WHO'S WHO IN DANCING WITH GLASS PHILIP GLASS (Music). Born in Baltimore, MD, Philip Glass is a graduate of the University of Chicago and The Juilliard School. In the early 1960s, Glass spent two years of intensive study in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and, while there, earned money by transcribing Ravi Shankar’s Indian music into Western notation. By 1974, Glass had a number of innovative projects creating a large collection of new music for The Philip Glass Ensemble and for the Mabou Mines Theater Company. This period culminated in Music in Twelve Parts and the landmark opera Einstein on the Beach for which he collaborated with Robert Wilson. Since Einstein, Glass has expanded his repertoire to include music for opera, dance, theater, chamber ensemble, orchestra, and film. His film scores have received Academy Award nominations (Kundun, The Hours, Notes on a Scandal) and a Golden Globe (The Truman Show). Glass’s memoir Words Without Music was published by Liveright Books in 2015. Glass received the Praemium Imperiale in 2012, the U.S. National Medal of the Arts from President Barack Obama in 2016, and 41st Kennedy Center Honors in 2018. Glass’s recent works include music for Errol Morris’ The Pigeon Tunnel co-composed with Paul Leonard-Morgan, Symphony No. 13, Symphony No. 14, and The Triumph of the Octagon for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Glass is currently writing his 15th symphony commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra. LUCINDA CHILDS (Choreographer) began her career as choreographer in the early 1960s, as a member of the seminal Judson Dance Theater. She formed her own company in 1973 and three years later was featured in the landmark avantgarde opera Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson, for which she won an Obie Award. In 1979, Childs choreographed one of her most enduring works, Dance, with music by Philip Glass and film décor by Sol LeWitt, for which she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. Dance toured internationally and has been added to the repertory of the Lyon Opera Ballet. In addition to work for her own group, Childs has choreographed over thirty works for major ballet companies. She has also directed and choreographed a number of contemporary and eighteenth-century operas, most recently, Philip Glass’s Akhnaten for l’Opéra de Nice Côte d’Azur with Childs’s role as the narrator on film. Her additional opera productions include Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice for the Los Angeles Opera; Mozart’s Zaide, Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol and Oedipus Rex, Vivaldi’s Farnace, and John Adams’s Dr. Atomic for the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg, among many others. In 2016, in an exhibit titled Nothing Personal, Childs’s choreographic scores were shown at the Thaddeus Ropac Gallery in collaboration with the Centre Nationale de la Danse, to which she has donated her archive. Childs holds the rank of Commandeur in France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2017 she received the Golden Lion award from the Venice Biennale and the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival award for lifetime achievement. She has been inducted into the Hall of Fame of the National Museum of Dance in Saratoga Springs, NY, received an honorary doctorate from the Université Côte d’Azur in 2021, and received the Dance Magazine award in December 2022. CHANON JUDSON (Choreographer & Performer) has been growing with the acclaimed Urban Bush Women since 2001, as performer and now Co-Artistic Director. Founded in 1984 by choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Urban Bush
