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BERGEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Dr. Linda Marcel  is Professor and Academic Chair of the Performing Arts Department at Bergen Community College, Paramus New Jersey.

Dr. Marcel's compositions have been performed in various settings across the tri-state area, New York City, Malaga, and Sevilla, Spain. Her publications include the workbook, Discover the Power of Music Listening and paper Balancing Innovation with Tradition: Maintaining a Relevant College Music Curriculum - Forum on Public Policy, The Oxford University Round Table. She has presented at numerous conferences in North America and Europe. Linda was awarded the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development - Excellence in Teaching Award, and was chosen for the 2006 MCFP Princeton University Fellowship Program. Linda has been a strong leader and contributor to the Ron Mazurek Memorial Scholarship, a foundation scholarship that sponsors students majoring in Electronic Music at Bergen Community College.

STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY

Born in Bucharest, Filipino-American Levy Lorenzo is a percussionistand electronics engineer based in New York. He performs contemporary music in solo and chamber settings across the US and Europe.

As an engineer, he designs new electronicmusical instruments intended for live performance. His electronics
design work has been featured at the 2007 Geneva Auto Show and BBC Ecuador. Levy has worked professionally as a firmware engineer and holds B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Cornell University. He also earned a M.M. degree from SUNY Stony Brook, where he is a D.M.A. candidate, studying percussion Eduardo
Leandro and electronic music with Margaret Schedel.

Margaret Anne Schedel is a composer and cellist specializing in the creation and performance of ferociously interactive media. Her works have been performed throughout the United Stated and abroad. While working towards a DMA in music composition at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, her interactive multimedia opera, A King Listens, premiered at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center and was profiled by apple.com. She is working towards a certificate in Deep Listening with Pauline Oliveros and has studied composition with Mara Helmuth, Cort Lippe and McGregor Boyle. She serves as the musical director for Kinesthetech Sense and sits on the boards of 60x60 Dance, the BEAM Foundation, the Electronic Music Foundation Institute, the International Computer Music Association, the New West Electronic Art and Music Organization, and Organised Sound. She contributed a chapter to the Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music and her article on generative multimedia was recently published in Contemporary Music Review. Her work has been supported by the Presser Foundation, Centro Mexicano para la Música y les Artes Sonoras, and Meet the Composer. In 2009 she won the first Ruth Anderson Prize for her interactive installation Twenty Love Songs and a Song of Despair. As an Assistant Professor of Music at Stony Brook University, she serves as Co-Director of Computer Music and is a core faculty member of cDACT, the consortium for digital art, culture and technology.

Brooklyn based composer and sound artist Elad Shniderman regularly performs in the New York metropolitan area and explores cross-media practices in collaboration with local and international artists.

Born in Israel (1977), Elad is currently pursuing his PhD in Music Composition at Stony Brook University. He has studied composition with Margaret Schedel, Morton Subotnick, Doug Cohen and Ruben Seroussi, and holds a Masters degree from Brooklyn College and a Bachelors degree from the Buchman Mehta School of music at Tel Aviv University.
Elad’s interest in interdisciplinary art leads to a wide variety of collaboration with artists from different media such as dance, video art, film and performance.
Elad’s works have been presented internationally at venues such as Harvestworks Digital Media NYC, Goethe Institute Barcellona, Brooklyn Electro-Acoustic Festival, re-new (Digital art festival, Copenhagen), Les subsistances (Goethe Institute, Lyon), The Bax Brooklyn, Movement research (DTW, NYC), Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival, Cambridge Film Festival, Lithuania Film Festival, Vdance Festivel (Tel-Aviv Cinematheque), Jerusalem film festival (Jerusalem Cinematheque), Cologne Film Festival and NY Mix Film Festival.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Scott Berenson was born and raised in Baltimore, MD. Scott’s childhood was as normal as they come. He knew from a young age that music would be a major element in his life. Discovering a vast range of music on his own, Scott was never interested in what his parents were listening to and to this day that remains true for the most part. Scott experienced his first live concert around 7 or 8 years old when his parents took him to see Billy Joel. He knew music would consume every day of his life at 15 when he went to his first Grateful Dead show.

Scott went to college in Hartford, CT, leaving Baltimore forever. In school he majored in Music Business but acquired more knowledge by discovering new music and taking in as many concerts around New England as possible. The day after graduation Scott moved to New Jersey to work at a major concert venue in their production department. Days (and nights) at the arts center lasted over 18 hours, which he did 6 and sometimes 7 days a week for two summer concert seasons, experiencing rock shows from load in to load out.

