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PILOBOLUS DANCE THEATRE Saturday, April 14, 2012

www.uniontheater.wisc.edu 608-265-ARTS (2787) 800 Langdon St., Madison, WI 53706 Pilobolus is a tax-exempt, not-for-profit corporation, supported in part by funds from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism and the Connecticut Arts Endowment Fund, and by grants from The American Dance Festival with support from the SHS Foundation, The Diebold Foundation, The Gilman Foundation, Goldman Sachs Gives, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Jean and Julien Levy Foundation for the Arts, Inc., The George L. and Grace A. Long Foundation, The Litchfield County Friends of Pilobolus, MetLife Foundation, The NewAlliance Foundation, The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation, Newman’s Own Foundation, The Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, The Silver Mountain Foundation, and The Xerox Foundation. If you wish to contribute to Pilobolus, please call or write us.

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Presented by the Wisconsin Union Directorate Performing Arts Committee, directed this season by Shawn Werner.

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Additional support provided by the H. Douglas and Elizabeth B. Weaver Fund for the Performing Arts, the Porter and Lou Butts Theater Fund, the Wisconsin Union Theater Endowment Fund, the Onion, and Wisconsin Public Radio.

UW-Madison students: to join the Wisconsin Union Directorate Performing Arts Committee and help program our upcoming events, please contact Shawn Werner at sawerner@wisc.edu

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Artistic Directors Robby Barnett Michael Tracy Jonathan Wolken (1949-2010)

Associate Artistic Directors Renée Jaworski Matt Kent

Dancers Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern Matt Del Rosario Eriko Jimbo Jordan Kriston Jun Kuribayashi Manelich Minniefee Nile H. Russell Executive Director ..............................................................................................Itamar Kubovy Co-Executive Director ................................................................................................. Lily Binns General Manager.................................................................................................Susan Mandler Director of Production......................................................................................Shane Mongar Technical Director................................................................................................Kristin Helfrich Company Manager.................................................................................................. Kirsten Leon Education Director............................................................................................. Michael Lofton Director of Marketing ............................................................................... Kristin MacDonald Associate Producer..................................................................................................Mary Canter Production Stage Manager............................................................................. Sarah Fujiwara Lighting Design........................................................................................... Neil Peter Jampolis Lighting Supervisor............................................................................................Michael Dostal Dance Captain.....................................................................................................Jun Kuribayashi Associate Dance Captain.........................................................................................Nile Russell US Touring: IMG Artists Tel: 212-994-3500 • Fax: 212-994-3550 International Touring, Corporate, and Creative Services, Shadowland Touring Schedule and Booking: E-mail Booking@pilobolus.org • US 860.717.0517 • UK 44.207.193.9877 General inquiries: Tel 860.868.0538 • E-mail info@pilobolus.org Visit our website: www.pilobolus.org MetLife Foundation is the Official 40th Anniversary Tour Sponsor of Pilobolus and a Major Supporter of Pilobolus’ International Collaborators Project.

Pilobolus’ International Collaborators Project is made possible through our funders and the generous assistance of the American Dance Festival with support from the SHS Foundation.

Pilobolus is supported in part by an award from the NEA which believes that a great nation deserves great art.

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PROGR A M SEXTET (2012) Choreographed by Renee Jaworski, Michael Tracy and Michael Moschen in collaboration with Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern, Winston Dynamite Brown, Matt Del Rosario, Eriko Jimbo, Jordan Kriston, Jun Kuribayashi, Manelich Minniefee and Nile Russell Performed by Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern, Matt Del Rosario, Eriko Jimbo, Jordan Kriston, Jun Kuribayashi and Nile Russell Music:

René Aubry

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto Yann Tiersen

Costumes:

Liz Prince

Lighting:

Stephen Strawbridge

Sextet 2012 was commissioned by the American Dance Festival with support from the SHS Foundation, and with additional funding by the Litchfield County Friends of Pilobolus.

ALL IS NOT LOST (2011) Created by OK Go, Pilobolus and Trish Sie, created in collaboration with Pilobolus dancers Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern, Winston Dynamite Brown, Matt Del Rosario, Andy Herro, Eriko Jimbo, Jordan Kriston, Jun Kuribayashi and Nile Russell Performed by Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern, Matt Del Rosario, Eriko Jimbo, Jordan Kriston, Jun Kuribayashi and Nile Russell Music: OK Go Costume construction:

Phoebe Katzin

Lighting:

Michael Dostal and Shane Mongar

Creation of ALL IS NOT LOST is made possible by The O’Donnell Green Music and Dance Foundation.

