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PILOBOLUS : Come to your senses October 4-6, 2018 | Newmark Theatre

CIRCA: HUMANS

October 11-13, 2018 | Newmark Theatre

LUCY GUERIN INC: Split

October 18-20, 2018 | Lincoln Hall

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We are delighted to welcome you back to White Bird, and the start of our 21st season of bringing dance from around the world. Dance is movement, and our first three companies demonstrate how varied that movement can be.

First up is Pilobolus, back with us after a 7-year absence.

Led by Pilobolus former dancers Renée Jaworski and Matt Kent, the company has become world-famous for its unique blend of athleticism, humor and poignant imagery. Their new program Come to your senses combines two classic PAUL, WALTER AND BARNEY. Pilobolus works (“Gnomen” and “Symbiosis”) with exciting brand new pieces by the two directors in collaboration with company members.

Breathtaking athletic movement is the hallmark of our next company, Circa from Australia, appearing a week later. We are inspired by circus arts, and particularly movement-based circus as exemplified by this world-renowned company, which we first presented in 2013. We are proud to host the West Coast premiere of HUMANS, which, on a bare stage, powerfully throws the light on 10 multi-skilled circus artists, grappling with the question, “What does it mean to be human?” Circa’s HUMANS seamlessly moves between movement, dance, theater, and circus.

Our mini-Australia festival continues with the opening program of White Bird Uncaged, Lucy Guerin’s SPLIT. Lucy’s work is well-known to our Uncaged audiences, whether in collaboration with her partner Gideon Obarzanek (“Tense Dave,” “Two-Faced Bastard,” last season’s “Attractor”) or through her own company with “Weather” (2013). SPLIT is an astonishing duet between two remarkable dancers, one fully-clothed and one naked, who move between ever-diminishing dimensions of time and space. We have seen SPLIT multiple times, and we cannot wait to share what we consider one of the strongest Australian works White Bird has presented in its 21 years.

We are thrilled to have you join us on our ongoing journey through the world of contemporary dance—and movement.

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Come to your senses

OCTOBER 4-6 Newmark Theatre

OCTOBER 4–6, 2018 NEWMARK THEATRE

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EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Itamar Kubovy ARTISTIC DIRECTORS Renée Jaworski Matt Kent DANCERS Nathaniel Buchsbaum Krystal Butler Isabella Diaz Zachary Eisenstat Quincy Ellis Heather Favretto Jacob Michael Warren DANCE CAPTAINS Heather Favretto Jacob Michael Warren PRODUCTION MANAGER Anna Bate

STAGE MANAGER Kasson Marroquin

LIGHTING SUPERVISOR Yannick Godts

STAGE OPS Maxwell Jabara

GENERAL MANAGER / CFO Daniel Ordower

SENIOR COMPANY MANAGER Kirsten Leon

EDUCATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Emily Kent

MARKETING MANAGER Brigid Pierce

ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR Kayla Prata

ASSISTANT TO EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Hannah Firestone

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Major support for Pilobolus Artistic Programming provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art, and by The Shubert Foundation.

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TONIGHT’S PROGRAM EYE OPENING (2018) Created by Renée Jaworski, and Matt Kent in collaboration with Nathaniel Buchsbaum, Krystal Butler, Benjamin Coalter, Isabella Diaz, Zachary Eisenstat, Heather Favretto, Casey Howes, Nile Russell, and Jacob Michael Warren Performed by Nathaniel Buchsbaum, Krystal Butler, Isabella Diaz, Zachary Eisenstat, Quincy Ellis, Heather Favretto, and Jacob Michael Warren

1985–1995. “Long-Ge” by Jack Body was written for and performed by the Kronos Quartet and appears on the recording Early Music.

COSTUMES Angelina Avallone LIGHTING Steven Strawbridge

INTERMISSION

ART DIRECTION Greg Laffey LIGHTING DESIGN Trevor Burk SOUND DESIGN David Van Tieghem SPECIAL THANKS TO Mark Fucik, Emily Kent and Itamar Kubovy, and our friends at RadioLab

GNOMEN (1997) Choreographed by Robby Barnett and Jonathan Wolken in collaboration with Matt Kent, Gaspard Louis, Trebien Pollard, and Mark Santillano Performed by Nathaniel Buchsbaum, Zachary Eisenstat, Quincy Ellis, and Jacob Michael Warren MUSIC Paul Sullivan THROAT SINGING Matt Kent

Created by Renée Jaworski and Matt Kent in collaboration with Mark Fucik and Krystal Butler, Isabella Diaz, Heather Favretto, and Casey Howes.

Performed by Krystal Butler, Isabella Diaz, and Heather Favretto MUSIC Thao Nguyen COSTUMES Márion Talán LIGHTING Diane Ferry Williams SOUND DESIGN David Van Tieghem Trio (2018) is commissioned by ADF with support from the Doris Duke/SHS Foundations Award for New Works and Mary Duke Biddle Foundation.

COSTUME DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION Eileen Thomas

BRANCHES (2017)

LIGHTING David M. Chapman

Created by Renée Jaworski and Matt Kent in collaboration with Itamar Kubovy, Mark Fucik and Antoine BanksSullivan, Nathaniel Buchsbaum, Krystal Butler, Isabella Diaz, Heather Favretto, and Jacob Michael Warren

This piece is dedicated to the memory of our friend and colleague, Jim Blanc. It was made possible in part by contributions from his family and friends as well as by a commission from the American Dance Festival with support from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Philip Morris Companies, Inc., New Production Fund.

Performed by Nathaniel Buchsbaum, Krystal Butler, Isabella Diaz Zachary Eisenstat, Heather Favretto, and Jacob Michael Warren MUSIC David Van Tieghem, David Darling, Riley Lee, Olivier Messiaen, Bonobo

SYMBIOSIS (2001)

SOUND DESIGN David Van Tieghem

Choreographed by Michael Tracy in collaboration with Otis Cook and Renée Jaworski

COSTUME DESIGN Liz Prince

Performed by Isabella Diaz and Jacob Michael Warren MUSIC “Morango...almost A Tango” by Thomas Oboe Lee was written for and performed by the Kronos Quartet and appears on the Nonesuch recording White Man Sleeps.

