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

**After the performance there will be a brief pause, followed by a short Q&A with the artists. Please join us in the gallery downstairs post show to celebrate.

A special thank you to Robin Cantrell for curating this performance, to Georgia Bovo and Carley Marholin for workshopping material, and TanzOrdNort (Lübeck, Germany) for commissioning the original solos that started this piece.

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. He was named one of Dance Magazines “25 to Watch” for 2013 for his work with Gallim, and has been a senior stager of Gallim Dance repertory. 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, FX) DIVA (independent), Untitled Mind (independent).

Jonathan’s 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, 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, TanzOrdNort (Lübeck, Germany), Ankara - Turkey’s 5th SOLO Contemporary Dance Festival, and the 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

Ashley graduated from the University of Mississippi with a B.F.A in Technical Theater emphasis in Lighting Design. She has been designing lights in New York CIty since 2008. She is one the founding members of Kidz Theater in NYC, a company which provides a free professional training ground for Young Performers. She toured with Gallim as their Lighting Director for 3 years, traveling with them throughout the US and internationally. She has had the pleasure of designing the lights for “Mama Call” and “Seven Circles” in 2011and co-designing “Sit Kneel Stand” in 2012 with Vincent Vigilante.

 Ashley is a founding member of Vigilante Design Group (VDG). She is endlessly thankful for Kristen and Seymour.

Support the artists:

This production was funded entirely by generous donations and through ticket sales. In a time that creating is becoming purposely more difficult, JRW is bound and determined to stay punk and make beautiful, thoughtful and kind of weird shows under any circumstances. You can participate in meaningful art by making a tax deductible donation through fiscal sponsor New York Live Arts. No amount is too small and everything helps pay everyone involved as fairly as possible. Tap the link below:

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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. The hilarious and absurd work will take the shape of a chance composition, where the structure of the piece changes each performance based on audience participation. It will have a different ending depending on choices made by the viewers. Keep on eye out, donate, contact us for creative residency and tour opportunities.

jonathanroysewindham@gmail.com

THANK YOU

Amy Ruggiero, Dylan Pearce, Caroline Fermin, Rob Rodems, Annah Scully, Colin Meiring, Rolena Richardson, Clair Bidez, Dan Walczak, Abby Geartner, Woody Brook, Anne Powell,