Citizens Community Dinner with Jesse Factor
KST Presents
Monday, November 4, 2024
6:00pm – 8:00pm
KST’s Alloy Studios | 5530 Penn Ave.
Pay What Moves You: $0 – $25
How should we perceive the so-called “high art” and “popular culture”? Dance artist Jesse Factor is obsessed with the cultural phenomenon of the diva figure, iconicity, and remembering.
Factor creatively combines the dance influences of Martha Graham and Madonna to create his performance, The Marthaodyssey. At a free community dinner, we welcome him to share his creative practice of remixing and repurposing.
Photo Credit: Anita Buzzy Prentiss
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AND DON’T MISS…
Jesse Factor
The Marthaodyssey 
Friday & Saturday, November 8* – 9^, 2024
7:30pm-8:30pm
*Afterparty with Jellyfish
^Post-performance discussion
Kelly Strayhorn Theater | 5941 Penn Ave.
Pay What Moves You: $20 – $35
Yielding & Radiating
with Jesse Factor
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
10:00am – 11:30am
KST’s Alloy Studios | 5530 Penn Ave
Pay What Moves You: $10 – $25
- ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jesse Factor trained at the Martha Graham School and danced with Graham II, and the Martha Graham Dance Company. Born in Sharon PA, Jesse grew up in Quito Ecuador and Bangkok, Thailand before earning a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Factor’s work has been presented at the Boston Contemporary Dance Festival, Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival, OUTsider Festival (Austin), Milton Art Bank, RADfest (Kalamazoo), St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery (NYC), Fresh Fruit Festival (NYC), Queer Spectra (Salt Lake City) and House of Yes, (NYC). Factor holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and completed additional studies at the American Dance Festival and 92 St Y’s Dance Education Lab (DEL). Jesse currently serves in the Modern Dance unit at Point Park University’s Conservatory of Performing Arts.