Dustin Maxwell will be work-shopping his current project: “small things dying under a clear blue sky”, over two weeks during the month of November. As part of his residency, on Saturday, November 16th, from 5-7:30pm, in the Back Door Studio, he will be offering an interactional, open rehearsal/exposed process of his work. See details in our Special Events Column.

Dustin Maxwell is a movement-based visual artist currently living in New York City. He was born queer into a Mormon family of eight in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he took his first ballet class at the age of three. As a teenager he studied modern dance and Barbara Clark's somatic approach with his teacher, Joanne Emmons. In 2005 he relocated to Minneapolis, Minnesota where he spent a decade studying dance and performing locally and internationally. His work is sourced from ritual and sensitizing practices and aims to preserve those elements within "finished" works. Otherness, sexuality, spirituality, death and the magic of being are themes central to his art and life. His dances and performance installations have been presented in theaters, galleries, basements, alleyways and countrysides in Minnesota, New York and Germany. His current work in development, small things dying under a clear blue sky, was workshopped in residency at Ponderosa (Germany) where he presented its first iteration. Since then its been presented in 3 different forms at Herkimer 9 and the Duo Theater in NYC. True to his performance philosophy the work continues to alter its form. He holds a B.A. in Dance from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. He is a 2019 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and was nominated for a 2015 Sage Award for Outstanding Performer.