Joyce Theater Announces 2011 Spring / Summer Season

Audiences will have the opportunity to see a full spectrum of dance companies, local and international, on The Joyce Theater stage during its 2011 spring / summer season. The Joyce, the nation's most prestigious home for modern dance, will welcome back audience favorites and introduce dance lovers to companies that have never before performed on its stage.

...WORLD FLAVOR...

Making its highly anticipated U.S. debut with a national tour that includes a two-week stop at The Joyce will be Cuba's Danza Contemporanea de Cuba, who will provide audiences with the extraordinary opportunity to see this fifty year-old company perform two exhilarating programs that showcase its Afro-Cuban and contemporary influenced movement style. Elsewhere from around the world, Cisne Negro, from Sao Paolo, Brazil, will present an eclectic program that includes performances by guest artist American Ballet Theatre principal, Marcelo Gomes. Brazil will also be represented by DanceBrazil, which returns to The Joyce with A Jornada, Artistic Director Jelon Viera's landmark work.

...LOCALLY GROWN...

The roster of NYC-based companies appearing on The Joyce stage this summer and spring is extraordinary. A season highlight will be the week-long appearance of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in its final Joyce season before disbanding in December 2011 at the end of its two-year Legacy Tour. Two of these companies will celebrate anniversary seasons, and several will perform world premieres. The season will open with Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, celebrating its 25th Anniversary with an engagement that features a world-premiere set to music by Stevie Wonder. Also celebrating an anniversary this year - its 30th - is Elisa Monte Dance, presenting a world premiere in a program that consists of company works from each of its three decades. Returning in June will be RIOULT, featuring a world premiere set to music by Pulitzer prize-winning composer Aaron Jay Kernis. Buglisi Dance Theatre will perform a program that includes a world premiere, as well as Requiem, set to Fauré's soaring Mass. Armitage Gone! Dance, will present a program that includes a collaboration between the company and featured artists from the Dance Theatre of Harlem ensemble. Highlighting KEIGWIN + COMPANY will be a world premiere of an evening-length work that features music by electro-acoustic composer and cellist Chris Lancaster and pianist Jerome Begin. Underland, an evening-length work inspired by the bittersweet songs of Australian balladeer Nick Cave, will be on tap for this year's engagement of the Stephen Petronio Company. Doug Varone & Dancers will return with the New York premiere of its acclaimed work Chapters from a Broken Novel, with live accompaniment. And international superstar of tap, Savion Glover, will make fireworks on The Joyce stage during a three-week engagement that includes the 4th of July. Following the success of last summer's presentation of four female choreographers, the newly-minted Gotham Dance Festival will feature the return of the choreographers Kate Weare and Monica Bill Barnes, along with Patrick Corbin and Brian Brooks. The Festival will also present six emerging artists in Summer Sampler Matinees

....NATIONAL PRIDE...

Numerous cities across the United States will be represented at The Joyce this spring, beginning with two cities in one company: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, celebrating its 15th Anniversary season this year with the east coast premiere of Spanish choreographer Cayetano Soto's new ballet, Uneven. From San Francisco, ODC Dance will present the New York premiere of Waving Not Drowning during its week-long engagement. Up from Philadelphia, Philadanco, the 41-year old company led by dance icon Joan Myers Brown, will premiere Ray Mercer's Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. And audience favorite, Connecticut-based Pilobolus will return with its annual four-week summer season which will include three programs, including startling collaborations with Takuya Muramatsu, the principal choreographer from Dairakudakan, the butoh company from Japan, OK Go, the hot rock n' roll band and, flying robots from MIT's Distributed Robotics Laboratory Flight Team.

The following is a complete roster of companies who will be appearing at The Joyce Theater this fall/winter.

