HOT!

The 17th Annual NYC Celebration of Queer Culture
June 16 - August 30, 2008

258 Bowery, 2nd Fl, b/w Houston & Prince
Door opens at 7:30pm/Events begin at 8:00pm (unless otherwise indicated)
Tickets are $0-15 or TDF (Mon-Thurs)
More info: (212) 219-0736 or www.dixonplace.org

For the 17th consecutive year, Dixon Place is proud to present HOT! (The NYC Celebration of Queer Culture). The festival that features LGBT artists takes over the famous LES living room from June 16 to August 30! Theatre, dance, literature, and homoeroticism for the whole family!

Monday, June 16 at 8:00pm, at R BAR [218 Bowery], Free Admission
Opening Night Sneak Preview
Featuring: Steven Battaglia, Kestryl Cael, Cherelynore, Michael Cross Burke, Justin Deabler, Ryan Green, Mathew Heggem, Laryssa Husiak, Joseph Keckler, Daniel Lang/Levitsky, Annie Lanzillotto, Lady Coco Lateau, Victoria Libertore, Erin Markey, Kenny Mellman, Queens Marie, Lisa Niedermeyer, Max Steele, Ryan Tracy and many more! Don't miss this incredible opportunity to see mouth-watering morsels of performance from this year's HOT! artists at R BAR (218 Bowery), free admission, cheap drinks & big surprises!

Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, June 19, 20, 21, 26, 27 & 28* at 8pm, $15, $12 Stu/Sen
Thursday & Saturday, July 3 & 5 at 8:00pm, Friday, July 4** at 7:00pm
ANNIE LANZILLOTTO'S THE FLAT EARTH: WheredaFFFhuck Did New York Go?
A New Yorker Looks for New York in all the wrong places, - New York.
A DP MONDO CANÉ! COMMISSION
W/ Jenny Bass, Audrey Kindred & Jampa Wangdue.
Directed by Annie Lanzillotto and Will MacAdams
Named one of "200 Essential New Yorkers," (NY Times/Smithsonian Folklife Festival), Annie Lanzillotto carves her site-specific narrative palimpsest with the voice of an uncut Bronx diamond. Features surreal visions of the expulsion from the urban Eden deconstructing Manhattan geology and how it supports the current condo construction on that corner over where the old mozzarella maker used to be.
* June 28th includes special Post Dyke March "How to Mount a Mailbox" contest!
** July 4th includes an Independence Day Pizza Bash Pre-Show at 6:30pm!

Saturdays, June 21, July 19 & August 16 at 10:00pm, Tickets are $15, $12
ERIN MARKEY
Michigan Family-Man, Hardy Dardy hosts, The Curse, a monthly live web-streaming radio show with a studio audience! The show features a variety of performance artists from across the country at Dixon Place on Cupcake Broadcast Studio. Hardy will be giving a play-by-play of ALL performances for the listeners at home, as well as color commentary and slow-motion instant replays of his own: 1. magic tricks 2. jokes 3. ghost stories. [www.cmbs-fm.org]
Erin Markey is a Brooklyn-based performing artist, songstress, writer, and vertical dancer. (That's British for pole-dancer.) Her solo musical, Puppy Love: A Stripper's Tail, recently toured nationally with the state of Virginia's worst nightmare, the 2008 Sex Worker's Art Show. Her blues opera, Looking For Limbo, co-created with Joseph Keckler, was recently selected for the 2007 Lincoln Center Director's Laboratory.

Tuesday & Wednesday, June 24* & 25 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $15, $12
JOHN FLECK w/ special opening guest acts *GREG WALLOCH & TOM MURRIN
~PLUS~BLAIR FELL & STUART MCMEANS
In the event that you get an erection lasting longer than 4 hours, stop watching Side Effects May Include and call your doctor immediately. Fleck is a critically acclaimed performance artist and ¼ of the NEA 4. His award-winning work has been funded by the Getty, the NEA, Franklin Furnace, The Jerome Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, LA Cultural Affairs and The Durfee Foundation. His work has been shown at; The Public Theater, The Guggenheim Museum, PS-122, 2nd Stage, La Mama and Dixon Place.
~PLUS~ Every Man For Himself: The Gay Dating Musical - A reading with music and lyrics by Stuart McMeans, book by Blair Fell, and additional material by Stephen Lance. Blair Fell has written for Bravotv.com, Showtime.net, Brilliantbutcancelled.com, an award-winning episode of the series Queer As Folk and the Emmy-award-winning PBS series California Connected. Stuart McMeans' works include Non-Sequiturs: A Cabaret (Philly Fringe Festival), Fags and Cellphones a Musical, and That's How it Works at the Philadelphia Ethical Society.

