Fall Dance Concert: From the Ground Up
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From the Ground Up features six world-premiere dance works by guest artists Igal Perry, Sean Curran, Germaul Barnes, and Moscelyne ParkeHarrison, and by faculty members Junichi Fukuda and Emily Jerant-Hendrickson. The performance will feature sophomore, junior, and senior contemporary dance majors.
This performance has been selected as part of Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s 2026–2027 Center Stage collection.
Livestream will be available only for the Saturday performances.
Program Information
Welcome Note
On behalf of the entire Boston Conservatory at Berklee community, I am thrilled to welcome you to the Dance Division’s Fall Dance Concert: From the Ground Up, an evening of six commissioned world premieres by guest artists Igal Perry, Seán Curran, Germaul Barnes, Moscelyne ParkeHarrison, and esteemed faculty members Junichi Fulkuda and Emily Jerant-Hendrickson.
Over the past several weeks, there has been an abundance of excitement and joy in our dance studios as all of our contemporary dance BFA sophomores, juniors, and seniors were learning and rehearsing tonight’s pieces. I am honored and privileged to have such an amazing array of artists here, working with our incredible students. And to you, our audience, thank you for returning to Boston Conservatory to see the ephemeral magic of dance and to celebrate the Dance Division’s 83rd anniversary season.
Enjoy!
—Tommy Neblett, Dean of Dance and Artistic Director of From the Ground Up
Over the past several weeks, there has been an abundance of excitement and joy in our dance studios as all of our contemporary dance BFA sophomores, juniors, and seniors were learning and rehearsing tonight’s pieces. I am honored and privileged to have such an amazing array of artists here, working with our incredible students. And to you, our audience, thank you for returning to Boston Conservatory to see the ephemeral magic of dance and to celebrate the Dance Division’s 83rd anniversary season.
Enjoy!
—Tommy Neblett, Dean of Dance and Artistic Director of From the Ground Up
Program
Intersections *world premiere*
Choreography: Igal Perry
Rehearsal Director: Brian McGinnis
Understudy: Chuyi Xu
Music: Philip Glass (Tissue No. 1, Tissue No. 2, Tissue No. 6 from Naqoyqatsi); Philip Glass (Symphony No. 3, movement IV)
Costume Design: Chelsea Kerl
Lighting Design: Paul Marr
Performers: Yuniel Betancourt, Emma Daniels, Sophia Davis, Kamryn DeAngelis, Shiori Hamanaka, Karina Jimenez, Tarra Liu, Qisi Mai, Madi McAlister, Demetris Michaelides, Electra Nearey, Kiley Nomura, Abby Osterink, Brianna Smith, Julia Zingler
Rehearsal Director: Brian McGinnis
Understudy: Chuyi Xu
Music: Philip Glass (Tissue No. 1, Tissue No. 2, Tissue No. 6 from Naqoyqatsi); Philip Glass (Symphony No. 3, movement IV)
Costume Design: Chelsea Kerl
Lighting Design: Paul Marr
Performers: Yuniel Betancourt, Emma Daniels, Sophia Davis, Kamryn DeAngelis, Shiori Hamanaka, Karina Jimenez, Tarra Liu, Qisi Mai, Madi McAlister, Demetris Michaelides, Electra Nearey, Kiley Nomura, Abby Osterink, Brianna Smith, Julia Zingler
To be running breathlessly but not yet arrived *world premiere*
Choreography: Moscelyne ParkeHarrison with contributions from the performers
Text: Moscelyne ParkeHarrison
Rehearsal Director: Denise Pons
Music: Tushrik Fredericks (LifeLine)
Costume Design: Erica Desautels
Lighting Design: Paul Marr
Performers: Morgan Beyer, Samara Cohen, Dante Dhar, Emily Fusco, Grayson Gizdic, Kyana Luyando, Audrey McNinch, Sayler Nguyen, Amelia Otte, Maddox Stott, Sarah Swoope, Colette Walsh, Qianhui Wang, Leah Zripko
Program Note: I am never not thinking about time: your gentle pull, your infuriating coyness, and the way I pretend to be with you while I chase you, until I find myself at the end of my breath, forced to stop and wait. —Moscelyne ParkeHarrison
Text: Moscelyne ParkeHarrison
Rehearsal Director: Denise Pons
