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| bill t jones what problem: Story/Time Bill T. Jones, 2014-09-07 An autobiographical meditation on art from the world-renowned dancer and choreographer In this ceaselessly questioning book, acclaimed African American dancer, choreographer, and director Bill T. Jones reflects on his art and life as he describes the genesis of Story/Time, a recent dance work produced by his company and inspired by the modernist composer and performer John Cage. Presenting personally revealing stories, richly illustrated with striking color photographs of the work's original stage production, and featuring a beautiful, large-format design, the book is a work of art in itself. Like the dance work, Story/Time the book is filled with telling vignettes—about Jones’s childhood as part of a large, poor, Southern family that migrated to upstate New York; about his struggles to find a place for himself in a white-dominated dance world; and about his encounters with notable artists and musicians. In particular, Jones examines his ambivalent attraction to avant-garde modernism, which he finds liberating but also limiting in its disregard for audience response. As he strives to make his work more personal and broadly engaging, especially to an elusive African American audience, Jones—who is still drawn to the avant-garde—wrestles with questions of how an artist can remain true to himself while still caring about the popular reception of his work. A provocative meditation on the demands and rewards of artistic creation, Story/Time is an inspiring and enlightening portrait of the life and work of one of the great artists of our time. |
| bill t jones what problem: Democracy Moving Ariel Nereson, 2022-01-20 Explores the potential of movement to create and revise historical narratives of race and nation |
| bill t jones what problem: Dance! Bill T. Jones, 1998-09-15 Introduces basic concepts of dance through poetic text and photographs of dancer Bill T. Jones. |
| bill t jones what problem: Last Night on Earth Bill T. Jones, 1997-03-18 In a work that is part memoir, part meditation, and part performance, today's most daring choreographer (NEWSWEEK) charts his dance's origins and development in the context of his remarkable life. A breathtaking accomplishment. To the extent that any words can convey the experience of dance, Jones does so here, eloquently and with disarming honesty.SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE. Illustrated throughout. |
| bill t jones what problem: Body Against Body Bill T. Jones, Arnie Zane, 1989 |
| bill t jones what problem: Mirrors and Scrims Marcia B. Siegel, 2011-03-01 Winner of the Selma Jeanne Cohen Memorial Prize (2010) In this stunning new collection of reviews and essays, dance critic Marcia B. Siegel grapples with the floating identity of ballet, as well as particular ballets, and with the expanding environment of spectacle in which ballet competes for an audience. Drawn from a wide variety of published sources, these writings concentrate on canonical works of ballet and how the performances of these works have been changing in significant ways. Siegel writes with a keen awareness of the history and mythology that surround particular works, while remaining attentive to the new ways in which a work is interpreted and re-presented by contemporary choreographers and dancers. Through her readable and provocative writings, Siegel offers critical insight into performances of the past twenty-five years to give us a new understanding of ballet in performance. The volume includes over one hundred pieces on a variety of ballet topics, from specific dances and dancers to companies and choreographers, ranging from Swan Lake and The Nutcracker to Nijinsky, Balanchine, Tharp, and Morris to the Bolshoi, the Joffrey, the Miami City Ballet, the Boston Ballet, to name just a few. Ebook Edition Note: All images have been redacted. |
| bill t jones what problem: Continuous Replay Arnie Zane, Jonathan Green, Susan Leigh Foster, 1999 Continuous Replay, which is titled after a dance work of Zane's, is the first comprehensive presentation of his photography. |
| bill t jones what problem: Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees Lawrence Weschler, 2008 Robert Irwin, perhaps the most influential of the California artists, moved from his beginnings in abstract expressionism through successive shifts in style and sensibility, into a new aesthetic territory altogether, one where philosophical concepts of perception and the world interact. Weschler has charted the journey with exceptional clarity and cogency. He has also, in the process, provided what seems to me the best running history of postwar West Coast art that I have yet seen.—Calvin Tomkins |
| bill t jones what problem: Choreographing Difference Ann Cooper Albright, 2010-06-01 The choreographies of Bill T. Jones, Cleveland Ballet Dancing Wheels, Zab Maboungou, David Dorfman, Marie Chouinard, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and others, have helped establish dance as a crucial discourse of the 90s. These dancers, Ann Cooper Albright argues, are asking the audience to see the body as a source of cultural identity — a physical presence that moves with and through its gendered, racial, and social meanings. Through her articulate and nuanced analysis of contemporary choreography, Albright shows how the dancing body shifts conventions of representation and provides a critical example of the dialectical relationship between cultures and the bodies that inhabit them. As a dancer, feminist, and philosopher, Albright turns to the material experience of bodies, not just the body as a figure or metaphor, to understand how cultural representation becomes embedded in the body. In arguing for the intelligence of bodies, Choreographing Difference is itself a testimonial, giving voice to some important political, moral, and artistic questions of our time. Ebook Edition Note: All images have been redacted. |
