THE DAY was co-commissioned by Théâtre de la Ville, Paris; Carolina Performing Arts at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Jacob's Pillow; The Joyce Theater; Ludwigsburg Festival, Germany; and Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA; and was supported, in part, by the Inaugural Artist Fellowship at The Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc.'s Artist Residency Center. Substantial development support was provided by LUMBERYARD Contemporary Performing Arts and Summer Stages Dance @ ICA/Boston, with additional support from Baryshnikov Arts Center. THE DAY was supported in part by a Fay Chandler Faculty Creativity Grant from the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology.

About THE DAY's Creators 
Wendy Whelan is widely considered one of the world's leading dancers, spending 30 years as a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. She recently became NYCB's associate artistic director. Childs, a force in contemporary dance since the early 60s, is a Commandeur in France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and 2018 inductee in Hall of Fame at the National Museum of Dance. Maya Beiser is a multifaceted artist who has performed on the world's great concert stages and whose critically acclaimed multimedia productions have consistently been chosen for top critics' "Best Of The Year" lists. Passionate, prolific and complicated, Lang is one of America's most performed composers, deeply versed in the classical tradition but also constantly creating new musical forms. The recording of his the little match girl passion received the 2010 Grammy Award and he has scored several Oscar-winning films. He has also shaped contemporary music as co-founder and co-artistic director of New York's legendary music collective Bang on a Can.