 | | Bill T. Jones | Dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones, who won the 2007 Tony Award for his work on Spring Awakening, 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.
This fall, Jones and his company, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance will also have a residency at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey. Among other events, Jones will address the student body on September 19, and the company will offer the world premiere of "A Quarrellng Pair," based on a puppet play by Jane Bowles, November 30-December 2.
During the 2007-2008 season, the company will also 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, 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.
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