Ronald K. Brown / EVIDENCE
February 8-13
Tue-Wed 7:30pm; Thu-Fri 8pm; Sat 2pm & 8pm; Sun 2pm & 7:30pm
Dance Chat: Wed, Feb 9
Tickets: $10 - $39; Joyce Members $19 - $29
Publicity Contact: thatgirl006, Inc., (718) 930-6387

"Ronald K. Brown creates dances so kinetically irresistible that it's hard not to squirm in your seat, to nod the chin and c*ckthe shoulders up and down, tapping along to the beat," proclaims The Boston Globe about this distinguished choreographer, whose work combines Cuban, Caribbean, West African and modern American dance forms to provide a powerful view of human struggles, tragedies, and triumphs. For its 25th Anniversary season, this exceptionally talented company performs a spectacular program that includes the world premiere of On Earth Together, set to music by Stevie Wonder.

BUGLISI DANCE THEATRE
February 15-20
Tue-Wed 7:30pm; Thu-Fri 8pm;
Sat 2pm & 8pm; Sun 2pm & 7:30pm
Dance Chat: Wed, Feb 16
Tickets: $10 - $39; Joyce Members $19 - $29
Publicity Contact: Audrey Ross, (212) 877-3399

Choreographer Jacqulyn Buglisi, a passionate descendant of Martha Graham, moves us with sublime images that touch the heart and embrace the soul. In the world premiere of Letters of Love on Ripped Paper, Buglisi reveals the rapture and human complexity underlying human relationships through a labyrinth of love letters: Pliny to Calpurnia; Queen Victoria to Prince Albert; Zelda to Scott. The magnificent dancers, expressionistic theatricality and Daniel Brewbaker's original score are captivating. Filled with compassion, Buglisi's Requiem is set to Fauré's soaring Mass and revered for being "extravagant and beautiful." (The New
York Times)

ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET
February 22-27
Tue-Wed 7:30pm; Thu-Sat 8pm; Sun 2pm
Dance Chat: Wed, Feb 23
Tickets: $10 - $49; Joyce Members $26 - $37
Publicity Contact: Richard Kornberg & Associates, (212) 944-9444

Celebrating its 15th anniversary season, the company that takes "hold of your heart" (The Washington Post) performs an exhilarating program of contemporary dance exemplifying its commitment to commissioning groundbreaking work by both world renowned and emerging choreographers. The first American company to commission Spanish choreographer Cayetano Soto, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet will present the east coast premiere of his stunning new ballet Uneven. Also on the program-Red Sweet, the company's signature work, created by the celebrated Finnish choreographer Jorma Elo, and Stamping Ground by master choreographer Jiri Kylian.

Elisa Monte DANCE
March 1-6
Tue 7pm; Wed 7:30pm; Thu-Fri 8pm;
Sat 2pm & 8pm; Sun 2pm & 7:30pm
Opening Night Gala: Tue, Mar 1
For Gala tickets, call 212-868-4488
Dance Chat: Wed, Mar 2
Tickets: $10 - $49; Joyce Members $26 - $37
Publicity Contact: Peter Cromarty, (212) 580-4222

Elisa Monte Dance celebrates its 30th anniversary by taking bold steps towards the future with the world premiere of Monte's Dialogue with Vanishing Languages. The program also includes EMD works from each landmark decade that carry with them the depth and richness of American contemporary dance. Since electrifying the dance world in 1981 when Alvin Ailey brought her seminal work, Treading into his repertory, Ms. Monte has been revered for her choreography of elaborate lifts and athletic leaps interwoven with complex patterns and knotty groupings of bodies. The season is dedicated to long-time EMD board member and friend, Denise Jefferson, whose life and years of service to the company will be remembered for the next thirty years and beyond.

KEIGWIN + COMPANY
March 8-13
Tue-Wed 7:30pm; Thu-Sat 8pm;
Sun 2pm & 7:30pm
Dance Chat: Wed, Mar 9
Tickets: $10 - $49; Joyce Members $26 - $37
Publicity Contact: Helene Davis, (212) 354-7436

After electrifying audiences with its first solo Joyce season in 2010, "a thrilling coup de theater" (Vanity Fair), KEIGWIN + COMPANY comes back with the world premiere of Dark Habits, an evening-length work that, through Keigwin's indomitable theatricality, examines fashion and drama. Driving the dancers' vigorous physicality is a score that features original music by cellist Chris Lancaster and pianist Jerome Begin, joined with instantly familiar rock music.

