Contributors

Gifts from July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2008

Partners in Creation*
New works commissioning program
Argosy Foundation
Abigail Congdon & Joseph Azrack
Anne Delaney
Barbara & Eric Dobkin
Eleanor Friedman
Ruth & Stephen Hendel
Ellen Poss
Marcia Radosevich
Carol H. Tolan

Corporate Partners
Altria Group, Inc.
Blackrock Financial Management, Inc.
Bloomberg
Chase
Con Edison
Gotham Acupuncture
HSBC Bank USA, N.A.

Chairman's Circle: $100,000+
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation*
Argosy Foundation*
Derek Brown & Deborah Hellman
Eleanor Friedman*
Ruth & Stephen Hendel
Ellen Poss*
Marcia J. Radosevich*
Rockefeller Brother Fund*
Rockefeller Foundation Cultural Innovation Fund*
Carol H. Tolan*
Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone

Leadership Circle: $25,000-$99,999
Joseph Azrack & Abigail Congdon*
Gilbert Brownstone*
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Anne Delaney*
Barbara & Eric Dobkin*
The Florence Gould Foundation
Jamieson Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
New York State Council on the Arts
William J. & Dorothy K O'Neill Foundation
Jane & Terry Semel*
Jack & Kristalina Taylor
The Tides Foundation

* Multi-year gifts

Patron's Circle: $5,000-$24,999
American Music Center
Serge Becker
Joseph & Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
Quinn Delaney & Wayne Jordan
Elisabeth & Jim DeMarse
The Diller-von Furstenberg Family Foundation
Muna El-Fituri
Sandra & Gerald Eskin
The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation
Carole & Ira Hall
James C. Hormel
Laurene Powel Jobs & Steve Jobs
Bjorn Amelan & Bill T. Jones
Suzanne T. Karpas & Irving D. Karpas, Jr.
Emily Fisher Landau
Michael L. Lomax
The Jerome Robbins Foundation
The Shubert Foundation
Starry Night Fund
Alex Vlack
David Hagans & Ric Wanetik
Riva Yares Foundation

Sponsor Circle: $1,000 - $4,999
Eric Anderson - In Memory of RC Anderson
Donald Baechler
Kenneth and Kim Blacklow
Eunu Chun & Lisa Kim
Jeannie Colbert
Paula Cooper & John Macrae III
Jill Conner
Sage & John Cowles
Craig Cramer
Dance Heritage Coalition
Denham Wolf
Paul Dierkes
James and Nancy Dougherty
Terence Dougherty
Lisa Ellis
Susan L. Foster
Paulette J. Meyer & David A. Friedman
Lorraine Gallard & Richard H. Levy
Neil Grayson
Simon Hammerstein
The Harkness Foundation For Dance
Eileen and Dana Healy-Smith
David Herskovits & Jennifer Egan
Jimena Martinez & Michael Hirschhorn
Jenny Holzer & Mike Glier
Caroline Hume
Hedy & Kent Klineman
Robert & Suzanne Levine
Harvey Lichtenstein
William Lukashok
Herbert Lust Gallery
Nancy Meyer & Marc Weiss
Judith D. & Samuel P. Peabody
Deborah Sagner
James E. Robison Foundation
The Susan Sarandon Charitable Foundation
Cindy Sherman
Ellynne C. Skove
Billie Tsien & Tod Williams
Florence and Kentaro Umezaki
Ori Uziel
Kweli Washington
Diane Jordan Wexler & Bruce Beron

Supporter: $500 - $999
John H. Alschuler, Jr.
Julie Bacon & Luther Peacock
Steven Bernhaut
Rachel E. Berry
CCS Fundraising
Alba & Francesco Clemente
Jean Davidson
Terence R. Dougherty Sr.
Daniel J. & Edith A. Ehrlich Family Foundation
Stephanie French
Linda Gerard & Danny Grossman
Thelma Golden
Carole & Ira D. Hall
Dena Hammerstein
Jack Lenor Larsen
Brad Learmonth
Christina Lewis
Allison Meiresonne & Nico Bossi
Alessandra Nicifero
Daniel and Pennie Kim Nissenbaum
Amelie Ratliff
Arden Reed & Drury Sherrod
Thais Stiklorius
Catharine R. Stimpson
Holley Farmer & James Taylor
Julie Taymor
Charles Teddy
Admiral & Mrs. Stansfield Turner
Ric Wanetik & David Hagans
Wendy West
LaDonna & Gary Wicklund
Meg and Bruce Williams
Matthew Yohannan

