Programs
Educational Licensing
We are excited to announce a unique opportunity for university students!
These excerpts show the pieces available to be reconstructed and performed by college and university dance programs. Licensing works from the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company provides universities with the opportunity to engage in a well-rounded, extensive learning experience rooted in a significant work from the company's repertory. Our program is shaped by the core belief that a work of art should provide students and community with the opportunity to learn about process, values, skills, and motivating ideas, as well as provide performance opportunities for select dancers. Contact us for more information.
The Works
CONTINUOUS REPLAY (1977/1991)
An early work, Continuous Replay exists as a brilliant and challenging piece for performers and audience members that traces its roots to Arnie Zane's interest in photography and film. The piece is based on 45 precise gestures accumulated in space and time, cunningly complicated by an improvisational score and discrete movement events. Normally performed naked by the company, student casts may be clothed.
Choreographer: Bill T. Jones, after Arnie Zane
Music: John Oswald
Cast size: 10 to 20
Length: 20 minutes
LOVE RE-DEFINED (1996)
Daniel Johnston's innocent, childlike songs cue the creation of another world on stage where dancers exist as both sophisticated movers and human beings in their most simple, unpretentious, and hopeful state. Mr. Jones' distinct style is evident here, drawing freely from classical ballet, investigations of gesture and shape, and his own complex understanding of the versatility of the human spine.
Choreographer: Bill T. Jones
Music: Daniel Johnston
Cast size: 9 (based on 5 men and 4 women)
Length: 30 minutes
D-MAN IN THE WATERS: 1st movement (1989)
This Bessie Award-winning work is not only a genuine classic of modern dance, it is also timelessly engaging. Intelligent, driven, athletic, and joyous, D-Man in the Waters is a challenging piece that will advance the skills of collegiate-level students. Mendelssohn's music can be performed live by student or community musicians for a fuller experience. There is also an option to license the entire piece, rather than just the first movement.
Choreographer: Bill T. Jones
Music: Felix Mendelssohn (can be performed live)
Cast size: 9 (based on 5 men and 4 women)
Length: 15 minutes
DUET (1995) and POWER/FULL (2002)
These two works, created from the same movement material, reveal the wide-ranging possibilities inherent in movement. With its simple structure, Duet emphasizes both the tension between and elegance inherent in two people moving together in perfect unison. Power/Full confronts the audience more directly, posing a veiled question about power through its soloist-against-group format. Both works provide entry into some of the most detailed and sophisticated movement Mr. Jones has made to date. Licensed together.
Choreographer: Bill T. Jones
Music: Traditional Music from Madagascar, Persia and Ivory Coast / John Oswald, Daniel Bernard Roumain / John Oswald and Laurel McDonald
Cast size: 2 / 6
Length: 15 minutes / 15 minutes
I BOW DOWN (2006)
The central section from the evening-length work Another Evening: I Bow Down, this piece suggests the human struggle to both accept and resist the inevitability of natural forces and the existence of a higher power. The work is contained within vigorous formalism and performed on a taped floor grid.
I Bow Down offers a uniquely different experience from other works, requiring students to learn phrasework created by Mr. Jones and create their own inversions of it. The piece can also be expanded to include actors and live musicians, allowing a rich, collaborative challenge for students across the performing arts spectrum. Please contact us for more details on coordinating this multi-disciplinary option.
Choreographer: Bill T. Jones
Music: Daniel Bernard Roumain after Anton Batagov
Cast size: 10 to 12 dancers with the option for 1-2 actors and live musicians
Length: 19 min
–– Education, Thursday, August 20, 2009
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