Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company Tackles Marathon 7-Hour Performance

By Gillian Ebersole, 04 November 2018

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“You’re not an artist until you’ve turned the ugly of your life into something beautiful”

Reviewed at CAP UCLA at Royce Hall, Los Angeles on 3 November 2018

Analogy Trilogy (Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company)

Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company

Squatters’ rites, sacred sites in We Shall Not Be Moved

Hilary Stroh, 16th September

Hip-h'opera world première at Philadelphia's O17 Festival.

****1

/Bill T Jones & Anne Bogart's Rite

Teresa Heiland, 6th March

Kill everyone who brings us discord; it is the only way to have quiet. A Rite, which is actually a meta-cognitive lesson questions Stravinksy/Nijinsky's 1913 Rite. In the 21st century, our sacrificial rite is daily —in our schools, in our public spaces, in our streets, in “someone else’s” war...

*****

A Rite in San Francisco: Anne Bogart and Bill T. Jones' autopsy on Stravinsky's Rite of Spring

Carla Escoda, 13th October

I’ve been humming bits of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring ever since my first encounter with it in my impressionable teens. It stuck in my head, along with the Led Zeppelin anthems. So when the lights went up on Bill T.

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A Rite, a recall: Bill T. Jones and Anne Bogart's collective riff on Stravinsky at BAM

Ivan Talijancic, 3rd October

At the outset of last century, the collision of the creative minds of the composer Igor Stravinsky and the choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky gave birth to what was to become the legendary Le Sacre du Printemps (“The Rite of Spring”).

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Wendy Whelan embraces minimalism in The Day

Gillian Ebersole, 18th October

The Day features music by David Lang and choreography by Lucinda Childs as former ballerina Wendy Whelan and cellist Maya Beiser perform together in this work contemplating memory, mortality, and aging.

***11

Ate9: calling glenn

Jeff Slayton, 11th November

Los Angeles choreographer Danielle Agami of AteNine Dance Company collaborates with Chicago based Composer/Musician Glenn Kotch of the rock band Wilco with stunning results. calling glenn is a must see.

*****

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Gillian Ebersole

Gillian Ebersole is a dancer and choreographer, as well as a poet, dance writer and educator. Gillian graduated Summa Cum Laude from Loyola Marymount University with a dual degree in Dance and English. Their first poetry book The Water Between Us received the Charlotte Mew Prize and was published by Headmistress Press in 2021. Gillian lives and creates in Berkshire County with their partner.