Institutional Funders

We are pleased to recognize the following institutional funders for their generous support.

Leadership Support

LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust

2007-2008 Season Sponsor

Altria

Major Support

Carnegie Corporation of New York
The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation
The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation
The Shubert Foundation


Additional Major Support

First Republic
The Harkness Foundation for DanceThe Harkness Foundation for Dance JPMorgan Chase
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
The Starr Foundation


Lead Corporate Support
for international dance at The Joyce

AMEX


Lead Corporate Support
for our Dance Education Program

Bloomberg


Additional Lead Support

Alphawood Foundation
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Newman's Own Foundation
Pfizer
The Jerome Robbins Foundation

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP · Anderson Kill & Olick, LLP · Apollo Management, L.P. · C-BASS · Capezio/Ballet Makers · Citigroup Foundation · Columbus Nova · Cyalume Technologies, Inc.· FUSED - French U.S. Exchange in Dance · The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation · The Greenwall Foundation · Industrial Color/Global Edit · National Dance Project/New England Foundation for the Arts · Rabobank Internationl · The Scherman Foundation, Inc. · U.S. Trust Corporation Foundation · Lila Acheson Wallace Theater Fund, established in The New York Community Trust by the founders of The Reader's Digest Association · The Walt Disney Company · The Norman and Rosita Winston Foundation, Inc.

Programs of The Joyce Theater Foundation are supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art; and made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; and the New York City Department of Small Business Services; with special thanks to Council Member Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, and the New York City Council.

               

Butoh, an art form developed in Japan during the 1950s and 60s, was motivated by a rejection of western dance and Japanese classical forms.