Celebrating Bill T. Jones
Since 1989, the work of Bill T. Jones has often been spotlighted on all three stages at Jacob’s Pillow, including the performances seen here by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, former company members, and by Jones himself.
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Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company
Story / Time, 2012
This dance was inspired by John Cage’s Indeterminacy, which similarly employed a series of randomly-chosen one-minute stories. Cage’s score also played a key role in Merce Cunningham’s How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run.
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Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company
Serenade / The Proposition, 2010
One of three Jones dances created around the same time to celebrate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln, this full-evening work is one of several choreographed in collaboration with Janet Wong.
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Kyle Abraham
Inventing Pookie Jenkins, 2010
Among Jones’s most prominent former dancers, Kyle Abraham is seen here in a signature solo which he presented in his first three Pillow appearances on three different stages.
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Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company
Chapel/Chapter, 2008
The Doris Duke Theatre was completely reconfigured in order to present this work by Jones in collaboration with Janet Wong. It combines movement with fragments of crime narratives, pairing words with striking visual and aural elements.
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Bill T. Jones
"Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait" from Ballad, 2008
The powerful presence of Bill T. Jones can be both seen and heard in this excerpt of a 1996 work set to the writings of Dylan Thomas.
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Heidi Latsky
What Would You Have Done?, 2004
Heidi Latsky credits her six years with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company as having shaped her style and philosophy of dance. Writing of her powerful performance in this signature solo, Deborah Jowitt attested, “she all but sets fires wherever she treads.
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The Seven Deadly Sins
Gluttony, 2001
After nine years in the Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Company, longtime company member Lawrence Goldhuber contributed to a Pillow-produced production of The Seven Deadly Sins, with each sin explored by a different choreographer.
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Avila/Weeks Dance
The Dream of Heod and Miesra, 1995
Homer Avila and Edisa Weeks first met and began working together after they both performed in Bill T. Jones’s Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a work that was partly developed during a Pillow residency.
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Seán Curran Company
Folk Dances for the Future (Traditional Methods/Postmodern Techniques), 2004
After dancing with Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Company in their Pillow debut and several other engagements, Seán Curran first brought his own company to Jacob’s Pillow in 1999. During the same season when this dance was featured in the Season Opening Gala, Curran also presented Sonata (We Are What We Were) in the Doris Duke Theatre.
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Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company
D-Man in the Waters, 2000
Underlining its status as one of the company’s signature works, D-Man in the Waters has been presented on five different Pillow seasons since its first performances here in 1989, and it has also been part of the curriculum for the Contemporary Program in The School at Jacob’s Pillow.
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Bill T. Jones
Three Dances, 2000
Created in 1982, this solo is an early study in pure movement, anthologized in a one-man presentation known as The Breathing Show.