Together with the Dance Gallery Festival (DGF), Catskill Art Space (CAS) is thrilled to welcome emerging choreographic and dance talent for a week-long residency. The residency brings together choreographers and collaborators for an immersive creative experience, unburdened by the logistical challenges that artists face in today’s contemporary world; increasing the deliberation and depth of the work that is created. In its eighth year, these moments have been fruitful for choreographers workshopping new dances, giving space and inspiration to create in the picturesque Catskill mountains. Our 2025 resident Brian Golden will premier a new work created during the residency. For the first year, we have invited Madison Hicks the 2024 resident to present an excerpt of her presentation debut at CAS in October 2024. Audiences are invited to view the dance workshopped over the residency, and interface with a talk back with the choreographer and dancers. Free and open to all.
Open Rehearsals
May 23, 3-5pm
Performance
May 24, 5pm
About the Artists
Brian Golden is a neurodivergent choreographer and movement director based between Los Angeles and New York. He is pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Choreography at the California Institute of the Arts, with minors in Pedagogy and Integrated Media. A 2024 MAP Fund recipient, Brian will premiere a new immersive work in the fall of 2026. Brian’s choreographic voice is rooted in lived experience, exploring themes of conflict, sensation, and identity through movement. Under the mentorship of Spenser Theberge, he premiered Two Months Too Early, a full-length sensory performance examining dyspraxia and auditory processing disorder through the conceptual language of the Pop Art movement. Recent highlights include a choreographic residency at Jacob’s Pillow, mentorship with Doug Varone on choreographic devices, and being named the 2024 Choreography Fellow of Axis Dance Company. Through professional development stipends awarded by Jacob’s Pillow and Axis, Brian engaged in mentorships with Nina McNeely and Jillian Meyers, deepening his exploration of musicality, filmmaking, and creative process. Brian holds a BFA in Dance and Film Production from Chapman University where he studied abroad in Israel. His work has been presented at notable venues and festivals including The Joyce Theater (as part of the Martha Graham Dance Company’s fall season), Battery Dance Festival, Southern California Institute of Architecture, New Century Dance Project, and the McCallum Choreography Festival. He has also choreographed commercially for artists such as Yung Gravy, Daddy Yankee, and Two Friends.
Performers: Liana Zhen-Ai, Frances Samson, Marcus Sarjeant, Bryan Testa
Composer: Patrick Blaine
Dramaturg: Jamison Edgar
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.
Performers: Nicole Hagen, Lindsey Matheis, Nicole Morris
Composer: Azariah Felton