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RUBBERBAND
5 0 COMPLEXIONS Contemporary Ballet
1 0 Ayodele Casel + Arturo O’Farrill 1 2 BalletX
5 2 Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker
1 4 Shantala Shivalingappa
5 4 Che Malambo
1 6 A.I.M
5 5 Family Matinees
1 8 Maya Beiser + Wendy Whelan + Lucinda Childs + David Lang
5 7 Education
2 0 Black Grace 2 2 Ephrat Asherie Dance 2 4 Camille A. Brown + Dancers 2 6 Kate Wallich + The YC X Perfume Genius 2 8 Soledad Barrio + Noche Flamenca 3 0 And Still You Must Swing 3 2 Pam Tanowitz + Simone Dinnerstein 3 6 Dorrance Dance
5 8 Master Classes 5 9 Engage 6 1 Get Involved 6 6 Funders 6 7 Getting to The Joyce/ Photo Credits 6 8 Purchasing Tickets 6 9 Ticket Pricing
7 0 Seating Chart 3 8 American Dance Platform 3 9 Urban Bush Women 4 0 Dayton Contemporary Dance Company 4 1 Bruce Wood Dance 4 2 Limón Dance Company 4 3 Embodiment Project 4 4 ODC/Dance 4 5 Rosie Herrera Dance Company 4 6 Rennie Harris Puremovement
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RUBBERBAND
Ever So Slightly SEP 17-22
Los Angeles native Victor Quijada grew up breakdancing and performed with Twyla Tharp’s company before creating his own troupe in 2002. His internationally renowned Montreal based dance company, RUBBERBAND, makes its Joyce debut with Ever So Slightly, a thrilling work exploring the reflexes we develop against the irritants that bombard our daily lives. Simultaneously delivering delicacy, brutality, and high-voltage action, the group’s ten dancer-athletes deliver the energy of revolt, chaos, and flight with finesse.
SCHEDULE Tue-Wed Thu-Fri Sat Sun
7:30pm 8pm 2pm & 8pm 2pm
CURTAIN CHAT Wed, Sep 18
This program features live music.
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Ayodele Casel + Arturo O’Farrill SEP 24-29 “A tap dancer of unquestionable radiance” (The New York Times), Ayodele Casel joins six-time GRAMMY Award winner Arturo O’Farrill to create a collaborative world premiere. Rooted in Afro-Latin jazz culture, both artists share a common musical language that flows freely from modal jazz to stride piano to danzón to salsa and rhumba. Joined by a team of incredible musicians and tap dancers, Casel and O’Farrill explore genre-bending music and dance filled with unbridled joy. The Joyce’s presentation of Ayodele Casel + Arturo O’Farrill is a HARKNESS FIRST Joyce Theater debut, generously supported by The Harkness Foundation for Dance. SCHEDULE Tue-Wed 7:30pm 8pm Thu-Sat 2pm Sun
CURTAIN CHAT Wed, Sep 25 FAMILY MATINEE Sun, Sep 29 at 2pm
This program features live music.
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BalletX
The Little Prince OCT 1-6 Hailed as “one of the year’s must-see shows” by The Philadelphia Inquirer, BalletX returns to The Joyce Theater with the New York premiere of Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s The Little Prince, a full-length ballet performed to the live music of composer Peter Salem. Inspired by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ’s timeless novella of adventure and enlightenment, Lopez Ochoa’s The Little Prince is a ballet for the whole family, sure to delight the imagination of children and adults alike.
SCHEDULE Tue-Wed Thu-Fri Sat Sun
7:30pm 8pm 2pm & 8pm 2pm
CURTAIN CHAT Wed, Oct 2 FAMILY MATINEE Sat, Oct 5 at 2pm
This program features live music.
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Shantala Shivalingappa
Akasha OCT 8–12
“Divinely gifted…intoxicating” (The New York Times) preeminent Kuchipudi dancer Shantala Shivalingappa brings her work Akasha to The Joyce Theater. Offering audiences vivid interpretations of the classical South Indian dance style, steeped in expressive narrative with flowing lines, nimble leaps, and percussive footwork, the program showcases the Bessie Award-winning performer’s exceptional artistry in five solos inspired by ancient Hindu poems brought to life with four master musicians.
SCHEDULE Tue-Wed 7:30pm 8pm Thu–Sat
This program features live music.
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Underwriting support for The Joyce’s presentation of Shantala Shivalingappa provided by Rajika and Anupam Puri. Support for The Joyce’s presentation of international dance provided by the R. Britton Fisher and Family Gift for International Dance.
