Photo: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company performs D-Man in the Waters. By Paul B. Goode.
HANOVER, NH—The sublime interaction of dance and live music is the subject of an evening of works by legendary choreographer Bill T. Jones, the Tony, Obie and MacArthur “genius” award winner, in The Moore
Theater of the Hop on Tuesday and Wednesday, January 7 and 8, 7 pm.
Play and Play: an evening of movement and music, by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company with the Borromeo String Quartet (“drama, intensity, passion, delicacy”—The Berkshire Review) applies
Jones’s inventive choreography to some of the most important Western musical works of our time, highlighting the joy of musicians and dancers working together. The concert includes intervals of full nudity.
This is the sixth Hop engagement for the company, which was last here in 2010. One of the most esteemed leaders of American dance, Jones was in residence at Dartmouth as a fellow of the
Montgomery Foundation. Writes Vanity Fair, "No other dancer-choreographer working today allows past, present, and future to mingle so freely in his body."
The ensemble in residence at the New England
Conservatory of Music, Boston’s Isabella Stewart
Gardner Museum and the Taos School of Music summer program, the Borromeo is regarded as one of the most important string quartets of our time. The
Chicago Tribune calls the Borromeo “a remarkably accomplished string quartet, not simply for its high technical polish and refined tone, but more importantly for the searching musical insights it brings.” The San
Diego Reader calls their performances “a musical experience of luminous beauty,” and The Boston Globe says
"Each of the greatest string quartets has redefined what the possibilities of the medium are: through the perfection of its ensemble and intonation, through its poise and its passion, the Borromeos are recreating the medium anew and we are lucky to be here to hear it."
The program highlights such classics as the joyous, affirming D-Man in the Waters (1989), a masterwork of modern dance and a New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Award-winning work that was featured in
PBS’s landmark film Dancing in the Light – Six Dances by African-American Choreographers. Choreographed during the worst part of the US’s AIDS epidemic, the work is a celebration of life and the resiliency of the human spirit that guides audiences through loss, hope and triumph.

D-Man in the Waters is set to Mendelssohn’s Octet for Strings in E-flat Major, Op. 20, with the Borromeo joined by New England Conservatory’s Gioviale Quartet. Mendelssohn composed this remarkable work when he was 16 years old; the first performance took place before the end of that year in one of the Sunday musicales at his family's home in Berlin. Drawing a rich, orchestral texture from the eight instruments, the octet is seen as the precocious composer‘s first “mature” work, full of ideas that he would follow up on in beloved works like his music for A Midsummer Night's Dream.
The program also includes Spent Days Out Yonder (2000), a sublime reflection on the second movement of
Mozart’s String Quartet No. 23 in F Major. Spent Days Out Yonder is a pure musical exploration, rare in the Bill
T. Jones canon, firmly rooted in Jones’ elegant, weighted movement vocabulary, challenging dancers to move with ease, efficiency and physical honesty through the glorious score.
Continuous Replay, choreographed in 1977 and revised in 2001, will complete the program, accompanied by music from Toronto-based composer and performer John Oswald. “A thorough primer in Jones/Zane style: sharp versus flowing, large versus small, straight versus angled” (The New York Times), it is a brilliant and challenging piece that traces its roots to Arnie Zane’s interest in photography and film.
Founded in 1982 and named for a powerful collaboration that lasted until Zane’s death in 1988, the company is recognized as one of the most innovative and powerful forces in the modern dance world. Writes The New
York Times, “Rarely has one seen a dance company throw itself onto the stage with such kinetic exaltation.”
A multi-talented artist, choreographer, dancer, theater director and writer, Jones has received a 1994
MacArthur "Genius" Award, the 2003 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, the 2005 Wexner Prize, the 2005 Samuel
H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the 1993 Dance Magazine Award, among others. In 2000, The Dance Heritage Coalition named Mr. Jones “an irreplaceable dance treasure.”
