Mary Branning
Program Management Specialist
PAHB 342 // 410-455-2179
Brian Jones
Technical Director
PAHB 349 // 410-455-3772
Brian’s lighting for dance includes works for Any Seiwert (But Now I Must Rest, Under Covers, Dear Ms. Cline, Requiem, Slow Ride, and others since 2001), Larry Keigwin (Caffeinated), Charlotte BoyeChristensen (Walls), and many others. A close collaborative relationship with Kate Weare has included Dark Lark (2013), The Light Has Not The Arms to Carry Us (revived 2012), Garden (2012), Bright Land (2010, with music by The Crooked Jades), Leanto (2009), Bridge of Sighs (2008) and rep works. His lighting has premiered at the BAM Next Wave Festival, New York City Center’s Fall For Dance Festival, The Joyce Theater and The Joyce Soho, as well as with Washington Ballet, Jacob’s Pillow (Massachusetts) and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco). Brian has toured nationally and internationally since 2000, most recently with the Paul Taylor Dance Company. He holds his MFA from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts and is a member of United Scenic Artists. Brian also lights theater and music productions.
Max Vanderbeek
Music Coordinator
PAHB 342 // 410-455-2179
Maximus Vanderbeek discovered his passion for percussion at the age of 16 when he received his first conga drum. A dedicated musician, he specializes in percussion, keyboard, and performance. He received his undergraduate degree from SUNY Purchase, later earning his Doctorate in World Percussion from the University of Maryland in 2000, studying a diverse range of instruments, including congas, djembe, drum set, frame drums, tablas, and keyboard percussion.
His career began at UMBC, where he started playing percussion for university modern dance classes at just 19. He then transferred to, and was active in the Dance Department at Purchase College, New York.He later served as the Music Coordinator for the Dance Department at the New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida. In addition to teaching music in Maryland public schools, he has composed an original music piece for a Merce Cunningham solo dance that was discovered in 2016 on old film footage from 1965 by Stan Vanderbeek (filmmaker).
Maximus continues to perform throughout the Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and New York areas, sharing his expertise and passion for percussion with audiences and fellow musicians alike.