ABOUT THE PROGRAM
ROGUES (2011)
Choreography: Trisha Brown
Original Music: Alvin Curran, Toss and Find (excerpts)
Costume Design: Kaye Voyce
Lighting Design: John Torres
PERFORMED BY 5/2, 5/3, 5/6 8PM - CECILY CAMPBELL & BURR
JOHNSON
5/4, 5/5, 5/6 2PM, 5/7 - PATRICK NEEDHAM & JENNIFER PAYÁN
This duet was made in close collaboration between Trisha, Carolyn Lucas, Lee Serle, and myself. It followed an intensive period of really physical, rambunctious phrase building when Trisha was working with the men of the company. That material was pretty taxing, and we were understandably in the mood to make something a little bit lighter. Our departure point was a piece from the repertory called Foray Forêt (1990), the centerpiece of which is a phrase called the “Soft Phrase.” That piece, and the “Soft Phrase” in particular, became hallmarks of Trisha’s Back to Zero cycle from the early 90’s—a series of works marked by a return to her roots exploring “Pure Movement,” unembellished gesture, and a more pedestrian physicality. We set out to make a new “Soft Phrase.”
What emerged through the process was an interest in interruption or aberration. One dancer would toss out a movement that was learned by the other. The following movement was then generated by interrupting the previous movement before it had reached its completion, leaving the other dancer to play catch up—jumping from his completed movement to catch up with the other dancer as he bounced ahead in the sequence of the phrase. There was a sort of rhythmic tug of war, and we realized we were simultaneously building a phrase and a duet form. Nestled inside of this back-and-forth are periods of unison when the eye is free to settle on the dancing itself. Whenever we found our physicality revving up, we returned to our original impetus of softness, trying to let the phrase “empty out” before gathering momentum and rhythmic complexity again. This duet is accompanied by a score created by composer Alvin Curran, and is a poignant study in rhythm, timing, and kinetic pathway. It’s really a sly game of falling in and out of unison, and its simple form is a testament to the pleasure of surprise found throughout Trisha’s body of work.
- Neal Beasley, TBDC Alum
Rogues was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding from the Mellon Foundation; Brooklyn Academy of Music; the New York State Council on the Arts; Harkness Foundation for Dance; The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; The Shubert Foundation; The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, as well as the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative.
Special thanks to Cecily Campbell and Jamie Scott.
- PAUSE -
For M.G.: The Movie (1991)
Choreography: Trisha Brown
Original Music: Alvin Curran, For M.G. (One Step Too)
Visual Presentation & Costume Design: Trisha Brown
Lighting Design: Spencer Brown with Trisha Brown
PERFORMED BY CHRISTIAN ALLEN, CECILY CAMPBELL, BURR JOHNSON, LINDSEY JONES, CYNTHIA KOPPE, PATRICK NEEDHAM, JENNIFER PAYÁN, SPENCER WEIDIE
For M.G.: The Movie, is the second piece in a cycle of work called "Back to Zero." What I mean by zero is the simple elemental actions of the body. I entered this cycle through vocabulary, seeking gesture and motion through subconscious impulses. - as pure as possible, and unedited by the all-pervasive judgmental mind.
One of the three basic phrases collaged in M.G. does achieve zero.
Michel Guy, the French Minister of Culture (1974 - 1976) invited me to meet with him several times [and] we spoke of dance and art and his career and my career and where they intersect. The conversations would circle back and branch out… They seemed as if they were taking place outside of time, outside of the "what I already know." They lasted for hours. He had to adjust the blinds once or twice. I never knew what the meetings were about, and Michel died soon following.
My guiding principles in M.G. (which is for Michel Guy) were enigma, and time - not scientific time, but perception of time, and its inconsistency.
- Trisha Brown
For M.G.: The Movie was commissioned by the Festival d’Automne, le Centre d’Action Culturelle Hippodrome de Douai and a consortium of Illinois presenters: Dance Center Columbia College Chicago; Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville; Northern Illinois University and Millikin University. Additional support was received from the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund, the Mellon Foundation, AT&T Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. The score was commissioned by Trisha Brown Dance Company with funds provided by the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust.
