The company was a DANCE NOW Commissioned Artist in 2018 , premiering Williams’ first full evening work, One Woman Show to great acclaim at Joe’s Pub in NYC which was hailed as “whip-smart and vastly entertaining” (Deborah Jowitt for Artsjournal), and was recently in the Fridays at Noon series at the 92nd Street Y, and part of the Dance Off the Grid series at the Emelin Theater in Mamaroneck, N.Y. Megan Williams Dance Projects Composer and performer Eve Beglarian “is a humane, idealistic rebel and a musical sensualist” (Los Angeles Times). After performing and touring internationally with the companies of Laura Glenn, Ohad Naharin, and Mark Haim, she joined the Mark Morris Dance Group in 1988, dancing for 10 years worldwide, and appearing in several films, including Falling Down Stairs (with YoYo Ma), The Hidden Soul of Harmony, The Hard Nut and Dido and Aeneas. In fall 2018 she will be joining the faculties of Marymount Manhattan College and Hunter College in New York City. Megan Williams is an independent dance artist, choreographer, teacher, ballet master, and repetiteur, with a BFA from the Juilliard School, and an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. In 1988, she joined the Mark Morris Dance Group, dancing for 10 years, touring worldwide, teaching, and appearing in several films, including Falling Down Stairs (with Yo Yo Ma), The Hidden Soul of Harmony, The Hard Nut and Dido and Aeneas. It jumps head first into the musical dialogue and zen text in Beglarian’s work that was written in October 2001 and was the first piece Beglarian’s wrote after the events of early September of that year to the text of Thomas Cleary’s translation of a Song Dynasty (10th to 13th century) letter to a Zen Master Xiang. Megan Williams Dance Projects For the health and safety of our community, all public performances through March 28 have been cancelled.

She performed and toured internationally in the 1980’s with the companies of Laura Glenn, Ohad Naharin, and Mark Haim, among many others. . We will be in touch with all ticket buyers directly regarding refunds. A 2017 winner of the Alpert Award in the Arts for her “prolific, engaging and surprising body of work,”  she has also been awarded the 2015 Robert Rauschenberg Prize from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Beglarian has been writing responses to 14th century Guillaume de Machaut’s secular songs since the 1980s and has added a new world premiere piece for these performances. Accessibility Danspace Project’s main entrance is fully wheelchair accessible via ramp. © 2020 Mark Morris Dance Group - All Rights Reserved | Privacy Policy. She teaches an ongoing Pro Level Ballet class at Gibney, company class for the Limón Dance Company and the Jessica Lange Dance Company and was recently a Guest Lecturer at Connecticut College. Costume designer: Barbara Erin Delo. Megan Williams is an independent dance artist, choreographer, in demand teacher and repetiteur. MWDP was part of the Dance Off the Grid series at the Emelin Theater in Mamaroneck, NY in May 2019, and is currently in pre-production for March 2020 performances at Danspace Project in NY in collaboration with composer Eve Beglarian. Beglarian has been writing responses to 14th century Guillaume de Machaut’s secular songs since the 1980s and has added a new world premiere piece for these performances. She teaches Dance for Parkinson’s Disease in Rye, NY, and is on the renowned Dance for PD flagship teaching team. Five Things is a reboot of a duet that originally premiered in the DANCE NOW Festival in 2018, and is now reimagined for Megan and Esmé Boyce. The evening will be comprised of four connected repertory dance works that live in and around existing compositions from Beglarian’s expansive catalogue, as well as inside of two newly commissioned world premiere works. It jumps head first into the musical dialogue and zen text in Beglarian’s work that was written in October 2001 and was the first piece Beglarian’s wrote after the events of early September of that year to the text of Thomas Cleary’s translation of a Song Dynasty (10th to 13th century) letter to a Zen Master Xiang. Dancers: Esmé Boyce, Robert Mark Burke, Derek Crescenti, Réka Echerer, Mary Lyn Graves, Chelsea Hecht, Courtney Lopes, Amelia Pagliaro, Joshua Tuason, and Michael Wang, Musicians: Margaret Lancaster (flute), Tristan Kasten-Krause (bass), Amy Garapic (percussion), Thomas Feng (piano), Huizi Zhang (toy piano/synth), Lighting design: Kathy Kaufmann

Swift Bird, a newly commissioned world premiere companion piece to Five Things, is a rigorous solo for Megan Williams that explores and exposes the vulnerability and solitude of aging. Megan Williams Dance Projects (MWDP) is a fiscally sponsored entity that aims to elevate the human experience through the research, creation, production and performance of contemporary dance works. For the health and safety of our community, all public performances through March 28 have been cancelled.

Dance and fitness classes for adults, rehearsal space, and community programming. Children and teens 18 months to 18 years all levels and abilities. My Great Desire, a large ensemble “ballet” to five sections of Eve Beglarian’s MACHAUT IN THE MACHINE AGE series, that interrogates and agitates the classical lexicon while forging a narrative around attention, longing, and the finely drawn and oft-severed line between desire and love. MWDP was a DANCE NOW Commissioned Artist in 2018, premiering Williams’ first full evening work, One Woman Show to great acclaim at Joe’s Pub at the Public in NYC, called ”whip-smart and vastly entertaining” by Deborah Jowitt in ArtsJournal.

MORE INFO, Thursday, March 26, 8pm She teaches Dance for Parkinson’s Disease in Rye, NY, and is on the renowned Dance for PD flagship teaching team. Beglarian’s chamber, choral, and orchestral music has been commissioned and widely performed by major orchestras across the country, and by individual performers including Maya Beiser, Sarah Cahill, Lauren Flanigan, Marya Martin, and Mary Rowell.

