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Passage from the Journey
Choreography: Dana Tai Soon Burgess
Dancers: Katia Chupashko, Talia Mamone, Krista Shimabukuro, Mary Tisa, Nathan Wright
Costumes: Susan Chiang
Visual Designers: Diana Gibson and Eunah Kim
Music: Far East Side Band, Palmistry
Program Notes:
“ …twenty-three when she left Korea. Did she simply close the door of her father's house and walk away. And was it a long way through the tailor shops of Pusan to the wharf where the boat waited to take her to an island whose name she had only recently learned…”
Picture Bride
Cathy Song

New Hand Works
Featuring the trend setters and innovators of tomorrow. George Washington student choreographers premier their latest works.

Lineage
Choreography: Courtney Lawson
Dancers: Laurie Dyer, Lara Malakoff, Julie Marshall, Alex Michael, Pilar del Mazo
Costumes: Susan Chiang
Music: Nancy Wilson, Elevator Beats, Horace Silver, Song for my Father

Intersecting Boundaries
Choreography: Julie Marshall
Dancers: Jessica Gohs, Audrey Plonk, Mary Tisa
Costumes: Susan Chiang
Music: Chemical Brothers, Where Do I Begin

Sirens
Choreography: Audrey Plonk
Dancers: Christina Conley, Laurie Dyer, Nikki Hollander, Julie Marshall, Mary Tisa, Stacey Warady
Costumes: Susan Chiang
Music: Tori Amos, Siren

Careen (2001)
Choreography: Miguel Gutierrez
Dancers: Michelle Boule, Miguel Gutierrez
Costumes: Sarah Bancroft
Music: Ryoji Ikeda

Mudbirds
Choreography: Kista Tucker
Costumes: Susan Chiang
Lighting Design: Helena Kuukka

Tower
Dancers: Julie Marshall, Juliana Mascelli, Alexandra Michael, Nicholette Routhier, Kristy Shimabukuro
Music: Bells from Early Music, performed by the Kronos Quartet

Cliff
Dancers: Pilar del Mazo, Courtney Lawson, Lara Malakoff, Cathryn Paine
Music: Blues by Derek Thunes from In Formation, performed by the Kronos Quartet

Swamp
Dancers: Julie Marshall, Juliana Mascelli, Alexandra Michael, Nicholette Routhier, Kristy Shimabukuro
Music: Uleg-Khem, Tradition-Tuva (arr. Steve Mackey) from Early Music, performed by the Kronos Quartet

Field
Dancers: Kristy Shimabukuro
With Julie Marshall, Juliana Mascelli, Alexandra Michael, Nicholette Routhier
Music: Desert Capriccio by Tan Dun from Crouching Tiger-Hidden Dragon, performed by Yo-Yo Ma

Cage
Dancers: Julie Marshall, Nicholette Routhier, Kristy Shimabukuro
Music: Long-Ge by Jack Body from Early Music, performed by the Kronos Quartet

Home
Dancers: The Company
Music: First Impressions from Appalachia Waltz, performed by Yo-Yo Ma

Tower
Dancers: Pilar del Mazo, Courtney Lawson, Lara Malakoff, Cathryn Paine
Music: Bells from Early Music, performed by the Kronos Quartet

tension/intervention (2001)
Choreography: Miguel Gutierrez in collaboration with the performers
Costume concept: Miguel Gutierrez
Music: Jaime Fennely, samples from songs by Giorgio Moroder and Michael Jackson
Dancers: Meggie Baker, Lia Bozonelis, Katia Chupsashko, Christina Conley, Wendell Cooper, Taryn Dangremond, Laurie Dyer, Jessica Gohs, Deidre MacDiarmid, Lara Malakoff, Cathryn Paine, Talia Mamone, Alexandra Michael, Sara Naegelin, Nicholette Routhier, Kristy Shimabukuro, Mary Tisa, Amberlee Woods