Bill Chats with Louis Chude-Sokei Program

Bill Chats

Bill T. Jones in conversation with Louis Chude-Sokei

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE NEW SCHOOL

DEC 6, 7PM

The first Bill Chats of the 2022-2023 season featuring Nigerian-born writer and scholar Louis Chude-Sokei in conversation with Live Arts Artistic Director Bill T. Jones. For this season, the popular series includes a partnership with The New School, where Jones has been named a 2022-2023 Presidential Visiting Scholar.

Chude-Sokei’s book, The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics, was an important source of inspiration and information for the newest work by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, Curriculum II, which will have its NY Premiere in a home season at Live Arts January 10-14. Get tickets here.

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BIOGRAPHIES

Bill T. Jones (Artistic Director/ Co-Founder/Choreographer: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company; Artistic Director: New York Live Arts) is the recipient of the 2014 Doris Duke Artist Award; the 2013 National Medal of Arts; the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors; a 2010 Tony Award for Best Choreography of the critically acclaimed FELA!; a 2007 Tony Award, 2007 Obie Award for his choreography for Spring Awakening; the 2010 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award; the 2007 USA Eileen Harris Norton Fellowship; the 2006 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreography for The Seven; the 2005 Wexner Prize; the 2005 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement; the 2005 Harlem Renaissance Award; the 2003 Dorothy and lillian Gish Prize; and the 1994 MacArthur Fellows Award. In 2010, Mr. Jones was recognized as Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government, and in 2000, The Dance Heritage Coalition named Mr. Jones “An Irreplaceable Dance Treasure.” Mr. