SPRING CONCERT
PROGRAM
APRIL 27-29, 2006 AT 7:30PM
APRIL 30, 2006 AT 2:00PM
GALVIN PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
Pre-show installation:
Traces
I.
Immediate Memory
Collaborating Artists:

John Mitchell, Sean Nevin, AJ Niehaus, Stjepan
Rajko, Jennifer Tsukayama
Media Design & Image Processing: John Mitchell & Stjepan Rajko
Poetry & Narration:
Sean Nevin
Video Editing & Installation Design: Jennifer Tsukayama
Composer:
John Mitchell
Live Camera Operator:
AJ Niehaus
Cityscape II
Choreographer:
Music:
Composer:
Lighting Design:
Costume Design:
Video:
Dancers:

Release It
Choreographer:
Music:

Lindsey Bauer
In Circles
Laura Atwood
Julia Vessey
Lindsey Bauer
Lindsey Bauer
Shardai Adams
Candice Allred
Cc Braun
Laura (Mitchell) Evans
Rose Fisher
Kimisha Gill
Monique Jones
Rob Langtry
Katie McCaskill
Maria McDonald
Nicole Manus
Erica Nielsen
Janie Ross
Rachel Ryan
Emily Verrelli
Julia Vessey
Brittany Zaksek
Ellie Zeims
Kimberly Karpanty
Afro Celt Sound System

Lighting Design:
Costume Design:
Dancers:

Not Yet
Choreographer:
Music:
Lighting Design:
Costume Design:
Dancer:

Mark Ammerman
Jacqueline Benard and Galina Mihaleva
Dance Arizona Repertory Theatre (D.A.R.T.)
Thursday and Saturday:
Tristan Gandolphi
Lauren Kettner
Marissa Koretski
Alexis I-Cheng Kuo
Aaron McGloin
Steven Reker
Jillian Scott
Friday and Sunday:
Cherie Burnett
Colette Dessingue
Jordan Kriston
Cerrin Lathrop
Cassie Roberts
Kate Sedlack

Karen Schupp
Fear of the South and Night of the Skeptic
by Tin Hat Trio
Carolyn Koch
Galina Mihaleva
Karen Schupp

Somewhere (2006)
“perhaps home is no longer comfort and comfort no longer home” –Lucille Clifton
Concept and Direction:
Luc Vanier
Choreography:
Luc Vanier and Milwaukee Cast
Music:
Christopher Burns
Songs:
Bernstein, K.D. Lang, Brubeck
Animation:
Evan Maruszewski
Text:
Luc Vanier and Milwaukee Cast
Costumes:
Jacqueline Benard and Galina Mihaleva
Video computer operator:
Aj Neihaus
Sound computer operator:
Stjepan Rajko
Music notation:
Emily Niesl
Flutist:
Lauren Kettner
Angels:
Steven Reker, Marissa Koretski
“Wow”:
Cherie Burnett
Somewhere:
Tristan Gandolphi, Aaron McGloin
Skeeters:
Cerrin Lathrop, Cassie Roberts, Jillian Scott
“I hit her”:
Tristan Gandolphi, Kate Sedlack
Finale:
Cast
Made Possible by a grant from the University of Wisconsin’s Graduate School and
Dean Bucher of the Peck School of the Arts.

The Music for Somewhere is preformed live form a laptop, with the assistance of
custom software written in the Pd audio programming language. All the sound
elements are produced in real time; while the general outline of the music is
fixed, there is considerable variation in the details of the sound from
performance to performance.

10 Minute Intermission
Intermission Installation:
Traces
II.
Distorted Memory
Collaborating Artists:

John Mitchell, Sean Nevin, AJ Niehaus, Stjepan
Rajko, Jennifer Tsukayama
Media Design & Image Processing: John Mitchell & Stjepan Rajko
Poetry & Narration:
Sean Nevin
Video Editing & Installation Design: Jennifer Tsukayama
Composer:
John Mitchell
Live Camera Operator:
AJ Niehaus

Transcending the Ages
Choreographer:
Music:
Lighting Design:
Costume Design:
Set Design:
Dancers:

DdawMeno Fxect5
Choreographer:
Music:
Lighting Design:
Costume Design:
Dancers:

Shouze Ma
Pari Intervallo by Arvo Part
Kol Nidrei, Op. 47 by Max Bruch
Spiegel in Spiegel by Arvo Part
Carolyn Koch
Galina Mihaleva
Mark Ammerman
Audrey Blukis
Jean Kelley
Aaron McGloin
Shouze Ma
Sara Parish
Kate Sedlack
Meghan Bingle
Omgyjya Switch7 by Aphex Twin
Mollie Flanagan
Galina Mihaleva
Meghan Bingle
Jordan Kriston
Lauren Harrison
Kate Sedlack
Tara Tonding

