NOVEMBER

presented by High Street Studios

November 5, 2021 at 8:00pm
November 6, 2021 at 3:00pm and 8:00 pm

This concert has a running time of 35 minutes. Enjoy, relax, and thank you for being here!

Program

Section One
Full Company
Music by Kristen Miller, “November” from the album, Cello Journeys.

Section Two
Solo (Jenny C.)
Music: “Tuned In” original improvised composition by Kristen Miller.

Section Three
Trio (Jenny C., Molly, Lissa)
Music by Kristen Miller, “Untitled” from the album, Cello Journeys.

Section Four
Quintet (Angie, Molly, Jenny B., Lissa, Tabitha)
Music by Kristen Miller, “Meeting God in Heavy Boots” from the album, Cello Journeys.

Section Five
Fabric Quintet (Angie, Molly, Jenny B., Lissa, Tabitha)
Music: “Big Fabric” original improvised composition by Kristen Miller.

Section Six
Duet Reworked (Jenny C., Tabitha)
*originally performed by Jenny Carlson & Amanda Belanger in 2011
Music by Kristen Miller, “Away” from the album, Cello Journeys.

Section 7
Full Company
Music by Kristen Miller, “November” from the album, Cello Journeys.

Artist Biographies

Dancers

Jenny Carlson, owner and director of High Street Studios, has taught dance to all ages for over twenty years, most recently as the director of Ipswich Moving Company School of Dance. She trained at the Imperial Academy of Dance in Connecticut and Emerson College, receiving a BFA in Dance.

Her dance career includes performances with Flipside Dance Theatre, Fresh Squeezed Dance, Fallen Flight Project, Julie Pike Edmond, Julie Ince Thompson, and Adrienne Mincz, and she taught Aerial Dance at Perry Mansfield in Colorado with Janet Craft. She performed and choreographed both aerial and modern dances for two decades with Ipswich Moving Company. The Boston Globe described her as "a beautifully lyrical and articulate dancer, who moves with a lush fluidity."

Jenny Beauchamp-Ankeny grew up dancing salsa at home with her family, but began formal dance training as an adult. She has trained at High Street Studios, Ipswich Moving Company, Windhover, Greg Coles Dance and Drum, MAGMA, Bosoma, and The Dance Complex for the past 12 years. She has performed with Ipswich Moving Company, Greg Coles Dance and Drum, and at ArtBeat in Somerville with the group Being noONE. She enjoys the opportunity to take challenging workshops, including heels and jazz with Yanis Marshall, bachata with Maria Ramos and boogaloo with the Mambo King himself, Eddie Torres, Sr. She attends the Boston Salsa Conference every year and stays active in the Latin dance community in Cambridge.

Angelina Benitez started her training eighteen years ago at the Dance Studio of Wakefield. She continued her training at Salem State University where she received a B.A. in both Modern/Contemporary Dance and Spanish World, Language, and Culture. Her performance experience includes ensemble work such as opening for BoSoma’s The Dinner Table: Vignettes of Betrayal, performing in Salem State University’s Dance Ensemble’s concerts, and Repertory Dance Theatre’s semi-annual concerts. She is honored that her choreography at Salem State earned her a Presidential Arts Scholarship and a Creativity Award in Dance. Her summer performances include the Salem Arts Festival, the Beverly Arts Festival, and the Festival of Us, You, We, and Them. Angelina has enjoyed the opportunities she has had to teach dance and theatre locally at the YMCA, Enchanted Dance Academy, Lynnfield Community Schools, and Salem Theatre Company.

Lissa Geggis trained in dance at Ipswich Moving Company School of Dance with Jenny Carlson, and continued in college under Christine Bennett-Richard and Barbara Sholes. In high school, Lissa was a member of the Youth Dance Ensemble, and studied independently under Jenny Carlson focusing on how to create dance class exercises and rhythms. She has a Bachelor’s of Arts from Curry College in Early Education and Care with minors in Dance and Psychology. In her senior year, she was a featured dance performer in the collaborative arts performance produced by the Dance, Music, and Visual Arts departments, and received a Dance Department award.

Tabitha Rodger began her training at the Andover School of Ballet, and continued in the Jeannette Neill Dance Studio’s Boston Youth Moves program. Tabitha received her BFA in Modern Dance from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. There she had the pleasure of performing works by Bob Fosse, Louis Johnson, Merrian Soto, and Brian Sanders, among others. She was also a member of the first college group to perform Martha Graham’s “Panorama” within a Graham Company program. She was a part of the university’s Choreography Emphasis Program and received the Dance Faculty Recognition Award for Excellence in Dance. Tabitha has attended dance workshops and festivals including Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival, Windhover Spreads Its Wings, and The Limon Summer Workshop. Tabitha has been a member of the Windhover Dance Company in Rockport, MA performing works by Doris Humphrey. She has also performed with Dušan Týnek Dance Theater, and spent 3 years as a soloist with Urbanity Dance. Tabitha currently dances with Deadfall Dance, Ipswich Moving Company, and Sokolow Now.

Molly Rose Tupper began dance training at Hamilton-Wenham School of Dance, where she danced from ages 3 to 18. She holds a BA from Smith College in Dance with a minor in Education & Child Studies. Through the Five College Dance Department she had many opportunities to perform, working with choreographers including Barbie Diewald, Jennifer Nugent, Rowan Salem, and Candice Salyers. Her choreographic work has been shown at Smith College, Salem Arts Festival, and the School for Contemporary Dance & Thought in Northampton.

Production

Composer and Cellist Kristen Miller is a Billboard Charting Cellist and Shamanic Sound Healer. Classically trained from an early age, Kristen discovered non-classical improvisation as a means of self-expression. She began writing her own compositions which led to three solo releases, all of which charted on college and community radio across North America. After releasing the duo album Winter Loves Company (2010) with pianist/composer Tom Eaton, Kristen felt compelled to begin writing New Age style music. Miller was the cellist on Ryan Judd’s guitar and cello record An Open Sky (2018) which won a Zone Music Reporter Award and spent over a year on the Billboard Top 10 Chart for New Age. The duo’s latest recording Soaring Together (2021) has been receiving global airplay and stellar reviews. In addition to solo playing, Kristen also enjoys work as a session cellist for artists like What Time is it, Mr. Fox?, Vance Gilbert, and Irma Thomas, and enjoys teaching cello to students of all ages. Kristen is currently writing her first solo New Age instrumental record for cello and harp, to be released in late 2021. She is the recipient of several awards and scholarships including Jam Magazine’s Female Artist of the Year, and the Zara Nelsova scholarship for excellence in cello playing. Her music, including the pieces in “November,” can be purchased digitally here: https://kristenmiller.bandcamp.com/album/cello-journeys

Lighting Designer Ellen Moore received her BFA from Emerson College and MFA from New York University. Her most recent collaboration was with Quintessence Theatre Group on Skin of Our Teeth. Her work has also been seen at The Empty Space Theatre, Generic Theatre, Babson College, and New England Conservatory.

Costume Designer Taylor Lance began costuming in high school through her involvement with St. John’s Prep Drama Guild. Taylor has a degree in English and History from Brandeis University, where she spent all her free time working for the Costuming Shop of the theater department, as well as acting and costuming undergraduate theater productions. She has since designed for Salem Theater Company and taught costuming at St. John’s Prep.

Poster Designer Kurt Ankeny is an award-winning cartoonist and painter whose work has appeared in Best American Comics, the Society of Illustrators, the Cape Ann Museum, Comics Workbook, PEN America’s Illustrated PEN, Ink Brick, and Fantagraphics’s NOW Anthology.