Music: Tushrik Fredericks (LifeLine)
Costume Design: Erica Desautels
Lighting Design: Paul Marr
Performers: Morgan Beyer, Samara Cohen, Dante Dhar, Emily Fusco, Grayson Gizdic, Kyana Luyando, Audrey McNinch, Sayler Nguyen, Amelia Otte, Maddox Stott, Sarah Swoope, Colette Walsh, Qianhui Wang, Leah Zripko
Program Note: I am never not thinking about time: your gentle pull, your infuriating coyness, and the way I pretend to be with you while I chase you, until I find myself at the end of my breath, forced to stop and wait. —Moscelyne ParkeHarrison
Tethered *world premiere*
Choreography: Emily Jerant-Hendrickson in collaboration with the dancers
Music: Beethoven (Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, op. 27, no. 2, “Moonlight”) Silver Mt. Zion (“13 Angels Standing Guard ’Round the Side of Your Bed,” edited by Nate Tucker, $tonefruit Studio)
Costume Design: Linda Girard
Lighting Design: Paul Marr
Performers: Leah Brighter, Marilyn Chen, Sophia DeCesare, Isabella Diaz, Rachel Dobbs, Audrie Gonzales-Ellsworth, Alexa Gunzburg, Sydney Holcomb, Chela Levy, Ivie Lewis, Skylah Miller, Wynona Moon, Hadley Russell, Lia Waldie, Arthur Welsh, Olivia Yi, Fiona Zhang, Ruien Zhang
Program note: Dedicated to John Hendrickson
Music: Beethoven (Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, op. 27, no. 2, “Moonlight”) Silver Mt. Zion (“13 Angels Standing Guard ’Round the Side of Your Bed,” edited by Nate Tucker, $tonefruit Studio)
Costume Design: Linda Girard
Lighting Design: Paul Marr
Performers: Leah Brighter, Marilyn Chen, Sophia DeCesare, Isabella Diaz, Rachel Dobbs, Audrie Gonzales-Ellsworth, Alexa Gunzburg, Sydney Holcomb, Chela Levy, Ivie Lewis, Skylah Miller, Wynona Moon, Hadley Russell, Lia Waldie, Arthur Welsh, Olivia Yi, Fiona Zhang, Ruien Zhang
Program note: Dedicated to John Hendrickson
(More) Social Discourse *world premiere*
Choreography: Seán Curran
Choreographic Assistant: Jacoby Pruitt
Rehearsal Director: Marissa Parmenter
Music: Thom Yorke (The Eraser)
Costume Design: Chelsea Kerl
Lighting Design: Paul Marr
Performers: Emily Adie, Andy Claverie, Sophia Cobo Ruiz, Angelina Curtin, Caitlin Eswein, Ava Gregg, Lilia Holladay, Naomi Hollis, Rebecca Leeds, Noa Loewinger, Maia Madrigal, Joelis Martínez-Santiago, Logan Monaco, Elvis Pietrzak, Rachel Pizzurro, Ella Schroeder, McKinley Tolliver, Angela Zhou, Rebecca Zigmond
Program note: (More) Social Discourse is a response to a brilliant bit of dance writing by Joan Acocella, written when she was reviewing a young Akram Khan. In the New Yorker, Ms. Acocella wrote, “When Akram Khan dances, he looks like the letter S trying to turn itself inside out.” This vivid description of eccentric movement led to a prompt I have given hundreds of dancers, and it has also inspired the movement invention that makes up (More) Social Discourse. Originally choreographed for six dancers in Seán Curran Company, (More) Social Discourse takes some of the original movement material and reimagines and expands it for a cast of nineteen. —Seán Curran
Choreographic Assistant: Jacoby Pruitt
Rehearsal Director: Marissa Parmenter
Music: Thom Yorke (The Eraser)
Costume Design: Chelsea Kerl
Lighting Design: Paul Marr
Performers: Emily Adie, Andy Claverie, Sophia Cobo Ruiz, Angelina Curtin, Caitlin Eswein, Ava Gregg, Lilia Holladay, Naomi Hollis, Rebecca Leeds, Noa Loewinger, Maia Madrigal, Joelis Martínez-Santiago, Logan Monaco, Elvis Pietrzak, Rachel Pizzurro, Ella Schroeder, McKinley Tolliver, Angela Zhou, Rebecca Zigmond
Program note: (More) Social Discourse is a response to a brilliant bit of dance writing by Joan Acocella, written when she was reviewing a young Akram Khan. In the New Yorker, Ms. Acocella wrote, “When Akram Khan dances, he looks like the letter S trying to turn itself inside out.” This vivid description of eccentric movement led to a prompt I have given hundreds of dancers, and it has also inspired the movement invention that makes up (More) Social Discourse. Originally choreographed for six dancers in Seán Curran Company, (More) Social Discourse takes some of the original movement material and reimagines and expands it for a cast of nineteen. —Seán Curran
