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Joyce King Artistic Director/Choreographer/Educator
‘King is recognized for multi-nuanced abstract and literal choreographic story telling, which seek truths that liberate. In that quest, she is fearless.’ - Bonnie Rosenstock/Explore Dance
RECIPIENT OF * 2020 Creative Residency Grant- Spoke The Hub (one of two awardees - Spring) * 2018 CUNY Dance Initiative Residency Program - Brooklyn College * NYC10 Audience Top Pick - DIXON Place * BUILD Grant a program of NYFA for the Arts * Field Artist Residency Program - FAR Space
Artistic Director, Joyce King/JKing Dance Company, (JKDC) - choreography has been presented at over 25 venues. Additionally self - produced evenings at Ailey Citigroup Theater 2012 - 2015 and The James and Martha Duffy Performance Space - 2019, celebrating JKDC’s 10 year Anniversary.
Venue Highlights Making Moves Dance Festival - MainStage APAP NY - Jazz at Lincoln Center /Appel Room - Booking Dance Festival, APAP NY - Ailey Studio Theater and MMAC - Construction Company Portfolio, Gelsey Kirkland Theater - WHITE WAVE’S DUMBO and COOL NY Grounds for Sculpture - NJ Your Move Dance Festival, NJ Brooklyn Dance Festival The TANK Elgin Ties Dance Festival, IL NYC Children’s Museum Boston Contemporary Dance Festival Massachusetts Dance Festival Tribute to ‘Luigi’, - Jazz Choreography Enterprises, GreenSpace -Take Root and Fertile Ground Southern VT Dance Festival Spoke the HUB - Winter Follies and Local Produce Festival of Performing Arts DIXON Place - 8 in a Show and Style Pointe Fashion & Dance Louis Vuitton Project, ’Life Is a Journey’ - Collaboration With LV/Joffrey/ Parsons HIGH FEST International Performing Arts Festival - Yerevan, Armenia
Commissioned Choreography Joffrey Jazz & Contemporary Summer Intensives - Symphony Space Spirit Dance Academy, Costa Rica, Eduardo Zumbado Vasquez Dir. Bedford Dance Repertory - Ensemble Director Melissa Teixeira DanceWorks, Auditorio Nacional, Costa Rica American Expression of Dance, Dir. Anne Weichers Cirque du Soleil audition piece - Nana Hitoma
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Contact: 347.451.5393 [email protected] www.JoyceKingDance.com
Joyce King Artistic Director/Choreographer/Teacher
TEACHING - NYC - On Faculty
Steps on Broadway, NYC - Diane Grumet, Dir. 2002 - 2015 - Jazz/Contemporary faculty open classes - Adv. Beginners to Union/Professionals.Special private classes for groups from Australia, France, Italy, Costa Rica, Utah, Maryland, Alabama, Pennsylvania, New England areas and more.
Joffrey Ballet Trainee Program -Mr. Robert Ray, Ms. Era Jouravlev, Artistic Dir., 2011 - 2017 Permanent Jazz faculty - Teach/assess, up to 40 students ranging in ages, 13 - 24 yrs old.
Joffrey Jazz & Contemporary Summer Intensives Michael Blake, Dir. 2011 - 2016. Teach/Choreography Contemporary Jazz - ages 10 - 25 years old - 3 week intensives School at Steps, NYC-Kate Thomas, Dir. Teaching Children’s Preprofessional Academic levels - cover
Broadway Dance Center, NYC- Vanessa Byard, Dir. Business Guest faculty - open classes
Abroad HIGH FEST International Performing Arts, Yerevan, Armenia Broadway Dance Center - K Broadway, Tokyo Japan Dance Works, Costa Rica Jazz Fest, San Jose Spirit Dance Academy, San Jose, Costa Rica Dansstage Dance Festival, Brugge/Belgium Studio Paris Centre, Paris France
Teaching History (Open, master classes, summer intensives) Steps on Broadway, NYC Joffrey Ballet Trainee Program and Jazz & Contemporary Trainee Program and J & C Summer Intensive - NYC Broadway Dance Center, NYC - Guest Teacher Spirit Dance Academy, Costa Rica DanceWave , NY Jazz Unlimited , NJ Upstate Dance and Arts Center, NY Peridance Center, NYC American Expressions of Dance, Utah NY National Dance Convention, Salt Lake City Utah
Residencies and Lecture Demonstrations
Impulse Dance Company- (IDC) - as a company member for four years, I traveled to public schools throughout the New England area and Arizona, to present lecture demonstrations introducing IDC repertory, teach, choreograph and co - create new works with the students. Adrienne Hawkins, Artistic Director, Boston, Ma.
