The Joyce Theater is a 472-seat dance performance venue located in the Chelsea area of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Dance (from French danser, perhaps from Frankish) is an Art form that generally refers to movement of the body usually rhythmic Chelsea is a neighborhood on the West Side of the Manhattan borough of New York City. Manhattan Island, in New York Harbor, is much the largest part of the Borough of Manhattan, one of the Five Boroughs which form the City of New York The City of New York The Joyce Theater Foundation, the organization founded in 1982 that operates the theater, also owns the Joyce SoHo dance center located in a former firehouse on Mercer Street between Houston and Prince Streets. This article is about an area of Manhattan, New York City. For the area in London UK see Soho. Houston Street redirects here For the Major League Baseball player with a similar name see Huston Street.
In 2005, the Foundation was among 406 New York City arts and social service institutions to receive part of a $20 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation, which was made possible through a donation by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. The City of New York The Carnegie Corporation of New York is a nonprofit organization in the United States. Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is an American businessman and the Mayor of New York City. [1] [2]
The Joyce is located in the former Elgin Theater, a 1941 revival movie house that was closed by the community after it became a porno theatre. This article is about the theater in New York For Canadian theatres of that name see Elgin Theatre. Pornography or porn is the explicit depiction of Sexual subject matter with the sole intention of sexually exciting the viewer The Elgin was completely renovated to create in the Joyce a venue suitable for dance, a process that took two years[1]. The theater was conceived of and created by Eliot Feld and Cora Cahan as a home for the Feld Ballet, and continues to be owned by Ballet Tech Foundation Inc. See also Eliot Feld (born July 5, 1942) is an American modern ballet choreographer performer and director The theatre attracts an audience of over 140,000 people annually.
The architect for the 1982 renovation/rehabilitation was Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates. The theatre consultant was Jules Fisher Associates. The acoustical consultant was Peter George Associates. [2]
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- ^ Kisselgoff, Anna (1981-07-26), “Creating A Theater Just for Dance”, New York Times, <http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F03EFD9163BF935A15754C0A967948260&sec=&spon=&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink>. This article is about the theater in New York For Canadian theatres of that name see Elgin Theatre. This is a list of theaters designated for the express purpose of presenting dance performances Retrieved on 4 May 2008
- ^ Armstrong, Leslie; Morgan, Roger [1984]. Space for Dance. Publishing Center for Cultural Resources, pp. 101-105, 151.
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