STATE OF DARKNESS JUNE 16-20, 2021 Six unique one-time only solo performances by six renowned dancers! IN-PERSON AND ON STAGE AT THE JOYCE THEATER
PHOTO: ANNIQUE ROBERTS IN STATE OF DARKNESS BY MOHAMED SADEK
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STATE OF DARKNESS LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust
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. 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.
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
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: Wednesday, June 16: Annique Roberts (8pm) Thursday, June 17: Jared Brown (8pm) Friday, June 18: Sara Mearns (8pm) Saturday, June 19: Lloyd Knight (2pm) Michael Trusnovec (8pm) Sunday, June 20: Cassandra Trenary (2pm) 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 "How lucky we are to finally have the opportunity to perform State of Darkness for a live audience! The dancers: Annique, Cassie, Jared, Lloyd, Michael, Sara, our rehearsal director Becky, and I have been in rehearsal for the past month. It's actually been eight months since the live-streamed performances last October 2020, but somehow it doesn't seem that long and relearning the piece has been quite quick. And, so we have had the time to delve into the work with a much deeper understanding of the details, the qualities of the dance, the possible nuances, each dancer now finding their own resonance and each discovering how they want to dance the work. 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 with this wonderful group of dancers, 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. State of Darkness is a piece that can be entered into in many ways and the dancers enjoying the possibilities is exciting - I am continually learning from them, thank you! Magic from Intuition In 1988, I saw The Joffrey Ballet perform Millicent Hodgson and Kenneth Archer’s reconstruction of Vaslav Nijinsky’s revolutionary performance of Igor Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps. I was completely taken with the music. The next day, I went to find a recording of the score and happily discovered a recording by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra conducted by Antal Dorati—one that is sadly not available any more. I listened to it everyday during my warm-up in the studio—a time to maintain my technical discipline but a time also to allow myself to drift into streams of consciousness. Since I exercise in an organic progression I have designed for myself, and know what comes next in the series, my imagination can float freely. But as I listened to Sacre, I found myself adding things to the warm-up: a deep shuddering in my torso and abdomen, my body responding to the extreme range of the tympani and the strings. Soon enough, I realized that I was choreographing Sacre not to the scenario devised by Nijinsky and Sergei Diaghilev but to the arc of the music itself. This became State of Darkness—completed in 1988.
A NOTE FROM THE CHOREOGRAPHER It was through the texture of the score that I entered the music and knew intuitively what to choreograph. I called the work State of Darkness to suggest that the figure—representing both male and female, ghost and animal—takes a ritual journey out of the primal state of darkness into light. To map it, I followed an innate voice that grasped the underlying aspects of the music. Odd things would happen in the studio. One occurred in the winter. I liked to work without artificial lights, and in the shadows I was sure I was visited by Nijinsky himself, who revealed that he had wished to choreograph the entire work as a solo but hadn’t been allowed to. I knew it was possible for one person to take on the shifting states of the music and so I experimented with changing who I was while dancing. Sometimes I was in the spirit world, sometimes in the animal world, sometimes in the present plane. I was constantly shifting personae, exiting my sense of self and becoming ‘other.’ The costume was a simple pair of black tights. With my bare torso, small yet strong body and short hair, I appeared androgynous to many people. While the solo came to mean different things in different cultures, most women around the world felt that it was very empowering for all women and supported my endeavours wholeheartedly. A few women and some men, however, seemed to feel that to be on stage alone with this monumental work was not right for a woman.