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LIGHTING DESIGN Thom Weaver Branches premiered at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Inside/Out Series, June 21, 2017, and was commissioned

by Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes a great nation deserves great art.

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Pilobolus // who’s who in the company ABOUT PILOBOLUS For 45 years, Pilobolus has tested the limits of human physicality to explore the beauty and the power of connected bodies. We continue to bring this tradition to global audiences through our post-disciplinary collaborations with some of the greatest influencers, thinkers, and creators in the world. Now, in our digitally driven and increasingly mediated landscape, we also reach beyond performance to teach people how to connect through designed live experiences. We bring our decades of expertise telling stories with the human form to show diverse communities, brands, and organizations how to maximize group creativity, solve problems, create surprise, and generate joy through the power of nonverbal communication.

Pilobolus has created and toured over 120 pieces of repertory to more than 65 countries. We currently perform our work for over 300,000 people across the U.S. and around the world each year. In the last year, Pilobolus was featured on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, NBC’s TODAY Show, MTV’s Video Music Awards, The Harry Connick Show, ABC’s The Chew, and the CW Network’s Penn & Teller: Fool Us. Pilobolus has been recognized with many prestigious honors, including a TED Fellowship, a 2012 Grammy® Award Nomination, a Primetime Emmy® Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cultural Programming, and several Cannes Lion Awards at the International Festival of Creativity. In 2015, Pilobolus was named one of Dance Heritage Coalition’s “Irreplaceable Dance Treasures”. Pilobolus has collaborated with more than 25 brands and organizations in finance, retail, media, fashion, sports, and more to create bespoke performances for television, film, and live events.

More information at pilobolus.org facebook.com/PilobolusDance instagram@Pilobolus twitter@Pilobolus ITAMAR KUBOVY (Executi ve Producer) oversees the many moving parts of Pilobolus. After joining Pilobolus in 2004, he founded Pilobolus’s acclaimed International Collaborators Project, a program that invites artists and thinkers from diverse fields to participate Pilobolus’s collaborative choreographic process. He also grew the business of Pilobolus Creative Services, collaborating with clients to develop custom movement and storytelling for film, advertising,

publishing, and corporate events. Itamar was born in Israel and grew up in New Haven, where he studied philosophy at Yale. Prior to joining Pilobolus, he ran theaters in Germany and Sweden, directed plays by John Guare, co-directed the 2002 season finale of The West Wing, and made a film, Upheaval, starring Frances McDormand.

RENÉE JAWORSKI (Co-Artistic Director) received her BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Upon graduating she began work with MOMIX, performing and teaching throughout the world as well as creating her own work in Philadelphia. She began performing with Pilobolus in 2000.

Renée has served as choreographer and creator for exciting projects and collaborations such as the 79th Annual Academy Awards, the Grammy® nominated video for OKGo’s All is Not Lost, Radiolab Live: In the Dark, and has worked with myriad outside artists through the International Collaborator’s Project. In 2010, her alma mater honored her with the University’s Silver Star Alumni Award for her work as an artist in the field of dance. Renée lives in Connecticut with her husband and daughter.

MATT KENT (Co-Artistic Director) has worked with Pilobolus since 1996 as a dancer, collaborator, creative director, and choreographer. Past Pilobolus projects include Head Choreographer for Andre Heller’s Magnifico, a large-scale circus production; choreographer for a Sports Emmy-nominated teaser created in collaboration with the NFL network; and choreographer for a television appearance on Late Night with Conan O’Brien.

His work for Pilobolus on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, co-directed by Teller and Aaron Posner, was nominated for Best Choreography by the L.A. Drama Critics Circle. Outside of Pilobolus, he has worked as zombie choreographer for AMC’s hit series “The Walking Dead”; as movement consultant on the Duncan Sheik musical, Whisper House; and created family and children’s performances with Rob Kapilow.

Matt lives in Connecticut with his wife and two sons.

MARK FUCIK (Pilobolus Creative Director) is a native of Walnut Creek, California. He attended Rutgers University where he earned his BA in Theater Arts.

He started dancing at 21 and hasn’t looked back. He joined Pilobolus in 2001 and danced with the main company until 2005.

He then began working with the company

in many different capacities performing with Pilobolus Creative Services, teaching, and serving as Associate Creative Director. He has taught future generations of dancers in Pilobolus workshops, as well as on his own classes at colleges and Universities around the US. He was excited to get back into the studio to create Shadowland, and toured with the original Shadowland cast for two years. He has spent the last five years as the Assistant Artistic Director of Alison Chase Performance. As always, Mark thanks his family and his patient and understanding husband Collin for all their love and support.

NATHANIEL BUCHSBAUM (Dancer) was born in Pittsburgh, PA, and realized his love for movement while attending high school in Florida. He worked as a guest artist with the Tallahassee Ballet and in 2011 graduated from Florida State University with a BFA in Dance. Nathaniel has had the pleasure of working with KineticArchitecture, Amalgamate Dance Company, Gerri Houlihan, Martha Clarke, Brian Brooks Moving Company, and Doug Elkins. His choreography has been featured in the NewGrounds Dance Festival and the Five By Five event in Tampa, Florida, and the Amalgamate Artist Series in New York. Nathaniel is honored to have joined Pilobolus’s Shadowland in 2012.

KRYSTAL BUTLER (Dancer) began her dance training at Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, D.C. under the direction of Sandra Fortune. Krystal moved to New York City and graduated from Long Island University. She has received scholarships and completed summer programs at the Ailey School, ADF, Earl Mosley Institute for the Arts and Arke’ Danza. Krystal was a member of INSPIRIT, a dance company and Forces of Nature Dance Theater. She has toured in Senegal with the theater company Art Creates Life, performing in the play, Junkanoo and in Europe in the show MAGNIFICO produced by Andre Heller with choreography by Pilobolus. She has been a member of Pilobolus since 2011, spending 3 years touring Shadowland and now in her second year with Pilobolus Dance Theater.