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A.I.M OCT 15-20 With its “urgent and expressive choreography” (The New York Times), Kyle Abraham’s brilliant company returns with an enticing program that includes the world premiere of the choreographer’s newest solo for himself, accompanied by a live gospel choir. Also on tap is Show Pony, a recent solo work by Abraham performed alternately by Princess Grace Award recipients Tamisha Guy and Marcella Lewis; and Big Rings, a dynamic group work created by A.I.M member Keerati Jinakunwiphat. The company premiere of Trisha Brown’s groundbreaking 1976 work Solo Olos rounds out the program. The opening night performance will feature a one night only special guest appearance by American Ballet Theatre Principal Dancer Misty Copeland performing a work created by Abraham. SCHEDULE Tue-Wed Thu-Fri Sat Sun
7:30pm 8pm 2pm & 8pm 2pm
CURTAIN CHAT Wed, Oct 16
This program features live music.
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THE DAY
Maya Beiser + Wendy Whelan + Lucinda Childs + David Lang OCT 22-27 A collaboration among legends, THE DAY is a new work by cellist Maya Beiser, beloved dancer Wendy Whelan, iconoclastic choreographer Lucinda Childs, and Pulitzer Prize winning composer David Lang. A New York premiere, this momentous melding of multi-genre creative genius comes in an eveninglong sensory exploration of two journeys—life and the eternal, post-mortal voyage of the soul. THE DAY is a bold and highly collaborative work that explores universal themes through the shared language of music and dance. SCHEDULE Tue-Wed Thu–Fri Sat Sun
7:30pm 8pm 2pm & 8pm 2pm
CURTAIN CHAT Wed, Oct 23
This program features live music. Lead support for The Joyce’s presentation of THE DAY provided by Virginia and Timothy Millhiser. Underwriting support provided by Melanie Coronetz and Bruce G. Miller. Support for live music provided by Michael Sekus and Bianca Russo; and Ed Petrou, in loving memory of Rachel Petrou. The presentation of THE DAY was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Black Grace OCT 29 - NOV 3 Performing a “strikingly imaginative fusion of traditional Samoan/Maori dance and contemporary styles” (The Boston Globe), New Zealand’s Black Grace makes its Joyce debut with a selection of works choreographed by founder and artistic director Neil Leremia spanning the company’s 24-year history. Signature pieces such as Pati Pati, Deep Far, and Method appear alongside the U.S. premiere of E Toa, E Toa, which incorporates live singing and traditional Cook Island Drumming. Excerpts from recent full-length works include Crying Men, which explores masculinity from a Pacific perspective, and As Night Falls, set to music by Vivaldi. The Joyce’s presentation of Black Grace is a HARKNESS FIRST Joyce Theater debut, generously supported by The Harkness Foundation for Dance. SCHEDULE Tue-Wed 7:30pm 8pm Thu-Sat 2pm Sun
CURTAIN CHAT Wed, Oct 30 FAMILY MATINEE Sun, Nov 3 at 2pm
This program features live music. Support for The Joyce’s presentation of international dance provided by the R. Britton Fisher and Family Gift for International Dance.
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Ephrat Asherie Dance Odeon
NOV 5-7 Choreographer and “bona fide b-girl” (The Boston Globe) Ephrat Asherie brings a high-energy, hybrid work that layers breaking, hip-hop, house, and vogue. In their second collaboration together, the choreographer teams up with her brother, jazz pianist Ehud Asherie, whom The New Yorker has called “a master of swing and stride.” In Odeon, the duo reimagines signature compositions of 20th-century Brazilian composer Ernesto Nazareth, noted for melding classical music with Afro-Brazilian rhythms. Featuring seven dancers and four musicians, Odeon creates a world that offers “a wholly original style and sound” (The Chicago Tribune). The Joyce’s presentation of Ephrat Asherie Dance is a HARKNESS FIRST Joyce Theater debut, generously supported by The Harkness Foundation for Dance. SCHEDULE Tue-Wed 7:30pm 8pm Thu
CURTAIN CHAT Wed, Nov 6
This program features live music. The presentation of Ephrat Asherie Dance was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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Camille A. Brown & Dancers Mr. TOL E. RAncE NOV 9-10 “Dramatically brilliant, physically exhilarating,” raves The New York Times. Bessie Award-winning Mr. TOL E. RAncE is the first installment of Camille A. Brown’s trilogy on black identity. Inspired by Spike Lee’s provocative movie Bamboozled, and Mel Watkins’s book On the Real Side: A History of African American Comedy from Slavery to Chris Rock, Brown’s work celebrates the humor and perseverance of the black performer while examining stereotypes that still dominate popular Black culture. Comedy, animation, and theater come together with live soul-stirring music and compositions from award-winning artists to engage the audience in a timely dialogue. SCHEDULE 8pm Sat 2pm & 7:30pm Sun
This program features live music.
