World Premiere: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis 12-13 December 2008

THE MAKING OF AMERICANS
adapted from the novel by Gertrude Stein by Jay Scheib
Score for Minneapolis version of production composed by Anthony Gatto

with Performances by Rachel Calloway, David Echelard, Bradley Greenwald, Michael Müller, Elizabeth Munn, Pamela Stein, and actress Tanya Selvaratnam; JACK Quartet is: Violin Christopher Otto and Ari Streisfeld, Viola John Pickford Richards, and Cello Kevin McFarland; Zeitgeist is: Percussion Heather Barringer and Patty Cudd, Bass Clarinet Patrick O'Keffe, and Keyboard Shannon Wettstein; Stage design and installation by Chris Larson, Lit by Peter Ksander, Clothes by Oana Botez-Ban, Sound Design Peter Whincop, Technical coordination and additional design Sara Brown, Assistant Direction and Stage Management Susan Wilson, Music Direction by David Pinkard, Produced by Thomas Kriegsmann / ArKtype and Beth Morrison Projects in association with Jay Scheib


Directed by Jay Scheib

The Making of Americans is made possible through a commission from the Walker Art Center and the Zeitgeist Commissioning Collective with support from the William and Nadine McGuire Commissioning Fund and Meet the Composer. Additional support generously contributed by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, Massachusetts Insitute of Technology, MIT Dance Theater Ensemble, City University of New York, Anonymous, and Jean Stein.

and the MIT Council for the Arts

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Rehearsal Still, Photo by Hayden Taylor
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Rehearsal Still from the Ballet, Photo by Hayden Taylor
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Rehearsal Still from the Ballet, Photo by Hayden Taylor
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Rehearsal Still. Photo by Hayden Taylor
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Rehearsal Still. Photo by Hayden Taylor
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Still from Chris Larson's film Crush Collission
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Rehearsal Still from the Ballet, Photo by Hayden Taylor
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Rehearsal Still from the Ballet, Photo by Hayden Taylor
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Rehearsal Still from the Ballet, Photo by Hayden Taylor
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Rehearsal Still from the Ballet, Photo by Hayden Taylor
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