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BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE DANCE COMPANY

FONDLY DO WE HOPE...FERVENTLY DO WE PRAY

Tuesday-Thursday, April 6-8 • 7 pm
The Moore Theater • $40
Dartmouth students $10

Tony, Obie and MacArthur Award winner Bill T. Jones continues his legacy of exploring truth, justice, beauty and strength in his newest dance/theater work, commissioned for the Lincoln bicentennial. Through song, spoken narrative, live music, emotionally stirring movement—and an uplifting libretto drawn from Shakespeare, the Old Testament, Walt Whitman and the 16th President's own words—this internationally treasured choreographer builds on his previous Lincoln-centered work, Serenade/The Proposition, to create a provocative evening-length piece whose stated aim is to "see [Lincoln's] expansive vision as a mirror for our time."

Part of America: Sui Generis, a Hopkins Center series celebrating contemporary American artists who have redefined or created new artistic genres. Funded by New England Foundation for the Arts National Dance Project, with generous support by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the MetLife Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation.