Program - Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

BIG TINY LITTLE DANCEConcert DirectorChoreographyRehearsal DirectorMusic DirectorCostume DesignersSara HookJan ErkertSara HookPhilip JohnstonLinda LehovecJennifer MonsonRebecca Nettl-FiolCynthia OliverKirstie SimsonRenée WadleighSophia LevineJohn ToenjesMollie DunnCherie FanningKinsey FitzgeraldDanielle MallettVeronica PhamMaria RizoKirstie SimsonLindsey SnellYihang WangJade WilliamsAttallah WilsonDance Performanceand CollaborationMusical Scoreand PerformanceBrendan BehanKourtney BowensSiobahn BryantDonna CarnowElinor FujimotoCharles GowinAbigail KaesbergSophia LevineJennifer LuSkylar MalesAllison PauleySamantha SimonGina WojnarKen BeckBrian BehrnsJason FinkelmanChristine KingM. Anthony ReimerJohn ToenjesAllen WuJeff ZahosPERFORMERSCostume Design AdvisorSusan BeckerLighting DesignerLainey SenftSound DesignerKenny StahlMedia DesignerJohn BoescheProperties MasterMiguel SalazarStage ManagerAustin LinTechnical DirectorBrian Gonner4 5

NOTESPROFILESProgram NoteEach choreographer had two or three rehearsals todevelop movement material with the dancers. Thenext choreographer to work with the performerswas free to extend where the previous one had leftoff, edit, or make changes as they saw fit, includingreordering or altering the time, space, shape,or dynamic qualities in any way. The musiciansmimicked this process, as each one attended aseries of rehearsals separately and responded withtheir sound ideas. The score was then assembledcollaboratively. Costume, lighting, and mediadesigns were constructed independent of anyspecific direction other than to view the workin progress and respond. All the collaboratorsattempted to reply to the ideas that greetedthem. In the end, this work can be described as achoreographic, sonic, and visual conversation aboutperformance between choreographers, musicians,dancers, and visual artists. For more informationabout the nature of this creative process, thepublic is invited to view the artists’ blog atpublish.illinois.edu/novemberdance2013.AcknowledgmentsSpecial thanks go to Tere O’Connor, who inspiredthe faculty to think “outside of the box” for thisproduction.And special thanks go to the members of theLEVEL21 production design team, who have all beenexceptionally supportive of this experiment.The faculty choreographers also gratefullyacknowledge the creative contributions of LainaReese Carney and Bianca Hairston.Ken Beck (Musician) has been a musician in dancesince graduating from the Boston Conservatoryin 1977. He has composed dance scores for theWestport Ballet of Kansas City, Arielle NewmanThomas, Randall Barron, Lee Richmond, LucyBowen-McCauley, and, more recently, Sara Hook andKathleen Kelley.Susan Becker (Costume Design Advisor) works as adesigner, artist, and educator in the field of fashionand dress. Since graduating from the Rhode IslandSchool of Design, she has designed for traditionaland experimental settings, from the fashion industryto collaborations on stage, film, and site-specificprojects. In addition to her design work, Susan hastaught courses on fashion and dress for the RhodeIsland School of Design and is currently a lecturer atthe U of I. Her solo work centers on explorations ofthe social psychology of dress and culture.Brendan Behan (Dancer) is an interdisciplinarydancer and choreographer with training in modern,salsa, breaking, pop-and-lock, and ballet. Afterstudying at the Universidad de la Habana in 2002and receiving his BA in Chicana/o studies in 2003from Claremont McKenna College, Brendan workedand performed with Laurie Cameron and Company,a modern dance troupe based in the Los Angelesarea, from 2004 to 2009. In 2006, Brendan movedto San Francisco, where he spent the next eightyears working for Bay Area dance companies likepunkkiCo, Loose Change, Human Creature DanceTheatre, and Philein Wang/ZiRu Tiger Productions.Brendan debuted his own choreographic work, Heir,at a performance at the M. H. de Young MemorialMuseum in San Francisco in March 2008. Brendanis currently a first-year student in the MFA danceprogram.Brian Behrns (Musician) holds a degree in musictheory from the U of I and likes to hit things (he’s apercussionist). He accompanies classes for Dance atIllinois.John Boesche (Media Designer) has created mediaand scenic designs for more than 120 professionaltheatre, opera, and dance productions. HisBroadway credits include The Glass Menagerie atthe Roundabout Theatre, directed by Frank Galati.His off-Broadway productions include Beyond Gloryat the Roundabout Theatre, directed by Robert Falls.Regionally, his work has been seen at the ChicagoShakespeare Theater, the Geffen Playhouse (LosAngeles), the Goodman Theatre (Chicago), theLookingglass Theatre (Chicago), the MilwaukeeRepertory Theater, the New York ShakespeareFestival (New York City), the Seattle RepertoryTheatre, Shakespeare at the Folger (Washington,DC), the Steppenwolf Theatre (Chicago), andTheatre on the Square (San Francisco), among othervenues. He has designed for dance companiesincluding the Joffrey Ballet (Chicago), the Liz LermanDance Exchange (Washington, DC), and Lucky PlushProductions (Chicago). His design work has beenrecognized with three Joseph Jefferson Awards,a Metro DC Dance Award, a Los Angeles DramaCritics Circle Award, and other honors. Boesche isthe chair of digital media for live performance at theU of I.Kourtney Bowens (Dancer) grew up on the SouthSide of Chicago, where she began her dance trainingat Mayfair Academy of Fine Arts. She studied ballet,modern, jazz, and tap from various teachers atschools including the Hyde Park School of Ballet,the Joel Hall Dancing Center, the Joffrey Academyof Dance, and the Lou Conte Dance Studio. Shehas participated in numerous summer intensivesincluding programs with Deeply Rooted, DebbieAllen, and Alvin Ailey. She attended the ChicagoHigh School for the Arts and trained under Lisa6 7

Johnson-Willingham and Reginald Harris. She iscurrently a freshman studying dance at the U of I andhopes to perform professionally with the River NorthChicago Dance Company.Siobahn Bryant (Dancer) began dancing at a youngage and has been growing as a performer ever since.Bryant has performed in places such as Disneyland,Las Vegas, and New York. She also had the honorof being a part of a student exchange program inthe Bahamas. She is currently a sophomore workingtoward a BFA in dance at the U of I.Donna Carnow (Dancer) is a freshman at the Uof I from Wilmette, Illinois. Discovering her lovefor dance at New Trier High School, she has abackground in hip-hop and modern dance with apassion for choreography. She received the ElizabethF. Rehage Award Scholarship for “exceptional talentand creativity as a dance artist” from her high schooldance department. At New Trier, she was heavilyinvolved with its dance company, Kinesis, and wasa student teacher for its Menz Dance program.This past summer, she participated in a work-studyprogram at Foster Dance Studios in Evanston,Illinois, and performed a solo at the Tenth WorldChampionships in Wheel Gymnastics in Chicago.She has attended many Monsters of HipHop danceconventions and studied with companies in Chicagoincluding [Design], the Chicago Onyx DanceAlliance, Urban Beat Dance, the Chicago MovingCompany, the Hedwig Dance Company, the LehmanSchool of Dance, and the Giordano Jazz DanceSchool.Jan Erkert (Choreographer) is the head of Danceat Illinois. As the artistic director of Jan Erkert andDancers from 1979 to 2000, she created more than70 works, which toured nationally and internationally.Erkert and company have been honored withnumerous awards, including fellowships from theNational Endowment for the Arts and Ruth PageAwards for choreography and performance. She hasreceived a Fulbright Scholar Award and is currentlyserving on the Fulbright Review Panel. She authoredHarnessing the Wind: The Art of Teaching ModernDance, which was published in 2003, and she hasbeen a master teacher at universities and collegesthroughout the United States, Mexico, Europe, andAsia. As a professor of dance at Columbia CollegeChicago from 1990 to 2006, she garnered manyawards, including the 1999 Excellence in TeachingAward, and was a nominee for US Professor