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Wayne McGregor to Open the Joyce Theater’s Spring Season

The choreographer Wayne McGregor at a rehearsal in 2016. His dance company will open the Joyce Theater’s spring 2018 season.Credit...Andrej Uspenski

The British choreographer Wayne McGregor’s dance company will open the Joyce Theater’s spring 2018 season, the theater announced on Wednesday.

Company Wayne McGregor (Feb. 27-March 3) will perform the New York premiere of his evening-length “Autobiography,” inspired by the sequence of Mr. McGregor’s genome. (Mr. McGregor will also choreograph a new staging of “The Rite of Spring” for American Ballet Theater this spring.)

Other international companies include Dada Masilo/The Dance Factory, from South Africa, which put a twist on “Swan Lake” at the Joyce last year and returns with a new take on “Giselle” (April 3-8). Later that month, Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève will perform “Une Autre Passion” (April 24-29), an abstract staging of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion by the Swedish choreographer Pontus Lidberg.

In May, Kyle Abraham’s company, A.I.M., will return to the Joyce with a mixed bill that includes Mr. Abraham’s first solo in nearly a decade, “Indy” (May 1-6), a new work commissioned by the theater.

Among other returning companies are Brian Brooks Dance (March 14-18) and the Sarasota Ballet (Aug. 14-19), which will perform a repertory program.

Previously announced appearances for the coming Joyce season include Stephen Petronio Company, which will present its fourth edition of Bloodlines (March 20-25), and the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary April 17-22.

More information, including the full lineup, is at joyce.org.

Follow Joshua Barone on Twitter: @joshbarone

A version of this article appears in print on  , Section C, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: Wayne McGregor Leads Joyce Theater’s Season. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe

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