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Manhattanville College Department of Dance & Theatre Presents 

Spring 2006 Dance Concert 

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LIGHTING DESIGN 

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Just for Fun 

Maiaclaire Garrison 

Simone Boothe, Valery Cavadini, 

Lysaye deWindt, Sergio Gonzalez, 

Darlene Jimenez, Genevieve Kelly, 

Toccara Labady, Cosmina LaBella, 

Yamarie Negron, Kirsten Thomas, 

Dominique Venturini, Nicole Young 

By Performers 

Sabrina Doolittle 

Salif Keita & Destiny‟s Child 

Les Femmes 

Deirdre Dillon 

Deirdre Dillon, Emily Sasson, 

Heather Woodward 

Deirdre Dillon 


Mac The Knife / What I'd Say 

by Bobby Darren 

Gracias a la vida 

Neta Pulvermacher 

Ashley Albonetti, Kristen Briscoe, 

Valery Cavadini, Alexa Conway, 

Taylor Donofrio, Katherine Johnson, 

Genevieve Kelly, Katelyn Merrill, 

Lauren Morrone, Kathryn Richard, 

Emily Sasson 

Neta Pulvermacher & Performers 

Michael Lounsbery 

Yasmin Levi 

PRODUCER/ARTISTIC DIRECTOR 

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR 

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGERS 

Production Staff 

COSTUME SHOP SUPERVISORS 

LIGHT BOARD OPERATOR 

SOUND BOARD OPERATOR 

STAGE CREW 

HOUSE MANAGER 

BOX OFFICE 

POSTER IMAGE 

POSTER & PROGRAM LAYOUT 

VIDEOGRAPHER 

PHOTOGRAPHER 

Valerie Pullman 


Michael Kendrick & Lucy McRae 

Meredith Leo, Hannah Merrill, 

Lexi Pelayo 

Tracy Hoyos 

Amy Berman 

Amy Berman, Deirdre Dillon, 

Vanessa Gibens, Tracy Hoyos, 

Robyn Kreppel, Nadilynn Melendez, 

Monica Moreau, Emily Sasson, 

Marie Stewart 

Savannah Bodnar & Marie Stewart 

Lucy McRae, Kathryn Richard, 

Brigitte Mulholland 

Mark Kornbluth 

Claudia Flores-Aldana 

Arthur Fredric 


Acknowledgements & Thanks 

President Richard Berman, Provost Michael Sperling, 

Vice President Mary Corrarino, Professor Ara Fitzgerald.

Biographies Cont... 

berg Center in Philadelphia, Wortham Theater in Houston, Sunset Arts Center 

in Carmel, CA, Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin, New Orleans Performing Arts 

Center and COCA in St. Louis, among many others. Stenn has been a contributing 

editor at Dancemagazine and the Dance Insider, and has written for the 

Brooklyn Rail and International Journal of Dance. She is a teaching artist for 

The Joyce Theater, continues to teach residencies at the Lincoln Center Open 

Stages Program, and is on the faculty of the New School in New York City. 

Stenn is the proud mother of Jonah Jude Weissman, age 3. She is delighted to 

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working with Keely Garfield. 

ichael Lounsbery, Lighting Designer, Technical Director, 

holds an MFA in Light and Sound Design from the University 

of Memphis and a BA in Fine Arts from St, Michael‟s College. He has designed 

lights and sound for such theatres as Northern Stage, Vermont Stage, Memphis 

Black Rep, University of Vermont, St. Michael's Playhouse, Smith College, 

Pioneer Valley Summer Theatre and New Century Theatre. Some of his favorite 

designs include lights for Jesus Christ Superstar, Soul Repairs, Lobby Hero 

and A Streetcar Named Desire. His favorite sound deigns were for A Midsummer 

Nights Dream, Death and the Maiden, A Piece of My Heart and Equus. 

Michael has worked on various theatre renovation projects and in his free 

time enjoys swimming with free-range clams and observing apes in the wild. 

