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FLY
World Premiere 2020
Merriam Theater, Philadelphia, PA
Choreography
Iquail Shaheed
Music
King Britt
COSTUME DESIGN
Jermaine Terry
ORIGINAL CAST
Claude Alexander III,
Samuel Gaines Jr.
Otis Donovan Herring,
Jameel M. Hendrick,
Xavier Santafield,
and Iquail Shaheed
Her-U
Choreography
Maleek Washington
CAST
La Chelle Dickenson,
Olivia McCall,
Jacquelyn Spencer.
Mood
COMPANY PERMIERE
July 10, 2010
Summer Stage Festival,
Bronx, NY
Choreography
Hope Boykin and Matthew Rushing
Music
Roberta Flack
LIGHTING DESIGN
Evan Roby
COSTUME DESIGN
Jermaine Terry
ORIGINAL CAST
Ashley Mayuex
Eriko Iisaku
Allison Sale
About The Choreographer:
Two-time Bessie Award winner Hope Boykin was an original member of Complexions, danced with PHILADANCO!, and performed for 20 years (2000-2020) with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. She has choreographed for numerous dance companies including PHILADANCO!, Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Minnesota Dance Theater, BalletX, Eisenhower Dance Detroit, Ballet Black of London, American Ballet Theatre Studio Company, The Philadelphia Ballet, and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and has created three works for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Acceptance In Surrender (2005), in collaboration with fellow Ailey company members Abdur-Rahim Jackson and Matthew Rushing; Go in Grace (2008), for the Company’s 50th anniversary season with music by the award-winning singing group Sweet Honey in the Rock; and r-Evolution, Dream. (2016), inspired by the speeches and sermons of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., with original music by Ali Jackson.
In the fall of 2021, Boykin premiered a full evening of her choreography, An Evening of Hope, at 92NY to great acclaim. In 2022, she choreographed and directed The Other Side, bringing Jacqueline Woodson’s children’s book of the same name to life for The Kennedy Center’s Family Theater, and choreographed The Kennedy Center’s 50th Anniversary Celebration of Leonard Bernstein’s MASS. States Of Hope, her fully scripted, evening length dance theater work was presented at the Joyce Theater in October 2023.
Boykin serves as Artistic Advisor for Dance Education for The Kennedy Center and Artistic Lead for The Kennedy Center Dance Lab. She is Artist-In-Residence at USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance and was an advisor for the Howard University Department of Dance in the 2021 spring semester. She was a 2022-23 Fellow of The Center for Ballet and the Arts.
Boykin continues to build on her work as a writer and filmmaker, blending her words and cadence as the foundation of her developing movement language. She released “Beauty Size & Color,” a short film commenting on what has changed in the first 20 years of the 21st century on PBS.org. As an educator, creator, mover, and motivator, Boykin firmly believes there are no limits.
Matthew Rushing was born in Los Angeles, California. He began his dance training with Kashmir Blake in Inglewood, California, and continued his training at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. He is the recipient of a Spotlight Award and a Dance Magazine Award and was named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts. He was a scholarship student at The Ailey School and later became a member of Ailey II. During his career, Mr. Rushing has performed as a guest artist for galas in Vail, Colorado, as well as in Austria, Canada, France, Italy, and Russia. He has performed for Presidents George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, as well as at the 2010 White House Dance Series. During his time with the Company, he has choreographed five ballets: Acceptance In Surrender (2005), a collaboration with Hope Boykin and Abdur-Rahim Jackson; Uptown(2009), a tribute to the Harlem Renaissance; ODETTA (2014), a celebration of “the queen of American folk music”; Testament (2020), a tribute to Alvin Ailey’s Revelations created in collaboration with Clifton Brown and Yusha-Marie Sorzano; and Sacred Songs (2024). In 2012 he created Moan, which was set on PHILADANCO! and premiered at the Joyce Theater. Mr. Rushing joined the Company in 1992. He became Rehearsal Director in 2010, Associate Artistic Director in 2020, and Interim Artistic Director in 2023.
Light on the Path
Choreography
Eve Chan
Music
Eve’s Path,
Moonlight Sonata, Mozart
LIGHTING DESIGN
Evan Roby
COSTUME DESIGN
Jermaine Terry
ORIGINAL CAST
Adama Ra
Morgan Anderson
Ari Mayziek
Sarah Buscaino
Run Time
16 minutes
COMPANY PERMIERE
July 10, 2014
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival,
Lee, Mass
About The Choreographer:
Eve Chan is currently Lecturer of Ballet at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. She started her ballet training at Ng Sheung Ha School of Ballet in Hong Kong. After she graduated from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 2001, she performed with the Hong Kong Ballet and took on multiple leading roles in the company’s classical and contemporary repertoires. In 2010, Eve received a full scholarship from The Hong Kong Jockey Club for her Master’s Degree at SUNY Purchase, USA, where she taught Ballet and Pointe classes at the Conservatory of Dance and Introduction to Ballet classes through the School of Arts. From 2010 to 2021, Eve was a choreographer and teaching artist based in New York. In 2013 she was appointed as the Ballet Mistress with Mystic Ballet, and from 2015 to 2021 she was the ballet mistress and resident choreographer with Connecticut Ballet, USA.
