Music & Dance: Musicians, Composers, Singers, Dancers, Choreographers, Performers Talk Art, Creativity & The Creative Process

Composer John Powell is a multiple Annie Award winner for “Best Music in an Animated Feature Production” and “Best Original Score”. Since rising to prominence with his scores to the Matt Damon Bourne trilogy, he has become known for family animated films, scoring Shrek, Chicken Run, Ice Age (2 & 3), Bolt, Rio, Happy Feet (1 & 2) and Kung Fu Panda (1 & 2) and action music for Hancock, Green Zone, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, The Italian Job, X-Men: The Last Stand, and Solo: A Star Wars Story, among others.

Nominated for multiple Grammys, BAFTAs and other awards, his score for How to Train Your Dragon earned him his first Academy Award nomination. His concert music includes "A Prussian Requiem", an oratorio to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of World War I which premiered at The Royal Festival Hall.

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Itamar Kubovy, Executive Director of Pilobolus Dance Company, speaks with The Creative Process Founder Mia Funk about play, collaboration, and dance as a mode of storytelling.

The Creative Process exhibition and international educational initiative is traveling to leading universities, culture centers, museums, and libraries. The exhibition is composed of interviews and portraits of notable creative thinkers, alongside projection elements of works by contributors from over fifty countries.

Made with the participation of students and faculty, it is a celebration of the humanities and education.

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“To not honor that we are all creative, beautiful, interesting deep, rich individuals. We’re not zeros and ones on a spreadsheet. We’re not scientifically explained. We are not mathematically judged. We are imperfect blobs of emotion and bone and spirit and life and when we come together there is nothing greater than the chemistry and the alchemy of musical theater… There’s a joy, there’s a bounce, there’s an effervescence that’s part of that music. I had a great teacher in college, the head of our program Brent Wagner said, 'With lyrics, I can tell you to open the door, but with music I can tell you how.’ Lyrics are information and music is emotion.”

Most highly noted for his stunning work in musical theater, Gavin James Creel is a Tony & Olivier Award-winning actor, singer and songwriter. On Broadway, he’s performed in shows including Throughly Modern Millie, Hair, The Book of Mormon, Waitress and Hello, Dolly!, his performance in which won him his first Tony Award. Creel is also a LGBTQ+ activist, having done much to raise awareness and fight for marriage equality.

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Most highly noted for his stunning work in musical theater, Gavin James Creel is a Tony & Olivier Award-winning actor, singer and songwriter. On Broadway, he’s performed in shows including Throughly Modern Millie, Hair, The Book of Mormon, Waitress and Hello, Dolly!, his performance in which won him his first Tony Award. Creel is also a LGBTQ+ activist, having done much to raise awareness and fight for marriage equality.

· www.gavincreel.com

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HELLO, DOLLY! Photo by Julieta Cervantes

Kate Mueth is the Founder and Artistic Director of the award-winning dance theater company The Neo-Political Cowgirls. In their 13th year of devised theater making, NPC continues to present bold, "Mind bending" theater that seeks to deepen and challenge the ways in which audiences experience theater. Committed to shining light on female-identifying theater makers, NPC produces and supports work by women+ in a myriad of ways to create parity on the stage. NPC's Arts Education Outreach programming has been called "Crucial to our community" for their tireless work in using the Arts to creatively address social (in)justice, education and conflict. She trained in the prestigious Arts Leadership program at Lincoln Center, Circle in the Square Conservatory and Shakespeare & Company, and is Co-VP of Communications of the League of Professional Theatre Women. She has worked as actress/director/ choreographer with such luminaries as Blythe Danner, Tony Walton, Simon Jones, Cathy Curtin, Liz Larsen, Heather Lind, Joe Pintauro, Joy Behar, and others at Lincoln Center, John Drew Theater, Bay Street Theater and other notable venues.
· www.npcowgirls.org
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Kate Mueth is the Founder and Artistic Director of the award-winning dance theater company The Neo-Political Cowgirls. In their 13th year of devised theater making, NPC continues to present bold, "Mind bending" theater that seeks to deepen and challenge the ways in which audiences experience theater. Committed to shining light on female-identifying theater makers, NPC produces and supports work by women+ in a myriad of ways to create parity on the stage. NPC's Arts Education Outreach programming has been called "Crucial to our community" for their tireless work in using the Arts to creatively address social (in)justice, education and conflict. She trained in the prestigious Arts Leadership program at Lincoln Center, Circle in the Square Conservatory and Shakespeare & Company, and is Co-VP of Communications of the League of Professional Theatre Women. She has worked as actress/director/ choreographer with such luminaries as Blythe Danner, Tony Walton, Simon Jones, Cathy Curtin, Liz Larsen, Heather Lind, Joe Pintauro, Joy Behar, and others at Lincoln Center, John Drew Theater, Bay Street Theater and other notable venues.
· www.npcowgirls.org

· www.creativeprocess.info

"When I look at a film, I normally think what is missing from that, and that's what I'm trying to bring. I'm trying to find something that I think isn't there and that I could bring that would make it more interesting, make it more cinematic, more dramatic."

Carter Burwell is an Academy Award nominated composer of film soundtracks. He has had a long working relationship with filmmakers the Coen brothers, scoring every film they have made, as well as all of Spike Jonze's films. His credits include Miller’s Crossing, Barton Fink, True Grit, Carol, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, The Hudsucker Proxy, Rob Roy, Fargo, The Spanish Prisoner, Gods and Monsters, Being John Malkovich, Before Night Falls, Adaptation, Before The Devil Knows You're Dead, Burn After Reading, Where The Wild Things Are, Twilight, The Kids Are All Right, Seven Psychopaths, Anomalisa, and a number of scores for dance and theater. In his varied career, he has been a computer scientist and award-winning film animator. Burwell lives in Amagansett with his wife, the artist Christine Sciulli.

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