Photo by:Ernesto Mancebo
JOYCE EDWARDS
Dancer /
Assistant Rehearsal Director
Joyce Edwards from Rochester, NY, is a lifelong student who uses her artistry to spread love unconditionally and ferociously. She is a graduate of The College at Brockport, SUNY with a BFA in dance. Joyce is known for her performance in works by Bessie Award winning choreographer Beth Gill and Netta Yerushalmy (Brand New Sidewalk, Pitkin Grove, Paramodernities). She is mentioned in the 2019 Dance Magazine issue of “25 to Watch” in 2020. EVIDENCE welcomed Joyce as an apprentice in May of 2018, and later as a company member following her premiere in Ronald K. Brown’s Mercy at Bard SummerScape Dance Festival. She is the Assistant Rehearsal Director, and has had the opportunity to assist setting repertory on students at the Center of Creative Arts in St. Louis and the New Orleans Ballet Association (2021). Joyce became a company member of EVIDENCE in 2019.