Bill T. Jones to Choreograph A Good Man for 2009 Ravinia Festival

Dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones, who won the 2007 Tony Award for his work on Spring Awakening, will choreograph a new full-length piece A Good Man, inspired by the life of Abraham Lincoln for the 2009 Ravinia Festival. The piece will be performed by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.

During the 2007-2008 season, the company will perform at such venues as
UCLA’s Royce Hall in Los Angeles, San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art, Montclair State University, Philadelphia’s Annenberg Center, the Williams College ’62 Center for Theater and Dance in Williamstown, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, and Jacob’s Pillow in Becket, Massachusetts.

Meanwhile, Jones will perform a new solo piece entitled “Walking the Line” at the Louvre Museum in Paris, November 20, 22 and 24. Created as part of Frontier, a series of events curated by the German painter Anselm Kiefer, the piece will be performed along the 100-meter perspective stretching from the steps of the Winged Victory of Samothrace to the Renaissance Arch. Jones will be accompanied by Tibetan singer Yungchen Lamo and French percussionist Florent Jodelet.