Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company to Bring ANALOGY/DORA: TRAMONTANE to Greensboro

MacArthur Genius Award and National Medal of the Arts recipient Bill T. Jones and his Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company present the critically acclaimed new dance/theater piece Analogy/Dora: Tramontane.

The performance will take place on Friday, February 3, 8pm, at the College of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of North Carolina Greensboro's UNCG Auditorium. For information and tickets, visit UNCG.

Based on an oral history Jones conducted with 95-year-old Dora Amelan, the piece is a meditation on perseverance, resourcefulness and resilience. Based on interviews Jones conducted with 95-year-old Dora Amelan, a French Jewish nurse and social worker, the work is set amid a 20th-century Europe shattered by war and racism and chronicles Dora's early life in Belgium, her mother's death as the German army was marching into the country and her experiences working for a children's aid society at an underground Jewish organization in Vichy, France.

Since its premiere in 2015, Analogy/Dora: Tramontane has both thrilled and moved audiences with its honesty, compassion and, above all, its humanity. "The choreography...flows with an engaging slipperiness between being illustrative and formally abstract.... There's tenderness and lightness," states The New York Times. The performance "awakens our senses," comments NJArts and is "startlingly powerful," says Hyperallergic.

Analogy/Dora: Tramontane is the first part of Bill T. Jones Analogy: A Trilogy, developed by Jones with Associate Artistic Director Janet Wong. Inspired by W.G Sebald's award-winning novel The Emigrants, Jones' trilogy explores how text, storytelling and movement pull and push against each other creating other experiences through the combination and recombination of these elements.

Bill T. Jones is one of the world's foremost multi-talented artists with an illustrious and award-winning career as a dancer, choreographer, theater director and writer. He has received major honors ranging from a 1994 MacArthur Genius Award to a 2010 Kennedy Center Honor to a 2013 National Medal of Arts. Jones was recognized as Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 2010, inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009 and named "An Irreplaceable Dance Treasure" by the Dance Heritage Coalition in 2000. His creations on Broadway include the highly acclaimed "Spring Awakening" and "FELA!", for which he won 2007 and 2010 Tony Awards for Best Choreography.

New York Live Arts serves as home base for Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and is the company's sole producer, providing support and the environment to originate innovative and challenging new work for the Company and New York's creative community. Located in the heart of Chelsea in New York City, New York Live Arts produces and presents dance, music and theater performances in its 20,000 square-foot home, which includes a 184-seat theater and two 1,200 square-foot studios. New York Live Arts offers an extensive range of participatory programs for adults and young people and supports the continuing professional development of artists.

Analogy/Dora: Tramontane was commissioned by Peak Performances at Montclair State University and co-commissioned by Dancers' Workshop and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

The creation of new work by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company is made possible by the Company's Partners in Creation: Anne Delaney, Zoe Eskin, Eleanor Friedman and Carol Tolan.

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