Saturday, June 28 at 10:00pm, Tickets are $15, $12
TRACY HAZAS
Gay Pierrot: A clown seeks the cure for cancer in this comedic look at art, queerness & economy.
Tracy Hazas (performer) has performed at HERE, The Syrup Room & DP. She has trained with Teatro Sótano (Cuba), SITI Company, and the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre. Hillary Miller (playwright) is a writer from Brooklyn. Her full-length play St. Fatso's Lament was produced at the Cherry Lane Theater and the Edinburgh Festival FRINGE.

Monday, June 30 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $10
PAGE TO STAGE
My Fabulous Sex Life written & performed by Brent Stansell.
Stansell spent the better part of his gay life trying to connect with anyone and everyone through sex. Now he wants to connect with you. Brent Stansell has an MFA from Brooklyn College.

Tuesday, July 1 at 8:00pm, $10 suggested donation
THE HISTORY OF THE DILDO AND OTHER FUN FACTS…
[www.dixonplace.org for details.]

Wednesday, July 2 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $15, $12
CHRIS WELLS
Alice & Wonderland, a'sinematic' film screening of the classic porn musical, with an expert lecture from Chris Wells. Chris Wells is an actor, a singer and a writer by trade, an entertainer down to his soul and a showman, with the blood of true vaudevillians running through his veins. Check out [myspace.com/mrchriswells] for more info.

Tuesdays, July 8, 15, 22, & 29 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $15, $12
DP artist-in-residence RYAN GREEN presents Ms. Green - Assisted Suicide
Directed by Michael Cherry, featuring Matthew Fetbrandt (piano).
Ms. Green mixes original comedic monologues with melodramatic popular songs in a sometimes sweet but mostly bitter cocktail for the girls. Ryan Green escaped from Ohio after graduating from Baldwin Wallace College with a Bachelor of Music in Musical Theatre. Since landing in NYC, he has learned to play the guitar, the pandeiro, and to speak Portuguese.

Wednesday, July 9 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $15, $12
TEDDY NICHOLAS
Zones: A play that tells the stories of two gay men (one Columbian, one Thai) and a Japanese lesbian who attempt to break free of their oppressive lifestyles to live an open lifestyle in the US.
Theodore Nicholas hails from Queens. He received a B.A. in Drama Studies at Purchase College, where he directed Christopher Shinn's Four. He has performed at Dixon Place and HERE.

Wednesday, July 9 at 10:00pm, Tickets are $15, $12
RUFFLEBUTT - A FEMME EXTRAVAGANZA
Five fabulous performances explore the gorgeous complexities of queer femme identity, including hooping, movement, object theatre, and more!
W/ Lea Robinson, Elizabeth Whitney, Maggie Crowley & Ariel Federow.
Maggie Crowley is the founder and artistic director of Boston's Femme Show. In 2006 she was named one of the Advocate's 2006 Future Gay Rights Leaders. She has danced with numerous choreographers and companies, including Kelly Donavon, Tanja London, Big Moves, and Boston Dance Company. Maggie holds a BFA in dance and a BA from Emerson College.
Ariel Federow has been seen in various incarnations: Switch'n'Play's Open Drag Nights; Miss Jew-S-A 5767 (crowned by the 14th St Y); the director of Big Moves New York; part of the creative team for the JFREJ/Workmen's Circle Purimshpiel. [www.queeryenta.com]
Lea Robinson & Elizabeth Whitney are partners in life and crime. Together they have brainstormed pioneering performances of gender such as the butch-femme country-western drag act, Sissy & Cocoa Chaps: The Urban Cowdykes, and the soon-to-be world famous hooping duo, Bitches With Barrettes. Their work has been seen at Femmetasia!, The Femme Show, Great Small Works' Spaghetti Dinner and Hysteria Festival. [www.miscegenations.com]

Thursday, Friday, & Saturday, July 10, 11 & 12 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $15, $12
PEG+ASS=US by Pack of Others
In a no-holes-barred sexploration of "pegging," these lovers sing, dance and tease along the delicious line between fetish/preference, queer/straight, wrong and oh-so right...
Erika Kate MacDonald is a yoga teacher and theater artist, healer and vagabond, sister and daughter, listener and lover. She toured her last solo piece (VOTING RITES, an interview-based exploration of NH women's attitudes towards voting, 2004) to schools and community groups throughout the Granite State. Sophie Nimmannit performs, directs, writes, and builds masks & puppets for the live stage. She returned to Brooklyn in 2007 and has embarked on a drag career with The Infertile Rep. and a political career as campaign manager for VOTE DEBS in '08. John Leo has studied dance at Bard College, the Dell 'Arte School of Physical Theatre and with clown masters Ronlin Foreman, Sue Morrison and Ricardo Puchetti.