Still Here *world premiere*
Choreography: Junichi Fukuda
Music: Antonio Vivaldi (“Le jugement 2e version ou Le bruit du monde” and “L’enfant”)
Sound engineering: Carl Landa
Costume Design: Linda Girard
Lighting Design: Paul Marr
Performers: Paulina Allsbrook, Emmerson Cauthren, Harin Chung, Aaron Gensler, Aliyah German, Sophia Hall, Kimani Hopkins, Piper King, Harper Leggett, Jed McManus, Pinelopi Paschali, Kaden Stone, Dafne Tekmen, Laura Trend, Rachel Tse, Mia Urban
Program Note: A reflection on loss—not only as an ending but as a transformation of how we remember, perceive, and continue. —Junichi Fukuda
Music: Antonio Vivaldi (“Le jugement 2e version ou Le bruit du monde” and “L’enfant”)
Sound engineering: Carl Landa
Costume Design: Linda Girard
Lighting Design: Paul Marr
Performers: Paulina Allsbrook, Emmerson Cauthren, Harin Chung, Aaron Gensler, Aliyah German, Sophia Hall, Kimani Hopkins, Piper King, Harper Leggett, Jed McManus, Pinelopi Paschali, Kaden Stone, Dafne Tekmen, Laura Trend, Rachel Tse, Mia Urban
Program Note: A reflection on loss—not only as an ending but as a transformation of how we remember, perceive, and continue. —Junichi Fukuda
Still Here *world premiere*
Choreography: Junichi Fukuda
Music: Antonio Vivaldi (“Le jugement 2e version ou Le bruit du monde” and “L’enfant”)
Sound engineering: Carl Landa
Costume Design: Linda Girard
Lighting Design: Paul Marr
Performers: Paulina Allsbrook, Emmerson Cauthren, Harin Chung, Aaron Gensler, Aliyah German, Sophia Hall, Kimani Hopkins, Piper King, Harper Leggett, Jed McManus, Pinelopi Paschali, Kaden Stone, Dafne Tekmen, Laura Trend, Rachel Tse, Mia Urban
Program Note: A reflection on loss—not only as an ending but as a transformation of how we remember, perceive, and continue. —Junichi Fukuda
Music: Antonio Vivaldi (“Le jugement 2e version ou Le bruit du monde” and “L’enfant”)
Sound engineering: Carl Landa
Costume Design: Linda Girard
Lighting Design: Paul Marr
Performers: Paulina Allsbrook, Emmerson Cauthren, Harin Chung, Aaron Gensler, Aliyah German, Sophia Hall, Kimani Hopkins, Piper King, Harper Leggett, Jed McManus, Pinelopi Paschali, Kaden Stone, Dafne Tekmen, Laura Trend, Rachel Tse, Mia Urban
Program Note: A reflection on loss—not only as an ending but as a transformation of how we remember, perceive, and continue. —Junichi Fukuda
Not for the Weak *world premiere*
Choreography: Germaul Barnes in collaboration with the dancers
Rehearsal Director: Alissa Cardone
Dance Captain: Lauren Smith
Composer: Luke Chrowder, Timothy Bryant
Costume Design: Erica Desautels
Lighting Design: Paul Marr
Performers: Muna Blake, Emilia Cohen, Alex Grant, Siena Hill, Ashlee Holloway, Marissa Lazovick, Natalie Marlowe, Taylor Moxey, Lucy Nagraj, Sam Sharp, Lauren Smith, Ayden Wilson, Ayla Yildiz
Rehearsal Director: Alissa Cardone
Dance Captain: Lauren Smith
Composer: Luke Chrowder, Timothy Bryant
Costume Design: Erica Desautels
Lighting Design: Paul Marr
Performers: Muna Blake, Emilia Cohen, Alex Grant, Siena Hill, Ashlee Holloway, Marissa Lazovick, Natalie Marlowe, Taylor Moxey, Lucy Nagraj, Sam Sharp, Lauren Smith, Ayden Wilson, Ayla Yildiz
Artist Bios
