Ravenna Festival
Bill T. Jones-Arnie Zane Dance Company
Serenade/The Proposition
coreografia Bill T. Jones
con Janet Wong e i membri della compagnia
scene Bjorn Amelan
luci Robert Wierzel
video Janet Wong
suono Sam Crawford
costumi Anjia Jalac e la compagnia
musica originale composta, arrangiata ed eseguita da Jerome Begin, Lisa Komara e Christopher Antonio William Lancaster
musica e testi ulteriori W.A. Mozart, Julia Ward Howe, William Walker, Alexander Means, Abraham Lincoln e musica folk tradizionale americana
testo originale Bill T. Jones
un ringraziamento speciale a Liz Prince
Si ringrazia il Consolato Generale degli Stati Uniti d’America a Firenze.
A white stage on a black background and imposing columns – “Serenade/The Proposition” is a successful amalgam of distinct bits of dance movement, original music, familiar strains, video projections and text from memoirs and Abraham Lincoln’s speeches, the first work in a trilogy dedicated to the great President. Dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones started working on Lincoln in 2008 to explore the moral, social and political issues of past and present America. With his multiracial company, founded in Harlem in 1982 with Arnie Zane, the Afro-American dancer has confronted such bold subjects as Aids, Bush’s Iraq war, the aftermath of 9.11. Today, the 10-member company is recognized as one of the most innovative and powerful forces in the modern dance world.