of theYear sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation.Jason Finkelman (Musician) has artistic concerns thatfocus primarily on the performance of improvisedmusic, cross-cultural collaborative projects, andcomposition for dance, theatre, and film. APhiladelphia-born percussionist, Jason specializesin the berimbau, an Afro-Brazilian musical bow,and performs on a wide variety of African andBrazilian instruments, many handcrafted by AdimuKuumba. Jason’s interest in exploring improvisedmusic with unusual instrumentation led to theUrbana-Champaign-based projects IO MiningCorp, Ferrocene3, and Nu Orbit Ensemble, aswell as the New York-based ambient, avant worldtrio Straylight. He has worked extensively withchoreographer Cynthia Oliver on noted worksincluding BOOM! (2012-13), Rigidigidim de BambaDe: Ruptured Calypso (2009-10), the dance filmAfroSocialiteLifeDiva (2004), and the New YorkDance and Performance (“Bessie”) Award-winningperformances of SHEMAD (2000) and Death’s Door(1996).Elinor Fujimoto (Dancer) started her dancetraining at Kristina’s Studio of Dance in BuffaloGrove, Illinois. In high school, she started gettinginvolved in modern dance, both as a dancer and asa choreographer. After graduating from StevensonHigh School in Lincolnshire, Illinois, Elinor took ayear to assistant direct the Kristina’s Studio of DanceHeart of Dance Ensemble. Elinor began attendingthe U of I in 2012 as an interdisciplinary health majorwith the intention of going into alternative medicine.After taking a modern dance class this past spring,she decided to pursue a dual degree in dance. Elinoris currently a student worker at McKinley HealthCenter’s Health Education unit and hopes to one daybecome a dance-movement therapist.Brian Gonner (Technical Director) is a first-year MFAcandidate in the Scenic Technology Program andis from Dubuque, Iowa. He is a 2013 graduate ofthe University of Evansville in Indiana with a BFAin theatre design and technology and a minor inmathematics. Professionally, Brian has worked at theUtah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City; the PublicTheater/New York Shakespeare Festival in New YorkCity; and the Hope Summer Repertory Theatre inHolland, Michigan.Charles Gowin (Dancer) studied theatre for twoyears at Millikin University in Decatur, where hebegan his dance training at the age of 19. He justtransferred to the U of I to study dance. He has alsoreceived training from the Kansas City Ballet throughits summer intensive.Sara Hook (Concert Director/Choreographer) hasa diverse performing career including touring theworld as a member of the Nikolais Dance Theatreand being a frequent guest artist/collaboratorwith David Parker and The Bang Group. Herchoreography has been produced in numerous NewYork City venues, in 18 American states, and in theNetherlands, Canada, Italy, Ecuador, Slovakia, andthe Czech Republic. Hook holds a BFA from theNorth Carolina School of the Arts, has an MFA fromNew York University, and is a Certified MovementAnalyst from the Laban Bartenieff Institute ofMovement Studies. She has toured widely as a guestartist and has taught at the Alvin Ailey AmericanDance Center, Princeton University, Paul TaylorSummer Intensives, and the Bates Dance Festival.She is now a professor with Dance at Illinois andreceived the College of Fine and Applied Arts’Excellence in Teaching Award in 2010.Philip Johnston (Choreographer) trained withHelen Lewis in Belfast. A graduate of the LondonSchool of Contemporary Dance, he performedand choreographed in Europe for 15 years beforerelocating to the United States in 1992. He was theartistic director for the Norwegian Modern DanceCompany. Philip has received choreographic anddance fellowships from the Arts Council of NorthernIreland, the British Council, the Norwegian Fund forPerforming Artists, the Norwegian Culture Council,the London School of Contemporary Dance, and theSkinners Guild of London. The Charles and HarrietLuckman Undergraduate Distinguished TeachingAward at the U of I was given to Philip in 1997.Philip’s recent book, The Lost Tribe in the Mirror, ispublished