The Dog & Pony Show Held At Dixon Place 8/3, 8/4

On Tuesday August 3 rd and Wednesday August 4th, 7:30pm at Dixon Place, as part of the summerlong Dixon Place HOT! Festival, Holly Hughes and Dan Hurlin present THE DOG AND PONY SHOW (BRING YOUR OWN PONY).

Written and performed by Holly Hughes and directed by Dan Hurlin, The Dog and Pony Show is a comic meditation on the questions that dog us such as: what is the sound of one lesbian clapping?2010 marks the 19th Annual Dixon Place HOT! Festival, a pioneering festival of queer performance and culture - and theoldest, continually running festival of its kind in the world! The festival hub is the brand new Dixon Place theater complexat 161A Chrystie Street on the New York City's famed Lower East Side.

The theater consists of 2 venues: a state-of-the-art 120-seat laboratory theater, and an intimate performance lounge. Beginning in June and running throughout the monthof July and into the first week of August (June 26 - August 7), you'll find an eclectic array of free and ticketed shows andprograms 7 nights a week!

ABOUT THE ARTIST Holly Hughes is a 2010 recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and MAP Grant. Twenty years ago, she became a poster child for the culture wars when attacked by Jesse Helms as "a garbage lesbian." Books include "Clit Notes: A SapphicSampler," "O Solo Homo: The New Queer Performance,' both from Grove Press. Hughes is collaborating with Maureen Angelos (Five Lesbian Brothers) and Chicago based director Megan Carney on "Let Them Eat Cake," which stages thedebate on gay marriage as a wedding ceremony.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Dan Hurlin received a 1990 Village Voice Obie award for his solo adaptation of Nathanael West's A Cool Million, and his suite of puppet pieces Everyday Uses for Sight: Nos. 3 & 7 (2000) earned him a 2001 New York Dance andPerformance award (a.k.a. Bessie). His 1992 solo Quintland earned sculptor Donna Dennis a New York Dance andPerformance award (a.k.a. Bessie) for visual design, and in 1998, he was nominated for an American Theater WingDesign award for his set design for his music theater piece The Shoulder (music by Dan Moses Schreier). His pieceHiroshima Maiden, with an Obie award winning score by Robert Een, premiered at St. Ann's Warehouse in 2004 and wasawarded a UNIMA citation of excellence (Union Internationale de la Marionette).

ABOUT DIXON PLACE Dixon Place is a non-profit organization founded in 1986 to provide a space for literary and performing artists to createand develop new works in front of a live audience. While other venues of its kind have since died off, or now only presentestablished artists, Dixon Place remains at the heart of the New York experimental performance scene. Taking risks iscrucial to the life of Dixon Place, its artists and audiences.

Dixon Place's primary commitments are to bring artists and audiences together through live performance in order toexpand the understanding of the creative process and its final product, and to provide a supportive environment foremerging artists to present new work. Over the last twenty-four years, Dixon Place has successfully maintained itsintimate atmosphere and unique environment while increasing its programming to fulfill the need for performanceopportunities for the New York community of performing and literary artists. TICKET INFORMATION: $10 in advance$15 at the doorFor reservations & advanced tickets visit www.dixonplace.org or call 212.219.0736

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