The Joyce Theater Foundation to Present JOYCE UNLEASHED, 5/8-17

The Joyce Theater, under the executive direction of Linda Shelton, announces Joyce Unleashed, a collection of three cutting-edge performances presented outside of its historical Chelsea home, from May 8-17. Artists include the Seattle-based zoe | juniper performing BEGINAGAIN at 3-Legged Dog Art & Technology Center in Downtown Manhattan from May 8 - 10; NYC-based Laurie Berg's The Afterlife and Minneapolis-based SuperGroup's The Tent Has Been Pulled Down will perform at Brooklyn's Invisible Dog Art Center from May 15-17. Tickets for all performances are $15 and are available at www.Joyce.org or by calling 212.242.0800. Seating is general admission.

Information on each performance follows.

zoe | juniper's BEGINAGAIN

Thursday, May 8 at 8pm and 10pm

Friday, May 9 at 8pm and 10pm

Saturday, May 10 at 7pm & 9pm

Performances take place at 3-Legged Dog, 80 Greenwich Street, New York, NY

Choreographer Zoe Scofield and video artist Juniper Shuey are the creative team behind zoe | juniper, the acclaimed Seattle-based company. In BEGINAGAIN, the duo explores new technological methods for setting and triggering their raw tableaux of movement and stage design as a means of examining startling new ways to see and be seen. This engagement is co-produced by The Joyce Theater Foundation and 3-Legged Dog.

SuperGroup's The Tent Has Been Pulled Down

Thursday, May 15 at 7pm

Friday, May 16 at 7pm

Saturday, May 17 at 7pm

Performances take place at The Invisible Dog Art Center, 51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY

Blurring the boundaries between dance, theater, and performance art, the Minneapolis-basedSuperGroup makes its New York debut with The Tent Has Been Pulled Down, an evening-length work featuring the collective's three artists (with guest appearances by their mothers). Pregnant with contradictions, the piece unfolds in a world of text, sound, and evolving movement scores. This engagement is co-presented by The Joyce Theater Foundation and The Invisible Dog Art Center.

Laurie Berg's The Afterlife

Thursday, May 15 at 9pm

Friday, May 16 at 9pm

Saturday, May 17 at 9pm

Performances take place at The Invisible Dog Art Center, 51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY

Laurie Berg's choreographic work is notable for its idiosyncratic narratives and physicality. InThe Afterlife, she focuses on the concept of celebrity. Boundaries between high art and cult-pop-culture dissolve as ghosts of established performance icons transform into agents of active impulse. Co-presented by The Joyce Theater Foundation and The Invisible Dog Art Center.

For more information, please visit www.Joyce.org.

zoe | juniper's collaboration began in 2004 with I am nothing without you for On the Boards' NW New Works Festival, and eventually led to the formation of their company in 2006. Since then their work has been presented and commissioned by Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, On the Boards, Bumbershoot, SCUBA National Touring Network, Bates Dance Festival, PICA's TBA Festival, DiverseWorks ArtSpace, Spoleto Festival, Columbia College, PuSh Festival, Edge Festival/GloAtl, Wesleyan University, Spectrum Dance Theater, American Realness Festival, Dance Theater Workshop/NYLA, World Music/CRASHArts, The Joyce, Frye Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center, Trafo House of Contemporary Art, Body Festival, Southern Lights Dance, gloATL, CityArts Festival and The Myrna Loy Center.

SuperGroup is the choreographic collaboration of Sam Johnson, Erin Search-Wells, and Jeffrey Wells. Since its inception in 2007, they have been committed to creating complex performance work that emerges from meticulously crafted creation processes. Rooted in the body and using the fundamental tools of equal collaboration, improvisation, and layering, their work rigorously and playfully questions the forms and content of contemporary dance in an effort to continually rediscover its unique value. SuperGroup has presented work at venues across the Twin Cities including the BLB, The Southern Theater, and the Walker Art Center; and nationally at ODC in San Francisco, Velocity Dance in Seattle, PDP in Philly, and at the Bushwick Starr and BAX.

Laurie Berg works in multiple forms including dance, performance, collage, jewelry, and video. She was a 2013 New York Live Arts Studio Series Resident Artist and a 2010 Movement Research Artist-In-Residence. Laurie maintains collaborations with several dance and visual artists including Bessie McDonough-Thayer, Siri Peterson, Liliana Dirks-Goodman, and the women of Bitch Creek. Her various projects have appeared at Avant-Gard-Arama: New Moon at Abrons Arts Center, WiM at the TBG Theater, Pieter PASD in Los Angeles, Roulette Intermedium, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Food For Thought, Danspace Project as part of PLATFORM: 2011 Body Madness - Rhythm and Humor, BRINK at Dixon Place, FACADE/FASAD, 303 Gallery, ICMC at Stony Brook University, the TANK, draftwork, AUNTS, and CATCH among others. In 2012, she performed as part of In and Out of Uniform, curated by Sarah Maxfield at the Museum of Arts and Design, and has performed in the work of Heather Kravas, Megan Byrne, Sasha Welsh, Laura Diffenderfer, Christine Elmo and appeared in Tom Murrin's The Talking Show, at PS122, directed by Lucy Sexton. She currently co-produces AUNTS with Liliana Dirks-Goodman, and the Salon Show at Ulla's House with Sasha Welsh. Hijinks include naked flashmobs and oversized turkeys falling from the sky.

The Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization, has proudly served the dance community and its audiences for three decades. The founders, Cora Cahan and Eliot Feld, acquired and renovated the Elgin Theater in Chelsea, which opened as The Joyce Theater in 1982. The Joyce Theater is named in honor of Joyce Mertz, beloved daughter of LuEsther T. Mertz. It was LuEsther's clear, undaunted vision and abundant generosity that made it imaginable and ultimately possible to build the theater. One of the only theaters built by dancers for dance, The Joyce Theater has provided an intimate and elegant home for more than 320 domestic and international companies. The Joyce has also commissioned more than 130 new dances since 1992. In 2009, The Joyce opened Dance Art New York (DANY) Studios to provide affordable studios for rehearsals, auditions, classes, and workshops for independent choreographers, non-profit dance companies, and the dance/theater communities. New York City public school students and teachers annually benefit from The Joyce's Dance Education Program, and adult audiences get closer to dance through informative Dance Talks, and post-performance Dance Chat discussions. The Joyce Theater now features an annual season of approximately 48 weeks with over 340 performances for audiences in excess of 135,000.

Photo Credit: Juniper Shuey

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