The Joyce Theater Presents LUCINDA CHILDS DANCE COMPANY

Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. (Linda Shelton, Executive Director) is proud to present a two-week engagement of The Lucinda Childs Dance Company, November 29 to December 11, featuring two programs of works created over five decades by the Bessie and Obie Award-winning choreographer, produced by Pomegranate Arts.

Tickets range in price from $26-$71 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.

Week one of The Lucinda Childs Dance Company, its first return to The Joyce Theater since its successful 2010 engagement, will feature the New York premiere of Ms. Childs' latest program Lucinda Childs: A Portrait. This program showcases five decades of choreography by Ms. Childs, including her seminal works Pastime (1963), Radial Courses (1976), Interior Drama (1977), Concerto(1993), as well as the New York premieres of Canto Ostinato (2015), a section of Lollapalooza (2010) and Into View, which was commissioned by The Joyce Theater for this incarnation of the company. Lighting design for Lucinda Childs: A Portrait is by John Torres and costume design is by Carlos Soto. Performances of Lucinda Childs: A Portrait will take place as follows: November 29 & 30 at 7:30pm; December 1 & 2 at 8pm; December 3 at 2pm & 8pm; and December 4 at 2pm.

Into View was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional commissioning support provided by the Executive Director's Fund at The Joyce Theater Foundation (New York City).

The second week's program will be an encore presentation of Ms. Childs' signature 1979 evening-length work Dance, last presented at The Joyce Theater in 2010. This exhilarating piece is set to a specially commissioned score by Philip Glass and the original film décor by Sol LeWitt, in which the work's original dancers are projected in perfect synchronization with the live dancers on stage. Dancefeatures lighting design by Beverly Emmons and costume design by A. Christina Giannini. Performances of Dance will take place as follows: December 6 & 7 at 7:30pm; December 8 & 9 at 8pm; December 10 at 2pm & 8pm; and December 11 at 2pm.

Performances of The Joyce Theater's presentation of The Lucinda Childs Dance Company, produced by Pomegranate Arts, will take place November 29 to December 11 at The Joyce Theater (175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street) according to the following schedule: Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30pm; Thursday and Friday at 8:00pm; Saturday at 2:00pm & 8:00pm; Sunday at 2:00pm.

Lucinda Childs: A Portrait: November 29 & 30 at 7:30pm; December 1 & 2 at 8pm; December 3 at 2pm & 8pm; and December 4 at 2pm.

Dance: December 6 & 7 at 7:30pm; December 8 & 9 at 8pm; December 10 at 2pm & 8pm; and December 11 at 2pm.

Curtain Chat, a free post-performance talkback with Lucinda Childs, will take place on Wednesday, November 30. This enlightening discussion is open to all patrons attending that evening's performance. Tickets range in price from $26-$71 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 Lucinda Childs

Lucinda Childs began her career at the Judson Dance Theater in 1963 where she choreographed thirteen works and performed in works of Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton, and Robert Morris. Since forming her Dance Company in 1973, she has created over fifty works, both solo and ensemble. In 1976, she collaborated with Robert Wilson and Philip Glass on the opera Einstein on the Beach, as principal performer and choreographer for which she received a Village Voice Obie award. In the subsequent revival in '84 Childs choreographed the two "Field Dances" for the opera. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1979 for her collaboration, Dance, with music by Philip Glass, and film décor by Sol LeWitt. Since 1981, she has choreographed over thirty works for major ballet companies which include the Paris Opera Ballet, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, and Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Company. She has also worked as choreographer and, more recently, both choreographer & director for sixteen opera productions including Mozart's Zaide for La Monnaie in Brussels, Stravinsky's Le Rossignol et Oedipe, Vivaldi's Farnace, and Handel's Alessandro, voted "Opera of the Year" by Mezzo-TV 2013. In 2014 she directed a new production of John Adams Dr. Atomic for the Opera du Rhin, and Jean Baptiste Lully's Atys and Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice for Opera Kiel in Germany. The Summerscape Festival at Bard College commissioned the revival of Dance in 2009, which continues to tour in the United States and Europe and is currently included in the repertory of the Lyons Opera Ballet. Available Light (1983) with music by John Adams and set by Frank Gehry was revived for the 2015-16 season, and she recently choreographed Beethoven's Grande Fugue for the Lyon Opera Ballet, premiering as part of this engagement at The Joyce Theater. Childs received the Bessie Award for Sustained Achievement in 2001 She was elevated from the rank of Officer to Commander in France's Order of Arts and Letters in 2004. In 2009 she received the NEA/NEFA American Masterpiece Award.

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.

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Lead support for The Joyce Theater Foundation has been received from Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust.

The presentation of The Lucinda Childs Dance Company was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Underwriting support provided by Bruce G. Miller and Melanie Coronetz. 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.

The Joyce Theater's Dance Presentation Program is supported by a grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts; and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; as well as supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council with special thanks to Council Member Corey Johnson.

Major support has been provided by Ford Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Pasculano Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The SHS Foundation, and The Shubert Foundation. Key support has been provided by First Republic Bank, The Florence Gould Foundation, The Hearst Foundations, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and The Jerome Robbins Foundation.

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