Dixon Place

Wednesday, April 16 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $12, $10
MOVING MEN curated by Michael Cross Burke
Featuring: Mathew Heggem, Saül Ulerio/SOLOPROJECT, Damon White, & Paul Singh.
MATHEW HEGGEM is a member of Nicholas Leichter Dance Company, ClancyWorks Dance Company and has worked with Jennifer Monson and Wendell Cooper. www.matheggem.com
SAÜL ULIERIO/SOLOPROJECT has worked with Jennifer Monson, Heather McArdle, Megan Sipe and Felicia Hammond. Saul is deeply influenced by Susan Klein & KleinTechnique.
DAMON L. WHITE graduated with a BFA-Dance at California Institute of the Arts and did graduate work at Experimental Performance Institute/New College of California.
PAUL SINGH earned his BFA in Dance from the University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign. He dances for Gerald Casel, Erica Essner, Risa Jaroslow, Douglas Dunn, and Christopher Williams.

Friday, April 18 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $12, $10
UNDER EXPOSED curated by Laura Peterson
Featuring: Aaron Draper, Geneviève Martel, Sydney Skybetter & Jennifer Schworm.
AARON DRAPER earned an MFA in Dance from Mills College. He has worked with Randy James Dance Works, Rhombus Dance, Ririe Woodbury Dance Co, Hillary Easton & Julia Ritter. GENEVIÈVE MARTEL studied with Ohad Naharin and has performed at DNA, City Centre, The Flea Theatre, The Bowery Poetry club, P.S.122 and now happily returns to Dixon Place!
SYDNEY SKYBETTER completed studies at the Interlochen Arts Academy, Columbia and Nyu, and has danced with Christopher Williams, the Hudson Vagabond Puppets, and the Anna Sokolow Foundation. www.skybetter.org.
JENNIFER SCHWORM graduated from Hollins University in 2004 with a BFA in Dance. Formerly a member of The Movement Collective (TMC), she has performed with Hollins Alum and independent choreographers throughout the city. Her work has been presented at Chez Bushwick, WAXworks, Dance New Amsterdam's Works In Progress, Empire Dance and Teatro La Tea with TMC.

Saturday, April 19 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $12, $10
UNDER EXPOSED curated by Jack Ferver
Featuring: Florencia Lozano, Ana Isabel Keilson, Todd McQuade, Donnell Oakley/Ani Weinstein.
FLORENCIA LOZANO danced ballet growing up in Boston with the Boston Repertory Ballet and the Boston Ballet. She then focused on acting and after attending Brown University and getting her graduate acting degree from NYU's acting program she had a contact role on ABC's One Life to Live as "Tea Delgado." Her favorite roles-"Lady Macduff" in Moises Kaufman's Macbeth in Shakespeare in the Park and "Wanda" in Dirty Story by John Patrick Shanley.
ANA ISABEL KEILSON graduated from Barnard College/Columbia University with honors in English and Russian, and has performed with Pearsonwidrig Dancetheater, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co., Daniel McCusker and Dancers and Nugent + Matteson dance. Her work has been shown at the Judson Church (in collaboration with Elena Demyanenko), Populous by AUNTS, Live Sh-- at the Chocolate Factory and Body Blend at Dixon Place. She is currently the film and video archivist for Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
TODD MCQUADE began in San Luis Obispo, California. Later, he attended UCLA where he earned a BA in Art History. He has worked with the Los Angeles, New York City, Aix en Provence Operas, Lucinda Childs, Alonzo King, The Mark Morris Dance Group, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Aszure Barton, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Trisha Brown Dance Company.
DONNELL OAKLEY graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography in 2001. Her work has been produced at Dance New Amsterdam, The Joyce Soho, The Bric, Triskelion Arts, and The Flea Theater.
ANI WEINSTEIN's work has been presented by Dance Theater Workshop, P.S. 122, Dance New Amsterdam, Movement Research at Judson Church, White Wave, and was a cast member of the Off-Broadway show De La Guarda. She has danced with Carey Baker and Heather Kravas, among others, and currently works with Curt Haworth and Amanda Loulaki. Weinstein is a graduate of Bard College with a degree in Literature and Fiction Writing.

Tuesday, April 22 at 8:00pm, Tickets are $12, $10
BODY BLEND curated by Isabel Lewis
Featuring: Laurie Berg, Liliana Dirks-Goodman, Rebecca Wender, Biba Bell, and Ashley Anderson
LAURIE BERG graduated from the University of Arizona with a BFA in Dance in 2002. She has presented her own work at various venues as a part of the Free Radical Collective, as well as at the 60x60 Festival, the Black Box at 440, the Woodster, and at AUNTS. She is currently dancing with Sasha Welsh and Siri Peterson and collaborates with Liliana Dirks-Goodman.
LILIANA DIRKS-GOODMAN graduated with a master's degree in Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture. She has shown work at Dixon and Aunts and has worked with Megan Byrne and the Free Radical Collective to design set and dance specific props.
REBECCA WENDER has shown work at various venues in NY and San Francisco. As a dancer she has worked with Alexandra Beller, Marisa Beatty, Parker Pracjek, Juliette Mapp, Hope Mohr, and most recently with Martha Clarke. She appears in John Turturro's Romance and Cigarettes.
BIBA BELL is an artist/performer based in SF and NYC. Biba is a PhD candidate in performance studies at Nyu. Biba grew up in Sebastopol, CA and practices and ponders yoga.
ASHLEY ANDERSON lives in Philadelphia where she teaches and makes dances as part of Map Dance Collective. She holds her BA and MFA from Hollins University.

Tuesday, June 3 at 8:00pm, Tickets $10-15 (addl donations gratefully accepted!)
MONEY OF THE MONTH CLUB hosted by Laura Peterson
Deborah Hay's solo adaptations performed by DEBORAH BLACK & ELISE KNUDSON
Elise Knudson has danced with Risa Jaroslow, Jody Oberfelder and Christopher Williams.
Deborah Black holds a BFA with honors in dance from Tisch School of the Arts.

Dixon Place dance events are made possible in part, with public funds from the NY State Council on the Arts, A State Agency; and generous private funds Altria, Inc.; Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; Greenwall Foundation; Harkness Foundation for Dance; Jerome Foundation; Jerome Robbins Foundation; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Mertz Gilmore Foundation; NY Foundation for the Arts' Wage Subsidy & TechTAP Programs; Emma A. Sheafer Charitable Trust, and the Arthur B. Monroe Family Fund.