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Lucy Sexton

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Lucy Sexton is an American performer, director, choreographer and magazine editor who performs as Factress, and is one half of Dancenoise.[1][2][3]

She is a Bessie Award winner, and later served as the organization's executive director before stepping down in 2020.[4][5] As of 2014, she was associate artistic director at the World Trade Center Performing Arts Center.[6] As of 2020, she's Executive Director of New Yorkers For Culture and the Arts under which she co-leads the Culture at 3 calls.[7]

Sexton has a child with her husband Stephen Daldry and is a 1982 graduate of Ohio University.[8][9]

References

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  1. ↑ Kourlas, Gia (July 19, 2015). "The Whitney Embraces Dancenoise, a Brash '80s Performance Duo". The New York Times. Retrieved November 10, 2022.
  2. ↑ "Helen Shaw on "Avant-Garde-Arama" at Performance Space New York". March 7, 2018. Retrieved November 10, 2022.
  3. ↑ Kourlas, Gia (April 6, 2017). "Dance in NYC This Week". The New York Times. Retrieved November 10, 2022.
  4. ↑ Kourlas, Gia (August 12, 2012). "Classifications in the Science of an Art". The New York Times. Retrieved November 10, 2022.
  5. ↑ "Lucy Sexton Steps Down as Executive Director of the Bessies". www.artforum.com. January 7, 2020. Retrieved November 10, 2022.
  6. ↑ Pogrebin, Robin (February 13, 2014). "London Director to Draft Arts Vision for Ground Zero". The New York Times.
  7. ↑ Pogrebin, Robin (May 12, 2020). "The Daily Call That 200 Arts Groups Hope Will Help Them Survive". The New York Times. Retrieved November 10, 2022.
  8. ↑ claussn1 (August 29, 2022). "Ohio University to confer Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree to Gladys Bailin Stern, emerita director and distinguished professor in the School of Dance". OHIO News. Retrieved November 10, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ↑ Strudwick, Patrick (June 28, 2022). "Billy Elliot director Stephen Daldry: 'The thing I'm most grateful for is being gay'". Retrieved November 10, 2022.