S P O N S O R E D BY

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 22

APOLLO THEATER253 WEST 125TH STREETHARLEM, USA

THE APOLLO THEATER

Artistic DirectorEduardo Vilaro

The Company

Lauren AlzamoraJamal Rashann Callender

Mario Ismael EspinozaMin-Tzu Li

Kimberly Van Woesik

Christopher BloomKassandra Cruz

Melissa FernandezJohan Rivera Mendez

Joshua Winzeler

Martina CalcagnoAlexander DuvalChristopher HernandezMarcos RodriguezJessica Alejandra Wyatt

Director of Production & PerformanceJoshua Preston

Wardrobe SupervisorDiana Ruettiger

Artistic Associate/Rehearsal DirectorMichelle Manzanales

Stage Manager Nathan K. Claus

Founder

Tina Ramirez

Ballet Hispanico salutes Jody and John Arnhold for their visionary leadership and support. Through the generosity of the Arnhold family, Ballet Hispanico will

continue to inspire communities around the world for the next 40 years and beyond.

Ballet Hispanico at the Apollo Theater is Sponsored by Goya Foods.MetLife Foundation is the Official Tour Sponsor of Ballet Hispanico.

American Airlines is the Official Airline of Ballet Hispanico.Amsterdam News is Media Sponsor of Ballet Hispanico at the Apollo Theater.

BalletHispanico.orgBallet Hispanico’s 2015 New York Season is made possible by Jody and John Arnhold, Goya Foods,

The Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, with public support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Coun-cil on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council,

and Spain Culture New York-Consulate General of Spain & Spain Arts & Culture.

Ballet Hispanico wishes to express its appreciation to Theatre Development Fund for its support of this engagement.

Production © 2014, Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc. All Rights Reserved.Program is subject to change. The taking of video, audio and photographs is strictly prohibited.

ABOUT TONIGHT’S PERFORMANCE¡Bienvenidos! Welcome! We love being at the Apollo: the legacy of music and magic makes it the perfect space to be daring. Tonight, I am thrilled to bring to you Ballet Hispanico’s first full-length narrative ballet, CARMEN.maquia.

When I first saw the premiere of CARMEN.maquia in 2012 in Chicago, I was captivated by Gustavo’s attention to the music and how it, along with his powerful movement, constructed the characters throughout the work. The intimacy with which the players share the story builds the drama without the need for operatic theatrics.

Like the art of tauromaquia (bullfighting), Gustavo Ramírez Sansano’s retelling of the Carmen story takes us through a similar type of blood sport, rife with strategic deception and passion. Carmen, who mocks life and love, manipulates her men but, like being in the bullring, maneuvers at such close proximity to place both fighter and bull in danger.

The story of Carmen has been told in many ways and there have been thousands of descriptors circulating since the premiere in Paris in 1875. At its core, it is the tale of Don José, a naïve army corporal who falls to the wiles of Carmen. Whether it is of another time or timely, the story continues today, with the same plot lines reflected in our news headlines and news feeds. It is a human story.

Enjoy!

Eduardo VilaroArtistic Director

is a proud sponsor of

(2012) New York Premiere: November 22, 2014

Choreography by Gustavo Ramírez SansanoMusic from various works by Georges Bizet and Pablo de Sarasate,

performed by the Slovak Philharmonic, Prague Philharmonic, New Zealand Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, the Arte Ensemble, and the Apollo Symphony Orchestra.

· · ·Set Design and Construction by Luis Crespo

Costume Design by David DelfinCostume Construction by Travis Halsey, Diana Ruettiger

Lighting Design by Joshua PrestonRestaging Assistants: Monica Cervantes, Kirsten Shelton

· · · Don José Christopher Bloom Carmen Kimberly Van Woesik Micaela Min-Tzu Li Escamillo Mario Ismael Espinoza

Cigar Factory Girls, Soldiers, Townsfolk and GypsiesLauren Alzamora, Martina Calcagno, Jamal Rashann Callender,

Kassandra Cruz, Alexander Duval, Melissa Fernandez, Christopher Hernandez, Johan Rivera Mendez, Marcos Rodriguez,

Joshua Winzeler, Jessica Alejandra Wyatt

SYNOPSIS

ACT IAs the curtain opens, we are introduced to a solitary figure. His movement transmits a feeling of inner struggle. He is Don José, an army corporal.

After the changing of the guard, the gypsy Carmen spies Don José during a break at the cigarette factory where she works with the other factory girls. She launches into an impromptu dance for the young men in the crowd that expresses her philosophy on life: love is free and cannot be tamed. We meet Micaela, Don José’s girlfriend, who enters carrying a letter from his mother. The letter requests that he return home to take Micaela as his wife.

