Is a cross-disciplinary performer who loves and honors lichens. His durational installation “Treeing” invites passers-by to greet urban ecologies through contemplative walks and paper-making from trash. David is a Headlong Performance Institute fellow and a Circus Amok and Ukrainian Village Voices member. He is currently touring in Faye Driscoll’s Obie-award-winning “Weathering”. Credits include Eli Nixon’s “Wrack Zone” at The Public, Mina Nishimura’s “Mapping a Forest…” at Jacob’s Pillow and Danspace Project, and Aaron Landsman’s “Night Keeper” at The Chocolate Factory. David is the Russian-English translator of Isadorino Gore’s “Experiments in Choreology…”, a kaleidoscopic dance manual that excavates the legacy of early Soviet contemporary dance. He is the personal assistant to choreographer Ishmael Houston-Jones.

Jeff Beal is an American composer with a genre-defying musical fluidity.  His work has been nominated for nineteen, and won five Primetime Emmy awards for scores for House of Cards (Netflix), Rome (HBO), Carnivale (HBO) Nightmares and Dreamscapes (TNT), Monk (USA) and Oliver Stone’s The Putin Interviews (Showtime). Noted film scores include the documentaries The Biggest Little Farm and Blackfish, and dramas Pollock (dir. Ed Harris) and Shock and Awe (dir. Rob Reiner), and Raymond & Ray (dir. Rodrigo Garcia) on Apple TV+.

Beal composes, orchestrates, conducts, mixes and often performs on his own scores. An accomplished and recorded jazz musician, Beal uses his improvisational skills to read the emotional tone of a scene. “This process allows me to envision a world where anything can happen,” says Beal.

Jeff has begun conducting his own music in recent years leading National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in the premiere of House of Cards in Concert, a live to picture event, with further performances in Miami, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Jerusalem. In March of 2019 he led the Qatar National Symphony in the world premiere of his work The Radiant Pearl, commissioned for the opening of the Qatar Museum in Doha.

Recent premieres include a Flute Concerto for soloist Sharon Bezaly and the Minnesota Orchestras, and the first two installments of his German Expressionist Silent Film Trilogy: F.W. Muranu’s Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans commissioned by the Los Angeles Master Chorale; Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligary commissioned by the Bundesjazzorchestra; The Paper Lined Shack, an album on Supertrain Records with three chamber arrangement live performances at Fotografiska (NYC), Arts at the Armory (Somerville), and Zipper Concert Hall (Los Angeles); a co-commission from the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and Eastman School of Music celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Kodak Hall; and, We Breathless Stand commissioned for and performed by the US Army Field Band.  He is currently completing a violin concerto, to be premiered by the St. Louis Symphony in 2024, for soloist Kelly Hall-Tompkins, with Leonard Slatkin conducting.

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Beal’s grandmother was a pianist and accompanist for silent movies. An avid jazz fan, she gave him Miles Davis’/Gil Evans’ Sketches of Spain album when he was beginning his trumpet studies. In addition to studying both classical and jazz trumpet, Jeff was a self-taught pianist and spent countless hours in the library learning music theory and composition on his own. Encouraged by conductor Kent Nagano, Jeff composed a trumpet concerto at age 17, which he performed with the Oakland Youth Symphony, as well as a number of large ensemble jazz charts that are still in publication today.

It would be across the country at the Eastman School of Music that Jeff would discover both his musical voice, as a student of Christopher Rouse and Rayburn Wright, and the love of his life, soprano Joan Sapiro Beal, who frequently performs his music. In 2015, the couple donated funds for the creation of The Beal Institute for Film Music and Contemporary Media at Eastman.  The Beals have also donated to fund the collaborative Music and Medicine initiative at the University of Rochester, having experienced the impact of music on health in their own lives.

Nicole Goodwin aka GOODW.Y.N. is the author of Warcries, and the poetic sequel Warcrimes as well as the photographic essay book Ain’t I a Woman (?/!): I Give of Myself  based on the five year iterations of Ain’t I a Woman (?/!).  They are a finalist for the CUE Foundation’s 2022 Public Programs Fellowship, as well as the 2020 Pushcart Nominee, 2018-2019 Franklin Furnace Fund Recipient, the 2018 Ragdale Alice Judson Hayes Fellowship Recipient, 2017 EMERGENYC Hemispheric Institute Fellow and the 2013- 2014 Queer Art Mentorship Queer Art Literary Fellow.

(b. 1989 in Chicago) is a New York City-based interdisciplinary artist. Her work encompasses sound art, extended vocal technique, performance art, movement, painting, analog photography, and film. She has toured extensively in the U.S. and throughout Europe. She currently focuses on interweaving homemade electronic instruments into her vocal and dance performances, stirring a plethora of emotions from her audience members through vicious noise, ritualistic chants, and meditative movements.

Dorchel Haqq, raised in Harlem, explores fantasy and abstracts the echo of transgenerational trauma in her body of culture through film, sound exploration and object investigations. Dorchel builds worlds that reflect her community and immerse viewers energetically and holistically. Through collaboration, Dorchel leads with curiosity and care.