Photo of Molissa Fenley by Jack Mitchell
A NOTE FROM THE CHOREOGRAPHER State of Darkness has many passages choreographed around the idea of fear and courage, from entering the shadows and delighting in an animal presence, to being extremely powerful, to being totally out of control. I am in dialogue with the music, sometimes ‘dictating’ what happens next in the score by anticipating rhythmic changes and accents before they happen, and at other times being responsive to accent changes after they occur. It is a very direct give-and-take from score to choreography. I choreographed State of Darkness with belief in the ‘rightness’ of it and in the truth of the body in the music. With that certainty I summoned ‘my buddy Igor’ to help me make it through each performance, to withstand and transcend the demands of the dance by helping me find the stamina and endurance I needed. I always had the sound monitors on stage up to almost full volume so that the area shuddered under the power of the music. I had to rise to that power and I wanted its full presence. The vibrations would come through the floor, enter through my feet and fill me with knowledge of the enormity of the sound. A friend said to me once before a performance, ‘I can’t believe that you have to climb that mountain each time.’ But I was addicted to it, to the challenge and great reward that dancing brought. At the last crash of the music, where in the Sacre, the Chosen One is killed by the falling of the axe, this modern woman instead steps out into the light: intact, strong and alive. (Copyright 2015, Molissa Fenley - Rhythm Field: The Dance of Molissa Fenley, pages 56-58. Seagull Press/University of Chicago, edited by Ann Murphy and Molissa Fenley). State of Darkness premiered on June 20, 1988 at the American Dance Festival. Subsequently, I danced the work many times throughout the United States, Korea, and Australia until 1993. There are only fourteen other dancers that have performed this work, with appreciation I list them here: Peter Boal, Jared Brown, Rebecca Chaleff, Rachel Foster, Angelica Generosa, Lloyd Knight, Sara Mearns, James Moore, Shamel Pitts, Jonathan Porretta, Matthew Renko, Annique Roberts, Cassandra Trenary, Michael Trusnovec." Molissa Fenley June 16, 2021
EXPLORE THE WORK
Step into the studio with performers Jared Brown, Sara Mearns, and Michael Trusnovec, and rehearsal director Rebecca Chaleff. Explore the legacy of Fenley's work with a brief historical retrospective of Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) by dance scholar Shelley Berg. Access the essays on our website at www.joyce.org/get-closer-state-darkness or by scanning the QR code below.
Photos by Art Davison
ABOUT THE CHOREOGRAPHER by Molissa Fenley "I have choreographed and performed my work since 1977. My work has been choreographed for ensemble (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 work with the Brisbane Symphony Orchestra, one dancer with 114 musicians! And as I write this, I am in rehearsal coaching the dance to the six dancers that now embody State of Darkness. We are once again at The Joyce Theater, (State of Darkness was performed as livestreamed performances this past October 2020) and it is a wonder, as always, to be involved in the preparations for performances of one of my seminal works now 33 years after its creation. 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 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.
ABOUT THE CHOREOGRAPHER 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 also been very illuminating. Being introduced to the traditional aesthetics of Noh, Kabuki, and Gagaku have led to many of my dance explorations. Finally, as Professor of Dance at Mills College, from 1999-2020, and now Emerita, 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, recent commissions include the premiere of Rhythm Field with music by Jamal Mohamed for Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas and the inclusion of my drawings and movement phrases for Pipes Going Nowhere in the UCLA CAP project Choreographers’ Scores, drawings and writings of work created while sheltering-in-place. Pipes Going Nowhere, created in collaboration with Rebecca Chaleff, Sara Mearns and Cassandra Trenary, with music by Julian Julien has just been completed."
ABOUT THE PERFORMERS 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.
ABOUT THE PERFORMERS 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. 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 Tri-Cities 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 20112016, she co-founded 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. 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
ABOUT THE PERFORMERS 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 cocreated 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.
ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM 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 20122017, 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.
ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM DAVID MOODEY (Lighting Designer) is a New Yorkbased 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. AC K NOW L E DGE ME N TS by Molissa Fenley To Jared Brown, Lloyd Knight, Sara Mearns, Shamel Pitts, Annique Roberts, Cassandra Trenary, and Michael Trusnovec for their dedication and commitment to this project! 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 2021. To Marc Happel for dressing us in comfort and style.
