Dixon Place's Artist-in-Residence program is offered on a case by case basis to exceptional artists or theater companies. It is designed to serve emerging and established artists with rehearsal space and technical support which culminates in the presentation of workshop performances. These new residencies expand our signature program, Performance Works-in-Progress, by providing artists with a home in a supportive, intimate and professional environment. Artists receive complimentary rehearsal time as well as added technical, administrative and artistic support. Past artists-in-residence have included TheatreThe, Michael Lynch, Chana Porter, Clay Macleod Chapman, Jonny Cigar, Laboratory Theater Company, Baraka de Soleil, Michael Cross Burke, Moira Cutler, Julia Pearlstein, Polina Klimovitskaya, Dan Fishback, Kim Katzberg and Lake Simons.
Half Straddle presents Here You Go, merging recent experiments in the deconstruction of Chekhovian language with the first sung-through musical attempt by the company. As usual, you can expect girls. And maybe Spirit Animals. Or British Ladies. Merging her own subtextual interest in a kind of coded feminine speak, with Chekhov's true interest in small moments and subtext, Tina works with her collaborators to make a true musical about maybe-sisters and for once, admitting there really is a dark side, and figuring out what to do then.
Tina Satter, a playwright, director, and artistic director of Half Straddle, was named a 2011 Off-Off Broadway Innovator to Watch by Time Out New York. Her most recent play In the Pony Palace/FOOTBALL was a New York Times Critic's Pick in February 2011, among other critical praise. She attended Mac Wellman's graduate playwriting program at Brooklyn College in February 2011.
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.
Photos: Michael De Angelis (Half Straddle).
