Collaborators
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Geoff Gibbs (Nelson, BC, Canada) has a BMA with an emphasis in composition from Pacific Lutheran University. Currently, he's attending Selkrik College in Nelson, BC, for Digital Arts and New Media, and is a former member of Julia Massey and the Five Finger Discount from Seattle, Washington. He has written music for Slayer Espresso and for collaborative works with Paul Zmolek. Geoff was a founding member of Fools Play Improv troupe and was guest artist as the Mouse King for Tacoma City Ballet’s Nutcracker.
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Julie Leir-VanSickle (Pocatello, Idaho) is a creator of performance, dance, film, and mixed-media art. She is the owner/director of Creative Moves and current member of Callous Physical Theatre. Her most recent projects include spearheading and performing in the site specific dance “Check it Out” at the Marshall public library, creating and co-ordinating the multi-disciplinary art challenge “Thrift Store Stories,” and performing her solo dance piece Shedding Skin: a moving meditation on change at Fringe Festivals across the U.S. Her website for performance-based work can be found at CreativeMovesPerformance.com.
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Aigars Larionovs (Riga, Latvia), has been teaching capoeira since 2009 and travels the world performing and training with masters of the African-Brazilian art form, notably his current teacher Ponciano Almeida, Mestré China, Mestré Boca Rica and the legendary grande mestré Joao Grande. Aigars earned is degree in Contemporary Dance from the Latvian Culture College and has performed and choreographed for musical theatre and contemporary dance companies ZI temp.dance, MelnZeme, and his own Catalyst. His latest creations include the dance and movement performance Price of Admission, created for the international summer festival Positivus’14, and the contemporary dance spectacle based on an anthropology study by Kristiana Cimmermane Then and Now. Aigar’s most notable performance came out in May 2015, called the Astral Lane.
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Julie Stoverink (Atlanta, Georgia) graduated from Southeast Missouri State University with her Bachelor of Science in Performing Arts in 2001. Recipient of the Larry E. Griswald Career Acting Award and Frank Loesser Memorial Musical Theatre Scholarship, Julie performed there in a wide array of works, including Girabaldi & Zmolek’s 2002 Landscaping for Privacy. Post-graduation, she completed two summers as a member of the Huron Playhouse Company in Huron, OH, served as Production Intern for a season with the Charlotte Repertory Theatre in Charlotte, NC, and was briefly active in the Charlotte, NC, community theater scene. Julie currently lives in Atlanta, GA, and is thrilled to be diving back into creative collaboration after a “way-too-long” hiatus. In addition to her current work with LPL: Modular Play, Julie has lately returned to painting, writing, and further exploring modern and hip-hop dance through classes at Atlanta’s Dance411 Studios. In February, she had the opportunity to perform in Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, produced by One Billion Rising-Atlanta; she plans to continue working with their cause to Rise! Disrupt! Connect!, and Dance! as resistance against the exploitation of women.
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Bridget Close (Tallahassee, FL) Bridget's interests lie in the study of the performative nature of human emotion and its sedimentation into a body knowledge that shapes an identity of self and the social performer. Some of Bridget's original productions include: The Collectors, Vortex, Obsession, Taken, Rue for Ophelia Revisited and Crazy Little Thing Called Love. Bridget has performed and collaborated with Callous Physical Theatre for over 7 years. She was a board member for over 5 years at the Old Town Actors Studio in Pocatello Idaho were she was able to serve in multiple roles such as Director, Choreographer, Scene Designer, Actor and Dancer. Bridget has an MA in theatre and a minor in dance. She is currently working on her MFA in Dance at Florida State University.
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Michèle Ripper (Heyfield, Victoria, Australia) Michele was born in the UK to French and Jamaican parents. She immigrated to Australia in 1972 where she started a business in fashion styling and art direction for TV commercials. During those 24 years she danced as a hobby to unwind and relax. After meeting her husband, Michele moved to the small, remote timber town Heyfield in country Victoria where the opportunity to take over a small ballet School arose in 1998. Body & Soul Dance studio was awarded a Gippsland Business Award in 2012. Her credits include: Rehearsal Director for Melbourne Arts Festival project Bal Moderne, a community dance project called Hitting the Streets and choreographer for Birds in the Bush, a bushfire recovery project. In 2016 Michele and her students collaborated with Callous Physical Theatre to create The Place Where I Start. Michele has just realised her performing arts program I’m Brilliant, designed to encourage young people to trust in their creativity and develop vital 21st century skills. Over many years Michele has involved herself in the community and has recently retired from her role as Honorary Chair of the Heyfield and District Community Bank, a role she held for 7 years and was presented with a Community Service Award from the local Rotary Club for the her contribution to the Heyfield community through her dance studio.
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