BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE COMPANY

Collage Revisited (1988, 2025)

Original Choreography of History of Collage by Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane

Performed by Barrington Hinds, Jada Jenai, Shane Larson, Danielle Marshall, Jacoby Pruitt, Babou Sanneh, Hannah Seiden, Mak Thornquest, and Rosa Allegra Wolff

Music: Charles R. Amirkhanian, Blue Gene Tyranny
Lighting Design by Robert Wierzel*
Costumes by The Company

Story/ (2013)

Conceived and Directed by Bill T. Jones
Choreography by Bill T. Jones with Janet Wong and the original company

Performed by Barrington Hinds, Jada Jenai, Shane Larson, Danielle Marshall, Jacoby Pruitt, Babou Sanneh, Hannah Seiden, Mak Thornquest, and Rosa Allegra Wolff

Music by Franz Schubert, String Quartet No. 14 Death and the Maiden
Music recorded by The Orion String Quartet
Music played live by
Conrad Harris, Violin
Celia Hatton, Viola
Andrew Janss, Cello
Pauline Kim, Violin

Lighting Design by Robert Wierzel*
Costume Design by Liz Prince

Story/ was developed in residence at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College. Developed with residency support from the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and Kaatsbaan Cultural Park.

*Denotes Member of the United Scenic Arts Union (USA) Premiered at The Joyce Theatre (NYC) in 2013

Programming & Production Staff
Kyle Maude, Producing Director & COO
Dylan Richmond, Company Manager
Chanel Pinnock, Director of Production & Operations
Sydney Starks, Production Stage Manager
Serena Wong, Lighting Supervisor
Leo Janks, Lighting Manager
James Bennett, Audio/Video Manager

Support for New York Live Arts is provided by the Alex Katz Foundation, Alice Lawrence Foundation, Albertine Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Booth Ferris Foundation, Dance/NYC, Ed Bradley Family Foundation, Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Ford Foundation, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Howard Gilman Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Lambent Foundation, Marta Heflin Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Muriel Pollia Foundation, National Performance Network, New England Foundation for the Arts, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, San Francisco Foundation, Scherman Foundation, Simons Foundation, Studio Institute, The Poss Family Foundation, The Semel Charitable Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Tides Foundation, and Wege Foundation. 

Public support for New York Live Arts is provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council with special thanks to Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal and City Councilmember Erik Bottcher, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature. Dance/NYC’s New York City Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program that supports Live Arts subsidizing our studio spaces, is made possible by the Mellon Foundation.

The creation of new work by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company is made possible in part by the Company’s Partners in Creation: Zoe Eskin, Eleanor Friedman, Ruth & Stephen Hendel, Suzanne Karpas, Ellen M. Poss, Jane Bovingdon Semel, in memory of Linda G. Shapiro, and Slobodan Randjelovic & Jon Stryker.

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COMPANY HISTORY

BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE COMPANY

Over the past 44 years the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company has shaped the evolution of contemporary dance through the creation and performance of over 140 works. Founded as a multicultural dance company in 1982, the company was born of an 11-year artistic collaboration between Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane. Today, the company is recognized as one of the most innovative and powerful forces in the modern dance world. The company has performed its ever-enlarging repertoire worldwide in over 200 cities in 40 countries on every major continent. In 2011, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company merged with Dance Theater Workshop to form New York Live Arts of which Bill T. Jones is the Artistic Director and Janet Wong is the Associate Artistic Director.

The repertory of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company is widely varied in its subject matter, visual imagery and stylistic approach to movement, voice and stagecraft and includes musically driven works as well as works using a variety of texts. Some of its most celebrated creations are evening length works including Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land (1990, Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music); Still/Here (1994, Biennale de la Danse in Lyon, France); We Set Out Early… Visibility Was Poor (1996, Hancher Auditorium, Iowa City, IA); You Walk? (2000, European Capital of Culture 2000,Bologna, Italy); Blind Date (2006, Peak Performances at Montclair State University); Chapel/Chapter (2006, Harlem Stage Gatehouse); Fondly Do We Hope… Fervently Do We Pray (2009, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park, IL); Another Evening: Venice/Arsenale(2010, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy); Story/Time (2012, Peak Performances); A Rite (2013, Carolina Performing Arts at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill); Deep Blue Sea (2021, Park Avenue Armory).

