About Journey
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Joyce Trisler, one of the Ailey company’s first members, set her ethereal female solo to Charles Ives’s “The Unanswered Question.”
A solo dance originally choreographed in 1958 and later incorporated into a revised version of a larger work by Joyce 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.
Generous support for this new production was provided by The Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey - Sara & Bill Morgan New Works Endowment Fund and The Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn & Nicolas Rohatyn New Works Endowment Fund.
This work has also been made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Choreographer
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 Julliard Dance Theatre, she joined Mr. Ailey's 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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