KOROKORO (2011) Choreographed by Takuya Muramatsu of Dairakudakan, Renée Jaworski and Michael Tracy in collaboration with Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern, Winston Dynamite Brown, Matt Del Rosario, Eriko Jimbo, Jordan Kriston, Jun Kuribayashi and Nile Russell Performed by Matt Del Rosario, Eriko Jimbo, Jordan Kriston, Jun Kuribayashi, Manelich Minniefee and Nile Russell.

Music:

Von Oswald, Truby Trio, Flim, Noto and Sakamoto.

Costumes:

Liz Prince

Lighting:

Neil Peter Jampolis

Photographer/Digital Projection Artist: John Kane Commissioned by the American Dance Festival with support from The SHS Foundation and The Japan Foundation, New York, with additional major funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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INTERMISSION PSEUDOPODIA (1973) Choreographed by Jonathan Wolken Performed by Jun Kuribayashi Music:

Moses Pendleton, Jonathan Wolken

Costume: Malcolm McCormick Lighting:

Neil Peter Jampolis

BRIEF INTERMISSION DAY TWO (1980) Directed by Moses Pendleton Choreographed by Daniel Ezralow, Robert Faust, Jamey Hampton, Carol Parker, Moses Pendleton, Peter Pucci, Cynthia Quinn, and Michael Tracy Performed by Manelich Minniefee, Matt Del Rosario, Eriko Jimbo, Jordan Kriston, Jun Kuribayashi and Nile Russell Music:

Brian Eno, David Byrne and the Talking Heads

Lighting:

Neil Peter Jampolis based on a concept by David M. Chapman

Commissioned by Peter, Ginevra, and Helen.

Program is Subject to Change T H A N K YO U F R O M P I L O B O L U S The 2011-12 season marks Pilobolus’ 40th anniversary and we’d like to take the opportunity to deliver a thank you note.

Pilobolus has always been as much a social experiment as it has been about making dances.

We are interested in the way groups of people can come together to solve problems, and it remains a vivid idea in any form that individuals can gather voluntarily to make something larger than themselves, agreeing upon a common vision without losing the idiosyncratic shape of their separate voices. It’s a kind of utopian ideal, one we have quietly believed in from the beginning and spent our adult lives working to maintain; surprisingly its relevance to our world seems only to have grown.

Our dance works, good or bad, are not ends-in-themselves but the offspring of a larger idea, and it is Pilobolus itself, the ever-evolving arts organism that is really our deepest and most original creation. It is also true that our company does not exist in isolation but is a member of a much larger community, including, but not limited t,o theaters and agents and critics and presenters and dancers and dance-makers and our audiences around the globe. It is a webbing of relationships variously sustained by interdependence, genuine affection, and professional regard, and 40 years of work and play have given us a sharpened sense of how important we all are to each other, now and in the future.

So, to all the people who have touched our lives, and to whom we have offered up the best we had to give, we want to say thank you. It has been an amazing run and we’re looking forward to all the years ahead.

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ABOUT PILOBOLUS Pilobolus is a modern performance company, founded in 1971, that to this day wears its revolutionary stripes on its sleeves. In keeping with its fundamentally collective creative process, Pilobolus Dance Theatre now curates and convenes groups of diverse artists— including the MIT Distributed Robotics Laboratory, Art Spiegelman, OK Go, Radiolab, and many others—to make inventive, athletic, witty, collaborative performance works on stage and screen using the human body as a medium for expression.

Pilobolus makes art to build community. It teaches its group-based creative process to performers and non-dancers alike through popular, unique educational projects and programs. This collection of activities is called the Pilobolus Institute. Pilobolus also applies its method of creative invention to a wide range of movement services for film, advertising, publishing, commercial clients, and corporate events. This division is called Pilobolus Creative Services. The 2012 season marks Pilobolus’ 41st year. In keeping with the energy and spirit of its biological namesake—a phototropic fungus that thrives in farmyards—the company has continued to grow toward the light, expanding and refining its unique methods of collective creative production to assemble a repertoire of over 100 choreographic works. While it has become a stable and influential force in the world of dance, Pilobolus remains as protean as ever, looking forward to the next 40 years of collaborating on the future.

