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Today’s performance is sponsored by

Blake and Linda Gall

Nancy VanLandingham, chairLam Hood, vice chair

William AsburyLynn Sidehamer Brown

Philip BurlingameDeb Latta

Eileen LeibowitzEllie Lewis

Christine LichtigMary Ellen Litzinger

Bonnie MarshallPieter OuwehandMelinda StearnsLillian UpcraftPat WilliamsNina Woskob

student representativeStephanie CorcinoJesse Scott

Community Advisory CounCiLThe Community Advisory Council is dedicated to strengthening

the relationship between the Center for the Performing Arts and the community. Council members participate in a range

of activities in support of this objective.

CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS AT PENN STATEpresents

Architecture in Motion™

sponsorsBlake and Linda Gall

The Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

For the safety of the artists and for the comfort of the audience, cameras and other recording devices are not permitted in the theatre during the performance.

7:30 p.m. Tuesday, January 27, 2015Eisenhower Auditorium

This performance includes one intermission.

Artistic DirectorJacques Heim

Executive DirectorJennifer Cheng

Director of Production/Stage Manager

Renée Larsen Engmyr

Technical DirectorJonathan Meyer

Lighting DirectorLuc Hediger

Transportation/Technical Assistant

Matt Christensen

Production AssistantEzra Masse-Mahar

Costume CoordinatorAmy Tuley

The CompanyAna Carolina Brotons

Cal T. ChesterLeandro Damasco Jr.

Ezra Masse-MaharChelsea Pierce

Jessie RyanConnor Senning

Amy TuleyRico Velazquez

Chisa Yamaguchi

Set Engineering and ConstructionMike McCluskey

and Tina TrefethenMcCluskey, Ltd.

Director of Development and FinanceMatt Wells

Institute Co-DirectorsJones Welsh

Chisa Yamaguchi

Rehearsal DirectorShauna Martinez

ChoreographerLeandro Damasco Jr.

Director of OperationsIlona Piotrowska

Video ArchivistLeandro Damasco Jr.

Representation and Booking

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ProGrAmFluid Infinities (2013)

Fluid Infinities is the final installment in L’Espace du Temps, a trilogy that was com-missioned from the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association and co-commissioned by

the University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. This installment is set on an abstract dome structure sitting on a reflection of itself. The performers explore metaphors of infinite space, continuous movement, and our voyage into the unknown

future. The dome’s organic patterns evoke the craters of the moon, a honeycomb of bees, a shifting brain, or an undiscovered starship. As the trilogy concludes, Fluid

Infinities investigates the persistence of life through struggle and the promise of life to change beyond the space of time.

“Fluid Infinities”Music: Symphony No. 3 by Philip Glass

© 1995 Dunvagen Music Publishers, Inc. Used by Permission. 

Original Collaborators: Dusty Alvarado, Leandro Damasco Jr., Alicia Garrity, Brandon Grimm, Shauna Martinez, Ezra Masse-Mahar, Chelsea Pierce, Amy Tuley,

Chisa Yamaguchi, Garrett Wolf

Concept and Directed by: Jacques HeimChoreographed by: The company

Musical Director and Dramaturg: Bruno LouchouarnAssociate Choreographer: Monica Campbell

Production Design: Adam DavisArtistic Consultant: Michael Curry

Project Manager: Renée Larsen Engmyr

Dome:Original Design Concept: Tina Trefethen

Structural Design/Construction: TFX trans fx, Mike McCluskey, Tina TrefethenLighting/Electrics Design and Fabrication: Mike McCluskey

Paint and Finish: McCluskey, Ltd.

Tube:Design/Construction: Tina Trefethen, Mike McCluskey

Deck and Support Equipment:Structural Design/Construction Tina Trefethen, Mike McCluskey

Lighting Design: John E. D. BassAssociate Lighting Designer: Nicholas DavidsonCostume Concept and Design: Brandon Grimm

Costume Construction and Fabrication: Kelly MagliaSoft Sculpture Fabrication: Hilary Sepp

Production Assistant: Elizabeth Van VleckAssistant Choreographer: Briana Bowie

Fluid Infinities was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association; co-com-missioned by Movimentos 2014, University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts

Center, and Syracuse University.

Diavolo extends special thanks to Jordan Piemer, Thor Steingraber, Jay Quantrill, Victoria Looseleaf, Melinda Ritchie, and Chad Michael Hall.

