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Listening with the Joints
an interview with Bill T. Jones
by Kate Bernhardt
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 Bill T. Jones's resume as dancer, choreographer, and man, is proof of a fully-lived life. With his partner Arnie Zane, he founded the celebrated Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in 1982. Since its inception, he has created over fifty works for the company.
Jones received a MacArthur 'genius' fellowship in 1994, and has won every possible award in the world of dance and performance. He is the author of a memoir, Last Night on Earth, a powerful and precise depiction of how a small boy, the 10th of 12 children from a poor southern family, transformed himself into one of the greatest dance artists in America.
But the paper resume doesn't begin to convey what you sense when you meet Bill T. Jones in person: he crackles with intelligence and intensity, and you can see the concentration that lies at the core of his achievements. We met for the ZineZone interview in a small room in his New York City offices -- a cramped space overflowing with videotapes, printers, paper, and people. For the hour we talked, it was as if ZineZone was the only thing on earth that mattered to him. Now that's focus.
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Meet Bill T. Jones
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Bill T. Jones
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