"State of Darkness" Digital Program Book

STATE OF DARKNESS OCTOBER 24 - NOVEMBER 1, 2020

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STATE OF DARKNESS

Leadership support for The Joyce Theater Foundation has been provided by the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust.

Leadership support for The Joyce’s presentation of dance is provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Leadership support for The Joyce's annual programming is provided by Howard Gilman Foundation.

Shamel Pitts's State of Darkness performance is supported in part by the Office of Cultural Affairs, Consulate General of Israel in New York.

Michael Trusnovec’s State of Darkness performance is supported in part by John and Margaret Falk, and Stephen and Cathy Weinroth.

Special funding for the restaging of State of Darkness was provided by the Executive Director's Fund at The Joyce Theater Foundation, with support from Jessica Lang Dance, Inc. Joyce presentations are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council with special thanks to Speaker Corey Johnson; and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

The restaging of State of Darkness was made possible in part by a Rent Subsidy Grant from American Dance and Music, Inc Santa Barbara, California. (June – July 2020), Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Axelrod Contemporary Ballet Theater @ Bell Works, Dance Attitudes NJ, New York Live Arts, Martha Graham Dance Company, RWS Entertainment Group, Ballet Academy East, and The Billie Holiday Theatre, Inc.

Photo of Molissa Fenley by Jack Mitchell

STATE OF DARKNESS (1988) Choreography: Molissa Fenley Rehearsal Director: Rebecca Chaleff Lighting Design: David Moodey Costume Supervisor: Marc Happel Tailoring: Heather Cameron Freedman Stage Manager: Meghan Rose Murphy Music: The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky (McPhee arrangement) Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati, conductor By arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., publisher and copyright owner

Performers: Saturday, October 24: Michael Trusnovec (5pm) Jared Brown (8pm) Sunday, October 25: Annique Roberts (5pm) Shamel Pitts (8pm) Saturday, October 31: Lloyd Knight (5pm) Cassandra Trenary (8pm) Sunday, November 1: Sara Mearns (5pm) Livestream produced by Nel Shelby Productions Assistant to the Lighting Designer: Roy Fowler Choreographer Molissa Fenley’s celebrated solo work, State of Darkness, finds new life at The Joyce Theater this fall, performed by a new generation of New York’s acclaimed dancers. Originally commissioned by the American Dance Festival in 1988, State of Darkness challenges Stravinsky’s cacophonous “Le Sacre du Printemps” (The Rite of Spring) with an intense 35-minute solo performance of relentless fervency, technical precision, and fearless abandon. Fenley reimagined the commanding score as the sonic landscape for a solo journey, rather than the usual ensemble interpretations.

A NOTE FROM THE CHOREOGRAPHER

by Molissa Fenley "The title State of Darkness was taken from a line from Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. The writer (the reader in imagination) is awakened in the night after having fallen asleep before realizing that he was ready for sleep - as he awakens he finds himself in a state of darkness: 'I would be astonished to find myself in a state of darkness, pleasant and restful enough for my eyes, but even more, perhaps, for my mind, to which it appeared incomprehensible, without a cause, something dark indeed.'

And I thought to myself, incomprehensible indeed, what causes a state of darkness?

For me, in October 2020, it is the state of the environment, the increase in the amount of endangered species, the amount of land lost through fire, through fracking, the loss of environmental laws and regulations that guard against the corporate state, rules that protect the land, the water, the air. It is the state of the eroding of democracy, the deterioration of laws that have guarded and protected all human rights, it is the condition of a state that continues to allow racism to remain within its founded systems.

It is the condition of the state that fractionally questions yet its majority quells change.

It is the condition of the state that allows for death because of not responding to scientific knowledge of how to curtail a pandemic.

State of Darkness is a rite of passage: at the end of the work, the dancer steps forward into the light, into a state of insight, illuminated by intuition, imagination, and revelation.

To work on State of Darkness, with this wonderful group of dancers, to embody the movement again myself in order to teach them, to watch how they have considered the dance within their own sensibilities, from their training, with their humanity, with their beliefs has been very fulfilling. Our rehearsals have been of discovery, of each dancer surmounting the necessary energy, of revealing themselves. Each dancer an individual and each committed.

But let’s go back a moment and put together a timeline of this particular occasion of State of Darkness at The Joyce: On April 30, while sheltering in place on the Mills College campus where I was teaching my very last semester after 21 years, I received an email from a person named Ross LeClair with a subject heading: "Joyce Theater - State of Darkness idea." Of course, I immediately opened the email!

Ross outlines the idea by saying, 'Our Executive Director Linda Shelton had the idea to present your work State Of Darkness, performed by a rotating group of New Yorkbased dancers in August/September. We feel a connection between the work and The Joyce (your performance, Pacific Northwest Ballet, etc), but also feel that it would be quite powerful and resonant in this moment.' Ross continues to explain that the dance would be performed for an audience of a tenth of the size of their seating capability, socially distanced within the theater. Would I be interested? Of course my response was a resounding YES! I choreographed and premiered State of Darkness in 1988. Subsequently, I danced the work many times throughout the United States, Korea, and Australia until 1993.

There were previously eight dancers that knew this work, and now there are seven more! The original eight are: Peter Boal, Rebecca Chaleff, Rachel Foster, Angelica Generosa, James Moore, Jonathan Porretta, Matthew Renko, and myself.

A NOTE FROM THE CHOREOGRAPHER To prepare for teaching the dance to the new Joyce dancers (Jared Brown, Lloyd Knight, Sara Mearns, Shamel Pitts, Annique Roberts, Cassandra Trenary, and Michael Trusnovec), I started re-learning State of Darkness in June while in residency at the Dance HUB in Santa Barbara California. I traveled to San Diego to complete the reconstruction of the dance with Rebecca Chaleff during a one-week rehearsal period.

We continued to rehearse together through digital platforms once I returned to Santa Barbara, with Rebecca serving as the co-reconstructor and rehearsal director.

Rehearsals started with the New York dancers here in NYC on August 17, 2020. One or two of the dancers would be with me at The Joyce Theater, the other five would be in their own spaces (some in studios, some in their living rooms, some in their bedrooms), but all connected and able to communicate with one another through Zoom. The dancers present on the stage changed each day so that everyone had both personal time and stage time. Rebecca Chaleff joined all of our rehearsals via Zoom, bringing both insights into the work’s meanings and forms as well as offering personal knowledge of the execution of the dance’s movement vocabulary. Her help has been invaluable!"

THANK YOU: To Jared Brown, Lloyd Knight, Sara Mearns, Shamel Pitts, Annique Roberts, Cassandra Trenary, and Michael Trusnovec for their dedication and commitment to this project! The prospect of learning State of Darkness from video, on Zoom, with a few in person rehearsals at first seemed insurmountable – and now we are ready for performance!

To Rebecca Chaleff for her conscientious rehearsal direction from the very beginning ensuring that all of us are experiencing the choreography and dancing to our utmost potential.

To Ross LeClair for his constant belief in this project and amazing abilities to getting us all together and carrying us through.

To Linda Shelton for initiating the project, for imagining that State of Darkness should once more be seen and experienced.

To Meghan Rose Murphy for her excellent stage management.

To Jimmy Ortiz and David Matos for taking care of us as we all navigated through COVID-19 protocols!

To Jeff Segal and Kelly Atallah for taking care of the stage and being sure we are always comfortable.

To David Moodey for bringing forward his original lighting design from 1988 to 2020.

To Marc Happel for dressing us in comfort and style.

To Janice Braun, Director of Special Collections, Olin Library, Mills College for sending the State of Darkness choreography and music notes (1988) and the original costume (1988) from the Molissa Fenley Archive.

ABOUT THE CHOREOGRAPHER

by Molissa Fenley "I have choreographed and performed my work since 1977. My work has been choreographed for ensembles, (my own dance company as well as for others by commission) and as solo works created in collaboration with contemporary visual artists, composers, and poets.

Many of the works, although not in my current repertoire, are still foremost in my mind and personal body memory. State of Darkness, choreographed in 1988, was the first solo choreographed to Igor Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps. The work was commissioned by and premiered at the American Dance Festival. I subsequently performed the work throughout the world for five years after its completion. One of my most memorable performances was at the Brisbane Biennial in 1991 where I danced the solo work with the Brisbane Symphony Orchestra, one dancer with 114 musicians! And as I write this, I am once again in rehearsal teaching the dance to seven new dancers. The Joyce Theater has gathered a stellar cast of modern and ballet dancers to learn the work to present a series of live streamed performances at the theater as part of The Joyce’s reopening plans. It is a wonder to be involved in this project: the revival of one of my seminal works now 32 years later.

I was born in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1954. I grew up in Ibadan, Nigeria traveling there with my family in 1961, completing all of my early education there in International Schools and my last two years of high school in Spain. Growing up in Nigeria surrounded by and daily exploring the dense tropical rain forest began my love for the natural world.

I returned to the US in 1971 to study dance at Mills College in Oakland, California. Upon graduation in 1975, I moved to New York and founded my dance company in 1977.

We have performed throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe, Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

Performing throughout the world has been an honor, each performance a chance to experience a different cultural response.

My work has been commissioned by the American Dance Festival, the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, the Dia Art Foundation, Jacob’s Pillow, The Joyce Theater, Lincoln Center, The New National Theater of Tokyo, National Institute of Performing Arts in Seoul, The Kitchen, and Dance Theater Workshop/New York Live Arts.

Both Cenotaph and State of Darkness were awarded a Bessie for Choreography in 1985 and 1988 respectively. In 2008, I was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. The experience of the AAR was eye-opening, both in being in conversation with scholars from many different disciplines, and from being physically present in front of the history of the Etruscan and Roman civilizations through place, through sculpture, through frescoes. My visits to Japan, through travel/ research awards from the Asian Cultural Council, primarily to Tokyo, Kyoto, and Nara, have been also very illuminating. Being introduced to the traditional aesthetic of Noh, Kabuki, and Gagaku have led to many of my dance explorations.

Finally, as Professor of Dance at Mills College, from 1999-2020, I have been active in the mentorship of younger artists, a pleasure and privilege certainly. Rhythm Field: The Dance of Molissa Fenley published by Seagull Press/University of Chicago in 2015 is in the libraries of most universities and colleges in the US. In continuing to work, my most recent commission is to participate in the UCLA CAP project of presenting Choreographers’ Scores, drawings and writings of work created while sheltering-in-place. I have just sent the movement phrases created for a new piece: Pipes Going Nowhere."

WHO'S WHO IN THE COMPANY JARED BROWN (Dancer) a Dallas native, is a 2020 graduate of The Juilliard School. He graduated from Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts with recognition from the National YoungArts Foundation in Modern Dance and Choreography. He is a 2016 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts and has performed at the Kennedy Center under the direction of Debbie Allen. Jared has performed and toured with companies including Molissa Fenley and Company, David Dorfman Dance, Douglas Dunn + Dancers, Seán Curran Company, I Kada Contemporary Dance, and Arch Contemporary Ballet. Jared is a recipient of the 2019 Princess Grace Award, Martyn Ravenhill Liberace Mansion Dance Honor. He is currently based in London, working with Shechter II - Hofesh Shechter Company.