BILL T. JONES (Artistic Director/Co-Founder/Choreographer: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company; Artistic Director: New York Live Arts) is a multi-talented artist, choreographer, dancer, theater director and writer, has received major honors ranging from the Human Rights Campaign’s 2016 Visibility Award, 2013 National Medal of Arts to a 1994 MacArthur “Genius” Award and Kennedy Center Honors in 2010. Mr. Jones was honored with the 2014 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, recognized as Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 2010, inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2009 and named “An Irreplaceable Dance Treasure” by the Dance Heritage Coalition in 2000. His ventures into Broadway theater resulted in a 2010 Tony Award for Best Choreography in the critically acclaimed FELA!, the new musical co-conceived, co-written, directed and choreographed by Mr. Jones. He also earned a 2007 Tony Award for Best Choreography in Spring Awakening as well as an Obie Award for the show’s 2006 off-Broadway run. His choreography for the off-Broadway production of The Seven earned him a 2006 Lucille Lortel Award.

Mr. Jones began his dance training at the State University of New York at Binghamton (SUNY), where he studied classical ballet and modern dance. After living in Amsterdam, Mr. Jones returned to SUNY, where he became co-founder of the American Dance Asylum in 1973. In 1982 he formed the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company (then called Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane & Company) with his late partner, Arnie Zane. Mr. Jones is currently Artistic Director of New York Lives Arts, an organization that 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. For more information, visit http://www.newyorklivearts.org/.

His work in dance has been recognized with the 2010 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award; the 2005 Wexner Prize; the 2005 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement; the 2003 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize; and the 1993 Dance Magazine Award. His additional awards include the Harlem Renaissance Award in 2005; the Dorothy B. Chandler Performing Arts Award in 1991; multiple New York Dance and Performance Bessie Awards for his works The Table Project (2001), The Breathing Show (2001), D-Man in the Waters (1989) and the Company’s groundbreaking season at the Joyce Theater (1986). In 1980, 1981 and 1982, Mr. Jones was the recipient of Choreographic Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 1979 he was granted the Creative Artists Public Service Award in Choreography.

Mr. Jones was profiled on NBC Nightly News and The Today Show in 2010 and was a guest on the Colbert Report in 2009. Also in 2010, he was featured in HBO’s documentary series MASTERCLASS, which follows notable artists as they mentor aspiring young artists. In 2009, Mr. Jones appeared on one of the final episodes of Bill Moyers Journal, discussing his Lincoln suite of works. He was also one of 22 prominent black Americans featured in the HBO documentary The Black List in 2008. In 2004, ARTE France and Bel Air Media produced Bill T. Jones–Solos, highlighting three of his iconic solos from a cinematic point of view. The making of Still/Here was the subject of a documentary by Bill Moyers and David Grubin entitled Bill T. Jones: Still/Here with Bill Moyers in 1997. Additional television credits include telecasts of his works Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land (1992) and Fever Swamp (1985) on PBS’s “Great Performances” Series. In 2001, D-Man in the Waters was broadcast on the Emmy-winning documentary Free to Dance. 

Bill T. Jones’s interest in new media and digital technology has resulted in collaborations with the team of Paul Kaiser, Shelley Eshkar and Marc Downie, now known as OpenEnded Group. The collaborations include After Ghostcatching – the 10^th Anniversary re-imagining of Ghostcatching (2010, SITE Sante Fe Eighth International Biennial); 22 (2004, Arizona State University’s Institute for Studies In The Arts and Technology, Tempe, AZ); and Ghostcatching – A Virtual Dance Installation (1999, Cooper Union, New York, NY).

He has received honorary doctorates from Yale University, Art Institute of Chicago, Bard College, Columbia College, Skidmore College, the Juilliard School, Swarthmore College and the State University of New York at Binghamton Distinguished Alumni Award, where he began his dance training with studies in classical ballet and modern dance.

Mr. Jones’s memoir, Last Night on Earth, was published by Pantheon Books in 1995. An in-depth look at the work of Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane can be found in Body Against Body: The Dance and Other Collaborations of Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane, published by Station Hill Press in 1989. Hyperion Books published Dance, a children’s book written by Bill T. Jones and photographer Susan Kuklin in 1998. Mr. Jones contributed to Continuous Replay: The Photography of Arnie Zane, published by MIT Press in 1999. Jones’s most recent book, Story/Time: The Life of an Idea, was published in 2014 by Princeton University Press.

In addition to his Company and Broadway work, Mr. Jones also choreographed Sir Michael Tippet’s New Year (1990) for Houston Grand Opera and Glyndebourne Festival Opera. His Mother of Three Sons was performed at the Munich Biennale, New York City Opera and the Houston Grand Opera. Mr. Jones also directed Lost in the Stars for the Boston Lyric Opera. Additional theater projects include co-directing Perfect Courage with Rhodessa Jones for Festival 2000 in 1990. In 1994, he directed Derek Walcott’s Dream on Monkey Mountain for The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, MN.

