ZACK WINOKUR, PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

LAURA CLEMENT, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

PRESENTS

DAY FOR NIGHT

CONCEIVED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY
PAM TANOWITZ
FEATURING MORGAN AMIRAH BURNS, MARC CROUSILLAT, LINDSEY
JONES, BRIAN LAWSON, VICTOR LOZANO, SARAH ELIZABETH MIELE,
MAILE OKAMURA, MELISSA TOOGOOD

COSTUME DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN SOUND DESIGN & PRODUCTION STAGE

HARRIET JUNG DAVISON COMPOSITION MANAGER
AND REID SCANDRETT JUSTIN BETSY AYER
BARTELME ELLINGTON
 DAY FOR NIGHT
A new dance choreographed by Pam Tanowitz, examining relationships, nostalgia, and memory, stitched
to the sounds and landscapes of Little Island.
An epilogue to Day For Night, danced by Melissa Toogood, will take place in The Glade and throughout
the park after the performance.

Pam Tanowitz
Creator and Choreographer

Pam Tanowitz is a celebrated New York-based choreographer and collaborator who has
steadily delineated her own dance language through decades of research and creation.
She redefines tradition through careful examination, subtly questioning those who came
before her yet never yielding to perceptions stuck in the past. And now, the world’s most
respected companies—Martha Graham Dance Company, Royal Ballet, New York City Ballet,
among others—are proudly integrating Tanowitz’s poetic universe into their repertories.
Her combination of intentional unpredictability, whimsical complexity and natural drama
evoke master dance makers from Cunningham to Balanchine through the clever weaving of
movement, music and space. Tanowitz holds degrees from Ohio State University and Sarah
Lawrence College, where she clarifi ed her creative voice under former Cunningham dancer
and choreographer Viola Farber. In 2000, she founded Pam Tanowitz Dance to explore
dance-making with a consistent community of dancers. She has since been commissioned by
Fisher Center at Bard, The Joyce Theater, The Kennedy Center, and many other leading arts
institutions, and has received numerous honors and fellowships from organizations including
the Bessie Awards, Guggenheim Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Herb Alpert
Award, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and most recently the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award.
”Her dances have been called a “rare achievement” (The New York Times) and her 2018 work,
Four Quartets, inspired by T.S. Eliot’s literary masterpiece, was called “the greatest creation of
dance theater so far this century” (The New York Times). Tanowitz is an assistant professor of
professional practice at Mason Gross School of the Arts/ Rutgers University and is the fi rst-
ever choreographer in residence at the Fisher Center at Bard.

The Fisher Center is Pam Tanowitz’s artistic home. Pam Tanowitz Dance is supported by the
Friends of Pam through the Fisher Center’s Pam Tanowitz Fellowship Fund.

Reid Bartelme and Harriet Jung

Costume Designers

Harriet Jung and Reid Bartelme are the creative directors of Reid & Harriet Design. They have
designed works for choreographers including Pam Tanowitz, Justin Peck and Kyle Abraham
at dance companies including New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, The Australian
Ballet, and The Royal Ballet in London. They’ve made commissioned performance works for
Guggenheim Works & Process and the Museum of Art and Design (NYC) and completed
research fellowships at The Center for Ballet and the Arts and the Jerome Robbins Dance
Division at the NY Library for the Performing Arts. Their Broadway credits include Bob Fosse’s
Dancin’ (2023) and Justin Peck’s Illinoise (2024). Reidandharriet.com

Davison Scandrett
Lighting Designer

Davison Scandrett is a Bessie award-winning lighting designer and production manager who
has created lighting for more than a dozen projects by Pam Tanowitz during the past decade,
including New Work for Goldberg Variations and Gustave Le Gray No. 1. Other design credits
include works by Merce Cunningham, Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener, Sonya Tayeh, Sarah
Michelson, Beth Gill, luciana achugar, Liz Roche, Andrew Ondrejcak, Rebecca Lazier, and
Mike Birbiglia, among others. Davison currently serves as Design & Production Consultant
for the Merce Cunningham Trust and Touring Consultant for the Park Avenue Armory. He
recently relocated to Vermont to become the Technical Instructor in Lighting & Dance
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 Justin Ellington
Sound Designer and Composer

