Photos: Paul B. Goode A Rite NEW PROJECT! Premiering in January 2013 A dance-theater collaboration with Anne Bogart and SITI Company. Story/Time Bill T. Jones returns to the stage in a critically acclaimed new work of storytelling and dance. Play and Play: An Evening of Movement and Music “Take something and do something to it, and then do something 152 West 57th Street, 5th Floor else to it.” – Jasper Johns Carnegie Hall Tower New York, NY 10019 Phone 212-994-3500 Fax 212-994-3550 [email protected] Duet Programs www.imgartists.com Body Against Body and Between Us. www.youtube.com/imgartists Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and Dance Theater Workshop Reimagined | newyorklivearts.org/#/BTJAZDC 2013–2014 Season Now in its 30th year, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company was born out of an 11- Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane year collaboration between Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane (1948–1988). During this time, they Dance Company redefined the duet form and foreshadowed issues of identity, form and social commentary Jean Davidson, Executive Director 219 W 19th Street that would change the face of American dance. The Company has performed worldwide in over New York, NY 10011 200 cities in 40 countries on every major continent and is recognized as one of the most t: 212.691.6500 innovative and powerful forces in the dance-theater world. Touring projects for the 2013-2014 f: 212.633.1974 season include major new work, repertory classics, minimal duets and Bill T. Jones’s return [email protected] to the stage. newyorklivearts.org/#/BTJAZDC A Rite US Representation NEW PROJECT! Premiering in January 2013 IMG Artists Carnegie Hall Tower This work brings together two leading American directors and their companies. A Rite is an intriguing and 152 W 57th Street, 5th Floor powerful collaboration between artists Bill T. Jones and Anne Bogart and their respective companies – Bill T. New York, NY 10019 Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and SITI Company. Coinciding with the one-hundredth anniversary of the t: 212.994.3500 premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, Jones and Bogart combine forces to explore the impact of this f: 212.994.3550 revolutionary piece of music, imagining the consequence of hearing the score played for the very first time. [email protected] www.imgartists.com Commissioned by Carolina Performing Arts at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. European Representation Gillian Newson Story/Time DanceArts UK, London Office “Modern yet wry, gorgeously danced and at times discordant...a dance-theater roller coaster with surprises t: +44 20 7622 8549 around every corner.” – San Francisco Chronicle f: +44 77 6816 6381 [email protected] Director and choreographer Bill T. Jones – whose major honors include a MacArthur “Genius” Award, the skype gilliannewson Kennedy Center Honors and two Tony Awards for Best Choreography – returns to the stage at the center of a new work for his renowned company. Inspired by legendary artist and composer John Cage’s Indeterminacy, a performance of ninety one-minute stories interrupted by a chance musical score, Jones creates a collage of dance, music, and seventy of his own short stories, arranged anew for each performance by chance procedure. Original music composed by Ted Coffey will accompanies the diverse company of dancers. Co-commissioned by Peak Performances at Montclair State (NJ) and the Walker Art Center. Play and Play: An Evening of Movement and Music “Rarely has one seen a dance company throw itself onto the stage with such kinetic exaltation.” – The New York Times The Company’s classical music-focused program includes D-Man in the Waters (1989), Bill T. Jones’s joyful tour de force and a genuine modern dance classic, set to Mendelssohn’s Octet in E Flat Major Opus 20, this renowned work showcases the virtuosic company in a celebration of life and the resiliency of the human spirit. Other works include pieces to Mozart, Schubert and Ravel. Requires local string musicians. Reconstruction support for D-Man in the Waters provided by the American Dance Festival. Duet Programs Body Against Body and Between Us “Bill T. Jones unadorned is a revelation.” – The Boston Globe Body Against Body returns to Bill T. Jones’s roots in the avant-garde with a program that revives and reconsiders the challenging, groundbreaking works that launched Jones and the late Arnie Zane, his partner and collaborator of 17 years. Still some of the most significant examples of the postmodern aesthetic, these pieces redefined the duet form and changed the face of American dance. Between Us is a program of powerful duets that paint and intriguing portrait of the bond between two people, reflecting the humanity and effort implicit in the most complex of relationships – the partnership. Body Against Body was commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and Dance Theater Workshop Reimagined | newyorklivearts.org/#/BTJAZDC Photos: Paul B. Goode Duet Programs Body Against Body and Between Us “The combination