2011-04-08 Jones Zane [recital program]

              Spotlight on the Performing Arts!
Presents
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
Bill T. Jones, Artistic Director
Jean Davidson, Executive Director
Janet Wong, Associate Artistic Director
Featuring
The Company
Antonio Brown, Peter Chamberlin, Talli Jackson,
Shayla-Vie Jenkins, LaMichael Leonard Jr., I-Ling Liu,
Paul Matteson, Erick Montes, Jennifer Nugent, Jenna Riegel
with
Jamyl Dobson
Musicians
André Gribou, Lisa Komara, and
Christopher Antonio William Lancaster (Band Leader)
Production Staff
Kyle Maude, Laura Bickford, Eric Launer,
Sam Crawford, and Shoshanna Gross
Serenade/The Proposition is made possible with lead support from the
Companyʼs commissioning program, “Partners in Creation,” which includes the
following donors: the Argosy Foundation, Abigail Congdon and Joe Azrack,
Anne Delaney, Eleanor Friedman, Barbara and Eric Dobkin, Sandra and Gerald
Eskin, Ruth and Stephen Hendel, Ellen Poss, Jane and Terry Semel, and Carol
H. Tolan.
Friday, April 8, 2011
8:00 pm
Aycock Auditorium
Program
SERENADE/THE PROPOSITION
(2008)
Conceived and Directed by Bill T. Jones
Choreographed by Bill T. Jones with Janet Wong and members of the Company
Decor by Bjorn Amelan
Lighting Design by Robert Wierzel
Video Design by Janet Wong
Sound Design by Sam Crawford
Costume Design by Anjia Jalac and the Company,
with special thanks to Liz Prince
Original Music Composed and Arranged by
Jerome Begin, Lisa Komara, and Christopher Antonio William Lancaster
Additional music and lyrics from: W.A. Mozart, Julia Ward Howe, William
Walker, Alexander Means, Abraham Lincoln and traditional American folk music.
Original Text by Bill T. Jones
with excerpts from:
Lecture on Discoveries and Inventions by Abraham Lincoln, delivered in Jacksonville, IL, February 11, 1859
The Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe, 1861
The Cause of Civil War by Frederick Douglass, written in 1862
The Soldierʼs Faith by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., delivered at Harvard University, Memorial Day, May 30, 1895
“1. The Evacuation” The Fall of Richmond by Clement Sulivane, published in Battles and Leaders Vol. 4, 1893
President Lincoln Enters Richmond, 1865 Eyewitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com, 2000
Second Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln, delivered on March 4, 1865
Farewell Address at Springfield, IL, by Abraham Lincoln, delivered on February 11, 1861
Civil War photos are used with permission from the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division.
Major support for Serenade/The Proposition is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts
and American Express.
The music for Serenade/The Proposition was commissioned by the American Music Center
Live Music for Dance Program.
Serenade/The Proposition has been commissioned by The Joyce Theater's Stephen and
Cathy Weinroth Fund for New Work.
Additional commissioning support provided by Montclair State University.
The World Premiere of Serenade/The Proposition was presented at the American Dance Festival
in Durham, NC, on July 10, 2008.
Bill T. Jones dedicates Serenade/The Proposition to Andrea Smith,
who gave so much to the creation of this work.
COMPANY HISTORY
Now in its 29th year, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company was born out of an 11-
year collaboration between Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane (1948–1988). During this time,
they redefined the duet form and foreshadowed issues of identity, form and social
commentary that would change the face of American dance. The Company emerged onto
the international scene in 1983 with the world premiere of Intuitive Momentum, which
featured legendary drummer Max Roach, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Since then,
the 10-member Company has performed worldwide in over 200 cities in 30 countries on
every major continent. Today, the Company is recognized as one of the most innovative
and powerful forces in the modern dance world.
The repertory of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company is widely varied in its subject
matter, visual imagery and stylistic approach to movement, voice and stagecraft and
includes musically-driven works as well as works using a variety of texts. The Company
has been acknowledged for its intensely collaborative method of creation that has included
artists as diverse as Keith Haring, Cassandra Wilson, The Orion String Quartet, the
Chamber Society of Lincoln Center, Fred Hersch, Jenny Holzer, Robert Longo, Julius
Hemphill and Daniel Bernard Roumain, among others. The collaborations of the Bill T.
Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company with visual artists were the subject of Art Performs Life
(1998), a groundbreaking exhibition at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN.
Some of its most celebrated creations are evening length works including Last Supper at
Uncle Tomʼs Cabin/The Promised Land (1990, Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn
Academy of Music); Still/Here (1994, Biennale de la Danse in Lyon, France); We Set Out
Early… Visibility Was Poor (1996, Hancher Auditorium,Iowa City, IA); You Walk? (2000,
European Capital of Culture 2000,Bolgna, Italy); Blind Date (2006, Peak Performances at
Montclair State University); Chapel/Chapter (2006, Harlem Stage Gatehouse); and Fondly
Do We Hope… Fervently Do We Pray (2009, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park, IL). The
ongoing, site-specific, Another Evening was last performed in its seventh incarnation as
Another Evening: Venice/Arsenale (2010, La Biennale di Venezia).
The Company has also produced two evenings centered on Bill T. Jonesʼs solo
performance: The Breathing Show (1999, Hancher Auditorium, Iowa City, IA) and As I Was
Saying… (2005, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN).
The Company has been featured in many publications, and one of the most in-depth
examinations of Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zaneʼs collaborations can be found in Body Against
Body: The Dance and Other Collaborations of Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane (1989 - Station
Hill Press) edited by Elizabeth Zimmer.
The Company has received numerous awards, including New York Dance and
Performance Awards ("Bessie") for Chapel/Chapter at Harlem Stage (2006), The Table
Project (2001), D-Man in the Waters (1989 and 2001), musical scoring and costume design
for Last Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin/The Promised Land (1990) and for the
groundbreaking Joyce Theater season (1986). The Company was nominated for the 1999
Laurence Olivier Award for “Outstanding Achievement in Dance and Best New Dance
Production” for We Set Out Early… Visibility was Poor.
The Company celebrated its landmark 20th anniversary at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
with 37 guest artists including Susan Sarandon, Cassandra Wilson and Vernon Reid. The
Phantom Project: The 20th Season presented a diverse repertoire of over 15 revivals and
new works.
During the Companyʼs 25th anniversary season in 2007, Ravinia Festival in Highland Park,
IL offered the Company its most significant commission to date: to create a work to honor
the bicentennial of Abraham Lincolnʼs birth. The Company created three new productions in
response: 100 Migrations (2008), a site-specific community performance project;
Serenade/The Proposition (2008), examining the nature of history; and Fondly Do We
Hope… Fervently Do We Pray (2009), the making of which is the subject of a feature-length
documentary by Kartemquin Films entitled A Good Man, to be broadcast on PBS American
Masters in 2011.
The Company has distinguished itself through extensive community outreach and
educational programs, including partnerships with Bard College, where company members
teach an innovative curriculum rooted in the Companyʼs creative model and highly
collaborative methods; and with Lincoln Center Institute, which uses Company works in its
educator-training and in-school repertory programs. University and college dance programs
throughout the U.S. work with the Company to reconstruct significant works for their
students. The Company conducts intensive workshops for professional and pre-professional
dancers and produces a broad range of discussion events at home and on the
road, all born from the strong desire to “participate in the world of ideas.”
In 2010, the Company announced a groundbreaking merger with Dance Theater Workshop
that The New York Times said could “alter the contemporary dance landscape in New
York.” The new organization, called New York Live Arts, is a new model of artist-led,
producing/presenting/touring arts organization unique in the United States that aims to
support movement-based artists through new and adaptive approaches to creation,
presentation, touring, education, and community engagement. For more information:
www.billtjones.org and www.newyorklivearts.org
BILL T. JONES (Artistic Director/Co-Founder/Choreographer), a multi-talented artist,
choreographer, dancer, theater director and writer, has received major honors ranging from
a 1994 MacArthur “Genius” Award to Kennedy Center Honors in 2010. He was inducted
into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2009 and named “An Irreplaceable
Dance Treasure” by the Dance Heritage Coalition in 2000. His ventures into Broadway
theater resulted in a 2010 Tony Award for Best Choreography in the critically acclaimed
FELA!, the new musical co-conceived, co-written, directed and choreographed by Mr.
Jones. He also earned a 2007 Tony Award for Best Choreography in Spring Awakening as
well as an Obie Award for the showʼs 2006 off-Broadway run. His choreography for the off-
Broadway production of The Seven earned him a 2006 Lucille Lortel Award.
Mr. Jones began his dance training at the State University of New York at Binghamton
(SUNY), where he studied classical ballet and modern dance. After living in Amsterdam,
Mr. Jones returned to SUNY, where he became co-founder of the American Dance Asylum
in 1973. In 1982 he formed the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company (then called Bill T.
Jones/Arnie Zane & Company) with his late partner, Arnie Zane. In 2010, Mr. Jones was
named Executive Artistic Director of New York Lives Arts, a new model of artist-led,
producing/presenting/touring arts organization unique in the United States that was formed
by a merger of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and Dance Theater
Workshop.
In addition to creating more than 140 works for his own company, Mr. Jones has received
many commissions to create dances for modern and ballet companies, including Alvin Ailey
American Dance Theater, Boston Ballet, Lyon Opera Ballet, and Berlin Opera Ballet,
among others. In 1995, Mr. Jones directed and performed in a collaborative work with Toni
Morrison and Max Roach, Degga, at Alice Tully Hall, commissioned by Lincoln Centerʼs
Serious Fun Festival. His collaboration with Jessye Norman, How! Do! We! Do!, premiered
at New Yorkʼs City Center in 1999.
His work in dance has been recognized with the 2010 Jacobʼs Pillow Dance Award; the
2005 Wexner Prize; the 2005 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for
Lifetime Achievement; the 2003 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize; and the 1993 Dance
Magazine Award. His additional awards include the Harlem Renaissance Award in 2005;
the Dorothy B. Chandler Performing Arts Award in 1991; multiple New York Dance and
Performance Bessie Awards for his works The Table Project (2001), The Breathing Show
(2001), D-Man in the Waters (1989) and the Companyʼs groundbreaking season at the
Joyce Theater (1986). In 1980, 1981 and 1982, Mr. Jones was the recipient of
Choreographic Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 1979 he was
granted the Creative Artists Public Service Award in Choreography.
Mr. Jones was profiled on NBC Nightly News and The Today Show in 2010 and was a
guest on the Colbert Report in 2009. Also in 2010, he was featured in HBOʼs documentary
series MASTERCLASS, which follows notable artists as they mentor aspiring young artists.
In 2009, Mr. Jones appeared on one of the final episodes of Bill Moyers Journal, discussing
his Lincoln suite of works. He was also one of 22 prominent black Americans featured in
the HBO documentary The Black List in 2008. In 2004, ARTE France and Bel Air Media
produced Bill T. Jones–Solos, highlighting three of his iconic solos from a cinematic point of
view. The making of Still/Here was the subject of a documentary by Bill Moyers and David
Grubin entitled Bill T. Jones: Still/Here with Bill Moyers in 1997. Additional television credits
include telecasts of his works Last Supper at Uncle Tomʼs Cabin/The Promised Land
(1992) and Fever Swamp (1985) on PBSʼs “Great Performances” Series. In 2001, D-Man
in the Waters was broadcast on the Emmy-winning documentary Free to Dance.
Bill T. Jones's interest in new media and digital technology has resulted in collaborations
with the team of Paul Kaiser, Shelley Eshkar and Marc Downie, now known as OpenEnded
Group. The collaborations include After Ghostcatching – the 10th Anniversary re-imagining
of Ghostcatching (2010, SITE Sante Fe Eighth International Biennial); 22 (2004, Arizona
State University's Institute for Studies In The Arts and Technology, Tempe, AZ); and
Ghostcatching - A Virtual Dance Installation (1999, Cooper Union, New York, NY).
