ADF Presents: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company

Program: Continuous Replay and Story/

Running time: 70 minutes, no intermission

Tickets are purchased through Duke University’s Box Office.

Artist Website: newyorklivearts.org/btj-az-company/

Continuous Replay reflects Arnie Zane’s interests in photography and film. Originally choreographed by Zane in 1977 as a solo titled Hand Dance and later revised as a group work by Bill T. Jones in 1991, Continuous Replay is based on 45 precise gestures accumulated in space and time, cunningly complicated by discrete movement events. A newly commissioned score for string octet by Jerome Begin, a former ADF musician, combines motifs from Beethoven’s first and last string quartets with recorded sounds to create a surprising soundscape. Story/ is the latest result of the company’s continued investigation in using John Cage’s Indeterminacy as a choreographic tool. Following the model for the acclaimed Story/Time, the work employs a random menu of movement that is accompanied by Franz Schubert’s String Quartet No. 14 (Death and the Maiden) to craft a conversation between the music and the movement.

Thursday, June 18 at 7:30 pm

Friday, June 19 at 7:30 pm

Photo Credit: Olivia Moon

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