ISABELLA DIAZ (Dancer) was born in Chicago, Illinois. She began exploring movement at a very young age through gymnastics, which she pursued for 13 years at a competitive level. Isabella began her dance training her junior year of high school, where she was exposed to ballet ARTSLANDIA.COM

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Pilobolus // who’s who in the company and modern dance techniques. She went on to study at Western Michigan University and had the opportunity to perform works choreographed by Peter Chu and Ohad Naharin. She began working with Pilobolus in the beginning of 2017.

ZACHARY EISENSTAT (Dancer) was born in Westchester, New York. His interest in dance was born at Bar Mitzvahs, but it was years before he found his way back.

Zachary was an NCAA gymnast throughout his college career. He graduated in 2006 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an S.B. in Mechanical Engineering. He spent some time working on Wall St. before finding his way to comedy and acting. As theater took him all over the world, he happened upon an opportunity to work with Pilobolus on a production of The Tempest. His Bar Mitzvah born passion re-kindled, he now finds himself taking the stage again with Pilobolus, this time as a dancer. Zachary would like to thank all those who helped him get here, all those who help him stay here, and you - yes, you - for being a part of this wild ride.

QUINCY ELLIS (Dancer) was born in Waterville, Maine and spent his youth in gymnastics and figure skating. He earned a BFA degree in Acting from Emerson College and has worked as both an actor and dancer in New York City for nine years. He has worked with companies such as The MoveShop, Caliince Dance, DeFunes Dance, and Theatre Raleigh... among others. Quincy has also been lucky enough to tour and teach internationally, both as a dancer and actor. His own work, Savor, was recently produced in New York City. He’s thrilled to join the cast of Shadowland and is incredibly honored to be working with Pilobolus.

HEATHER FAVRETTO (Dancer/Dance Captain) grew up in New Jersey where her hyperactivity as a child drove her parents to place her in dance classes.

Years later, she received her BFA in Dance from Rutgers University and was awarded the Dance Express Honor for outstanding choreography. Upon graduation, she worked for Douglas Dunn and Dancers, Cleo Mack Dance Project, and Naganuma Dance, while producing her own work in and around NYC. She joined Pilobolus in 2010 to work on a musical adaptation of James and the Giant Peach with Academy Award winning composers Pasek and Paul.

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tors. She has had the pleasure and honor of performing in over 30 countries, as well as on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and The Today Show with Kathie Lee and Hoda! It continues to be a wild ride, and Heather is truly elated to be sharing her love of art and theatre with all of you tonight!

“Where the Wild Things Are”, and created “Oneiric” featured in a jointly produced Danish Television feature for members of the Royal Danish Ballet. Over the years he taught many workshops and was dedicated to the furtherance of Pilobolus technique not only in dance but as a model for creative thinking in any field.

JACOB MICHAEL WARREN (Dance Captain/Dancer) was born in San Francisco, CA and raised in Boston, MA where he began tap dancing. Tap gave way to ballet and modern dance, and in 2009, Jake graduated from Marymount Manhattan College with a BFA in Dance. Since graduation, Jake has performed in New York and around the world with Armitage Gone! Dance, The Steps on Broadway Ensemble, TakeDance, and Pilobolus’s Shadowland. He has done multiple film, musical, and theatrical projects including “Wind & Tree,” a film by Abe Abraham, and “Promise,” an experimental theatre piece with Chris D’Amboise and Jed Bernstein.

Jake is also a dedicated musician, and a founding member of “The Harmonica Lewinskies,” a NYC-based blues/rock band.

THAO NGUYEN (Composer) grew up in Falls Church, VA, where she first picked up a guitar at the age of 12 and began performing in a pop country duo in high school. She spent most of her 20s touring, supporting one critically acclaimed album after another. She’s worked with a laundry list of vaunted artists including Andrew Bird, Mirah, Laura Veirs, and producer Tucker Martine. She even toured the US with the nationally syndicated NPR radio program Radiolab. Thao’s music has been described by The New Yorker as “music that makes you move from your bones out...[it’s] keenly intelligent and original”.

Her most recent album, A Man Alive, was released in March 2016.

ROBBY BARNETT (Co-Founder, Choreographer) was born and raised in the Adirondack Mountains and attended Dartmouth College. He joined Pilobolus in 1971.

MICHAEL TRACY (Charter Artistic Director, Choreographer) was born in Florence and raised in New England. He met the other Pilobolus founders at Dartmouth in 1969, and became an artistic director after graduating magna cum laude in 1973. Michael toured with Pilobolus for 14 years and has choreographed and directed the company ever since. He has set his work on the Joffrey, Ohio, Hartford, Nancy and Verona Ballets and with Pilobolus choreographed a production of Mozart’s Magic Flute. Michael taught at Yale University for two decades and lives in northwestern Connecticut.

JONATHAN WOLKEN (1949–2010) (Co-Founder, Choreographer) co-founded Pilobolus in 1971 and remained one of its Artistic Directors as well as Director of Development until his death on June 13, 2010. Mr. Wolken graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in Philosophy.

During his career he created 46 works for Pilobolus, in collaboration with its other artistic directors, with guest artists and as sole choreographer. He also choreographed for the Glyndebourne Festival Opera’s production of Maurice Sendak’s

PAUL SULLIVAN (Composer) has composed fourteen scores for Pilobolus since 1980. He has appeared as a conductor, performer, and composer on and off Broadway several times. Paul currently lives on the coast of Maine where he composes music for his own record label, River Music. Paul’s award-winning piano albums include “Sketches of Maine”, “A Visit to the Rockies”, “Folk Art”, “Nights in the Gardens of Maine”, and “Christmas in Maine”. His most recent albums are “Circle ‘Round The Season” and “Memory Lane collection”.

