WORKING WOMEN - Joyce Theater

THE JOYCE THEATER
Gotham Arts Exchange, in association with The Joyce Theater Foundation, presents
WORKING WOMEN
Featuring:
BODYTRAFFIC
CAMILLE A. BROWN & DANCERS
CAROLYN DORFMAN DANCE COMPANY
JANE COMFORT & COMPANY
JANIS BRENNER & DANCERS
KATE WEARE COMPANY
LONI LANDON PROJECTS
MONICA BILL BARNES & COMPANY
Producer
KEN MALDONADO
Production Manager
BURKE WILMORE
Stage Manager
LYNDA ERBS
Wardrobe
NATALIE ROBERTS
Publicist
MICHELLE TABNICK
Ticket Coordinator
JACKIE COLLINS
Events Coordinator
LAUREN PARRISH
Social Media Manager
MATTHEW BAKER
Working Women is made possible in part through the generous support of the
National Endowment for the Arts, the Presenting Program of the New York State Council on the Arts,
and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Leadership support for The Joyce Theater’s 2012–2013 season has been received from
the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust.
The Joyce Theater Foundation gratefully acknowledges the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation for its generous
endowment to support dance performances at The Joyce Theater.
Generous support for this engagement was provided through a grant from The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels
Foundation, Inc. to encourage the performance of New York City-based companies at The Joyce Theater.
The Joyce Theater’s Engagement Assistance Program is made possible by the New York State
Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and is
supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs,
in partnership with the City Council. Major support for The Joyce has been provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies,
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and The Shubert Foundation. Additional major support has been
provided by Alphawood Foundation, First Republic Bank, MetLife Foundation,
and The Jerome Robbins Foundation.

LUSTER (2012)
(part 1: the set up)
Choreography: Monica Bill Barnes
Music: “Proud Mary” composed by John Fogerty and performed by Ike & Tina Turner
Costume & Set Design: Kelly Hanson
Lighting Design: Jane Cox
MONICA BILL BARNES & COMPANY
Performers: Anna Bass, Monica Bill Barnes
Luster was commissioned by the American Dance Festival and developed in part through the creative process of
The Snow Globe Show, commissioned and presented by DancenowNYC at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater.
UNTITLED (2013, excerpt)
Choreography: Jane Comfort and Company
Sound Design: Brandon Wolcott
Lighting Design: Joe Levasseur
Lighting Production: Burke Wilmore
JANE COMFORT AND COMPANY
Performers: Lucie Baker, Jace Coronado, Leslie Cuyjet,
Sean Donovan, Elinor Harrison, and Petra van Noort
The creation of this work is supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Special thanks to Paul Singh and Darrin Wright.

CONTENTS MAY HAVE SHIFTED (2002)
Choreography: Janis Brenner
Re-staging Assistant: Kyla Barkin
Music: Clifton Air Hyde
Costume Design: Janis Brenner
Lighting & Set Design: Mitchell Bogard
JANIS BRENNER & DANCERS
Guest Performer: Holley Farmer
Contents May Have Shifted premiered at the Indonesia Arts Institute in Yogyakarta, Indonesia on
September 1, 2002. It was created in honor of Alwin Nikolais (on the 20th anniversary of his passing)
and was originally performed by Ms. Brenner.
REBUILDING SANDCASTLES (World Premiere)
Choreography: Loni Landon
Lighting: Burke Wilmore
Music: Richard Skelton, Michael Convertino, Balanescu Quartet
Costumes: Naomi Luppescu
LONI LANDON PROJECTS
Dancers: Emily Oldak, Brendan Duggan, Christopher Ralph, Lavinia Vago,
Rachel Fallon ( 1/30) Delphina Parenti (2/1 and 2/3)

