SPRING - SUMMER 2024 by Jesse Factor

August

August 12-16 - Residency, THE MARTHAODYSSEY, National Center for Choreography (NCCAkron), Akron, OH

July

July 22-24- Teaching: Martha Graham Summer Intensive, Level II,, NYC

July 1-5 - Teaching: Martha Graham Summer Intensive, Level III/IV, NYC

June

June 24-27 - Technical Residency: THE MARTHAODYSSEY, Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Pittsburgh, PA

June 1 - Performance: THE MARTHAODYSSEY (excerpt) @ Pittsburgh Pride Mainstage, Pittsburgh, PA

May

May 17 - Performance: THE MARTHAODYSSEY (excerpt) @ Queer Spectra Festival, Salt Lake City, UT

April

April 17-22 - Rehearsal Director for Elizabeth Auclair: Martha Graham’s Prelude to Action, Point Park Dance Spring Concert, Pittsburgh Playhouse, Pittsburgh, PA

WINTER 2023-2024 by Jesse Factor

February

February 3- Performance: THE MARTHAODYSSEY 1.0 @ The Space Upstairs, Pittsburgh, PA

January

January 2-5 - Teaching: Martha Graham Winter Intensive, Level 3

December

December 15-16 - Performance: Mistress of Ceremonies Martha Graham : GRAHAM 2 HOLIDAY EVENT

FALL 2023 by Jesse Factor

OCTOBER

October 14 - Performance: ICON- OGRAPHY (Joan-sim: Relic and The Martha-odyssey) at Goodyear Arts, Charlotte, NC.

October 12 - Guest Teaching: Graham Technique at UNC Charlotte, NC.

October 12- Guest Teaching: Martha Graham and Modernism at Davidson College.

October 4-8- Rehearsal Director, Company B (Paul Taylor, re-staged by Amy Kleinendorst) Fall Dance Concert, Point Park University

SUMMER 2023 by Jesse Factor

AUGUST

August 15-16: Show Queen work-in-progress showing at Performing Arts Forum (PAF) Erme, France

JULY

July 3-July 7: Teaching: Composition, Martha Graham Summer Intensive, NYC

July 3-July 7: Teaching: Level II, Teens@Graham, Martha Graham Summer Intensive, NYC

July 23-29 Institute for Dunham Technique Conference; Educators Track @ OSU

JUNE

June 26-30: Teaching: Level II Technique, Composition, Martha Graham Summer Intensive, NYC

June 20-24: Teaching: Composition, Martha Graham Summer Intensive, NYC

June 16: All I Ever Needed (Show Queen Excerpt) showing at Inside/Outside Festival, Pittsburgh, PA

June 1: Show Queen work-in-progress showing at Milton Art Bank (MAB) Milton, PA

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SPRING 2023 by Jesse Factor

APRIL

April 22: Joyce Theater UPS Steps in the Street (Martha Graham) Assistant to regisseur Elizabeth Auclair. Performed by SRU Dance.

MARCH

March 2-3: National High School Dance Festival Modern Dance Scholarship Audition Teacher.

WINTER 2023 by Jesse Factor

FEBRUARY

February 15-19- Hat Fantasia (Does Anyone?) premiere at Point Park University’s Faculty ChoreoLab. Piece for 13 dancers, hat design by Aimee Coleman, score by Andy Hasenpflug, lighting by Calvin Anderson.

February 4th- Steps in the Street (Martha Graham -1936) reconstruction at Slippery Rock University. Served as assistant to regisseur Elizabeth Auclair.

JANUARY

Guest Teaching: Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Level II Technique

FALL 2022 by Jesse Factor

DECEMBER

December 1st - Guest Moderator, Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern book talk with author Neil Baldwin at Carnegie Library Lecture Hall. Graham Technique demonstration by Point Park Conservatory of Dance BFA students.

OCTOBER

October 27 -Guest Teaching: Kennesaw State University; Radical Queer Performance Virtual Talk with Donald Shorter

October 22- Steps in the Street (Martha Graham -1936) reconstruction at Slippery Rock University. Served as assistant to regisseur Elizabeth Auclair.

October 16 - Performance: Does Anyone Still Wear a Hat @ KYLD Inhale Performance Series, Philadelphia, PA

SEPTEMBER

September 29 - Work-in-Progress Showing : Does Anyone Still Wear a Hat @ PearlWatch/Charette, Pittsburgh, PA

September 28 - Guest Teaching: Company Class for Stacy Pearl Dance Company, Pittsburgh, PA

September 19 - Guest Teaching: Pratt College of Art and Design MWP Virtual Talk: Queer Aesthetics and Making w/Scott Andrew

SPRING 2022 by Jesse Factor

MARCH/APRIL

March, April - Diversion of Angels re-staging with Judith Leifer-Bentz at Point Park University

FEBRUARY

February, March- Steps in the Street re-staging with Elizabeth Auclair at Slippery Rock University

SPRING/SUMMER 2021 by Jesse Factor

JULY

July 26-30: Teaching- Teens@Graham Summer Intensive

July 19-23: Teaching-Martha Graham School Summer Intensive

JUNE

June 10: Marthagany Suite at Rebecca Havermeyer and Sikly Shoemakers’ s Trivia Travesty, Rubulad, Brooklyn

MAY

May 5: Window to Elsewhere Collaborative Virtual Performance with CMU’s Activated Anamorphs and Exploded Ensemble

FEBRUARY

February 12: Podcast Guest-NCC Akron Inside the Dancer’s Studio

Image: “I Am a Haunted House” Beth Barbis

Image: “I Am a Haunted House” Beth Barbis

February 8-10: Guest Artist-NCC Akron 21st Century Dance Practice

FALL 2020 by Jesse Factor

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CHIMERA

New Work in Progress

October 12-18: Bloomfield Garden Club. “Chimera” premiere (collaboration with Scott Andrew)

October 15: Iowa Virtual Dance Festiva Cha Cha Interlude (Digital short) ) with collaborator Scott Andrew

September: Unsmoke Systems Artspace (Pgh) I Am A Haunted House (Digital Exhibition) with collaborator Scott Andrew

SPRING 2020 by Jesse Factor


MAY

PRINCESS JAFAR ONLINE Night of 1,000 Genies, May 23

APRIL

CANCELED: Serenata Morisca reconstruction at University Partners Showcase, City Center NYC April 25

MARCH/FEBRUARY

Kelly Strayhorn FreshWorks Residency with Scott Andrew, Pittsburgh, PA March 6

JANUARY

Teaching Technique Level 2, Winter Intensive Week One, Martha Graham School, NYC

FALL 2019 by Jesse Factor


DECEMBER 2019

Teaching Level 2 Technique: Week #1, Martha Graham School Winter Intensive, NYC

NOVEMBER 2019

MOMMIE QUEEREST presented at QUEERS IN REVOLT-SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY

OCTOBER 2019

MILTON ART BANK PRESENTS: MARTHAGANY at the MILTON FRINGE

SEPTEMBER 2019

ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM PRESENTS: MARTHAGANY at TQ LIVE!