L iz Prince, Costume Design, had the pleasure of working with Keely 

Garfield previously and is happy to be working with her again at Manhattanville 

College. She has worked extensively with Bill T. Jones designing 

for his works on his company, Boston Ballet, Berlin Opera Ballet and Alvin 

Ailey American Dance. Other work includes designing for works by: Doug 

Varone (Doug Varone and Dancers, Jose Limon Dance Company, Dayton Contemporary 

Dance), Mark Dendy (Dendy Dance, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Dortmund 

Theater Ballet), Trey McIntyre (Washington Ballet, PHILADANCO, Pennsylvania 

Ballet, Houston Ballet), Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project, 

PILOBOLUS Dance Theatre, Bill Irwin, Neil Greenberg, Ralph Lemon, 

Jane Comfort, Lenora Champagne, Bebe Miller, Sarah East Johnson, Gerard 

Alessandrini (MOBIL Masterpiece Theater Celebrates 20 Years on PBS), David 

Dorfman, Patricia Hoffbauer, Jennifer Monson, Lawrence Goldhuber and 

Keely Garfield. Photographs of Prince's costumes and sketches for Ralph 

Lemon's GEOGRAPHY were recently published by Theater Communication 

Group as part of THE PRODUCTION NOTEBOOKS volume II, edited by Mark Bly. 

Her work has been exhibited at the New York Public Library for the Perform- 

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Going for a Ride 

Stephanie M. Quinn 

Stephanie M. Quinn & Elizabeth Ferrante 

Stephanie M. Quinn & Elizabeth Ferrante 


Serenity & Going for a Ride 

by David Newman 

Conversations 

Barbara Duffy 

Alissa Chikeles, Lauren Cieremans, 

Alexa Conway, Jennifer Franzetti, 

Colleen Gallagher, Genevieve Kelly, 

Angela Luciani, Jessica Muoio, 

Adrienne Reid, Heather Woodward 

Liz Prince 


How Could You Do A Thing Like That to 

Me? by Tyree Glenn & Allan Roberts 

Constellation / Eclipse 

(THURSDAY ONLY) 

K.J. Holmes & Jordan Fuchs 




Constellation May 24, 2000 

Trumpets: Roy Campbell, Baikida Carroll, 

and Dave Douglas 

Drums/Cello: Eliott Kavee 

Special Notes: CONSTELLATION, conceived of and directed by K.J. Holmes, 

began in 1999 after she witnessed a lunar eclipse off the coast of Oregon 

and shortly afterward heard trumpeters Dave Douglas, Roy Campbell, and 

Cuong Vu play at a club. There was something dynamically physical and 

kinesthetic at both events that propelled Holmes to create a dance that 

explored these shifting alignments of sound, movement, and light. She 

began a collaboration with musicians and other dancers that eventually 

came to be called CONSTELLATION. Tonight‟s performance is a phase of 

CONSTELLATION entitled “Eclipse” that brings the dance back to its original 

image of aspects of light and dark, using the soundtrack from a live 

performance of CONSTELLATION at the Vision Festival, 2000.

My Father Was A Spanish Captain (1996) 

(FRIDAY ONLY) 

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Keely Garfield 

Keely Garfield & Rebecca Stenn 


Eddie Fisher, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, 

The Mills Brothers 

Intermission 

La Corsare / On the Sea Shore 

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Anchors away and here we go, 

underdogs in undertow. 

Surface with no sight of land, 

underfoot and underhand. 

Made possible in part with support from The Harkness Foundation 

for Dance. Special thanks to dear Rebecca! 