KEYSTONE (2012)
Choreography: Carolyn Dorfman
Costumes: Anna-Alisa Belous
Lighting Design: Simon Cleveland
Music: “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen and performed by Rufus Wainwright;
“What a Wonderful World” by Bob Theile / George D. Weiss and performed by Louis
Armstrong; “White Christmas” by Irving Berlin and performed by Jamie Randolph
Music Adaptation: Bryan Noll
CAROLYN DORFMAN DANCE COMPANY
Performers: Jacqueline Dumas Albert, Louie Marin
The creation of Keystone was supported in part by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
and a 2011 Choreography Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
“Hallelujah” (Leonard Cohen) performed by Rufus Wainwright Copyright 1985 Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC.
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rights reserved. Used by permission. “What a Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong Written By George David
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LLC c/o Larry Spier Music LLC. Used with Permission. All Rights Reserved. “White Christmas” sung by Jamie
Randolph Lyrics by Irving Berlin Music adaptation - Bryan Noll Used with Permission.
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THE LIGHT HAS NOT THE ARMS TO CARRY US
(World Premiere)
Choreography: Kate Weare
Music: Wolfgang Capellari, Gerard Pesson
Lighting: Brian Jones
KATE WEARE COMPANY
Dancers: Douglas Gillespie, Leslie Kraus, T.J. Spaur, Bergen Wheeler
The Light Has Not the Arms to Carry Us was originally performed as a trio and premiered as part of
Fall for Dance in 2008. This reworking of the piece and expansion to a quartet was created specifically for the
first Working Women on June 5, 2012. For this edition of Working Women, a third movement has been added,
and with this, the piece is now complete.

BEYOND THE EDGE OF THE FRAME
(World Premiere)
Choreography: Sidra Bell
Costume Design: Raquel Barreto
Lighting: Burke Wilmore
BODYTRAFFIC
Dancers: Lillian Barbeito, Tina Finkelman Berkett, Melissa Bourkas,
Frances Chiaverini, Miguel Perez, Guzman Rosado, Andrew Wojtal
THE REAL COOL
(2012, Excerpt from Mr. TOL E. RAncE)
Choreography: Camille A. Brown
Lighting: Burke Wilmore
Costumes: Carolyn Meckha Cherry
Music: “What A Wonderful World” by Bob Theile / George D. Weiss
Recording: Brandon McCune, piano
CAMILLE A. BROWN & DANCERS
Performer: Camille A. Brown
LUSTER (part 2: the big finish)
Music: “Angel” by Lionel Richie
For full credits, see LUSTER (part 1).
ABOUT THE COMPANIES
BODYTRAFFIC, founded in 2007 by Lillian Barbeito and Tina Finkelman Berkett,
is a Los Angeles-based repertory dance company that commissions today’s most distinctive
choreographers. Current repertory includes works by Stijn Celis, Sarah Elgart,
Alex Ketley, Barak Marshall, Andrea Miller, Richard Siegal, and Guy Weizman
& Roni Haver. BODYTRAFFIC has performed at numerous venues in Los Angeles,
and across the US, including Brand Library, Disney Concert Hall, The Sharon Disney
Lund Dance Theater, The Broad Stage, Ford Amphitheatre, UCLA, Luckman Fine
Arts Complex, REDCAT, Rialto Center for the Arts, Duncan Theatre, Z Space, ODC
Theater, and at the Chutzpah! and Laguna Dance Festivals. In June 2012, BODY-
TRAFFIC made its Joyce Theater debut during Gotham Dance Festival. In September
2012, the company made its Walt Disney Concert Hall debut, performing with the Los
Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. BODYTRAFFIC, in collaboration
with Barak Marshall, had the honor of winning first prize at The A.W.A.R.D.
Show! 2011: Los Angeles. bodytraffic.com

