Clifford Symposium:
Creativity and Collaboration
September 27-29, 2012
Participant Biographies:
Steve Abbott
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/math/faculty/abbott
Tim Bartlett '98
Adrian Benepe '78, P '09 '13
http://www.tpl.org/about/leadership-board/senior-management/adrian-benepe.html
Shannon Bohler-Small
http://www.middlebury.edu/arts/contact/MCFAStaff/SBohler-Small
Pieter Broucke
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/haa/faculty/pieter_broucke
Dan Brayton
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/enam/faculty/brayton/node/40891
Christal Brown
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/dance/faculty/christalbrown
Jeffrey Buettner
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/music/faculty/musicfac/jeffreybuettner
Julie Burstein
http://www.julieburstein.com/bio/
Catherine Cabeen
http://catherinecabeen.com/about_cac_pnc.html
Penny Campbell
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/dance/faculty/pennycambell
Christa Clifford '93
http://www.middlebury.edu/arts/contact/MCFAStaff/CClifford
Emerson String Quartet
Eugene Drucker, violin
Philip Setzer, violin
Lawrence Dutton, viola
David Finckel, cello
http://www.emersonquartet.com/artist.php
Cheryl Faraone
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/thea/faculty/faraone/node/40441
Dick Forman
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/music/faculty/directors/dickforman
Karin Gottshall
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/enam/faculty/gottshall
Leger Grindon
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/fmmc/faculty/lgrindon/node/51561
Larry Hamberlin
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/music/faculty/musicfac/larryhamberlin
Peter Hamlin
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/music/faculty/musicfac/peterhamlin
Rick Heinrichs
Rick Heinrichs is one of film’s most original and innovative visual artists, creating alternate worlds entirely appropriate to his film’s stories and settings. Currently, Heinrichs is designing the animated Frankenweenie as well as the live-action Dark Shadows for director Tim Burton. Most recently, he designed the production of Captain America for director Joe Johnston, with whom he also worked on Wolfman. He also designed the monumental sets and ships for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, both directed by Gore Verbinski. His work on Dead Man’s Chest was nominated for an Oscar, a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award, and an Art Directors Guild (ADG) award. At World’s End was also nominated for an ADG Award. He won the Academy Award for his work on Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow, for which he also won the BAFTA and ADG Awards. He received another Oscar nomination and Art Directors Guild Award for his imaginative designs for Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. In the 1980’s, Heinrichs developed and designed a number of early projects with Tim Burton at Disney Studio including the short films Vincent and the live-action Frankenweenie, and worked in the art departments of Burton films such as Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, and Edward Scissorhands. In 1992, he moved up to art director on Burton’s Batman Returns having previously assistant art directed on Soapdish. He also served as visual consultant on Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas. Later, he was production designer on Burton’s Planet of the Apes. Heinrichs’ other credits as production designer include the Coen Brothers’ classics Fargo and The Big Lebowski and Ang Lee’s Hulk. He lives with his wife and two children in Los Angeles.
Daniel Houghton
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/fmmc/faculty/houghton/node/284486
Jessica Holmes
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/econ/facultyofficehours/node/51951
Kirsten Hoving
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/haa/faculty/kirstenhoving/node/15811
Damascus Kafumbe
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/music/faculty/musicfac/Kafumbe
Markell Kiefer '96/5
http://www.buddhaprince.org/people.html
Christopher McGrory Klyza
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/ps/faculty/ck
Tyson Lien ’98
http://www.buddhaprince.org/people.html
Liza Sacheli Lloyd
http://www.middlebury.edu/arts/contact/MCFAStaff/LLloyd
Gary Margolis
Gary Margolis Ph.D, is Executive Director of College Mental Health Services Emeritus and Associate Professor of English and American Literatures (part-time) at Middlebury College. He was a Robert Frost and Arthur Vining Davis Fellow and has taught at the University of Tennessee, University of Vermont and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences. His third book, “Fire in the Orchard” was nominated for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. His poem, “The Interview” was featured on National Public Radio’s “The Story.” Boston’s ABC Channel 5 interviewed him on the Middlebury campus reading his poem, “Winning the Lunar Eclipse”, after the 2004 World Series.