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). SHAMEL PITTS is a performance artist, choreographer, conceptual artist, dancer, spoken word artist, and teacher. He performed with Batsheva Dance Company for seven years and is a certfiied teacher of Gaga movement language. Shamel is the artistic director/founder of TRIBE. He performed State of Darkness at The Joyce Theater in 2020.
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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 June 7, 2021. Platinum Benefactors Sarah Arison *Marianna Vaidman Stone and ($500,000 and above) *Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Eric Stone *Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Foundation Linda B. Strumpf *Howard Gilman Foundation *John Basnage de Beauval *David E. Vogel *LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust Ajay Bhandaram Director’s Circle Bloomberg Philanthropies Gold Benefactors ($2,500 and above) *Torrence Boone & Ted Chapin ($100,000 and above) Anonymous (3) *Robert Brenner Kerry Clayton & Paige Royer R. Richard Ablon Con Edison *Ford Foundation Adrienne Albert Martin & Linda Fell The Harkness Foundation for Dance Nancy & Michael Feller James J. Andrews The Andrew W. Mellon *Joel & Rhela Aragona *Gregg & Jean Frankel Foundation *Monica Azare Jane E. Goldberg *NYC COVID-19 Response and Cheryl Bergenfeld Sylvia Golden Impact Fund in The New York *Marty and Louise Bickman Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Goodman Community Trust Judi Rappoport Blitzer *Charles and Joan Gross New York City Department of & David Blitzer Family Foundation Cultural Affairs *Victoria V. Carey *Elzbieta Grove New York State Council on the Arts David & Andrea Holbrook *Larry & Ronnie Cohen *Robert Pollock Donna B. Case Toni Hoover *Rockefeller Brothers Fund In Honor of Karen Brooks Hopkins Cathleen Collins The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels *David S. Ivill & Mary Sharp Cronson Foundation Barbara Dau Vincent J. Weiner, Jr. *SHS Foundation *Miriam & David Donoho The Kingsley Foundation The Shubert Foundation Trisha & Patrick Duval Elysabeth Kleinhans *Keane Ehsani *Denise Littlefield Sobel *Christine Knuth *Andrew and Alan & Gail Koss Silver Benefactors Claire-Marine Ferguson *Melanie Coronetz ($75,000 and above) Joanna Fisher & Bruce G. Miller First Republic Bank Bart Friedman & Wendy Stein *Edward J. Petrou National Endowment for the Arts Tatiana Piankova Foundation *Britt-Louise Gilder Geraldine Glassman Kathleen A. Scott Benefactors The Harold K. Gross Family Linda Shelton ($50,000 and above) Charitable Trust *Leslie Siegel *Jody & John Arnhold | *Susan Ross Green Jean & Gene Stark Arnhold Foundation *Sharon B. Gurwitz *Allyson Tang *Virginia & Timothy Millhiser Ronald E. Hellman *National Dance Project of the Presenter’s Circle & Stephen B. Roberts New England Foundation for ($5,000 and above) *William Houlihan the Arts *Anonymous (1) *Office of Cultural Affairs, The Jerome Robbins Foundation The Aaron Copland Fund Consulate General of Israel Lauren E. Shortt for Music in New York *The Jennifer and Jonathan Allan *Sam & Annie Alfstad Thomas von Foerster Soros Foundation *Rick & Nurit Amdur In Memory of John MacDonald *Amit Wadhwaney *Mary & Adam Amsterdam *Karen & Martin McDonald Rob Ashford *Maria Mackey Chairman’s Circle Lani & Emanuel Azenberg Joyce F. Menschel ($25,000 and above) *Andrew & Froma Benerofe Ronay & Richard Menschel/ Anonymous (2) The Barbara Bell Cumming Charina Foundation, Inc. Deborah & Charles Adelman Charitable Trust David & Diana Milich *Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation *Chubb LTD *Jane & Michael Murphy Stephanie R. Breslow Consulate General of Brazil in Mutual of America Foundation & Paul Watterson New York Cherrie Nanninga The Gladys Krieble Delmas *Ms. Pamela Crutchfield *Mr. & Ms. William Pollock Foundation Dancers Responding to AIDS Warrie Price & James David Price *Susan Dickler & Sig van Raan DeWitt Stern Group, Inc. Rajika & Anupam Puri Melina Fisher *Jamshid & Mahshid Ehsani Québec Government Office *GKV Charitable Foundation Linda Ellis in New York Ronald Gumbaz & Juliet Cozzi Christopher Evans & Josh Garner Betty P. & Michael H. Rauch *Leanne Lachman Jeanne Donovan Fisher Mr. Stephen Kroll Reidy Mertz Gilmore Foundation John & Margaret Falk *Case van Rij Henry and Lucy Moses Fund General Delegation of the *Nancy Sands *Robert Musiker Government of Flanders to the *Wes Schafer and Carlos Galtier *The O'Donnell-Green Music and USA Susan & Arnie Scharf Dance Foundation *Paul Feuerman & Bruce Grivetti Xiomara & Charles Scheidt Susan & Greg Pappajohn *Randall and Mary Hack *Fran Schulman *Performing Arts Fund *Elizabeth Anne Hartman Barbara Madsen Smith Netherlands Judith M. Hoffman *Mark Stevens Michèle & Steve Pesner *Linda Stocknoff Meryl Rosofsky & Stuart H. Coleman *Val Holley & Joseph Plocek *Peter & Peggy Horvitz Christopher Soule Saul & Mary Sanders *Illuminated Foundation *Dr. Chengzhong Sui Richard Shea Christopher Jones & Consulate General of Sweden in Susan Fawcett Sosin Deborah McAlister New York Wendy & Alex Stanton Office of City Council Speaker Elizabeth Swig Monica B. Voldstad Corey Johnson *Theresa Alessandra Russo Stephen & Cathy Weinroth *Al Katz Foundation *Madelyn & Steven Wils *R May Lee Ms. Patricia E. Vance Impresario’s Circle Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Alexandra Wheeler & Rocky Rukan ($10,000 and above) *LeConte Moore *Shelley & Claude Winfield Anonymous (2) Nina B. Quigley Irving & Elaine Wolbrom Sylvia Ablon *Karen Roth *Ralph Womble & Ashley Edwards Alpern Family Foundation *Michael Sekus & Bianca Russo *Billy F.B. Wong American Express *Allan Sperling & Ferne Goldberg & Stephanie Gordon
Leaders ($1,000 and above) Anonymous (10) Robert Allyn Neme Alperstein Maria-Cristina Anzola *Jeffrey Applegate Gerald M. Appelstein Bank of America Merrill Lynch Kara Medoff Barnett & Dov Barnett Alison Baum Pamela Baxter Sandra Berger *Joan & Ira Berkowitz Kim Bleimann & Paola Duran Nissan Boury Barbara & Gary Brandt *Edward Brill Madeline Brine *Matt Brodlie *Joanna Bueche *Ralph & Martine Calder Linda & Joseph Camardo *Ann Chao Melinda DeChiazza Cloobeck Larry & Ronnie Cohen Woody & Janice Collins *Jane Comer Consulate General of Canada in New York Council for Canadian American Relations *Caroline & Paul Cronson Cultural Services of the French Embassy *John and Nada Culver *Charles T. Davis *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. Jack & Eleanor Dunn *The Eilers family 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 López *Josette Flores *Maria Vittoria Foglia John & Janet Foord *Catherine Fortin *Brandon Fradd *Judith Z. Friedman *Mark and Veronique Friedman *Ania Fryszkowska Gina Gibney *Barrie Gillies & William Drummy *Susan Egbert Gilroy *John Graney, MD Mason & Kim Granger Patric & Patricia Gregory Aya Hamilton Deborah Harada Alexandra L. Harper *Melanie C. Harris *Laurie & Jack Helfin *Edward Henry & Susan Monk *Ellen Hirsch *Lynn Hopkins Gary Horowitz & Tom Wyse *Shannon M. Houston *George C. Howell, III *Mary Iles James B. Jacobs & Jan Sweeney
Dr. Bernard M. Jaffe *Jerome A. Yavitz Charitable Foundation *Richard A. Kahn & Thomas Lutazi Kenneth S. Kail & Ivy Hwang *Sandra Kawano Mr. Christian K. Keese *Lauren Klein *Hans Koch Annie M. Kohlman *Kathy Krall *George & Liz Krupp Sondra Kurtin Robinson *Susan Lampard Judith Landon LDJ Productions *Reginald van Lee *Michael G. Lemle *Martin & Rosanne Leshner Robert & Dorina Link Local No. 1 I.A. T.S.E *Jayne Lipman & Robert Goodman *David Lovett and Meg Ruley Sharon Luckman & Paul Shapiro *Mr. Philip G. Lumpkin *Jonna Mackin Elizabeth A. Maher Grace R. and Alan D. Marcus Foundation Robert Marlin Lynn C. Mautner Marcia Kramer Mayer *Lyn McHugh Miller Khoshkish Foundation *Jonathan M. Nadler Barbara Nagel *Joyce O’Brien *Trisha Ostergaard David Parsons *David Pasterski *Connie Paxton *Peck Foundation, Milwaukee LTD Douglas & Teresa Peterson *Larry & Barbara Pitsch Judith Plows Michael Popkin & Lisa Bradley *Carole Postal Donna & James Pressman *Steven & Debbie Prince *Princess Grace Foundation David Alan & Susan Berkman Rahm *Barbara Richards 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 *Deborah Sales & Ted Striggles *Barbara & David Schimansky *Susan Schweitzer *Jesse & Carol Schwartz 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 *Gary Tannenbaum & Helen J. Mills
*Anthony Thompson *Susan Ulick *Veena Upadhyay *George Vanderploeg Lucy Vasserman *Brigitte Vosse *Mr. Wayne & Mrs. Barbara Miller Johanna Weber Michael & Carol Weiss *Bill Whelan Amy Williams *Peter & Deborah Winograd Vicente Wolf Elly Karp Wong Cooper Wright & Michael Marino Brann and Ellen Wry Carol Yorke & Gerard Conn *Eloise Zeller *Christian Zimmermann Investors ($500 and above) Anonymous (10) Kyle Abraham Helene Alexopoules Jan Albert LaRue Allen *Ellen Alpert Dr. Norman & Mrs. Norman Altman Paul Asman & Jill Lenoble *Joan Brooks Baker & Margeaux Klein *Jennifer Bandier Betsy Barbanell Pamela Baxter *Dorothy Black Carol Bryce Buchanan *Tracey Breaux Jordyn A. Buchanan *Jennifer Kornreich Cahn & Andrew Cahn *Susan Campbell *Karen Carozza Jason Chuang *Matthew C. Cluney *Betsy Cornwall *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 *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 *Bruce Greenwald Charles & Carol Grossman Family Fund *Jane Groveman
*Gina Harman *Charles & Elaine Harris Ira Haupt, II Sheila Heimbinder Janet Lynn Henner *Mr. Michael D. Herskovitz Elizabeth Levitt Hirsch Mr. Gregory Ho & Ms. Linda Sanchez Cheri Hoff Erica Hartman-Horvitz Ralph & Lynn Huber *Peter Hunt *Janice Hurt *Laura J. Illich Kenneth & Jill Iscol Betty Iu *J.P. Morgan Private Bank Walter Jaffe & Paul King *I. Michael Kadish H. David Kaplan *Jan S. Keithly Jennifer Aley Kenney *Robert & Elaine Klein Valarie Koch *Ellen Koshland Brian & Rosemary Kowalchuk *Audrey Lam Stephen B. Lane *Kenneth M. LeClair Phyllis & Cary Lemkowitz *Elaine & Howard Leventhal *Karen Lewis Elizabeth & Durwood Littlefield Robert R. Littman & Sully Bonnelly *Sophie Main *Jennifer & Gideon Malherbe *Julie Mandel Marcus Joseph M. Marger *Margaret