning director Kim Collier, David Hudgins,Jonathon Young, and Governor General’sAward-winning writer Kevin Kerr, who metwhile training at Studio 58 in Vancouver.Electric Company Theatre has createdover 20 original productions includingthe film/theater hybrid Tear the Curtain!(Arts Club Theatre) a live-cinematicadaptation of Jena Paul Sartre’s No Exit(American Conservatory Theatre), Studiesin Motion (Canadian Stage), and Brilliant!(Edinburgh Fringe, San Jose Stage). In2005 the company wrote and directed TheScore, a feature film for CBC Televisionthat played festivals in Canada, the US,Mexico, Taipei, and Tokyo. The company hasreceived numerous industry awards acrossCanada including the first Rio Tinto AlcanPerforming Arts Award for Theatre (2001).In 2009 Electric Company co-foundedProgress Lab 1422, a 6,000 square-foottheater creation space in Vancouver, withRumble Theatre, Neworld Theatre, and Bocadel Lupo. For more information, please visitwww.electriccompanytheatre.com.Canadian choreographer and performerCrystal Pite (co-creator, choreographer,director) is a former company memberof Ballet British Columbia and WilliamForsythe’s Ballett Frankfurt. Ms. Pite’sprofessional choreographic debut wasin 1990 at Ballet British Columbia. Sincethen, she has created over 40 works forcompanies such as Nederlands DansTheater I, Cullberg Ballet, Ballett Frankfurt,The National Ballet of Canada, Les BalletsJazz de Montréal (resident choreographer,2001–04), Cedar Lake ContemporaryBallet, Ballet British Columbia, and LouiseLecavalier/Fou Glorieux. She has alsocollaborated with Electric CompanyTheatre and Robert Lepage. She is anassociate choreographer of NederlandsDans Theater, associate dance artistof Canada’s National Arts Centre, andassociate artist at Sadler’s Wells, London.In 2002, she formed her own company,Kidd Pivot, in Vancouver. Kidd Pivot toursnationally and internationally, performingworks such as Dark Matters and Lost Action.Kidd Pivot’s residency at the Künstlerhaus5
hock, bewilderment, or impact. The rootf the word is treffen (to meet) and betroffento be met), and Betroffenheit is the statef having been met, stopped, struck, orerplexed in the face of a particular event apace and time where language ceases. Were left only with an awareness of the limits ofSimply translated, Betroffenheit means
From And Then, We Act by Anne Bogartn. In this gap definitions disappear andertainty vanishes. Anything is possible — anesponse, any action or inaction. Nothing isrescribed. Everything is up for grabs in thisertile and palpable silence.”anguage and the limits of what can be taken
Mousonturm in Frankfurt (2010–12)provided her the opportunity to createand tour The You Show and The TempestReplica. Most recently, the company haspremiered Betroffenheit, a co-creation withplaywright and actor Jonathon Young ofElectric Company Theatre.Jonathon Young (co-creator, writer,performer) is co-artistic director ofElectric Company Theatre. In 2015 hewas commissioned by Nederlands DansTheater to write The Statement, a oneact play directed by Crystal Pite. The playwas performed at New York City Center inNovember 2016. With Electric Company,he has collaborated on the making of over20 original productions including Tearthe Curtain! (a film/theater hybrid for ArtsClub Theatre and Canadian Stage), NoExit (a re-working of Jean-Paul Sartre’splay performed in San Francisco at theAmerican Conservatory Theatre), andStudies in Motion (Vancouver Playhouse,Edmonton Citadel, Theatre Calgary, andCanadian Stage in Toronto). In addition,Mr. Young works across Canada as afreelance actor. Some recent productionsinclude All But Gone (Necessary Angel,Toronto), The Waiting Room (Arts ClubTheatre, Vancouver), The Great Gatsby(Theatre Calgary), and Hamlet (Bard onthe Beach Festival, Vancouver). Recenttelevision projects include Detective Hydeon Impastor and four seasons on Sanctuaryas Nikola Tesla. He has been nominatedfor a UK National Dance Award and is therecipient of several Jessie RichardsonAwards for his acting and writing.Born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and raisedin New York City, Bryan Arias (performer)is a former company member withComplexions Contemporary Balletand Nederlands Dans Theater. He hasoriginated roles in and performed worksby notable choreographers including JiříKylián, Ohad