He has received honorary doctorates from Yale University, Art Institute of Chicago, Bard
College, Columbia College, Skidmore College, the Juilliard School, Swarthmore College
and the State University of New York at Binghamton Distinguished Alumni Award, where he
began his dance training with studies in classical ballet and modern dance.
Mr. Jonesʼs memoir, Last Night on Earth, was published by Pantheon Books in 1995. An in-depth
look at the work of Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane can be found in Body Against Body:
The Dance and Other Collaborations of Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane, published by Station
Hill Press in 1989. Hyperion Books published Dance, a childrenʼs book written by Bill T.
Jones and photographer Susan Kuklin in 1998. Mr. Jones contributed to Continuous
Replay: The Photography of Arnie Zane, published by MIT Press in 1999.
In addition to his Company and Broadway work, Mr. Jones also choreographed Sir Michael
Tippetʼs New Year (1990) for Houston Grand Opera and Glyndebourne Festival Opera. His
Mother of Three Sons was performed at the Munich Biennale, New York City Opera and
the Houston Grand Opera. Mr. Jones also directed Lost in the Stars for the Boston Lyric
Opera. Additional theater projects include co-directing Perfect Courage with Rhodessa
Jones for Festival 2000 in 1990. In 1994, he directed Derek Walcottʼs Dream on Monkey
Mountain for The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, MN.
ARNIE ZANE (1948-1988) was a native New Yorker born in the Bronx and educated at the
State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton. In 1971, Arnie Zane and Bill T. Jones
began their long collaboration in choreography and in 1973 formed the American Dance
Asylum in Binghamton with Lois Welk. Mr. Zaneʼs first recognition in the arts came as a
photographer when he received a Creative Artists Public Service (CAPS) Fellowship in
1973. Mr. Zane was the recipient of a second CAPS Fellowship in 1981 for choreography,
as well as two Choreographic Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1983
and 1984). In 1980, Mr. Zane was co-recipient, with Bill T. Jones, of the German Critics
Award for his work, Blauvelt Mountain. Rotary Action, a duet with Mr. Jones, was filmed for
television, co-produced by WGBH-TV Boston and Channel 4 in London.
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater commissioned a new work from Mr. Zane and Bill
T. Jones, How to Walk an Elephant, which premiered at Wolftrap in August 1985. Mr. Zane
(along with Mr. Jones) received a 1985-86 New York Dance and Performance Award
(“Bessie”) for Choreographer/Creator. Continuous Replay: The Photographs of Arnie Zane
was published by MIT Press in April 1999.
Company Profiles
ANTONIO BROWN (Dancer), a native of Cleveland, OH, began his dance training at the
Cleveland School of the Arts and received his BFA from The Juilliard School in 2007. Mr.
Brown has worked with Nilas Martins Dance Company, Stephen Pier and Sidra Bell Dance
New York. In addition to being a member of the Company, Mr. Brown performs with Camille
A. Brown & Dancers and Gregory Dolbashian's "The Dash Ensemble". Mr. Brown joined
the Company in 2007.
PETER CHAMBERLIN (Dancer), born in Augusta, ME, trained at the North Carolina
School of the Arts and BalletMet of Columbus, OH, and graduated from SUNY Purchase in
2007. He has performed with the Kevin Wynn Collection, Take Dance, NOA Nelly van
Bommel, and Sidra Bell Dance New York, and has been on faculty of Ballet International
with Kazuko Hirabayashi as artistic director. Mr. Chamberlin continues his movement
exploration under the tutelage of Barbara Mahler. He joined the Company in 2007.
TALLI JACKSON (Dancer), originally from Liberty, NY, first trained with Livia Vanaver at
the Vanaver Caravan Dance Institute in New York. With the Vanaver Caravan he
performed in venues throughout the U.S. and Europe. Mr. Jackson has performed works by
Marianela Boan, David Dorfman, Francesca Harper, Heidi Latsky and Sandy Silva. He
received full scholarships from the American Dance Festival in 2006 and 2008, the Bates
Dance Festival and the Ailey School. Mr. Jackson joined the Company in 2009.
