Maurice Fraga, producer
Lindsay Browning, choreographer
Tiffanie Carson, choreographer
Ting-Yu Chen, choreographer
Daniel Padierna, choreographer

March 31 – April 2, 2023
Ohrstrom-Bryant Theatre
Shenandoah Conservatory

This production contains theatrical haze and a strobe effect. Contact the Box Office or speak with an usher for more information.

Velocity of Consciousness (2021)

choreography by Tiffanie Carson with creative contributions from the artists
lighting design by Brian Dugan
music by Woodkid, performed by Yoann Lemoine, Children of the Maitrise de Radio France and Bondy and the Orchestre National de France

Hannah Black 
Alexa Boyles
Lia Carey
Katie Jo Clukey
Brittany Copp
Ruthann Ciszak
Maggie DeFrees
Paige DeFrees
Alexa Guadagnoli
Becca Hopkins
Alannah Kidd
Hallie Moore
Evan Mucciarone
Maria Pomares
Ian Sabatine
Sabrina Van Voorhis

WORLD PREMIERE

Love Letter to Looking Up (2023)

choreography by Lindsay Browning
lighting design by Brian Dugan
music by Max Richter, On the Nature of Daylight; NNavy, Drowning (feat. Kreaem)
sound editing by Lindsay Browning
projection by Lindsay Browning

Lily Hemingway
Kylie Johnson
Katie Bumbalo
Katie Jo Clukey
Amil Giunti
Alexa Boyles
Hannah Campbell
Ally Dede
Kiana Ducusin
Jenna Lucy
Skylar Matos
Rey
Emily Luzier, understudy

Love Letter to Looking Up refers to a collective present-day draw to be relentlessly connected, to willingly get lost in the maze. What is our relationship to our own childlike wonder? What is our relationship to the nature and humanity that surrounds us, chirping and sometimes shouting at us to look up…

Take Care (2019)

choreography by Daniel Padierna
lighting design by Miriah D. Borden
music by Wesley DeSouza, Afterlife; Alva Noto, Uni Version; Aaron Martin, Wing in the Grass

Alexis Berentzen
Lia Carey
Abby Davis
Paige DeFrees
Jenna Eckenrod
Avery Eisenhauer
Kaliyah Fridia
Lily Hemingway
Kylie Johnson
Olivia Kouletsis
Rown Lippy
Anna Lovrich
Kaitlyn Mark
Angelique Melendez-Vargas
Evan Mucciarone
Emma Potter
Renny White

“My hope was crushed by hands that barely held me.” – S.L. Gray

Informed by Daniel Padierna’s childhood experience as a fatherless son, Take Care journeys through his feelings of nostalgia, anger and sadness as motivators to move on from the absence of his father. Take Care (2019) was originally commissioned for Jersey (new) Moves at New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, New Jersey.

- intermission -

WORLD PREMIERE

Heart Blossom (2023)

choreography by Ting-Yu Chen
lighting design by Miriah D. Borden
music by Fu-Yu Lin, Tin O O; Traditional, Bai-Lusi; Si Xu, Taohua Guodu

Friday Evening, Sunday Matinee

APPLE CAST

Hannah Mikulecky
Maggie DeFrees
Rey
Alayna Watkins
Maria Pomares
Hannah Black
Zariah Henthorn
Alannah Kidd
Lainey Griffin
Tyson Francis
Ian Sabatine

Saturday Evening

BANANA CAST

Alexa Boyles
Becca Hopkins
Hallie Moore
Skylar Matos
Annika Rodoff
Ruthann Ciszak
Gigi Anderson
Michaela Smallwood
Sabrina VanVoorhis
Josiah O’Connor
Amy Cutler

WORLD PREMIERE

If I fall, will you catch me? (2023)

choreography by Tiffanie Carson
lighting design by Miriah D. Borden
music performed and written by Yoann Lemoine/Woodkid & Nils Frahm, Winter Morning

Maggie DeFrees
Paige DeFrees

WORLD PREMIERE

Sweetest Taboo (2023)

choreography by Tiffanie Carson with creative contributions from the artists
lighting design by Brian Dugan
music written by Sade and William St. John, Smooth Operator; Paul Hale, Stuart Matthewman and Sade, Is It A Crime; Russell Martin and Sade; Sweetest Taboo; all music performed by Sade

Katie Bumbalo
Hannah Campbell
Mary Kate Cawley
Amy Cutler
Kiana Ducusin
Avery Eisenhauer
Amil Giunti
Zariah Henthorn
Anna Irwin
Brianna Keller
Anna Lovrich
Jenna Lucy
Skylar Matos
Ella McCauley
Hannah Mikulecky
Ashley Reed
Rachel Tomnay 
April Ulrich 
Sabrina Wiles

The Listen Everywhere system in Ohrstrom-Bryant Theatre is provided in part by Hearing Life: Winchester.

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