Friend: Under $500
Susan S. Aaron & Steven E. Sherman
Oliver E. Allen
Judy Allmon
Madeleine Andress
Anonymous
Pierre Apraxine
Ella Baff
Judith Barnard & Michael Fain
Joan Barnes
Sarah Barringer Gordon & Daniel Gordon
Victoria Bassetti
Heidi Bay
Diane Benson
Amy Bernstein
Karen Berry
Tom Birdsall & Rebecca Green
F. Richard Bliss & Betsy L. Bliss
Karen & H. Gerald Boxberger
Margaret & Michael Briggs-Lofton
Richard Brookes
Ryan C. Brown & Christine Healey
Fahamisha Brown
Judith Brown
Deborah Carstens
Pieranna Cavalchini
Francoise Chasseigne-Levinthal
Sean Coar
Nora Coblence
Marcia Cohen
Sarah Cole
Sharon Combs
Colleen Conroy
Frances K. Cox
Sean Curran
Christine Dakin
Jack Dalgleish
Nicole Dash
Alison Davis
Carl and Marcy Delacato
Jill & Tom Delbanco
Charis Denison & Scott Hummel
Paul Dierkes
Sharon and Alfred Dietzel
Valerie P. Drucker
Woody Dwinell
Dorothy Ehrlich & Gary Seward
Susan Feder & Todd Gordon
Kressa & Evan Evans
Karlen and Robert Fellows
Wendy Fisher
Morgan Fleming
Joyce and Eugene Flinn
Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation
Aaron Graham Freedman
Zoe Friedman-Cohen
Luann & David Furman
Edward Geffner
Jerome Goldhuber & Diane Storin
Mia Goldman
Anonymous
Annie Guzman
Elizabeth Halsted, Ph.D. & David Barnes
Charles Hamlen
Carole K. Harris
Maya S. Hattangady
Hollis Headrick & Sonnet Takahisa
Holly Heslop
Judith Himes
Jonathan Hinman
Rebecca Hix
Blema & Joe Hoffman
Carol Holding (Holding Associates, Inc.)
Lloyd Huber
Leslie & George Hume
Iris & Charles Hyman
Judith & Jerome Ingber
Mary Rose & Vinny Jaszczynski
Linda & Kevin Johnson
Michael L. Johnson
Willie Johnson
Phillip E. & Jo Lavera Jones
Rhodessa Jones
Jennifer Josephson
Lore Jungster
William Katz
Hans Kellner
Michael Kenny
Daria K. Conservation LLC
Dean Koga
Sali Ann & Alan M. Kriegsman
Susan and Bailey Kuklin
Gyongy Laky & Thomas Layton
Melanie and Linda Lalande
Thomas Leineweber
Sarah Lewis
Norman and Maureen Liedtke
Lois Gehr Livezey & Lowell W. Livezey
Richard A. Long
Hilda Longinotti
Lenore Mallen
Iris Marden
Phyllis Marsh
Jessica Massad
Jacqueline and David Massari
Sara Mattes & Jerry Ritz
Cynthia Mayeda
Susan McCaffrey
Jeff McMahon
Jon Nakagawa
Linda Nathan
Barbara Nathanson
Akim Ndlovu
Jennifer Nellany
Lisa Neuberger-Fernandez & Alvaro Fernandez
Peter Nkongho
Kathleen O'Connor
Joan Ohlson
Renata Breth & Steve Osborn
Barbara and James Peters
Stephen Petronio
Deborah Pines
Michele M. LiCalsi & Kevin D. Ramsey
Arlene Shuler & Nigel Redden
Gail T. Reimer
Larry Remmers
James O. & Janet C. Robertson
Stephen Rogers, M.D.
Andrea Rosen
Andrew Rosen
Cybeale Ross
Marian Rubin
Renata Sack
Victor Sauvageot
Marian Cross
Joanne Seaver
The Shorter Family
Stefanie Siegel
Howard & Terry Singer
Ronald C. Slye
Cynthia Smith
Karen Smith Frorer & Raymond Smith
Marilyn and Leon Sokol
Lynore Stewart
Diane Stiles
Elizabeth "Tilly" Strauss
Sean Sullivan
Olivier Sultan
Stephanie Sweda
Joseph Tait
Pamela and Michael Thistle
Colleen Thomas
Marcia Thomas
Connie Treadwell & Elliot Lippman
Joseph Gonzales & Richard Upton
Mark and Tina Valentine
Janet Visick
Anna Volinkaty
Thomas Von Foerster & John P. MacDonald
Marilyn Waldman
Carol K. & Peter Walker
Julia Walker
Amy L. Wax & Roger B. Cohen
Lloyd Westerman
Dennis Wholey
Azin & James Wilcox
John E. Williams
Will Winkelstein
Jason Wright
Lillian and Roger Youman
Dr. Dorothy Zinberg
Jane Zucker

Matching Gifts
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
IBM Corporation

In-Kind Donors
Bloomberg
Derek Brown & Deborah Hellman
Laurene Powell Jobs & Steve Jobs
Kauff McClaine & McGuire LLP
Real Design
Ricochet Group, LLC
Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, NYU
The Box
Robert Wierzel

Founding Friends
We wish to thank these generous donors who supported the remarkable turnaround of the Company (1999-2004)
Abigail S. Congdon & Joseph F. Azrack
Jonathan Cohen
Sage & John Cowles
Barbara & Eric Dobkin
Catherine S. England
Sandra & Gerald Eskin
Betty Freeman
Paulette J. Meyer & David A. Friedman
Eleanor Friedman
Phyllis K. Friedman
Bjorn Amelan & Bill T. Jones
Suzanne Toor Karpas & Irving D. Karpas, Jr.
Renate Graf & Anselm Kiefer
Kristina Kiehl & Robert Friedman
Hedy & Kent Klineman
Gyongy Laky & Thomas Layton
Melissa & Brad Meyer
Jeremy J. Nobel, MD
Jonathan Otto
Ellen Poss
Marcia J. Radosevich
Jane & Terry Semel
Linda Grass Shapiro
Julia Reid Summers
Jack Taylor
Carol H. Tolan
Betsy & Edward Zimmerman

We wish to thank those organizations that serve as our public funders.

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Lead 2007/2008 Season support for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company is funded, in part, by Chase, The Carnegie Corporation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The Rockefeller Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone.


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Bill's Blog

◊ Harlem Crawl
January 22, 2008

Hey Black Man!" composer/musician Craig Harris said to me last night giving me a firm handshake in the first moments of what was to be a five hour exploratory/research/investigation tour of the Harlem scene.

◊ Happy New Year
January 9, 2008

Happy New Year!

It is raining outside Woodbox, our little retreat on the mesa of Northern New Mexico. The past two weeks have been blissfully quiet - a fitting respite after this intense though rewarding year.

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Recent News

◊ Fela!
June 24, 2008

Bill T. Jones to Direct and Choreograph Fela! Off-Broadway

"Tony Award winner Bill T. Jones will direct and choreograph the world premiere of Fela!, a new musical based on the life of groundbreaking African composer, performer and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Featuring a book by Jones and Jim Lewis, Fela! will feature Kuti's music performed live onstage by the band Antibalas and other members of the New York Afrobeat community. Its limited off-Broadway run begins previews at 37 Arts on July 29 with opening night set for September 4, and will play through September 21."

Read Article at Broadway.com
Read Notice in New York Times
For more information and tickets, visit FelaOffBroadway.

◊ 25th Aniversary
June 4, 2008

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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Upcoming Performances

A Quarreling Pair
September 30, October 2-4, 2008
Brooklyn Academy of Music
BAM Next Wave Festival
718-636-4100
Purchase Tickets

A Quarreling Pair
October 10, 2008
Lawrence, Kansas

Another Evening: Serenade/The Proposition
October 24-26, 2008
Boston, MA

Other Events

August 25, 2008 (9:00-10:30 PM ET/PT)
August 26, 2008 (12:10 a.m.)
August 28, 2008 (8:30 p.m.)
August 31, 2008 (2:30 p.m.)
September 3, 2008 (9:00 a.m.)
September 8, 2008 (11:45 p.m.)
September 13, 2008(10:00 a.m.)

THE BLACK LIST:  VOL. 1 on HBO

Bill T. Jones will be featured on a show entitled The Black List: Vol. 1 on HBO.

September 4, 2008-AUDITION NOTICE!

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company seeks female and male actors who can sing for immediate employment for the creation of a new work about Abraham Lincoln. Artist will contribute to the creative process, and needs to take direction well. Musical styles we are interested in are: gospel, classical/opera, folk and their own original music.

Auditions will be held Thursday, September 4- 11:00am-6:00pm

Please send an email to: audition@billtjones.org with a headshot and resume.

Auditions are by appointment only. Please come prepared with a monologue and a song. Additional script materials will be provided with audition confirmation email

October 28, 2008

7:30 PM
Harlem Stage Gatehouse
Breaking Ground with Bill T. Jones, A Community Dialogue Series
"Harlem, Cultural Capital: Naming the Future"

For tickets: www.harlemstage.org

June 26, 2008  7:30 pm
June 28, 2008  11:00 pm
June 29, 2008  12:30 pm

Bill T. Jones will be featured on a show entitled Basic Black: A Conversation with bill T. Jones on WGBH and affiliate PBS Stations. WGBH Channel 2.