Doug Varone & DANCERS
March 15-20
Tue-Wed 7:30pm; Thu-Fri 8pm;
Sat 2pm & 8pm; Sun 2pm & 7:30pm
Dance Chat: Wed, Mar 16
Tickets: $10 - $59; Joyce Members $26 - $44
Publicity Contact: Jennifer Lerner, (212) 486-7229

Doug Varone and his exquisite dancers take the Joyce stage for the much-anticipated New York premiere of their acclaimed new work, Chapters from a Broken Novel. Kindled by a bold cinematic score by David Van Tieghem, Varone's Chapters reveals a world teeming with everyday moments exposed for their beauty and rawness. Illuminated with humor and pathos, these twenty-two episodes are vivid, physically charged renderings of human interaction in spheres both public and private. With bold strokes of movement mingled with detailed intimate gesture, Varone once again paints human portraits with the nuance and complexity that has made him one of his generation's most compelling dancemakers. Chapters from a Broken Novel will be presented with live music performed by the score's composer, David Van Tieghem.

MERCE CUNNINGHAM DANCE COMPANY
Mar 22-27
Tue-Wed 7:30pm; Thu-Sat 8pm; Sun 2pm
Dance Chat: Wed, Mar 23
Tickets: $10 - $59; Joyce Members $26 - $44
Publicity Contact: Resnicow Schroeder Associates, (212) 671-5158

The Merce Cunningham Dance Company's first Joyce season, taking place in 1984, featured a ten-day series of Cunningham's signature Events, in which Cunningham and his dancers performed to live music by company musicians John Cage, Takehisa Kisugi, and David Tudor. For this, its final Joyce season before disbanding in December 2011 at the end of its two-year Legacy Tour, the company will give audiences the extraordinary opportunity to see Cunningham's choreography performed by the final group of dancers he personally trained in a repertory program that has not been seen in New York for decades. This profoundly moving engagement will include two Cunningham masterworks--CRWDSPCR and Quartet, and will conclude with Antic Meet, an iconic piece, not seen since 1969, that captures the exuberant and collaborative spirit that existed between the choreographer and Robert Rauschenberg.

PHILADANCO
March 29-Apr 3
Tue-Wed 7:30pm; Thu-Fri 8pm; Sat 2pm & 8pm
Sun 2pm & 7:30pm
Dance Chat: Wed, Mar 30
Tickets: $10 - $49; Joyce Members $26 - $37
Publicity Contact: TBD

Applauded for its dazzling style, technically flawless movement and devotion to preserving predominantly African-American traditions in dance, PHILADANCO arrives at The Joyce with works by stellar contemporary choreographers: Bolero Too!, created by Christopher Huggins in honor of the company's 40th Anniversary; By Way of the Funk, a new work by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar that harnesses the energy and culture of funk music; and the New York premiere of Ray Mercer's Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.

STEPHEN PETRONIO COMPANY
April 5-10
Tue-Wed 7:30pm; Thu-Sat 8pm;
Sun 2pm & 7:30pm
Dance Chat: Wed, Apr 6
Tickets: $10 - $59; Joyce Members $26 - $44
Publicity Contact: Janet Stapleton, (212) 633-0016

"One of the few contemporary dance makers who have created an instantly recognizable style... fresh and unpredictable, jarring and just right, "proclaims The New York Times about Stephen Petronio. His Underland is a vividly surging work, inspired by the dark, bittersweet songs of Australian balladeer Nick Cave. Dancers hurl through space with razor sharp precision, fiercely energized one moment, sensually lyrical the next. Underland unravels in a series of solos, duets, and ensemble passages that build a powerfully fractured, enigmatic world filled with hope and despair. Completing the vision is a triptych of projected imagery by Ken Tabachnick and Mike Daly, with costumes by Tara Subkoff/Imitation of Christ.

