About Megan Williams Dance Projects
Megan Williams Dance Projects was founded in 2016 with the mission of interrogating and elevating the human experience through the research, creation, production, and performance of contemporary dance works. Williams was the DANCE NOW Commissioned Artist in 2018, premiering her first full evening work, One Woman Show to great acclaim at Joe’s Pub in NYC, and hailed as “whip-smart and vastly entertaining” (Deborah Jowitt for Artsjournal). Recent projects include a 2023 commission for the Rye Arts Center ( Rye, NY) , a large installation project at the Katonah Museum of Arts (Katonah , NY), and the Dance Off the Grid series at the Emelin Theater in Mamaroneck, N.Y. For more info: Megan Williams Dance Projects
About Megan Willliams
Megan Williams is an independent dance artist, choreographer, in demand teacher and repetiteur. Her choreography has been produced throughout the United States. After graduating from the Juilliard School and dancing in the companies of Ohad Naharin, Laura Glenn and Mark Haim, she joined the Mark Morris Dance Group, dancing for 10 years, touring worldwide, creating roles in seminal works and appearing in the films Falling Down Stairs (with Yo Yo Ma), The Hidden Soul of Harmony, The Hard Nut and Dido and Aeneas. Her dancing with MMDG was named “an unusual blend of delicate precision and sensuous fluency…with considerable strength and profound musicality.” (Tobi Tobias for New York Magazine). Williams continues her affiliation with Morris, as guest teacher, guest rehearsal director, and as an international stager of his works. She was a 2019 Choreographic Initiative Fellow at the Center for Ballet and the Arts (NYU) and is currently serving on the dance faculties of the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College, SUNY, Marymount Manhattan College and Sarah Lawrence College (where she is an MFA alumna).
About Eve Beglarian
According to the Los Angeles Times, composer and performer Eve Beglarian is a “humane, idealistic rebel and a musical sensualist.” A 2023 winner of the Arts and Letters Award for “a spectacular body of work that innovates and takes enormous risks,” she is also a 2017 winner of the Alpert Award in the Arts for her “prolific, engaging and surprising body of work,” and has been awarded the 2015 Robert Rauschenberg Prize from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts for her “innovation, risk-taking, and experimentation. ”Her current projects include a solo piano piece about Emily Dickinson responding to Ives’ Concord Sonata for the pianist Donald Berman, a project about Native-Settler relations growing from her replication by bicycle of an exploratory trip of the Great Lakes made by Henry Schoolcraft in 1820, and a piece for 24 basses in a grove of trees, composed for Robert Black and friends. Since 2001, she has been creating A Book of Days, “a grand and gradually manifesting work in progress…an eclectic and wide-open series of enticements.” (Los Angeles Times). Beglarian’s chamber, choral, and orchestral music has been commissioned and widely performed by the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the American Composers Orchestra, the Bang on a Can All-Stars, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the California EAR Unit, loadbang, Newspeak, the Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble and individual performers including Maya Beiser, Lara Downes, Lucy Dhegrae, and Thomas Feng. Recordings of Eve’s music are available on ECM, Koch, New World, Canteloupe, Innova, Naxos, Kill Rock Stars, CDBaby, and Bandcamp. https://evbvd.com/