DanceWave Residencies - NY PS315 Performing Arts School - Ana Fragoso, Dir., School’s Dance program. Created and developed an eight to twelve week program - 2 yrs. covering the History of Jazz, the Music of Michael Jackson for five second grade classes; culminated in a final presentation for the student’s parents and the school’s additional grades within the school. From 19 to 28 students per class.
Adjudicator Jazz Choreography Enterprises, Inc. NH Youth Dance Festival/NH Performing Arts
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Bedford Dance Center, NH - Regular guest Kearsarge Conservatory of the Performing Arts Southern NH Dance Theatre, NH - Regular guest Philadelphia Dance Theater, Pennsylvania N- Step Dance Center, NH NH Acadamie of Dance, Step Above Most,NH Associated Dance Teachers of NJ Dancers in Motion, NJ Dance Plus, NJ Jean Stelter Dance Studio, NY
Joyce King Artistic Director/Choreographer/Educator References Marian Hyun, Co-Artistic Dir, Jazz Choreographer Enterprises, Inc. (JCE)NYC [email protected] Karen Pariseau, Director/Owner of BDC, NH - [email protected] 603.472.5141 Adrienne Hawkins, Artistic Director/Educator/Choreographer, MA - [email protected]
PERFORMANCE King is a past union member in good standing for many years under Actors Equity and AFTRA. She withdrew membership with both unions upon establishing JKing Dance Company - turning her focus toward choreography, directing and teaching.
THEATER
Cats Demeter/Victoria/Cassandra Theatre An Der Wien, Austria A Chorus Line Cassie, Dance Captain. National Theater Guild Fame: The Musical Student & U/S Lambchops Coconut Grove Playhouse and Walnut St-Jennifer Muller, Chor Inside Out Leanne Synchronicity Space,Doug Hall,Dir The Pad Franny DiMaggio(Lead) Miranda Theater -Doug Hall, Dir. CPR Regina Napolitano Shomburg Center, NY Aida Dancer Boston Opera, Sam Kurkjian, Chor. Die Fledermaus Dancer Boston Opera, Graciele Daniele, Chor
INDUSTRIALS/TELEVISON/VIDEO Ellesse MediaTech Inc. NFL Ken Longert Productions Chrysler/Dodge Robert Jani Productions Michael Jackson Sportswear W.Hirsh Productions, Inc FAME NBC ~ 42nd St.(dream sequence) The Lady Starring Ben Vereen Red Dancing Shoes CBS Productions
CONCERT DANCE
Impulse Dance Company Soloist Adrienne Hawkins, Dir., Boston Richard Levi Dance Company Soloist Richard Levi, Dir., NYC
TRAINING King has extensive training in dance, acting (scene study/cold readings/improv) and voice. Past Awards: Full Scholarships to Jacobs Pillow, MA and American Dance Festival, NC.
Ballet: Boston Ballet - Virginia Williams, Hartford Ballet, NHSB - Suzanne Michaud, Dir/Founder Jazz: Michael Owens, Lynn Simonson, Richard Levi, Adrienne Hawkins, Fred Benjamin, Bruce Taylor, Suzanne Taylor - Michaud (Luigi /Giordano) Modern: Miquel Lopez, Milton Myers African: Chuck Davis Acting: Charles Kakatsakis, Douglas Hall, Daniel Nagrin Film Study: Sally Johnson Voice: Frank Kubic, Joyce Hall, Mary Rodgers Musical Theater Seminars: Jack Lee Oxford School of Drama, England - Shakespeare Intensive Summer Program: Renata Allen,David Yates, George Peck, Jane Lapotaire, Rebecca Saire, Fiona Laird, Edward Pinner, Brian Boothby.
Tel: 347.451.5393 *www.JoyceKingDance.com* [email protected] * JKDramatiCreations, LLC
