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The Joyce Theater

The Joyce Theater, located at 175 Eighth Avenue, New York City, opened in 1982. It was founded by dancers Cora Cahan and Eliot Feld in a former movie house to create a dedicated space for dance performances. The Joyce is renowned for presenting a diverse range of dance styles, including contemporary, ballet, hip-hop, and international dance. The theater has become a premier venue for both established and emerging dance companies, offering audiences access to high-quality performances. The Joyce Theater is celebrated for its commitment to supporting the dance community and enriching the cultural fabric of New York City. Read more about Dance.

A group of dancers in earth-toned costumes leap and tumble across a dimly lit stage, their bodies captured midair above a reflective floor under focused beams of light.

Observer’s Guide to the Best Dance Coming to New York City This Winter

The coming months are jam-packed with fascinating festivals, classical ballets and international performances.
By Caedra Scott-Flaherty
A collage of four vertical images of female performers in dance and opera productions

Fall Culture Preview: Comic Books, Sex Workers and Life in a Thai Restaurant

Maybe by demystifying “highbrow” forms, we can protect them from being co-opted by ideologues.
By David Cote
A group of dancers in satin costumes bends forward in formation, each spinning a long necklace above their heads in Mark Morris’s You’ve Got to be Modernistic.

Mark Morris’ Latest Work at The Joyce Is Pure Delight

'You’ve Got to be Modernistic' marks a jubilant high point in Mark Morris Dance Group’s 45th anniversary season.
By Caedra Scott-Flaherty
A black-and-white photograph features two dancers in tight unitards performing expressive, angular movements in front of long vertical ribbons hanging from above.

Paul Taylor Dance Company’s ‘Tablet’ Is an Archaic Courtship, Staged Anew

By Caedra Scott-Flaherty
A woman with long curly hair, wearing a tan blazer, black top, patterned pants and tap shoes, is mid-motion in a lively dance pose with one leg kicked high, in a spacious room with large industrial windows and wooden floors.

Ayodele Casel On Dance, Community and Her New Show ‘The Remix’

By Caedra Scott-Flaherty
Three male dancers in brown costumes perform a synchronized, emotional movement with their mouths open wide in an expression of intensity during Peter Chu’s "Echoes of Sole and Animal."

Gibney Company Brings Souls, Soles and a Prepared Piano to the Joyce

By Caedra Scott-Flaherty
An image showing two dancers onstage: a male dancer in a black mesh shirt and shorts leans toward a female dancer in a corset-style bodice and long red skirt, both holding an intense pose from Deaths and Entrances during a rehearsal by the Martha Graham Dance Company.

Deaths, Entrances and Memory at The Joyce

By Caedra Scott-Flaherty

Spring Preview: Fight Doom and Gloom as Dance and Opera Speak Truth to Power

By David Cote
An image of a male dancer mid-jump with arms and legs fully extended, while a female dancer in a black leotard stands in the background, her posture suggesting movement.

Cuban Contemporary Dance Comes to The Joyce

By Caedra Scott-Flaherty
Three male dancers standing in curved, stylized poses, surround a seated drummer playing a hand drum. All dancers are shirtless and dressed in white pants, emphasizing their muscular forms and movement.

Limón Dance Company at The Joyce: Dances Lost and Found

By Caedra Scott-Flaherty

The Violent Beauty of Botis Seva’s BLKDOG

By Caedra Scott-Flaherty

Opera and Dance Fall Preview: A Rich Tapestry of Politics, Myth and Mortality

By David Cote
Two male dancers stand in expressive fluidity

Melanie George Presents Jazz at The Joyce and More

By Caedra Scott-Flaherty
Dancers with painted bodies surround a dancer who gazes at the ceiling

Between Mountain and Sea: Butoh Comes to the Joyce

By Caedra Scott-Flaherty

Don’t Miss: Rhythm and Ritual in Dada Masilo’s ‘The Sacrifice’

By Caedra Scott-Flaherty

Fall Arts Preview 2022: Opera and Dance You Won’t Want to Miss

By David Cote
Ballet and Opera Steaming in Fall 2020.

Unmissable Ballet and Opera Streaming in Fall 2020

By Charlotte Barnett

The 10 Performances Not to Miss in Dance This Spring

By Charlotte Barnett

From ‘Marnie’ at the Met to James Whiteside’s Surrealist Leaps, the Must-See Opera and Dance of Fall 2018

By Michael Martin
Kara Chan front and center in Twyla Tharp's The Raggedy Dances.

Twyla Tharp Is Back With a New Dance Set to Dylan’s Love Songs

By Robert Gottlieb
The Joffrey Ballet's Christine Rocas and Rory Hohenstein in Romeo & Juliet.

The Joffrey Returns to New York With a Provincial ‘Romeo & Juliet’

By Robert Gottlieb
Elizabeth Burke, Byron Tittle, Michelle Dorrance and Christopher Broughton in The Blues Project at The Joyce Theater.

Michelle Dorrance: Bring in ’da Tap, Bring in ’da Joy

By Robert Gottlieb
John Selya and Amy Ruggiero in "Country Dances" by Twyla Tharp.

Twyla Tharp Ups the Ante with Beethoven at the Joyce

By Robert Gottlieb
Mikhail Baryshnikov performs Brodsky/ Baryshnikov, based on the poems of Joseph Brodsky at BAC on March 8, 2016.

Even When He’s Not Dancing, Baryshnikov Steals the Show

By Robert Gottlieb
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