MARIAH ANTON-ARTERS (Performer) (she/her) is a New York based artist who graduated in 2019 from UNC School of the Arts with a BFA in contemporary dance. Prior to her attendance there, she trained in formal disciplines under Jo-Ann Hertzman. Mariah has been privileged to perform a wide range of works and most notably, was a dancer in the Merce Cunningham Trust’s Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event at BAM Opera House. Since then, Mariah has continued to work with the Merce Cunningham Trust, while also freelancing and working with Liz Gerring, Cornfield Dance, Christopher Williams, Helen Simoneau Danse and Daniel Gwirtzman, among others. Mariah is honored to be working among the incredible group of artists that comprise Dance Heginbotham.

DERRICK ARTHUR (Performer) (he/him) is proud to be a part of another year of Peter & The Wolf! Derrick would personally like to thank John and Isaac for continuing to trust his poor dancing skills on the stage! Derrick graduated from the New York Conservatory of Dramatic Arts with a degree in Acting for Film. Derrick can be seen in films, "Delivery Man" , "The Humbling", and "People, Places, Things" as well as on TV in "Friends of the People", "FBI: Most Wanted" and "The Blacklist."

KARA CHAN (Performer) (she/her) is a New York City-based dancer and teaching artist, originally from Vancouver, Canada. She received her BFA from The Juilliard School, under the direction of Lawrence Rhodes and is an alumna of Jacob’s Pillow Contemporary Program & Springboard Danse Montreal. Performance credits include Twyla Tharp Dance, Pam Tanowitz Dance, Mark Morris Dance Group (The Hard Nut), Lar Lubovitch Dance Company (Artemis in Athens), Janis Brenner & Dancers, Barkin/Selissen Project, and Gleich Dances among others. Kara was named one of Dance Magazine's “25 to Watch” for 2020.

MARJORIE FOLKMAN (Performer) danced as a member of the Mark Morris Dance Group (1996-2007), with Sara Rudner, Martha Clarke, Richard Colton/Amy Spencer, Kraig Patterson, and performs with Dance Heginbotham, among others. Choreography and movement direction include operas produced by Bard SummerScape, Prototype Festival, Tulsa Opera, Odyssey Opera, Boston Baroque, collaborations with visual artists, and Wendall Harrington’s design seminars at Yale’s School of Drama. Marjorie stages dances by Mark Morris, including at Barnard College, where she is an Associate Professor of Professional Practice.

ZACK GONDER (Performer) (he/him) grew up near Chicago and trained at the Chicago Academy for the Arts under the tutelage of Randy Duncan. He graduated in 2018 from The Juilliard School, where he performed works by Austin McCormick, Aszure Barton, Pam Tanowitz, Richard Alston, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, and Crystal Pite. He was recently in Justin Peck’s Illinoise on Broadway at the St. James Theater, as well as its Off Broadway runs at the Park Avenue Armory and the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. He has performed with Pam Tanowitz Dance, Brian Brooks Moving Company, PARA.MAR Dance, Zvi Dance, Mark Morris Dance Group and Twyla Tharp Dance.  

COVE HASELTON (Performer) (he/him) is a movement artist and filmmaker from Vashon Island, WA based in Brooklyn, NY who incorporates bodily distortion and nostalgic collage to seek earnest character in his work. barton graduated Magna Cum Laude from Cornish College of the Arts through the Advanced Degree Program, and studied with acclaimed artists like Sidra Bell, Victor Quijada, and Johannes Wieland, learning their repertory and modalities. He has recently performed works of artists such as Katy Pyle/Ballez Company, Merce Cunningham, Anna Maria Häkkinen, Alexa West, and Netta Yerushalmy, at venues/festivals such as Baryshnikov Arts Center, BAM Fisher, The Chelsea Factory, Performa Biennial, Kiasma Teatteri (Helsinki, FI), as well as Seattle's Broadway Performance Hall, Erickson Theater, and Cornish Playhouse. barton’s choreography and work in film has been shown at Judson Memorial Church, Millenium Film Workshop, QUEER NOISE Festival, and in Seattle’s Base: Experimental Arts + Space, Open Flight Studio, and Northwest Film Forum. To see more of barton’s creative endeavors and news of his upcoming performances find him on instagram @playingwfire__

