"The trio for two women and a man by Mr. Jones, "Poem/Arsenale/Excerpt" (2010), was at once the finest composition I've seen by Mr. Jones and the dance of the evening that most evoked a memorable aspect of Cunningham choreography. " - Alastair Macaulay
]]>"Mr. Jones turned up for a surprise performance, at the end, of his "Poem/Arsenale/Excerpt." His short (shirtless) pass across the stage was achingly beautiful;" - Pia Catton
]]>"Fondly balances the warm and symbolic with the cool and concrete, the past with its sedimentation in the present, and "the people" with simply a person." - Apollinaire Scherr
]]>"To give a boost to New York City arts organizations hard hit by the financial crisis, the Open Society Foundations today announced $11 million in grants to support community and educational arts initiatives."
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company is among seventy-nine organizations receiving a two-year operating-support grant.
]]>"WAMC's Joe Donahue is joined by award-winning choreographer Bill T. Jones to discuss his latest work, Fondly Do We Hope...Fervently Do We Pray. It will be presented by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at SPAC on Wednesday, July 28th at 8 P.M. "
]]>"Brushing the dust off his scholarship, Jones makes American history personal, so the distant past becomes vivid." - Robert Johnson
]]>"This week on SundayArts, tune in to THIRTEEN to see a profile of choreographer Bill T. Jones."
]]>"...the unusual prospect of a union between the downtown presenter Dance Theater Workshop and Bill T. Jones's company..."
]]>"[Serenade/The Proposition] holds history at a distance, a question that floats through our 21st-century lives. It doesn't make claims or demands, but asks us to bring the foggy, and often horrific, memory of the near past into focus."
]]>"Co-commissioned by IU Auditorium, [Fondly] demonstrated a commitment to risk-taking work and offered enormous rewards--and more than a few challenges."
]]>"Artistic director Jones' choreography, executed in athletic, earnest dancing that blends precision with an expressive freedom, provides an evocative visual core to the performance."
]]>The men behind the blog Street Etiquette partnered with GQ.com to create a list of stylish icons, and Bill T. Jones was among the list.
"So what if Black History Month is winding down? The calendar can't contain the legacy of these supremely stylish icons ... You know [Bill T. Jones] is an artist, just by looking at him."
"'Fondly' is much more than a modern dance performance. Intrinsic to the production are the efforts of those collaborators: the music, narration, lighting, set, costumes, projection and dance weave a visually stark but emotional and thought-provoking sensual and multi-sensory work of art."
]]>A "Sunday Routines" story on Bill T. Jones from the Metro Section.
]]>"Jones and his troupe draw us in through the sheer magnetism of their art."
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