by Lagan Press.Abigail Kaesberg (Dancer) began her college careerin dance at Butler University, is a senior in danceat the U of I, and will receive her BFA in May 2014.Kaesberg trained with Deanna Doty of ChampaignUrbana Ballet and Tricia and Chad Trimble of Art inMotion Dance Studio. In addition, she participated inAlonzo King’s LINES Ballet Summer Program in 2012and the Strictly Seattle 2013 Summer Dance Intensiveat Velocity Dance Center. Kaesberg hopes to move toSeattle to pursue a career in professional dance aftergraduation.Christine King (Musician) is originally from Michiganand holds a BA in dance. She joined Urban Bush8 9

Women in 1989 and performed in New York City formore than a decade with that group and many otherNew York-based artists. She also has performedas a vocalist with Ancient Vibrations, Amasong,Skeleton Dance Project, and McGregor Productions.She originated and performed many roles featuringa cappella singing, acting, and a complex patternof contemporary modern, African- and AfricanAmerican-based dancing for Urban Bush Womenand assisted in restaging and coaching UrbanBush Women’s works for Virginia CommonwealthUniversity, Queens College, Montclair StateUniversity, Florida State University, the Alvin AileyDance Company, Illinois State University, and HarlemSchool of the Arts. King has studied voice with DianeBarclay, Artie Sheppard, Toshi Reagon, and BillYoung; acting techniques with director Steve Kent;and production and script writing with playwright andauthor Jewelle Gomez.Linda Lehovec (Choreographer) is an associateprofessor with Dance at Illinois. Linda began hertraining in Massachusetts with Madeline CantarellaCulpo. She holds a BFA degree from the JuilliardSchool and an MFA degree from the U of I. Lindahas had the pleasure of dancing in the works ofmany contemporary choreographers, including JoeGoode, Ralph Lemon, Stephen Koester, Bill Young,Tere O’Connor, Sara Hook, and David Parker. Herwork has been performed internationally in Canada,Korea, and Chile and nationally in San Francisco,Seattle, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, Oklahoma, Florida,Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Linda has been awardedtwo fellowships in choreography from the Illinois ArtsCouncil and was recently awarded a College of Fineand Applied Arts Creative Research Award and aUniversity Research Grant to collaborate with Chileanchoreographer Francisca Silva. Their new work, Gone,will be presented at February Dance in 2014 andfeatures a cast of American and Chilean performers.Sophia Levine (Rehearsal Director/Dancer) is afirst-year graduate student with Dance at Illinois.She graduated magna cum laude with highhonors in dance and earned the MahalingaiahDance Prize from Middlebury College in 2010.Prior to arriving at the U of I, Sophia was in herhometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, creating soloimprovisational works addressing Jewish identity andrunning her own rehearsal/performance space. Thisis her first time being a rehearsal director and herfirst time performing in the flatlands.Austin Lin (Stage Manager) is a senior in the StageManagement Program at the U of I. His mostrecent stage management credits include theworld premiere of Fables on Global Warming withArmitage Gone! Dance, The Threepenny Opera withthe School of Music Opera Program, StudiodanceI with Dance at Illinois in 2013, and Dracula withIllinois Theatre. Outside of stage management,Austin also works as a freelance web developer andoccasional media artist. This past summer, Austininterned at the White House in the PresidentialPersonnel Office.Jennifer Lu (Dancer) trained in the InternationalBaccalaureate Program in dance at TaipeiAmerican School with an emphasis in moderndance throughout her high school years. Shechoreographed and performed with Taipei AmericanSchool’s varsity dance team in Singapore, Jakarta,Bangkok, Manila, and Kuala Lumpur. During herjunior year, her varsity dance team performed atthe Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts andreceived a gold medal. In addition to her schooldance training, she studied at the Flying DanceStudio with an emphasis in ballet and Chinese folkdance. She also has taken workshops and summerintensives at Backhausdance, the Performing ArtsInstitute-Wyoming Seminary, and the AmericanDance Festival. Currently, Jennifer is a freshmanworking toward a BFA in dance at the U of I.Skylar Males (Dancer) was born and raised inChicago, Illinois. For 12 years, she studied danceat the Hyde Park School of Dance (HPSD) underArtistic Director August Tye. While at HPSD, Skylarwas hired to assistant teach several classes foryoung dancers until her senior year of high school,when she was promoted to a faculty member. Atage 15, Skylar attended the Deeply Rooted danceintensive in Chicago and learned Horton, Graham,and traditional African dance techniques. Duringthe summer of her junior year in high school, Skylarspent a month in the dance intensive programat the Boston Conservatory. While at the BostonConservatory, she focused on honing her moderndance skills and learned the Alexander Technique.Over the years, Skylar has had three originalchoreographic works accepted and performed byDance Chicago. In 2011, she graduated from JonesCollege Prep in Chicago. She is currently a juniormajoring in dance at the U of I.Jennifer Monson (Choreographer) useschoreographic practice as a means to discoverconnections between environmental, philosophical,and aesthetic approaches to knowledge andunderstandings of our surroundings. As the artisticdirector of iLAND, she creates large-scale danceprojects informed and inspired by phenomena ofthe natural and the built environment. Her recentprojects include BIRD BRAIN (2000-2006), iMAP/Ridgewood Reservoir (New York City 2007),The Mahomet Aquifer Project (Illinois 2009),SIP(sustained immersive process)/watershed (NewYork City 2010), and Live Dancing Archive (Vermont2012). Her current project, in tow, is based inUrbana. Monson is on the Dance at Illinois faculty.She was hired through an initiative of the university’sEnvironmental Council to foster sustainability acrossthe campus and nationally. She is currently a MarshProfessor at Large at the University of Vermont.Rebecca Nettl-Fiol (Choreographer), professorof dance, is a choreographer, teacher, author,and Alexander Technique teacher. She haschoreographed more than 35 productions for Danceat Illinois and more 30 opera and musical theatreproductions for the School of Music Opera Program,Illinois Theatre, and the Interlochen Center forthe Arts. Recent venues for her work include theAmerican Dance Guild Performance Festival andFranceOff! in New York City, the Harvest ChicagoContemporary Dance Festival, and the Frente deDanza Independiente at Sala de Artes EscénicasMariana de Jesús in Quito, Ecuador. Nettl-Fiol isa frequent presenter at conferences and gave akeynote address this past summer at the Dance andSomatic Practices Conference in Coventry, England.She recently received the University of IllinoisCampus Award for Excellence in UndergraduateTeaching. Nettl-Fiol is the co-author of Dance andthe Alexander Technique: Exploring the MissingLink and the coeditor of The Body Eclectic: EvolvingPractices in Dance Training (both from the Universityof Illinois Press).Cynthia Oliver (Choreographer) has toured theglobe as a dancer with David Gordon’s Pick UpPerformance Co. and Ronald K. Brown/Evidence,A Dance Company. She has been a guest artistwith the nationally and internationally recognizedBebe Miller Company and currently performs withTere O’Connor Dance. She is an award-winningchoreographer who has earned a New YorkDance and Performance (“Bessie”) Award, theacclaimed title Outstanding Young Choreographerfrom Germany’s Ballet Tanz magazine (2002), andnumerous awards from national arts foundations10 11

