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The Surge

An Ode to Sinéad O'Connor
A Joyce Theater Production
Tue Feb 9 - Sun Feb 14

Returning to The Joyce after a sold-out run this fall, 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.

Co-produced by Factory International, Manchester, UK

Content Warning
Performances contain haze

 

Special Performances
Curtain Chat: Thu, Feb 11

 

Run Time 
1 hour and 10 minutes

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Sinead O'Connor. Photo by Kate Garner
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Dancer Jennifer Nugent. 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 Encore Joyce Theater return engagement, generously supported by The Harkness Foundation for Dance.

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

Underwriting support for Joyce presentations during the Fall ’26/Winter ’27 season provided by Virginia & Timothy Millhiser.

Creative residency periods for The Surge underwritten by Barbara Broccoli and Leslie & David Jameson. Creation support generously provided by Neme Alperstein, Doug & Lisa Caldwell, Jennifer Chaitman, Jane E. Goldberg, 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).

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