Gibney Firm, New York Metropolis’s dynamic creation-based repertory firm recognized for its rigorous physicality and responsive, humanistic storytelling, returns to The Joyce Theater Might 6-11, 2025, with a putting program of world premieres and firm debuts. The night options daring new works by legendary choreographer Lucinda Childs, motion innovator Peter Chu, and internationally acclaimed dancemaker Roy Assaf, every bringing a singular perspective on movement, construction, and emotional resonance.
Lucinda Childs’ Three Dances (for ready piano) John Cage embraces the rhythmic depth of John Cage’s 1944-45 composition Three Dances, exploring the intricate interaction between music and motion. This breathtaking world premiere for eight dancers highlights Childs’ hallmark postmodern minimalist type and her profound dedication to structured repetition. Reflecting her enduring curiosity in transdisciplinarity and formalism, the work echoes her foundational days with the Judson Dance Theater, delivered to life with putting precision.
In Echoes of Sole and Animal, Peter Chu incorporates qi gong and taiji ideas, encouraging dancers to yield to the unseen and let inside sensations information their movement. Drawing from conventional Chinese language practices that nurture vitality move, stability, and breath, this piece explores the interaction of opposites—power paired with softness, growth alongside contraction, stillness woven into movement—embodying the yin-yang essence of concord. Set towards a richly immersive soundscape, Chu’s work and inventive course of deepens the dancers’ connection to their atmosphere, making a dynamic area the place pulse and rhythm intertwine.
Roy Assaf’s A Couple debuts with the corporate, presenting a young and highly effective exploration of human bonds. Tailored from his bigger work Determine No. 16, this duet serves as a poetic reflection on relationships—presumably romantic, presumably platonic, or maybe transcending labels totally. Accompanied by Johannes Brahms’ soulful piano compositions, delivered to life by Glenn Gould, A Couple captures the evolving dynamics between two people, weaving a narrative that feels each intimately private and broadly relatable.
“This season at The Joyce embodies what Gibney Firm stands for—bringing collectively choreographers with distinct voices, motion languages, and inventive philosophies to form a program that challenges, evokes, and strikes us,” says Gina Gibney, Founder, Inventive Director, and CEO of Gibney. “Lucinda Childs, Peter Chu, and Roy Assaf every convey a singular lens to bounce, providing profoundly totally different but equally compelling views on how motion can talk, resonate, and evolve.”
“Gibney Firm is constructed on the concept dance is a dialog—between artists, disciplines, traditions, and generations,” provides Firm Director, Gilbert T. Small II. “This program brings collectively choreographers whose work is formed by their histories, their influences, and the questions they discover by way of motion. We’re honored to collaborate with such extraordinary artists whose work expands the boundaries of latest dance.”
The corporate’s Joyce season will happen Tuesday, Might 6 by way of Friday, Might 9 at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Might 10 at 2:00 p.m. and seven:30 p.m., and Sunday, Might 11 at 2:00 p.m. Tickets begin at $12 and can be found for buy joyce.org.
On Thursday, Might 8, be a part of choreographer Lucinda Childs and biophysicist and utilized mathematician Michael Shelley, Ph.D. after the efficiency for a vigorous dialogue about their time collectively as individuals in Open Interval, a singular residency created by Gibney and the Simons Basis that brings collectively dancemakers and scientists to discover the intersection of artwork and science.
