Programs
Higher Education
A main component of the Company's education programming is our work with higher education. By engaging with student artists, we are able to contribute to their intellectual and artistic development. In the University setting, we are able to share ways to collaborate across disciplines, investigate new ideas, and advance the discussion between the world of art and the world of ideas.
Licensing
We are excited to announce new opportunities for university students to engage with the repertory of the Company. 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. Please contact us for more information - we hope you'll be intrigued and inspired to participate!
Current and Past Licensing Partners include:
University of Washington: D-Man in the Waters, November 2009
University of South Florida: Serenade/The Proposition, Spring 2010
Residencies
Residency at Bard College
The entire Compnay was in residence at Bard College for three weeks, creating a new site-specific work, rehearsing current repertory, and interacting with Bard dance students. Click here for more information about our activities at Bard.
Residency at Skidmore College
Bill T. Jones conducted residency activities as the 2009-2010 McCormack Artist Scholar in Residence. Company members Shayla-Vie Jenkins, LaMichael Leonard, and Leah Cox taught a wide range of classes to the students in the dance department over the course of the week. Click Here to see more about our activities at Skidmore!
Residency at Dartmouth College
For one week during April of 2010, Mr. Jones and the company were in residence at Dartmouth College under the auspices of the Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Fellowship program. This honor is reserved for those scholars, thinkers, and artists "capable of achieving an important and broadscale impact educationally." The residency included performances of Fondly Do We Hope...Fervently Do We Pray, accompanied by nightly post-performance discussions with the audience; lectures and discussions by Mr. Jones for the undergraduate student body and interested community members; and dance masterclasses taught by company members. Mr. Jones attended and facilitated various classes, engaging in creative discussions with Dartmouth students and faculty.
Click here to view photos from the week.
Click Here to read Bill's blog about the residency.
Special Projects and Partnerships
Bard College and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company Partnership
Click here for more information on this exciting new partnership!
University of Virginia
Click here for more information on "100 Migrations," a unique, collaborative project from November 2008.
Ailey/Fordham BFA Program
Students worked with former company member Catherine Cabeen and Associate Artistic Director Jane Wong to learn the "Spend Days Out Yonder" section from You Walk?. It was performed at their Spring Concert in April 2010.
–– Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Monday, July 27, 2009
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