Special thanks to to Tara Lorenzen and Jamie Scott.
- INTERMISSION -
Let’s Talk About Bleeding
US PREMIERE
Direction & Choreography: Judith Sánchez Ruíz
Original Music: Adonis Gonzalez-Matos
Costume Design: Claire Fleury
Lighting Design: Tricia Toliver
PERFORMED BY
CECILY CAMPBELL, BURR JOHNSON, CYNTHIA KOPPE, PATRICK NEEDHAM, JENNIFER PAYÁN, SPENCER WEIDIE, ADONIS GONZALEZ-MATOS (musician; piano)
RECORDED MUSICIANS: MONICA DAVIS & ADDA KRIDLER, violin WILL CURRY, viola
LAURA METCALF, cello
YOSVANY TERRY, saxophone MAURICIO HERRERA, percussion
A distillation of Sánchez Ruíz’s storied 30-year international career in performance and choreography, this piece draws on a composite of her artwork and writing, and was created in collaboration with all artists involved. Sánchez Ruíz's dance pieces are existential in nature, and tend to layer their subjects structurally like geologic stratum. Of Let’s Talk About Bleeding, Sánchez Ruíz writes, "It is a symphony of layers, a meta-verse in which multiple universes collide, seeming to exist simultaneously, yet viewed in segments. The work intends to convey the notion of moving backwards in time, recreating realities that make us question the arc of human existence. Half the scenes are reversed, underscoring the idea of reversing time itself and deepening an understanding of being. It is an architectural orgasm of poetical constellations."
A former TBDC dancer, Judith Sánchez Ruíz was chosen as the Company's first artist to receive a choreographic commission for her mastery of structured improvisation, as improvisation was central to Trisha Brown's work. Since the debut of ENCAJE, her acclaimed solo, in 2017, Sánchez Ruíz has been using dance "radial vocabularies," techniques that produce unexpected movements, creating channels of improvisation in each dancer. It is, she says, "an emancipation from within in the way we perform." She is also the author of a choreographic tool she calls "100 legs," based on the recognition that each part of the human body has its own innate intelligence; it encourages movement located at opposite points within the dancer's body, which generates kinetic tension. These very physical vocabularies are designed to offer insightful and meaningful narratives and cohesive structures.
Let’s Talk About Bleeding was commissioned by the Trisha Brown Dance Company with the generous support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and The O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation. Thanks to Trisha Brown's masterworks, all the beautiful dancers, and the incredible Carolyn Lucas and TBDC for the invitation and for accepting my universe in this legacy. Special thanks to Adonis Gonzales Matos and Claire Fleury for the amazing work. To Ben Rodriquez Cubeñas and all of you that warmly and generously support JSR's work everywhere. Thank you to Leah Ives, Hsiao Jou Tang, Christian Allen, and Lindsey Jones for their contribution to the building process. Thanks to Niamh Moroney for her assistance in producing the work.
TBDC would like to thank Dante Puleio and John Tomlinson for their advice and support in beginning this new chapter.
WHO'S WHO IN THE COMPANY
One of the most acclaimed and influential choreographers and dancers of her time, Trisha Brown’s (1936-2017) groundbreaking work forever changed the landscape of art. A student of Anna Halprin, Brown participated in the choreographic composition workshops taught by Robert Dunn – from which Judson Dance Theater was born – greatly contributing to the fervent of interdisciplinary creativity that defined 1960s New York. With the founding of the Trisha Brown Dance Company in 1970, Brown set off on her own distinctive path of artistic investigation and ceaseless experimentation, which extended for 40 years. The creator of over 100 choreographies, six operas, and a graphic artist, whose drawings have earned recognition in numerous museum exhibitions and collections, Brown’s earliest works took impetus from the cityscape of downtown SoHo, where she was a pioneering settler. In the 1970s, as Brown strove to invent an original abstract movement language – one of her singular achievements – it was art galleries, museums, and international exhibitions that provided her work its most important presentation context. A major turning point in Brown’s career occurred in 1979, when she transitioned from working in non-traditional and art world settings to assume the role of a choreographer working within the institutional framework associated with dancing – the proscenium stage.