| bill t jones what problem: Time Is Tight Booker T. Jones, 2019-10-29 The long-awaited memoir of Booker T. Jones, leader of the famed Stax Records house band, architect of the Memphis soul sound, and one of the most legendary figures in music. From Booker T. Jones's earliest years in segregated Memphis, music was the driving force in his life. While he worked paper routes and played gigs in local nightclubs to pay for lessons and support his family, Jones, on the side, was also recording sessions in what became the famous Stax Studios-all while still in high school. Not long after, he would form the genre-defining group Booker T. and the MGs, whose recordings went on to sell millions of copies, win a place in Rolling Stone's list of top 500 songs of all time, and help forge collaborations with some of the era's most influential artists, including Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, and Sam & Dave. Nearly five decades later, Jones's influence continues to help define the music industry, but only now is he ready to tell his remarkable life story. Time is Tight is the deeply moving account of how Jones balanced the brutality of the segregationist South with the loving support of his family and community, all while transforming a burgeoning studio into a musical mecca. Culminating with a definitive account into the inner workings of the Stax label, as well as a fascinating portrait of working with many of the era's most legendary performers-Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and Tom Jones, among them-this extraordinary memoir promises to become a landmark moment in the history of Southern Soul. |
| bill t jones what problem: I Want to Be Ready Danielle Goldman, 2010-05-04 A conceptual framework for understanding the development of improvised dance in late 20th-century America |
| bill t jones what problem: Physics and Dance Emily Coates, Sarah Demers, 2019-01-01 A fascinating exploration of our reality through the eyes of a physicist and a dancer--and an engaging introduction to both disciplines. From stepping out of our beds each morning to admiring the stars at night, we live in a world of motion, energy, space, and time. How do we understand the phenomena that shape our experience? How do we make sense of our physical realities? Two guides--a former member of New York City Ballet, Emily Coates, and a CERN particle physicist, Sarah Demers--show us how their respective disciplines can help us to understand both the quotidian and the deepest questions about the universe. Requiring no previous knowledge of dance or physics, this introduction covers the fundamentals while revealing how a dialogue between art and science can enrich our appreciation of both. Readers will come away with a broad cultural knowledge of Newtonian to quantum mechanics and classical to contemporary dance. Including problem sets and choreographic exercises to solidify understanding, this book will be of interest to anyone curious about physics or dance.--Jacket. |
| bill t jones what problem: The Art of Movement Ken Browar, 2016-11-22 A stunning celebration of movement and dance in hundreds of breathtaking photographs by the creative team behind NYC Dance Project. The Art of Movement is an exquisite collection of photographs by well-known dance photographers Ken Browar and Deborah Ory that capture the movement, flow, energy, and grace of many of the most accomplished dancers in the world. Featured are more than 70 dancers from companies including American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Martha Graham Dance Company, Boston Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, The Royal Ballet, Abraham in Motion, and many more. Accompanying the photographs are intimate and inspiring words from the dancers, as well as from choreographers and artistic directors on what dance means to them. |
| bill t jones what problem: Black No More George S. Schuyler, 2012-03-08 A satirical approach to debunking the myths of white supremacy and racial purity, this 1931 novel recounts the consequences of a mysterious scientific process that transforms black people into whites. |
| bill t jones what problem: Moyers on Democracy Bill Moyers, 2009-05-05 People know Bill Moyers from his many years of path-breaking journalism on television. But he is also one of America's most sought-after public speakers. In this collection of speeches, Moyers celebrates the promise of American democracy and offers a passionate defense of its principles of fairness and justice. Moyers on Democracy takes on crucial issues such as economic inequality, our broken electoral process, our weakened independent press, and the despoiling of the earth we share as our common gift. |
| bill t jones what problem: Politics UK Bill Jones, Philip Norton, 2014-06-20 The revised and updated eighth edition of the bestselling textbook Politics UK is an indispensible introduction to British politics. It provides a thorough and accessible overview of the institutions and processes of British government, a good grounding in British political history and an incisive introduction to the issues facing Britain today. With contributed chapters from respected scholars in the field and contemporary articles on real-world politics from well-known political commentators, this textbook is an essential guide for students of British politics. The eighth edition welcomes brand new material from eight new contributors to complement the rigorously updated and highly valued chapters retained from the previous edition. The eighth edition includes: · Britain in context boxes offering contrasting international perspectives of themes in British politics. · A comprehensive 'who's who' of politics in the form of Profile boxes featuring key political figures. · And another thing ... pieces: short articles written by distinguished commentators including Jonathan Powell, Michael Moran and Mark Garnett. · Fully updated chapters plus new material providing excellent coverage of contemporary political events including: The Leveson Inquiry, the aftermath of the 2011 riots and the House of Lords reform. · A vibrant and accessible new design to excite and engage students as the work through a variety of political topics. · A new epilogue to the book offering a critical perspective of the trials and tribulations of the Coalition Government, including an overview of the major differences that divide the coalition partners. |
