Brian Boyes :

Program Director, Instrumental Music

Brian Boyes completed his BA at Goddard College where he majored in music performance and composition with a minor in ethnomusicology. For the last 10 years Brian has played professionally in Vermont and from 1994-1999 he worked as founding member of the nationally recognized jazz/funk ensemble viperHouse. Brian currently writes for and leads the global-jazz-funk group TALA which has received wide praise as an exciting and original blend of cutting edge jazz.

Brian continues to work tirelessly as the director of The Center for Global and Creative Performing Arts at Cabot School.

Christine Harris :

Dance and Creative Movement

Christine Harris earned a BFA in dance from SUNY Purchase and has studied dance with prominent artists from New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Martha Graham Dance Co., and Merce Cunningham Co. She performed with Sidelong Dance Co. and taught dance in North Carolina. In Vermont she facilitated after school and summer dance workshops in Morrisville, Cabot, East Montpelier and Greensboro. She choreographed and/or performed for many local community events such as All Species Day, Celebrate the Winooski, Enchanted Forest, Ice on Fire, First Night, Bread and Puppet, The Vermont Dance Collective and the Celebration of the Earth Charter at Shelburne Farms.
Christine currently teaches Moving Light Creative Movement, Ballet and Modern dance classes in Plainfield. Moving Light Children’s Community Dance Theater is a collaboration between local artists and students of the school. Their premier performance Falomi and Malula consisted of original music, choreography, costumes and set design.
Christine’s goal in teaching is to share her love and knowledge of dance. She gives students the tools and freedom to explore and express themselves through movement. She sees potential in all of her students and encourages them to be themselves. The primary goal of each process is to have students develop both their individual and collective creativity.

Kris Gruen:

Poetry, Storytelling, Songwriting

Kris received his BA from Goddard College where he studied philosophy, writing, music, drama and radio. While still a student at Goddard, he worked professionally as a singer and performance artist. He is a published poet and is the sole creator or Second Sunset Productions, a specialized poetry and performance art school program in central Vermont (Second Sunset Productions is an approved Safe and Drug Free Schools Program). Kris brings together poetry, monologue, movement, music, drama and oration to help bring "voice" to each student's unique styly of self-expression. Kris relies on his strength in communication, group relations, leadership skills, and artistic vision to co-create with students an environment that inspires a marriage of mediums to surface naturally. Through group discussion, lively investigations into world histories of poetry, music and performance art, and a variety of theater and writing exercises each member of Kris' classes is made aware of the relationship between self and society. Students develop a trust in the value of their personal experience, and a deep appreciation for the insights of others.

Simeon Darley Chapin:

Percussion, Caribbean and West African Drumming