May 5, 2006
Dance New Amsterdam

August 18 - 30, 2004
Metro Gilded Balloon
Edinburgh Festival Fringe

April 15, 2003
Joyce SoHo

April 8, 2003
Unusual Beauty Contestants Tour

June 15, 2002
HERE Arts Center

May 13, 2002
Dixon Place

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 5, 2006

Contact: Michelle Brandon
(212) 625-8369 x221
mbrandon@dnadance.org

Dance New Amsterdam presents The Money Show at DNA's new home at 280 Broadway from June 15 - 18, 2006.

Motivated by Barbara Ehrenreich's chronicle of working poverty, Nickel and Dimed, and a sold-out run at Joyce SoHo that left Dixie FunLee Shulman $1,500 in debt, The Money Show illuminates the cost of producing a work of modern dance. Members of the audience will each receive a printout of the show's budget and three tokens to spend on anything from food and beverage service to foot massages, "lap dances," even a featured role! There'll be deal-making and gambling galore, and a brief snowstorm of paper "dollars." The lights might go out at any time if money runs low. Watch, spend and learn.

The ebullient Dixie FunLee Shulman launched her company a decade ago in Seattle. Her signature solo, Twirl, lifts the veil on beauty pageantry; her 2003 dance theater work, The Thinnest Woman Wins, was a comic/activist tour de force.

Dance New Amsterdam (DNA) is a unique multi-service organization that serves dancers and performing artists through three distinct mediums: Education, Creation and Performance, all under one roof. DNA's mission is to provide the tools, both technique and career support, for artists to establish viable long-term dance careers; act as a laboratory in which to exchange ideas and vocabularies in the creation of new work; bring emerging artists and their work to the attention of audiences; and reflect and nurture the vitality and diversity of New York City's dance artists. DNA's move to the landmark Sun Building in 2006 marks 22 years of service to the arts, and inaugurates DNA's new performance space.

Performances of The Money Show will run June 15 - 18, Thursday thru Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 2pm at Dance New Amsterdam, 280 Broadway, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10007. Tickets are $17 general admission, $12 for members, and are available through Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200 or www.ticketcentral.com. Subscriptions to DNA's Spring 2006 Season are still available. For more information, visit www.dnadance.org.

Photos available upon request.