A.I.M BY KYLE ABRAHAM
APRIL 4 - 9, 2023
Season Sponsor:
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
KYLE ABRAHAM**
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
SYDNIE LIGGETT-DENNIS
DANCERS
JAMAAL BOWMAN, TAMISHA A. GUY*,
KEERATI JINAKUNWIPHAT, CATHERINE KIRK, JAE NEAL, DONOVAN REED, MARTELL RUFFIN, DYMON SAMARA, KAR’MEL ANTONYO WADE SMALL, KETURAH STEPHEN (swing), GIANNA THEODORE
*Princess Grace Award Recipient; **Princess Grace Statue Award
GUEST DANCERS
The Glorya Kaufman School of Dance at USC Class of '24
ASHTON BENN, AIMEE BROTTEN, WILLIAM OKAJIMA, HAYDEN RIVAS
Leadership support for The Joyce Theater Foundation has been received from the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust.
Champion support for The Joyce’s annual programming has been provided by Howard Gilman Foundation and The Shubert Foundation.
Champion support for The Joyce’s Creative Residencies Program supporting choreographers and dance companies has been provided by Mellon Foundation.
Major support for The Joyce has been provided by Ford Foundation, MacMillan Family Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, and The SHS Foundation.
The Joyce’s presentation of A.I.M by Kyle Abraham is made possible with the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels.
Special support for live music has been provided by the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust.
The Joyce Theater Foundation presents
FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Thank you for joining us!
This program started the moment you walked into the theater and heard the preshow playlist I created. Starting with D’Angelo’s Me And Those Dreaming Eyes of Mine, this playlist serves as a bridge to the actual format New York audiences were supposed to experience our work. I hoped you would first see An Untitled Love at BAM, followed by this mixed program of repertory here at The Joyce, before attending Requiem: Fire in the Air of The Earth at The Rose Theater. Clearly, the pandemic had its own agenda.
Luckily that agenda gave way for the newly commissioned work, Uproot: love and legacy by former A.I.M company member (2011-2014) and recent Princess Grace recipient Maleek Washington. As a dancer/collaborator, Maleek performed in the premiere of Live! The Realest MC and Pavement before moving on to create his own works and collaborate with fellow Princess Grace recipient, Camille A. Brown. I remember seeing Maleek’s autobiographical solo work, The Bronx Blues at Gibney in 2019 and being completely moved by his point of view.
The second work on our program is 5 Minute Dance (You Drivin’?). It's an amusebouche of what may possibly become a larger work that I began to investigate with the dancers at A.I.M and students at USC Kaufman during my first semester, and rounding out the first half is MotorRover. Commissioned by Baryshnikov Arts Center in collaboration with the Merce Cunningham Trust in 2021, the task was to create a work “in conversation” with Merce Cunningham’s Landrover for a dance film adaptation of "In Conversation with Merce.” Having already premiered the film, this week marks the world premiere of the stage adaptation. Since I first studied the technique with Cathy Kerr at Purchase College and took open classes at The Cunningham Studio, I’ve always admired Cunningham’s vast and brilliant repertoire that allows for endless possibilities and exploration.
The second half opens with a reconstruction of Bebe Miller’s 1989 solo work Rain performed on alternating programs by Tamisha A. Guy and Catherine Kirk. This is the company’s second time exploring Bebe’s repertoire. Her work speaks so much to the dance-maker I hope to be. You see her history, her pride, and her vulnerability in all that she touches. Rain is a work that takes the performer and the audience on a beautifully cathartic journey and I’m so thrilled to have that imparted within this repertory program.
To close the program is If We Were a Love Song, a work created as a love letter for the culture. Its power and vulnerability are an offering of love to our future, through our past.
Thank you for spending your time with us.
With love and gratitude,
Kyle Abraham
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Uproot: love and legacy
WORLD PREMIERE
Choreography: Maleek Washington in collaboration with A.I.M Music Composition & Performance: KAMAUU & Kwinton Gray
Lighting Design: Dan Scully
Scenic Design: Lee “SOEMS” Beard in collaboration with Maleek Washington
Costume Design: Bones Jones
PERFORMED BY
JAMAAL BOWMAN, TAMISHA A. GUY, CATHERINE KIRK, DONOVAN REED, GIANNA THEODORE
Uproot: love and legacy is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Uproot: love and legacy is commissioned, in part, with the support of The Joyce Theater Foundation's Stephen and Cathy Weinroth Fund for New Work.
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5 Minute Dance (You Drivin'?)
WORLD PREMIERE
Choreography: Kyle Abraham in collaboration with A.I.M and The Glorya Kaufman School of Dance at USC Class of '24
Music: Black to Basiks by Jlin
Lighting Design: Dan Scully
Costume Design: Kyle Abraham & Karen Young
PERFORMED BY
KEERATI JINAKUNWIPHAT, KAR’MEL ANTONYO WADE SMALL, KETURAH STEPHEN, GIANNA THEODORE (4/4, 4/5, 4/8eve, 4/9)
*ASHTON BENN, AIMEE BROTTEN, WILLIAM OKAJIMA, HAYDEN RIVAS (4/6, 4/7, 4/8mat)
*Guest student artists from The Glorya Kaufman School of Dance at USC Class of '24.
MotorRover
WORLD PREMIERE
Choreography: Kyle Abraham in collaboration with A.I.M
Lighting Design: Dan Scully
Costume Design: Reid & Harriet
PERFORMED BY
JAMAAL BOWMAN & DONOVAN REED (4/4, 4/5, 4/7, 4/8eve, 4/9)
TAMISHA A. GUY & CATHERINE KIRK (4/6, 4/8mat)
MotorRover was created in part during a “bubble” residency at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park and LUMBERYARD, made possible by the Mellon Foundation.
MotorRover was commissioned by Baryshnikov Arts Center through its 2021 Commissioning Initiative. This initiative was made possible with generous support from Anonymous, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Howard Gilman Foundation, Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Kaye Foundation, and Jerome Robbins Foundation. MotorRover was choreographed in response to an excerpt from Merce Cunningham’s 1972 dance Landrover, and first shown digitally as part of “In Conversation with Merce,” an online program co-produced by Baryshnikov Arts Center and the Merce Cunningham Trust.
Additional support for MotorRover is generously provided by Michéle and Steve Pesner, and Peace. - INTERMISSION
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Rain (1989)
Choreography: Bebe Miller
Original Music: Composed by Hearn Gadbois, vocals by Jay Bolotin and Rich Franko with cello by Robert Een
Additional Music: Heitor Villa-Lobos, Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5*; vocals: Salli Terri; guitar: Laurindo Almeida
Original Lighting Design: Ken Tabachnick
Visual Design: Bebe Miller
Original Costume Design: Muriel Stockdale, recreated by Jon Taylor
PERFORMED BY
TAMISHA A. GUY (4/4, 4/5, 4/7, 4/9), CATHERINE KIRK (4/6, 4/8mat/eve)
“My inspiration for Rain came from Salli Terri singing Villa Lobos’ Bachianas Brasileiras #5. I thought it was the most beautiful song I’d ever heard. Deciding to dance to it meant finding a way to arrive, to be there with her voice. At the time it seemed a hard journey, aimed towards a deliverance of some kind. Rain’s setting, costume, and music score, with Hearn Gadbois’ stringent score as a prelude to Villa Lobos, all speak to a generative friction, a rub between opposites. For me, performing the work was always a strategy toward release, a relief from current circumstances. Setting the work on A.I.M's dance artists has been a different release, tossing the work onward for others to navigate. Rain premiered in the Le Percq Space, Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Series, in 1989. Joseph Melillo, the festival’s artistic director, suggested that I choreograph a solo to accompany Bebe Miller Company’s group work, Allies, which also premiered on the program. I remain grateful to Joe for his gentle suggestion.” --Bebe
Miller
*Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 by Heitor Villa-Lobos presented under license from G. Schirmer Inc. and Associated Music Publishers, copyright owners.
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If We Were a Love Song (2021)
Choreography: Kyle Abraham in collaboration with A.I.M Music: Nina Simone
Lighting Design: Dan Scully
Costume Design: Kyle Abraham & Karen Young
Black is
the Color of My True Love’s Hair
Jamaal Bowman, Keerati Jinakunwiphat, Catherine Kirk, Donovan Reed, & Gianna Theodore with
Tamisha A. Guy (4/6, 4/7, 4/8mat, 4/9)
Jae Neal (4/5 & 4/8mat)
Dymon Samara (4/4, 4/5, 4/8eve)
Martell Ruffin (4/4, 4/6, 4/7, 4/8eve, 4/9)
Keeper of the Flame
Jae Neal (4/4, 4/7, 4/8eve)
Donovan Reed (4/6 & 4/8mat)
Dymon Samara (4/5 & 4/9)
Little Girl Blue
Don’t Explain
Wild is the Wind Images
Gianna Theodore
Jae Neal & Donovan Reed
Keerati Jinakunwiphat (4/6 & 4/9)
Martell Ruffin (4/4, 4/5, 4/7, 4/8mat/eve)
Tamisha A. Guy (4/6, 4/7, 4/8mat)
Catherine Kirk (4/4, 4/5, 4/8eve, 4/9)
If We Were a Love Song was made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts.
If We Were a Love Song was created in part through a residency at the Pillow Lab at Jacob’s Pillow; and during a “bubble” residency at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park and LUMBERYARD, made possible by the Mellon Foundation.
If We Were a Love Song is commissioned by ADF with support from the Doris Duke/SHS Foundations Award for New Works.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Contemporary dance company A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, considered “one of the most consistently excellent troupes working today” (The New York Times), provides multifaceted performances, educational programming, and community-based workshops across the globe. Led by acclaimed Choreographer and Artistic Director Kyle Abraham’s innovative vision, the work of A.I.M is galvanized by Black culture and history, and grounded in a conglomeration of unique perspectives; described by Abraham as a “post-modern gumbo” of movement exploration.
