Jones presents body of evidence
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Bill T. Jones
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Jones and his late partner, Arnie Zane, founded the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in 1982. "Blauvelt Mountain," the first duet the two performed in 1979, explored contact improvisation, a form of dancing where movement is motivated by the action and reaction of the dancers to each other's bodies.
Following Zane's death in 1988, Jones created "Still/Here" (1994), a piece about death and dying that drew its material from the movements of terminally-ill people.
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Jones, who has experienced his share of controversy, also has won numerous accolades for his work. In 1994, he received a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant." He has earned several Choreographic Fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and two New York Dance and Performance Awards for the company's 1986 Joyce Theater season and for his work, "D-Man in the Waters."
"One of the questions driving my work for the past 12 years has been that, 'I know we're quite different, but what do we have in common as a people? A culture? How can we see past superficial differences?'" Jones said in a recent interview.
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"I see a true dialectic taking place between what I have
learned from formal education and reading, and that stuff,
that intimate stuff -- family, lore, language -- a constant
back and forth between the two. It is the primary dialect
between my life: to integrate a fragmented self,
disenfranchised from an identity and a particular society,
where everyone was disenfranchised from their past, from
their family. The question of identity, the burden of
identity, rests heavily on me," Jones said.
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