Standing in doorframes

Standing in doorframes

Dates: June 13th, 14th & 15th, 2025

Location: Williamsburg Art and Historical Center

Join us at the beautiful and historic WAH Center to experience genre defying artists and performers from all corners of the creative world. The WAH's mission is to foster a contemporary audience for live dance, music and theater performances through unique and thoughtful programming.

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Standing in doorframes is a darkly funny and physically-charged dance theater work that explores movement across thresholds of place, time, and life. Each potential step forward, saturated with both hesitation and hope, battles the past behind while confronting the future ahead.

With concept and choreography by Jonathan Royse Windham, and joined in performance by Clinton Edward and Griffin Massey, the piece unfolds through sharp shifts in energy, awkward encounters, and quiet vulnerability. Grief lingers beneath a surface of humor, curiosity, and dynamic physicality. The dancers draw the audience into a world where movement and flow are offered and interrupted, where tension builds in what’s expressed and withheld.

In this new full-length work, originally developed from two shorter pieces commissioned by TanzOrtNord in Lübeck, Germany, the artists invite audiences to lean in, feel the friction and recognize themselves and each other in this intimate and abstract narrative.

Featuring:

Jonathan Royse Windham

A Colorado native, has a BFA from the State University of New York at Purchase, concentrating in ballet, and after spent a season with American Repertory Ballet. After ARB he worked with Gallim Dance touring the continental US as well as Canada and Europe, and was featured on the Fall for Dance advertisements appearing across New York City in 2010, and has been a senior stager of Gallim Dance repertory. He was named one of Dance Magazines “25 to Watch” for 2013. In addition, He has worked with the Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar, Santa Fe Opera, Company XIV’s Nutcracker Rouge, KAMEA Dance Company, The DASH Ensemble, The Kevin Wynn Collective and has professionally performed works by Twyla Tharp, Roman Oller, Itzik Galli, and Sidi Larbi among others. Jonathan was in Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway as part of the original revival company, choreography by Hofesh Shechter. His choreography has been shown throughout the USA, at Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival, multiple times at Dixon Place, Dancers Responding to AIDS at the Cedar Lake Theater (NYC), the American Repertory Ballet choreography workshop, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, The Staller Center at Stonybrook, South Orange Performing Arts Center, Center for Performance Research, The Hartt Conservatory, Contemporary Dance Wyoming, and is a founding choreographer and former curator at the Current Sessions NYC, TanzOrdNort in Lübeck, Germany, Ankara - Turkey’s 5th SOLO Contemporary Dance Festival, Presenting Denver Dance Festival.

www.jonathanroysewindham.com

Clinton (he/they)

A New York based choreographer, actor, and creator with a diverse resume of experience and specialty in creating unique performances. He received his BFA in Dance with a concentration in choreography from Marymount Manhattan College. Favorite credits include performing at Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City with Tania Perez-Salas Company, Off- Broadway in Queen of the Night, and dancing 2 seasons with the STEPS Repertory Ensemble. They were a co-founder and Resident Artist of MinuteZero, an immersive events company based in NYC whose list of clients included Microsoft, Brooklyn Museum, Rag & Bone, Under Armour & Hulu. Clinton has also worked closely with pop artist PRIMME on several music videos and live shows. He has taught at Peridance Center in NYC, Friends Academy in Long Island, SUNY Purchase, RACE the Space in OKC, and multiple competitive studios in the Greater NYC area. They have set work on students at SUNY Fredonia, Central Missouri State University, Westwood High School in TX, Moore High School in OK, and won choreography awards for their dances made at various competitive studios in Boston, Long Island, and Connecticut. Clinton was associate choreographer and director to Kristen Carcone for her evening length immersive production of Dinner is Served, which had a completely sold out run in Toronto. He is also the resident choreographer for Another Rose on Virgin Voyages, after helping create the show as associate choreographer and associate immersive director. Most recently, they served as assocaite choregrapher for Urinetown at City Center Encores! Clinton is currently on faculty at STEPS on Broadway in NYC and New Canaan Dance Academy in Connecticut. For more visit:

www.clintonedward.com

Griffin Massy

A freelance dance artist and teacher based in New York City. Originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, he moved for university and earned his B.F.A. in dance in 2023 from The Juilliard School under Alicia Graf Mack, Dean and Director of the Dance Division, and Mario Alberto Zambrano, Associate Director. While at Juilliard, he had the opportunity to perform works by many personally inspiring artists such as Aszure Barton, Spencer Theberge, Jermaine Spivey, Hofesh Shechter, and many more. He was an apprentice with the Mark Morris Dance Group from 2023 to 2024, as well as performing in operas with The Metropolitan Opera. He became a certified Countertechnique teacher in 2024, and now teaches at various professional dance studios around New York City.