PILOBOLUS DANCE THEATRE Pilobolus is based in Washington Depot, Connecticut and performs for stage, television, and online audiences all over the world. The company has appeared late at night on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, early in the morning on Sesame Street, and in primetime as a feature on CBS’s 60 Minutes.

Pilobolus has performed live shows in 64 countries and has received a number of prestigious honors, including the Berlin Critics Prize, the Scotsman Award, the Brandeis Award, a Primetime Emmy Award for outstanding achievement in cultural programming, and the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for lifetime achievement in choreography. In 2010, Pilobolus was honored as the first collective to receive the Dance Magazine Award, which recognizes artists who have made lasting contributions to the field. Pilobolus works also appear in the repertories of major American and European dance companies. In 2005, Pilobolus transferred its archive to Dartmouth College, where the company originated. Since then the College has been growing the “living archive” with a series of new work commissions.

PILOBOLUS CREATIVE SERVICES Pilobolus Creative Services provide movement design and production for commercial applications in business and advertising.

PCS has made television spots for Mobil, Ford, Toyota, Opel, Hyundai, Multicentrum, BBVA, Bidvest, and Proctor and Gamble, and created live events for IBM, McKinsey, United Technologies, Dupont, Merck, and Google. In 2007 the company created and presented 6 acclaimed performances during the 79th Annual Academy Awards, as well as producing a series of original segments for the “Oprah Winfrey Show” and “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”. PCS has also produced two books for national distribution, Twisted Yoga and The Human Alphabet, and releases an annual calendar of dance photography in collaboration with a number of noted American photographers. In Spring 2009, one of eight spots created for the NFL Network was nominated for an Emmy Award in Sports, and the company’s website was nominated for a Webby Award in Best Photography.

THE PILOBOLUS INSTITUTE Pilobolus has now spent 40 years engaged in a uniquely collective creative process. The Institute is a series of educational programs that apply that process for greater good, helping groups of any kind work better together and achieve greater common goals. It is the success of that enterprise that brings you all here this evening. Institute programs are designed to explore the necessary conditions for this success, and use the art of collaborative choreography as a model 6 WI Union

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for creative thinking in any field. Through this process we begin to understand more generally the way groups can organize themselves to do things more efficiently and well. Recent projects include a series of workshops for Avon Corporation in partnership with Deloitte, and classes at other schools. Every summer, the Institute offers several week-long adult workshops, as well as a kids camp, at our home in Washington Depot, CT. We are also proud to count 2012 as our 15th season of Movin’, a unique partnership with the Shubert Theater in New Haven, offering month-long choreographic programs for middle school boys and girls. After co-founder Jonathan Wolken, the force of nature who gave Pilobolus its name, died in 2010, Pilobolus established the Jonathan Wolken Education Fund to help spread the spirit of Jonathan’s teaching and methods to students and artists of all ages through the Pilobolus Institute. More information about how you can be a part of the Institute’s work, the Jonathan Wolken Fund, and all of Pilobolus’ activities can be found on our website: www.pilobolus.org. Come and join us soon.

W H O ’ S W H O I N T H E C O M PA N Y ROBBY BARNETT, Artistic Director, was born and raised in the Adirondack Mountains and attended Dartmouth College. He joined Pilobolus in 1971.

MICHAEL TRACY, Artistic Director, born in Florence and raised in New England, met the other Pilobolus founders at Dartmouth in 1969, becoming an Artistic Director after graduating magna cum laude in 1973. He toured with Pilobolus for 14 years – for 8 as the only touring Director - and continues to choreograph and direct the company. He has set his work on the Joffrey, Ohio, Hartford, Nancy and Verona Ballets and choreographed a production of Mozart’s Magic Flute with John Eliot Gardiner, the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists, and a national tour production for the National Theater of the Deaf. Mr. Tracy taught at Yale University for two decades and lives in northwestern Connecticut.

JONATHAN WOLKEN, 1949-2010, co-founded Pilobolus in 1971, naming the company after a feisty fungus being researched in his father’s biophysics lab. He remained one of Pilobolus’ 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 “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. Jonathan leaves his wife, JoAnne, and his four daughters.

ITAMAR KUBOVY Executive Director.

After graduating from Yale with a degree in Philosophy and before joining Pilobolus as its first Executive Director in 2004, Kubovy 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.

At Pilobolus, Kubovy founded and co-curates the critically acclaimed International Collaborators Project, which opens the choreographic process to artists and thinkers from diverse fields.

