SANKAI JUKU OCTOBER 24 - NOVEMBER 5, 2023
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Photo by Maria Baranova
Choreography by PAM TANOWITZ Music by DAVID LANG A Fisher Center at Bard Production
The Joyce Theater Foundation presents
SANKAI JUKU
KŌSA
between two mirrors Artistic Director, Choreography, & Design Assistant Director Music Dancers
Stage Manager Lighting Sound Costume Realization Administration Pomegranate Arts Production Supervisor Pomegranate Arts Tour Manager
Ushio Amagatsu Semimaru YAS-KAZ, Yoichiro Yoshikawa Akihito Ichihara, Norihito Ishii, Sōtaro Ito, Taiki Iwamoto, Dai Matsuoka, Makoto Takese, Sho Takeuchi Keiji Morita Genta Iwamura Akira Aikawa Masayo Iizuka Midori Okuyama, Asami Hori Doug Witney Tim Grassel
PRODUCED BY Sankai Juku (Tokyo, Japan) NORTH AMERICAN TOUR PRODUCER Pomegranate Arts Linda Brumbach & Alisa E. Regas for Sankai Juku The 2023 North American tour of Sankai Juku is supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan through the Japan Arts Council. Makeup provided by Shiseido Company, Limited. 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 Catskill Mountain Foundation, Ford Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, MacMillan Family Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation. Support for The Joyce’s presentation of international dance provided by the R. Britton Fisher and Family Gift for International Dance. Additional support provided by the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund to encourage the performances of out-of-town companies at The Joyce Theater.
ABOUT THE PROGRAM Over the past 35 years, the work of Tokyo-based company Sankai Juku has become known worldwide for its elegance, refinement, technical precision, and emotional depth. Founder Ushio Amagatsu’s contemporary Butoh creations are sublime visual spectacles and deeply moving theatrical experiences. He is one of the premiere choreographers at work in the world today. Created in 2022, KŌSA consists of excerpts from pieces of Sankai Juku’s repertoire that have been reimagined to constitute a work in its own right. Amagatsu has built this new eveninglength work in an effort to present the most essential elements of his vision: “By using no decor, only pure dance and the philosophical perception of images, I tried to bring everyone into my universe with as much curiosity as that which inhabited us at the first creation.”
ABOUT SANKAI JUKU Sankai Juku is a Butoh dance company founded by Ushio Amagatsu in 1975. The company has premiered a new piece approximately once every two years at Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, a center for contemporary dance. Sankai Juku is one of the few dance companies that Théâtre de la Ville has commissioned continuously for 35 years. Artistic Director Ushio Amagatsu trained in both classical and modern dance before becoming immersed in Butoh. For Amagatsu, Butoh expresses the language of the body. In the 1970s, Amagatsu drew mostly on his own individual experience for inspiration. During the 1980s, he spent most of his time in Europe and the inspiration for his work became more universal. In his works, Amagatsu presents an abstract vision of the infinite and explores evolutionary movement. He examines the relationship of the body to gravity and the relationship between gravity, the earth, and the environment. The company has toured internationally since 1980 and performed in over 700 cities in 48 countries throughout Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. They have been highly praised in different cultures for over 35 years, a testament to the universal nature of Sankai Juku’s work. While crossing over geographic borders and appealing to diverse audiences, the company develops the themes of their work while searching for and moving towards new realms. Sankai Juku received the Japan Foundation Award in 2013.
ABOUT POMEGRANATE ARTS Since 1998, Pomegranate Arts has worked in close collaboration with a small group of contemporary artists and arts institutions to bring bold and ambitious artistic ideas to fruition. Creative and executive producers Linda Brumbach and Alisa E. Regas, along with their committed team at Pomegranate Arts, have produced the Olivier Award-winning revival of Einstein on the Beach; Taylor Mac’s epic A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, Holiday Sauce, and now – their third collaboration together – a rock opera mediation on queerness called Bark of Millions; Available Light by John Adams, Lucinda Childs, and Frank Gehry; Robin Frohardt’s The Plastic Bag Store; Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch’s Shockheaded Peter; and the Drama Desk Award-winning production of Charlie Victor Romeo. In recent years, Linda and Alisa have expanded the vision of the company by producing in non-performative mediums, including their first feature documentary film Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music (HBO Original Doc), the film short Taylor Mac’s Whitman in the Woods. (ALL ARTS), and museum installations for Machine Dazzle. Their first book, a special box set edition of Philip Glass Piano Etudes: The Complete Folios 1-20 with Essays by Fellow Artists, will be published by Artisan Books in October 2023. In addition to our own productions, Pomegranate Arts is proud to support North American touring for Batsheva Dance Company and Sankai Juku. www.pomegranatearts.com.
