RIOULT Dance NY, a leading American modern dance company with a classic sensibility, will present its 2014 Gala Performance and Dinner (featuring a raffle) on Wednesday, June 18, 2014. The performance will begin at 7pm at The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue (at 19^th Street), NYC, and the Gala Dinner will follow the performance at Metropolitan Pavilion, 123 West 18^th Street (between 6^th and 7^th Aves).  This special evening will honor the company's influential, founding supporters, Donald L. Holley, Esq. and Paul Lepercq (in memoriam). Festive attire suggested.  For more information and tickets, please call 212-398-5901 or email gala@rioult.org.

Described by The Huffington Post as “captivating” and “intensely musical,” the company celebrates its 20th Anniversary with two programs highlighting Artistic Director Pascal Rioult’s powerful choreography, profound humanity, and extraordinary dancers.  The evening's program will include May O’Donnell’s classic Suspension (1943), and Martha Graham’s iconic El Penitente (1940).  Rioult’s Black Diamond (2003) and Views of the Fleeting World (2008) round out the program. 

The Gala Dinner will include a raffle to win an 8-day Cruise along the Danube, from Viking River Cruises; this terrific prize is valued at $8,119. Raffle tickets are: 1 for $100, 3 for $250, or 15 for $1,000. No need to be present at Gala to win. Tickets for the raffle can be purchased at www.rioult.org (http://www.rioult.org/performances/gala/#vikingcruise) or by calling 212-398-5901. Viking River Cruises believes it’s important to support the arts, and is a proud sponsor of RIOULT Dance NY's 20th Anniversary Season.