supporting her work, including a grant fromCreative Capital (2002), the Illinois Arts CouncilChoreography Fellowship (2004), support fromthe Rockefeller Foundation’s MAP Fund (2007), anaward from the National Performance Network’sCreation Fund (2009), a prestigious Alpert Award inthe Arts nomination, and recognition as a UniversityScholar from the U of I in 2011. She holds a PhD inperformance studies and is a professor with Dance atIllinois.Allison Pauley (Dancer) began dancing at theLincolnshire Academy of Dance, where she trainedin jazz, lyrical, musical theatre, and ballet techniques.Throughout high school, she participated in thedance companies at her school, choreographingand dancing in the semiannual shows. During herfreshman year, she danced in the senior thesisconcert and Studiodance I with Dance at Illinois.Currently, Allison is a sophomore pursuing a BFA indance at the U of I.M. Anthony Reimer (Musician), originally anorchestral French horn player, has worked most ofthe last 20 years as a freelance composer and sounddesigner. His work has been heard on stages andat festivals in Texas, Illinois, North Carolina, Florida,Massachusetts, Minnesota, Kansas, Colorado, andUtah; abroad in Greece, Germany, Russia, andseveral countries in South America; and his homestate, Indiana. He completed his undergraduatework at Ball State University and received a master’sdegree in computer music from Northern IllinoisUniversity. He is currently pursuing a doctorate inmusic composition at the U of I.Miguel Salazar (Properties Master) is a first-yearstudent in the MFA Scenic Design Program at the Uof I. He graduated from the University of Texas-PanAmerican and later became the technical directorfor its Theatre Department and most recently wasthe technical director for the South Texas CollegeTheatre Department.Lainey Senft (Lighting Designer) is a senior inlighting design at the U of I. She has previouslycollaborated with Dance at Illinois as a lightingdesigner for Studiodance I. She worked as themaster electrician for the Russian National BalletTheatre, the Bebe Miller Company, and NovemberDance at Krannert Center in 2012. She previouslyserved as the assistant lighting designer for 9 Partsof Desire and November Dance in 2012.Samantha Simon (Dancer) started dancing at theage of 10 and is trained in contemporary, hip-hop,jazz, ballet, modern, and improvisation. In middleschool and high school, she was a member ofstudios, dance teams, and dance companies andperformed group numbers, duets, and solos incompetitions and venues throughout Los Angeles,Palm Springs, Las Vegas, Chicago, and Vancouver, aswell as on a tour in Israel. She adores learning newtechniques, and her passions are choreography andimprovisation.Kirstie Simson (Choreographer) has been acontinuous explosion in the contemporary dancescene, bringing audiences into contact with thevitality of pure creation in moment after moment ofvirtuoso improvisation. Called “a force of nature”by The New York Times, she is an award-winningdancer and teacher who has “immeasurablyenriched and expanded the boundaries of NewDance,” according to Time Out magazine (London):“Simson’s eternal subject is freedom, as she daresto go beyond the boundaries of form and structureto create movement out of the rhythm of life itself.”Kirstie is renowned today as an excellent teacher, acaptivating performer, and a leading light in the fieldof dance improvisation. A documentary film directedby Katrina McPherson was recently completed abouther work. Kirstie currently holds a faculty positionwith Dance at Illinois and continues to teach andperform all over the world.Kenny Stahl (Sound Designer) spent years as asongwriter and performer. On his off nights, heestablished quite a reputation in running soundsystems. After a few years, he was acceptedinto Michigan Technological University’s AudioProduction Program, where he spent his timerecording music and designing for a variety oftheatrical events. After graduation, Kenny joinedan international group of musicians traveling andperforming in Asia. Upon his return to the UnitedStates, he picked up a job as an audiovisualtechnician at FireKeepers Casino and Hotel, wherehe had the opportunity to develop a central controlsystem responsible for maintaining all audiovisualsystems. Currently, Kenny is an MFA candidate in theSound Design Program at the U of I.John Toenjes (Music Director/Musician) is anassociate professor with Dance at Illinois andthe