She teaches an ongoing Professional Level Ballet class at the Gibney Dance Center in New York City and has recently served on the faculties of Marymount Manhattan College and Hunter College teaching Anatomy for Dancers. Her choreography has been produced by 10 Hairy Legs, DANCE NOW NYC at Joe’s Pub and Dance Theater Workshop, and by the Rivertown Artist’s Workshop, Barnspace, MIXT Co., Purchase College, Marymount Manhattan College, Connecticut College, and Interlochen Arts Academy. A same-level restroom is available near Danspace Project’s main performance space in the church sanctuary. series, that interrogates and agitates the classical lexicon while forging a narrative around attention, longing, and the finely drawn and oft-severed line between desire and love. She has served on the board of directors of the Martha Hill Dance Fund since 2011 and is proud to have a producing credit on the documentary film Martha Hill: Making Dance Matter. Saturday, March 28, 8pm.

Williams continues her affiliation with Morris as a guest performer (creating the role of Lady Capulet in Morris’ 2009 Romeo and Juliet: On Motifs of Shakespeare and dancing Bijoux at the 2014 Bessie Awards), guest rehearsal director and guest teacher at the Mark Morris Dance Center. Danspace Project’s Community ACCESS series provides subsidized off-season rental opportunities for Danspace Project community members. Play Like A Girl, a raucous and contemplative suite of short dances to Beglarian’s keyboard variations of the same name based on the Bulgarian tune “Kaval Sviri”(sung by the Young People’s Chorus of NYC in these performances) that reveal embodied memories of the physical struggles and joys of girlhood that fuel our collective adult sense of self. Her dancing with MMDG was named “ an unusual blend of delicate precision and sensuous fluency…..with considerable strength and profound musicality.” (Tobi Tobias for New York Magazine).Williams continues her affiliation with Morris, as guest ballet master , guest rehearsal director, and as a stager of his works. Williams founded Megan Williams Dance Projects in the summer of 2016. From 2000-2013 she was on the modern dance faculty of the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College, SUNY and was featured in Dance Teacher Magazine in 2010 and 2014. MWDP performed an encore of One Woman Show in January 2019 at Joe’s Pub and took it on the road in April 2019. In addition to performing her own work, she can be seen dancing with choreographer Rebecca Stenn and in Netta Yurashalmy’s Paramodernities project.

We will be in touch with all ticket buyers directly regarding refunds. In addition to performing her own work, she can be seen dancing with choreographer Rebecca Stenn and in Netta Yurashalmy’s Paramodernities project. In addition to performing in her own work, she can be seen in two installments of Richard Daniels’ Dances for an IPhone and is currently dancing with Rebecca Stenn Company and in Netta Yurashalmy’s Paramodernities project. can I have it without begging is a live music and dance event created and performed in collaboration with acclaimed composer Eve Beglarian, the dancers of Megan Williams Dance Projects, five new music luminaries, and the Young People’s Chorus of NYC. MMDG is a member of Dance/USA and the Downtown Brooklyn Arts Alliance. Ms. Williams continues her affiliation with Morris as guest performer, creating the role of Lady Capulet in Morris' 2009 Romeo and Juliet: On Motifs of Shakespeare and dancing in Bijoux at the 2014 Bessie Awards, guest rehearsal director, and guest faculty at the Mark Morris Dance Center. Williams founded Megan Williams Dance Projects in the summer of 2016. Megan Williams (CBA ’20) is a dancer, choreographer, educator and repetiteur with a BFA from the Juilliard School and an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. The mission of the Mark Morris Dance Group is to develop, promote, and sustain dance, music, and opera productions by Mark Morris and to serve as a cultural resource to engage and enrich the community. Megan Williams is an independent dance artist, choreographer, teacher, ballet master, and repetiteur, with a BFA from the Juilliard School, and an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. From 2000-2013 she served on the modern dance faculty of the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College, State University of New York and taught as a guest lecturer at Connecticut College in 2017. https://evbvd.com, is a live music and dance event created and performed in collaboration with acclaimed composer. Megan Williams is an independent dance artist, choreographer, teacher and repetiteur, with a BFA from the Juilliard School, and an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She has served on the board of directors of the Martha Hill Dance Fund since 2011 and is proud to have a producing credit on the documentary film Martha Hill: Making Dance Matter. Beglarian’s recent projects include a collaboration with writer/performer Karen Kandel and director Mallory Catlett about women in Vicksburg from the Civil War to the present, a piece about the controversial Balthus painting Thérèse Dreaming for vocalist Lucy Dhegrae, and a duo for uilleann pipes and organ that premiered at Disney Hall as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 100th anniversary celebrations.

Ms. Williams has been Morris’ assistant in a variety of settings including ballet, Broadway and television. Performance projects include Brim, Songs from a Book of Days, The Story of B, Open Secrets, Hildegurls’ Ordo Virtutum, twisted tutu, and typOpera. We will offer full refunds to audiences and seek to reschedule suspended performances and events when reasonably possible. , a raucous and contemplative suite of short dances to Beglarian’s keyboard variations of the same name based on the Bulgarian tune “Kaval Sviri”(sung by the Young People’s Chorus of NYC in these performances) that reveal embodied memories of the physical struggles and joys of girlhood that fuel our collective adult sense of self. Sound design: Sam Crawford