The dancer and choreographer speaks with the historian and professor about contributing to—and preserving—the Black cultural tradition in America.
Jones: Brad Ogbonna/ The New York Times/ Redux. Gates Jr.: Maarten de Boar/ Contour by Getty Images.
Jones and his partner in life and dance, Arnie Zane, began performing together in the early 1970s. In 1982, they founded the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, assembling a nontraditional group of dancers of all ethnicities, sizes, and backgrounds to perform their groundbreaking works, which rejected the more restrictive styles of classic modern dance and incorporated film, singing, and spoken dialogue.
in which, with the use of DNA testing, he helps celebrity guests discover—and face—their ancestral histories. "I wanted to have the ability to be as free as James Joyce. And yet, by the same token, I wanted to be prized for my intellectual understanding." -Bill T. JonesMany of the greatest scholars of what we now call African American studies had to write their PhD dissertations on a white author or a white subject because it was thought that a Black subject wasn’t worthy in allowing potential scholars to demonstrate that they had mastery of their field.
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