If this work and these dancers cant move you,

I dont know what would. DANCE MAGAZINE

THE COMPANY
A four star triumph in every way.
DOUG VARONE AND DANCERS The 2013/14 season marks the Companys 27 th year. Since its founding in 1986, Doug Varone and Dancers has commanded attention for its expansive vision, versatility and technical prowess. On the concert stage, in opera, theater and on the screen, Varones kinetically thrilling dances make essential connections and mine the complexity of the human spirit. From the smallest gesture to full-throttle bursts of movement, Varones work can take your breath away. At home in New York City, Doug Varone and Dancers is the resident company at the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center. On tour, the Company has performed in more than 100 cities in 45 states across the U.S. and in Europe, Asia, Canada, and South America. Stages include The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, San Francisco Performances, Londons Queen Elizabeth Hall, Torontos Harbourfront, Moscows Stanislavsky Theater, Buenos Aires Teatro San Martn, the Venice Biennale, and the Tokyo, Bates, Jacobs Pillow and American Dance Festivals. In opera and theater, the Company regularly collaborates on the many Varone-directed or choreographed productions that have been produced around the country.
NEWSDAY Denver Post

This is a company of master dancers, performing masterly choreography.

Doug Varone and Dancers are among the most sought after ambassadors and educators in the field. In 2013, the Company toured Argentina, Paraguay and Peru, courtesy of DanceMotionUSA,(SM) a program of the US Department of State produced by Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) which showcases contemporary American dance abroad. For the past 27 years, annual intensive workshops at leading universities have attracted students and professionals from around the country. The Companys multi-discipline residency programs on tour capture their concepts, imagery, and techniques across disciplines and for people of all ages and backgrounds, reaching out to audiences in ways that directly relate to their lives and interests. Varone, his dancers and designers have been honored with 11 New York Dance and Performance Awards (Bessies). In celebration of their 27 th year, the Company will be touring and reconstructing major dances from past repertory, as well as recent new works and Company premiers.

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His dances are kinetic artwork about human passions.

LA TIMES

DOUG VARONE

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Award-winning choreographer and director Doug Varone works in dance, theater, opera, film, television and fashion. He is a passionate educator and articulate advocate for dance. By any measure, his work is extraordinary for its emotional range, kinetic breadth and the many arenas in which he works. His New York City-based Doug Varone and Dancers has been commissioned and presented to critical acclaim by leading international venues for nearly three decades. In 2008, Varones Bottomland, set in the Mammoth Caves of Kentucky, was the subject of the PBS Dance in Americas Wolf Traps Face of America. In opera, Varone is in demand as a director and choreographer. Among his four productions at The Metropolitan Opera are Salome with its sensational Dance of the Seven Veils for Karita Mattila and the world premiere of Tobias Pickers An American Tragedy. His Met Opera production of Hector Berloizs Les Troyens was recently broadcast worldwide in HD. He has staged multiple premiers and new productions for Minnesota Opera, Opera Colorado, Boston Lyric Opera, Washington Opera and New York City Opera, among others. His numerous theater credits include choreography for Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional theaters across the country. His choreography for Manhattan Theatre Clubs current musical hit Murder Ballad earned him a Lucille Lortel nomination for choreography. Film credits include choreography for the Patrick Swayze film, One Last Dance. In the concert dance world, Varone has created a body of works globally. Comissions include the Limn Company, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Rambert Dance Company (London), Martha Graham Dance Company, Dancemakers (Canada), Batsheva Dance Company (Israel), Bern Ballet (Switzerland) and An Creative (Japan), among others. In addition, his dances have been staged on more than 75 college and university programs. Varone received his BFA from Purchase College where he was awarded the Presidents Distinguished Alumni Award in 2007. He has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship, an OBIE Award, two individual Bessie Awards, two American Dance Festival Doris Duke Awards for New Work, and four National Dance Project Awards. As an educator, Varone teaches workshops and master classes around the world for dancers, musicians and actors. He is currently on the faculty at Purchase College, teaching composition and choreography.

