Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company “Body Against Body”
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Thursday – Saturday, February 21-23, 2013 | 8pm
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company “Body Against Body”
$25 in advance/$30 day of show | Members: $18.75/$22.50
CLICK HERE to download our special edition booklet, Two, Too.
The Painted Bride Art Center presents a piece of living dance history as Bill T. Jones revives his avant-garde roots by restaging dances such as Monkey Run Road (1979) and Blauvelt Mountain (1980). All of the pieces in Body Against Body address the themes of race and sexual orientation in small-scale duets. Both conceptually and physically rigorous, the dances take on new life through the diverse dancers of Jones’s company. The Bride will also present pre/post show opportunities, offering audiences historical context into the intricately-created duets of Bill T. Jones and the late Arnie Zane. Each audience member also receives a limited-edition catalog of essays and archival photos on duets by leading scholars and choreographers including Kyle Abraham, Camille Brown, Thomas Defrantz, and Ishmael Houston-Jones. *This performance contains nudity.
ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES:
POST-SHOW PERFORMANCE CONVERSATION WITH BRENDA DIXON GOTTSCHILD AND JANET WONG
Thursday, February 21 | Free
Join in conversation and share your thoughts after the performance with Janet Wong and Brenda Dixon Gottschild, dance scholar/cultural historian.
PRE-SHOW AUDIENCE MOVEMENT WORKSHOP
Friday, February 22 | 6:30pm – 7:30pm | Free
Conducted by a senior company member of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company for audience members with or without any formal dance training, this workshop will engage participants with the “raw materials” of postmodern choreography, such as speed, level, direction, and location. Participants will leave with a deeper appreciation of the pedestrian and gestural
techniques found in post modern dance.
MASTER CLASS WITH JANET WONG
Saturday, February 23 | 1pm – 3pm | $20
This technique/master class is geared towards pre-professional and professional dancers, based on the style and movement sensibility developed by Bill T. Jones and Janet Wong. The workshop covers precision, range, and the ability to cover space in movement, integrating and borrowing values from modern, postmodern, and classical traditions. This 2-hour class will be conducted with a live accompaniment. Space is limited, advanced registration required. Registration
PRE-SHOW CONVERSATION W/ BILL T. JONES & ISHMAEL HOUSTON JONES
Saturday, February 23 | 6:30pm – 7:30pm | Free
Bill T. Jones, accompanied by Ishmael Houston-Jones, will discuss both his original works and the context of the recreations in Body Against Body.
Topics discussed will include the socio-political and cultural contexts in which the works were made – the examination of the contrast of physical styles, race, gender and sexuality, the motivations behind reconstructing these works for contemporary casts and Bill T. Jones’s personal insights in to the pieces. Audience members will have an opportunity to ask questions.
Body Against Body has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
