The Surge

Name: The Surge
Start: 2026-09-27T14:00:00-04:00
Location: The Joyce Theater

An Ode to Sinéad O'Connor

A Joyce Theater and Factory International Production

Wed Sep 16 - Sun Sep 27

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Wed Sep 16

7:30 PM

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Thu Sep 17

7:30 PM

Curtain Chat

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Fri Sep 18

7:30 PM

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Sat Sep 19

2:00 PM

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Sat Sep 19

7:30 PM

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Sun Sep 20

2:00 PM

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Tue Sep 22

7:30 PM

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Wed Sep 23

7:30 PM

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Thu Sep 24

7:30 PM

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Fri Sep 25

7:30 PM

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Sat Sep 26

2:00 PM

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Sat Sep 26

7:30 PM

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Sun Sep 27

2:00 PM

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Tony Award-winning choreographer and director Sonya Tayeh brings her singular vision to a new creation, The Surge: An Ode to Sinéad O'Connor. Fierce, unflinching, and tender, Tayeh draws on Sinéad O’Connor’s uncompromising voice and spirit to create a powerful meditation on voice, protest, and the courage to live a life that defies the norm. The Surge cuts through the notion of age as something to fear and affirms the passage of time as a privilege that carries beauty and experience with it.

Special Performances
Curtain Chat: Thu, Sep 17

Photo by Kate Garner

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Dancer Jennifer Nugent. Photo by Kate Garner

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Sonya Tayeh. Photo by Kate Garner

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Sonya Tayeh. Photo by Kate Garner

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Reload is the official physical therapy partner for The Surge.

Funding Credits

The Joyce’s presentation of The Surge: An Ode to Sinéad O'Connor is a HARKNESS FIRST Joyce Theater debut, generously supported by The Harkness Foundation for Dance.

This project was made possible with the support of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

Creative residency periods for The Surge underwritten by Barbara Broccoli and Leslie & David Jameson. Creation support generously provided by Doug & Lisa Caldwell, Jennifer Chaitman, Diana Korsh, Ted Maynard & Robin Dahlberg, Virginia & Timothy Millhiser, Sharon L. Patrick, Meryl Rosofsky & Stuart Coleman, Karen Roth, Robert Schulman, and an anonymous donor.

The Surge: An Ode to Sinéad O’Connor is commissioned by The Joyce Theater’s Stephen and Cathy Weinroth Fund for New Work and Factory International, Manchester.

Co-commissioned by The Lensic Performing Arts Center (Santa Fe, NM), the Charleston Gaillard Center (Charleston, SC), ArtPower at UC San Diego (San Diego, CA), and UC Santa Barbara Arts & Lectures (Santa Barbara, CA).