His next adventure took him on the road as a tour manager with a national touring band. They traveled by bus from New York to LA and back (hitting just about everywhere in between) 3 times over the course of a year. It was during this time that Scott discovered the other major influence in his life – his future & current wife.

Gilly and Scott have known each other since they were 13 years old. They tried a few times over the years to get together but for whatever reason it just didn’t happen. One of those attempts proved successful and the couple has been inseparable ever since. They now call Brooklyn, NY home and after a few years working as a booking agent, Scott has discovered the world of music publishing where he intends to stay and build his career in the music business. Currently, Scott is working to obtain an M.A. in Music Business at NYU and is anticipating a Spring 2010 graduation date.

TOM BEYER studied Twentieth Century Composers and Classical Percussion, with Paul Price, at Manhattan School of Music, and later continued Jazz and Ethnic music studies with percussion masters, Fredrick Waits, Eddie Blackwell, Jack DeJohnette, Billy Hart and Guillermo Franco. He has worked in most styles of music including various Ethnic Musics, Jazz, Rock, Opera, Theater and New Media as a drummer, percussionist, composer, engineer, technologist and educator. Professor Beyer received a Masters Degree in Composition from NYU and in addition to being a member of the New York University Composers Ensemble, and a founding member of the newly formed International Composers & Interactive Artists, he does engineering, and sound design projects as well as performing around New York and composing for various concert, Internet and multimedia projects. His awards and honors range from a Lincoln Center Award as a High School Student, to recently receiving, each for two consecutive years, The Jack Krieselman and ASCAPlus Awards. Tom Beyer has taught at The Center for Open Education, Emerson College, The New School and was the Director of the Electronic Music Program at The County College of Morris from 2000 - 2003. Since1998 he has been the Chief Systems Engineer for the Music Technology Program and the Network Administrator for the Department of Music & Performing Arts Professions at NYU. He joined the adjunct faculty at New York University in 1999. Tom Beyer's compositions, in many genres with diverse instrumentations, ranging from solos to huge multimedia extravaganzas have been performed in many venues and festivals in Europe, Asia and the United States. His interests are Sound for Visuals, Synthesis, Percussion, Software and Hardware Design and The Uses of Technology for the Communication of Ideas.

Michael L. Breaux joins the NYU faculty after teaching 20 years as Director of Bands in the Fairfield, CT and Wilton, CT public schools. He taught marching, concert, and jazz ensembles; instrumental lessons; and theory. He also served as advisor for Tri-M Honors Music Society. Mr. Breaux was actively involved in the Connecticut Music Educators Association where he served as ensemble chairperson for district, state, and regional festivals; chaired adjudication festivals; and served on the Executive Board as the Western Region Chairperson. As the Chairperson, Mr. Breaux proposed and successfully implemented an Urban Initiative for Connecticut’s Western Region music festivals. This initiative provided an opportunity for musicians from inner-city schools to compete more equitably in regional adjudication festivals with their suburban counterparts.

On the university level, he held the following positions at Western Connecticut State University: Interim Director of Bands, Studio Instructor of Bassoon, and Instructor of Instrumental Methods. At the University of Illinois, Mr. Breaux has taught Introduction to Conducting for music education majors, and has served as a teaching assistant to both Dr. Eve E. Harwood (Introduction to Music Education) and Dr. Louis S. Bergonzi (Orchestral Conducting). Also, Mr. Breaux supervised student teachers and served as the Early Field Experience office liaison with the Council on Teacher Education.

As an active professional musician, Mr. Breaux has performed as principal bassoon and soloist (bassoon and saxophone) with the Baton Rouge Symphony, New Haven Symphony, Wallingford Symphony, Orchestra New England and numerous ensembles throughout the Tri-State area. He has worked as a doubling woodwind musician in jazz ensembles, theater pits, and numerous recording sessions. He can be heard on the movie soundtrack albums Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Magnolia. He also performed on the Fiona Apple album When the pawn…, and Aimee Mann’s album Whatever.

Jane Blackstone,a jazz and contemporary vocalist (www.janeblackstone.com) and a native of New Hampshire, studied piano with Sir Roland Hanna as well as vocal studies with Jeanette Lovetri at the Voice Workshop. She was a recipient of an NEA Grant for jazz studies as well as performing with George Mraz, Roland Hanna, Bob Albanese, Mark Egan, Mike Richmond and Bob Mover. She has also been involved with several Off Off Broadway theater productions and Carla Bley’s infamous Escalator Over the Hill jazz opera. Ms.Blackstone’s last CD release, Natural Habitat , NYC has received warm reviews. She is working towards a Masters Degree in music education at NYU as well as presenting jazz vocal workshops in and around NYC and in other cities such as,Atlanta GA and Bard College in the Hudson Valley north of New York City. She has collaborated with several theater groups,writing  Music and short vignettes.