Recent collaborators include Inbal Pinto/ Avshalom Pollak, Art Spiegelman, Basil Twist, the MIT Distributed Robotics Lab, the band OK Go, Steve Banks, the head writer of “SpongeBob SquarePants,” and European choreographer, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Kubovy also evolved and heads up Pilobolus Creative Services, developing movement for film, advertising, publishing, commercial clients, and corporate events, and is one of the creators of “Shadowland.” In keeping with the company’s traditionally collective approach to creative work, Kubovy now focuses his efforts on securing the company’s transition into Pilobolus 7

W H O ’ S W H O I N T H E C O M PA N Y a sustainable laboratory that convenes creative minds to produce imaginative physical entertainment and distribute it on diverse platforms.

RENÉE JAWORSKI, Associate Artistic Director. Originally from Long Island, NY, Renée received her BFA in Modern Dance from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Upon graduating she began work with MOMIX, performing and teaching throughout the world and creating her own work in Philadelphia.

In 2010 her Alma Mater honored her with the University’s Silver Star Alumni Award for work as an artist in the field of dance. She has worked with Pilobolus since 2000, collaboratively working on and performing in exciting projects such as the 2007 Academy Awards, as well as directing, teaching, and choreographing for the many parts that make up Pilobolus.

MATT KENT, Associate Artistic Director, has worked with Pilobolus, Inc. since 1996 as a dancer, collaborator, creative director, choreographer, and associate artistic director. Matt has also worked closely with Rob Kapilow, creator of NPR’s “What makes It Great?,” on several original productions for symphonic stages including “Jabberwocky” a commission to reopen the newly renovated Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. Matt is Head Executive Choreographer for Andre Heller’s Magnifico, a large scale production touring German speaking Europe and choreographs and consults for television and stage around the world as well. Recent projects include Duncan Sheik’s latest musical, “Whisper House,” zombie choreography for AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” a Sports Emmy nominated teaser for the NFL network. He has performed in over 24 countries and on the 79th Academy Awards. Matt currently lives in Atlanta with his wife and two children who remain a constant source of inspiration.

SHAWN FITZGERALD AHERN, Dancer, is a country boy at heart, born and raised in Dublin, New Hampshire. After graduating from rural public school and the Monadnock Performing Arts Academy, both located in his native New Hampshire, Shawn moved to Vienna, Austria to continue his studies through dance and visual arts. He later returned 8 WI Union

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to New Hampshire where he worked in steel construction and pursued his undergraduate degree at Keene State College. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Keene as a Theatre and Dance major under the mentorship of William Seigh. Shawn owes his passion for movement and for learning to the inspired instructors at MPAA, KSC and the American Dance Festival. He is truly excited each day to collaborate, travel and perform with Pilobolus! Shawn would like to thank you for sustaining the arts and, most importantly, he thanks his family from the bottom of his heart for all the unending support and love they bring into his life.

MATT DEL ROSARIO, Dancer, was born and raised in Hawaii. He began formal dance training at age 20 under the guidance of Paul Maley, who inspired him to get a BFA in Contemporary Dance at the North Carolina School of the Arts. In his free time, Matt loves to surf, spear dive, dance Hula and play the ukulele. A special thanks to his Ohana for their love and support.

ERIKO JIMBO, Dancer, was born in Japan, raised all over the States, and earned her BFA in dance from NC School of the Arts. Since then she has been dancing professionally and broadening her dancing through aerial work, wushu, capoeira, hip hop, waacking, vogue, breakin, African acrobatics and more. She has a special passion for the NYC underground house and hip hop culture and often performs and engages in events of the scene. She proudly represents her two crews, MAWU and FMinit, wherever she battles, competes, or throws down. She is also the 2009 champion of House Dance International in the experimental category. Jimbo has traveled throughout the world to perform and teach and aspires to continue traveling to share her passion. She joined Pilobolus in 2009.

JORDAN KRISTON, Dancer, was born in Illinois and grew up in Phoenix, Arizona.

She earned a BFA in Dance Performance from Arizona State University while performing with Movement Source Dance Company of Phoenix. In 2006 she moved to Brooklyn, NY to pursue a career in dance. During her time in New York,

W H O ’ S W H O I N T H E C O M PA N Y she had the pleasure of working with H.T Chen and Dian Dong, Douglas Dunn and Karl Anderson and thanks them all for how much they taught her. Jordan presented her own work at Treskelion Arts in Brooklyn in 2010. Then, after auditioning twice, she was thrilled to start a full-time position with Pilobolus Dance Theatre in August 2010. She loves being part of the fungus! Jordan also enjoys writing and the National Geographic Magazine.

