Presented by Princeton University’s Program in Dance.
Resonance: Spring Dance Festival
Run Time
Approximately 85 minutes including a 15-minute intermission
Special Notes
Photography, video and sound recording are prohibited. Please silence all electronic devices including cellular phones and watches for the duration of the performance. Please refrain from text messaging during the performance.
Mountains and Dust (premiere)
Choreography: Benjamin Akio Kimitch
Music: Imgs /r by Kara-Lis Coverdale
Dancer: Julia Zhou ’24*
Vol. II (premiere)
Choreography: Sanghyun “Chris” Park*
Orchestral Arrangements and Sound Construction: Vince di Mura
Music: Brick by Boring Brick; Now, All I Wanted, Idle Worship by Paramore
Dancers: Derin Arat ’26, Anna Borodianski ’25, Kathy Li ’24, Maddy Mejia ’26*, Chris Park ’24*, Olivia Taylor ’26, Annie Townsend ’26
Special Thanks: Chris expresses his elation to share the stage with and his love for a cast that gave him the gift of curiosity, commitment, and community.
Tic-Toc-Choc (premiere)
Choreography: Gabrielle Lamb
Music: Pièces de Clavecin, Livre II, 6e ordre: VI Le Tic-Toc-Choc, ou Les Maillotins and Les Ombres Errantes : 25ème ordre, 4ème livre by Francois Couperin
Musicians: Ian Howells, piano
Dancers: Laura Haubold ’24*, Vivian Li ’24*
Profile (premiere)
Choreography: Brian Brooks
Music: Drumkit Quartets No 3, 54 by Glenn Kotche, performed by So Percussion
Dancer: Haley Baird-Dibble ’24*
Time is a Mother (premiere)
Choreography: Kenichi Kasamatsu
Assisted by: Destiny Nguyen
Music Editors: Zi Liu ‘24*, Ryan Wolfe
Music: Original Composition by Reuel Williams ’24, Brother by Matt Corby, Untitled by Ryan Wolfe, Gimme All Your Love by Alabama Shakes
Text: Hong Kuang
Video: Zi Liu ’24*
Dancer: Zi Liu ’24*
Tinieblas (premiere)
Choreography: Isabel Kingston ‘24*
Music: Your Other Life by Lord Huron, Ataraxia by Novo Amor, Church-going Bell by the Bell Ringers of Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Monastery, 4EVA by KAYTRAMINÉ, District 12 Ruins by James Newton Howard
Dancers: Mary Burdick ’26, Ella Colby ’26*, Olivia Kasule ’26, Isabel Kingston ’24*, Charlotte Kingston ’26, Sally Menaker ’26*, Madison Qualls ’25*, Clara Toujas ’25*
Special Thanks: Isabel is thrilled to be sharing her work with you all tonight and is forever indebted to her cast for their hard work and inspiring artistry during the past year.
Production Team
Costume Designer: Mary Jo Mecca
Lighting Designer: Carolyn Wong
Music Director: Vince di Mura
Production Stage Manager: Mary-Susan Gregson
Faculty Production Advisor: Tina Fehlandt
Sound Operator: Syaera Valentine
Light Board Programmer: Zaid Dawsari
Run Crew: Jake Rosenthal
Student Run Crew: Ethan Arrington ’25*, Azi Jones ’25*
Costume Stitchers: Denise Boyle, Wyatt Kim
Student Costume Stitchers: Tanaka Ngwara ’24, Anne Xu ’26, Isabel Yip ’25, Charlotte Young ’27
Wardrobe Supervisor: Emily Marcus
* denotes a certificate/minor student in the Program in Dance
Dance Certificate Seniors
Haley Baird-Dibble — Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, certificate in Dance
Laura Haubold — Molecular Biology, certificates in Italian Language and Culture, and Dance
Isabel Kingston — Comparative Literature, certificates in Latin American Studies and Dance
Vivian Li — Neuroscience, certificate in Dance
Zi Liu — Sociology, certificates in Technology & Society and Dance
Sanghyun “Chris” Park — Economics (Math Track), certificates in Political Economy and Dance
Julia Zhou — East Asian Studies, certificates in History & Practice of Diplomacy and Dance
Guest Choreographer & Designer Bios
Brian Brooks
Brian Brooks (Choreographer) a Guggenheim Fellow in Choreography, recently completed a Mellon Foundation Creative Research Fellowship at the University of Washington, and three years as first-ever Choreographer in Residence at Chicago’s Harris Theater for Music and Dance, creating dances for Hubbard Street Dance, Miami City Ballet, and others. His New York City-based group, the Moving Company, has been presented by venues including The Joyce Theater, New York City Center, and BAM’s Next Wave Festival. From 2012-2019, Brooks created multiple duet productions in which he performed alongside New York City Ballet Associate Artistic Director and former principal dancer Wendy Whelan, and has choreographed several off-Broadway productions including A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2013), directed by Julie Taymor, and Pericles (2016), directed by Trevor Nunn. In conjunction with his extensive teaching, he has created dances for schools including Princeton University, Rutgers University, The Juilliard School, Boston Conservatory, and Ballet Tech. In summer 2024, he’ll be teaching his new ChoreoTech Lab at The School at Jacob’s Pillow, which integrates choreographic practices with new technologies including Augmented Reality.