| bill t jones what problem: The Sound of Culture Louis Chude-Sokei, 2015-12-29 The Sound of Culture explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialization. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and moving through to the twenty-first, the book argues for the dependent nature of those histories. Looking at American, British, and Caribbean literature, it distills a diverse range of subject matter: minstrelsy, Victorian science fiction, cybertheory, and artificial intelligence. All of these facets, according to Louis Chude-Sokei, are part of a history in which music has been central to the equation that links blacks and machines. As Chude-Sokei shows, science fiction itself has roots in racial anxieties and he traces those anxieties across two centuries and a range of writers and thinkers—from Samuel Butler, Herman Melville, and Edgar Rice Burroughs to Sigmund Freud, William Gibson, and Donna Haraway, to Norbert Weiner, Sylvia Wynter, and Samuel R. Delany. |
| bill t jones what problem: Dancing Desires Jane Desmond, 2001 What happens to the writing of dance history when issues of sexuality and sexual identity are made central? What happens to queer theory, and to other theoretical constructs of gender and sexuality, when a dancing body takes center stage? Dancing Desires asks these questions, exploring the relationship between dancing bodies and sexual identity on the concert stage, in nightclubs, in film, in the courts, and on the streets. From Nijinsky's balletic prowess to Charlie Chaplin's lightfooted Little Tramp, from lesbian go-go dancers to the swans of Swan Lake, from the postmodern works of Bill T. Jones to the dangers of same-sex social dancing at Disneyland and the ecstatic Mardi Gras dance parties of Sydney, Australia, this book tracks the intersections of dance and human sexuality in the twentieth century as the definition of each has shifted and expanded. The contributors come from a number of fields (literature, history, theater, dance, film studies, legal studies, critical race studies) and employ methodologies ranging from textual analysis and film theory to ethnography. By embracing dance, and bodily movement more generally, as a crucial focus for investigation, together they initiate a new agenda for tracking the historical kinesthetics of sexuality. |
| bill t jones what problem: Under a White Sky Elizabeth Kolbert, 2021-02-09 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? RECOMMENDED BY PRESIDENT OBAMA AND BILL GATES • SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, Esquire, Smithsonian Magazine, Vulture, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal • “Beautifully and insistently, Kolbert shows us that it is time to think radically about the ways we manage the environment.”—Helen Macdonald, The New York Times That man should have dominion “over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it’s said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Along the way, she meets biologists who are trying to preserve the world’s rarest fish, which lives in a single tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave; engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone in Iceland; Australian researchers who are trying to develop a “super coral” that can survive on a hotter globe; and physicists who are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth. One way to look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. In The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic, Under a White Sky is an utterly original examination of the challenges we face. |
| bill t jones what problem: Media & Performance Johannes H. Birringer, 1998 The author discusses the performance aspects of such political events as the breaching of the Berlin wall and the destruction of Sarajevo, and examines the use of video and agitprop performance in political activity, including protests by the gay activist group ACT UP and the disquieting performances of the former pornography actress and sex worker Annie Sprinkle. Birringer ends with a discussion of the continuing incursions of business into digital media, including the imperialism of technological enhancements as experienced in the culture of constant upgrades and the omnipresence of Bill Gates. |
| bill t jones what problem: Making Sense Bill Jones, 2012-01-01 Celebrated Artist and Writer Bill Jones delivers again with Making SenseWith roots in Washington DC, Palm Beach, and The Great Smoky Mountains, He reaches out with his rebellious Free wheeling, jovial Spirit...with hopes for a better World through better understanding of how our mind, ego, brain, and Soul all function, inter-linked and in unison.... either dealing with and/or Creating our Reality and/or Circumstances that Manifest it. He writes from, and to share, his perspective of his unlimited Dreamer type Philosophy of Peace, Love and Self-Mastery...gained from his studies in Psychology, Philosophy, Nature, Dreams, the Sub-Conscious, Alpha brain waves, Christianity, Brotherhood, the Tao, Zen, Logic, Human Behaviorism, Higher Mind and Intelligence, Meditation, Theoretical Physics, Expanded Awareness, Theosophy, to mention some studies...and still learning.A unique and Visually Beautiful Work, long awaited by Jones fans, Making Sense is a collection of enlightening Poems and Essays on Present Moment Awareness, Emotion Mastery, and Brotherhood...each respectively being the precursor of, and the facilitator for, the next.----- AND...the Largest part of the Book is devoted to *Love and Romance...since it is of This... that makes it all worth while...so...read on...for...it is of Love that I speak ----To read my work...is to know my Soul...Bill Jones |
| bill t jones what problem: Alone Bill Jones, 2014-07-31 The previously-untold story of the life and tragic early death of John Curry, one of the most famous ice skaters in history. The book that inspired new film The Ice King, the story of John Curry's life. One winter's night in 1976, over 20 million people in Britain watched John Curry skate to Olympic gold on an ice rink in Austria. Many millions more watched around the world. Overnight he became one of the most famous men on the planet. He was awarded an OBE. He was chosen as BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Curry changed ice skating from marginal sport to high art. And yet the man was a mystery to a world that had been dazzled by his gift. Surely, men's skating was supposed to be Cossack-muscular, not sensual and ambiguous like this? Curry himself was a complex, tortured man. For the first time, Alone untangles the extraordinary web of his toxic, troubled, brilliant and short life. It is a story of childhood nightmares, furious ambition, sporting genius, lifelong rivalries, homophobia, Cold War politics, financial ruin and deep personal tragedy. So much more than a sports biography, Alone reveals the restless, impatient, often dark soul of a man whose words could lacerate, whose skating invariably moved audiences to tears, and who after succumbing to AIDS, as so many of his fellow artists and friends did, died of a heart attack aged just 44. |
| bill t jones what problem: Random Family Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, 2012-10-23 Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times Set amid the havoc of the War on Drugs, this New York Times bestseller is an astonishingly intimate (New York magazine) chronicle of one family’s triumphs and trials in the South Bronx of the 1990s. “Unmatched in depth and power and grace. A profound, achingly beautiful work of narrative nonfiction…The standard-bearer of embedded reportage.” —Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted In her classic bestseller, journalist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses readers in the world of one family with roots in the Bronx, New York. In 1989, LeBlanc approached Jessica, a young mother whose encounter with the carceral state is about to forever change the direction of her life. This meeting redirected LeBlanc’s reporting, taking her past the perennial stories of crime and violence into the community of women and children who bear the brunt of the insidious violence of poverty. Her book bears witness to the teetering highs and devastating lows in the daily lives of Jessica, her family, and her expanding circle of friends. Set at the height of the War on Drugs, Random Family is a love story—an ode to the families that form us and the families we create for ourselves. Charting the tumultuous struggle of hope against deprivation over three generations, LeBlanc slips behind the statistics and comes back with a riveting, haunting, and distinctly American true story. |
| bill t jones what problem: Why We Can't Wait Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 2011-01-11 Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963 On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city’s streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response to local religious leaders’ criticism of the campaign. The resulting piece of extraordinary protest writing, “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” was widely circulated and published in numerous periodicals. After the conclusion of the campaign and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, King further developed the ideas introduced in the letter in Why We Can’t Wait, which tells the story of African American activism in the spring and summer of 1963. During this time, Birmingham, Alabama, was perhaps the most racially segregated city in the United States, but the campaign launched by King, Fred Shuttlesworth, and others demonstrated to the world the power of nonviolent direct action. Often applauded as King’s most incisive and eloquent book, Why We Can’t Wait recounts the Birmingham campaign in vivid detail, while underscoring why 1963 was such a crucial year for the civil rights movement. Disappointed by the slow pace of school desegregation and civil rights legislation, King observed that by 1963—during which the country celebrated the one-hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation—Asia and Africa were “moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independence but we still creep at a horse-and-buggy pace.” King examines the history of the civil rights struggle, noting tasks that future generations must accomplish to bring about full equality, and asserts that African Americans have already waited over three centuries for civil rights and that it is time to be proactive: “For years now, I have heard the word ‘Wait!’ It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This ‘Wait’ has almost always meant ‘Never.’ We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that ‘justice too long delayed is justice denied.’” |
| bill t jones what problem: Critical Moves Randy Martin, 1998 A theoretical examination of the influence of political and social movements on the art of dance. |
| bill t jones what problem: Going to My Ballet Class Susan Kuklin, 1989 A little girl describes, in text and illustrations, what she does in her ballet class. Includes information on how to choose a ballet class for young children. |
| bill t jones what problem: The Lottery Shirley Jackson, 2008 A seemingly ordinary village participates in a yearly lottery to determine a sacrificial victim. |
| bill t jones what problem: All American Boys Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely, 2015-09-29 A 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book, and recipient of the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature. In this New York Times bestselling novel, two teens—one black, one white—grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act that leaves their school, their community, and, ultimately, the country bitterly divided by racial tension. A bag of chips. That’s all sixteen-year-old Rashad is looking for at the corner bodega. What he finds instead is a fist-happy cop, Paul Galluzzo, who mistakes Rashad for a shoplifter, mistakes Rashad’s pleadings that he’s stolen nothing for belligerence, mistakes Rashad’s resistance to leave the bodega as resisting arrest, mistakes Rashad’s every flinch at every punch the cop throws as further resistance and refusal to STAY STILL as ordered. But how can you stay still when someone is pounding your face into the concrete pavement? There were witnesses: Quinn Collins—a varsity basketball player and Rashad’s classmate who has been raised by Paul since his own father died in Afghanistan—and a video camera. Soon the beating is all over the news and Paul is getting threatened with accusations of prejudice and racial brutality. Quinn refuses to believe that the man who has basically been his savior could possibly be guilty. But then Rashad is absent. And absent again. And again. And the basketball team—half of whom are Rashad’s best friends—start to take sides. As does the school. And the town. Simmering tensions threaten to explode as Rashad and Quinn are forced to face decisions and consequences they had never considered before. Written in tandem by two award-winning authors, this four-starred reviewed tour de force shares the alternating perspectives of Rashad and Quinn as the complications from that single violent moment, the type taken directly from today’s headlines, unfold and reverberate to highlight an unwelcome truth. |
| bill t jones what problem: Inside the Dancer's Art Rose Eichenbaum, 2017-07-14 Elegant photographs of the mysterious and complex world of dance In this gorgeous book, the acclaimed photographer Rose Eichenbaum captures the spirit, beauty, and commitment of dancers along with the dancers' own words of wisdom and guidance. More than 250 color and black and white photographs are paired with inspirational quotes from legendary and emerging dancers, including Bill T. Jones, Katherine Dunham, Ann Reinking, Mark Morris, Pina Bausch, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Gregory Hines, Mitzi Gaynor, Desmond Richardson, Rennie Harris, Paul Taylor, Ohad Naharin, Tiler Peck, and many more. Here, words and images explore creativity, art making, the communicative power of the human body, the challenges of balancing everyday life with the physical and practical demands of the dancer's art, and more. In these intimate portraits, Eichenbaum reveals and celebrates the world of the dancer. Sensual and mesmerizing, these images will entrance dancer and non-dancer alike—as well as anyone who loves fine photography—with their powerful depiction of the human body. |
| bill t jones what problem: Capitalism without Capital Jonathan Haskel, Stian Westlake, 2018-10-16 Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, and software, than in tangible assets, like machinery, buildings, and computers. For all sorts of businesses, the ability to deploy assets that one can neither see nor touch is increasingly the main source of long-term success. But this is not just a familiar story of the so-called new economy. Capitalism without Capital shows that the growing importance of intangible assets has also played a role in some of the larger economic changes of the past decade, including the growth in economic inequality and the stagnation of productivity. Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake explore the unusual economic characteristics of intangible investment and discuss how an economy rich in intangibles is fundamentally different from one based on tangibles. Capitalism without Capital concludes by outlining how managers, investors, and policymakers can exploit the characteristics of an intangible age to grow their businesses, portfolios, and economies. |
| bill t jones what problem: Men in Motion Francois Rousseau, 2009 'Men In Motion' affords the reader exclusive access to the innate eroticism of more than 60 international dancers from a variety of disciplines, as they pose, prepare, and perform. |
| bill t jones what problem: Because Art John R. Killacky, 2021-09-14 Essays, speeches, and conversations by artist, arts administrator, and Vermont state legislator, John R. Killacky. Highlights include: Cultural, social, and political commentary on leadership, disability, equines, Buddhism, AIDS, arts producing, philanthropy, and legislating. Critical analysis of such artists as Ron Athey, John Cage, Douglas Crimp, Keith Haring, Peter Hujar, Dona Ann McAdams, Kevin McKenzie, Eiko Otake, and Sarah Schulman. Interviews with such art luminaries as Alison Bechdel, Trisha Brown, Janis Ian, Bill T. Jones, Tony Kushner, and Meredith Monk. |
| bill t jones what problem: The Art of Resonance Anne Bogart, 2021-08-26 What is artistic resonance and how can it be linked to one's life and one's art? This latest book of essays from legendary theatre director Anne Bogart, considers the creation of resonance in the artistic endeavour, with a focus on the performing arts. The word 'resonance' comes from the Latin meaning to 're-sound' or 'sound together'. From music to physics, resonance is a common thread that evokes a response and, in general, is understood as a quality that makes something personally meaningful and valuable. For Bogart, curiosity is a key personal quality to be nurtured throughout life and that very same curiosity, as an artist, thinker and human being. Creating pathways between performance theory, art history, neuroscience, music, architecture and the visual arts, and consistently forging new thought-paths, the writing draws upon Anne Bogart's own life and artistic journeys to illuminate potent philosophical ideas. Woven with personal anecdotes, stories and reflections, this is a book that will be of interest to any theatre artist and anyone who reflects on the power of the arts, of theatre-making and what it means to be engaged in the artistic process. |
| bill t jones what problem: Making the Modern World Vaclav Smil, 2013-10-02 How much further should the affluent world push its material consumption? Does relative dematerialization lead to absolute decline in demand for materials? These and many other questions are discussed and answered in Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization. Over the course of time, the modern world has become dependent on unprecedented flows of materials. Now even the most efficient production processes and the highest practical rates of recycling may not be enough to result in dematerialization rates that would be high enough to negate the rising demand for materials generated by continuing population growth and rising standards of living. This book explores the costs of this dependence and the potential for substantial dematerialization of modern economies. Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization considers the principal materials used throughout history, from wood and stone, through to metals, alloys, plastics and silicon, describing their extraction and production as well as their dominant applications. The evolving productivities of material extraction, processing, synthesis, finishing and distribution, and the energy costs and environmental impact of rising material consumption are examined in detail. The book concludes with an outlook for the future, discussing the prospects for dematerialization and potential constrains on materials. This interdisciplinary text provides useful perspectives for readers with backgrounds including resource economics, environmental studies, energy analysis, mineral geology, industrial organization, manufacturing and material science. |
| bill t jones what problem: These Shining Lives Melanie Marnich, 2010 THE STORY: THESE SHINING LIVES chronicles the strength and determination of women considered expendable in their day, exploring their true story and its continued resonance. Catherine and her friends are dying, it's true; but theirs is a story of survival |
| bill t jones what problem: Willi Smith Alexandra Cunningham Cameron, 2020-03-24 African-American fashion designer Willi Smith, pioneer of streetwear and visionary collaborator, finally gets his due in an exuberant celebration of his life and work. Before Off-White, before Hood By Air, before Supreme, there was WilliWear. Willi Smith created inclusive and liberating fashion: I don't design clothes for the queen, but the people who wave at her as she goes by, he said. A rising star from the time he left Parsons, Smith went on to found WilliWear with Laurie Mallet in 1976 and became one of the most successful designers of his era by his untimely death in 1987. Smith broke boundaries with his streetwear, or street couture, and trailblazed the collaborations between artists, performers, and designers commonplace today in projects with SITE Architects, Nam June Paik, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Spike Lee, Dan Friedman, Bill T. Jones, and Arnie Zane. Essays by leading figures from the worlds of fashion, art, architecture, and cultural studies paired with never before-seen images and ephemera make Willi Smith essential reading for the history of streetwear culture and the evolution of fashion from the 1970s to today. |
| bill t jones what problem: Catwoman: Lonely City (2021-) #1 Cliff Chiang, 2021-10-19 Ten years ago, the massacre known as Fools’ Night claimed the lives of Batman, The Joker, Nightwing, and Commissioner Gordon…and sent Selina Kyle, the Catwoman, to prison. A decade later, Gotham has grown up-it’s put away costumed heroism and villainy as childish things. The new Gotham is cleaner, safer…and a lot less free, under the watchful eye of Mayor Harvey Dent and his Batcops. It’s into this new city that Selina Kyle returns, a changed woman…with her mind on that one last big score: the secrets hidden inside the Batcave! She doesn’t need the money-she just needs to know…who is “Orpheus”? Visionary creator Cliff Chiang (Wonder Woman, Paper Girls) writes, draws, colors, and letters the story of a world without Batman, where one woman’s wounds threaten to tear apart an entire city! It’s an unmissable artistic statement that will change the way you see Gotham’s heroes and villains forever! |
| bill t jones what problem: A Life in Dance Rebecca Stenn, Fran Kirmser, 2017-05-12 Rebecca Stenn and Fran Kirmser have spent decades supporting and encouraging young dancers. They know that in addition to the immense passion and commitment that a dancer needs, a working knowledge of the financial and practical aspects of a life in dance are equally important. With A Life in Dance,Stenn and Kirmser give you resources to help you book a rehearsal space; obtain a legal representative and a tax preparer; find auditions; apply for grants; acquire health insurance; meet photographers, agents, publicists, and consultants; pay off student loan assistance; and begin financial planning. Stenn and Kirmser have also compiled narratives from some of the industry's most critically acclaimed performers to give you a glimpse into the life of a professional dancer. Brittany Schmid shows you what life is like for a dancer one year out of college. Wendy Osserman shows you what life is like fifty years out. Hamilton dancer Kamille Upshaw gives you tips on auditioning while choreographers from So You Think You Can Dance debate the benefits of live stage performance and television shows. Other stories include nuanced discussions about race in dance, mindful dancing, and the role of social media in the performing arts. |
| bill t jones what problem: Turning Pointe Chloe Angyal, 2021-05-04 A reckoning with one of our most beloved art forms, whose past and present are shaped by gender, racial, and class inequities—and a look inside the fight for its future Every day, in dance studios all across America, legions of little children line up at the barre to take ballet class. This time in the studio shapes their lives, instilling lessons about gender, power, bodies, and their place in the world both in and outside of dance. In Turning Pointe, journalist Chloe Angyal captures the intense love for ballet that so many dancers feel, while also grappling with its devastating shortcomings: the power imbalance of an art form performed mostly by women, but dominated by men; the impossible standards of beauty and thinness; and the racism that keeps so many people of color out of ballet. As the rigid traditions of ballet grow increasingly out of step with the modern world, a new generation of dancers is confronting these issues head on, in the studio and on stage. For ballet to survive the twenty-first century and forge a path into a more socially just future, this reckoning is essential. |
