b'Caili Quan (Choreographer of Circadia) is a New York-based choreographer who danced with BalletX from 2013 to 2020. She has created works for BalletX, The Juilliard School, Vail Dance Festival, American Repertory Ballet, Flight Path Dance Project, Stars of American Ballet, Asbury Park Dance Festival, Oakland Ballet, Columbia Ballet Collaborative, and Ballet Academy East. She served as an Artistic Partnership Initiative Fellow and a Toulmin Creator at The Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU. With BalletX she performed new works by Matthew Neenan, Nicolo Fonte, Gabrielle Lamb, Penny Saunders, Trey McIntyre, and danced at Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival, Belgrade Dance Festival, and DEMO by Damian Woetzel at the Kennedy Center. Mahlang, a short documentary that wove familial conversations of her Chamorro Filipino upbringing on Guam with scenes from BalletXs Love Letter, was shown at the Hawaii International Film Festival, CAAMFest, and the Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Center. She also participated in New York Choreographic Institutes 2022 Fall Session, under the direction of Adrian Danchig-Waring, creating a work on dancers from New York City Ballet. Caili was one of the 2022 Artists-in-Residence at the Vail Dance Festival and is a creative associate at The Juilliard School.Ethan Stiefel (ARB Artistic Director, Choreographer of Wood Work) is an internationally recognized instructor, coach, director, and choreographer. Stiefel became American Repertory Ballets artistic director in July, 2021. In 1989, he began his professional dance career at age 16 with the New York City Ballet where he quickly rose to the rank of principal dancer. Stiefel was also a principal dancer with Ballett Zrich as well as a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre (ABT) from 1997-2012. He has served as dean of the School of Dance at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) as well as the artistic director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet. During his celebrated performing career, Stiefel danced leading roles in all the full-length classics and performed in an extensive range of shorter classical, contemporary, and modern works. Guest appearances include dancing with The Royal Ballet, The Mariinsky Ballet, New York City Ballet, Teatro Colon, The Australian Ballet, and many others. He has appeared in numerous film, video, and television productions including the feature film Center Stage and the documentary Born to be Wild. As a choreographer, he has created new works for the Royal New Zealand Ballet, The Washington Ballet, American Repertory Ballet, ABT Studio Company, Northern Ballet (UK), The Royal Ballet School, UNCSA, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and the television series Flesh and Bone on the STARZ network. Stiefel has received a number of prestigious awards such as the Statue Award of the Princess Grace Foundation and the Dance Magazine Award.Photo of Caili Quan by Sarah Black: Photo of Ethan Stiefel by Harald Schrader.Ethan Stiefels Wood Work, photo by Eduardo Patino princetonsymphony.org/festival The Princeton Festival 39'