KLEZMERBLUEGRASS

Music: Traditional Klezmer and Bluegrass Music
Arranged by Margot Leverett
Choreography by Paul Taylor
Costumes by Santo Loquasto
Lighting by Jennifer Tipton
(First performed October 24, 2004)

Commissioned by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture in honor of “Celebrate 350: Jewish Life in America 1654-2004.”
Co-commissioning support provided by the Bank of America Celebrity Series of Boston with support from the Rita J. and Stanley
H. Kaplan Family Foundation; Museum of Contemporary Art with support from Chicago Patrons of the National Foundation
for Jewish Culture; Playhouse Square Center with support from the Roe Green Foundation, Cleveland; New York City Center
with support from the Pitterman Family Foundation, New York City; Dance Celebration with support from Lyn and George
Ross, Philadelphia;
Pittsburgh Dance Council, a division of The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust; San Francisco Performances and
the Alexander and June Maisin Foundation; University of Washington UW Series at Meany Hall, Seattle; UA Presents with
support from Tucson Patrons of the National Foundation for Jewish
Culture; and the John F. Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts with support from the Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation, Washington, DC. Additional
commission and production support from Harold D. McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage. This production also
made possible by generous support from Mike and Pearl Zeltzer and the Pearl Zeltzer Fund for Jewish Choreography.
Special thanks to David Eden and Leon Wieseltier. Additional support is provided in part by an award from the National
Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art, and generous contributions to the Paul Taylor
New Works Fund.

 

Richard Chen See

Photo by Lois Greenfield

Richard Chen See, Orion Duckstein and Michael Trusnovec

Photo by Lois Greenfield

Annmaria Mazzini

Photo by Lois Greenfield

Annmaria Mazzini, Julie Tice, Silvia Nevjinsky, Orion Duckstein, Richard Chen See and Michael Trusnovec

Photo by Lois Greenfield

Julie Tice and Michael Trusnovec

Photo by Lois Greenfield

Silvia Nevjinsky

Photo by Lois Greenfield