COLLABORATORS
Isabel Castellvi
Musician (Cellist)
Isabel Castellvi is a versatile multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, songwriter and composer. Dually based in New York City and Durham Isabel share’s music with audiences all over the world and has performed, recorded and taught throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Central and South America and the Middle East. Her current projects include her bands Alula, Masu and The Bell Cycle; as well as collaborations with songwriters Diane Cluck and Sonya Kitchell, and Iraqi Jazz ensemble Shamash; Labyrinth Dance Co, and Parul Shah Dance Company. She received a B.M. at DePaul University and a Master's in the Contemporary Performance Program at Manhattan School of Music. In addition to an active performance career Isabel studies North Indian classical music, herbal medicine, yoga, nada yoga and sound healing. www.isabelsmusic.com
Lucia Del Vecchio
Dramaturge
Lucia Del Vecchio is an actor, director, and playwright and holds an MFA in Theatre and Playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin. Her plays produced in her hometown of Asheville include MILF: The Musical, Shangri-la , theevolutionofwoman , and The Family Tree, all at The Magnetic Theatre. She is the Associate Artistic Director and Managing Director of The Magnetic Theatre, a theatre company focused on new works for the stage. She will direct her newest play, Employee Handbook Revision Committee, for its premiere in October 2015 at Magnetic's new venue, Magnetic 375, in Asheville's River Arts district.
Randall Love
Musician (Pianist)
Randall Love is a member of the Duke University music faculty where he has taught piano and fortepiano since 1982. He has been heard in this country as a soloist and chamber player in events ranging from performances on historical instruments to contemporary concerts featuring North Carolina composers. He has composed music for Chinese choreographer Hou Ying and the Guangdong Modern Dance Company. He has performed at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina, the Boston Early Music Festival fringe events, and the Schubert Club in St. Paul, Minnesota. He has collaborated with “Ensemble Courant” (UNC-Chapel Hill) in numerous programs featuring romantic music on original instruments. Love has recorded solo works of Vorísek for the Titanic label and the “Tombeau de Debussy” for the Centaur label. A native of Colorado, Randall Love received his music training from the Oberlin Conservatory (B.M.) and the New England Conservatory (M.M. with honors). His teachers were Sanford Margolis and Patricia Zander. A two-year period of study in Amsterdam followed during which he earned a soloist diploma with honors from the Sweelinck Conservatory. His teacher there was Edith Lateiner-Grosz. His performances in Holland included two recordings made for Dutch radio.
Mike Wall
Composer
Mike Wall is a sought after composer of music for dance, video, instillation, jazz, and multimedia collaborations. He has been praised by the New York Times for his “haunting piano score”. His works are performed widely in the U.S. and abroad. He has scored, along with Oscar Award Winning composer Darren Morze, “Bel Borba Aqui” and “Neurotypical” which aired on PBS. Michael has worked for NYU, Princeton University, Rutgers University, The Ohio State University, The American Dance Festival, Bates Dance festival and is currently faculty at The University of Utah. He received a degree in Jazz Piano from Rutgers University, where he studied with Kenny Barron. Michael performed on Kenny Barron’s Grammy Nominated recording, “Spirit Song”, which also received a special award from Verve Records. He is the founder of soundFORMovement.com, a website dedicated to music for dance with over 300 tracks released in the last year. More at www.soundFORMovement.com
Rosa van Hensbergen
Writer & Performer
Rosa van Hensbergen is a poet, performer, and researcher. She holds a BA in English from Cambridge University, an MSc in Modern Japanese Studies from Oxford University, and is undertaking a PhD on experimental Japanese performance back at Cambridge. She began writing, publishing, and performing experimental poetry in 2011, and has since then had four poetry pamphlets published; edited and published four editions of an experimental women's poetry magazine, The Paper Nautilus; and published seven poetry pamphlets written by contemporary poets, under the name Tipped Press. This has been facilitated by a year-long poetry scholarship through the University of Cambridge, a two year government funded research period in Japan, and more recently an Austrian Federal Chancellory funded residency in Vienna. Over the last three years she has researched and trained intensively in Butoh dance and the physical theatre training of Suzuki Tadashi in Japan, and received bursaries to take part in professional performance development programmes at Dance Research Studio in London. This training informs her creation of performance works that explore the intersection of poetic language and experimental movement, and the ways spoken (and unspoken) language may find natural forms of physicality. Most recently this has led to an adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit, performed over Skype with a Butoh dancer and composer in Tokyo; and to the writing of a number of performance scripts, inspired by Viennese Actionism and Butoh notation for production in the coming year.