past president of the International Guild ofMusicians in Dance. John has received morethan 30 dance score commissions and creates hisown computer-interactive and Internet-enabledperformance works. These include Inventions Suite,at the 2008 Cleveland Ingenuity Festival, and e’sof water, a dance/computer installation at theUniversity of Wisconsin at Milwaukee in 2007. Johnwrote the score and designed the wireless sensornetworks for Trisha Brown’s Astral Convertible (Reimagined)at the U of I in 2010. In 2011, John wrotemusic and helped design the computer systemsused in FraMESHift at Teatro Astra in Turin, Italy.For two years, he was the technical director for theIllinois-Japan Performing Arts Network, overseeingmultiple online broadcasts, which will culminate inthe performance of Timings, between the U of I andTokyo, in December 2013. John and colleague KenBeck are currently establishing NOTABLE, the NewOrder Tablet Ensemble, at the U of I.Renée Wadleigh (Choreographer), a professor, NewYork City dancer, choreographer, and teacher for 30years, received grants from the National Endowmentfor the Arts in 1985, 1986, and 1988 and from theIllinois Arts Council in 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999,2001, and 2005 for her choreography. Wadleighhas created 42 new works at the U of I since 1992and has set dances in the United States and abroad.Most recently, Wadleigh participated in the SecondInternational Festival of Contemporary Dance inQuito, Ecuador, presenting a new work and offeringthree public lectures. In April 2012, Wadleigh washonored, along with the four other original castmembers of Paul Taylor’s Aureole, at a gala eveningat Lincoln Center in New York City to celebrate thework’s 50th year. In March 2014, she will participatein the Paul Taylor Dance Company’s 60th anniversarycelebration and performance season at LincolnCenter in events still under wraps!Gina Wojnar (Dancer) was born and raised in theChampaign-Urbana area and will be graduatingfrom the U of I this spring. She has performed inDance at Illinois productions in pieces includingWho is them? (2012), choreographed by guestartist-in-residence Sahar Azimi, and Drawn (2012),choreographed by MFA graduate Tamin Totzke.Earlier this year, she had the opportunity to shadowcompany members from the Mark Morris DanceGroup, accompany them on their outreach programsthroughout Champaign-Urbana, and attend thecompany’s summer intensive under a full scholarshipin Brooklyn, New York. In addition to her studies,Wojnar currently enjoys teaching tae kwon do and12 13

creative dance classes for children in her free time.She looks forward to presenting her own work in theupcoming senior dance concert this May.Jeff Zahos (Musician) is passionately dedicatedto exploring the confluence of music, sound, andmovement. He has worked in various roles as anartist in dance—musician, sound designer, composer,and dancer—with Sara Hook, Tamin Totzke, GrantBowen, Kathleen Kelly, John Toenjes, and KirstieSimson. Since 2011, Jeff has worked as a dancemusician for Dance at Illinois and at several AmericanCollege Dance Festival Association regionalconferences. He has performed with orchestras,rock bands, Balinese gamelans, and West Africandrumming ensembles and in musical theatre.Recently, Jeff joined the music faculty at EasternIllinois University to teach music technology andserve as the head of recording. If he could, he wouldbe in the dance studio all day, every day.Assistant Stage ManagerTech Assistant Stage ManagerAssistant Lighting DesignersAssistant Sound DesignerAssistant Media DesignerMaster ElectricianCostume Shop LiaisonDance Assistant Stage ManagerProduction Running CrewCostume Running CrewLight Board OperatorSound Board OperatorProjectors OperatorVideo CrewNathaniel GrotemeyerSamantha KosinskiSlick JorgensenAlon StotterTyler KnowlesYuYi (Pasha) GuoJoe BurkeKaitlyn DayEmily RoseCarla GrubyChelsea KielyKamilla KinardMya KingRicky PerryNicole RenfroeLindsay ZavalaRebecca DankovichSkylee TrimbleKatherine WilliamsFrancesca BurnsVictoria RoninHaley JensenAntara BeraLuis VasquezProduction Staff14 15