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Varones choreography is finely drawn and operatically rich, each dancer a thread woven exactly where it ought to be, into a whole that is luxuriantly textured and dimensioned.
PORTLAND PRESS HERALD

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SCHEDULE
PERFORMANCES
July 18 & 20, 2013 . Bates Dance Festival . Schaeffer Theatre . Lewiston, ME September 12 13, 2013 . Wesleyan University . Middletown, CT October 10 13, 2013 Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) . NEXT WAVE Festival . Brooklyn, NY In this special engagement, the Company is joined by Brenda Angiel Aerial Dance of Buenos Aires, premiering a new commissioned work created in collaboration. The presentation is made possible by DanceMotionUSA,(SM) a program of the US Department of State and produced by Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) which showcases contemporary American dance abroad. The BAM season is a culmination of the Companys recent DanceMotionUSA(SM) tour to Argentina, Paraguay, and Peru in spring of 2013. October 29 November 2, 2013 . Contemporary Dance Theater . Cincinnati, OH November 9, 2013 . Purchase College . Performing Arts Center . Purchase, NY January 23 25, 2014 . Hamilton College . Clinton, NY

STAGING REPERTORY
Hunter College CSU Long Beach Long Island University Montclair State University Purchase College

Slippery Rock University University of the Arts University of Maryland University of Washington West Virginia Dance Theatre

WORKSHOPS/INTENSIVES

July 15 August 10, 2013 . Bates Dance Festival January 6 11, 2014 . Choreographic Institute/NYC NEW THIS YEAR! This January, Varone pilots a new Choreographic Institute, which will involve a select group of rising NYC choreographers working directly with Varone and the Company intensively in early January, as well as subsequent mentoring and showing opportunities in NYC throughout the spring. January 13 18, 2014 . 5 th Annual Winter Intensive . NYC June 1 21, 2014 . 15 th Annual Summer Workshop . The College at Brockport

International tour COMMISSIONS

April May, 2014 Budapest Dance Festival . National Dance Theater Irkutsk, Russia . Irkutsk Theater of Music and Ballet

RESIDENCIES

Doug Varone and Dancers begins its seventh year as the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Centers Company-in-Residence. This NYC landmark provides the company with a home studio space for informal showings, and a venue for its celebrated training programs. In addition, Varone curates the 92 Ys Harkness Dance Festival in the Spring of 2014.

BAM/Brenda Angiel Aerial Dance Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company

VIRTUAL VARONE

VARONE TEACHING ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

Company members join the 2013/14 faculties at: Purchase College Princeton University

www.dougvaroneanddancers.org houses an impressive video library featuring highlights from the past 25 years of repertory from 1986 to 2013, with new commentary by Doug Varone, company members and artistic collaborators. Behind-the-scenes looks at the creation and process of many Varone projects, including opera and film, can also be found. Join our mailing list and find us on your favorite social media outlets as well. Facebook: Doug Varone and Dancers Twitter, Instagram and Vine: @ dovadance

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COMPANY PREMIERE 201415

4 dancers 7 minutes Choreography by Doug Varone Music by Maurice Ravel, Gaspard de la Nuit #2 Lighting Design by Jane Cox Costume Design by Liz Prince

Created in 2013, and commissioned as part of the Martha Graham Companys Lamentation Variations.

QUARTET
Doug Varones Lamentation Variation engaged me right away. The camaraderie was so poignant that at times they seemed like a sad mans version of Iwo Jima, all hoisting some shred of hope in the same direction. Wendy Perron, Dance Magazine Retaining the bench in Grahams original, he sets four men on it and translates Grahams stretching of fabric into his own language of push-pull group interaction. In a nearly continuous skein of movement set to parts of Ravels Gaspard de la Nuit, the men embrace one another and spiral away, fall and rise. Its a fine dance. Brian Siebert, The New York Times

Varone has an unquenchable instinct for expressing the vagaries of the human heart.