In her lifetime Trisha Brown was the recipient of nearly every award available to contemporary choreographers. The first woman to receive the coveted MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant (in 1991), Brown was honored by five fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts; two John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships; and Brandeis University’s Creative Arts Medal in Dance (1982). In 1988, she was named Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the government of France In 1999, she received the New York State Governor’s Arts Award and, in 2003, was honored with the National Medal of Arts. She has received numerous honorary doctorates, is an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was awarded the 2011 New York Dance and Performance ‘Bessie’ Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2011, Brown received the prestigious Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize for making an “outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankind’s enjoyment and understanding of life.”
Today the Trisha Brown Dance Company continues to perpetuate Brown’s legacy through its Trisha Brown: In Plain Site initiative. Through it, the company draws on Brown’s model for reinvigorating her choreography through its re-siting in relation to new contexts that include outdoor sites, and museum settings and collections. The company is also involved in an ongoing process of reconstructing and remounting major works that Brown created for the proscenium stage between 1979 and 2011. In addition, the company continues its work to consolidate Trisha Brown’s artistic legacy through their management of her archives, which record her meticulous creative process over many decades.
JUDITH SÁNCHEZ RUÍZ (Choreographer) (she/her) began studying dance at the age of 11 at the National School of Arts in Havana, Cuba.
The Berlin-based director worked in New York City since 1999 and relocated to Berlin in 2011. She established the JSR Company in NYC in 2010, creating numerous choreographic stage works and site-specific projects involving live music in collaboration with innovative composers and visual artists throughout the US, Europe, Latin America, and Asia.
Sánchez Ruíz is a former member of Sasha Waltz & Guests (2011-2014), Trisha Brown Dance Company (2006-2009), Mal Pelo (1997-1999), and DanzAbierta (1991-1996), among others like Deborah Hay (2012), DD Dorvillier (2002, 2019), Jeremy Nelson & Luis Malvacias (2001-2002), and David Zambrano (1997). Sánchez Ruíz has been awarded grants by The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The American Music Center’s
Live Music for Dance program, and the Baryshnikov Arts Center. Her work has been commissioned at Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and Storm King Art Center, NY; Residency Award at Choreographisches Centrum Heidelberg in Projekt der TANZ Allianz, Heidelberg, Germany (2017), and DIS-TANZEN grant, sponsored by the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland (2020) among others. Since moving to Europe in 2011, her work has been presented at numerous venues around the world: Bouge B, DeSingel Festival, Antwerp (Belgium); Tanzfestival im Kulturzentrum Tempel, Karlsruhe (Germany); Gdansk Dance Festival (Poland); Festival Deltebre Dansa (Spain); Tanz_house Festival, Saal – ARGEkultur (Austria); Festival El Cruce Rosario, Buenos Aires (Argentina); Notafe, Viljandi (Estonia); Guangdong Dance Festival, Guangzhou (China); Radialsystem V (Germany); Texas Dance Improvisation Festival (TDIF), Dallas (USA); Vitlycke-Centre for Performing Arts, Tanumshede (Sweden); TicTac Art Center (Belgium); B12 festival and Trauma Bar und Kino (Germany); HMD's The Bridge Project (USA); Livestream Interactive Performance (Berlin/California); Artist in residence at Hong Kong Academic of Performing Arts, 2022, and the multidisciplinary opera production by the Theatre of Münster 2023. Sánchez Ruíz has created two practices: Functionality and Perspective in Dance (Release), and Your Own God Intensive Improvisation, establishing herself as a choreographer and teacher at major higher education institutions in dance throughout Europe, the US, Latin America, and Asia.
