TRUTHSCOLLIDING

Program Order

I'M NEW HERE Román Baca

ODYSSEY .............................................................................

Exit12 Dance Company Artists

Choreographed by: Andrew Harper

Music by: Terry Callier, Gil Scott Heron, and Jamie Woon

ANTIGONE INTRODUCTION .................................................................Peter Meineck

ANTIGONE (EXCERPT)

Readers: Nelly Savinon, Caleb Wells, John Meyer, Michael Castelblanco, Jenny Pacanowski, James Becton, Bridget Dolan

Dancers: Exit12 Dance Company Artists

Directed by Peter Meineck and Román Baca

REMEMBERING A WOMAN IN FALLUJAH ...............................................Román Baca

CONFLICTED

Jarred Bosch, Adrienne de la Fuente, Lisa Fitzgerald, Taylor Gordon

Choreographed by: Román Baca

Music by: Anja Lechner & Vassilis Tsabropoulos

A F*CKING DIALOGUE OF SELF AND SOUL ..........................Exit12 Company Artists and Workshop Participants

Choreographed by: Exit12 Company Artists and Workshop Participants

Soundscape: Román Baca

Poetry: Workshop Participants

101 (POEM) .............................................................................................................Everett Cox

FOR MY FATHER (EXCERPT)

...............................................Nick Cunha, Taylor Gordon, Román Baca

Choreographed by: Taylor Gordon

Music by: Jason Moon/Warrior Songs

BIRD OF WAR (POEM) .........................................................................Jenny Pacanowski

IF I CHANGE IT ................................................................................Exit12 Company Artists

Choreographed by: Román Baca

Music by: Creativets

PANEL DISCUSSION WITH AUDIENCE Led by Peter Meineck

WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION

Exit12 Company Artists

Rom N Baca

Artistic Director

Román Baca is a classically trained ballet dancer and choreographer In 2001, recognizing his desire to defend the defenseless, he took a hiatus from dance and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, serving as a machine-gunner and fire-team leader in Fallujah, Iraq during the Iraq War.

After the war, Mr. Baca returned to dance and co-founded Exit12 Dance Company.He has choreographed and championed dance works that explore the military veteran experience and the impact of war on civilians and families. He also leads workshops and lectures at schools, universities, organizations, and veteran’s centers to inspire critical conversations about war through the power of dance

Mr. Baca graduated from St. Mary’s College of California (BA Cum Laude Performing Arts) and was awarded a Fulbright to the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London, UK where he completed his MFA with Merit in choreography, and is also a PhD Candidate investigating the military human through the arts at York St John University in the UK. Outside of his studies in London, Mr. Baca volunteered for the Soldiers’ Arts Academy C.I.C. and served on the leadership team that delivered the first UK Veterans Art Festival alongside the 2019 UK Invictus Trials in Sheffield, UK

Mr. Baca is the recipient of a 2020 scholarship to York St. John University, the 2019 Selma Jeanne Cohen Dance Lecture Award, a 2017-2018 US-UK Fulbright Postgraduate Award to the Trinity Laban Conservatoire in London, a 2018 HillVet Nominee, a 2015 New York State Veterans’ Hall of Fame Inductee, an 2014 Art and Healing Network Awardee, and has served as a fellow with Veterans in Global Leadership, The Mission Continues, and Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.