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Kate Wallich + The YC X Perfume Genius
The Sun Still Burns Here NOV 13-17
Experience a spiritual unraveling of romantic decay with the New York premiere of The Sun Still Burns Here, which blends contemporary dance and live, soul-baring pop-rock. The combination of Perfume Genius’s “glorious, inventive, shapeshifting music“ (The Guardian) with the exacting craft and raw potency of Kate Wallich’s movement will “undeniably lure you and immerse you somewhere far from the workaday world“ (The Seattle Times). Wallich, who has been named in Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch,” brings her Seattle-based troupe The YC to The Joyce Theater for the first time. The Joyce’s presentation of Kate Wallich + The YC X Perfume Genius is a HARKNESS FIRST Joyce Theater debut, generously supported by The Harkness Foundation for Dance. SCHEDULE 7:30pm Wed 8pm Thu–Sat 2pm Sun
CURTAIN CHAT Thu, Nov 14
This program features live music. Additional support provided by The Joyce’s Young Leaders Circle (YLC) Contemporaries.
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Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca Entre Tu y Yo (Between You and Me) NOV 19 - DEC 1 Deemed by The New York Times as “one of today’s great dancers of any genre,” Soledad Barrio performs with some of Spain’s most celebrated flamenco artists in Entre Tu y Yo (Between You and Me), an evening-length program of duets, solos, and ensemble works. The program opens with an exploration of the duet form, and builds to a cathartic finale with a semi-improvised solo for Barrio, touching on themes of love, passion, jealousy, and death. “[This is] flamenco puro — the Spanish art stripped to its flammable core” (The Financial Times). SCHEDULE Week One
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7:30pm 8pm 2pm & 8pm 2pm & 7:30pm
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7:30pm 8pm 2pm & 8pm 2pm
CURTAIN CHAT Wed, Nov 20 This program features live music.
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And Still You Must Swing DEC 3-8 Hailed by The New York Times as “the most moving dance show of the year,” Dormeshia’s And Still You Must Swing brings together three of the best tap dancers in the world— Dormeshia, who leads the project alongside Derick K. Grant and Jason Samuels Smith—to capture the heart and legacy of tap dance, and honor the jazz roots of this American art form. Audiences will revel in this rhythmic feast, which includes live music, dynamic choreography, stunning improvisation, and a performance by special guest dancer Camille A. Brown.
SCHEDULE Tue–Wed Thu–Fri Sat Sun
7:30pm 8pm 2pm & 8pm 2pm
CURTAIN CHAT Wed, Dec 4 FAMILY MATINEE Sat, Dec 7 at 2pm
This program features live music.
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Pam Tanowitz + Simone Dinnerstein
New Work for Goldberg Variations DEC 10-15 “A riveting dialogue of movement and music” (The New York Times), New Work for Goldberg Variations is an eveninglength work created by choreographer Pam Tanowitz and pianist Simone Dinnerstein, who performs live with Pam Tanowitz Dance. One of the foremost Bach interpreters of her generation, Dinnerstein brings her nuanced understanding of the demanding score to Tanowitz’s witty and unflinching abstractions of classical and popular dance forms in a delightful interplay of rhythm, style, and idiosyncrasy.
SCHEDULE Tue-Wed 7:30pm 8pm Thu-Sat 2pm Sun
CURTAIN CHAT Wed, Dec 11
This program features live music.
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Dorrance Dance DEC 17-JAN 5 “One of the most imaginative tap choreographers working today” (The New Yorker), Michelle Dorrance and her tap dream team arrive just in time for the holidays with a world premiere by Michelle Dorrance set to Duke Ellington’s sublime interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite. And in the New York premiere of All Good Things Come to an End, the iconic music of Fats Waller frames a wild, satirical ride through tableaux ranging from “Cane and Able” to “The Myth of the American Dream.” A thrilling collection of unique voices, Dorrance is joined onstage with her collaborators Hannah Heller, Melinda Sullivan, and Josette Wiggan-Freund. SCHEDULE Tue-Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
7:30pm* 2pm** & 8pm 8pm 2pm & 8pm 2pm & 7:30pm***
CURTAIN CHAT Wed, Dec 18 FAMILY MATINEE Sat, Dec 28 at 2pm
*No performances on Wed, Dec 25 or Wed, Jan 1 **Dec 26 only ***Dec 22 only This program features live music. The Joyce’s presentation of Dorrance Dance is sponsored by First Republic Bank. Underwriting support provided by Nancy and Michael Feller, and Monica B. Voldstad.