ARNIE ZANE (Co-Founder/Choreographer) (1948-1988) was a native New Yorker born in the Bronx and educated at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton. In 1971, Arnie Zane and Bill T. Jones began their long collaboration in choreography and in 1973 formed the American Dance Asylum in Binghamton with Lois Welk. Mr. Zane’s first recognition in the arts came as a photographer when he received a Creative Artists Public Service (CAPS) Fellowship in 1973.  Mr. Zane was the recipient of a second CAPS Fellowship in 1981 for choreography, as well as two Choreographic Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1983 and 1984).  In 1980, Mr. Zane was co-recipient, with Bill T. Jones, of the German Critics Award for his work, Blauvelt Mountain. Rotary Action, a duet with Mr. Jones, was filmed for television, co-produced by WGBH-TV Boston and Channel 4 in London.

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PERFORMER BIOS

Photography by Stephanie Crousillat

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MUSICIAN BIOS

Conrad Harris (Violinist) has performed at Ostrava Days, Darmstadt Ferrienkürse für Neue Musik, Gulbenkian Encounters of New Music, Radio France, Warsaw Autumn, and NY Sonic Boom Festival. In addition to playing with Orchestra of St. Luke’s, he is member of the FLUX Quartet and violin duo String Noise, concertmaster/soloist with the S.E.M. Orchestra, Ostravská Banda, STX Ensemble, and Ensemble LPR. He has performed and recorded with Elliott Sharp, Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier, David Behrman, “Blue” Gene Tyranny, Jean-Claude Risset, Rohan de Saram and Tiny Tim. A recording of the sonatas of Lejaren Hiller was released in 2018 with pianist Joe Kubera on New World Records followed by a CD of the music of John Becker. Harris has also recorded for Lovely, Mode, Asphodel, Vandenburg, CRI, Northern Spy, Cold Blue, New Focus, Chaikin, Infrequent Seams, and Vinyl Retentive Records.

Celia Hatton (Violist), NYC-based violist, has performed across Asia, Australia, Europe, South America, and the US. Her playing can be heard on several Grammy-winning works, including as Principal Violist on Experiential Orchestra’s album The Prison and Jessie Montgomery’s Rounds. She is a member of A Far Cry, Principal Viola of Sphinx Virtuosi, and Co-Principal of Chamber Orchestra of New York. Hatton has performed with ECCO, The Knights,  the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. An Adjunct Professor at Adelphi University, she has given masterclasses at Colburn Music Academy, New York University, and Vanderbilt University. Hatton holds a Bachelor’s Degree from New England Conservatory, where she studied with Kim Kashkashian, and a Master’s Degree from Manhattan School of Music with Karen Dreyfus.

Andrew Janss (Cellist) The New York Times has hailed cellist Andrew Janss for his “glowing tone”, “insightful musicianship”, and “sumptuous elegance.” He was founding cellist of the Escher Quartet, winning the CMS2 residency at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and has performed and recorded with seminal classical artists such as Leon Fleisher, Richard Goode, and Itzhak Perlman, as well as chart-topping artists Norah Jones, Paul McCartney, Lana del Rey, and Bruce Springsteen. He has served as principal cellist of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and was nominated by Yo-Yo Ma for an Emerson Collective Fellowship for spearheading ground-breaking Music Medicine initiatives while Director of the non-profit organization Project: Music Heals Us. His principal teachers include Andrew Cook, David Geber, Clive Greensmith, and David Soyer. Most recently, in an effort to improve access to affordable, high-quality music instruments – as well as combat deforestation created by an over-reliance on cheap, imported single-use string instrument bows – Janss assembled a team of renowned bow-makers and MIT-trained mechanical engineers to develop the Arcotype bow – a self-rehairable bow which utilizes a simple cartridge-based system to allow teachers and performers to – for the first time – quickly, easily, and affordably rehair their own bows. You most likely will hear him perform on an Arcotype bow at this performance!

Pauline Kim Harris (Violinist) — also known as PK or Pauline Kim — is a boundary-defying violinist, award-winning recording artist, composer, curator, and producer. Equally at home in a concert hall or an experimental art space, she has performed across the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia as a soloist, collaborator, and music director. Best known as half of the classical avant-punk duo String Noise, Pauline has also toured extensively with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, performs regularly with leading new music ensembles in New York City, and is a member of the American Symphony Orchestra. A fierce advocate for innovation, Pauline’s creative work lives at the intersection of sound, movement, and visual art — blending electronics, media, film, and dance into powerful interdisciplinary experiences. Her debut solo album, Heroine (Sono Luminus, 2019) — a bold reimagining of Bach’s Chaconne alongside Ockeghem’s Deo Gratias — was followed by Wild at Heart in 2021, further cementing her status as a genre-fluid artist of rare vision. Her recordings appear on labels including Decca, Tzadik, Northern Spy, Nonesuch, New Focus, Unseen Worlds, Cold Blue, and more. Her performances have been broadcast on PBS, BBC, NPR, WQXR, WNYC, WKCR, and WFMU. Pauline serves as Executive Director of Music at the Anthology (MATA Festival) and was the inaugural Music Director for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. In 2021, she was commissioned to compose the score for Coco Fusco’s Your Eyes Will Be An Empty Word, featured at the Whitney Biennial.

