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I dont know what would. DANCE MAGAZINE

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This is a company of master dancers,
performing masterly choreography. NEWSDAY
DOUG VARONE AND DANCERS
The 2014/15 season marks the Companys 28th 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.
In 2013, the company was selected to tour as part of DanceMotionUSA(SM), a
joint project between BAM and the US Department of State, touring, performing
and teaching in Argentina, Paraguay and Peru for a month. This project culminated
in in the premiere of a new commissioned work for Brooklyn Academy of Musics
Next Wave Festival, in collaboration with the Argentina-based Brenda Angiel
Aerial Dance.

Doug Varone and Dancers are among the most sought after ambassadors and
educators in the eld. For the past 15 years, annual summer intensive workshops
at leading universities attract 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 back-
grounds, reaching out to audiences in unique 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 28th year, the Company
will be touring and reconstructing major dances from past repertory, as well as
recent new works and Company premiers.
THE COMPANY
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Varones choreography is nely 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

ARTISTIC
DIRECTOR DOUG VARONE
Award-winning choreographer and director Doug Varone works in dance, theater,
opera, lm, 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 close to three decades.
In the concert dance world, Varone has created a body of works globally.
Commissions 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 around
the country.
In opera, Doug Varone is in demand as both a director and choreographer. Among
his four productions at The Metropolitan are Salome with its Dance of the Seven
Veils for Karita Mattila, the world premiere of Tobias Pickers An American Tragedy,
and Stravinskys Le Sacre du Printemps, designed by David Hockney. His Met
Opera production of Hector Berloizs Les Troyens was recently broadcast world-
wide in HD. He has staged multiple premiers and new productions for Minnesota
Opera, Opera Colorado, Washington Opera, New York City Opera, and Boston
Lyric Opera, among others. His numerous theater credits include choreography
for Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional theaters across the country. His
choreography for last seasons musical Murder Ballad at Manhattan Theater
Club earned him a Lortel Award nomination. Film credits include choreography
for the Patrick Swayze lm, One Last Dance. In 2008, Varones Bottomland, set
in the Mammoth Caves of Kentucky, was the subject of the PBS Dance in
America: Wolf Traps Face of America.
Varone received his BFA from Purchase College where he was awarded the
Presidents Distinguished Alumni Award in 2007. Numerous honors and awards
include a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, an OBIE Award (for direction/
choreography of Lincoln Centers Orpheus and Euridice), the Jerome Robbins
Fellowship at the Boglaisco Institute in Italy, 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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Untitled, 1992
pastel on paper
29.5 x 21.75 in. (74.9 x 55.3 cm)
Estate of Joan Mitchell
Image courtesy of the Joan Mitchell Foundation
NEW WORK
201516
RECOMPOSED
CHOREOGRAPHY BY DOUG VARONE
MUSIC COMPOSED BY MAX RICHTER, RECOMPOSED
LIGHTING DESIGN BY JANE COX
COSTUME DESIGN BY LIZ PRINCE
PROJECTION DESIGN BY DARYL MALONEY
A CREATIVE NOTE FROM DOUG VARONE
ReComposed will be a visual dance creation inspired by American abstract artist
Joan Mitchells pastel drawings, set to Max Richters newly constructed version
of Vivaldis The Four Seasons. With gestural, sometimes violent brushwork,
Mitchell described her paintings as an organism that turns in space. I recognize
this visceral energy within my own dance making, creating human moving land-
scapes that hauntingly echo Mitchells explosions on canvas.
Like myself, Mitchell was an aural artist, always creating to sound and music. Enter
Vivaldis The Four Seasons. Max Richters brilliant recomposed version of The
Four Seasons adds and subtracts aural layers of this iconic score and reveals it in
startling new ways. The new work will be a recomposed dance of Mitchells vision,
using a recomposed version of Vivaldis score. The possibilities are endless!
Beyond the creative aspect of the dance, what excites me about this project is
that it will also allow us to build and explore new educational elements around
the art making. The creation of this project plays into the Companys strengths as
both dance makers and educators. See our page on Immersive Engagements.
We are working closely with the Joan Mitchell Foundation and with museum
curators to expand the impact of this project.
Thrilling, mesmerizing work. THE VILLAGE VOICE
8 DANCERS
35 MINUTES
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THE FABULIST
CHOREOGRAPHY BY DOUG VARONE
MUSIC BY DAVID LANG
LIGHTING DESIGN BY BEN STANTON
COSTUME DESIGN BY REID BARTELME AND HARRIET JUNG
In The Fabulist, Varone expresses both the confidence of
youth and the vulnerability of getting older. Theres a sense of
loss and mortality, enhanced by an excerpt from David Langs
haunting, beautiful Death Speaks. Varone places his hand
on his heart then moves his hand down his chest as though
feeling to see if hes still has a temporal body, of this world.
THE DURHAM HERALD SUN
Set to David Langs passionate vocal score Death Speaks, the solo marks the
return of Doug Varone to the stage after nearly eight years.
In each of us is a storyteller, creating tales lled with the memories of our lives.
This is the premise of Doug Varones exquisite new solo, The Fabulist, commis-
sioned by the American Dance Festival and premiered to great acclaim in the
summer of 2014.
Varone is, I believe, a great humanist. Something,
probably honesty, makes his movement powerfully
touching you feel like he is telling you secrets in
the dark. I was brought to tears by this sight and
pretty much all of the dance. If Varone has ever
interested you, do not miss this solo.
THE FIVE POINTS STAR
SOLO PERFORMER
14 MINUTES
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NEW WORK
PREMIERE 201415
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.
He layers his dances with complex and sophisticated
than conventional storytelling. He makes his eight

