Marisa König Beatty, Executive Director / Sugar Salon Executive Producer - marisa (at) wax205 (dot) com
Jaclyn Moynahan, Associate Director - jackie (at) wax205 (dot) com
Courtney Miller, WAXworks Production Director - courtney (at) wax205 (dot) com
Jo Morris, WAXworks Associate Production Director
Jake Hooker, Bridge Curator 2005-06
Sara Juli, Bridge Curator 2002-06
Janusz Jaworski, webdesign&programming

Phase II Partners:

Abby Bender, Executive Director, Triskelion Arts - 2006 - 2008 Residency Space for WAXworks
Mary Cochran, Chair, Department of Dance of Barnard College of Columbia University- Co-Producer Sugar Salon Program
Jay Wegman, Director, Abrons Art Center - Performance Venue for Sugar Salon Program 2007/08

Board:

Lanileigh Ting, Board Chair
Howard Seligman, Treasurer
David Tirosh, Vice President, Co-Founding Director
Marisa König Beatty, Secretary

Advisory Board:
Boo Froebel, Brian Brooks, Mark Conniglio

Bios:

Marisa König Beatty (Executive Director) is a co-founding director of the Williamsburg Art neXus, Inc (WAX). Her experience in arts administration began in 1996 when she joined on as Managing Director of the Mänä Group, a dance management company with an independent choreographer roster including kraig patterson (bopi’s black sheep), Neta Pulvermacher (The Neta Company), Buglisi/Foreman and Terry Hollis, among others. Supplementing her role as a manager, Ms. Beatty also served as the Technical Director of the Evolving Arts convertible, black-box theater at Dance Space Center from 1997 until the inception of WAX in 1999.

Ms. König Beatty has presented her choreography at Minor Latham Playhouse, The Jewish Community Center of Houston, The Duplex (Houston), The Merce Cunningham Studio Theater, The Williamsburg Art and Historical Society, Joyce SoHo, Galapagos, Dance Forum, the Evolving Arts Theater and Chashama. Additionally, she has had the honor of being a invited as contributing choreographer in several performance series including the Dancenow/NYC (2002), FLUSH (2003; benefiting Brooklyn’s Neighbors Against Garbage), the first ever In the Company of Women dance festival (2003), Soundance, Inc.’s Splendor of Desire (2003; curated by Sarah Carlson), and the grand opening of the TIXE. In 2002, she formed OVERall Productions as vehicle for the creation and performance of innovative and collaborative dance theater.

In addition to her performance and management experience, Ms. König Beatty has been a guest speaker for the Barnard College Dance in NYC course as well as for Dance Theater Workshop’s artist service seminars. Ms Beatty has participated as a member of the multidisciplinary panel for the Brooklyn Arts Council Community Arts Program twice, and received a 2005 Passing it On Award from BAX for her work as an arts manager. From 2005 - 2007, Ms. König Beatty assisted Dance New Amsterdam (DNA formerly Dance Space Center) as a producer and curator for their launch seasons in their new theater space near City Hall. Additionally, she produces alongside Choreographer and Educator Neta Pulvermacher, the A.W.A.R.D. Show! @ Joyce SoHo (Artists With Audience Responding 2 Dance). Ms. König Beatty currently resides in and telecommutes from Brussels, Belgium.

Jake Hooker (Bridge Curator; 2005-6) writes for performance. Recent credits include a Welsh-English musical spectacular entitled Land of Their Fathers as part of Cabaret Danzon at La Mama ETC, and a staging of his poems under the title Lucky in Poems for The Medicine Show’s long-running Word/Play series. In New York his work has also been seen at The Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, WAX and HERE. In 2003, he curated HERE’s American Living Room Series.

Jake holds a BFA in Theater/Devised Performance from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington and an MA in World Performance from The Centre for Performance Research in Aberystwyth, Wales. Jake’s training includes the SITI Company Summer Intensive and the Flea Theater’s Pataphysics Playwriting Workshops. Currently, he is a management associate with Elevator Repair Service. He is the Resident Playwright/Dramaturg with Adhesive Theater Company who will produce his newest work, Pot Au Noir, in 2005.

Jake is a founding member of The International Company Project with whom he collaborated on a site-specific, multi-lingual piece which premier in London in September 2005.

 

Janusz Jaworski (Lighting Designer, webdesign&programming) is working on many things, and completed many others.

 

Sara Juli (Bridge Curator; 2002-6) is a dancer, choreographer, arts manager, curator and producer of dance in New York City. She has presented her own solo work at the Dance Complex in Cambridge, Mass, Dixon Place, Skidmore College, P.S.122, The Ontological Theater, Manhattan Theater Source, Williamsburg Art NeXus (WAX), The Flea Theater, Joyce Soho, as well as showings at the American Dance Festival, where her work was selected as one of “The Best of Dance 2003” by the Independent Weekly. Sara has collaborated and/or performed with Debra Fernandez, Deborah Hay, Roxana Ramseur, Melissa Riker, Hana van der Kolk, Chris Ajemian and VerhoffLoTurcoDanceWorks.

From 2000 to early 2003, Sara was the Manager and Dance Program Coordinator at Dixon Place, where she created the dance series, Body Blend. Other curatorial credits include The Bridge, a dance-theater series presented at WAX, where the mission is to challenge the conventions of and lines between dance and theater performance, as well as a series of evenings at C.U.A.N.D.O. in October 2001, which featured 23 choreographers performing work created in the aftermath of 9/11.