POMEGRANATE ARTS IS THE NORTH AMERICAN REPRESENTATION OF SANKAI JUKU FOR POMEGRANATE ARTS Creative & Executive Producers General Manager Director of Production Executive Administrator Operations Consultant
Linda Brumbach & Alisa E. Regas Rachel Katwan Jeremy Lydic Jake Stepansky Kaleb Kilkenny
WHO'S WHO IN SANKAI JUKU USHIO AMAGATSU (Artistic Director, Choreography, Design) was born in Yokosuka, Japan in 1949 and founded Butoh company Sankai Juku in 1975. He created Amagatsu Sho (1977), Kinkan Shonen (1978), and Sholiba (1979) before the first world tour in 1980. Since 1981 (the year he created Bakki), the Festival d'Avignon (Avignon, France) and Théâtre de la Ville (Paris, France) have been his places for creation and work. He has created 16 pieces co-produced with Théâtre de la Ville since 1982. Amagatsu also works independently outside Sankai Juku. In 1988, he created Fushi at the invitation of Jacob's Pillow, with music by Philip Glass. In 1989, he was appointed Artistic Director of the Spiral Hall in Tokyo, where he directed Apocalypse (1989) and Fifth-V (1990). In February 1997, he directed the opera Bluebeard's Castle by Bartok, conducted by Peter Eötvos, at the Tokyo International Forum. In March 1998, at Opéra National de Lyon, France, he directed Peter Eötvos's opera Three Sisters, which received the Prix du Syndicat National de la Critique of France. Three Sisters was seen in the 2001-2002 season at Théâtre du Chatelet in Paris, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, Opéra National de Lyon, and Wiener Festwochen 2002 in Austria. In March 2008, Amagatsu directed Lady Sarashina, Peter Eötvos’s new opera at Opéra National de Lyon. Lady Sarashina, again, received the Prix du Syndicat National de la Critique of France. The work was seen at Opera Comique in February 2009 and Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera in April 2013. Amagatsu has presided on the jury of the International Choreographic Competition of the National Academy of Dance, Italy (2011), the jury of the Toyota Choreography Award (2002 – 2005), and the jury of the International Meeting of Dance of Bagnolet (1992). Awards and merits given include: Commandeur de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Cultural Ministry (2014), the PurpleRibbon Medal by the Japanese government (2011), the Geijyutsu Sensho Prize (Art Encouragement Prize) from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (2004), and the Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Letters by French Cultural Ministry (1992). HIBIKI received a Laurence Olivier Award in category of Best New Dance Production (2002). Books include Ushio Amagatsu, Des rivages d'enfance au bûto de Sankai Juku (biography dictated by Kyoko Iwaki, Actes Sud, 2013, France) and Dialogue avec la gravité (published by Actes Sud, 2000, France and Iwanami Shoten, 2015, Japan). SEMIMARU (Assistant Director), a founding member of Sankai Juku, has participated in all Sankai Juku activities since its founding in 1975. In 1985, he began his solo career, often performing outside of the theater, and in 1990, he launched Kokutoin. The group continues to gather dancers for each performance and continues to create works. From 1987 to 1996, he held dance workshops every summer, and since 1999, he has established an atelier in the Kurobe River basin in Toyama Prefecture, where he holds the training camps and performances every summer, continuing to teach young dancers. Generally, he performs outdoors and creates works that are appropriate to the location, calling it "dialogue with the magnetic field," and likes to observe the connection between the space, the body, and the spirit.
A HISTORY OF BUTOH DANCE Written by Kelsey Carman, Stanford Live
Starting in late 1950s and early 1960s Japan, butoh emerged as an avant-garde dance style whose creation can be credited to Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ôno. The form, with its characteristic intensity, was influenced by the emergence of postmodernism and the atomic bombings of Japan. Since then, butoh has spread across the globe. During the early 1960s there were two major types of dance forms performed in Japan: traditional Japanese dance (kagura, buyō, and bugaku) and Western dance (classical ballet and modern dance). Butoh performances sought to depart from the aesthetics and the structured forms of Western dance. The early development of modern dance inspired the first butoh dancers to experiment with the idea of creative interactions between form and the spirit of their era. Artists sought new ways to create a dance that would strengthen their country’s culture and focus on the issues and contradictions of the times. Butoh breaks from the more traditional forms of Japanese performances by using intense, playful, or grotesque imagery to explore taboo topics. It is traditionally performed in white body makeup with slow, hyper-controlled motion. It embraces themes of death, disease, and mental illness. Dancers frequently appear weakened, emulating dead bodies, with spines bowed and feet shaking. Two key artists played a pivotal role in the art form’s development. Kazuo Ôno has been described as the “soul of butoh.” He began studying modern dance in 1933 with Baku Ishii, and used his dancing to express intense moods and feelings. In 1954 he began working with Tatsumi Hijikata on a performance called The Old Man and the Sea based on an adaptation of the Hemingway novel by Nobuo Ikemiya. From this performance forward, he began experimenting with new dance techniques to explore the soul and took the first steps toward what would expand into the butoh form.