A.I.M is one of the most active touring dance companies in the United States, with an audience base as diverse as A.I.M’s movement vocabulary, drawing inspiration from a multitude of sources and dance styles. Since A.I.M’s founding in 2006, Abraham has created more than 15 original works for and with the company. To expand its repertoire and offer a breadth of dance work to audiences, A.I.M commissions new works and performs existing works by outside choreographers, such as Trisha Brown, Bebe Miller, Andrea Miller, and current A.I.M dancer Keerati Jinakunwiphat.
Kyle Abraham’s unique vision and illumination of poignant and relevant issues set him apart from his generation of choreographers as a leading creative force in dance. A.I.M extends this vision and amplifies surrounding artistic voices to share movement and community-based work with audiences around the world.
For more information, to get involved, or purchase your A.I.M merchandise, please visit aimbykyleabraham.org. Follow A.I.M on Instagram @aimbykyleabraham and Kyle Abraham at @kyle_abraham_original_recipe.
Generous support for A.I.M provided by: Nathan M. Clark Foundation; Dorchester Industries Experimental Design Lab; Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; Ford Foundation; Howard Gilman Foundation; Harkness Foundation for Dance; The DuBose & Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund; The Hyde and Watson Foundation; The International Association of Blacks in Dance; Joyce Theater Foundation; MacMillan Family Foundation; Mellon Foundation; New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; New Music USA; New York Community Trust; Princess Grace Foundation-USA; Rockefeller Brothers Fund; Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; Samuel H. Scripps Foundation; and The Shubert Foundation. Public funding provided by Mid Atlantic Arts Regional Resilience Fund, The National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
A.I.M is supported through the Comprehensive Organizational Health Initiative (COHI) | Managing Organizational Vitality and Endurance, a program of The International Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD) in partnership with the Nonprofit Finance Fund with support from the Mellon Foundation.
A.I.M is a proud supporter of Dancers Responding to AIDS, which helps ensure that those most in need receive the care and comfort they would otherwise do without. Founded in 1991 by former Paul Taylor Dance Company members Denise Roberts Hurlin and Hernando Cortez, DRA relies on the extraordinary compassion and efforts of the performing arts community to fund a safety net of social services for those in need. Together, we can make a difference for those less fortunate than us. Donate at www.dradance.org/donate
Support the creation of new work and community engagement! Contributions may be made payable to “Abraham.In.Motion, Inc.” P.O. Box 986, New York, NY 10113. Abraham.In.Motion, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization (EIN: 82-4790161). All donations are tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by law.
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SUPPORT
LEADERSHIP
Kyle Abraham (he/him), Artistic Director
Sydnie Liggett-Dennis (she/her), Executive Director
A.I.M BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Kyle Abraham, Stephen Simcock (chair), Cheryl Bergenfeld, Chris Calkins, Adrienne Edwards, Suzanne Hall, Mark A. Leavitt, Glenn Ligon, Jennifer Mendelson, Bebe Neuwirth, Carrie Schneider, Gilda Squire, Julia Strickland, Mickalene Thomas
A.I.M STAFF
Company & Tour Operations
Anne Dechêne (she/her), General Manager
Jessica Tong (she/her), Rehearsal Director
Matthew Baker (he/him), Artistic Engagement Manager
Amber Lee Parker (she/her), Company Manager
Meredith Belis (she/her), Production Stage Manager
Dan Stearns (he/him), Lighting Supervisor
Risa Steinberg (she/her), Choreographic Advisor
Samuel Crawford (he/him), Sound Editor
Development
Lauren Cronk (she/her), Director of Development
Danielle LeBron (she/her), Development Associate
Press & Marketing
Alexander Diaz (he/they), Marketing Manager
Catherine Kirk (she/her), Marketing Associate
Lisa Labrado (she/her), Press Agent
Finance
Lucy Mallett (she/her) and Julia Corrigan (she/her), Arts FMS, Financial Services
Interns
Izzy Brennan (she/her), Melike Konur (she/her), Donovan Reed (he/they), Grace Tong (she/her)
WHO'S WHO IN THE COMPANY
KYLE ABRAHAM (he/him) (Artistic Director/Choreographer), Princess Grace Statue Award Recipient (2018), Doris Duke Award Recipient (2016), and MacArthur Fellow (2013), began his dance training at the Civic Light Opera Academy and the Creative and Performing Arts High School in Pittsburgh, PA. After graduating from Schenley High School, Abraham continued his dance studies in New York, earning a BFA from SUNY Purchase and an MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Abraham later received an honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from Washington Jefferson College. Abraham is currently the Claude and Alfred Mann Endowed Professor in Dance at The University of Southern California (USC) Glorya Kaufman School of Dance (2021-present). Prior to USC, Abraham served as a visiting professor in residence at the University of California, Los Angeles’s (UCLA) World Arts Cultures in Dance program (2016-2021). Abraham serves on the advisory board for Dance Magazine, and in 2020 was selected to be their first-ever Guest Editor. Abraham also sits on the artistic advisory board for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the inaugural Black Genius Brain Trust, and the inaugural cohort of
COMPANY CREDITS
the Dorchester Industries Experimental Design Lab, a partnership between the Prada Group, Theaster Gates Studio, Dorchester Industries, and Rebuild Foundation. In addition, Abraham was named a Kennedy Center Next 50 Leader (2021), a list of leaders who exemplify the Center’s mission to help shape culture and society through the arts. Abraham was named to the inaugural 100 ArtDesk magazine (2022) for “pushing new frontiers in creative work” and was one of Native Son’s 101 Class of 2022 honoring “Black gay men who have had an impact this year.” He was a recipient of a 2022 Dance Magazine Award, one of the field’s highest honors, and was called a “voice of a generation” by the magazine.
Rebecca Bengal of Vogue wrote, “What Abraham brings … is an avant-garde aesthetic, an original and politically minded downtown sensibility that doesn’t distinguish between genres but freely draws on a vocabulary that is as much Merce [Cunningham] and Martha [Graham] as it is Eadweard Muybridge and Michael Jackson.”
His company, A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, is widely considered “one of the most consistently excellent troupes working today” (The New York Times). Led by Abraham’s innovative vision, the work of A.I.M is galvanized by Black culture and history and grounded in a conglomeration of unique perspectives; described as a “post-modern gumbo” of movement exploration. The company’s recent works include An Untitled Love (2021), a thumping mixtape celebrating culture, family, and community, that was included on The Boston Globe’s and The Guardian’s “Best Dance of 2022” list; Requiem: Fire in the Air of the Earth, described as “a brilliant collaborative feat”; and A.I.M’s Emmy-nominated film If We Were a Love Song (2021), a series of poetic vignettes set to the music of Nina Simone. In addition to performing and developing new works for his company, Abraham has been commissioned by a wide variety of dance companies including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, The National Ballet of Cuba, New York City Ballet, and the Royal Ballet.
Abraham has created four works for New York City Ballet; Love Letter (on shuffle) (2022); the dance film When We Fell (2021); a collaboration with Principal Dancer Taylor Stanley, Ces noms que nous portons (2020), a Lincoln Center and NYCB commissioned solo; and The Runaway (2018). The New York Times hailed When We Fell as “among the most beautiful dance films of the pandemic” and The Runaway (2018) was recognized on its “Best Dance of 2018.” Abraham has created two works for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Are You In Your Feelings (2022) and Untitled America (2016). Untitled America is a three-part commissioned work for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater that was described by The New York Times as “potent and explosive and wonderfully of the moment.” Other works include The Weathering (2022), commissioned by The Royal Ballet; Unto The End, We Meet (2020) for National Ballet of Cuba; and Abraham was the final choreographer commissioned by Paul Taylor before his passing, creating Only The Lonely (2019) for Paul Taylor American Modern Dance. In addition to performing and developing new works for his company, Abraham has been commissioned by a wide variety of dance companies including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, The National Ballet of Cuba, New York City Ballet, and the Royal Ballet.
Abraham has also choreographed for many of the leading dancers of our time. Most recently, to be seen (2020), a new solo for American Ballet Theatre Principal Dancer Calvin Royal III, premiered during the virtual Fall For Dance Festival. Of
this solo, The New York Times observed “how skilled [Abraham] has become at mingling the ballet vernacular with other forms, from hip-hop to West African movement” and his unique talent for “finding the person within the dancer and the bodies within a body.” Abraham created Ash (2019), a solo work for American Ballet Theatre Principal Dancer Misty Copeland that also had its premiere at Fall for Dance. The Serpent and The Smoke (2016) toured as part of Restless Creature, a pas de deux for Abraham, and acclaimed Bessie Award-winning and former New York City Ballet Principal Dancer Wendy Whelan. Off the stage, Abraham choreographed the music video for Sufjan Stevens’ Sugar (2020) and the featurelength film The Book of Henry (2016) for acclaimed director Colin Trevorrow.
In his early career, Abraham served as a choreographic contributor for Beyonce’s British Vogue cover shoot (2013) and was named a Joyce Creative Residency Artist (2017-18), a City Center Choreographer in Residence (2015), the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award recipient (2012), a USA Ford Fellow (2012), and the New York Live Arts Resident Commissioned Artist (2012–2014). Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater premiered Abraham’s Another Night (2012) at New York City Center. OUT Magazine labeled Abraham as the “best and brightest creative talent to emerge in New York City in the age of Obama” (2011). Abraham is the recipient of a Bessie Award for Outstanding Performance in Dance for The Radio Show (2010), a Princess Grace Award for Choreography (2010), and was selected as one of Dance Magazine’s “25 To Watch” (2009).