John V. Gilbert is currently teaching in The Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions, where he served as Chair from 1985-1992. He holds the B.M. and B.A. from Texas Tech University and his masters and doctoral degrees from Columbia University. He has composed multimedia works for dance, opera and musical theatre. His multimedia opera, Rotation, was featured in Stewart Kranz's Technology in the Arts as an innovative application of technology to opera. His other compositions have featured works for keyboard, vocal, choral, instrumental, musical theatre, and computer music. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including grants from the Danforth Foundation, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and a joint grant from the Texas Council for the Arts and the National Endowment. He has served as a judge for the Gleason Book Awards, jointly sponsored by BMI, Rolling Stone Magazine, and NYU in recognition of outstanding books in the field of commercial and popular music. At NYU he played a key role in the development of the Music Business and Technology Programs, musical theatre and opera, including the summer musical theatre program. He worked closely with the music industry in assisting the establishment of the Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy at New York University. He has composed multimedia works for dance, opera , music theatre, works for voice, instruments, and computer music. He received awards from numerous foundations such as Danforth, Woodrow Wilson and the National Endowment. He has pioneered the use of music on the internet and the development of music and performing arts courses on the World Wide Web. He continues to produce and research interactive simultaneous multimedia productions on Internet2.

Sunmin Kim wanted to learn to play the piano so much that as a liottle girl she imitated the finger movements of pianists while singing complex piano melodies to herself. On seeing this, her mother took her to a small school where she started to learn the piano at age seven. By her early teens, Sunmin began creating her own melodies for piano and voice. While she had studied classical music until age 18, at Berklee Sunmin was introduced to jazz and computer music for the first time.

Thrilled to be surrounded fellow musicians, she was immersed in music--playing, discussing, and attending live performances of jazz, funk, rock, and pop. Building on the practical and theoretical foundation she acquired during that time, Sunmin developed sophistication and depth as a musician and composer. She studied jazz piano with renowned performers such as Marc Rossi, Raymond Santici, and Neil Omlstead. She earned her Diploma in Professional Music with a concentration in Composition and Songwriting from Berklee College of Music in 2001.

Sunmin returned to Korea to work as both a teacher and composer. At the Departments of Practical Music at Cheonan University, Bakseok University, and Yonsei Digital Music School, Sunmin taught courses such as Songwriting Technique, Composition, Jazz Harmony, Pop Piano, Introduction to Jazz Piano, Introduction to MIDI, Ear Training, and Arranging Techniques for Songwriting. She also taught students privately.
Along with teaching, Sunmin worked as a songwriter in the Korean pop music industry; among the many Korean pop songs that she published were major hits such as “Leave Me” by the signer B.M.K, and “Fever” and “Never, Ever’ by Chakra. She published many other Korean pop songs as well. Sunmin also produced music for games such as “Real Soccer” by the company Neovian, directing all aspects of production including the instrumental recording session. Sunmin also scored short films, and produced New Age-style instrumental music. As a game music producer and pop songwriter, she used MIDI as her primary compositional tool and gained experience in many aspects of musical production and technology.

Sunmin moved to New York City in 2005 to attend New York University, where she earned her M.A. in Music Education and began her doctoral studies in 2008. Sunmin continues to teach private lessons in piano, harmony, songwriting, and composition. She plans to use her in-depth understanding of music education scholarship and theory to develop a new approach to music education in Korea.

JoEllen Livick is currently a Master’s candidate at New York University in the Music Technology Program. Her goal,s upon completion of this degree, are to blend her experience in audio and computer technology together with her music/theatre proficiency into an encompassing, current, and in-depth capability.

She has toured with theatrical productions ranging from Waiting For Godot to Shakespeare, as well as been involved with many theatrical companies as a musician, an actor, dancer as well as serving as a conductor and musical director. She has accompanied Silent Films, Dance/Ballet productions, been an audition pianist, played in bands, performed solo piano in clubs, restaurants, summer theatres, choirs, (weddings, funerals); worked as a studio musician; served as an accompanist to singers.

For the past 10 years JoEllen has also been employed as Network Administrator and a Microsoft Systems Engineer (by day) while maintaining her profile as a professional musician (by night). She loves both aspects of my life, and look forward to continuing to work with both musicians, artists and technology in a creative, rousing, challenging environment.

