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Liz Gerring was born in San Francisco in 1965. She grew up in the Los Angeles area and began studying dance at age 13. In high school, she studied dance at the Cornish Institute in Seattle. In 1987, she received a BFA from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Kazuko Hirabayashi and Doris Rudko. In March 1998, she presented her first piece, a four-hour movement installation, and soon after formed the Liz Gerring Dance Company. Liz Gerring was awarded the Jacob’s Pillow Prize in June 2015 and a Joyce Theater residency and creation award in the same year. In 2016/17 she was awarded a New York City Center Choreographic Fellowship. She lives in New York City with her husband, Kirk August Radke, her three children, and two dogs.

Michael J. Schumacher is a composer, performer and installation artist based in Brooklyn. In addition to his long-term collaboration with Liz Gerring, he has worked with choreographer Sally Silvers, poet Bruce Andrews, musicians Oren Ambarchi, Kaffe Matthews, Donald Miller of Borbetomagus, Phill Niblock and Ed Tomney of the indie band Necessaries, conceptual artists Luke Dubois and Elana Herzog, architect Victoria Meyers, video artist Ursula Scherrer, film-maker Ken Jacobs, and many others. His 2004 CD “Room Pieces” (XI) was named best in composition by THE WIRE magazine. Another XI release, a DVD of Five Sound Installations that were actually computer programs that invented the music in “real time”. His most recent project is the rock band diNMachine.

Robert Wierzel has worked as a lighting designer with artists from diverse disciplines and backgrounds in theater, dance, contemporary music, visual arts, and opera on stages throughout the country and abroad. Wierzel has a long collaboration (30 years) with choreographer and director Bill T. Jones and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. His other dance collaborations include works with choreographers Seán Curran, Doug Varone, Andrea Miller, Larry Goldhuber and Heidi Latsky, Molissa Fenley, Donna Uchizono, Alonzo King, Charlie Moulton, Michael Tracy/Pilobolus Dance Theatre; Arthur Aviles; Margo Sappington; Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre; Trisha Brown Dance Company; Lyon Opera Ballet and the Berlin Opera Ballet. Robert has also worked on productions with the opera companies of Paris-Garnier; Tokyo; Toronto; Bergen, Norway; Folk Opera, Sweden; New York City Opera; Glimmerglass Festival; Washington National; Seattle; Boston Lyric; Lyric Opera/Chicago; Minnesota; San Francisco; Houston; Virginia; Montreal; Vancouver; Florida Grand; and Portland, among others. His theater work has been seen on and off Broadway, including Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar & Grill starring Audra McDonald; the musical Fela! (2010, Eugene O’Neill Theatre: Tony Award nomination), and at the Royal National Theatre of London.

Amith A. Chandrashaker’s credits include La Boheme (Atlanta Opera), Fidelis (Public), Ping Pong (Public), Ike at Night (UTR/Public), Stoop Stories (Weston Playhouse), Carnival Kids (Lesser America), The Woodsman (Oberon Ensemble), Platonov (The Kitchen/Jay Scheib), The Hatmaker’s Wife (Playwrights Realm), L’Elisir D’Amour (The Curtis Institute), The Drawer Boy (Soho Playhouse), Baal (Hoi Polloi), Rough Sketch (59e59), Festenmacher (Robert Woodruff/NYU Tisch). He has premiered work with choreographers Alexander Ekman, Aszure Barton, Kate Weare, Benoit Swan-Pouffer, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Rennie Harris Pure Movement, and The National Dance Company of Wales.

Elizabeth DeMent