New York Live Arts

Purchase Dance Company

May 22-25 at 7:30pm

2012-2013 Fresh Tracks Residency Showing

Fresh Tracks
May 24 at 6pm

Lobby TALKS
Feedback: Say it, Mean it

May 28 at 7:30pm

Play and Play: an evening of movement and music @ Festival de Marseille, Marseille, France

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company

Jun 19-20, 2012

A Rite @ The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts

Jul 6 & 7, 2013

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People Get Ready
Photographer: Ian Douglas

New York Live Arts is committed to furthering the creation of new work by artists at all stages of their careers.

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commissioning program

Our dedication to dance and performance begins with our investment in the creation of new work. Our commissioning program provides artists with resources to create new dance and performance works.

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Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company

Bill T. Jones returns to the stage to perform in a new, multidisciplinary evening; inventive choreography accompanied by a cascade of short stories drawn from his life.

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New York Live Arts provides unparalleled creation support through several creative residency programs.

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Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods & EIRA
Photographer: Ian Douglas

New York Live Arts encourages discovery through education, exchange, and community programs.

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New York Live Arts empowers artists with tools and resources through the Associate Artist Program and access to a global network of artists and cultural organizers through The Suitcase Fund.

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Through the lens of dance and the body of work created by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, New York Live Arts hopes to develop socially aware citizens and artists capable of questioning deeply and making meaningful, creative, and innovative contributions to their society and world.

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NEW! Shared Practice

Shared Practice workshops allow Live Arts season artists to share their physical and creative practices and processes

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New York Live Arts strives to create a robust framework in support of the nation's dance and movement-based artists through new approaches to producing, presenting and educating. Our programs support individual artists at all stages of their careers, encouraging experimentation and rigor. New York Live Arts is located at 219 West 19th Street in New York City and is led by Bill T. Jones as Executive Artistic Director, Carla Peterson as Artistic Director and Jean Davidson as Chief Executive Officer.

New York Lives Arts was formed in February 2011 through a merger of Dance Theater Workshop and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.

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219 W 19th Street
New York, NY 10011

Subway: 1/2 to 18th Street.
3, F, M, L and A/C/E to 14th Street.

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Monday- Friday 5 - 9pm
Saturday-Sunday 12 - 8pm
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Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
Photographer: Paul B. Goode

Bill T. Jones (Artistic Director/ Co-Founder/ Choreographer), a multi-talented artist, choreographer, dancer, theater director and writer, has received major honors ranging from a 1994 MacArthur "Genius" Award to Kennedy Center Honors in 2010. He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2009 and named "An Irreplaceable Dance Treasure" by the Dance Heritage Coalition in 2000.

Play and Play: an evening of movement and music @ Festival de Marseille, Marseille, France

upcoming performances

Jun 19-20, 2012

A Rite @ The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts

Jul 6 & 7, 2013

Inside the Famed Choreographer's Rehearsal Process

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Bill T. Jones at Wolf Trap

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Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
Photographer: Paul B. Goode

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Play and Play: an evening of movement and music

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A Rite (Working Title)

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Bill T. Jones
Photographer: Stephanie Berger