LLOYD KNIGHT (Dancer) was born in England and raised in Miami.

He has a BFA from the New World School of the Arts under Artistic Director Daniel Lewis. Mr. Knight joined the Martha Graham Dance Company in 2005 and was promoted to Soloist in 2009 and Principal in 2014. He has had ballets choreographed on him by Nacho Duato, Andonis Foniadakis, Larry Keigwin, Doug Varone, Lar Lubovitch, Kyle Abraham, Liz Gerring, Michelle Dorrance, Anne Bogart, Pontus Linberg, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Pam Tanowitz, and Mats Ek. Dance Magazine named Knight as one of the “Top 25 Dancers to Watch” in 2010 and Best Performer of 2015. He partnered with New York City Ballet Principal Dancer Wendy Whelan in Graham's "Moon Duet" and with American Ballet Theatre's Principal Dancer Misty Copeland in a Graham duet from "Letter to the World." He is currently a guest Principal artist for The Royal Ballet of Flanders.

SARA MEARNS (Dancer) is a principal dancer with New York City Ballet, known for her roles as the Swan Queen in Swan Lake and for Balanchine ballets including Jewels (Diamonds) and Symphony in C, among countless others, and where she has originated roles in ballets by choreographers including Justin Peck, Kyle Abraham, Alexei Ratmansky, and Christopher Wheeldon. Sara has appeared as a guest artist with the Paul Taylor Dance Company, The Martha Graham Company, The Ashley Bouder Project, and Company Wang Ramirez. Sara appeared in New Bodies, a collaboration with Jodi Melnick.

At New York City Center, she has appeared regularly in the Fall for Dance Festival and the 2018 Balanchine Festival. Sara alternated the role of Victoria Page in the U.S. premiere of Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes, and made her theatrical debut in I Married an Angel directed/choregraphed by Josh Bergasse also at NY City Center (Encores!).

Last summer she danced at Jacob’s Pillow in a tribute to her called Beyond Ballet, which was followed by her debut with The Metropolitan Opera in La Traviata. A recent recipient of the Bessie Award and Dance Magazine Award, Sara holds an Honorary Doctorate from University of South Carolina.

WHO'S WHO IN THE COMPANY SHAMEL PITTS (Dancer) is a performance artist, choreographer, conceptual artist, dancer, spoken word artist, and teacher. Born in Brooklyn, Shamel began his dance training at LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts and, simultaneously, at The Ailey School. He is a 2003 YoungArts Finalist and a first prize winner of the YoungArts competition. Shamel then went on to receive his BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School and was awarded the Martha Hill Award for excellence in dance.

He began his dance career in Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Hell’s Kitchen Dance and BJM_ Danse Montreal. Shamel danced with Batsheva Dance Company for seven years, under the artistic direction of Ohad Naharin and is a certified teacher of Gaga movement language. He created a triptych of multidisciplinary performance art works known as his BLACK series which has been performed and toured extensively to many festivals around the world since 2016. He is an adjunct at The Juilliard School and an artist in residence at Harvard University. He is the recipient of a 2018 Princess Grace Award in Choreography and a 2019 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Award winner in Choreography. Shamel is the artistic director/founder of TRIBE, a New York based multidisciplinary arts collective.

ANNIQUE S. ROBERTS (Dancer) is currently a dancer and the rehearsal director with Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE, A Dance Company. She performed and toured nationally and internationally with both EVIDENCE and Garth Fagan Dance over her 16 year career.

Annique is originally from Atlanta, Georgia and a graduate of TriCities High School for the Visual and Performing Arts. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BFA in Dance from Howard University in 2004 under the direction of Dr. Sherrill Berryman Johnson. There, she performed works

by Ronald K. Brown, Kevin Iega Jeff, Christopher Huggins, and Eleo Pomare. Annique joined Garth Fagan Dance in 2004 and became senior dancer in 2006.

Annique joined EVIDENCE in January 2010, and was nominated for a 2013 New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) for Best Performer. Annique holds an MA in Arts Administration from Savannah College of Art & Design. She currently serves on the School Advancement Committee for Jacob’s Pillow and is an Adjunct Professor of Dance at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. From 2011-2016, she cofounded and directed the Atlanta Spring Dance Series, an annual one-day dance workshop event that raised money to assist young dancers with various professional development opportunities.

WHO'S WHO IN THE COMPANY CASSANDRA TRENARY (Dancer) began her dance training at the Lawrenceville School of Ballet. She was a national training scholar for the American Ballet Theatre’s Summer Intensives from 2006-2010, and joined the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School in 2009. In 2011, Cassandra was offered an Apprenticeship with ABT Studio Company, and that same year joined American Ballet Theatre as a Corps de Ballet Member. Cassandra was promoted to Soloist in 2015, and Principal Dancer in 2020.

In addition to the wide variety of classical and contemporary rep danced with ABT, Cassandra has had the privilege of dancing for Gemma Bond Dance, Daniil Simkin’s Intensio, Hamptons Dance Project, CoLab Dance, Cirio Collective, Guggenheim Rotunda Project Falls to Shadow, and was a guest artist with the Royal Ballet for The Joyce Theater’s Ballet Festival. She also performed in The Joyce produced dance play, The Tenant, by Arthur Pita. Cassandra’s creative repertoire has recently expanded to choreographer and producer when she co-created At the Time, a dance film.

Cassandra’s accolades include being named a National YoungArts Foundation Winner, a U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts nominee, a recipient of a Princess Grace Dance Honorarium and the Annenberg Fellowship for Dance.

MICHAEL TRUSNOVEC (Dancer) grew up dancing on Long Island, graduated from the Long Island High School for the Performing Arts, and earned a BFA in Dance Performance from Southern Methodist University.

For over two decades, Michael was a principal dancer with the Paul Taylor Dance Company, creating more than 25 roles with Mr. Taylor, and premiering new works by choreographers including Pam Tanowitz, Larry Keigwin, Margie Gillis, and Doug Varone. Additionally, Michael was Associate Rehearsal Director, and now serves as the Director of Worldwide Licensing and as a repetiteur of Mr. Taylor’s dances.

Michael was honored with a Dance Magazine Award, a Bessie Award, and in 1992 he was a National YoungArts Foundation awardee and Presidential Scholar in the Arts. He serves on the Board of Directors of Dance Films Association, and was an Executive Producer and Curatorial Advisor for Dance on Camera 48. He is a National Reviewer and Dance Mentor for YoungArts, and also co-founded the Asbury Park Dance Festival. Michael continues to teach, choreograph, and perform around the world, appearing most recently as a guest artist with the New York City Ballet during their 2020 Lincoln Center winter season.

WHO'S WHO IN THE COMPANY REBECCA CHALEFF (Rehearsal Director) is a dance scholar, performer, and dramaturg. Her academic research focuses on how the politics of race and sexuality shape and are shaped by contemporary reperformance and legacy building projects. As a dancer, Rebecca has had the pleasure of performing with GERALDCASELDANCE, Pat Catterson, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company Repertory Understudy Group, Douglas Dunn and Dancers, and the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, among others. She is also currently dramaturging a new work, Not About Race Dance, in collaboration with Gerald Casel, and is an ongoing contributor to the Dancing Around Race project, initiated by Casel as a series of community engagement events that examine issues of racial equity in dance.

Rebecca performed with Molissa Fenley and Company from 2012-2017, during which time she reconstructed and originated roles in numerous works spanning the breadth of Fenley's oeuvre, and continues to work with the Company as a rehearsal director. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, San Diego.

MARC HAPPEL (Costume Supervisor) is New York City Ballet Director of Costumes, and has overseen the costumes for the company’s entire repertory, including all eight Fall Fashion Galas, since 2006. His costume designs include George Balanchine’s Symphony in C and Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2, as well as ballets by Nicolas Blanc, Mauro Bigonzetti, Kim Brandstrup, Jean-Pierre Frohlich, JR, Benjamin Millepied, Peter Martins, Justin Peck, Alexei Ratmansky, and Peter Walker.

Theatrical credits from his career include Kitty Killer, Charlie (Theatre Couture), Coup de Theatre (Cherry Lane Theatre), Tell-Tale (PS122/Cherry Lane Theatre), Seeing Things (29th Street Theatre), Rufus Wainwright (Tour), and for Kiki & Herb, Kiki & Herb Alive on Broadway (Helen Hayes Theatre); Stop, Drop, and Roll; Do You Hear What We Hear; and Kiki and Herb Will Die for You (Carnegie Hall). Mr. Happel also worked closely with actor Daniel Day-Lewis in creating his character for the 2017 Paul Thomas Anderson film The Phantom Thread and was instrumental in conceiving the iconic design of the AIDS Red Ribbon.

DAVID MOODEY (Lighting Designer) is a New York-based lighting designer and production designer who has had the pleasure and privilege of collaborating with Molissa Fenley for over 30 years. David has toured the world with Molissa and her company and designed over 20 productions, including State of Darkness, for which he won a Bessie Award for lighting design. He has also designed multiple operas by the late composer Robert Ashley, most recently Improvement and Quicksand at The Kitchen in New York. David’s lighting design was featured in two recent productions for director Michelle Shay at the Billie Holiday Theater in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn: Reparations and The Old Settler. His work for Reparations has been nominated for an AUDELCO Award for 2020. David sends sympathy and warm wishes to every artist struggling through this difficult pandemic, and he is thrilled to be back in the theater with Molissa.

PAST PERFORMERS (1988-2016) MOLISSA FENLEY is the choreographer of State of Darkness (1988) and original dancer, 1988 to 1993.

PETER BOAL, of New York City Ballet, performed in the Corps de Ballet from 1983-1987, as a Soloist from 1987-1989, and as a Principal from 1989-2005. He was appointed as Artistic Director of Pacific Northwest Ballet in 2005.

"Peter Boal performed State of Darkness in 1999 at Lincoln Center, at The Kitchen in 2000, and on tour to Miami and Salt Lake City in 2001. Peter had attended a performance of State of Darkness during my season at The Joyce in October 1990.

In 1999, Lincoln Center commissioned me to reconstruct and teach the work to Peter for a premiere performance at the Damrosch Shell during their summer festival, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, August 1999. In 2007, Peter, now the Artistic Director of the Pacific Northwest Ballet, commissioned me to set the work on three dancers: Rachel Foster (Soloist), James Moore (Soloist), and Jonathan Porretta (Principal). I returned to PNB in 2014 to once again set the work on two new dancers: Angelica Generosa (Corps de Ballet) and Matthew Renko (Corps de Ballet)." - Molissa Fenley RACHEL FOSTER joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as a member of the Corps de Ballet in 2002. She was promoted to Soloist in 2008 and principal in 2011. Foster performed State of Darkness at the McCaw Hall in Seattle 2007 and at The Joyce Theater as a guest for Molissa Fenley's season in 2007.

