Pavel Zuštiak [Concept, Direction, Choreography, Part I, II and III] is the Artistic Director of Palissimo Company, established in New York City in 2004 under his vision to pursue artistic liberty through communion with live audiences. Palissimo is known for sophisticated, multidisciplinary works with piercing emotional content and abundant surrealist imagery that explore “the darker shades of human behavior” (The New Yorker). A 2010 Guggenheim Fellow, 2010 Maggie Allesee National Choreographic Center Fellow, 2008-2009 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, and winner of both a 2009 Princess Grace Work in Progress Residency Award and 2007 Princess Grace Award, choreographer Zuštiak’s repertory of original works and commissions have toured nationally and internationally to both audience and critical acclaim. Through layering "weighted, sensual, and loose-limbed" movement (The Village Voice), powerfully evocative sonic environments, and “a ghostly atmosphere” of projected photography, film, and staged theatrical scenario (The New York Times), the Company has fast established itself amongst experimental theater groups and works with a roster of contributing and commissioned artists. Born in the former Czechoslovakia and trained at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam, Zuštiak's early works appeared through Czechoslovakia, Holland, Denmark, and Belgium before he relocated to the U.S. in 1999.

Christian Frederickson [Composer and Live Music, Parts I, II, and III] is a violist, composer & sound designer, receiving his MM in viola from The Juilliard School and a founding member of the alternative indie-rock band Rachel's, interfacing classical with indie/punk rock and releasing six albums since 1995 on Touch & Go Records. Rachel's music has been featured on film soundtracks (Peter Berg: "Hancock", Oliver Stone: "Any Given Sunday", Miguel Arteta: "Star Maps"), has been featured in WNYC's "New Sounds Live", NPR's "Weekend Edition", the BBC, BET TV, WNYC, and national radio networks on tour in Italy, Belgium, South Korea. Since 2004, Frederickson has increasingly concentrated on collaborations with theater directors and choreographers, including Irish Repertory Theater, SITI Company, The Public Theater, Tamar Rogoff, and more.

Robert Flynt [Photography and Visuals, Part II] has been widely exhibited in the U.S. and abroad since 1980 in one-person exhibitions and over 50 group exhibitions, including in the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection, the Metropolitan Museum, The International Center of Photography, L.A. County Museum, etc. Flynt's collaborative projects include commissions from Brooklyn Academy of Music with Bebe Miller, L.A. International Arts Festival with Ishmael Houston-Jone/Dennis Cooper, Yoshiko Chuma, Daghdha Dance Company Ireland, Benoit Lachambre & Su-Feh Lee, Pavel Zuštiak/Palissimo. His work is featured in publications, anthologies, artist's books; his 1996 monograph, Compound Fracture (Twin Palms) received a Best Books of the Year from American Institute of Graphic Arts.

Joe Levasseur [Lighting Design, Parts I, II, and III] is a graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts with a degree in Lighting Design, receiving a 2008 New York Dance and Performance 'Bessie' Award for his extensive and comprehensive "visual environments, textures, moods, and effects … at nearly every venue in the city." Levasseur is the touring lighting designer for John Jasperse Company and has collaborated with choreographers Maria Hassabi, Jennifer Monson, RoseAnne Spradlin, Michael Portnoy, Sarah Michelson, Pavel Zuštiak, Big Dance Theater, Jodi Melnick, Beth Gill, Megan Sprenger, and Christopher Williams, and has also designed a number of plays including Jenna is Nuts, In a Strange Room, and Françoise Changes Her Mind at the Brick Theater, as well as the off-Broadway play Edge.