Keely Garfield’s TWIN PINES is part of Focus Dance at the Joyce
The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Ave. at 19th St.
January 7-12, $10-$39
212-242-0800
www.focusdance.us
www.joyce.org
The third edition of Focus Dance, the annual celebration of American movement-based art, will take place January 7-12 with four programs presented by the Joyce Theater in conjunction with Gotham Arts Exchange. Curated by Laurie Uprichard, each performance runs between eighty-five and one hundred minutes and features two U.S.-based companies, beginning January 7 with Vicky Shick and Dancers’ Everything You See and doug elkins choreography, etc.’s Scott, Queen of Marys (also January 12). Morgan Thorson’s The Thing of It Is and Keely Garfield Dance’s Twin Pines (part real, part arboreal) double up on January 8 and 11, while Yvonne Rainer and Group’s Assisted Living: Do You Have Any Money? and Urban Bush Women’s Dark Swan team up on January 9 and 12. The final program pairs Jean Butler’s Hurry with Mark Haim Dance and Theater’s This Land Is Your Land. The pieces are a mix of old and new works and offer a concise yet broad look at the current American dance scene.