PROGRAM A: ANALOGY/LANCE: PRETTY AKA THE ESCAPE ARTIST (APPROX. 80 MINS)
Oct 25-Oct 26 at 7:30pm; Oct 29 at 8pm; Oct 30 at 2pm; Nov 3-Nov 4 at 8pm; Nov 5 at 2pm
December 31 The Joyce in Chelsea
The renowned company returns to The Joyce to perform two pieces from the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company’s Analogy Trilogy, a work based on oral histories that Jones conducted. Each part reveals Jones’ ongoing exploration of how text, storytelling, and movement pull and push against each other as the performers move seamlessly between dancing, speaking, and singing. Analogy/Dora: Tramontane, recounts the story of 95-year old Dora Amelan, a French Jewish nurse, social worker and World War II survivor. A Joyce commission, Analogy/Lance: Pretty aka The Escape Artist divulges the story of Lance T. Briggs, whose battles with his own demons—drugs and excess—reveal another type of war.
Oct 25-Oct 26 at 7:30pm; Oct 29 at 8pm; Oct 30 at 2pm; Nov 3-Nov 4 at 8pm; Nov 5 at 2pm
Oct 27-Oct 28 at 8pm; Oct 29 at 2pm; Nov 1-Nov 2 at 7:30pm; Nov 5 at 8pm; Nov 6 at 2pm
New York Live Arts is the home of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company providing the support and environment for the company to originate innovative and challenging new work.
Deepen your engagement with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company’s ANALOGY Trilogy with pre- and post-show community salon events held nearby at New York Live Arts. Further details will be available at newyorklivearts.org.
Underwriting support for The Joyce’s presentation of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company provided by Meryl Rosofsky and Stuart H. Coleman.
Jones is not a choreographer in the sense that he just makes dances. He likes to tackle unlikely theatrical themes in unconventional ways…