Creative Performances

06/12/2026

Join us Wednesday, June 17th at Dixon Place for 8 in Show, curated by Sangeeta Yesley. Featuring Prana Arts, Amy Ashley Projects, Unbound Dance Collective, Caeruleus Dance Collective, and more!

Learn more about these amazing choreographers!

Pavitra Jayakanth
Pavitra Jayakanth has over 20 years of professional experience and rigorous
Bharatanatyam training, beginning her foundation in India and later continued under
Guru Smt. Sridevi Srinivas at Sri Art Academy, where she continues advanced
mentorship (2016–present). She has also trained with Guru Shri Srikanth Natarajan,
attended workshops with Smt. Rukmini Vijaykumar, and pursued specialized intensives with Guru Madurai R. Muralidharan, Kavya Muralidharan, Dr. Deepa Mahadevan, Jayalakshmi Radhakrishnan, Shobitha Arun, and Ramya Shankaran.

Amy Ashley .amila
Amy Ashley has been freelancing and performing contemporary dance in NYC for almost a decade. Her work with her mentor, Tracey Durbin, is the impetus for "With all our might...". This piece is more hers than mine, I am just carrying forward the legacy.

📸 Whitney Browne

Alex Krstić
Alex Krstić is a Brooklyn-based dance artist and bioethicist. Her choreography has featured with Unbound Dance Collective, DanceWorks NYC, the Donna Cory Legacy Project (which she leads), and companies at Williams College. Her latest half-evening length work, MONK, premiered in a split bill at Creature Space’s Common Space II.

📸 Eric Bandiero

Trevor Ricardo Spencer Jr.
Trevor Ricardo Spencer Jr. is a choreographer based in Rosedale Queens. They have
their BA in Dance from Hunter College. Trevor has presented work for Nachmox/NACHMO, Pieces for Peace, the Multi-College Festival, Dance Astoria,
Fertile Ground, Sharedspace, 7MPR, "Translate" curated by J Chen Dance, Jennifer Muller and the Work W.I.P., Queensboro Dance Festival, Queens Dance Festival, HOT Dance and JCAL Making Moves Festival(2025). In Nachmo 2020 Trevor’s work was selected for their Theatre show.

📸 Robin Michals and Maja Bakija

06/11/2026

Join us Wednesday, June 17th 7:30pm at Dixon Place for 8 in Show curated by Sangeeta Yesley. Featuring works by Jason Herbert Dance, JCWK Dance Lab, The Pearling Principle, Dance Visions NY, and more!

Get to know some of the choreographers before the show!

Jason Herbert
Jason Herbert is a choreographer whose work treats the body as a living
archive of cultural memory and encoded history. With over 20 years of
experience performing with Philadanco!, Forces of Nature Dance Theatre, and
Broadway’s FELA!, he creates choreography rooted in embodied transmission
and legacy.

📸 Michael Letterlough (Pictured Jason Herbert African clothes)

Jessica C. Warchal-King, MFA
Jessica C. Warchal-King, MFA, described as a “post mod(ern) ballerina” (Philadelphia
Inquirer) is founder of JCWK Dance Lab. The organization supports her artistic &
creative research utilizing physical dance practice, performance & education to create joy, connection & wellness through kinesthetic stories. Jessica is a published writer, producer & facilitator of community & creativity.

📸 Basil Chawkat, Thomas Kay

Beth Jucovy .ny
Beth Jucovy, a lifelong practitioner of the Isadora Duncan technique, trained from early childhood with Anna Duncan and second-generation Duncan dancer Julia Levien. A distinguished dancer, educator, and choreographer, she has directed Dance
Visions/Dance Visions NY for over three decades, presenting innovative works and full-length performances locally, nationally and internationally.

📸 Martha Gorfen, Abby Dias, and Anthony Pepitone

Arielle and Albert
Arielle and Albert performed as a harp/flute duo for decades, beginning with contemporary classical repertoire and gradually exploring improvisation, dance, art and fashion. Time slowly transformed the intriguing collaboration into an interdisciplinary partnership, pondering the parallels and intertwinings of sound, movement, visual art and design.

📸 Brendan McGlynn

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06/08/2026

Join us for a split bill performance this Wednesday, June 10th 7:30pm at Dixon Place's Fast Forward: VULNERABILITY, curated by Sangeeta Yesley. Featuring works by Srijan Dance Company and Bart.Co Dance .codance .

Ticket Link: https://dixonplace.org/performances/fast-forward-6-10-26/

Srijan Dance Company
Many Shades of Women presents stories characterizing four women from the writings of Nobel Laureate Bengali poet, Rabindranath Tagore, through imagery of movements. Tagore has written about remarkable female characters, both known in literature and of his own creation. We present stories of four female protagonists which depict inequalities and injustices of society. Through these, Tagore comments on the ills of society that still exist today, emphasizing the relevance of his views. In Sreemoti, we see courageous defiance of an unjust decree against the practice of Buddism. Chandalika is a comment against caste-based discrimination. Gandhari denounces disrespect towards women, and Chitrangadha demands gender equality.

Bart.Co Dance
This piece is addressing the need to be extremely aware and sensitive to our surroundings. Looking at how paranoia consumes women, and questions whether we’re safe in America. Do you feel someone watching?

06/06/2026

Join us Wednesday, June 10th at 7:30pm for Dixon Place's Fast Forward: VULNERABILITY featuring Srijan Dance Company

Bipasha Guptaroy trained with Amala Shankar in the creative Indian dance technique of Uday Shankar at Uday Shankar India Culture Center. She received a diploma in dance from the Center in Kolkata and performed extensively with the Center’s troupe, including at the American Dance Festival. She also trained in Bharatanatyam, Kathakali and Manipuri. She later trained in Odissi with Neena Gulati at Triveni School of Dance in Boston. Bipasha was a guest lecturer in Indian dance at University of Michigan and Wayne State University. She is a lecturer in Indian dance at Oakland University, in World Dance Traditions.

