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Bill T Jones
Born on February 15th 1952, this African American choreographer and dancer has established himself as a visionary artist with over a hundred works to his credit. For his efforts, Bill T. Jones has been rewarded with some of America’s greatest distinctions such as the Tony Award, four Bessie Awards and the Isadora Duncan prize. He has performed worldwide as a soloist or with his Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company. In November 2007, Jones joined forces with Tibetan singer Yungchen Lhamo and percussionist Florent Jodelet for a groundbreaking work in the Louvre Museum. |
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Bill T Jones
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Bill T. Jones and Yungchen Lhamo describe the challenge of creating this exchange between dance, the voice and stripped-down percussions. This was a unique experience, the first time Europe’s most famous museum had been transformed for such artistic purposes. Jones describes his emotions and reflects on what in his career prepared him for such an experience.
SETTING: The one-hour dance programme was set in one of the Louvre Museum’s most spectacular locations. It stretched one hundred metres from the “Slaves” sculpture by Michaelangelo (in the Renaissance Arch) to the steps of the “Winged Victory of Samothrace”. Jones danced through the connecting sculpture galleries, created under Napoleon III, as Yungchen Lhamo sent her voice into ethereal heights and Jodelet joined them with powerful Oriental sounds. This choreography was part of the Louvre’s carte blanche invitation to artist Anselm Kiefer who chose the theme of “frontiers”. The piece was called “Walking the Line”.
February 2008.
Interviewed by Daniel Brown
 Artist website
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Europe : Gillian Newson Arts Consultancy
Tel : 011 44 20 7622 8529
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New York, NY | USA | 110019
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