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.

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.

Funding Credits

Underwriting support for The Joyce’s presentation of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company provided by Meryl Rosofsky and Stuart H. Coleman.