PAIGE BARNETT KULBETH (Performer) (she/her) is a Louisiana/NYC-based dancer and artist from Lafayette, LA, with a Chemical Engineering degree which has never been used from University of Louisiana (2017). After college she began creating dance installations at her local art gallery, Basin Arts, and was soon commissioned to direct the rework of NYC artist Tina Girouard’s Mardi Gras Suites and Quartets (1974/2018). This piqued a new interest in 1970’s post-modern art of New York and she impulsively moved to Brooklyn. Once there, Paige immediately began dancing with Dance Heginbotham, performing with musicians from Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, The Knights, and jazz guru Ethan Iverson. Notable performance venues include Jacob’s Pillow, La Jolla Music Society Festival, Scottsdale Arts, The Ringling Museum, and Bryant Park. Paige has also danced for Karole Armitage in the Marc Jacobs Spring 2020 Fashion show and is currently cast as “Birdie” in Isaac Mizrahi’s annual production of Peter & The Wolf at Works & Process at The Guggenheim. When not dancing, she is always in development of her own choreographic works, experimental art events and movement-based video art. www.vpbarnett.com

MYKEL MARAI NAIRNE (Performer) (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based freelance dance artist, administrator, and creative producer. Born and raised in New York City, Mykel studied at Alvin Ailey, where she was a fellowship student, and later, during a long hiatus from movement study, graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in Film & Media Studies. Mykel re-engaged with her movement practice through intensives with Earl Mosley’s Institute of the Arts, American Dance Festival, and Movement Invention Project and had the privilege of performing works by Bill T. Jones and Merce Cunningham, among others. She joined Dance Heginbotham in 2018, and since then her freelance performance work has brought her to venues across NYC, including St. Ann’s Warehouse in the Off-Broadway revival of Oklahoma! (dir. Daniel Fish), the Whitney Museum of Art (2019 Whitney Biennial), Danspace Project, Brookfield Place, Marinaro Gallery, Astor Place (Joe’s Pub, Astor Alive!), The Space at Irondale, Bryant Park, and Symphony Space, to name a few. Mykel currently collaborates and performs with Dance Heginbotham, Monica Bill Barnes & Company, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Studio Susan Marshall, Helen Simoneau Danse, and Megan Williams Dance Projects. MykelMaraiNairne.com | IG: @mykelmarai

NORTON OWEN (Performer) is a curator, writer, and archivist who has been associated with Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival since 1976. As Director of Preservation, he oversees projects involving documentation, exhibitions, audience engagement, and archival issues, as well as the extensive online archives, podcasts, and more. Nearly 25 years after performing with Birmingham Ballet and the Metropolitan Opera, he returned to the stage in 2001 for Ann Carlson’s Night Light and numerous editions of From the Horse’s Mouth. He originated the Grandfather role in Third Bird in 2022 and later succeeded Gus Solomons jr in the same role in Peter & The Wolf. He is a recipient of the 2025 Jacob's Pillow Dance Award and 2023 Dance Magazine Award and has also been honored by Dance/USA, the Martha Hill Dance Fund, Dance Films Association, the José Limón Dance Foundation, and the Theatre Library Association.

DANIEL PETTROW (Performer) (he/him) is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist, actor, director, and teacher.  He is the Director of Performance and Communication Training for Heifetz International Music Institute.  Daniel frequently focuses on avant-garde and experimental creations while fostering collaborations with artists from different disciplines.  Recently, he created a ritual dance-theater creation titled A Respectable Death, about his late brother, visual artist David Pettrow.  The show will be presented again in 2025 at the National Theater of Bretagne in Rennes, France.  In 2023, Daniel created the film and art show Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Hot Season (in collaboration with Afghan artist Kubra Khademi) which premiered at Fondation Fiminco in Paris, and Collection Lambert in Avignon, France. In January 2021, Daniel created the short film Wolf and Duck as part of the Guggenheim’s Work & Process Artist Virtual Commissions. For the last twenty years, Daniel has worked closely with renowned French director Arthur Nauzyciel. In 2016, Daniel worked with legendary Italian director Romeo Castellucci, performing in Julius Caesar: Spared Parts. In 2019, Daniel collaborated and performed in the dance-theater production HERZ SCHMERZ with choreographer John Heginbotham, which had its premiere at Baryshnikov Arts Center. Daniel is a frequent collaborator with Dance Heginbotham: HERZ SCHMERZ, The Principles of Uncertainty and One Man Show. Daniel also dances the role of “The Wolf” in Isaac Mizrahi’s production of Peter & The Wolf for Works & Process at The Guggenheim (2012 - present). Daniel is an associate actor with New York City-based experimental theater company The Wooster Group. He is a frequent collaborator/director with choreographer Anabella Lenzu. Film: In Stereo, Sweet Parents, The Cult of Sincerity, The Last Adam, Psychopathia Sexualis, Kathy T, My Uncle Sidney. TV: Red Band Society, Good Eats, Don’t Know Jack, Road Trip.