phrasing of urgent and vigorous momentum, rather
dancers look look like three times that number. LA TIMES
SYMMETRY &
NARRATIVE
CHOREOGRAPHY BY DOUG VARONE
SCORE BY CHRISTOPHER ROUSE
LIGHTING DESIGN BY JANE COX
COSTUME DESIGN BY
REID BARTELME AND HARRIET JUNG
8 DANCERS, 29 MINUTES
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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.

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 rst 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
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.
/DRESSED
A UNIQUE CONCEPT FOR
AN EVENING OF DANCE
STRIPPED/
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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

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Theres more information in one minute of dance
by Doug Varone than most choreographers manage
to squeeze into far lengthier works. BOSTON HERALD
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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 nd 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 uent 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 ow 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
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 ction is forgotten in a temporary yet
complete suspension of belief.
ELIZABETH SCHWYZER, FIFTY CONTEMPORARY CHOREOGRAPHERS
Engrossing works, brilliant performers an endlessly
imaginative choreographer. One spectacular, invigorating
night of dance. ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS

REPERTORY
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Doug Varone and Dancers command attention as soon
as the curtain goes up. Many choreographers can create
interesting movement; few can make it mean so much.
THE CHI CAGO TRI BUNE
REPERTORY
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CARRUGI (2012)
(8 dancers, 30 minutes) Music by W.A Mozart (La Betulia Liberata, oratorio)

Doug Varones choreography is nely 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 (2010)
(8 dancers, evening-length) Original score by David Van Tieghem
MAY ALSO BE PRESENTED IN SHORTER FORM WITH OTHER REPERTORY WORKS

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)
Luxuriant. Lux is all about freedom. It is what dancing really feels like,
the kind of dancing I might dream about: loose and sweeping in a spirit
of exultation. Varone puts the beating heart at the center of his work.
WASHINGTON POST
BOATS LEAVING (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
HOME (1988)
(2 dancers, 12 minutes) Music by Dick Connette
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
DOUG VARONE CHOOSES PROGRAMS IN CONSULTATION WITH HOST VENUES
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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 ow together in
a seamless score. TONI SMITH, SKIDMORE COLLEGE
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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 sacricing the integrity of
the art itself is a key component to the success
of their residencies.
RESIDENCIES
MASTER CLASSES (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 (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.
MAPPING (1.52 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 (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)
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.

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IMMERSIVE
ENGAGEMENTS
HERES HOW IT WORKS
Begin with dance at the core of the event.
Engage local visual artists to watch a rehearsal of the Companys current
work in progress, creating drawings based on the dance.
Engage local dancers to create dances based on those drawings
Partner with local museums or galleries to share those dances in a visual
art context.
Add local musicians to play the score live.
Work with local creative writing classes to build short stories based on each
of the sections of the dance.
Partner with a local library or coffee house to create forums to share
those stories.
Create in-school programs that echo all of the above.
WE DONT JUST DO DANCE
As a Company, sharing creativity is a part of our daily lives whether we are on
the stage, in the studio, in the classroom or anywhere in-between. Immersive
engagements allow us build interdisciplinary experiences that capture our
concepts, imagery and craft and share them with audiences in ways that directly
affect their lives. By reaching out to a broad cross-section of a community, we
illuminate in unique ways how creativity connects all of us regardless of our
stories, lives, ages and differences.
WE RUN THE GAMUT
The Company has a successful history of creating within a wide range of
disciplines spanning dance, theater, opera and lm, and we mine diverse creative
inspirations from visual arts to literature, from architecture to mathematics. As a
result, the possibilities for interweaving workshops and building connections
between many varied groups have been endless. The Companys highly-regarded
and much sought-after residencies around the globe attest to this.
Our latest creative project, ReComposed, will be a dance inspired by a visual
artists love of music the perfect starting point to build an Immersive Engagement.
HOW DO WE DO IT?
In our dialogues with presenters, we aim to develop programming tailored to each
specic community, with a focus on the broader sense of how creativity shapes our
lives and connects everyone who comes in contact with it in different and unifying
ways. The opposite page gives an example of what one of these experiences might
look like.
Wonderfully inventive. Exhilarating.
KANSAS CITY STAR

