Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company
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Program B: May 17 & May 22
May 23 Stay late Conversation
Program A: Curriculum III: People, Places & Things
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company
Curriculum III: People, Places & Things was created against the backdrop of a memory of freedom, and with that memory comes a taste for self determination: living where one wants to live; loving who one wants to love, celebrating that youthful desire to be free and discover the world and oneself within it.
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company began this work as an exploration of stateless people drifting in the seas, a rumination on willful displacement and searching; recognizing the dichotomy between desperation and the commitment to one’s own freedom. Where everything from the environment to authoritarianism and political upheaval seem to be like the ocean itself, unknown and full of darkness and anxiety. The work is both violent and elegiac as people break off: Who are they? Where are they going? What are they doing?
Through this work, Jones is trying to understand the world we live in right now through the mechanism of recalling, reinventing and imagining, using the Company to draw a portrait of this moment, set to the soundtrack of his youth.
Program B: Memory Piece: Mr. Ailey, Alvin… the un-Ailey?
Bill T. Jones
In his latest deeply personal Memory Piece solo, Bill T. Jones reflects on pivotal moments and influential figures throughout his groundbreaking career. A meditation on legacy, artistic evolution, and self-definition, Mr. Ailey, Alvin…the un-Ailey? intertwines spoken word, movement, and music to craft an intimate, multilayered homage to a dance world mentor. Jones, who has often described himself as having taken a different path than Alvin Ailey, uses this performance to examine that divergence—inviting audiences into a rare, reflective space, revealing the tensions, inspirations, and transformations that have shaped Jones as an artist and visionary.
Named one of the Best Dance Performances of 2024 by The New York Times.
The creation of new work by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company is made possible in part by the company’s Partners in Creation: Anonymous (2), Anne Delaney, Zoe Eskin, Eleanor Friedman, Ruth & Stephen Hendel, Suzanne Karpas, Ellen Poss, Jane Bovingdon Semel, in memory of Linda G. Shapiro, Slobodan Randjelović & Jon Stryker.