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A M E R I CA N DA N C E P LAT FO R M JAN 7-12 The American Dance Platform showcases some of the most captivating American companies performing today. Created as a way to celebrate and promote companies from across the United States, each Platform is programmed by a different curator appointed by The Joyce. This year’s offerings have been selected by Christy Bolingbroke, founding executive/ artistic director at the National Center for Choreography at the University of Akron. FEATURING PERFORMANCES BY Urban Bush Women, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Bruce Wood Dance, Limón Dance Company, Embodiment Project, ODC/Dance, Rosie Herrera Dance Theater, and Rennie Harris Puremovement. The Joyce Theater’s American Dance Platform is dedicated to the memory of Theodore S. Bartwink of The Harkness Foundation for Dance. Theodore S. Bartwink was a Joyce Theater Foundation Trustee from 1993 to 2014. Major support for The Joyce’s presentation of the American Dance Platform was provided by The Harkness Foundation for Dance.
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AMERICAN DA Urban Bush Women* JAN 7 & 12 Led by award-winning founder Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Urban Bush Women creates theatrical contemporary dance works informed by the traditions of the African Diaspora, performed by dancers who deliver “urgent letters to the world, stories bursting to be told” (Dance Magazine). The program includes a collaboration between Zollar and Senegalese choreographer Germaine Acogny entitled Women’s Resistance, a call to action to amplify women’s voices in 2020. Also planned—and performed to live percussion—is Zollar’s I Don’t Know, but I Been Told, If You Keep on Dancin’ You Never Grow Old, an energetic mashup of dance forms emerging from black communities, from stepping to street dancing. SCHEDULE Tue & Sun 7:30pm
* This company is on a shared program with Dayton Contemporary Dance Company
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This program features live music.
N C E P L AT F O R M Dayton Contemporary Dance Company* JAN 7 & 12 Dayton Contemporary Dance Company was founded in 1968 to create performance opportunities for dancers of color. Five decades later, it remains rooted in the African American experience, committed to the development of diverse movement artists on the global stage. Known for making choreography “burst into life” (The New York Times), the company performs the New York premiere of rising talent Abby Zbikowski’s driving and highly physical work Indestructible, and Donald Byrd’s epic Geography of the Cotton Field, which explores the history of cotton in all its implications and cultural manifestations. SCHEDULE Tue & Sun 7:30pm
* This company is on a shared program with Urban Bush Women
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AMERICAN DA Bruce Wood Dance* JAN 8 & 12 Emotionally charged and virtuosic, Bruce Wood Dance is a compelling contemporary dance company built on the vision and artistry of acclaimed Texan choreographer Bruce Wood. Hailing from Dallas, the company is known for its moving choreography, poignant imagery, and intimate partnering. Led by artistic director Joy Bollinger, the company carries on Wood’s legacy while incorporating new works by awardwinning choreographers. For this engagement, the troupe performs Wood’s innovative all-male dance theater work I’m My Brother’s Keeper, and former Parsons’ dancer and choreographer Katarzyna Skarpetowska’s wild rollercoaster of a dance, Yesod.
SCHEDULE 7:30pm Wed 2pm Sun * This company is on a shared program with Limón Dance Company
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N C E P L AT F O R M Limón Dance Company* JAN 8 & 12 The Limón Dance Company brings the past and present together with its dazzling repertory, which includes masterworks by the company’s eponymous founder, and new works by choreographers such as Kate Weare, Rosie Herrera, and Colin Connor, who leads the company today. The renowned troupe offers dramatic expressiveness and technical mastery in a program that includes contemporary work alongside Limón’s A Suite from A Choreographic Offering, set to Bach and created as an homage to modern dance pioneer Doris Humphrey.
SCHEDULE 7:30pm Wed 2pm Sun * This company is on a shared program with Bruce Wood Dance
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AMERICAN DA Embodiment Project* Ancient Children
JAN 9 & 11 Quickly gaining critical acclaim, Embodiment Project is an award-winning San Francisco based company that intersects street dance traditions like house dance, b-girling, hip hop, and more with poetic theatrical elements and live music. Artistic director Nicole Klaymoon’s signature approach to dance emphasizes the sacred practice of voicing stories of trauma to reclaim power. In this engagement, the company presents Ancient Children, an original work of hip hop dance theater that engages a critical conversation around childhood trauma, race, and healing. “[T]he performers are charismatic, the hip-hop dance commanding, the truths delivered unflinching” (Ford Review).
