Conceived & Curated by Lar Lubovitch. Featuring Choreography by Pam Tanowitz RoseAnne Spradlin Tere O Connor Loni Landon

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1 For immediate release, please: Press contact: Richard Kornberg & Associates, (212) Richard Kornberg / Billy Zavelson / Thomas Raynor Richard@KornbergPR.com / Billy@KornbergPR.com / Thomas@KornbergPR.com The Joyce Theater Foundation Kicks off its Fall & Winter Season With a Special Event NY Quadrille A Transformative Two-Week Engagement of Dance Experienced in a New Way at The Joyce Conceived & Curated by Lar Lubovitch Featuring Choreography by Pam Tanowitz RoseAnne Spradlin Tere O Connor Loni Landon Two Week Engagement September 27 October 9 The Joyce Theater (175 Eighth Avenue at 19 th Street) (New York, NY August 26, 2016) After a robust and diverse season of dance, The Joyce Theater Foundation (Linda Shelton, Executive Director), New York City s premiere presenter of dance, proudly kicks off its 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 18 th century dance of the same name a quadrille was a dance performed in a rectangular configuration and seen from four sides therefore, The Joyce Theater will 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

2 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 or by calling JoyceCharge at Please note: ticket prices are subject to change. The Joyce Theater is located at 175 Eighth Avenue at 19 th Street. For more information, please visit Linda Shelton, Executive Director of The Joyce Theatre Foundation, said today, I am excited to begin our 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, Spradlin will present the world premiere of X, a trio that explores body consciousness and structural form in contemporary dance. The work features dancers Asli Bulbul, Kayvon Pourezar and Connor Voss - all well-known performers in the "downtown" NYC dance scene and sound design by NYC based visual artist Glen Fogel. Performances of Ms. Spradlin s X 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 8pm performance 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,

3 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, 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 or by calling JoyceCharge at Please note: ticket prices are subject to change. The Joyce Theater is located at 175 Eighth Avenue at 19 th Street. For more information, please visit ABOUT THE ARTISTS Lar Lubovitch (Conceiver and Curator of NY Quadrille) founded the Lubovitch Dance Company 46 years ago. In the years since, he has choreographed more than 100 dances for his New York-based company, which has performed in nearly all 50 American states as well as in more than 30 foreign countries. Mr. Lubovitch s dances are renowned for their musicality, rhapsodic style and sophisticated formal structures. His radiant, highly technical choreography and deeply humanistic voice have been acclaimed throughout the world. Lar Lubovitch has been hailed by The New York Times as "one of the ten best choreographers in the world," and the company has been called a "national treasure" by Variety. Pam Tanowitz (Choreographer) has been making dances since She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011 and the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University in In 2009 she received a Bessie Award for her dance, Be in the Gray With Me, at Dance Theater Workshop. Ms. Tanowitz has been invited to create new work for The Vail International Dance Festival and City Center s Fall for Dance Festival, and The Joyce Theater; has set work on The Juilliard School, Ballet Austin, New York Theater Ballet and Saint Louis Ballet; and has been a guest choreographer in the dance departments at Barnard College, Princeton University, Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, Marymount Manhattan College and Purchase College. Additional awards include three Joyce Theater Residency Grants, Jerome Robbins Foundation, and Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Grants to Artists Award. She holds dance degrees from The Ohio State University and Sarah Lawrence College. Ms. Tanowitz is Resident Fellow at New York University's Center for Ballet and the Arts and currently teaches at Rutgers University. She is the 2016 Juried Bessie Award Winner for her work "the story progresses as if in a dream of glittering surfaces". RoseAnne Spradlin (Choreographer) is a New York City-based artist whose work has been recognized with numerous awards; most recently she was named the winner of a 2014 US Artist Ford Fellowship in Dance. Other awards and honors include Fellowships in Choreography from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 1998, 2006 and 2011, a Guggenheim Fellowship in Choreography in 2007, the three-year Lambent Fellowship in Performing Arts in , the Artist Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2007 and an Artist Grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Creative Exploration Fund in She won a 2003 New York Dance and Performance BESSIE Award for Choreography for under/world (the production won a total of five BESSIES), and has received multi-year funding from the New York State Council on the Arts, four New York Foundation for the Arts BUILD grants, three MAP Fund grants and five years of support from the Jerome

4 Foundation among others. She received a Composer Commissioning grant in 2013 and a 2014 Project Grant from New Music USA. Tere O Connor (Choreographer) is Artistic Director of Tere O Connor Dance. He has created over 40 works for his company and toured these throughout the US, Europe, South America and Canada. He has created numerous commissioned works for other dance companies, including the Lyon Opera Ballet, White Oak Dance Project and solo works for Mikhail Baryshnikov and Jean Butler. Mr. O Connor received a 2013 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, is a 2009 United States Artist Rockefeller Fellow, and a 1993 Guggenheim Fellow among numerous other grants and awards. His work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts/National Dance Project, The MAP Fund, and many others. He has received three BESSIES, New York Dance and Performance Awards. In October 2014, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. An articulate and provocative educator, O Connor has taught at festivals and universities around the globe for 25 years. He is a Center for Advanced Studies Professor of Dance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he lives for one semester each year. O Connor is an active participant in the New York dance community mentoring young artists, teaching, writing, and volunteering in various capacities. Loni Landon (Choreographer) is a Dancer, Choreographer, and Movement Consultant based in New York City. In addition to creating dances for her own collective, Loni Landon Dance Projects, her work is commissioned by Dance Companies and Filmmakers across the country. Born and raised in New York City, Landon received her BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School in After Juilliard, Landon performed with Aszure Barton and Artists, Ballet Theater Munich, Tanz Munich Theater, and The Metropolitan Opera. Landon is the 2013 Princess Grace Choreography Fellowship winner. Her company has performed at The Joyce Theater and Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out Series, as well as at Bryant Park and the first annual Beach Sessions in Rockaway Beach. Landon has won numerous awards including 1st Prize Winner of Ballet Austin s New American Talent Competition, Winner of Northwest Dance Project s Pretty Creatives Choreography Competition, Winner of the Next Commission from CityDance Ensemble, Finalist in the International Solo Tanz Theater Competition in Stuttgart, Germany, and Finalist in the Hannover International Choreography Competition. Alongside Gregory Dolbashian, Landon cofounded THE PLAYGROUND, an initiative designed to give emerging choreographers a place to experiment, while allowing professional dancers to participate affordably. 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 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. * * * 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 NY Quadrille has been commissioned by The Joyce Theater s Stephen and Cathy Weinroth Fund for New Work. Special support for The Joyce s presentation of the NY Quadrille provided by Howard Gilman Foundation and Michael Rubin Architects. Major support for The Joyce s Closing the Gap Initiative promoting female

5 choreographers provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. 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, 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, New England Foundation for the Arts National Dance Project, and The Jerome Robbins Foundation. # # #