Press Room
Quotes
Wall Street Journal, 3.9.09
"The supremely distinguished choreography of Bill T. Jones leaves you with indelible, graceful images of young people scarcely bound by gravity..."
-- Paul Levy on Bill T. Jones' Tony Award winning choreography for Spring Awakening.
Italian American Magazine, 12.1.08
"...what makes New York City so unique is the cross-fertilization across disciplines, which gives our creative scene its vibrance and energy... Organizations like St. Ann's Warehouse in DUMBO, the Queens Museum of Art, and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company are breaking down barriers and pushing the limits across multiple art forms."
-- Kate Levin, Commissioner of NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
The Boston Globe, 9.7.08
"Though his works are replete with striking beauty and emotional power, he has made his mark with dances that rankle and push, ask questions, and often get to the very heart of who we are as human beings"
-- Karen Campbell
The New York Times, 7.14.08 on Serenade/The Proposition
"Mr. Jones's choreography flows through this dance-theater edifice like water finding its way through a winding stone wall. Formal and often understated, phrases full of scything limbs, dipping torsos and elegantly minimal partnering periodically assemble into tableaus reminiscent of daguerreotype portraits."
-- Claudia La Rocco
The New York Times, 12.3.07
"[A Quarreling Pair] is a magic mirror, into a complex, dreamlike world in which...imaginations run playfully, riotously wild."
-- Jennifer Dunning
The Star Ledger, 12.3.07 on A Quarreling Pair
"[A] brilliant new dance-theater work..."
-- Robert Johnson
The New York Times, 12.3.07 on A Quarreling Pair
"Who knew that Bill T. Jones could be so playful and so wonderfully, gaudily spectacular?"
-- Jennifer Dunning
San Francisco Chronicle, 10.20.07 on Chapel/Chapter
"So much dance theater is strong on either the kinetic or the verbal, but Jones has always had such prodigious gifts in both. There are moments of pure movement...to make you marvel at their formal ingenuity. And there are lines of writing...to make you ponder them like poetry."
-- Rachel Howard
The New York Times, 12.7.06
"Chapel/Chapter is a riveting experience...the visceral impact of the piece is inescapable."
-- John Rockwell
The News & Observer, 7.16.05
"[Another Evening] has the dizzying feel of a dream, its movements suggesting things that we can't quite hear and so must leave to our brains and hearts to decipher."
-- Orla Swift
The Herald-Sun, 7.16.05
"[Jones] certainly will leave a high-water mark in modern dance."
-- Susan Broili
San Francisco Chronicle, 5.21.05
"Some choreographers are born dancemakers whose genius manifests in the steps themselves. And some choreographers are geniuses who just happen to choose dance for their primary mode of expression. Bill T. Jones is of the latter variety, and the dance world is fortunate to have him."
-- Rachel Howard
Los Angeles Times, 4.4.05
"...when [as in this solo], his body and mind are on the same wavelength, no contemporary soloist reaches further into the heart of dance."
-- Lewis Segal
The Washington Post, 11.1.97
"Jones' dancers continue to rank among the finest anywhere. While no two are remotely alike - with sizes and shapes ranging from all over the board - they all share a velvety propulsion, razor-sharp technique and a stage presence that's close to majesty."
-- Sarah Kaufman
