“She is riveting, someone who commands the space, is enviably articulate (physically and verbally) and can entrance her audience with a grand, elastic extension or the subtle raising of an eyebrow.” - By Heather Desaulniers
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Joy Davis is a dance artist and educator steeped in the practices of Countertechnique®, improvisation, and performance.
She began studying Countertechnique® with founder Anouk van Dijk in 2005 and became one of four Americans certified as Teachers in 2012.
She teaches in the US and Canada including workshops at Gibney Dance, Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation, Lion's Jaw Dance + Performance Festival in Boston, American Dance Festival, Bates Dance Festival, and One Body One Career Countertechnique® Intensive hosted by Springboard Danse Montréal.
joyproject (2006) creates collaborative dance theater performance which evokes contemplation, humor, and elegant design.
2011 Chicago Dancemakers Forum Greenhouse Artist, 2009 Choreographic Resident at the Workspace for Choreographers, 2016-2017 Choreographer's Lab Artist with New Dialect (Nashville), 2018 NeXt Choreographer for Urbanity Dance (Boston), and was awarded the 2019 Next Steps grant from The Boston Foundation.
She collaborates with partner Eric Mullis, performing at UrBan Guild Kyoto, Fact/SF Summer Dance Festival San Francisco, Goodyear Arts in Charlotte, and RAD Fest in Kalamazoo, MI.
The Davis Sisters, Joy and Alexander Davis, were awarded a 2018 Schonberg [Boston] Fellowship residency at The Yard to develop and perform a new work; named inaugural 2019 Choreography Residency recipients at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, and are touring New England in 2019 - 2020 through a new initiative called New England Dance on Tour.
They are Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) Run of the Mills 2020 artists, and piloted a digital variety show commissioned by the BCA in summer 2020 called Summer Sundays with the Sisters.
Joy received an MFA in Choreography and Performance from Smith College, and has since taught as visiting faculty at Smith College and Wesleyan University in 2015; as Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University in Theater, Dance & Media fall 2016 and spring 2020;
Associate Professor of Dance at Boston Conservatory at Berklee 2016-present)
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@sistersdavisthe
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