ABOUT THE COMPANIES
CAMILLE A. BROWN & DANCERS is known for high theatricality, gutsy moves, and
musicality. Making a personal claim on history through the lens of a modern female perspective,
Camille A. Brown leads her dancers through dazzling excavations of ancestral stories,
both timeless and traditional, as well as immediate contemporary issues. The company’s repertory
explores real life situations ranging from literal to more complex themes with an eye
on the past and present. The work is character based, expressing topics by building from little
moments, and modeling a filmic sensibility. Theater, poetry, visual art and music, all merge
to inject each performance with energy. Camille A. Brown & Dancers seeks to connect with
people, entertain, provoke, engage, and inspire. Let’s begin. camilleabrown.org
CAROLYN DORFMAN DANCE COMPANY (CDDC), celebrating its 30th season, is
dedicated to the creation of contemporary dance that reveals the individual uniqueness
and ultimate commonality of the human experience. With bold athleticism and dramatic
nuance, Dorfman’s works take viewers on intellectual and emotional journeys. CDDC’s
ten member company performs nationally, and internationally, and acclaimed for programming
that opens dialogues between artists and audiences and expands the understanding
of dance as a dynamic and expressive art form that both engages and builds community.
Described as “ingenious” (Star-Ledger), “emotionally resonant” (New York Times) and
having “dancers with a four octave range” (choreographer Doug Elkins). CDDC presents
works by Dorfman and guest choreographers and regularly commissions original scores
and artistic collaborations. The company is supported by New Jersey State Council on
the Arts, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, Karma
Foundation, American Music Center Live Music for Dance, and Harkness Foundation for
Dance, among other foundation, corporation and individual donors. cddc.info

ABOUT THE COMPANIES
JANE COMFORT AND COMPANY has pioneered the possibilities of multidisciplinary
dance since the ‘70s with dance/theater works that have been produced throughout the US,
Europe and Latin America. The company performed in 2012 at TEDx in New York, and
has been presented by such venues as Lincoln Center, The Joyce Theater, PS 122, Danspace
Project, DTW, and Off Broadway at Classic Stage Company in New York City, as
well as at festivals and theaters across the US. The company’s most recent work, Beauty,
had its New York premier last spring at La MaMa E.T.C., and will tour to Swarthmore
College and Washington University next month. janecomfortandcompany.org
JANIS BRENNER & DANCERS has performed throughout the world since 1989 and
has been presented by leading US and NY organizations. The company is known for the
caliber of its dancers, its wide-ranging national and international guest residencies, and
for its “emotionally authentic” and musically diverse work. JB&D has appeared at many
festivals including ones in Russia/Siberia, Indonesia, Korea, Taiwan, France, Switzerland
and Germany, as well as at Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out, American Dance Festival, and many
others. More than fifteen of the company’s popular works have been restaged throughout
the US, Europe, Asia, Scandinavia, and Russia. The company’s last three productions were
critically acclaimed, interdisciplinary events in the New York concert season, which included
Brenner’s Janis Brenner & Friends (2007) concert, and the company’s 5 Decades
(2009) and 5 Decades II (2011). janisbrenner.com
KATE WEARE COMPANY is committed to creating dances that explore a contemporary
view of intimacy — both stark and tender — through the power and clarity of the moving
body. Recent engagements include The Joyce Theater, American Dance Festival, Florida
Dance Festival, Dance Celebration, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Fall for Dance,Spring
to Dance St. Louis, Bates Dance Festival, ODC Theater, and Danspace Project. Residencies
include NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, Marymount Manhattan College, Maggie Allesee
National Center for Choreography, ODC Theater, Bates Dance Festival, and The
Joyce Theater Foundation, and others. Major support has been received from The Greenwall
Foundation, Manhattan Community Arts Fund, American Music Center, The O’Donnell-Green
Music and Dance Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, New England
Foundation for the Arts/National Dance Project, National Performance Network, and New
York State Council on the Arts. kateweare.com
LONI LANDON PROJECTS was founded in 2010. The company has performed at HT
Chens’s NewSteps Choreography Series, The Dumbo Dance Festival, The Ailey Citigroup
Theater, Dancenow/NYC at Joe’s Pub, WestFest, Pushing Progress, APAP at 0qdCity Center,
American College Dance Festival, Snow College, State Theater of Munich, Purchase
College, and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival’s Inside/Out Stage.
MONICA BILL BARNES & COMPANY is an American dance company with the mission
to celebrate individuality, humor and the innate theatricality of everyday life. The
company has performed in over twenty venues in New York City, and toured to more than
thirty cities throughout the US, including American Dance Festival, Bates Dance Festival,
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, and others. The company had its third season at The Joyce
Theater in January 2012 as a part of FOCUS Dance. Recently, the company performed in
“This American Life Live!” as a part of the NPR radio show’s cinema event shown in more
than 500 movie theaters across the US and Canada. Upcoming performance highlights
include American Dance Festival and The Kennedy Center. monicabillbarnes.com