Thursdays, Friday & Saturday, July 10, 11 & 12 at 10:00pm, Tickets are $15, $12
TOGETHER AT LAST
La JohnJoseph performs Notorious Beauty, a story of objectification, childhood theft, an abandoned modeling career, and identity lost, though an artful and provocative prose, which pivots between painfully honest and campily fierce. With special guest artists each night:
7-10-08: BRANDON OLSON
7-11-08: MAX STEELE & GLENN MARLA
7-12-08: FLAWLESS SABRINA & TUCKER CULBERTSON
La John Joseph has contributed articles to Now UK, Bent, RE-fresh, ITT, P.S. I LOVE YOU and Next. He has performed at Weimar New York, New York Burlesque Festival, and Penny Arcade's Globesity Festival. Dixon Place veteran Brandon Olson makes decidedly and deliciously uncategorizable work that explores and expands the boundaries of traditional theatre, performance, visual art, music, fashion and poetry. He has collaborated with such artists as Patricia Field, Lady Kier, Tabboo!, Susanne Bartsch, and Karen Finley. Max Steele presents The Horrible Time (You Tried To Kill Me). In a world populated by queer monsters, mythical beasts, runaway babies, our hero navigates the post-apocalyptic landscapes of NYC in search of Big Sweet Love. Steele is a performer, writer and artist making Gay Art. Glenn Marla's Man Boobs. Shame, intrigue, hysterical women, dapper men, foundation garments, formal wear, potato chips and beyond. Glenn Marla is NYC's hottest fat go-go boy and a beauty pageant queen (Miss L.E.S. 2006). Glenn has done everything from Shakespeare at churches in Harlem to late night shows at the Cock. Mistress of Ceremonies Mother Flawless Sabrina opens the show with her uplifting and humorous observations and incantations. The NY drag legend has fostered upcoming talents ever since her starring role in the iconic movie The Queen in 1968. Tucker Culberston's Disintergration is an experiment in sound installation, spirit possession, and monologue of queer revolution built upon the writings of David Wojnarowicz. Culbertson is a social activist, writer, teacher and theatre director who will be premiering new work at HOT!

Monday, July 14 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $15, $12
POMOFREAKSHOW ~on a shared bill with ~ SARAH JANE STONER
Seeking to perforate assumptions of privilege and complicate the borders of queerness, Traitors without (T)reason explores the intricate themes inextricably tied to public passing.
PoMo Freakshow = Sassafras Lowrey & Kestryl Cael. Lowrey is a genderqueer high femme, militant storyteller, author, artist, performer, and activist. An accomplished storyteller, Lowrey is also an original member of "The Language of Paradox" founded and directed by Kate Bornstein. Cael is artist and gender revolutionary pursuing an MFA in Performance Studies at NYU.
~Vanna White is Alive and Well in Southern California: An apocalyptic digression on torture and national security. Written & performed by Sarah Jane Stoner. Sarah Jane Stoner attended Smith College where she performed in Paula Vogels' Hot 'N' Throbbing as Calvin the 12-year-old boy and Fiulietta in Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffman.

Wednesday, July 16 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $15, $12
MOVING MEN curated by Michael Cross Burke
Featuring; Dixie Fun Dance Theatre, Christopher Hutchings, Lisa Niedermeyer/Reba Mehan, & Daman Harun.
Dixie FunLee Shulman is the founder and artistic director of Dixie Fun Dance Theatre, which has performed at DNA, DTW, PS122, Joe's Pub, Symphony Space, Joyce SoHo, Dancenow/NYC Festival, La MaMa, HERE Arts Center, BAX, WAX, Dixon Place, West End Theater, Manhattan Theater Source, BAAD! and BRIC Studio. Visit www.dixiefundance.com for more info. Christopher Hutchings has performed with Connecticut Ballet, Jody Oberfelder, Opus Dance Theater, Virginia Ballet, and Second Wind Dance. He holds a BFA in dance from Tisch. Lisa Niedermeyer and Reba Mehan present their new dance theatre duet Fishin' in the Dark. Reba Mehan has performed on cruise ships, in the circus, concert halls, films, and various site-specific projects. Daman Harun made his National TV Debut on the Martha Stewart Show in 2005 with the Malaysian Traditional Dance Troupe of New York.