DANCEBRAZIL
April 12-24
Tue-Wed 7:30pm; Thu-Fri 8pm;
Sat 2pm & 8pm; Sun 2pm & 7:30pm
Dance Chat: Wed, Apr 13
Tickets: $10 - $39; Joyce Members $19 - $29
Publicity Contact: TBD

The "high-octane, high-flying" (The New York Times) energy of DanceBrazil takes center stage at The Joyce when the company returns for its 2011 season, with A Jornada (The Path), Artistic Director Jelon Vieira's landmark work that premiered at The Joyce in 2001. A Jornada follows the path of Africans to Brazil, using the Afro-Brazilian traditional art form of Capoeira as the base, the link to, and an expression of the struggle and liberation of Afro-Brazilian culture.

ARMITAGE GONE! DANCE
April 26-May 8
Tue-Wed 7:30pm; Thu-Fri 8pm;
Sat 2pm & 8pm; Sun 2pm
Dance Chat: Wed, Apr 27
Tickets: $10 - $39; Joyce Members $19 - $29
Publicity Contact: Richard Kornberg & Associates, (212) 944-9444

Karole Armitage and her stunning post-modern ballet company, Armitage Gone! Dance return to The Joyce for a two-week engagement, presenting two programs revealing her unique sensibility that at once embraces classical values and, as reflected in her Tony-nominated choreography for Hair, then knocks them askew. Program A is comprised of three works, Drastic-Classicism performed to Rhys Chatham's clangorous score; the deeply-loved and lyrical Ligeti Essays; and a new collaborative work with the re-emerging Dance Theater of Harlem. Program B is devoted to the mesmerizing Three Theories, described as "brainy brilliance translate[d]into exquisite extensions of the dance vocabulary."

DANZA CONTEMPORANEA de CUBA
May 10-22
Tue-Wed 7:30pm; Thu-Fri 8pm;
Sat 2pm (May 21 only) & 8pm (May 14 & 21);
Sun 2pm (May 15 & 22) & 7:30pm (May 22 only)
Dance Chat: Wed, May 11
Tickets: $10 - $59; Joyce Members $26 - $44
Publicity Contact: Richard Kornberg & Associates, (212) 944-9444

Making its highly-anticipated U.S. debut with a national tour that includes a two-week stop at The Joyce, Cuba's Danza Contemporanea de Cuba will provide audiences with the extraordinary chance to experience what Artistic Director Miguel Iglesias Ferrer refers to as the company's distinct style that isn't just a fusion of Spanish and African. It's also a statement, a way of life...about the freedom to act, and the willingness to openly express personal opinions." Highlighting the two programs will be eclectic choreographer ranging from Casi Casa, a work created by Swedish choreographic sensation Mats Ek, set to disco, hip-hop, swing and jazz, and Demo-N/Crazy, choreographed by the acclaimed Spanish choreographer Rafel Bonachela, the Artistic Director of Sydney Dance Company.

GOTHAM DANCE FESTIVAL
June 1-12
Tickets: $10 - $39; Joyce Members $19 - $29
Publicity Contact: Michelle Tabnick, (646) 765-4773
Fresh off the overwhelming success of last summer's presentation of four female choreographers, Gotham Arts Festival returns to The Joyce with expanded programming and a newly-branded festival. The festival will also present six talented emerging artists in Summer Sampler Matinees.