TIMO ANDRES (Composer & Pianist) grew up in rural Connecticut and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Recent highlights include a solo recital debut at Carnegie Hall and the world premiere of a piano concerto for Aaron Diehl at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, led by conductor John Adams. Andres was nominated for a 2024 Tony Award for Best Orchestration for his arrangements on Justin Peck’s production of Sufjan Stevens’ Illinoise. Andres’s collaborations with Sufjan Stevens also include his May 2023 recording with Conor Hanick of Stevens’s album, Reflections; arrangements of ballets for New York City Ballet, and a solo piano album, The Decalogue. Notable works include commissions for Boston Symphony, Takács Quartet, Carnegie Hall, and Britten Sinfonia. A Nonesuch Records artist, Andres has multiple solo albums on the label and is featured as composer and pianist on the May 2020 release I Still Play, an album celebrating Robert Hurwitz. A Yale School of Music graduate, he is a Yamaha/Bösendorfer Artist and is on the composition faculty at the Mannes School of Music at The New School.

COLIN JACOBSEN (Composer & Violinist) (he/him) Since the early 2000's, Colin Jacobsen has forged an intriguing path in the cultural landscape of our time, collaborating with an astonishingly wide range of artists across diverse traditions and disciplines while constantly looking for new ways to connect with audiences. For his work as a founding member of two innovative and influential ensembles – the string quartet Brooklyn Rider and orchestra The Knights – Jacobsen was selected from among the nation’s top visual, performing, media, and literary artists to receive a prestigious and substantial United States Artists Fellowship. He is also active as an Avery Fisher Career Grant-winning soloist and has toured with Silkroad since its founding by cellist Yo-Yo Ma in 2000 at Tanglewood. As a composer he has written pieces for an eclectic mix of artists including pianist Emanuel Ax, singers Anne-Sofie Von Otter and Jamie Barton, banjo player Bela Fleck, mandolinist Avi Avital, clarinetist Kinan Azmeh, choreographers John Heginbotham and Brian Brooks, theater group Compagnia de' Colombari and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. In the 2022/23 season, Jacobsen assumed the position of Artistic Director of Santa Fe Pro Musica, an organization with which he has had a fruitful long term association as a guest soloist and leader.

MAILE OKAMURA (Costume Designer, Video Editor) (she/her) is a San Diego native and studied classical ballet with Lynda Yourth, Steven and Elizabeth Wistrich, and at San Francisco Ballet School. She danced with Boston Ballet II, Ballet Arizona, and for over 20 years with Mark Morris Dance Group. She currently performs with Pam Tanowitz Dance. Maile has designed and constructed costumes for Dance Heginbotham, Mark Morris Dance Group, Pam Tanowitz Dance, Tanglewood Music Festival, Houston Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, Bard College, Middlebury College, American Classical Orchestra, and JACK Quartet. Since spring 2020, she has collaborated with John Heginbotham and Colin Jacobsen on the video project, 24 Caprices, as video editor.

NICOLE PEARCE (Lighting Designer) (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist living in Queens, NY. Her work has been seen across the United States, Cuba, England, Germany, Japan, Korea, Italy, New Zealand, and Russia. Selected dance credits include Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theater, Atlanta Ballet, Dance Heginbotham, Dance Theater of Harlem, Gallim, Houston Ballet, Hubbard Street, Malpaso, Mark Morris Dance Group, & New York City Ballet. Selected Opera credits include work with Minnesota Opera, Opera Montreal, The Juilliard School, Arizona Opera, and LA Opera. Selected theater credits include Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theater, McCarter Theater, The Play Company, The Playwrights Realm, Philadelphia Theater Company, and Pittsburgh Public Theater. Her installation of 1,000 paintings entitled Tiny Paintings for Big Hearts is open to doctors, nurses, staff, and patients of Elmhurst Hospital in Elmhurst, NY. (@nicolepearceart) www.nicolepearcedesign.com