| bill t jones what problem: Happy-Go-Lucky David Sedaris, 2022-05-31 David Sedaris, the “champion storyteller,” (Los Angeles Times) returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask—or not—was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes. But then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, he’s stuck in lockdown, unable to tour and read for audiences, the part of his work he loves most. To cope, he walks for miles through a nearly deserted city, smelling only his own breath. He vacuums his apartment twice a day, fails to hoard anything, and contemplates how sex workers and acupuncturists might be getting by during quarantine. As the world gradually settles into a new reality, Sedaris too finds himself changed. His offer to fix a stranger’s teeth rebuffed, he straightens his own, and ventures into the world with new confidence. Newly orphaned, he considers what it means, in his seventh decade, no longer to be someone’s son. And back on the road, he discovers a battle-scarred America: people weary, storefronts empty or festooned with Help Wanted signs, walls painted with graffiti reflecting the contradictory messages of our time: Eat the Rich. Trump 2024. Black Lives Matter. In Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about these recent upheavals, personal and public, and expresses in precise language both the misanthropy and desire for connection that drive us all. If we must live in interesting times, there is no one better to chronicle them than the incomparable David Sedaris. |
complete list of works - New York Live Arts
Body Against Body - conceived and directed by Bill T. Jones; choreography by Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane; premiered at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, MA in February 2011.
Bill T. Jones - JSTOR
Jones's presence electrified the group and left the students with a tangible model for how to begin to think about what it means to be a young artist entrusted with the responsibility of creating …
Allegories of Passing in Bil Tl. Jones - Cambridge University …
The dance world that Jones and Zane helped to forge offered a different valuation of risk and refused the cleavage of person and population between the risk-capable and the at-risk.
Bill t. Jones - lgbthistorymonth.com
Jones continues to dance and choreograph for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. “Living and dying is not the big issue. The big issue is what you’re going to do with your time …
Bill T. Jones: Keynote Luncheon - giarts.org
Why do I do what I do? I will volunteer free of qualification that what I enjoy most is the process of research, discovery, and problem solving that occurs before a work has its premiere. Candidly …
Embodying the undiscussable: Documentary methodology in …
The 1994 premiere of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company’s Still/Here ignited one of the defining debates of the culture wars in the 1990s. Arlene Croce’s incendiary New Yorker …
American Masters Bill T. Jones: A Good Man - THIRTEEN
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company . Bjorn G. Amelan Creative Director, Set Designer Kyle Maude Production Stage Manager Clarissa Sinceno Singer George Lewis, Jr. Composer, …
BILL T JONES/ARNIE ZANE DANCE COMPANY RETURNS TO …
BERKELEY, December 19, 2005 — Maverick choreographer Bill T. Jones, known for his breadth of musical imagination and powerful choreography, returns to Cal Performances with Bill T. …
Bill T. Jones (1952 - ) Bill T. Jones graduated Wayland, NY …
Bill T. Jones graduated Wayland, NY High School. In 1982 he and friend, Arnie Zane, formed the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company. He won a Tony Award for best choreographer for …
Literary Review: The Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The …
Bill T. Jones’s piece through “overreading” explores racial inequality through movement. Any analyses of Last Supper can lead to a variety of political explanations for Bill T. Jones’s work.
Dancing the digital age: a survey of the new technologies in …
In doing so the work of renown artists Wayne McGregor, Garry Stewart, Dawn Stopiello and Bill T. Jones have been used as case studies to highlight how the eminence of these …
The Breathing Show: Improvisation in the Work of Bill T. Jones
Does Ghostcatching represent Jones’s most radical formalist turn? Can poli-tics transpire in a virtual dance that allows neither sweat nor skin, primary markers of labor and race, to appear …
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company: Dancing Oral Histories
Through all the years I’ve viewed his works, Bill T. Jones has exposed what lies at the underbelly of his explorations, never stopping to nurse the discomfort of disturbed viewers. Extolled with …
Cabin/The Promised Land
article “Counterfactual Moving in Bill T. Jones’s Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land, ” where she focuses on how the incorporation of “counterfactual movement” in Last …
Still/Here: An Interview with Bill T. Jones - JSTOR
80 Discourse16.3 Jones:Ifyouwere in the workshop, Iwouldn'tknowyou; we wouldhavejustmet, wewouldhavewarmedup, andIwould tell you about my body of workand how my work has been …
BILL T. JONES / ARNIE ZANE DANCE COMPANY YERBA …
Bill T. Jones, a master class, and a symposium examining his role in shaping American contemporary dance. Please join us in honoring one of America’s most innovative and …
AM Bill T Jones A Good Man release_FINAL PBS pressroom …
Throughout the film Jones explains how his childhood, artistic journey, personal feelings about Lincoln, and current emotional and physical condition affect the piece’s direction and …
A Reading of Bill T. Jones's Interpretation Of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Bill T. Jones los textos y los ordena en una relación de diálogo a la manera de Bakhtin. Al público le incumbe el interpretar este diálogo. Igual que hace caer las fronteras entre modos de …
The Ghost In The Machine: Merce Cunningham and Bill T. Jones
While the ghosts didn't look like Bill T. Jones, the lobby display bound Jones and the ghosts together and provided a ready mental reference to Jones and his movement that I relied on in …
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company What Problem?
