The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company performing Analogy/Dora: Tramontane at ADF, 7/10/15. Photo: Grant Halverson.
Bill T. Jones is one of the most intellectual artists working in dance, with wide-ranging interests in many topics surrounding the big ideas of freedom and repression. Often we have seen him investigating the ways that luck (fate) and active personal choices intersect as those major forces play out their eternal conflict. (Think all the way back to Still/Here, from 1994.) In Jones’ new work for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, he continues that probing.
Analogy/Dora: Tramontane premiered June 18, 2015, at New Jersey’s Montclair State University, which commissioned it. This work also continues Jones’ record of his reach exceeding his grasp. It’s hard to fault that in an artist…
From my review published 7/11/2015 on CVNC.org. The program repeats tonight only at 7 p.m.
The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company on stage at the DPAC in Analogy/Dora: Tramontane at ADF, 7/10/15. Photo: Grant Halverson.
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