Support for Fluid Infinities was provided, in part, by the Cheng Family Foundation, the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through

the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Fluid Infinities premiered in 2013 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.

INTERMISSION

Transit Space (2012)

Transit Space explores themes of feeling lost, finding a sense of purpose, and com-ing together. Influenced by the documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys, Transit Space uses skateboard ramps as set pieces to represent an urban environment with ever-shifting

physical and emotional spaces.

Original Collaborators: Brandon Grimm, Jennifer Huffman, Shauna Martinez, Ashley Nilson, Omar Olivas, Crystal Runk, Anibal Sandoval, Ben Sayles,

Chisa Yamaguchi

Original Concept and Directed by: Jacques HeimWriter: Steve Connell

Composer/Sound Designer: Paul James PrendergastSet Design Ramps: Sibyl Wickersheimer

Set Design Bridges: Tina TrefethenSet Concept, Engineering, and Construction: Mike McCluskey, McCluskey, Ltd.,

and Tina TrefethenLighting Design: John E. D. Bass

Physical Interactive Designers: David Beaudry and Valeria BeaudryVoice Artists: Sekou Andrews, Alix Angelis, Vincent Cardinale,

Jennifer Christopher, Steve Connell, Mayda del Valle, Lauren Dragan, Justin Huen, Adam Jennings, Tracy Lockwood, Shauna Martinez, Thea Monyee,

Omar Olivas, Johannes Williams, Chisa YamaguchiSkateboarding Consultants: Jesse Martinez and Nathan Pratt

of Dogtown and Z-BoysSkateboarding Advisors: Angel Aparicio, Seth Milner, Garrett Surjue

Rehearsal Stage Manager: Elizabeth Van Vleck

A very special thank you to Corey Madden, Amy Dupain Vashaw, Elisha Clark Halpin, Peter Aeschbacher, Marcus Shaffer, Khanjan Mehta, and Mark Baker.

Transit Space was commissioned by the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State and co-commissioned by Glorya Kaufman Presents

Dance at The Music Center, Los Angeles.

Transit Space premiered in 2012 at Penn State’s Eisenhower Auditorium.

All choreography is by the company, under the direction of Jacques Heim.

diAvoLo Architecture in motion

Diavolo performs a distinct style of architecture in motion that uses abstract and recognized structures to explore the relationship between the danger of our envi-ronment and the fragility of the human body.

Diavolo is a fusion of many different movement vocabularies, such as everyday movement, ballet, contemporary, acrobatics, gymnastics, martial arts, and hip-hop. What Diavolo does on stage is like a live abstract painting. There is no narrative, but strong themes pervade the work, such as human struggle, fear, danger, survival, chaos, order, deconstruction, reconstruction, destiny, destination, faith, and love.

Founded in 1992 by Jacques Heim, Diavolo has an extensive performance history throughout the United States and countries within Europe, Asia, and Latin America. In more than sixteen seasons of touring, Diavolo has performed for hundreds of thousands of concertgoers worldwide, as well as millions more on television.

During the past twenty years, Diavolo has created dozens of dance works, form-ing one of the dance field’s most compelling repertoires, from seminal pieces like Trajectoire (1999–2001) to new works like Cubicle (2014–2015).

The Los Angeles Philharmonic commissioned Diavolo to create L’Espace du Temps, a trilogy of new dance works, each of which premiered live with the orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl: Foreign Bodies (2007), Fearful Symmetries (2010), and Fluid Infinities (2013). The entire trilogy received its premiere as a single concert program at the 2014 Movimentos Festival in Wolfsburg, Germany.

Inspired by the movement of skateboarding, Transit Space (2012) was the first dance work ever created in residency at Glorya Kaufman presents Dance at The Music Center, Los Angeles. Transit Space received its world premiere at Penn State’s Eisenhower Auditorium as the culminating event of Diavolo’s participation in the national Creative Campus initiative.

Education and outreach are crucial to Diavolo’s mission. The company brings dance to tens of thousands of community members annually through young people’s concerts, in-school assemblies, intensive trainings, master classes, and residen-cies. Diavolo regularly conducts extensive community engagement workshops in schools, hospitals, and juvenile detention centers. In Los Angeles, the Diavolo Institute offers dance education and outreach programs that increase active arts participation and community engagement for youth and families.

Diavolo has an original online series about the company’s life, both on stage and off stage, available to watch for free at diavolo.org. For regular updates, join the email list, like Diavolo on Facebook, and follow @Diavolo_LA on Twitter and Instagram.

