Joyce King/JKing Dance Company(JK/JKDC), based in Brooklyn, NY, is a professional all-female ensemble founded by King to amalgamate multiple dance forms (ballet, jazz, and modern), with human behavior to arouse diverse perspectives and awaken a shift in our aesthetic values and emotional influences. It addresses preconceived ideas and delicate topics (e.g., mental illness, bullying, gender bias, self-perception) through the art of storytelling - some metaphoric, some literal, creating a richly textured and emotional landscape of interdisciplinary art.
Additionally, it offers artistic outlets for young emerging dancers and the creative aging to develop, rehearse, and share the stage with JK/JKDC in performance. It is passionate about creating works that stimulate self-discovery and comprehension of life complexities in their simplest form, provoking audiences to explore territories of the mind and heart. It believes dance is a way to generate cultural bridges, a catalyst to release fears, encourage joy, and open dialogue on events that shake our social and personal world.
'The works in "UnWrapped" are provocative, emotional and daring'.
- Marilynn Larkin / Explore Dance
JK/JKDC has presented at over 30 venues, self-produced multiple performances in NYC, and debuted internationally at the HIGH FEST Performing Arts Festival in Armenia. It's choreographic style has brought numerous opportunities to showcase repertory as part of Green Space/Take Root- split bill, JCAL-Connections-Black Box, Making Moves Dance Festival-Main Stage, Dance Bloc Festival, Underground Movement/ Vol.5 Union St. Dance, Alpha Omega-STUDIO to Stage, Jazz at Lincoln Center/Appel Room Booking Dance, Ailey Studio Theater- Construction Company Portfolio, NimbusPRESENTS, MMAC, Salvatore Capezio Theater, Brooklyn Dance Festival, The TANK, JCE -Tribute to Jazz Legend Luigi, Lenox Hill programs - JCE, WHITE WAVE DUMBO/COOL NY, New Wave -Sam Scripps Theater, Jazz Choreography Enterprises Anniversary Celebration, WAX, PMT Performance Series, DIXON Place, STH Winter Follies, The HATCH/Muller Series, Tribeca Performing Arts-Guest Artists/DW, NYC Children Museum of Arts, Grounds for Sculpture, Style Pointe-Fashion & Dance Collaboration, NY Fashion Week-Luis Vutton, Your Move Dance Festival, Boston Contemporary Dance Festival, Massachusetts Dance Festival, Southern VT Dance Festival, and Elgin Ties Dance Festival-IL.
In 2012 through 2015, JK/JKDC self-produced an evening of works at the Ailey Citigroup Theater and again in 2019 and recently October 2024 at The James and Martha Duffy Performance Space, and has showcased an excerpt for the Independent Adult Center-Brooklyn. These performances and the 2020 virtual workshops (passing pose) and showcases, provides outlets for the professional and young emerging artists, and the creative aging.
Additionally, it offers artistic outlets for young emerging dancers and the creative aging to develop, rehearse, and share the stage with JK/JKDC in performance. It is passionate about creating works that stimulate self-discovery and comprehension of life complexities in their simplest form, provoking audiences to explore territories of the mind and heart. It believes dance is a way to generate cultural bridges, a catalyst to release fears, encourage joy, and open dialogue on events that shake our social and personal world.
'The works in "UnWrapped" are provocative, emotional and daring'.
- Marilynn Larkin / Explore Dance
JK/JKDC has presented at over 30 venues, self-produced multiple performances in NYC, and debuted internationally at the HIGH FEST Performing Arts Festival in Armenia. It's choreographic style has brought numerous opportunities to showcase repertory as part of Green Space/Take Root- split bill, JCAL-Connections-Black Box, Making Moves Dance Festival-Main Stage, Dance Bloc Festival, Underground Movement/ Vol.5 Union St. Dance, Alpha Omega-STUDIO to Stage, Jazz at Lincoln Center/Appel Room Booking Dance, Ailey Studio Theater- Construction Company Portfolio, NimbusPRESENTS, MMAC, Salvatore Capezio Theater, Brooklyn Dance Festival, The TANK, JCE -Tribute to Jazz Legend Luigi, Lenox Hill programs - JCE, WHITE WAVE DUMBO/COOL NY, New Wave -Sam Scripps Theater, Jazz Choreography Enterprises Anniversary Celebration, WAX, PMT Performance Series, DIXON Place, STH Winter Follies, The HATCH/Muller Series, Tribeca Performing Arts-Guest Artists/DW, NYC Children Museum of Arts, Grounds for Sculpture, Style Pointe-Fashion & Dance Collaboration, NY Fashion Week-Luis Vutton, Your Move Dance Festival, Boston Contemporary Dance Festival, Massachusetts Dance Festival, Southern VT Dance Festival, and Elgin Ties Dance Festival-IL.
In 2012 through 2015, JK/JKDC self-produced an evening of works at the Ailey Citigroup Theater and again in 2019 and recently October 2024 at The James and Martha Duffy Performance Space, and has showcased an excerpt for the Independent Adult Center-Brooklyn. These performances and the 2020 virtual workshops (passing pose) and showcases, provides outlets for the professional and young emerging artists, and the creative aging.
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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you........ As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
From the movie, “Coach Carter”, (which was co-written by John Gaitins and Mark Schwahn) in response to “What is your biggest fear?” The original passage can be found in its entirety written by Mariann Williamson. Photo by Peter Yesley |
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'King has given the little girls inside us a chance to scream without uttering a sound,
beautiful, breathtakingly beautiful.' ~ Maria Gentile, NYC Singer/Songwriter
beautiful, breathtakingly beautiful.' ~ Maria Gentile, NYC Singer/Songwriter
'Most people know me as an actress, but the truth of it is that I started off as a dancer, so my heart is always first and foremost in the dance world. The most powerful women are up there and it’s just an empowering dance company for women. The choreography is so fluid, so great, so special.’ -Ilene Kristen, Actress, ABC’s ‘General Hospital’, ‘One Life to Live’, ‘Ryan’s Hope