In a gathered group of factory workers, a fight breaks out and the blame is quickly and flippantly placed on Carmen. Don José is designated to lead her to prison. Carmen seduces Don José on their way to jail and, unable to fight his emotion for her, he allows her to escape and takes her place in prison as punishment for his irresponsibility. Alone and imprisoned physically and spiritually with the tremendous madness of love, Don José sees visions of Carmen everywhere he looks.

On the day of Don José’s release, the famous bullfighter Escamillo arrives on the scene and flirts with Carmen. Three friends also try to solicit her, but she is in love with Don José and rejects them all while she waits for his return. He does return, and for a fleeting moment they are reunited in love and happiness. Once again, however, they are disturbed by the presence of soldiers and are forced into separation.

20 minute Intermission

ACT IICarmen runs home to the gypsies in the mountains to read her future in the tarot cards. Every card she lifts indicates her own death.

Meanwhile, Micaela returns to Don José, whose love is clouded by his jealousy over the bullfighter Escamillo. She tries to convince him to follow her and finally reveals to him that his mother is ill. Don José decides to leave to be with his mother.

Don José returns from visiting his mother to discover that Carmen has given her hand to Escamillo. She tells Don José that she no longer loves him and that the only way he will have her is to end her life. Don José’s aggression closes the story in tragedy.

Performance runs approximately 1 hour 26 minutes, including one intermission.CARMEN.maquia was first performed by Luna Negra Dance Theater at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance on March 24, 2012.

JOSHUA WINZELER JESSICA ALEJANDRA WYATT

LAUREN ALZAMORA CHRISTOPHER BLOOM MARTINA CALCAGNO

JAMAL RASHANN CALLENDER ALEXANDER DUVALKASSANDRA CRUZ

MARIO ISMAEL ESPINOZA MELISSA FERNANDEZ

MIN-TZU LI JOHAN RIVERA MENDEZ MARCOS RODRIGUEZ

KIMBERLY VAN WOESIK

CHRISTOPHER HERNANDEZ

EDUARDO VILARO, a first generation Cuban-American, began as artistic director of Ballet Hispanico in August of 2009, becoming only the second person to head the company since it was founded in 1970. Mr. Vilaro has been part of the Ballet Hispanico family since 1985. As a dancer with the Ballet Hispanico Company, he per-formed throughout the U.S., Latin America and Europe and assisted founder Tina Ramirez with the development of dance education residencies.

Mr. Vilaro’s passion for dance and Latino cul-tures began in the Southwest Bronx, where a role in a school musical ignited his journey. Af-ter training throughout New York City in dance institutions such as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center and the Martha Graham School, Mr. Vilaro received a BFA in dance at Adelphi University under the direction of Norman Walker. In 1999, he received an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from Columbia College Chicago and was a recipient of their Albert P. Weissman Award. Upon his graduation from Columbia College, Mr. Vilaro founded Luna Negra Dance Theater in Chicago, a company which served as a spring-board for Latino dance throughout the Midwest. Under his ten-year artistic direction, Luna Negra amassed a distinguished repertory of works by Latino choreographers such as Ron De Jesús, Vicente Nebrada, and Gustavo Ramírez Sansano.

Mr. Vilaro’s own choreography is devoted to cap-turing the spiritual, sensual and historical essence of the Latino cultures. He created over 20 ballets for Luna Negra and has received commissions from the Ravinia Festival, the Chicago Sinfonietta, the Grant Park Festival, the Lexington Ballet and the Chicago Symphony. He has collaborated with major dance and design artists as well as musi-cians such as Paquito D’Rivera, Susana Baca, Luciana Souza, and Tiempo Libre. In 2001 he was a recipient of a Ruth Page Award for cho-reography, and in 2003 he was honored for his choreographic work at Panama’s II International Festival of Ballet. In 2011, Mr. Vilaro premiered Asuka, his first work for Ballet Hispanico, “an un-expected interpretation of [Celia] Cruz’s music…high-energy and colorful” (Chicago Dance Digest).

Mr. Vilaro was an associate professor at the Dance Center of Columbia College and has served on the board of directors of Dance/USA. He has also served on panels for the National Endow-ment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. He was a guest speaker at the Sal-zburg Global Forum for Young Cultural Leaders and the National Association for Latino Arts and Culture, and continues to speak to the growing need for cultural diversity and dance education.

TINA RAMIREZ (Founder) founded Bal-let Hispanico in 1970 and served as Artis-tic Director until 2009. Under her direction, over 45 choreographers created works for the Company, many of international stature and others in the early stages of their career.

Ms. Ramirez was born in Venezuela, the daugh-ter of a Mexican bullfighter and grandniece to a Puerto Rican educator. Her performing career included international touring with the Federico Rey Dance Company, the inaugural Festival of Two Worlds in Italy with John Butler, the Broad-way productions of Kismet and Lute Song and the television adaptation of Man of La Mancha.