WHO’S WHO IN THE COMPANIES
MONICA BILL BARNES (Choreographer)
is a New York-based choreographer
and performer. Born and raised in Berkeley,
California, Barnes moved to New York
in 1995 after receiving her BA in Philosophy
and Theater from the University of
California at San Diego. She has created
thirteen evening-length dance works, numerous
site-specific events, and several
cabaret numbers for her company, Monica
Bill Barnes & Company. The company
has performed in many different venues in
New York City ranging, from DanceNow at
Joe’s Pub to Fall for Dance. Recent projects
include commissions for Parsons Dance
(Love, oh Love) and The Juilliard School
(The way it feels).
SIDRA BELL (Choreographer) artistic director
of Sidra Bell Dance New York, is
currently a Master Lecturer at the University
of the Arts, was Adjunct Professor at
Barnard, and has a degree in History from
Yale and an MFA in Choreography from
Purchase College. She received the First
Place Award for Choreography from the
Solo Tanz Festival in Stuttgart. Her work
has been seen throughout the United States
and in Denmark, France, Austria, Germany,
China, Canada, Korea, Aruba, Brazil
and Greece. The company was lauded
in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette’s Best in
Dance for ReVUE, and ArtATL’s Year in
Review for Nudity. Bell has received many
commissions from renowned companies
and institutions. She was commissioned
for the feature film Test directed by Chris
Mason Johnson (San Francisco). Sidra is
a sought after master teacher featured in
Dance Teacher Magazine and has taught
her creative practice for major institutions
for dance and theater.
JANIS BRENNER (Choreographer) is
an award-winning dancer, choreographer,
singer, and teacher. She has toured in 33
countries and is recognized as a “singular
performer” (Eye On Dance) with a multifaceted
artistic range. Janis received a
“Bessie” Award for Outstanding Creative
Achievement in Meredith Monk’s work
The Politics of Quiet (1997), a “Bessie”
nomination for her performance in Solo
for Janis choreographed by Richard Siegal
(1999), a Lester Horton Award for Outstanding
Achievement in Choreography
(1996), the Copperfoot Award for Lost,
Found, Lost at Wayne State University
(2010), a Leach Fellowship for “Outstanding
Achievement in the Performing Arts”
from Empire State College (1994) and a
Dance On Camera Festival award (1986).
Janis performed with Meredith Monk from
1990 to 2005; was a soloist with Annabelle
Gamson’ s company (1984-87), performing
historic repertory of Mary Wigman, Duncan
and others; and a soloist with the Murray
Louis Dance Company (1977-84). She
has restaged Louis’ repertory throughout
the world, most recently through a National
Endowment of the Arts “American Masterpieces”
grant to stage Porcelain Dialogues
at the University of Hawaii. Janis received
her MFA from the Hollins University/ADF
graduate program in 2009. She is currently
on the faculty of The Juilliard School, serving
as Choreographic Mentor for the Choreographers
& Composers course as well as
a Creative Process instructor.
CAMILLE A. BROWN (Choreographer)
is a Princess Grace Award-winning choreographer
(2009) and the recipient of
Wesleyan University’s Mariam McGlone
Emerging Choreographer Award (2012).
She has choreographed works for Alvin
Ailey American Dance Theater, Philadanco,
Ailey II, Hubbard Street II, Ballet
Memphis, and others. She received a Bessie
nomination for Outstanding Individual
Performance (2011) in her work The Evolution
Of A Secured Feminine and a Best
Choreography nomination from the Black
Arts Alliance for The Groove To Nobody’s
Business (Alvin Ailey). She danced with
Ronald K. Brown/Evidence from 2001 to
2007 and has performed with Alvin Ailey
American Dance Theater as a guest in
2008 and 2011. She attended LaGuardia
High School of the Performing Arts, The
Ailey School, and received her BFA from
The University of North Carolina School of
the Arts. Last year, she choreographed the
Off-Broadway musical Soul Doctor and A
Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway.
JANE COMFORT (Choreographer) is
a choreographer, writer, and director who
has created over 50 dance theater works
for her company since 1978, most of them
full evening pieces. She is a Guggenheim
Fellow and received a “Bessie” Award for

