E
ight members of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company appear this weekend in Body Against Body at the Aronoff Center. The company was founded in 1982 by Bill T. Jones and his partner Arnie Zane, who died in 1988. Cincinnati audiences will see three illuminating pieces that return to company roots: Duet X 2 and Shared Distance — both small, intimate works from 1982 performed in silence — and Continuous Replay , an early solo concept from Zane most recently revised as a full company piece in 1994, set to “Music for Octet” composed and assembled by Jerome Begin from Beethoven string quartets. Read more about the performance here.
Contemporary Dance Theater presents Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company’s BODY AGAINST BODY Friday and Saturday at the Aronoff Center. Tickets/more info: cdt-dance.org/billtjones16 .
This article appears in Jan 13-20, 2016.