Still/Here
a Hop co-commission and partnership with the Montgomery Fellows programThe groundbreaking dance theater work returns 30 years following its premiere during the AIDS epidemic.
This powerful work continues to resonate today, evoking a spirit of survival. Created during the contentious and terrifying AIDS epidemic in the US, Still/Here broke boundaries between the personal and the political and exemplifies a form of dance theater that is uniquely American, vital and timely.
Raw, poetic and deeply human, Still/Here confronts mortality while celebrating resilience. The movement in Still/Here is deeply expressive, combining fluid gestures, arresting stillness and sudden shifts in dynamics to embody the emotional complexity of survival and vulnerability. The work is simple and sophisticated, interweaving spoken text, video portraits, dance and the abstract nature of gesture into a powerful meditation on living with terminal illness and facing the unknown. Gretchen Bender's visual concept and multimedia environment is joined by music from Kenneth Frazelle (sung by Odetta) and Vernon Reid. Long-time collaborators include Liz Prince (costumes) and Robert Wierzel (lighting).
At the heart of Still/Here are the "Survival Workshops: Talking and Moving about Life and Death," interviews conducted in the early 1990s with people grappling with life-threatening conditions. Their gestures inform the choreography, their words the lyrics, their images the stage. They will always be Still/Here. This work is dedicated to them.
Stay tuned for information on a Big Move workshop and panel discussion.
Funded in part by the Carolyn R. Kohn 1976 Dance Artist in Residence Fund, the Amy and Henry Nachman, Jr. '51 Fund for Visiting Performing Artists in Dance and Anonymous #136.
Photo by Maria Baranova courtesy of New York Live Arts.
Over the past 42 years the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company has shaped the evolution of contemporary dance through the creation and performance of over 140 works. Founded as a multicultural dance company in 1982, the company was born of an 11-year artistic collaboration between Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane. Today, the company is recognized as one of the most innovative and powerful forces in the modern dance world. The company has performed its ever-enlarging repertoire worldwide in over 200 cities in 30 countries on every major continent. In 2011, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company merged with Dance Theater Workshop to form New York Live Arts of which Bill T. Jones is the Artistic Director and Janet Wong is the Associate Artistic Director.
The repertory of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company is widely varied in its subject matter, visual imagery and stylistic approach to movement, voice and stagecraft and includes musically driven works as well as works using a variety of texts. Some of its most celebrated creations are evening-length works including Last Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin/The Promised Land (1990, Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music); Still/Here (1994, Biennale de la Danse in Lyon, France); We Set Out Early… Visibility Was Poor (1996, Hancher Auditorium, Iowa City, IA); You Walk? (2000, European Capital of Culture 2000,Bologna, Italy); Blind Date (2006, Peak Performances at Montclair State University); Chapel/Chapter (2006, Harlem Stage Gatehouse); Fondly Do We Hope… Fervently Do We Pray (2009, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park, IL); Another Evening: Venice/Arsenale (2010, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy); Story/Time (2012, Peak Performances); and A Rite (2013, Carolina Performing Arts at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill). The Company is also currently touring Body Against Body an intimate and focused collection of duet works drawn from the Company's 36-year history.
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