Abraham’s choreography has been presented throughout the United States and abroad. Notable venues and festivals include Brooklyn Academy of Music, Danspace Project, Fall for Dance Festival at New York City Center, Harlem Stage, The Joyce Theater, and Lincoln Center in New York; Carpenter Performing Arts Center, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Los Angeles Music Center in California; Dance Center at Columbia College Chicago in Illinois; ICA Boston and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts; Bates Dance Festival in Maine; American Dance Festival in North Carolina; The Andy Warhol Museum, The Byham, and The Kelly-Strayhorn Theater in Pennsylvania; Performing Arts Houston and TITAS in Texas; On The Boards and Seattle Theatre Group in Washington; and The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Internationally Abraham’s works have toured to Théâtre Paul Eluard, Maison de la Danse, Théâtre de la Ville, and L’Onde in France; Tanz Im August and Kampnagel Festival in Germany; Project Arts Centre in Ireland; The Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum in Japan; and the Royal Opera House and Sadler’s Wells in the United Kingdom, among others.
JAMAAL BOWMAN (he/him) (Dancer) began his dance training at the age of 14 in Maryland, where he was born and raised. In 2021, he graduated from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA as a Director’s Scholar under the direction of Donna Faye Burchfield. Over the years, he has collaborated with Nora Chipaumire, Tommie Waheed-Evans, Maleek Washington, Helen Pickett, Fana Fraser, Jocelyn Cottencin, Nacera Belaza, and Sidra Bell. In November 2021, Bowman toured with Von Howard Project to Ecuador to perform in the International Living Arts Festival of Loja. Most recently, he has performed as a company member with Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers for their 2021-2022 season. His personal practices are centered around queer Black joy, theater, improvisation, and comedy. He hopes to reshape the future for queer Black people like him, to give them more opportunities to shine. Bowman joined A.I.M by Kyle Abraham in 2022.
(she/her) (Dancer), a native of Trinidad and Tobago, began her formal dance training at Ballet Tech, under the direction of Eliot Feld. Later, she attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School and SUNY Purchase College as a double major in dance and arts management. She has completed summer programs with COMPLEXIONS Contemporary Ballet and Springboard Danse Montreal, and has performed works by William Forsythe, Pam Tanowitz, and Mark Morris. In 2013, Guy graduated with honors from SUNY Purchase College and joined the Martha Graham Dance Company shortly after. In 2016, Guy was selected as one of Dance Magazine's “Top 25 to Watch” and received the 2016 Princess Grace Award. In 2017, she was named one of the Best Dancers of the Year by Dance Europe. In 2021, she was awarded the 2022 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Dance which recognizes foreign-born scientists and artists in the United States. Guy joined A.I.M by Kyle Abraham in 2014.
KEERATI JINAKUNWIPHAT (she/her) (Dancer), originally from Chicago, IL, received her BFA from the Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase and was a recipient of the Adopt-a-Dancer scholarship program. She has additionally studied at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, and Springboard Danse Montreal. She has worked with and performed works of artists including Kyle Abraham, Nicole von Arx, Trisha Brown, Jasmine Ellis, Hannah Garner, Shannon Gillen, Andrea Miller, Kevin Wynn, and Doug Varone. She has assisted Kyle Abraham in new commissioned work for New York City Ballet and Paul Taylor American Modern Dance. As a freelance choreographer, Jinakunwiphati has presented her own choreographic works at the American Dance Guild Festival, Battery Dance Festival, Dance Gallery Festival, The Joyce Theater, New Victory Theater, Lincoln Center, and more. She has been commissioned to set and create works on the Evanston Dance Ensemble, the Martha Graham School, SUNY Purchase College Conservatory of Dance, A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, Houston Contemporary Dance Company, New England Ballet Theatre, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, Bang On A Can, Princeton University, PARA.MAR Dance Theatre, Whim W'him Seattle Contemporary Dance, and the New York Choreographic Institute. She graced the cover as one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2021. In 2023, Keerati became the first Asian American Woman to be commissioned to choreograph for the New Yorky City Ballet. Keerati Jinakunwiphat joined A.I.M by Kyle Abraham in 2016.
CATHERINE KIRK (she/her) (Dancer) was born on the unceded land of the Kiickaapoi and Wichita peoples, now called Dallas, TX. She began formally studying dance at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts before graduating from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. A multi-hyphenate, Kirk is also a dance maker, marketing strategist, arts administrator, dance educator, and yoga teacher. She has completed seasonal programs with San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, Movement Invention Project, and Springboard Danse Montreal, where she performed work by Fernando Melo, Ohad Naharin, and Sharon Eyal. Upon graduating, Kirk apprenticed for Sidra Bell Dance New York before collaborating and performing with Danakah Dance, UNA Productions, Burr Johnson, Jasmine Hearn, and Helen Simoneau Danse. She is working as A.I.M’s marketing associate while performing with the company. Kirk joined A.I.M by Kyle Abraham in 2013.
TAMISHA A.
GUY
(Dancer) was born and raised in Michigan and received their training from Western Michigan University. There, they performed in professional works such as Strict Love by Doug Varone, Temporal Trance by Frank Chavez, and Harrison McEldowney’s Dance Sport. Since relocating to New York, they have had the privilege of working with SYREN Modern Dance, Christina Noel Reaves, Catapult Entertainment, Katherine Helen Fisher Dance, and Nathan Trice. Neal joined A.I.M by Kyle Abraham in 2011.
DONOVAN REED (he/they) (Dancer), a native of Philadelphia, PA, began his dance training at the age of 16. Soon after, Reed attended college at The University of the Arts where he received his BFA in May of 2016. During his time in college, he participated as an artist in residence at Die Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt, Germany. In addition, Reed participated in an independent artist program where his training was extended with the Pennsylvania Ballet. Other studies include PHILADANCO!, Eleone Dance Theatre, and The Rock School for Dance Education. He has performed works by choreographers Sidra Bell, Regina Van Berkel, Sharon Eyal, Tommie WaheedEvans, Beth Gill, Andrea Miller, Tania Isaac, Meredith Rainey, and Helen Simoneau. Reed joined A.I.M by Kyle Abraham in 2018.
MARTELL RUFFIN (he/him) (Dancer), from Chicago, IL, began his formal dance training at the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago in 2009. He attended Chicago High School for the Arts under then-director Lisa Johnson-Willingham, former dancer of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Ruffin has been awarded dance scholarship to intensives at Joffrey Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, COMPLEXIONS Contemporary Ballet, and received first place in the all-city NAACP ACT-SO Competition 2011. He trained at The Ailey School as a scholarship student and has performed works by Lisa Johnson-Willingham, Earl Mosley, George Faison, Darrell Grand Moultrie, Matthew Rushing, Jae Man Joo, Robert Battle, and Alvin Ailey. Ruffin has also been seen in the “Poison Girl” Christian Dior commercial for women's fragrance and an Urban Outfitters commercial for music artist Samantha Urbani. He completed two years with Ailey II and is now contributing choreographer and performer for Triptych (Eyes of One Another), an Opera based on Robert Mappethorpe. Ruffin joined A.I.M by Kyle Abraham in 2020.
DYMON SAMARA (she/her) (Dancer) is a process-driven dancer, choreographer, and performer who began her dance training at the age of 11, where she attended the AileyCamp Miami summer program. She then continued her dance training at Author and Polly Mays Conservatory of the Arts where she met Lateshia McFarland who offered her a scholarship to attend her studio, ICTalent Dance. Samara is a New World School of the Arts alumna where she holds the Principals Hall of Fame Award for her outstanding academic and arts performance. She has performed works by world-renowned choreographers including Robert Battle, Ohad Naharin, Jennifer Archibald, Peter London, Camille A. Brown, Stephen Petronio, and apprenticed with Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE, A Dance Company during the Summer and Fall of 2021. She currently studies at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts on a full tuition scholarship as a 2019-2022 Dean Scholar. Samara joined A.I.M by Kyle Abraham in 2022.
JAE NEAL (they/them)
ANTONYO WADE SMALL (he/him) (Dancer), raised in the South Bronx, NY, began his dance journey with American and International Ballroom at the age of 10. In 2011, he launched his formal dance training at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School in New York City. Small went on to become a student of the Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase, graduating with a BFA in Dance Performance and Composition in 2019. He has since performed at Jacob’s Pillow, The Joyce Theater, Symphony Space, Kaatsbaan, New York Live Arts, The Neuberger Museum of Art, Lincoln Center, and Central Park for NYC SummerStage. Small has performed works by Damani Pompey, Kayla Farrish, Ohad Naharin, Sidra Bell, Roderick George, Kevin Wynn, Martha Graham, Jerome Robbins, Eleo Pomare, Merce Cunningham, and many other notable choreographers. He choreographed director Dean Irby’s version of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brothers Size and has danced in numerous TV and film projects including UNIVISION’s Despierta América, and HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness Small joined A.I.M by Kyle Abraham in October 2022.
KETURAH STEPHEN (she/her) (Swing), a Brooklyn native, began her dance journey at Restoration Youth Arts Academy, where she trained in modern, African, and hip hop. She attended Brooklyn High School of the Arts, as well as The Ailey School. She is a graduate of the Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase College. Stephen attended the MOVE (NYC) Young Professionals Program, led by Co-Directors and Co-Founders Chanel DaSilva and Nigel Campbell. Throughout the course of her training, she has worked with and performed works by Earl Mosley, Loni Landon, Roderick George, Trisha Brown, and Antonio Brown. Stephen appeared in the movie In the Heights under the direction of Ebony Williams in 2019. Stephen joined A.I.M by Kyle Abraham in 2022.