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COLLABORATORS

SHAYLA-VIE JENKINS (Rehearsal Director) was a member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company from 2015 – 2016, during which the company received Bessie Awards for Chapel/Chapter (2007) and D-Man in the Waters (2013). She has taught for the company and restaged its repertory at universities and dance festivals across the country. Jenkins has performed in works by Bebe Miller, Moriah Evans, Faye Driscoll, Okwui Okpokwasili, Susan Marshall, and Yara Travieso among others. She appeared in the Merce Cunningham Trust’s Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and has danced in reconstructions of works by José Limón, Yvonne Rainer, and David Gordon. She received the 2025 Viola Farber Award for performance from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. In 2023, she was awarded a Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Project Grant for her site-specific work On Buried Ground, which honors the lives of freed and enslaved congregants at the historic Christ Church of Philadelphia. The work premiered at the 2024 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Jenkins holds an MFA in Choreography and Performance from Smith College and a BFA from the Ailey/Fordham program. She was an Assistant Professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and currently serves as Co-Artistic & Associate Director for the BFA Dance Lab at Bennington College. She has been a Trustee of the Merce Cunningham Trust since 2020 and writes with thINKingDance, a Philadelphia-based writing collective.

LIZ PRINCE (Costume Designer) designs costumes for dance, theater and film and has had the great pleasure of designing for Bill T. Jones since 1991. Her work has been exhibited at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 2011 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Rockland Center for the Arts and Snug Harbor Cultural Center.  She received a 1990 New York Dance and Performance Award (BESSIE) and a 2008 Charles Flint Kellogg Arts and Letters Award from Bard College. She teaches costume design at SUNY Purchase College Manhattanville College, and Sarah Lawrence College.

ROBERT WIERZEL (Lighting Designer) has worked with artists in theatre, dance, new music, opera and museums, on stages throughout the country and abroad. He has worked with choreographer Bill T. Jones and his company since 1985. Projects include Blind Date, Another Evening: I Bow Down, Still/Here, You Walk?, Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land, How To Walk An Elephant, and We Set Out Early… Visibility Was Poor. Other works with Bill T. Jones include projects at the Guthrie Theatre, Lyon Opera Ballet, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Boston Ballet, Boston Lyric Opera, the Welsh dance company Diversions, and London’s Contemporary Dance Trust. Robert has also worked with choreographers Trisha Brown, Doug Varone, Donna Uchizono, Larry Goldhuber, Heidi Latsky, Sean Curran, Molissa Fenley, Susan Marshall, Margo Sappington, Alonzo King and JoAnn Fregalette-Jansen. Additional credits include national and international opera companies, Broadway, and regional theater. Mr. Wierzel is currently on the faculty of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and The Yale School of Drama.

PROGRAMMING AND PRODUCTION STAFF BIOS

KYLE MAUDE (Producing Director & COO) graduated from Drake University with a B.F.A. in Theatre. She has worked with Ballet Tech/Feld Ballets New York, The Royal Ballet School of London, Buglisi-Foreman Dance, and Lesbian Pulp-o-Rama! Ms. Maude joined the Company in 2003 and served as the Company’s Production Stage Manager for ten years, then Director of Producing and Touring for three years before becoming Producing Director for New York Live Arts in 2016.

DYLAN RICHMOND (Company Manager) is a choreographer, dancer, and poet from the Connecticut shoreline. He graduated cum laude from Bowdoin College with a B.A. in Dance and English where he received the President’s Award. Dylan has performed or presented work at TOTAH, WestFest Dance Festival, NYU, Yale University, UCLA, Bowdoin College, Queen Mary University of London, the Grand Ole Opry, and Connecticut College. As a poet, Dylan is a Pushcart Prize nominee and is notably published in From Root to Seed, the Lily Poetry Review, On Paper, and The Foundationalist. Dylan joined New York Live Arts and the Company in 2024.

SYDNEY STARKS  (Production Stage Manager) is a stage manager whose work is rooted in curiosity, collaboration, and a deep love of live performance. Originally from North Carolina, she has worked in creative communities across Portland, Houston, and London. She holds a B.A. in Theatre from Bowdoin College.

SERENA WONG (Lighting Supervisor) is a Brooklyn-based freelance lighting designer for theater, opera, and dance. Her designs have been seen at New York Live Arts, Danspace, Irondale Arts Center, and Jacob’s Pillow. She is the resident lighting designer for New York Theatre Ballet and enjoys beekeeping and bread baking.