National Women’s Equality Day Residency
August, Annually
Historically for this National Holiday MashUp had joined forces with female-identifying creative teams, ideological partners, and/or social justice organizations for a public performance or event. Now merged with MashUp’s annual residency program, this event empowers a female-identifying, nonbinary, and/or trans choreographer to deepen their artistic practice, and includes a stipend, studio time with MashUp company dancers, a fully produced culminating work-in-progress performance, and professional documentation. An investment in the future of the dance field, this program is for early/mid-career artists who are historically not provided resources at this scale.
National Women’s Equality Day Residency Program
MashUp’s Choreographic Residency Program supports an early- to mid-career female-identifying, non-binary, or trans choreographer in the creation of a new original work developed in collaboration with MashUp company dancers over the course of one month.
For MashUp’s 2026 National Women’s Equality Day Choreographic Residency, we welcomed choreographer Katherine Helen Fisher to create Ecstatic Resistance, a new work developed in collaboration with the MashUp Company Dancers.
Over the course of the residency, Katherine and the dancers came together to explore, experiment, and build an original evening-length work culminating in two public performances on August 29–30, 2026.
Presented in honor of National Women’s Equality Day, Ecstatic Resistance celebrated the power of movement, collaboration, and collective expression while continuing MashUp’s commitment to providing meaningful resources and platforms for women, non-binary, and trans artists to create ambitious new work.
2026
Past Residency Recipients
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Katherine Helen Fisher
2026
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Jessie Lee Thorne
2024
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Tess Hewlett
Fall 2022
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Waeli Wang
Spring 2022
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Shenandoah Harris
2019
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Haley Bergeson
2018
