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Artist Michael Biello and composer Dan Martin have built a creative haven at Biello Martin Studio. However, it was dance that led to their chance meeting at a college workshop in 1975.

"I was dancing with Group Motion," says Biello. "And Dan was there playing the flute and we kind of connected."

"He would write poems in his journal, and he would show me his poems, and I would start to set them to music," says Martin. "That was a very intimate, sort of beautiful, personal, unusual way for us to bond and fall in love."

"And 50 years later we're here, doing our work," says Biello.

"Here" is Old City, where Martin composes music and Biello creates with clay.

Biello says art saved his life. He says he

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