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Set Designers
CARL SPRAGUE, a Berkshire County native who lives in Stockbridge MA, has designed for both stage and film. He has worked on a long list of motion pictures including The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), State & Main (2000), The Love Letter (1998), You’ve Got Mail (1998), In Dreams (1997), Amistad (1997), Before and After (1995), The Paper (1993), and The Age of Innocence (1992). Mr. Sprague has also assisted with Broadway shows such as Girl Crazy and Chess. His local theater work includes designing for the Berkshire Theater Festival in Stockbridge MA, Mixed Company in Great Barrington MA, and the Oldcastle Theater in Bennington VT.
ROBERT M. BOLAND is the retired Chairman of the Theatre Department at BCC, where he taught Design, Acting, Directing and Art History. He has directed, designed, or choreographed more than 300 productions in the course of his career. Mr. Boland is a fine arts graduate of the University of Massachusetts and holds a MFA in Theatre from Boston University. A well-known director in the Berkshires, Mr. Boland has also designed the sets for ABB's productions of Petrouchka, La Fille Mal Gardee, and The Nutcracker.
Costume Designers
RITA B. WATSON has designed costumes for several ABB productions, including The Nutcracker, Coppelia, Cinderella, Giselle, La Fille Mal Gardee, and Romeo and Juliet. Ms. Watson has been costume designer for the Williamstown Theatre Festival since 1966, creating costumes for over 30 productions, dressing such stars as Ken Howard, Richard Chamberlain, Blythe Danner, Richard Dreyfuss, Carrie Nye and Dick Cavett, in such shows as The Shadow Box, The Learned Ladies, and Private Lives. She has also designed costumes for Williams College Theatre, Christopher Ryder House and Dances...Patrelle.
VICTILE DONAHUE
JANA FUGATE
DOROTHY FUGATE
CAROL VOLLET
Ballet Mistresses
MICHELLE DUFFIN a graduate of the Cantarella School of Dance, completed additional training with the Banff Center for the Performing Arts, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival and the University of Akron. Ms. Duffin has toured the country, appearing as a soloist with the Connecticut Dance Theater, the Bill Evans Dance Company of Seattle, WA, and the Albany Berkshire Ballet (ABB). As a soloist, she has danced featured roles in Romeo and Juliet, Giselle, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Nutcracker and numerous other classical productions. She has also danced featured roles in many contemporary works created for ABB by such esteemed choreographers as Bill T. Jones, Laura Dean and Charles Moulton. In addition to her duties as Ballet Mistress, Ms. Duffin frequently participates in ABB community outreach programs for young people.
DEIRDRE DUFFIN, a graduate of the Cantarella School of Dance, has appeared extensively with the Albany Berkshire Ballet dancing in Coppelia, Les Sylphide, Giselle and The Nutcracker. She is a former member of the Albany Berkshire Ballet and the Pennsylvania Ballet. She has appeared at Jacob's Pillow as a guest artist. She appeared as a principal dancer with the acclaimed Cynthia Gregory in her Celebration Tour throughout the United States. Ms. Duffin was a soloist in Doris Humphrey's "Shakers." She is on the faculty at the Cantarella School of Dance and participates with the Albany Berkshire Ballet in community outreach programs for young people. ..
PAULA WEBER is an Associate Professor of Ballet at the Conservatory of Music, University of Missouri, Kansas City. She received her BA in Dance from Butler University and her MFA in Dance from Smith College. She has danced solo and principal roles of more than 45 major classical works and contemporary works such as Balanchine's Concerto Barocco, Agnes DeMille's Fall River Legend, and Alvin Ailey's The River. Ms. Weber has danced with the Milwaukee Ballet, Chicago Ballet, Lyric Opera Ballet of Chicago, and the Indianapolis Ballet Theatre. Ms. Weber's additional credits include choreographer of the highly successful Carmina Burana for the State Ballet of Missouri; serving as guest instructor of ballet for the Shenyang Conservatory of Music in China, making her the second American ballet master to visit that conservatory; and recipient of the 1997 Mrs. Ewing Kauffman Excellence in Teaching Award. More on Paula Weber
NANCY ROPELEWSKI PIERCE has been associated with ABB since she was among the original students at the Cantarella School of Dance. She was a scholarship student at Jacob's Pillow, and studied with Margaret Craske and Antony Tudor. After her years of being a principal dancer and character dancer with ABB, Ms. Pierce continues her invaluable contributions to the Company as Ballet Mistress, choreographer and teacher. Ms. Pierce is on the faculty of the School of the Albany Berkshire Ballet in Albany and the Cantarella School in Pittsfield. She is Director of the ABB Junior Company and Academies at both schools. Ms. Pierce choreographed the Albany Berkshire Ballet's production of Peter and the Wolf, a cornerstone of ABB's Introduction to Dance program for the elementary level, and teaches in many of ABB's dance education programs in the schools.
Board OF Directors
Victile Donahue---President, Reba Architzel, Robert Boland, Nadine Bournazian, Todd Burdick
Madeline Cantarello Culpo---Artistic Director, Lauranne Carmell, Kathy Clapper,
Claire Dalton---Secretary, Mary Feuer, Sheila Keator, Kim Kie, Janine Maschino---Treasurer, Dawn Merlini, Mary Ann Merlini---Clerk, Nancy Ropelewski-Pierce--Artistic Associate
Carl Sprague, Deidre Duffin Swindlehurst---Artistic Associate, Darlene Utzinger
Mary Margaret Giannone-Talmi
Administration
Madeline Cantarella Culpo - Artistic DirectorProduction
Laura Claus - Stage Manager; Gregory Brewster - Master Electrician
Justin Foster - Master Carpenter/Flyman
Ryan J. Brooke - Property Master; Samuel G. Johnson -Sound Engineer
Victile Donahue - Wardrobe Mistress
Special Thanks To:
Fern Andriano, Robert Boland, Nadine Bournazian,
Mary Curro, Victile Donahue,
Andrea Borak - Dance Teacher/Berkshire Community College,
Jan Hardej, Sheila Keator, Nancy Manes,
Alvin Paige - American International College,
Friends of the Albany Berkshire Ballet
(Albany, Pittsfield, & Springfield Chapters),
Convent of the Sacred Heart, Pittsfield, MA,
Mary Ann Merlini, Ann Feivou, Dawn Merlini
Tjasa Sprague - Ventfort Hall in Lenox, MA,
Kevin Sprague and Mary Tunnicliffe - Studio Two Photography, Lenox, MA,
Gigi Yablonsky,
Profound Thanks and Love to Carl Sprague
Employment Opportunities with The Albany Berkshire Ballet
Albany Berkshire Ballet extends its sincere appreciation to Patrick Corbin, representing Philip Jerry, and Laura Dean for granting permission to perform their respective works.
The Albany Berkshire Ballet is a not-for-profit organization funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, City of Albany, New York and the Pittsfield and Lenox Cultural Councils, local agencies of the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
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