Performance Works-In-Progress
As Dixon Place's signature activity, Performance Works-In-Progress (now known as Under Construction) is one of our most successful ongoing programs. Presented several nights each month as schedule permits, this series focuses on new theatre, performance art, puppetry, dance, music and interdisciplinary collaborations from today's most innovative artists. The goal of the series is to feature a diversity of disciplines and perspectives, and to encourage artistic risk-taking in a supportive, intimate and professional environment. The projects presented are in varying stages of completion; some artists or groups use the program to put the finishing touches on their work before they take it to a larger venue, while others are presenting their projects to an audience for the first time. For more submission info, please CLICK HERE!

‘7 People, 7 Minutes’
First 7 people to sign up at 7:00pm will perform for 7 minutes each. Artists working in theatre, performance art, dance, music, poetry and fiction can sign up to present 7 minutes of their newest work to an adventurous audience. ‘7 People’ brings together artists and audiences by encouraging public participation - anyone is welcome and no experience is necessary. In addition, emerging artists who have some performance experience use this forum to test new pieces or begin working in a new discipline. It gives these emerging artists exposure to an audience at a stage where feedback is vital to the development of the work and to their development as artists. This event is free to attend and perform! (No stand-up, please...). Takes place at Dixon Place, 258 Bowery, 2nd Floor. Sponsored by NYC Department of Cultural Affairs

Mondo Cane! Commissioning Series
With this acclaimed series, Dixon Place commissions theatre, performance and dance artists to develop and present new works. Mondo Cane! allows Dixon Place to support artists by providing them with 1-3 months of workshop time, plus a month-long run of performances where they can get audience feedback and continue the work's development. Each year, six to seven artists or groups are commissioned for this series, more than half of whom represent minority perspectives. We pay artists a fee and provide free workshop, rehearsal and performance space; technical assistance; and marketing and publicity support. Artists invited to submit for commission are usually those with whom Dixon Place has established an existing relationship through previous work in a series or the performance works-in-progress. Recent commissions have included work by Victoria Roberts, Jeffrey Essmann, Alva Rogers, Laura Peterson, Sibyl Kempson, Michelle Matlock and Inner Princess, Jack Ferver, Deb Margolin, Ivy Baldwin, Edisa Weeks. Past commisions have included a workshop production of Lisa Kron's "Well" at the Public Theater, the Civilians' "The Ladies" which took on powerful wives of politicians joined for a tea party, and Susana Cook's "100 Years of Attitude."

Puppet BloK
Puppet BloK! features new works of puppetry, animation, music, and other innovative styles of performance by emerging and established artists from the NYC area. Branching out of Dixon Place’s own mission statement to focus on experimental works, Puppet BloK provides an all-encompassing venue for alternative modes of storytelling. Puppet BloK is a commune for installation art, animation, traditional and non-traditional puppetry, mask, music, film, commedia, and other extraordinary art forms. Puppet BloK provides a haven for work that is uncomfortable and wonderful, work that is sculpted not polished, reactionary not static. Biting, not perfect. Artists presented have included; Peter Bulow, David A. Miller, David Michael Friend, Lindsay Abromaitis-Smith, Dayan Silva, Caroline Reid, Ardis Campbell, Ethan Gould, Andrea Lomanto, Daisy Jopling, Catalina Gonzalez, Timothy O’Neill, Kevan Tucker, Emily Landon, Christopher Williams, Gabrielle Cryan, Sam Wilson, Kevin Augustine's Lone Wolf Tribe, Great Small Works, Jennifer Ortega, Ricardo Muniz, Drama of Works & Yvette Edery. Look out for our Spring edition on May 9 & 10 at 8:00pm with the return of Lindsay Abromaitis-Smith and Jonathan Farmer.
Leslie Strongwater curates. For more info, GO HERE: Puppet BloK

Page to Stage
Dixon Place is a laboratory environment that supports the development of new works and works-in-progress which challenge and expand creative forms of expression. Dixon Place has recently instituted a brand new series called Page to Stage. A forum for plays in development, Page to Stage is in essence a "spiffed-up, tricked out" staged reading series (with basic added admin and tech support.) Writers are encouraged to submit 20-40* minute excerpts of their pieces to present on a shared bill with two to three other artists, cultivating more audience and feedback. Talkbacks are always optional, but strongly encouraged. Keep in mind, as a works-in-progress lab, most of the work we present is of a more experimental and non-naturalistic nature. * The format is flexible, so don't worry about time lengths or restrictions. Previous writers have included; Gia Marotta, Barbara Cassidy, Amie Hartman, Vanda, Krista Knight, Keith Biesack, Laurie Stone, Lucy Ballard, Alice Barden, Patricia Geri Russell, Michael Scott-Price, Cristiane Bouger, Susan Dunlap and Autumn Widdoes.

AIR (Artist-in-Residence Program)
Dixon Place announces its new artist-in-residence program. We offer this unique opportunity on a case by case basis to exceptional artists or theater companies. The program is designed to serve emerging and established artists with administrative and technical support which culminates in the presentation of up to nine workshop productions. These new residencies expand our signature program, Performance Works-in-Progress, by providing artists with a month-long home in a supportive, intimate and professional environment. Past artists-in-residence have included; Laboratory Theater Company, Baraka de Soleil, Michael Cross Burke, Moira Cutler, Lake Simons & John Dyer.

For all submission inquiries, please email Leslie.