RICHARD SIEGAL
Richard Siegal is the founder of The Bakery (2005), an organization dedicated to the exploration and production of contemporary performance. Siegal danced with William Forsythe’s Ballett Frankfurt from 1997 through its final season in 2004. During his tenure, he was named “Outstanding Dancer” by Balletanz’s Annual Critics’ Survey (1998, 2000, 2003). His own choreography was presented by Ballett Frankfurt, most recently in the 2002 trilogy, x(evening). In 2008, he received the prestigious Mouson Prize for his choreography Stranger/Stranger Report. The same year, he completed the Stranger trilogy with As If Stranger, created at Danspace Project in New York, where he received the New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award. Siegal was artist-in-residence at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany for the creation of If/Then Installed and his piece Homo Ludens. He is also on the faculty of D.A.N.C.E. andthe American Dance Festival, for which he also curates an annual Forsythe Festival.
FRÉDÉRIC BEVILACQUA
Leader of the Real Time Musical Interactions team at IRCAM, the Paris-based Institute for Music/Acoustic Research and Coordination, Frédéric Bevilacqua has both a scientific and musical background. With a Masters in Physics (1991) and a PhD in Biomedical Optics at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (1998), he also studied music at Berklee College of Music in Boston (1992-93) where he contributed to numerous artistic projects fusing music, theater and new media. From 1999 to 2004, he pursued research at Beckman Laser Institute of the University of California Irvine. Since 2003, he has led research on gestural capture and analysis at Ircam and is part of a research team working on new paradigms for technology and music performance, as well as the interaction between gesture and sounds/video processes.
FLORENT BÉRENGER
Florent Bérenger is is both musician and online developer. He collaborates with artists including Pierre Giner, with whom he created TalkSaver, a prototype for speech capture and real-time text transcription, for the 2005 Venice Biennale. As drummer for the group Playdoh, he has worked with Pierre Giner as well as video artist Marie Daubert on performances that immerse spectators on stage next to the musicians using video installations. Since 2008, he has shared his explorations with the interactive agency Visual-Link Paris, where he is production director.
HILLARY GOIDELL
Hillary Goidell has lived and worked in Paris since 1990, after receiving a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Anthropology from Amherst College. In 1992, while completing Master’s research in the same field at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, she began producing multimedia projects with Voyager, a pioneering company in the field. In 2000, after freelancing and teaching interactive media at the Université de Paris-8, she joined Virtools, publishers of software for creating interactive applications in real-time 3D. She designed If/Then Open Source with Richard Siegal and Florent Bérenger in 2006, and their creative tool for collaborative choreography received the SACD Prize at Monaco Dance Forum. She currently divides her time between producing applications at Virtools and her personal artistic projects.
JEAN-PHILIPPE LAMBERT
Jean-Philippe Lambert’s background spans science and music, as well as performance technique with Benjamin Champy in the theater section of INSA in Lyons, France. He also helped found a Master’s Degree in Technical Direction in collaboration with ENSATT. Since 2001, he has done research at Ircam for various projects including Phase and Voxstruments for the Sound Analysis and Synthesis Team, and the Real-Time Musical Interactions. He has created lighting, music and software for performance, films and installations (Pulx, Richard Siegal, colletif des Esprits Solubles, Michel Véricel, Roland Cahen). He has contributed to numerous artistic events internationally as Technical Director.
DIETA SIXT
Dieta Sixt has had a longstanding career with the Goethe-Institut, with directorships in Montreal, Washington, San Francisco, New York as well as in Europe. Her academic background includes a doctorate in cultural policy from the University of Hamburg, an MA in German Language and Literature and an MA in linguistics. Her expertise in arts management covers numerous international projects and publications in the areas of Dance, Theater, Media Arts, Film and Cultural Studies. She currently divides her time between activities as a freelance cultural curator and Executive Director of The Bakery. She is an accredited foreign correspondent of the Foreign Press Association New York.