August 14, 2006 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:
Lara De Meo, Coordinator for Public Relations and Alumni Affairs
Mason Gross Presents Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company New Brunswick, NJ – Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company will perform at New Theater in the Mason Gross Performing Arts Center on Tuesday, September 19 at 8 p.m. The company will perform “Another Evening: I Bow Down,” accompanied by the young, Bronx-based hardcore band Regain The Heart Condemned. Following the performance will be an audience discussion with the artists. In “Another Evening: I Bow Down,” Bill T. Jones examines the resilience of the human spirit in the face of disaster. Known for taking risks on stage, Jones continues to push the boundaries of modern dance through unconventional collaborations in the latest incarnation of his evolving Another Evening series. Featuring live music by Daniel Bernard Roumain, the company erupts from the stage like an unstoppable force of nature. Tickets are $25 for the general public, $20 for Rutgers employees and alumni and seniors, and $15 for students. The discounted student price expires two hours prior to curtain. New Theater is in the Mason Gross Performing Arts Center, 85 George Street (between Route 18 and Ryders Lane), on the Douglass campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
For more information on Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, including downloadable photos, visit www.billtjones.org.
For more information about any Mason Gross event, visit www.masongross.rutgers.edu or call the Mason Gross Performing Arts Center ticket office at 732/932-7511. About Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, founded in 1982, recently celebrated its 20th Anniversary Season as the product of an eleven-year collaboration between Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane. It emerged onto the international scene in 1982 with the world premiere of Intuitive Momentum with legendary drummer, Max Roach, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Since then, the eleven-member Company has performed its ever-enlarging repertoire (currently over 100 works) worldwide in over 200 cities in 30 countries, including; Australia, Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Israel, Japan, Mexico, and South Africa. The Company has taught and performed under the aegis of the United States Information Agency in Asia and Southeast Asia. Audiences of approximately 50,000 to 100,000 annually see the Company across the country and around the world. Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company's work has often been described as a fusion of dance and theater. The repertoire is highly diverse in subject matter, visual imagery, and length of each dance, ranging from fifteen minutes to two hours. Some of its most celebrated creations are evening-length works, including Last Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin/The Promised Land (1990), premiered as part of the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Still/Here (1994) and Mr. Jones' solo production, The Breathing Show (1999). The Company has been featured in many publications, but perhaps one of the most in-depth examinations of the earlier choreographic work can be found in Elizabeth Zimmer's book, Body Against Body: The Dance and Other Collaborations of Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane (1989). The Company has received numerous awards, including New York Dance and Performance Awards, "Bessies", for its 1986 Joyce Season, D-Man in the Waters, and for musical scoring and costume design for Last Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin/The Promised Land. The Company was nominated for the 1999 Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance and Best New Dance Production for We Set Out Early…Visibility Was Poor. Recent collaborations, tours, and New York engagements include: The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (2001-2003) which featured the Orion String Quartet and CMS II; the Aaron Davis Hall co-production in June 2003 with vocalist Cassandra Wilson & bassist Curtis Lundy; and the co-presentation at the BAM Opera House in February 2004 which celebrated the Company's landmark 20th Anniversary with 37 guest artists and musicians. The recent 20th Anniversary Season Tour presented a diverse repertoire of over 15 revivals and new works.
About Mason Gross Presents Mason Gross Presents is a year-round event series produced by special funding from the Mason Gross School of the Arts and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The series combines the educational and community outreach missions of the conservatory through special performances in theater, music, and dance, along with visual arts exhibitions and other arts programming that enhance the educational experience of students while also bringing quality programs to the community. Participants have included Elizabeth Murray, Trisha Brown Dance Company, Andrea Quinn, F. Murray Abraham, David Parsons, Martin Puryear, and many others. About Mason Gross School of the Arts Founded in 1976, Mason Gross School of the Arts is the arts conservatory of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and is home to the departments of dance, music, theater arts, and visual arts. Its faculty and alumni rosters include arts professionals recognized nationally and internationally. The school's enrollment of 625 undergraduates across four departments and 250 graduate students across three departments, combined with a faculty of 140, assures students the opportunity to work closely with accomplished artists within their fields.
About Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey A comprehensive research institution with more than 50,000 students on three main campuses in New Brunswick, Newark and Camden, Rutgers comprises one of the major state university systems in the nation. Chartered in 1766 in New Brunswick as Queen's College, Rutgers is the eighth oldest institution of higher learning in the nation and now comprises 29 degree- granting divisions, including 16 offering graduate programs of study.
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