Monica Bill Barnes / Brian Brooks
with Kyle Abraham, Faye Driscoll, and Gregory Dolbashian
June 1-5
Wed 7:30pm (Brooks); Thu 8pm (Barnes); Fri 8pm (Brooks); Sat 2pm (Abraham, Driscoll, Dolbashian); Sat 8pm (Barnes); Sun 2pm (Abraham, Driscoll, Dolbashian); Sun 7:30pm (Brooks)

Monica Bill Barnes & Company presents a full evening of works anchored by the New York premiere of mostly fanfare, a piece embracing the struggle that makes live performances thrilling but potentially disastrous. For its Joyce debut, Brian Brooks Moving Company will present MOTOR, performed under a set enhanced by hundreds of cables that shoot out over the audience. Kyle Abraham, Faye Driscoll, and Gregory Dolbashian share this week's Summer Sampler Matinees.

Kate Weare / Patrick Corbin
with Julian Barnett, Ashleigh Leite and Sydney Skybetter
June 7-12
Tue 7:30pm (Weare); Wed 7:30pm (Corbin);
Thu 8pm (Weare); Fri 8pm (Corbin);
Sat 2pm (Barnett, Leite, Skybetter); Sat 8pm (Weare); Sun 2pm (Barnett, Leite, Skybetter);
Sun 7:30pm (Corbin)
Kate Weare Company performs a new work and a revival of The Light Has Not The Arms To Carry Us. For its Joyce debut, CorbinDances will present the world premiere of Shady, an evening length suite of dances representing the seven states of consciousness. Ashleigh Leite, Sydney Skybetter, and Julian Barnett share this week's Summer Sampler Matinees.

RIOULT
June 14-19
Tue 7:30pm; Wed 7pm; Thu-Fri 8pm;
Sat 2pm & 8pm; Sun 2pm & 7:30pm
Tickets: $10 - $49; Joyce Members $26 - $37
Publicity Contact: Jennifer Lerner, (212) 486-7229

Acclaimed for exquisite, sensual dancers and masterful choreography, RIOULT presents two world premieres on two diverse and superb programs. Program A features the much-anticipated world premiere of Bare Bach, an evening of powerful dances, set to Bach masterpieces, that magically transforms the experience of the composer's works. Program B switches gears with a world premiere, performed to the music of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, Aaron Jay Kernis that inaugurates RIOULT's Dance to Contemporary Composers series. Passionate, intensely human, intelligent work for audiences who are ready to be deeply moved - see RIOULT.

Savion Glover
June 21-Jul 9
Tue-Wed 7:30pm; Thu-Fri 8pm;
Sat 2pm & 8pm; Sun 2pm & 7:30pm
Tickets: $10 - $59; Joyce Members $26 - $44
Publicity Contact: TBD

Since his days of Bring In da Noise, Bring in da Funk, the extraordinary Savion Glover, perhaps the most acclaimed tap artist of our time, has dazzled audiences with his trademark speed, sound, and virtuosity. Hailed as the "Rhythm King" who "induces a state of awe" (Financial Times), Glover returns to The Joyce for a three-week season in July, where his boundary-pushing footwork will, once again, be on display.

PILOBOLUS
July 11-Aug 6
Mon-Wed 7:30pm; Thu-Fri 8pm;
Sat 2pm & 8pm;
Tickets: $10 - $59; Joyce Members $26 - $44
Publicity Contact: Richard Kornberg & Associates, (212) 944-9444

For forty remarkable years, Pilobolus has created and performed work that uses movement to express the beauty of physical and emotional interconnectedness in conflict with the glorious possibility of individual freedom. All this translates into a compelling canon that, through both intelligent humor and melancholy, continually draws audiences to it. The company's special 40th anniversary season features three extraordinary programs that look back in delight-with works like Untitled, a 1975 winner, and Duet, a passionate piece from 1992-and, at the same time, celebrate the amazing range of more recent endeavors that include startling multimedia initiatives and collaborations with artists representing genres far beyond the realm of dance. The season premieres highlight this amazing diversity-a mind-boggling solo featuring flying robots from MIT's Distributed Robotics Laboratory Flight Team; a rhythmically-propelled work created in collaboration with OK Go, the hot rock n' roll band; and a full-company piece created with Takuya Muramastu, the principal choreographer from Dairakudakan, one of Japan's most intriguing butoh companies.

