In "What the Body Knows" Goode connects a series of alternately dramatic, hilarious and disturbing mini monologues with movement and sound to explore the ways in which our bodies perceive and absorb information. Combining an original score by Beth Custer, scenic design by Michael Brown, lighting by Jack Carpenter, and video by Douglas Rosenberg, the emotionally-charged 50-minute work premiered in San Francisco in 2001. "Doris in a Dust Bowl," a short, looney and moving duet depicts Doris Day and Rock Hudson performing to music by Shooting Star/Junalero, Les Baxter. Its surface hilarity gives disguise to its deeper theme of failed expectations and the broken promises of Hollywood fantasies. The work, performed at the Joyce by Joe Goode and JGPG performer Liz Burritt, premiered in San Francisco in 1989. The third work on the program, "TAKE PLACE," set to music by Goode collaborator Beth Custer, examines the role of "place" in determining our values and attitudes. In it, Goode ruminates about returning to nature, about the possibility of buying a place away from the city (just close enough so that telecommunication is possible); then he imagines a place a million miles away "where the trees don’t belong to anyone." Therein, Goode expresses his duality: ironic wit and a wistful romantic spirit. This work also premiered in San Francisco in 1995. Joe Goode Performance Group, which was established in 1986 in San Francisco, has subsequently performed annually in the Bay Area, and toured extensively throughout the United States. It was last seen in New York City at Danspace in 1998. The company has also appeared in Canada, Europe, South America, the Middle East and Africa, most recently at the Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theater. In addition to creating works for stage, Goode has created innovative performance installations at The Krannert Museum at the University of Illinois in Urbana, at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the San Francisco Fine Arts Museum, among others. Goode has been the recipient of numerous awards including a 1999 New York Dance and Performance Award ("Bessie") and several Bay Area Isadora Duncan Dance Awards ("Izzies"). In addition to receiving numerous grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, he received a $100,000 award for artistic development from the Pew Charitable Trusts. Following its Joyce Theater engagement, Joe Goode Performance Group will travel to Chicago for performances at Columbia College (March 20-22). The company will also appear at the Carpenter Center for the Arts in Long Beach, CA (April 11-12) before returning home to San Francisco, CA, where it will perform at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (June 19-22 and June 26-29). At The Joyce Theater, all curtain times for Joe Goode Performance Group (Tuesday, March 4 through Friday, March 7) are at 8pm. Tickets are $35 (members $25) and can be purchased at The Joyce Theater box office, by calling 212-242-0800, or by visiting www.joyce.org. The Joyce Theater is located at 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street. ### Leadership support for The
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