The Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Dance presents
Mesh
New Dance Works by Clara Toujas ’25 and Faith Wangermann ’25
The Time Left
Choreographer: Faith Wangermann ’25
Musical Director: Vince di Mura
Music: Rock Me to Sleep by Benny Carter and Paul Vandervoort II, You Can Have Him by Irving Berlin, Happy Music by Dave Barbour and Peggy Lee, Cry, Cry, Cry by Sunny Skylar and Vaughn Monroe, It’s All Right With Me by Cole Porter, She’s Got You by Hank Cochran, Love Me or Leave Me by Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson
Musicians: Vince di Mura, piano; Garrett McKenzie ’28, drums; Esteban J. Gonzalez ’26, bass
Dancers: Sofia Rodriguez-Tucker ’27*, Mariel Shapiro ’27*, Faith Wangermann ’25*, Kate Willey ’27*, Sam Yamashita ’26
entre moi et nous
Choreographer: Clara Toujas ’25*
Sound Designer: Vince di Mura
Music: Quarantine by Justin Hurwitz, Spells (Paris) by Nils Frahm, Ne me quitte pas by Jacques Brel, ascension by berlioz
Text: Interviews from Installation de Thierry Malandain à l’Académie des beaux-arts – 6 avril 2022
Dancers: Adam Littman Davis ’25*, Shannon Ma ’27, Gisele Sonnier ’27*, Renata Suárez ’28, Clara Toujas ’25*
This production is supported in part by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ partnership with the IV Fund.
Production Team
Lighting Designer: Tess James
Costume Designer: Clara Toujas ’25*, Faith Wangermann ’25*
Costume Design Advisors: Mary Jo Mecca, Keating Helfrich Debelak
Stage Manager: Milan Eldridge
Sound Operator: Syaera Valentine
Run Crew: Jakob Rosenthal
Student Run Crew: Maddy Mejia ’26*, Madeline Rohde ’27*, Maya Sessions ’26*
Costume Stitchers: Wyatt Kim, Denise Boyle
Student Costume Stitchers: Claire Beeli ’28, Isabel Yip ’25, Charlotte Young ’27, Raven Reid ’28
* Indicates a minor student in the Program in Dance
Faculty Advisors
Faculty Production Advisor: Rebecca Lazier
Faculty Choreographic Advisors: Rebecca Lazier, Susan Marshall
Run Time
70 minutes with 15 minute intermission
Content Advisory
Theatrical haze is used in both pieces on the program.
Program Note
Please silence all electronic devices including cellular phones and watches for the duration of the performance. Please refrain from text messaging during the performance.
Special Thanks
Welcome to Mesh! We are so happy to have you here tonight, and we are so excited to share what we have been working on for the past year.
We would like to thank a few people for their incredible work this year. First, we would like to thank our advisors, Susan Marshall and Rebecca Lazier, for their steadfast guidance and enthusiastic support. We would like to thank Mary-Sue Gregson, who has been our invaluable production stage manager, and Chloë Brown, our production manager: nothing would exist without you two! We would also like to thank Milan Eldridge, our stage manager who has fearlessly jumped in these last few weeks and has been an incredible help. Keating Helfrich Debelak and Mary Jo Mecca, thank you so much for all your work and guidance on costuming these pieces, and thank you to Tess James for helping us execute our vision and teaching us just how much lights can do. And thank you Vince di Mura, for all your work and expertise with our music. We are so grateful to all of these people, as well as the dance department at the Lewis Center as a whole: you have made us better artists and taught us so much in our four short years here.
We would also like to thank the members of our casts. You all have jumped into projects that were ambitious and possibly intimidating, and we absolutely could not have done it without you. Your bravery, artistry, commitment, and joy have been real assets to this process. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!
Lastly, thank you all, our audience, for being here, and for supporting not only our work but the work of so many wonderful people. Enjoy the show!
— Clara Toujas & Faith Wangermann
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Land Acknowledgement
The Hearst Dance Theater/Lewis Arts complex, part of the Princeton University campus, stands on part of the ancient homeland and traditional territory of the Lenape people. Learn more about the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at Princeton
Lewis Center for the Arts
Chair: Judith Hamera
Executive Director: Marion Friedman Young
Director of Program in Dance: Professor Susan Marshall
Associate Director of Program in Dance: Professor of the Practice Rebecca Lazier
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