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Dance review: Bill T. Jones at Wolf Trap
08/01/2012
In his long career, Bill T. Jones has gone from experimental downtown artist to two-time Tony winner. Bridging such different worlds makes for an uncomfortable perch, from which he must contend with purists who question his authenticity and Broadway operators who ignore his past 30 years in the arts.
In his long career, Bill T. Jones has gone from experimental downtown artist to two-time Tony winner. Bridging such different worlds makes for an uncomfortable perch, from which he must contend with purists who question his authenticity and Broadway operators who ignore his past 30 years in the arts.
An oxymoronic event of purposeful randomness
07/15/2012
BECKET — The vibrant, very much living members of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company are surrounded by ghosts in “Story/Time.” In a general way, this is not so unusual; contemporary dance often bears a proud aura of its ancestral shadows. But Jones, the creator of “Story/Time,” has long...
BECKET — The vibrant, very much living members of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company are surrounded by ghosts in “Story/Time.” In a general way, this is not so unusual; contemporary dance often bears a proud aura of its ancestral shadows. But Jones, the creator of “Story/Time,” has long...
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company help launch SaratogaArtsFest
06/07/2012
When it premiered in Paris in 1913, Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring,” with choreography by Vaslav Nijinksy, was greeted with the vocal equivalent of rotten tomatoes. “The people were so upset by the music and the choreography that they started screaming and shouting insults, and a riot ensued,” said Anne...
When it premiered in Paris in 1913, Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring,” with choreography by Vaslav Nijinksy, was greeted with the vocal equivalent of rotten tomatoes. “The people were so upset by the music and the choreography that they started screaming and shouting insults, and a riot ensued,” said Anne...
Dances with stories by Bill T. Jones & Co.
02/17/2012
Before launching into his radically engaging new work “Story/Time” at the Walker Art Center choreographer Bill T. Jones leads the audience in a “conceptual warm-up” exercise. He asks us to raise a hand when we think a minute has passed. Most everyone is early by several seconds. It’s the first...
Before launching into his radically engaging new work “Story/Time” at the Walker Art Center choreographer Bill T. Jones leads the audience in a “conceptual warm-up” exercise. He asks us to raise a hand when we think a minute has passed. Most everyone is early by several seconds. It’s the first...
The New York Times: Bill T. Jones Takes a Turn on the Stage in New Work
01/18/2012
It’s tempting to say that Bill. T. Jones has followed the classic trajectory from artistic outsider to consummate insider. Mr. Jones, a choreographer, writer and theater director whose reputation was built on provocative work that marries high-art aesthetics with social concerns, has journeyed from the stages of downtown dance to...
It’s tempting to say that Bill. T. Jones has followed the classic trajectory from artistic outsider to consummate insider. Mr. Jones, a choreographer, writer and theater director whose reputation was built on provocative work that marries high-art aesthetics with social concerns, has journeyed from the stages of downtown dance to...
Bill T. Jones: Religious Roots Of His Choreography And Dance
01/11/2012
Bill T. Jones has stormed Broadway in recent years with his Tony Award winning choreography in Spring Awakening and Fela! Yet Jones is no newcomer to the dance world. He has been a leading dancer and choreographer since arriving in New York in the 1970s with partner and collaborator Arnie...
Bill T. Jones has stormed Broadway in recent years with his Tony Award winning choreography in Spring Awakening and Fela! Yet Jones is no newcomer to the dance world. He has been a leading dancer and choreographer since arriving in New York in the 1970s with partner and collaborator Arnie...
The Montclair Times: Gather 'round: Bill T. Jones has some stories to tell
01/10/2012
Is he a showman or provocateur? Is he creating a performance of alienation or entertainment? What’s that giant digital clock doing on stage?
Is he a showman or provocateur? Is he creating a performance of alienation or entertainment? What’s that giant digital clock doing on stage?
The Sunday Conversation: With Bill T. Jones
12/11/2011
Bill T. Jones won his second Tony Award for choreographing “Fela!,” a musical about the late Nigerian Afrobeat singer, composer and political activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Jones, 59, also cowrote the book and directed the high-energy show about the government’s crackdown on his commune. “Fela!” comes to the Ahmanson Theatre...
Bill T. Jones won his second Tony Award for choreographing “Fela!,” a musical about the late Nigerian Afrobeat singer, composer and political activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Jones, 59, also cowrote the book and directed the high-energy show about the government’s crackdown on his commune. “Fela!” comes to the Ahmanson Theatre...
Revisiting the past, looking to the future: Bill T. Jones launches New York Live Arts
09/21/2011
nj.com
To launch a new era as the executive artistic director of New York Live Arts, the latest incarnation of Dance Theater Workshop, choreographer Bill T. Jones has reached into his past and unearthed works with the spring and resiliency of youth. The first of two programs dubbed “Body Against Body,”...
nj.com
To launch a new era as the executive artistic director of New York Live Arts, the latest incarnation of Dance Theater Workshop, choreographer Bill T. Jones has reached into his past and unearthed works with the spring and resiliency of youth. The first of two programs dubbed “Body Against Body,”...
Body Against Body, New York Live Arts
09/20/2011
ft.com
With choreographers who came up in the 1970s – the “dance decade” – now reaching a certain age, New York has been swimming in retrospectives. The anniversary events may be educational, but they have hardly revised my sense of earlier decades or even the choreographers’ work – until now. The...
ft.com
With choreographers who came up in the 1970s – the “dance decade” – now reaching a certain age, New York has been swimming in retrospectives. The anniversary events may be educational, but they have hardly revised my sense of earlier decades or even the choreographers’ work – until now. The...
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