Patricia Hoffauer is a Brazilian born New York Artist whose works have been presented in NYC and elsewhere since 1985. Performance company great accomplishments: “Who Killed Carmen” (1996-98) : Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, DTW, Leperq Space: “Over My Dead Body”: Doris Duke Theater (2001), Hoc Es Corpus: Symphony Space (2004), Para-Dice (2010-2013): Danspace Project; “Small Dances for Intimate Spaces & Friendly People” (2015): Gibney Dance Center; “Getting Away With Murder” (iteration 3) (2017): La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theater. Hoffbauer is currently  Assistance Professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and a founding member of Yvonne Rainer’s “Raindears. 

Michelle Chan is dance artist, dance/movement therapist, and art advocate for mental health and criminal justice. She was born and raised in Hong Kong, and graduated with a Master degree in Dance/Movement Therapy at Pratt Institute. Michelle has traveled to Iceland, Myanmar, Africa, and Sweden for cultural exchange for sharing the values of humanity through her presence and arts. Michelle has experience with multi-disciplinary collaboration within diverse environments. In 2016, Michelle has presented a dance theater performance ‘Memomentary’ in Iceland.  In 2019, Michelle was curated a production ‘Arts Activism: I’mprisoned’ which opened the dialogue and raise awareness associated with mental illness and incarceration in the society.

60//40 by Elise Knudson and Adrián Montufar

Elise Knudson (choreographer & performer)  is a New York City based dance artist. Elise teaches and facilitates CI at festivals and studios such as Touch Festival (China), Leviathan Studio (Canada) WCCI Jam (Berkeley, USA) and BKSD (Brooklyn). Elise has taught repertory and contact improvisation at Manhattanville College and Theory and Practice of Dance Improvisation at Yale University. She created NEXToNow, modeled after The Impermanent Society of Philadelphia to provided a platform for the practice of performing interdisciplinary free improvisation. She has enjoyed the opportunity to perform improvised dance with the likes of Nancy Stark Smith, David Appel, Chris Aiken&Angie Hauser, Alicia Greyson and many others. Elise has also had the opportunity to perform choreography with various Artists in New York and beyond including Christopher Williams, Jenni Hong Dance, Kiori Kawai/Purring Tiger, Risa Jaroslow, Jody Oberfelder and Koosil-ja/DANCE KUMIKO.(eliseknudson.org). Adrián Montufar (composer & performer) is a composer and sound artist. He thinks of sounds as a kind of trace: of movement, of matter, of different physical bodies interacting, and of the forces that give shape to those interactions (adrianmontufar.com).

Lindsey Dietz Marchant. For over 20 years Lindsey’s choreography has been presented internationally from Australia to Russia and across the US, commissioned in NYC by Danspace Project, Dance Theater Workshop, Harkness Dance Center, Music Theater Group, among others. Performing with over 35 choreographers, Lindsey worked extensively as a collaborating artist with Pavel Zustiak/Palissimo, Martha Clark, Third Rail Project (‘Then She Fell’); and with Aszure Barton, Monica Bill Barnes, Elena Demyanenko, Ursula Eagly, Doug Elkins, Tami Stronach Dance, Kate Weare Co., among others. Teaching extensively at Bennington College, NYU-Tisch, Princeton University, SUNY Purchase, Movement Research (NYC), UNSW & Chunky Move (Australia), among many others.

This Dixon Place dance program is made possible, in part, with private funds from the Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Jerome Robbins Foundation, The Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and public funds from the NY State Council on the Arts with the support of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the NY State Legislature.