Megan is a freelance dance artist, producer, and educator. Her performance and film works have been presented at venues, universities, and festivals nationwide, including the ADF Movies by Movers Festival, the NC Dance Festival tour, and the Detroit Dance City Festival.

Since 2015 Megan has been the co-producer of ladyfestCLT, an interdisciplinary performance festival featuring the works of female and femme-identifying artists in Charlotte and beyond. She is also a contributing member of the Goodyear Arts Collective, an artist-led, nonprofit and events program in underused spaces. Megan currently teaches adult community classes at Open Door Studios

Megan received a BFA in Performance and Choreography from Ohio University and a MFA in Dance from Hollins University in partnership with the American Dance Festival.

Joy Davis is a dance artist & educator steeped in practices of Countertechnique®, improvisation, and performance. She began studying with Founder Anouk van Dijk in 2005 at the American Dance Festival; was certified as a Countertechnique® Teacher in 2012 and recently Senior Teacher in 2021.

Founded in 2006, joyproject is a framework for creation, curation and production of collaborative performance & installation; most recently opening a micro-residency and performance space called The Deck in Charlotte, NC featuring Shaina Cantino as the first artist-in-residence in 2022. Joy is co-founder of The Davis Sisters with Alexander Davis, a collaborative experiment in which they dare to perform exacerbated versions of themselves in spaces such as The Yard, Boston Center for the Arts, Bates Dance Festival, Wesleyan Center for the Arts and Dance|Now Boston at The Dance Complex and Goodyear Arts in Charlotte. Joy also creates/tours duets with her husband Dr. Eric Mullis and dances with Charlotte-based choreographer, Megan Payne.

Joy received an MFA in Choreography and Performance from Smith College in 2015, and has since been visiting faculty at Smith College and Wesleyan University; as visiting Lecturer at Harvard University in Theater, Dance & Media. She is Associate Professor of Dance at Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Visiting Faculty at University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Joy lives in Charlotte with her husband EricMullis and their Pomeranian, Baby Sir.

Joyproject Website

Dylan Gilbert is a songwriter, sound artist, and performer from Charlotte, North Carolina, and is a founding member of the genre-bending punk band Hectorina. His music ranges from guitar-based art pop to experimental music, taking inspiration from artists such as Kate Bush, Talk Talk, Björk, Prince, David Lynch, and ambient and minimalist music.

Gilbert has created work in a variety of mediums, including a full theatrical production of Hectorina’s rock opera Collywobble, which premiered in a month-long residency at Snug Harbor in 2015. While in residence at Goodyear Arts in 2016, he designed an interactive sound installation called The Forest and collaborated with XOXO Performance Ensemble to produce All the Dogs and Horses, “a zen acid western” play. His collaborations with dancer and choreographer Sarah Ingel have premiered at Charlotte Ballet’s Choreographic Lab, ladyfestCLT, and Food for Thought, curated by Caitlyn Swett and Helen Simoneau Danse. Further collaborators include poet de’Angelo Dia, film producers Basic Cable, and theatre collective Sinergismo.

In October 2020, Gilbert released the visual album I’ll Be the Lakebed. The album went on to win five categories in Queen City Nerve’s Best in the Nest 2020 Issue, including “Best Experimental Musician/Band,” “Best Live Performer,” “Best Singer/Songwriter,” “Best Solo Performer” (Readers' Picks), and “Best Visual Album” (Critics' Pick).

His newest full-length work, a lo-fi and drone inspired album entitled Spirit Breeze, will be released on May 27th 2022.

Dylan Gilbert Website