biography
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| lived:
| (1952– )
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| biography:
| Choreographer and dancer, born in Steuben Co, New York, or Bunnell, Florida, USA. The son of migrant farmers, sources differ on his place of birth. He attended the State University of New York, Binghamton (1970–2), where he studied dance. By 1973 he co-founded, with Arnie Zane, Lois Welk, and Jill Becker, the American Dance Asylum. He and his companion and dancing partner, Arnie Zane, formed the Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane & Company (1982), and created many co-productions, such as History of Collage (1988). After Zane died of AIDS (1988), Jones continued to create controversial and acclaimed dance works, notably Last Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin/The Promised Land (1991). In addition to choreographing and dancing with his permanent company, he did some teaching, writing, and opera-directing as well as fundraising to keep his company alive. Among his many awards is a MacArthur Fellowship (1994), and he published his memoirs Last Night on Earth in 1995. |
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