Wendy Luck, internationally recognized flutist, vocalist, composer and performer, has concertized in the United States, Italy, France, Poland, Germany, Budapest, Morocco, Portugal, Greece, Egypt, Israel, and Mexico. Her array of artistic venues ranges from orchestral/chamber performances at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and Merkin Hall, to Big Band music as lead vocalist/flutist at the Rainbow Room in NYC, to avant-garde and jazz at the Knitting Factory, Roulette, and The Kitchen, to the comedy club circuit, as comedienne with ‘The Outcasts,’ to recording her own compositions in Egypt inside the Great Pyramid and in the temples along the Nile. These CDs are entitled The Ancient Key and The Ancient Journey. A third CD, See You in Rio, which was recorded in Brazil with the rhythm section of composer and singer João Bosco, features Brazilian jazz. She has worked and recorded with such jazz and avant-garde artists as Don Cherry, Ornette Coleman, Oliver Lake, Marion Brown, Ed Blackwell, Dave Holland, Karl Berger, Wallace Roney, Anthony Braxton, Bob Moses, Jack DeJohnette, Sam Rivers, Tyrone Brown, Joe Lovano, Rodolfo Alchourron, and Cyro Baptista. A series of concerts featuring her music with Allen Ginsberg reading his poetry, took place at Naropa Institute in Colorado. Earlier appearances include the Rome Festival Orchestra in Italy and the Aspen Music Festival in Aspen, Colorado. She studied flute at the Conservatory in Nice, France, with J.P. Rampal, and is forever composing music in countless styles. Other significant flute teachers include Julius Baker, Sam Baron, Ransom Wilson, Alain Marion, Tom Nyfenger, and Harvey Estrin. Ms. Luck is presently in the doctoral program in Composition at NYU, and received an M.A. in Composition, Performance, and Multimedia from NYU’s Gallatin School and a B.F.A. with Honors in Flute Performance from the University of Wisconsin.
http://www.WendyLuck.com http://www.myspace.com/wendyluckmusic

Laura Montanari = dance, music, and language educator and performer.

With the pseudonym ZogaroS (www.myspace.com/zogaros) she pursues the idea of Cosmopolitan Songwriting.

She considers herself a per-former and an intercontinental bridge.

Her songs have been guested on Italian main national radio channels. Graces (dropping again) won the best song Prize in the national competition Primo Maggio Tutto l’Anno. She has performed in several national festivals and competitions.

On Nov. 23, 2009 she performed her original composition, inspired by Beloved, for the Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison in Italy in honor of the award given her.  She has created and has performed as both dancer and vocalist in the happening ZogaroS Gathers Dhaì Individuals presented at Cose and NUA festivals in Rome. In November 2008 she released her self-produced EP Per-form on iTunes.

She is the founder and director of the folk/gospel vocal The Sessions Voices (www.myspace.com/thesessionsvoices) (awarded the Premio Voceania in 2007). The group has performed at the conference My Hometown: L'America di Bruce Springsteen at the Teatro Colosseo in Rome. The group has made several important appearances at the Varese Gospel Festival, at Big Mama (House of Blues) in Rome, at Festival Bella Ciao (artistic direction by Ascanio Celestini) and in an event in the memory of Woody Guthrie in collaboration with the Woody Guthrie Foundation.

She is the voice and co-writer of the duo Mama's gan (www.myspace.com/mamasgan). The duo has won several national competitions for young Italian songwriters and has made a name for itself in the national underground scene since 2003. The duo wrote and directed a theater performance inspired by the arbor church scene in Toni Morrison's novel Beloved and has worked with several theater directors. In 2009 Mama's gan recorded its first CD entitled Watcher's Songs which is about to be released.

Julie (MyungOk) Song is a first year graduate student studying music education at NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development as a performer, an educator and an administrator.

She was born in Korea. Her interest in music dates back to the time when she was ten years old. It was the first time that she had won first place in a music performance contest for children’s folk songs. She has achieved several awards thereafter. She went on to graduate in music at a high school that specialized in performing arts.

As she entered college, she realized that in Korea, music majors would also be given opportunities to perform, so she pursued a music education degree to broaden her options upon graduation. During her college career, she discovered her desire to teach and organize the music education system in Korea. Upon graduation, she became a full time music teacher at a high school. However, after a year of teaching, she returned to school to pursue her graduate degree to achieve her goal. Upon entering graduate school, she also worked in the music department as a teaching assistant. Two years later, she was offered a job as an administrator in the music department at National University of Korea. A year flew by where she was drowned in her work and forgot all about her goal to change the education system. She decided to step away from the Korean society and culture and experience how things were done abroad. It was in 2005 that she arrived in New York to advance her career as a professional to bring her one step closer of achieving her dream. In 2009, she started to pursue her Music Education master’s degree at NYU’s Steinhardt School. Also, she is an administrative assistant for Dr. John Gilbert.

