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SARAH CARGILL (she/her/they/them) is a performing artist, cultural worker and freelance curator whose work articulates (and is a consequence of) the relationship between intimacy, sonic memory/imagination, and interiority. Exploring these relationships through spectrum of sound and silence is central to their practice. Sarah is one of the San Francisco Queer Cultural Center's 2015-16 grantees and was the inaugural fellow of SOMArts Cultural Center's Curatorial Residency Program (2018). She is a former fellow of San Francisco Bay Area Emerging Arts Professionals (2017) and the Gardarev Center (2016). Sarah has appeared as a soloist in numerous productions, including "Queer Rebels" (2013), "Stories of Queer Diaspora" (2014) and SOMArts Cultural Center's "The News" (2016), and she has served as a member of the board of directors for Bay Area Girls Rock Camp in Oakland, CA (2015-17). She currently resides on unceded Ohlone land, in her hometown of San Francisco. EMILY COATES is a dancer, choreographer and writer. She has performed internationally with New York City Ballet (1992-98), Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project (1998-2002), Twyla Tharp Dance (2001-03) and Yvonne Rainer and Group (2005-present). Her choreographic work has been commissioned and presented by Danspace Project, Performa, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Works & Process at the Guggenheim, Ballet Memphis, Wadsworth Atheneum, University of Chicago and Yale Art Gallery. Awards include the School of American Ballet's Mae L. Wein Award for Outstanding Promise; the Martha Duffy Memorial Fellowship at the Baryshnikov Arts Center; Yale's Poorvu Family Award for Interdisciplinary Teaching; the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant for Public Understanding of Science, Technology and Economics; and a 2016 Fellowship at New York University's Center for Ballet and the Arts. She is associate professor and director of dance studies at Yale University and co-author, with particle physicist Sarah Demers, of "Physics and Dance" (Yale University Press 2019). DAVID DEWITT (managing editor) spent almost 20 years as an editor at The New York Times, including many years working on its Arts desk handling articles in dance, theater, music and other forms. He also wrote film, theater and television reviews for the paper. David is a member of SAG-AFTRA and Equity. COLIN GEE trained as an actor at École Jacques Lecoq in Paris and the Dell' Arte International School of Physical Theater in California. He began dancing in 1999 with the Iréne Hultman Dance Company, performed as a clown with Cirque du Soleil from 2001 to 2004, and in 2009 was named the founding Whitney Live artist in residence at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2019), a Rome Prize (2012), and an EMPAC Dance Movies Commission (2011), he has received commissions from San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum. He often collaborates with the composer Erin Gee (his sister), providing libretto, performance, choreography and video for opera and concert works, with recent performances at Zurich Opera House, Carnegie Hall and Vienna Konzerthaus. SASHA LAPOINTE is from the Upper Skagit and Nooksack Indian Tribe. Native to the Pacific Northwest, she draws inspiration from her coastal heritage as well as from her life in the city of Seattle. She writes with a focus on trauma and resilience, with topics ranging from PTSD, sexual violence and the work her great-grandmother did for the Coast Salish language revitalization, to loud basement punk shows and what it means to grow up mixed heritage. Her work has appeared in Hunger Mountain, The Rumpus Literary Journal, Indian Country Today, Luna Luna Magazine, The Yellow Medicine Review, The Portland Review, As/Us Journal, THE Magazine and Aborted Society Online Zine. She recently graduated with an M.F.A. through the Institute of American Indian Arts with a focus on creative nonfiction and poetry. CLAUDIA LA ROCCO (editor) is the author of the selected writings "The Best Most Useless Dress" (Badlands Unlimited), the chapbook "I am trying to do the assignment"([2nd Floor Projects]) and the sf trilogy "The Olivias" (published in performance, print and interdisciplinary editions by the Chocolate Factory Theater, Man Pant Publishing and the Lab). animals & giraffes, her duo with musician-composer Phillip Greenlief, has released two albums: "July" (with various musicians, Edgetone Records) and "Landlocked Beach" (with Wobbly; Creative Sources). Her poetry and prose have been widely anthologized, and she has bylines in numerous publications, including Artforum, Bomb and The New York Times, where she was a critic from 2005 to 2015. La Rocco has received grants and residencies from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation and Headlands Center for the Arts, among others. She is editor in chief of Open Space, the San Francisco Museum of Art's digital and live interdisciplinary platform for diverse voices within contemporary arts and culture. B I O G R A P H I E S 30 | PEAKPERFS.ORG

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