From July 2002 to March 2003, Sara held the position of Management Associate for Troika Ranch through a grant she was awarded by The Field's Artist-Management Program. Sara is the former Development Associate at the American Dance Festival and is currently the Director of Institutional Giving and Interim Director of Development at Dance Theater Workshop. She holds a double degree in Dance and Anthropology from Skidmore College.

 

Born in Minnesota, but raised in Richmond, VA, Courtney Miller graduated magna cum laude with her BFA in dance from Florida State University.  Since moving to New York City, she has enjoyed performing with Cindy Bernier Dance Collective, 3rd Rail Dance, New Roots Dance Art, and at Lincoln Center with the Vasquez Dance Ensemble.  Her choreography has been performed in New York at Triskelion Arts, University Settlement, and presented by the Tank at the 45th Street Theatre and at Collective Unconscious.  She has also shown work at the Cetamura Antica exhibit in Gaioli-in-Chianti, Italy. In March 2008, Courtney’s choreography will be presented at American International College in Springfield, MA.  She is honored to be joining WAX as the new WAXworks Production Director as the Williamsburg Art neXus has always provided her with a welcoming artistic home.

 

Jaclyn Moynahan (Associate Director), a native New Yorker, studied Modern Dance at SUNY College at Brockport where she obtained her BFA in dance. After taking up a technical theater internship at Dance Place in D.C. she moved Brooklyn to pursue her own choreography. She has taken her solo work to the GLUE Performance Series in Philadelphia 2002 and the Heartzz & Bonies Performance Art Festival in California, 2002 & 2004. In 2002 Jaclyn founded JaxDance a modern dance company that’s mission is to test the impossibilities of the physical through endurance, speed, and stillness. JaxDance has performed at such venues as Dance Space Center, Williamsburg Art neXus, Jennifer Muller/The Works, and at The Bric’s Brooklyn Dance Sampler.

Responding to an announcement about WAX's stolen computer, Jaclyn joined the work study staff in the summer of 2004, learning the great art of moving stuff, and answering phones. She quickly became absorbed by the wonderful nature and mission of the organization thus gladly accepting the position of WAXworks Assistant Producer to Melissa Rodnon in 2005. Since then, Jaclyn has filled many administrative, production and managerial roles for WAX and as such graduated to the ranks of Associate Director in 2007. Jaclyn is extremely happy to be entering Phase II to help WAX sustain and grow to develop programming to support the emerging artists. For more information about Jaclyn or JAXDance visit: www.jaxdance.com.

 

Born and raised in Israel, David Tirosh (Co-Founder / Creative Consultant), has performed on national stages, television, radio, and on the street (a craft he explored in depth around the world). He moved to the United States in 1997 to persue his education in theater at Temple University and has since also studied at the Lee Strassberg Institue and the Terry Schreiber Studio. In New York, he has performed in several off and off off Broadway productions. Exploring the various facets of the performing arts, he has most recently embarked on a new adventure in the mysterious world of modern dance. In particular, he can be seen performing with Luis Lara Malvacias / Full Fat Dance, Mariangela Lopez, and Jaclyn Moynahan / Jaxdance. David is currently the Director of Production and Logistics for the 3LD (3 Legged Dog) Art and Technology Center near the World Trade Center site.

 

The Barnard College Department of Dance offers an exceptional dance program that is solidly based on the integration of dance as an art form within a liberal arts curriculum. Its core consists of courses designed to link the development of a dancer's artistic skills with techniques of analysis, problem solving, and critical thinking. The faculty, composed of artists and scholars, encourages a dual approach to the art of dance, promoting the development of artistry and personal style through the performance of historical and contemporary dance texts.

Barnard College aims to provide the highest quality liberal arts education to promising and high-achieving young women, offering the unparalleled advantages of an outstanding residential college in partnership with a major research university. With a dedicated faculty of scholars distinguished in their respective fields, Barnard is a community of accessible teachers and engaged students who participate together in intellectual risk-taking and discovery. Barnard students develop the intellectual resources to take advantage of opportunities as new fields, new ideas, and new technologies emerge. They graduate prepared to lead lives that are professionally satisfying and successful, personally fulfilling, and enriched by love of learning.

As a college for women, Barnard embraces its responsibility to address issues of gender in all of their complexity and urgency, and to help students achieve the personal strength that will enable them to meet the challenges they will encounter throughout their lives. Located in the cosmopolitan urban environment of New York City, and committed to diversity in its student body, faculty and staff, Barnard prepares its graduates to flourish in different cultural surroundings in an increasingly inter-connected world.

 

Triskelion Arts is a theater and rehearsal studio located in the heart of Williamsburg at 118 N. 11th St. Triskelion opened its doors in October of 2000 and is the home of resident companies Abby Bender Schmantze Theater and Andrew Dickerson's Cirque This. Triskelion offers affordable rehearsal and performance space in its two studios and theater for hundreds of other working artists from Manhattan and its surrounding boroughs.

In 2002, Triskelion Arts received its 501( c ) 3 not-for-profit status For more information on Triskelion Arts and upcoming events please visit www.triskelionarts.org.