THAT SHOW is a community performance event encouraging collaboration, risk-taking, and making new friends. Join us for a celebration and a showcase, a conversation and an entry point, and most importantly, a great time.

This intimate evening features early-career performance artists across a variety of disciplines.

Performances begin at 7:00pm and dancing and mingling will follow. Refreshments will be available by donation (cash or venmo). Follow us on IG @thatshownyc.

• 6:30 – 7 PM: Reception, cash bar
• 7 – 8:30 PM: Eight works by NY-based artists
• 8:30 – 10 PM: Cash bar, sound by DJ Peet the Scholar

Kayla White (she/her) and Taylor Schmuelgen (she/her) are Brooklyn based movement artists, producers, and friends. They find great pleasure in cultivating spaces for artists (particularly early career performance makers) to share their work. Curious about where performance belongs and what it can do for people, they place dances in unconventional spaces and invite anyone and everyone to witness it. Their shared passions include but are not limited to – going on a long walk every Friday, framing first dates as an artistic practice, and enjoying an early morning coffee on the couch. You can usually find Kayla teaching Pilates somewhere in Brooklyn, staring deeply into her cat’s eyes, or sourcing the perfect ham and cheese croissant. Taylor is entirely too serious about the coffee she’s drinking and spends most days working in development at The Kitchen, one of NYC’s oldest experimental art centers.

Taylor brags heavily about her upbringing in Austin, Texas, while Kayla will remind anyone that will listen that she prefers Austin to her own hometown of Dallas. They both enjoy a cold Lonestar beer and daydream about jumping into a central Texas lake on a hot day. Both hold a BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from the University of Texas at Austin, where they became friends, made a lot of dances, and found themselves responsible for co-producing shows for the first time. It was here that they developed a deep interest in creating financially sustainable, collaborative, celebratory, and community-focused opportunities for cohorts of early-career artists to present their work.

Caroline Alter (she/they) graduated from Point Park University with a BFA in Dance, minor in Education and co-founder of the school’s contemporary dance club. Caroline has had the privilege of showing choreographic works at “The Space Upstairs, 28th Street Theater, Mignolo Arts Center, Alpha Omega Theater, Triskelion Arts and The Tank as well as performing with several project-based companies such as Rogue Wave, Chutzpah Dance, Open Dance Ensemble and The Modern Dance Awareness Society.

Campbell Ives earned a B.A. in Dance from Barnard College in 2022. There, they performed works by Wesley Ensminger, Arnie Zane, and Caroline Fermin. Now, they are a House Manager at New York Live Arts and dance in collaboration with Gesture Theater a trans-led movement theater company. As a gender non-conforming artist Campbell aims to rupture other binaries of mind/body and human/nature, through their movement research in improvisation, interdisciplinarity, and site-specificity. (Photo credit: Emma Iskowitz)

Hillary (she/her) and Tamara (she/they) have been collaborating since 2021 but friends for much longer. Hillary is a multi-instrumentalist of versatile influence with fluidity writing, performing, and producing original music. In composition, her work is informed by experimentation in jazz, zydeco, folk, musical theater, opera, choral music, improvisation, and popular music. Tamara Leigh is a NYC based freelance dancer who specializes in contemporary works, dance theater, and night life.

Johnny Mathews III (he/they) is a Brooklyn-based dancer/ choreographer from Madison, Wisconsin. Mathews has been in residence at The Residency Project @280 in Pasadena, CA, and Greenspace in Queens, NY. He has shown his choreography at Triskelion Arts, Greenspace, ESTIA Fest, the Craft NY, and elsewhere. Johnny is a company member with Valerie Green/Dance Entropy, Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company, KAōs Dance Collective and has performed around NYC at The Center at West Park, The Museum of the Moving Image, NY Hall of Science, Arts on Site, Culture Lab LIC, and more.

Uila Marx (they/she) is a movement artist and educator from O’ahu, Hawai’i based in occupied Lenapehoking / Brooklyn. Uila’s movement lineage is informed by a lifelong education in hula and an ever transforming relationship to the soil, wind, and water. Their work centers collective care, tenderness, queer joy, and an urgency toward communal survival.

Currently, they are in artful community with DELIRIOUS Dances (Edisa Weeks), Troy Ogilvie, and Lucia Gagliardone. Uila hosts Emergent Improvisation, brainchild of Troy Ogilvie at Gibney and Peridance. Uila is also a Community Actionist in Gibney’s Hands Are for Holding program, choreographs for Dancewave youth, and regularly hosts the pay-what-you-want class series Body in Play at Chez Bushwick. (Photo Credit: Brianna Johnson)

Born and raised in Monterrey Mexico, Natalia Sanchez (she/they) is a visual and movement artist that explores and plays with dance, photography, and graphic design. She has performed works by Cesar Brodermann, Greg Dolbashian, and Jenn Freeman to mention a few and has collaborated alongside artists like Yara Travieso, Catherine Correa, and Teresa Fellion. Natalia has presented movement work at Universidad de Monterrey Theater, Triskelion Arts, KNJ Theater, and the Emelin Theater. Natalia’s movement work is heavily influenced by the act of play and collaboration. Natalia is SO excited to be presenting a new piece at THAT SHOW! (Photo Credit: Daniela Flores)

Murphy Severtson (b. 1999) is a composer, administrator, teacher, theater artist, vocalist, and accordionist. They make music centered in care, reciprocity, and human connection. Based in New York City, their art examines chronic illness, the climate crisis, religion, gay and trans liberation. Their music has been performed by the Rhythm Method, the International Contemporary Ensemble, and the St. Olaf Band, at Lincoln Center, the Dimenna Center, and National Sawdust. (Photo credit: Celine Kang)

Stephanie Shin (she/her) is a NYC based dancer, choreographer, producer, and arts administrator originally from Ames, Iowa. She has performed work by Brandon Coleman, Marc Nuñez/Gotham Dance Theater, among others. Stephanie founded Synchronous, a creative lab and performance group motivated by a shared desire to collaborate and perform. With this collective she has choreographed and premiered pieces including “SYNCHRONICITY” and “UTILITY”, an immersive performance in collaboration with Emissary Quartet. Alongside her work with Synchronous, she has presented work at the 2023 AAPI We Belong Here festival presented by J Chen Project, and has choreographed and produced films with artists such as Middle Sattre. Stephanie is a LMCC Creative Engagement grant recipient and a 2024 inaugural 14 Street Y Dance Artist in Residence. In addition to working as a freelance artist, she produces and curates The Craft: Performances & Cocktails and works for Asian American Arts Alliance (A4).

Kali Petrizzo (she/her) and Lily Mello (she/they) are artistic collaborators from NJ and PA who met at the University of the Arts in 2018 and received their BFA in dance in 2019/20. They create highly expressive performances, using voice performance, grandiose movement, and queer intimacy. In early 2022, they founded dance theater company, Sheer Spectacle and premiered their first evening-length work, Ripped Tights, Stoned Heart in the spring of 2022 in Philadelphia, PA. They have been guest choreographers at UArts and have choreographed/performed at several events in the Philly area, including Mascher Space Fundraiser-Stage Gaps, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia Dance Theater and Fresh Juice Festival. Sheer Spectacle has performed in NYC at the 92NY-Future Dance Festival, The Center at West Park-Evolution Dance Festival and Emergence Dance Festival at Gibney. (Photo credit: Bek Martin)

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