Vince di Mura
Vince di Mura (Resident Composer/Musical Director) has appeared on concert stages and theaters throughout North America,Canada, Europe and Latin America. He has conducted theater seasons in virtually every region of the United States. He is best known for his arrangements of My Way: A Tribute to the Music of Frank Sinatra, Simply Simone, and I Left My Heart, (with over 1,000 productions nationally). He is also the author of A Conversation With The Blues, a 14-part web instructional series on improvisation through the Blues produced by Soundfy, Inc. He holds fellowships from the William Goldman Foundation, Temple University, Meet the Composer, CEPAC, the Union County Foundation, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Puffin Cultural Forum, and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. He has released seven CDs and has just completed a collaboration with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa entitled Echos of the Great Migration, which is currently being workshopped for a New York City premiere in 2024. Most recently, he has served as Musical Director/arranger and pianist for Summer Breeze Chinese Jazz Fusion Ensemble, which has played concerts and festivals throughout the tristate area and released two albums in 2023. The group will be touring East Asia in the late spring. Over the summer of 2023, Vince gave a series of concerts in Paris and La Rochelle with support of the Lewis Center for the Arts. The series featured jazz piano transcriptions of music written for the Program in Dance and the Program in Theater & Music Theater.
Ian Howells
Ian Howells (Pianist) is a pianist and composer from Hightstown, New Jersey. Exhibiting high energy and flair, his musical style derives from the sounds of hard-bop jazz, Western European classical music, West African hand-drumming and 1990’s punk rock. These influences, combined with his love of improvisation, create a powerful and rhythmic sound, interspersed with spontaneously quirky idioms. Ian received his first compositional commission for Ryoko Tanaka’s Hindsight, presented by American Repertory Ballet in their September 2022 production Kaleidoscope at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center. On top of his compositional work, Ian is inspired by his passion for accompanying. In addition to his work at Princeton University, he is on staff as a ballet and dance pianist at Philadelphia Ballet, Princeton Ballet School, Rutgers University and Steps on Broadway. He is also on staff as a musical theater coach at Rider University. This is Ian’s second collaboration with the LCA Dance department (Justin Peck’s Rodeo, 2021), and first for the Spring Dance Festival (SDF).
Mary-Susan Gregson
Mary-Susan Gregson (Stage Manager) has worked with the Princeton University Dance Program since 2012. Credits include Gabriel Kahane’s 8980: Book of Travelers, Lincoln Center’s Global Exchange: Art for Good, A Proust Sonata for Da Camera Chamber Music, Narcissus Now Festival for the Onassis Cultural Center, Sufjan Steven’s Round Up and Gabriel Kahane’s The Ambassador, both at BAM. At The New Victory Theater she has stage-managed over 20 shows in the last 20 years and spent 20 summers production coordinating for Lincoln Center Festival. She has production-managed Divinamente Festival and the New Island Festival on Governor’s Island. New York City shows include Dance Africa, Sizwe Banzi is Dead, The Gate, BQE, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, The Jazz Nativity, Breaking the Code and Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Regional credits include McCarter Theatre, Yale Rep, Williamstown, The Huntington, and the White House. She has toured with Dance Theatre of Harlem, Elisa Monte, Jennifer Muller, Pilobolus and internationally with Forbidden Christmas starring Baryshnikov.
Kenichi Kasamatsu
Kenichi Kasamatsu (Choreographer) is a working dancer, teacher and choreographer in New York City. As a dancer, Kasamatsu has worked with renowned choreographers such as Keone and Mari, Nappytabs, and Kyle Hanagami, among others. As a result, he has been on stage and in video shoots with artists such as Jennifer Lopez, Ne-Yo, Daddy Yankee, BANKS, and Mark Ronson. His most recent work includes his first two full-length shows with akompany, “one, two, three.” and “kazoku,” featuring original choreography and sounds. Over the years, he has also choreographed for numerous music videos and live performances internationally. Kasamatsu teaches regularly at Peridance Capezio Center and Broadway Dance Center and also travels the nation to teach at various conventions and workshops, along with teaching internationally in Mexico, China, Peru, Japan, and Thailand. Prioritizing the longevity of everyone’s love and passion for dance, Kasamatsu hopes to cultivate spaces with a sense of community where all can come together to learn, laugh, and love together.
