Chocolate Heads‘ site specific dance Building Scene | Space Launch celebrating the opening of McMurtry Art and Art History Building with Stanford Arts, Department of Art and Art History, and The Institute for the of Diversity in The Arts
Conception
Aleta Hayes
Architecture
McMurtry Art and Art History Building, Stanford University
Diller, Scofidio + Renfro
Director, Founder and Co-Choreographer
Aleta Hayes
Associate Choreographer
Adwoa Boakye
Assistant Choreographer
Natalie Marie Gonzalez
Music composer
Jeff Freymann
Music Score
Patrick Lotilla
Co-Choreography & Dance Performers
The Chocolate Heads Movement Band
Annie Dillon, Ben Cohn, Natalie Sanchez, Madeleine Lee, Lloyd Lucin, Judith Syrkin-Nikolau, Avisha Mehra, Amber Levine, Mikhail Grant, Mia Lewis, Patricia Ortiz-Tello, Sandhini Agarwal, Timothy Lee, Xixi Shi, Ellen Hanley-Woods
Planetarians (Wearable Sculpture Performance)
Issac Caswell, Timon Ruban, Kelly Kahuna, Danish Shabbir, Patricia Ortiz-Tello
Singer/Improvisor
Isaac Caswell
Choreographic Contribution (Second Line)
Rachel Carrico
Costume Coordination
Michelle Warner & Heather Patterson
Wearable Sculpture
Kelly Kahuna
Visual Installation
Xxavier Carter
Social Media Manager
Jessica Spicer
Brand Leader
Ben Cohn
Stage Manager
Meredith Charlson
Funded by
Stanford Arts Institute
Department of Art and Art History
Institute for the Diversity in the Arts
With Additional Support from
Architectural Design Program
Department of Theater and Performance Studies/Dance
Acknowledgements
Elis Imboden, Liz Celeste— Department of Art and Art History
Connie Wolf, Issa Lampe – Cantor Arts Center
John Barton, Amy Larimer – Architectural Design Program
Patience Young – Building Scene Project Advisor
Special Thanks
Charles Renfro, Alexander Nemerov, Matthew Tiews, Branislav Jakovljevic, Jeffrey Freymann, Patrick Lotilla, Ross P. Williams, Jeanette Smith-Laws, Shannon Silva, Jeff Chang, Patience Young, Michelle Hofmann, Elizabeth Stone, Jessica Spicer, Bee David, Patrice O’Dwyer, Charles Terry Pfoutz, Adwoa Boakye, Thomas Both, Jamie Lyons, Jessica Luo, Ben Cohn, Xxavier Carter, JiaJia Tong, Xixi Shi, Natalie Gonzalez, Michelle Warner, Heather Patterson Miller