CAROLYN LUCAS (Associate Artistic Director) (she/her) attended North Carolina School of the Arts and graduated with a BFA in dance from SUNY Purchase before joining Trisha Brown Dance Company in 1984. Lucas originated roles in some of Brown’s most acclaimed works including Lateral Pass (1983), Carmen (1986), Newark (Niweweorce) (1987), Astral Convertible (1989), Foray Forêt (1990), and Astral Converted (1991). Lucas’ dancing has been described in The New York Times as “affecting in her softly penetrating attack” and “especially luminous.” In 1993, Brown appointed Lucas as her Choreographic Assistant, a position Lucas held for 20 years before being named Associate Artistic Director in 2013. As Choreographic Assistant, Lucas played an integral role in Brown’s creation process in dance and opera, working closely alongside Brown for pieces including If you couldn’t see me (1994), its revision to the duet You can see us (1995) with Bill T. Jones and later Mikhail Baryshnikov, Monteverdi’s Orfeo (1998), and its revival in 2002, El Trilogy (2000), Luci Mie Traditrici (2001), It’s a Draw (2002), Winterreise (2002) with Simon Keenlyside, PRESENT TENSE (2003), O Zlozony/O Composite (2004) with étoiles from the Paris Opera Ballet, Da Gelo a Gelo (2006) with Salvatore Sciarrino and La Monnaie, Rameau’s Pygmalion (2010) with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants, Festival d’Aix, Holland Festival and Athens Festival, and Brown’s final work for the Company, I’m going to toss my arms- if you catch them they’re yours (2011) which premiered at Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris. In addition to assisting with new choreography, directing Company rehearsals and restaging existing choreography on the current dancers, Lucas has led projects for companies and institutions around the world, including The New School in NYC, P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, and Paris Opera Ballet. She was one of the first instructors Brown sent to P.A.R.T.S. to construct a Set and Reset/Reset, whose collaborative, interdisciplinary learning process is now a cornerstone of the Company’s education program. Lucas is currently sharing her firsthand knowledge of three decades of dancing, teaching and documenting Brown's work for the Trisha Brown Archive. She studied Tai Chi with Maggie Newman and Alexander Technique with June Ekman.
ALVIN CURRAN (Composer) (he/him) has realized a long and fruitful career as a composer/performer/ installation artist, writer, and teacher in the American experimental music tradition. Born in Providence in 1938 he studied with Ron Nelson, Elliott Carter, and Mel Powell, cofounded the group Musica Elettronica Viva in 1966 in Rome where he currently resides. His music whether chamber works, radio-art, largescale environmental theater or solo performance, embraces all sounds, all spaces, and all people. More info at: www.alvincurran.com.
ADONIS GONZALEZ-MATOS (Composer) (he/him), Pianist, Composer, and Conductor, is a Latin Grammy nominee in the category of Best Classical Album for his solo debut album Adios a Cuba. He made his conducting debut with the Vienna International Orchestra in Austria. Gonzalez-Matos has performed as a soloist with many orchestras around the globe such as, The Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Junge Süddeutsche Philharmonie Esslingen in Germany, Vienna Residence Orchestra (Wiener Residenzorchester) in Austria, Slovak Chamber Orchestra, National Philharmonic of Venezuela, National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica, Cuban National Symphony, Masterworks Festival Orchestra in Washington DC, Mississippi Symphony, USM Symphony, New York City Opera Orchestra, and many others. He has also performed at the most distinguished venues in the US such as: Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and The Kennedy Center in Washington DC. GonzalezMatos has been composer in residence of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Cuban Artist Fund of New York. He also collaborated with renowned choreographer Judith Sanchez as a composer for Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. He has written music for a myriad of media and formats. Some of his most recent works premiered as part of the DIALOGUES Series of Composers Now in New York City invited by eminent composer Tania León. Gonzalez holds a doctoral degree from Rutgers University and is a Professor of Music at Alabama State University. www.adonisgonzalez.com.
