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THE BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE DANCE COMPANY TURNS 25
Plans include three premieres, an off Broadway show, the opening performances of BAM's Next Wave Festival, national and international tours
Consider the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company's 25th anniversary celebration a launching pad for its future. And what a future it promises: premieres, new venues, and a cornucopia of new ideas.
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Breaking Ground with Bill T. Jones
A Community Dialogue Series
Tuesday, June 18, 2008 7:30 PM
Harlem, Cultural Capital: Naming the Future
"Naming things is only the intention to make things"
--poet Frank O'Hara, Memorial Day 1950
This is the third in a series of invigorating community dialogues moderated by choreographer Bill T. Jones and co-presented with Harlem Stage. Taking his cue from a line in Frank O'Hara's poem quoted above, Jones convenes an exciting array of guests in this program called, "Harlem, Cultural Capital: Naming the Future."
Harlem's IMPACT Repertory Theatre's Oscar-nominated youth performance group will open the evening by lifting their voices in song. Guests include Omar Freilla (Founder, Green Workers Cooperative), Bakari Kitwana (Author, "The Hip-Hop Generation"), Clesont Mitchell (Director of Community Outreach and External Affairs for Village Academiess), Voza Rivers (Executive Producer, New Heritage Theatre Group) and Beatrice Sibblies (Real Estate Developer).
For tickets: www.harlemstage.org
Location:
Harlem Stage Gatehouse
150 Convent Avenue
(W. 135 & Convent Ave.)
212-281-9240 ext. 19
PLAY-A-PART!
PLEASE HELP US REACH OUR GOAL OF RAISING $42,000 BY JUNE 30
Chapel/Chapter
By Lucia Mauro | Special to the Tribune
April 11, 2008
"There is nowhere to hide in Bill T. Jones' 2006 multimedia dance reflection, Chapel/Chapter, running through Saturday at the Museum of Contemporary Art Theater. His New York troupe, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, sets several audience members in pews on the stage during an intense recounting of two murder cases and a dancer confessing a disturbing incident from his childhood. What may sound maudlin is a gentle cry against passivity."
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Images of Chapel/Chapter
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A Quarreling Pair
Upcoming Performance
September 30, October 2-4, 2008
The work is in part inspired by A Quarreling Pair, by playwright and novelist Jane Bowles. The play, written for two puppets, is an absurdist meditation on the relationship of two middle-aged sisters, Harriet and Rhoda, who sit in separate rooms and quarrel endlessly about trivial tasks, the futility of life, and their inextricable bond. Bill T. Jones chose this work as inspiration because "This short but powerful play has been on my mind for nearly 20 years as I have ruminated on the idea of partnering, onstage and off."
Kids in Motion
Nuturing the Art of Dance
The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company is piloting a program to help meet the arts education needs of Harlem's public school students while simultaneously serving the Company's mission of nurturing the art of dance.
"…it has made a lot of shy kids come out of their shells. Also, it makes you more comfortable sharing things with your classmates."
-P.S. 83 5th grade student, Harlem, NY
Spring Benefit at the Box
Bill T. Jones, Cindy Sherman, David Byrne at the benefit.
In addition to the Jones/Zane Company dancers and musicians, the over 150 party goers included photographer Cindy Sherman, musician/composer David Byrne, actress Tracy-Ann Johnson, as well as sculptor and set designer Bjorn Amelan, Simon Hammerstein, Serge Becker, Lorna Simpson, lighting designer Robert Wiertzel, Jane Semel, Muna El Fituri, Kweli Washington, the company's associate artistic director Janet Wong, Bill Katz, and visual artists Glenn Lignon and Lorna Simpson.