Naharin, and Crystal Pite. Asa choreographer, Mr. Arias is the recipientof the First Place and Audience Choiceawards for his work Without Notice atthe Sixth Copenhagen InternationalChoreography Competition (CICC), andwinner of the Hubbard Street DanceInternational Commission Project. Hehas choreographed for Hubbard Street2, Nederlands Dans Theater 2, BalletVorpommern (Germany), and The ScottishBallet. He is the founder of the ARIASCompany, and has been performing withKidd Pivot since 2012.Born and raised in Penticton, BritishColumbia, David Raymond (performer)began as a tap dancer and continued totrain in classical and other forms of dance,forming Over the Influence with four streetdancers. In 2004 he entered a two-yearcreative residency with Tiffany Tregarthenin Antwerp, Belgium. Upon returning toVancouver in 2007, they founded OutInnerspace Dance Theatre to serve as thehome for their creative work, and ModusOperandi as a platform to develop andshare their practice with young artists.Mr. Raymond has performed with The 605Collective, Wen Wei Dance, ResponseDance, Dana Gingras, Simone Orlando,Beijing Modern Dance, Vancouver Opera,and Move: The Company.Born in Sunnyvale, California, CindySalgado (performer) began her trainingPhoto (next spread): Betroffenheit production shot; photographer: Michael Slobodian.8
at the age of three. After graduatingfrom The Juilliard School in 2005 withthe Princess Grace Award, she beganfreelancing in New York. She danced forAszure Barton & Artists most memorablyon tour with Mikhail Baryshnikov, assistedAndy Blankenbuehler in pre-production forHamilton and other Broadway shows, andassisted and performed for Mia Michaels.She is on faculty with New York City DanceAlliance and was assistant rehearsaldirector for Cedar Lake ContemporaryBallet. She was a co-founder and teacherfor Artists Striving To End Poverty. Sheco-started a multimedia dance theatercompany called Shook Ones in 2014. Ms.Salgado has been a proud member of KiddPivot since 2009.Jermaine Maurice Spivey (performer) wasborn in Baltimore, Maryland where hebegan his dance training and later attendedperforming arts high school at the BaltimoreSchool for the Arts. After graduating witha BFA in dance from The Juilliard School in2002, he moved to Lisbon, Portugal wherehe danced with Ballet Gulbenkian from2002–05. In 2005, he joined the CullbergBallet, where he met Crystal Pite, andperformed with the company until summer2008. He has received several awards indance including the National Foundationfor Advancement in the Arts First LevelScholarship and the Princess Grace Award.Mr. Spivey has been performing with KiddPivot since August 2008.Born in Prince George, British Columbia,Tiffany Tregarthen’s (performer) earlymentors include Margo Hartley, RosemarieHarris, Linda Klassen, Rachael Poirier, andYaming Li. Her professional career beganwith Mia Michaels RAW and Wes Veldinkin New York and POZ Dance Theatre inSeoul. She spent two years of professionaldevelopment centered in Antwerp with herpartner David Raymond before returning toco-create Out Innerspace Dance Theatreand its associated post-secondary danceprogram Modus Operandi. Additionally,she created a work for Les Grands BalletsCanadiens through their National YoungChoreographer Competition; has dancedwith The Turning Point Ensemble, RadixTheatre, The Beijing Modern DanceCompany, The Vancouver Opera, The 605Collective, Wen Wei Dance, and JustineChambers; and joined Kidd Pivot in 2013.Owen Belton (composer, sound designer),who is based in Vancouver, Canada,graduated from Simon Fraser University in1993 with a degree in fine and performingarts (concentration in music), and studiedacoustic and computer music compositionwith Owen Underhill and Barry Truax. Hehas been writing music for dance since1994 when he created the music forShapes Of A Passing, Crystal Pite’s piecefor Toronto-based Ballet Jorgen. Sincethen, he has created many scores fordance companies including Kidd Pivot,The National Ballet of Canada, NederlandsDans Theater, Cullberg Ballet in Stockholm,Ballet Nuremberg, Oregon Ballet Theatre,and 420 People in Prague. Since 2008, hehas also been creating sound design andcomposing for theater, working mainly fortheater companies in Vancouver. He hasalso scored several short films.Alessandro Juliani and Meg Roe(composers, sound designers) are Canadiantheater artists based in Vancouver. Theirwork has been seen and heard acrossCanada and internationally in conjunctionwith The Shaw Festival, Canadian Stage,Factory Theatre, Centaur Theatre, Bard onthe Beach, Ruby Slippers Theatre, ElectricCompany Theatre, Blackbird Theatre,9