SHAYLA-VIE JENKINS (Dancer), originally from Ewing, NJ, began dance training at
Watson Johnson Dance Theater and Mercer County Performing Arts School. In 2004, she
graduated with honors from Fordham University. She has performed with The Kevin Wynn
Collection, Nathan Trice Rituals, The Francesca Harper Project, and Yaa Samar Dance
Theater. In 2008, she was featured in Dance Magazine's "On The Rise" performers. Ms.
Jenkins joined the Company in 2005.
LAMICHAEL LEONARD, JR. (Dancer) graduated from the New World School of the Arts
in Miami, FL. He joined the Martha Graham Dance Company and danced lead roles
touring nationally and internationally. He most recently danced with the Buglisi Dance
Theatre. Mr. Leonard joined the Company in 2007.
I-LING LIU (Dancer), a native of Taiwan, received her BFA from Taipei National University
of the Arts in 2005. She has performed with Ku and Dancers, Taipei Crossover Dance
Company, Image in Motion Theater Company, Neo-Classic Dance Company, and in works
by Trisha Brown, Lin Hwai-Min and Yang Ming-Lung. Ms. Liu joined the Company as an
apprentice in 2007 and became a member of the Company in 2008.
PAUL MATTESON (Dancer), originally from Cumberland, ME, received undergraduate
and graduate degrees from Middlebury and Bennington Colleges, respectively. He was a
member of David Dorfman Dance and Race Dance and has also performed for Terry
Creach, Peter Schmitz, Kota Yamazaki, Chamecki/Lerner, Jamie Cunningham, Neta
Pulvermacher, Susan Sgorbati, Helena Franzen, and Keith Johnson. He has been a guest
teacher at festival throughout the U.S. and in Russia. He also choreographs and
collaborates with Jennifer Nugent. Mr. Matteson joined the Company in 2008.
ERICK MONTES (Dancer), originally from Mexico City, trained at the National School of
Classical and Contemporary Dance. He danced with Compañia Barro Rojo Arte Escenico,
A-Quo Danza Contemporanea, Aksenti and Thania Perez-Salas. He received first prize at
2001 Premio Intercontinental INBA-UAM. In 2002, he collaborated with Stephen Petronio
on projects for Lincoln Center and Queens Theatre in the Park. He has received grants
through Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y Las Artes and Aaron Davis Hallʼs E-Moves, and
was invited to participate in 2004ʼs Festival Mexico Now in NYC. Mr. Montes joined the
Company in 2003.
JENNIFER NUGENT (Dancer) is originally from Miami, FL. She was a member of David
Dorfman Dance and has performed with Martha Clarke, Daniel Lepkoff, Lisa Race, Nina
Winthrop, Gerri Houlihan & Dancers and Mary Street Dance Theater. She has been a
guest artist at universities and dance festivals throughout the U.S., Russia, Korea and
Vietnam. In 2009, she was Artist in Residence through Movement Research. She also
choreographs and collaborates with Paul Matteson. Ms. Nugent joined the Company in
2009.
JENNA RIEGEL (Dancer), a native of Fairfield, IA, has been a New York-based dancer,
performer and teacher since 2007. Ms. Riegel holds an M.F.A. in Dance Performance from
the University of Iowa and a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Maharishi University of Management.
She has performed with Michel Kouakouʼs Daara Dance, Carolyn Dorfman Dance
Company, Tania Isaac Dance and Bill Young/Colleen Thomas & Company. She currently
tours nationally and internationally as a company member of David Dorfman Dance,
Alexandra/Beller Dances and johannes weiland.
BJORN G. AMELAN (Sculptor/Creative Director/Set Designer) was the partner of
fashion designer Patrick Kelly from 1983 until his passing in 1990. He began collaborating
with BTJ/AZDC in 1993. As the companyʼs resident set designer, he has created décor for
many works and special presentations. They include: How! Do! We! Do! For Lincoln
Centerʼs Great Performers New Visions series (1999); The Table Project (2000); three
contrasting designs for Verbum, Black Suzanne, and WORLDWITHOUT/IN (2001); the
narrative work, Reading, Mercy and The Artificial Nigger, and its abstract companion piece,
Mercy 10 x 8 on a Circle (2003). In 2004, he won recognition for Memory of a Rock: First
Move, his showing of bronze and stone sculptures at the Dwight Hackett Gallery in Santa
Fe, New Mexico. In 2001, he received a “Bessie” for The Breathing Show and The Table
Project. Mr. Amelanʼs designs for Blind Date and Another Evening: I Bow Down are in the
companyʼs current repertory.