The Adventures of Socially-Awkward Susan
Choreographer:
Jillian Scott
Music:
Misread by Kings of Convenience
Lighting Design:
Aaron McGloin
Costume Design:
Galina Mihaleva
Dancer:
Jillian Scott
With Colette Dessingue
Cassie Roberts
Skin Uncovered
Choreographer:
Rehearsal Director:
Original Music:
Lighting Design:
Costume Design:
Dancers:

Claudia Lavista and Víctor Manuel Ruiz
Joel Valentín-Martínez
Jesús “Chui” García
Víctor Manuel Ruiz
Claudia Lavista and Víctor Manuel Ruiz
Cherie Burnett
Keira Hart
Martha Howe
Shelley Kemmerer
Julianna Kenworthy
Jordan Kriston
Christiana Lederman
Aaron McGloin
Nichole Milam
Sara Parish
Kathryn Richardson
Vanessa Smith
Understudies:
Sarah Cortez
Rachele Rommes
Meghan Bingle
Dana Wentzel
Claudia Lavista and Victor Manuel Ruiz wish to thank the ASU Dance Department, ASU
Public Events and ArtesAmericas for making this residency possible. We would also like
to thank Joel Valentin-Martinez, Pegge Vissicaro and Mary Robert for their work and
support and each one of the dancers that worked with us.
Post Show Installation:
Traces
III.
Disarticulated Memory
Collaborating Artists:
John Mitchell, Sean Nevin, AJ Niehaus, Stjepan
Rajko, Jennifer Tsukayama
Media Design & Image Processing: John Mitchell & Stjepan Rajko
Poetry & Narration:
Sean Nevin
Video Editing & Installation Design: Jennifer Tsukayama
Composer:
John Mitchell

Live Camera Operator:

