Exclusive video footage from the world premiere of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company‘s Another Evening: Serenade/The Proposition, at the 2008 American Dance Festival. Video produced for www.indyweek.com by Noreen Fagan.
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The Load Out (Part I)
Okay, let’s take stock for a moment. We’ve seen dozens of works by hundreds of performers over seven full weeks of modern dance. One thing’s for certain: It’s not all going to fit into that suitcase. So as we start to pack up the 2008 ADF Season, we’ve got to think for a second. 1. […]
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Butoh night in Page Auditorium: your first responses to two world premieres
One by one, the bodies fell down those three platforms to earth at the start of gosh, I am alive… Then Butoh gradually infested a stageful of people in the opening to Secrets of Mankind. But what did you make of the two world premieres from Dai Rakuda Kan and Kochuten at Page Auditorium? How […]
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Little Green Pig’s Goin’ a Buffalo
Goin’ a Buffalo Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern, Manbites Dog Theater Through July 19 It seems wrongheaded to fault the actors in Goin’ a Buffalo with playing at their characters more than actually playing them. After all, how could the show be truly camp if it were otherwise? For camp is arguably the primary aesthetic […]
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Bill T. Jones grapples with the Civil War
Another Evening: Serenade/ The Proposition Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company American Dance Festival, July 10-12 Particularly after the March performance of his disappointing 2006 work, Chapel/ Chapter, (see “Dance of death,” March 26), it’s good to be able to report that choreographer Bill T. Jones seems back on track again. His newest work, […]
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The Independent Review: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company’s”Another Evening: Serenade/The Proposition”
This time out, Janet Wong‘s striking video designs provide an appropriate metaphor for Bill T. Jones’ new work, which “searches deeply for connections” through our individual histories and American history, as it parses the tensions between the ideals of inclusion and unity and the social, cultural and political realities of identity. These in a work […]
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What do you know about Abraham Lincoln?
…after seeing Another Evening: Serenade/The Proposition? Bill T. Jones’ latest work lets us look in on his deliberative process for an upcoming piece (with the working title A Good Man!/A Good Man? ) that will deal with issues in American history and culture touching on the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln. The thematic landscape […]
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Wanted: Audiovisual Rosetta Stone. Must decrypt possibly significant movements and sounds from a lost — and therefore avant-garde — culture. Rush to: The Audience, Education of the Girlchild, ADF
Feel like taking out the want ad above after seeing last night’s performance of Meredith Monk’s Solo from Education of the Girlchild ? Or are you one of the ones who have it all figured out now? Weigh in with your decryptions, translations, speculative anthropology and just plain opinions in Comments, below. We’ll screen all […]
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“We didn’t want you preoccupied by real identities.”
It was the only reason associate artistic director Janet Wong mentioned in a March post-show talkback in Durham when asked why Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company‘s production of Chapel/Chapter gave the gruesome details of real-life murder victims — while it changed or deleted all mention of their names on stage. Though the piece was […]
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On the Record: Earlier reviews/interviews Doug Varone, Ronald K. Brown
We’ve seen — and reviewed and interviewed — them before. If you missed our coverage and analysis of previous major regional and ADF performances by Doug Varone and Dancers and Ronald K. Brown/ EVIDENCE, here’s a list with links — all on the record — below. Doug Varone & Dancers: Boats Leaving: 2006 ADF World […]
