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The Studio@620
MIXed: Across St Pete
MIXed: Across St. Pete
A Citywide Dance Project
January 4–10, 2026
MIXed: Across St. Pete is a week-long series of site-responsive dance happenings created throughout the city by projectALCHEMY’s company dance artists.
Rather than presenting dance within a traditional theatrical framework, this project brings movement into public spaces—parks, pathways, and neighborhoods—where dance appears organically as part of everyday life. These performances are intentionally ephemeral, lightly advertised, and shaped by the environments in which they occur. Audiences may encounter dance unexpectedly, expanding the idea of what dance is and where it can live.
At the heart of this project is accessibility: meeting people where they are and honoring dance as a living, breathing part of the city.
The Works & Choreographers
January 4 — Roser Park
Choreographer & Dancer: Esophia Higgins-Wilkins
Esophia Higgins-Wilkins lets the sidewalk lead—allowing the space to speak back. This piece reflects on motherhood and memory, honoring sidewalks as places that hold our stories: where people from all walks of life pass, pause, gather, and carry on.
January 5 — Edgemoor Park
Choreographer: Heidi Brewer
Dancers: Talia Demps, Kirsten Standridge
Heidi Brewer explores cycles, loops, ricochets, and momentum—movement as a friendly game of ideas passed, returned, and transformed by the space itself. Playful yet precise, the work invites repetition to build meaning and motion to keep unfolding.
January 6 — North Straub Park
Choreographer: Talia Demps
Dancers: Jonah Perez-Lopez, Justin Brock, Heidi Brewer, Sam Kedziora,
Esophia Higgins-Wilkins, Kirsten Standridge, Antonio Hernandez
Talia Demps draws inspiration from the banyan trees of North Straub Park—living archives with long lifespans, vast reach, and generations of knowledge held in their roots and branches. Her site-specific work reflects on nature, connectivity, and the quiet wisdom carried across years.
January 7 — Pinellas Trail, Deuces Corridor
Choreographer: Sarah Hamilton
Dancers: Esophia Higgins-Wilkins, Kirsten Standridge, Sam Kedziora, Talia Demps
Sarah Hamilton explores movement as intention in motion—breaking away from completed structure to embrace flow, curiosity, and the joy that comes from simply moving. Her site-specific work invites play, presence, and freedom within the moment.
January 7 — Maximo Beach Park
Choreographer: Kirsten Standridge
Dancers: Heidi Brewer, Esophia Higgins-Wilkins
Kirsten Standridge creates a site-specific work that listens closely to the environment—allowing the beauty of the space to lead the movement. Rather than imposing form, the dance reveals what the place already holds.
January 8 — Seminole Park in Historic Kenwood
Choreographer: Antonio Hernandez
Dancers: Justin Brock, Talia Demps, Sam Kedziora, Kirsten Standridge
Antonio Hernandez draws inspiration from the park’s architecture—seeing it as a kind of motherboard, where pathways resemble circuits and movement behaves like data in motion. His site-specific work explores algorithms, pixels, memory loading like an image file, systems syncing, and the presence of a firewall between bodies and space.
January 9 — Downtown St. Pete
Choreographer: Sam Kedziora
Dancers: Heidi Brewer, Talia Demps, Jonah Perez-Lopez, Justin Brock, Kirsten Standridge
Sam Kedziora creates a site-specific work rooted in community and synchronicity—dance unfolding in public space, bodies aligning and misaligning, finding rhythm together in real time. A quiet study of how connection forms when movement is shared, witnessed, and allowed to breathe.
Click the links below to learn more about the company artists.
Artistic Director’s Note
“MIXed: Across St. Pete is about honoring dance as a living, breathing part of the city. By embracing ephemerality and accessibility, we’re inviting people to experience dance not as something separate from everyday life, but as something that already exists within it. This project is only the beginning of a much larger vision.”
— Alexander Jones, Artistic Director
Creative Team
Company Dance Artists / Choreographers
Kirsten Standridge
Heidi Brewer
Esophia Higgins-Wilkins
Sam Kedziora
Talia Demps
Antonio Hernandez
Sarah Hamilton
Videography: Joey Clay
Production Stage Manager: Sarah Hamilton
Co-Creative Directors
Alexander Jones, Artistic Director
Marcus Wehby, Executive Director
Ideation Support: Andee Scott
Board of Directors
Alexander Jones, P
Bob Devin Jones, VP
Samantha Barnes Jones, Secretary/Treasurer
Jon French
Eugenie Bondurant
Special Thanks
Bill DeYoung — St. Pete Catalyst / Arts Alive! Podcast
Avery Anderson — Tampa Bay Arts Passport
Erica Sutherlin — The Studio@620
Tracey Kennard — Arts, Culture & Tourism Coordinator, City of St. Petersburg
Helen French — St. Pete Arts Alliance
Our families and friends
Merch: Wearable Dance-Inspired Art
projectALCHEMY’s merchandise is more than apparel—it is wearable art created by artists.
Our merch collections are designed by projectALCHEMY collaborators and reflect the same ideas that shape our performances: movement, transformation, place, and process. Each piece draws from dance as an embodied practice—translated into graphic form, language, and design you can carry with you into everyday life.
Current collections and campaigns feature artist-driven designs that echo the spirit of MIXed: Across St. Pete—ephemeral moments, layered histories, and the belief that dance belongs everywhere.
All merchandise is produced through our Bonfire shop, with proceeds directly supporting:
Company dance artists
Community-based and site-responsive projects
Accessible performances and programming across St. Petersburg
By wearing and sharing this work, you are helping sustain a thriving dance+ ecosystem and making it possible for artists to continue creating within and alongside our community.
👉 Explore the collections and support the artists
Save The Date
BEACON
BEACON is an annual contemporary dance series whose mission is to provide a professional dance performance experience specifically for St. Petersburg. Co-founded and co-produced by St. Petersburg natives, Helen Hansen French and Lauren Slone, this series grew out of their strong desire to provide more opportunities for professional dancers and multidisciplinary artists to create and share high-quality work with the local community.
Date: March 6, 2026
Venue: The Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg, FL
Above/Below
Above/Below is an immersive gallery experience that invites audiences into a dialogue with their own shadows. Rooted in the concept that "the above is of the below and the below is of the above," this collaboration between international director of photography Joey Clay and projectALCHEMY artistic director Alexander Jones explores the embodiment of shadow work through film, photography, and dance.
Through layered visuals and movement, Above/Below leads viewers through the tension and harmony between what we project and what we hide, encouraging a deeper, more vulnerable sense of self-discovery. The gallery becomes a portal: to reflect, to confront, and ultimately to illuminate.
About Joey Clay
First and foremost, Joey Clay is a father—a role he calls his greatest creation and blessing. Based in St. Petersburg, Florida, Joey is an internationally acclaimed Director of Photography, Cinematographer, and Consultant with 23 years behind the lens. His visual storytelling has taken him around the world, working with artists and brands such as Julian Marley, Vivica A. Fox, Giuliana Rancic, Publix, Checkers & Rally’s, and HSN. He approaches every project with a commitment to quality, positivity, and authenticity.
Date: March 26-28
Venue: Murray Theatre at Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater, FL