Performer Bios Dixie FunLee Shulman relocated to NYC in late 1999 and soonafter created Dixie Fun Dance Theatre. Web was the company's first full evening of dance/theatre in NYC, performed at the Merce Cunningham Studio in 2001 and BAX in 2004. Since 2002, Shulman performed her signature solo, "Twirl," in Dance Theater Workshop's Fresh Tracks series, PS122's Avant-Garde-Arama, the Dancenow/NYC Festival at Joe's Pub and the John Jay Auditorium, WAX, University Settlement, and the Estrogenius Festival at Manhattan Theater Source. Also in 2002 Shulman premiered her one-woman show, The Thinnest Woman Wins, at Dixon Place and Sal Anthony's Movement Salon, with later performances at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, First Glance Festival in Atlanta, and Canopy Studio in Athens, Georgia. Excerpts of The Thinnest Woman Wins were performed at Studio 303 in Montreal, New Dance Alliance's Performance Mix at HERE Arts Center and at BRIC Studio in Brooklyn. The company performed http://www.media-verse.com at HERE Arts Center, a piece that had its start with the help of the Seattle Arts Commission. In 2003 the Open Meadows Foundation and the Puffin Foundation supported the NYC creation of The Thinnest Woman with the Fewest Wrinkles Wins at Joyce SoHo. This production also began in Seattle with the support of the King County Hotel/Motel Tax and the On The Boards Artist Access Program. In 2004 the beginning of The Money Show was premiered at Symphony Space in the Dance Sampler. In 1998, "Twirl" was toured with the King County Performance Network, a collaboration between the King County Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts and eleven local venues. Dixie graduated summa cum laude with an M.F.A. in Dance Performance and Choreography from the University of Colorado in Boulder. Since 2002 Shulman has been a guest artist with David Parker and the Bang Group. Kelly Hayes grew up studying ballet and jazz near Chicago, Illinois. She earned her BFA in dance performance from the University of Iowa in 1997. Ms. Hayes has danced with Dayton Contemporary Dance Company II, Zephyr Dance, City Ballet Theatre of Milwaukee, in New York with Tony Silva, Sun Ho Kim, and Dixie Fun Dance Theatre, and on Martha's Vineyard at the Yard residency. Her choreography has been presented by Soundance, Mulberry St. Theatre, the Limon Institute, the Yard, and the Physical Arts Center, as well as at venues in Chicago and Atlanta. Her solo Slip is currently in the repertories of Midwest Dance Collective(Chicago)and Zoetic Dance Ensemble (Atlanta). Ms. Hayes is a director of Ballroom Studios New York, a multi-disciplinary artist collective. Katy Woitel grew up in Illinois and is a 1995 graduate of the Alabama School of Fine Arts. While in Alabama, she toured and performed with the State of Alabama Ballet, dancing lead roles in the Nutcracker, Les Sylphides and Swan Lake. In the spring of 1999 Katy received her BFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. While at NYU, she performed works by Doug Varone and Douglas Becker, along with those of fellow students. Since graduating, Katy has worked with Doug Varone, Andrea Johnston, Netta Yerushalmy, Cherylyn Lavagnino, Barry Blumenfeld, and Ivy Baldwin Dance. She is currently a member of Tap F! usion. Stacey Royce is a dancer/choreographer/teacher living in Jersey City. She is Co-Director of 1*4*8 The Collective. Stacey's choreography has been shown at Joyce Soho, Dancespace, Deli Dances, NYU, Bridge for Dance, Grace Church van Vorst, Columbia College among other schools and venues in NY and NJ. She is co-producer of the Cathedral Arts Performance Series at Grace Church in Jersey City. Stacey teaches group and private yoga sessions and performs in the Jersey City school district. Macushla Hill has been dancing ever since she was Spunky the Monkey in the Spring Recital. She went on to study with Minnesota Dance Theater and earned her BFA in dance from Webster University. In Minneapolis, she has performed with Ballet of the Dolls and Morris Johnson and Dancers, as well as having her own choreography presented at The Walker Art Center, Hennepin Center for the Arts' Choreomania Series, and Steppingstone Theater. Here in New York she has performed with Jennifer Walker and Company, Mimi Garrard Dance Company, Janis Brenner and Dancers, JoAnna Mendl-Shaw, and has performed in works by Daniel Charon, Sean Curran, and Lar Lubovich. Ms. Hill's choreography has been performed in New York at Danspace Center and Williamsburg Art Nexxus. Amber Corriston is originally form Seattle, WA where she had extensive training in jazz, ballet, and modern, with a little tap mixed in here and there. She grew up performing, though while in college, she found she had a passion for teaching dance and went from being an engineering major to a dance major. She received her BA in Dance from the University of Washington in 1999 while studying under Hannah Wiley, Maria Simpson, and Rip Parker. Amber currently teaches children and adults at studios in New York and Connecticut and is thankful for her husband who is encouraging her to perform again. Briana Masson studied modern, jazz, ballet, and tap at University of the Arts in Philadelphia, with an emphasis in dance education and choreography. She had the joy of performing works by Paul Taylor, Gabriel Masson, Ronen Koresh, Manfred Fischbeck, SD Prism Dance Theatre, to name a few. Briana has also performed regionally in numerous musical theatre productions. Highlights include, ANYTHING GOES at Fifth Avenue Theatre starring Dee Hoty, WEST SIDE STORY at Village Theatre, and GREASE as Cha Cha at the Driftwood Players. Originally from Seattle, Briana danced with Dixie Fun Dance Theatre, Dropout Dance Company, and Electron Love Theory, a multi-media group. Here in NYC, Briana is a member of Gritty Cherries and will be debuting a new piece this April in Brooklyn. She is thrilled to be performing with Dixie Fun Dance Theatre again. Carrie Malernee just recently relocated to New York after earning her B.S in dance education from the University of South Florida. While in Florida, Carrie danced for two years with Moving Current, a contemporary modern dance company, and had the oppurtunity to tour with Jeanne Travers to La Paz, Bolivia. In addition to her interest in performing, Carrie has shown her own choreography in "Emerging Artists" and has taught dance at Phillip Shore and Orange Grove School of the Performing Arts. Since moving to New York Carrie has danced with Sun Ho Kim, and now Dixie Fun Dance Theatre. Nicole Poirier has been studying dance since age 2. Her training began at New Hampshire School of Ballet, followed by Pacific Northwest Ballet (where she danced on scholarship and performed in the Nutcracker) and Arizona State University. She has performed in Seattle with BetterBiscuitDance, Collabolab, IntenselyFun Dance Theater, Birlibiloque, and in her own companies dropoutdance and Wet Cabaret. She has also performed with Susan Marshall and Julie Tolentino from New York.