Guest Artists

Alice Jane Klugherz has been creating her own brand of word and movement pieces since 1998 and has performed as an actress and dancer for more than twenty years. has been creating her own brand of word  Her work has been shown at PS 122, the Knitting Factory, Dixon Place, The Flea and The Ohio Theater. She has also read her texts at the Cornelia Street Café and at the Telephone Bar. Alice was last seen as an Angel in Greenwood Cemetery in Martha Bower’s Angels and Accordions and as a Holocaust survivor in RED DIVE’S Peripheral City / City of Refuge. She has received grants from Dance Theater Workshop’s Public Imaginations program and The Field’s Independent Challenge Grant as well as residencies at Cornell University and The Millay Artist Colony.  Alice performed with the Motion Theatre Dance Company in This Chicken is Real Chicken and was a featured guest artist in Mysteries of Light. For further information please contact  - wizehart@aol.com

Matt Tavianini Matthew is pleased to be working with Motion Theatre Dance Co.  He currently serves as the managing director/producer/ actor of BOXTALES Theatre Co. He is a graduate of UCSB and the FSU/Asolo Conservatory where he received his M.F.A. in acting. Some of his favorite roles are Michal in The Pillowman, Karl in The Last Days of the Empire, Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, Telemachus in BOXTALES production of The Odyssey; Joe in The Last Night of Ballyhoo, David in The Rivals, and Thurio in Two Gentlemen of Verona, Matt in Wrench, and Bobby in American Buffalo.  Matthew also teaches acting, Shakespeare and stage combat, and directs junior high school students here in Santa Barbara and has also enjoyed working at the Westport Playhouse, The Odyssey Theatre, Ogunquit Playhouse, Asolo Theatre, Santa Barbara Theatre Group, The Ensemble Theatre, Speaking of Stories, Santa Barbara Shakespeare Co., City at Peace, and with the Lit Moon Theatre Company.