John Jasperse Company Returns to the Joyce Theater 6/16-19

The Joyce Theater is proud to welcome back onto its stage - for five performances only - the John Jasperse Company, presenting the New York premiere of Truth, Revised Histories, Wishful Thinking, and Flat Out Lies, a Joyce Theater 25th Anniversary commission, from June 16-19. An evening-length work with a commissioned score by composer Hahn Rowe, Truth features live accompaniment by Rowe and musicians from the International Contemporary Ensemble, the 2010 winners of American Music Center's 2010 Trailblazer Award, marks the first time the John Jasperse Company has appeared at The Joyce since 2000. Tickets for John Jasperse Company at The Joyce start at $10 and can be purchased through JoyceCharge at 212-242-0800 or online at www.joyce.org. The Joyce Theater is located at 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street.

Truth, Revised Histories, Wishful Thinking, and Flat Out Lies, is a new work for five performers choreographed by John Jasperse. In this piece, Jasperse, acclaimed for his clever, intellectually rewarding work, explores the often fluid boundaries between fantasy and reality by juxtaposing varied styles of dance, performance and music in a collage that bounces between the sincere and the ironic. The piece strives to make diverse references to the history of performance practices, where illusion has been alternately cultivated, in the service of creating theatrical magic. The intended result is a bit like a series of balloons which are inflated and either burst or deflate in surprising ways, over and over. Images of the baroque, refinement, seduction, valiance and violence, emerge and disappear; in the end, it is left for audiences to decide what is real and what is a ruse, what is solid and what is full of hot air. Truth premiered in 2009 at the Festspielhaus Hellerau in Dresden, Germany.

ABOUT JOHN JASPERSE COMPANY
John Jasperse Company presents live performances of contemporary dance and engages in a broad range of residency activities in the United States and abroad. Featuring the choreography of John Jasperse, the Company continues to build a growing presence on the international contemporary dance scene. Through the development of new works and their presentation the Company aims to challenge and engage its audiences in rich and innovative aesthetic and intellectual experiences, thereby expanding the form of contemporary concert dance and its relevance to the greater culture.

Jasperse's work has been presented by festivals and presenting organizations in the United States, Brazil, Chile, Israel, Japan and throughout Europe including La Biennale di Venezia, Cannes International Dance Festival, Dance Umbrella, EuroKaz, Kampnagel, Montpellier Danse, Tanz im August, TanzQuartier, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm and the VEO Festival. In New York, the Company has been presented at numerous venues including three appearances at The Brooklyn Academy Of Music's Harvey Theater, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, The Joyce Theater, The Kitchen, Performance Space 122 and Symphony Space.
Jasperse has been awarded many prestigious prizes and fellowships including the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts (2003), the Tides Foundation's Lambent Fellowship in the Arts (2004), John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1998), the National Endowment for the Arts (1992, 1994, 1995-96) and the New York Foundation for the Arts (1988, 1994 and 2000). Jasperse received a 2001 New York Dance and Performance a.k.a. Bessie Award for the body of his work, and John Jasperse Company dancers received a collective Bessie in 2002 for sustained achievement as an ensemble.

ABOUT HAHN ROWE
Composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist (violin, guitar, electronics) Hahn Rowe has migrated freely between the rock, electronic music, improvisation and new music scenes for over 20 years. As a member of composer Glenn Branca's ensemble in the mid 80s, he was introduced to NYC's cross pollinating music and art scenes. It was during this time that he joined atmospheric chamber rock quartet Hugo Largo, who released two acclaimed records on Brian Eno's Opal/Land label. Rowe has worked on a diverse assortment of recordings by people such as David Byrne, Foetus, Ikue Mori, Antony and The Johnsons, Mimi, Moby, R.E.M., That Petrol Emotion, Syd Straw, Swans, Zahar, Firewater and Michael Brook. He is currently active as a composer for film and television, creating scores for films such as Clean, Shaven by Lodge Kerrigan, Spring Forward Tom Gilroy and Married in America by Michael Apted.

ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE
The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) was founded in 2001, and over the past nine years has established itself as one of the leading musical ensembles of its generation as well as one of the most innovative young arts organizations in the US. Winner of the 2010 Trailblazer Award from the American Music Center and the 2010 ASCAP/CMA Award for Adventurous Programming, ICE has created a pioneering performer/presenter model that sets a bold new standard for the future of music in the 21st century. www.iceorg.org

The Joyce Theater presents the New York premiere of Truth, Revised Histories, Wishful Thinking, and Flat Out Lies, a new evening length work with a score by Hahn Rowe and performed live by a string quartet from the International Contemporary Ensemble, at The Joyce Theater for five performances only from June 16 - 19. The performance schedule is as follows: Wednesday at 7:30pm; Thursday & Friday at 8pm; Saturday at 2pm & 7:30pm. Tickets start at $10 and range up to $39 (top price for Joyce Members is $24). Please note: Ticket prices are subject to change. Tickets and subscriptions can be purchased by calling JoyceCharge at 212-242-0800 or online at www.joyce.org. The Joyce Theater is located at 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street.

Leadership support for The Joyce Theater's 2009-2010 season has been received from the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust.

Generous support for this engagement was provided through a grant from The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc. to encourage the performance of New York City-based companies at The Joyce Theater.

Funded in part by the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding from the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation.

Additional support for this engagement was provided with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts; the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009; the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. Special support provided by the Office of State Senator Thomas K. Duane. Major support for The Joyce has been provided by Bloomberg, The Boeing Company, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, First Republic Bank, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and The Shubert Foundation.

Truth , Revised Histories, Wishful Thinking, and Flat Out Lies is co-commissioned by The Joyce Theater's Stephen and Cathy Weinroth Fund for New Work, and the Forsythe Company in co-production with the John Jasperse Company.

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