ARTS JOURNAL

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NEW WORK PREMIERE 201415

8 Dancers 29 minutes

He layers his dances with complex and sophisticated phrasing of urgent and vigorous momentum, rather than conventional storytelling. He makes his eight dancers look look like three times that number.

SYMMETRY AND NARRATIVE

Choreography by Doug Varone Score by Christopher Rouse, Trombone Concerto Lighting Design by Jane Cox Costume Design by Liz Prince

LA TIMES

Christopher Rouses haunting Pulitzer Prize winning composition creates a musical metaphor for tragedy; one that has sparked my imagination in exciting visceral ways.
There is a tension between the simplicity and character of the sound against the barely contained emotions being invoked. An element of risk pervades the score with pure animalistic energy, as if something personal were being revealed. Its lyrically mournful, then ragingly grotesque. A kind of elegy, untempered by faith. The title refers to the structure of score itself and how within the symmetry of its own form, a narrative mysteriously unfolds.

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MAJOR REVIVAL: CASTLES

A masterpiece.
Tobi TobiaS

8 Dancers 28 minutes Choreography by Doug Varone Music by Sergei Prokofiev, Waltz Suite, Opus 110 Lighting design by Jane Cox and Joshua Epstein Costume Design by Liz Prince Castles premiered at Dartmouth University on January 15, 2004 and was commissioned by the Carlsen Center of the Johnson County Community College, Kansas, Charles R. Rogers, Artistic Director. Original funders Additional funding support for Castles was provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Castles was created, in part, during residencies at the Bates Dance Festival and at the Purchase College Conservatory of Dance, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts.

The pace never lets up in this, one of his most accomplished works.
Doug Varones Castles is the best new dance piece Ive seen in a long time. It brings together, distilled and heightened, the qualities Varone is generally known for the physical excitement, the depth of telling, the implication of story. And Castles perfectly suits his company, which, although diverse in look, is so united in approach (and so carefully prepared) that it really does seem to carry out his purpose like a single instrument. New York Observer

Financial Times

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STRIPPED/ /DRESSED
A UNIQUE concept for an Evening of Dance

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Grafting off of the huge success of Varones sold-out NYC studio series, Stripped, Varone is taking his idea to the Mainstage as a way of opening dialogues with new dance presenters and their audiences nationwide. Promoting STRIPPED/DRESSED both as an artistic and educational event breaks through to new territory in presenting. It opens doors for new dance audiences, allowing them to literally see the process of how a dance unfolds from beginnings to fruition in one evening.

If you have ever sat so close in a rehearsal with dancers whirling past and stopping within an inch of your nose, then you know what a gem of an opportunity this is.
Idanz.com

STRIPPED

Varones articulate and insightful way of dissecting his choreography for dance audiences helps to demystify the art form for many viewers, and provides an overture for experiencing his work. The first half of the evening, with Varone as MC, provides an intimate look at his creative process. The Company, dressed in only rehearsal clothes, under simple lights, presents a detailed look into the intricacies of how dances are created and performed.

DRESSED
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After a short Q&A and an intermission, the Company returns with the second half of the evening: presenting fully produced dances, complete with lights and costumes.

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PRESS
The members of his company are superb dancers, but Varones choreography with its hesitations, awkward tenderness, bravery, and belligerence emphasizes their humanity. Images surfacing from the full-bodied dancing stir memories and run along our nerves.
THE VILLAGE VOICE

