"[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."
]]>"'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."
]]>"What I often think is beautiful is something that is looking at truth or understanding this feeling of alienation I was born with. I don't think it's unique at all. But I feel the text of my life was predicated on it."
]]>"The assignment was daunting, but if anyone could make it work it was choreographer Bill T. Jones."
]]>"Although Lincoln has a physical presence in this work, I believe it is the idea of Lincoln as a "Great Man," as someone willing to work for the betterment of all people, that brings this dance together, that makes it relevant now and in the future."
]]>"You could say "Fondly" is a spectacle about a specter: the ghost of Lincoln as he haunts American history and popular culture."
]]>"First, and most important, was the dancing itself - precise and athletic to the point that the viewer could almost take it for granted."
]]>Bill T. Jones talks about the man, Fela, and the cast performs "Zombie."
Watch Bill's interview here here
Watch the Fela! performers here
Bill T. Jones chats with Jeff Brown about the company and the opening of Fela!
]]>Bill T. Jones discusses Fela!
]]>"The hot (and seriously cool) energy that comes from the musical gospel preached by the title character of "Fela!," which opened on Monday night, feels as if it could stretch easily to the borders of Manhattan and then across a river or two."
]]>""Fela!" juggles the conflicting demands of Mr. Jones's own artistic leanings -- in a celebrated career that has often pondered history, race and sexuality -- and the commercial imperatives of Broadway, where theatergoers' idea of African music might begin and end with "The Lion King.""
]]>"Words and images from Bill T. Jones's Serenade/The Proposition flicker through my mind the way leaves swirl down from a wind-shaken tree. "
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