In addition to the National Medal of Arts, Ms. Ramirez has received countless awards and honors in recognition of her work, includ-ing the Dance Magazine Award, the Hispanic Heritage Award for Education, Capezio Dance Award, NYS Governor’s Arts Award, and the NYC Mayor’s Award of Honor for Arts & Culture.

LAUREN ALZAMORA graduated from UNC School of the Arts in 2001. She has danced for Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Eliot Feld’s Bal-let Tech and Battery Dance Company in New York. Lauren has also collaborated with New York-based dance photographer Howard Schatz on several projects, including underwa-ter dance photography. She is a fully certified Pilates instructor and enjoys teaching private clients as well as her fellow company members.

CHRISTOPHER BLOOM is from Middletown, VA where he started training at the Vostrikov’s Acad-emy of Ballet at the age of 15. Christopher trained

WHO’S WHO IN THE COMPANY

as a scholarship student at the Ballet and Con-temporary Dance Programs in the School at Ja-cob’s Pillow under Anna-Marie Holmes and Milton Myers. He holds a B.F.A. from The Ailey/Fordham BFA Dance program where he had the opportunity to perform works by Sidra Bell, Francesca Harper, Camille A. Brown, Jennifer Muller, Paul Taylor and Alvin Ailey. He has performed professionally with 360⁰ Dance Company, Thang Dao Dance Com-pany, VonUssar DanceWorks, Parsons Dance, The Peridance Contemporary Dance Company, and with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

MARTINA CALCAGNO began dancing in her native Italy, where she studied ballet in Sic-ily and Rome. She moved to London to train at the Elmhurst School for Dance. In London, she performed with the Birmingham Royal Bal-let and toured throughout the United King-dom and China. Martina has danced around the world, performing with Compagnia DanzI-talia, Narciso Dance Company and BHdos.

JAMAL RASHANN CALLENDER began danc-ing at Ballet Tech in New York City. He attended the Professional Performing Arts School/The Ai-ley School under the late Denise Jefferson, while dancing at The Restoration Dance Theatre and the Harlem School of the Arts. Jamal also at-tended Perry-Mansfield and Springboard Danse Montreal. He graduated from The Juilliard School under Lawrence Rhodes, and has worked with The Atlanta Ballet, Peridance Ensemble, Buglisi Dance Theater, Formal Structure Inc., and Hub-bard Street 2. Jamal is a recipient of the 2012 Princess Grace Dance: Performance Fellowship.

KASSANDRA CRUZ (Apprentice) is a Ven-ezuela native and a recent graduate of the Ai-ley/Fordham BFA program. She has received training from The Ailey School, Lines Ballet, Professional Performing Arts High School and Ballet Hispanico. Her performance experi-ence includes dancing with The Mestizo Dance Company, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre and at various schools and venues with BHdos.

ALEXANDER DUVAL began his dance career at Teatro Popular Danzante under the direction of Professor Nereida Rodríguez. He received a scholarship to study classical ballet at Ballet Alina Abreu, and he later joined Ballet Folklórico

Nacional as a soloist. In 2011, he joined Ballet Nacional Dominicano. He has danced various leading roles in neo-classical works and has per-formed in many international festivals around the world, including Venezuela, Haiti and Martinique.

MARIO ISMAEL ESPINOZA was born in Ti-juana, Mexico. He graduated from the Univer-sity of California in Irvine, where he performed with Donald McKayle’s étude Ensemble. Ma-rio since then has performed with Odyssey Dance Theatre in Salt Lake City, Utah; Com-pany C Contemporary Ballet, Man Dance San Francisco, Peninsula Ballet, Liss Fain Dance and ODC Dance in San Francisco, California.

MELISSA FERNANDEZ is from Miami, Florida, and graduated from The Julliard School in 2012. Melissa has attended programs at American Ballet Theatre, Miami City Ballet, Complexions Contemporary Ballet and Netherlands Dans Theater 2011, among others. In 2008 Melissa was selected as a Modern dance Finalist in the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (NFAA) YoungARTS competition. She was also featured in the HBO series “Master Class.”

CHRISTOPHER HERNANDEZ (Apprentice) is a recent graduate of The Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase, where he performed works by Kyle Abraham, Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, and Ori Flomin. Following graduation he was cast in the off-Broadway production of Sleep No More. Christopher has also been seen on the Latin Peo-ple’s Choice Awards dancing for Olga Tanon and Wisin y Yandel. Christopher most recently danced with BHdos before joining the main company.

MIN-TZU LI, a native of Taiwan, enjoyed her education at The Boston Conservatory and gained many diverse experiences working with their faculty and students. Ms. Li has been for-tunate to perform works by such masters as José Limón, Thomas/Ortiz, Martha Graham and Murray Louis, as well as creating her own works.

