Bill T. Jones News

The intimate participatory performance, which explores separation, connection, and the power of listening, will play The John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin from February 11-24, 2021, followed by an engagement at the Bates Dance Festival in Lewiston, Maine from February 25-March 14, 2021.

The Mac-Haydn Theatre will present 'BK From The UK,' a six-week virtual dance class with choreographer Bryan Knowlton, beginning March 6, 2021 as part of the Mac-Haydn Artist Workshop Series. Classes will be hosted weekly on Saturdays at 10:15 a.m. ET via Zoom. The cost for the full program is $90.

LongHouse Reserve will hold its winter benefit on February 14, 2021 at 6:00PM EST, Love Song to Jack, a virtual event in honor of LongHouse's beloved founder Jack Lenor Larsen. The Valentine's Day event is an elegant ode to Jack, who recently left this world at 93.

Choreographer and director Camille A. Brown was honored by the International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA) on Thursday evening, January 14th, 2020 with the Distinguished Artist Award, presented by Alicia Adams, VP International Programming at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

In what continues to be a challenging time for dancemakers to find ways to make and present work, the Pillow has deepened many of its preexisting relationships with artists as well as opened its doors for new ventures, resulting in a diverse and provocative array of artistic projects from January through June.

The Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance has teamed up with two of Los Angeles’ foremost cultural organizations—the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts and the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts—to launch Films.Dance, a groundbreaking new global free film series.

WaitWhat, the media invention company founded by former TED executives June Cohen and Deron Triff — creators of the award-winning hit podcasts Masters of Scale and Meditative Story — today released the premiere episode of Spark & Fire , an imaginative new audio series that turns the “creative process” into a captivating, edge-of-your-seat hero's journey.

In 1891, years before Sigmund Freud would revolutionize the way the human mind is perceived and the significance of symbolism, childhood and sexuality on a person’s psyche, German playwright Frank Wedekind challenged the taboos around the sexual tension of young people with a play that would challenge censorship in the theatre for nearly a century.

Weaver, designer, collector, gardener, author, world traveler, entrepreneur, teacher, and cultural scholar, Jack Lenor Larsen was mentor to textile connoisseurs, designers, artisans and artists throughout his eventful and gratifying 93 years. He died peacefully on the evening of December 22, 2020 of natural causes in East Hampton, New York.

Broadway might be dark, but that doesn't mean that theatre isn't happening everywhere! Below, check out where you can get your daily fix of Broadway this weekend, December 12-13, 2020.

Today (December 11) in live streaming: Laura Osnes, Courtney Reed and Susan Egan visit Backstage Live, and so much more!

Today (December 9) in live streaming: Audra McDonald in concert, Darius de Haas visits Backstage Live, and so much more!

The Tank has announced The Tank’s Wintry Mix, a celebration of the end of 2020. The Tank’s Wintry Mix will be a month of virtual programming about the upcoming strange holiday season, highlighting new work from emerging artists that is multigenerational, and more.

On this day in 2009 the biographical musical Fela!, chronicling the life and work of Nigerian musical pioneer and political activist Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, opened on Broadway at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.

The New Group in association with John Ridley's Nō Studios are joining forces through The New Group Off Stage division, and have announced an upcoming slate of projects. The New Group Off Stage will feature theatrical expressions in different media.

Alonzo King LINES Ballet has been awarded a $350,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the creation of a new work and fund a COVID-bubble artistic residency in Wickenburg, Arizona this December.

Love. Most of us fortunate enough to experience it, are too familiar with its intoxicating highs and soaring lows. One day it's smooth and steady while the next cloudy and confusing. Inspired by the struggles of love with a raw glimpse into a relationship fraught with infidelity issues, soulful storyteller Sapphire Hart is set to release 'Toxic Love Story', her most honest single to date, out Friday, November 13th.

American Masters – Keith Haring: Street Art Boy premieres nationwide beginning November 28.

Brooklyn Public Library has commissioned the multi-talented artist, choreographer, theater director, and writer Bill T. Jones to deliver the next Message from the Library the Sunday following the U.S. Presidential election.

RuckUS is an artist-led activist group that aims to create a joyful critical mass for getting out the vote with events staged all across New York City on October 17 and 24.