BioGrAPHiEs

JACQUES HEIM (artistic director)has been a transformative choreog-rapher for more than twenty years. He founded Diavolo in 1992 and has directed the company’s distinct style of architecture in motion ever since.

Heim was born and raised in Paris. His earliest experiences with perfor-mance came from street performing. He attended Middlebury College (B.F.A. in theatre, dance, and film), the University of Surrey in England (certificate in analysis and criticism of dance), and the California Institute for the Arts (M.F.A. in choreography).

In addition to his work with Diavolo, Heim has worked extensively for other companies in dance, theatre, television, and special events world-wide. For Cirque du Soleil, he cho-

reographed KÀ at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas. He’s worked as consulting choreographer on Ice Age Live!, an arena show that had its world pre-miere at London’s Wembley Stadium. He was invited to be a creative direc-tor for the opening ceremony of The 16th Asian Games, in Guangzhou, China. In 2005, Heim was the artistic director for the Taurus Stunt Awards and returned in 2007 to stage a movement/stunt piece, The Car. With Center Theater Group, Heim cre-ated choreography for The Stones, directed by Corey Madden. On televi-sion, his work has appeared on BBC America’s Dancing with the Stars and Bravo’s Step Up and Dance.

Heim taught movement and dance for many years at Cal State LA and UCLA. In addition to three United States Artists Fellowship nomina-tions and four Alpert Award nomina-tions, he has received the Martha Hill Choreography Award of the American Dance Festival, the Special Prize of the Jury at the Saitama International Dance Festival, a Brody Arts Fund fellowship, and a James Irvine Foundation Fellowship.

SHAUNA MARTINEZ (rehearsal director) grew up in Derby, Kansas, where she trained in dance and gymnastics. She was a collegiate cheerleading All-American and an award-winning instructor for the National Cheerleaders Association. She earned a B.F.A. in dance from Wichita State University. Martinez’s choreography was chosen to con-clude the gala performances at the American College Dance Festival. She is accomplished in ballet,

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modern, jazz, mime, and hip-hop. Dance credits include dre.dance, Joe Torry, Sinbad, and setting work at the University of Georgia, Brenau University, Cal State LA, and Wichita State University. She has been with Diavolo for five seasons.

ANA CAROLINA BROTONS (performer) was born in Miami and started dancing at the age of 33. Brotons’ training is in cheerleading with TopGun All-Stars, ballet, mod-ern, jazz, tap, hip-hop, and salsa with New Image Dance Company. She earned a B.F.A. from the University of the Arts in modern dance perfor-mance. Brotons has performed in music videos, as well as two national tours with the show SuperWHY Live. Through Diavolo, she continues to expand her horizons as a dancer, per-former, and artist.

LEANDRO DAMASCO JR. (performer/choreographer) started his professional career with Nicholas Leichter at the Joyce Theater in New York City. He has performed Leichter’s Killa solo at Sacramento State. Other dance credits include Randee Pauvfe’s Misgivings. Training includes an apprenticeship with Joe Goode Performance Group; the American College Dance Festival (chosen by Jean Freebury to per-form Merce Cunningham’s Inlets 2). He earned a B.A. in dance from Sacramento State with instructors Lorelei Bayne, Melissa Wynn, Lisa Ross, Nolan T’sani, and Deborah Froh Miller. Teaching credits include CSU Sacramento (adjunct faculty), Marin Academy, and ACDFA conferences. In addition to his work with Diavolo,

Damasco performs as a soloist and has launched his own company, Project Engine, named for the nick-name given to him by Diavolo’s Jacques Heim.

CAL T. CHESTER (performer) is originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, but grew up in Arkansas. He earned a B.F.A. in dance at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He toured internationally as a dancer and aerial performer with Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. Chester per-formed in and choreographed for the American College Dance Festival and Regional Dance America. After being captivated by the work of Diavolo for many years, he is overjoyed to live his dream to be part of the touring company.

EZRA MASSE-MAHAR (per-former) has trained in acrobatics and ballet at Merritt Dance Center. He was a competitive diver for many years. He went to the University of Buffalo to study tap, jazz, ballet, and modern dance. With Diavolo, he has discovered his love of the interac-tion of movement and architectural structures.

