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Ralph Lemon
Sep. 26 — Sep. 26, 2010

Installation of Meditation / Walker Art Center, McGuire Theater
Minneapolis, MN
Julie Alexander and Kayvon Pourazar in Tyler Tyler. Photo by Alexandra Corraza.^45 Kuniya Sawamura, Julie Alexander, and Kayo Seyama in rehearsal for Tyler Tyler. Photo by Shigeo Kobayashi.^45 Julie Alexander, Kayo Seyama, and Kuniya Sawamura in Tyler Tyler. Photo by Alexandra Corraza.^45 Julie Alexander and Naoki Asaji in rehearsal for Tyler Tyler. Photo by Shigeo Kobayashi.^45 Kuniya Sawmura in Tyler Tyler. Photo by Alexandra Corraza. ^45 Julie Alexander and Kayo Seyama in Tyler Tyler. Photo by Alexandra Corraza. ^45 Julie Alexander, Kayo Seyama, and Kuniya Sawamura in rehearsal for Tyler Tyler. Photo by Shigeo Kobayashi.^45

Yasuko Yokoshi

Tyler Tyler is produced by MAPP International Productions

World Premiere: Dance Theater Workshop.

Tyler Tyler is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund project co-commissioned by DiverseWorks in partnership with Dance Theater Workshop and NPN. Tyler Tyler is also commissioned by Theatre de la Ville, Paris.   

Tyler Tyler was developed, in part, during a creative residency provided through a partnership between Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at The Florida State University and Dance Theater Workshop with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.  It was also developed, in part, at a residency hosted by the Banff Center for the Arts, Alberta Canada and with a space grant from BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange with support from the New York State Council on the Arts and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.  

  The creation and tour of Tyler Tyler is made possible with the generous support of:

  • The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation
  • The New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project (NDP) with generous support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the MetLife Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation
  • The Japan Foundation, through the Performing Arts JAPAN Program
  • Asian Cultural Council 
  • The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs 
  • Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew Mellon Foundation
  • MAPP Cultural Investors Oliver Allen, Helen Mills and Martha Sherman    

Tyler Tyler is funded in part through Meet The Composer's MetLife Creative Connections Program.    

Yasuko Yokoshi is a 2008 recipient of Building Up Infrastructure Levels for Dance (BUILD), a program of New York Foundation for the Arts. BUILD is a JPMorgan Chase Regrant Program, made possible by The J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation, with additional support provided by The Starry Night Fund of the Tides Foundation.