Auditorium Theatre 2019-2020 Alvin Ailey

14 | ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER | MARCH 4-8, 2020 SATURDAY, MARCH 7 @ 8PM THE CALL (2018) Choreography by Ronald K. Brown Associate Choreographer: Arcell Cabuag Music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Mary Lou Williams, Asase Yaa Entertainment Group Costumes by Keiko Voltaire Lighting by Tsubasa Kamei Vernard J. Gilmore, Danica Paulos, Jacquelin Harris, Sarah Daley-Perdomo, Solomon Dumas The creation of The Call was supported by Simin N. Allison, Judith McDonough Kaminski & Joseph Kaminski, McGue Millhiser Trust, Denise Littlefield Sobel, and The Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn & Nicolas Rohatyn New Works Endowment Fund. Ronald K. Brown founded Evidence, A Dance Company in 1985. He has worked with Mary Anthony Dance Theater and Jennifer Muller/The Works and has set works on Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ailey II, Cleo Parker Robinson Ensemble, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Philadanco, Muntu Dance Theater of Chicago, Ballet Hispánico, and Malpaso Dance Company. Mr. Brown is the recipient of two Black Theater Alliance Awards, a Fred and Adele Astaire Award for Outstanding Choreography on Broadway for the Tony Award–winning The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess , and an AUDELCO Award for his choreography for Regina Taylor’s Crowns . Mr. Brown has also received the Dance Magazine Award, Doris Duke Artist Award, John Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Choreographer’s Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, United States Artists Rose Fellowship, The Ailey School Apex Award for teaching, ADF Scripps Award for Lifetime Achievement, 2018 Dance Magazine Award, and a Def Dance Jam Mentor of the Year Award. Trio Sonata No. 6 in G Major by Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer, and Yo-Yo Ma. Used by arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., publisher and copyright owner; “Blues for Timme (Live)” from the Mary Lou Williams Trio’s album “Live at Nice ‘Grand Parade Jazz,’” music used for choreography by permission of Cecilia Music Publishing Company; and “The Love,” written and produced by Yao Ababio and Kofi Osei Williams, all publishing and recording rights reserved and owned by Asase Yaa Entertainment Group, LLC. Copyright © 2014. PAUSE ELLA (2008, Ailey premiere 2016) Choreography by Robert Battle Restaged by Marlena Wolfe Music Performed by Ella Fitzgerald Costumes by Jon Taylor Lighting by Burke Wilmore Renaldo Maurice, Chalvar Monteiro Jeroboam Bozeman, Michael Jackson, Jr., Christopher R. Wilson “Airmail Special” recorded by Ella Fitzgerald. INTERMISSION PROGRAM D