DAVID VAN TIEGHEM (Sound Designer) Broadway: Doubt, The Lyons, Romeo and Juliet, The Big Knife, Born Yesterday, Arcadia, The Normal Heart, Reckless, An Enemy of the People, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, A Behanding in Spokane, A Man for All Seasons, Inherit the Wind, Frozen, After Miss Julie, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Constant Wife, The Crucible, Three Days of Rain, The Best Man. Off-Broadway: Wit, The Piano Lesson, Through a Glass Darkly, How I Learned to Drive.

Film/TV: Buried Prayers, Working Girls, Penn & Teller, Wooster Group. Dance: Twyla Tharp, Doug Varone, Elizabeth Streb, Elisa Monte, Michael Moschen.

Percussionist: Laurie Anderson, Talking Heads, Brian Eno, Steve Reich. Awards/ Nominations: Drama Desk, Obie, Bessie, Lortel, Guggenheim. CDs: Thrown for a Loop, Strange Cargo, Safety in Numbers, These Things Happen.

Pilobolus // who’s who in the company GREGORY LAFFEY (Art Direction) is a designer and maker from Pittsburgh, PA. He specializes in sets, props, and costumes for dance, theater, and film. Gregory now lives in New York City and has been working on various Pilobolus projects since 2009. Favorites include Shadowland, Radiolab Live: In the Dark, and any that take him out of the country.

and A Rather Lovely Thing for Jacobs Pillow (2016); Caleb Teicher: Small and Tall for Jacobs Pillow (2016) and Meet Ella at Gibney (2016); Liz Gerring: Glaciers at The Joyce (2015); for Norbert de la Cruz: Talksikan for Ballet X (2015) and Fold by Fold for Aspen/Santa Fe Ballet (2013) by Norbert de la Cruz among others. (mariontalan.com)

ANGELINA AVALLONE (Costume Designer) has collaborated with Pilobolus Dance Theatre on over 18 productions as costume and set designer. Her work as been seen at the Kennedy Center, The Joyce Theater, The American Dance Festival, Wolf Trap, The Shubert Theater, and The Emerson Theater. International tours include: Europe, Japan and South America. Her creative credits also include designs for The Public Theater in New York City, Joe’s Pub at the Public, The Rainbow Room, Yale Repertory Theatre, Yale University Theatre, Circus Flora at the Kennedy Center, Syracuse Stage, Actors Theater of Louisville, Kentucky, The Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis, Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey, and others. Her credits on Broadway include associate costume designer on The Scarlet Pimpernel and Once Upon A Mattress.

She studied fashion design in Florence, Italy and received her MFA from the Yale School of Drama. In 1994 she received the Leo Lerman Design Award at Conde Nast.

TREVOR BURK (Lighting Designer) is a Principal Designer at Visual Noise Creative. Main St. Electrical Parade, Tokyo Disneyland (Media Design), Kilimanjaro Safari Ride, James Bay- Electric Light (Creative Director), Foster the People, Sacred Hearts Club, Torches, (Creative Director) Animal Collective Centipede Hz World Tour (Production Designer), Los Angeles Dance, Hollywood Bowl (Lighting Design) Glass’ civil warS , Los Angeles Philharmonic (Lighting Design) Pitch Perfect 3 (Production Lighting Designer) The Incredible Burt Wonderstone(Lighting Design) Billboard Music Awards 2017, 2018 (Screens Producer)

LIZ PRINCE (Costume Designer) designs costumes for dance, theater and film and has designed costumes for numerous Pilobolus productions. Her costumes have been exhibited at The Cleveland center for Contemporary Art, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Rockland Center for the Arts and the 2011 Prague Quadrennial. She received a 1990 New York Dance and Performance Award (BESSIE) for costume design as well as a 2008 Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters from Bard College.

DAVID M. CHAPMAN (Lighting Designer) was Director of Production for Pilobolus from 1978 to 1997. A native of the Berkshires, his early credits include many summers with the Berkshire Theatre Festival and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival and winters on the road with rock, mime, and dance tours. David has designed the lighting for numerous Pilobolus works including Day Two, Bonsai, Particle Zoo, and Axons. Other work includes positions as assistant lighting designer for the 1978 Spoleto Festival USA and Production Manager of the 1981 American Dance Festival. In his most recent New York project, he served as lighting coordinator for the Japanese singer Tokiko at Carnegie Hall.

His lighting designs can also be seen in the repertory of Peter Pucci Plus Dancers.

He was until May 2006 Director of Production for Jacobs Pillow and until 2008 Director of Facilities and Production at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, MA.

MÁRION TALÁN (Costume Designer) has nurtured her talents in design by working closely with artists, directors and performers in New York and across the country. Some of her dance design credits include Bryan Arias: One Thousand Million Seconds, Gibney Dance Company(2018), When Breath Becomes Air Charlotte Ballet (2018), The Sky Seen from the Moon The Juilliard School (2017)

STEPHEN STRAWBRIDGE (Lighting Designer) has many works in the repertory of Pilobolus Dance Theatre. His designs have been seen on Broadway, offBroadway and at most major regional theaters and opera houses across the country.

Internationally he has designed the lighting for major premiers Bergen, Copenhagen, The Hague, Hong Kong, Linz, Lisbon, Munich, Naples, Sao Paulo, Stockholm

and Vienna. He has been recognized with numerous awards and nominations including the American Theatre Wing, Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle, Connecticut Critics Circle, Dallas-Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum, Helen Hayes, Henry Hewes Design and Lucille Lortel. He is co-chair of the design department at Yale School of Drama and resident lighting designer for the Yale Repertory Theatre.

THOM WEAVER (Lighting Designer) studied at Carnegie-Mellon and Yale and has previously worked with Matt Kent and Pilobolus on Teller and Aaron Posner’s The Tempest at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre.

In NY his work has been seen at NYSF/ Public Theatre, Primary Stages, Signature Theatre, Player’s Theatre (Play Dead with Teller), 37ARTS (Frankenstein), Cherry Lane, Lincoln Center Festival, Lincoln Center Institute, and SPF. Thom has worked regionally at CenterStage, Syracuse Stage, Huntington, Milwaukee Rep, Shakespeare Theatre, Asolo, Theatre J, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Williamstown, Folger Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, Roundhouse Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Hangar, Spoleto Festival USA, City Theatre, Virginia Stage, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, and Yale Rep. Thom has received 3 Barrymore Awards (21 nominations), 4 Helen Hayes nominations, and 2 AUDELCO Awards.