WHO'S WHO IN DANCING WITH GLASS Women (UBW) seeks to bring the untold and under-told stories to light through dance. Chanon's most recent work has been the collaborative development of UBW’s new site responsive work Haint Blu (Co-Artistic Director, Mame Diarra Speis). This site responsive work is an embodied look at familial lines and the movements, histories, and the stories of our elders and ancestors. It reflects on what has been lost across generations and what can be recovered. Judson has been a director’s fellow with New Perspective Theatre Women’s Work Lab, Chicago Director’s Lab, and APAP's Leadership Fellowship Program. Choreographic credits include Times Up! (commissioned by Flea Theatre), The Hang (Taylor Mac, HERE Arts), Cannabis: A Viper Vaudeville (Collaborator/Performer - Baba Israel/Grace Galu/ Talvin Wilks), Orlando (Barnard College), Chronicle X (Nia Witherspoon), Prometheus Bound (Tank Theatre), The Invention of Tragedy (Flea Theatre), and Nurturing the Nurturer, her original performance-ritual/gathering for mothers. Chanon has worked with Mickie Davidson, Talvin Wilks, Kwame Ross, Barak adé Soleil, Sita Frederick, Sandra Burton, and Allyne Gartrell. Performance credits include A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, God’s Trombone (Craig Harris), Cotton Club Parade, Michael Jackson 30th Anniversary Concert, and the Tony award winning musical Fela! Newly, Chanon is a Visiting Associate Professor at University at Buffalo teaching Jazz Organizing Aesthetics and Embodiment Rooted in African American traditions as well as UBW Collaborative Art Making and Embodied Research Methodologies. NOÉ KAINS (Pianist) is an NYC-based pianist and singer. He studied at Brussels’ Royal Conservatory, in the UK, and Israel, and has appeared in solo recitals, chamber music, and concertos. Recent credits include performances at the Guggenheim, Jacob’s Pillow, Walters Arts Museum, Vail Dance Festival, and in The Glass Etudes, in celebration of Philip Glass’ 85th birthday. Noé holds a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of St. Andrews, and spent ten years working as a research astronomer before returning to music full-time. MAKI NAMEKAWA (Pianist) is a leading figure among today’s pianists, bringing to audiences’ attention contemporary music by international composers. A soloist and a chamber musician, she performs regularly at international venues including the Vienne Musikverein and Konzerthaus, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, Philharmonie de Paris, Bozar Brussels, the Barbican Center London, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Tokyo Suntory Hall, and in 2022, for the first time, the Gewandhaus Leipzig. Her world premiere recording of the complete Glass Piano Etudes in 2014 reached #1 on the iTunes Classical chart. She has toured on five continents with this repertory, often with Philip Glass himself. Ms. Namekawa’s 2018 release of the Glass soundtrack Mishima (piano Version Michael Riesman) received the Austrian National Radio’s (ORF) “Pasticcio Prize." In 2019, Philip Glass composed his first Piano Sonata for Ms. Namekawa, commissioned for her by the Piano-Festival Ruhr, the Philharmonie de Paris, and the Ars Electronica Festival. She recently released, together with Glass Distant Figure a Passacaglia, on Orange Mountain Music. In 2022, she premiered new works by Joe Hisaishi at the Philharmonie de Paris and by Evan Ziporyn in Boston at MIT. Ms. Namekawa studied piano at Kunitachi Conservatory in Tokyo with Mikio Ikezawa and Henriette Puig-Roget. In 1994, she won the Leonid Kreutzer Prize. In 1995, she continued her studies with Werner Genuit and Kaya Han at Musikhochschule Karlsruhe, where she completed her
WHO'S WHO IN DANCING WITH GLASS diploma as a soloist with special distinction. She went on to perfect her artistry in Classical-Romantic repertoire with Edith Picht-Axenfeld, in contemporary music with Pierre-Laurent Aimard at Musikhochschule Köln, György Kurtág, Stefan Litwin, and Florent Boffard. JUSTIN PECK (Choreographer) is a Tony Award-winning choreographer, director, filmmaker, and dancer based in New York City. He is currently the acting Resident Choreographer & Artistic Advisor of New York City Ballet. Peck has created and developed over 50 dance and theater works for stages around the world, including Lincoln Center, Broadway, Palais Garnier, Sydney Opera House, & Brooklyn Academy of Music. He has created extensively for film, most notably choreographing Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story (2021). Honors include the Tony Award for Best Choreography for Carousel (2018), the National Arts Award (2018), the Golden Plate Honor from the Academy of Achievement (2019), the Bessie Award for Outstanding Production