Aaron Robinson, Akiko Wilson, Alexandra Beller, Alison Hope, Amber Sloan, Ami Jordan, Ani, Anna, Ariane Lea Michaud, avra blieden, barrie raffel, brandon cournay, Brett Garfinkel, Caitlin Trainor, Carla and Phil Rabinowitz, Carol A Campili, Chris Snell, Colleen thomas, Cornelius Carter, Cyn, Cynthia Becher, Dan and Janet Stram, Daniel Madoff, Dante Puleio, Darrah Carr Dance, David Esses, David Fuerstenau, Dawn Watson, Deborah Galson, Deborah Reisner, Denis and Sally Caslon, Diana Sheehan, Elijah Jones, Emre Edev, Erin Gottwald, Ernesta Corvino, Everette Taylor, Felicity B Taubman, Florence Savoye, Fredi Pomerance, Gabrielle Baigel, Grant Jacoby, Hank Bamberger, Harold Clinton, Helene Schaenman, Janis Brenner, Jean Marie Stein, Jessica Roberts, Jim Martin, Jody Oberfelder Projects, Joe Bowie, John Albrecht, Jordan Morley, julie Lemberger, Julie Lushington, Karen Hershey, Karla and Tom Hecht, Karlie Budge, Kate Sutter, katie glasner, Kelly, Kimberly Bartosik/daela, Larry Geddes, Laura Colby, Lauren Broch, PhD, Lisa Guisbond, Logan Kruger, Lubica Mason, Lucie Holliday, Lynn Peterson, Marcia Brooks, marsi burns, Martin Julien, Meghan Meehan, Michael Gannon, Michelle Bay, Michelle Manzella, Michelle Ulerich, Moving Visions, Mr Daniel E Lewis, Nancy Umanoff, Natasha Poon Woo, Nattie Trogdon, Nicholas Croft, Nicole Butterfield, Nvladeck, Ori Flomin, Pamela Newkirk, patrick breen, Paul Molina, Paula Macali, Peter Bort, Polly Kingsbury, rachel balaban, Rachel Boykan, Rea Tajiri, Rebecca Ayars, Rebecca Lazier, Rebecca Mehan, Rebecca Rigert, Rebecca Stenn, Richard Greenberg, Risa Steinberg, Sarah Mettin, sarah rothman, Sari Eckler, Shawn Gannon, singaling42@optonline.net, Sr. Catherine Naughton, Stephanie, Sue Bernhard, Sue Wollowitz and Nathan Haese, Susan Jerian, Susan Klein, The Bang Group, Toni Cameron, utatakemura, Vernon Scott, Victoria Bailey and David Noling

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)

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/

Chelsea Enjer Hecht (she/they) is a Brooklyn-based dance artist from Minnesota, with a BFA from Purchase College. She enjoys performing in non-traditional dance spaces for fashion, films and installations, in addition to the stage. Their work has been shown at Chen Dance Center, West End Theatre, Fort Greene Park, and Arts on Site. She has guest taught for Midday Movement and Peridance. Currently, they work with Rachel Gill, POGO Dance, MeenMoves, Amber Sloan, and Megan Williams.

Esmé Julien Boyce is a dancer/choreographer. She holds a BFA from The Juilliard School and an MFA from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Boyce was a 2016-2017 New Direction Choreography Lab Fellow at The Ailey School and a 2023 BAC Open Artist in Residence at Baryshnikov Arts. Esmé has danced with Janis Brenner & Dancers, Yara Travieso, JinJu Song-Begin, Aileen Passloff, Marta Renzi, Amber Sloan, Catherine Tharin, and Megan Williams Dance Projects who she’s thrilled to be performing with tonight.

Justin Lynch is from Kingston, Jamaica. He has danced in projects for Molissa Fenley, the Merce Cunningham Trust, the Metropolitan Opera, Elisa Monte, Christopher Williams, and many others. He has also collaborated for several years with Third Rail Projects, performing in and co-creating several of its immersive and site-specific productions. Justin leads a double life as an attorney for creative artists. He is excited to be working with Megan Williams Dance Projects!

Mary Lyn Graves (she/her) Recent performance credits include works by Mark Morris, Megan Williams, Hélène Simoneau, and Elizabeth Dishman. From 2012-2018, she danced with Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company in Salt Lake City, originating roles in over 25 new works. Mary Lyn is a faculty member of Ballet Tech where she facilitates movement exploration with young dancers. A sixth-generation Oklahoman, Mary Lyn is from Tulsa, OK. She dedicates these performances to the memory of Joan Woodbury.

Michael Bryan Wang (he/him) is a Chinese-American artist, originally from New Jersey. He graduated with a BFA in Dance from Marymount Manhattan College. He is currently a swing and the assistant dance captain of Moulin Rouge on Broadway. Past credits include Beetlejuice the Musical, Sleep No More, Expo 2020 Dubai, ZviDance, 10 Hairy Legs, and BODYTRAFFIC. Michael has danced with Megan Williams Dance Projects since 2019.

Mykel Marai Nairne is a Bessie-nominated dance artist and administrator from NYC. Two years after receiving a BA from Dartmouth College, Mykel joined Dance Heginbotham in 2018. Since then, she has performed in venues across the US, including St. Ann’s Warehouse, the Whitney Museum of Art, Danspace Project, and Jacob’s Pillow. Mykel currently collaborates and performs with Dance Heginbotham, Monica Bill Barnes & Company, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, and Megan Williams Dance Projects. MykelMaraiNairne.com / IG: @mykelmarai

Réka Echerer hails from Vienna, Austria and has performed with the Vienna State Opera, Sue Bernhard Danceworks, Kizuna Dance and Cornfield Dance. She has performed works by Merce Cunningham, Christopher Wheeldon, Gabrielle Lamb and Aszure Barton as well as currently dances with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet and MeenMoves. Réka holds a BFA from SUNY Purchase and is a proud member of the Board of Governors at the American Guild of Musical Artists.