DIANE FERRY WILLIAMS (Lighting Designer) is a free-lance lighting designer who has lit well over 300 productions of theatre, dance, dance festivals and opera in the US, Canada, Europe and Asia. Awards include a Jeff Award, an After Dark Award, a Carbonelle Award, six Drammy awards, and six Jeff nominations. Diane has a BA from Ashland University in Ohio with a theatre major and a Master of Fine Arts in Theatrical Design from Northwestern University.

YA N N I C K GODTS (Lighting Supervisor) started with Pilobolus in 2013 as a production intern and has been with the company ever since. In 2014, he joined the staff of Shadowland and has been to four continents with the show since then. When not on the road or in the Pilobolus studio, he lives in Washington, D.C. and works as a visual artist, graphic designer, and lighting and scenic designer at large. He thanks his family for their encouragement and friends for putting up with the fact that he’s never home.

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HUMANS

BY CIRCA CREATED BY Yaron Lifschitz and the Circa Ensemble PERFORMERS Caroline Baillon, Nathan Boyle, Marty Evans, Piri Goodman, Keaton Hentoff-Killian, Bridie Hooper, Todd Kilby, Cecilia Martin, Daniel O’Brien, Kimberly O’Brien COSTUME DESIGN Libby McDonnell TECHNICAL DIRECTOR AND LIGHTING DESIGNER Jason Organ

Commissioned by MA scène nationale - Pays de Montbéliard. Circa acknowledges the assistance of the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

International representation: David Lieberman / David Lieberman Artists’ Representatives (USA, South America, Canada)

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CIRCA // DIRECTOR’S NOTE

ABOUT CIRCA

We humans are a fairly weak, unimpressive species. Anything we can achieve physically can be easily surpassed by a well-trained monkey. An injured pigeon can fly higher and longer than the best acrobat in the world. A snake can bend infinitely more than the most flexible of contortionists. But it is precisely because we are human that our physical achievements acquire dignity, meaning and poetry. It is in connection to our vulnerability that our strength finds its true articulation. In our limitations are our possibilities.

Circa Contemporary Circus is one of the world’s leading performance companies. Since 2004, from its base in Brisbane, Australia, Circa has toured the world—performing in 39 countries to over a million people.

Circa’s works have been greeted with standing ovations, rave reviews and sold-out houses across six continents.

In Humans, I have asked our ensemble of artists “what does it mean to be human”? How can you express the very essence of this experience with your body, with the group and with the audience? Where are your limits, what extraordinary things can you achieve and how can you find grace in your inevitable defeat?

The creation is the result of this investigation—a report on what it means to be human.

Circa is at the forefront of the new wave of contemporary Australian circus—pioneering how extreme physicality can create powerful and moving performances. It continues to push the boundaries of the art form, blurring the lines between movement, dance, theatre and circus, and is leading the way with a diverse range of thrilling creations that ‘redraw the limits to which circus can aspire“ (The Age).

Under the direction of circus visionary Yaron Lifschitz, Circa features an ensemble of exceptional, multi-skilled circus artists who have been a regular fixture at leading festivals and venues in New York, London, Berlin and Montreal with seasons at Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Barbican Centre, Les Nuits de Fourvière, Chamäleon Theatre as well as major Australian Festivals .

Visit circa.org.au to find a Circa performance near you and discover why Circa has been hailed as nothing short of “... a revolution in the spectacle of circus.“ (Les Echos).

Circa is committed to fostering the next generation of circus artists and runs a Training Centre from its studio in Brisbane. Circa also runs regular circus programs with communities throughout Queensland and around Australia.

As a champion of live performance, Circa manages arTour and was the Creative Lead for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games arts and cultural program.

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Yaron Lifschitz, Artistic Director, Circa

ABOUT HUMANS Ten acrobats take us on a stirring journey of what it means to be human, and of how our bodies, our connections, and our aspirations all form part of who we are.

Exploring the physical limits of their bodies as they are pushed to the extreme they question how much we can take as humans. How much weight can we carry?

Who can we trust to support our load?

They lead us to reflect on our lives, our loved ones, the burdens we carry and the physical and emotional strength it takes to overcome them.

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Created by Yaron Lifschitz, the stage is stripped bare as the vulnerability of a team of highly skilled acrobats is exposed. With incredible strength and integrity they connect each moment seamlessly with the next in a thrilling and heart-stopping performance. Glimpse their humanity as they as they find redemptive power in strength and celebrate what it means to be fiercely human.

Circa might just be the most in-demand Australian arts company in the world right now—with a touring schedule that

would send most heads spinning, it’s not hard to see why. Circa’s reputation for fearless, boundary-pushing new circus is borne out in every one of their shows, which combine physical virtuosity with an expressive humanism.

Humans premiered under the Spaghetti Circus Big Top, Parramatta, at Sydney Festival in January 2017. It has since toured to Romania, the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Belgium, Ireland and Hungary.

CIRCA // who’s who in the company YARON LIFSCHITZ (Director) Yaron Lifschitz is a graduate of the University of New South Wales, University of Queensland, and National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA), where he was the youngest director ever accepted into its prestigious graduate director’s course. Since graduating, Yaron has directed over 60 productions including largescale events, opera, theatre, physical theatre, and circus. His work has been seen in 39 countries and across six continents by over one million people and has won numerous awards including six Helpmann awards and the Australia Council Theatre Award. His productions have been presented at major festivals and venues around the world including Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Barbican, Les Nuits de Fourvière, Chamaleon and all the major Australian festivals. His film work was selected for the Berlin and Melbourne Film Festivals. He was founding Artistic Director of the Australian Museum’s Theatre Unit, Head Tutor in Directing at Australian Theatre for Young People and has been a regular guest tutor in directing at NIDA. He is currently Artistic Director and CEO of Circa, and was the Creative Director of Festival 2018: the arts and cultural program of the 21st Commonwealth Games. In 2018, Yaron directed four new Circa creations, and a new production of Idomeneo which opened in Lisbon at The Teatro Nacional de São Carlos.