Andrei Kisselev 


Alissa Chikeles, Alexa Conway, 

Katherine Johnson, Paige Levine, 

Katelyn Merrill 

Liz Prince 


Adolphe Adam 

Fire & Flow 

Kelly Scallion 

Deirdre Dillon, Katherine Johnson, 

Cosmina LaBella, Emily Sasson, 

Kelly Scallion, Christin Wagner, 

Erika Werbeck, Heather Woodward 

Katherine Johnson & Kelly Scallion 


Sinner Man by Nina Simone 


N eta Pulvermacher, Choreographer, performer, teacher; producer 

born and raised in Kibbutz Lehavot Habashan, Israel; 

graduated from Juilliard in 1985. She is the Artistic Director of The Neta 

Dance Company for which she has created over 55 works. Neta is a DNA Artist 

in residence in NYC for 2005/06 and is the curator/founder of The A.W.A.R.D. 

Show! @ Joyce Soho. She has choreographed for Ballet Arizona, Ballet New 

England, Vertigo Dance Company (Israel), The Repertory Project in Ohio, 

Ballet Wisconsin, the School Ensemble of Dance Theater Of Harlem, The 

Yard, The Alvin Ailey School, the American Dance Festival, the North Carolina 

School of the Arts, Roger Williams University and numerous university dance 

programs. Her works have been presented at Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace 

Project, The Joyce Theater, the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Series, 

The Knitting Factory, Merkin Concert Hall, Symphony Space, The Miller Theater, 

The Flea Theater, Joe's Pub, The Kitchen, and Central Park‟s Summer- 

Stage, among others; her company has appeared Internationally and nationally 

at the Israel Festival, the Krakow Festival, The Bytom International Festival 

of Modern Dance, the International Festival of the Arts (Costa Rica) and 

Belarus. She has received choreography fellowships from the NEA and NYFA , 

a special choreography award from Bessie Schönberg and numerous grants 

and fellowships; noted for her collaborations with musicians such as John 

Zorn, Roy Nathanson, Miri Ben-Ari, Yuval Gabay, the English rock band XTC. 

Neta is on the faculty of Manhattanville College and has taught at Barnard 

College, Princeton University and Hollins University among others. She has 

choreographed for the forthcoming Mira Nair‟s film, The Namesake; ADF faculty 

‟01, ‟03, ‟05 and again 06 and an MFA candidate at the new Hollins/ADF 

Program. 

R ebecca Stenn, dancer, choreographer, earned a B.F.A. in 

dance from the Juilliard School. As a principal dancer with 

Momix Dance Theatre from 1989 to 1996, Stenn performed in over 40 countries 

and throughout the U.S. and appeared as a featured performer in films 

for Italian, Spanish and French television. Stenn is a founding member of Pilobolus 

Too. With Pilobolus, she has created numerous works for the repertoire, 

a piece for the Radio City Rockettes, and has toured throughout the 

world. Stenn founded her own group, Rebecca Stenn Company in 1995. The 

company has since performed to critical and popular acclaim in national and 

international venues such as The Joyce Theater, The Kitchen, Danspace Project, 

Joyce Soho, The Winter Garden at The World Financial Center and DTW 

in New York City and The Copenhagen Festival, Jacob‟s Pillow, The Annen-


process and performance since 1981. She teaches, directs and performs at 

festivals, universities and venues throughout the world, as a soloist and in her 

collaborations with artists such as Simone Forti, Image Lab (Lisa Nelson, 

Karen Nelson and Scott Smith) and in the work of Steve Paxton. A 1999 graduate 

of the certificate program of the School for Body-Mind Centering , K.J. is 

adjunct faculty at NYU/ETW, continues to teach in NYC through Movement 

Research where she was an artist in residence 1993-94 and at Trisha Brown 

studio and Panetta Movement Center, and has a private practice in Dynamic 

Alignment and Re-Integration in Brooklyn where she lives. She is teaching a 

course on Contact Improvisation this semester at Manhattanville. 