CLAIRE FLEURY (Costume Designer) (she/her) manipulates fabric and other, unconventional materials into multidimensional, colorful garments that are an invitation to move, play, and dance. She is particularly interested in creating costumes and garments that are extending the body into space in surprising and sometimes inexplicable ways. Before moving to New York City from Amsterdam in 2011, Claire Fleury spent 20 years directing, writing, and performing for theater in Europe. Operating out of the gallery she opened on the LES with her partner, photographer Exum, she started designing costumes and fashion for nightlife performers and dance companies. Her first three fashion collections were sold at Patricia Field, the eponymous shop of the famed Sex and the City stylist. Fleury has created her own fashion and dance shows for Fashion Week Brooklyn, The Phluid Project, DapperQ at the Brooklyn Museum, for VERS BK (a sustainable local designer shop and centre she curates with Tilly deWolfe in Bushwick), at Tic Tac Art Centre in Bruxelles, and for the 40th anniversary of Yoshiko Chuma, and The School of Hard Knocks. She created costumes for Susanne Bartsch, The Illustrious Blacks, Penny Arcade, Laurie Anderson, David Zambrano (Brussels), Yoshiko Chuma, and drag queens Rify Royalty, Merrie Cherry, and Elemenopé. Her work has been published in Vogue Italia, Paper Magazine, Schön Magazine, Lucy’s Magazine, The New York Times, Art Papers, and many other publications.
KAYE VOYCE (Costume Designer) (she/her) is based in New York City and has designed for theatre, opera, and dance throughout the USA and Europe. Recent projects include: Richard Maxwell's Neutral Hero (Kunstenfestival des Arts (Brussels), Wiener Festwochen (Vienna), Hebbel Theater (Berlin), and the 2011 Festival D'Automne), Leonard Bernstein's A Quiet Place (New York City Opera), Philip Glass' Orphee (Glimmerglass Opera and Portland Opera), Paradise Lost (American Repertory Theatre), Der Menschenfeind
(Staatstheater Braunschweig), and The Bacchae (The Public Theatre/Shakespeare in the Park).
SPENCER BROWN (Lighting Designer) spent ten years touring with the Trisha Brown Company. During his tenure he designed many dances with Trisha, For M.G.: The Movie still being one of his favorite designs. He returned to Salt Lake City in 1998 and has been a “fixture” at The Hale Centre Theatre in West Valley City. He has also designed for the Red Hot 4th at Rice Eccles Olympic Stadium. Spencer has a BFA in Production Design from the University of Utah and an MFA in Lighting from the University of Massachusetts. While in New York, Spencer worked with other modern dance companies and Off Broadway Theatres. For the 2002 Winter Olympics Torch Night at Salt Lake City County Building, he co-designed the lighting which was broadcast to 150 countries. Spencer is now teaching lighting and stage management at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, while continuing to design for Hale Centre Theatre and The Salt Lake Grand Theatre. Spencer attributes his love for the theatre to his father, who instilled in him a great work ethic and sense of accomplishment. Spencer loves spending time with his family, preferably in the mountains of Utah where he can fish to his heart’s content, and looks forward to teaching his grandchildren the important skill of fishing.
TRICIA TOLIVER (Lighting Designer/Production Stage Manager) (she/her) was the resident Lighting Designer/Production Manager for the Barnard College Dance Department from 2009-2022. During that time, she designed lighting for new works by many noted choreographers including Kyle Abraham, Jennifer Archibald, Ephrat Asherie, Kimberly Bartosik, Sidra Bell, Brian Brooks, chameckilerner, Nora Chipaumire, David Dorfman, Faye Driscoll, Wesley Ensminger, Melissa Fenley, Ori Flomin, Shannon Gillen, Larry Keigwin, Jodi Melnick, Andrea Miller, Vicky Shick, Claudia Schreier, Pam Tanowitz, Colleen Thomas, David Thomson, Adrienne Truscott, Reggie Wilson, and Yue Yin among others. Outside of Barnard, she has designed for Damian Woetzel’s Bend in the Road at the Delacorte Theater, as well as for Gwen Welliver, Patricia Hoffbauer, Gabriel Misse, and Davalois Fearon. Tricia holds a B.A. in dance from UCLA and an M.F.A. in dance from the University of Washington and danced with Donald Byrd/The Group from 1987-1991. She is grateful for the opportunity to work with TBDC again as they embark upon this new chapter.