SAM CRAWFORD (Sound Supervisor) completed both his Associate of Science degree
in Audio Technology and Bachelor of Arts in English at Indiana University in 2003. A move
to New York City led him to Looking Glass Studios where he worked on film projects with
Philip Glass and Björk. He currently lives in Jersey City where he works as a freelance live
sound recording engineer and plays banjo and bass guitar in the groups Stereofan and The
Goodwill Orchestra.
JAMYL DOBSON (Actor) recently starred as Polynices in The Seven (La Jolla Playhouse,
New York Theatre Workshop, winner of the 2006 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding
Musical). Other New York City credits include: Romeo and Juliet, Ain't Supposed to Die a
Natural Death (Classical Theatre of Harlem, named Best Supporting Performance by
Independent Weekly), workshop of Fela (director: Bill T. Jones), Rainy Days and Mondays
(NYC Fringe Festival), and Tea (Manhattan Theatre Source). Regional credits include:
Lend Me a Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo (Iowa Summer Rep), Avenue X (Philadelphia Public
Theatre Company), Two Gentlemen of Verona, Emperor's New Clothes (PA Shakespeare
Festival), and The Aperture (staged reading at Wooly Mammoth). Mr. Dobson received a
BA from Temple University and an MFA from University of Iowa.
ANDRÉ GRIBOU (Pianist) has composed for and collaborated with many nationally and
internationally known artists in the creation of works for documentaries, video, dance and
theater. Artists that he has collaborated with have included Mark Haim, Chris Aiken, Peter
Bingham, Mark Dendy, Douglas Neilson, David Parsons, Margaret Beals, Lenora
Champagne, and the Lark String Quartet. His theme music for the WCBS-TV NFL Today
Preview received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Musical Composition, and he
composed the score for the Emmy award-winning documentary Wandering Souls: Tet 68.
He received his second Emmy nomination in 2007 for the score to the documentary
PassionWorks: The Story of Flying, broadcast by PBS stations throughout the country in
2006-07. Gribou holds degrees from the Hartt School of Music and The Juilliard School.
ANJIA JALAC (Wardrobe Supervisor) was born and raised in Marinduque, Philippines,
until the age of ten. She, a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology, freelances as a
wardrobe supervisor and theatrical seamstress by day and couturier by night. Ms. Jalac
has always been enchanted by the art and language of dance and strives to create an
additional layer of expression through costume. She has recently designed costumes for
Alethea Adsitt and Co.
LISA KOMARA (Composer/Vocalist), a native of California, moved to New York to attend
the Manhattan School of Music, where she completed her graduate studies in Classical
voice. She has performed with the Bronx Opera Company in productions of Il Barbiere di
Siviglia and Der Freischutz, with the Martina Arroyo Foundation as Meg Page in Falstaff,
and abroad with the Centro Studi Italiani Opera Festival in Urbania, Italy. Ms. Komara
enjoys singing contemporary works and was most recently seen as Emily in the premiere of
A Phonographic Novel and has collaborated extensively with composer Matthew Welch in
creating the role of Borges in the premier of Borges and the Other.
CHRISTOPHER ANTONIO WILLIAM LANCASTER (Composer/Cello) Christopher
Antonio William Lancaster is an electro-acoustic cellist composer working out of Brooklyn,
NY. He attended UC Irvine, where he began touring with Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward
and working with dance legend Donald McKayle. He has been a cello teacher, orchestral
coach, music therapist, music director for Staccato Movimento Dance in Rio di Janeiro,
composer for several theater works in Copenhagen, and a faculty musician at the American
Dance Festival, Korea Dance Festival and Hollins University. He spent a decade as an
accompanist for ballet and modern dance technique classes and has written and performed
50 dance scores. He currently tours his compositions with the Company and with film
maker/choreographer Jason Akira Somma.
