2017 House Programs Taylor Mac // A 24-Decade History of Popular Music | Page 2

MELBOURNE FESTIVAL IN ASSOCIATION
WITH POMEGRANATE ARTS PRESENTS
A 24-DECADE HISTORY
OF POPULAR MUSIC
TAYLOR MAC
Conceived, written and performed by
Music Director / Arranger Costume Designer
Scenic Designer Lighting Designer
Dramaturg Choreographic Consultant
Production Stage Manager Production Manager
Executive Producer Associate Producer
MATT RAY
MIMI LIEN
JOCELYN CLARKE
JASON KAISER
LINDA BRUMBACH
MACHINE DAZZLE
Co-Director
NIEGEL SMITH
JOHN TORRES
JAWOLE WILLA JO ZOLLAR
Company Manager
JEREMY LYDIC
MICHELLE STERN
ALISA E. REGAS
Co-Produced by
POMEGRANATE ARTS AND NATURE’S DARLINGS
Funded by donations from the
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A 24-Decade History Of Popular Music is commissioned in part by
Melbourne Festival, ASU Gammage at Arizona State University;
Belfast International Arts Festival and 14—18 NOW WW1 Centenary
Art; Carole Shorenstein Hays, The Curran SF; Stanford Live at
Stanford University; Carolina Performing Arts, at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Center for the Art of Performance at
UCLA; Hancher Auditorium at the University of Iowa; Lincoln Center
for the Performing Arts; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago;
International Festival of Arts & Ideas (New Haven); New York Live
Arts; OZ Arts Nashville; University Musical Society of the University
of Michigan. • This work was developed with the support of the Park
Avenue Armory residency program, MASS MoCa (Massachusetts
With support from
This performance is made possible
by generous donations from
TAYLOR MAC’S GIVING CIRCLE
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LBOURNE
Museum of Contemporary Art), New York Stage and Film & Vassar’s
Powerhouse Theater, SPACE at Ryder Farm, and the 2015 Sundance
Institute Theatre Lab at the Sundance Resort with continuing post-
lab dramaturgical support through its initiative with the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation. • The World Premiere of the complete A 24-Decade
History of Popular Music was presented in its entirety at St. Ann’s
Warehouse, Brooklyn NY in a co-presentation with Pomegranate Arts
September/October 2016. • A 24-Decade History Of Popular Music was
made possible with funding by the New England Foundation for the
Arts’ National Theater Project, with lead funding from The Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation