Bill T. Jones

Bill T. Jones appears in the following:

Choreographer Bill T. Jones on the violence within seduction

Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Legendary dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones talks about growing up a "Black Yankee" in the 1950s through the 1960s and the adjacency of violence to the power of seduction.

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Bill T. Jones, Claudia Rankine, Rebecca Carroll on Art and Civic Unrest

Monday, July 18, 2016

Bill T. Jones, Claudia Rankine and Rebecca Carroll look at creative expression during times of social unrest and violence. 

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NY Live Arts - Live Ideas Festival Celebrates a New Generation of Middle Eastern Art

Wednesday, February 03, 2016

The New York Live Arts - Live Ideas 2016 Festival showcases artists and performers from the Middle East and North Africa. 

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Bill T. Jones' Stories

Monday, September 15, 2014

Choreographer/dancer Bill T. Jones discusses his career and the influence on him of pioneering musician/composer John Cage in his new book.

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New York Dance Companies Merge

Thursday, December 02, 2010

Bill T. Jones, co-founder, artistic director and choreographer of the Bill T. Jones-Arnie Zane Dance Company, discusses the merger.

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Bill T. Jones on Leonard's 25th Anniversary at WNYC

Monday, March 01, 2010

Choreographer Bill T. Jones talks about what he appreciates about the Leonard Lopate Show. Find out how you can take part in Leonard's 25th anniversary here!

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Fela!

Friday, February 19, 2010

Director and choreographer Bill T. Jones and Sahr Ngaujah, the star of "Fela!" discuss the hit Broadway musical. The show uses Afrobeat music to tell the story of Fela Kuti’s controversial life as artist, political activist, and revolutionary musician. It’s at the Eugene O’Neill Theater, 230 W ...

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Bill T. Jones

Friday, November 06, 2009

The 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth inspired the choreographer Bill T. Jones to explore the sixteenth president’s life in two major works: Fondly Do We Hope ... Fervently Do We Pray and Serenade/The Proposition. The often-provocative Jones joins us to talk about the meaning of Lincoln from a contemporary ...

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Fela Kuti

Friday, October 16, 2009

The Nigerian musician, activist, and father of Afrobeat inspired a generation of artists -- one of whom is choreographer Bill T. Jones. Kurt talks with Jones about his new Broadway musical "Fela!" which celebrates the art and life of a music legend.

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Bill T. Jones on Fela Kuti

Friday, December 19, 2008

What Achebe did for literature, Fela Kuti did for music. The Nigerian composer and father of Afrobeat inspired a generation of artists--one of whom is choreographer Bill T. Jones. Kurt talks with Jones about his musical "Fela!" which celebrates the art and life of ...

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Walt Whitman: Song of Myself

Sunday, November 27, 2005

One hundred fifty years ago, Walt Whitman published the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a collection of twelve poems that shattered existing notions of poetry.

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Special Guest: Bill T. Jones

Saturday, March 27, 2004

Kurt Andersen and choreographer Bill T. Jones talk about how artists, dancers, filmmakers, and photographers use nakedness in beautiful and shocking ways.

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Nudes, Jones, Tunick

Saturday, March 27, 2004

Kurt Andersen and his guest, choreographer Bill T. Jones, stare at the nude in art. We'll hear the perplexed reactions an artist gets from hardware store paint mixers when she asks them to match the color of her skin. And we'll follow photographer Spencer Tunick on a photo shoot of an intimate group of naked people. He ...

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Special Guest: Bill T. Jones

Saturday, August 16, 2003

Kurt Andersen and choreographer Bill T. Jones talk about how artists use the nude and its mix of beauty and shock.

Bill T. Jones is a choreographer and performer in the forefront of contemporary dance. He co-founded the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Now in it's twentieth ...

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Nude, Tunick, Fleshtones

Saturday, August 16, 2003

Kurt Andersen and choreographer Bill T. Jones talk about how artists use the nude and its mix of beauty and shock.

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Big Fish in Small Ponds

Sunday, June 09, 2002

We talk to big fish in small ponds - this year's Mrs. Asparagus; a supermarket check-out celebrity; one of the inventors of books-on-tape; and, last but not least, the winner of this week's "Five Sounds in Search of an Author" contest.

What's the Next Big Thing? ...

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