Slipping between commonplace gesture and metaphor, his movement occupies the ambivalent terrain of two emotions at once. Its not like anything youve ever seen before. NEWSDAY Doug Varone and Dancers command attention as soon as the curtain goes up. Rarely do you find a choreographer so dedicated to the full and generous complexity of the human spirit. Many choreographers can create interesting movement; few can make it mean so much.
CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Varone rolls his dancers like dice, throwing them hard, way off center where they cling to Earth with tenacity. DANCE MAGAZINE An exceptionally fluent dancemaker. Theres an emotional breadth sometimes missing from so many other greats in modern dance. Varone puts the beating heart at the center of the work. WASHINGTON POST Doug Varones work makes me think of small rivers on big journeys rivers that flow serenely curve to evade an obstacle, glance off a stone, suddenly burst into a waterfall. THE VILLAGE VOICE An evening of Doug Varones choreography is a feast of tens of thousands of individual moments, from the intricate to the mundane, from the witty to the emotionally charged. Wonderfully inventive. Exhilarating.
KANSAS CITY STAR

Theres more information in one minute of dance by Doug Varone than most choreographers manage to squeeze into far lengthier works.
BOSTON HERALD

In Varones dances, movement always stems from an emotional impulse. The effect is akin to the experience of watching a drama so skillfully directed and honestly acted that its fiction is forgotten in a temporary yet complete suspension of belief.
ELIZABETH SCHWYZER, FIFTY CONTEMPORARY CHOREOGRAPHERS

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REPERTORY REPERTORY

Varones ability to convey depths of emotion through highly charged, physically exciting choreography has made him a rarity among his generation.
THE NEW YORK TIMES

MOUTH ABOVE WATER

DANCE MAGAZINE

(2013)

(8 dancers, 30 minutes) Music by Julia Wolfe (Cruel Sisters)

If this work and these dancers cant move you, I dont know what would.

CARRUGI

(2012)

(8 dancers, 30 minutes) Music by W.A Mozart (La Betulia Liberata, oratorio)

Engrossing works, brilliant performers an endlessly imaginative choreographer. One spectacular, invigorating night of dance.
Rocky Mountain News

Doug Varones choreography is finely drawn and operatically rich, each dancer a thread woven into exactly where it ought to be, into a whole that is luxuriantly textured and dimensioned. PORTLAND PRESS HERALD

CHAPTERS FROM A BROKEN NOVEL

may also be presented in shorter form with other repertory works

(2010)

(8 dancers, evening-length) Original score by David Van Tieghem

Engrossing works, brilliant performers an endlessly imaginative choreographer. One spectacular, invigorating night of dance.
Rocky Mountain News

Choreographer Doug Varones Chapters from a Broken Novel (2010) with its shards of dreams and groping tenderness cracks the human condition wide open. BOSTON GLOBE

LUX

(2006)

(8 dancers, 22 minutes) Music by Philip Glass (The Light )

Beginning with Varones meditative, resilient exploration of the space around him, Lux seems to progress toward optimism, as a projected moon slowly rises on the backdrop, and the performers take pleasure in their richly convivial celebration. Lux sates you with dancing, but youre still reluctant to leave the feast.
Washington Post

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REPERTORY
BOATS LEAVING

Few choreographers can move people around the stage like Varone can. He is able to see overlapping and intertwining groups clearly, and to create movement for them that turns them into breathing organisms.
THE NEW YORKER
(2006)

(8 dancers, 28 minutes) Music by Arvo Prt (Te Deum )

A masterpiece. Varones genius here consists of using tactics that are strictly formal, utterly devoid of sentiment, to arouse the spectators deepest feelings. Bloomberg.com

RISE

(1993)

(8 dancers, 28 minutes) Music by John Adams (Fearful Symmetries)

Rise rises almost to the ecstatic. The excitement keeps building until its almost too much, then dissolves into an ending so quiet that it virtually pulls you out of your seat.
Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

HOME

(1988)

(2 dancers, 12 minutes) Music by Dick Connette

Dance as nuanced as it is kinetically thrilling.

