The Joyce Theater Presents Kate Weare Company in NY Premiere of MARKSMAN

The Joyce Theater Foundation (Linda Shelton, Executive Director) is excited to welcome back the New York-based Kate Weare Company, last seen at The Joyce in 2011 as part of the Gotham Dance Festival, for the New York premiere of Marksman from November 9-13. Tickets range in price from $26-$46 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.

Kate Weare Company was established in 2005 to showcase Artistic Director Kate Weare's intimate, raw, and intense choreography.The company now returns to The Joyce Theater to present Ms. Weare's latest work, Marksman, which premiered this past June at the American Dance Festival to critical acclaim.

An expansion of her 2015 work Unstruck, which premiered at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music and is supported by a creative residency provided by The Joyce Theater Foundation, Marksmanfeatures Weare's unique choreographic language set to an original score by composer Curtis Robert Macdonald, with sets designed by artist Clifford Ross. Featuring the company's six stunning dancers whomove seamlessly across the stage in various duets and trios, they take turns sculpting their bodies into notches for others to push and pull through. Drawing its inspiration from Zen in the Art of Archery by German philosophy professor Eugrn Herrigel, Marksman examines the senses we use to discover one another and how the interactions we share with others ultimately shape us over time.

Performances of Kate Weare Company's Marksman will take place from November 9-13 at The Joyce Theater (175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street) according to the following schedule: Wednesday at7:30pm; Thursday, Friday & Saturday at 8:00pm; and Sunday at 2:00pm. Tickets range in price from $26-$46 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.

ABOUT KATE WEARE COMPANY

Kate Weare Company is a New York-based contemporary Dance Company known for its startling combination of formal choreographic values and visceral, emotional interpretation. Weare's dances explore contemporary views of intimacy, both tender and stark, by drawing on our most basic urges to move and decode movement. The company's working method stems from a close communion in the studio that mines the body's innate capacity for truth-telling: our need for safety, our longing to connect, our desire to be seen, our irrepressible intelligence about who we are as individuals. Kate Weare cultivates the potent individuality of each of her dancers to unleash a chemistry onstage that is both heartfelt and seductive. The company has been presented nationwide by Jacob's Pillow, American Dance Festival, Bates Dance Festival, ODC Theater, ArtPower at UC San Diego, Ringling Museum of Art, Dance Celebration Philadelphia, Spring to Dance St. Louis, Northrop Concerts and Lectures at the University of Minnesota, Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, among other venues and festivals. In New York, the company has been presented at Brooklyn Academy Of Music, The Joyce Theater, Fall for Dance at New York City Center, The 92nd St. Y, Symphony Space, The Skirball Center, Dancemopolitan at Joe's Pub, Dance Theater Workshop, and Danspace Project. Company teaching residencies have included NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, Long Island University, Marymount Manhattan College, Brockport College, Bates Dance Festival, and Hobart and WilLiam Smith Colleges.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Kate Weare (Artistic Director/Choreographer ) makes dances with rawness and precision, dealing with violence, sensuality and interconnectedness through the power and clarity of the moving body. Raised by visual artists in the San Francisco Bay Area, Weare received her Bachelor's of Arts from CalArts and danced in Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Belgrade and Montreal before settling in New York City. She founded Kate Weare Company in 2005 and has steadily gained recognition for her uncompromising, articulate choreographic vision. Weare received The Guggenheim Fellowship Award in 2014, Mellon Foundation Residency and Commissioning Awards from The Joyce Theater in 2014 and 2011, and a Princess Grace Fellowship for Choreography in 2009. She is the Inaugural Artist-in- Residence chosen for BAM's Fisher Residency Program in 2013, which marked Kate Weare Company's BAM debut in The Next Wave Festival. Other recent awards include: White Bird's Barney Choreographic Prize, Evelyn Sharp CalArts Summer Choreographic Residency Award, Jacob's Pillow Residency & Commission, First Prize in NYC's The AWARD Show, Danspace Project Commission, Bates Dance Festival Residency and a MANCC Choreographic Fellowship. Fascinated by collaboration, Weare has commissioned original scores from and performed live with: composer Michel Galante of Argento Chamber Ensemble; experimental violinist David Ryther; old time band The Crooked Jades (Jeff Kazor & Lisa Berman); opera composer Barbara White of Princeton University; indie band One Ring Zero (Michael Hearst & Joshua Camp); electro-acoustic cellist/composer Christopher Lancaster; saxophonist/composer Curtis Robert Macdonald. Weare has relished collaborating with visual artists Kurt Perschke and Clifford Ross for set design in her dances: Lean-to (2009) Garden (2011) Dark Lark (2013), and Marksman (2016). Companies worldwide have commissioned Weare's work, among them Scottish Dance Theater, The Limón Dance Company, ODC Dance, The Juilliard School and GroundWorks Dance Theater. She has taught as a Guest Artist at Princeton University, The Juilliard School, NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Keene State University, Marymount Manhattan, among others.

ABOUT THE Joyce Theater Foundation

The Joyce Theater Foundation ("The Joyce," Executive Director, Linda Shelton), a nonprofit organization, has proudly served the dance community for over three decades. Under the direction of founders Cora Cahan and Eliot Feld, Ballet Tech Foundation acquired and The Joyce renovated the Elgin Theater in Chelsea. Opening as The Joyce Theater in 1982, it was 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. Ownership was secured by The Joyce in 2015. The theater is one of the only theaters built by dancers for dance and has provided an intimate and elegant home for over 400 U.S.-based and international companies. The Joyce has also presented dance at Lincoln Center since 2012, and launched Joyce Unleashed in 2014 to feature emerging and experimental artists. To further support the creation of new work, The Joyce maintains longstanding commissioning and residency programs. Local students and teachers (K-12th grade) benefit from its school program, and family and adult audiences get closer to dance with access to artists. The Joyce's annual season of about 48 weeks of dance now includes over 340 performances for audiences in excess of 150,000.