LIVINGSTON MANOR – Catskill Art Space is proud to present the Ardsley Dance Residency now in its seventh year. Co-presented with the Dance Gallery Festival, the residency will give emerging choreographer, Madison Hicks time to workshop and present to our audience. 

Audiences are invited to open rehearsals on Friday, October 11 from 11am – 5pm. The culminating performance, which is free and open to all, will take place on Saturday, October 12 at 4pm in the second floor River Gallery of Catskill Art Space (CAS), 48 Main Street, Livingston Manor, NY. This event will be followed by a talk-back with Hicks and her collaborators.

Anout the artist:

Madison Hicks holds a BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School and an MFA in Choreography from California Institute of the Arts. She is the Director and Founder of The Moving Forward Collective where she presents original work by herself and her collaborators. She has received choreographic residencies at Orsolina28, 14StreetY, Chez Bushwick, DanceLabNY, and was a Jacob’s Pillow Ann and Weston Hicks Choreographic Fellow. 

Madison has been commissioned by universities such as Loyola Marymount, The Fordham Ailey BFA program, Peabody University, University of Texas, and Wayne State University. She has also been commissioned by companies such as Vitacca Ballet, Ballet Arkansas, Avant Chamber Ballet, Mash-Up Contemporary Dance company, Ballet Project OC, and Water Street Dance Milwaukee. Most recently, she worked alongside Tony Yazbeck and Chip Abbott as Associate Choreographer for Manhattan Concert Production’s Children of Eden at Lincoln Center. Learn more at madisonhicks.com.