Justin Ellington is a highly acclaimed composer and sound designer whose work spans film,
radio, theater, and dance, including Broadway and off-Broadway. A two-time Tony nominee,
he has received numerous prestigious awards. He has worked extensively across the United
States and internationally, collaborating with The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Old
Vic, National Theatre of London, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Windybrow Arts Festival,
and Tweetakt Youth Festival. Awarded by the American Society of Composers, Authors, and
Publishers and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, his influence also
extends into the recording industry. Additionally, Justin’s short film MOVE ACT FREE was
featured at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, earning him a Cinema in Industry
Award.
COMPANY
Morgan Amirah Burns
Performer

Based in Brooklyn, New York, Morgan Amirah Burns is a faith-based artist excelling in dance,
choreography, and filmmaking. Hailing from Atlanta, Georgia, she earned a BFA in Dance from
NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2020. Morgan’s choreographic works, honored by Gallim,
the Canadian Consulate of New York, and the Times Square Arts Council, delve into themes
of reciprocity and interconnectedness. With training in Ballet, Tap, Modern, and Hip-Hop,
she integrates dance with cinematic storytelling. Morgan has performed works by acclaimed
choreographers such as Rashaun + Silas, Merce Cunningham, and Sidra Bell, showcasing her
versatility and artistic depth.

Marc Crousillat
Performer

Marc Crousillat has performed in the works of Tere O’Connor, Netta Yerushalmy, Moriah
Evans, John Jasperse, Jon Kinzel, Wally Cardona & Jennifer Lacey, and Rashaun Mitchell
& Silas Riener among others. With the Merce Cunningham Trust, he has performed in the
Bessie award-winning Night of 100 Solos (2019) at BAM and in Beach Birds (2023). He made
his Broadway debut in Ivo van Hove and Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker’s West Side Story
(2020). As a member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company (2014-2022), Marc has performed,
taught, and restaged repertory spanning 50 years, both domestically and internationally.
For his work with the company he received a Princess Grace Award for Excellence in Dance
and a Bessie Award nomination for Outstanding Performer in the revival of Watermotor. He
has trained in acting under Terry Knickerbocker, Heidi Marshall and Anthony Abeson Studio
and made his acting debut in Burrow (2023) by Leaf Lieber at Tribeca Film Festival. BFA: The
University of the Arts (2013).

Lindsey Jones
Performer

Lindsey Jones is a Brooklyn-based dancer and herbalist, originally from St. Louis, MO. A
SUNY Purchase alum, she has been a longtime member of Pam Tanowitz Dance and Dance
Heginbotham. Lindsey has also performed with the Trisha Brown Dance Company, Kimberly
Bartosik, Sally Silvers, Bill Young, Caleb Teicher, and others. Since 2012, she has collaborated
with the Merce Cunningham Trust, performing Merce’s repertory. Certified to teach
Cunningham Technique® and Dance for Parkinson’s, Lindsey was a 2022 New York Public
Library fellow, researching Dance & Ecology. She is also a graduate of the Arbor Vitae School
of Traditional Herbalism. www.lindseycjones.com

Brian Lawson
Performer

BRIAN LAWSON is a dance performer and educator who began dancing in Toronto, Canada.
In 2005, he spent a year at Codarts in Rotterdam and subsequently began his degree at
SUNY Purchase. He graduated summa cum laude from Purchase in 2010 with a B.F.A. in
dance performance and received the President’s Award in Modern Dance.
 Victor Lozano
Performer

Victor Lozano has been a member of Pam Tanowitz Dance since 2016. He holds an M.A. in
Performance Studies from New York University and a B.F.A. in Dance from Juilliard. He is
originally from Houston, Texas.

Sarah Elizabeth Miele

Performer

Sarah Miele is a dance artist and comprehensively certified pilates instructor based in Jersey
City, NJ. She is a recent graduate of Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University and
this is her first project with Pam Tanowitz Dance. Miele’s choreography has been presented at
Triskelion Arts, The Ailey Studios and at The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. She has
been under the instruction of artists Beth Gill, Noa Zuk, David Dorfman, Bennyroyce Royon,
Luis A. Lara Malvacías, Ani Javian and Evelyn Wang. Miele is originally from Richmond, VA
where she studied at the School of Richmond Ballet.

