Show Pony
Show Pony examines societal performance and its devastation to the natural world for the sake of manicured and manmade standards, demonstrated through dressage and big money.
Please no flash photography, engaging with the horses or sudden loud noises.
Liz Westbrook
Liz Westbrook is a movement artist and choreographer from New Hampshire, based in New York City. She attended the University of the Arts and Bennington College for Movement and Dance Composition. She holds a certification in Contemporary Dance from Gibney. She’s performed in works by Nadine Gerspacher, Grant Jacoby, Laura Sanchez, Bill T. Jones, Natalia Fernández, Yang Sun & Poets.
Her work has been shown at Moulin/Belle, Junction Dance Festival, 7MPR, Madco Dance, FIDCX, Creature Space and The Foundry Boston. To make dance is to build a world. Liz approaches her collaborators with research as a way to invite them into her vision, which they shape together. Their practices become a study to examine and manifest these worlds. She creates these worlds to observe and acknowledge human experience — often experiences we might not otherwise acknowledge. Thank you to my mother and my dog — and to Eddie and Amber for their care.
@liizwestbrook
Director and ChoreographerJP Davis
J.P. Davis is a multimedia artist living in Brooklyn, NY. He graduated from The University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2019 with a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism. He investigates textural storytelling across many art forms, including dance, sound, performance art, and painting. He collaborates extensively with his life partner, Jordan Patt, under the moniker Paint Horse.
Sound Composition & PerformancePerformerJack Meriwether
Jack Meriwether is an artist and performer currently living in New York City and the 1998 Prince of Paulding, Ohio. @freelancebodydouble jackmeriwether.cargo.site
PerformerBenin Gardner
Benin Gardner is a dance artist and writer from Los Angeles who lives in New York. @35__rhums
Isabelle Dayton
Isabelle Dayton (she/her) is a multidisciplinary dance artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Growing up in Illinois, she found pre-professional dance education in Chicago under the instruction and mentorship of Lizzie MacKenzie before moving to New York to receive her BFA at Tisch School of the Arts (‘20). Her artistic interests primarily revolve around collaborative projects that incorporate layered mediums such as voice, movement, text, and theatrics. Companies and artists she’s worked with include ChristinaNoel and the Creature, Urban Tribe, Grace Tong, ABBONDANZA, and singer Socha. She takes pride in being a dance educator, currently teaching with The Ephyras at Creature Space. She is trotting into Show Pony with a full heart and wind in her mane<3.
PerformerClara Kim
Clara Kim is a dancer, actor, and writer working and living in New York City. She has performed at Judson Church, PAGEANT, Issue Project Room, Snug Harbor Dance Festival, Kaleidoscope, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid. She holds a BA from Smith College in Philosophy with a minor in Neuroscience.
PerformerOriginally from a ranch in Arizona, Spencer Claus is a performance artist, cowboy, and writer living in Brooklyn, NY. Credits include movement consultation for: Maia Chao and The Whitney Museum, Anne Imhof and Park Avenue Armory, Sam Max and Mercury Store, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and performances at: QNCC, The Tank, Rattlestick Theater, and various gallery spaces across New York and Los Angeles. He is eternally grateful to Liz for allowing him to finally combine his two great loves, dance and horses. He loves his mom and dad and graduated from USC with a BFA in Acting.
PerformerSpencer Claus
PerformerSophie Frizzell
Sophie is a dancer from Charleston, South Carolina. She is interested in how people make sense of the world; themselves; the unknown. In 2024, she received her B.A. in Religious Studies from Hunter College. Sophie is also a regular contributor to Culturebot, an online publication dedicated to long-form theater and dance reviews.
Natalia Fernández
Natalia Fernández is a movement artist, Pilates practitioner, and choreographer creating experimental performance work in NYC. Her work investigates catharsis, memory, and the poetic textures of the expressive body. Natalia directs processions performance lab, a collective rehearsing, performing, and teaching explorations in dance theatre and performance art. She earned a BFA in Product Design from Parsons School of Design and graduated as a scholarship trainee from the Limón Professional Training Program. Natalia has performed works by Yang Sun & Poets, Cara Marguerite, Edu Hernández, José Limón, Lucas Hoving, Brad Beakes, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane, Andrea Miller/GALLIM, Kayla Farrish, Rosalie Jones/DAYSTAR, Mike Tyus/Luca Renzi, Rosanna Tavarez, and Maggie Lockwood/Go.Co.
DramatrugHarry Pont
Assistant DramaturgFilmmaker, editor, and writer. From New Hampshire, based in NYC.
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