ODC/DANCE
August 8-13
Tue-Wed 7:30pm; Thu-Sat 8pm
Tickets: $10 - $49; Joyce Members $26 - $37
Publicity Contact: Mona Baroudi, (415) 615-2735

Hailed by the San Francisco Examiner for its "exuberant repertory...daredevil intensity and considerable emotional candor," ODC/Dance returns to The Joyce with its ten magnificent dancers to celebrate the company's 40th anniversary. Artistic Director and Founder Brenda Way presents the New York premiere of Waving Not Drowning (A Guide to Elegance), her wry treatment of culture, fashion, manners and feminine perspectives set to a commissioned score by Pamela Z. The program also includes Co-Artistic Director KT Nelson‘s piece Grassland, performed to a commissioned score by Marcelo Zarvos; and Way's shape-shifting piece In the Memory of the Forest, named one of the top ten dance pieces in San Francisco in 2009, that touches on her late mother-in-law's memories of flight from Warsaw in 1941.

CISNE NEGRO
August 15-20
Mon-Wed 7:30pm; Thu-Fri 8pm;
Sat 2pm & 8pm
Tickets: $10 - $49; Joyce Members $26 - $37
Publicity Contact: Audrey Ross, (212) 877-3399

Founded by Artistic Director Hulda Bittencourt in 1977, Cisne Negro Dance Company stays true to its Brazilian roots while adhering to a classic modern dance style that is "admirably disciplined and wildly energetic." (The New York Times). For its Joyce season, the first since 2005, the company will present an eclectic program that includes Flock, an exotic take on Stravinsky's Firebird and Sabiá, a classic Cisne Negro piece that premiered in 1988 and features a divine combination of pointe shoes and contemporary movement performed to music created by Tom Jobim and Chico Buarque de Holanda, renowned Brazilian composers. As a special treat, ABT principal Marcelo Gomes appears in both Sabiá and in a solo work.

TICKET PRICES AND MEMBER INFORMATION
To become a Joyce Member, ticket buyers simply purchase tickets to four different companies at the same time and they automatically save 25% on tickets (not applicable for $10 or $19 tickets). Joyce Members are entitled to the 25% discount on additional tickets purchased throughout the season - until August 2011. For more information on becoming a Joyce Member, please visit www.Joyce.org or call JoyceCharge at 212-242-0800. Single ticket prices range from $10-$59. Tickets can be purchased by calling JoyceCharge at 212-242-0800, in person at the Box Office (Monday - Friday 12-6pm), or online by visiting www.Joyce.org. Please note: ticket prices are subject to change. The Joyce Theater is located at 175 Eighth Avenue (at 19th street).

DANCE CHATS
The Joyce Theater holds free post-performance dialogues (formerly called "Humanities") with artistic directors and/or company members following the performance on the first Wednesday of each company's engagement. These dialogues are open to all audience members attending that evening's performance.

FAMILY MATINEES
Created to help build dance audiences for the future, The Joyce's popular family-oriented performance series will return this fall with three family-friendly matinees, each followed by a special chance to meet the artists. Kids' tickets are only $10. Children who see two of the three family matinees automatically become Joyce Junior Members and save 40% on the price of their tickets ($10 reduced to $6). Children, ages 6-14, must be accompanied by an adult (maximum four kids to one grownup). Joyce Junior Members get a special "Backstage-at-the-Joyce" tour, a T-shirt and gift coupons.
This fall/winter season's Family Matinee series is as follows:
· Elisa Monte Dance Company - Saturday, March 5 at 2pm
· Philadanco - Saturday, April 2 at 2pm
· Naomi Goldberg Haas/Dances For A Variable Population - Saturday, May 21 at 2pm at Joyce Soho*
*Naomi Goldberg Haas/Dances For a Barialbe Populaton creates dynamic theatrical dance with diverse dancers of all shapes, sizes and ages. In this program of explosive contemporary dance, set to Michael Nyman's brass music and the hard core folk music of the Warsaw Village Band, the audience is invited to join the dancers on stage to explore the nature of movement and expression.

