A Study in Contrasts

Jones, Bill T.
Elizabeth Zimmer and Susan Quasha, eds.
Body Against Body: The Dance and Other Collaborations of Bill T. Jones & Arnie Zane
Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 1989
Dance is often a study in contrasts: finding rhythm in silence, movement defined by stillness, the literal body creating an abstract narrative. The book Body Against Body: The Dance [...]

Stock Comedy

Lust, Annette Bercut
From the Greek Mimes to Marcel Marceau and Beyond: Mimes, Actors, Pierrots, and Clowns: A Chronicle of the Many Visages of Mime in the Theater.
Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2003
In 2006, my dance company was commissioned to choreograph and perform Stravinsky’s opera ballet Pulcinella. I had some hazy memory of commedia dell’arte stock characters [...]

Last Night on Earth

Jones, Bill T.
Last Night on Earth
New York: Pantheon, 1995
I love Bill T. Jones.
I am dazzled by his technique, his vision, his personal power as it radiates through his regal demeanor. And his talking. I love to hear that man talk. Language pours out of him as words and movement, making literal the phrase “poetic [...]