Andrew Struck-Marcell is currently pursing a PhD in composition at New York University. Teachers of his include Ezequiel Viñao, Kenneth Hesket, Michael Zev Gordon, David Gompper, and Lawrence Fritts. He obtained his Masters degree in composition at the Royal College of Music, London, and his Bachelors degrees in Music and in Psychology from the University of Iowa.

As a composer, his works have been performed throughout Europe and the U.S. He composed a number of works for theater and multimedia, including scores to plays by Brecht and Mee, as well as a multimedia collaboration involving dance, theater, and film. As a researcher, he is published in Cognitive Science, and is currently using empirical methods to investigate the relationship between contour and rhythm. Additionally, he has a keen interest in North Indian Classical music, and has lived in the Kolkata area for a short period of time to study tabla under Narayan Bhattacharjee.

Chianan Yen, multimedia composer and designer, photographer, technologist and teacher/artist, was originally born in Taiwan, and has been living and teaching in the New York City since 1995. He holds Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Central University in Taiwan (1992), Master of Music in Music Technology degree and Stephen F. Temmer Tonmeister Studies (1998), and Ph.D. degree in Music Composition from New York University (2009). He is currently teaching at NYU Steinhardt Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions.

During 1988 – 1992, Chianan worked as a music/keyboard/piano instructor, recording engineer, as well as a composer in resident in The Musician Co., Ltd., to collaborate with various producers, song writers, and performing artists in the music industry. He has composed multimedia works for dance, film, animation, as well as various instrumentalists and ensembles. In 1996, he had chances to work with several art production groups, such as “The Second Generation Production” whose production team includes the most famous Broadway shows’ crew, “The King and I” and “Miss Saigon”. Through those events his works have been performed throughout the United States. Now his works have been performed in the North America, Europe, and Asia, and featured on Capstone Records.

Chianan worked as the editor in chief for the Zuang Zen Community Journal in NYC from 1996-1999. He also has worked as a professional photographer and a web designer since 1999 for New York University. His photographic/visual works have been awarded in various contests, and featured on major publications throughout the United States and Asia.

Chianan’s dissertation, “Taiwan Aboriginal Music and Its Implications for Music Composition” contributes to the preservation and awareness of the Taiwan aboriginal music. As a music composer-researcher, he believes these disappearing musical arts ought to be given a neoteric and creative meaning and context. Currently he is interested in teaching applications of digital technology for creative process as educational resources. His current researches focus on long-distance and internet teaching/learning/performing technology application for music education, composition, and performance practices, as well as visual application for music representation.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY GUEST ARTISTS

John Gunther is a composer and multi-instrumentalist playing Saxophone, Clarinet, and Flute. He draws inspiration for his composition and improvisation from diverse sources, from 20th century classical music to folk traditions from around the world. He has performed or recorded with John Abercrombie, Buddy DeFranco, Dizzy Gillespie, Tom Harrel, Dewey Redman, Joe Williams, The Woody Herman Orchestra, The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra and The Maria Schneider Orchestra. He was composer in residence for The Toronto Fringe Dance Festival in 2003 and has composed the music for several independent feature films and animations. As part of New York city's "downtown" music scene for many years, he has produced five recordings for Creative Improvised Music Projects (CIMP)and is co-founder of the new music group, "Spooky Actions". He has received grants from “Meet the Composer” and the National Endowment for the Arts and recieved his PhD. from New York University. John is currently an Assistant Professor in Jazz Studies at Colorado University where he is part of CISMAT.org [Center for Innovative Studies in Music Art & Technology] and the Boulder Laptop Orchestra [BLOrk].

