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V O Y A G E
2018 Premier
Direction & Choreography: Jacques Heim
Associate Choreography: The Company
Structure Design: Mike McClusky, Tina Trefethen, Adam Davis, and Jeremy Railton
Structure Engineering & Construction: Mike McClusky, McClusky LTD., Tina Trefethen
Music: ODESZA, Zack Hemsey, Moby, The Crystal Method, Sarah Jaffe, Florence + The Machine, Jon Hopkins.
Lighting Design: Michael Korsch
Sound Design: Simon Greenberg
Costume Design: Brandon Grimm
Voyage is supported by the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Cheng Family Foundation.
THE VETERANS PROJECT: “A LONG JOURNEY HOME” LOS ANGELES PROGRAM
2017 Premier
Excerpts from the poem Sick Leave by Siegfried Sassoon, WWI Veteran (1918).
Project Producer: Jennifer Cheng
Project Director: Dusty Alvarado
Director & Choreographer: Jacques Heim
Associate Choreographer: Jessie Ryan
Rehearsal Director: Ana Brotons
Associate Rehearsal Director: Erin White
Special Assistant to the Director for Veterans Affairs: Dr. Art DeGroat, Lieutenant Colonel, Retired, U.S.Army, Office of Military and Veterans Affairs Kansas State University
Artistic and Educator Consultant: France Nguyen
Art Therapy Consultant: Melissa Susman
Structure Designer, Sculptor: Daniel Wheeler
Structure Engineering Concept & Design: Mike McCluskey & Tina Trefethen
Music Composer: Nathan Wang
Lighting Designer: Nick Davidson
Associate Lighting Designer: Caitlin Eby
Interactive Systems Designer: Thadeus Reed
Sound Engineer: Corwin Evans
DIAVOLO Teachers: Chris Carvalho, Matt Wagner, Majella Loughran
Costume Designer: Michael Acoya
Associate Costume Design and Construction: Kelly Maglia The Battalion: Michael Acoya, Shannon Corbeil, Lugdy Cueva, Melanie Franco, Thomas Furlano, Joseph Gamble, Victor George, BJ Lange, Christopher Loverro, Alex Meridy, Alison Smith, La’Vel Stacy, Steve Suh, Jacques Walden Jr., Dianna Wilson.
The Spirit of the Fallen: Rod Simmons
DIAVOLO Institute Performers: Andrew Corpuz, Kate Dougherty, Steven Jasso, Emily Krause, Abraham Meisel, Lex Shimko, Anne-Marie Talmadge.
Community Partners: Gil Cedillo Councilmember- Los Angeles City Council District 1, LA City Council Campaign, American Legion Hollywood Post 43 & Adjutant Karl Risinger, Veterans in Film and Television & Tim Norman, Kansas State University, University of Southern California Veterans Collaborative, California State University Northridge Veterans Resource Center, Bob Hope Patriotic Hall, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Chatsby Films, Lucques Catering, Patina Restaurant Group, The Heights Deli, Trader Joe’s, Food For Less. The Veterans Project was funded by generous support from the Cheng Family Foundation, James Irvine Foundation, Ahmanson Foundation, Annenberg Foundation, California Arts Council, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Vladimir and Araxia Buckhantz Foundation, Doug Huberman, Lisa and Gaynell Methvin, Nancy Porter, Boude Moore, and Meegan Godfrey.
L.O.S.T. (Losing One’s Self Temporarily)
Produced by Jennifer Cheng Commissioned by the Cheng Family Foundation
PART 1: CUBICLE
2015 Premiere
Set in an abstract corporate America, Cubicle explores the human condition under cramped control and a monotonous reality, exposing an underlying counterbalance between freedom and anarchy in the workplace. Anonymity and confinement set the pace in this corporate sea of grey as we witness a multitude of shifting landscapes as abstract representations of a familiar work environment. Boxing in both their sanity and distinctiveness, we witness the struggle to maintain a sense of individuality on the corporate climb as the performers labor against a homogenized work mentality, finding solidarity only within themselves and each other.
Concept & Direction: Jacques Heim
Choreographer: Leandro Glory Damasco Jr. in choreographic collaboration with The Company.
Original Collaborators: Ana Carolina Brotons Christopher Carvalho, Chelsea Caffey, Cal Chester, Ezra Masse-Mahar, Jessie Ryan, Connor Senning, Kellie St. Pierre, Amy Tuley, Rico Velazquez, Chisa Yamaguchi
Structure Design: Tina Trefethen and Mike Mike McCluskey/Mike McCluskey LTD
Original Concept Design: Thomas Flake
Structure Construction: Robert Selander
Music Composer: Bruno Louchouarn
Light Sculpture by: LILIENTHAL|ZAMORA Etta Lilienthal and Ben Zamora
Dramaturge and Artistic Consultant: Rosanna Gamson
Lighting Designer: Evan Merryman Ritter
Associate Lighting Designer: Luc Hediger
Costume Designer: Brandon Grimm
Project Manager: Renee Larsen Engmyr
Artistic Consultants: Jim Vincent, Adam Davis, Julie McDonald, Tony Selznick, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts & the Des Moines Center for the Performing Arts, Hae Kyung Lee, Steve Connell, Jessica Goin, Jonathan Reap
Cubicle was produced by Jennifer Cheng, commissioned by the Cheng Family Foundation and co-commissioned by the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts and Des Moines Performing Arts, with additional support provided by Syracuse University. Cubicle premiered in 2015 at Des Moines Performing Arts in Des Moines, Iowa.
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PART 2: PASSENGERS
2016 Premiere
Passengers is a mind trip. It is a piece about people caught in the wild loop of their shifting states of mind. Their journey through consciousness is a metaphoric embodiment of the challenges, obstacles and adversity we all face in our waking reality. Their unrelenting search for identity and self is a powerful reminder that we are merely Passengers on this vehicle called Life.
Concept & Direction: Jacques Heim Choreographer: Leandro Glory Damasco Jr. in choreographic collaboration with The Company.
Original Collaborators: Ana Carolina Brotons, Christopher Carvalho, Majella Loughran, Ezra Masse-Mahar, Jessie Ryan, Connor Senning, Kellie St. Pierre, Amy Tuley, Rico Velazquez, Matt Wagner, Erin White, Chisa Yamaguchi
Music Composer: Bruno Louchouarn
Production Designer, Architect: Adam Davis
Structure Engineering: Brian Shipley and Isolated Ground
Structure Construction: Rando Productions
Dramaturge and Artistic Consultant: Stephan Koplowitz
Lighting Designer: Evan Merryman Ritter
Structure Lighting Consultant: Mark Baker
Costume Designer: Brandon Grimm
Production and Project Manager: Renee Larsen Engmyr
Technical Director: Jonathan Meyer
Passengers was produced by Jennifer Cheng, commissioned by the Cheng Family Foundation and co-commissioned by the Vladimir and Araxia Buckhantz Foundation, the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, St. Paul, MN, Valley Performing Arts Center, Northridge, CA, and Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center, Livermore, CA. Additional support provided by the Ahmanson Foundation and The Scrooby Foundation. Benefactors: Mary Ellen Stuart, Ellen Pansky, Bill Hranchak, Nick Erickson, Meegan Godfrey. Passengers premiered in 2016 at the Newmark Theatre in Portland, Oregon.
Transit Space
2012 Premiere
Transit Space explores themes of feeling lost, finding a sense of purpose, and coming 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 Concept and Direction: Jacques Heim
Original Collaborators: Brandon Grimm, Jennifer Huffman, Shauna Martinez, Ashley Nilson, Omar Olivas, Crystal Runk, Anibal Sandoval, Ben Sayles, Chisa Yamaguchi
Writer: Steve Connell
Composer / Sound Designer: Paul James Prendergast
Set Design Ramps: Sibyl Wickersheimer
Set Design Bridges: Tina Trefethen
Set Concept, Engineering, and Construction: Mike McCluskey, McCluskey LTD and Tina Trefethen
Lighting Design: John E.D. Bass
Physical Interactive Designers: David Beaudry and Valeria Beaudry
Voice 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 Yamaguchi
Skateboarding Consultants: Jesse Martinez and Nathan Pratt of Dogtown and Z-Boys
Skateboarding 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, Peter Aeschbacher, Marcus Shaffer, Khanjan Mehta and Mark Baker. Transit Space was commissioned by the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State University and co-commissioned by Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center, Los Angeles. Transit Space premiered in 2012 at the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State University