LIZ PRINCE (Costume Designer) has worked extensively with Bill T. Jones since 1990.
She has also designed for Doug Varone and Dancers, Jose Limon Dance Company,
Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, American Ballet Theater, Washington Ballet,
Pennsylvania Ballet, PHILADANCO, Houston Ballet, Dendy Dance, Pacific Northwest
Ballet, Dortmund Theater Ballet, Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project, Meg
Stuart, Lucy Guerin, Tamar Rogoff, Claire Danes, PILOBOLUS, Neil Greenberg, Jane
Comfort, Bebe Miller, Ralph Lemon, and David Dorfman. Her costumes have been
exhibited at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Cleveland Center for
Contemporary Art and Snug Harbor Cultural Center.
ROBERT WIERZEL (Lighting Designer) has worked with artists in theatre, dance, new
music, opera and museums, on stages throughout the country and abroad. He has a long
history (21 years) with Bill T. Jones and his company. Mr. Wierzel has also worked with
Trisha Brown, Doug Varone, Donna Uchizono, Larry Goldhuber, Heidi Latsky, Sean Curran,
Molissa Fenley, Susan Marshall, Margo Sappington, Alonzo King and Joann Fregalette-
Jansen. Additional credits include national and international opera companies, Broadway
and regional theater. Mr. Wierzel is currently on the faculty of New York Universityʼs Tisch
School of the Arts.
JANET WONG (Associate Artistic Director/Video Designer) was born in Hong Kong and
trained in Hong Kong and London. Upon graduation she joined the Berlin Ballet where she
first met Bill when he was invited to choreograph on the company. In 1993, she moved to
New York to pursue other interests. Ms. Wong became Rehearsal Director of the Company
in 1996 and Associate Artistic Director in August 2006.
BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE DANCE COMPANY
Bill T. Jones, Artistic Director
Jean Davidson, Executive Director
Janet Wong, Associate Artistic Director
Artistic Staff
Bjorn G. Amelan, Creative Director
Robert Wierzel, Resident Lighting Designer
Liz Prince, Resident Costume Designer
Bill Katz, Artistic Consultant
Administrative Staff
Bob Bursey, Producing Director
Bill Wagner, Director of Finance
Leah Cox, Education Director
JJ Lind, Director of Development
Irfana Jetha, Development Associate, Institutional Giving
Victoria Michelotti, Public Relations Manager
Marcus Dargan, Office Manager / Executive Assistant
Daniel Wiener, Webmaster
Real Design, Identity Design Concept
Production Staff
Kyle Maude, Production Stage Manager
Laura Bickford, Lighting Supervisor
Eric Launer, Technical Director
Shoshanna Gross, Company Manager
Sam Crawford, Sound Supervisor
In February 2011, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and Dance Theater
Workshop merged to form New York Live Arts, an artist-led, producing, and presenting arts
organization. New York Live Arts aims to support movement-based artists through new and
adaptive approaches to creation, presentation, touring, education and community
engagement unique in the United States. New York Live Arts is located at the Doris Duke
Performance Center at 219 West 19th Street in New York City and is led by Bill T. Jones as
Executive Artistic Director, Carla Peterson as Artistic Director, and Jean Davidson as
Executive Director. In spring 2011, New York Live Arts will announce its inaugural season
that will debut in fall 2011. Dance Theater Workshop's and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane
Dance Companyʼs current seasons continue through June 2011. www.newyorklivearts.org
The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company expresses deep appreciation for the following
individuals, foundations, corporations, and government agencies whose contributions sustain our
organization. Although space limits the listing of all gifts, the Company wishes to thank each and
every donor.