His recent forays into Broadway and off-Broadway theater have earned him a 2010 Tony Award for Best
Choreography of the critically acclaimed FELA!; a 2007 Tony Award, 2007 Obie Award, and 2006 Stage
Directors and Choreographers Foundation Callaway Award for his choreography for Spring Awakening; and the 2006 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreography for The Seven.
In addition to creating more than 140 works for his own company, Jones has received many commissions to create dances for modern and ballet companies, including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Boston Ballet,
Lyon Opera Ballet, and Berlin Opera Ballet, among others. In 1995, Mr. Jones directed and performed in a collaborative work with Toni Morrison and Max Roach, Degga, at Alice Tully Hall, commissioned by Lincoln
Center’s Serious Fun Festival. His collaboration with Jessye Norman, How! Do! We! Do!, premiered at New
York's City Center in 1999.
Jones’ extensive television credits include in recent years being profiled on NBC Nightly News and The Today
Show in 2010, a guest on The Colbert Report in 2009, and featured in HBO’s documentary series Masterclass, which follows notable artists as they mentor aspiring young artists. He was also one of 22 prominent black
Americans featured in the HBO documentary The Black List in 2008.
RELEVANT LINKS https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/bill_t_jones_arnie_zane_dance_company http://www.dartmouth.edu/~montfell/
About the artists http://www.newyorklivearts.org/company/about-the-company.php
http://www.borromeoquartet.org/

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CALENDAR LISTINGS:
Play And Play: An Evening Of Movement And Music by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, with Live Music By Borromeo String Quartet
The sublime interaction of dance and live music is the subject of this evening of works by legendary choreographer Bill T. Jones, the Tony, Obie and MacArthur “genius” award winner. The program highlights such classics as D-Man in the Waters (1989) and Spent Days Out Yonder (2001), set to Mendelssohn and
Mozart masterworks played by Boston’s Borromeo String Quartet (“drama, intensity, passion, delicacy”—
The Berkshire Review). Program contains intervals of full nudity.
Tuesday & Wednesday, January 7 & 8, 7 pm
The Moore Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hanover, NH
$25/40/50, Dartmouth students $10
Information: hop.dartmouth.edu or 603.646.2422
Intermediate/Advanced Dance Master Class
Based on the style and movement sensibility of Bill T. Jones and Janet Wong, this technique and improvisation class integrates modern, postmodern and classical traditions. Ages 16+.
Tuesday, January 7, 12 pm
Straus Dance Studio, Berry Sports Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
$10
Registration: hop.dartmouth.edu or 603.646.2422.
Pre-Show Talk – Learning to Listen
Hop Programming Director Margaret Lawrence and Borromeo violinist Nicholas Kitchen introduce the extraordinary chamber music on tonight’s dance program, including Mendelssohn’s unforgettable Octet for
Strings in E-flat Major, Op. 20.
Tuesday, January 7, 6 pm
Wilson Hall, Room 219, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Free
Information: Hop Outreach at 603.646.2010.
Panel – Bill T. Jones: Body Politics in Performance
Employing dancers of all shapes and sizes, Jones’ choreography tackles body consciousness, sexuality, race, history and mortality. In this discussion, Associate Artistic Director Janet Wong joins Dartmouth’s Giavanna
Munafo and Maral Yessayan to explore political depictions of the human body in performance.
Cosponsored by the Center for Gender and Student Engagement.
Wednesday, January 8, 4:30 pm
Room 41, Haldeman Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH
Free
Information: Hop Outreach at 603.646.2010.
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the surrounding Upper Valley community engage imaginatively and contribute creatively to our world. Each year the Hop presents more than 300 live events and films by visiting artists as well as Dartmouth students and the Dartmouth community, and reaches more than 22,000 Upper Valley residents and students with outreach and arts education programs. After a celebratory 50 th -anniversary season in 2012-13, the Hop enters its second half-century with renewed passion for mentoring young artists, supporting the development of new work, and providing a laboratory for participation and experimentation in the arts.
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