Dan Joyce |
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JOYCE received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in dance from the North Carolina School of the Arts in 1983 and his Master of Fine
Arts from George Mason University in 2003. He was a scholarship student at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, Jacob's Pillow
Dance Festival and with the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company at New York University. He began his professional career with the Maryland Dance
Theater and spent four years with Concert Dance Company of Boston. Dan joined the Mark Morris Dance Group in 1988, at that time the
national ballet of Belgium, and worked with the company for ten years. He has performed over thirty works created by Mark Morris,
including concert dance pieces, operas and film projects. During his tenure with the Group he served as a company rehearsal director
for several repertory pieces, taught numerous master classes across the United States and Great Britain, and was Mr. Morris' assistant
for the film version of Dido and Aeneas, produced by Rhombus Media in Canada. Since leaving the company in 1998, Dan has been a faculty
member at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA teaching modern dance and ballet technique classes, Dance History, composition and
choreography for undergraduates and graduate students, as well as a number of Special Topics courses. He has choreographed six works
for the University Dance Company and served as rehearsal director for several guest artist pieces including Marble Halls, choreographed
by Mark Morris and performed in the 2001 Gala Concert at the Center for the Arts. In 2004, Dan was awarded a $6,000.00 grant for summer
research study from the Office of the Provost, which he utilized to acquire another Morris work Beautiful Day, performed in Harris
Theater, as our representative to the regional American College Dance Festival at Ohio State University, and in the 2006 Gala Concert.
In 2002, he choreographed the Mary Hall Surface/David Maddox musical Mississippi Pinocchio, premiered by the Theatre of the First Amendment
and continued his collaboration with them on remounts of their shows Sing Down the Moon and Perseus Bayou, as well as The Odyssey of
Telemaca in 2003. In 2006 he contributed choreography and musical staging for their new production Lift: Icarus and Me. Dan has taught
at numerous regional American College Dance Festival events and has been an instructor for the National Festival held at the Kennedy
Center for three consecutive seasons. He served as an adjudicator for the South/Central regional festival in Oklahoma in 2005. In
July 2005 Dan worked in Moscow, Russia with the Maida Withers Dance Construction Company on an international collaboration of Russian
and American artists performed at Lisner Auditorium in Washington, DC in April '06 and in Moscow and Siberia in May '07. This production
was recognized as the "Outstanding Overall Production in a Large Venue" by the 2006 Metro DC Dance Awards. He is frequently called
upon to deliver pre-performance lectures for the Dance Department and for various events in the Center for the Arts Concert Hall.
In 2006 Dan was also asked to speak at the Wolftrap Center for the Performing Arts and taught modern dance technique for the school
of the Washington Ballet summer program.This past summer he was on faculty at the Virginia Governor's School for Humanities and
Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Richmond. Dan makes his home in Arlington,Virginia. |
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