Join us for a FREE masterclass/ADF Pre-Professional Dance Intensive Audition with sought after artist and faculty member of the American Dance Festival, Joy Davis!

When: March 13, 2022

Cost: FREE

Where: 417 Brooks Street

            Wake Forest, NC 27587

Time: 2:00PM-3:00PM (Masterclass for ages 13 and up)

          3:00PM-4:00PM (ADF Pre-Professional Intensive Audition for ages 13-17)

TWO $1,000 SCHOLARSHIPS will be awarded towards ADF 2 week Summer Pre-Professional Intensive tuition. The scholarships are graciously funded by the American Dance Festival and the Dancing Angels Foundation.

Students interested in auditioning for ADF 2 week Summer Pre-Professional Dance Intensive, must attend the masterclass and prepare a 1 minute solo. For more information about the program and additional requirements please click HERE.

Joy Davis is a dance artist & educator steeped in practices of Countertechnique®, improvisation, and performance. She began studying with Countertechnique® Founder Anouk van Dijk in 2005 at the American Dance Festival; was certified as a Teacher in 2012 and recently Senior Teacher in 2021. Founded in 2006, joyproject is a framework for creation, curation and production of collaborative performance & installation; most recently opening a micro-residency and performance space called The Deck in Charlotte, NC featuring Shaina Cantino as the first artist-in-residence in 2022. Joy is co-founder of The Davis Sisters with Alexander Davis, a collaborative experiment in which they dare to perform exacerbated versions of themselves in spaces such as The Yard, Boston Center for the Arts, Bates Dance Festival, Wesleyan Center for the Arts and Dance|Now Boston at The Dance Complex. Joy also creates/tours duets with husband Dr. Eric Mullis and dances with Charlotte-based Payne Dance. Joy received an MFA in Choreography and Performance from Smith College in 2015, and has since been visiting faculty at Smith College and Wesleyan University; as visiting Lecturer at Harvard University in Theater, Dance & Media. She is Associate Professor of Dance at Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Visiting Faculty at University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Joy lives in Charlotte with Eric and their Pomeranian, Baby Sir. joydavisproject.com