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Arts Club, The Vancouver Playhouse, PiTheatre, Rumble Theatre, The NationalArts Centre, Theatre Calgary, AlbertaTheatre Projects, Theatre Junction,Citadel Theatre, Belfry, Intrepid Theatre,Theatre SKAM, Theatre Aquarius, ManitobaTheatre Centre, Western Canada Theatre,Orlando Shakespeare Festival, AmericanConservatory Theatre (San Francisco),Center Theater Group (LA), and the Britten/Pears Festival (UK). They are thrilled to beworking with Kidd Pivot.Jay Gower Taylor (set designer) startedout in theater as a professional dancerwhere he enjoyed an international careerspanning more than 20 years. Parallelto his dance career, he developed hisskills as a designer. Some of his firstopportunities designing for theater werewith Serge Bennathan collaborating onAbsences, The Invisible Life of JosephFinch, Conversations, and Elles. Morerecently, he designed The Virtual Stage andElectric Company Theatre’s live-cinematicinterpretation of Jean-Paul Sartre’s NOEXIT. In the works of Crystal Pite, he hasdesigned Plot Point, Solo Echo, Parade,Frontier, and In the Event for NederlandsDans Theater; Emergence for the NationalBallet of Canada; and Dark Matters and TheTempest Replica for Kidd Pivot.Nancy Bryant (costume designer) livesin Vancouver and designs costumes fordance, theater, opera, and film. Works withCrystal Pite include Seasons’ Canon (ParisOpera), Parade, and Plot Point (NederlandsDans Theater), and The Tempest Replica(Kidd Pivot). Costume designs fortheater include Helen Lawrence (StanDouglas Inc.), The Overcoat (CanadianStage), and Tear the Curtain (Arts Club/Electric Company Theatre). Designs foropera include Das Rheingold, The Flying12Dutchman, Rodelinda (The Pacific Opera),and Sweeney Todd (Vancouver Opera). Shehas received a Leo (film) Award for Legendof Earthsea, multiple Jessie RichardsonTheatre Awards, and the 2014 Mayor’s ArtsAward for Vancouver Theatre.Tom Visser (lighting designer) grew upin the countryside of west Ireland. At theage of 18 he started working in musictheater through his theatrical family. Aftersix years he started working in dancewith the Nederlands Dans Theater. Since2005 he has created original designs forchoreographers Crystal Pite, AlexanderEkman, Johan Inger, Stijn Celis, LukasTimulak, Sharon Eyal, and Joeri Dubbe.Recently, Mr. Visser has been creating hisown projects through art installations andinteractive media.Born in Québec, Eric Beauchesne (rehearsaldirector) grew up fishing and huntingbefore discovering dance at the age of16. A graduate from École supérieure dedanse du Québec, he has been on stagewith Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, theBadisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, andLes Ballets Jazz de Montréal, as well aswith Canadian contemporary dance iconssuch as La Fondation Jean-Pierre Perrault,Paul-André Fortier, Louise Lecavalier, andCrystal Pite. A company member since2004, he currently collaborates with KiddPivot as rehearsal director, and stagesMs. Pite’s work on companies worldwideincluding Ballet British Columbia, CullbergBallet, Royal Swedish Ballet, Hubbard StreetDance Chicago, and, most recently, ScottishBallet. Mr. Beauchesne has served as guestteacher and faculty for several organizationssuch as École de danse contemporaine deMontréal, Arts Umbrella Vancouver, SeattleFestival of Dance Improvisation, and DutchNational Ballet Academy, as well as rehearsal
