Max Barnewitz

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Max Barnewitz is passionate about arts access, sustainability and education. They are an organizing member of Salt Lake City's Grid Zine Fest and co-founded the Queer Spectra Arts Festival. As a writer, zine maker, and outsider artist, Max takes an eclectic and irreverent approach to art making. They rely on scavenged materials and remnants to create works that engage audiences in questions surrounding identity and the natural world. Max's creative work has been shown at Finch Lane Gallery, and their writing on comics and performance art appears in ComicsVerse.com and loveDANCEmore. 100 Years Hence began as a collaborative zine with Sarah Morton Taggart. It is Max's first libretto.

Alexandra Barbier

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Alexandra loves making art, but hates writing bios! If you really want to know what she's about, visit www.abarbier.com or follow her on instagram, @hello_alexandra.

Nora Price

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Nora Price makes movement and music in Salt Lake City. They perform regularly with the band Durian Durian and the Jazz Jaguars.

Rachel Grider

Soprano Rachel Grider brings a depth of spirituality and musicality to her performances, allowing audiences to experience a sense of connectivity and community through music. Her work as a performer seeks to inspire others to access new perspectives, reach deeper understandings, and fulfill their greatest potentials.

The heart of Rachel’s performing focuses on concert and oratorio works, art song, and sacred music. She has a particular affinity for the nineteenth-century Russian repertoire, which she studied in depth with Vera Danchenko-Stern and John Shirley-Quirk at the Peabody Conservatory. In 2012, she was invited to perform at the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C.

In concert, Rachel has been seen as the soprano soloist for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Handel’s Messiah, in addition to returning to CSU Stanislaus as a guest soloist for a performance of Steve Reich’s Music for Eighteen Musicians. For the 2016 and 2017 seasons, she has performed the role of Mary Magdalene in Rob Gardner’s Easter oratorio, Lamb of God, with the Temple Hill Orchestra in Oakland, California.

As someone who is blind, Rachel has overcome adversity as well as the limiting beliefs of others to excel in the areas of performance, music theory, and composition. Originally from Modesto, Rachel began her serious foray into music at California State University, Stanlislaus, where she received dual Bachelor of Music degrees in Vocal Performance and Composition. She continued her studies at the Peabody Conservatory, where she graduated with dual Master of Music degrees in Voice Performance and Music Theory Pedagogy. 

Ms. Grider has performed the roles of Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Geraldine (A Hand of Bridge), Brigitte (Marilyn’s Room), and Bridget Booth (The Crucible), and in scenes as Cunegonde (Candide), Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), Lakmé (Lakmé), Sophie (Werther), and Frasquita (Carmen) with organizations including Townsend Opera Players, Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, Redwoods Opera Workshop, and Peabody Opera Theatre. She has also been a member of various choral groups, including the Modesto Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Peabody Renaissance Ensemble, and Baltimore Choral Arts Society.

Rachel is a member of the Pi Kappa Lambda Honor Society and the Sigma Alpha Iota Music Fraternity. She currently resides in Modesto, where she also maintains a private voice studio.

Emma Sargent

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Emma Sargent is a freelance dancer, dance-maker, and performance artist living in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her creative interests include multidisciplinary performance, contact improvisation and partnering, and promoting marginalized voices through art. She recently completed a BFA in Modern Dance and a BA in Gender Studies from the University of Utah. While at the University, Emma had the pleasure of working with choreographers and artists including Satu Hummasti, Daniel Clifton, Kris Grey and Maya Ciarrocchi, Katie Faulkner, and Daniel Charon. Recently, Emma has performed in multiple dance works by Dat Nguyen, and she is a member of project based companies Cat + Fish Dances and Deseret Experimental Opera Company. She has also presented work alongside LMN Mov’t.

Rachel Luebbert

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Rachel Luebbert a movement artist and arts administrator based in Salt Lake where she works in dance advocacy for Dance/USA, academic advising for fine arts students, dance education, and art making. In 2019, Rachel produced a show entitled "Rosie" surrounding the complexity of the color pink and its relation to gender, identity, and storytelling. Rachel has presented and performed work with Queer Spectra Arts Festival (Salt Lake), Dance Place (DC), Juanita Winston Dance (Maryland), and the Hirshorn Smithsonian Museum (DC).