GIANNA THEODORE (she/her) (Dancer), raised West Palm Beach, FL, began her dance training at Ballet East Studio under the direction of Susan Lyle and Chelsea Nasby. Theodore is a graduate of A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts, and a three-time YoungArts Merit Scholar/Honorable Mention. She graduated with a BFA in dance from the Ailey/Fordham BFA program Class of 2020. Throughout the course of her training, she has performed works by Robert Battle, Chuck Wilt, and Bradley Shelver. Theodore attended Springboard Danse Montreal, where she performed work created by RUBBERBANDANCE, and Parts+Labour Danse. She has ventured through many cultures and styles of dance, such as house and African, which has helped land her lead roles in music videos. She has also performed professionally with artists including Ebony Williams, Mark Caserta, Maleek Washington, and Jennifer Archibald. She recently performed at a residency with Helen Simoneau Danse. Theodore joined A.I.M by Kyle Abraham in 2019.
GUEST DANCERS. Ashton Benn (she/her) from Irving, TX; Aimee Brotten (she/her) from Tulalip, WA; William Okajima (he/him) from Irvine, CA; and Hayden Rivas (he/ him) from South Surrey, British Columbia, Canada; are members of the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance Class of 2024. The University of Southern California’s sixth art school, USC Kaufman expands upon USC’s signature reputation as a world-class research institution with a deep commitment to the arts.
KAR’MEL
GUEST CHOREOGRAPHERS
BEBE MILLER (Guest Choreographer, Rain), a native New Yorker, first performed her choreography at NYC's Dance Theater Workshop in 1978. She formed Bebe Miller Company (BMC) in 1985 to pursue her interest in finding a physical language for the human condition. Miller has created more than 50 dance works for BMC and been commissioned by Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Oregon Ballet Theater, Boston Ballet, PHILADANCO!, Amsterdam’s Neue Dans Groep, and the UK’s Phoenix Dance Company. She has received four New York Dance and Performance Bessie Awards and been honored by Danspace Project, Movement Research, and by the Kennedy Center as a Master of African American Choreography. Miller is a Doris Duke Foundation Artist, a United States Artists Ford Fellow, and a Professor Emerita in Ohio State University’s Department of Dance. BMC has been commissioned by leading venues including 651 ARTS, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Dance Theater Workshop, Jacob's Pillow, The Joyce Theater, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, REDCAT, and Wexner Center for the Arts. After decades of dance making and performance, BMC notes the matrix of changes in the field itself, and has increased its emphasis on mentorship for individual artists, digital initiatives such as e-books that engage audiences and artists, performance activities that enrich the field, and related scholarship, curatorial, and research modes. www.bebemillercompany.org
MALEEK WASHINGTON (Guest Choreographer, Uproot: love and legacy) is from the Bronx, NY. An alumni of the Boston Conservatory, where he studied on full scholarship, he began his dance training at Harlem School of the Arts, Broadway Dance Center, and LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts. He has danced with CityDance Ensemble (Washington DC), Montreal’s SpringBoard Danse (working with Jose Navas & RUBBERBAND), and Kyle Abraham’s A.I.M for four seasons, before becoming the first African American male to perform in Sleep No More. He has also performed for celebrity artists Sia, Phish, Rihanna, and ASAP Rocky. Maleek was part of NBC’s Jesus Christ Superstar Live and performed with Camille A. Brown & Dancers in the 2018 TED Talk Conference in Vancouver. Maleek has been a member of Camille A. Brown & Dancers for seven seasons. Maleek's choreographic portfolio highlights include, assistant choreographer for Camille A. Brown's Grammy-winning Porgy and Bess and Fire Shut Up In My Bones at the Metropolitan Opera, making history as the first Opera composed by an African American man named Terrance Blanchard; and associate choreographer to Camille A. Brown's For Colored Girls. Other notable choreographic credits include, Camille A. Brown's Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater piece entitled City of Rain, Rashaad Newsome's Assembly at Park Avenue Armory, rapper Nas' Master Class music video, Spike Lee's Mont Blanc Commercial, and MOVE|NYC|'s Scottish Youth Exchange collaborative work that premiered at the U.Dance Festival in England. Proudly, in 2022, Maleek was named a Princess Grace Awardee for Choreography. The remarkable Kyle Abraham, director or A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, nominated Maleek for this award.
BONES JONES ( Costume Design, Uproot: love and legacy ) grew up in Virginia but always knew there was more to life than his small hometown. His fondness for fashion began as a child watching his grandmother sew for her downtown boutique, which specialized in church hats and formal wear. After receiving his first sewing machine from her at age 16, he attended the Virginia School of the Arts to study ballet, jazz, and modern dance. Bones’s love for the arts led him to be a background dancer for various icons—Beyoncé, Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez, and many others. He made his Broadway debut as an original cast member of The Illusionists and also appeared in Off-Broadway's Fuerza Bruta . After four years of living abroad and in Los Angeles, Bones retired from professional dance and moved back to New York in 2019 to focus on launching his line, House O Bones (HOB). With an interest in unisex fashion and everything lifestyle, HOB has something for everyone. @houseobones
KAMAUU ( Composer/Performer, Uproot: love and legacy ) is a Washington D.C.-born and Maryland-based artist, rapper, poet, and thinker. He signed with Atlantic Records in 2015 after his first successful single Jusfayu . Since then, his music has been streamed globally hundreds of millions of times. His vocal layerbased, improvisational, and moldable style has lent itself to vocal soundbaths around the world, and multidisciplinary collaborations, including Broadway’s Thoughts of a Colored Man , The Alabama Ballet, HYPAMASS - a New Zealand Krump Theatre Performance, film scores including Insecure, Without Remorse, etc., and many collaborative workshops and performances with Maleek Washington.
KWINTON GRAY ( Composer/Performer, Uproot: love and legacy ) was born and raised in Dallas, TX where he and siblings received a home-schooled education from their mother. Kwinton comes from a musical family, and he performs w/ his siblings in their family band known as “The Grays.” He also started his own jazz/ fusion group “The Kwinton Gray Project” which released their debut album in 2018 titled Leap of Faith. Both bands continue to perform locally and abroad. In 2017, Kwinton was awarded the Dallas Observer Music Award for Best Keyboardist. He began touring w/ Tony Award nominated director/choreographer Camile A. Brown & Dancers in 2018. He has toured and performed around the globe with acts such as Lalah Hathaway, Janet Jackson, Mononeon, Liv Warfield, The Funky Knuckles, and more.
JLIN ( Composer, 5 Minute Dance (You Drivin’?) ), Jerrilynn Patton, was born in 1987 in Gary, ID, where she continues to live and work. Jlin’s thrilling, emotional, and multidimensional compositions have earned her praise as “one of the most forward-thinking contemporary composers in any genre” ( Pitchfork ). Jlin’s signature sound builds on the Chicago footwork style of her origins, expanding to embrace diverse influences (ranging from Igor Stravinsky and Philip Glass to Miles Davis and Eartha Kitt) that give her complex percussion-driven work a sophisticated polyrhythmic sound that is all its own. Her albums Dark Energy (2015) and Black Origami (2017) received critical acclaim and have been featured in “best of” lists in The New York Times, The Wire, LA Times, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and Vogue . Jlin has collaborated with contemporary artists including William Basinski, Dope Saint Jude, Holly Herndon, Zora Jones, and the late, iconic SOPHIE. She has remixed works for major artists including Björk, Max Richter, Martin Gore ( of Depeche Mode ), Galya Bisengalieva, Marie Davidson,
CREATIVE TEAM
Nina Kraviz, and Ben Frost. Inspired by movement, Jlin has also collaborated with legendary choreographers Wayne McGregor (2017) and Kyle Abraham (2021).
REID & HARRIET ( Costume Designers, MotorRover ). Harriet Jung and Reid
Bartelme met in 2009 while pursuing fashion design degrees at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. They started designing collaboratively in 2011 and have focused their practice primarily on costuming dance. In 2015, they were commissioned by the Museum of Art and Design in New York to develop a costume centric performance work and have since devised two performances at the Guggenheim Museum to shed light on collaborative practice in design and dance. Reid & Harriet Design has completed research fellowships at NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. They continue designing costumes and sets for dance productions around the world while expanding the scope of their practice outside the theater.
DAN SCULLY ( Lighting Designer ) is a New York-based lighting and projection designer. He has been the resident lighting designer for A.I.M by Kyle Abraham since its founding, including designs for the full-length evening works Pavement, Live! The Realest M.C., and the Bessie Award winning The Radio Show . Recent dance work includes designs for New York City Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, BODYTRAFFIC, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and Misty Copeland, among others. Theater and concert credits include Rocky (Broadway), Jedermann (Salzburger Festspeile), The Orchestra Rocks! (Carnegie Hall), and Peter and The Wolf (John Lithgow / Carnegie Hall). Regional: Trinity Repertory Company, Geva Theatre Center, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, and the Two River Theater Company. MFA NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
LEE “SOEMS” BEARD ( Scenic Design, Uproot: love and legacy ) is a Boston raised artist, teacher, muralist, designer, and graffiti enthusiast. He has more than two decades worth of experience in the arts. His works have a wide range of placements that are historical within his city, as well as internationally. Although personally for him, it’s about the details, and how his works and collaborations strike a chord for the viewer. Making connections for people to fully embrace, and experience a new energy creatively is what prides him to continue his journey. It is an honor to create, and to share like minded visions with audiences who would be entering new realms of reality.
KAREN YOUNG ( Costume Design, 5 Minute Dance (You Drivin'?), If We Were a Love Song ) is a New York-based costume designer who has designed clothes for many of A.I.M by Kyle Abraham’s works including An Untitled Love, Drive, The Gettin’, INDY, Meditation: A Silent Prayer . Other recent work with Kyle Abraham includes costume design for his creations for the Royal Ballet, Alvin Ailey, and Paul Taylor. Young also recently designed Keerati Jinakunwiphat’s Fortuitous Ash for New York City Ballet as well as costumes for new works with the Martha Graham Dance Company, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Alejandro Cerrudo, Brian Brooks, Lucinda Childs, Pontus Lidberg, Troy Schumacher, Sonya Tayeh, Miami City Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Ballet Basel, Acosta Danza Cuba, and Malpaso Dance Company. karenyoungcostume.com .