JOHN TORRES (Lighting Designer) (he/him) is a New York based lighting designer working in theatre, fashion, motion, print, and exhibitions. Professionally trained in theatrical lighting design, John has designed for artists such as stage designer and director Robert Wilson, choreographers Lucinda Childs and Trisha Brown, and directors Yuval Sharon and Zack Winokur. Recent and upcoming theatrical engagements include Turandot at Opera National de Paris and Tristan and Isolde at Sant Fe Opera. In fashion, John has designed recent shows for Gucci, Bottega Veneta, and Proenza Schouler and is a regular collaborator with fashion photographer Steven Klein. In live music, John is a frequent collaborator with Solange Knowles and recently designed the residency for Usher at The Colosseum in Las Vegas. Within the visual art world, John has designed the exhibition Who is Queen? with artist Adam Pendleton at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and will be collaborating with the artist Camille Norment for her upcoming exhibition at Dia Chelsea in New York.
CHRISTIAN ALLEN (Dancer) (he/him) grew up in Cambridge, MA, where he began dancing at the age of five with JAM’NASTICS INC., a local hip-hop company. His formal dance training began in high school where he studied ballet, modern, and improvisational dance. While pursuing his BFA, and since his graduation from SUNY Purchase in 2015, he has performed repertory from Jodi Melnick, NØA Dance, GREYZONE NYC, Gregory Dolbashian, Adam Barruch, Gabrielle Lamb, Shannon Gillen, Roy Assaf, Aszure Barton, Kyle Abraham, Brian Brooks, Emily
Molnar, and Bill T. Jones. Christian premiered Kimberly Bartosik's I hunger for you in 2018 and went on to tour with kimberlybartosik/daela in 2019-2020. He has worked extensively with the Merce Cunningham Trust, including performing in the NYC production of Night of 100 Solos in 2019 and receiving his Cunningham teacher certification in 2022. This is Christian’s first season performing with Trisha Brown Dance Company.
CECILY CAMPBELL (Dancer/Assistant Rehearsal Director) (she/her) was born and raised in Santa Fe, NM and holds a BFA in dance from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She was a company member of Shen Wei Dance Arts from 2008 to 2013 and joined the Trisha Brown Dance Company in 2012. She has performed repertory spanning Trisha Brown's 40-year career and has taught master classes and workshops around the world in technique, repertory, improvisation, and composition. She has re-staged Trisha Brown’s work on multiple companies including Set and Reset/Reset at the Venice Biennale College Danza, Newark and Foray Forêt on the Lyon Opera Ballet, Solo Olos on A.I.M., Solo Olos at CNDC in Angers, France, and Set and Reset/Reset at The Juilliard School. She performed in the Bessie award-winning Night of 100 Solos as part of the Merce Cunningham Centennial at Brooklyn Academy of Music and made her Metropolitan Opera debut last fall in The Hours, choreographed by Annie-B Parson. She is delighted to share this work with you.
LINDSEY JONES (Dancer) (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based dance artist, herbalist, originally from St. Louis, MO. Jones, a SUNY Purchase alumna, has collaborated with Pam Tanowitz Dance, Dance Heginbotham, Kimberly Bartosik, Sally Silvers, Bill Young, Caleb Teicher, among others. Since 2012, she has worked regularly with the Merce Cunningham Trust on restagings & workshops, including the Bessie-award winning Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event at BAM and was featured in Alla Kovgan’s 3D film CUNNINGHAM. Jones teaches a variety of movementbased classes including Cunningham technique, Dance for Parkinson’s, as well as classes that combine movement and herbalism. She was a 2022/2023 fellow at the New York Public Library, researching Dance & Ecology and is in her final year at Arbor Vitae School of Traditional Herbalism. Jones joined the Trisha Brown Dance Company in 2023.
BURR JOHNSON (Dancer) (he/him) is a dancer and choreographer currently living and working in New York City. As a performer, he has danced with John Jasperse Projects, Kimberly Bartosik/daela, and Shen Wei Dance Arts. He has also worked for Marina Abramović/GIVENCHY, Walter Dundervill, Ryan McNamara, Boris Charmatz, Isabel Lewis, Nick Mauss, Peter Sellars, Christopher Williams, Sally Silvers, Bill Young, Jack Ferver, Moriah Evans, Brittany Bailey, and Netta Yerushalmy. His choreographic work has been presented through Movement Research, Dixon Place, Abrons Art Center, Danspace Project, New York Live Arts, The American Dance Festival, GIBNEY, Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum, and The Future Dance Festival at The Joyce Theater. He has guest-taught at Appomattox Regional Governor’s School, University of the Arts, University of Utah, Salem College, MoMA PS1, Goucher College, Virginia Commonwealth University, UNC Greensboro, Purchase College, and the American Dance Festival. In April 2019, he performed four solos choreographed by Merce Cunningham for Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event at UCLA in Los Angeles. He is a 2020 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award honoree for individual performance in Kimberly Bartosik’s through the mirror of their eyes. He also works as a gardener and floral designer (BFA Virginia Commonwealth University 2009).