SCHEDULE Thu & Sat 8pm * This company is on a shared program with ODC/Dance
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N C E P L AT F O R M ODC/Dance* Dead Reckoning JAN 9 & 11 Founded in 1971 by Brenda Way, San Francisco’s ODC/ Dance is prized for its “full-bodied and expansive” (The New Yorker) contemporary work. The company presents coartistic director KT Nelson’s Dead Reckoning, a spellbinding dance that explores a world altered by climate change, featuring original music by celebrated Kronos Quartet cellist Joan Jeanrenaud. The work’s title refers to a method of navigation in which one’s position is determined without the predictable reference points of stars, increasing the likelihood of accumulative error. As the dance progresses, lime green snow begins to fall from the dancers’ hands. Bit by bit, our world is transformed.
SCHEDULE Thu & Sat 8pm * This company is on a shared program with Embodiment Project
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AMERICAN DA Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre* Make Believe JAN 10 & 11 “One of the strongest and most original talents to emerge from Miami� (Miami Herald), Rosie Herrera is a Cuban-American choreographer known for her whimsical and poignant dance theater works. In Make Believe, Herrera turns her attention toward religion to explore how early encounters of spiritual belief systems inform how we experience romantic love later. Through vignettes inflected with characteristic humor and sadness, Make Believe deconstructs what it means to believe in magic, and what it means to be in love.
SCHEDULE 8pm Fri 2pm Sat * This company is on a shared program with Rennie Harris Puremovement
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N C E P L AT F O R M Rennie Harris Puremovement* Nuttin’ But a Word JAN 10 & 11 Hailing from Philadelphia, Rennie Harris is “the most respected—and, to my knowledge, the most brilliant—hip hop choreographer in America” (The New Yorker). His award-winning company, Rennie Harris Puremovement, brings its powerful, athletic, and deftly constructed dances to The Joyce. In Nuttin’ But a Word, a suite of short works created by Harris, a cast of masterful performers versed in a myriad of street dance forms push locking, house, hip hop, and b-boying to the brink, challenging the notion that the preservation of hip hop and its evolution are mutually exclusive.
SCHEDULE 8pm Fri 2pm Sat
* This company is on a shared program with Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre
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PROTOTYPE Festival
Cion (Requiem of Ravel’s Boléro) JAN 15-18 Physically charged and visually striking, Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Boléro is a powerful work featuring live singing, choreographed by South African star Gregory Vuyani Maqoma. Set in a graveyard filled with the haunting music of Isicathamiya singers—an a cappella style originating from the Zulu people—the production draws inspiration from Zakes Mda’s novel Cion and Maurice Ravel’s Boléro. Presented as part of the pioneering opera-theatre festival PROTOTYPE, in Maqoma’s words, the show is “a lament, a requiem required to awaken a part of us, the connection to the departed souls.”
SCHEDULE 7:30pm Wed 8pm Thu–Fri 2pm & 8pm Sat
CURTAIN CHAT Thu, Jan 16
This program features live music.
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COMPLEXIONS Contemporary Ballet JAN 21-FEB 2 Artistic directors Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson serve up thought-provoking and entertaining contemporary ballet performed by “utterly transfixing” (Billboard Magazine) dancers. A refreshed version of audience favorite, Innervisions, set to the music of Stevie Wonder, returns alongside two crowd-pleasing world premieres. Rounding out the program, last year’s “galvanizing protest rally of a ballet” (Hyperallergic), WOKE, and the athletic and celebratory Bach 25 are back by popular demand. SCHEDULE Week One
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7:30pm 7pm 8pm 2pm & 8pm 2pm
CURTAIN CHAT Wed, Jan 22
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FAMILY MATINEE Sat, Jan 25 at 2pm
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Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker Cão Sem Plumas (Dog Without Feathers) FEB 4-9 “A Brazilian revolution” (San Francisco Chronicle), Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker makes a long-awaited return with Cão Sem Plumas (Dog Without Feathers), an evocative performance inspired by João Cabral de Melo Neto’s poem of the same name. Winner of the international Prix Benois de la Danse, the work explores the Capibaribe River region in Northeast Brazil and the dry land and riverbed dwellers that water sustains. In a powerful blend of contemporary dance, poetry, and film, Colker meditates on inequity and resilience as she attempts to dissolve the moving body, covered in dust, into liquid. SCHEDULE Tue–Wed 7:30pm 8pm Thu–Sat 2pm Sun
CURTAIN CHAT Wed, Feb 5
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Che Malambo FEB 11-16 The show-stopping, foot-stomping all-male dance company Che Malambo brings rich Argentinian traditions and rigorous dancing to The Joyce’s stage for an exhilarating show that is perfect for the entire family. A dance form practiced by gauchos, or South American cowboys, Malambo developed in the 17th century from competitive duels that tested agility, strength, and dexterity. Che Malambo brings this thrilling spectacle of percussive dance and music to life as its performers exude “a power and passion that builds into a kind of ecstasy” (The Boston Globe). SCHEDULE Tue-Wed Thu-Fri Sat Sun
7:30pm 8pm 2pm & 8pm 2pm
CURTAIN CHAT Wed, Feb 12 FAMILY MATINEE Sat, Feb 15 at 2pm
This program features live music.