Robert Mark Burke (he/him) is an Astoria- based dance artist. He performs with Lucinda Childs Dance Company and Megan Williams Dance Project as well as creates his own dance works under Robert Mark Dance. He has danced for and performed works by 10 Hairy Legs, Rioult Dance Project, Matthew Westerby Company and more. IG: @robertmarkburke

Will Noling (they/them/theirs) is a freelance performer and educator originally from Brooklyn. They received their BFA from SUNY Purchase, having spent a term at London Contemporary Dance School. Will is a founding collaborator with 2nd Best Dance Company and has performed works by Chuck Wilt, Raja Feather Kelly, and Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. Will was previously an Artistic Associate with Gibney Dance Company, and more recently performed with Doug Varone and Dancers during their NYC Joyce season.

Caitlin Cawley is a percussionist, based in Brooklyn, NY. She has played, sang, danced and yelled in concert halls, garages, bars, kitchens, streets, forests, and rooftops – using megaphones, triangles, gongs, balloons, lamps, speaker drivers, vibraphones, plastic buckets, tin cans, wine glasses, power tools, and paper airplanes – with Talujon, Mantra Percussion, Talea Ensemble, Heartbeat Opera, Cantata Profana, The Walter Thompson Orchestra, Slavic Soul Party!, Novus NY, Gamelan Galak Tika, Paul Pinto and Brass Queens.

Pianist Isabelle O'Connell has performed as soloist and chamber musician across the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Europe, including at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Chicago Cultural Center, Detroit Art Institute, Time:Spans Festival, St David’s Hall, Cardiff and the National Concert Hall, Ireland. She is co-founder of Grand Band, described by the New York Times as: "six of the finest, busiest pianists active in New York's contemporary-classical scene”. She is currently Artist-in-Residence at Bard College, New York.

leiken is a singer and performance-maker based in Brooklyn, NY. A sought-after vocalist for concert, opera, and theatre, they are a member of Sequentia, the world-renowned medieval collective, as well as Fourth Wall, a new vocal ensemble based in NYC, and can regularly be seen with iconic artists such as Four Larks, Eve Beglarian, and Ran Blake. Their extensive performance experience has brought them all around the world to many legendary venues. Leiken.xyz

“New-music luminary” (The New York Times) and multi-hyphenate creative, Margaret Lancaster (fluter/performance artist/actor/dancer/cellophane enthusiast) has built a large repertoire of interactive, cross-disciplinary solo works that employ electronics and mixed media. Performance highlights include Lincoln Center Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, Art Basel/Miami, NIME/Copenhagen, and the 7-year global run of OBIE-winning Mabou Mines Dollhouse. Notable collaborations include projects with Jean- Baptiste Barrière/Kaija Saariaho and FETA Foundation…www.margaretlancaster.com

Tristan Kasten-Krause is a bassist and composer credited with lending his “low-end authority to vital New York institutions” (the New Yorker). He has worked with acclaimed artists such as Sigur Ros, Steve Reich, Caroline Shaw and Sarah Hennies, performed on Broadway, at the Park Avenue Armory and the LA Phil, and had original compositions showcased at Issue Project Room, The Stone and the Hudson Basilica.

With a profound history in dance and theatre, Claire Fleury creates her designs with a stage in mind. Her vibrant costumes are designed to evoke joy and fun, while also highlighting Claire’s deep respect for the power of the body in motion. CF has made costumes for dance companies Judith Sanchez- Ruiz and the Trisha Brown Dance Company, Kathy Westwater, Antonio Ramos, David Zambrano and Mat Voorter (Brussels), Coco Karol, Tatyana Tenenbaum, Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith, Yoshiko Chuma, Afrofuturist musical artists The Illustrious Blacks, former Warhol superstar and political poet, Penny Arcade, Nightlife Icon Susanne Bartsch, and Laurie Anderson, to name a few.

Florian Staab is a composer and sound designer based in Brooklyn, NY. Staab was born and raised in Germany and holds degrees from Oberlin College and UIUC/Krannert Center. He is an associate artist with Sinking Ship Productions and teaches at NYU/Playwrights Horizons Theater School. His designs have been heard at the Public Theater, Irish Repertory Theatre, Harlem Stage, Trinity Repertory Company, City Theatre Pittsburgh, Center Theatre Group, Mint Theater Company, Pearl Theatre Company, The Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, The Drama League, New Saloon, Chicago Opera Vanguard and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Staab is also a recording and mixing engineer and designs sound for narrative fiction podcasts. He recently directed Bill Irwin’s On Beckett / In Screen for the camera. www.florianstaab.com

Kathy Kaufmann (Lighting Designer) is a New York City native, and two time Bessie recipient. She is resident designer at Danspace at St. Marks Church and has taught at Sarah Lawrence and NYU. She designs regularly for Dorrance Dance, Music From The Sole, Joanna Kotze, The Bang Group, Mariana Valencia, Rebecca Stenn, Koma Otake, Ephrat Asherie Dance, and Vicky Shick. She is delighted to be collaborating with Megan on this project.