About Journey
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Journey is a solo dance originally choreographed in 1958 and later incorporated into a revised version of a larger work by Trisler called Theater Piece (1960). Journey is set to The Unanswered Question by Charles Ives (1874-1954), composed some time before 1909 -- a short, intensely evocative orchestral mood-poem comprising a steady, soft background of muted strings, a persistently repeated "question" by a solo trumpet and an unsuccessful hunt for the "answer" undertaken with increasing urgency by the flutes.
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Joyce Trisler performed with Alvin Ailey when they were members of the Lester Horton Dance Group in Los Angeles. After coming to New York and performing with Doris Humphrey's Juilliard Dance Theatre, she joined Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. She garnered a reputation as a choreographer both on and off Broadway and served as artistic director of the Joyce Trisler Danscompany until her death in 1979.
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