Benjamin Akio Kimitch
Benjamin Akio Kimitch (Choreographer) is an artist and producer living in Brooklyn, New York. He is the recipient of a three-year Mertz Gilmore Foundation Dancer Award and a 2023 Bessie Award for Outstanding Choreographer/Creator. His recent dance works include Tiger Hands (The Shed as part of Open Call 2022) and Ko-bu (The Noguchi Museum and Danspace Project). His recent artistic residencies include the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University, Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, and The Kitchen Dance and Process. In 2023, he began an ongoing U.S./Japan research project with choreographer Yasuko Yokoshi. Alongside his artistic practice, Kimitch is a producer for Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) at the World Trade Center.
Gabrielle Lamb
Gabrielle Lamb (Choreographer) is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow based in New York City, where she directs Pigeonwing Dance, described by The New Yorker as “eccentric…playful…curious.” Her work has also been presented by the American Ballet Theatre Incubator, the NY Choreographic Institute (an affiliate of the New York City Ballet), the MIT Museum, BalletX, the Juilliard School, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Ballet Collective, Whim W’HIM, Jacob’s Pillow, and Dance on Camera at Lincoln Center. She has won fellowships and competitions at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Milwaukee Ballet, and the Banff Centre, as well as the S&R Foundation’s Washington Award and a Princess Grace Award. A native of Savannah, Georgia, she trained at the Boston Ballet School and was a longtime soloist at Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, later performing with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company and Pontus Lidberg Dance in New York. She has been lauded by Dance Magazine as “a dancer of stunning clarity who illuminates the smallest details—qualities she brings to the dances she makes, too.” Upcoming commissions include the Savannah Music Festival, New York Theatre Ballet, and Milwaukee Ballet – as well as “Rising,” a live music and dance collaboration with composer Robert Sirota and the Grammy-nominated Neave Trio.
Mary Jo Mecca
(Costume Design) This marks Mary Jo Mecca’s 14th season as the Costume Designer for Dance at Princeton’s Lewis Center for the Arts. Recent credits include Nicole Wolcotts’ Luggage Lost at Triskelion Arts; Ellen Cornfelds’ Raw Footage; Aaron Landsman’s Empathy School and Love Story at Abrons Art Center; Joanna Kotze’s Find Yourself Here at Baryshnikov Arts Center; Liz Magic Laser’s Like You; Laura Petersons’ Forever at The Kennedy Center; Rashaun Mitchell’s Tesseract, Interface at Baryshnikov Arts Center and Nox at Danspace Project; Rebecca Lazier’s There Might Be Others at New York Live Arts, ComingTogether/Attica at the Invisible Dog and I Just Like This Music, Terminal; Zvi Gotheiner’s Bear’s Ear, Detoura, Escher/Bacon/Rothko, Surveillance at New York Live Arts, Sky and Water at the MUSA! Festival; Jody Sperling’s Time Lapse-Fantasy at Danspace Project; Laura Peterson Dance’s Atomic Orbital and traceroute; Barkin/Sellisen Project’s Differential Cohomology. Mecca also sculpts avant-garde hair designs with Edisa Weeks of DELIRIOUS Dances & Hair. She studied Couture Design with Miss Alice Sapho of Paris and New York.
Carolyn Wong
Carolyn Wong (Lighting Design) is a New York-based lighting designer whose portfolio includes a diverse range of projects from intimate theatrical productions to internationally touring work. Favorites include Let Me Mingle Tears With Thee (Pacific Northwest Ballet / Jessica Lang), Come Through (a collaboration between TU Dance and Bon Iver), Rockin’ Road to Dublin (US Tour), Une Autre Passion (Le Ballet du Grande Théâtre de Genève/Pontus Lidberg), Summer’s Winter Shadow (Ballet of Monte Carlo/Lidberg). She currently works as the Worldwide Associate Lighting Designer for Disney’s The Lion King. She is an alumna of Oberlin College and a native of San Francisco, California.
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Lewis Center for the Arts
Chair: Judith Hamera
Executive Director: Marion Friedman Young
Acting Director of Program in Dance (Spring 2024): Professor of the Practice Rebecca Lazier
Acting Associate Director of Program in Dance (Spring 2024): Professor Susan Marshall
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