ANDREW JANSS • WOLFRAM KOESSEL • CHAD KRANAK • MICHELLE LIE
GREGORY LUCE • JULIAN MORRIS • GEORGY VALTCHEV
Artistic Director MARK MORRIS
Director of Technical Production JOHAN HENCKENS
Music Director COLIN FOWLER
Official Tour Sponsor
Executive Director NANCY UMANOFF
Rehearsal Director ELISA CLARK
Bloomberg Philanthropies
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.
Major support for this engagement was provided through a grant from The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation to encourage the performance of New York City-based companies at The Joyce Theater. The Joyce gratefully acknowledges Doris Duke Foundation for its generous endowment funding to support dance performances at The Joyce Theater.
Major support for The Joyce has been provided by Booth Ferris Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, MacMillan Family Foundation, The Jerome Robbins Foundation, and Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Program A
(July 15-19)
THE MUIR
Music: Irish and Scottish Folk songs arranged by Ludwig van Beethoven
Ye shepherds of this pleasant vale, WoO156/4; The sweetest lad was Jamie, Op. 108/5; Cease your funning, WoO 156/5; Sally in our alley, Op. 108/25; Could this ill world have been contriv’d, Op. 108/16; what shall I do to shew how much I love her?, WoO 152/6; Sunset, Op. 108/2; Come fill, fill, my good fellow, Op. 108/13; The lovely lass of Inverness, Op. 108/8
Costume Design: Elizabeth Kurtzman
Lighting Design: Nicole Pearce
Chloe Holgate, soprano; Chad Kranak, tenor; Julian Morris, bass-baritone; Georgy Valtchev, violin; Wolfram Koessel, cello; Colin Fowler, piano
Premiere: June 27, 2010: Seiji Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood Music Center, Lenox, MA
YOU'VE GOT TO BE MODERNISTIC
World Premiere
Music: James P. Johnson; arranged by Ethan Iverson - Keep Off the Grass, Snowy Morning Blues, The Mule Walk, Worried And Lonesome Blues, Jingles, Charleston (Fantasy), Blueberry Rhyme, You’ve Got to Be Modernistic
Costume Design: Elizabeth Kurtzman
Lighting Design: Mike Faba
Ethan Iverson, piano
Sarah Hillmon, Courtney Lopes, Dallas McMurray, Sloan Pearson, Brandon Randolph, Billy Smith, Joslin Vezeau
Keep Off the Grass, Snowy Morning Blues, You've Got to Be Modernistic - Universal Music Publishing Group The Mule Walk, Blueberry Rhyme - Warner Chappell Music, Inc. - INTERMISSION -
SILHOUETTES
Music: Richard Cumming – Silhouettes – Five Pieces for Piano
Lighting Design: Michael Chybowski
Colin Fowler, piano
Aaron Loux, Christina Sahaida
Premiere: June 10, 1999 – Maximum Dance Company, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Miami, FL Company premiere: August 2, 1999 – Ted Shawn Theatre, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA
MOSAIC AND UNITED
Music: Henry Cowell – String Quartet No. 3, Mosaic, I-II-III-IV-V-III-I, String Quartet No. 4, United, I-II-III-IV-V
Costume Design: Isaac Mizrahi
Lighting Design: Michael Chybowski
Georgy Valtchev, violin I; Michelle Lie, violin II; Gregory Luce, viola; Wolfram Koessel, cello Karlie Budge, Courtney Lopes, Aaron Loux, Dallas McMurray, Alex Meeth, Brandon Randolph, Christina Sahaida, Billy Smith, Joslin Vezeau, Noah Vinson
Premiere: April 29, 1993 - Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
String Quartet No. 4 (United Quartet) by Henry Cowell used by arrangement with the publisher and copyright holder, C.F. Peters Corporation, New York.
String Quartet No. 3 (Mosaic Quartet) by Henry Cowell used by arrangements with G. Schirmer, Inc., publisher and copyright owner.
Program Note for You've Got to Be Modernistic
Stride piano was an update of ragtime, and heard everywhere in Harlem in the 1920’s. They called James P. Johnson “The Father of Stride Piano,” but he preferred to be known as “The Dean of Jazz Pianists.” Johnson is well-established in the jazz history books for his peerless piano playing, documented on record beginning in 1923, while the general audience remembers him for penning several hit songs, including If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight, Old Fashioned Love, A Porter’s Love Song to a Chambermaid, and an anthem of the Jazz Age, The Charleston
For the Mark Morris suite You’ve Got to Be Modernistic, I transcribed favorite performances and then arranged them to be suitable for any qualified pianist. While there are a few new transitions and endings, the score is generally very close to Johnson’s original recordings, with one drastic exception: His most famous piece, The Charleston, has been placed in a meter unknown in social dance, 5/4, an intentionally “modernistic” touch.
—Ethan Iverson
Mosaic and United, photo by Beowulf Sheehan
Ye shepherds of this pleasant vale (Hamilton)
Ye shepherds of this pleasant vale, where Yarrow glides along, Forsake your rural toils and join in my triumphant song!
She grants, she yields one heav’nly smile, atones her long delays, One happy minute crowns the pains of many suff’ring days.
Yarrow, how dear thy stream, thy beauteous banks how blest!
For there ‘twas first my loveliest maid, a mutual flame confest.
Take, take whate’er of bliss or joy, you fondly fancy mine; whate’er of joy or bliss I boast, love renders wholly thine.
The woods struck up to the soft gale, the leaves were seen to move, the feather’d choir resum’d their voice, and music fill’d the grove.
Yarrow, how dear thy stream, thy beauteous banks how blest!
For there ‘twas first my loveliest maid, a mutual flame confest.
The sweetest lad was Jamie (William Smyth)
The sweetest lad was Jamie, the sweetest, the dearest, and well did Jamie love me, and not a fault has he.
Yet one he had, it spoke his praise, he knew not woman’s wish to teaze, he knew not all our silly ways, alas! the woe to me!
So when the warpipes sounded, dear Jamie, he left me, and now some other maiden will Jamie turn to woo.
My heart will break, and well it may, for who would word of pity say to her who threw a heart away, so faithful and so true!
Oh! knew he how I loved him, sincerely and dearly; how I would fly to meet him! Oh! happy were the day!
Some kind, kind, friend, oh, come between, and tell him of my alter’d mien! That Jeanie has not Jeanie been since Jamie went away.
Cease your funning (Anonymous)
Cease your funning, force or cunning, never shall my heart trepan; all these sallies are but malice to seduce my constant man.
‘Tis most certain by their flirting Women oft have envy shown, pleas’d to ruin others wooing never happy with their own.
Sally in our alley (Anonymous)
Of all the girls that are so smart, there’s none like pretty Sally!
She is the darling of my heart, and she lives in our alley!
There’s not a lady in the land
that’s half so sweet as Sally; She is the darling of my heart and she lives in our alley.
Of all the days that’s in the week, I dearly love but one day, and that’s the day that comes between the Saturday and Monday, for then I’m drest all in my best to walk abroad with Sally.
She is the darling of my heart and she lives in our alley
When Christmas comes about again, then I shall have money; I’ll hoard it up, and box it all, and give it to my honey. And would it were a thousand pounds, I’d give it all to Sally; She is the darling of my heart and she lives in out alley.
Could this ill world have been contriv’d (James Hogg)
Could this ill world have been contriv’d to stand without that mischief, woman, how peaceful bodies wou’d have liv’d, releas’d frae a’ the ills sae common!
But since it is the waefu’ case, that man must have this teasing crony, why such a sweet bewitching face? Oh! had they no been made sae bonny! I saw the danger, fear’d the dart, the smile, the air, and a’ sae taking, yet open laid my wareless heart, and got the wound that keeps me waking. My harp waves on the willow green, of wild witch notes it has nae ony, sinc’ e’er I saw that pawky quean, sae sweet, sae wicked, and sae bonny.
What shall I do to shew how much I love her? (Anonymous) What shall I do to shew how much I love her? Thoughts that oppress me, o how can I tell? Will my soft passion be able to move her? Language is wanting, when loving so well. Can sighs and tears, in their silence, betoken half the distress this fond bosom must know? Or will she melt when a true heart is broken, weeping, too late, o’er her lost lover’s woe.
Is there a grace comes not playful before her? Is there a virtue, and not in her train? Is there a swain but delights to adore her? Pains she a heart but it boasts of her chain? Could I believe she’d prevent my undoing, life’s gayest fancies the hope should renew; Or could I think she’d be pleas’d with my ruin, death should persuade her my sorrows are true!
Sunset (Walter Scott)
The sun upon the Weirdlaw hill, in Eltrick’s vale is sinking sweet; The westland wind is hush and still, the lake lies sleeping at my feet. The quiet lake, the balmy air, the hill, the stream, the tower, the tree are they still such as once they were, or is the dreary change in me?
Come fill, fill, my good fellow (William Smyth)
Come fill, fill, my good fellow! fill high, high, my good fellow, and let’s be merry and mellow, and let us have one bottle more. When warm the heart is flowing, and bright the fancy glowing, Oh! shame on the dolt would be going, nor tarry for one bottle more!
Come fill, fill, my good fellow, fill high, high, my good fellow, and let’s be merry and mellow, and let us have one bottle more. My Heart, let me but lighten, and Life, let me but brighten, and Care, let me but frighten he’ll fly us with one bottle more!
By day, tho’ he confound me, when friends at night have found me, there is Paradise around me but let me have one bottle more!
Come fill, fill, my good fellow, fill high, high, my good fellow, and let’s be merry and mellow, and let us have one bottle more.
So now, here’s to the lasses! See, see, while the toast passes, how it lights up beaming glasses! Encore to the Lasses encore. We’ll toast the welcome greeting of
hearts in union beating, and oh! for our next merry meeting, huzza! then for one bottle more!
