Hope Boykin, born in Durham, North Carolina, and educated at Howard University, went on to dance with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for 20 years, from 2000 to 2020. While with the company, she also began to choreograph. Now on her own, Boykin comes to the Joyce Theater with a fully scripted evening-length work, States of Hope, for eight “vocal bodies” of which she is one. Boykin narrates this fusion of movement and text, which sees personal memoir and universal truth coming together. —Laura Jacobs