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SCHEDULE
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WORKSHOPS/INTENSIVES
SEPTEMBER 1214, 2014
THE CHIN PROJECT CULMINATING EVENT OF THE 2014
DEVICES: CHOREOGRAPHIC INTENSIVE, NYC
JANUARY 1217, 2015
6TH ANNUAL WINTER INTENSIVE, NYC
MAY 2429, 2015
DEVICES: CHOREOGRAPHIC INTENSIVE, NYC
MAY 31JUNE 20, 2015
16TH ANNUAL SUMMER WORKSHOP
PURCHASE COLLEGE
RESIDENCIES
Doug Varone and Dancers begins its eighth 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 St Ys Harkness Dance
Festival in the Spring of 2015.
VIRTUAL VARONE
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 lm, can also be found.
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NYC SEASON
DECEMBER 17, 2014 . THE JOYCE THEATER
Whether he is creating dazzling, complex whirlwinds of movement or tracing the
interior landscape of terse gesture, an indelible humanity lives at the core of Doug
Varones world. The company returns to The Joyce with two New York premieres,
including Symmetry and Narrative, a work set to Christopher Rouses Pulitzer
Prize-winning Trombone Concerto that explores dynamic new territory. Also on the
program is a major revival of the celebrated 2004 work, Castles, set to Prokoevs
sweeping Waltz Suite, Opus 110, which examines and debunks fairytale imagery.
PERFORMING/TOURING
JULY 58, 2014 . TARAPOTO, PERU
JULY 814, 2014 . DANZA NUEVA FESTIVAL, LIMA, PERU
JULY 2223, 2014 . AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL, DURHAM, NC
JANUARY, 2015 . APAP SHOWCASE, NEW YORK CITY CENTER, STUDIO 4
JANUARY 2324, 2015 . EDISON THEATER, WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
ST. LOUIS, MO
STAGING REPERTORY
An important part of our mission is making our repertory available as an educational
tool for college and university performers through staging and licensing projects.
The residencies that we build around these projects emphasize the major principles
of our work: musicality, architecture of design, and the exploration of physical and
gestural language used to create dramatic dialogues. In the past 28 years, DOVA
has staged dances on more than 75 college and university programs across the
United States, Canada and abroad. Our most comprehensive residencies include
technique classes in Varone style and composition principles.
Hartt School/University of Hartford Purchase College
Hunter College University of the Arts
Marymount College University of Maryland
Montclair State College Vassar College
Princeton University Virginia Commonwealth University
DOUG VARONE AND DANCERS
Doug Varone, Artistic Director
Sarah Bodley, Executive Director
Alex Springer & Xan Burley, Tour Managers
Alex Springer, Company Manager, Media Archive & Design
Ellyn Sjoquist, Program & Marketing Assistant

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Carol K. Walker, Chair
Richard Caples
John Lanasa
Jeanne Murphy
Lida Orzeck
Doug Varone
Pearl Zuchlewski
Elizabeth Geiger, emeriti
Naomi Grabel, emeriti
Robert Sanders, emeritus
SUPPORT
Alphawood Foundation, American Dance Abroad, Fan Fox and Leslie Samuels Foundation,
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, Harkness Foundation for Dance,
Jerome Robbins Foundation, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, New York Community Trust,
and the Shubert Shubert Foundation, 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. We are also grateful for the support of our many individual donors and
Commissioning Club supporters.
JUNIOR BOARD
Hollis Bartlett, Chair
Stephanie Box
Robin Cherof
Katryn Geane
Joyce Lee
Allison Mui
Alexander Thompson
photography: p1 Paula Lobo, p2 Cylla Von Tiedemann, p3 Cylla Von Tiedemann, p4 Phil Knott, p5 Paula Lobo,
p6 Paula Lobo, p7 Stephanie Vartanian (left) & Dale Dong (right), p8 Paula Lobo, p9 Bill Hebert, p10 various
company members, p11 Mauro Dann, p12 Paula Lobo, p13 Paula Lobo . design: Sondra Graff/rpm:projects
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