PERFORMERS CAROLINE BAILLON discovered circus when she was just seven years old, and from that point could never imagine doing anything else. In 2009, she moved to Quebec City where she studied in the professional circus program at the prestigious Ecole Nationale de Cirque. She studied hand-to-hand and banquine, and specialized in multicorde.

Since graduating, she has toured extensively in her duo ‘Connor and Caroline’ to a number of countries.Caroline joined the Circa ensemble in 2017, and performed in

the premiere season of Spanish Baroque.

She has toured with Circa since, including performing the UK tour of Depart, and Humans at Edinburgh Fringe.

NATHAN BOYLE has been a natural performer his whole life. After terrorising his parents at a young age with handstands and cartwheels, his parents saw his passion for performing and acrobatics and enrolled him in gymnastics. His passion for acrobatics took him to sports acrobatics where he represented and won titles for New South Wales at many national championships.After accepting his position at the National Institute of Circus Arts, Nathan specialised in cloudswing, adagio, bungee trapeze and teeterboard.

A memorable moment for Nathan whilst at NICA was performing at an International Circus Festival in Auch, France in 2009.Nathan joined Circa as a full time ensemble member in 2011 and has since entertained audiences nationally and internationally. Some highlights for Nathan so far has been creating and world premiering “S” at Brisbane Festival and travelling around Australia on the CIRCA National Tour in 2012.

MARTY EVANS came to circus by a more roundabout route than most.

After watching nothing but circus videos during his lunchbreaks at Australia’s only nuclear reactor, Marty left behind his published scientific career, embracing his physical sports background to pursue a career in circus.His first taste of circus came at the University of Sydney in 2010 as he tried to entertain himself during free periods by learning to throw people into the air and trying to catch them again.

Marty trained at the National Institute of Circus Arts in Melbourne. He is a fiercely determined and hard working hand-tohand base that enjoys exploring new challenges and techniques.Marty joined the Circa Ensemble full time in 2015, and has been involved in the creation of numerous Circa productions including When One Door Closes and Humans.

PIRI GOODMAN began his circus journey at age eight after following his older sister through the doors of Warehouse Circus in Canberra. Here he learnt important life skills such as spinning crockery on a stick and how to balance dining chairs on his face.A cofounder and ensemble member of Poncho Circus, Piri completed a Bachelor of Circus Arts at the National Institute of Circus Arts in Melbourne. During his career, Piri has codevised and performed multiple works which have toured both nationally and overseas, creating circus that surprises audiences and challenges conventional perceptions of the art form. Piri joined the Circa Ensemble in 2018.

KEATON HENTOFFKILLIAN was born straight into a circus family, and circus has always been part of his life. Since the young age of one month old, Keaton has been on stage. Unlike his siblings, circus didn’t come naturally to him. Growing up he was very adamant he wanted to be a librarian or something else equally as relaxing. However as the years went by his other interests just couldn’t keep up with his growing passion for circus. Keaton graduated high school a year early so he could attend Ecole Nationale de Cirque, where he specialised in tight wire with complementary disciplines in hoop diving and Chinese pole.

He has worked with different companies including Circus Flora, Cirque du Soleil, Cirque Jean Coutu, Circus Harmony, Zoppe Circus and many more. Keaton joined Circa just after he graduated in June 2016, he has performed in numerous shows and creations including What Will Have Been and Humans.

BRIDIE HOOPER tumbled into Spaghetti Circus at the age of 11, where her imagination became entirely unleashed. She was taught to bend, fly and dream, and at 16, Bridie ventured south to the

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CIRCA // who’s who in the company banks of the Murray River to join the Flying Fruit Fly Circus. In 2008 Bridie bid Australian soils ‘adieu’ to complete her studies at the Montreal National Circus School where she also had the chance to perform in the Vancouver Olympics Opening Ceremony, at Festival CIRCA, and in the Montreal Completement Cirque Festival in 2010 and 2011.Upon graduating in 2012 Bridie toured Quebec with Vague de Cirque, performed in GOP Variété Dummy and returned to Australia to work for Circa. Since then, Bridie has toured across America, Europe and Australia and has participated in several new creations for Circa, including When One Door Closes, Humans, and One Beautiful Thing.

TODD KILBY from the New South Wales coastal city of Newcastle was born into the life of surfing and all things beach. He is a black belt in taekwondo and has both trained and performed with Circus Avalon and Hands Free Physical Theatre with whom he won a CONDA for stunt choreography. Todd joined the National Institute of Circus Arts in 2008 and whilst there worked with the Tangentyre Council in Alice Springs teaching in the local Indigenous Youth Circus Arts Centre. While specializing in Chinese pole and hoop diving he has also been trained in teeterboard, adagio, tumbling and knockabout.

Todd is a multifaceted performer with a uniquely Australian style combining circus, dance, martial arts and drama.

Todd has a passion and love of performing and entertaining audiences through exploration and raw human energy. For Todd, Circa is an elephant of awesome in the Savanna of Circus.

CECILIA MARTIN grew up as an only child, and with Spanish as her first language, she was engaging with her friends physically before she could communicate verbally. She grew up surrounded by sport, music and art and found a passion for circus early on, attending

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Warehouse Circus in Canberra. Cecilia went on to co-found the company Poncho Circus at the age of fifteen, where she created and performed in circus shows as part of an ensemble. Cecilia is also a talented musician, demonstrating this by composing scores to three different circus productions. Upon graduating high school, Cecilia went on to study circus full time at the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) where she specialised in dance trapeze, Washington trapeze and group acrobatics. She joined the Circa ensemble in late 2016 and has since participated in the creation of Humans, and One Beautiful Thing.