director for Nederlands Dans Theater. Hecurrently resides in Holland, and devotesmost of his spare time advocating forclimate justice and sustainable practices inthe dance world.Jeremy Collie-Holmes (production manager)hails from Wellington, New Zealand, wherehe graduated from Victoria University witha BA in theater and film and a bachelorof commerce and administration inmanagement. Since then he has combinedhis love of travel with his career. He hasworked as a production manager, technicaldirector, lighting director, and stage managerfor festivals, venues, and companiesin New Zealand, Australia, the UnitedKingdom, Europe, on cruise ships, and nowin Canada. In addition to his role at KiddPivot he is currently involved as technicaldirector with Vancouver-based companiesOut InnerSpace Dance Theatre and TaraCheyenne Performance. He has recentlyworked with the Auckland International ArtsFestival in New Zealand (venue manager),Push International Arts Festival (venuetechnical director), Vancouver Folk MusicFestival, Aeriosa Dance Society, SquamishValley Music Festival, Holy Body Tattoo,Green Thumb Theatre, and Wen Wei Dance.Yes, he does often import New Zealandmarmite and will happily go bungee jumpingat a moment’s notice.13
E L E C T R I C C O M P A N Y T H E AT R EArtistic Director & Co-Founder / Jonathon YoungArtistic Associate & Co-Founder / Kim CollierArtistic Associate & Co-Founder / Kevin KerrArtistic Associate & Co-Founder / David HudginsManaging Producer / Jessie van RijnCompany & Financial Manager / Jennifer SwanArtistic Apprentice / Christine QuintanaBoard of Directors / Mavis Dixon (President), John Mackenzie (Treasurer),Veronica S.C. Rossos (Secretary), Peter Beharry, Michael Fergusson, Tania Lo,Julia Mackey, Emira Meers, Brian Patterson, Robin TurnillKIDD PIVOTProducer / Jim Smith**Artist and Tour Manager / Francesca Piscopo**Marketing and Communications Manager / Warren Chan**Accounts / Ann Hepper**Administrative Assistant / Katie Nichols**Fundraising Associate and Company Manager on Tour / Brent BelsherBoard of Directors / Ainslie Cyopik (Treasurer), Dory Dynna (Secretary),Barry McKinnon (Vice President), Derek Porter, Guy Riecken (President)** Eponymous StaffAGENTS FOR KIDD PIVOTMenno Plukker Theatre Agent Inc. (except Canada, France, Luxembourg,Switzerland)Le Trait d’Union (France, Luxembourg, Switzerland)Eponymous (Canada)14
Betroffenheit was co-produced by PANAMANIA Arts and Culture Program of the Toronto 2015 Pan Amand Parapan Am Games, Sadler’s Wells (London, UK), The Banff Centre as part of the 2015 PerformingArts Residency Program through the support of The Stollery Family and Andrea Brussa, On the Boardsand Seattle Theatre Group through the support of Glenn Kawasaki, National Arts Centre (Ottawa), theCanDance Network, Canadian Stage (Toronto), L’Agora de la Danse (Montreal), Brian Webb DanceCompany (Edmonton), and Dance Victoria (Victoria).World premiere: July 23, 2015 at the Bluma Appel Theatre in Toronto, Canada.Music commissioned by the Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation.Stage makeup provided by M.A.C. Cosmetics.Electric Company Theatre and Kidd Pivot gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Councilfor the Arts, the Province of British Columbia, British Columbia Arts Council, BC Gaming, the City ofVancouver, the Vancouver Foundation, and countless individual and business supporters.Eponymous gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.Thank you to Artemis Gordon and Arts Umbrella, Barry Kootchin, Pamela Taylor, Carey Dodge,Kristina Lemieux, Vancouver Creative Space Society, and Progress Lab 1422.UMS ARCHIVESThis weekend’s performances mark Kidd Pivot’s second appearance underUMS auspices, following the company’s UMS debut in September 2012 in twoperformances of The Tempest Replica at the Power Center. UMS welcomesElectric Company Theatre as the company makes its UMS debut this weekend.15
THIS WEEKEND’S VICTORS FOR UMS:Joel Howell andLinda Samuelson—National Endowment forthe ArtsSupporters of this weekend’s performances of Betroffenheit.M AY W E A L S O R E C O M M E N D . . .3/293/30–4/14/12DakhaBrakhaComplicite/Simon McBurney: The EncounterA Far Cry with Roomful of TeethTickets available at www.ums.org.O N T H E E D U C AT I O N H O R I Z O N . . .3/18You Can Dance: Kidd Pivot(Ann Arbor Y, 400 W. Washington Street, 2–3:30 pm)3/25Pre-Concert Lecture Series: Exploring Beethoven’s String Quartets(Michigan League Koessler Room, Third Floor, 911 N. University Ave.,7:00 pm)Educational events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
Vancouver in 2007, they founded Out Innerspace Dance Theatre to serve as the home for their creative work, and Modus Operandi as a platform to develop and share their practice with young artists. Mr. Raymond has performed with The 605 Collective, Wen Wei Dance, Response Dance, Dana Gingras, Simone Orlando
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