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Ballet Vlaanderen

Mad Scene, choreography and costumes by Drew Jacoby

What do these dance companies have in common? They’ve all appeared at the Joyce in the heart of Chelsea. The 472 seat Joyce is named after the daughter of the donor who underwrote the building in 1982 for $225,000. Sigh, pocket change in 2019. The building had begun life in 1941 as the Elgin, a movie house. Even if you don’t like modern dance, it’s a treat to go to the Joyce. Not a bad seat…

What do these dance companies have in common? They’ve all appeared at the Joyce in the heart of Chelsea. The 472 seat Joyce is named after the daughter of the donor who underwrote the building in 1982 for $225,000. Sigh, pocket change in 2019. The building had begun life in 1941 as the Elgin, a movie house. Even if you don’t like modern dance, it’s a treat to go to the Joyce. Not a bad seat (maybe an exaggeration about the first two rows) in the house and the 1981-2 renovation was perfect. 

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company

Eiko & Koma

Hubbard Street Dance

John Jasperse Company

Urban Bush Women

Molissa Fenley

Pacific Northwest Ballet

Lucinda Childs Dance Company

Paul Taylor Dance Company

Martha Graham Dance Company

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo

Dorrance Dance

Ronald K. Brown/Evidence

Eliot Feld Ballet

Garth Fagan Dance

Pam Tanowitz Dance

Kyle Abraham/abraham.in.motion

Batsheva Dance Company

Ballet Hispanico

Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Paul Taylor Dance Company

On Monday, a friend and I went to a half hour showing of the Royal Ballet of Flanders. The program included Sidi Large Cherkaoul’s Faun and an excerpt of  Drew Jacoby’s Supreme. Beautifully presented to a packed house (at least the main seating section). 

Graphic Lessons: What do a thirty-four-year old, a nine-year-old and an eighteen-year-old have in common? Murder. 

Millie Fitzgerald applies for a private school teaching job, faints on a  dying man in the school kitchen, deals with a troubled nine-year-old and with the eighteen-year-old niece of the murdered man.

Graphic Lessons: Nine-year-old Dana is the only witness who overhears a person fighting with George Lopez, the soon to be stabbed Windsor School kitchen worker. Who can she tell? Her mother who never listens or accuses her of lying? Her father who’s started a new family in Singapore? She tells Millie.