The Precious Everything

Joy Davis | joyproject in collaboration with native ATL performer, Ginny Coleman, will premier an evening length work exploring concepts such as the strength and vulnerability of motherhood, that bones are suspended in tissues, and the thin veil between performer & audience, which just might morph into a guided improvisation dance party.

WHEN:

Saturday, March 7th at 8:30PM

WHERE:

Fly on a Wall

2450 Piedmont Rd NE

Atlanta, GA 30324

DURATION:

45-50 mins

PRICING: USE DISCOUNT CODE "FLY50" FOR 50% OFF TICKETS UNTIL SHOW DAY

General Admission: $25

Artist Rate: $18

PARKING:

www.flyonawall.buzz

If you are signed up for the Workshop, this performance is FREE for you!

ABOUT THE WORK:

This dance work is rooted in the real lives of Joy and Ginny. It grows out of their ongoing friendship/collaboration, and is built through a process of accumulation from which a collection of fragments/vignettes has emerged that honor the complexity of two individuals inhabiting shared time without dissolving into sameness. Distinct, yet deeply entangled. A living negotiation between trust and autonomy, listening inward and leaning outward.

Two texts inform the creation of the work, David Whyte’s “Just Beyond Yourself”

“Just beyond yourself. It's where you need to be. Half a step into self-forgetting and the rest restored by what you'll meet. There is a road always beckoning. When you see the two sides of it closing together at that far horizon and deep in the foundations of your own heart at exactly the same time, that's how you know it's the road you have to follow. That's how you know it's where you have to go. That's how you know you have to go. That's how you know. Just beyond yourself, it's where you need to be.”

And George Musser in conversation with Annika Harris in her book “Lights On”

“...when we walk across a room, we are not gliding passively through a pre-existing expanse. Something is happening. There’s a machinery at work, a grinding of gears, deep within nature to produce the experience of being here and being there. When you stretch an arm to grasp a pencil, and it’s just outside your reach, something is acting to thwart you, creating what you perceive to be distance. And when we ask what that machinery might be, we have arrived at the outermost frontier of modern physics.

ABOUT JOY:

Joy Davis is a dance artist and educator based in Charlotte, NC. She is a Senior Countertechnique® Teacher and Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at Davidson College, teaches on faculty at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and previously at Harvard University and Smith College, amongst others. joyproject is a platform for collaboration and production (est, 2006), with an upcoming 2026 premier of “The Precious Everything” with collaborator Ginny Coleman. The Davis Sisters –Joy and Alexander Davis– create absurdist dance theater supported by performances at The Yard, MFA Boston, and recent touring to XFest at SIUE & Fact/SF Summer Dance Festival, to name a few. Joy regularly collaborates with husband, Eric Mullis, and cherishes the integration of artistic and family life. Ginny Coleman began moving professionally with the Atlanta Ballet in 2004 under the direction of John McFall. While there, she worked with choreographer in residence, Lauri Stallings, which sparked her desire for contemporary movement and a more deeply creative process. Ginny later became a founding moving artist with Stallings’s Atlanta-based platform, glo, participating in hundreds of new public performances, installations, interventions, and exhibitions across the Southeast. In 2020, Ginny relocated to Charlotte and continues to collaborate with artists she adores, including Joy Davis. At home, she and her husband care for a sweet pup, a well-fed cat, a four-season garden, a flock of chickens, and two rambunctious children.