GREENHOUSE ARTIST 2011

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. Founded in 2006, joyproject creates collaborative dance theater performance which evokes contemplation, humor, and elegant design. She was a Chicago Dancemakers Forum Greenhouse Artist, Choreographic Resident at the Workspace for Choreographers, Choreographer’s Lab Artist with New Dialect (Nashville), NeXt Choreographer for Urbanity Dance (Boston), and was recently awarded the 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. Joy and Alexander Davis, The Davis Sisters, were awarded a 2018 Schonberg [Boston] Fellowship residency at The Yard to develop and perform a new work; were named inaugural 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. During Covid-19, they are hosting and curating Summer Sundays with the Sisters, A Variety Show, a project commissioned by the Boston Center for the Arts. Joy received an MFA in Choreography and Performance from Smith College, and has since taught as visiting faculty at Smith College and Wesleyan University; as Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University in Theater, Dance & Media during fall 2016 and spring 2020. Currently: Associate Professor of Dance at Boston Conservatory at Berklee.