Eve started her choreographic career while she was with Hong Kong Ballet. In 2007, she was appointed as the choreographic apprentice by the former artistic director, John Meehan. Her works were commissioned for the company’s main season and education programmes. In 2009, she was invited to represent Hong Kong to choreograph for the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China performed at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. Other commissions include creations for the Connecticut Ballet, Mystic Ballet, Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase, and The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, etc. Her choreographic works have been presented at festivals and events in New York, Connecticut, Beijing, Hong Kong, Chile, and Germany.
Inward Flux
WORLD PERMIERE
May 12, 2013
Brooklyn, NY.
Kumble Theater
Choreography
Christopher Ralph
Music
Numb, Andy Stott
In Her City, Jets
Goodbye, Apparat
Forgive, Burial
LIGHTING
Evan Roby
COSTUME DESIGN
Dora Novak
ORIGINAL CAST
Morgan Anderson,
Winston D. Brown,
Adrianne Chu,
Harumi Elders,
Ryan Houston,
Randall Riley,
Alison Sale,
Iquail Shaheed.
SECOND CAST
Erneston Breton,
Shuabi Ellison,
Aqura Lacy,
Matthew Perez,
Cain Coleman,
Allison Sale,
Run Time
20 minutes
About The Choreographer:
Christopher Ralph was born and raised in Long Island, New York. He began his dance training at Holy Trinity High School where he was accepted into the theater dance program. While training at school, he simultaneously attended classes at Broadway Dance Center and Steps on Broadway with teachers such as Peter Schabel, Dorit Koppel, Frank Hatchett and Chio Yamada. In 2005, Christopher attended SUNY Purchase earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance. Christopher has performed works by Aszure Barton, Lauri Stallings, Gregory Dolbashian, Loni Landon, Doug Varone, Rebecca Lazier, Patrick Corbin and Janis Brenner. Known for his fast paced clear movement quality, Christopher has been commissioned as an emerging choreographer by DANCE IQUAIL! and recently by Dixon Place. He has performed and toured in many countries throughout his career including, Greece, Indonesia, London, Spain, Japan and China.
Sweet Surrender
WORLD PERMIERE
May 10, 2013
Kumble Theater, Brooklyn, NY
Choreography
Iquail Shaheed
Music
Adagio in G Minor, Tomaso Albinoni
LIGHTING DESIGN
Evan Roby
COSTUME DESIGN
Jermaine Terry
ORIGINAL CAST
Morgan Anderson,
Winston D. Brown,
Adrianne Chu,
Harumi Elders,
Ryan Houston,
Randall Riley,
Alison Sale,
and Iquail Shaheed.
Run Time:
9 Minutes
Movement in Three Parts
COMPANY PERMIERE
April 20, 2024
Suzzane Roberts Theater,
Philadelphia, PA
Choreography
Christian von Howard
Music
Philip Glass
LIGHTING DESIGN
Michael Jarret
COSTUME DESIGN
Christian von Howard
ORIGINAL CAST
Jacquelyn Spencer
La Chelle Dickenson
Olivia McCall
About the work:
A physical stacking of voices linked together in an exploration of Philip Glass’ mesmerizing score. Inspired by the noble accents and the lucid, inescapable rhythms, this piece aims to stack, in succession, a collection of movement ideas against this dramatic soundscape. A puzzle for 3 players to solve.
About the choreographer:
Christian von Howard is the Artistic Director of the VON HOWARD PROJECT, a contemporary dance company based in New York City. As an international artist, he has worked with many dance artists such as Fred Benjamin, Fernando Bujones, Daniel Gwirtzman and organizations such as the American Dance Festival, Dance Masters of America, Iliev Dance Arts Foundation to name a few. His choreographic work has been produced in venues across the globe including Europe, South America, Asia, and throughout the US. Christian is an Associate Professor at Montclair State University, part of the teaching faculty at the Alvin Ailey School, and served as the Northeast Regional Director of the American College Dance Association (2016-2023). He holds advanced degrees from the School of Classical and Contemporary Dance at Texas Christian University and Tisch School of the Arts, NYU and as a Fulbright Specialist (2019-2021) for the United States.
Public Enemy
CHOREOGRAPHY
Iquail Shaheed
DIRECTION
Iquail Shaheed
COMPOSITION
JoJo Stricter
DRAMATRUGICAL COLLABORATOR
Daniel Carlton
LIGHTING DESIGN
Michael Jarett
COSTUME DESIGN
Jermaine Terry
WORLD PERMIERE
April 21, 2023
Ailey Citigroup Theater,
New York City, NY
Public Enemy (PE) is about the humanity of Black men and the diversity of that humanity. This Philadelphia-based community dance project by choreographer Iquail Shaheed explores Black male identity in the context of social issues that disproportionately affect Black men—particularly policing, incarceration, and racialized violence. PE includes a run of stage performances and extensive community engagement with Black and Latino residents and returned citizens in the historically disinvested Mantua community of West Philadelphia.
PUBLIC ENEMY was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.
PUBLIC ENEMY is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Painted Bride Art Center in partnership with Wilson Center, and NPN. The Creation & Development Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information, visit www.npnweb.org.
Claude Alexander III
Antonio DeBerry
Daniel White
Jameel M. Hendricks
Otis D Herring
Jelani Taylor
Uwazi
Dayiah
Samuel Gaines Jr.
Xavier Santafield
Nile Ruff
Iquail Shaheed
PUBLIC ENEMY was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.
PUBLIC ENEMY is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Painted Bride Art Center in partnership with Wilson Center, and NPN. The Creation & Development Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information, visit www.npnweb.org.
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18 formerly incarcerated participants
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