for his ballet Rodeo (2015), and the World Choreography Award for the film West Side Story (2021). LEONARDO SANDOVAL (Choreographer & Performer), Brazilian tap dancer and choreographer, is renowned for blending the great African-American tap tradition with Brazil’s rich rhythmic and musical heritage. He is the co-founder and co-director of tap dance and live music company Music From The Sole, and a core member of Dorrance Dance. As a choreographer and solo dancer, his work has been presented at Lincoln Center, Jacob’s Pillow, Works & Process at the Guggenheim, Vail Dance Festival, Harlem Stage, New York City Center, the National Folk Festival, and Caramoor Jazz Festival. A true dancer-musician, he was one of Dance Magazine’s “25 To Watch,” and received a 2022 Vilcek Foundation Prize for Creative Promise, as well as a 2022 NYSCA/ NYFA Artist Fellowship in Choreography. Music From The Sole will make their debut at The Joyce January 30 through February 4, 2024. BOBBI JENE SMITH (Choreographer & Performer) is a director, choreographer, and dancer who makes work for both live theater and film. Her work explores affect and apathy, domestic politics, and the rhythmic and formal connections between music and movement. She danced for the Batsheva Company from 2005-2014. Since then, she has choreographed original works for the Martha Graham Dance Company, Los Angeles Dance Project, VAIL Dance Festival, CORPUS of The Royal Danish Ballet, the Batsheva Dance Company, and others. Her dance and music theater works have been presented and supported by the American Repertory Theater, PS 122, La Mama, ODC Theater, Stanford Live, Carolina Performing Arts, Kaufman Hall at the 92Y, Luminato Festival, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, and others. Additionally, Smith has starred in or choreographed films including Elvira Lind’s Bobbi Jene, Georgia Parris’s Mari, and Alex Garland’s Annihilation. She has directed her own dance films, including Broken Theater and Gallop Apace. Smith is an alumnus of The Juilliard School, North Carolina School of the Arts, and Royal Winnipeg School. She is a founding member of the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC). In 2019, she was awarded The Harkness Promise Award and was The Martha Duffy Resident Artist at Baryshnikov Art Center. Smith is currently an Artist-In-Residence at LADP.
WHO'S WHO IN DANCING WITH GLASS OR SCHRAIBER (Choreographer & Performer) is a dancer, actor, and choreographer. He danced with the Batsheva Dance Company from 2010 to 2017. In parallel to his time in the company, he served in the IDF for three years. After moving to NYC, Schraiber starred in or choreographed films such as Boaz Yakin’s AVIVA and Terrence Malick’s The Way of the Wind. He played the role of Zelger in the national Broadway tour of The Band’s Visit. His choreography has been presented by numerous dance companies including Batsheva Dance Company, LADP, The Royal Danish Ballet, Corpus, and more. Schraiber has choreographed and performed in several commercials, short films, and music videos. He has also directed his own short dance films: Obsidian, Gallop Apace, Bloodroot, and Shivta. Schraiber is a founding member of AMOC (American Modern Opera Company). He is an alumnus of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and the Stella Adler Studio for Acting. PATRICIA DELGADO (Performer) (she/her), Cuban-American, was a principal dancer with the Miami City Ballet. She’s danced works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Twyla Tharp, Paul Taylor, Anthony Tudor, Richard Alston, Edward Villella, as well as Coppelia, Giselle, Don Quixote, and John Cranko's Romeo and Juliet. Patricia has created feature works with choreographers Alexei Ratmansky, Justin Peck, Pam Tanowitz, Jamar Roberts, Lauren Lovette, John Heginbotham, Andrea Miller, and Jodi Melnick. She has performed at The Bolshoi, Theatre du Chatelet, Chicago Dancing Festival, Vail International Dance Festival, New York City Center, Joyce Theater and at the Koch Theatre, Lincoln Center. She performed in the musical Brigadoon, directed and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon at Encores! She starred in the music video The Dark Side of the Gym for The National. As a repetiteur for Justin Peck she has worked with Boston Ballet, Ballet Arizona, Semperoper Ballet, ABT, and NYCB. She was an Associate Producer on the 2020 Broadway revival of West Side Story and an Associate Choreographer on Steven Spielberg‘s film, West Side Story. She is Co-Choreographer on The Buena Vista Social Club Musical and a member of the dance faculty at The Juilliard School and Artistic Advisor of Adriana Pierce’s Queer The Ballet. KYLE GERRY (Performer) is a freelance dancer based in New York City. He began dancing for Lucinda Childs in 2017. He has also danced frequently for Christopher Williams, including in international productions of Dardanus and the Indian Queen, and for the Merce Cunningham Trust, including as a guest with the Repertory Understudy Group. He is a graduate of Columbia University with a degree in Political Science and Economics, and currently also teaches mathematics at the Brearley School. ORLANDO HERNÁNDEZ (Performer) is a tap dancer based in NYC. He has performed at On the Boards, the Joyce Theater, Jacob’s Pillow, the Guggenheim, Joe’s Pub, City Center, the Royal Theater Carré (Amsterdam), and La Casa Ruth (Puerto Rico). Orlando was a member of the 2022-23 Fresh Tracks Cohort at New York Live Arts and is a 2023 Artist-in-Residence at the Center for Performance Research. He started dancing with Music From The Sole in 2021. LUCAS SANTANA (Performer), originally from Pernambuco (Northeast Brazil), started studying tap at eight and has since performed across Brazil, on TV, and, with Music From The Sole, at Jacob’s Pillow, New York City Center, The Yard, Harlem
WHO'S WHO IN DANCING WITH GLASS Stage, and Works & Process at the Guggenheim. Lucas also co-directs the group Afetos Sonoros in Rio, holds a philosophy degree from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, and a master’s degree in Theatre from UdeSC in Florianópolis. CAITLIN SCRANTON (Performer) is a New York City-based dancer, teacher, and producer. Since coming to the city in 2005, Caitlin has worked with Cornfield Dance, Mark Dendy, the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Paul Singh, Phantom Limb, Ramon Oller, Mark Morris Dance Group, and Christopher Williams. She joined the Lucinda Childs Dance Company as a soloist in 2009 and continues to perform and produce for the company. She is currently touring Netta Yerushalmy’s Movement, and will appear in The Hours, a new production at the Metropolitan Opera choreographed by Annie B. Parson. Caitlin has toured numerous operas including the 2012 revival of Einstein on the Beach. Caitlin teaches master classes internationally, and has been on faculty at the Taylor School, Gibney Dance Center, and Point Park University. In 2015 she co-founded The Blanket, a dance production organization. She holds a BA in History from Smith College. ANA TOMIOSHI (Performer) is a Brazilian performing artist, choreographer, and instructor, currently based in Washington D.C. She is an alumna of The School at Jacob’s Pillow’s tap program and has performed at The Kennedy Center, New York City Center, São Paulo Municipal Theater (Brazil), The Yard, Harlem Stage, Vail Dance Festival, and Rock in Rio (Brazil). In addition to her work with Music From The Sole, Ana also dances with Sole Defined, directed by Quynn and Ryan Johnson. HALEY WINEGARDEN (Performer), from Tuscaloosa, AL, is a NYC-based dancer and choreographer. She has attended summer programs such as Ballet Austin, American Ballet Theatre, and Richmond Ballet. Winegarden graduated high school in 2019 from the Alabama School of Fine Arts under the direction of Wes Chapman. In May 2023, she graduated from The Juilliard School under the direction of Alicia Graf Mack. She has performed works by Justin Peck, Ohad Naharin, James Whiteside, Sonya Tayeh, Donald McKayle, Amy Hall Garner, Troy Schumacher, Bryn Cohn, Norbert De La Cruz III, Jawole Jo Willa Zollar, and Spenser Theberge and Jermaine Spivey. Winegarden’s choreographic work, returning, was commissioned by Orlando Ballet II in 2021. In 2022, her work within or without was selected to be presented in Juilliard’s Choreographic Honors. She was awarded the 2022 Kaatsbaan Playing Field Choreography Award. The Juilliard Dance Faculty