JOHAN RIVERA MENDEZ was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He began his dance train-ing at School for the Performing Arts, PR un-der the direction of Waldo Gonzalez. Johan graduated, earning his BFA from New World School of the Arts in 2013. While there, he had

the opportunity to perform works of Robert Battle, Darshan Singh Bhuller, Peter London, Merce Cunningham, Michael Uthoff and Kyle Abraham as well as simultaneously working with local dance companies in Miami, Florida.

MARCOS RODRIGUEZ started his professional study of dance in the Ballet Concierto Dominica-no Academy. In 2006, he received a scholarship for the “Alicia Alonso” University Dance Institute at the Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid, Spain. In this university he joined the “Youth Bal-let of Camara of Madrid” as a principal dancer. In 2010, Marcos won the prize for the Support Program of Dance in Madrid as the only Domini-can dancer. After graduation, where he received a degree in Choreography and Interpretation Techniques of Dance and a Master in Perform-ing Arts, Marcos joined the Dominican National Ballet as a soloist. He has been awarded with the 2009 Personality of Culture Award by the Ministry of Culture of the Dominican Repub-lic, the 2010 Latin Pride National Award as a Dancer of the Year, and the “Young Dominican Excellence Abroad” by the Ministry of Youth.

KIMBERLY VAN WOESIK graduated from Southern Methodist University in 2011. She has trained at Chamberlain School of Performing Arts, American Ballet Theater, Miami City Ballet, the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, and San Francisco Conservatory of Dance. Performed works by Ben Stevenson, Twyla Tharp, Arthur Mitchell, Alvin Ailey, Martha Gra-ham, Alison Chase, Jessica Lang, Adam Houg-land, Gerald Arpino, and George Balanchine.

JOSHUA WINZELER was born in Miami, Florida. He began his ballet training with The Thomas Armour Youth Ballet and the Miami Con-servatory. He furthered his training with the School of American Ballet, Miami City Ballet and Joffrey Ballet. Joshua graduated from New World School of the Arts receiving his B.F.A. in 2011. Joshua has performed works from Martha Graham, Dar-shan Bhuller, Robert Battle and Michael Uthoff.

JESSICA ALEJANDRA WYATT began her train-ing at The School of Oregon Ballet Theater. Under the direction of Cuban teacher Haydee Gutierrez, she also studied with her mother Elena Carter, for-mer Dance Theater of Harlem and Ballet Nacional

de Danza principal. In 2002 Miss Wyatt joined The Joffrey Ballet as an apprentice and participated in the filming of Robert Altman’s “The Company.” She later joined Luna Negra Dance Theater and was a company member from 2004-09. In 2012, Miss Wyatt was nominated for a Bessie Award.

GUSTAVO RAMIREZ SANSANO (Chore-ographer) was Artistic Director of Luna Negra Dance Theater from 2009-2013, after directing proyectoTITOYAYA in Valencia, Spain for four years. Sansano has been the recipient of nu-merous awards for his choreography, including first prizes at the Ricard Moragas competition in Barcelona, the Dom Perignon choreographic competition in Hamburg, and at Las Artes Escé-nicas de la Comunidad Valenciana. He has beencommissioned to create works for Compania Nacional de Danza, the Hamburg Ballet, Tanz-TheaterMünchen, Budapest Dance Theater, Na-tional Dance Company Wales, Norrdans, Gyori Ballet, Balletto dell’Esperia, BalletMet, IT dansa, Ballet Junior de Genève, and Nederlands Dans Theater, among others. As a dancer, Sansano performed works by Jacopo Godani, Hans Van Manen, Jiří Kylián, Ohad Naharin, Johan Inger, Paul Lightfoot, Victor Ullate and many more, working for the Ballet Joven de Alicante, Bal-let Contemporaneo de Barcelona, Ballet de la Comunidad de Madrid, Nederlands Dans The-ater II and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.Gustavo was chosen by the magazine POR LA DANZA for its 15th anniversary as one of the ‘Fifteen Choreographers to Watch.’ Dance Magazine featured Luna Negra’s artistic direc-tor, Gustavo Ramírez Sansano, in its annual ‘25 to Watch’ list 2012, and was named ‘Chi-cagoan of the Year in Arts & Entertainment’ by the Chicago Tribune. Starting in June of 2015, Sansano has been named the Artistic Direc-tor of the National Dance Company of Wales.

LUIS CRESPO (Set Design) is a graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Technical Univer-sity of Valencia. In 2002, he specialized in Set Design at the ESAD (École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs) of Strasbourg. Additionally in 2002 he completed the course for Theatrical Inven-tiveness at the University of Cadiz. In 2010 he won the award for Best Set Design from the Valencian Autonomous Government Theatres (TGV). He has designed and produced more

than 60 set and lighting designs for companies all over the world. Crespo has worked as a set and lighting designer for numerous companies and producers in theatre, opera and dance. He has done extensive design work for the com-pany Proyecto Titoyaya which Gustavo Ramírez Sansano founded in 2004 and for which Crespo has been the set designer from its inception.

DAVID DELFIN (Costume Design) Diego Da-vid Domínguez González, best known as David Delfín, is a Spanish designer and artist born in Ronda, Málaga, in 1970. In 2001, he created the brand Davidelfin together with the three Postigo Brothers (Deborah Postigo, Diego Postigo y Gor-ka Postigo) and the model Bimba Bosé. Davidel-fin has developed projects in parallel with fashion, like the intervention which took place in the Gug-genheim Museum of Bilbao, as part of the exhibi-tion “Cosas del surrealismo” (Surrealism Things) in June 2008, the designing of the new “Ford Focus Coupé Cabriolet by davidelfin”, the designing of the new wardrobe for HAMLET for the play per-formed at the Teatro Español in Madrid, adapted and directed by Tomaz Pandur, the image corre-sponding to the Málaga Film Festival, the interior decoration design for the Finca de Arandinos ho-tel in La Rioja, the arts direction of Miguel Bosé’s LP entitled PAPITO, or the arts direction for The Cabriolets’ DEMO LP, a musical project headed by Bimba Bosé, muse and partner of the firm.

JOSHUA PRESTON (Director of Production & Performance, Lighting Design) hails from the verdant hills of central Kentucky. As a designer he has lit all kinds of plays, operas, buildings, trees, humans and dancing humans most of all. There are few things that bring Mr. Preston more joy than lighting stuff and things. Josh went to school in sunny Chicago where he met the in-trepid Mr. Eduardo Vilaro and the journey has not stopped since. Josh is eternally grateful to have worked as Technical Director for Luna Negra Dance Theater and equally appreciative to serve on the production team with Ballet Hispanico.

MICHELLE MANZANALES (Artistic Associate/Rehearsal Director) is a choreographer and dance educator originally from Houston, TX. She began working with Eduardo Vilaro in 2003 as a dancer for his company Luna Negra Dance Theater of Chicago, where she later became Rehearsal Di-

rector in 2006 and served as Interim Artistic Di-rector 2009-2010. In 2007, Manzanales created Sugar in the Raw (Azucar Cruda) for LNDT which was applauded by the Chicago Sun-Times as “a staggering, beautiful, accomplished new work.” In 2010, her homage to Frida Kahlo, Paloma Querida, was hailed as a “visual masterpiece” by Lucia Mauro of the Chicago Tribune and was described by the Sun-Times as a “gorgeously designed, richly hallucinatory, multi-faceted vision of the artist…”. Her choreography has also been presented by Texas Contemporary Weekend, Spring to Dance (St. Louis, MO), Fort Worth Dance Festival, and Festival de Danza Córdoba (Vera-cruz, Mexico), and honored by the American Col-lege Dance Festival on four separate occasions.

DIANA RUETTIGER (Wardrobe Supervisor) has served as wardrobe supervisor for Luna Negra Dance Theater and Costume Designer for Dance for Life Chicago, Columbia College, and The Chi-cago Academy for the Arts. She has worked as stitcher and crew for the Joffrey Ballet and nu-merous Broadway touring shows. Ms. Ruettiger owned and operated a costume shop for 25 years before moving to New York to begin her tenure as Wardrobe Supervisor with Ballet Hispanico.

NATHAN K. CLAUS (Stage Manager) has served as stage manager for Jennifer Muller’s The Works both domestically and internationally. He has worked on Broadway with the produc-tions of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, God of Carnage, The Norman Conquests and Novem-ber. Hailing from Fargo, North Dakota, Nathan began studying ballet at Dancenter North in Libertyville, IL before obtaining a B.A. in The-atre from Millikin University in Decatur, IL, where he also studied dance, music, and education.

BOB FRANKLIN (Assistant to the Lighting De-signer) is a lighting designer for theatre and dance. He has enjoyed work with Ars Nova, Dia: Beacon, ACT Theatre, American Dance Festival, Monica Bill Barnes & Company, Portland Stage Company, and Seattle Public Theatre. He earned a B.A. in Drama from Vassar College, and trained professionally at Seattle Repertory Theatre.

ABOUT BALLET HISPANICOCelebrating 44 years of dance and culture, Ballet Hispanico is recognized as America’s leading Latino dance organization.

Led by Artistic Director Eduardo Vilaro, the Company boasts a rich and diverse repertory of over 100 works by the foremost choreographers and emerging artists of our time. The works expand on founder Tina Ramirez’s legacy of exploring the diversity of Latino culture through a fusion of Latin and contemporary dance powered by theatricality and passion. The Company has performed for an audience of over 3 million, throughout 11 countries, on 3 continents.

The School of Dance offers a unique curriculum that includes flamenco and classic Spanish dance as well as ballet and contemporary techniques. The School offers rigorous pre-professional training, a general program for dancers of all levels, and special classes for pre-schoolers. It has trained more than 8,000 children who have gone on to successful careers in dance, theater, film, education, business, and many other professions.