Headshots by Carrie Schneider; Headshot of Kar'mel Antonyo Wade Small by Kyra Akia Naomi Ferguson.
ABOUT THE JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION
The Joyce Theater Foundation ("The Joyce," Executive Director, Linda Shelton), a nonprofit organization, has proudly served the dance community for over three decades. Under the direction of founders Cora Cahan and Eliot Feld, Ballet Tech Foundation acquired and The Joyce renovated the Elgin Theater in Chelsea. Opening as The Joyce Theater in 1982, it was named in honor of Joyce Mertz, beloved daughter of LuEsther T. Mertz. It was LuEsther’s clear, undaunted vision and abundant generosity that made it imaginable and ultimately possible to build the theater. Ownership was secured by The Joyce in 2015. The theater is one of the only theaters built by dancers for dance and has provided an intimate and elegant home for over 400 U.S.-based and international companies. The Joyce has also expanded its reach beyond its Chelsea home through off-site presentations at venues ranging in scope from Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater, to Brooklyn’s Invisible Dog Art Center, and to outdoor programming in spaces such as Hudson River Park. To further support the creation of new work, The Joyce maintains longstanding commissioning and residency programs. Local students and teachers (K–12th grade) benefit from its school program, and family and adult audiences get closer to dance with access to artists. The Joyce’s annual season of about 48 weeks of dance now includes over 340 performances for audiences in excess of 150,000 patrons. Visit Joyce.org for more information.
FUNDERS
Many Thanks to The Joyce's Institutional Funders for Keeping Us Moving Forward
An abundance of gratitude to Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Representative Jerrold Nadler, and Representative Nydia M. Velázquez for their visionary leadership that established the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program, which has helped make the reopening of The Joyce Theater and the reemergence of many dance companies possible.
Leadership support for The Joyce's year-round programs and services:
LuEsther T. Mertz
Charitable Trust
Season Sponsor:
Champion support for The Joyce's Dance Residencies:
Major support for The Joyce’s American Dance Platform and Harkness First debuts:
Major support for The Joyce's operations and special initiatives:
The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation
Champion support for The Joyce's annual programming:
Lead corporate support:
ABOUT THE JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION
VISION STATEMENT
The Joyce Theater Foundation is committed to fostering and supporting a diverse and inclusive environment, both on and off stage. We embrace and celebrate diversity in all its forms, and value the rich experiences and perspectives that arise from differences in race, ethnicity, socio-economic status, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and cognitive and physical ability.
We strive to counteract the social injustices and racism that exist within our communities, our nation, and our world. Our aim as an organization is to embody the principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice.
To achieve this, we will:
• Create and implement proactive diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice initiatives;
• Establish and maintain a culture of safe sharing, intentional listening, learning, and growth;
• Engage with and support disenfranchised communities by sharing information and resources and ensuring accessibility;
• Develop metrics and conduct regular reviews of our programs and policies to hold ourselves accountable and shift as neededs.
With these goals in place and our Vision Statement in mind, we are dedicated to the continued learning and growth needed to foster an inclusive environment for all. This is an ongoing process and by nature will be an evolving statement.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
LINDA SHELTON
Assistant to the Executive Director........Ayo Janeen Jackson
ADMINISTRATION
General Manager
Huong Hoang
Associate General Manager........................................Katy Myers
Human Resources Manager.....................Sharonica Williams
Office Manager.........................................................Christine Guglia
Director of Development OPEN
Director of Institutional Giving..................................Jean M. Ross
Director of Individual Giving.........................................Meg White
Associate Director of Special Events.........................Jesse Chin
Individual Giving Manager.....................................Catherine Eng
Institutional Giving Manager.........................Brianna Anderson
Special Events Associate...........................................Maeve Brady
Development Associate...........................................Grace O’Brien
Director of Programming
Danni Gee
Programming Manager..................................Noa Rui-Piin Weiss
Artist Services Manager..............................................Barb Domue
Programming Intern..........................................................Eric Stucky
Director of Dance Education & Family Programs
Heather McCartney
Dance Education & Family Programs Assistant..........................
............................................................................Marianne Rose Weber
Dance Education & Family Programs Intern................................
........................................................................................Kristine Martinez
Director of Marketing Andy Sheagren
Associate Director of Marketing Strategy..............Anjali Amin
Digital Marketing Manager.................................Julia Thorncroft
Marketing Manager......................................................Nadia Halim
Marketing Assistant..........................................................Annie Marx
Director of Finance Margaret Hollenbeck
Finance Associate................................................Savá M. B. Martin
Finance Clerk..............................................................Xavier DelValle
Database Administrator............................................Jim Seggelink
Director of Information Tech Patricia A. Yost
IT Intern...............................................................................Perla Escano
PRODUCTION
Director of Production
Jeff Segal
Lighting Supervisor.........................................................Kelly Atallah
Technical Director........................................................................OPEN
Head Audio........................................................................Sean Mullins
Lighting Board Operator............................................Kyle Hagen
Head Carpenter......................................................Web Crittenden
Head Electrician....................................................Brittany Spencer
Stage Technicians...............................................Edward Hill, OPEN
Crunch Fitness is the Official Gym Sponsor of The Joyce Theater.
The Joyce Theater is a member of APAP, Dance/NYC, and Dance/USA.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The Joyce Theater operates on the Lenape island of Manhahtaan (Mannahatta) and acknowledges that it was founded upon the stolen land and erasure of many Indigenous communities. This acknowledgement demonstrates our institution’s commitment to the process of dismantling the legacies of colonialism and cultural imperialism.
We acknowledge the ongoing violence towards Indigenous people through systemic inequality. We pay our respect to the Indigenous peoples who lived and continue to live upon this land, and whose rich history, artistic practices, and spirituality are tied to this land. It is within our responsibility as a cultural institution and our commitment to diversity and inclusion to embody a commitment to Indigenous rights and cultural equity.
We sincerely invite you as an audience member to take a moment to reflect on the history and legacy of displacement, migration, and settlement.
It is our intention to work with local Native American arts councils to better inform our land acknowledgment practices and anticipate that it will evolve over time.
JOYCE THEATER PRODUCTIONS
Producer Ross LeClair
Associate Producer................................................Bridget Caston JTP Intern............................................................................... Ashley Kail
FRONT-OF-HOUSE
Senior House Manager Samantha Fernandez
House Manager..................................................................Lillian Cole Assistant House Managers......................................Joseph Burke, Gilbert Balasa, Charis Lord-Haines, Kenneth Harlin, Chikako Iwahori, Di’Shai Oquendo, Utafumi Takemura, Nicholas Thomas
BOX OFFICE
Box Office Manager Lisa Gendell Supervisors.............................................Beth Miller, Vanessa Moton Box Office/JoyceCharge Staff.................................Kiersten Foster, Tatiana Gomez, Yulidal Hernandez Kin, Roy Odom, Jasmine Webb
OPERATIONS
Director of Operations Lou Albruzzese
FACILITIES
Facilities Manager Jimmy Ortiz
Maintenance Staff...................................................Madelin Estrella, Yohanna Hernandez, Pablo Rodriguez
SPECIAL SERVICES FOR THE JOYCE THEATER
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP............Sara E. Solfanelli (Special Counsel for Pro Bono Initiatives), Howard B. Epstein (Of Counsel), Gregory P. Pressman, Esq. (Of Counsel), Susan E. Bernstein, Esq. (Special Counsel), Cristina Giappone, Esq., Andrew B. Lowy, Esq., Ann K. Young, Esq., Sabrina Singh, Esq...................................................................................
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP.................Ross F. Moskowitz Esq. Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC.......................................................
..............................................................Kimberly M. Maynard, Esq.. Glick and Weintraub PC...............Harry H. Weintraub, Counsel
Accounting...........................................................................Lutz & Carr
Digital Marketing Firm.................................Capacity Interactive Publicity..............................................................................Billy Zavelson Printer.............................................Direct Printing Impressions Inc. Insurance...................................................Risk Strategies Company
Architects.................................................................Hugh Hardy, FAIA General Contractor...............Yorke Construction Corporation
Official Flower Sponsor...............The Flower School New York
Donald J. Rose, MD Director, Harkness Center for Dance Injuries at NYU Langone Health is the orthopedic and dance medicine consultant for The Joyce Theater Foundation.
First Republic is the preferred private bank of The Joyce Theater Foundation.
THE JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION, INC. BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Amit Wadhwaney, Chair
Charles M. Adelman, Vice Chair
Tracy Brown, Vice Chair
Stephanie R. Breslow, Treasurer
Jane E. Goldberg, Secretary
Kerry Clayton, Chair Emeritus
David D. Holbrook, Chair Emeritus
Virginia A. Millhiser, Chair Emeritus
R. Richard Ablon
Rob Ashford
Monica F. Azare
John M. Basnage de Beauval
Ajay Bhandaram
Keane Ehsani
Ronald Gumbaz
Toni Hoover
Robert Musiker
Susan Gluck Pappajohn
Steven M. Pesner
Meryl Rosofsky
Saul Sanders
Linda Shelton
Susan Fawcett Sosin
Lauren E. Shortt
Monica B. Voldstad
Madelyn Wils
In Memoriam: Richard Lukins (Trustee 1998-2011), Theodore S. Bartwink (Trustee 1993-2014), R. Britton Fisher (Trustee 1990-2020), Anh-Tuyet Nguyen (Trustee 2007-2020), Richard Shea (Trustee 2015-2022), Stephen D. Weinroth (Trustee 1996-2022)
Founders and Trustees Emeriti: Cora Cahan and Eliot Feld
ENDOWMENT CAMPAIGN
The Joyce honors the following individuals, corporations, and foundations for their visionary support of our mission of advancing the vibrant and extraordinary art of dance. Funds contributed to the endowment campaign will allow The Joyce to continue its support of the dance community and to commission new work.