Seán Curran, choreographer, is a Guggenheim Fellow whose contemporary dance works are characterized by collaborations across genres. Founded in 1997, his ensemble, Seán Curran Company, has toured the US, Europe, and Asia, and presented seasons at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Irish Arts Center, the Joyce Theater, and NYU Skirball Center, among others. A sought-after choreographer/director for opera and theater, his notable projects include Salome (Opera Theatre of St. Louis, San Francisco Opera, Opera Montreal, San Diego Opera); Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Theater); Harvey Milk, Fire Shut Up in My Bones, Champion, Shalimar the Clown, Nixon in China, (Opera Theater of St. Louis); L’Etoile, Alcina, Turandot, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Capriccio, Acis, and Galetea (NYC Opera); As You Like It (Shakespeare in the Park); Romeo and Juliette (Metropolitan Opera); and James Joyce’s The Dead, Cymbeline, The Rivals (Lincoln Center Theater). His acclaimed staging of The Pirates of Penzance has been produced by Atlanta Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, San Antonio Opera, San Diego Opera, and Seattle Opera. Other career highlights include 10 years as a Bessie Award–winning performer with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and four years as an original NYC cast member of STOMP! A graduate of New York University, Curran currently serves as an arts professor in the NYU Tisch Department of Dance and is a recipient of the Martha Hill Award for dance educators.
Igal Perry, choreographer, is the founder and artistic director of Peridance Contemporary Dance Company and Peridance Center (1983), and a world-renowned choreographer and dance educator. Perry’s choreography, often in collaboration with contemporary composers, has been described as having “shrewdly theatrical timing” (Deborah Jowitt, Village Voice), portraying “craftsmanship and admirable choreography” (Jack Anderson, New York Times), and being “blessedly inventive” (Jennifer Dunning, New York Times). His works have been set on prestigious companies and dance festivals, including Florence Dance Festival (Italy), Batsheva and Bat-Dor Dance Companies (Israel), Complexions (USA), Alberta Ballet (Canada), San Jose Ballet and Milwaukee Ballet (USA). Perry staged John Butler’s works for New York City Opera, the Munich Opera, Caracas Ballet, and La Scala in Milan, where he also directed the world premiere of Krzysztof Penderecki’s opera Paradise Lost. He has served as a guest teacher at Jacob’s Pillow, the Ailey School, Marymount Manhattan College and Juilliard, where he also staged his Intimate Voices and Mourning Song. International engagements include Scapino and Het National Ballet (Holland), the National Ballet (Prague), Architanz (Tokyo), the Royal Ballet of Sweden, the National Ballet of China, and Kwang-Ju City Ballet Company, Kunmin University and Ewha University (South Korea).
Moscelyne ParkeHarrison is a New York City–based choreographer, director, and dance artist. She has served as artistic director of BODYSONNET since 2019 and previously held roles as associate artistic director and resident choreographer of Post:ballet. A graduate of the Juilliard School, she is a recipient of the Joseph W. Polisi Artist as Citizen Award. ParkeHarrison’s work has been commissioned by the Juilliard School, Skidmore College, Joffrey NYC, Metropolis Ensemble, LINES Training Program, Joffrey Ballet School, the Center for Creative Technology at Juilliard, and Post:ballet. Her work has received support from NEFA, Adobe, and the Mass Cultural Council. She has taught at ODC, Juilliard, LINES, UC Davis, UC Berkeley, and has been a guest speaker at Intuit, the Juilliard School, and Dance/USA. She currently teaches open classes at Gibney and Steps on Broadway. In July 2025, AXIS Dance Company invited Moscelyne to serve as interim rehearsal director, building on her ongoing collaborations with the company since 2023 as both a teacher and performing artist. Her recent projects include Magma, an evening-length immersive dance theater production she choreographed and directed with Post:ballet at the Midway SF nightclub in 2025; Filling the Shell, a techno-choreographic work by ARESPHERE and BODYSONNET for which she served as choreographer and creative supervisor; and New York Now, a triple bill celebrating BODYSONNET’s seventh season, which she produced at Judson Church. Her work say i am you was also featured this summer at the 45th annual Battery Dance Festival.
