Festival Program

All events take place at:
The Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts,
Colby College, Alumni Dr, Waterville, ME 04901

All times are Eastern Time.

Thursday March 5, 2026

REGISTRATION/SIGN IN
2:00-5:00pm, Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts Lobby

RECEPTION
5:00-6:00pm, Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts Lobby

CONCERT 1
7:00pm, Studio 2 (Black Box Theater)

Beth Weiman, Vive Ensemble (Spencer Brand, Katrina Clements), Jintae Park, Richie Arndorfer, Joao Pedro Olivera, Stephen Marratto, Tristan Kanitz, Indigo Knecht, Matt Sharrock, José Martinez, William Mueller, August Kim, Alex Temple, Amy Advocat, June Cummings, Rob McClure, Robin Meiksins

FRIDAY March 6, 2026

WORKSHOP 1
10:00-11:30am, Studio 1

TBD

CONCERT 2
2:00pm, Studio 2 (Black Box Theater)

Adam Wilson, Miguel Chuaqui, Lisa Chaufty, Michael Mills, Marie Herrington, Robert Karpay, Antoine Jackson, Celicia Suhr, Felipe Tovar-Henao, Jacob Mason, Ethan Helm, Jonas Regnier, Zaira Castillo, Evan Kopca

LECTURES
4:00-5:30pm, Classroom 180

Smee Wong - From Score to Stage: Music as Choreographic Partner
Holly Stanley - Hear Me: Musical adaptability through background noise
Lauren Hayes - Beyond Skill Acquisition: Improvisation, Interdisciplinarity, and Enactive Music Cognition
Héloïse Garry - AI in Audiovisual Performance: From Creative Practice to Critical Inquiry

CONCERT 3
7:00pm, Studio 3 (Bright Studio)

Daniil Zakirzyanov, Nora Gibson, Jillian Harris, BEEP, Adam Vidiksis, Molly Schenck, Butch Rovan, Robin Oxley-Luyster, April Levy, Esme Erdos, Lulu Damon Dong, Halle Puchalski, Sangeeth Kumaski, Hannah Kumaski, Jaehoon Choi, Summer Dregs, Ariel Rivka, Ariel Grossman, Casie Marie O'Kane, Hana Ginsburg Tirosh, Sienna Hamilton-Thibert, Kristin Licata, Gabrielle Marino, Kalyan Sayre

SATURDAY March 7, 2026

WORKSHOP 2
10:00-11:30am, Studio 1

Alexandra Berger, Allen Fogelsanger - InterTranslation : Movement<=>Sound

CONCERT 4 - Improv/Dance
2:00pm, Studio 3 (Bright Studio)

Everett Perry-Johnson, Julian Hoff, Katherine Ferrier, Lauren Sarah Hayes, Grace O'Mara, Phyllis Chen, Leslie Elkins, Addison Hill, Holly Taylor, Brad Robin, Christopher Mercer, Audrey Harrer, Elliot Emadian, Paul Leary, Jaehoon Choi

WORKSHOP 3
4:00-5:30pm, Arts Incubator - Room 120

Felipe Tovar-Henao - Introduction to Offline Algorithmic Audio with bellplay~

CONCERT 5 - SPLICE Ensemble, featuring members of the Portland Ballet
7:00pm, Performance Hall

Andrew Conklin, Annie Kloppenberg, Isabella Buckman, Elliott Evans, Eva Walden, Anna Winslette, Lydia Wirth, Camille Alipalo Jaden Oulette, John Ervin, Jessica Ackerley, Nick Hwang, Eliott Evans, Scott L. Miller, Sepehr Pirasteh, Yingting Liu