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FAMILY MATINEES
The Joyce invites young audiences and grown-ups to experience renowned companies together and to enjoy a special opportunity to meet the artists following the performances. Kids’ tickets are only $10. All children must be accompanied by an adult. Kids seeing at least three family performances automatically become Joyce Junior members and save 40% on the price of their tickets—that’s $10 reduced to only $6. Joyce Junior members get a special backstage tour of The Joyce, a T-shirt, and gift coupons, created just for them. The Joyce’s Family Matinee series is sponsored by Stanton Public Relations & Marketing. Special support for The Joyce’s School & Family Programs provided by Con Edison.
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Ayodele Casel + Arturo O’Farril Sun, Sep 29 at 2pm
Dorrance Dance Sat, Dec 28 at 2pm
BalletX
Sat, Oct 5 @ 2pm
COMPLEXIONS Contemporary Dance Sat, Jan 25 at 2pm
Black Grace Sun, Nov 3 at 2pm
Che Malambo Sat, Feb 15 at 2pm
And Still You Must Swing Sat, Dec 7 at 2pm
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EDUCATION
SCHOOL PROGRAMS Each year, The Joyce Theater, a national leader in dance education, invites over 2,000 1st–12th grade students and teachers in the New York City metropolitan area to attend special perfomances and workshops.
INTERNSHIPS The Joyce Theater Foundation actively seeks highly motivated high school and college students interested in learning about the behind-the-scene operations of one of the only theaters built by dancers for dance. For more information on these programs, contact Heather McCartney, Director of School & Family Programs at 212-727-0169 or hmccartney@joyce.org. The Joyce’s School & Family Programs are supported, in part, by the Charles E. Culpeper Endowment Fund, The William Randolph Hearst Foundations, and the Constance Sanders Fund for Dance Education.
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MASTER CLASSES
The Joyce Master Class Series at Gibney offers the dance community the opportunity to learn from professionals performing at The Joyce. Artistic directors, company members, and choreographers present rigorous classes that complement their Joyce engagements and provide deeper insight and perspective into dance works. For more information, visit Joyce.org/MasterClasses. Ayodele Casel Fri, Sep 27
BalletX Fri, Oct 4
A.I.M Fri, Oct 18
Kate Wallich & The YC Fri, Nov 15
Pam Tanowitz Dance Fri, Dec 13
American Dance Platform: Abbie Zbikowski
American Dance Platform: Dayton Contemporary Dance Company Fri, Jan 10
COMPLEXIONS Contemporary Ballet Fri, Jan 24
Companhia de Danรงa Deborah Colker Fri, Feb 7
Che Malambo Fri, Feb 14
Mon, Jan 6
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ENGAGE GET CLOSER Visit the Get Closer section of The Joyce website to be immersed in the world of dance through interviews, articles, and videos focused on superb artists. Join us at Joyce.org/GetCloser to learn more.
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JOYCE PODCAST Did you know The Joyce has a podcast? It’s called Still Spinning, and you can find it now in Apple Podcasts, on Spotify, or in your favorite podcast app. Search for Still Spinning to hear deep dive interviews with great artists like Wendy Whelan, Elizabeth Streb, and Kyle Abraham. Subscribe today to automatically receive new episodes when they become available.
Get Closer and Still Spinning are part of The Joyce’s Open Channels Project, which is generously supported by the Ford Foundation.
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G E T I N V O LV E D YOUNG LEADERS CIRCLE
The Joyce’s Young Leaders Circle (YLC) is a community of young professionals who are passionate about serving and supporting the art of dance. Through the commitment of the YLC, The Joyce Theater continues to advocate for the future of dance. YLC members are able to curate and participate in a dynamic schedule of on-site and off-site programming with dancers, choreographers, and fellow dance enthusiasts. Membership starts at $225. For more information, please contact Meg White at 347-856-5828 or mwhite@joyce.org. 63
CHOREOGRAPHERS & COCKTAILS
Date: Monday, October 28, 2019 Location: Gibney, 280 Broadway, New York, NY 10007 Support The Joyce Theater and enjoy a night of hors d’oeuvres, cocktails, spectacular silent auction, intimate open rehearsals, and the opportunity to mingle with celebrated choreographers, dancers, and dance enthusiasts! For more information, please contact Vernon Scott at 646-278-0442 or vscott@joyce.org.
