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The Joyce Theatre Foundation is a leading presenter of dance in New York City and nationally. It is runs, in part, from the Joyce Theater , a 472-seat dance performance venue located in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City .
The theater showed films from its opening in 1942 until 1978. Its longtime manager, Ben Barenholtz , invented midnight movie programming for the theater. Following a full renovation, the building reopened in 1982 as a 472-seat dance theater operated by the Joyce Theatre Foundation .
Eliot Feld (born July 5, 1942) is an American modern ballet choreographer, performer, teacher, and director. Feld works in contemporary ballet. [citation needed] His company and schools, including the Feld Ballet and Ballet Tech, are involved in dance and dance education in New York City.
The Sarasota Ballet has been invited to perform at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., with the Suzanne Farrell Ballet [1] and Ballet Across America III, [2] at Fall for Dance at the New York City Center, [3] the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival [4] [5] and the Joyce Theater.
Larry Keigwin was one of the 2011 Society of Directors and Choreographers' Joe A. Callaway Award Recipients, which "recognizes excellence in the craft of directing and choreography during the New York City theatre season." [10] He was awarded the American Dance Festival's Doris Duke Award for New Work in 2004, 2006, 2008. [11]
Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig's PearsonWidrig DanceTheater was formed in 1987 in New York City.Their work has been produced by the city's major dance venues including Lincoln Center, the Joyce Theater, the City Center Fall for Dance Festival, DTW, the Kitchen, Central Park SummerStage, P.S. 122, The 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Project, and Dancing in the Streets.
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The first completed theater was created with the help of sculptor John Seward Johnson II of the Johnson & Johnson family and his wife Joyce. In honor of its benefactors, it was named the Joyce and Seward Johnson Theater. It is currently one of the largest theaters off-off-Broadway. Renovation of the building was finally completed in 2001.