DANIEL O’BRIEN has been physically active throughout his whole life, primarily focusing on his gymnastics training in his hometown and a few small gyms along the Queensland coastline.

After high school Daniel made a decision to transition from the sport of gymnastics to a possible career in circus performance.

Daniel decided to move to Melbourne and study at the National Institute of Circus Arts, specializing in hand-balancing and aerial straps, where he gained his first experiences as a performer. He spends his spare time feeding his unhealthy addiction to video games or reading whatever he can get his hands on.After attending NICA for three years, Daniel has fostered an immense passion for circus, honed his skills to a level, which has allowed him to join Circa as an ensemble member in 2015.

He has since performed in the many iconic Circa works including What Will Have Been, Closer and Humans.

KIMBERLEY O’BRIEN grew up competing in athletics and playing representative AFL. After seeing one of Circa’s shows, Kimberley joined the Circa youth performance troupe Circa Zoo. After two years of training and performing Kimberley was given the opportunity to be the very first member of fast track, a

program designed for young and aspiring performers within Circa.In 2011 Kimberley left Circa Zoo and fast track and became a full-time ensemble member.

Since then Kimberley has toured numerous shows in various countries and participated in the creation of many new Circa works. One of her highlights was performing Wunderkammer at the Sydney Opera House.

LIBBY MCDONNELL (Costume Designer) works across disciplines as a designer, choreographer, director and performer and has an Associate Degree (Dance) from the Queensland University of Technology. Libby has codirected for Ballet Theatre of Queensland and has been resident choreographer and designer for Blue Roo Theatre Company.

As Associate Director with Circa, Libby has designed costumes for all of Circa’s major creations since 2010 and has show directed and managed tours in Australia and abroad.

JASON ORGAN (Technical Director and Lighting Designer) graduated from Queensland University of Technology in 1988.

He has worked as a technician, rigger, lighting designer and production manager. During this time he has lit all manner of productions from pantomimes and product launches to ballet, festivals, military tattoos, circus and live television; contemporary dance and circus being his favourites. Jason was the co-founder of JLX productions, a lighting design and technical consultancy, based in Brisbane.

Since January 2010 Jason has been working exclusively with Circa, lighting and production managing their international tours.

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LUCY GUERIN INC // ARTIST NOTE— FROM LUCY GUERIN The inspiration for Split came from a desire to get into the studio with just two dancers.

Having worked on some larger pieces over the last couple of years, I wanted that luxury of closeness with the dancers, to play and search in a low-pressure environment. This for me is the joy of dance making, a chance to burrow into the pure elements of choreography; time, space, structure and the movement of the human body. And to allow content to develop from that process which has resonance in the world.

Split shifts between two bodies, reconciled and in conflict. The diminishing world that they inhabit induces competition, negotiation, harmony and aggression. They set their own parameters. Dividing the time length of each section and the amount of space for each, I also wanted to disrupt the harmony between the two dancers. We tried different costumes but that didn’t seem to read clearly. Having one naked and the other clothed created a split in identity that intensified the piece. For me it gives seriousness and normality to the female body, which is such a site of commodification, exploitation, shame and shock.

In Split it is what the body does as much as what it is that is important. Heartfelt thanks to Lilian and Melanie for their courage and commitment to this work. Their patience and diligence is very apparent and the gravity and concentration that they bring to the choreography are vital for its realisation. Their willingness to engage in the creative process not just as instruments, but as agents who embody ideas and make the work into a whole is very precious.

ABOUT THE COMPANY This dance revels in Lucy Guerin’s sharp, elegant choreographic investigations, reflecting the dilemmas of negotiating with oneself and others in a world of increased pressure and reduced resources.

Lucy Guerin Inc is an Australian dance company established in Melbourne in 2002 to create and tour new dance works. Renowned for the skill and originality of its small group of performers, it is dedicated to challenging and extending the art of contemporary dance. New productions are generated through an experimental approach to creative process, and may involve voice, video, sound, text and design as well as Guerin’s lucid physical structures.

The company is a flexible model that values research and risk in the creative process and provides the conditions to question existing notions of dance. This is always a choreographic exploration, striving for visual, emotional and physical revelations that could not be generated or communicated in any other artform.

Over the last 16 years the company has evolved from a structure that enables Guerin’s choreographic projects, to an organization that also supports the development of independent dance artists in Melbourne. Through a program of residencies, classes, workshops, presentations and mentoring opportunities, it is responsive to the shifting ideas and contexts generated by dance and choreography in the world today.

In 2017 Lucy Guerin Inc premiered Split, presented

by Arts House as part of the Dance Massive festival in Melbourne. Other recent works include The Dark Chorus (2016) and Attractor (2017), a collaboration with Gideon Obarzanek, Dance North and Indonesian music duo, Senyawa.

The company regularly tours works both nationally and internationally to Europe, Asia, Canada and the US. www.lucyguerininc.com

ABOUT SPLIT This is a square, a stage, a world, a life.

Space is getting tighter and time is getting shorter. In Split, the dancers Melanie Lane and Lilian Steiner, one clothed and one naked, are framed by ever-diminishing dimensions of space and time with escalating intensity.

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elegant choreographic investigations, reflecting the dilemmas of negotiating with oneself and others in a world of increased pressure and reduced resources.

Split received a prestigious Helpmann Award for Best Dancer (Lilian Steiner) and four Green Room Awards among other nominations. In 2018 it tours to Sydney,

Darwin, Jakarta, Groningen, Dusseldorf, Aarhus, Tokyo, New York, Portland (OR), Paris, Brugge and Budapest.

Featuring a musical score by UK composer Scanner, Split is a thought-provoking structural meditation rendered in movement and delivered by one of Australia’s most fearless dance companies.