📸 Shiva Vemula

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06/04/2026

Join us Wednesday, June 10th at 7:30pm for Dixon Place's Fast Forward: VULNERABILITY featuring Bart.Co Dance .codance

Leigha Bartko is a New Jersey-based dance artist. She went to college for a BFA in dance at Rutgers University.Has worked with artists such as; Ani Javian, John Evan, Kun-Yang Lin, Andrea Zachery, and many more. She was awarded the Margery J.Turner Choreography Award through Rutgers University for their thesis. Leigha currently has a space fellowship with the studio, Washington Rock Dance, for their company; “Bart.Co Dance”. We use personal experiences, political issues, and human rights issues as a source to create reflective work. Our most notable performance; 2025 Fringe Arts Festival 'Through The Eyes of a Woman' the companies first evening length.

📸 Matt Gal

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Fast Forward is a dance series curated by Sangeeta Yesley that provides opportunities for choreographers working in all dance forms to workshop longer, more developed pieces that run 25 – 35 minutes. The series will feature 2 choreographers/dance companies each evening on a shared bill. Each eveni...

05/25/2026

Join us for a split bill performance this Wednesday, May 27th 7:30pm at Dixon Place's Fast Forward: QUIET ALIGNMENT, curated by Sangeeta Yesley. Featuring works performed by Yaroque Dance Theatre and Samaw Dance Company .

Ticket Link: https://dixonplace.org/performances/fast-forward-5-27-26/

Yaroque Dance Theatre
Mishegas explores community, both uplifting and destructive, through the lens of Judaism. The work uses guided meditation in Hebrew, Hasidic Yiddish music, and secular pop music to illuminate the vast diversity within one culture and question how belonging can feel like both liberation and constraint. Drawing from lived experience across a wide range of Jewish communities, the work examines the tenderness of tradition and the danger of communities being used for control or coercion. Movement pulls from the hora, Gaga, and American line dances.

Choreography by Shelby Green

Performed by Julia Asher, Anna Hershinow, Ashira Bloom, Chisato Fujii, Rachel Calabrese, Megan McHugh

Samaw Dance Company
Societal Pressures is comprised of three works exploring what it means to move through the world as an Asian American. Risky Business sits with the external weight of assimilation; the pull to fall in line, to self-edit, to survive within expectation. Unseen Unheard turns inward, into the silence and disconnection that builds when you are consistently overlooked, misunderstood, or asked to shrink. Code-switching examines how we must change and adapt out of survival sometimes at the cost of our own identity. Together, these works hold space for both experiences, questioning what it looks and feels like to reclaim your own voice and take up space on your own terms.

Choreography by David Cartahena Lee in collaboration with Dancers

Performed by Alexis Maluski, Annika Wong, Destiny Nguyen, Eva Schmidt, Jenn Tran, Julia Sitch, Mags Bartek, Sky Pasqual, and David Cartahena Lee

*The Dixon Place Lounge is open before and after the show. You can bring your drink into the theater! Bar proceeds directly support DP's artists and mission!

05/20/2026

Join us Wednesday, May 27th at 7:30pm for Dixon Place's Fast Forward: QUIET ALIGNMENT featuring Samaw Dance Company.

David Cartahena Lee is a Brooklyn-based choreographer and dance artist, 4th generation American-born Chinese and 3rd generation American-born Filipino through Hawai'i. Drawing from waacking, contemporary, and street dance, his work centers q***r and Asian American identity while honoring Black and Brown dance lineages—exploring themes of assimilation, visibility, and belonging. He is the founder and artistic director of Samaw Dance and creator of the Diffraction Dance Festival and Resonance. His work has been presented at The Tank, Sybarite, Club Jeté, Inhale/Exhale, and beyond. David is a 2024 NYU Production Lab fellow and 2025 Brooklyn Arts Council grantee.

📸 Kevin Horlavadi

05/19/2026

Join us Wednesday, May 27th at 7:30pm for Dixon Place's Fast Forward: QUIET ALIGNMENT featuring Yaroque Dance Theatre.

Shelby Green (they/them) is a NYC-based artist and the artistic director of Yaroque Dance Theatre. Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, Shelby holds a BFA in Dance Performance from Southern Methodist University. In 2024, they founded Yaroque, a company that blends camp with emotional vulnerability, building all costumes, props, and sets from 100% secondhand materials. Shelby’s debut show under Yaroque, “An Evening in Color,” was sold out, and they earned BroadwayWorld nominations for Best Off-Off-Broadway Choreography and Costume Design from their work with Staten Island Shakespeare Theater.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

📸 Mikhail Lipyanskiy

04/30/2026

Save the Date: Wed, June 17, 7:30 pm "8 in Show"

Address: 161A, Chrystie Street, NY 10002.

ABOUT THIS SHOW
Emerging & established choreographers of all dance forms showcasing short new work, between 5 & 12 min.

Featuring: 💃🏽🕺🏽

The Pearling Principle/Albert Hendrik Cornelius Manders & Arielle
JCWK Dance Lab/Jessica C. Warchal-King, MFA
Jason Herbert Dance
Dance Visions NY/Anne Parichon-Buoncore and Jared McAboy .ny
Prana Arts/Pavitra Jayakanth
Amy Ashley Projects .amila
Unbound Dance Collective/Alexandra Krstić
Trevor Ricardo Spencer Jr

Event link in bio

https://dixonplace.org/performances/8-in-show-6-17-26/

Curated by Sangeeta Yesley.


I hope to see you there.