$1 Million and above
LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust
Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund
Stephen and Cathy Weinroth Charitable Trust
$500,000 and above
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Richard B. Fisher and Family
R. Britton Fisher and Family
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
$250,000 and above
David & Andrea Holbrook
Richard A. Lukins & Karen Fry
Saul & Mary Sanders
Susan Fawcett Sosin
$100,000 and above
Anonymous (1)
Alphawood Foundation
Kerry Clayton & Paige Royer
The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
The Estate of Dorothy Lefkof
The William Randolph Hearst Foundations
Lynne & Richard Pasculano
Michèle & Steve Pesner
The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation
The Starr Foundation
$50,000 and above
R. Richard & Margery Ablon
Apollo Management, L.P.
Stephanie Breslow & Paul Watterson
The Coca-Cola Foundation
Ronald Gumbaz & Juliet A. Cozzi
JPMorgan Chase Foundation
Jerome A. and Estelle R.
Newman Assistance Fund, Inc.
Rudolf Nureyev Dance Foundation
$25,000 and above
Jane E. Goldberg
Cecilia & Jim Herbert
Jane Kendall & David Dietz
Elysabeth Kleinhans
Arnie & Susan Scharf
Richard Shea
Jennifer & Jonathan Allan Soros
Fiona J. Tilley & Gürhan Orhan
Dave Waks & Sandy Teger
Chris & Lonna Yegen
Carol Yorke & Gerard Conn
$5,000 and above
Anonymous (3)
Barbara & Robert Berkley
Philanthropic Fund
Barbara Berliner & Sol D. Rymer
The Cory & Bob Donnalley
Charitable Foundation
Jim & Linda Ellis
Mr. & Mrs. Ira Haupt, II
The Lawton W. Fitt & James I. McLaren Foundation
James H. Ottaway, Jr.
Kathleen A. Scott
Linda Shelton
Ferne Goldberg Sperling & Allan Sperling
LEADERSHIP SUPPORT FOR A NEW VENUE FOR DANCE
Support for planning costs associated with establishing a third venue for dance as part of the redeveloped World Trade Center site has been generously provided by a grant from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, which is funded through Community Development Block Grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Leadership support has also been provided by:
FORD FOUNDATION MELLON FOUNDATION
ROBERT STERLING CLARK FOUNDATION THE SEPTEMBER 11TH FUND
ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION
JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION DONORS
The Joyce Theater appreciates the generosity of its supporters listed below as well as its many other supporters too numerous to include on these pages. List as of February 27, 2023.
Platinum Benefactors ($500,000 and above)
Howard Gilman Foundation
LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust
Gold Benefactors ($100,000 and above)
Kerry Clayton & Paige Royer
Ford Foundation
The Harkness Foundation for Dance
MacMillan Family Foundation
Mellon Foundation
Virginia & Timothy Millhiser
National Endowment for the Arts / American Rescue Plan Act
New York City Department
Cultural Affairs
Robert Pollock
The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation
The Shubert Foundation
Denise Littlefield Sobel
Silver Benefactors ($75,000 and above)
First Republic Bank
GKV Charitable Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
Benefactors ($50,000 and above)
Jody & John Arnhold | Arnhold Foundation
National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts
New York State Council on the Arts
Meryl Rosofsky & Stuart Coleman
Lauren E. Shortt
The SHS Foundation
Amit Wadhwaney
Chairman’s Circle ($25,000 and above)
Anonymous (2)
Deborah & Charles Adelman
Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation
Stephanie R. Breslow & Paul Watterson
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Susan Dickler & Sig Van Raan
Keane Ehsani
Jamshid & Mahsid Ehsani
Melina Fisher
Jane E. Goldberg
Ronald Gumbaz & Juliet Cozzi
Toni Hoover
In Motion
*Elysabeth Kleinhans
Leanne Lachman
Mertz Gilmore Foundation
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
Henry and Lucy Moses Fund
Bob & Sharon Musiker
The O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation
Susan & Greg Pappajohn
Michèle & Steve Pesner
The Jerome Robbins Foundation
Saul & Mary Sanders
Susan Fawcett Sosin
Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
Monica Voldstad
Cathy Weinroth
Madelyn & Steven Wils
Impresario’s Circle ($10,000 and above)
Anonymous (3)
Jen Ablon
Alpern Family Foundation
Sarah Arison
Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation
John Basnage de Beauval
Ajay Bhandaram
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Torrence Boone
Robert Brenner
Tracy Brown
Con Edison
John & Margaret Falk
Nancy & Michael Feller
*Brandon Fradd
Gregg & Jean Frankel
Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation
Elzbieta Grove
David & Andrea Holbrook
In Honor of Karen Brooks Hopkins
The Ivill-Weiner Family
The Kingsley Foundation
Melanie Coronetz & Bruce G. Miler
*LeConte Moore
Tatiana Piankova Foundation
Karen Roth
*Nancy Sands
Kathleen A. Scott
Linda Shelton
Leslie Siegel
Johanna Weber
Michelle D. & Claude L. Winfield
Presenter’s Circle ($5,000 and above)
Anonymous (2)
*Rick & Nurit Amdur
Rob Ashford
Monica Azare
Andrew & Froma Benerote
*Marty & Louise Bickman
Donya & Scott Bommer
Office of City Council Member
Erik Bottcher
Donna B. Case
The Barbara Bell Cumming Charitable Trust
Chubb LTD
Ms. Pamela Crutchfield
Jeffrey Davis & Michael T. Miller
Dancers Responding to AIDS
Linda Ellis
Martin & Linda Fell
*Judith & Alan Fishman
FUSED
French U.S. Exchange in Dance
Barbara Goldstein
Paul Feuerman & Bruce Grivetti
Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Goodman
Sharon B. Gurwitz
Randall & Mary Hack
Elizabeth Anne Hartman
Judith M. Hoffman
Illuminated Foundation
Christopher Jones & Deborah McAlister
Christine Knuth
Alan & Gail Koss
Elizabeth & Neil Kurtz
*Jonathan Levinson
Robert R. Littman & Sully Bonnelly
Karen & Martin McDonald
Ronay & Richard
Menschel/ Charina Foundation, Inc.
*Cherrie Nanninga
In loving memory of Bill Perlmuth, Patricia Dugan Perlmuth
Rajika & Anupam Puri
Nina B. Quigley
Mr. Stephen Kroll Reidy
Margaret E. Selby
Barbara Madsen Smith
Christopher Soule
Jean & Gene Stark
Linda B. Strumpf
*Vincente Wolf
Director’s Circle ($2,500 and above)
Anonymous (2)
R. Richard Ablon
Adrienne Albert
Joel & Rhela Aragona
Sandra Berger
Judi Rappoport Blitzer & David Blitzer
Ralph & Martine Calder
Victoria V. Carey
Cathleen Collins
Melanie Coronetz & Bruce G. Miller
Mary Sharp Cronson
Jan, Dick & Nora Demenus
Miriam & David Donoho
Christopher M. Elmore
*Paul S. Engler
Andrew & Claire-Marine Ferguson
Thomas von Foerster
Rochel Gelman
Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York
*Dorothy Goodman
The Harold K. Gross Family Charitable Trust
Susan Ross Green
Maya Hamlet
Ronald E. Hellman & Stephen B. Roberts
Val Holley & Joseph Plocek
William Houlihan
Office of Cultural Affairs, Consulate General of Israel in New York
*Deborah Kaye
Jane Kendall
*Joe Lanteri, New York City Dance Alliance Inc.
Elaine & Howard Leventhal
Martin & Rosanne Leshner
Jayne Lipman & Robert Goodman
Mark Littman & Johnny Mendoza
In Memory of John MacDonald
Maria Mackey
Uttara P. Marti
Wendy McCain
Joyce F. Menschel
David & Diana Milich
Jane & Michael Murphy
Mutual of America Foundation
Omomuki Foundation
David Pasterski
Warrie Price & James David Prince
Betty P. & Michael H. Rauch
Theresa Alessandro Russo Foundation
Wes Schafer & Carlos Galtier
Susan & Arnie Scharf
Xiomara & Charles Scheidt
Fran Schulman
Robert A. Schulman
Rena Shagan
Alex & Wendy Stanton
Mark Stevens & Mary Murphy
Linda Stocknoff
Marianna Vaidman Stone & Eric Stone
Consulate General of Sweden in New York
*Temple St Clair LLC
Susan Ulick
Ms. Patricia E. Vance
David E. Vogel
Alexandra Wheeler & Rocky Rukan
Irving & Elaine Wolbrom
Ralph Womble & Ashley Edwards
Billy F.B. Wong & Stephanie Gordon
Leaders
($1,000 and above)
Anonymous (10)
Robert Allyn
*Neme Alperstein
Gerald M. Appelstein
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Kara Medoff Barnett & Dov Barnett
Alison Baum
Pamela Baxter
*Barbara Berliner & Sol Rymer
Dorothy Black
Kim Bleimann & Paola Duran
Joe Bonnaud
Nissan Boury
Barbara & Gary Brandt
Edward Brill
Madeline Brine
Matt Brodile
Joanna Bueche
*Rachael Venner & Michael Byars
Linda & Joseph Camardo
Ann Chao
Woody & Janice Collins
*Chris Coulthrust
Caroline & Paul Cronson
Charles T. Davis
Barbara Dau
Irene Rosner David, in Memory of Dr. Raphael David
Jeffrey Davis & Jamie Alpert
David H. De Weese & Anne Heller
Ms. Beth Rudin DeWoody
The Cory & Bob Donnalley Charitable Foundation
The Donut Pub
Jack & Eleanor Dunn
Suzanne B. Engel
Mr. Richard Erstad & Dr. Gladys Fenichel
David L. Fanger & Martin Wechsler
Erin Feeley-Nahem & Isaac Nahem
Judy & Richard Feldstein
*Marion Ilene Fischer
Maria Vittoria Foglia
John and Janet Foord
Judith Z. Friedman
Peter C. Friedman
Veronique Bogliolo Friedman & Mark Friedman
*Grace Frisone & Michael Metzger
Ania Fryszkowska & Alex Louizos
*Tom & Nina Geller
Barrie Gillies & William Drummy
Susan Egbert Gilroy
John Graney, MD
Mason & Kim Granger
Patric & Patricia Gregory
*Glen & Paula Gunsalus
Ava Hamilton
Alexandra L. Harper
*Shelia Heimbinder
Dr. Elisabeth Hefti
Laurie & Jack Helfin
Janet L. Henner
Edward Henry & Susan Monk
Ellen Hirsch
In Honor of the Weinroths
Lynn Hopkins
Gary Horowitz & Tom Wyse
George C. Howell, III
Mary & David Iles
James B. Jacobs & Jan Sweeney
Derek Johnson
I. Michael Kadish
Kenneth S. Kail & Ivy Hwang
Margaret Kaplen
Mr. Christian K. Keese
*Murray & Sylvana Klein
Hans Koch
Diana Korsh
Kathy Krall
Sondra Kurtin Robinson
Susan Lampard
LDJ Productions
Reginald van Lee
Michael G. Lemle
Rachel S. Levine
Robert & Dorina Link
*Tina Liu
David Lovett & Meg Ruley
Sharon Luckman & Paul Shapiro
Elizabeth A. Maher
Joseph M. Marger
Lynn C. Mautner
Marcia Kramer Mayer
*Israel Meir & Steve Rivera
*Lorraine Meeker
Miller Khoshkish Foundation
Mr. Wayne & Mrs. Barbara Miller
Michael Mulligan
*Judith Musiker
Barbara Nagel
Joyce O’Brien
Aaron Singer and Bart Oosterveld
Trisha Ostergaard
David Parsons
Peck Foundation, Milwaukee LTD
Amy Pennington
Doug & Teresa Peterson
The Plimpton Shattuck Fund
Douglas & Barbara Pitsch
Judith Plows
Carole Postal
Donna & James Pressman
David Alan & Susan Berkman Rahm
*Frances A. Resheske
Case van Rij
Philip W. Riskin Charitable Foundation
Mary Jo Robertiello
Ann Sahid Rosche
Donald J. Rose & Victoria Lasdon Rose
Ellen Rosen
Diana & Michael Rothenberg
Marilyn & Alan Rothstein
Gail Russell
Deborah Sales & Ted Striggles
Alessandro & Fe Saracino-Fendi
Moshe Sasson
Barbara & David Schimansky
Jesse & Carol Schwartz
Michael Sekus & Bianca Russo
Irene Shen
Joseph Smith & Leslie Hendrix
Marilyn Sobel
Leon Sokol
Ellen Sorrin & David York
Fran Sperling
Mamie and Justin Stewart
Roger Stoltz & Shauna Stoltz-Laurie
Abbie M. Strassler
William Sussman & Jane Steele
Swedish Institute and the Swedish Embassy in Cuba
Ken Tabachnick & Yael Mandelstam
Gary Tannenbaum & Helen J. Mills
Pamela van Zandt & Gina Gibney
George Vanderploeg
*Lucy Vasserman & Brendan Finnegan
Michael & Carol Weiss
Elly Karp Wong
Cooper Wright & Michael Marino
Brann & Ellen Wry
*Zen & Barbara Yankovig
*Malin Yhr
Carol Yorke & Gerard Conn
Eloise Zeller
Christian Zimmermann
Bonnie Zamosky-Roth
Investors ($500 and above)
Anonymous (13)
Donald R. Allen & Mildred Munich
LaRue Allen & Ebonya Washington
Ellen Alpert
Debra R. Anisman
Maria Cristina Anzola
Lucie S. Archbold
Paul Asman & Jill Lenoble
Joan Brooks Baker & Margeaux Klein
Betsy Barbanell
Clay H. Barr
Pamela Baxter
Joan & Ira Berkowitz
*Maria M. Branco
*Dr. Andrea Brandon & Black Rubee
Robert & Carol Braun
*Jonathan Brecht
Jeffrey B. Bruce
Carol Bryce Buchanan
Diana Cagle
Jennifer Kornreich Cahn & Andrew Cahn
Susan Campbell
Karen Carozza
*Nishka Chandrasoma
Jason Chuang
*Maciej Chociej
Matthew C. Cluney
*Kenneth Cole & Maria Cuomo Cole
Betsy Cornwall
William Cosper
Victoria Cowles
Duke Dang & Charles E. Rosen
*Mary Craig
*Greg Darnieder
Tony & Suzy Davis
Duane Devries
Debora Domass
Michael Eizenberg
Robert Elder & Jacqueline Fox Elder
David & Ingrid Ellen
*Melissa Elstein & Eric Katzman
Judith & Walter Flamenbaum
Dr. Sarah Fox & Mr. Steven Lochie
Eileen & Cono Fusco
Karen Gershowitz
Elise Larrabure Girasole
Geraldine Glassman
Prof. James A. Glazier
Virginia Gold
Nita & Chuck Goodgal
Katherine Goodman
Lenore & Edward Grabowski
Grant Family Charitable Fund
Bruce Greenwald
Charles & Carol Grossman Family Fund
Jane Groveman
Gina Harman
Charles & Elaine Harris
Ira Haupt, II
*Tali Herman
Mr. Michael D. Herskovitz
Elizabeth Levitt Hirsch
Mr. Gregory Ho & Ms. Linda Sanchez
Cheri Hoff
Erica Hartman-Horvitz
Ralph & Lynn Huber
David H. Hughes, Jr.
Laura J. Illich
Walter Jaffe & Paul King
Robert & Marcy Katz
H. David Kaplan
Jan S. Keithly
Jennifer Aley Kenney
Robert & Elaine Klein
Valarie Koch
Arthus & Jane Lane
Stephen B. Lane
Kenneth M. LeClair
*Rosanne Legrand
Phyllis & Cary Lemkowitz
Michael Lemle
Elizabeth & Durwood Littlefield
*David Long
Sophie Main
Jennifer & Gideon Malherbe
Julie Mandel Marcus
Joseph M. Marger
*Jennifer Markowitz
Margaret Mastrianni
William Mavrelis
Douglas McCorkle
Kati Meister
Tanya Melich & Noel Silverman
Victoria Morris
Paula Moss
Ann Mulally
Deb Murnin
Barry Nalebuff
Drs. Benjamin Natelson & Gudrun Lange
Peter Nelson
Genevieve Nestor
Amanda Lee Neville
*The Carol & Melvin Newman Family Foundation
Stuart Nordheimer & Barbara Miller
Peter J. Occolowitz
Katherine Ogg
Rachel Ostry, MD
John Owen
Bob Ouimette
The L.E. Phillips Family Foundation, Inc.
The Marshall Franklin Foundation
Brian Polovoy
James & Deborah Purdon
Deborah A. Quirk
Stephanie M. Goldson & Stephen Rappaport
Charles Ragland
Donald W. Roeske, Jr.
Deborah Ronnen
Ellen Rosen
*Ellen & Mike Rosenberg
Jean M. Ross
Elsa Ross-Greifinger
Anya Peterson Royce
Jennifer Goodale & Mark Russell
Prince & Petar Sanders
Dr. Carol Ann Satler
In Memory of Tracy Scherman
Marva & Florian Schodel
Lynn N. Schusterman
Robert Score
Deborah Selch
Elizabeth Shapiro
George Sheanshang
*Tara Sherman & Tony Weiss
Lindy Shuttleworth & Arthur Reichstetter
Edward Siegel
Dr. Jorge Sigal
Rabbi Charles Simon
Andrew & Jennifer Smith
Joan & Laurence Sorkin
Jason Spiro
Michael Stanley
Jessica E. Stack
William L. Stern
Jim Stiles & Randy Bird
Robin Stout
Helen Sullivan
Dr. Pavur R. Sundaresan
Pamela Tatge
William Tomai & John Eric Sebesta
TPU Local One IATSE
*Dana Troetel & George Papageorge
Frank Troutman
Ellie Tweedy
Thomas Van Winkle
Ernie Vickroy
Merna Villarejo
Thomas Allen Walker
Charles Walker
Louise Washer & Mary Clay Fields
Gregory Ward
Sedgwick & Pamela Ward
Chris Watson
Carol A. Weil
Kate Weil
Sara Weinheimer
Stephen D. Weinstein
George S. Werner & Li Werner
Tom Whelan
Gregory Youdan
Sponsors ($300 and above)
Anonymous (4)
Patricia Adell
*Fred & Sarah Allilaire
Jane & Stephen Alpert
John Angiolillo, MD
Elaine & Theodossios Athanassiades
Sherry & Sanford Axelband
Vivian Awner
Elena Baum
Nilda Bayron-Resnick
Joan & Ira Berkowitz
Roz Black & Bob Eimicke
Stan & Abby Bloch
Paul Brohan
Leslie Buckland
Jim Bumgardner & Lou Tharp
Deborah Burand
Anita Cabrera
Michael & Jennifer Campagna
Kelli Carrol
Neil & Kathleen Chrisman
Margaret Coady
Eileen & Michael Cohen
Galois Cohen
Richard & Mary Ann Cohen
Laurie Colahan
Robert Conkey
Dr. Arturo & Ms. Caren Constantiner
Dr. & Mrs. Frederiick Corio
John Coulter
Mr. John A. Crawford III
Judy Cunningham
Diana Davies
Jacqueline Z. Davis
Mr. Anthony DePersia
Dr. Susan Dicker
Rodney Durso
Ms. Hope Eliasof
Jo Ann Engelhardt
Ellen & Frank Estes
Martha Evenson & Daniel Hoffman
Trudy Festinger
Jennifer Fitzpatrick
Ellen Fleysher
Charles A. Forma
Ella M. Foshay & Michael B. Rothfeld
Roy Fowler
*Steven Fox
Stephanie French
Barbara Futter
Mr. Maura Gaenzle
Barbara Gallay
Loren Gesinsky & Judy Rudin
Richard Gilden
Ronald Gilliam & Akram Hélil
Denyse Ginzberg
John D. Goldman
Jennifer Goodale & Mark Russell
Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Grant
Susan E. Green
Lawrence W. Greene
Sandra Gubin
Laurie Hart
Eric Hemel & Barbara Morgen
George & Linda Hiltzik
Herman & Jacquelyn Heinemann
Mrs. Ruth W. Heuman
*Jerry Heymann
*Martha Evenson & Daniel Hoffman
Peter Holleran
Huong Hoang
Susan Israel
Sherrilyn Ifill
Ronald Jacquart
Willie Johnson
Drew Reid Kerr
Kenneth Silverman &
Carin Khatchikian
Barbara Knox
Bond Koga
Susan & Peter Kopple
Irene H. Lang
Angela de Lara
Lawrence Levine
*Emanuel Lewis
Sukey Lilienthal
Leslie Lin
Harold W. Low
Peter Maiwald
Judy Mauer
John & Linda Maxwell
Doug & Regina McCorkle
Colleen McCourtney
Rodney McDaniel
Cynthia Adler McKee
R. McNish
Alan Mendelsohn
Carol and Frank Messineo
Holly & William Mensching
Vincent Mirrione
Richard J. Moylan
*Mildred Munich
*Brigitte and Jeff Myhre
Aaron & Marcia Naveh
Stephen A. Newman
Madeleine Nichols
Anne & Harvey Nisselson
Jeffrey Nunn
Phillip J. Pena
*Marisa Anne Pierson
Posner-Wallace Foundation
The Pulse Performing Arts Studio
Jonathan Raskin
Dr. & Mrs. Robert Refowitz
Lan Rice
Judith & Gary Richter
Barbara D. Riehl
Eileen Robert
Susan M. Rosenberg
Barbara S. Rosenthal
Lainie & John Ross
Alan Russell
William H. Sadie
Lies Sapp
Gregg Passin & Andy Schmidt
Laura E. Schneider
*Marva and Florian Schodel
Sherry Barron-Seabrook
Mary & John Seward
Rita Shawn
Kenneth Shelley
Jennifer Shotwell
*Elizabeth Sledge
Anthony & Rosa Smith
Robin Smith & Bill Plante
Martha Sherman
Robert & Curtis Spencer
Margaret Stern
Jos Stumpe
Henry & Jo Strouss
Mr. Lars Rosager & Mr. Donald Troise
Ms. Donna Tatro
Pat Tafuro
Jennifer Tipton
Margot Tohn
Tonic Physical Therapy & Wellness
Deirdre Towers
Bruce Tredwell
Charles & Susan Tribbitt
Dana A. Troetel
Patricia Truscelli
Scott Votey
Dick & Carolyn Wallach
Jeff Walsh
*Irving & Marjorie Weiser
* Jeanette Williams
Doreen Wright
Yelena Yeretsky
Peter Yorgin
* Denotes Joyce Rising Stars, The Joyce's new or increased donors.
The Rudolf Nureyev Prize for New Dance and Ballet Festival Commissions
The Joyce Theater Foundation thanks the Rudolf Nureyev Dance Foundation for its invaluable partnership in commissioning new works from both established and emerging ballet companies, and enabling these companies to perform on the Joyce stage. The Joyce gratefully recognizes the donors listed below for their generous matching support that has made this effort possible.
Rudolf Nureyev Dance Foundation
R. Richard Ablon
Deborah & Charles Adelman
Gerald M. Appelstein
Rob Ashford
Stephen M. Baldini
Theodore S. Bartwink
The Harkness Foundation for Dance
Mick Beekhuizen
Evan Behrens & Dara Stern
Ajay Bhandaram
Torrence Boone
Stephanie R. Breslow & Paul Watterson
Madeline Brine
Richard & Martha Byrne
Kerry Clayton & Paige Royer
Rodney S. Cohen
Alan & Chi Colberg
Arlene Cooper
Pamela Crutchfield
Trisha & Patrick Duval
Jamshid & Mahshid Ehsani
Augie K. Fabela II
Britton & Melina Fisher
Kim Friedman
J. Eric Gambrell
Jane E. Goldberg
Ronald Gumbaz & Juliet Cozzi
David Haines
John & Judith Hannan
Rex S. Heinke
Cecilia & Jim Herbert
David & Andrea Holbrook
Toni Hoover
Kim Koopersmith
Allen Kovac/ Tenth Street Entertainment
Ronald & Stephanie Kramer
Ronald S. Lauder
Jim Leary
Alec & Sarah Machiels
Joyce F. Menschel
David & Diana Milich
Virginia & Timothy Millhiser
Karyl Nairn
Abby McCormick O'Neil
& Carroll Joynes
Anh-Tuyet Nguyen & Robert Pollock
Susan & Gregory Pappajohn
Michèle & Steven Pesner
Tatiana Piankova Foundation
Betty P. & Michael H. Rauch
Gregg Rechler/ Lisa & Gregg Rechler
Charitable Trust
The Jerome Robbins Foundation
Ann Sahid Rosche
Meryl Rosofsky & Stuart H. Coleman
Rowan Family Foundation Inc.
Saul & Mary Sanders
Fran Schulman
Kathleen A. Scott
Frederic & Robin Seegal
Richard Shea
Howard L. Shecter
Linda Shelton
Irene Shen
Henry R. Silverman
Susan Fawcett Sosin
Allan Sperling & Ferne Goldberg
Wendy & Alex Stanton
Justin A. Stevens
Raymond & Margaret Vandenberg
Monica B. Voldstad
Amit Wadhwaney
Daniel Walsh
Stephen & Cathy Weinroth
Steven M. Zagar
Richard Kielar & Christian Zimmermann
The Young Leaders Circle
Kyle Abraham^
Robert Allyn
Patricia Arellano
*Rebecca Aronson
Chellis Baird
Erin Barnes
Alison Baum
Lisa Bonifacic
Isabella Boylston^
Camille A. Brown^
*Scott Caplan
Victor M. Castillo & Blake Wiedenhoeft
Alejandro Cerrudo^
*Julia Chambers
*Nishka Chandrasoma
Dr. Jason Chuang
Mary Craig
Debora Domass
Michelle Dorrance^
Robert Fairchild^
Davalois Fearon^
Andrew & Claire-Marine Ferguson
Erica Forrence
*Ania Fryszkowska
Ronald Gilliam & Akram Hélil
Amita Goyal
Jessica Halper
Mingtong Han
Alexandra Harper, Co-Chair
*Emma Hood
Kile Hotchkiss^
Alixandra Hornyan, Co-Chair
Audrey Hourse
Laura Hsu
Kristen Irby
Amanda Krische
Jean-François Kowalski
Audrey Lam
Debra Levin
Stephanie Lichtinger
Mitch Lowenthal
Michelle K. Marck
Katherine Maxwell^
Sara Mearns^
*Katie Mues
*Leah Nelson
*Abigail Nintzel
Justin Peck^
Tiler Peck^
*Abigail Richards
Vanessa Rojas
Setpheap San^
Bette Ann Schlossberg, Co-Chair
Daniil Simkin^
*Madelyn Sirbu
Elisa Smilovitz
*Margaret Stephens
Evan Strain
Mark & Oni Strawn
Sara Strope
*Myriam Varjacques
*Lucy Vasserman & Brendan Finnegan
Alexander Wang
Miss Inga Wells
James Whiteside^
Emma Winder
*LeeAna Wolfman
*Sangeeta Yesley
*Malin Yhr
^Artist Committee members to join The Joyce’s Young Leaders Circle, please contact the Development office at 347-856-5828.
JOYCE PROGRAMS ARE MADE POSSIBLE WITH PUBLIC FUNDS FROM:
The Joyce is supported in part by an American Rescue Plan Act grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support general operating expenses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Joyce programs are made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council with special thanks to Council Member Erik Bottcher.
FACILITIES & SERVICES
Box Office (212-242-0800): Open Monday thru Sunday, 12pm - 6pm. On days when there is a performance, the box office is open through curtain time; advance sales stop ½ hour prior to curtain time (including matinees). Closed on major holidays. For Hearing Impaired call (TDD) 212-245-2904. To report Lost & Found items, please see an usher or call 212-691-9740.
EMERGENCY RESUSCITATION EQUIPMENT
Resuscitation masks and latex gloves are located in the closet next to the drinking fountain in the Upper Lobby. AED is located downstairs in the reception area. LEARN CPR. For more information, contact the American Red Cross, the American Heart Association.
FIRE NOTICE: The exit indicated by a red light and sign nearest to the seat you occupy is the shortest route to the street. In the event of fire or other emergency, please walk —do not run— to that exit.
WARNING: The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, either with or without flash, is strictly prohibited within the auditorium. Violators will be punished with confiscation of recording device or ejection from the theater, and may be held liable for money damages.
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