Kent Lindemer graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1988 with a B.A. in Theatre Arts where he formed his company, NoITuLove Dance Theatre and he recently earned his M.F.A. from University of Washington/Seattle. He was with the Nebraska Shakespeare Company for two summer's acting, dancing, juggling, fire-eating and tumbling, and then in Chicago dancing for Bob Eisen on a 25 city mid-western tour before joining Pilobolus Dance Theatre in 1989. He worked with Pilobolus as a dancer, collaborative choreographer and teacher from 1989-2000, serving as dance captain from 1995-96 before taking a 1 1/2 year hiatus in 1997-98 to pursue a degree in Massage Therapy, heal injuries and delve into the world of Yogic Arts. While with Pilobolus, Kent performed in over 25 countries and in every state in the U.S.A. His performance of Untitled at the Kennedy Center's 25th Anniversary Celebration won Pilobolus an Emmy award for best televised performance. Kent has set Pilobolus Dances on the Joffrey Ballet, School of the Hartford Ballet and Western Oregon University among others. From 2000-2002, Kent toured with the 1st and 2nd National Tours of Swing! as their Massage/Physical Therapist. He also worked for Anti-Gravity on the tours as Aerial Bungee rigger and trainer. In 2003, Kent moved to Boulder, CO to study and teach Yoga with Richard Freeman at his studio, The Yoga Workshop and to climb rocks! Kent is a nationally recognized Yoga teacher and was a presenter and also danced for the 1st annual Northwest Yoga Festival. He was guest artist for Los Angeles Music Center's Institute for Teachers in 2004, has been featured in music videos by Marilyn Manson and Soraya and the photographic work of Lois Greenfield, Howard Shatz, Michael O'Neill, Jon Ortner and John Kane. Recently, Kent has been hailed by Robert Johnson of the New Jersey Star Ledger as "A dance master" and his new work Arachnorapt's premiere for FreeSpace Dance Theatre was called "delightful. the highlight of the evening".

Lynn Lesniak Needle (choreographer/performer) earned her B.A. in Dance Cum Laude from Connecticut College where she was the recipient of the ACDFA Dance Magazine National Award for choreography, adjudicated by Murray Louis, Pauline Koner and Clay Taliafero. Her work COOL WAVE, featured in Dance Magazine was performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and hailed as "a flash of what is happening now...Lesniak has a great theatrical sense...the choreographer is in touch with the times in which we live." Lynn is a former soloist with the Nikoalis Dance Theatre where she toured internationally, traveling to six out of seven continents and more than 40 United States. She has been influenced by many, including Martha Graham, Twyla Tharp, Luigi, Ann Reinking, and B.K.S. Iyengar, but studied intensely with her mentors Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis at the Nikolais/Louis Dance Lab in New York City. Nik c! reated seminal works on Lynn during her tenure with the company and she began teaching for Hanya Holm and on tour. She was later asked to direct the Nikoalis and Louis Dance Lab, a professional studio school of dance in Soho where she arranged for dancers from around the world to study, choreograph and perform. During this time, Lynn pioneered classes in Pilates-based exercises, training with thera-bands, trampolines, and fitness balls. Her students included many dancers who have gone on to perform with professional companies and tour throughout the world. Over the years, Lynn has choreographed pieces for MTV, corporate videos for Verizon, and premiered her work at the Boston Conservatory, Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Westbeth Theatre Center, Joyce Soho, The Hatch, American Dance Guild, MMAC, the 92nd Street Y as well as Hunter College, Rutgers University, Montclair State University, Ramapo College, Rider University, Bergen Commu! nity College, and for local community theatre groups. In many of these venues, Lynn has choreographed for the Art of Motion Ensemble, a company established after she founded the non-profit studio, Art of Motion, Inc. with Olivia Galgano, her Artistic Associate. Lynn has also worked as an artist in residence in the public schools, as a staff developer, and is currently an Adjunct Professor of Modern Dance at BCC.

Lynn Needle pictured in WHITE ORCHID Photo by: Geri Abdoo

Alberto del Saz Co-Artistic Director of the Murray Louis and Nikolais Dance Company as well as the Director of The Nikolais/Louis Foundation for Dance and Assistant to Mr. Louis. Mr. Del Saz is a vital and important link in keeping the Nikolais/Louis repertory active.

Mr. Del Saz was born in Bilbao, Spain in 1960. At an early age he studied ice-skating, which later led to his first performing career. In 1980 Mr. del Saz became the Spanish National Champion in figure skating and soon made his debut with Holiday on Ice-International. His early dance training was received at the Nikolais/Louis Dance Lab from the great teachers of the technique: Hanya Holm, Alwin Nikolais, Murray Louis, Claudia Gitelman, Tandy Beal, Beverly Blossom and others.

In 1985 Mr. Del Saz made his debut as a lead soloist with the Nikolais Dance Theater, later renamed the Murray Louis and Nikolais Dance Company. As a member of this internationally acclaimed company he has toured to virtually every continent on the globe.

