Concept, choreography and direction

Jonathan Royse Windham

Performed by

Jonathan Royse Windham

Clinton Edward

Griffin Massey

Lighting Design

Ashley Vellano

Stage Management

Alyssa Krinsky

Music

Ólafur Arnals, Bonobo, Elaine Stritch, Teebs, Yael Naim, Hauschka, Colleen

A special thank you to Robin Cantrell for curating this performance.

Artist Biographies

Jonathan Royse Windham

A Colorado native, has a BFA from the State University of New York at Purchase, concentrating in ballet, and after spent a season with American Repertory Ballet. After ARB he worked with Gallim Dance touring the continental US as well as Canada and Europe, and was featured on the Fall for Dance advertisements appearing across New York City in 2010, and has been a senior stager of Gallim Dance repertory. He was named one of Dance Magazines “25 to Watch” for 2013. In addition, He has worked with the Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar, Santa Fe Opera, Company XIV’s Nutcracker Rouge, KAMEA Dance Company, The DASH Ensemble, The Kevin Wynn Collective and has professionally performed works by Twyla Tharp, Roman Oller, Itzik Galli, and Sidi Larbi among others. Jonathan was in Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway as part of the original revival company, choreography by Hofesh Shechter. Film/TV credits include: The Deuce (HBO), The Kitchen (New Line Cinema), The Beauty (Ryan Murphy).

His choreography has been shown throughout the USA, at Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival, multiple times at Dixon Place, Dancers Responding to AIDS at the Cedar Lake Theater (NYC), the American Repertory Ballet choreography workshop, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, The Staller Center at Stonybrook, South Orange Performing Arts Center, Center for Performance Research, The Hartt Conservatory, Contemporary Dance Wyoming, and is a founding choreographer and former curator at the Current Sessions NYC, TanzOrdNort in Lübeck, Germany, Ankara - Turkey’s 5th SOLO Contemporary Dance Festival, Presenting Denver Dance Festival. www.jonathanroysewindham.com

Clinton Edward (he/they)

A New York based choreographer, actor, and creator with a diverse resume of experience and specialty in creating unique performances. He received his BFA in Dance with a concentration in choreography from Marymount Manhattan College. Favorite credits include performing at Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City with Tania Perez-Salas Company, Off- Broadway in Queen of the Night, and dancing 2 seasons with the STEPS Repertory Ensemble. They were a co-founder and Resident Artist of MinuteZero, an immersive events company based in NYC whose list of clients included Microsoft, Brooklyn Museum, Rag & Bone, Under Armour & Hulu. Clinton has also worked closely with pop artist PRIMME on several music videos and live shows. He has taught at Peridance Center in NYC, Friends Academy in Long Island, SUNY Purchase, RACE the Space in OKC, and multiple competitive studios in the Greater NYC area. They have set work on students at SUNY Fredonia, Central Missouri State University, Westwood High School in TX, Moore High School in OK, and won choreography awards for their dances made at various competitive studios in Boston, Long Island, and Connecticut. Clinton was associate choreographer and director to Kristen Carcone for her evening length immersive production of Dinner is Served, which had a completely sold out run in Toronto. He is also the resident choreographer for Another Rose on Virgin Voyages, after helping create the show as associate choreographer and associate immersive director. Most recently, they served as assocaite choregrapher for Urinetown at City Center Encores! Clinton is currently on faculty at STEPS on Broadway in NYC and New Canaan Dance Academy in Connecticut. www.clintonedward.com

Griffin Massey

A freelance dance artist and teacher based in New York City. Originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, he moved for university and earned his B.F.A. in dance in 2023 from The Juilliard School under Alicia Graf Mack, Dean and Director of the Dance Division, and Mario Alberto Zambrano, Associate Director. While at Juilliard, he had the opportunity to perform works by many personally inspiring artists such as Aszure Barton, Spencer Theberge, Jermaine Spivey, Hofesh Shechter, and many more. He was an apprentice with the Mark Morris Dance Group from 2023 to 2024, as well as performing in operas with The Metropolitan Opera. He became a certified Countertechnique teacher in 2024, and now teaches at various professional dance studios around New York City.

Alyssa Krinsky (she/her)

Previous credits include Sleep No More and You Can’t Take it With You. Graduate of Marymount Manhattan College. @alyssa.krinsky

Ashley Vellano

BIO HERE.

THANK YOU

Thank you to TanzOrtNord in Lübeck, Germany for originally commissioning the solos “slightly more calculated” and “metamorphosis” that were the beginnings of this piece. Thank you to Giorgia Bovo and Carley Marholin, who workshopped material in Berlin that assisted in the beginnings of creation.

A huge thank you to the people that supported this project through donations:

Annah Scully, Clair Bidez, Abby Geartner, Dan Walczak, Rolena Richardson, Rob Rodems, Dylan Pearce, Anne Powell

Thank you to the individuals that donated their time:

Rob Rodems, Caroline Fermin, Amy Ruggiero, Kristin Carcone & Kim Fischer

What’s Next?

We are currently gathering resources to revive Jonathan’s first evening length work Creatures of Habit (premier 2014, Dixon Place) for performance in 2026. Keep on eye out, donate, contact us for tour opportunities.

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