Stephen Petronio Company completes its 25th Anniversary Season with a season at The Joyce Theater Apr 27 — May 2. The company is featured on Thirteen’s Sunday Arts News. Take a look:
John Jasperse Company brings the New York premiere of Truth, Revised Histories, Wishful Thinking, and Flat Out Lies to The Joyce for five performances this June. The evening-length piece, which will have its New York City debut on our stage, has critics raving in Los Angeles and Chicago. Following its West Coast premiere at REDCAT, The Los Angeles Times says the work is “rife with glorious butt-squeezes, rendered flirty and fabulous by Jasperse’s stellar crew.” Time Out Chicago calls the work “pregnant with engrossing ideas, its strength its insistence that we in the audience handle their delivery—Jasperse’s stage action only rarely opens its throttle, but the viewing experience races, and is rich.”
Read the full Los Angeles Times review here.
Read the Time Out Chicago review here.
Truth explores the often fluid boundaries between fantasy and reality and features a commissioned score by composer Hahn Rowe, performed live by a string ensemble from the International Contemporary Ensemble. See the New York premiere at The Joyce June 16-19.
The Joyce Theater Foundation’s spring 2010 gala is upon us! Only a little more than one week to purchase your tickets and tables for what promises to be a spectacular event. This year, in addition to performances by Stephen Petronio Company and Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, we’re very fortunate to have members of the cast of the new Broadway musical Million Dollar Quartet perform.
Inspired by the famed recording session that brought together rock ‘n’ roll icons Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins for the first and only time, Million Dollar Quartet, brings audiences inside the recording studio with four major talents who came together as a red-hot rock ‘n’ roll band for one unforgettable night.
Take a look behind the scenes at the making of Million Dollar Quartet. Then, be sure to purchase your ticket to The Joyce Theater Foundation Spring 2010 Gala to see the cast of this thrilling new show perform.
Find more info on our gala here.
During Keigwin + Company’s run at The Joyce Theater last month, Nicole Wolcott invited the dance community to join her in an invigorating and technically challenging class at DANY Studios. Nicole asked us each to be present in the space, to “arrive.” In that moment of arrival, we felt our bodies in the studio and we attuned ourselves to the energy in the space. From a place of consciousness, we filled ourselves with what Wolcott calls the “Joy of Dance” (J.O.D.). Wolcott explained that the J.O.D. is the reason we came to class, the reason we will continue to dance into the future. It is that special feeling, that shared love that we experience while performing and watching dance.
Wolcott encouraged us to meld her unique and athletic aesthetic with our own intrinsic sense of timing and movement. Upside-down our legs turned in grand clockwork designs. Right-side-up we found ourselves precariously balanced between labile and stable senses of gravity. We moved with a loose sense of timing that required the use of musical and intuitive rhythmic impulses. Throughout the class, Wolcott’s delightful sense of humor and honest laughter reminded us, again, that dance is fun! The last quarter of the two-hour class synthesized all that came before, as we performed to Björk’s “Innocence.”
The master class series continued on Friday, March 26 with an Afro-Brazilian class taught by Isis Paula Barbosa dos Santos, a DanceBrazil company member, and on Friday, April 9 DANY Studios welcomes Jerri Kumery, Ballet Master for the Richmond Ballet.
Kumery tells us that her advanced ballet class will emphasize a sense of dynamism and fullness of movement, while utilizing a variety of rhythms and accents, which highlight the “gifts and spirit of the artist.” She will guide dancers to move holistically with spatial intent and clarity in order to involve the whole body and spirit. With “movement as an instrument, the body and spirit allow us,” she says, “to see the music.” Jerri Kumery tells the aspiring ballet dancer that it is important to, “Be who you are… honest and genuine, and dance as if there is no tomorrow.”
To RSVP or find more information on these and other upcoming DANY Studios master classes, click here.
April 13-18 brings a springtime avant-garde tradition to Joyce SoHo: New Dance Alliance’s Performance Mix Festival.
Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be tantalizing you with small tastes of what’s to come. First up: Near East Family, performing on April 14.