Come fill, fill, my good fellow, fill high, high, my good fellow, and let’s be merry and mellow, and let us have one bottle more
The lovely lass of Inverness (Robert Burns)
The lovely lass of Inverness, nae joy nor pleasure can she see; for e’en more she cries, alas! and ay the salt tear blind her e’e: Drumossie muir, Drumossie day, a waefu’ day it was to me; for there I lost my father dear, my father dear, and brothers three!
Their winding sheet the bluidy clay, their graves are growing green to see; and by them lies the dearest lad that ever blest a woman’s e’e!
Now wae to thee, thou cruel lord!
A bluidy man I trow thou be; for mony a heart thou hast made sair, that ne’er did wrong to thine or thee.
The Muir, photo by Richard Termine
Program b
(July 22-26)
THE ARGUMENT
Music: Robert Schumann - Fünf Stücke im Volkston
Costume Design: Elizabeth Kurtzman
Lighting Design: Michael Chybowski
I. “Vanitas vanitatum.” Mit Humor II. Langsam
III. Nicht schnell, mit viel Ton zu spielen
IV. Nicht zu rasch
V. Stark und markirt
VI. “Vanitas vanitatum.” Mit Humor
Andrew Janss, cello; Colin Fowler, piano
Sarah Hillmon, Courtney Lopes, Dallas McMurray, Brandon Randolph, Billy Smith, Joslin Vezeau
Premiere: February 26, 1999 – Bank of America Celebrity Series, The Wang Center of Performing Arts, Boston, MA
NORTHWEST
World Premiere
Music: John Luther Adams – Five Athabascan Dances† (# 1, 2 and 4) and Five Yup’ik Dances*
Costume Design: Amy Page
Lighting Design: Mike Faba
Grandpa Joe's Traveling Song† Invitation to Dance*
Mica Bernas, Karlie Budge, Sarah Hillmon, Courtney Lopes, Sloan Pearson, Brandon Randolph, Christina Sahaida, Billy Smith, Joslin Vezeau, Noah Vinson
Five Yup’ik Dances and Five Athabascan Dances (# 1, 2, and 4) composed by John Luther Adams - INTERMISSION -
TEN SUGGESTIONS
Music: Alexander Tcherepnin – Bagatelles, opus 5
Lighting Design: James F. Ingalls
Colin Fowler, piano Dallas McMurray
Premiere: February 13, 1981 – Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
Ten Suggestions, photo by Ani Collier
GOING AWAY PARTY
Music: Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys - Playboy Theme; Yearning; My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You; Goin' Away Party; Baby, That Sure Would Go Good; Milk Cow Blues; Crippled Turkey; When You Leave Amarillo; Turn Out The Lights Costume Design: Christine Van Loon Lighting Design: Michael Chybowski
Sarah Hillmon, Courtney Lopes, Aaron Loux (July 24-26), Dallas McMurray (July 22-23), Alex Meeth, Christina Sahaida, Billy Smith, Noah Vinson
Premiere: April 14, 1990 – Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belgium
Program Note for Northwest
These little pieces are inspired by the traditional music of the Yup’ik people of western Alaska and the Athabascan people of interior Alaska.
Grandpa Joe’s Traveling Song is based on a melody by the late Joe Beetus, a Koyukon elder from the village of Huslia, and was “borrowed” with his permission.
The melodies of Invitation to Dance, Jump Rope Song, Shaman’s Moon Song, and Juggling Song are drawn from the collection Yup'ik Eskimo Songs, compiled by Thomas F. Johnston and Tupou L. Pulu, and published by the University of Alaska.
It Circles Me was "loaned" to me by Yup'ik singer, dancer and tradition bearer Chuna Mclntyre, who learned it in his home village of Eek, Alaska.
Deenaadai’ (Long Ago) and Shik’eenoohtii (My Relatives) are original melodies derived from my song settings of a poem by my friend Adeline Peter Raboff written in the dialect of her Gwich'in people, who inhabit the country from Arctic Village to Old Crow.
Yup’ik and Athabascan music is usually accompanied by drums and sung in unison, with no harmony or counterpoint. Beyond changing the instrumentation, I’ve extended and varied the traditional melodies, adding countermelodies, ostinato figurations, introductions, interludes and codas. And I hope that my settings of these melodies convey my deep respect for their origins.
– John Luther Adams
WHO IS MARK MORRIS
MARK MORRIS (Artistic Director) was born on August 29, 1956, in Seattle, Washington, where he studied with Verla Flowers and Perry Brunson. In the early years of his career, he performed with the companies of Lar Lubovitch, Hannah Kahn, Laura Dean, Eliot Feld, and the Koleda Balkan Dance Ensemble. He formed the Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG) in 1980 and has since created over 150 works for the company. From 1988 to 1991, he was Director of Dance at Brussels’ Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, the national opera house of Belgium. In 1990, he founded the White Oak Dance Project with Mikhail Baryshnikov. Much in demand as a ballet choreographer, Morris has created 22 ballets since 1986, and his work has been performed by companies worldwide, including San Francisco Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Ballet am Rhein, Dusseldorf, and the Royal New Zealand Ballet. Noted for his musicality, Morris has been described as “undeviating in his devotion to music” (The New Yorker.) He began conducting performances for MMDG in 2006 and has since conducted at Tanglewood Music Center, Lincoln Center, and BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music). He served as Music Director for the 2013 Ojai Music Festival. He also works extensively in opera, directing and choreographing productions for the Metropolitan Opera; New York City Opera; English National Opera; and The Royal Opera, Covent Garden; among others. He was named a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 1991 and has received eleven honorary doctorates to date. He has taught at the University of Washington, Princeton University, and Tanglewood Music Center. A Doris Duke Artist, Morris is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society and has served as an Advisory Board Member for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. He has received the Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Leonard Bernstein Lifetime Achievement Award for the Elevation of Music in Society, the Benjamin Franklin Laureate Prize for Creativity, the International Society for the Performing Arts’ Distinguished Artist Award, Cal Performances Award of Distinction in the Performing Arts, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s Gift of Music Award, and the 2016 Doris Duke Artist Award. In 2015, Morris was inducted into the Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame at the National Museum of Dance in Saratoga Springs, New York. He is the subject of a biography, Mark Morris, by Joan Acocella (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), and Marlowe & Company published a volume of photographs and critical essays entitled Mark Morris’ L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato: A Celebration Mark Morris: Musician-Choreographer, by musicologist Stephanie Jordan, was released in 2015. Morris’ memoir, Out Loud, co-written with Wesley Stace, was published in paperback by Penguin Press in October 2021. Morris opened the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn, New York, in 2001 to provide a home for his company, subsidized rental space for local artists, community education programs for children and seniors, and a school offering dance classes to students of all ages and levels of experience with and without disabilities.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Celebrating its 45th anniversary, the MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP (MMDG) stands as a beacon of artistic excellence and innovation in the world of dance. Founded in 1980, the company made its debut in New York City and quickly rose to prominence with a touring schedule that expanded across the U.S. and around the globe. In 1986, MMDG captivated national audiences with its first television appearance on PBS’s Dance in America, and just two years later, it was named the national dance company of Belgium, enjoying a prestigious three-year residency at Brussels’ Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie. Returning to the U.S. in 1991, MMDG solidified its reputation as one of the world’s leading dance companies.
Now in its second season at The Joyce Theater, MMDG has a long and celebrated history of performing at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart and White Light Festivals, as well as at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), where it continues to appear regularly. The company also maintains deep-rooted partnerships with major cultural institutions, including its West Coast home, Cal Performances in Berkeley, and its Midwest home at the Krannert Center at the University of Illinois.
MMDG’s international acclaim includes two Laurence Olivier Awards and a Critics’ Circle Dance Award for Best Foreign Dance Company, earned during its celebrated London seasons. True to founder Mark Morris’s vision, the company has performed with live music at every show since the creation of the MMDG Music Ensemble in 1996. Collaborations with world-renowned artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, Stephanie Blythe, and Ethan Iverson, as well as leading orchestras like the Metropolitan Opera and London Symphony Orchestra, have become hallmarks of the company’s performances.
MMDG also boasts a rich history of interdisciplinary collaborations with visual artists and designers including Robert Bordo, Howard Hodgkin, Adrianne Lobel, Allen Moyer, Isaac Mizrahi, and Martin Pakledinaz. Its film and television work includes Dido and Aeneas, The Hard Nut, Falling Down Stairs, and PBS’s Great Performances broadcast of L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato
Beyond the stage, MMDG is deeply committed to community engagement, offering inclusive arts and humanities programs for people of all ages and abilities wherever it tours. As it marks 45 years of groundbreaking artistry, MMDG continues to inspire, innovate, and connect through the power of dance.
Integral to the Mark Morris Dance Group’s identity, the MMDG MUSIC ENSEMBLE celebrates nearly three decades of musical excellence in 2025. Formed in 1996 to fulfill Morris’s unwavering commitment to live music, the Ensemble has accompanied every MMDG performance since its inception—an artistic choice that sets the company apart. As Classical Voice of North Carolina aptly put it: “With the dancers come the musicians… and what a difference it makes.”
Led by Music Director Colin Fowler, who began collaborating with MMDG in 2005 during the creation of Mozart Dances, the Ensemble’s repertoire spans centuries— from the baroque elegance of Henry Purcell to the contemporary rhythms of Ethan Iverson, Lou Harrison, and Henry Cowell. The musicians are not only performers but also participate in MMDG’s community and educational initiatives both at home and on tour. As MMDG celebrates its 45th anniversary, the Music Ensemble continues to be a vital force, enriching every performance.
WHO'S WHO IN THE COMPANY
COLIN FOWLER (Music Director, Piano, Percussion) began his musical study at the age of five in Kansas City, went on to study at the Interlochen Arts Academy, and continued his education at The Juilliard School where he received his Bachelor of Music in 2003 and his Master of Music in 2005. While at Juilliard, he studied piano with Abbey Simon, organ with Gerre Hancock and Paul Jacobs, harpsichord with Lionel Party, and conducting with James dePriest and Judith Clurman. A versatile musician and conductor, Fowler works in many areas of the music scene in New York City. He is a veteran conductor and keyboardist of many Broadway shows, including Jersey Boys, In the Heights, Wicked, and The Radio City Christmas Spectacular. As a classical soloist and collaborative artist, he has performed and recorded with many world-renowned musicians and ensembles, including Deborah Voigt, Renée Fleming, The Knights, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He has arranged and conducted for numerous TV and film productions, including Yellowstone and Greta Gerwig's Little Women. He began to collaborate with the Mark Morris Dance Group in 2005 and has performed over 60 pieces with the company on almost every keyboard instrument possible, including the harmonium and toy piano. He has conducted performances of Mozart Dances, Acis and Galatea, The Hard Nut, and L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, and helped edit and create over 15 videodances with Mark Morris during the pandemic. Hailed by The New York Times as “invaluable” and “central to Morris’ music,” he was appointed Music Director in 2013.
ELISA CLARK (Rehearsal Director) is an award-winning artist, educator, and administrator who trained at the Maryland Youth Ballet prior to receiving a B.F.A. from The Juilliard School under the direction of Benjamin Harkarvy, with guidance from Carolyn Adams. She first performed with Mark Morris Dance Group in 2005, remained a full-time company member through 2011, and frequently returned as a guest performer, company teacher, and stager through 2024, when she was appointed Rehearsal Director. In addition to MMDG, she has been a featured company member with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, and Monica Bill Barnes & Co, a guest artist for Buglisi Dance Theater, and has performed with Nederlands Dans Theater and the Metropolitan Opera in works by Jiri Kylian and Crystal Pite respectively, amongst others. Elisa was also a founding member and company manager for Robert Battle’s Battleworks Dance Company and has served as Battle’s artistic assistant for over two decades. As an educator and mentor, she has been on faculty at the School at Jacob’s Pillow, Princeton University, University of the Arts, American Dance Festival, Move NYC, Steps on Broadway, Marymount Manhattan College, and at Bard College in partnership with Gibney Company, to name a few, and has taught company class for MMDG, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ailey II, Ballet Hispanico, Gibney Company, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet. She is currently on the ballet faculty at the Ailey School, Gibney, and the Mark Morris Dance Center. Elisa is a répétiteur for both Battle and Morris’ works, and is also a Princess Grace Award Winner and a Certified Life Coach.
MICA BERNAS (Dancer), originally from Manila, Philippines, received her training at the Cultural Center of the Philippines Dance School. She later joined Ballet Philippines as a member of the corps de ballet and rose up the ranks to Soloist. While at Ballet Philippines, she also studied at De La Salle University and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in organizational communication in 2006. Upon graduating, she moved to New York and joined Carolyn Dorfman Dance. She was a guest artist with the Limón Dance Company and worked
with Karole Armitage, Gallim Dance, Marta Renzi, and Connecticut Ballet. As an educator, she has taught all levels of dance, including after school programs, pre-professional, and master classes. She has taught at the Limón Institute and formerly ran the dance program at BIMA at Brandeis University. She joined MMDG as a company member in 2017.
KARLIE BUDGE (Dancer), grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, training and performing with the Tennessee Children’s Dance Ensemble. She attended Case Western Reserve University on a full scholarship from the department of dance, graduating magna cum laude with a B.A. in dance and a B.S. in statistics in 2016. Budge has performed with Graham 2, Merce Cunningham Trust, and in her own solo and duet choreography. Budge joined MMDG as an apprentice in September 2018 and became a company member in November 2019.
DEANNA CIRIELLI (Harp) is a classically trained harpist and music theorist. As a Boston native she grew up in the city’s vibrant orchestral music scene, and through that ensemble background crafted her approach to musical practice as a communal tradition of storytelling shared amongst performers and audiences. At the harp she regularly performs at home in New York - most recently joining forces with Mark Morris Dance Group, Talea Ensemble, and Heartbeat Opera for a variety of contemporary chamber projects this past season – and concertizes across the globe, including tours through England, Spain, Germany, and the Czech Republic; summers at Tanglewood Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival and School, Bowdoin International Music Festival, and Brevard Music Center. In music theory her research focuses on Gottfried Weber’s concepts of Mehrdeutigkeit and Tonnetz maps as applied to Schubert’s late instrumental repertoire, and is using that research to work toward her doctorate degree at The Juilliard School.
SARAH HILLMON (Dancer), was born and raised in Rochester, New York. There she trained with Garth Fagan and Timothy M. Draper and was a member of the Rochester City Ballet. She graduated with a B.F.A. in dance from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she had the privilege of performing works by talented artists including Sidra Bell, Lucinda Childs, Gus Solomons Jr., and Charles Weidman. After college, she became a member of Lucinda Childs Dance Company, where she toured the world performing classic works. While in New York City, she has also had the honor to perform with artists such as Solange Knowles as well as a number of dance companies including Robert Mark Dance, Suzanne Beahrs Dance, BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance, DanceBoissiere, and the Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company. She joined MMDG as an apprentice in 2023 and became a company member in 2024.
CHLOE HOLGATE (Mezzo-Soprano) is a dynamic vocalist, arranger, and composer whose versatility and musicianship have led to a rich and varied career across genres. Recent solo highlights include Nico Muhly’s To the Body (a Guggenheim Works & Process commission), Leçons de Ténèbrae by Couperin with the Saint Andrew Music Society, and a solo recital of American Songbook repertoire at Lehman College Art Gallery. In 2023, she made her Alice Tully Hall debut with the American Classical Orchestra. “Holgate wielded a clear straight tone that flexed and tapered beautifully” (New York Classical Review.) As a member of the vocal trio ModernMedieval Voices, Chloe performs a unique blend of medieval chant, polyphony, and contemporary commissions at venues around the country. Chloe has
recently appeared as a soloist with Voices of Ascension, TENET Vocal Artists, Central City Chorus, Ensemble Échappé, Chatham Baroque, Folger Consort, and at the Prototype Festival in the NYT Critic’s Pick Acquanetta, directed by Daniel Fish. In addition to performing, Chloe is an accomplished arranger and composer, specializing in vocal music for treble voices. She writes and performs with her sister, violinist Lily Holgate, in their genre-crossing duo Sibyl, whose debut album will be released later this year.
ETHAN IVERSON (Arranger, Piano) helped form The Bad Plus, a revolutionary and wildly successful avant-garde trio that The New York Times said was “Better than anyone at melding the sensibilities of post-60’s jazz and indie rock.” Since leaving TBP, Iverson has released critically-acclaimed jazz albums on ECM and Blue Note, often accompanied by bonafide jazz stars such as Tom Harrell or Jack DeJohnette. Downbeat has called Iverson “A master of melody” while Hot House recently raved, "Known for his intellectual depth and adventurous musical spirit, Ethan Iverson has traversed the boundaries of jazz tradition while leaving an indelible mark on its evolution.” After witnessing a 2024 concert of jazz standards spontaneously chosen by the audience, Stereophile wrote, “Iverson is a natural, consistent crowd-pleaser. For his entire career, he has been finding ways to be accessible while pushing the envelope.” Iverson also has a long-standing relationship with choreographer Mark Morris, and within the last decade has created the scores to two recent Morris successes, Pepperland and The Look of Love. On top of his activities as a pianist and composer, Iverson has an active career as a writer, publishing significant criticism in The Nation, JazzTimes, The New York Times, and the Culture Desk of The New Yorker, in addition to posting frequently on his Substack, Transitional Technology.
ANDREW JANSS (Cello) has been hailed by The New York Times for his "glowing tone," "insightful musicianship," and "sumptuous elegance.” He has been featured at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, and the Louvre Museum, and has collaborated with a long list of the world’s greatest artists, including Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Lynn Harrell, Leon Fleisher, Richard Goode, and members of the Emerson, Guarneri, Juilliard, and Takacs Quartets. He has performed as principal cellist of the renowned St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. From 2007 to 2010, Janss was a resident artist at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center as part of CMS 2 with the Escher String Quartet, which he helped found. He has performed at the Ravinia, Music@Menlo, Santa Fe, La Jolla Summerfest, and Marlboro Music Festivals. He tours regularly across the United States with MMDG and joined the Dance Group on recent tours to the United Kingdom, Italy, and China. Janss has been invited to residencies at Notre Dame, Tulane, Virginia Commonwealth University, SUNY Stony Brook, and the University of Idaho. He worked on the set of the critically acclaimed movie A Late Quartet, consulting for Christopher Walken on how to play the cello. Janss is Program Director of the Omega Ensemble in New York City.
WOLFRAM KOESSEL (Cello) has established himself as a much sought-after chamber musician, soloist, recording artist, and contractor in the New York music scene. He has performed with MMDG since 1999 and was music director from 2004-2008. In 2006, Koessel joined the world-renowned American String Quartet, with whom he performed in the foremost concert halls throughout the world, collaborating frequently with today's leading artists. Koessel appears with a wide range of ensembles and groups, most notably and frequently with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. He is also a founding member of Trio+ together with violinist Yosuke Kawasaki and pianist Vadim Serebryani. He has supervised
and performed music for Warner Brothers, American Express, and many independent film companies; and organized hundreds of classical orchestra and chamber music concerts during the last decade in New York City. He is on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music.
CHAD KRANAK (Tenor), praised for his "lyrical eloquence and attractive lyric sound" by Opera News, is known for the musicality and vulnerability he brings to the stage. He is a lirico spinto tenor who has sung such leading roles as Cavaradossi (Tosca), Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), Don Jose (Carmen), Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi), and Bacchus (Ariadne auf Naxos). Equally comfortable on the concert stage, Chad has performed at venues such as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, and has covered a wide range of composers from Bach to Beethoven. Highlights include Mozart’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Bach Cantata 153, the Rachmanioff Vespers, and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. As a proponent of new works as well, he has premiered pieces by many composers including Thea Musgrave, Alex Weiser, Trevor Weston, Paula Kimper, and Mark Hayes.
MICHELLE LIE (Violin), born in Munich, Germany, and raised in South Korea, started her musical education in violin at the age of 14 from the influence of her vocalist father. She was quickly recognized through various performances and awards, including the First Prize of the 250th Anniversary of J.S. Bach Violin Competition in Seoul in 2000, and Second Prize winner and Audience Choice of the Bruce Ekstrand Memorial Competition at the University of Colorado-Boulder in 2011. She has been featured as a soloist with various orchestras in the US and overseas. Michelle received her Doctor of Music Degree in 2013 from Indiana University. She holds a BM from Dankook University in South Korea, a MM from the New England Conservatory, and Performance Studies Certificate from the Cleveland Institute of Music. Her solo violin debut album, including works by Eugène Ysaÿe, was released in June, 2021 on the Orpheus Classics label.
COURTNEY LOPES (Dancer) is originally from Bermuda and attended the University of North Carolina School of the Arts for her high school education. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.F.A. in Dance from SUNY Purchase in 2012 and studied in Taiwan at the Taipei National University of the Arts. As a student, she performed works by Paul Taylor, Jessica Lang, Lar Lubovitch, and Huang Yi of Cloud Gate Dance Theater. In addition to performing with Dance Heginbotham for over nine years, she has worked as a freelance artist with Megan Williams, Sameena Mitta, Kathryn Alter, Sue Bernhard, and Robert Mark Burke. As an educator and répétiteur, she has worked with the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, Ballet Tech, 92Y Harkness Dance Center, Dance for PD®, and the José Limón Institute. She first performed with MMDG in 2017 and became a company member in 2023.
AARON LOUX (Dancer) is a dancer, choreographer, and educator living in New York City. He encountered modern dance as a child at the Creative Dance Center in Seattle, WA, later earning his BFA in Dance from Juilliard in 2009. From 2010 to 2022, Aaron was a member of the Mark Morris Dance Group, performing leading roles in The Hard Nut and Mozart Dances and appearing in The New York Times’ “Top Male Dance Performances of 2014.” He has also performed with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Merce Cunningham Trust, Cornfield Dance, Christopher Williams Dance, and ARC Dance. Aaron's choreography has been commissioned by the Juilliard School, Marymount Manhattan College, the Works & Process Artists Virtual Commissions series at the Guggenheim, and the Society for New Music in
Syracuse, NY. Aaron teaches dance and yoga to adults of diverse backgrounds, including beginners, professionals, and dancers living with Parkinson's disease through the Dance for PD® program. He has taught ballet and modern dance technique as an adjunct instructor at Marymount Manhattan College and Adelphi University, and currently leads open ballet classes at the Gibney Dance Center. Aaron’s writing appears in the September 2023 and January 2024 issues of PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, published by MIT Press. In May 2025, Aaron received a BA in American Studies from Columbia University.
GREGORY LUCE (Viola), praised by The Washington Post as an “appealing, natural player,” has performed around the world in Europe, the United States, and Asia. He has also premiered dozens of pieces in varied ensembles, performing in notable concert venues such as the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, and the Meyerhoff Concert Hall. He has been invited to coach, teach privately, and perform at numerous schools and festivals including The Juilliard School, Stanford University, and the Interlochen Summer Arts Academy. A graduate of The Juilliard School, Luce enjoys many interdisciplinary collaborations, most notably with the Mark Morris Dance Group, with which he gave a two-week tour of Taiwan in 2014 and performed in the Lincoln Center’s 2013 White Light Festival. He has also enjoyed an ongoing working relationship with the Conspirare Symphonic Choir of Austin, Texas, since 2011. Since 2008, Luce has been violist of the Aeolus Quartet, top prizewinners at numerous competitions. Following their performance in Trondheim’s International Chamber Music Competition of 2009, the Aeolus Quartet was praised by Strad magazine for their “high-octane performance,” with Luce noted as being “especially enjoyable.” Luce plays a viola made by Samuel Zygmuntowicz for celebrated violist Walter Trampler in 1991, generously on loan from Ruth Sumners Trampler.
CLAUDIA McDONALD (Dancer) holds a B.F.A. in Dance from Fordham University/The Ailey School. She was a member of Jessica Lang Dance, both as dancer and rehearsal director. She has restaged Lang's work, including her choreography in Seattle Opera's production of Aida, and continues to assist her with projects. She has performed with the Mark Morris Dance Group in The Hard Nut, Romeo & Juliet: On Motifs of Shakespeare, and L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, as well as in Morris's production of Orfeo ed Euridice at the Metropolitan Opera.
DALLAS MCMURRAY (Dancer), from El Cerrito, California, began dancing at age four, studying jazz, tap, and acrobatics with Katie Maltsberger and ballet with Yukiko Sakakura. He received a B.F.A. in Dance from the California Institute of the Arts. McMurray has performed with the Limón Dance Company in addition to performing in works by Jiří Kylián, Alonzo King, Robert Moses, and Colin Connor. He joined MMDG as an apprentice in 2006 and became a company member in 2007.
ALEX MEETH (Dancer) grew up in Dousman, Wisconsin, and began his dance training with Eddy Bray at the age of 13. After graduating from the Kettle Moraine School for Arts and Performance, he was accepted on scholarship to the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, graduating with a B.F.A. in Contemporary Dance Performance (emphasis in Choreography) in 2022. Post-college, Alex became a company member with Hedwig Dances and has recently performed with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Metropolitan Opera, Boston Early Music Festival, and Dance Heginbotham. Alex first performed with MMDG in 2022 and became an apprentice in 2024.
JULIAN MORRIS (Bass-Baritone) is a singer and voice teacher based in New York City. He performs regularly as a soloist, ensemble singer, and session musician with groups including Clarion Society, Musica Sacra, St. George's Choral Society, New York Philharmonic, Cecilia Chorus, and many others. He is on the rosters of the professional choirs at St. Bartholomew's Church and Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan. Julian maintains a private voice studio on New York's Upper West Side, where he works with a wide range of clients in many musical styles, from professionals to hobbyists.
SLOAN PEARSON (Dancer) is a multifaceted artist based in New York City. Originally from Charlotte, she began studying at Charlotte Ballet under the direction of ballet luminaries Jean- Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride. She received her B.F.A with a Modern Dance emphasis from the Point Park University Conservatory of Performing Arts. While at Point Park, Sloan was offered an apprenticeship with the August Wilson Dance Ensemble. Sloan has danced with Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Kybele Dance Theater, and Debbie Allen as a dancer in her dance ensemble - later to be featured in her Netflix Documentary. She was honored to dance with the Paul Taylor 2 Dance Company, where she was Paul Taylor’s last chosen dancer. During her four seasons she worked with Ron K. Brown, Larry Keigwin, and Peter Chu, before joining his company chuthis. Sloan has since worked with Tommie Waheed-Evans — Princess Grace Recipient both dancing and remounting his works, Holly Blakey for Puma New York Fashion Week, Yin Yue Dance Company, and the Metropolitan Opera in Carmen, choreographed by Ann Ye and directed by Carrie Cracknell, and most recently with Mark Morris Dance Group in Gluck’s, Orfeo ed Euridice. Pearson joined MMDG as an apprentice in 2025.
BRANDON RANDOLPH (Dancer) began his training with the School of Carolina Ballet Theater in Greenville, South Carolina, under the direction of Hernan Justo. At age 14, he was accepted into the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, where he studied with Stanislav Issaev and Bobby Barnett. Randolph received his B.F.A. in Dance from Purchase College in 2012. There, he had the opportunity to perform with Dance Heginbotham as well as repertory by Stephen Petronio, Lar Lubovitch, Paul Taylor, and George Balanchine. Randolph began working with MMDG in 2013 as an apprentice and became a company member in 2014.
CHRISTINA SAHAIDA (Dancer) grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and began her early dance training at the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School. In 2012, she graduated with honors from Butler University, receiving a B.F.A. in Dance Performance. She has worked with Ballet Quad Cities, Texture Contemporary Ballet, and most recently the Big Muddy Dance Company in St. Louis, Missouri. Sahaida joined MMDG as an apprentice in 2017 and became a company member in 2019.
BILLY SMITH (Dancer) grew up in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and attended George Mason University under a full academic and dance talent scholarship. He graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2007 and received achievement awards in performance, choreography, and academic endeavors. While at George Mason, he performed the works of Mark Morris, Paul Taylor, Lar Lubovitch, Doug Varone, Daniel Ezralow, Larry Keigwin, Susan Marshall, and Susan Shields. Smith’s own piece, 3-Way Stop, was selected to open the 2006
American College Dance Festival Gala at Ohio State University, and his original choreography for a production of Bye Bye Birdie garnered much critical praise. An actor as well, Smith’s regional theater credits include Tulsa in Gypsy, Mistoffelees in CATS, and Dream Curly in Oklahoma! Smith danced with Parsons Dance from 2007-2010. He joined MMDG as a company member in 2010.
JOSLIN VEZEAU (Dancer) is from St. Louis, Missouri, where she trained at the Center of Creative Arts (COCA). She graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Ailey/Fordham B.F.A. program in Dance Performance in 2018 and while there, was awarded the Denise Jefferson Memorial Scholarship. During her senior year in college, she joined Peridance Contemporary Dance Company in New York and danced with that company for six seasons. When not dancing, she is a personal trainer and loves rock climbing, volunteering at Brooklyn farmers markets, and taking care of dogs. She joined MMDG as an apprentice in 2023 and became a company member in 2024.
GEORGY VALTCHEV (Violin) has performed on some of the world’s most prestigious stages as a soloist, with orchestras, in recitals, and as a chamber musician. In the United States, he has appeared at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, New York's Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center in Washington DC, the 92nd Street Y, and Chicago's Cultural Institute. In Europe, he has appeared at venues such as Wigmore Hall and the Barbican Centre in London; La Cité de la Musique in Paris; Amsterdam’s Royal Carré Theatre; and Bulgaria Hall in Sofia. He has toured Asia, Australia, and Israel with performances in Beijing Cultural Arts Center, Guangzhou Opera House, Sydney Opera House, Tel Aviv Opera House, Taipei Cultural Center Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. A dedicated collaborative musician, Valtchev enjoys frequent performances with distinguished international artists and ensembles in the United States and Europe. As a principal member of the MMDG Music Ensemble, he frequently travels around the world. Valtchev has been honored to lead several major symphony orchestras as guest concertmaster, most notably the London Philharmonic and the Royal Symphony Orchestra of Madrid. He is a founder and artistic director of the Unbeaten Path chamber music festival in Kovachevitsa, Bulgaria, and a founding member of the chamber music series Bulgarian Concert Evenings in New York.
NOAH VINSON (Dancer) is originally from Springfield, Illinois, and received his B.A. in Dance from Columbia College Chicago. He was named a Dance Magazine “Dancer on the Rise” in 2009 and assisted Mark Morris in the creation of The Letter V for Houston Ballet. He began dancing with MMDG in 2002 and became a company member in 2004.
MIKE FABA (Lighting Designer) is a lighting designer for Dance, Theatre, and Events. Design credits include What Belongs to You (Alarm Will Sound, David T. Little, Mark Morris) at Modlin Center for the Arts, Jinkx Monsoon Live in Concert at Carnegie Hall, The Jinkx and DeLa Holiday Show International Tour, and the All I Want For Christmas is Attention International Tour (BenDeLaCreme and Jinkx Monsoon), Poo | Poo (Mythili Prakesh), Americana To Me at Jacob’s Pillow, Beyond Ballet at Jacob's Pillow, No. 1 (Wang Ramirez & Sara Mearns) at New York City Center, The Joffrey Concert Group at Alvin Ailey, Spectral Preludes (Tom Gold Dance) at Florence Gould Hall, Wednesday Morning, 11:45 (Pilobolus) at
Skirball, Marksman (Kate Weare) at The Joyce and The Guggenheim, and Unstruck (Kate Weare) at BAM Fisher. Event design work includes the Life Is Beautiful Festival, as well as PatBO and MONSE for NYFW (Studio RRD). Lighting Supervisor credits include Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Mark Morris Dance Group, Paul Taylor American Modern Dance, Camille A. Brown & Dancers, Wang Ramirez, Pilobolus, Martha Clarke, and Radiolab Live: In The Dark. Mike is also the Production Manager and assistant for Kurt Perschke's RedBall Project, the world's longest-running public art piece.
ELIZABETH KURTZMAN (Costume Designer) began her career in the fashion industry after attending the Parsons School of Design. She has designed textiles and accessories for numerous New York design houses. She has added costume design and book illustration to her list of vocations, designing over 20 pieces for the Mark Morris Dance Group including Dancing Honeymoon, Sang-Froid, The Argument, Greek to Me, Four Saints in Three Acts, Empire Garden, Visitation, The Muir, Crosswalk, Petrichor, Pure Dance Items, and Sport. She also designed L’Isola Disabitata for the Gotham Opera Company, under Mark Morris’s direction. Kurtzman is currently active in providing art and music programs for children with autism in New York City, where she lives and works.
AMY PAGE (Costume Designer) is a costume creator and wardrobe supervisor who has worked for many years with MMDG. She enjoys working with costume designers to bring their dreams to reality and supporting artists so that they can bring the best possible performance to the stage. Her costumes are in the repertory of Kyle Abraham’s A.I.M., Dance Theatre of Harlem, Dorrance Dance, and Camille A. Brown and Dancers. Passionate about supporting artists as they learn and grow in Academia, Amy has created costumes for Ballet Academy East, American Ballet Theater’s Make A Ballet program, and the Dance Department of Sarah Lawrence College, as well as teaching at the College of William and Mary. As a wardrobe supervisor, Amy oversaw many productions at the Mostly Mozart and White Light Festivals at Lincoln Center, as well as many touring companies who graced The Joyce Theater stage. From the Akram Khan Company to The Royal Ballet to Momix, her calm, capable presence through lightning-fast quick changes and marathon loads of laundry bring a ray of sunshine to the backstage world. She has toured with Ballet Hispanico, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Dorrance Dance, and Philadanco. On Broadway, she has had the pleasure of dressing Tatiana Maslany in Network, as well as the cast of Hamilton and Hadestown. In the television world, she worked as a costume fitter on the last three seasons of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. She has also taught children’s dance classes at the Dance Center, 2014-2017. She holds a BFA from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Database Administrator.................Rima Yamazaki Development Assistant.................Alessia Zanobini
EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Director of Education......................Bianca Golden Community Engagement Manager and Faculty Liason................................Calvin A. Rollins II School Manager...............................................Lily Khan School Administrator............................Carol Alvarez
Student Company Rehearsal Director.................... ...................................................................................Billy Smith Dance for PD® Program Director.............................. .....................................................................David Leventhal Dance for PD® Programs and Engagement Manager..............Maria Portman Kelly Dance for PD® Programs Assistant........................... ...........................................................................Amy Bauman Dance for PD® Programs Coordinator................... ..............................................................................Randy Miles
Booking Representation..........Michael Mushalla (Double M Arts & Events)
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Major support for the Mark Morris Dance Group is provided by members of the GRAND DUO CIRCLE: LEADER $125,000+ Elizabeth Amy Liebman, The Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation, Judith R. and Alan H. Fishman, Howard Gilman Foundation. STAR COLLABORATOR $50,000-$124,999 Bloomberg Philanthropies, Dance/NYC’s New York City Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program, made possible by The Mellon Foundation, The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Fidelity Charitable Foundation, Shelby and Frederick Gans, Mrs. Candace and Dr. Vincent Gaudiani, Suzy Kellems Dominik, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, Sully Bonnelly and Robert Littman, MacMillan Family Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council, The New York Community Trust, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, PARC Foundation, Antony Peattie, The Shubert Foundation, Vanguard Charitable. STAR SPONSOR $25,000-$49,999 Anonymous (3), Billy Rose Foundation, Eliot Nolen and Timothy Bradley, The Breukelein Institute, DAFgiving360, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health, Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund, Bernice Greene, John and Tommye Ireland (in memoriam), Meyer Sound Laboratories, Inc., Mark Morris, Onay Payne, The SHS Foundation, Jamie Gorelick and Richard Waldhorn. STAR SUPPORTER $12,000-$24,999 Anonymous, Susan DeLong, Doris Duke Foundation, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, York-Chi and Stephen Harder, Jewish Communal Fund, Amanda Gluibizzi and Christian Kleinbub, Leatherwood Foundation, Susan Jacobson and David Moskovitz, National Philanthropic Trust, Sarabeth Berman and Evan Osnos, Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino, Jolie Curtsinger Schwartz and Gabriel Schwartz, David Resnicow and Diane Solway, Mary Ann Casavant and Scott Wilson, June and Jeffrey Wolf. Additional support is provided by Mark Morris Dance Group PARTNERS: LEADING PARTNER $6,000-$11,999 Anonymous (2), American Parkinson Disease Association, Inc., Wally and Roz Bernheimer, Terry Boyer, Harold Clinton, Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation, Carol Ann Dyer, Jeanne Donovan Fisher, Neil Ericsson and Karen Florini, Stephen M. Foster, Gillett
Gilbert, Sharon Gurwitz, Lori Raphael and J. Michael Hemmer, Impact Assets, Jock Ireland, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Kenneth Aidekman Family Foundation, Judy Lichterman, The Lupin Foundation, Jill Horner and Yo-Yo Ma, Manson Family and Stanley J. Wertheimer Fund Donors, Marta Heflin Foundation, Kristine Morris, Parkinson's Foundation, Lizz Pimentel, Patrick Ravey, Cecilia Paul and Harry Reinert, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Lisa Rinehart, Sills Family Foundation, Cori E. Uccello, Nancy Umanoff, Zeitz Foundation. COLLABORATING PARTNER
$3,000-$5,999 Anonymous (6), Paul Appeldoorn, Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund, Janice Bares White, Kate Weil and Stuart Bauchner, Brooklyn Org, Jeffery and Tina Budge, Carmie and Merv Budge, Hon. Steven Berk and Jennifer Chandler Hauge, Charney Companies, Chefer Tompkins Family Fund, Mark Selinger and Iris Cohen, Carol Yorke and Gerard Conn, Continental Grain Company, Belden and Pamela Daniels, Katherine and Peter Darrow, Ann and Richard Feldman, Michael and Nancy Feller, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, Kate Bernheimer and Xia Hendricks, The Herman Liebmann Foundation, Jewish Community Federation & Endowment Fund, Kate and Tom Kush, Lily Auchincloss Foundation, William W. Lockwood, Jr., Manulife, Martha-Ellen Tye Foundation, Gabriel Nussbaum, Emily Omura, Princeton Area Community Foundation, Marjorie Randolph , Toby E. and Robert Rubin, Anonymous, Cindy Sherman, Emmanuel Torrijos and Jing Shang Tan, Barbara and Michael Zimmerman. SPONSORING PARTNER
$1,500-$2,999 Anonymous (8), Jane E. Aaron, American Endowment Foundation, The Amphion Foundation, Inc., Ginger Geoffrey and John Andelin, Ayco Charitable Foundation, Stephanie Boye, Gabriel Boyers, A.MANO Brooklyn, Robert Buckholz, Circles for Change, Cynthia A. Clegg, Con Edison, Sofia Coppola, Jean and Wayne Cunningham, Mary Darmstaetter, Estela Díaz, Bob Dixon, John and Linda Donovan, Maura Dougherty, Ed and Edie Drcar, Robert Hirsch and Gretchen Ellsworth, Jean Fuller Farrington, Katharine Ferguson Roberts, Deenie and Frank Brosens, Carolyn George, Arline T. Geronimus , Elisa B. and Kenneth Glazer, Rebecca Glen, Robert Goldberg, Lynn and Brian Grant Family, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Elizabeth Lovett Grover, Thomas Shapiro and Madeleine Grynsztejn, Hank and Karoly Gutman, Alice Hofheimer, Jewish Community Foundation, Mary Neal Jones, Fred and Jean Leventhal, Nicholas Ma and Will Lopez, Gretchen Wold and Thomas Martin, Diane L. Max, Suzanne Berman and Timothy J. McClimon, Jennifer Melby, Audrey and Danny Meyer, Liza Velazquez and Timothy Milford, Emanuel Ax and Yoko Nozaki, Steve Offutt, Claire E. Pensyl, David Pomerantz, Drs. Jocelynne and Perry Rainey, Mary-Kathryn and Richard Roelofs, Constance and Theodore Roosevelt, James and Colleen Seely, Carole Segal, Jeff Seroy, Esther Shapiro, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, David Stang, Susan K. Freedman & Rabbi Richard Jacobs Family Fund, Marjorie Hess and Rudolph Talaber, Jennifer Thienes Dixon, Grace and John Timberlake, Charlie and Judy Tobey, Bob Turner and Paula Togawa, Kirsti Aho and Dale Underwood, Jay and Elaine Unkeless, Joel Bluestein and Michal Warshow, Mary Waters, Andrea and David Weiss, and the more than 1,900 supporters not listed here whose support has been crucial to our operations.
The Mark Morris Dance Group’s performances at the Joyce Theater were made possible with funding, in part, from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
LEGACY GIVING Individuals who name the Mark Morris Dance Group in estate plans through bequests, gift annuities, charitable trusts, and beneficiary designations ensure a strong future for our organization. The Mark Morris Dance Group gratefully acknowledges recent bequests and living legacy commitments from Anonymous (7), Lucy Bowen McCauley, James and Sheila Foley, Sandy Hill, Patrick Leader, Claire E. Pensyl, Gregg Rockefeller, Jane Levy Troy, Estate of Kathryn (Nan) Wells Little, J.D. Bruce Wilson. If you are new to legacy planning, please explore our free tool at freewill.com/mmdg or if you have already planned for the Mark Morris Dance Group in your will, please let us know so we can welcome you to our Legacy Society. Contact Lauren Grant, Major Gifts Officer, at lauren.grant@mmdg.org. We would be honored to recognize your generosity in future programs.
GIFTS IN HONOR All the dancers and staff of the Mark Morris Dance Group, Michelle Amador, Tony Balcena, Sam Black, Ivan Bodis-Wollner, Lucy Bowen McCauley, Ronda Canter, Julia Cohen, Peter Daley, Judy Dean, Judith R. and Alan H. Fishman, Glenda Fishman, Shelby Gans, Elise Gaugert, Adele Goldstein, Jesse Gomer, Leonore Gordon, Lauren Grant, Hon. Steven Berk and
Jennifer Chandler Hauge, Johanna Kopp, Dana Kotler, Mireille Lasternas, David B. Leventhal, Zev Leventhal, Susan Betsy Light, Mark Morris Dance Group Education and Community Engagement + Operations teams, Raven Marshall, Gayle and George Miranda, Mark Morris, Doris Olin, Misty Owens, Nicole Pearce, Jan Rose, Prudence Rusch, Michael Vitaly Sazonov, Jolie Curtsinger Schwartz, Tara Sherman, Phoebe Stearns, Jane and Robert Stine, Edith Tinnes, Charlie Tobey, Sonia Triester, D. Gail Uccello, Nancy Umanoff, Barry Walker, Cristobal Williams, Arlo Platt Zolov.
GIFTS IN MEMORY Victoria Alford, Diane Ambrogio, Michael Aron, Christine Austria, Judy Brown, Phyllis Caplan's parents, Charles Boyd School of the Dance, David Drennen, Adolph Fuerst, Cyndy Gilbertson, Joyce Graber, Edward William Gretton, Cindy Holden, Mark Horowitz, Kathleen Howard, John and Tommye Ireland, Eleanor Johnsen, Lawton Johnson, Ruben A Kelly, Carlos Lemme, John Lindquist, Nicky Lusher, Marshall Marcovitz, Richard Marcus, Lloyd Mast, Rita and Charles Schwartz and Martin Miller, Zoltan David Farkas and John O. Miller, Mary Evangeline Munzenrider, Cindy O’Neill, Mary Cynthia Holden O'Neill, Misty Owens, James Perham, K. Robert Reaster, Bruce Rinaldi, Judith Rosenblatt, Hy Schechter, Stephen Shapiro, Michael Sheniak, Susan Sills, Diane Smith, Lee Smith, Nancy Giles Snyder, Albert Spielman, Janet Stram, Julia Thomas, Loretta Thomas, Grace Timberlake, Charles Underwood, Danny Uziel, Tommy Vigorita, Allen Weiss, Regina Welt, Don Wergeles, Stanley J. Wertheimer, Harold Young, Linda Young, Maureen Zaniel.
IN KIND CONTRIBUTIONS
Brooklyn Brewery, Jeff Budge, City Winery New York City, Darryl Pinckney and James Fenton, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Howard Gilman Foundation, Meyer Sound Laboratories, Inc., Union Square Hospitality Group, LLC.
The Mark Morris Dance Group is a member of the Cultural Solidarity Fund, Dance/USA, the Downtown Brooklyn Arts Alliance, and Museum Arts and Culture Access Consortium.
Discalced Inc. (dba Mark Morris Dance Group) is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and relies on cash contributions, gifts from donor advised funds, stocks, IRA rollovers, bequests, memberships, and contributions for its annual programs. To learn more and donate, visit mmdg.org/support.
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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
Season Sponsor:
Champion support for The Joyce's annual programming:
Major support for The Joyce's operations and special projects:
Booth Ferris Foundation
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.
Director of Institutional Giving.........................................Jean M. Ross
Director of Individual Giving and Development Operations ... .........................................................................................................................Meg White
Director of Special Events and Board Relations............Jesse Chin
Individual Giving Manager.................................................Catherine Eng
Institutional Giving Manager................................................Marisa Davis
Special Events Associate........................................................Maeve Brady
Development Coordinator...............................................Rachel Fontenot
Development Intern...............................................................Tah-Janay Hayes
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.
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.
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OPERATIONS
Director of Operations Lou Albruzzese
Studio Operations Manager (NYCC&D)............................Tamika Daniels
Studio Operations Rentals Associate...............................Lauren Marcolus
Studio Operations Associates (NYCC&D)....................Kristin Maugeri, Calvin Osorio, Cameron Pelache Studio Facilities................................................Stephon Bines, Daniel Hartnett, Ricardo Hernandez, Lori Write-Huertas
FACILITIES
Facilities Manager Jimmy Ortiz Maintenance Staff................................................................Pablo Rodriguez, Travis Segarra, Jonathan Singh
Sara E. Solfanelli (Special Counsel for Pro Bono Initiatives), Debra R. Anisman (Special Counsel), Howard B. Epstein (Of Counsel), Gregory P. Pressman, Esq. (Of Counsel), Cristina Giappone, Esq., Andrew B. Lowy, Esq., Sabrina Singh, Esq, Steven M. Appel, Esq., Michelle M. Orge, Esq., Gordon W. VanWieren III, Lance M. Kodish............................................................................................................. Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC................................................................ ................................................................................Kimberly M. Maynard, Esq. Stephanie Grassi, Esq. P.C...........………..Stephanie Grassi, Counsel Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP...............................................
Abraham, Matthew Giacobbe Hogan Lovells………..................................................................Ross Moskowitz Accounting...........................................................................................Lutz & Carr
Zavelson
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.
THE JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION, INC.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Charles M. Adelman, Chair
Madelyn Wils, Vice Chair
Monica F. Azare, Vice Chair
Stephanie R. Breslow, Treasurer
Jane E. Goldberg, Secretary
Kerry Clayton, Chair Emeritus
Virginia A. Millhiser, Chair Emerita
Amit Wadhwaney, Chair Emeritus
R. Richard Ablon
Rob Ashford
Ajay Bhandaram
Alan Cumming
Keane Ehsani
John Philip Falk
Michael Feller
Melina Fisher
IN MEMORIAM
Theodore S. Bartwink (Trustee 1993-2014)
Tracy Brown (Trustee 2020-2023)
R. Britton Fisher (Trustee 1999-2020)
David D. Holbrook (Trustee 1994-2023)
Richard Lukins (Trustee 1998-2011)
Anh-Tuyet Nguyen (Trustee 2007–2020)
Richard Shea (Trustee 2015-2022)
Monica B. Voldstad (Trustee 2016-2023)
Stephen D. Weinroth (Trustee 1996-2022)
Ronald Gumbaz
Toni Hoover
Robert Musiker
Meryl Rosofsky
Saul Sanders
Linda Shelton
Lauren E. Shortt
Cathy Weinroth
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
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 23, 2025..
Platinum Benefactors
($500,000 and above)
John & Jody Arnhold
Elysabeth Kleinhans
LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust
Virginia & Timothy Millhiser
Gold Benefactors
($100,000 and above)
Deborah & Charles Adelman
Kerry Clayton & Paige Royer
Howard Gilman Foundation
Ronald Gumbaz & Juliet Cozzi
The Harkness Foundation for Dance
Leanne Lachman
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
Sharon Patrick
Robert Pollock
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation
Saul & Mary Sanders
The Shubert Foundation
Amit Wadhwaney
Madelyn & Steven Wils
Silver Benefactors
($50,000 and above)
Anonymous Stephanie R. Breslow & Paul Watterson
Ann & George Colony
Margaret & John Falk
Nancy & Michael Feller
New York State Council on the Arts
The Jerome Robbins Foundation
Meryl Rosofsky & Stuart Coleman
Lauren E. Shortt
SHS Foundation
Denise Littlefield Sobel
TD Bank/TD Charitable Foundation
Conrad Voldstad
Cathy Weinroth
Benefactor's Circle
($25,000 and above)
Anonymous (2)
Jeff & Susan Campbell
Catskill Mountain Foundation
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Melina Fisher
Jane E. Goldberg
Elzbieta Grove
Heartfelt Wings Foundation
Henry and Lucy Moses Fund
Bob & Sharon Musiker
Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
President's Circle
($15,000 and above)
Jen Ablon
Sarah Arison
Citizens Private Bank
Robert Goldberg & Betsy MacIsaac
Aimee Haydinger
Henry Luce Foundation
Tatiana Piankova Foundation
Karen Roth
Kathleen A. Scott
Joseph LeRoy and Ann C. Warner Fund
Vicente Wolf
Impresario’s Circle
($10,000 and above)
Anonymous
Rick & Nurit Amdur
Ms. Monica Azare
Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Dr. John Bonavita-Goldman
Edward Brill
Leslie & Richard Curtis
Ms. Susan Dickler & Mr. Sig Van Raan
Linda & Martin Fell
Gregg & Jean Frankel
Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation
Sharon B. Gurwitz
Ms. Elizabeth Haynes
Judith M. Hoffman
Toni Hoover
Illuminated Foundation
Christine Knuth
Eric & Sandy Krasnoff
Andrew Martin-Weber
Mr. James McLaren & Ms. Lawton Fitt
Linda and Ed Morse
No Studios of Milwaukee
Steve Pesner and Peace in loving memory of Michéle Pesner, a person whose entire life was devoted to culture and the arts
Rajika & Anupam Puri
Ellen Rosen
The Scripps Family Fund for Education & the Arts
Linda Shelton
Irene Shen
Leslie Siegel
Barbara Madsen Smith
Jean & Gene Stark
Emiko Terasaki
Johanna Weber
Producer’s Circle
($7,500 and above)
Neme Alperstein
Office of City Council Member Erik Bottcher
Con Edison
The FGK Foundation
Dr. Peter and Mrs. Eszter Friedman
Suzanne Hall & Valentino Carlotti
Melanie Coronetz & Bruce G. Miller
Cherrie Nanninga
Michael Sekus & Bianca Russo
Margaret Stern
Advocates
($5,000 and above)
Anonymous (3)
R. Richard Ablon
Alpern Family Foundation
Rob Ashford
Anne-Victoire Auriault
The Barbara Bell Cumming
Charitable Trust
Andrew & Froma Benerofe
Ajay Bhandaram
Marty and Louise Bickman
Judi Rappoport Blitzer & David M. Blitzer
Donya & Scott Bommer
Robert Brenner
Donna B. Case
Ms. Georgina Cullman
Carol Davis and Joel Marcus, M.D.
Jeffrey Davis & Michael T. Miller
Ms. Patricia Dugan, in memory of William Perlmuth
Mr. Keane Ehsani
Judith R. & Alan H. Fishman
Robert J. Fraiman Jr. & Melanie Harris
Owls Fund at the Triangle Community Foundation
Emi Gittleman
Robert Greenberg
The Randall and Mary Hack
Foundation
Elizabeth Anne Hartman
The Ivill-Weiner Family
Christopher Jones & Deborah McAlister
Alan & Gail Koss
Jonathan Levinson
Uttara P. Marti
Ronay & Richard Menschel
New Music USA
Val Holley & Joseph Plocek
Nina B. Quigley
Mr. Stephen Kroll Reidy
Ms. Theresa Russo
Lawrence Safran & Romulo Aromin, Jr.
Nancy Sands
Susan Scharf
Fran Schulman
Robert A. Schulman
Deborah Selch
Christopher Soule
Linda Strumpf
Theresa Alessandra Russo Foundation
Ms. Patricia E. Vance
Barbara Wybraniec
Director’s Circle ($2,750 and above)
Anonymous (2)
Joel & Rhela Aragona
Barbash Family Fund
Sandra Berger
Barbara Berliner & Sol Rymer
Ms. Deanna Bittker
Jeffrey Bruce & Ingrid Steffensen
David Bruson
Capezio/Ballet Makers
Dance Foundation
Cathleen Collins
Jane Comer
Chris Coulthrust
The Cowles Charitable Trust
Trisha & Patrick Duval
Christopher M Elmore
David L. Fanger & Martin Wechsler
Ania Fryszkowska
Andrew and Claire-Marine Ferguson
Kenneth Foster
Jeffrey Olund & Silvia Furia
A. Stephanie Gittleman
Dorothy Goodman
Elisabeth Hefti
Carolina Hernandez
Jonathan Kanovsky
David Kernahan
Diana Korsh
Kathy Krall
Joe Lanteri, New York City Dance Alliance Inc.
Rosanne Leshner
Jayne Lipman & Robert Goodman
Johnny Mendoza & Mark Littman
in memory of John MacDonald
Lynn C. Mautner
Karen & Martin McDonald
The McNamee McHugh Family Fund
James Musiker
Warrie Price & James David Price
Donald J. Rose & Victoria Lasdon Rose
Mr. Vernon Scott
Rena Shagan
Mr. Craig Snyder
Consulate General of Spain in New York
Susan Ulick
Alex Z. Wang
Alexandra Wheeler & Rocky Rukan
Michelle D. and Claude L. Winfield
Irving & Elaine Wolbrom
Ralph Womble & Ashley Edwards
Billy F.B. Wong & Stephanie Gordon
Carol Yorke & Gerard Conn
Yavitz Cypen Foundation in honor of Billy Zavelson
Ms. Barbara Zuckerberg
Leaders
($1,000 and above
Anonymous (5)
Adrienne Albert
Robert Allyn
Gerry & Hank Alpert
Roger and Aida Anderson
Ms. Linda Andrews
Mr. Gerald Appelstein
Aybars Asci
James Asci & Joshua Schulteis
Mr. & Mrs. Ira Asherman
Christina Back
Ms. Sherrie Barr
Ali Baum
Harvey & Stephanie Benjamin
Cheryl Bergenfeld
Mr. Robert Boblitt
Ms. Lisa Bonifacic
Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Bonovitz
Nissan Boury
Ms. A. Bozzi
Barbara & Gary Brandt
Carol & Bob Braun
Ms. Joan Breibart
Madeline Brine
Gerri Brioso
Mr. Matthew Brodlie
Daniel & Elaine Brownstein
Dr. Amy Buchman & Ms. Vicki Haupt
Lisa Jo Reimer-Byrne
Ralph & Martine Calder
Doug & Lisa Caldwell
Joseph and Linda Camardo
Mr. Joel Camche
Mr. William J. Campbell
Mr. Scott Caplan
Karen Carozza
Ms. Cheryl Carruthers
Cengiz Cemaloglu
Julia Chambers
Peri & David Clark
Mike Coffin
Pamela Cook
Ms. Edrie Cote
Ms. Janet Cox
Paul and Caroline Cronson
Greg Darnieder
Irene Rosner David, in Memory of Dr. Raphael David
Diana Davies
Christopher Delong
Jan, Dick and Nora Demenus
Nicole Dietrich & Jack Kraska
The Cory & Bob Donnalley
Charitable Foundation
Miriam & David Donoho
The Dorothy Fund
Benjamin Duster
Suzanne B. Engel
Erin Feely-Nahem & Isaac Nahem
Ms. Audrey Feldman
Thomas Finch MD
Marion Ilene Fischer
Judith & Walter Flamenbaum
Pamela Frankel
Judith Z. Friedman
Mark Friedman & Veronique Bogliolo Friedman
Clio Garland
Swapna Ghanta
Barrie Gillies & William Drummy
Ms. Diane Gooch
Carole Gottlieb
Minda Gralnek
Mason & Kim Granger
Pam Green
Mr. & Mrs. Glen Gunsalus
Jenny Haid & Zohaib Rathore
Alexandra L. Harper
Ms. Vilia Hayes
Laurie and Jack Heflin
Sheila Heimbinder
Mr. Ronald Hellman &
Mr. Stephen Roberts
Janet L. Henner
Ms. L Kathy Herre
Mr. Arthur Hill
Emma Hood
Karen Brooks Hopkins
Lynn Hopkins
Ms. Lisa Huertas
David H Hughes Jr
Alexandra Hylton
Mary & David Iles
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Jacobs
Jasteka Foundation
Rebecca Josue
Gloria & Michael Kadish
Kenneth S. Kail & Ivy Hwang
John Kalish & Susan Niederman
Margaret Kaplen
Jane Kendall
John Kirby
Ed Krugman & Ethel Klein
Murray & Sylvana Klein
Vasili Krishnamurti
Bette Lacombe
Ilene H. Lang
Nancy Lashine
Mr. Julius Leiman-Carbia
Mr. Michael Lemle
Howard & Elaine Leventhal
Charitable Fund
Judith Lewis
Dorothy Lichtenstein
Robert & Dorina Link
William Lockwood
David Long
Jonna Mackin
Mr. & Ms. Mangini
Joseph M. Marger
Edwin Maynard
Lorraine J. Meeker
Jeff Melvin
Joyce F. Menschel
Ms. Mary Meyer
Diana and David Milich
Miller Khoshkish Foundation
Mr. Wayne & Mrs. Barbara Miller
Mr. Conte Moore & Ms. Barbara Jones
Mr. Michael Mulligan
Jane & Michael Murphy
Judith Musiker
Judy Musiker
Ms. Eve Mykytyn
James Neisloss
Ms. Maryam Newman
Ms. Molly Nozyce
Mr. Conor O'Neil
Omomuki Foundation
Aaron Singer and Bart Oosterveld
Mrs. Trisha Ostergaard
Rachel Ostry, MD
Candace and Simon Owen-Williams
John Owen
Joseph Pabst
Leonard Pack & Adele Weisman
Mercedes Paratje
David Pasterski
Ms. Amy Penner-Walker
Edith C. Penty
Flora Perskie
Doug and Teresa Peterson
Carl Pforzheimer III
Larry & Barbara Pitsch
The Plimpton-Shattuck Fund
Judith J Plows
Donna & James Pressman
Ms. Karen Provost
Soula Proxenos
Rainbow Sandals Foundation
Betty P. & Michael H. Rauch
Frances A. Resheske
Philip W. Riskin Charitable Foundation
Ms. Ayodele Roach
Mary Jo Robertiello
Donald W. Roeske, Jr.
Ann Sahid Rosche
Felicia Rosenfeld
Elsa Ross-Greifinger
Jane K Royal and John C Lantis II
Alina Roytberg
Ty Rugman
Mrs. Nazak Savitt
Xiomara & Charles Scheidt
Mark Schumer
Jesse & Carol Schwartz
Margaret E. Selby
Martha Sherman
Julie Simpson
Barbara Jean Sinclair
Mr. Irving Sitnick
Elizabeth Sledge
Ms. Elizabeth Smith
Marilyn Sobel
Leon Sokol
Michael Solomon
Daniel Spence and Marcelo Mesquita
Marianne Stegeland
William Stern
Judy Stewart
Mr. & Ms. Justin Stewart
Linda Stocknoff
Abbie M. Strassler
Ms. Alicia Suarez
Douglas Szlompek
Yael Mandelstam & Ken Tabachnick
Jon Teeuwissen & Welz Kauffman
Jim Tharp
Deirdre Towers
Lucy Vasserman and Brendan Finnegan
Ms. Cheryl L. Wade
Holly Wallace & Edwin Baum
Arlene Weinberg
Peter & Deborah Winograd
Julien Wolfe
Elly Karp Wong
Migs Woodside
Cora Yamamoto
Mr. Christian Zimmermann
Investors ($500 and above)
Anonymous (10)
Mohamed Abdirahman
Dr. LaRue Allen & Ebonya
Washington
West Jersey Youth Ballet, Joanna & Elena Andriopoulos
Debra R. Anisman
Rebecca Aronson
Jane Barr
Joan & Ira Berkowitz
Jan Berris
Ms. Helga Borck
Ms. Valerie Jo Bradley
Maria M Branco
Lize Burr
Robert Calderisi
Lynn Canaan
Mark Carbone
Andrea Chernyk
Amy Cho
Dr. Jason Chuang
Melinda DeChiazza Cloobeck
Galois Cohen
Robert Conkey
Victoria Cowles
Mary E Craig
Bray Creech
John and Nada Culver
Mrs. Eileen Davidson
Paul de Sa
David de Weese
The DiChristina Family
Antonio Dinkins, Sr.
Ms. Deborah Doyle
Richard G. Dudley, Jr.
Jorge Durand
Ms. Susan Feder
Heather Flock
Mr. Charles Forma
Mr. Leroy Fortcher
Sarah Fox and Steven Lofchie
John and Nada Culver
Mrs. Eileen Davidson
Paul de Sa
David de Weese
The DiChristina Family
Antonio Dinkins, Sr.
Ms. Deborah Doyle
Richard G. Dudley, Jr.
Jorge Durand
Ms. Susan Feder
Heather Flock
Mr. Charles Forma
Mr. Leroy Fortcher
Sarah Fox and Steven Lofchie
Steven Fox
Pierre Frinault
Nicia Fullwood
Mr. Elan Garonzik
Tom & Nina Geller
Samara Gerard
Karen Gershowitz
Ronald Gilliam & Akram Hélil
David Glaser
Ms. Geraldine Glassman
Mark Evan Goldman
Nita & Chuck Goodgal
Maneesh Goyal
Ms. Nancye Green
Dr. Susan Ross Green
Lawrence W. Greene
Charles & Carol Grossman Family Fund
Jane Groveman
Mia Haber
Elaine & Chuck Harris
Laurie Hart
Paul Hastings
Kathy and Scott Hawley
Ms. Maureen Hayes
Mr. Edward Henry & Ms. Susan Monk
Jonathan Hiltz
Gregory Ho and Linda Sanchez
Thomas Hollingsworth
Alicia Dhyana House
Ralph & Lynn Huber
Daphne Hurford & Sanford Padwe
Stephanie Joel
Miles Johnson and Tim Anderson
Laura Jones
Scot Karr
Nalani Kopp
Mr. Stephen Lane
Ms. Kate Lear
Ms. Julia Levy
Sydnie Liggett
Mitch Lowenthal
Susanna Lowy and Victor Davis
Waiming Man
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Marcon
Jennifer & Michael Markovitz
Mr. William Marraccini
Judy Mauer
Linda and Max Maxwell
Wendy A. McCain
Mrs. Rachel Meidan
Israel Meir & Steve Rivera
Victoria Melendez
Tanya Melich & Noel Silverman
Robert Mihalik
Barbara Miller & Stuart Nordheimer
Bertram Moody
Joe Morra
Richard J. Moylan
Deb Murnin
Jake Musiker
Drs. Benjamin Natelson & Gudrun Lange
Joyce O'Brien
Mrs. Anita Orlin
Ms. Kendra Osterman
Olivier Pechou
Andy Peters
Denae Peters
The L.E. Phillips Family Foundation, Inc.
Brian H. Polovoy
Stephanie Goldson & Stephen Rappaport
Lindy Shuttleworth &
Arthur Reichstetter
Mr. Albert Reid
Sallie Gouverneur & John Riley
Ms. Andrea Rogers
M Felicity Rogers-Chapman
Jean M. Ross
Lainie and John Ross
Marilyn & Alan Rothstein
Lori Rotskoff
Sally and Peter Rudoy
Deborah Sale and Ted Striggles
Ariane Schaffer
Phillip Schmiedl
Amy Schulman
Dr. Dorry Segev
Neal Sheorey
Tony Weiss and Tara Sherman
Sheethal & Tokumbo Shobowale
Nancy Sibell
Edward Siegel
Joseph Small
Andrew & Jennifer Smith
Robin Smith
Jeanne Smythe
Joan and Laurence Sorkin
Jim Stiles & Randy Bird
Harriet Stollman
Seth Stuhl
Greg Sullivan
Dr. Pavur Sundaresan
Gary Tannenbaum & Helen J. Mills
The Winkler Prins Charitable Fund
Rachel Theilheimer
Dana Troetel & George Papageorge
Ms. Marianna Vaidman Stone & Mr. Eric Stone
Mr. Carlos Victoria
Ronald Walcott
Gregory V Ward
Joan Waricha
Ebonya Washington
Michael Wehman
Carol Weil
Kate Weil
Elisabeth Brivic and Alexander Weindling
George S. Werner & Li Werner
Mai Yee
Gregory Youdan Jr.
Evan Zazula
Eloise Zeller
Sponsors
($350 and above)
Anonymous (3)
Dr. Leonid Agranat
Mr. Ronald Alexander
Jane and Stephen Alpert
John Angiolillo, MD
Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble
Elaine Athanassiades
Clay H Barr
Mr. John Barrie & Ms. Elizabeth Smith
Kenneth Berk & Anne Serrell
Stan & Abby Bloch
Bloomberg LP
Andrew Burgie
Dr. J Caldwell
Margaret Coady
Helen & William Covington
Terri Cox
Ashlee Crawford
Barbara Cromer
Ms. Jacqueline Davis
Rodney Durso
Jo Ann Engelhardt and George Elder
Pepi Ertag
Ellen Estes
Mr. Peter Farrell
Lloyd Jay Fass
Miss Valerie Ferrier
Dr. Karen Fiester
Darrell George
James A. Glazier and James A. Ferguson
Susan E Green
Herman & Jacquelyn Heinemann
Brian and Anita Heinz
Jerry Heymann
Huong Hoang
Ms. Kathleen Hughes
Jill Hunter
Marvin Krislov
Salvatore LaRussa, Jr.
Cary and Phyllis Lemkowitz
Lawrence Levine
Ellen Levitt
Amy Litwin
Cynthia A McKee
Mary and Alan Mendelsohn
Ms. Carol Messineo
Mr. Christopher Morales
Mildred Munich
Aaron & Marcia Naveh
Madeleine Nichols
Marisa Anne Pierson
Posner-Wallace Foundation
Carole Postal
Terry Prahl
Liz Gerring Radke
Victoria Rosen
Ellen Rosenberg
Eleanor Sebastian
Virginia Seidel
Mary and John Seward
Madelynn Sirbu
Gautham Sridharan
Mr. Evan Strain
Mr. & Ms. J. Mark Strawn
Jos Stumpe & Karen van Bergen
Catherine Tolchin
Andrew A. Vitale CPA
Dick and Carolyn Wallach
Anne Walsh
Richard Zemel
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
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
Anonymous
Robert Allyn
Rebecca Aronson
Chellis Baird
Emerald Layne Baker
Alison Baum
Ms. Lisa Bonifacic
Scott Caplan
Victor M. Castillo & Blake Wiedenhoeft
Cengiz Cemaloglu
Julia Chambers
Ellen Chen
Jason Chuang
Jennifer Cook
Marin Correa
Mary Craig
Andrew & Claire-Marine Ferguson
Bette Ann Fialkov, Co-Chair
Swapna Ghanta
Ronald Gilliam & Akram Hélil
Amita Goyal
Alexandra Harper, Co-Chair
Ronald Gilliam & Mr. Akram Hélil
Molly Hensrud
Madison Hicks
Alixandra Holloway, Co-Chair
Emma Hood
Kristen Irby
Jeremy Lentz
Jacob Levy
Mitch Lowenthal
Kyle Marshall
Katherine Maxwell
Jame McCray
Robert McGowan
Christopher Morales
Terrence Poplar
Abigail Richards
Madalyn Rupprecht
Setpheap San Ariane Schaffer
Elisa Smilovitz
Daniel Spence
Niko Stahl
Myriam Varjacques
Lucy Vasserman
Alexander Wang
Douglas Weiss
Ricke Williams
Emma Winder
LeeAna Wolfman
^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:
Joyce programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; 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-
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.
