The Joyce Theater Foundation Kicks Off 2016-2017 Fall & Winter Season With a Special Event

After a robust and diverse 2015-2016 season of dance, The Joyce Theater Foundation (Linda Shelton, Executive Director), New York City's premiere presenter of dance, proudly kicks off its 2016-2017 Fall & Winter Season with NY Quadrille, a unique two-week long engagement conceived & curated by famed choreographer Lar Lubovitch, and featuring world premieres by four acclaimed choreographers/companies Pam Tanowitz Dance, RoseAnne Spradlin, Tere O'Connor Dance and Loni Landon Dance Project. The title of the engagement, NY Quadrille, was inspired by the 18th century dance of the same name - a "quadrille" was a dance performed in a rectangular configuration and seen from four sides - therefore, The Joyce Theaterwill be temporarily transformed from September 27 - October 9. Each choreographers' quadrille will be performed in their own program, with each program performed four times over the two week season.

Pam Tanowitz Dance
Tue, Sep 27 & Wed, Sep 28 at 7:30pm; Sat, Oct 1 at 2pm & 8pm
Curtain Chat: Sat, Oct 1 (following 2pm perf.)

RoseAnne Spradlin
Thu, Sep 29 and Fri, Sep 30 at 8pm; Sun, Oct 2 at 2pm & 7:30pm
Curtain Chat: Fri, Sep 30

Tere O'Connor Dance
Tue, Oct 4 and Wed, Oct 5 at 7:30pm; Sat, Oct 8 at 2pm & 8pm
Curtain Chat: Sat, Oct 8 (following 2pm perf.)

Loni Landon Dance Project
Thu, Oct 6 and Fri, Oct 7 at 8pm; Sun, Oct 9 at 2pm & 7:30pm
Curtain Chat: Fri, Oct 7

Tickets for NY Quadrille are $35 (General Admission; there will be no assigned seating) and can be purchased at www.Joyce.org, or by calling JoyceCharge at 212-242-0800. Please note: ticket prices are subject to change. The Joyce Theater is located at 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street. For more information, please visit www.Joyce.org.

Linda Shelton, Executive Director of The Joyce Theatre Foundation, said today, "I am excited to begin our 2016-17 season with The Joyce's unique collaboration with Lar Lubovitch and his concept of exploring the ways dance can be experienced at The Joyce. This two-week engagement challenges the boundaries of the ways we are used to seeing performances here, and also how we perceive and view dance - both spatially and artistically - by tasking four choreographers with creating work for this temporarily designed configuration."

Founded in 2000, Pam Tanowitz Dance has enjoyed great success, with Tanowitz receiving commissions and residencies at some of New York's most coveted theaters, including Dance Theater Workhop, Danspace Project, Joyce SoHo, The Guggenheim Museum's Works & Process Program, Baryshnikov Arts Center, and Central Park Summerstage. For NY Quadrille, Ms. Tanowitz will present the world premiere of Sequenzas and Furtive Moments, a new dance in two parts with the first set to "Berio Sequenzas" for violin, viola and trombone, and the second set to "Furtive Movements" by TEd Hearne. Both scores will be performed live by members of The Knights, an orchestral collective based in New York, who previously accompanied Pam Tanowitz Dance at The Joyce. The evening length work will highlight the unique arrangement of The Joyce Theater for NY Quardille by placing the musicians at various locations throughout the theater. Sequenzas and Furtive Moments will feature former Merce Cunningham Dancers Meliss Toogood and Dylan Crossman, alongside four other dancers. Performances will take place on the following schedule:Tuesday, September 27 at 7:30pm; Wednesday, September 28 at 7:30pm; Saturday, October 1 at 2pm & 8pm. A Curtain Chat, a free post-performance dialogue with artistic directors and/or company members, will follow the 2pm performance on Saturday, October 1.

Making her Joyce Theater debut, RoseAnne Spradlin is the next artist on deck for the quadrille festivities. New York City-based, her choreographic work explores body consciousness, love of the individual dancer and innovation of structural forms in contemporary dance. Like Ms. Tanowitz, Ms. Spradlin will present the world premiere of a trio, The Undertone, which aims to bring visual art and dance together, and it will feature dancers Asli Bulbul, Kayvon Pourezar and Connor Voss - all well known performers in the "downtown" NYC dance scene. Performances of Ms. Spradlin's The Undertone will take place on the following schedule: Thursday, September 29 at 8pm; Friday, September 30 at 8pm; Sunday, October 2 at 2pm & 7:30pm. A Curtain Chat will follow the 8pmperformance on Friday, September 30.

Tere O'Connor's choreography finds its logic outside the realm of "translation," operating in a sublinguistic area of expression. He views dance as a system with its own properties; an abstract documentary form that doesn't search to depict. In addition to a great love of movement and a deep commitment to choreographic craft and design, more philosophical urges animate Mr. O'Connor's work. From his earliest efforts, the complex entanglement of passing time, metaphor, constant change, tangential thought, and memory have ignited an exploration into the nature of consciousness. For the NY Quadrille, Mr. O'Connor will present two pieces performed by Tere O'Connor Dance:Undersweet and a world premiere of an untitled work specifically commissioned for NY Quadrille.Undersweet, which premiered during the American Realness Festival in January 2015, is a duet in which Mr. O'Connor works from the supposition that formalism might result from repressed sexual desire, with the piece serving as a choreographic meditation on paradox finds expression in dance. The piece will be performed by Michael Ingle and Silas Riener, on the original dancers of the piece. Performances of Tere O'Connor Dance will take place on the following schedule: Tuesday, October 4 at 7:30pm; Wednesday, October 5 at 7:30pm; Saturday, October 8 at 2pm & 8pm. A Curtain Chat will follow the 2pm performance on Saturday, October 8.

Finally, rounding out the foursome of choreographers featured is Loni Landon Dance Project. The youngest company on the bill, Loni Landon Dance Project performs original works featuring lush, innovative movement full of subtle detail and sophistication by Artistic Director Loni Landon, who aims to maintain a highly charged emotional current throughout every piece. Mr. Landon will present two pieces during the NY Quadrille. The first is Rebuilding Sandcastles, which made its premiere at The Joyce Theater February 1, 2013. Ms. Landon will then join her quadrille colleagues in presenting a untitled world premiere in which she aims to investigate the transmission, or lack thereof, of human energy, and its emotional repercussions within the digital and real worlds. Landon will confront the tension we carry between our real and digital-selves and investigate what can be gained from this duality of self. Loni Landon Dance Project will perform on the following schedule: Thursday, October 6 at 8pm; Friday, October 7 at 8pm; Sunday, October 9 at 2pm & 7:30pm. A Curtain Chat will follow the 8pm performance on Friday, October 7.

Performances of The Joyce Theater's NY Quadrille will take place from September 27 - October 9 at The Joyce Theater (175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street) with the following schedule:

Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30pm; Thursday and Friday at 8pm; Saturday at 2pm & 8pm; Sunday at 2pm & 7:30pm. Tickets are $35 (General Admission) and can be purchased at www.Joyce.org, or by calling JoyceCharge at 212-242-0800. Please note: ticket prices are subject to change. The Joyce Theater is located at 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street. For more information, please visit www.Joyce.org.