The Workshop
Keerati Jinakunwiphat joins The Workshop as a Guest Choreographer leading the creative process for Session 4.
World Premiere: St. Louis Dance Theatre
Fall Series: Our 2026-2027 landmark lineup opens with a powerful trio of world premieres by renowned creatives. Kirven Douthit-Boyd, STLDT Artistic Director and former dancer with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, molds various movement genres to create bold narratives that transform and inspire audiences. Rena Butler, a Princess Grace Award winner (2019) and Isadora Duncan Dance Award recipient, has been described as percussive and emotionally direct in her choreography, which spans the globe. Keerati Jinakunwiphat, a Princess Grace Award winner (2023) and the first Asian woman commissioned by New York City Ballet, emphasizes connectivity – work built on relationships between dancers. The weekend serves as a world-class sampler of what is to come in STLDT’s next chapter.
Princeton University
Fall 2026: The annual Princeton Dance Festival returns in November with an excerpt of Tony Award-winning choreographer Camille A. Brown’s City of Rain staged by Mora-Amina Parker, Rashaun Mitchell+Silas Riener’s staging of an excerpt of their work, Tesseract, Caili Quan’s staging of her ballet, Playing Perspectives, A new street work by Tatiana Desardouin, A new contemporary work by Keerati Jinakunwiphat, and a new contemporary work by Davalois Fearon.
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago: CREATE Intensive
Guest Choreographer for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s CREATE Summer Intensive 2026.
World Premiere: Pointeworks
Nocturnes San Diego
This June Pointeworks Season 3 presents our performance program titled Nocturnes. This program will feature all five ballets cultivated throughout the year in NYC and in San Diego rehearsal weeks and present this work in two performances at the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center in La Jolla on June 13th.
Along with Jacquelyn’s new work being created in NYC, San Diego will be the creation period for a new work by Keerati Jinakunwiphat a rising star in the choreographic scene. Keerati, a Chicago native and SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance graduate, has performed with and created works for leading artists and companies including A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, where she began dancing in 2016. Her choreography has been presented at renowned venues such as the Joyce Theater, Lincoln Center, and the Guggenheim’s Works & Process series. In 2023, she made history as the first Asian American woman commissioned to choreograph for New York City Ballet. A Princess Grace Award recipient and 2024 Artist in Residence at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, Keerati continues to shape the contemporary dance landscape with her bold and evocative vision. We are so excited to see what she creates for our program.
World Premiere: Malpaso Dance Company
The Havana-based
Malpaso Dance Company
takes the stage for its eleventh engagement at The Joyce, delivering a dynamic program that embodies the pulse of contemporary Cuban dance. Since its founding in 2012 by Daile Carrazana, Osnel Delgado, and Fernando Sáez, Malpaso has become a powerhouse of bold innovation, pairing exquisite technique with an unyielding commitment to fostering new voices in contemporary dance and Cuban choreography.
This season, Malpaso performs Dark Meadow Suite in celebration of the GRAHAM100 project, becoming the first Cuban dance company to ever stage Martha Graham’s work. The program also includes a new work by co-founder Daile Carrazana, as well as a commission by A.I.M by Kyle Abraham alumna Keerati Jinakunwiphat.
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