Gifts from July 1, 2008 – June 30, 2009
Partners in Creation
New works commissioning program *
Argosy Foundation
Abigail Congdon & Joe Azrack
Anne Delaney
Barbara & Eric Dobkin
Sandra & Gerald Eskin
Eleanor Friedman
Ruth & Stephen Hendel
Ellen Poss
Jane Bovingdon Semel & Terry Semel
Carol H. Tolan
Corporate Partners
Bloomberg
Con Edison
Gotham Acupuncture
Matching Gifts
Diageo North America
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
The Moriah Fund
Chairmanʼs Circle: $100,000 +
Argosy Foundation*
Carnegie Corporation of New York*
Anne Delaney*
Ruth & Stephen Hendel*
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation*
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs*
New York State Council on the Arts*
Ellen Poss*
Rockefeller Foundation Cultural Innovation Fund*
Jane Bovingdon Semel & Terry Semel*
Carol H. Tolan*
Leadership Circle: $25,000 - $99,999
Abigail S. Congdon & Joseph F. Azrack*
Gilbert Brownstone*
Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts,
Inc.
Sandra & Gerald Eskin*
Eleanor Friedman*
Multi-Arts Production Fund
National Endowment for the Arts
New England Foundation for the Arts - National Dance
Project
The O'Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation,
Inc.
The William J. & Dorothy K. OʼNeill Foundation
Patron's Circle: $5,000-$24,999
Anonymous
Derek Brown & Deborah Hellman
Muna El-Fituri
The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation
Lorraine Gallard & Richard H. Levy
Marcia & John Goldman
Michael P. Nguyen & James C. Hormel
Claire Danes
Bjorn Amelan & Bill T. Jones
Suzanne Toor Karpas & Irving D. Karpas, Jr.
John Legend
Dr. Michael L. Lomax
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
Daniel and Pennie Kim Nissenbaum
Kathleen O'Connor
Marcia J. Radosevich
The Shubert Foundation
The Susan Sarandon Charitable Foundation
David Hagans & Ric Wanetik
Riva Yares
Sponsor Circle: $1,000 - $4,999
Eric Anderson
Serge Becker
Prudence &Frank Beidler
Rachel E. Berry
John and Stephanie Bjork
Jeannie Colbert
Sage & John Cowles
Jean Davidson
Elisabeth & Jim DeMarse
Jeanne Donovan Fisher
The Fledgling Fund
Susan L. Foster
Paulette J. Meyer & David A. Friedman
Alicia Glen & Daniel Rayner
The Harkness Foundation For Dance
Jimena Martinez & Michael J. Hirschhorn
Elizabeth &Harold Jenkins
Jenette & Al Kahn
Emily Fisher Landau
Suzanne & Robert Levine
Joseph V. Melillo
Nancy Meyer & Marc Weiss
Michele & Ronald Riggi
The Jerome Robbins Foundation
Martin Segal/The Segal Company
Cindy Sherman
Gil Shiva - The Susan Stein Shiva Foundation
E.B. & Maureen Smith
Mary Ann Stein
Lorry & Karen Stensrud
Jack & Kristalina Taylor
Billie Tsien & Tod Williams
Steven & Stephanie Victor
Kweli Washington
Kate R. Whitney & Franklin A. Thomas
Meg & Bruce Williams
In-Kind Donors
Prudence & Frank Beidler
Dechert, LLP
Terence Dougherty
Elizabeth & Harold Jenkins
Latin America Consulting Group LLC (Tequila 1921)
Arnold Mungioli
Steve Pang Accupuncture
Stanton Public
Veuve Clicquot MH USA/Champagne
Kweli Washington
Lead 2010/2011 season support for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company is
funded, in part, by the Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, The Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the
Arts, Open Society Foundations and the Fund for the City of New York, New York City
Department of Cultural Affairs, the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone and the Doris
Duke Charitable Foundation.
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
New York Live Arts
219 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011
(212) 691-6500 / Fax: (212) 633-1974
www.billtjones.org
www.newyorklivearts.org
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company is presented by arrangement through IMG Artists
Carnegie Hall Tower, 152 W. 57th Street - 5th Floor, New York, NY 10019
(212) 994-3500 / Fax: (212) 994-3550
Email: artistsny@imgartists.com
European representation of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company by:
Gillian Newson Associates
Office + 44 20 7622 8549 Mobile + 44 7768 166381
Email: gillian@gilliannewson.co.uk