[3] Born in Syracuse, New York, the middle child in a family of seven children, Capucilli received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the State University of New York at Purchase where she studied with such prominent teachers as Kazuko Hirabayashi, Carol Fried, Mel Wong, Jim May, Aaron Osborne, Bill Bales, Rosanna Seravalli, Anne Parsons and Royes Fernandez.
[4] There she had the opportunity to delve into the work of choreographers, Martha Graham, Anna Sokolow, Mel Wong, Kazuko Hirabayashi, José Limón and Doris Humphrey.
Dancing a diversity of roles, they include Jocasta in Night Journey, The Bride in Appalachian Spring, The Principal Sister in Deaths and Entrances, She Who Dances in Letter to the World (with Kathleen Turner as She Who Speaks), Hecuba in Cortege of Eagles, Joan in Seraphic Dialogue, Mary Queen of Scots in Episodes, She Who Seeks in Dark Meadow, Medea in Cave of the Heart, Empress of the Arena in Every Soul is a Circus, The Virgin in Primitive Mysteries, The Woman in Errand into the Maze, the title roles in Hérodiade, Phaedra,[6] Heretic,[7] and Judith and Graham's classic solo, Lamentation, among others.
She assisted Sophie Maslow in the reconstruction of its final section, "Prelude to Action", becoming historically the first dancer after Martha Graham to perform this work as well as Deep Song and "Spectre-1914".
In works choreographed for the Graham Company, roles were created for her by Twyla Tharp (Demeter and Persephone), Robert Wilson (Snow on the Mesa), and Lucinda Childs (Histoire).
Since 1991, she has collaborated in numerous works choreographed for her including Runes of the Heart, Threshold, Field of Loves, Suspended Woman, Requiem, Frida, and the solo, Against All Odd, an 11-minute tour de force on Sarah Bernhardt.
The program brings together for the first time the classical ballet of the Paris Opera, the technique of Martha Graham and Butoh dance philosophy taught by the masters of their art to young dancers through the professional level.
[1] A Special Projects Grant from the Princess Grace Foundation—USA was awarded to Capucilli in 2014 in support of her film, Lawrence 'Reed' Hansen: The Sacrosanct Accompanist—a musical journey through Martha Graham's dance technique.