Bill T. Jones Research Paper

Bill T.Jones

Dancers in society continue to blossom in today’s society with new talent breaching the world of dance every day. People’s abilities become discovered and pass on their passion amongst those who are willing to learn. A person who has gone by this statement is Bill T. Jones, an artistic director that shares a diverse coverage in being a choreographer, dancer, theatre director and writer. The American prodigy was born in the state of Bunnell, Florida. Though his place of home had been moved to the North to Wayland, New York, as a part of the Great Migration in the first half of the twentieth century. It was from this point on that he was offered the chance and fame to be who he is today by studying in the ‘Big Apple’ and attending Wayland High School. In growing and progressing his academic studies he had moved on to the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he had begun his dance training, studying in the areas of classical ballet and modern dance.
Bill T. Jones, in the year of 1973, later on stumbled upon the opportunity of being the co-founder of the American Dance Asylum. He had worked as a worldwide choreographer, developing his own ambition and portraying his ideas into art. Though Jones had shared his passion performing worldwide as a soloist and duet company with his late partner Arnie Zane who suffered a death from AIDS-related lymphoma on
Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company has produced more than 140 work for his own company which is why it is recognized as one of the most innovative and powerful forces in the modern dance world, having performing worldwide in over 200 cities in 30 countries on every major continent. The work produced by Jones and Zane over the past three years are: * 100 Migrations (2008) * Serenade/The Proposition (2008) * Fondly Do We Hope, Fervently Do we Pray (2009) * Another Evening: Venice/Arsenale (2010) * Between Us (2010) * Body Against Body