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G E T I N V O LV E D TRAVEL WITH THE JOYCE
Travel with The Joyce to exotic places throughout the world with companions who share your love of dance. Excursions are led by a Joyce director, and exclusive perks like private meetings with artistic directors, choreographers, and dancers will make your travel experience truly unique. These trips offer travelers a unique opportunity to explore dance in beautiful and distinctive destination, and are geared toward enhancing your understanding of unique cultures and the artists who populate them. It’s a stress-free travel experience, with The Joyce handling all the details. Why travel any other way? For more information, contact Katie Gorsky at 347-856-5827 or kgorsky@joyce.org.
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FUNDERS LEAD SUPPORT: LuEsther T.
Mertz Charitable Trust
MAJOR SUPPORT:
KEY SUPPORT:
The Jerome Robbins Foundation The Thompson Family Foundation Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Stephen and Cathy Weinroth Fund for New Work SUSTAINING SUPPORT: Jody and John Arnhold The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Elysabeth Kleinhans Henry and Lucy Moses Fund Marc and Carolyn Rowan Denise Littlefield Sobel The Jennifer and Jonathan Allan Soros Foundation Anonymous
SPECIAL SUPPORT:
The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation
Alpern Family Foundation Bloomberg Philanthropies Con Edison The Kingsley Foundation Mertz Gilmore Foundation Tatiana Piankova Foundation The Walt Disney Company
PRESENTING SUPPORT: Deborah and Charles Adelman, Barbara Dau, Nancy and Michael Feller, Jane E. Goldberg, Melanie Coronetz and Bruce G. Miller, Virginia and Timothy Millhiser, Rajika and Anupam Puri, Kathleen A. Scott, and Monica B. Voldstad
GOVERNMENT SUPPORT: Programs of The Joyce Theater Foundation are supported by a grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts; made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council with special thanks to Speaker Corey Johnson.
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GETTING TO THE JOYCE The Joyce Theater is located in Chelsea at 175 Eighth Avenue (at the corner of 19th Street) and easily accessible via public transportation: BY SUBWAY
to 14th Street* train to 8th Avenue train to 18th Street
BY CAR
The nearest parking garage is on 19th Street (between Seventh and Eighth Avenues). BY BUS
M20 to 23rd Street M7 or M14 to 14th Street M11 to 23rd Street M23 to 8 Ave
*Subway station is ADA Compliant.
PHOTO CREDITS Cover: Matthew West of Dorrance Dance by Matthew Murphy. Welcome to The Joyce: Photo by Eric Vitale. What’s Inside: Ephrat Asherie of Dorrance Dance by Matthew Murphy. Page 6: Ayodele Casel by Michael Higgins. Page 7: RUBBERBAND by Mathieu Doyon. Page 9: Ayodele Casel by Patrick Randak. Page 11: Roderick Phifer of BalletX by Gabriel Bienczycki. Page 13: Shantala Shivalingappa by Christopher Duggan. Page 15: Tamisha Guy of A.I.M by Sharen Bradford. Page 17: Maya Beiser and Wendy Whelan by Nils Schlebusch. Page 19: Demi-Jo Manalo and Laifa Ta’ala of Black Grace by John McDermott. Page 21: Omari Wiles of Ephrat Asherie Dance by Matthew Murphy. Page 23: Camille A. Brown & Dancers Mr. TOL E. RAncE by Christopher Duggan. Page 25: Kate Wallich + Perfume Genius by Augustin Hernandez. Page 27: Soledad Barrio photo courtesy of Peter Graham. Page 29: Dormeshia by Eduardo Patino. Page 31: Simone Dinnerstein, Netta Yerushalmy, Jason Collins, Maggie Cloud and Melissa Toogood of by Marina Levitskaya. Page 33: Christopher Broughton of Dorrance Dance by Matthew Murphy. Page 34: Carson Murphy of Dorrance Dance by Matthew Murphy. Page 35: Elizabeth Burke and Nicholas Van Young of Dorrance Dance by Matthew Murphy. Page 37: Frances Samson of Limón Dance Company by Christopher Jones. Page 39: Urban Bush Women by Ian Douglas. Page 40: Michael Green of Dayton Contemporary Dance Company by Scott Robbins. Page 41: Bruce Wood Dance by Sharen Bradford. Page 42: Limón Dance Company by Ben Licera. Page 43: Amber Julian and Terrence Paschal of Embodiment Project by David Wilson. Page 44: ODC/Dance by Andrew Weeks. Page 45: Katie Stirman of Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre by Ben McKeown. Page 46: Rennie Harris Puremovement by Nikki Carrara. Page 47: PROTOTYPE Festival Cion by Siphosihle Mkhwanazi. Page 49: Maxfield Haynes of COMPLEXIONS Contemporary Dance by Steven Truman Gray. Page 51: Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker by Cafi. Page 53: Che Malambo by Frank Wiesen. Page 55-56: Family Matinees by Rachel Thorne Germond; Ayodele Casel by Patrick Randak; BalletX by Gabriel Bienczycki; Black Grace by John McDermott; And Still You Must Swing by Christopher Duggan; Dorrance Dance by Matthew Murphy; COMPLEXIONS Contemporary Dance by Steven Truman Gray; Che Malambo by Frank Wiesen. Page 57: Education by Rachel Thorne Germond. Page 58: Master Class by Rachel Thorne Germond. Page 61: Friends of The Joyce by Ivan Huang. Page 63: YLC Contemporaries by Ivan Huang. Page 64: Coreographers & Cocktails by Virginia Kluiters. Page 65: Cuba by Laura Diffenderfer. Page 68: Joyce patrons by Eric Vitale.