LUCY GUERIN INC // who’s who in the company LUCY GUERIN

Choreographer/ Director Born in Adelaide, Australia, Lucy Guerin graduated from the Centre for Performing Arts in 1982 before joining the companies of Russell Dumas (Dance Exchange) and Nanette Hassall (Danceworks). She moved to New York in 1989 for seven years where she danced with Tere O’Connor Dance, the Bebe Miller Company and Sara Rudner, and began to produce her first choreographic works. She returned to Australia in 1996 and worked as an independent artist, creating new dance works including Two Lies (1996) Robbery Waitress on Bail (1997), Heavy (1999) and The Ends of Things (2000). In 2002 she established Lucy Guerin Inc in Melbourne to support the development, creation and touring of new works with a focus on challenging and extending the concepts and practice of contemporary dance. Recent works include Structure and Sadness (2006), Corridor (2008), Untrained (2009), Human Interest Story (2010), Conversation Piece (2012), Weather 2012), Motion Picture (2015), The Dark Chorus (2016) Attractor (2017) and Split (2017).

Guerin has toured her work extensively in Europe, Asia and North America as well as to most of Australia’s major festivals and venues. She has been commissioned by Chunky Move, Dance Works Rotterdam, Ricochet (UK ), Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project (USA), Lyon Opera Ballet (France) among many others.

In 2015 Lucy co-directed a new production of Macbeth, alongside Carrie Cracknell at the Young Vic, London. In 2016 she choreographed new work, Tomorrow, for London dance company Rambert. Her many awards include the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award, a New York Dance and Performance Award (a ‘Bessie’), several Green Room Awards, three Helpmann Awards and three Australian Dance Awards. In 2018 Lucy received the Shirley McKechnie, Green Room Award for Choreography.

MELANIE LANE

Dancer Melanie Lane is a Javanese/Australian choreographer and performer.

Based in Europe from 2000–2014, Melanie worked with artists such as Arco Renz, Club Guy and Roni, and Tino Seghal performing internationally.

In Australia Melanie has performed with Lucy Guerin Inc, Antony Hamilton Projects, Chunky Move and has collaborated with artists Ash Keating, Bridie Lunney and Amos Gebhardt. In 2015, Melanie was appointed resident director at Lucy Guerin Inc and has created new works for Chunky Move (2016) and Sydney Dance Company (2017). Melanie has established a repertory of works presenting in international festivals and venues such as Tanz im August, Uzes Danse Festival, Arts House Melbourne, O Espaco do Tempo, Festival Antigel, Dance Massive and HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin. She has been artist in residence at Dock 11 Berlin, Tanzwerkstatt Berlin and Schauspielhaus Leipzig.

Melanie was a 2017 Helpmann award nominee for ‘Best female dancer’ in Lucy Guerin’s Split and received the Leipziger Bewegungskunstpreis 2018 for her choreographic work Wonderwomen. Melanie won the 2018 Keir Choreographic Award.

As a teacher, she has taught for companies such as Carte Blanche Norway, Sasha Waltz and Guests, Chunky Move, Danish Dance Theatre and Skanes Dansteater among others.

LILIAN STEINER

Dancer Lilian Steiner is a Melbourne-based performer and choreographer who has collaborated and performed with Lucy Guerin Inc across multiple projects since 2011. As a dancer, Lilian has worked with Australian companies Lucy Guerin Inc. and Phillip Adams’ Balletlab across many projects as well as with independent choreographers Melanie Lane, Shelley Lasica, Brooke Stamp, visual artists Brook Andrew, Ash Keating, Mikala Dwyer and Alicia Frankovic, performance art group Public

Movement and architect Matthew Bird (Studio Bird). In 2017 Lilian received both the Helpmann Award and Green Room Award for Best Female Dancer, as well as nominations in 2013, 2016 and 2018.

Lilian’s own choreographies have been presented as part of the Keir Choreographic Award (2018), Dance Massive (2017), Next Wave Festival (2016), Melbourne Fringe Festival (2014 & 2015) and at the National Gallery of Victoria - Melbourne Now exhibition (2014). In 2018 Lilian will be presenting her work Noise Quartet Meditation at Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint Denis (Paris) and Fête de la Musique (Geneva).

SCANNER

Composer Since 1991 Scanner, British artist Robin Rimbaud, has been intensely active in sonic art, producing concerts, installations and recordings, connecting a bewilderingly diverse array of genres. He scored the hit musical comedy Kirikou & Karaba (2007) and Narnia ballet (2015), Philips Wake-Up Light (2009), the re opening of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and in 2016 installed Water Drops at Rijeka Airport in Croatia. His work Salles des Departs (2003) is permanently installed in a working morgue in Paris. Committed to working with cutting edge practitioners he has collaborated with Bryan Ferry, Wayne MacGregor, Mike Kelley, Michael Nyman, Steve McQueen, Laurie Anderson and Hussein Chalayan. Scanner worked with Lucy Guerin on the 2016 commission for Rambert, Tomorrow.

PAUL LIM

Lighting Designer Paul is a Melbourne based Lighting Designer with a broad range of experience in theatrical production. His multifaceted knowledge has been used to provide integrated solutions for theatre, festivals and events around the world. Lighting design credits include: The Dark Chorus & Split (Lucy Guerin Inc); The Magic Flute (New Zealand Opera); Changes and Siva (Black Grace Dance

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LUCY GUERIN INC // continued Company); The Mooncake and the Kumara (Auckland Arts Festival); Fault Lines (Le Shan Modern Dance Company); Effie: The Virgin Bride (Frontier Mushroom); Hot Brown Honey, Briefs: Close Encounters and Briefs: The Second Coming (Briefs Factory). Paul is a director of Additive, providing lighting design and technical solutions to the entertainment industry.

Sound Designer Robin Fox is an artist working in sound and light across performance, installation, interactive systems and contemporary dance. His AV works with lasers (Monochroma, RGB) have been performed worldwide to critical acclaim. In dance he is a frequent collaborator with Lucy Guerin and has also collaborated regularly with Stephanie Lake, Antony Hamilton and Gideon Obarzanek among others. His music is released internationally through Editions Mego. Current projects include Sky Light, a citywide laser installation commissioned by Melbourne Fringe, Double Vision a collaboration with electronic music legend Atom tm, and he is co-founder of MESS (Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio) which opened in April 2016.

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