nominated Winegarden for a Princess Grace Award in the choreographic category in 2023. She was awarded the Héctor Zaraspe Prize which is awarded to a graduating senior of the Juilliard Dance Division who has shown outstanding talent and development as a choreographer. Winegarden is looking forward to working on new choreographic projects coming up in 2024. She is grateful to be making her debut at The Joyce Theater in the Dancing with Glass: The Piano Etudes program! THE NATORI COMPANY (Costume Design) was founded in 1977 by Josie Natori, CEO and Chief Creative Officer. What began with creating lingerie on her living room floor truly has evolved into a lifestyle. “Natori is a total concept, a way of life,” says Josie. She started the company from scratch, leaving a prestigious position on Wall Street, where she was the first female Vice President of Investment
WHO'S WHO IN DANCING WITH GLASS Banking at Merrill Lynch. Four decades later, Natori is one of the fashion industry's most recognizable designer brands. Natori is proud to remain an independent family business. Natori’s collections are all a reflection of the namesake designer's distinctive East meets West aesthetic, with products ranging from ready-to-wear, lingerie, sleepwear, and legwear to footwear, fine jewelry, and home textiles. Natori products are available in the world's leading retailers and specialty stores, and on natori.com. JOHN TORRES (Lighting Design) is a New York-based lighting designer working in theatre, fashion, motion, print, and exhibitions. Opera: Turandot (Opera Bastille), Tristan and Isolde (Santa Fe Opera), Eden (Joyce DiDonato; Bozar, Brussels) Atlas (LA Philharmonic). Theater: Sign in Sidney Brusteins Window (BAM/Broadway), Twelfth Night, A Bright Room Called Day (Public, NYC), The Black Clown (A.R.T.), Only an Octave Apart (St. Ann’s). Music: Taylor Mac: 24-Decade (St. Ann’s), Solange Knowles, Drake (Apollo/US Tour). Dance: Bobbi Jene Smith, Pit (Paris Opera Ballet). Exhibitions: Adam Pendleton: Who is Queen? (MoMA) and Carl Craig (Dia: Beacon). TRICIA TOLIVER (Stage Manager) was the resident Lighting Designer/Production Manager for the Barnard College Dance Department from 2009-2022, collaborating with many noted choreographers on new works. She has had the pleasure of working primarily in the dance world for such companies as the Trisha Brown Dance Company, Lucinda Childs, Lar Lubovitch, Limón Dance Company, Doug Varone and Dancers, Donald Byrd/The Group, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Susan Marshall, David Dorfman Dance, Camille A. Brown & Dancers, Parsons Dance, and Yue Yin Dance Company. She danced with Donald Byrd/The Group from 1987-1991. POMEGRANATE ARTS. Since 1998, Pomegranate Arts has worked in close collaboration with a small group of contemporary artists and arts institutions to bring bold and ambitious artistic ideas to fruition. Creative and executive producers Linda Brumbach and Alisa E. Regas, along with their committed team at Pomegranate Arts, have produced the Olivier Award-winning revival of Einstein on the Beach; Taylor Mac’s epic A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, Holiday Sauce, and now – their third collaboration together, along with composer Matt Ray – a rock opera mediation on queerness called Bark of Millions; Available Light by John Adams, Lucinda Childs, and Frank Gehry; Robin Frohardt’s The Plastic Bag Store; Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch’s Shockheaded Peter; and the Drama Desk Award-winning production of Charlie Victor Romeo. In recent years, Linda and Alisa have expanded the vision of the company by producing in non-performative mediums, including their first feature documentary film Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music (HBO Original Doc), the film short Taylor Mac’s Whitman in the Woods (ALL ARTS), and museum installations for Machine Dazzle. Their first book, a special box set edition of Philip Glass Piano Etudes: The Complete Folios 1-20 with Essays by Fellow Artists, will be published by Artisan Books in October 2023. In addition to our own productions, Pomegranate Arts is proud to support North American touring for Batsheva Dance Company and Sankai Juku. www.pomegranatearts.com.