She thanks her family for supporting her especially her sister, Micah Kriston, for always inspiring her in dance and in other ways.

JUN KURIBAYASHI, Dance Captain, was born in Japan then raised in the US since age 5. His background includes competitive swimming, break dancing and Capoeira. At age 22 he began learning dance technique at the University of Kansas where he earned his BFA. He debuted professionally with Momix in 2004 and is now thrilled to be a part of the Pilobolus family. Jun gives special thanks to the dance faculty at KU, friends and families (Kuribayashi & Jones) who supported his decision to follow a once distant dream of dancing and ESPECIALLY to his wonderful supportive wife, Casey Miranda, who always keeps him grounded and sane. Jun joined Pilobolus in August 2004.

MANELICH MINNIEFEE, Dancer, was raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina by a family of artists. He was first introduced to modern dance and to Pilobolus as a student at the American Dance Festival, in 1998. That fall, he enrolled North Carolina School of the Arts and graduated in 2000. He went on to attend NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts on full scholarship, and graduated with a BFA, in 2003. Since joining the company thereafter, Manelich has performed and taught in forty-six states and ten countries around the world.

NILE H. RUSSELL, Associate Dance Captain, is originally from Baltimore, MD. He received a B.A. in dance from Connecticut College in 2004, where he was fortunate enough to have the guidance of wonderful dancers and teachers such as Dan Wagoner, Lan Lan Wang, Jeff Rebudal, Robyne Watkin and Jeremy Nelson. Connecticut is also where his love for Indian culture began and

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in 2002, Nile traveled to India to study temple and architecture studies and Bharatanatyam dance. Since moving to New York in 2004, Nile has danced with Silver-Brown Dance, LeeSaar The Company, Luis Lara Malvacias, Stefanie Nelson Dance Group and Naganuma Dance. He will forever thank his friends, family and mother, Sharon, for their love and support. He blissfully joined the Pilobolus touring company in August 2009.

SHANE MONGAR, Director of Production, is originally from Chattanooga Tennessee but has made New York City his home. A graduate of Western Kentucky University, Shane has worked on countless regional, off -Broadway and dance productions. In his spare time he enjoys reading, music and spending time with family and friends.

Shane would like to thank everyone who has helped him on his journey and is excited to be working with Pilobolus!

KRISTIN HELFRICH, Technical Director, holds a Bachelor’s of Arts in Lighting Design and Photography from Columbia College in Chicago, Illinois. Prior to joining Pilobolus, she spent three years working as the Production Stage Manager and Lighting Supervisor for Deeply Rooted Dance Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. Previous work also includes, Production Stage Management, Ballet Chicago; Master Electrician, American Dance Festival 2007; and Assistant Lighting Designer, National Playwright’s Festival in Waterford, CT. MICHAEL DOSTAL, Lighting Supervisor, is excited to be traveling the world with the Pilobolus family! He was the Lighting Supervisor at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival for the two years prior and has also worked with Richmond Ballet in Richmond Virginia as their Lighting Supervisor. He is excited to travel to new places around the world and meet people along the way. Enjoy the show!

MOSES PENDLETON, Choreographer, was born and raised on a farm in northern Vermont. He received his B.A. in English Literature from Dartmouth College in 1971 and co-founded Pilobolus that same year and was one of its artistic directors until 1990. In addition to his work with Pilobolus, Pendleton has Pilobolus 9

W H O ’ S W H O I N T H E C O M PA N Y choreographed and performed for numerous companies throughout the world. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1977. Mr. Pendleton has performed as a soloist in galas throughout Europe and at the Metropolitan Opera House as well as with his own company, Momix, which he founded with Alison Chase in 1980.

MICHAEL MOSCHEN, Choreographer, is a juggler. He has created unique objects and manipulation techniques for Performance Theater for thirty years.

Utilizing his self- taught ‘creative process’ he questions and explores what it is to be human. Presently, he is completing a selfimposed challenge to create, from scratch, progressive physical skills and simple objects that celebrate each individual person’s ability to learn and share simple mathematics, music and physics. Moschen is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. He wishes to express his heartfelt appreciation and admiration to the Pilobolus dancers, cocreators and staff!