Education & Outreach offers an innovative exploratory learning experience for school children, teachers, and parents. The in-school version of the program offers long-term teaching artist residencies and has touched the lives of some 20,000 New York City school children, while the nationwide touring program includes teacher training sessions, classroom workshops and master classes with Company members.

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MAJOR DONORS TO BALLET HISPANICOThe Board of Directors, artists and staff of Ballet Hispanico extend their deepest gratitude to our generous donors. Their support provides the financial resources that help sustain the Ballet Hispanico Company, the School of Dance, and Education & Outreach programs. For information about giving opportunities, please contact the Development Department at (212) 362-6710.

($100,000+)Arnhold FoundationFord FoundationLear Family FoundationMetLife FoundationSamuel H. Scripps FoundationThe Frances Lear FoundationMr. Henry ArnholdMs. Jody Arnhold and John ArnholdMs. Kate Lear and Dr. Jon LaPook

($50,000+)American Airlines Goya Foods, Inc.New York City Department of Cultural AffairsNew York State Council on the ArtsRockefeller Brothers FundThe New York Community Trust, Inc.The Shubert Foundation, Inc.Univision Communications Inc.Mr. David Pérez and Ms. Milena Alberti Mr. Charles J. Wortman and Ms. Laura F. Baldwin

($25,000+)Altman FoundationAmerican Gilsonite CompanyChartwell Charitable FoundationPalladium Equity PartnersRobert and Mercedes Eichholz FoundationThe Andrew W. Mellon FoundationThe Christy and John Mack FoundationMs. Michelle Caruso-CabreraThe Dalio Family Foundation Ms. Diana DiMenna and Mr. Joe DiMennaMr. Matthew McLennan and Ms. Monika McLennanMr. Olivier RustatMr. Herb Scannell and Ms. Sarah Reetz

($10,000+)Bloomberg PhilanthropiesConsolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc.Goldie Anna Charitable TrustGoldman Sachs & Co.Greenberg Traurig, LLPNational Endowment for the ArtsPosner-Wallace FoundationPricewaterhouseCoopers LLPPrince Mineral Holding Corp.Princess Grace Foundation - USAThe Estée Lauder Companies Inc.The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc.The Prospect Hill FoundationThe Ted Snowdon FoundationMr. Vin Cipolla and Ms. Celine McDonaldMr. Donald G. DrapkinFribourg Family Foundation Ms. Marianne C. HammondMs. Jacqueline HernándezMr. James McCoy and Mr. Alfio HernandezDr. and Mrs. Mehmet C. OzMr. Alfredo Pérez and Ms. Kathleen KoppMr. Raul Pineda and Ms. Mayalen Uribe Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. RankowitzDr. Carlos A. Rivera and Ms. Wallette G. WidenerMr. Jon Roy and Dr. Susie HahnMs. Angela Bedoya Saralegui and Mr. Javier SaraleguiMr. and Mrs. Douglas T. Tansill

($5,000+)Columbia Community ServiceCredit Suisse Americas FoundationCrossRoads TechnologyGloria Estefan FoundationMay and Samuel Rudin Family FoundationNational Association of Latino Arts and CulturePaul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

The Harkness Foundation for DanceThe Xerox FoundationMs. Kathleen Kopp and Mr. Alfredo PérezMr. and Mrs. Kenneth LangoneMrs. Mary Sharp CronsonMr. Carl Stanton and Ms. Laura WarnerMr. Richard A. Williamson and Ms. Maritza Williamson

($2,500+)Pryor Cashman LLPRandom HouseThe/ Evelyn Sharp FoundationTurrell FundMr. Paul ArnholdMs. Cynthia ArgoMs. Gaily W. Beinecke and Mr. John B. BeineckeMr. and Mrs. Robert MillerMr. Barry Rosenstein and Mrs. Lizanne RosensteinMs. Mónica TalánMr. John Van Rens and Ms. Sarah LutzMs. Marie Wickham

($1,000+)Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc.Schwab Charitable FundSequoia Foundation for Achievement in the Arts & EducationThe Arts FederationThe Inner Circle, Inc.The Studio in a School Association, Inc.Wells FargoDr. and Mrs. Georg Albers-SchonbergMr. and Ms. Gustavo C. d. ArnavatMr. Sudeep AroraMr. and Mrs. Richard A. BaraschMrs. Bonnie Beer and Mr. Steven BeerPaul and Frances BeineckeMr. Rajeev BhamanMs. Helene BliebergMr. and Mrs. Howard ChatzinoffMs. Anne CohenMs. Lori L. Cohen and Mr. Christopher RothkoMr. Abelardo Curdumi and Ms. Isabel RodriguezMr. and Mrs. Alvaro de MolinaMs. Carmen DiRienzoMr. Paul EllisMr. Robert Epstein and Ms. Laura FrenchMr. Joshua FeigenbaumMr. Nelson Fernandez

