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!

SUMMER 2019 /  by Jesse Factor

AUGUST 2019

August 22: Inside/Out at Jacob’s Pillow CELEBRATION (Martha Graham) Reconstruction danced by SRU

August 3-10: RELIC at the Minnesota Fringe Festival, Crane Theater, 2303 Kennedy St. NE #120, Minneapolis, MN 55413

August 3, 10:00pm

August 4, 4:00pm

August 6, 7:00pm

August 7, 5:30pm

August 10, 5:30pm

JULY 2019

July 12, 13: Fresh Fruit Festival NYC presented by All Out Arts @ The Wild Project, NYC

JUNE 2019

June 24-July 12: Teaching Martha Graham Intensive

June 22: Fail Safe Performance Series at the Glitter Box Theater, Pittsburgh, PA

June 8: DONATELLA Queer Variety Show, Arcade Comedy Theater, Pittsburgh, PA

June 5: pearlPRESENTS @ the New Hazlett Theater, Pittsburgh, PA

MAY 2019

May 10: Marthagany Headlines Fierce Queer Festival, Columbus OH

Photo: Christopher Duggan; courtesy of Jacob’s PillowSRU Dancers in Martha Graham’s Celebration

Photo: Christopher Duggan; courtesy of Jacob’s Pillow

SRU Dancers in Martha Graham’s Celebration

REVIEW: RELIC @ MIDWEST RADFEST 2019 /  by Jesse Factor

Closing the first show, Jesse Factor of Slippery Rock, PA offered “Relic,” a fantastically divalicious solo channeling Joan Crawford. Factor’s the star here, backlit by an old-fashioned can light and made up in white face make-up with exaggerated eyes and lips. But it must be said that Andy Hasenpflug’s looping of a 1975 interview Crawford gave at Town Hall makes all the difference. (Indeed, Chicago misses you, Andy.)

There’s another layer, though, to “Relic” which relies on Hasenpflug’s cheeky repetitions of Crawford’s text. They provide a perfect excuse for Factor’s contractions in the collar bone and gut. His dancing is unmistakably informed by Martha Graham — long skirt, top knot and all — creating a harmoniously fabulous hybrid of two queens in what was, for me, the most memorable piece of the night.

http://www.artintercepts.org/2019/03/10/saturday-at-the-epic-center-beware-the-dance-echo-chamber-come-to-rad-fest/

RELIC (Image: Ben Viatori)

RELIC (Image: Ben Viatori)

“a harmoniously fabulous hybrid of two queens”
”the most memorable piece of the night”
— Lauren Warnecke, Arts Intercepts