NEWSDAY

Home depicts a thousand tiny ways the subtle shades of acceptance, rejection, tender passion and greedy need between two people sharing a life. Its movement that probes the very heart of human emotions and interactions.
Baltimore Evening Sun

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ResidenciES
MASTER CLASSES
The Company is committed to creating opportunities for audiences to enter into and understand the arts from the varied perspectives of their own lives. That they achieve this without sacrificing the integrity of the art itself is a key component to the success of their residencies.
(1.52 hours)

An eclectic blend of training is the hallmark of the Companys work and allows for tailor-made classes and workshops for students and dance professionals of all skill levels. The Companys master teachers are nationally and internationally renowned and offer classes in technique, repertory, composition, partnering, and performance skills.

INFORMANCE MAPPING

(11.5 hours, Q & A included)

Easily adapted to a variety of spaces and conducted without theatrical lighting or costumes, live excerpts from the Companys repertory illustrate Doug Varones discussion about how work is created from idea to stage.
(1.5 2 hours)

This workshop is designed to investigate communication and interaction to explore, through a series of movement and verbal exercises, how our identities, aspirations, backgrounds, and beliefs are shared. For adults, teens or families; no dance background required.

PARALLEL LIVES

(11.5 hours)

Typical workshops have explored Lewis Thomas The Lives of the Cell in biology classes, A.S. Byatts Possession in literature classes, and John Updikes Trust in a class on human perspectives. Theme based classroom discussion leads to the creation of small movement scenes that facilitate the understanding of the work they are studying via dance making.

LIQUID ARCHITECTURE
Doug Varone has surrounded himself with gifted and generous dancers who are mature diverse and caring. Their comfort with children, families and the disciplined rigor of professional dancing seem to flow together in a seamless score. Toni Smith, Skidmore College

(1.52 hours)

This workshop is designed for architecture, arts, design, or engineering students interested in exploring spatial and temporal ideas through movement based problem-solving tasks.

CLASSES FOR KIDS

(1 hour)

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Doug Varone and Dancers offers classes for children from pre-K through 6th grade that include physical and vocal warm ups, exploration of creative movement, imagination games, and storytelling in which students create dances in large groups. Booking Inquiries: Lisa Booth Management Tel 212 921 2114 artslbmi@msn.com

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DOUG VARONE AND DANCERS Doug Varone, Artistic Director Sarah Bodley, Interim Executive Director Eddie Taketa, Tour Manager & Rehearsal Director Alex Springer, Company Manager, Media Archive & Design Ellyn Sjoquist, Program and Marketing Assistant THE COMPANY Hollis Bartlett, Xan Burley, Julia Burrer, Erin Owen, Alex Springer, Eddie Taketa, Hsiao-Jou Tang Booking Agent: Lisa Booth Management, Inc.
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dougvaroneanddancers.org BOARD OF DIRECTORS Naomi Grabel, Chair Richard Caples John Lanasa Jeanne Murphy Lida Orzeck Doug Varone Carol K. Walker Pearl Zuchlewski Elizabeth Geiger, emerita Robert Sanders, emeritus JUNIOR BOARD Hollis Bartlett, Chair Carly Barrett Stephanie Box Robin Cherof Joyce Lee Alexander Thompson

p 1 Bill Hebert, p 2 Cylla Von Tiedemann, p 3 Cylla Von Tiedemann, p 4 Ian Douglas, p 5 Paula Kajzar - Martha Graham Dance Company dancers: Tadej Brdnik, Lloyd Knight, Abdiel Jacobsen, and Maurizio Nardi, p 6 Rehearsal stills from video by Alex Springer, p 7 Christopher Duggan, p 8 Stephanie Vartanian (left) & Dale Dong (right), p11 Cylla Von Tiedemann, p12 Bill Hebert, p 13 Cylla Von Tiedemann p14 various Company members, p15 Bill Hebert . design: Sondra Graff/rpm:projects

SUPPORT
Doug Varone and Dancers receives support from the Alphawood Foundation, Bossak-Heilbron Foundation, Fan Fox and Leslie Samuels Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, James E. Robison Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, New York Community Trust, the Shubert Foundation, Seth Sprague Educational & Charitable Foundation and the Trust for Mutual Understanding, with public support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.