In 1991, Terese began a powerfully resonating collaboration with BDT deeply rooted in a shared theatrical and physical language that built a repertory of acclaimed work including Threshold, Runes of the Heart, Sospiri, Frida, Speak Memory, Requiem, and the tour de force solo on Sarah Bernhardt, Against All Odds. Since 2011, she performs yearly as ‘bell master’ conducting over 170 dancers in Buglisi’s multi-cultural prayer for peace, Table of Silence Project 9/11, at Lincoln Center. One in the last generation of dancers to work directly with Martha Graham, Capucilli has a 26-year history with the Martha Graham Dance Company (1979-2005) and world renowned for her interpretation of the classic roles originally performed by Graham with a wide dramatic scope from Medea to the Virgin Mary. From principal dancer instrumental in the research and reconstruction of lost Graham solos, to co-artistic director (with Christine Dakin), carrying the organization, dancers and repertory through legal battles and ensuring the Company’s rebirth, to artistic director laureate, she has passed the Graham torch forward in every capacity. A three-time Princess Grace Foundation award recipient including a Special Projects Grant for her film The Sacrosanct Accompanist—a musical journey through Martha Graham’s dance technique, she now serves on PGF’s Arts Advisory Council. Honors: Dance Magazine Award, 2001; Presidential Distinguished Alumni Award-Purchase College; Fini International Lifetime Achievement Award; Juilliard School’s 2017 John Erskine Faculty Prize. On Juilliard’s faculty since 1999, she staged Graham’s Appalachian Spring, Dark Meadow, The Rite of Spring, recreated Deep Song to its once lost Henry Cowell score for Joel Sachs’ Focus Festival 2022, and most recently restaged Buglisi’s Sospiri.

Born into a vocal jazz household in Cleveland, Ohio, where strains of the Great American Songbook were always in the air, Paula sang as early as she could talk. Guided by the quality of her clear mezzo-soprano range, she naturally gravitated towards jazz standards in her formative years.  Yearning for new inspiration, she began to explore non-western vocal traditions, specifically North Indian classical technique.  In 2001, she was invited to Mumbai to participate in the Jazz-India Vocal Institute program developed by jazz visionary Niranjan Jhaveri.  Studies with kirana gharana exponent Dhanashree Pandit-Rai and further studies in New York City with Gulam Mohammed Mirashi developed a greater lucidity and suppleness in her voice.  Combining these influences, Paula has sung her adaptations of South Asian forms such as ghazal and thumri. With a focus on original material, she has used her skills as both a lyricist and composer in the course of her career. Paula also enjoys returning to her roots and singing jazz for concerts and festive occasions. Over the last few years, Paula has experimented with spoken word in her compositions, performances and art installations, finding further applications for her warm and welcoming voice. Expressive and passionate, Paula Jeanine Bennett is also a force of nature on percussion.  Playing an array of international instruments including the frame drum, berimbau, surdo, conga and dumbek, she has a special relationship with all things rhythmic. Paula honed her craft with early teachers Santie Huckaby (conga) and Guilherme Franco (Brazilian percussion).   She was a member of the Pe De Boi Power Samba, Mr. Franco's band, in which she was a trailblazing female percussionist in a male-dominated field. As a composer in the field of dance, Paula received the Aaron Copeland and O'Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation grants for her ecology-suite Moss in conjunction with the Buglisi Dance Theatre. She is a musician on the staff of both the Juilliard School and the Alvin Ailey School in New York City.  Paula is the founding percussionist for Table Of Silence, annually performed at Lincoln Center, in which she plays the Grand Casse bass drum. She also composed the recessional for this moving elegy to victims of 9/11.

Nel preserves and promotes dance by documenting live performances, producing livestreams and virtual programs, and creating marketing videos and documentary films. Nel Shelby Productions serves a diverse list of dance clients, and the entire team has training in movement. Nel is Producer/Director of NY Emmy-nominated documentary PS DANCE!, a documentary about dance education in NYC’s public schools, and she is Video Producer for Jacob’s Pillow and Vail Dance Festival. nelshelby.com | @nelshelby.

Rossella Vasta was born in Palermo on August 30, 1962. In 1987, Vasta received her Masters Degree in Philosophy at the University of Perugia. Her thesis was Visual Education for the Development of Creative Personality. In 1997, after living for a few years in the US, Vasta decided to show in Perugia at Palazzo della Penna, together with the artists she was in contact with while in New York. Between 1999 and 2000, she was in Germany where in the Cistercian Abbey of Marienstatt, she created the works to be exhibited at the Bochum Museum. Vasta has lectured for several academic institutions such as the American University of Washington DC, Chautauqua Institution in Buffalo, New York, Cardinal Stritch in Milwaukee and Montana State University in Bozeman. She won first prize for painting at the Florence International Biennial in 2003. Vasta has widely exhibited in Italy and abroad. She is Academic of Merit and member of the Board of Directors of the Academy of Fine Arts Pietro Vannucci in Perugia. In 2012, Rossella Vasta was conferred with an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Humane Letters by Cardinal Stritch University, the biggest of the 22 Franciscan Universities in US.