Mr. Del Saz has appeared for President Reagan at the Kennedy Center Honors in a CBS telecast featuring the Nikolais Dance Theater as well as on PBS American Masters series in “Nik and Murray”, an award winning documentary film by Christian Blackwood. He has also represented the United States State Department on a tour of India, appeared at the Paris Opera Garnier in a Homage to Alwin Nikolais and at the Next Wave Festival with Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane Dance Company. In 1990 he went to Japan where he appeared as a guest artist in “V”, a project by Mr. Ushio Amagatsu, Artistic Director of Sankai Juku. He has also performed at “Men Brazil”. Mr. Del Saz has appeared as a guest solo artist in works by Hanya Holm, Claudia Gitelman, Maureen Fleming, Sara Pearson, Cleo Parker Robinson and others.

Mr. Del Saz is the Reconstruction Director of the Nikolais/Louis repertory and has staged the Nikolais/Louis repertory on university and professional dance companies around the world. Among others:
(North Carolina School of the Arts, The Juilliard School, Conservatoire de la Danse de Paris, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Co., The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Ballet Met, University of Washington, University of Illinois, Rutgers State University, Bringham Young University, Centre National de Danse Contemporaine in Angers, Southern Utah University, George Mason University, Boston Conservatory, University of Utah, Georgia Tech, Hunter College, Marymount Manhattan College, Barnard College, Montclair State University).

In 1997 he danced Rudolph Nureyev’s role in “Moments” a work created by Mr. Louis.
Mr. Del Saz work has been funded by NYSCA in collaboration with Ice Theater of New York. He is currently choreographing for bronze medallist figure skater Nicole Bobek and Olympic bronze medallist and World Professional Champion Phillipe Candeloro. His Skating work has appeared on Ice-Wars, Grand Slam and the Professional World Championships televised on CBS, FOX and ABC networks as well as the official opening of the Rockeffeller Center sponsored by Champions on Ice.

Mr. Del Saz has been with the Nikolais/Louis Foundation for 26 years, at the moment his focus is in preserving the Nikolais/Louis technique, repertory and legacy throw his teaching and directing.

Critics wrote:

“In Alberto del Saz Mr. Louis has found someone who can convey his particular quicksilver qualities of movement that were once unique to Mr. Louis. It is encouraging to see how the tradition is being carried on.”

The Westsider

“…The most compelling performer in the company is Alberto del Saz, a cross between the quicksilver, whimsical Louis of old and the legendary, magisterial Jose Limon.”

Tobi Tobias, THE NEW YORK MAGAZINE

“…Veteran master of the company the commanding Alberto del Saz, exact but never careful, generous but never sloppy, energized but never emotive.

Tobi Tobias, DANCE MAGAZINE

“…Mr. Del Saz a master of the style, exuberant, demonstrating what is important in Mr. Louis choreography, the quality of movement and how it is phrased.”

Anna Kisselgoff, THE NEW YORK TIMES

“… A quietly stunning solo for Mr. Del Saz epitomizes the fluid yet crisply articulated motion that in part identifies a Louis or Nikolais Dancer. Mr Del Saz himself typifies the strong presence of the company’s dancer, from early performers, like Beverly Blossom and Phyllis Lamhut.”

Jennifer Dunning, THE NEW YORK TIMES

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ

Ted Warburton works at the intersection of the performing arts, education, and digital technologies. He finds the great successes of these areas are not merely technical – not found isolated in the perfectly articulated word, dance leap, or line of computer code – but are in the measure of human impact. For this reason, he seeks to produce creative and research activities that inform disciplinary practices, provoke personal development, and connect communities within and beyond UC Santa Cruz.

Like many contemporary artists, Warburton employs interactive digital media and telecommunication technologies to create the visual, aural and connective materials for his works. He goes a step further by making digital technologies and remote collaborations essential components in live performances that fuse dance, theater, media, and network designs. A recent dance theater experiment, “Lubricious Transfer” used digital media and Internet2 to produce collaborative, interactive, and simultaneous performances broadcast live to local and remote audiences in Santa Cruz and New York City.

In his scholarly work, Ted investigates thinking through dance, examining the nature of dance cognition and creativity, teaching and learning. His participation in an interdisciplinary working group on motion capture unites these artistic and research concerns in the development of software tools for use in movement skill assessment, distance dance education, and interactive theatrical performance.
Ted serves as a dance faculty member in Theater Arts and as a Project Group leader in the Digital Arts and New Media graduate (MFA) program. He is Director of Research for the National Dance Education Organization and Associate Editor of the Research in Dance Education journal (Routledge).