JAMES MOORE is a Pacific Northwest Ballet Principal dancer. He was promoted to Soloist in 2008 and Principal in 2013. He performed State of Darkness in 2007 and 2014 at the McCaw Hall in Seattle.

JONATHAN PORRETTA is a Pacific Northwest Ballet Principal dancer. He was promoted to Corps de Ballet in 2000, Soloist in 2002, and Principal in 2005. He performed State of Darkness in 2007 at the McCaw Hall in Seattle and as a guest for Molissa Fenley's season at The Joyce, and in 2014 at the McCaw Hall in Seattle and at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival.

ANGELICA GENEROSA is a Pacific Northwest Ballet Soloist. She was promoted to Corps de Ballet in 2012 and to Soloist in 2016. Generosa performed State of Darkness in 2014 at the McCaw Hall in Seattle.

MATTHEW RENKO is a Corps de Ballet member at Pacific Northwest Ballet. He performed State of Darkness in 2014 at the McCaw Hall in Seattle.

REBECCA CHALEFF was a company member of Molissa Fenley and Company from 2012-2017. She received her PhD, Theater and Performance Studies from Stanford University in 2017. Chaleff currently serves as an Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance at University of California, San Diego (2019-present).

"In the spring of 2016, while working on her doctoral research at Stanford, Rebecca commissioned me to teach her the work. Later that year, she was invited to perform State of Darkness alongside me (I performed another solo, Mali) at a Fall 2016 performance commissioned by Stanford’s Department of Theater and Performance Studies to inaugurate their newly renovated dance venue, the Roble Dance Studio."

-Molissa Fenley

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Richard Shea Linda Shelton Susan Fawcett Sosin Lauren E. Shortt Monica B. Voldstad Madelyn Wils

In Memoriam: Theodore S. Bartwink (Trustee 1993-2014), R. Britton Fisher (Trustee 1990-2020), Richard Lukins (Trustee 1998-2011), Anh-Tuyet Nguyen (Trustee 2007-2020) 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 THE ANDREW W. 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 October 16, 2020.

Platinum Benefactors *Francine Alagappan *R May Lee ($500,000 and above) *Alpern Family Foundation *Merce Cunningham Trust *Doris Duke Charitable Foundation American Express *Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation *Howard Gilman Foundation Sarah Arison *David & Diana Milich *LeConte Moore *LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust *Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation Nina B. Quigley Gold Benefactors Ajay Bhandaram *Karen Roth ($100,000 and above) Bloomberg Philanthropies May and Samuel Rudin Family Kerry Clayton & Paige Royer *Robert Brenner Foundation Ford Foundation Con Edison *Michael Sekus & Bianca Russo The Harkness Foundation *Leslie & Richard Curtis *Allan Sperling & Ferne Goldberg for Dance *Barbara Dau Linda B. Strumpf *The Andrew W. Mellon John & Margaret Falk *Ms. Patricia E. Vance Foundation Martin & Linda Fell The Walt Disney Company *NYC COVID-19 Response and Nancy & Michael Feller Impact Fund in The New York Director’s Circle *Jane Z. Fitzsimmons Community Trust ($2,500 and above) *Gregg & Jean Frankel *New York City Department of Anonymous (2) Jane E. Goldberg Cultural Affairs R. Richard Ablon Golden New York State Council on the Arts Sylvia *Adrienne Albert *Hillary & Steven Hochberg *Robert Pollock James J. Andrews David & Andrea Holbrook *Rockefeller Brothers Fund *Joel & Rhela Aragona Hoover The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Toni Macartney Beale In Honor of Karen Brooks Hopkins *Francesca Foundation Cheryl Bergenfeld The Kingsley Foundation *The Shubert Foundation *Marty and Louise Bickman Elysabeth Kleinhans Judi Rappoport Blitzer *Denise Littlefield Sobel *Christine Knuth & David Blitzer Alan & Gail Koss Silver Benefactors *Consulate General of Canada Mertz Gilmore Foundation ($75,000 and above) in New York *Melanie Coronetz First Republic Bank *Victoria V. Carey & Bruce G. Miller National Endowment for the Arts *Edward *Larry & Ronnie Cohen J. Petrou Donna B. Case Benefactors *Tatiana Piankova Foundation Cathleen Collins ($50,000 and above) *Rajika & Anupam Puri Mary Sharp Cronson * Jody & John Arnhold | Kathleen A. Scott Pamela Crutchfield Arnhold Foundation *Chip Seelig & Lana Chinkevitch David Dietz & Jane Kendall *Virginia & Timothy Millhiser Linda Shelton *Miriam & David Donoho *National Dance Project of the *Leslie Siegel *Jack & Eleanor Dunn New England Foundation for Jean & Gene Stark Trisha & Patrick Duval the Arts *Allyson Tang *Andrew Ferguson The Jerome Robbins Foundation Presenter’s Circle Joanna Fisher Lauren E. Shortt ($5,000 and above) *Ian Friedland The SHS Foundation *Anonymous (1) Bart Friedman & Wendy Stein Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation * The Aaron Copland Fund Geraldine Glassman *Amit Wadhwaney for Music The Harold K. Gross Family Chairman’s Circle *Sam & Annie Alfstad Charitable Trust ($25,000 and above) *Gerry & Hank Alpert *Susan Ross Green Anonymous (2) *Rick & Nurit Amdur *Sharon B. Gurwitz Deborah & Charles Adelman *Mary & Adam Amsterdam *Elizabeth Anne Hartman Stephanie R. Breslow *Gerald M. Appelstein Ronald E. Hellman & Paul Watterson Rob Ashford & Stephen B. Roberts The Gladys Krieble Delmas Lani & Emanuel Azenberg *Kenneth S. Kail & Ivy Hwang Foundation *John Basnage *Hilda Kraker *Susan Dickler & Sig van Raan *Andrew & Froma Benerofe *Diana Korsh Melina Fisher Torrence Boone & Ted Chapin *Elizabeth Lang *GKV Charitable Foundation The Barbara Bell Cumming Robert & Dorina Link *Edwin & Lorna Goodman Charitable Trust Thomas von Foerster Ronald Gumbaz & Juliet Cozzi *Chubb LTD In Memory of John MacDonald *Leanne Lachman *Consulate General of Brazil in *Karen & Martin McDonald Mertz Gilmore Foundation New York *Maria Mackey *Henry and Lucy Moses Fund Dancers Responding to AIDS Joyce F. Menschel *Robert Musiker DeWitt Stern Group, Inc. Ronay & Richard Menschel/ *The O'Donnell-Green Music and *Jamshid & Mahshid Ehsani Charina Foundation, Inc. Dance Foundation Linda Ellis Mutual of America Foundation Susan & Greg Pappajohn Jeanne Donovan Fisher Cherrie Nanninga *Performing Arts Fund Christopher Evans & Josh Garner *Mr. & Ms. William Pollock Netherlands *General Delegation of the Warrie Price & James David Price Michèle & Steve Pesner Government of Flanders to the *Québec Government Office Meryl Rosofsky USA in New York & Stuart H. Coleman *Paul Feuerman & Bruce Grivetti Betty P. & Michael H. Rauch Saul & Mary Sanders *Charles and Joan Gross Mr. Stephen Kroll Reidy Richard Shea Family Foundation *Wes Schafer and Carlos Galtier The Jennifer and Jonathan Allan *Elzbieta Grove Susan & Arnie Scharf Soros Foundation Judith M. Hoffman Barbara Madsen Smith Susan Fawcett Sosin *Val Holley & Joseph Plocek *Linda Stocknoff Wendy & Alex Stanton *Peter & Peggy Horvitz *Marianna Vaidman Stone & Monica B. Voldstad *David S. Ivill & Vincent J. Weiner, Jr. Eric Stone Stephen & Cathy Weinroth Christopher Jones & Christopher Soule *Madelyn & Steven Wils Deborah McAlister *Dr. Chengzhong Sui Office of City Council Speaker *Consulate General of Sweden in Impresario’s Circle Corey Johnson New York ($10,000 and above) *Al Katz Elizabeth Swig Anonymous *Kaori Kitao Sylvia Ablon