He is the recipient of the Saint Michaels College Clinical Psychology Department Award for Mental Health Practice in Vermont. And the Wilton Covey Community Service Award from The Counseling Service of Addison County, Vermont.
His fourth book of poems, “Below the Falls is a book that responds to the loss of Middlebury student Nicholas Garza, our country’s wars, and the search for things that sustain us. His memoir, “Seeing the Songs, A Poet’s Journey to the Shamans in Ecuador” is recently publoished from Green Frigate Press.
Paul Matteson '00
Matteson, Assistant Professor of Dance at Amherst and Mount Holyoke colleges, was a principal dancer with the internationally touring Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company from 2008-2012, performing at The Kennedy Center Honors and featured in The American Masters documentary Bill T. Jones: A Good Man. From 2000-2005, Paul was a member of David Dorfman Dance and Race Dance, receiving a New York Dance and Performance Award (BESSIE) for performance in 2002. He has performed for numerous artists, including Terry Creach, Peter Schmitz, Kota Yamazaki, and Keith Johnson and often teaches at The American Dance Festival, The Bates Dance Festival, and The Florida Dance Festival. Paul received his B.A. from Middlebury College and a M.F.A. from Bennington College in Choreography.
Peter Mullan
Peter Mullan is Vice President for Planning and Design for Friends of the High Line, the not-for-profit organization responsible for the new public park built on the historic High Line elevated rail structure on the West Side of Manhattan. In that capacity, he is responsible for all aspects of the physical development of the structure, including planning, design and construction. Peter is also responsible for the organization’s ongoing advocacy efforts to preserve and redevelop Section 3 of the High Line at the West Side Rail Yards, which has resulted in the recent commitment by the City and the Related Companies to preserve the entire High Line at the West Side Rail Yards.
Since its opening in 2009, the High Line has become one of the City’s most popular and beloved public spaces, welcoming almost 4 million visitors per year. The High Line has also been a catalyst for the economic development of the surrounding neighborhood and has become a global model for the adaptive reuse of historic industrial structures and new urban green spaces.
An architect by training, Peter is a graduate of Princeton University and the Yale School of Architecture, where he was the recipient of the Alpha Rho Chi medal for Leadership. Peter is a member of the Board of Directors of the Architectural League of New York and the Fine Arts Federation. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.
Tenzin Ngawang
http://www.buddhaprince.org/people.html
Andrea Olsen
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/dance/faculty/andreaolsen
Sara Pearson
http://www.pearsonwidrig.org/company/company.php
Otto Pierce '13.5
Pierce is a joint Dance and Environmental Studies major at Middlebury College, who also has an organic garden in southern Vermont and models in New York City and Europe. He's a member of the Dance Company of Middlebury, touring to San Francisco and Monterey this January.
Elizabeth Robinson
http://www.middlebury.edu/studentlife/leadership/doc/ehr/node/434794
dj BENNO (Ben Schiffer ’10)
Ben has had a strong connection with music from childhood. From the moment he saw the inside of a radio station, he knew music would control his life. Growing up BENNO played everything from pots and pans, the keyboard, and drums; then he discovered turntables. In between spinning music, BENNO received his bachelor’s degree in Theatrical Sound Design from Middlebury College, giving him the tools to experiment further with music manipulation and sound creation. BENNO has spun for The Copa Cabana Club NYC, Tattoo Shot Lounge on Coney Island, NY and has a longstanding relationship with Two Brother’s Lounge and Stage in Middlebury, VT. dj BENNO has toured as sound engineer and circus rigger with The Big Apple Circus, Cirque Dreams and Circus Smirkus. BENNO is proud to be teaming up with his sister in his first effort to bring together his two passions, dj-ing and circus.