Junichi Fukuda, choreographer, is a Japanese native who has performed with renowned companies including Ballet Tech/NY, Smuin Contemporary Ballet, Oakland Ballet, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Buglisi Dance Theatre, and Peridance Contemporary Dance Company. His career has also included collaborations in early music and historical dance, including work with the Boston Early Music Festival and New York Baroque Dance Company. Fukuda has received numerous prestigious awards, fellowships, and commissions, with support from institutions including the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, the S&R Foundation, the Boston Foundation, the Mass Cultural Council, American Dance Abroad, and the New England Foundation for the Arts. In 2014, he founded FUKUDANCE, a New England–based contemporary dance company dedicated to exploring human connection and imagination through physical experience. The company has presented his work internationally at MASDANZA in Spain, Festival Internacional de Danza Contemporánea de la Ciudad de México, DAP Festival in Italy, Dance St. Louis’s Spring to Dance Festival, DanceNow at Joe’s Pub, Bates Dance Festival, and other venues throughout the United States. Fukuda’s choreography brings together classical and contemporary movement languages, combining technical rigor, intricate physical structures, and an interest in individuality within the community. The Washington Post has praised his work as “tasteful” and “a work of easeful harmony.”
Germaul Barnes, choreographer, is a Bessie Award–winning choreographer, director, master educator, scholar, and global dance maker whose career spans more than three decades. Interested in archetypes and paradoxes, Barnes explores movement as metaphor, creating multilayered works rooted in everyday life, memory, Black culture, spirituality, and contemporary experience. A former dancer and current répétiteur with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, Barnes has created more than 50 works presented nationally and internationally. His career includes collaborations with and work alongside influential artists and companies including Katherine Dunham, Eleo Pomare, Pilobolus, Philadanco, and Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble. He received the New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award for his work with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company. Since making Birmingham, Alabama, his home in 2019, Barnes has become an active force in the city’s cultural community. He is a full-time dance instructor at the Alabama School of Fine Arts and Artistic and Executive Director of Southern DanceWorks (SDWx), Alabama’s historic contemporary dance company. His Birmingham projects include Lurks Behind and Lurks Behind Vol. 2, rooted in the cultural memory of Birmingham’s 99 neighborhoods; James Baldwin: A Letter to My Nephew; Tiny Danz; and community-centered HEART Workshops. Through performance, education, mentorship, and community engagement, Barnes uses dance to preserve cultural memory, foster dialogue, and connect the body to history, culture, social justice, and lived experience.
Emily Jerant-Hendrickson is a choreographer, dancer, and teacher currently on faculty at Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Jerant-Hendrickson has presented her work at b12 festival in Berlin, Arts on Site NYC, WestFest Dance Festival NYC, Manhattan Movement Arts, Gibney Dance Center NYC, SPACE Gallery Portland, ArtBeat Festival, DanceNow Boston, the Canterbury Shaker Village, Green Street Studios, the Dance Complex and Boston Conservatory. As a dancer, Jerant-Hendrickson has performed nationally and internationally in works by David Parker and the Bang Group, little house dance, Lorraine Chapman the Company, Marcus Schulkind, Sidra Bell, Itzik Galili, Shura Baryshnikov, Jenna Pollack, Ilya Vidrin, Emily Beattie, and Daniel McCusker, among others. She has had the pleasure of performing at venues and through organizations such as b12 festival Berlin, 92NY, World Music/CRASHarts, the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, ODC Theater SF, APAP at City Center, the Ailey Citigroup Theater, the Martha Graham Theater, the Yard, Boston Lyric Opera, Cape Dance Festival, Boston Center for the Arts, and the Museum of Fine Arts, among others. Jerant-Hendrickson holds a BFA in dance from the Boston Conservatory.
Igal Perry, choreographer, is the founder and artistic director of Peridance Contemporary Dance Company and Peridance Center (1983), and a world-renowned choreographer and dance educator. Perry’s choreography, often in collaboration with contemporary composers, has been described as having “shrewdly theatrical timing” (Deborah Jowitt, Village Voice), portraying “craftsmanship and admirable choreography” (Jack Anderson, New York Times), and being “blessedly inventive” (Jennifer Dunning, New York Times). His works have been set on prestigious companies and dance festivals, including Florence Dance Festival (Italy), Batsheva and Bat-Dor Dance Companies (Israel), Complexions (USA), Alberta Ballet (Canada), San Jose Ballet and Milwaukee Ballet (USA). Perry staged John Butler’s works for New York City Opera, the Munich Opera, Caracas Ballet, and La Scala in Milan, where he also directed the world premiere of Krzysztof Penderecki’s opera Paradise Lost. He has served as a guest teacher at Jacob’s Pillow, the Ailey School, Marymount Manhattan College and Juilliard, where he also staged his Intimate Voices and Mourning Song. International engagements include Scapino and Het National Ballet (Holland), the National Ballet (Prague), Architanz (Tokyo), the Royal Ballet of Sweden, the National Ballet of China, and Kwang-Ju City Ballet Company, Kunmin University and Ewha University (South Korea).
