Bill T. Jones
Bill T. Jones is an American choreographer, dancer, and director known for contemporary dance and for cofounding the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company.
Still/Here: A 1994 dance theater work by Bill T. Jones shaped by workshops with people living with life-threatening illnesses. It makes illness, testimony, and mortality the work’s central material.
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company: An American contemporary dance company cofounded by Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane in 1982. It has been the central ensemble for Jones’s choreography and long-term artistic development.
Bunnell, Florida: A city in northeastern Florida where Bill T. Jones was born in 1952. Jones’s childhood in this racially segregated Southern setting informed later autobiographical works.
Spring Awakening (2006 musical): A Broadway musical adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s play, with choreography by Bill T. Jones. Jones won a Tony Award for directing and choreographing this production.
D-Man in the Waters: A 1989 Bill T. Jones dance honoring company member Demian Acquavella and people affected by AIDS. Its buoyant movement responded to the AIDS crisis and the loss of Jones’s partner.
Arnie Zane: An American photographer, dancer, and choreographer who cofounded the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company. His creative and personal partnership with Jones shaped the company’s early work.
State University of New York at Binghamton: A public research university in Binghamton, New York, where Jones studied dance and theater. Jones met Arnie Zane there, beginning a partnership that shaped his career.
Fela!: A Broadway musical about Nigerian musician and activist Fela Kuti, directed and choreographed by Bill T. Jones. Its success brought Jones’s movement-driven staging to a major musical theater audience.
Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land: A 1990 dance-theater work by Bill T. Jones engaging race, religion, and American history. It exemplifies his use of charged historical imagery and large-scale theatrical composition.
Keith Haring: An American artist whose bold graphic imagery became associated with New York’s 1980s art scene. Haring designed the set for Jones’s 1989 work D-Man in the Waters.