San Francisco-based LEVYdance returns to Joyce SoHo with the New York premiere of ROMP, an immersive experience in which audience and performers inhabit the stage together while constructing a welcoming environment that is charged with possibility. Seating dancers and audience members together at banquet tables, ROMP provides a familiar setting for everyday interactions to transform and create an increasingly surreal and hyper-expressive world. The San Francisco Chronicle named ROMP one of the Bay Area's "Top 10 Dance Moments of 2011". read more »

For the past two years, the New York City-based duo Satoshi Haga and Rie Fukuzawa have been creating unique duet work. This season, the choreographers present an evening of mysterious labyrinths and curious Yin/Yang relationships in the premiere of The Same, Only Different; a re-visioning of Two in a Wild Fancy (2006); and their signature work Thread (2010), a second place winner at The A.W.A.R.D. Show! New York City 2010. read more »

Malcolm Low, 2011 fellowship award recipient of the New Directions Choreographic Lab at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, will perform a work about love and loss that features demanding physicality and verbal stories with original text by Malcolm Low and the dancers. Working with Gregory Bain, Low will create a new world vision. read more »

Stefanie Nelson Dancegroup (NYC) returns to Joyce SoHo with the New York premiere of Prolegomena II, co-produced by Triskelion Arts. This dynamic and provocative work, created in collaboration with visual artist Karolien Soete and composer Alexander Berne, is the result of a year long exploration of literal and metaphoric darkness, characterized by movement that isolates and elevates. Prolegomena II features special musical guests The Beast and violinist Regina Sadowski, and live mural painting. read more »

For six days and thirteen events, twenty eclectic experimental dance and performance artists will provide an amazing first time look at new work. Artists include luciana achugar, Karen Bernard, Nami Yamamoto (USA), Daniel Linehan (USA/Belgium) and Marie Brassard in collaboration with Sarah Williams (Quebec). Another first is the presentation of two Polish artists--Karol Tyminski, and Marta Ziolek. read more »

Chicago-based Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak explores the artist's water-like vocabulary within a testosterone-laced environment and asks 'where is the intersection between ferocity and fragility?' Juxtapositions abound—the "coffee is for closers" rant from Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross; a mash up of Bohemian composer Biber with lewd '90s rap, lip-syncing; and an imitation of Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men. read more »

Alexandra Beller/Dances appears as a part of our "In rep" series, in which three companies rotate performances over a three week season.

Performed by Alexandra Beller/Dances, other stories is a collection of interwoven movement events that highlight the friction between stories. When we are confronted, particularly within an intimate relationship, with a story that diverges from ours, how do we deal with that friction against our reality? Created in collaboration with legendary rock musician/composer Robert Poss and celebrated dramaturg Katherine Profeta, other stories is a layered multimedia performance that triggers memory, emotion, and heightened awareness through deeply personal and evocative movement. read more »

skybetter and associates appears as a part of our "In rep" series, in which three companies rotate performances over a three week season.

Brooklyn-based skybetter and associates presents the company's deepening investigation into affect, mathematics, and memory. Tracing the development of Skybetter's formalism, the company will perform The Laws of Falling Bodies (2009), Temporary Matters (2011), Little Boy (2012) and the world premiere of For Want of Sleep, featuring a commissioned score by composer Sxip Shirey. read more »

Decadancetheatre appears as a part of our "In rep" series, in which three companies rotate performances over a three week season.

Brooklyn-based all female theatrical hip-hop crew Decadancetheatre returns to Joyce SoHo with a high energy evening of repertory favorites, including When the Sky Breaks 3D, and world premieres featuring an international roster of b-girls, poppers, lockers, wavers, house and experimental hip-hop dancers. A live DJ will provide the score for this unstoppable evening of electric hip-hop dance theatre. read more »

After twenty years making works for individuals, groups, and his own company, Chunky Move, Gideon Obarzanek has created Faker, a disarmingly personal solo performance of his own, exposing the expectations and disappointments, creative aspirations, and personal doubts of dance and theatre making. Frank and darkly humorous, Faker offers a rare insight into the mind of one of Australia's most acclaimed creators. read more »

To celebrate the 150th birthday of modern-dance pioneer Loïe Fuller (1862-1928), Time Lapse Dance presents a season honoring her legacy. In tribute to Fuller, choreographer Jody Sperling, considered the foremost interpreter of Fuller's art, offers an evening of dances that vary from reverential to experimental. The program includes the premiere of a new biographical tribute work as well as revivals of Sperling's Roman Sketches (2007) and Turbulence (2011). read more »

Based in both NC and NYC, Helen Simoneau Danse, led by French-Canadian choreographer Helen Simoneau, presents Flight Distance I, II, III, and IV, an evening exploring the boundaries of personal space. The performance includes original music by Jerome Begin, Jonathan Melville Pratt, and Chris Andraka, with video by Jose Luis Bustamante. Two of the four pieces are NY premieres. read more »

A Pick Up Performance Co(s) Production

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2012 marks fifty years of David Gordon making work. Mr. Gordon hijacks Joyce SoHo's theater for a world premiere of an unprecedented extended run to kick off this momentous post-modern anniversary.

Beginning of the End of the Beginning of
New comic dramatic emotionally loaded theater movement narrative written/choreographed & directed by David Gordon
generated from Luigi Pirandello's writings & familiar themes incl:
absurd inconsistencies of what we see
& how we see & questions of identitee
w/8 actors & dancers & 2 puppets playing 16 roles
in 2 acts w/no intermission.

the Beginning of the End of the Beginning
New comic dramatic emotionally loaded theater movement narrative based on Luigi Pirandello's 1911 story A CHARACTER'S TRAGEDY
& his 1921 3 act play SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR
& his 1923 1 act play THE MAN WITH THE FLOWER IN HIS MOUTH
w/8 actors & dancers & 2 puppets playing 16 roles
in 2 acts w/no intermission.

of the Beginning of the End of the
New comic dramatic emotionally loaded theater movement narrative
w/behavioral movement & gesture & physical shadowing/partnering
& w/incidental music (possibly by Pirandello peer Giacomo Puccini)
& w/stg flats, chairs, door frames & script pgs
& rolling/"dancing" scenic devices
& light designed by Jennifer Tipton
on 4 separate but adjoining "stages"
w/8 actors & dancers & 2 puppets playing 16 roles
in 2 acts w/no intermission.

Beginning of the End of the Beginning of
New comic dramatic emotionally loaded theater movement narrative
Beginning: @ Joyce SoHo on June something 2012
End: @ Joyce SoHo on June something else 2012.

-- David Gordon, December 2011 read more »

Makiko Tamura/small apple co., a New York based company, performs the world premiere of Tank, along with two other distinguished works. These poetic dances, created in collaboration with a visual artist, set designer, and small apple's distinctive dancers, awaken emotional memories through flowing movements and puppet-like gestures. read more »

Inspired by the films City Lights and An American In Paris, NYC's Drama Desk-nominated Parallel Exit presents the premiere of an evening-length comic ballet, I ♥ BOB: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Guy, a work that follows the story of two desperately lonely characters attempting to connect amid the speed and chaos of 21st century New York. Featuring a live, original score, the work is created by director Mark Lonergan, choreographer Ray Hesselink, and composer Wayne Barker. read more »