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Beppie Blankert

(Choreographer FEAST) began her dancing career in 1969 working in several international dance companies. She now works as a choreographer with her own touring company in The Netherlands, England, Belgium, Germany, The United States and Canada. In 1987 Beppie Blankert received the Digital Award for ‘Letters, remember me’ and in 1992 the Prize for Choreography and Production from the Union of Theater and Concert hall Directors for Ives.

Aaron Copp

(Lighting Designer FEAST) has been working in theater since he was 10. His lighting appears in the repertory of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, New York City Ballet, Rambert Dance Company, Boston Ballet, and many others. He has collaborated with visual artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Charles Long, Marsha Skinner, and Leonardo Drew. Aaron was the recipient of the 2000 Bessie Award for the lighting design for Merce Cunningham's Biped.

Paul Geluso
(Composer 1999-2002) has collaborated with J Mandle Performance for the past four years. Works include music scores for RETURN (2001), ERIKA (2000), WHEN (1999), SIX SQUARE (1999), and currently FEAST (2003). His music can be classified as electro-acoustic, combining analog and digitally processed sound as the foundation for melodic, acoustic instrumental voices. Residing in New York City, he is currently on the staff of Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Inc. and New York University.

Choreographer Mark Jarecke

(Choreographer PEDESTRIAN TRACES) has been recognized with commissions from the Jerome Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation through Danspace Project's Commissioning Initiative, the American Dance Festival with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Doris Duke Awards for New Work. He is also the 2001 recipient of the Scripps/ADF Humphrey-Weidman-Lim—n Fellowship in Choreography.

Bethany Koby (designer)

Currently holds a scholarship to the Design department at Fabrica, Benetton's creative research and development center in northern Italy. She worked and lived in New York City where she was a senior designer with the creative team of Wolff Olins New York. She has worked with clients such as Gucci, The Apartment, Fila, The Museum of Modern Art, Smith and Nephew, General Electric, Werner Herzog, Victoires Films and Wingspan Arts.

Ariel Krasnow

(Collaborator PEDESTRIAN TRACES) is a registered architect with a Master of Science degree in Architecture and Urban Design. She has worked on various international urban planning projects in association with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia University. Recently she participated in three yearly summer International Workshops organized by the Research Center for Islamic History, Art and Culture, to raise post-war urban planning and design issues regarding the reconstruction of the city of Mostar in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Said Mahrouf

(Costume Designer for J Mandle Performance 1998-2000) graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (Amsterdam) where he specialized in fashion design in 1999 and has also studied at the Pratt School of Fashion (NYC). He has created performances in both Amsterdam and New York. Mahrouf's designs have been featured in numerous press articles including the cover of ITEMS Magazine (October 1999) in an issue highlighting the best young Dutch designers of the year. That same year he launched a wearable collection "Basics and Panels".

Photographers:

Gil Blank, Ron Cowie, Jordan Crane, Peter Dant, Cees de Bever, Kurt Dietrich, Emily Drazen, Jeffrey Grieshober, Tasja Keetman, Ryo Manabe, Kevin Rogers, Santos, Siege, Pam Traynor, Danielle van Ark, Natascha Wittgenstein

Videographers:

Yael Bartaena, Hope Hall, Merve Kayan, Jochem Sanders, Sadia Shepard, Tori Sparks