CYNTHIA KOPPE (Dancer) (she/her), born in Singapore, is a New York City based performer and teacher. She was a company member with Shen Wei Dance Arts from 2009-2017 and worked in collaboration with Liz Santoro and Pierre Godard of Le Principe d’Incertitude from 20102020. She has had the pleasure of working with Yve Laris Cohen, Mimi Garrard, Heidi Howard and Liz Philips, John Jasperse, Nicole Mannarino, Ryan McNamara, Sam Roeck, Stephen Thompson and Andrew Tay, Adam Weinert, Christopher Williams, Ellis Wood, and Bill Young amongst others, and was a “reperformer” for Marina Abramovic’s 2010 MoMA Retrospective Cynthia teaches Yoga, Pilates, and Somatic Movement and practices Craniosacral Therapy. She holds a teaching certification in Female Ejaculation and the G-Spot and has trained in holistic pelvic health with Tami Lynn Kent and Ami Opal. She studies and has taught adult sex education with Isa Coffey of WiseBodies, and holds her own circles for women. Cynthia graduated with a BA in Dance and Sociology from Cornell University, where she was honored as a Merrill Presidential Scholar. She is so happy to be joining TBDC for its 2023 Joyce Season.
PATRICK NEEDHAM (Dancer) (he/him) is an LA native living in New York City, where he earned his BFA in Dance and Choreography from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Along with being a current member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company, he has enjoyed collaborating with choreographers such as Anneke Hansen Netta Yerushalmy, and Kendra Portier, among others. Needham has performed experimental dance theater with CompanySBB and HOLDTIGHT. Teaching highlights include summer dance intensives at the ASWARA School of Dance in Malaysia and WESTSIDE Dance Project in Southern California. Needham’s most recent endeavor has been teaching for the Trisha Brown Dance Company's Education programs, all while pursuing his performance career. Currently, he is thrilled to be focusing on a new chapter of creating his own choreography repertoire for future performances and events.
JENNIFER PAYÁN (Dancer) (she/her) is a Dominican-American movement artist originally from the Bronx, NY. She began performing with TBDC in 2021 and is excited to be a part of continuing Trisha’s legacy. Outside of TBDC, Jennifer finds home performing with CompanySBB and serves as the Associate Artistic Director. She also appears often as a Guest Artist in Punch Drunk’s Sleep No More. Jennifer previously worked for Pam Tanowitz Dance, Netta Yerushalmy, UNA Productions, Yara Travieso, Jasmine Hearn Collaborates, Maleek Washington, Bobbi Jene Smith, among others. She received her BFA in Dance at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University with Magma Cum Laude.
SPENCER JAMES WEIDIE (Dancer) (they/them) is a performing artist based in New York City. They graduated from the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College, SUNY with a BFA in Dance and a concentration in Composition. They also studied at London Contemporary Dance School, Springboard Dans Montreal, and with the Merce Cunningham Trust. Spencer has performed works by Kyle Abraham, Kimberly Bartosik, Brian Brooks, Merce Cunningham, Sharon Eyal, Andrea Miller, Omar Roman de Jesus, and many more. Spencer has originated roles in many productions with the Metropolitan Opera. They were a company member with Brian Brooks/Moving Company (2017-2022) and MADBOOTS Dance (2017-2020), and has previously performed with Bocatuya and GALLIM. Spencer was invited to join the Trisha Brown Dance Company in the Fall of 2022.
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.
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Huong Hoang
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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
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 May 1, 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
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.
The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation