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PURCHASING TICKETS ONLINE Joyce.org PHONE Call JoyceCharge 212-242-0800 M on– S un , 1 2pm–6pm
BOX OFFICE 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street M on– S un , 1 2pm–6pm
GROUPS
Discounts available for groups of 10 or more. For more information, contact 212-691-9740 Ext. 255 or groups@joyce.org. ACCESSIBILITY
The Joyce Theater is compliant with ADA standards, including accessible seating and assisted listening devices for patron use. Please alert us of special needs when ordering your tickets.
On performance days, the box office is open through curtain time with advance sales stopping a half hour prior to curtain time.
TICKET FEES Service Charge: $6 Exchange Fee: $5 All tickets must be exchanged for the same dance company, up to 48 hours before the original performance. Exchanges are subject to availability.
Ticket prices subject to change Tickets subject to availability and prior sales. Programs subject to change. No refunds or cancellations.
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SEASON SCHEDULE S E P 1 7-2 2
RUBBERBAND SEP 24-29
Ayodele Casel + Arturo O’Farrill
SECTION A Regular Member
SECTION B Regular Member
$45
$34
$25
$19
$55
$41
$35
$26
$55
$41
$35
$26
$45
$34
$25
$19
$130
$98
$115
$86
$55
$41
$35
$26
$ 75
$56
$55
$41
$55
$41
$35
$26
$45
$34
$25
$19
$55
$41
$35
$26
$45
$34
$25
$19
$60
$45
$45
$34
$65
$49
$45
$34
$55
$41
$35
$26
$ 75
$56
$55
$41
OCT 1-6
BalletX OCT 8-12
Shantala Shivalingappa OCT 15
A.I.M + Misty Copeland OCT 16-20
A.I.M OCT 22-27
THE DAY O C T 2 9- N OV 3
Black Grace N O V 5 -7
Ephrat Asherie Dance N OV 9-1 0
Camille A. Brown + Dancers N OV 1 3 -1 7
Kate Wallich + The YC Perfume Genius N OV 1 9- D E C 1
Soledad Barrio + Noche Flamenca DEC 3-8
And Still You Must Swing DEC 10-15
Pam Tanowitz + Simone Dinnerstein D E C 1 7- J A N 5
Dorrance Dance
SEATING CHART S TA G E
LOGE
LOGE SECTION A
SECTION B
SECTION C SECTION A Regular Member
SECTION D SECTION B Regular Member
J A N 7- 1 2
American Dance Platform
$45
$34
$25
$19
$55
$38
$35
$26
$60
$45
$45
$34
$55
$41
$35
$26
$55
$41
$35
$26
JAN 15-18
PROTOTYPE Festival: Cion JAN 21-FEB 2
COMPLEXIONS Contemporary Ballet FEB 4-9
Companhia de Danรงa Deborah Colker FEB 11-16
Che Malambo
Tickets subject to availability and prior sale. Programs subject to change. No refunds or cancellations. Membership discount may not be used in conjunction with other offers. Each Member may purchase up to six Member tickets per performance. Member ticket prices are subject to change and may not be available on day of performance. Memberships are non-transferable. All sales are final. Please Note: Prices subject to change and not guaranteed after September 3, 2019. There is a one time per season $10 service fee for members; and a $6 handling fee for non-members per ticket.
FOR TICKETS, VISIT JOYCE.ORG OR CALL 212-242-0800