introduction by Bill T. Jones Arnie Zane (1948-1988) is best known for his seventeen-year personal and artistic partnership with choreographer Bill T. Jones. Their creative interchange defined each other's artistic vision and led to one of the most celebrated collaborations in late-twentieth-century dance. The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company continues to bear Zane's name and to be inspired by his spirit.Continuous Replay, which is titled after a dance work of Zane's, is the first comprehensive presentation of his photography. Zane took up the camera in earnest in 1971, the year he and Jones met. His photography examines the body's physicality, sexual identity, and potential for beauty and decay. The design of the book and of its associated exhibition--which will travel widely within the United States--reflects Zane's aesthetic strategies and the dynamic interplay between his art and life, photography and dance, his collection of found images and his own photographs, and his self-portraits and images of others. The core of the book consists of six portfolios that present Zane's photographs side by side with his artwork, sketches, performance notes, snapshots of Bill and Arnie, and video stills and photos of the company in action. The portfolios are interpreted through writings by friends, dancers, curators, and historians from the worlds of photography, art, and dance.Essays by Jonathan Green, Susan Leigh Foster, and Christine Pichini commentary by Bill Bissell, Bill T. Jones, Robert Longo, Philip Sykas, and Lois Welk

Continuous Replay: The Photographs of Arnie Zane

Arts & Photography

Jones, Bill T.

Foster, Susan Leigh

Longo, Robert

Green, Jonathan

Zane, Arnie

Pichini, Christine

Bissell, Bill

Sykas, Phil

Welk, Lois

Individual Artists

Mit Pr

Last Night on Earth

The personal story of Bill T. Jones describes his childhood as the tenth of twelve migrant farm children, his discovery of dance, his partnership with Arnie Zane, and his fight with AIDS. 30,000 first printing. Tour.

LAST NIGHT ON EARTH

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Pantheon

In a work that is part memoir, part meditation, and part performance, "today's most daring choreographer" (NEWSWEEK) charts his dance's origins and development in the context of his remarkable life. "A breathtaking accomplishment. To the extent that any words can convey the experience of dance, Jones does so here, eloquently and with disarming honesty."SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE. Illustrated throughout.

An autobiographical meditation on art from the world-renowned dancer and choreographer
In this ceaselessly questioning book, acclaimed African American dancer, choreographer, and director Bill T. Jones reflects on his art and life as he describes the genesis of Story/Time, a recent dance work produced by his company and inspired by the modernist composer and performer John Cage. Presenting personally revealing stories, richly illustrated with striking color photographs of the work's original stage production, and featuring a beautiful, large-format design, the book is a work of art in itself.
Like the dance work, Story/Time the book is filled with telling vignettes―about Jones’s childhood as part of a large, poor, Southern family that migrated to upstate New York; about his struggles to find a place for himself in a white-dominated dance world; and about his encounters with notable artists and musicians. In particular, Jones examines his ambivalent attraction to avant-garde modernism, which he finds liberating but also limiting in its disregard for audience response. As he strives to make his work more personal and broadly engaging, especially to an elusive African American audience, Jones―who is still drawn to the avant-garde―wrestles with questions of how an artist can remain true to himself while still caring about the popular reception of his work.
A provocative meditation on the demands and rewards of artistic creation, Story/Time is an inspiring and enlightening portrait of the life and work of one of the great artists of our time.

Story/Time: The Life of an Idea (The Toni Morrison Lecture Series)

Princeton University Press

Introduces basic concepts of dance through poetic text and photographs.

Dance! With Bill T. Jones

Children's Books

Kuklin, Susan

Literature & Fiction

Hyperion Books for Children

A simple, lilting text and eye-catching, rhythmic photographs of the author--a renowned dancer--leaping through the air, bending and shaping himself into amazing shapes and curves, celebrates the thrill of dance and the wonder of the human body.

Dance!

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