*Theresa Alessandra Russo Foundation Alexandra Wheeler & Rocky Rukan Rodney L. White Foundation Irving & Elaine Wolbrom *Ralph Womble & Ashley Edwards *Billy F.B. Wong & Stephanie Gordon Leaders ($1,000 and above) Anonymous (8) Robert Allyn Neme Alperstein Maria-Cristina Anzola *Jeffrey Applegate Bank of America Merrill Lynch Kara Medoff Barnett & Dov Barnett Alison Baum Pamela Baxter Sandra Berger Kim Bleimann & Paola Duran Nissan Boury Barbara & Gary Brandt Madeline Brine *Joanna Bueche Linda & Joseph Camardo *Ann Chao Melinda DeChiazza Cloobeck Larry & Ronnie Cohen *Jane Comer *Caroline & Paul Cronson Cultural Services of the French Embassy *Jeffrey Davis & Jamie Alpert David H. De Weese & Anne Heller Ms. Beth Rudin DeWoody Joseph P. Doherty The Cory & Bob Donnalley Charitable Foundation The Donut Pub *Richard G. Dudley, Jr. Christopher Elmore *Suzanne B. Engel *Paul S. Engler *Mr. Richard Erstad & Dr. Gladys Fenichel David L. Fanger & Martin Wechsler *Erin Feely-Nahem & Isaac Nahem Judy & Richard Feldstein Melanie Finkelstein Judith & Alan Fishman *Scott Fitzgerald & Santiago Pintado LĂłpez *Josette Flores John & Janet Foord *Brandon Fradd *Judith Z. Friedman *Mark and Veronique Friedman Gina Gibney *Britt-Louise Gilder *Barrie Gillies & William Drummy *John Graney, MD Mason & Kim Granger Randall & Mary Hack Aya Hamilton Deborah Harada Alexandra L. Harper *Laurie & Jack Helfin *Edward Henry & Susan Monk *Ellen Hirsch *Mary Iles *Office of Cultural Affairs, Consulate General of Israel in New York James B. Jacobs & Jan Sweeney Dr. Bernard M. Jaffe *Sandra Kawano Mr. Christian K. Keese *Richard Kielar & Christian Zimmermann *Lauren Klein *Hans Koch Annie M. Kohlman *Kathy Krall *George & Liz Krupp

Sondra Kurtin Robinson Judith Landon LDJ Productions *Martin & Rosanne Leshner Robert & Dorina Link Local No. 1 I.A. T.S.E Sharon Luckman & Paul Shapiro *Mr. Philip G. Lumpkin *Jonna Mackin Elizabeth A. Maher Grace R. and Alan D. Marcus Foundation Joseph M. Marger Ms. Helena L. Markson Robert Marlin Lynn C. Mautner Marcia Kramer Mayer *Wendy McCain *Lyn McHugh Miller Khoshkish Foundation *Linda and Ed Morse Jane & Michael Murphy Barbara Nagel *Drs. Benjamin Natelson & Gudrun Lange *Joyce O’Brien *Trisha Ostergaard David Parsons *David Pasterski *Connie Paxton *Peck Foundation, Milwaukee LTD Douglas & Teresa Peterson Judith Plows Michael Popkin & Lisa Bradley *Carole Postal Donna & James Pressman *Steven & Debbie Prince *Princess Grace Foundation David Alan & Susan Berkman Rahm *Barbara Richards *Case van Rij Philip W. Riskin Charitable Foundation Ann Sahid Rosche Donald J. Rose & Victoria Lasdon Rose *Ellen Rosen *Harvey Rosen Diana & Michael Rothenberg *Marilyn & Alan Rothstein *Karen Royce Mr. Rouse *Gail Russell *Paula Ryan Nancy Sands Xiomara & Charles Scheidt *Barbara & David Schimansky *Susan Schweitzer *Jesse & Carol Schwartz *Fran Schulman Robert A. Schulman Margaret E. Selby *Deborah Selch *Christina Selin *Rena Shagan *Irene Shen *Lisa & Randy Siegel Lynne Smalley Joseph Smith & Leslie Hendrix Marilyn Sobel Paul Solomon *Ellen Sorrin & David York Sherri Stephenson *Christina Strack *William Sussman & Jane Steele Ken Tabachnick & Yael Mandelstam *Anthony Thompson *Susan Ulick *Veena Upadhyay *George Vanderploeg Lucy Vasserman *Brigitte Vosse Johanna Weber Michael & Carol Weiss *Bill Whelan Amy Williams

*Peter & Deborah Winograd Shelley & Claude Winfield Vicente Wolf Elly Karp Wong Cooper Wright & Michael Marino Brann and Ellen Wry Carol Yorke & Gerard Conn *Bonnie Zamosky-Roth *Eloise Zeller *Barbara Zuckerberg Investors ($500 and above) Anonymous (9) Kyle Abraham Helene Alexopoules Jan Albert *Ellen Alpert Dr. Norman & Mrs. Norman Altman Roberta Ashkin Paul Asman & Jill Lenoble *Joan Brooks Baker & Margeaux Klein Betsy Barbanell Pamela Baxter Scott & Barbara Best *Dorothy Black Carol Bryce Buchanan *Tracey Breaux *Matt Brodlie Jordyn A. Buchanan *Jennifer Kornreich Cahn & Andrew Cahn *Susan Campbell *Karen Carozza Jason Chuang Nancy Malcomson Connable Fund *William Cosper Duke Dang & Charles E. Rosen Jonathan Davis Tony & Suzy Davis *Anne DeBevoise *Nancy Denison *Debora Domass Michael Eizenberg *Robert Elder & Jacqueline Fox Elder David & Ingrid Ellen Frances Beinecke & Paul Elston Audna England Dasha Epstein Peter & Nancy Felcher *Celeste Fenichel Caryl & Kenneth Field Ms. Katharine Flack Judith & Walter Flamenbaum Dan Flanigan *Robert Fraiman *Bobby & Vicki Freeman Herbert & Judy Freedman *Peter C. Friedman *Eileen & Cono Fusco *Denise Gelfend *Karen Gershowitz *Elise Larrabure Girasole Dwight Glover *Virginia Gold *Elaine Goldman *Nita & Chuck Goodgal *Dorothy Goodman Katherine Goodman Brian K. Gould *Lenore & Edward Grabowski Grant Family Charitable Fund Charles & Carol Grossman Family Fund *Jane Groveman *Gina Harman Ira Haupt, II Sheila Heimbinder Janet Lynn Henner *Mr. Michael D. Herskovitz Elizabeth Levitt Hirsch Mr. Gregory Ho & Ms. Linda Sanchez Cheri Hoff *Lynn Hopkins

Erica Hartman-Horvitz Ralph & Lynn Huber *Laura J. Illich Kenneth & Jill Iscol Betty Iu *J.P. Morgan Private Bank Walter Jaffe & Paul King Richard A. Kahn & Thomas Lutazi H. David Kaplan *Jan S. Keithly Jennifer Aley Kenney Valarie Koch Brian & Rosemary Kowalchuk *Audrey Lam Susan Lampard Stephen B. Lane Phyllis & Cary Lemkowitz *Elaine & Howard Leventhal *Karen Lewis Elizabeth & Durwood Littlefield *Jayne Lipman & Robert Goodman Robert R. Littman & Sully Bonnelly *Sophie Main *Jennifer & Gideon Malherbe William Mavrelis *Douglas McCorkle *Lorraine J. Meeker *Kati Meister Tanya Melich & Noel Silverman Mr. Wayne & Mrs. Barbara Miller *Victoria Morris Paula Moss *Ann Mulally *Barry Nalebuff Genevieve Nestor *Amanda Lee Neville Stuart Nordheimer & Barbara Miller *Aaron Singer & Bart Oosterveld 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 Donna & Martin Rich The AndrĂŠa Rizzo Foundation Mary Jo Robertilleo Donald W. Roeske, Jr. Deborah Ronnen Jean M. Ross Elsa & Marvin Ross-Greifinger *Anya Peterson Royce Alessandro & Fe Saracino-Fendi Jennifer Goodale & Mark Russell *Lynn N. Schusterman *Robert Score *Elizabeth Shapiro George Sheanshang Edward Siegel *Rabbi Charles Simon Andrew & Jennifer Smith Leon Sokol *Michael Solomon *Joan & Laurence Sorkin *Jessica E. Stack William L. Stern *Jim Stiles & Randy Bird *Abbie M. Strassler *Deborah Sale & Ted Striggles *Robin Stout *TPU Local One IATSE *Frank Troutman *Ellie Tweedy Thomas Van Winkle *Don & Merna Villarejo Charles Walker *Louise Washer & Mary Clay Fields *Gregory Ward *Chris Watson

