BILL T. JONES began his career choreographing and performing worldwide as a soloist and duet company with his late partner, Arnie Zane, before forming the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in 1982. Creating more than 100 works for his own company, Mr. Jones has also choreographed for numerous companies worldwide. In 1994, Mr. Jones received a MacArthur “Genius” Award. He’s been awarded several New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Awards, the 2005 Wexner Prize, the 2005 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement, a 2005 Harlem Renaissance Award and the 2003 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize. In 2000, the Dance Heritage Coalition named Mr. Jones “An Irreplaceable Dance Treasure.”

Currently appearing in Show Theatre Role Spring Awakening Eugene O'Neill Theatre Choreographer

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