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The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company Turns 25

Consider the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company's 25th anniversary celebration a launching pad for its future. And what a future it promises: premieres, new venues, and a cornucopia of new ideas.

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Bard College Partnership

Bard College Dance Program Partners with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company to Innovate Curriculum

Beginning in fall 2009, the dance program at Bard College will partner with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company to offer new classes in dance technique and choreographic methods, as well as special campus-wide forums and workshops.

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Fondly Do We Hope... Fervently Do We Pray

New Work on the Life of Abraham Lincoln

Ravinia Festival has commissioned Bill T. Jones to create a new full evening work, Fondly Do We Hope... Fervently Do We Pray, inspired by Abraham Lincoln and celebrating the slain president's 2009 bicentennial.

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New Website to Document the Creative Process

We've launched the Fondly Do We Hope...Fervently Do We Pray website to share the creative process of this new work. Visit and subscribe to the dairy to watch behind the scenes video of the rehearsals, read about the ideas that drive the work and watch their evolution or demise, find out about the music, set design, costumes, lighting and video. Join us as we work towards the premiere.

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Serenade/
The Proposition

The Legacy of Abraham Lincoln

Serenade/The Proposition approaches the legacy of Abraham Lincoln as a rumination on the nature of history. On the eve of the Bicentennial of Lincoln's birth, some of his documented words, his contemporary's writings and speeches, and other texts are used to set up the push and pull of historical perspective.

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EmcArts Innovation Lab

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company Selected for Round 3 of the Innovation Lab

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company has been selected to participate in the third round of the Innovation Lab for the Performing Arts, a program open to producing and presenting organizations in theatre, dance, and jazz that supports the design and prototyping of innovations that address major challenges.

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company will serve as the lead participant in a Lab project with Dance Theater Workshop (DTW) to explore the feasibility of an innovative strategic partnership in which they would share DTW's Chelsea facilities.

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Upcoming Performances

Fondly Do We Hope... Fervently Do We Pray
September 17, 19-20, 2009
Ravinia Festival
World Premiere
Chicago, IL
847.266.5100
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Fondly Do We Hope... Fervently Do We Pray
October 1-3, 2009
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Novellus Theater
San Francisco, CA
415.978.2700
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Fondly Do We Hope... Fervently Do We Pray
October 6, 2009
Granada Theater
Presented by UCSB
Santa Barbara, CA
805.899.2222
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Fondly Do We Hope... Fervently Do We Pray
October 9, 2009
Barclay Theatre
Irvine, CA
949.854.4646
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Bill's Blog

◊ Roots, Renaissance, Revolution!
June 19, 2009

I told Anne that while I am flattered to be seen as a "revolutionary" it would be more accurate and less pompous if I said simply that I am a survivor working with every tool I have to make work, maintain an organization (will we always be a dance company?) and stay in touch with that impulse that lead me to this life in the first place.

Other Events

◊ Maija Garcia Contemporary Workshop

Maija Garcia of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
Associate Choreographer of Fela! A New Musical
New York, NY
Aug 17, 2009 - Aug 22, 2009
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◊ Bill T. Jones Solos Screening

American Dance Festival
Durham, NC
July 10-12, 2009

Bill T. Jones Solos film screened at American Dance Festival's Dancing for the Camera: International Festival of Film and Video Dance.
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◊ Summer Scoops Live with The Wall Street Journal

Lincoln Center
New York, NY
August 18, 2009

Stew and Heidi Rodewald, join Bill T. Jones, Janet Wong and Bjorn Amelan, to explore the pleasures and pitfalls of artistic partnerships.
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◊ Visiting Artist-Scholar Residency

Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY
2009-2010

Bill T. Jones conducts residency activities at Skidmore College as the 2009-2010 McCormack Artist Scholar in Residence.
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◊ Videodanse Film Festival

Centre Pompidou
Paris, France
October 21 - November 23, 2009

Still/Here featured during the free Videodanse Festival at the Centre Pompidou.
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