*Kate Weil Stephen D. Weinstein *George S. Werner & Li Werner Tom Whelan Sponsors ($300 and above) Anonymous (4) *Patricia Adell *Jane & Stephen Alpert *John Angiolillo, MD Sherry & Sanford Axelband Clay Barr *Elena Baum *Joan & Ira Berkowitz *Kate Bicknell Roz Black & Bob Eimicke Stan & Abby Bloch *Edward Brill Paul Brohan *Leslie Buckland *Jim Bumgardner & Lou Tharp *Deborah Burand *Michael & Jennifer Campagna Neil & Kathleen Chrisman *Eileen & Michael Cohen Galois Cohen *Richard & Mary Ann Cohen *Laurie Colahan Robert Conkey *Dr. Arturo & Ms. Caren Constantiner *Dr. and Mrs. Frederiick Corio Mr. John A. Crawford III John A. Culver Judy Cunningham Dr. Irene Rosner David & Dr. Raphael David Jacqueline Z. Davis Mr. Anthony DePersia Dr. Susan Dicker *Julie Ana Dobo Rodney Durso Ms. Hope Eliasof *Jo Ann Engelhardt *Martha Evenson & Daniel Hoffman Trudy Festinger *Jennifer Fitzpatrick Charles A. Forma *Ella M. Foshay & Michael B. Rothfeld Dr. Sarah Fox & Mr. Steven Lofchie Stephanie French *Barbara Futter Mr. Maura Gaenzle *Barbara Gallay *Loren Gesinsky & Judy Rudin *Richard Gilden Ronald Gilliam *James A. Glazier *John D. Goldman Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Grant Susan E. Green Lawrence W. Greene *Sandra Gubin Laurie Hart *Eric Hemel & Barbara Morgen *Harvey Hershkowitz & Peter Hollenran Mrs. Ruth W. Heuman *Peter Holleran Daphne Hurford & Sanford Padwe Susan Israel Rosalyn Jacobs Ronald Jacquart Willie Johnson *Susan and Peter Kopple *Angela de Lara Cynthia Crain Lee * Michael G. Lemle *Lawrence Levine Marcia Levine *Leslie Lin *David Long

*John & Linda Maxwell *Colleen McCourtney *Rodney McDaniel Richard & Gloria Moylan Aaron & Marcia Naveh Madeleine Nichols *Anne & Harvey Nisselson *Rachel Ostry, MD *Phillip J. Pena In loving memory of Bill Perlmuth, Patricia Dugan Perlmuth *Posner-Wallace Foundation Jonathan Raskin Dr. & Mrs. Robert Refowitz Lan Rice *Judith & Gary Richter *Eileen Robert *Barbara S. Rosenthal *Lainie & John Ross *Alan Russell *William H. Sadie *Prince A & Petar Sanders *Laura E. Schneider Mary & John Seward Rita Shawn *Kenneth Shelley *Anthony & Rosa Smith *Robin Smith & Bill Plante *Dr. Irene Rosner & Dr. Raphael David *Dixie M. Sheridan Martha Sherman *Margaret Stern *Jos Stumpe Dr. Pavur R. Sundaresan *Ms. Donna Tatro *Pat Tafuro *Jennifer Tipton *Margot Tohn William M. Tomai & John Eric Sebesta *Deirdre Towers Lee L. Traub Charles & Susan Tribbitt *Dick & Carolyn Wallach Stephanie Zhang *Denotes Joyce Rising Stars, The Joyce’s new and 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 amshid & 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^ Annie Alfstad Patricia Arellano *Chellis Baird Erin Barnes *Alison Baum Rachel & Dyllan Beck *Lisa Bonifacic Isabella Boylston^ Camille A. Brown^ *Victor M. Castillo Alejandro Cerrudo^ Phil Chan Dr. Jason Chuang Brandon T. Cournay Mary Craig *Dayana De La Torre *Debora Domass Michelle Dorrance^ *Giancarlo Facchi Robert Fairchild^ Davalois Fearon^ Andrew D. Ferguson Erica Forrence *Jordan Freisleben Amita Goyal *Cari Griggs *Ting Guo *Jessica Halper *Mingtong Han Alexandra Harper, Co-Chair *Ariana Hellerman *Lauren Hlubny Kile Hotchkiss^ Alixandra Hornyan, Co-Chair *Audrey Hourse Laura Hsu Kristen Irby *Amanda Krische Sireesha Kalapala *Jean-François Kowalski Audrey Lam

Stephanie Lichtinger Lydia Lin *Mitch Lowenthal Michelle K. Marck *Jose Martinez Katherine Maxwell^ Sara Mearns^ Justin Peck^ Tiler Peck^ Ruby Rosetta Pittman *Dora Pulido *Brecht Putman Vanessa Rojas *Amir Rouzrokh Setpheap San^ Claire-Marine Sarner Bette Ann Schlossberg, Co-Chair Anthony Seaboyer *Caroline Shadle Victoria Shadle Daniil Simkin^ *Elisa Smilovitz *Samara Stern Evan Strain *Mark & Oni Strawn *Sara Strope *Laura Vang Lucy Vasserman *Alexander Wang *Miss Inga Wells James Whiteside^ Emma Winder *Lila Ziegler ^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 National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo 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 Speaker Corey Johnson.

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