Moscelyne ParkeHarrison is a New York City–based choreographer, director, and dance artist. She has served as artistic director of BODYSONNET since 2019 and previously held roles as associate artistic director and resident choreographer of Post:ballet. A graduate of the Juilliard School, she is a recipient of the Joseph W. Polisi Artist as Citizen Award. ParkeHarrison’s work has been commissioned by the Juilliard School, Skidmore College, Joffrey NYC, Metropolis Ensemble, LINES Training Program, Joffrey Ballet School, the Center for Creative Technology at Juilliard, and Post:ballet. Her work has received support from NEFA, Adobe, and the Mass Cultural Council. She has taught at ODC, Juilliard, LINES, UC Davis, UC Berkeley, and has been a guest speaker at Intuit, the Juilliard School, and Dance/USA. She currently teaches open classes at Gibney and Steps on Broadway. In July 2025, AXIS Dance Company invited Moscelyne to serve as interim rehearsal director, building on her ongoing collaborations with the company since 2023 as both a teacher and performing artist. Her recent projects include Magma, an evening-length immersive dance theater production she choreographed and directed with Post:ballet at the Midway SF nightclub in 2025; Filling the Shell, a techno-choreographic work by ARESPHERE and BODYSONNET for which she served as choreographer and creative supervisor; and New York Now, a triple bill celebrating BODYSONNET’s seventh season, which she produced at Judson Church. Her work say i am you was also featured this summer at the 45th annual Battery Dance Festival.
Junichi Fukuda, choreographer, is a Japanese native who has performed with renowned companies including Ballet Tech/NY, Smuin Contemporary Ballet, Oakland Ballet, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Buglisi Dance Theatre, and Peridance Contemporary Dance Company. His career has also included collaborations in early music and historical dance, including work with the Boston Early Music Festival and New York Baroque Dance Company. Fukuda has received numerous prestigious awards, fellowships, and commissions, with support from institutions including the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, the S&R Foundation, the Boston Foundation, the Mass Cultural Council, American Dance Abroad, and the New England Foundation for the Arts. In 2014, he founded FUKUDANCE, a New England–based contemporary dance company dedicated to exploring human connection and imagination through physical experience. The company has presented his work internationally at MASDANZA in Spain, Festival Internacional de Danza Contemporánea de la Ciudad de México, DAP Festival in Italy, Dance St. Louis’s Spring to Dance Festival, DanceNow at Joe’s Pub, Bates Dance Festival, and other venues throughout the United States. Fukuda’s choreography brings together classical and contemporary movement languages, combining technical rigor, intricate physical structures, and an interest in individuality within the community. The Washington Post has praised his work as “tasteful” and “a work of easeful harmony.”
Germaul Barnes, choreographer, is a Bessie Award–winning choreographer, director, master educator, scholar, and global dance maker whose career spans more than three decades. Interested in archetypes and paradoxes, Barnes explores movement as metaphor, creating multilayered works rooted in everyday life, memory, Black culture, spirituality, and contemporary experience. A former dancer and current répétiteur with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, Barnes has created more than 50 works presented nationally and internationally. His career includes collaborations with and work alongside influential artists and companies including Katherine Dunham, Eleo Pomare, Pilobolus, Philadanco, and Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble. He received the New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award for his work with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company. Since making Birmingham, Alabama, his home in 2019, Barnes has become an active force in the city’s cultural community. He is a full-time dance instructor at the Alabama School of Fine Arts and Artistic and Executive Director of Southern DanceWorks (SDWx), Alabama’s historic contemporary dance company. His Birmingham projects include Lurks Behind and Lurks Behind Vol. 2, rooted in the cultural memory of Birmingham’s 99 neighborhoods; James Baldwin: A Letter to My Nephew; Tiny Danz; and community-centered HEART Workshops. Through performance, education, mentorship, and community engagement, Barnes uses dance to preserve cultural memory, foster dialogue, and connect the body to history, culture, social justice, and lived experience.
Emily Jerant-Hendrickson is a choreographer, dancer, and teacher currently on faculty at Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Jerant-Hendrickson has presented her work at b12 festival in Berlin, Arts on Site NYC, WestFest Dance Festival NYC, Manhattan Movement Arts, Gibney Dance Center NYC, SPACE Gallery Portland, ArtBeat Festival, DanceNow Boston, the Canterbury Shaker Village, Green Street Studios, the Dance Complex and Boston Conservatory. As a dancer, Jerant-Hendrickson has performed nationally and internationally in works by David Parker and the Bang Group, little house dance, Lorraine Chapman the Company, Marcus Schulkind, Sidra Bell, Itzik Galili, Shura Baryshnikov, Jenna Pollack, Ilya Vidrin, Emily Beattie, and Daniel McCusker, among others. She has had the pleasure of performing at venues and through organizations such as b12 festival Berlin, 92NY, World Music/CRASHarts, the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, ODC Theater SF, APAP at City Center, the Ailey Citigroup Theater, the Martha Graham Theater, the Yard, Boston Lyric Opera, Cape Dance Festival, Boston Center for the Arts, and the Museum of Fine Arts, among others. Jerant-Hendrickson holds a BFA in dance from the Boston Conservatory.
Production Credits
PRODUCTION STAFF:
Director of Performance Services – Hanna Oravec
Assistant Director of Production – Rebecca Donald
Assistant Director of Concert Services – Luis Herrera
Production Operations Manager – Sam Tirrell
Stage Manager – Zachary Sayre
Mainstage Technical Director – Taylor Kaufman
Assistant Technical Director – Caleb D. Harris
Costume Shop Manager – Alison Pugh
Wardrobe Manager – Blue Barber
Wardrobe Assistant – Taz Meyers, Hazel Nichol
Costume Production Assistant – Jackie Olivia, Rex Tans
Stock Manager/Draper/Stitcher – Kathy Scott
Drapers/Stitchers – Sam Martin
Stitchers – Sheryl Cheung, Natasha Newcomb
Production Electrician – Nate Morrissey
Projections Engineer – Grace Kroeger
Light Board Programmer – Gwen Trueblood
Audio Supervisor – Andrei Radu
A1/Sound Engineer – Maddy Poston
Properties Manager – Hannah Spangler
Fly Console Operator – Avery Hunt
Performance Technology Technicians – Goran Daskalov, Sara Pagiaro
Senior Ticket Operations and Patron Services Manager – Kelley Brennan
STUDENT PRODUCTION STAFF:
Costume Assistants – Talin Ay, Elizabeth Hillman, Patrick O’Farrell, Ellie Sawyer
Audio / Visual Technicians – Sera Chen, Abraham Granado Cuarez, Ollie Gullick
Director of Performance Services – Hanna Oravec
Assistant Director of Production – Rebecca Donald
Assistant Director of Concert Services – Luis Herrera
Production Operations Manager – Sam Tirrell
Stage Manager – Zachary Sayre
Mainstage Technical Director – Taylor Kaufman
Assistant Technical Director – Caleb D. Harris
Costume Shop Manager – Alison Pugh
Wardrobe Manager – Blue Barber
Wardrobe Assistant – Taz Meyers, Hazel Nichol
Costume Production Assistant – Jackie Olivia, Rex Tans
Stock Manager/Draper/Stitcher – Kathy Scott
Drapers/Stitchers – Sam Martin
Stitchers – Sheryl Cheung, Natasha Newcomb
Production Electrician – Nate Morrissey
Projections Engineer – Grace Kroeger
Light Board Programmer – Gwen Trueblood
Audio Supervisor – Andrei Radu
A1/Sound Engineer – Maddy Poston
Properties Manager – Hannah Spangler
Fly Console Operator – Avery Hunt
Performance Technology Technicians – Goran Daskalov, Sara Pagiaro
Senior Ticket Operations and Patron Services Manager – Kelley Brennan
STUDENT PRODUCTION STAFF:
Costume Assistants – Talin Ay, Elizabeth Hillman, Patrick O’Farrell, Ellie Sawyer
Audio / Visual Technicians – Sera Chen, Abraham Granado Cuarez, Ollie Gullick
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