DIRECTORS

Allan Schindler

Allan Schindler is Professor of Composition and Director of the Computer Music Center at Eastman. Several of his works are available on commercial compact disc recordings, and several are published by semar editore (Rome) and Worldwide Music Incorporated (USA). Schindler also has served as Music Editor and consultant for several publishing houses, including McGraw-Hill, Random House and Alfred A. Knopf.
Allan's Web Site:
http://www.ecmc.rochester.edu/allan/
allan@ecmc.rochester.edu

Stephanie Maxwell

Stephanie Maxwell is co-founder and co-director of the ImageMovementSound festivals. She teaches film, video and animation production and history courses in the School of Film and Animation at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She has taught, lectured and conducted workshops in many international venues, and she was recently an artist-in-residence at Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand. Her unusual and award-winning animated works have exhibited in many international film and television programs and festivals, including recent retrospectives in New Zealand, the Ottawa International Animation Festival, LUX in London, and the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in Paris. Her works are collected by museums as works of art.

Stephanie's Web Site:
www.rit.edu/~sampph
sampph@rit.edu

Jack Beck

Jack Beck has taught at Denison University and the University of Iowa, where he received his Masters degrees in Communication Studies, and Film & Video Production. Jack has also worked as a cinematographer, videographer, screenwriter, story editor, radio DJ, sound engineer, boom operator, and sound recordist. Jack continues to create new digital works, often collaborations with Eastman School of Music composers through the ImageMovementSound festivals. In 2002, Jack traveled to Panama to shoot digital video of the courtship display of the Golden-Collared Manakin, and in 2005 he ventured north to the Hudson Bay to film polar bears.
jabpph@rit.edu

Juanita Suarez

Juanita Suarez, Associate Professor earned her PhD from Texas Woman’s University and MFA from the University of Utah. She holds a joint position in the Department of Dance and the Arts for Children Program at SUNY Brockport, and she teaches dance research, history, and education. She is a recipient of a Rockefeller Grant for US-Map Fund for Culture. She has conducted research in Mexico which has lead to collaborations with Luz y Fuerza (Mexico) and El Corazon, a migrant ensemble. She performed for Legends of China 2000, a dance exchange involving forty-five American and Chinese dance artists and scholars, and in Portugal in 2006 for the 14a Quinzena de Dança de Almada Dance Festival. Her research on Chicana dancemaking as a rising aesthetic within modern dance, is included in Fields in Motion: Global Contemporary Dance and Ballet Ethnographies, to be published by Sir Wilfred Laurier in 2007. As a co-founding member of the Latina Dance Project, an international ensemble of Latina performers, the LDP supports the creative voice of the Latina experience and premiered an Aztec-based project titled Coyolxauhqui Re-Members at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2006 with subsequent performances for Chicago's Mexican Museum of Fine Arts and the 14th Almada Dance Festival in Lisbon, Portugal.
jsuarez@brockport.edu