TAKUYA MURAMATSU, Choreographer, joined the internationally known Butoh company Dairakudakan in 1994.

Muramatsu also founded his own dance company, Butoh-ha Dattan in 2000, and performed Gyudankin at the Fringe Dance Festival at Shinagawa Sphere Mex. In 2001, he released a Kochuten piece, Ushiro no Shomen and in 2002 performed the same piece at Japan Society in New York. In 2003, for his performance in Takara Jima (Treasure Island) at the American Dance Festival, he was described by The New York Times as a butoh artist who is as charismatic as Akaji Maro. In 2005, Muramatsu choreographed Uchyudou Theater Company’s Kazekairou.

In 2006, he stayed in the US for 200 days as a trainee under the Japanese Government Overseas Programme for Artists and participated actively in workshops and ADF performances of the International Choreographers Commissioning Program (ICCP) and at various dance schools in New York. In 2007, he created Dobu at Theatre Tram in Setagaya, Tokyo and performed in Paris in 2009. Also in 2009, Muramatsu joined and collaborated with Australia’s dance company Zen Zen Zo. In 2010, he directed the piece Kochuten festival in Kochuten studio in Tokyo. Takuya Muramatsu is the 10 WI Union

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head instructor of Butoh Workshop in Dairakudakan.

OK GO, Composers & Creative Collaborators –All is Not Lost, has been called “the first post-internet band” and is at the forefront of an emerging class of independent creative entrepreneurs making art in both digital and physical spaces. OK Go’s self-directed videos have been viewed over 150 million times on YouTube. The band’s critically acclaimed release “Of The Blue Colour of the Sky” has garnered much praise, with a 4 star review in People Magazine and the Alternative Press writing that “it fills you with hope for the next decade’s musical offerings.” Their upcoming projects include a live album chronicling the 180 concerts they played in 2010, p erformances at Glastonbury and Lollapalooza, and a collaboration with Ron Arad at London’s Roundhouse. Lead singer Damian Kulash has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, and testified before the U.S. Congress in support of net neutrality.

TRISH SIE, Creative Collaborator - All Is Not Lost, With a background in modern dance, ballet, ballroom dancesport, and music, Trish conceptualizes, creates, choreographs and directs projects for film, television and the Internet. She collaborated with OK Go to conceive and produce several of OK Go’s music videos, including the Grammy-winning “treadmill video” and the “dog video”.

PHOEBE KATZIN, Costume Designer, graduated from Endicott College in 1979 and began her career working for Kitty Daly, who was designing and constructing costumes for Momix and Pilobolus dance companies. She moved to New York in 1984, and worked for various designers constructing costumes for many theatrical productions. After several years’ hiatus to raise her three children, she began working again in 1998 for Pilobolus and Momix.

LIZ PRINCE, Costume Designer, has worked extensively with Bill T. Jones designing numerous works for his company as well as his work on the Boston Ballet, Berlin Opera Ballet and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project, Neil Greenberg, and Jane Comfort,

W H O ’ S W H O I N T H E C O M PA N Y among many. Prince’s costumes have been exhibited at The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. She received a 1990 New York Dance and Performance Award (BESSIE) for costume design and in 2008 a Charles Fling Kellogg Award from Bard College for achievement in her field.

DAVID M. CHAPMAN, Lighting Designer, was Director of Production for Pilobolus Dance Theatre 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”.

NEIL PETER JAMPOLIS, Lighting Designer, has been lighting Pilobolus since 1975, creating more than 50 new works for the company. At the same time, he has had an active career as

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a set, lighting and costume designer for Broadway, where he has four Tony Nominations and a Tony Award, OffBroadway, Dance, Regional Theater, and Opera, which he also directs. His designs, large and small, have appeared on every continent. His most recent New York outing was lighting the Metropolitan Opera’s “Iphigenie en Tauride” in November of 2007. In addition, Mr. Jampolis is Professor of Theater at UCLA. Stephen Strawbridge, Lighting Designer, has designed 19 works for Pilobolus Dance Theatre. His lighting designs for the theatre have been seen on Broadway, off-Broadway and at regional theaters across the country. His work for the opera has taken him to numerous places in the U.S. and inetrnationally. He has been recognized with several awards and nominations including the American Theatre Wing Award, the Helen Hayes Award, the Bay area Critics Circle Award and the Dallas Theatre Critics Forum Award. He teaches lighting design and is co-chair of the design department at the Yale University School of Drama.

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