Building on Ôno’s foundation, Tatsumi Hijikata expanded the awareness of butoh through his work and his story. He loved to break with convention and turn the accepted ideas of what dance was upside-down. His fire and energy were electric and many musicians, poets, artists, and activists were drawn to him. He forged the concept of Ankoku Butoh (Dance of Darkness) over the course of several years through artistic experimentation and introspection. One of the first recorded butoh pieces, Hijikata’s Forbidden Colors, premiered at a dance festival in 1959. Based on Yukio Mishima’s novel of the same name, the performance explored the theme of homosexuality and resulted in considerable uproar from the audience. Several members of the Japanese Dance Association threatened to resign should similar pieces be presented in the future. However, this did not deter the artists devoted to butoh and helped cement Hijikata’s position as a formidable creative force. Starting in the 1980s, butoh experienced a renaissance as butoh groups began performing outside Japan for the first time, including Sankai Juku.
All photos courtesy of Sankai Juku.
THE JOYCE TRAVEL PROGRAM
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Join The Joyce Travel Program for a spectacular trip to Havana, Cuba: the home of mambo, rumba, and danzón. Enjoy the incredible Havana Jazz Festival and a performance by the internationally renowned Malpaso Dance Company. With delicious meals, five-star accommodations, and tours of the exuberant city, this is a trip you will not want to miss! For more information or contact Maeve Brady at mbrady@joyce.org or (347)-856-5827.
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 more than four 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 475 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 (1st–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 300 performances for audiences of over 100,000. 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 made the reopening of The Joyce Theater in 2021 and the reemergence of many dance companies possible.
Leadership support for The Joyce's year-round programs and services:
LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust
Major support for The Joyce’s American Dance Platform and Harkness First debuts:
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Champion support for The Joyce's annual programming:
The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation
ABOUT THE JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION VISION STATEMENT
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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.
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 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:
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.
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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.
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.......................................Kirsten Munro 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 Director of Dance Education & Family Programs................... .................................................................................Heather McCartney Dance Education & Family Programs Manager......................... ...............................................................................................................OPEN Director of Marketing...........................................Andy Sheagren Associate Director of Marketing Strategy..............Anjali Amin Digital Marketing Manager.......................................Olivia James 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
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.........................Fabrizio Caputo, Edward Hill The Joyce Theater is a member of APAP, Dance/NYC, and Dance/USA.
JOYCE THEATER PRODUCTIONS
Producer.............................................................................Ross LeClair Associate Producer................................................Bridget Caston
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 Studio Manager................................................................Tamika Daniels
FACILITIES
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THE JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION, INC. BOARD OF TRUSTEES Amit Wadhwaney, Chair Charles M. Adelman, Vice Chair Stephanie R. Breslow, Treasurer Jane E. Goldberg, Secretary Kerry Clayton, Chair Emeritus Virginia A. Millhiser, Chair Emerita R. Richard Ablon Rob Ashford
Monica F. Azare John M. Basnage de Beauval Ajay Bhandaram Keane Ehsani Michael Feller Ronald Gumbaz Toni Hoover Robert Musiker Susan Gluck Pappajohn
Steven M. Pesner Meryl Rosofsky Saul Sanders Linda Shelton Susan Fawcett Sosin Lauren E. Shortt Cathy Weinroth Madelyn Wils
IN MEMORIAM Theodore S. Bartwink (Trustee 1993-2014) Tracy Brown (Trustee 2020-2023) R. Britton Fisher (Trustee 1990-2020) David D. Holbrook (Trustee 1994-2023) Richard Lukins (Trustee 1998-2011)