Thursday, July 17 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $15, $12
JEN ABRAMS & BARBARA MAHLER & LARYSSA HUSIAK
Study #5 for Most of This Is True -- Two women wrestle with their demons in this dance-theater work in progress by Jen Abrams. Jen Abrams' work has been seen in New York at HERE, La Mama ETC, Dixon Place, and the Bowery Poetry Club, as well as at WOW Café Theater, where she has been a member for eight years and presented five seasons.
~Wallflower: A titillating tongue and cheek look at the forever trials and tribulations of relating to someone other than oneself. Choreography by Barbara Mahler, Performed by Rachel Thorne Germond. Barbara Mahler is a master teacher of Klein Technique, and has been instrumental in both its teachings and outreach since the early 1980s.
~Laryssa Husiak curates When I realized I first liked girls...
Was it the mannequins at Victoria's Secret, your first hemp bracelet, your Indigo Girls mixed tape of the Indigo Girls? The girl's varsity soccer team? You remember and so do we... Join us for an evening of memories, songs, videos, dance moves and performances with; Jess Barbagallo, Faye Driscoll, Sharyn Jackson, Laryssa Husiak, Joseph Keckler, Sunita Prasad & Laura Stinger.

Friday, July 18 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $15, $12
JOSEPH KECKLER
Human Jukebox, the sequel to Cat Lady, uses Keckler's multi-octave voice to spin a virile meditation on death and fantasy. Joseph Keckler has appeared at Joe's Pub, PSi, HERE, The Guggenheim, The Kitchen, The Amato Opera, The Public Theater and PS122.

Monday, July 21 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $10
PAGE TO STAGE
Plan Z: A play about a perfectly-engineered transnational multi-racial bilingual gay Parksloper family and the elusive quest for home. Written & performed by Justin Deabler.
Justin Deabler is member of Youngblood at Ensemble Studio Theatre, a playwriting instructor at the Hudson Opera House and has produced/developed work at Ohio Theater/Soho Think Tank, HERE, Stageworks/Hudson, Barrow Street Theatre and Six Figures.
~Learning What You Are, a short play about trans-romance by Jesse Cameron Alick.
Jesse Cameron Alick is the Artistic Director of Subjective Theatre Company and member of Ensemble Studio Theater's Youngblood program. [www.subjectivetheatre.org]

Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, July 24, 25, 26, & 31, Aug 1, 2, 7, 8, & 9 at 8pm, $15, $12
KENNY MELLMAN
Say Seaboy, You Sissy Boy? - A DP MONDO CANÉ! COMMISSION
On the 27 October 1992, Allen Schindler, Jr., an American Radioman Petty Officer Third Class in the United States Navy was brutally murdered in a public bathroom in Sasebo Japan. Utilizing transcripts from the consequent trial of the defendants, Kenny Mellman (of Kiki & Herb) presents a chamber musical about homophobia, murder, the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy and the on again/off again relationship between gay history and the public bathroom.
Tony® Award nominee (2007) Kenny Mellman studied music composition at UC Berkeley and poetry at San Francisco State University. His work on Kiki & Herb has earned him an Obie, a Bessie, a GLAAD Media Award, an HX Award and a Helen Hayes Award nomination.

Monday, July 28 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $15
MONEY OF THE MONTH CLUB
Trans-words: Stories of Gender Transgressions. Featuring an evening of stories from the transgender community curated by Shawn[a] Powell. Powell is pursuing a BA in theater from Bard.

Wednesday, July 30 at 8:00pm, Tickets $15, $12
VICTORIA
Queens Marie & Cherelynore present a female-to-female (FTF) drag showcase of wigs, heels, post-modern bisexuality and fabulous gender dysphoria for the gay man trapped in your vagina. Performances by Alexia Tate, Dr. Lukki, Lady Coco Lareau, Miss Victoria, Raven Snook, Sequinette & World Famous *BOB*.

Mondays, August 4, 11, & 18 at 5:30-7:30pm, Suggested $10 Donation
THE SOCIAL SERIES
4th: Queer Cooking - Bring your own whine, we'll bring the cheese!
11th: Stitch n'Bitch - It's a knitting circle.
18th: Tea Dance - Get drunk & dance.

