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ALASKA DANCE THEATRE
WINTER REPERTORY CONCERT – MOBIUS
Feb. 22 & 23, 2008, 7:30 pm Discovery Theatre

PROGRAM NOTES

Someone is Speaking
Choreography: Andrea Andresakis
Music: Eleanor Rigby; Lovely Rita; Here, There and Everywhere; No One; Let it Be. The Beatles
Costume design: Andrea Andresakis & Edith Mc Kee
Costume construction: Lynette Veelman

Eleanor Rigby
Eleanor Rigby- Briana Sullivan; Father McKenzie- Corbin Frazier
Ensemble: Nicole Maple, Sam Franklin, Joyce Franklin, Heather Harvey, Tess Vandiver, Sarah Madsen, McKenna Ford, Abby Keller

Lovely Rita
Rita- Nicole Maple Young; Mr. McKenzie- Corbin Frazier;
Rita's Sisters- Anna Veelman, Tess Vandiver

Here, There and Everywhere
Young Eleanor- Briana Sullivan; Young Recruit- Walter Barrillas

No One
Mr. McKenzie- Corbin Frazier Mrs. McKenzie- Nicole Maple

Let it Be
Eleanor Rigby- Briana Sullivan; Father McKenzie- Corbin Frazier;
Homeless Veteran- Walter Barillas
Ensemble: Sam Franklin, Joyce Franklin, Heather Harvey, Tess Vandiver, Sarah Madsen, McKenna Ford, Abby Keller, Rachel Parlier, Victoria Campbell, Jennifer Mills, Anna Veelman, Brittany Otevrel, Carissa Landes, Nicole Maple

Choreographers notes:
While listening to the song Eleanor Rigby, I was reminded of a recent experience: In my building in NYC, there’s an old, lonely woman that I see in the elevator from time to time. She’s a little bit “out-of –it”. I guess that it’s a side effect of some medication, I’m not sure. One day, I found out that she had been an Olympic medalist swimmer! I was trying to imagine this and I began thinking about other people that I pass on the street- the custodian, the woman at the check out counter, the homeless veteran... They've been young and in love. They may have had a glorious past. You can never tell. “All the lonely people, where do they all come from?”
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El Dia de los Muertos
Choreography: Leslie K. Ward
Music: selections from Devil Makes Three, self titled album
Costumes: Leslie K. Ward
Dancers:
Soloists: Brittney Otevrel, Sam Franklin
Trio: Joyce Mayer, Avianna McKee, Molissa Udevitz
Ensemble: Shannon Bradley, Victoria Campbell, McKenna Ford, Sam Franklin, Corbin Frazier, Heather Harvey, Joyce Mayer, Avianna Mckee, Rachel Parlier, Molissa Udevitz
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HOsPicE
Choreography: Gabriel Otevrel
Music: Einstuerzende Neubauten, Jake Parker & Alex
Parker, Laurie Anderson
Dancers: Alena Sullivan, Brittney Otevrel

Choreographers notes:
There is a time in our life, where the awareness of death in our heart and conscience, becomes more present with each day and continues to grow. It really isn’t death itself we fear so much; what we really fear the most is the way we are going to die. We surely are aware of the certainty of death, but the uncertainty of time of death is a fear living with us throughout our lives. Often we do not try not to take things for granted, but we still do. In times when we are suffering and are most vulnerable, we are most appreciative and value even the smallest and unimportant things in our lives. At this point we realize how short life really is and wish for things to be done differently in the past. Looking into the future, we are planning on living the rest of our live appreciative and to its fullest capacity. Once we get older we start to worry more and more and wonder what will happen to us once we die. When we are young we are questioning life after death, when we get older we start believing in life after death and hope for our soul to be immortal.
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Sueno
In memory of Maurice Bejart, a mentor, teacher, wonderful person and artistic genius. Maurice Béjart, a French choreographer who ran the Béjart Ballet Lausanne in Switzerland died November 22, 2007.

Choreography: Gabriel Otevrel
Music: Maria del Mar Bonet, Inca Son, Inti-Illimani
Dancers: Brittney Otevrel, Sarah Madsen, Avianna C.J. McKee, Brianna Sullivan and Shannon Bradley, Victoria Campbell, Nicole Maple, Jennifer Mills, Rachel Parlier, Molissa Udevitz, Anna Veelman,

Choreographers notes:
During my time as a professional dancer I had the pleasure to work with Bejart and to dance for his intense dance company Bejart Ballet Lausanne. Bejart elevated the role of the male dancer, giving them more respect and importance by elevating the choreography for male dancers. Still to this date, choreographers, dancers and audiences experience the influence of and are inspired by Bejarts’ choreography.

Several times Mr. Bejart’s vision and intellectual creativity has inspired me, to create and to choreograph short ballets. Since the death of Bejart was the reason to create my new ballet, I was looking for a more personal approach to choreograph Sueno. I wanted this ballet to be created by inspiration of feelings. I wanted my current feelings, combined with the feelings I had while working for Bejart, to guide me through the process of choreographing this ballet.
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Variations on Papillons
Choreography: Alice Bassler Sullivan
Music: excerpts of Papillons, Op. 2 by Robert Schumann played by Murray Perahia
Costumes: Gwen Mathews
Dancers: Victoria Campbell, McKenna Ford*, Heather Harvey**, Carissa Landes, Sarah Madsen, Nicole Maple, Avianna McKee*, Jennifer Mills**, Brittney Otevrel, Rachel Parlier, Briana Sullivan, Anna Veelman

* Friday evening, ** Saturday evening

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