AJ Niehaus

Biographies:
Lindsey Bauer is a graduate student pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree in dance
performance and choreography at Arizona State University. She holds a B.F.A. in dance
performance and education from Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland with teacher
certification in Maryland and Arizona. Prior to graduating from Towson, she was a
member of Nancy Romita's Moving Company. In 2002, Lindsey graduated from Towson
with recognition of outstanding achievement in choreography. She became the dance
teacher at Desert Ridge High School founding its program in Mesa Arizona. Since
coming to graduate school she has been a research assistant in dance education and a
teaching assistant on the Gila River Indian Community Reservation working with Place:
Vision and Voice. Lindsey has presented her research in dance education at the National
Dance Education Organization (NDEO) conference in New York and at the Congress on
Research in Dance (CORD) Conference in Montreal. She sits on the board of the
contemporary modern dance company, Rayn Dance Theater. Lindsey is also currently the
student board member for National Dance Education Organization.
Meghan Bingle is a dance choreography major and a theatre minor, graduating in May.
Her adventures through her four years here have taken her many exciting places. She has
had the opportunity to dance for several guest artists including Yin Mei and Thaddeus
Davis, for faculty member Karen Schupp, as well as many of the graduate and
undergraduate students here. The projects she has been involved in extend past the dance
department though- to collaborations with the theatre department while choreographing
her first piece her at ASU, Submerge, as well as the arts media, and engineering program
where she was a part of Lucidity. She has received many awards including the
University Scholarship, Regents Scholarship, Summer Study Scholarship, and the
Katherine K. Herberger Award. She has served as President and Treasurer of the Dance
Student Advisory Board. Her own choreography shown in dance department productions
include Delirium, Downgrade, A Second _____, and Airborne in Middle-class Suburbia.
Besides being a dance maniac, she also loves theatre, player her guitar, writing songs, and
simply being crafty and creative.
Christopher Burns composes chamber and electro acoustic music. His works
explore simultaneity and multiplicity: textures and materials are layered one
on top of another, creating a dense and energetic polyphony. Christopher's
work as a computer music researcher is a crucial influence: these pieces are
written with pitch and rhythmic structures which are created and transformed
using custom software. Beyond algorithmic composition, his research interests
included the classic music with live electronic or mechanical components.
Christopher teaches composition and music technology at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Dance Arizona Repertory Theatre (DART) is the community dance organization
housed in the Department of Dance at Arizona State University. Using movement as a
common language, DART operates within, and bridges three very distinct spheres of
dance: the university, the local community and the national/international arenas. Modeled
after many other contemporary professional dance companies, DART also performs a
culturally diverse repertory of choreography, created by locally and nationally renowned
guest artists. Since 1995, under the direction of faculty members Mary Fitzgerald and
Jennifer Tsukayama, the company has established several significant long-term
partnerships with various youth groups in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Exchanging
knowledge through dance in collaborative partnerships has the potential to enrich an
individual’s life profoundly – mentally, physically and interpersonally. Our projects
exemplify the true meaning of community in that we guide each other, work together and
share ideas through the power of creative activity for extended periods of time
Kim KarpantyAssociate Professor, teaches modern and jazz dance technique, jazz dance
history, dance composition, dance mechanics and other related academics. She holds a
Master of Fine Arts in Choreography and Dance Technology from Arizona State
University and a Master of Arts in Dance and Dance Education from New York
University. She performed and taught professionally in New York City for over ten
years. She taught modern and jazz dance in New York City on the faculties of Dance
Space, Inc., Steps on Broadway, the 92nd Street Y, the Spence School and the Steffi
Nossen School of Dance. She danced with Rondo American Dance Theatre in works by
Anna Sokolow, Manuel Alum, Moses Pendleton, and Murray Louis, and was a soloist
with Linda Nutter & Dancers. She was a founding member of the collaborative,
interdisciplinary group StraightJacket/Danza en vano, the 1993 recipient of the
U.S./Mexico Fund for Culture Grant. More recently, she has performed works by
Jennifer Tsukayama, GarnerGutierrez-Garner Dance, Tommy Parlon Dance Projects and
Cliff Keuter. Karpanty is a founding member and co-director of Travesty Dance group,
which tours nationally and internationally. Her professional training includes extensive
time in the Limon and Taylor schools, Hawkins technique, and Horton/Lewitsky
techniques. She is also a part of the Lynn Simonson jazz dance legacy, and a certified
trainer in Core Dynamics Pilates.
Karpanty has been an invited guest teacher at numerous universities and dance festivals
including North Carolina School of the Arts, Hope College, Richard Stockton College,
the Florida New Arts Festival, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Arizona State
University, the Steffi Nossen Dance Company, the Akron Dance Institute, and annually
at the American College Dance Festival Regional Conferences. Her choreography has
been performed throughout the US and abroad in Argentina, Mexico, and most recently
in Costa Rica as part of the 2004 Jazz Dance World Congress. Additional honors for her
work include two consecutive awards from the Dance in Education Fund, Inc. (NY), and
commissions for choreography from the Northeast Ohio Dance Ensemble, Richard
Stockton College (NJ), the University of Milwaukee-Whitewater, Arizona State
University, Instinct Dancecorps (AZ) and Rayn Dance Theatre (AZ).

Claudia Lavista-Dancer, choreographer and teacher, Claudia Lavista, started her studies
of music and theater at the age of 8, later she studied dance at the National System for the
Professional Teaching of Dance and with Maestro Federico Castro in Mexico. In 1987
she joined the group U X Onodanza and later danced with the company Danzahoy in
Venezuela for 5 years. In 1992 she founded Delfos Contemporary Dance along with
Victor Ruiz and won the National Dance Award that same year. She has received many
awards for her outstanding artistic works such as: Best Female Dancer at the International
Dance Festival of San Luis Potosí and Best Female Dancer at 1998 and 2002 National
Dance Award, through FONCA (National Foundation of Culture and Arts) was honored
with the following fellowships: Experience Interpreter (2005-06), Young Creator (2002),
VII Special Projects Concourse (1996) and Interpreter (1994). Through FOECA (State
Arts and Culture Fund) she won a fellowship for “Recognized Artist” in 2001. She has
taught classes in Mexico and internationally and her choreography has been praised by
critics in more than 10 countries and presented by 7 dance companies, among them the
prestigious Mexican National Dance Company and the Winnipeg´s Contemporary
Dancers among others. Currently she is Co-Artistic Director, dancer and choreographer
of Delfos Contemporary Dance and Co-Director and teacher of the Mazatlán Professional
School of Contemporary Dances, she serves as the Mazatlán representative of the
Cultural Promoters of Latin America and the Caribbean Network.
“If we want to talk of the great figures of Latin American contemporary dance, the
name of Claudia Lavista is unavoidable” Valerio Cesio, Por La Danza Magazine,
Madrid, Spain
Victor Manuel Ruiz-Mexican dancer, choreographer, teacher and lighting designer,
Victor Manuel Ruiz has been praised by national and international critics for his
interpretation and choreography. He studied in the National School of Dance and in the
Superior Center of Choreography in Mexico. In Venezuela he was a dancer with
Danzahoy for 7 years. In 1992 he founded Delfos Contemporary Dance Company with
Claudia Lavista, receiving the National Dance Award that same year. He has also
designed lighting for many productions and in 2005 and 2002 won the award for Best
Lighting Designer at the National Dance Award. FONCA 2005 (National Foundation of
Culture and Arts) honored him repeatedly with the following scholarships: Young
Creator (1994), Best Interpreter (1998), on two occasions won state scholarships through
the Cultural Co-inversion Project. Since 1999 he has been part of National System of
Art Creators of FONCA. His choreographic works have been praised for their poetic
quality and clarity and have been presented in many countries. As a teacher, he has
taught classes in Mexico and abroad.
Currently he is Co-Artistic Director,
choreographer, lighting designer and dancer with Delfos Contemporary Dance and is also
Co- director and teacher at the Mazatlán Professional School of Contemporary Dance.
He continues to implement, along with Claudia Lavista, the project of de-centralization,
promotion and dance education in Mazatlán, Mexico.
“Ruiz is one of the best choreography talents in Mexico…” Rosario Manzanos,
Proceso, México

