About the Company

Dixie Fun Dance Theatre creates innovative dances that are reminiscent of pop art, political cartoons and expressionist painting all combined and expressed physically. DFDT's choreographic process begins in the library. Consequently, the movement is never for movement's sake only. Instead, each step and every line directly reflects the specific ideas and imagery generated by the research.

DFDT's style is eclectic because any style or genre of movement might be incorporated into a dance, whatever is most compelling in terms of exploring the subject matter. For example, in The Thinnest Woman with the Fewest Wrinkles Wins, the movement styles range from campy, Broadway dancing to erotic jazz to thrashing, jarring modern movement to pedestrian, physical theatre. The overall structure of each dance is also a reflection of the topic. For instance, The Thinnest Woman... involves multi-generational community members in order to broaden our idea of female beauty. Web is highly interactive because that dance is about the interconnectedness of all things. http://www.media-verse.com, a dance concerned with mass media and technology, is packaged into short bits that abruptly shift from one to the next, much like watching television. And The Money Show starts off with an auction and spectators are encouraged to buy massages and “lapdances” and to gamble throughout the evening.

The company has created 17 dance/theatre works: “Friends,” The Money Show, “Mwah-mwah,” Web, http://www.media-verse.com, The Thinnest Woman with the Fewest Wrinkles Wins, The Thinnest Woman Wins, “Nude Solo #73,” “The Winners,” Time-Warp Morality Dance, “Twirl,” “Who's the Fairest of Them All,” “Darryl,” “Cousin Dixie,” “Infinity,” “Seventeen,” and At Your Disposal: Conveniently Packaged in Three Sections.

The company has performed internationally in Milan and Civitanova, Italy, in Edinburgh, Scotland and in Montreal, Canada. The company has appeared around the country at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival (now Live Arts Festival), Minnesota Fringe Festival, Boulder International Fringe Festival, Atlanta's First Glance Festival, Canopy Theater in Athens, Georgia, and at On The Boards, Bumbershoot, the Seattle Mime Theatre and East Hall Theatre in Seattle, as well as many rural locations in the states of Washington, Colorado, and Iowa. In New York City, the company has performed at Dance Theater Workshop; PS122, Joe's Pub, Symphony Space, Joyce SoHo, HERE Arts Center, 92nd Street Y, Dixon Place, BAX, WAX, West End Theater, Sal Anthony's Movement Salon, University Settlement, Manhattan Theater Source, Frederick Loewe Theatre, Merce Cunningham Studio Theatre, BRIC Studio in Brooklyn, and BAAD! in the Bronx.

Dixie Fun Dance Theatre
100 W 57th Street, #15K
New York, NY 10019
917.693.7299