Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company

For over 38 years, the groundbreaking Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company has revolutionized modern dance while exploring issues of identity. The company’s work What Problem? evokes the tension between belonging to a community and feelings of isolation in divisive times. Jones pursues the elusive “we” in this highly personal work with a performance that includes a cast of local community members. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech and Herman Melville’s Moby Dick serve as the basis for the spoken text Jones delivers as a performer in this work. Composer and vocalist Nick Hallett provides a multilayered score.

For him, dance is theatre, not just movement.
— The Guardian

The ENCORE+ digital program for this performance is available to READ ONLINE

Dance Series generously underwritten by Delaney and Justin Dechant in honor of Katharyn Alvord Gerlich.​

Bill T. Jones is a Mellon Creative Research Fellow with Meany Center.