Alejandro Garcia-VillalpandoMr. David GallagherMr. and Mrs. Michael E. GellertMrs. Perry Granoff and Mr. Marty GranoffMs. Kathleen GrantMr. Antoine GuignetteMr. Ray HaggMr. James HammondMr. Kyung In HanMr. Brandon HawMr. and Mrs. Paul HerzanMs. Catharine B. HillMs. Judith M. HoffmanMr. and Mrs. Laurence F. IoffredoMr. and Mrs. Richard T. KeimMs. Hilda KrakerMr. Frederick A. LandmanMs. Maggie Lear and Mr. Daniel KatzMr. Janno LieberMs. Olga LuciaMr. William and Mrs. Irma LundermanMr. Stephen MackMs. Constance Marks Mr. and Mrs. Mark NewhouseMs. Emily B. NissleyMr. Andres PérezMr. Carl L. Garbie RiveraMr. and Mrs. Jonathan RosenMr. Miles and Mrs. Nancy RubinMr. Nathan SandlerMs. Ann Sarnoff and Mr. Richard SarnoffMs. Melissa SeligmannMs. Rebecca SimmonsMs. Heidi StamasMr. William Suk and Sandra SukMr. Matthew SweeneyMs. Marta L. TelladoMr. Robert Usdan and Ms. Amy YenkinMs. Patricia WynnMr. and Mrs. David ZalaznickMr. John F. Zulack and Ms. Laura P. Mack

This roster of donors to Ballet Hispanico is complete as of November 10, 2014. Thank you for alerting the Development Department of any omissions by contacting Interim Director of Development Enrique Ball at 212.362.6710, ext. 40 or at eball@ballethispanico.org

BALLET HISPANICO BOARD OF DIRECTORSKate B. Lear, Chair

David Pérez, PresidentJody Gottfried Arnhold, Honorary Chair

Vin Cipolla, Vice PresidentJames F. McCoy, Secretary

Charles J. Wortman, TreasurerDhuanne S. Tansill, Chair Emeritus

LEADERSHIP COUNCILBen Rodriguez-Cubeñas, Chair

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Carlos PujolOlivier RustatHerb ScannellMarta TelladoBob Unanue

Jon RoyMónica Talán

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Eduardo Vilaro, Artistic Director • Tina Ramirez, Founder167 West 89th Street, New York, NY 10024 • 212-362-6710 • info@ballethispanico.org

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Photo credits: Christopher Duggan & Paula Lobo

Celebrating 30 years…

Just yesterday, the Apollo Theater was filled with over 1,500 excited school children from all over New York City and New Jersey bouncing up and down in these very seats in anticipation of seeing professional dance. The innovative Performances for Young People (PYP) program, run by Ballet Hispanico’s Education & Outreach division, celebrates its 30th anniversary of inspiring young audiences though live dance. Each PYP takes students on a guided journey through Latin American dance forms and music, featuring excerpts of current and past Ballet Hispanico repertory performed by the main company and the second company, BHdos. In total, Ballet Hispanico presents PYPs for tens of thousands of children in New York City and across the country, connecting new generations to our diverse Latino heritage every year. Through this unique out-reach program, Ballet Hispanico’s talented dancers inspire a passion for art, learning, and discovery that will last a lifetime. Thanks to the generous support of Univision, we look forward to inspiring young people for years to come.

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Celebrating 30 years…

Just yesterday, the Apollo Theater was filled with over 1,800 excited school children from all over New York City and New Jersey bouncing up and down in these very seats in anticipation of seeing professional dance. The innovative Performances for Young People (PYP) program, run by Ballet Hispanico’s Education & Outreach department, celebrates its 30th anniversary of inspiring young audiences though live dance. Each PYP takes students on a guided jour-ney through Latin American dance forms and music, featuring excerpts of cur-rent and past Ballet Hispanico repertory performed by the main company and the second company, BHdos. In total, Ballet Hispanico presents PYPs for tens of thousands of children in New York City and across the country, connecting new generations to our diverse Latino heritage every year. Through this unique outreach program, Ballet Hispanico’s talented dancers inspire a passion for art, learning, and discovery that will last a lifetime. Thanks to the generous support of Univision Communications Inc., we look forward to inspiring young people for years to come.

