Wylliams / Henry Contemporary Dance Company
30th Anniversary Concert (since1991)
Fall 2021 - Fri/Sat October 1, 2 - 7:30 pm
Friday 1st / Saturday 2nd
October 2021 at 7:30 pm
In White Recital Hall in the Performing Arts Center on the UMKC Campus
4949 Cherry Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64110
(same building as the KC Rep. White Hall
is on the west side of the lobby)
| FALL PROGRAM - 30 Years! - 1991 to 2021 | |
| This was a retrospective program with pieces carefully picked to represent a sampling from the last three decades. | |
| Co-artistic director and co-founder: Mary Pat Henry Co-artistic director / rehearsal director: DeeAnna Hiett Executive assistant: Carolyn Dahm |
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| The Company: David Calhoun, Caroline Dahm, Jeremy Hanson, Katie Johnson, Christina Mowrey, Sammee Schirmer, John Swapshire, Michael Tomlinson, Hannah Wagner, Ashlan Zay (apprentice) |
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| Crew at White Recital Hall, UMKC's PAC Sound Operator: Joe Teroso Lighting Designers: Ian VanDusen & Selena Gonzalez-Lopez Stage Manager: Bethany Gradwhohl Photography: Mike Manley, Mike Strong & Ryan Bruce |
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| In Program Order | |
| Moore In Time (2010) | |
| Choreography: | Mary Pat Henry |
| Music: | Tan Dun |
| Costume Design | Antonia Ford Roberts |
| Projections | Henry Moore |
| Projections Design | Greg Casparian |
| Dancers: | David Calhoun, Caroline Dahm, Jeremy Hanson, Katie Johnson, Sammee Schirmer, John Swapshire, Michael Tomlinson, Hannah Wagner, Ashlan Zay |
| This work is inspired by the works of Henry Moore | |
| Sweet in the Morning (1992) | |
| Choreography: | Leni Wylliams |
| Costume Design: | Leni Wylliams |
| Music | Bobby McFerrin |
| Dancer: | John Swapshire |
| Pause | |
| Breath (from New Dance Partners, September 2021) | |
| Choreography: | Ronen Koresh |
| Lighting Design: | Burke Brown (original, at New Dance Partners JCCC) |
| Music: | Beethoven, Beatles, Greg Smith, Sage DeAgro-Ruopp |
| Three Movements | 1 - Moonlight 2 - Crash 3 - Hold On |
| Dancers: | David Calhoun, Caroline Dahm, Jeremy Hanson, Katie Johnson, John Swapshire, Hannah Wagner, Ashlan Zay |
| "Breath" was generously commissioned for New Dance Partners-Carlsen Center Performing Arts Series, Johnson County Community College. We (Wylliams/Henry) would like to graciously thank Emily Behrman with artistic advisor Michael Uthoff for the commissioning of this beautiful work for the Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company. | |
| {INTERMISSION} | |
| To Have and To Hold (2005) | |
| Choreography: | Shapiro & Smith |
| Music: | Commissioned score by Scott Killan |
| Costume Design | Shapiro & Smith |
| Costume Construction: | Laura Powell |
| Dancers: | David Calhoun, Caroline Dahm, Katie Johnson, Christina Mowrey, Sammee Schirmer, Michael Tomlinson |
| Ensuing (2016) | |
| Choreography: | DeeAnna Hiett |
| Music: | Tamaso Albinoni |
| Costume Design | DeeAnna Hiett |
| Costume Construction: | Kathy Bradford |
| Dancers: | Jeremy Hanson, John Swapshire, Ashlan Zay |
| Church of Nations (1999) | |
| Choreography: | Kevin Iega Jeff |
| Music: | Ennio Morricone and The Art of Noise |
| Costume Design | Denice Naeemah Jeff |
| Lighting Design: | Christian Epps |
| Dancers: | David Calhoun, Caroline Dahm, Jeremy Hanson, Katie Johnson, Christina Mowrey, Sammee Schirmer, John Swapshire, Michael Tomlinson, Hannah Wagner, Ashlan Zay UMKC Conservatory Apprentices: Ivyana Robinson & Jayla Johnson |
Pictures in Program Order
Moore in Time (2010)
Dress (left) and in studio (right)
In studio (above) and then in dress (below) L-R: Ashlan Zay, David Calhoun, Carolyn Dahm, John Swapshire
Sammee Schirmer, David Calhoun and John Swapshire in studio
In studio, DeeAnna Hiett at right, on bench, directing. Dancers: Jeremy Hanson, John Swapshire (behind Jeremy), Ashlan Zay
and, in background Sammee Schirmer and Carolyn Dahm.
Sammee Schirmer and Michael Tomlinson
Hannah Wagner and David Calhoun
Sweet in the Morning (1992)
John Swapshire
Breath (2021)
"Breath" was generously commissioned for
New Dance Partners-Carlsen Center Performing Arts Series, Johnson County Community College.
We (Wylliams/Henry) would like to graciously thank Emily Behrman with
artistic advisor Michael Uthoff for the commissioning of this beautiful
work for the Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company.
Jeremy Hanson and David Calhoun
Carolyn and John
Katie Johnson
David, Ashlan, Jeremy
To Have and To Hold (2005)
Studio (left) and dress (right) - Sammee Schirmer in jeté, Michael Tomlinson, David Calhoun, Katie Johnson - The jeté is from the bench.
Christina Mowrey and Sammee Schirmer - Michael Tomlinson and David Calhoun - Katie Johnson and Carolyn Dahm
Ensuing - (2016)
At Dance In The Park, September 11th - entering above, Jeremy and John below
In concert below
Jeremy and John lift Ashlan
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Church of Nations (1999)
Other Pictures
Alexis Borth hamms it up with instant fashion shoot at reception Saturday
"3 Amigos" - John Swapshire, Jeremy Hanson, David Calhoun - at reception Saturday
Reception after Saturday show in the 2nd-floor room, east end of the PAC (notice "30" balloon in window toward left.
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