A ndrei Kisselev, Choreographer, Ballet, was born in Moscow, Russia 

and began his career at an early age receiving intensive 

training in ballet by Andrei Ledyakhov (Bolshoi Theater). In 1992 he received 

a diploma from the Russian Conservatory of Culture and Arts after four years 

of study as balletmaster and choreographer. In the same year of graduation, 

Andrei joined the world renowned Moyseev Dance Company. After one year 

he became a principal dancer with the company and was invited to teach the 

ballet classes for the company. In 1995 Andrei was discovered by the producers 

of Riverdance and for the next four years he performed with this international 

hit show in the USA, Canada, England, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, culminating 

in a two-year highly successful Broadway production. As performer 

and dance captain for the Russian segment of the production, Andrei was also 

ballet instructor for the Irish dancers and played a pivotal role as a Riverdance 

choreographer. Settling in New York in 2001, Andrei continues to 

dance and perform as principal dancer with Rebecca Kelly Ballet, Connecticut 

Ballet, Kentucky Ballet, New Jersey Ballet, Eglevsky Ballet, Ballet Ambassadors, 

and Brynsky Ballet. His Ballet roles have included Nutcracker 

(Cavalier), Swan Lake (Prince), Copppelia (Franz), Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), 

Carmen (Toreador). His vast teaching experience includes the Rebecca Kelly 

Ballet (company classes), Summer Camp Youth Ballet, Connecticut Ballet 

(company classes and advanced intermediate classes) and teaching at all 

levels in ballet schools such as LA Dance (Staten Island), LEGGZ Ltd (Long 

Island) American Dance Theater (Long Island) and Dance USA (Long Island). 

Andrei also participates in the Ballet Ambassador Public School Educational 

Program, which brings education in dance to public schools in the New York 

area. 

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Mystified 

Christin Wagner 




Dambalon by Issa Bagayogo 

Dissolved Girl (Premiere) 

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glimpsed the forest for the trees 

in the wildwood made a clearing 

found you hiding in plain sight 

and saw you disappearing 

Keely Garfield 


Alissa Chikeles, Taylor Donofrio, 

Jennifer Franzetti, Erin Hayes, 

Katherine Johnson, Cosmina LaBella, 

Paige Levine, Angela Luciani, 

Katelyn Merrill, Lauren Morrone, 

Kelly Scallion, Heather Woodward 

Liz Prince 


Sinead O‟Connor & Massive Attack 

Biographies 

V alerie Pullman, Producer/Artistic Director, Modern Dance Technique, 

Dance Pedagogy & Administration, is the director of the 

Darien Dance Center, a 750-student dance school and performance center in 

Darien, CT. She has a BA from Bennington College in Dance Choreography & 

Performance and her MA in Dance Education from Columbia University Teachers 

College. Her professional background includes performing with the companies 

of Jeff Duncan, The Yard, Ze'eva Cohen, Rudy Perez, Jody Oberfelder 

and her own company while in NYC and CT. Her teaching background includes 

positions at Florida State University, University of Bridgeport, SUNY - Empire 

State College, Iona College and Connecticut Dance School. Val teaches all


levels of Modern Dance Technique and Dance Education & Administration at 

Manhattanville College where she has been an adjunct for the past seven 

years. She is a Master Teacher at Yale University where she works with the 

"Yaledancers" and is the Dance Director at Brant Lake Dance Centre, teaching 

Modern Dance for the past nine summers in the Adirondacks. Val has been the 

recipient of individual artist grants from the Connecticut Commission on the 

Arts. 

