DIRECTED BY Rosie Herrera
CO-CREATED BY
Rosie Herrera and Leah Verier-Dunn
CHOREOGRAPHED BY
Rosie Herrera and Leah Verier-Dunn in collaboration with the performers
COLLABORATORS AND PERFORMERS
Leah Verier-Dunn | Jess Pope
Victoria Mora | Gerardo Pilatti
COSTUME SUPERVISOR Gerardo Pilatti
PERFORMERS
PROPS AND PUPPETEERING
Gerardo Pilatti
TECHNOLOGIST AND PROJECTION
DESIGNER Rodrigo Arcaya
SET DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION
Freddy Jouwayed
STAGE MANAGER Tiffany Schrepferman
LIGHTING DESIGNER Aarol Muhl
SOUND EDITING BY Rudi Goblen
RODRIGO ARCAYA (Technologist and Projection Designer) is a programmer and artist from Venezuela, his work deals with the human-environment-computer relationship and interaction, creating software that processes and analyzes environmental data that is displayed in a random yet coherent way. His medium is light, be it in the form of screens, projectors or architectural lighting.
ROSIE HERRERA (Co-creator, Director) is a Cuban-American choreographer and artistic director of Rosie Herrera Dance Theater in Miami, Florida. She has been commissioned by Miami Light Project, Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Ballet Hispanico, Jose Limon Dance Company, New Dialect, Houston Met Dance, New World Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Santa Barbara Dance Theater, and the American Dance Festival. Her work in film, theater, dance and cabaret has resulted in collaborations with Walter Mercado, Carlota Guerrero, Larry Keigwin, Pig Iron Theater and many more. Her work is rooted in a reverence for the unique intimacy and spectacle of the Caribbean.
FREDDY JOUWAYED (Set Design and Construction) is a multimedia artist and exhibition designer currently heading FJP Design. Venezuelan-born Jouwayed earned a BFA in Painting from the University of Miami in 1997 and previously served as Museum Designer for HistoryMiami. Jouwayed’s spatial considerations and fascination with light drive an artistic practice that centers on mesmeric settings for collaborative exchanges. These concerns are evident in the installations and performance rituals with the artist collective 3PQ (with Sinisa Kukec and Stephan Tugrul) and more current collaborations with sound artist Gustavo Matamoros. In 2019, Jouwayed’s multimedia installation works were exhibited at Cornell Art Museum, Palm Beach State College, NSU, and MDC’s Koubek Center.
VICTORIA MORA (Performer) graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BFA in dance. While there, she performed works by Charles O. Anderson, Ohad Naharin, Robert Battle, and Paul Taylor, among others. Since then, she has performed with Ad Deum Dance Company, Moving Ethos, Ramdance Movement, and Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre. In 2019, she stepped away from dance to attend Baylor College of Medicine and graduated with a Masters degree in Physician Assistant Studies.
AARON MUHL (Lighting Designer) is from Sarasota, FL and has 20+ years of experience. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatrical Design and Technology from the University of Central Florida. He is currently the production manager for Charlotte
Ballet. Aaron was The Sarasota Ballet’s resident lighting designer and supervisor from 2007 to 2022. Notable lighting designs include Will Tuckett’s Changing Light and Lux Aeterna, Jessica Lang’s Shades of Spring, and Sir Peter Wright’s Summertide
GERARDO PILATTI (Prop master, Puppeteering, and Costume Design) has been presenting his avant-garde performances in Miami since arriving from Argentina in 2002. As a performer, accomplished designer and makeup artist, he has developed a cult following for his original nightclub variety acts and is a founding member of Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre.
JESS POPE (Performer) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses dance, performance, photography, videography, and installation. She received a BA from Ringling College of Art and Design and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. They have danced with Moving Ethos Dance Theatre since 2008 and have shown work at the MicroWIP residency at The Ringling Museum of Art, Squeaky Wheel Fringe Festival, Festering Liberation Show at the University of Minnesota Morris, and more.
TIFFANY SCHREPFERMAN (Stage Manager) is the Stage Manager for Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre and freelances as a Lighting Designer/Stage Manager for many other companies including Gaspard & Dancers, Kate Weare Company, TALK Dance, Uptown Dance Company, and Dance of Asian America. She is also currently the Production Manager and resident Lighting Designer for Ad Deum Dance Company and Ad Deum II based in Houston, TX. Tiffany graduated magna cum laude from Belhaven University with a BFA in Dance, and has worked for the American Dance Festival as Production Stage Manager of the Reynolds Theater for the past eight summers. She is excited to partner with the artists and creative minds of today to bring fresh and inspiring works into the arts community.
LEAH VERIER-DUNN (Co-Creator, Performer) is a Sarasota, FL, based artist and Artistic Director of Moving Ethos. She received her BFA in Dance from New World School of the Arts. Leah has worked with several companies from Florida to New York, joining Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre in 2011. In 2019, Leah was the first Spotlight Florida Resident at The Ringling Museum of Art and has continued there as an artist-in-residence through the creation of Florida Woman
Special thank you to Tame Dance Academy, Young Arts Miami, Thomas J. Darby, William “Fuzzy” Bancroft, Ada Pilatti, Keeley Sullivan, LaMichael Leonard, George Echevarria, Rodrigo Arcaya and Freddy Jouwayed.
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This program is supported in part by the Art of Performance Fund, Arthur F. and Ulla R. Searing Endowment, Dorothy Jenkins Endowment at the John and Mable Ringling Museum, Ellin Family Art of Our Time Endowment, Ed & Elaine Keating Endowment, Ringling Art of Performance Endowment, Selby Foundation Ringling Museum Endowment, Cowles Charitable Trust, Huisking Foundation, David and Mary Benfer, Michael and Kathy Bush, Warren R. and Marie E. Colbert, Leon and Marge Ellin, Judith and Stephen Shank, and Marge and Irv Weiser.
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The Ringling respectfully acknowledges that we are located on the traditional Homelands and the ancestral territories of the Seminole Tribe of Florida and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, as well as the ancient tribes of the Calusa, Uzita and Tocobaga. We also acknowledge the local freedomseeking community called Angola, and the people later known as Black Seminoles.
We honor the resiliency of Indigenous communities, and we extend our gratitude as we live and work on their Homelands. We pay our respect to the Elders, both past and present, who have stewarded these lands and waters through generations since time immemorial.