Tuesday & Wednesday, August 5 & 6 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $15, $12
BRINK curated by Michael Helland
Featuring; Tribute by Levi Gonzalez & The Horrible Truth Inside Us All -or- High School Was Not The Best Years Of My Life by Miriam Wolf
Levi Gonzalez has been presented by Movement Research, DTW, The Kitchen, and Danspace.
Miriam Wolf has worked with Daniel Linehan, Sam Kim, Michael Helland and Natalie Green.

Tuesday, August 12 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $15, $12
JANESSA CLARK/KILTERBOX & DANIEL LANG/LEVITSKY & VICTORIA LIBERTORE
Clark's (Inner)views I-IV is a multimedia duet exploring sexuality and gender in our society. The dance playfully pokes at queer stereotypes while the film reinforces the ideas of tolerance & acceptance. Janessa Clark holds a BFA in Choreography from Arizona State University. She also received the ASU Undergraduate Choreography Award for her sextet Molt. She is the Artistic Director of Janessa Clark/KILTERBOX founded in 2001.
~ Daniel Lang/Levitsky's Do Not Spare uses 19th century toy theater techniques to explore geographies of desire & affinity across lines of assumed antipathy. Lang/Levitsky is a puppeteer and aspiring rabblerouser based in NYC.
~Victoria Libertore's newest memoir piece (My Journey of Decay) examines how it's hard to feel sexy with visible decay in your mouth. Good times. Victoria Libertore, aka Howling Vic, has performed at BRIC Theater, CB's 313 Gallery, Collective: Unconscious, Coney Island, Dixon Place, HERE, HOWL Festival, Joe's Pub, Joyce SoHo, Knitting Factory & Wow Café.

Wednesday, August 13 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $15, $12
SAÚL ULERIO & MATHEW HEGGEM & VICTORIA LIBERTORE
Saúl Ulerio's Rapt- Extinction of the Self, an impressionistic exploration of truth, freedom & death. Ulerio has worked with Jennifer Monson, Heather McArdle, Megan Sipe and Felicia Hammond.
~ As a portrait of human resiliency, Compelled to Inhale is a didactic and political series of three duets between three caricatures negotiating personal and relational trauma. Choreography by Mathew Heggem. Featuring: Nicholette Routhier & Wendell Cooper. Mathew Heggem dances for nicholasleichterdance, Jennifer Monson and Wendell Cooper.
~Victoria Libertore presents "My Journey of Decay." (see August 12 for more details.)

Thursday, August 14 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $15, $12
RYAN TRACY's Big Release. Ryan has written over a dozen songs that chronicle his pursuit of big gay life & love. For inexplicable reasons, they have remained trapped in the closet, til now.
Ryan Tracy holds a Master's Degree in Music Composition from the Mannes College of Music, and Bachelor's degrees in Composition and Choral Conducting from Chapman University.

Friday, August 15 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $15, $12
STEVEN BATTAGLIA/HEATHER MURPHY's You Make Me Sick! (But I Still Love You?) is about that relationship. Enter a maelstrom where kinetic ideas explode in the blink of an eye.
Steven Battaglia is proud to be a Brooklyn native. This marks his writing and performing debut. Steven is a lighting designer who hopes to one-day design scenery, lighting and video for the likes of Kylie Minogue and Madonna (if the old broads are still performing then). He looks forward to rejoining the Dixon Place staff at the new, amazing Chrystie Street theatre.
Heather Murphy hails from Marietta, Georgia and is a recent transplant to New York. Heather is a full-time dancer who has plans to create and run an unprecedented performing arts center in Atlanta. She is thrilled to be working with her pookie, Steven.
~Michael Cross Burke's Pussy Trouble: The Secret History of Gilgamesh & Enkidu: Queer performance artist embarks on a perilous and sexually explicit journey into the mysterious world of heterosexuality. Highlights include porn, homo biblical metaphors, and helpful oral sex tips. Collaborators include Anastasia Sands & Aron Kantor. Michael Cross Burke has performed at Dixon Place, The Joyce Soho, BAX, HERE, Chashama, and in Penny Arcades' "Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore!" at Spiegel Tent.

