Art House Productions presents:
Beautiful Little Weirdos
An Evening of Bold, Evocative Movement by Amber Sloan

Step into a world of curiosity and contradiction with Beautiful Little Weirdos, an evening of bold, evocative movement by Amber Sloan that celebrates the strange, the surreal, and the deeply personal. The program features two works: After the Applause and Echoes of Absurdity.

After the Applause, a solo by Amber Sloan embraces humor, vulnerability, and the unpredictability of an ever-shifting reality. Echoes of Absurdity, a quartet performed by Shawn Brush, Ching-I Chang, Chelsea Enjer Hecht, and Jordan Morley, with costumes by Meagan Woods, navigates the tension between order and disruption, humor and unease. Through intricate choreography and raw physicality, these works examine the absurdity of existence, the beauty in the unconventional, and the voices that refuse to conform. 

Praise for Beautiful Little Weirdos:
"Amber Sloan, a choreographer of fertile whimsy and wit, draws us into the universes of her perfectly peculiar characters, creating awe and delight. Being in the audience is a treat when a choreographer and her collaborators are so in sync. Shawn Brush, Chelsea Enjer Hecht, Ching-I Chang, and Jordan Morley are the perfect match to Sloan’s inquisitive explorations. These fully-committed, full-hearted dancers dive into every moment with abandon, and like Sloan in her opening solo, their dancing is always fresh and surprising." - Christine Jowers, The Dance Enthusiast 

TICKETS:
General Admission: $25.00
SUPPORTER OF AMBER SLOAN'S CHOREOGRAPHY General Admission: $40.00 

Friday, March 20, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Runtime: ~55mins
Art House Productions
345 Marin Boulevard, Jersey City, NJ

ABOUT AMBER SLOAN
Amber Sloan is a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Choreography Fellow whose work has been presented across the United States, Mexico City, Mexico, and locally at venues including South Orange PAC, Smush Gallery, Kestrels, Arts On Site, Roulette Theater, Dixon Place, 92Y Harkness Dance Center, the EstroGenius Festival, and in a 21-year commissioning relationship with the DanceNow Festival. She was a Monira Foundation Performance Resident at Mana Contemporary, an Artist in Residence at Union Street Dance, an Emerging New Jersey Commissioned Choreographer for Dance on the Lawn, a Schonberg Fellow at The Yard on Martha’s Vineyard, and was recently commissioned to make a new work on the students of Marymount Manhattan College. She has received space grants from Gibney Dance Center, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and Spoke the Hub, and her work has been annually supported by the Jerome Robbins Foundation since 2009. As a performer, Amber has been a member of The Bang Group since 2002, and has performed in works by Doug Elkins, Keely Garfield, Sara Hook, Stephan Koplowitz, and James Waring, as staged by Richard Colton. She serves on the faculty of The Ailey School as the dance composition teacher for the Professional Division program. Amber is the Assistant Executive Director of Arts On Site, a women-led nonprofit organization founded in 2016 to support artists and build community. She co-directs Women in Motion NYC, an organization whose mission is to foster female choreographers through the commissioning of new work, producing, and mentoring, and she serves on the advisory board of Art Omi: Dance.  Amber holds a BFA in Dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she was honored with the Beverly Blossom/Carey Erickson Alumni Dance Award. www.ambersloan.com

Shawn Bush (performer) (he/him) is a NY based dancer and choreographer. He is a company member with DanceTactics Performance Group, and Falcon Dance. Shawn has performed with Amber Sloan, The Dance Exchange, Meagan Woods Company, Elizabeth Dishman, Maya Orchin, Laura Peterson Choreography, Stefanie Nelson, The New Collectives, and Artichoke Dance Company. His own work, in collaboration with his partner Molly McGrath as Brush/McGrath(works), has been presented at Arts on Site, Art House Productions, Judson Church, Dixon Place, Triskelion Arts, Green Space, and a good friend’s wedding. Shawn is also a teaching artist and has taught at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and Raritan Valley Community College, and has been a guest teacher at The Dance Exchange, various universities, and public schools. He graduated with a BFA in Dance from Mason Gross School of the Arts in 2015.

Ching-I Chang (performer) is a dance/dream conceptual maker, curator, performer, and listener. Her interdisciplinary work centers subaltern voices and has been presented at Yuz Museum, Queens Museum, MOCA, Harlem Stage, DraftWork and more. She’s performed with Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More (an origin NYC cast and rehearsal director in Shanghai production), toured globally with ANIKAYA, worked with Gesel Mason, Susan Marshall and inspiring artists in NYC. Ching-I holds an MFA from the U of Utah and certifications in Laban/Bartenieff, Yoga and Yoga Nidra. She has taught at VCU and UC San Diego. She co-directs the Inter-grant Festival and is a 2025 NJ Individual Artist Finalist, Create Change Fellow, and 2024–25 TOPAZ ARTS AAPI Artist in Residency. She is a migrating breeze from Taiwan and loves bananas from Taiwan and loves bananas.

Chelsea Enjer Hecht (performer) is a Brooklyn based dance artist and licensed massage therapist with roots in Minnesota and Mongolia. After graduating from SUNY Purchase College, they have enjoyed performing in fashion shows, dance films, museum installations and onstage for the past 10 years. She most recently performed with Monica Bill Barnes and Kim Brandt, and frequently works with MeenMoves, POGO Dance, Amber Sloan, and Megan Williams. Their work has been shown at Fort Greene Park, and Arts on Site, and they have guest taught at Midday Movement and Peridance. Chelsea is curious how collaboration, improvisation and performance can access deep listening, connection and transformation. www.chelseaenjerhecht.com

Jordan Morley (performer) is a narrow person with a wide imagination. They work in the field of the body, creating performance through dance, video, text and puppetry. As a dancer they were a member of the original cast of Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More creating the role of Boywitch and Speakeasy Bartender, as well as a member of the closing cast(Boston, MA/New York, NY). They have also worked with Kyle Abraham/Abraham In Motion, Keely Garfield, Tere O’Connor, Christopher Williams Dance, Ron De Jesus Dance, Wanda Gala, Mira Kingsley, Alexandria Yalj, Jessica Mitrani, Phantom Limb Puppet Company, and Danielle Desnoyers (Montreal, QC). Currently, Jordan is working with Amber Sloan and Tiffany Mills Company.

Meagan Woods (costume design) (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist who works in dance, theatre, and costume design. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies from Simon Fraser University and a BFA in Dance from Rutgers University, where she earned the Margery Turner Award for choreography. Her work has been shown at Bryant Park, Lincoln Center, the TEDx Stage, and at venues across the US, Canada, Portugal, France, Taiwan, Norway, Greece and The Philippines. Meagan is also a collaborator with Moving Matter, a long-term research project that centers natural materials (mud, grass, branches) as guiding collaborative forces in the development of dances, costume designs, and installations (more: @meaganawoods and www.meaganwoods.com)

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