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October 18th, 2010

From Blogging to Bidding

by admin at 4:37 pm

The Joyce Theater is teeming with activity right now with an exciting fall/winter season full of stellar performances, exhilarating presentations and artist programs at Joyce SoHo, educational events, master classes, and bustle at DANY Studios. And, in the midst of all this activity, another important and exciting event is taking place; we’re delighted to invite you to join us in celebrating and supporting Joyce SoHo and DANY Studios – two vital resources for dance at the Joyce SoHo Benefit Auction! This is a silent and live auction event that we hold each year at 155 Mercer Street, where guests enjoy cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, raffle prizes, and a phenomenal dance performance.

This year, we are previewing a few of the items that are up for bid with an ONLINE AUCTION. Peruse the growing list of extraordinary offerings and place bids on anything that interest you. You can also purchase tickets to the live event on Monday, November 15, donate an item to the auction (we’re always looking for new ideas!), submit absentee bids that can be carried over to the live event, or just get a head start on those holiday shopping lists!

In addition to all of this, you will have the chance to walk away with a prize without placing a single bid! (Although, we do hope you’ll find something that piques your interest to bid on). All you have to do is click the “Refer A Friend” button on the auction homepage to spread the word about this important fundraising event to all your friends. The person listed as the Top Referrer when the online portion of the auction closes on will be awarded FIVE free raffle tickets. He or she will then be entered in our grand drawing with the chance to win jewelry, theater tickets, a luxury vacation, or one of the other great prizes!

Visit the website at www.biddingforgood.com/joycetheater to check out some of the wonder items up for grabs, or to get more information about the live event on November 15^th.

The Joyce SoHo Benefit Auction

Monday, November 15, 2010 at 6:30pm

Joyce SoHo, 155 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10012

Proceeds from the Benefit Auction will support programs and services at Joyce SoHo and DANY Studios.

Joyce SoHo was created in 1996 when The Joyce Theater Foundation acquired 155 Mercer Street. Thanks to generous funders, The Joyce renovated and expanded the facility to ensure dance artists a well-maintained and affordable space to develop and perform their work. Now a thriving center for dance open year-round, Joyce SoHo nurtures hundreds of dance artists and draws diverse audiences to downtown New York. The newly-opened Dance Art New York (DANY) Studios, located at 305 West 38th Street, has joined Joyce SoHo in serving the needs of independent choreographers, not-for-profit dance companies and the dance/theater communities by providing nine affordable studios appropriate for rehearsals, auditions, classes, workshops and more.

For more information about the auction, please contact Maureen Cavanaugh Neufeld at mcavanaugh@joyce.org, or 646-467-8556.

We look forward to seeing you at the Joyce Soho Benefit Auction!

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May 25th, 2010

A story of collaboration

by admin at 3:59 pm

Ella Ben-Aharon (Artistic Director of YelleB Dance Ensemble) and Edo Ceder met about a year and a half ago in a dance festival in Israel. Soon after dancing and conversing, Ella mentioned the Joyce SoHo’s open call for the 2010 season - and asked Edo if he would come to New York to co-produce a full evening piece… Edo didn’t think twice, and found himself five weeks later wondering at JFK on a very snowy day.

Edo has been inspired to create dance on the background of the ugliness of the ‘Security Wall’ (Bt. Israel & the West Bank), and by Iztok Kovatch’s (En-Knaf) video dances. He worked with a friend on a video dance that was planned to be filmed at different locations along the wall, and inside the “check points”. A sketch of the video dance was accepted to the 3rd international video dance festival in Tel-Aviv, however, the video was never fully realized since they did not receive authorization to film dance inside the check points.

Ella has been engaged since 2006 in an artistic collaboration with video artist Adi Shniderman (Israel) and architect Matthias Neumann (Germany), exploring a TRIALOGUE between notions of space inherent in their respective disciplines; body space (dance), virtual and mnemonic space (video/photography), and physical space (architecture.) Particularly she was interested in how personal and physiological behaviors are reflected in physical spaces we build, and how our minds and bodies are being directly affected by the spaces around us.

When they met over a 6 hour lunch in Tel-Aviv to discuss the project, they discovered their mutual interest: walls - the ones between people and cultures; how in a allegedly enlightened age, we still need such ugly devices to defend ourselves from others. Not judging the necessity for them, many questions about their nature have come up nevertheless: why are walls needed, what is the price that is paid to be secure, what is the psychological reasons for them even between seemingly similar people, or even couples. Little did the two know they were about to embark on a journey that explores these issues exactly - two creative opinionated and stubborn people in one studio creating one choreography - collaborating with two other no-less-dominant artists. The party to explore and reconfigure walls was on.
The application to Joyce SoHo - in collaboration with Adi and Matthias - was submitted even before Edo came to New York. A video they created (one day in Jerusalem - and 5 weeks over Skype) sketching the ideas of Pericardium - was presented at the Streaming Museum / Tina B Contemporary Art Festival (Prague) (to watch a video, please click here).

A couple of months and a short duet later (performed at the LABA Festival, Goose Route Dance Festival - WV, Wave Rising Series) the gang received the acceptance note from Joyce SoHo at about the same time Edo received his artist visa from the US government.

This Thursday, the seed they had sown almost a year and a half ago will bear its fruits to the public at YelleB’s premiere of Pericardium @ Joyce SoHo. You are invited to join the journey. Pericardium is a multimedia piece, offering original choreography and musical score, interactive set design, and video projection.