Maile Okamura
Performer

Maile Okamura studied ballet with Lynda Yourth in San Diego, California, and at San Francisco
Ballet School. She danced with Boston Ballet II, Ballet Arizona, and for over 25 years with
Mark Morris Dance Group. Maile Okamura has been dancing with Pam Tanowitz Dance since
2016. She also designs/constructs costumes for dance, music and opera, and is an ongoing
creative collaborator with choreographer John Heginbotham.

Melissa Toogood
Performer

Melissa Toogood is a Bessie Award winning Performer who has danced with Pam Tanowitz
Dance since 2006. She became Rehearsal Director in 2012 and has assisted Pam on
numerous creations for companies such as the Australian Ballet, the Martha Graham Dance
Company, Paul Taylor American Modern Dance, the Royal Ballet and many others. She
was a member of Merce Cunningham’s final company, has taught Cunningham Technique
internationally since 2007 and is an offical Stager for the Cunningham Trust. As a freelancer
she has worked with many choreographers including Kimberly Bartosik, Rashaun Mitchell,
Stephen Petronio, Sally Silvers and more. Melissa is a regular at the Vail International Dance
Festival.

PRODUCTION
Betsy Ayer
Production Stage Manager

Recent opera/ oratorio: Erwartung, Adriana Mater, San Francisco Symphony; Number Our
Days, PAC NYC; Emigré, NY Philharmonic; Perle Noire, Dutch National Opera; Shall We
Gather At The River and Monochromatic Light (Afterlife), Park Avenue Armory; Omar, Spoleto
USA; Requiem, the Shed; Idomeneo, Salzburg Festival, Glass Handel, Opera Philadelphia.
Numerous productions at BAM and New York City Opera. Projects with AMOC* include El
Niño – Nativity Reimagined, Eastman, El Cimarrón, Harawi. Dance: Pam Tanowitz Dance,
Trisha Brown Dance Company, New York City Ballet. Concerts: Interim Production Manager,
Carnegie Hall. She is a graduate of Smith College.
A1 Derek Stevenson Carpenter Carl Whipple Amph Repertory Infrastructure Designed by Santo
A1 Corbin Lenard Carpenter Harry Dietrich Loquasto

A2 Julia McIntyre Carpenter William Adams Infrastructure Fabricated by Empire Technical

Fabrication
Monitor Engineer Emilie Camino Carpenter James Parrish
Additional Engineering by McLaren Engineering Group
LX Programmer Adam Rose Wardrobe Supervisor Niiamar Felder
Additional Rigging Sapsis Rigging Inc.
LX Op Alex Christie
Amph Repertory Lighting Designed by Justin Townsend
LX Op Rebekah Ryan EPILOGUE IN THE GLADE
Lighting Equipment from Christie Lites
Production Carpenter Simon Lass Corbin Lenard / A1
Amph Repertory Sound Designed by Scott Lehrer
Carpenter Manny Marroquin Toast / A1
Sound Equipment from Sound Associates Backline
Carpenter Riley Donelson Maddie Hanley / A2
Rental from Studio Instrument Rentals, Inc.
Carpenter Anthony Paglia Rebekah Ryan / LX Op
Carpenter Nicholas Brewster Brhiannon Yumei Tracy / LX Op
Carpenter Rafael Cruzado James Parrish / Carpenter

Backstage Employees are represented

LITTLE ISLAND STAFF by the International Alliance of Stage
Employees (I.A.T.S.E.)
Kelsey Martinez - Director of Artistic Programming Helena Farhi - Company Manager
Ed Wasserman - Creative Producer Ciera Miller - Line Producer
Patrick Lachance - Production Manager Esmé Maria Ng - Associate Line Producer
Maxwell Friedman - General Manager Henry Mayr - Sound Supervisor
Cameron Mullin - Executive Assistant, Artistic Sydney Prince - Assistant Production Manager
Programming Nora Carvajal - Programming Marketing Manager

EPILOGUE MUSIC CREDITS

Lay All Your Love On Me. Performed by Caroline Shaw & Sö Percussion. Written by Benny Goeran Bror Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus. Courtesy of Universal Music Group

SPECIAL THANKS
Special thanks to Zack, Ed, Gideon, Aaron, Jason, Marc, Gemma and the entire cast and crew.

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