2017 at 7:30, 2017 at 8:00 Thursday Evening, January 12, 2017 at 8:00 Friday Evening, January 13 Saturday Evening, January 14, Igor and Moreno

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1 Thursday Evening, January 12, 2017 at 7:30 Friday Evening, January 13, 2017 at 8:00 Saturday Evening, January 14, 2017 at 8:00 Arthur Miller Theatre, Ann Arbor IDIOT-SYNCRASY Choreographed and Performed by Igor and Moreno 27th, 28th, and 29th Performances of the 138th Annual Season 26th Annual Dance Series

2 This week s presenting sponsor is the Renegade Ventures Fund, established by Maxine and Stuart Frankel. This week s performances are funded in part by the Building Audiences for Sustainability initiative of The Wallace Foundation. Media partnership provided by Ann Arbor s 107one and Metro Times. Special thanks to Grace Lehman and the Ann Arbor Y for their participation in events surrounding this week s performances. In consideration of the artists and the audience, please refrain from the use of electronic devices during the performance. The photography, sound recording, or videotaping of this performance is prohibited.

3 PROGRAM This evening s performance is approximately one hour in duration and will be performed without intermission. Following Thursday evening s performance, please feel free to remain in your seats and join us for a post-performance discussion with members of the company. 3

4 CREATIVE TEAM Choreography / Moreno Solinas and Igor Urzelai Artistic Associate / Simon Ellis Lighting Design / Seth Rook Williams Sound Design / Alberto Ruiz Soler Set and Costume Design / Kasper Hansen Voice Coach / Melanie Pappenheim Costume Maker and Supervisor / Sophie Bellin Hansen Producer / Sarah Maguire Communications Manager / Marco Obino MUSIC (SUNG LIVE) Excerpts from: Procurade e moderare by Francesco Ignazio Mannu When I m Sixty-Four by The Beatles Quanto t ho amato by Roberto Benigni Al Alba by Luis Eduardo Aute Zure Begiek by Mikel Laboa Idiot-Syncrasy was commissioned by The Place and created using Arts Council funding through Grants for the Arts and with support from Yorkshire Dance, Cambridge Junction, Centro per la Scena Contemporanea (Bassano, Italy), Aerowaves, TIR danza, and BAD Festival (Bilbao). Igor and Moreno would like to thank David Harris, Roberto Casarotto, Dantzagunea, Wieke Eringa, El Graner, Keren Kossow, Justyna Latoch, Lola Maury, Laura Ortu, Alicia Otxandategi, SÍN Culturalis Központ, Jitka Tumova, Ann Van den Broek, and everyone who has helped them. 4

5 ARTIST STATEMENT Idiot-Syncrasy is a dance performance that uses jumping both literally and metaphorically to explore our capacity to persevere, care, and hope. It is both playful and serious in how it welcomes audiences, while gently demanding that they too are responsible for noticing change and difference. We started with wanting to change the world with a performance. We felt like idiots. Then we danced a lot. We jumped. We called on the folk traditions of Sardinia and the Basque Country. We sang. We jumped some more. We committed. Now we promise to persevere. We promise to be open.

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8 Photo (previous spread): Idiot-Syncrasy; photographer: Alicia Clarke. 8

9 ARTISTS Igor Urzelai and Moreno Solinas are two London-based artists making and presenting dance performances across Europe and internationally. They first met in 2006; later they trained together at LCDS The Place in London where they started collaborating. Igor and Moreno have collaborated since 2007 and are currently both associated artists of The Place (London) and TIR danza (Italy). Their work is characterized by their interest in the moving body and the immediacy of action as a vehicle for meaning, ideas, and desires. Igor and Moreno want to reclaim the role of the theater as a place for assembly while exploring the cathartic properties of live performance. As well as their work in partnership, Igor and Moreno are amongst the founding members of BLOOM!, a dance collective rooted in various cultural backgrounds and disciplines founded in 2009 to embrace collaboration as the foundation of its creative process. In that same year they started another collective venture, Hiru Dance Org, to curate and disseminate dance across the home countries of its members. Igor and Moreno have presented their works extensively in Europe and also in the US and Chile. In 2010, CITY, their first major work by BLOOM! dance collective, premiered and received the Rudolf Laban Award 2010 in Budapest and an artist residency by Prix Jardin d Europe (Brussels/Istanbul). In 2011 the work got selected for the Aerowaves Priority list. TAME GAME (2011) and The End Is Near (2012) were both works in which they explored the individual s place within an ever-changing world. In 2013 Igor and Moreno premiered Idiot- Syncrasy, a work about commitment and perseverance exploring dance as an agent for change, and their first choreographic venture as a duo. Idiot-Syncrasy was wellreceived by both audiences and press and was nominated for the National Dance Awards, the Total Theatre Awards, and selected for the Aerowaves Priority list and for the British Council s biennial Edinburgh Showcase in Igor and Moreno make work about people and what makes us such special animals. Across all their works, they have always tried to create a frame to share their views without dictating a single reading, instead creating space for reflection for the viewer. For more information, please visit igorandmoreno.com or visit them on Facebook or UMS welcomes Igor Urzelai and Moreno Solinas as they make their UMS debuts this week. 9

10 MAY WE ALSO RECOMMEND... 1/20 Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble: On Behalf of Nature 3/17 3/18 Kidd Pivot and Electric Company Theatre: Betroffenheit 3/30 4/1 Complicite/Simon McBurney: The Encounter Tickets available at ON THE EDUCATION HORIZON... 1/12 Renegade Pre-Performance Talk: Igor and Moreno (Stamps Auditorium, Walgreen Drama Center, 1226 Murfin Avenue 7:00 pm) 1/14 You Can Dance: Igor and Moreno (Ann Arbor Y, 400 W. Washington Street, 2 3:30 pm) 1/17 Penny Stamps Speaker Series: Meredith Monk (Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty Street, 5:10 pm) 1/20 Renegade Pre-Performance Talk: Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble (Power Center Lobby, 7:00 pm) 1/21 You Can Dance: Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble (Ann Arbor Y, 400 W. Washington Street, 2 3:30 pm) 1/21 Pre-Concert Lecture Series: Exploring Beethoven s String Quartets (Rackham Amphitheatre, Fourth Floor, 915 E. Washington Street, 7:00 pm) Educational events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. 10

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12 THIS WEEK S VICTORS FOR UMS: Renegade Ventures Fund, established by Maxine and Stuart Frankel The Wallace Foundation Supporters of this week s performances by Igor and Moreno.