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the company: joyce herring pascal rioult  :: joyce herring  :: the dancers JOYCE HERRING (Associate Artistic Director) was born in Grassy Point, New York. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The Juilliard School and in 1982 joined the Martha Graham Dance Company where she attained principal dancer status and danced until 1995. She performed as a guest artist with the Graham Company until 1999 and with the Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre until 2004. During her career with the Martha Graham Dance Company she interpreted many leading roles including Lamentation, Jocasta in Night Journey, the Bride in Appalachian Spring, the Virgin in Primitive Mysteries, Joan of Arc in Seraphic Dialogue, and numerous others. She performed opposite Pascal Rioult and Mikhail Baryshnikov in Ms. Graham's three character piece El Penitente and the following year was cast in the leading role of the recreation of American Document, again opposite Mr. Baryshnikov. Ms. Herring made her debut in the solo Lamentation at the White House for the PBS production "Young Artists in Performance at the White House." Her other TV credits include: "Celebrate! 100 Years at the Met," "Martha Graham in Japan," and "Three Dances by Martha Graham," filmed at the Paris Opera. Ms. Herring is a former director of the Martha Graham School and a regisseur of the Graham Trust. She has been on the faculties of the Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase, Marymount Manhattan College, guest teacher at the Juilliard School, Rudra Bejart in Lausanne, Alfredo Corvino's Dance Circle, the Neighborhood Playhouse, Harvard Summer Dance Center, North Carolina School of the Arts, Ballet du Nord, the Lyon Opera Ballet, the Conservatoire Nationale Superieure de Musique de Lyon, the Geneva Ballet and the Ballet de Lorraine among others. Ms. Herring met Mr. Rioult while they were performing together with Martha Graham Dance Company. They were married in 1988. As a founding member of the Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre, she serves as associate artistic director, rehearsal director and also stages Mr. Rioult's work for companies and universities in the States and abroad.