Shouze Ma, Artistic Director for Spring Dance Concert, is an Associate Professor at
Department of Dance at ASU. He was a founding member of Guangdong Modern Dance
Company, the first modern dance company in China. In 1997 he came to the U.S. and
earned his MFA in dance at The University of Iowa and has taught and performed
internationally at different universities and festivals, such as Beijing Dance Academy, the
Central University in Korea, The University of Alabama, The University of Minnesota,
Elon University NC, Beijing Modern Dance Company, American Dance Festival, Dance
Space Center New York. Shouze Ma is the recipient of choreography fellowships
awarded by several organizations. His choreography has been critically acclaimed
international at dance festivals in France, Korea, Japan, India and ADF, as well as China
and States. His performance and choreography has been praised as “an intensity so strong
that it seemed at a breaking point.” by New York Times.
John D. Mitchell is a multi-disciplinary composer, educator and researcher committed to
using technology for expanding sensory and creative experiences in the arts and
education. Mr. Mitchell has worked with artists from around the world to design and
realize projects ranging from multimedia dance archives to interactive multi-site
distributed performances.
In 1987, Mitchell and choreographer Gary Lund created Movement Initiated Sound
Events (MISE), one of the earliest dance works to use a personal computer and optical
sensors for creating a completely interactive, performer driven sound score. Over the next
three-years Mitchell and Lund produced several dance-driven, interactive multimedia
works for the stage, often collaborating with visual artists and live musicians.
Upon joining Arizona State University in 1990 Mitchell became a founding member of
the Institute for Studies in the Arts. At the Institute, Mr. Mitchell was instrumental in
pioneering the development of the Intelligent Stage – both as a concept and a facility –
where he continued to work for the next ten years as a composer, director and interactive
media designer. Mr. Mitchell has collaborated with numerous artists to create
performance works that have been staged throughout United States and abroad.
John D. Mitchell currently co-directs ADaPT (Association of Dance and Performance
Telematics) and teaches interdisciplinary media and telematics courses in the Department
of Dance at Arizona State University.
AJ Niehaus is perusing a MFA in Dance, concentration Interdisciplinary Digital Media
and Performance through the Dance Department and Arts, Media, and Engineering at
Arizona State University. She received her BS in Dance, May 2001 from the University
of Wisconsin – Madison. While at Madison she had the great opportunity to study and
work with renowned artists such as video dance artist/theorist Douglas Rosenberg and
choreographer Li Chiao-Ping. She was asked by Rosenberg to work as part of the
production team for Larry Goldhuber and Heidi Latsky’s (former Bill T. Jones company
members) performance Worst Case Scenario at the famous Performance Space 122

(PS122) in New York City, NY. Niehaus has also studied with the late Loyce Houlton,
Heidi Hauser Jasmin, the daughter of the late Nancy Hauser, postmodern dance historian
Sally Banes, and art philosopher Noel Carroll. Her current research is in wearable
computing and smart fabrics as a way to place the technology onto the body of
performers so they can effect their environment through their actions. She also works
alongside John D. Mitchell as the Arizona site for the Association for Dance and
Performance Telematics (ADaPT) a research/performance group, which creates
networked performances together using the internet with sites across the United States
and around the world.
Sean Nevin teaches creative writing for ASU where he is the assistant director of the
Young Writer’s Program. He is editor of 22 Across: A Review of Young Writers and his
poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including: The Gettysburg
Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, 5AM ,and Runes: A Review of Poetry. Awards include
an Academy of American Poets Prize, a creative writing fellowship from the Arizona
Commission on the Arts and the Alsop Review Poetry Prize. His Chapbook, A House
That Falls, won the 2005 Slapering Hol Press Prize.