Anh-Tuyet Nguyen (Trustee 2007-2020) Richard Shea (Trustee 2015-2022) Monica B. Volstad (Trustee 2016-2023) 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 September 6, 2023. Platinum Benefactors ($500,000 and above) Howard Gilman Foundation LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust Gold Benefactors ($100,000 and above) Catskill Mountain Foundation Kerry Clayton & Paige Royer Ford Foundation The Harkness Foundation for Dance MacMillan Family Foundation Mellon Foundation Virginia & Timothy Millhiser New York City Department Cultural Affairs Robert Pollock Rockefeller Brothers Fund The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation The Shubert Foundation Denise Littlefield Sobel
Alpern Family Foundation John Basnage de Beauval Ajay Bhandaram Bloomberg Philanthropies Torrence Boone Robert Brenner Con Edison John & Margaret Falk Nancy & Michael Feller *Brandon Fradd Gregg & Jean Frankel Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation Elzbieta Grove Andrea Holbrook In Honor of Karen Brooks Hopkins The Ivill-Weiner Family The Kingsley Foundation *LeConte Moore *Nō Studios of Milwaukee Tatiana Piankova Foundation *Betty P. & Michael H. Rauch *Karen Roth *Nancy Sands Kathleen A. Scott Linda Shelton *Leslie Siegel Johanna Weber *Vicente Wolf *Ralph Womble & Ashley Edwards
Nina B. Quigley Mr. Stephen Kroll Reidy Theresa Alessandro Russo Foundation *Michael Sekus & Bianca Russo Margaret E. Selby *Robert A. Schulman Barbara Madsen Smith Christopher Soule Jean & Gene Stark Linda B. Strumpf
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 Cathleen Collins Melanie Coronetz & Silver Benefactors Bruce G. Miller ($75,000 and above) *Chris Coulthrust GKV Charitable Foundation The Cowles Charitable Trust National Endowment for the Arts Mary Sharp Cronson Dance Reflections by Jan, Dick & Nora Demenus Van Cleef & Arpels Christopher M. Elmore *Paul S. Engler Benefactors Presenter’s Circle Andrew & Claire-Marine Ferguson ($50,000 and above) ($5,000 and above) Thomas von Foerster Jody & John Arnhold | Anonymous (2) Consulate General of the Federal Arnhold Foundation *Rick & Nurit Amdur Republic of Germany in *Ann & George Colony Sarah Arison New York *Leanne Lachman *Bart Friedman & Wendy Stein New York State Council on the Arts Rob Ashford Monica Azare *Emi Gittleman Michèle & Steve Pesner *Dorothy Goodman Meryl Rosofsky & Stuart Coleman Andrew & Froma Benerote *Marty & Louise Bickman The Harold K. Gross Family Lauren E. Shortt *Dr. John Bonavita-Goldman Charitable Trust The SHS Foundation Office of City Council Member Susan Ross Green Amit Wadhwaney Erik Bottcher Maya Hamlet Donna B. Case Ronald E. Hellman & Chairman’s Circle The Barbara Bell Cumming Stephen B. Roberts ($25,000 and above) Charitable Trust Val Holley & Joseph Plocek Anonymous (2) Chubb LTD *Deborah Kaye Deborah & Charles Adelman Jeffrey Davis & Michael T. Miller Jane Kendall Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation Dancers Responding to AIDS Alan & Gail Koss Stephanie R. Breslow & Linda Ellis *Joe Lanteri, New York City Paul Watterson Martin & Linda Fell Dance Alliance Inc. The Gladys Krieble Delmas *Judith & Alan Fishman Elaine & Howard Leventhal Foundation FUSED Martin & Rosanne Leshner Susan Dickler & Sig Van Raan French U.S. Exchange in Dance Jayne Lipman & Robert Goodman Keane Ehsani Paul Feuerman & Bruce Grivetti Mark Littman & Johnny Mendoza Jamshid & Mahsid Ehsani Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Goodman In Memory of John MacDonald Melina Fisher Sharon B. Gurwitz Uttara P. Marti *Jane E. Goldberg Randall & Mary Hack Wendy McCain Ronald Gumbaz & Juliet Cozzi *Elizabeth Anne Hartman Jane & Michael Murphy *Elysabeth Kleinhans Judith M. Hoffman Mutual of America Foundation Mertz Gilmore Foundation Illuminated Foundation Omomuki Foundation Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Christopher Jones & David Pasterski Henry and Lucy Moses Fund Deborah McAlister Warrie Price & Bob & Sharon Musiker Christine Knuth James David Prince National Dance Project of Elizabeth & Neil Kurtz Philip W. Riskin the New England Foundation *Jonathan Levinson Charitable Foundation for the Arts Robert R. Littman & Wes Schafer & Carlos Galtier Susan & Greg Pappajohn Sully Bonnelly Susan & Arnie Scharf The Jerome Robbins Foundation Karen & Martin McDonald Xiomara & Charles Scheidt Saul & Mary Sanders *Joyce F. Menschel Fran Schulman Monica Voldstad Ronay & Richard Rena Shagan Cathy Weinroth Menschel/ Alex & Wendy Stanton Madelyn & Steven Wils Charina Foundation, Inc. Linda Stocknoff Impresario’s Circle *Cherrie Nanninga Marianna Vaidman Stone & ($10,000 and above) In loving memory of Bill Perlmuth, Eric Stone Anonymous (3) Patricia Dugan Perlmuth *Temple St Clair LLC Jen Ablon Rajika & Anupam Puri Ms. Patricia E. Vance
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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 Tiger Gao 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 Camilla Liou 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 Douglas Weiss 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.
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