COLLABORATORS

Jonathan Aaron Cain is based primarily in New York, Philly, DC, and Baltimore. As a performing and collaborative artist, Jonathan works with music, movement, and technology, with a particular interest in cultural, postmodern, and historical performance practice. He is published in the Journal of Computers and Mathematics with Applications, and is Artist-in-Residence of the New Street Dance Group in Philadelphia. To combat musical globalization and Western music colonization, Jonathan works closely with musicians in Bhutan and the United States to preserve Bhutanese Traditional Music through education programs for youth in Bhutan, for which he has received nonprofit grants and corporate sponsorship. Jonathan holds a post-graduate Artist Diploma from the Purchase Conservatory in New York, a Master of Music degree from the University of Maryland, and degrees in music and mathematics from the University of Arizona. He plays cello, baroque cello, viola da gamba, and guitar. www.jonathanaaroncain.com

Natalia Duong is a performance artist, choreographer, and scholar, native to the San Francisco Bay Area. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on Kinesthetic Empathy as a resource for conflict resolution, community devised theater, and the embodied transmission of trauma as exemplified in the bodies of those affected by Agent Orange. She has collaborated with artists to perform internationally in Edinburgh, Paris, Uganda, and Vietnam, where she recently led a community-based devised theater piece that was performed at the US Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City. Natalia is also the Founder and Artistic Director of PAO, a New York based movement collective interested in how war is inherited in the body. Her work has been presented in university settings at Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT), University of Massachusetts Boston, New York University, Northwestern University, and Stanford University in addition to various dance venues such as Movement Research, Dance New Amsterdam, Chen Dance Center, and Dixon Place. She recently gave a TEDx talk on her research at TEDxStanford in May 2013. She holds a Masters degree in Performance Studies from Tisch School for the Arts at New York University, and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University with a BA in Psychology and Dance. She currently lives in Brooklyn but will begin her doctorate studies at UC Berkeley in Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies in the fall. www.nataliaduong.com

Kenneth David Stewart (BMI) is presently pursuing a Ph.D. in Music Composition at Duke University whose compositions range from symphonic music to multimedia works written for live instruments and electronics. As a composer and programmer, Kenneth develops work in physical interfaces toward multi-media and compositional ends in music, theatre and dance. In 2008 Kenneth was awarded the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award. Recently, his electro-acoustic work, 'Thetastate' was given a studio recording by the jazz trio The Bad Plus and was released online by Duke University in conjunction with Duke Performances.  Another work, 'I Flaunt the Fiends of Hell' was installed in the Bryan Center art gallery and featured in the Chat Festival 2012. about.me/KennethDavidStewart