Co-founder of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in 1982. He attended the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he became interested in movement and dance, and met his professional and personal partner Arnie Zane. The company has used multimedia elements in their works, and has addressed racism and AIDS as subject matter. In 2011 the company merged with Dance Theater Workshop to form New York Live Arts, for which Jones served as executive artistic director.
He and Arnie Zane Dance Companys 1998 production of We Set Out Early....Visibility was Poor at the Peacock Theatre was nominated for a 1999 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance.
His and Arnie Zane Dance Companys We Set Out Early...Visibility was Poor at the Peacock Theatre was nominated for a 1999 Laurence Oliver Award for Best New Dance Production of 1998.
Recipient of the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors; other recipients that year were Oprah Winfrey , Jerry Herman , Paul McCartney , and Merle Haggard.
He was awarded the 2009 Back Stage Garland Award for Choreography for "Spring Awakening" at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
He was awarded the 2012 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Choreography for "Fela" in a Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith presentation at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
He was awarded the 2012 Back Stage Garland Award for Choreography for "Fela! in a Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith presentation at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
He was awarded the 2012 NAACP Award for Best Choreography for "Fela! in a Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith presentation at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget. .