Mastrianni William Mavrelis Wendy McCain *Douglas McCorkle *Lorraine J. Meeker *Kati Meister Tanya Melich & Noel Silverman *Victoria Morris Paula Moss *Ann Mulally *Deb Murnin *Barry Nalebuff Drs. Benjamin Natelson & Gudrun Lange Genevieve Nestor *Amanda Lee Neville Stuart Nordheimer & Barbara Miller *Peter J. Occolowitz *Katherine Ogg *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 *Charles Ragland Donna & Martin Rich The Andréa 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 *Dr. Carol Ann Satler In Memory of Tracy Scherman *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 *Robin Stout *Pamela Tatge *TPU Local One IATSE *Frank Troutman *Ellie Tweedy Thomas Van Winkle *Don & Merna Villarejo Thomas Allen Walker Charles Walker *Louise Washer & Mary Clay Fields *Gregory Ward *Chris Watson *Kate Weil *Sara Weinheimer Stephen D. Weinstein *George S. Werner & Li Werner Tom Whelan Sponsors ($300 and above) Anonymous (4) *Patricia Adell Gerry & Hank Alpert *Jane & Stephen Alpert *John Angiolillo, MD Sherry & Sanford Axelband Vivian Awner Clay Barr *Elena Baum *Joan & Ira Berkowitz *Kate Bicknell Roz Black & Bob Eimicke Stan & Abby Bloch Lindsley Borsodi Paul Brohan *Leslie Buckland *Jim Bumgardner & Lou Tharp *Deborah Burand *Michael & Jennifer Campagna *Kelli Carrol 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 *John Coulter *Victoria Cowles Mr. John A. Crawford III Judy Cunningham Dr. Irene Rosner David & Dr. Raphael David *Diana Davies 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 *Roy Fowler 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 *Jennifer Goodale & Mark Russell 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 *Drew Reid Kerr *Susan and Peter Kopple *Angela de Lara Cynthia Crain Lee * Michael G. Lemle *Lawrence Levine Marcia Levine *Sukey Lilienthal *Leslie Lin *David Long *Peter Maiwald *Judy Mauer *John & Linda Maxwell *Colleen McCourtney *Rodney McDaniel *R. McNish *Holly & William Mensching 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 *The Pulse Performing Arts Studio Jonathan Raskin Dr. & Mrs. Robert Refowitz Lan Rice *Judith & Gary Richter *Barbara D. Riehl *Eileen Robert *Susan M. Rosenberg *Barbara S. Rosenthal *Lainie & John Ross *Alan Russell *William H. Sadie *Prince A & Petar Sanders *Laura E. Schneider Mary & John Seward Rita Shawn *Kenneth Shelley *Jennifer Shotwell *Anthony & Rosa Smith *Robin Smith & Bill Plante *Dr. Irene Rosner & Dr. Raphael David *Dixie M. Sheridan Martha Sherman *Margaret Stern *Jos Stumpe *Helen Sullivan Dr. Pavur R. Sundaresan *Mr. Lars Rosager & Mr. Donald Troise *Ms. Donna Tatro *Pat Tafuro *Jennifer Tipton *Margot Tohn William M. Tomai & John Eric Sebesta *Deirdre Towers
Lee L. Traub Charles & Susan Tribbitt *Patricia Truscelli *Scott Votey *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.
FACILITIES & SERVICES Box Office (212-242-0800): Open Monday thru Sunday, 12pm - 6pm. On days when there is a performance, the box office is open through curtain time; advance sales stop ½ hour prior to curtain time (including matinees). Closed on major holidays. For Hearing Impaired call (TDD) 212-245-2904. To report Lost & Found items, please see an usher or call 212-691-9740. For Special Event Rental information, contact Katy Myers at kmyers@joyce.org. 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.
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