Virginie Mécène is a choreographer and a former Principal Dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company and Buglisi Dance Theatre. She is Artistic Director of Graham 2, Programs Director, and has served as the Director of the Martha Graham School. She choreographed works for the Martha Graham Dance Company, the Buglisi Dance, Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade, and the Dior/Saks Holiday Celebration. She received a Fellowship Award from the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the Library for the Performing Arts, a New York State Council on Arts’ Choreographer Award, and a Dance Career Award from the Fini Dance Award. 
Her work was acclaimed in venues such as the New York City Center, The Joyce Theater in New York City, the Palais Garnier in Paris, and L’Auditori de Barcelona in Barcelona. ww.virginiemecene.com 

Grace Sautter, born and raised in New York City, began her dance training at Steps on Broadway before attending Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Fordham University with a Double Major in English and Dance from Alvin Ailey. She performed works by Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey, Jose Limón, Paul Taylor, Mark Caserta, Omar Roman de Jesus, and Virginie Mécène. She featured in Rachel
Platten's Fight Song for the Macy's Parade, and in Dior/Sacks Holiday event, choreographed by Virginie Mecene. She is a member of Buglisi Dance Theater and Graham 2, Martha Graham’s second Company.

SoHyun Bae is an American artist living and working in New York. She received numerous awards including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Fine Arts, 2007; The New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 2002; The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. Grant, 2000; and The National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1996. Her works were exhibited worldwide in galleries and museums including the Asian Art Museum of SF, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, Seoul Arts Center Hangaram Museum, Museo Nacional di Visual Artes in Montevideo, Queens Museum, Sotheby’s, NY and Philips de Pury & Luxembourg.  www.sohyunbae.com

Judith Shatin is known for music that is ‘…bursting with imaginative detail’ (San Francisco Chronicle). A sonic explorer, be it acoustic instruments or electronic sources, she pairs timbral innovation with imaginative narrative designs. Commissions have come from organizations including the Barlow Endowment, Carnegie Hall, the Fromm Foundation and the Library of Congress, as well as ensembles such as the National, Illinois and Richmond Symphonies, the Cassatt and Kronos Quartets, the Dutch Hexagon Ensemble and Berlin Piano Percussion. Shatin is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emerita at UVA, where she founded the Virginia Center for Computer Music. www.judithshatin.com
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