Performances

Delicate Territory

June 2026

Delicate Territory, a new contemporary dance work choreographed by Alexandra Joye Warren, performed by JOYEMOVEMENT.

Delicate Territory examines how ancestral memory can be discovered through movement and lead us through tumultuous times. How can we hold onto or reimagine the passed-down wisdom required to navigate the future? How can we lean on our legacy of agility and innovation and apply it to our present circumstances?

This piece is a dance suite in three parts featuring a solo, a trio, and a quartet.

Saturday, Jun 13 10:00 AM-2:00 PM

The Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum will be hosting the fourth annual Black Heritage Day on June 13^th, 2026 from 10am-2pm. This is an outdoor, music festival-style event that is free, open to the public, and great for all ages! We will feature musical performances, live artists, vendors, resource tables, activities for kids, food trucks, and more! This year, our theme is Community in Full Color, which will highlight performances from several different community arts groups including vocal, percussion, dance, and spoken word.

Delicate Territory will be performed in sections throughout the day, starting at 10am.

Thursday, Jun 18, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Join Greensboro dance company JOYEMOVEMENT in a performance of “Delicate Territory,” part of the programming for Of Salt and Spirit. Refreshments will follow. Presented in collaboration with the UNCG African American and African Diaspora Studies Program.

Photo Credit: Jen Guy Metcalf

This project was supported by The Arts Council of Greater Greensboro and High
Point Arts Council, a division of the Designated County Partner, with funding from
the North Carolina Arts Council.

Additionally funded by Creative Greensboro, the City’s Office for Arts and Culture.

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Rewind 1968: A Requiem for the Possible

Workshop Production- Summer 2023!

Rewind: 1968, A Requiem for the Possible, is a dance driven contemporary opera, which examines the consequences of the North Carolina Eugenics Program. Director/Choreographer- Alexandra Joye Warren.

This project has received funding support from the NC Arts Council, Arts Greensboro, High Point Arts Council, and Creative Greensboro’s Residency at the Hyers program.

artwork by Jeremy Hyler, @jeremyhylerart

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JOYEMOVEMENT dance company brings live dance performance to Greensboro Project Space with a world premiere of their new project Love Notes.

Love Notes choreographed by Alexandra Joye Warren, in collaboration with poet Lavinia Jackson and others explores human connection through movement.

JOYEMOVEMENT dance company is based in Greensboro and Alexandra Joye Warren is a year long Artist- In-Residence 2022-2023 for the North Carolina Dance Festival as well as an Assistant Professor of Performing Arts at Elon University. The company centers their contemporary dance around topics that explore social justice and artistic activism.

The performance is Sunday, February 5, 2023 at 6:00 pm with doors opening at 5:30 pm. Ticket price ranges from $10 to $45. The performance is at Greensboro Project Space in Downtown Greensboro at 111 E February 1 Pl, Greensboro, NC 27401.

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This performance is suitable for all audiences.

This project was supported by the High Point Arts Council and ArtsGreensboro, a division of the Designated County Partner, with funding from the North Carolina Arts Council.

A Wicked Silence: Choreoplay

A Wicked Silence (2021) a site-specific choreoplay exploring the history and consequences of the Eugenics program in North Carolina. Drawing on historical research and personal narratives of those victimized by forced sterilization, A Wicked Silence utilizes site-specific choreography inspired by moving through and interacting with various park spaces and features to ground the telling of the story of this work. Presented as a 'choreoplay', A Wicked Silence conveys its narrative through a series of scenes in two acts that move locations throughout LeBauer and Center City Parks. Employing multiple art forms, including choreographed movement, spoken word, dramaturgy, music and song, immersive audience participation, and visual art/design, this multimodal piece brings together artists from across the community to tell a story as layered as the history on which it is based. https://www.greensborodowntownparks.org/a-wicked-silence

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We Do Not Lay Down And Die

Dance Film Commissioned by American Dance Festival AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL PRESENTS The World Is Our Stage: 60 sec Video Challenge In an effort to support local creativity and choreographers and to continue engaging audiences, ADF invited 20 North Carolina choreographers to create a 60-second video dance that will be featured during a week-long online festival in June 2020. Directed and Performed by Alexandra Joye Warren

Interactive Mural at LeBauer Park

Muralist, Darlene McClinton, and choreographer, Alexandra Joye Warren, have been commissioned to collaborate on a temporary mural to be painted on the stage floor of the Price/Bryan Performance Pavilion in LeBauer that will inspire movement through creative prompts and artistic design elements. Inspired by classic board game design, like Twister and Shoots and Ladders, park visitors will be able to move through and interact with the mural in a series of playful interpretations. Installation for the mural will begin on Friday, September 18 to be completed by the end of the National Dance Day celebration on Saturday, September 19, 2020

Short Film

Threads and Shadows

Threads and Shadows (2019) is an evening of dance created by Alexandra Joye Warren and Sarah Council that includes A History of Dirt and Slaying Ghosts; two distinct works connected by overlapping themes. This concert represents the collaboration of two artists of different cultural backgrounds, working in different cities, exploring similar themes but in very different ways. Premiere at Boom Charlotte 2019. Named Best Collaboration by Queen City Nerve.

Slaying Ghosts

Slaying Ghosts (2018) choreographed by Alexandra Joye Warren, explores breaking cycles and disrupting the stigma of getting help during emotional and psychological crisis.

For Love Of Country...

“For love of country they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and their virtue.” – Garfield 1868 This evening length contemporary dance is an exploration of healing and our nation’s aim to move forward.What does reconciliation look like? The world premiere of this piece was at the Greensboro Fringe Festival. An excerpted version was presented in the North Carolina Dance Festival tour in 2017.

Fit The Description

Fit the Description (2015) is a love letter to all who have been accused of being a suspect because of the color of their skin, their hairstyle, their spunk, their clothing style, the shape of their nose, the color of their teeth, how they laugh, who they worship, or where they eat lunch. The text for this piece was written after the choreographer's husband was arrested in downtown Greensboro during his lunch hour, as the suspect in a bank robbery. This was the 11th time he'd been stopped and frisked by law enforcement since he was 16 years old.

Rise Up

In collaboration with activist Bree Newsome, Rise Up premiered at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello for the Memory, Mourning, Mobilization: Legacies of Slavery and Freedom in September 2016.

Girls On The Verge

Premiered at the The Crown at The Carolina Theatre with support from Arts Greensboro, in collaboration with our inaugural class of Uplift Girls this evening length dance piece explores the hopes and dreams of the participants of this 6 week workshop experience.

Stand Your Ground

Stand Your Ground (2015) examines how fear of the Black body has evolved and manifests itself as of late. It investigates what inner turmoil lies within a nation that elects a Black President and concurrently slaughters unarmed men, women, and children such as Jonathan Ferrel, Renisha McBride, Jordan Davis and Michael Brown.

Touch My Hair?

Touch My Hair? (2015) is inspired by Antonia Opiah's live art exhibit in Union Sq Park. It explores the past and present day dialogue on the intimate act of hair touching, meditations on "Black" hair and its effect on the psyche. Presented at Trillium Performing Arts in West Virginia, Women's Festival in Charlotte, NC and at Duane Cyrus' Evening With The Creative Class at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

This project was supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.