Waypoint was made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, the East Bay Fund for Artists and by the following commissioners; Justine Ballantyne, Shelley Bergum, Anne Bleecker Corcos, Mary Ann Dreiling, Bruce Dugstad, Richard Ellis & Don Jacobs, Susan Foster, Marilynn Hall & Alan Baskin, Pat & Susan Hendrix, Jon Houde, Mishana Hosseinioun, Sondra Jensen, Deborah Kaplan, John Killacky & Larry Connolly, Bonnie Lewkowicz & Paul Church, J. Dougal MacKinnon, MD, Charles & Gerry McAvoy, Chuck & Thoebe McAvoy, Parker Monroe & Teresa Darrah, Laurie Posner, Leslie Riley, John Steinberg & Lauren Steinberg, Marilyn Straka.
Bonnie Lewkowicz, Sonsherée Giles, and Sean McMahon.
Premiere November 2006
Choreographers: Margaret Jenkins with Melanie Elms
Dancers: Margaret Cromwell, Sonsheree Giles, Bonnie Lewkowicz, Sean McMahon, Alice Sheppard, Judith Smith
Music: Measured Motion was commissioned by AXIS and was recorded and mixed at Guerrilla Recordings, Oakland with engineer Myles Boisen in September 2006. Guitar, bass, organ: Fred Frith. Piano: Heather Heise/ Trumpet: Darren Johnston
Violin: Carla Kihlstedt/ Percussion: William Winant
Recordings of Judith Smith’s wheelchair: Patrice Scanlon
Lighting Design: Jose Maria Francos
Costume Design: Sonsherée Giles