"Warren's mission is to tell the stories of the African Diaspora and explore the Afro-Future through dance.
Greensboro News and Record, February 22, 2020
Article by Dawn Kane:
When did you form your dance company? After living in New York for about seven years, I moved to Greensboro with my husband and infant daughter. After about a year, I became restless with wanting to perform the work I was beginning to create in New York. In New York, I was fortunate to work with women of the Urban Bush Women lineage like Christal Brown and Paloma McGregor and other women choreographers who told powerful stories with their choreography.
In 2014, I decided to create Joyemovement to give professional dancers in this region an opportunity to continue performing professionally."
Rewind: 1968 is a requiem for the possible, a ceremonial remembrance in honor of what could have been. The second iteration of a series of creative works exploring the history and consequences of the North Carolina Eugenics program by Alexandra Joye Warren and her dance company, JOYEMOVEMENT, Rewind: 1968 brings the stories of those victimized by sterilization to the stage as a culmination of the company’s Creative Greensboro residency at the Hyers Theatre. The work brings to life the story of a young couple in the late sixties Piedmont Triad and the mysterious character who brings the pair together in the hope of fulfillment of a mission of intergalactic importance. Marrying themes of Afro-Futurism, Southern Blues traditions, historic narrative, and contemporary choreography, this production workshops the story of what will later become a full-scale opera by starting with the themes of the work expressed through movement.