What Problem? is the latest result of this social/political/spiritual grinding and reformation. Are you a problem? And what does it mean to be a problem? All of my work is in pursuit of the “we”. …
complete list of works - New York Live Arts
Body Against Body - conceived and directed by Bill T. Jones; choreography by Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane; premiered at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, MA in February 2011.
Bill T. Jones - JSTOR
Jones's presence electrified the group and left the students with a tangible model for how to begin to think about what it means to be a young artist entrusted with the responsibility of creating …
Allegories of Passing in Bil Tl. Jones - Cambridge University …
The dance world that Jones and Zane helped to forge offered a different valuation of risk and refused the cleavage of person and population between the risk-capable and the at-risk.
Bill t. Jones - lgbthistorymonth.com
Jones continues to dance and choreograph for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. “Living and dying is not the big issue. The big issue is what you’re going to do with your time …
Bill T. Jones: Keynote Luncheon - giarts.org
Why do I do what I do? I will volunteer free of qualification that what I enjoy most is the process of research, discovery, and problem solving that occurs before a work has its premiere. Candidly …
Embodying the undiscussable: Documentary methodology in …
The 1994 premiere of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company’s Still/Here ignited one of the defining debates of the culture wars in the 1990s. Arlene Croce’s incendiary New Yorker …
American Masters Bill T. Jones: A Good Man - THIRTEEN
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company . Bjorn G. Amelan Creative Director, Set Designer Kyle Maude Production Stage Manager Clarissa Sinceno Singer George Lewis, Jr. Composer, …
BILL T JONES/ARNIE ZANE DANCE COMPANY RETURNS …
BERKELEY, December 19, 2005 — Maverick choreographer Bill T. Jones, known for his breadth of musical imagination and powerful choreography, returns to Cal Performances with Bill T. …
Bill T. Jones (1952 - ) Bill T. Jones graduated Wayland, NY …
Bill T. Jones graduated Wayland, NY High School. In 1982 he and friend, Arnie Zane, formed the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company. He won a Tony Award for best choreographer for …
Literary Review: The Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The …
Bill T. Jones’s piece through “overreading” explores racial inequality through movement. Any analyses of Last Supper can lead to a variety of political explanations for Bill T. Jones’s work.
Dancing the digital age: a survey of the new technologies in …
In doing so the work of renown artists Wayne McGregor, Garry Stewart, Dawn Stopiello and Bill T. Jones have been used as case studies to highlight how the eminence of these choreographers …
The Breathing Show: Improvisation in the Work of Bill T. Jones
Does Ghostcatching represent Jones’s most radical formalist turn? Can poli-tics transpire in a virtual dance that allows neither sweat nor skin, primary markers of labor and race, to appear …
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company: Dancing Oral Histories
Through all the years I’ve viewed his works, Bill T. Jones has exposed what lies at the underbelly of his explorations, never stopping to nurse the discomfort of disturbed viewers. Extolled with …
Cabin/The Promised Land
article “Counterfactual Moving in Bill T. Jones’s Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land, ” where she focuses on how the incorporation of “counterfactual movement” in Last …
Still/Here: An Interview with Bill T. Jones - JSTOR
80 Discourse16.3 Jones:Ifyouwere in the workshop, Iwouldn'tknowyou; we wouldhavejustmet, wewouldhavewarmedup, andIwould tell you about my body of workand how my work has been …
BILL T. JONES / ARNIE ZANE DANCE COMPANY YERBA …
Bill T. Jones, a master class, and a symposium examining his role in shaping American contemporary dance. Please join us in honoring one of America’s most innovative and …
AM Bill T Jones A Good Man release_FINAL PBS pressroom …
Throughout the film Jones explains how his childhood, artistic journey, personal feelings about Lincoln, and current emotional and physical condition affect the piece’s direction and …
A Reading of Bill T. Jones's Interpretation Of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Bill T. Jones los textos y los ordena en una relación de diálogo a la manera de Bakhtin. Al público le incumbe el interpretar este diálogo. Igual que hace caer las fronteras entre modos de …
The Ghost In The Machine: Merce Cunningham and Bill T.
While the ghosts didn't look like Bill T. Jones, the lobby display bound Jones and the ghosts together and provided a ready mental reference to Jones and his movement that I relied on in …