DANCE TALKS AT JOYCE SOHO
The Joyce Theater will continue its popular "Dance Talks" series this spring on March 14 from 6-8pm with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. These conversations between artists and audiences provide an informal, but in-depth examination of issues shaping dance today. "Dance Talks" are free and take place at Joyce SoHo (155 Mercer St, between Houston & Prince). Reservations: 646-792-8377.

ABOUT The Joyce Theater
The Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization, has proudly served the dance community and its audiences since 1982. 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 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 establish the theater. One of the only theaters built by dancers for dance, The Joyce Theater has provided an intimate and elegant New York home for more than 300 domestic and international companies. The Joyce has also commissioned more than 130 new dances since 1992. In 1996, The Joyce created Joyce SoHo, a dance center providing highly subsidized rehearsal and performance space to hundreds of dance artists. 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 pre-engagement 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. Additionally, for six years The Joyce has co-produced Evening Stars as part of the River To River Festival in Lower Manhattan.
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Leadership support for The Joyce Theater's 2010-2011 season has been received from the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust.

Major support has been provided by Alphawood Foundation, The Boeing Company, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, First Republic Bank, Fund for the City of New York, The Hearst Foundations, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation and The Shubert Foundation. Lead support has been provided by American Express, Bloomberg, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, MetLife Foundation, The New York Community Trust, and The Jerome Robbins Foundation.

The spring/summer 2011 season is made possible with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State's 62 counties; and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Performances at The Joyce Theater by national and international dance companies are supported, in part, through a generous endowment established by the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund. The Joyce's Commissioning Program is supported, in part, by the Stephen and Cathy Weinroth Fund for New Work. The Joyce's presentations of international dance companies are supported, in part, by The R. Britton Fisher and Family Gift for International Dance. The Joyce's Dance Education Program is supported, in part, by the Charles E. Culpeper Endowment Fund and the Constance Sanders Fund for Dance Education. Additional support is provided by a generous endowment established with funds from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust and many friends of The Joyce.

Ronald K. Brown / EVIDENCE
February 8-13
$10 - $39; Joyce Members $19 - $29

BUGLISI DANCE THEATRE
February 15-20
$10 - $39; Joyce Members $19 - $29

ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET
February 22-27
$10 - $49; Joyce Members $26-$37

Elisa Monte DANCE
March 1-6
$10 - $49; Joyce Members $26-$37

KEIGWIN + COMPANY
March 8-13
$10 - $49; Joyce Members $26-$37

Doug Varone & DANCERS
March 15-20
$10 - $59; Joyce Members $26 - $44

MERCE CUNNINGHAM DANCE COMPANY
March 22-27
$10 - $59; Joyce Members $26 - $44

PHILADANCO
March 29-Apr 3
$10 - $49; Joyce Members $26-$37

STEPHEN PETRONIO COMPANY
April 5-10
$10 - $59; Joyce Members $26 - $44

DANCEBRAZIL
April 12-24
$10 - $39; Joyce Members $19 - $29

ARMITAGE GONE! DANCE
April 26-May 8
$10 - $39; Joyce Members $19 - $29

DANZA CONTEMPORANEA de CUBA*
May 10-22
$10 - $59; Joyce Members $26 - $44

GOTHAM ARTS FESTIVAL
June 1-12
$10 - $39; Joyce Members $19 - $29

RIOULT
June 14-19
$10 - $49; Joyce Members $26-$37

Savion Glover
June 21-Jul 9
$10 - $59; Joyce Members $26 - $44

PILOBOLUS*
July 11-Aug 6
$10 - $59; Joyce Members $26 - $44

ODC/DANCE
August 8-13
$10 - $49; Joyce Members $26-$37

CISNE NEGRO
August 15-20
$10 - $49; Joyce Members $26-$37
Prices subject to availability and subject to change.