Fondly Do We Hope…Fervently Do We Pray
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
Bill T. Jones, artistic director
Friday, January 22, 8 pm
Saturday, January 23, 8 pm
Power Center
| Main Floor | $44 · $40 · $28 · $22 |
| Balcony | $40 · $36 · $28 · $18 |
“Jones creates rich, stylistically hybrid theater experiences, often with complicated narratives. Clarity isn’t his goal so much as an absorbing emotional experience.” (The Washington Post) Recognized as a cultural trailblazer, Bill T. Jones has crafted his life, philosophy, and art-making by asking questions that resist definitive answers. He commemorates the Abraham Lincoln bicentennial by exploring the life and legacy of this complex figure. The dance-theater evening features the sophisticated movement of his diverse dancers, accompanied by a pulsating, contemporary original score inflected by folk and rock; film; and a striking, modern stage design. The uplifting libretto is drawn from Shakespeare, the Old Testament, the poems of Walt Whitman, and Lincoln’s own words. The phrase taken from Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address to title the work, Fondly Do We Hope…Fervently Do We Pray, captures the vision of the piece: an examination of what Lincoln’s work means today, and our hopes for the future.
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Funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius; Arts Midwest’s Performing Arts Fund; and the |