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A Quarreling Pair

Bill T. Jones - A Quarreling Pair A Quarreling Pair - How do we human beings live together? How do we co-exist with others who may be close to us, yet so very different from ourselves? How do we live with those not only in our own household, but in our neighborhood, our city, our country and our ever-fracturing planet? The nature of co-habitation against all odds is at the heart of A Quarreling Pair, in which Bill T. Jones explores the dualities between any two people and the struggle to co-habitate and to live together against all odds. View Images and more info…



Another Evening: Serenade/The Proposition

Bill T. Jones - Another Evening: Serenade/The Proposition The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company launches its 25th Anniversary celebration with a new piece in Jones' celebrated Another Evening series. Another Evening: Serenade/The Proposition explores the passage of time and the unique moral conflicts America has struggled with since its founding, through the use of movement, plainsong, and text. Our connection to history is evoked with stunning video by Janet Wong and an original score blending classical and folk music in a contemporary pastiche by electric cellist Chris Lancaster, Juilliard's Jerome Begin on piano and text performed in plainsong style by soprano Lisa Komara. Serenade/The Proposition transports the viewer through time with its iconic set design by Bjorn Amelan, Jones' cast of fierce dancers, actor Andrea Smith - and - completing the longtime collaborative team, lighting designed by Robert Wierzel and costumes by Liz Prince. View Images and more info…



Chapel/Chapter

Bill T. Jones - Chapel/Chapter Bill T. Jones sees Chapel/Chapter in its present form as the beginning of an investigation. As always, the work is proceeding from a set of questions. For Jones the lead question might be, "How can this event suggest the uneasy distance our mediatized era helps create between the passive observers which we are and the disturbing, sometimes incomprehensible 'news items' we encounter every day. View Images and more info…



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◊ Harlem Crawl
January 22, 2008

Hey Black Man!" composer/musician Craig Harris said to me last night giving me a firm handshake in the first moments of what was to be a five hour exploratory/research/investigation tour of the Harlem scene.

◊ Happy New Year
January 9, 2008

Happy New Year!

It is raining outside Woodbox, our little retreat on the mesa of Northern New Mexico. The past two weeks have been blissfully quiet - a fitting respite after this intense though rewarding year.

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Recent News

◊ Wandering the World in Search of Herself
November 11, 2008

By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO
Published in the New York Times:
October 1, 2008

"From the start of "A Quarreling Pair," which opened on Tuesday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, you feel that you have been plunged deep inside a private world."

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◊ Village Voice Reviews A Quarreling Pair
November 11, 2008

Bill T. Jones Adapts a Poetic Puppet Play
By Deborah Jowitt

"Bill T. Jones is full of surprises. Who'd imagine he'd turn Jane Bowles's eccentrically poetic 1945 puppet play, A Quarreling Pair, into a parable in the form of a variety show....

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Upcoming Performances

Chapel/Chapter
November 27-29
Creteil, France

Chapel/Chapter
December 4-5, 2008
Rome, Italy

Chapel/Chapter
January 19-25, 2009
Mercat de Flores
Barcelona, Spain

Other Events

November 11, 2008, 4:30-6:00 PM
Interview with Bill T. Jones by Deborah McDowell
Sponsored by the Carter G. Woodson Institute
Newcomb Hall Ballroom
Reception to follow
General Admission, no tickets necessary.

November 13, 2008, 12:30-1:30 PM
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company Lecture/Demonstration
Paramount Theater
215 E. Main St.
Charlottesville, Virginia.
General Admission, no tickets necessary.