Shyam Sengupta (videographer & technical director)
Shyam Sundar Sengupta has been actively working as a media artist for nearly a decade, and holds two degrees from The University of California Santa Cruz, one in Film and Digital Media, and another in Theater Arts. He has a passion for combining the arts with technology, and is in the process of launching a Media Production Company based in California. More info at http://www.smgmediaproduction.com/

Ensemble

Amy Bobeda (costume/make-up)
Amy has studied theater at both USC and UC Santa Cruz, with an emphasis in costume, wig, and makeup design. She currently works as a costume design assistant for Shakespeare Santa Cruz.

Stephanie Byrd (performer)
Stefanie is a 4th year theater arts student at University of California, Santa Cruz. I am happy to be apart of this wonderful experience. I would just like to thank everyone in my class, and Ted Warburton for making this possible!

Bonnie Cannon-Brown (choreographer/performer)
Bonnie is a graduating senior from UCSC. Her plans include using her background in theatre and politics to find ways to improve the world. She also lives for musical theatre.

flynn crosby (director/performer)
flynn is a senior at UCSC pursuing theatre. He would like to thank everyone for coming and thank everyone who made this performance possible.

James Zachary Gaidzik (performer)
Zach is 21 years old from Los Angeles, Senior at UC Santa Cruz studying Theater Arts with a Concentration in Dance and Costuming, Head of Membership Education for Delta Lambda Psi, First Co-ed Queer Frarority in the Nation. Plans to go to Grad School Next year to continue Studies in Dance.

Evanis Hart (director/choreographer/performer)
Evanis is excited to be a part of this great project. He is a Theater Arts Major and a Hip Hop Dance Instructor/ Personal Trainer. He has also worked with Rainbow Theater at UC Santa Cruz and ATATT (African American Theater Arts Troupe)

Paloma Henriques (performer)
Paloma is a fourth year Theater Arts student at University of California, Santa Cruz. Most recently, she played the title role in Travis Hiner's new play, Claudius: King of Denmark. She played Mary Anne White in Matt Kedzie's 2008 play Milk. She is also the author of A Scene, which was part of UCSC's Chautauqua festival in spring 2009. Paloma is pleased to be involved in her first digital theater performance and wishes to thank Ted Warburton for making this experience possible.

Stefanie Koch (writer/performer)
Stevie is a Senior, Theater Arts Major, at UC Santa Cruz and plans to graduate in the spring. She is excited to be working on her first telematic performance as a writer and performer.

Brian Luce (director/performer)
Brian is still relatively new to directing. He has studied with Director, Kimberly Jannarone at UC Santa Cruz; Director, Stephanie Hunt, and Playwright, Rachel LePell at Chabot College. He has studied, ballet at Shawl Andersen Dance Studio in Berkeley, CA, and ballroom dance at Arthur Murray Dance Studios. Among the few shows he has directed, Midsummer Night's Dream, W. Shakespeare; Lonestar, James McLure were met with high praise. Brian looks forward to more opportunities with UC Santa Cruz, and the theater world at large.

Alissa Lund (director/performer)
Alissa is an actor, director, writer, visual artist, dancer and clown who loves to collaborate, create and play. After finishing her BA at UC Santa Cruz, she hopes to go on to receive her Masters in Drama Therapy and travel the world using clowning and theatre techniques to work with children and explore the process of healing.

Kelvyn Mitchell (director)
Kelvyn is a 4th-year Theatre Arts student at the the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is very thankful to be able to participate in such an innovative and interesting concept performance!

Walter Piche (performer)
Walter began performing in 2005. My hometown is Los Angeles City, not County. I am 21 years old. My zodiac sign is Sagittarius. My theatrical interest is performance. Throughout my college career I have been performing contemporary Latin American ritualistic dance.

Samuel Reyna (videographer, Ionization)
Samuel is a senior at the University of California, Santa Cruz where he majors in Theater Arts. I plan to act and work in the film industry.

Crystal Smith (performer)
Crystal is a theater arts major at UC Santa Cruz and is happy to be part of the project "Across The Ether." She concentrates her studies on dance and is currently looking forward to performing in Tandy Beal's contemporary version of the "Nutcracker" called "Mixed Nutz!" and co-directing a student dance show, known as "Random with a Purpose."

Madelyn Somers (performer)
Madelyn is a senior at the University of California, Santa Cruz where she majors in Theater Arts.She is passionate about acting and plans to continue with the dramatic arts once she graduates. Madelyn is thrilled to be apart of this project and has enjoyed collaborating with her peers and Ted Warburton.

Cristina Vargas (choreographer/performer)
Cristina is a third year student at UCSC. I learned a lot from this project and it's first time doing an improv piece like this. I'm happy to be apart of it!