Choreography & Performance: Ella Ben-Aharon & Edo Ceder
Video: Adi Shniderman
Architecture: Matthias Neumann
Original Music: Yoed Nir, Odeya Nini
Light Design: Joe Novak
Artistic Adviser: Merav Ezer
Rehearsal Director: Jenn Weddel

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March 9th, 2010

An Interview with Yorgos Lukos, Director of Lyon Opera Ballet

by rjohnson at 4:54 pm

A highlight of the New York City cultural season takes place at The Joyce when the Lyon Opera Ballet performs the work of some of our most revered choreographers. This is your chance to see three glorious pieces on one program–Maguy Marin’s austere and impassioned Grosse Fugue; William Forsythe’s beautifully inventive Duo; and Merce Cunningham’s magnificently intricate Beach Birds.

In this interview, Marketing Intern Aktina Stathaki talks with Lyon Opera Ballet Director Yorgos Lukos about topics that include his programming choices for the company’s Joyce season, funding for the arts, the use of non-conventional performance spaces, and more.

Purchase tickets for Lyon Opera Ballet (at The Joyce Mar 9-14) now.

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February 8th, 2010

Elfi Schäfer-Schafroth on Lichtungen

by admin at 1:55 pm

In preparation for her upcoming performances at Joyce SoHo, Elfi Schäfer-Schafroth shared her personal thoughts on the creation of the piece with us. Read on:

“Lichtungen is a piece centered around the saying “there can be no sunlight without shadows”. Friendship is one of the things that brings light into the darkness, that gives us strength during difficult times, and it is thanks to mentors, teachers and loved ones that we can grow as human beings.

The finale of Lichtungen is about friendship, and for this finale I asked the people from all over the world who have influenced me the most to endow Lichtungen with a bit of themselves: some of them gave me a gesture, some a movement, and others a sequence. By weaving these into my own choreography, what appears to be a solo-performance is actually a work of friendship and inspiration, in which all the contributors are on stage in spirit.

The Sunday performance will be dedicated to the late Doris Rudko, a great choreography teacher. Doris was enormously important for me as a mentor, an inspiration and a friend. She accompanied my work in the past 15 years with comments and suggestions, came to rehearsals and visited every performance I did in New York. I am forever grateful to her.”

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February 3rd, 2010

casebolt and smith Interview Themselves

by admin at 7:26 pm

This week, Liz Casebolt and Joel Smith decided to interview themselves for the blog. This duo does not take the traditional approach to their dancing, and the same goes with their interview style.

Don’t miss their performances Feb 5-7. Get your tickets now!

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December 29th, 2009

Wally Cardona and Rahel Vonmoos on A Light Conversation

by rjohnson at 5:35 pm

Before their October 2009 performance at Dance Umbrella, Wally Cardona and Rahel Vonmoos sat down with Donald Hutera to talk about A Light Conversation. With thanks to Dance Umbrella, we now share that interview with you:

A Light Conversation is a deft, eloquent and beguiling new duet made and performed by the American dancer-choreographer Wally Cardona and the Swiss-born, London-based Rahel Vonmoos, with the audience surrounding the pair on three sides. Below this dynamic duo reflects on what motivated this collaboration and what they’ve gleaned from it.

Donald Hutera: How did this creative partnership come about?

Wally Cardona: We first worked together when I made a work for Ricochet. A fifth dancer was needed and [artistic director] Karin Fischer-Potisk told me about a woman named Rahel who’d danced with many people, including [frequent Umbrella-supported choreographer] Charles Linehan. I’d seen a Linehan performance in New York City earlier in the year and enjoyed it immensely. I remember being mesmerised by a woman performing in it. Karin said, ‘That’s Rahel.’

Rahel Vonmoos: Funny coincidence: not knowing Wally, I actually stayed in his flat in 1993 while touring in New York City with a Swiss company. So I’d heard about him and his work. When Ricochet asked if I wanted to join them for his production, I was curious and said yes. Wally’s ability to verbalise his ideas and the whole working process I found very inspiring. When he proposed that we make something together, it was very clear to me that I was interested.

WC: I suppose my selfishness initiated the project: I wanted to dance with her. When I look at something, or somebody, and don’t understand what’s making it work the way it does, I become very interested. I want to learn something I don’t know.
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November 17th, 2009

Praise for Janis Brenner’s 5 Decades

by rjohnson at 1:31 pm

Following her recent engagement at Joyce SoHo, Janis Brenner was called “a witty, winsome performer, adept at teasing out the ambiguities of any given moment” by The New York Times.

Photo by Julie Lemberger

The program, spanning over forty years of dance, included Meredith Monk’s Break (1964); two solos from Murray Louis’ Figura (1978); Brenner’s signature solo Guilt (1985), danced by long-time JB&D member Kyla Barkin; and the 1994 revival of Brenner’s A Matter of Time. The program was capped off with the world premiere of Dancing in Absentia, an homage and repositioning of the many dance artists lost to the AIDS pandemic.

Read the full review here.

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November 2nd, 2009

Bill T. Jones on Serenade/The Proposition

by rjohnson at 2:05 pm

In a recent blog post about the creation of Serenade/The Proposition drawn from a lecture delivered at at the NY Historical Society, Bill T. Jones remarks, “a dance theater work about Mr. Lincoln as I conceive it comes with some obstacles. They might be roughly delineated by these two familiar categories: form and content. Formally, I remain suspicious of the biopic narrative and yet, if there was ever an individual and an era, which cried out for a narrative it is this man and that time. Over the last 25 years of creation I have often used elements of narrative that have - because of my bias - resulted in what I call quasi-narrative. An important notion I have relied on in the past and will certainly rely on again is that each piece and its various parts “suggests” rather than illustrates. In other words I set out to suggest a personality, to suggest a story, to suggest a world.”

Read the complete blog entry on the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company website.

Purchase tickets to the company’s upcoming engagement at The Joyce.

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