Joyce Theater Foundation News

Founded in 1994 by master choreographer Dwight Rhoden and the legendary Desmond Richardson, COMPLEXIONS Contemporary Ballet returns to The Joyce to serve up thought-provoking and entertaining contemporary ballet performed by acclaimed dancers.

he Joyce Theater Foundation announced today the full lineup of U.S. and international talent that will grace The Joyce’s storied stage for its Spring/Summer 2022 season. Nearly two dozen companies and dance creators will bring their unparalleled creativity and astounding artistic innovation to the iconic, intimate home for dance in New York City.

Nai-Ni Chen, the founder, choreographer and Artistic Director of the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, comes from a rich dance tradition. She was a renowned traditional dancer in Taiwan where she was born and served on several ambassadorial culture missions to nineteen countries around the world including a one month engagement on Broadway in the Minskoff Theatre.

The Joyce Theater Foundation has announced the programming for its inaugural season as a  partner at Chelsea Factory, the just-opened multidisciplinary arts and community center in West Chelsea.

The Joyce Theater Foundation will welcome the return of celebrated tap superstar Ayodele Casel in her newest work, Ayodele Casel: Chasing Magic. The evening of collaboration and celebration of artistic exploration will play The Joyce Theater live from January 4-9. 

The Joyce Theater Foundation will celebrate the return of their most raucous and rambunctious holiday tradition with Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. More widely known simply as The Trocks, the all-male dance company will bring their signature combination of humor and grace to The Joyce Theater from December 14-January 2.

The Joyce will celebrate the return of their most raucous and rambunctious holiday tradition when Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo storms the stage once more. More widely known simply as The Trocks, the all-male dance company will bring their signature combination of humor and grace to The Joyce Theater from December 14-January 2.

The Joyce Theater Foundation honors the traditions and progress of Indigenous people with the Joyce debut of Indigenous Enterprise. An intertribal, multidisciplinary celebration of storied rituals, Indigenous Liberation will play The Joyce Theater during National Native American Heritage Month, from November 9-14. 

The Joyce Theater Foundation welcomes the return of one of America's greatest modern choreographers, Lucinda Childs, with her masterpiece of modern choreography, DANCE.

The Joyce Theater Foundation is continuing its decades-long legacy of commissioning and fostering the talents of the dance world’s brightest stars with the east-coast premiere of SW!NG OUT.

The Joyce Theater Foundation (Linda Shelton, Executive Director) will present its first world premiere of the season with award-winning choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo and his newest evening-length work, It Starts Now.

The Joyce Theater Foundation will welcome audiences back to its legendary Chelsea home with Ragamala Dance Company’s newest evening-length work, Fires of Varanasi: Dance of the Eternal Pilgrim.

Linda Shelton, Executive Director of The Joyce Theater Foundation, announced today the return of in-person programming at the New York City dance organization’s home with its Fall 2021/Winter 2022 season.

Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company will present Dance With Us, an educational digital platform centered around the premiere of a series of new dance films. The resource launches from June 25-27, 2021 at 7pm ET with the premieres of the films and the reveal of the platform, a website whose URL will go live at this moment.

The Joyce Theater Foundation will feature ballet artists breaking the boundaries of the binary with the premiere of #QueertheBallet’s Animals & Angels, under the artistic leadership of choreographer and founder Adriana Pierce.

Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company will present Dance With Us, an educational digital platform centered around the premiere of a series of new dance films. The resource launches from June 25-27, 2021 at 7pm ET with the premieres of the films and the reveal of the platform, a website whose URL will go live at this moment.

For the first time in 15 months, The Joyce Theater Foundation will host live audiences inside its iconic Chelsea home later this spring, from June 16-20. The Joyce announced today that it will present six benefit performances of Molissa Fenley’s acclaimed tour de force solo, State of Darkness.

The Joyce Theater Foundation will reunite three tap superstars – Dormeshia, Derick K. Grant, and Jason Samuels Smith – to create the world premiere of The Mayor of Harlem, a celebration of and tribute to the trailblazing and iconic Black tap dancer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, performed by some of the world’s most breathtaking tap artists.

The Joyce Theater Foundation in association with the Argyros Performing Arts Center brings three of the biggest talents from American Ballet Theatre downtown for Neo, a world premiere digital duet. James Whiteside and Isabella Boylston take on their first post-quarantine collaboration in the brand-new choreography from Alexei Ratmansky.

The Joyce Theater Foundation has announced that the streaming window for Ayodele Casel: Chasing Magic, will be extended for one week, now through April 29. Drawing on a formula for success, Ayodele Casel reunites with long-time collaborator Torya Beard, who stepped into the role of Director for Ayodele Casel: Chasing Magic.