Kristi Cole is a queer performer and choreographer with a BA in Dance and Political Science from George Washington University. Kristi has worked with numerous choreographers as a collaborator. Her choreography has been presented in Washington, DC, and the tri-state area. She founded Kristi Cole & Guests in 2019 with the goal of bringing artists together through interdisciplinary collaboration. She is a 2020 Queens Council on the Arts New Work Grant Recipient and is in the process of producing her first evening of Art & Performance. She collaborated with Shannon Finnell to create an original dance film, which premiered October, 2019.

moe-tion dance theater is a modern, dance theater company, based in NJ. Under the direction of Maureen Glennon Clayton, the company has performed at numerous festivals, showcases and venues throughout the tri-state area with highlighted performances at DUMBO Dance Festival, Cool NY Dance Festival, Mason Gross Summer Series, NJ High School Dance Festival, SWEAT Outdoors Festival, Outlet Dance Project at Grounds for Sculpture, NJ Arts Collaborative at George Street Playhouse, Show Up & Dance at Two RIvers Theater, NJPAC, Gershwin Hotel, Hatch Series and Merce Cunningham Studio. moe-tion dance theater has also been presented by many colleges and universities throughout NJ.

Ellie Goudie-Averill is a dance artist and educator based in New York City, Vermont, and Connecticut. She currently teaches as a guest artist at Connecticut College, and is a regular collaborator and dancer with Tori Lawrence + Co. in dance films and site-specific works. Since graduating with her MFA in Dance Performance from the University of Iowa in 2007, she has served as a professor at Temple University, Bucknell University, and Franklin & Marshall College. Ellie has danced professionally for Susan Rethorst, Lucinda Childs, Bronwen MacArthur, and Group Motion, and shown her choreography at Judson Chruch, Kimmel Center for the Arts, the Lawrence Arts Center, and RAW Material.

Falls Kennedy (she/her/hers) is one lucky Southern belle who gets to dance and create dance in New York City. She would love for you to check out her website, www.fallskennedy.com, for more information on her adventures as a performer and choreographer, as a student of Capoeira, as a cog in the corporate machine, and as a showcase co-founder. During these crazy times, she enjoys reading new books, solo jam sessions to Dolly Parton, and long-legged walks wherever safe. She is incredibly grateful to Dixon Place for creating this space for dance.

Cleo Carol Knopf created PoemDance to perform work that promotes social justice themes through all the expressive possibilities of the human being. Cleo holds an MFA in Dance from Tisch School of The Arts and has been performing her poem dances throughout the world: Festival D’Avignon, NY Aerial Dance Festival, Colorado Aerial Dance Festival, Pickle Circus of San Francisco, Amor De Dios in Spain, Creative Performances in NY. Cleo is currently working towards a second MFA, this one in Poetry, at The Writers Foundry. The name, Cleo, comes from Ancient Greek lyric poetry and expresses the ideal of risking all for a great cause. In her work, Cleo seeks to risk all in pursuit of a totally heart centered expression in service to humanity.

BREAKTIME is a site-fluid reservoir for bad ideas, generated and performed by Holly Sass and Jonathan Matthews. Classmates at NYU, they joined forces in 2017 to participate in Tisch Dance’s Alumni Choreographic Mentorship with Gus Solomons, Jr. They have since performed in and around the city and self-produced two evenings through the Tisch Dance Summer Residency Festival. The pair have been greatly nourished by residencies through the Jonah Boaker Arts Foundation, Create:ART, and The Croft. BREAKTIME has enjoyed multimedia liaisons with director Julia Barrett-Mitchell, choreographer-costumer Maddie Schimmel, installation artist Dave Hannon, and brass quartet, The Westerlies.