Karen Schupp is a performer, choreographer and educator who works in a variety of
dance forms. Ms. Schupp is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Dance at
Arizona State University where she teaches technique and theory courses in both the
MFA and BFA programs. Along with teaching at ASU, Ms. Schupp is currently
performing and touring nationally with Victoria Marks, Mary Fitzgerald and Fred
Darsow, and dancing with Phoenix based dance company A Ludwig Dance Theatre.
Recently, her own choreography has been presented in the d.u.m.b.o. dance festival and
is scheduled to be presented in the 2006 Cool New York Dance Festival. Additionally,
she has worked with international digital artists Christian Zeigler and Todd Ingalls in the
development of the performance installation, Dance Dance Revolution, which premiered
at the Zentrum fur Kunst und Mediatechnologies in Karlsruhe, Germany and has
choreographed for Phoenix area dance companies. Ms. Schupp has received a Lester
Horton Small Ensemble Performance Award for her performance in Victoria Marks’s
Against Ending, a Devil’s Advocate Award for outstanding contribution to the ASU
community and is an ASU Wakonse Teaching Fellow.
Jillian Scott is a junior at Arizona State University pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts
degree in Dance Education. She is an active member in the ASU student chapter of the
National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) and she will be the co-president of the
organization in the fall. Currently she is a member of Dance Arizona Repertory Theatre

(DART), ASU’s pre-professional modern repertory and community outreach company.
Scott has worked with several guest artists through DART including Pablo Cornejo, Kim
Karpenty, Luc Vanier, Keira Hart and Susan Bendix and with community partners
Herrera School for the Arts and Tempe Boys and Girls Club. Recently, she was the coartistic director of the Undergraduate Concert at ASU, which features all undergraduate
performers, choreographers and technical crew. When she is not dancing at ASU, she is
a dance and gymnastics instructor for the Cave Creek School District and the director of
the dance division of their Summer Enrichment Program. This summer Scott will be
attending the Bates Dance Festival in Lewiston, Maine to further her study in
choreography, movement and text, and Laban Movement Analysis. Jillian would like to
thank her family and close friends for their support throughout her journey here at
Arizona State.
Jennifer Tsukayama is the Founder and Artistic Director of tsukayama dance
collaborative (tdc). tdc’s credits include a wide range of projects from site specific works
to ones that integrate dance and new media. (www.paperproject.org
http://dance.asu.edu/cellbytes2000/index.html). tdc’s commissions include companies
from across the United States, Mexico and Singapore. Tsukayama has toured and
performed with multiple artists from the United States and taught in schools and festivals
both nationally and internationally. Her immersive video installations have been
exhibited in Arizona and Wisconsin. Tsukayama is the recent recipient of the 2005
Arizona Choreography Competition for her work Healing Process 3. Her work with the
Paper Project received the 2005 Classics Award for its innovative and best practices
approach to cross-curricular investigation, discovery, and reflection for K-university
learners from the Teacher Education Editorial Board of MERLOT, the international
Multimedia Educational Resource Learning and Online Teaching organization.
Tsukayama received her MFA in performance and choreography from New York
University, Tisch School of the Arts and is currently an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Dance in the Herberger College of Fine Arts at Arizona State University
(ASU). She is also Co-Artistic Director of ASU's student repertory/community
partnership company, DART (Dance Arizona Repertory Theatre). DART has received
support from such agencies as: Motorola, Dance/USA, Target, AZ Commission on the
Arts, and Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture.
Luc Vanier-A former Principal dancer with Ohio Ballet, Luc Vanier began taking
weekly private lessons with Helen Hobbs in 1994 and graduated from Joan and Alex
Murray's UCAT in May of 2001. His “Day Job” involves teaching Ballet, Modern Dance,
Dance in Digital Media and Alexander for the Performer at the University of Wisconsin
at Milwaukee as an Assistant Professor in Dance.

Concert Production Staff
Interim Department Chair

Pegge Vissicaro

Artistic Director
Technical Director
Production Stage Manager
Costume Designers
Sound Designer
Assistant Stage Manager
Facility Manager
Light Board Operator
Sound Board Operator
Stage Crew

Shouze Ma
Mark C. Ammerman
Carolyn Koch
Jacqueline Benard
Galina Mihaleva
William Swayze
Julia Vessey

Jared Archambault
Jessica Jervinsky
Heather Klein
Sarah Knight
Karissa Mollicone
Kristina Nagaran