of brisk formality and a deeply sensual attack... was riveting decades ago and it’s riveting today.” – New York Magazine 152 West 57th Street, 5th Floor Carnegie Hall Tower New York, NY 10019 Phone 212-994-3500 Fax 212-994-3550 [email protected] www.imgartists.com www.youtube.com/imgartists Duet Programs Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane “Bill T. Jones unadorned is a revelation.” The Boston Globe Dance Company Jean Davidson, Executive Director Body Against Body and Between Us are intimate and focused collections of duet works drawn 219 W 19th Street from the Company’s 30 year history. Body Against Body returns to Bill T. Jones’s roots in the New York, NY 10011 avant-garde with a program that revives and reconsiders the challenging, groundbreaking works t: 212.691.6500 that launched Jones and the late Arnie Zane, his partner and collaborator of 17 years. Still f: 212.633.1974 some of the most significant examples of the postmodern aesthetic, these pieces redefined the [email protected] duet form and changed the face of American dance. Both conceptually and physically rigorous, newyorklivearts.org/#/BTJAZDC the works take on new life through the diverse dancers of Jones’s company, providing a rare US Representation look at the origins of a widely acclaimed choreographer. Between Us is a program of powerful IMG Artists duets that paint an intriguing portrait of the bond between two people, reflecting the humanity Carnegie Hall Tower and effort implicit in the most complex of relationships – the partnership. 152 W 57th Street, 5th Floor New York, NY 10019 Programs include 2-3 works from the Company’s repertory: t: 212.994.3500 f: 212.994.3550 Blauvelt Mountain (A Fiction) (1980, reconstructed 2002) [email protected] One of the first duets that Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane created together, Blauvelt Mountain capitalizes on the www.imgartists.com disparities and specificities between distinct body types, often placing one person in a position of dependency. Eccentric and occasionally humorous tableaux, casual conversations, and word associations are paired with European Representation rigorous partnering sequences to suggest the mental and emotional engagement, heightened awareness, Gillian Newson and intimacy necessary for successful partnering. DanceArts UK, London Office t: +44 20 7622 8549 f: +44 77 6816 6381 Continuous Replay (1977, revised by Bill T. Jones 1991) [email protected] Continuous Replay is a work that traces Arnie Zane’s interests in photography and film. Originally choreographed skype gilliannewson by Zane in 1977 as a solo titled Hand Dance and later revised as a group work by Bill T. Jones in 1991, Continuous Replay is based on 45 precise gestures accumulated in space and time, cunningly complicated by discrete movement and an improvisational score. Contains nudity. Duet x 2 (1982, reconstructed 2003) The virtuosity of Duet x 2 is rooted in conventional modern dance vocabulary and marked by demanding athletics, surprising shapes and changing relationships. The work underlines the power and emotion that is experienced when two male bodies walk, stand, support and crash through space at full throttle. Monkey Run Road (1979, reconstructed 2011) The earliest of the Body Against Body duets, Monkey Run Road reveals the early dance-making concerns of Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane. Traces of the duo’s background in jiu-jitsu, social dancing, photography, and contact improvisation are readily seen in the piece, where repetitive, athletic phrases are punctuated by minimalist tasks and fragments of dialogue. Valley Cottage: A Study (1980/1981, reconstructed 2011) A new reconstruction for 2011, Valley Cottage is a duet that has not been seen since its original performances in the early ‘80s. The reconstruction draws upon the personalities and relationships of the company’s dancers in place of the original spoken text by Jones and Zane. Duet (1995/2002) For two dancers in perfect unison, this piece’s coolly sophisticated movement reflects Jones’s work with Trisha Brown. The precise and challenging choreography is accompanied by John Oswald’s frenetic 1975 “plunderphonic” track Power, combining rock guitars with the exhortations of an evangelist preacher. The final section is set to Daniel Bernard Roumain’s imagined conversation between titans of the mid-twentieth century avant-garde and an aged African-American mother of twelve. Body Against Body was commissioned by The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and Dance Theater Workshop Reimagined | newyorklivearts.org/#/BTJAZDC Photos: Paul B. Goode Play and Play: An Evening of Movement and Music “No other dancer-choreographer working today allows past, present, and future to mingle so freely in his body.” – Vanity Fair “Take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it.” – Jasper Johns 152 West 57th Street, 5th Floor Carnegie Hall Tower New York, NY 10019 Phone 212-994-3500 Fax 212-994-3550 [email protected] www.imgartists.com www.youtube.com/imgartists Play and Play: An Evening of Movement and Music Bill T.