BRIEF HISTORY

The ChoreoJoey Project began Brooklyn, NY on May 2014 as a challenge to its founder, Stephen Hill, to create and present innovative, site specific work with multidisciplinary artists and dancers at varying levels in their career. It often invokes the creative efforts of a rotating team of artists, musicians, and dance educators to display a high vector of integrated mixed media dance performance. 

pronounced CO-RE-AAHH-JOEY,  the company's name is coined, choreo- from the word choreography, and Joey from the nickname of its founder.
ChoreoJoey Started rehearsals in New York City at the 92Y as a part of the Harkness Dance Center's Space Grant Project.  Since its inception has collaborated with artists in NY and worldwide, connect with and collaborating with dancers and musicians from Germany, Haiti, Italy, Trinidad, and more. 

The ChoreoJoey Project was founding performers include Fellow alumni dancers Jessica Gonzalez, Donnica Hamlet, Justin Salud and Lovette Rosado from the College of Staten Island as well as Jaymesa Michie from Barry University. The first performance, AGAPE, performed on June 5th, 2014, in Brownsville, Brooklyn as collaborative effort to create a 20-minute ballet as a performance for the Radiant/Shade showcase in Brooklyn, NY.

The following year, ChoreoJoey created the ballet Azures for the community day celebration of St. Francis College April 2015. The production CORDIALLY expanded Azures and premiered as the ChoreoJoey Project’s first evening length ballet at the Maroney Theatre in Brooklyn, NY August 2nd, 2015, and included Brett Constant, Frances Bendit, Donnica Hamlet, Stephen Hill, Alicia Hutchinson, and Stefaniya Makarova.