Dance | Theater
A Rite
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company & SITI Company
Conceived, directed, and choreographed by Anne Bogart, Bill T.
Jones, and Janet Wong
In collaboration with the performers
With clutched thighs and fists beating the ground, barefoot performers channel Vaslav Nijinsky’s original 1913 choreography to the crackle of a vintage recording. A shell-shocked WWI vet hears bombs in the opening chords, while an impassioned scholar waxes poetic about the radical structure of Stravinsky’s work. As the maelstrom morphs into chorales sung by the actors and dancers, who are virtually indistinguishable from one another, we tread the raw nerves of a masterpiece, which touches ours in return.
Lighting design by Robert Wierzel
Costume design by James Schuette
A Rite was commissioned by Carolina Performing Arts at
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Additional commissioning support provided by: The Richard B.
Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College.
With Anne Bogart, Bill T. Jones, and Janet Wong
Fri, Oct 4
Katherine Profeta moderates this artist talk, which takes place in the performance venue and is free for same-day ticket holders.
BAM Hamm Archives director Sharon Lehner and Princeton music professor Simon Morrison take an in-depth look at the compelling history of The Rite of Spring at BAM.
Janet Wong, associate artistic director of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, leads dancers through the creative structures used to generate this season’s A Rite.
In addition to creating more than 140 works for his own company, Bill T. Jones has received many commissions to create dances for modern and ballet companies, and has choreographed and directed opera and theater productions.
Anne Bogart is the artistic director and co-founder of SITI Company.
The 2013 Next Wave Festival showcases the very best in contemporary performance, plus artist talks, storytelling, visual art, and film.