K eely Garfield, Guest Choreographer, originally from London 

England, has lived in New York since 1986. Garfield has received 

numerous commissions for her work, and has been presented at theaters 

and festivals including The Joyce Theater, Dance Theater Workshop, 

92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Project, Performance Space 122, Dancnow/ 

NYC, Lincoln Center (New York), The Place Theatre, Queen Elizabeth Hall 

(London), and Danse Vernissage (Montreal). Among other projects, Garfield 

has created work for ballet dancers (Dance Theatre of Harlem), antique puppets 

(Golem - Chechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre), musical theater 

(Gypsy, Sundance Theatre, Utah, Carnival, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival), 

children (Reel to Real), students (Barnard, University of Maryland), and MTV 

(Adam Ant). Garfield serves as the chair of DTW's Artist Board, and is a member 

of Pentacle‟s Help Desk program. Her work has been supported with 

funds from the Jerome Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts (Build 

& Artist Fellowship), Harkness Foundation for Dance, Bossak/Heilbron Charitable 

Foundation, Meet The Composer, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust and 

the American Music Center. Garfield has co-curated DTW's Family Matters 

series since 1997. Recent highlights include, Disturbing The Peace (Zenon 

Dance Company, Minneapolis), Disturbulance (DTW, NYC), Iron Lung 

(GroundWorks DanceTheater, OH), and a Film Project of Garfield's work commissioned 

by Radio Bremen/Canal Arte (Germany/France). Garfield will premiere 

new work at Danspace Project in March 2007. For more information 

visit www.KeelyGarfield.org. 

B arbara Duffy is “one of the most inventive tappers around….”, 

said Gregory Hines. Barbara‟s performance highlights include, 

“The Gregory Hines Show”, featured dancer, actor and choreographer, “Gala 

For The President”, performing with Gregory Hines before President and Mrs. 

Bill Clinton, and dance captain of Brenda Bufalino‟s American Tap Dance Orchestra. 

Barbara performs regularly as a featured soloist across the United 

States and overseas, including London‟s Queen Elizabeth Hall, where she was 


hailed as a “riveting performer” by the Independent. Barbara Duffy & Company, 

her own company of all women tappers, is currently touring their concert, 

“Stages”, which is being developed into a full-length theatrical production. 

A highly sought after teacher, Barbara has taught at workshops and festivals 

in 15 countries. Barbara is based in New York City, where she teaches 

regularly at Broadway Dance Center and Steps Studio. Her greatest inspirations 

are the late Leon Collins, Brenda Bufalino and the late Gregory Hines. 

J ordan Fuchs, Guest Performer, has been dancing and making dances 

since 1991, first in San Francisco and then, since 1998, in New York City. 

His company has twice been commissioned and presented by Danspace Project. 

He is a dance specialist in the Dance Division of the New York Public 

Library for the Performing Arts, as well as an adjunct lecturer at Hunter College. 

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He enjoys improvising with K.J. 

aiaclaire Garrison, Choreographer, began her performance 

career as a featured child acrobat with The Big Apple Circus. 

Daughter of celebrated Jazz bassist Jimmy Garrison (John Coltrane Quartet), 

she was raised in the midst of vibrant artist communities in both New York 

City and Rome, Italy. Upon graduating from Sarah Lawrence College she 

toured extensively thru out the United States, Europe, Asia, Latin America 

and the Caribbean with the multidisciplinary performance group Urban Bush 

Women. From „95-„01 she directed her own company M‟Zawa Danz, presenting 

her work at Aaron Davis Hall, Bennington College, City College, Central 

Park Summer Stage, Connecticut College, Dance Space Project, Dance Theater 

Workshop, Florida State University, Jacob‟s Pillow, The Kitchen, Lincoln 

Center Out-of-Doors, NYC Technical College, New Jersey City University, 

NJPAC, Playhouse 91, 651 Arts, Rutgers State University, SUNY Potsdam University, 

Symphony Space, Syracuse University and at the World Trade Center 

Plaza. Awarded three consecutive production grants from the New York Foundation 

for the Arts and featured on WABC‟s “New York Views” hosted by Roz 

Abrams, she most recently co-founded ChoreoConcepts with long time collaborator 

Kimani Fowlin, and is also assisting as a production coordinator for 

the Education Department at The Joyce Theater in New York City. 

K .J. Holmes, Choreographer, is an independent dancer, singer, 

poet and body worker who has been exploring improvisation as

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