Dance Program
The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in Residence
February 12–16, 2013
Dance Program
February 12–16, 2013
Art Discusses Ideas: Bill T. Jones and Lawrence Weschler in Conversation
Tuesday, February 12 at 6 pm
Sosnoff Theater
Tickets: Free, no reservations required
Join choreographer and director Bill T. Jones and longtime New Yorker staff writer Lawrence Weschler for a lively conversation about art and its relationship to science, history, technology, and current events. Looking at luminary thinkers and creative artists, Jones and Weschler will discuss how the arts engage with, inform, and meaningfully complicate the world of ideas.
Work-in-Progress Showing of Story
Saturday, February 16 at 2 pm
LUMA Theater
Tickets: Free, reservations via the Box Office
The Company performs a work-in-process showing of Story, a new work created during its week in residence at Bard. Story (2013) uses Franz Schubert’s String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor (Death and the Maiden) as the basis for an energetic new work that draws from the Company’s latest choreographic methods developed for Story/Time (2012). Story will have its New York premiere in March at The Joyce Theater. The showing will be followed by a discussion with Jones, Associate Artistic Director Janet Wong, and the Company. Live music performed by members of the Bard Conservatory Orchestra.
Open Rehearsals
Tuesday, February 12, 2:30–3:30 pm
Wednesday, February 13, 4–5 pm
Thursday, February 14, 3:30–4:30 pm
LUMA Theater
Tickets: Free, no reservations required
Bard faculty and students are invited to sit in on the Company’s rehearsal process for their latest work, Story. As this is a working period for the Company, please enter and exit quietly.