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BIO
Stacy Dawson Stearns (they, she) is an interdisciplinary artist who has worked extensively in the context of art collectives and collaborative companies such as Blacklips Performance Cult, PsychoutDadaGoGo Family, Advanced Beginner Group, HUT, and Annie-B Parson’s Big Dance Theater (BDT.) Stacy received a Bessie Award for Performance for their portayal of Satan in BDT’s play, Another Telepathic Thing. On film, they can be seen in Hal Hartley’s No Such Thing and in Wigstock: the Movie! Their theatrical and choreographic works have been presented at PS 122, RedCAT, Jacob’s Pillow, The Yard, Geffen Playhouse, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and more.
Dedicated to the study of consciousness and the creative process, Stacy has published writings through Native Strategies, Itch Performance Journal, Riting, and The 53rd State Press. Stacy’s limited-edition Panflet: “Howe To Rehearse a Daunce Theatr Playe or Ani Othr Spektacle with Otheres” is available via her linktree. Stacy serves other artists as creative producer at CultureHub LA.
Access to detailed archives including curriculum vitae, timeline, and work samples are available to qualified parties upon request. Please direct inquiries to dawsonstearns@gmail.com
Awards/Residencies
Pieter Parking Space at The Box LA
Hammer Museum “Open Studio”
Pieter PASD Dancemakers Grant
ShowBox LA Residency
CHIME (choreographers in mentorship and exchange) Grant
Bessie Award for Performance (Big Dance Theater’s Another Telepathic Thing)
MassMOCA tech residency (Best Western)
TimeOut NY Best of” (for Best Western)
Three-Legged Race Hand Driven residency
Three_legged Race Blizzard residency
NYC Fringe “Best of” in Performance (The Fantastic and Naturally Tragic Ballad of Esmeralda and Mr. Sinclair)
Work
Stacy’s work has been performed and presented internationally for 3 decades in spaces ranging from hallowed halls to intimate broom closets, suchs as:
NYC
PAC, PS 122, Dance Theater Workshop (now NYLA), The Performing Garage, LaMama, Lincoln Center, Town Hall, The Pyramid, Webster Hall, The Kitchen, HERE, Dixon Place, PAC, Cucaracha, Theater for the New City, The Joyce, Galapagos, Mother, CultureHub NYC, Participant
LA
RedCat, The Hammer, JOAN, Human Resources, Pieter PASD, Highways, El Cid, CalArts, CSULA, CalPoly Pomona, We Live in Space, The Geffen Playhouse, The Getty, Automata, Anatomy Riot (various), Indie HorrorFest, KCON
Various US
MassMOCA, The Dance place (DC), DanceWorks Santa Barbara, Three-Legged Race Minneapolis, ADF, The Yard, Jacob’s Pillow, MCA Chicago, Spoleto USA, Middlebury College, Dartmouth
Internationally, Stacy has toured work to the following cities
Tblisi, Georgia
Creteil, France
Munich, Germany
Rotterdam, Holland
Ghent, Belguim
Vancouver, BC
Polverigi, Italy
London, England