Rachel Schiffer '06.5
Rachel caught the circus bug when she was only seven years old and has been involved with circus in some way shape or form ever since. Rachel began as a gymnast and went on to perform with the international youth circus, Circus Smirkus (Greensboro, VT) as a wire dancer, aerialist, and acrobatic flyer. After studying religious performance, dance, and biology as an Independent Scholar at Middlebury College, Rachel turned her full focus back to the circus arts. Rachel has trained across the US and with various coaches in France and England. She has been lucky to work on creative projects with companies including MOTH Aerial Dance, Pie Productions, The Zany Umbrella Circus, and London’s The Generating Company. She has also performed with Circus Zoppe, The Midnight Circus, and as a part of the Academie Fratellini’s AperoCirque series (FR).
Peter Schmitz
Peter Schmitz is a former Middlebury College dance faculty member and director of the Dance Company of Middlebury. He has been involved in the creative and performing arts for over 25 years as a dancer, choreographer, and actor. As a professional dancer/choreographer, Peter has worked throughout the United States, Amsterdam, Germany, France, England, New Zealand and recently in Ankara, Turkey. He was a founding member of Dance Gallery, a small modern dance company, a member of Creach/Co in New York City for over 8 years, and has performed in the works of Wendy Woodson, Ann Carlson, and Richard Colton/Amy Spencer. He has choreographed for New World Theatre, Medicine Show Theater and Potomac Theater Project and is a member of Actors Equity. Peter currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.
William Seeley
William P. Seeley is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bates College in the United States. He holds a Ph.D. from CUNY-The Graduate Center (2006). His research in experimental philosophy and neuroscience of art has been published in Review of Philosophy and Psychology, Philosophical Psychology, Journal of Vision, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, the Proceedings of the International Association for Empirical Aesthetics, and the Journal of Visual Arts Practice. He was Lecturer in Yale College and Guest Fellow in Timothy Dwight College (2003) and Ezra Styles College (2005, 2010) at Yale University (United States) and held a joint appointment in Philosophy and Psychology at Franklin & Marshall College (United States) prior to moving to Bates College. Current research includes studies of the influence of selective attention, expert knowledge, and motor simulation in audience engagement with film, dance, and visual art. He also received an M.F.A. in sculpture from Columbia University (1992). His welded steel constructions and mobiles have been exhibited in New York City, Tokyo, The Addison Gallery of American Art, and at a number of colleges and universities including a solo exhibition of outdoor works in Ezra Stiles College at Yale University.
Andrew Smith '97.5
http://www.projectytheatre.org/about/staff-board/andrew-w-smith/
Lisa Velten Smith
http://www.projectytheatre.org/about/staff-board/lisa-velten-smith/
John Spackman
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/neuro/faculty/spackman/node/16041
Takács Quartet
Edward Dusinberre, violin
Károly Schranz, violin
Geraldine Walther, viola
András Fejér, cello
http://www.takacsquartet.com/press_group.html
Su Lian Tan
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/music/faculty/musicfac/suliantan
Simon Thomas-Train '09
Simon Thomas-Train is an independent artist in NYC, was originally from Keene Valley, NY and graduated from Middlebury College with a BA in Dance and Architectural Studies. He has performed with Tiffany Rhynard/ Big APE (Middlebury, VT), Satya Roosen/Studio Eclipse (Brussels, BE), Attack Theatre (Pittsburgh, PA), and most recently with Alexandra Beller/Dances (New York, NY). Beyond Middlebury, his choreography has been presented at the American College Dance Festival National Gala, Brooklyn Rooftop Festival, Rebound Dance Festival and Bard College.
Stephen Trombulak
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/bio/faculty/stephen_trombulak
Pamela Vail '90
http://www.fandm.edu/pamela-vail
Patrick Widrig
http://www.pearsonwidrig.org/company/company.php
Dana Yeaton
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/thea/faculty/yeaton
Amy Yuen
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/ps/faculty/ay/node/25721