CHELSEA PIERCE (performer)is from Texas. She earned a B.F.A in dance performance from the University of Texas, Austin. She has been seen on the hit reality series A Chance to Dance and has recently performed Ohad Naharin’s Minus 16, as well as William Forsythe’s In the Middle and Somewhat Elevated. Pierce has also worked with chore-ographers Alex Ketley and Charlotte Boye-Christensen. Additional dance

credits include the Tanzsommer sum-mer dance tour. She has an incredible love for teaching and inspiring young artists.

JESSIE RYAN (performer) started dancing and tumbling at a young age in her hometown of Denville, New Jersey. She earned a B.F.A. in dance from Adelphi University and an M.F.A. in dance from the University of California, Irvine. Her past company work includes tour-ing with LM Project and founding member and rehearsal director of

Multiplex Dance. Teaching experi-ence includes the Diavolo Institute and Broadway Dance Center in New York City. Her original work has been seen in HATCH Performance Series and at the Laguna Dance Festival. Ryan also creates dance films, including documentary shorts with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, and the Diavolo Institute.

CONNOR SENNING (performer)is from Midlothian, Virginia. He has a B.F.A. in modern dance from the

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University of the Arts with instruc-tion from Donna Faye Burchfield. Senning received the Presidential Talent Scholarship recogniz-ing him for Excellence in Modern Performance. He earned a diploma from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Dance credits include Brian Sanders’ JUNK; Oliver!; a Cunningham Residency with Rashaun Mitchell; studies in Forsythe Technologies at the Konservatorium Wien in Vienna and Centre National de la Danse in Paris. He thanks his loving family for always stand-ing behind him in every part of his journey.

AMY TULEY (performer) is from Cleburne, Texas. She has a B.F.A from the University of North Texas. Her background is tumbling, competitive cheerleading, and jazz and modern dance. She was a member of the North Texas Dancers for three years. She has attended numerous dance intensives and has shown original work at the American College Dance Festival. She most recently co-cho-reographed Nick Cave’s collaborative performance art project Heard.

RICO VELAZQUEZ (performer)was born and raised in Chicago. Although he was involved in football, wrestling, and track and field, he developed a taste for performance art while showing off his talents on the dance floor at weddings and birthday par-ties. He earned a B.S. from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville with instruction from Kristin Best Kinscherff. At SIUE, Velazquez performed works by Jon Lehrer, Michael Mizerany, Paula David,

Omar and Jennifer Olivas, Dianna Andrews, Dustin Crumbaugh, and Calvin Jarrell. Featured in concert at American College Dance Festival Association’s regional conference. Training includes modern, ballet, jazz, salsa, and gymnastics.

CHISA YAMAGUCHI (performer/institute co-director) was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay area. She earned a B.A. in world arts and cultures and Asian American Studies with training from Maria Gillespie, Shel Wagner, Tamra-Henna, Nyoman Cerita, and Germaine Acony. When not working with Diavolo, Yamaguchi teaches recreational gymnastics and dances professionally as an Egyptian belly dancer. She also travels the world as an international volunteer in New Zealand, Fiji, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Egypt, and Portugal. She has performed in Diavolo’s education programs since 2007 and joined the touring company in 2009. RENÉE LARSEN ENGMYR (director of production) has been director of production since 2009. Prior to that, she performed in the Diavolo touring company for six seasons. Originally from the San Francisco Bay area, Engmyr’s train-ing includes jazz, ballet, tap, modern, gymnastics, and Tae Kwon Do. She earned a B.A. in dance and psychol-ogy from the University of California, Irvine. She was a founder member of Eveoke Dance Theatre in San Diego. She spent four years perform-ing with Eveoke and working as the company’s rehearsal assistant. She teaches fitness and Pilates classes in Los Angeles.

JONATHAN MEYER (technical director) has been involved with the arts his entire life. He began as a woodworker at age 14. He has worked as a rigger; fly rail opera-tor, and lighting director on concert dance shows, touring Broadway shows, and more at the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

LUC HEDIGER (lighting director) has lived in more than ten countries, including Switzerland and Austria.

He earned a B.F.A. in theatre at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Hediger’s university light-ing design credits include Putting it Together, Chekhov Shorts, Twelfth Night, Rent, Spring Awakening, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, American Buffalo, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot. Los Angeles theatre credits include Long Beach Playhouse and South Coast Repertory. luchediger.com

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visionEnriching lives through inspiring experiences

missionThe Center for the Performing Arts provides a context, through artistic connections, to the human experience. By bringing artists and audiences together we spark discovery of passion, inspira-tion, and inner truths. We are a motivator for creative thinking and examination of our relationship with the world.

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