This year's curator for FOCUS DANCE, Jodee Nimerichter of the American Dance Festival has assembled four programs featuring some of the most captivating companies performing today. FOCUS DANCE is comprised of four programs featuring eight U.S.-based choreographers/companies: Jodi Melnick, Stephen Petronio Company, Camille A. Brown & Dancers, Brian Brooks Moving Company, Rosie Hererra Dance Theater, Doug Varone & Dancers, Eiko & Koma, and John Jasperse.  FOCUS DANCE will run from January 8-13, 2013 at The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, NYC. Tickets are $10-$39 and are available at 212-242-0800 or www.joyce.org.

Program A – Tuesday, January 8 at 7:30pm; Sunday, January 13 at 2pm

Jodi Melnick – Solo, Deluxe Version

Stephen Petronio Company - excerpts from The Architecture of Loss and Underland

Program B – Wednesday, January 9 at 7:30pm; Sunday, January 13 at 7:30pm

Camille A. Brown & Dancers -  Tol E. Rance; Been There, Done That; and City of Rain

Brian Brooks Moving Company - I'm Going to Explode, DESCENT, and FALL FALLS

Program C – Thursday, January 10 at 8pm; Saturday, January 12 at 8pm

Rosie Hererra Dance Theater - Various Stages of Drowning: A Cabaret

Doug Varone and Dancers - -to-be-announced

Program D – Friday, January 11 at 8pm; Saturday, January 12 at 2pm

Eiko & Koma - White Dance and Flower Dance

John Jasperse -Fort Blossom Revisited 2000-2012