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BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE

DANCE COMPANY

Blind Date with Bill T. Jones

Thursday, JANUARY 12 • 7 pm

Friday, JANUARY 13 • 8 pm

The Moore Theater
$30 • Dartmouth students $5

Post-performance discussion with Bill T. Jones and company members, The Moore Theater

A Podcast!

Click here to hear choreographer Bill T. Jones talk about the creation of his new work Blind Date. Right click on a PC or option-click on a Mac to download this 2.4 MB MP3 (approximately 15 minutes) and listen on your iPod or MP3 player.

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For a quarter century, Bill T. Jones has created impassioned, multidisciplinary choreography that's reverberated throughout the dance world. A MacArthur Fellow and “movement master” (Chicago Tribune), he's courageously fused social and political concerns in works “stunning in their visual imagery and...affecting in their emotional wallop” (The New York Times). Jones's newest dance-theater piece, Blind Date, is a powerful exposé of searing questions for America, a society increasingly torn by what he calls “toxic moral certainty.” What do we believe? What would we die for? What is honorable, courageous or patriotic? What makes us free? Live music, dance gestures and partnering mirror text fragments and photographic images to imply both discourse and conflict. “With choreographic ingenuity and theatrical flair...a mood at once moving, sexy, funny, thoughtful and sad” (The New York Times), the work suggests a “blind date,” in which ideals of freedom, tolerance and peace collide with forces of rigidity, intolerance and war.

Program contains adult themes and nudity.
Presented in conjunction with Dartmouth's Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration. Funded in part by the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, with lead funding from National Endowment for the Arts and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation . Additional funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Ford Foundation.