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EXECUTIVEArtistic Director.....................................Eduardo VilaroExecutive Director....................................Lee KoonceExecutive Assistant.............................Joshua Palmer

FINANCE & ADMINISTRATIONDirector of Finance & Admin............Fredrick PandianController..........................LaKya Thomas-Vizcarrondo

THE COMPANYDirector of Prod. & Performance........Joshua PrestonArtistic Assoc./Rehearsal Director........................................Michelle ManzanalesBallet Masters.............................Juan-Carlos Peñuela

Caridad MartinezAccompanists...............Daniel Hyde, Gary Khachikyan,

Tim Prepscius Wardrobe Supervisor..........................Diana RuettigerStage Manager....................................Nathan K. Claus

THE SCHOOLDirector, School of Dance................AnaMaria CorreaAssociate School Director..........................Kiri AvelarAssociate School Administrator..Miscandy CorporanDirector of Classical Training & Performance..................................Caridad MartinezSchool Programs Manager................Raquel ValienteSchool Bursar.........................................Yusi RamirezFront Desk Coordinator.............................Nora PerezReceptionist.........................................Alana WinbushReceptionist..........................................Maria Martinez

FACULTYKiri Avelar, Siomara “CeeCee” Bridges, Becky Brown, Franchesca Cabrera, Pat Catterson, Bobby Clark, Da-vid Fernandez,Yvonne Gutierrez, Adriana Jacinto, Elise Knudson, Ana Lourdes Novoa, Julie Ludwick, Amanda Marquez, Caridad Martinez, Rebeca Maso, Liliana Mo-rales, Jonathan Murdock, Eboni Osavio, Juan Carlos Pe-ñuela, Maria Piedad Lascano, Kevin Predmore, Elisabet Rubio, Courtney Runft, Anilice Scasso, Meridith Szalay, Janice Tomlinson, Rebecca Tsivkin, Raquel Valiente, Marnie Wood

ACCOMPANISTSIan Banks, Julia Chen, Nolan Ericsson, Natalia Frolova, Freya Goldstein, Daniel Hyde, John Lander, Kyle Maxwell Doherty, Foluso Mimy, Kelly Moran, Bob Sardo, Bernard Schaller, Lauren Shapiro, Sharon Walsh

WORK STUDY STUDENTSNatalia Liranzo, Francisca Lora, Amanda Nunez, Kai Malys-Holland, Gabriella Montes, Hendryck Rodriguez

EDUCATION & OUTREACHDirector, Education & Outreach........AnaMaria CorreaBHdos Rehearsal Director…........Nicholas VilleneuveDance Education Programs Mgr......Siomara Bridges Community Programs Mgr.........Franchesca Cabrera

TEACHING ARTISTSGisele Assi, Xianix Barrera, Andrea Markus, Jenny Men-dez, Hillary Ramos, Alda Reuter, Elisabeth Rubio, Remy Shaber, Kristen Stevens, Meridith Szalay, Raquel Valiente

BHdos SECOND COMPANYMichaela Grace Best, Shelby Colona, Eddie Corley, Amanda Esposito, Zachary Kukla, Daniel Salas, Melissa Westlake

EXTERNAL AFFAIRSInterim Director of Development..............Enrique BallDirector of Marketing & Comm.....Jackeline MontalvoDirector of Institutional Giving............Melissa SandorMarketing Assistant..................................Veasna HasDevelopment Assistant..........................Jessica Falco

OPERATIONSDirector of Operations........................Anthony PattonOperations Associate..............................Lynn ShipleyBuilding Caretaker.............................Johnson YeboahAssistant Building Caretaker...............Marcos Zapata

SPECIAL SERVICESInformation Technology..........Crossroads Technology Public Relations & Press Rep..........Michelle TabnickNY Season Design.......................Red Herring Design

Stephen Gilewski DesignLegal Counsel..............................Pryor, Cashman LLP Ronald H. Shechtman Masuda, Funai, Eifert & Mitchell, LTD. Kathleen GaberPhotography.............Christopher Duggan, Paula Lobo,

Nir ArieliVideo.............Gerrit Vooren, Nel Shelby, Kendra Brisco Travel.......................Road Rebel Entertainment TouringAccountants.......................................Lutz & Carr, LLP

DANCE MEDICINE SERVICESHarkness Center for Dance Injuries, NYU Langone

Medical Center, Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopedic Consultant..................David S. Weiss, MDAthletic Trainers....................................Alison Deleget

Lauren Kreha Megan Richardson

Massage Therapist................................Hiromi Tsusue

Ballet Hispanico is a member of Dance/NYC, the service organization for professional dance. Ballet Hispanico is also a member of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters and the Performing Arts Alliance as well as the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture.

The artists appearing in this performance are members of the American Guild of Musical Artists AFL-CIO, the labor union representing professional dancers, singers and staging personnel in the United States.

BALLET HISPANICO OF NEW YORK, INC. is a not-for-profit corporation, which is supported, in part, through contributions from individuals, corporations and foundations. These gifts are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. A copy of the latest financial report may be obtained by writing to the NYS Department of State, Office of Charities Registration, Albany, NY 12231, or to Ballet Hispanico, 167 West 89 Street, New York NY 10024.

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