DBR is a Black, Haitian-American composer who sees composing as collaboration with artists, organizations and communities within the farming and framing of ideas. He is a prolific composer, performer, educator, and social entrepreneur, and has worked with artists from J’Nai Bridges, Lady Gaga and Philip Glass to Bill T. Jones, Marin Alsop and Anna Deavere Smith. Known for his signature violin sounds infused with myriad electronic and African-American music influences, he takes his genre-bending music beyond the proscenium. He is a composer of solo, chamber, orchestral, and operatic works, and has composed an array of film, theater, and dance scores, including Jacqulyn Buglisi’s Suspended Women, Butterflies & Demons, Illuminations, and the Reimagined Table of Silence Prologue. He has composed music for the acclaimed film Ailey (Sundance official selection); was the first Music Director and Principal Composer with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company; released and appeared on 30 album recordings; and has published over 300 works. He is a tenured Associate and Institute Professor at Arizona State University Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.

Mr. Borror joined the Lincoln Center curatorial team as Director, Pasculano Collaborative for Contemporary Dance in December 2025. Prior to this, he most recently served as Managing Director of Chelsea Factory, a pop-up venue providing post-pandemic relief for the artists of New York City. Founded at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Donald helped build the entire administrative, facilities, production, and programming infrastructure to launch Chelsea Factory in just six months. In the following four years, he directed and oversaw business operations while executive producing over 100 performances serving over 5,000 artists and 50,000 audience members. Previously he served as Executive Director of Dorrance Dance where over a five-year tenure he produced dozens of new commissions, managed an international tour route of large-scale performance engagements, and oversaw unprecedented budget growth and fundraising stability. Prior to this, he worked with Dunch Arts consulting firm where he executed strategic fundraising projects with The Apollo Theater, American Composers Orchestra, Mark Morris Dance Group, among others. Earlier in his career, Donald was a company dancer for Ballet Hispanico, a producer for Lincoln Center Education, and chair of the Dance/NYC Junior Committee. Currently he works with Buglisi Dance Theatre as a producer for the Table of Silence Project 9/11 and serves on the GALLIM Associate Board of Directors. He holds a B.F.A. in dance from The Juilliard School, receiving the Martha Hill Prize for Artistic Achievement and Leadership, and a M.A. in Arts Administration from Columbia University Teacher’s College. Donald has guest lectured on arts management at both his alma maters, Arts and Business Council of New York, Fast Company Innovation Festival, University of Southern California, among others. He has also served on grant panels for Dance/NYC, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. An avid skier and weightlifter, he lives in Manhattan with his fiancé George.

Ms. Giannini has designed for Broadway, off-Broadway, and on television. Her designs can be seen in the repertoires of Buglisi Dance Theatre, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Joffrey Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Hong Kong Ballet, Ballet Caracas, Royal Danish Ballet and La Scala Ballet. Attributing much of her success to the “magic of [her] collaborators,” Ms. Giannini collaborated for over 20 years with Jacqulyn Buglisi at Buglisi Dance Theatre. She is also a founding member of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where she spent two years as a resident costume designer and an additional 10 affiliated in a freelance capacity. One of her most notable achievements came through eight years of collaboration with Vicente Nebrada at the Ballet Nacional de Caracas in Venezuela, which saw her awarded three Oscar Awards for Best Costume Design. In 2019, she was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Fini Festival.

John has been a featured performer with the Buglisi Dance Theatre’s “Table of Silence 9/11” at Lincoln Center since its inception performing the conch shell and bass flute. He is a genre-defying multi-instrumentalist best known for his expressive and highly original flute playing. Paul Horn once called him “one of today’s finest improvisational flutists.” His performances are a vibrant mix of jazz, blues, folk, Latin, and global influences. He is a longtime member of the Grammy-winning Alison Brown Quintet, one half of the award-winning roots/blues duo Mulebone, and a 20-year collaborator with Nashville’s acclaimed singer-songwriter Beth Nielsen Chapman. He performs in the jazz duo Riverrun with Grammy-nominated pianist Jeremy Wall, and has been a featured accompanist with Deepak Chopra.

Suzanne Konowitz joined Buglisi Dance Theatre as Executive Director in 2004, and has produced the Table of Silence Project 9/11 since its inaugural performance at Lincoln Center in 2011. Her career in arts management spans more than 30 years, with leadership roles across non-profit dance, music and theater companies. Her experience includes serving as Director of Development for the American Symphony Orchestra; General Manager of the New York Baroque Dance Company, Concert Royal and Ruby Shang & Company, Dancers; and head of Franco-American theater exchange at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy acting as booking agent, road manager, and fundraiser. For Buglisi Dance Theatre, she has produced New York City seasons at The Joyce Theater, New York Live Arts, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Chelsea Factory, and Ailey Citigroup Theater, and oversees the company’s national and international touring, educational residencies, and outreach programs. Suzanne holds a B.A. in French Literature and Translation from Barnard College, Columbia University, and an M.A. in French Literature from Middlebury College. She also has served as President of the Barnard Business & Professional Women alumnae association.