WHO’S WHO IN THE COMPANIES
Underground River, a Doris Duke Award
for New Work, a Habie Award for distinguished
service to the arts from University
of North Carolina, and multiple fellowships
from the NEA, New York State Council on
the Arts, and New York Foundation for the
Arts. In 2012, she traveled to Thailand to
serve as a judge for the IASAS Cultural
Convention. She also works in theater and
opera, and choreographed the Broadway
musicals Passion by Stephen Sondheim,
and Amour by Michel Legrand, as well as
Shakespeare in the Park’s Much Ado About
Nothing, the Off Broadway musical Wilder
at Playwrights Horizons, and Lyric Opera
of Chicago’s production of Salome with
Deborah Voigt. She has had multiple commissions
from Ballet Memphis; other recent
commissions include the National Performance
Network, Rhode Island College,
Headwaters Dance Company, and Jeanne
Ruddy Dance.
CAROLYN DORFMAN (Choreographer),
is known as a creator of evocative dances
that reflect her concerns about the human
condition. Dorfman is interested in creating
“worlds” into which the audience can enter.
A brilliant storyteller, Dorfman, a child of
survivors of the Holocaust, has also created
a celebrated body of work that honors her
Jewish legacy - its trials and triumphs, its
treasured uniqueness and, most importantly,
its universal connections. A Michigan
native, Dorfman received her BFA in Dance
from the University of Michigan and MFA
from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts. She
has been designated a distinguished artist
and granted six choreography fellowships
(most recently in 2011) from the New Jersey
State Council on the Arts among other
honors. A master teacher, she is a guest
artist/choreographer at major universities,
professional, and pre-professional training
programs across the U.S. Dorfman is a
mentor for the Dance/USA Mentoring Program,
a principal affiliate in arts education
for New Jersey Performing Arts Center,
serves on the Artist Committee of the All
Stars Project NY/NJ and on the board of
trustees of The Yard in Chilmark, MA.
Juilliard School. She danced with Ballet
Theater Munich, Aszure Barton, and The
Metropolitan Opera. Most recently, Loni
Landon was a participant in the 2012 Alvin
Ailey Dance Foundation New Directions
Choreography Lab. Loni was the first
place winner of the New American Talent
Competition from Ballet Austin. She was
also selected by Northwest Dance Project
for their “Pretty Creatives”Choreography
Competition and “Next” commission from
Company E. She has been commissioned to
create works for Northwest Dance Project,
BalletX, LaGuardia High School for the
Performing Arts, The Hartt School, and Marymount
Manhattan College. She has been
selected as an emerging choreographer as
part as Springboard Danse Project in Montreal.
Loni, along with Gregory Dolbashian,
founded The Playground, a new choreographer’s
initiative designed to give emerging
choreographers a place to experiment.
KATE WEARE (Choreographer) earned
her BFA from CalArts and danced in Los
Angeles, San Francisco, London, Belgrade,
and Montreal before coming to
New York City to found Kate Weare Company
in 2005. Weare has received support
from The Joyce Theater Foundation,
MANCC, Djerassi Artists Program, The
Ringling Museum, Florida Dance Association,
Bates Dance Festival, ODC Theater,
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, and The
Princess Grace Foundation. Weare’s Leanto
(2009) was commissioned by Danspace
Project and accompanied live by Argento
Chamber Ensemble. Her company had its
Joyce Theater debut in 2010 with Bright
Land, accompanied live by The Crooked
Jades. In 2011, Weare premiered Garden
in the Gotham Dance Festival at The
Joyce. Recently, Weare was commissioned
by Scottish Dance Theatre, Buzz Dance
Theatre, and Paradigm and in 2012, she
choreographed for Barbara White’s opera
Weakness, which premiered at Princeton
University.
LONI LANDON (Choreographer) was
born and raised in New York City and
graduated from LaGuardia High School of
Muisic, Art and Performing Arts and The
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