Friday, August 15 at 10:00pm, Tickets are $15, $12
RYAN MIGGE's Maddy Mann's Church Camp Jamboree: Everyone's favorite Catholic school girl, Maddy Mann, is back from camp and she's got tales to tell. Jesus in the house, WHOOP WHOOP! Ryan Migge's choreography and performance work have been seen throughout New York in such venues as PS122, the Joyce SoHo, BAX, Symphony Space, Galapagos & DP.

Saturday, August 16 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $15, $12
ROSE CALUCCHIA's The Chair Project features post-modern dance and acrobatics.
Rose Calucchia is currently performing with Brooklyn-based dance and acrobatic troupe, LAVA.
~Michael Cross Burke's Pussy Trouble (see Aug 15 for more details.)

Tuesday, August 19 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $15, $12
THE ENTIRE GROUP
Embert (The Roast) Acts I & II: Here at the infamous Downstairs Congregation of the Third Cultist Church Sister Gretta is cooking up something very special for tonight's potluck.. The Entire Group is Karl Allen, Kate Scelsa, Amanda Villalobos, & Laura von Holt. For more info, [www.dixonplace.org]

Wed, Thurs, Fri, & Sat, August 21, 22, 23, 27 & 28, at 8:00pm, Tickets are $15, $12
JACK FERVER
A DP MONDO CANÉ! COMMISSION
MEAT examines America's over-saturation with sex and the impossible standards it demands. Drawing from the real life tale of femme fatale Lisa Nowak (astronaut extraordinaire), a cautionary fable unfolds as told by four performers. Employing darkly comedic candor and fever pitch performance styles, MEAT elevates the state of desire to an explosive end.
W/ Paul Lane, Liz Santaro, Reid Bartolme & Ferver.
Jack Ferver. Off-Broadway: Betty's Summer Vacation (Playwrights Horizons), Summer Lovin (Blue Heron), Black Milk Quartet (The Ohio). His performance art has been curated at The New Museum, The Culture Project, Makor, BRIC in New York and the Oni Gallery in Boston.

Monday, August 25 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $10
PAGE TO STAGE
A Drowning World Can Fall In Love written and performed by Thain Torres.
Portraits of a South African childhood mannered by dreamy pantheism, working class anxiety, nihilistic sexual angst, and teenage experiments in witchcraft, terrorism and prostitution. The story is told in contrapuntal rhythm to an imaginary vision of post-apocalyptic New York.
Thain Torres, an M.F.A. graduate of the University of Cape Town, South Africa, has received critical acclaim in and has toured to The Grahamstown National Arts Fest and beyond.

Tuesday, August 26 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $15, $12
CROSSING BOUNDARIES curated by Marcia Monroe.
W/ Emily Berry, Johannes Wieland, Lindsey Dietz Marchant & Jen Rosenblit.
Emily Berry has performed with Ann Arbor Dance Works, Boris Willis Moves, Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh & Company, Michele Dunleavy and Lesole's Dance Project.
Johannes Wieland's choreography employs an architecturally driven understanding of bodies, movement and space probing deeply into the human psyche to create an abstract, metaphorically rich repertory for his company. In 2005, Jen Rosenblit formed BottomHeavy Productions and has shown work in NYC as well as throughout New England. For info- [www.dixonplace.org].

Wednesday & Thursday, August 27 & 28 at 10:00pm, Tickets are $15, $12
MONSTAH BLACK & THE SONIC LEROY
An Electro Afro Punk Funk soundscape pushing societal boundaries that explore gender fluidity & racial assumptions with movement, theater, glitter & glam! Monstah Black has been commissioned by Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center for the creation of 2 evening length shows, Black Strap Molasses and This Suite Devine. [www.monstahblack.com]

Friday & Saturday, August 29 & 30 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $15, $12
UNDER EXPOSED curated by Jack Ferver & Laura Peterson
DP's longest running dance series is as queer as it can be. As always, [www.dixonplace.org]

Dixon Place Mondo Cané! Commissions made possible with generous support from NYSCA, a state agency: The Jerome Foundation: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation & the Peg Santvoord Foundation. DP theatre events are made possible, in part, with public funds from the NY State Council on the Arts, a State Agency; & generous private funds from ART/NY's Fund for Small Theatres; Altria, Inc; Edith C. Blum Foundation; Carnegie Corporation; Dramatist Guild Fund; Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts; Greenwall Foundation; Jerome Foundation; Jerome Robbins Foundation; Katherine Dalglish Foundation; Low Wood Fund; Lucille Lortel Foundation; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Mertz Gilmore Foundation; & Peg Santvoord Foundation.

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