Trisler, Joyce, 1934-1979

Trisler, Joyce, American modern dancer and choreographer; born in 1934 in Los Angeles, California; died October 13, 1979 in New York City. Trisler studied with Lester Horton and performed with his Dance Theatre as an adolescent, creating roles in his Seven Scenes with Ballabilli, Prado de Pena, and Dedication in Our Times (all 1952).

After Horton's death, Trisler moved to New York to attend the Juilliard School. There, she studied with Antony Tudor and created roles in works by her teachers Donald McKayle ( Out of the Chrysalis, 1958), Anna Sokolow ( Session '58), and Doris Humphrey, for whom she danced in The Rock and the Spring (1955), Descent into the Dream (1956), and Dawn in New York (1956).

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