Program A: People, Places & Things
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company
People, Places & Things was created against the backdrop of a memory of freedom, and with that memory comes a taste for self determination: living where one wants to live; loving who one wants to love, celebrating that youthful desire to be free and discover the world and oneself within it.
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company began this work as an exploration of stateless people drifting in the seas, a rumination on willful displacement and searching; recognizing the dichotomy between desperation and the commitment to one’s own freedom. Where everything from the environment to authoritarianism and political upheaval seem to be like the ocean itself, unknown and full of darkness and anxiety. The work is both violent and elegiac as people break off: Who are they? Where are they going? What are they doing?
Through this work, Jones is trying to understand the world we live in right now through the mechanism of recalling, reinventing and imagining, using the Company to draw a portrait of this moment, set to the soundtrack of his youth.
Program B: Memory Piece: Mr. Ailey, Alvin… the un-Ailey?
Bill T. Jones
Memory Piece is a series of solo performances reflecting on influential moments and figures throughout the illustrious career of our Artistic Director. Jones describes himself as someone who went in a different direction than Alvin Ailey. This iteration will welcome audiences into a rare and intimate space built from words, movement and music.
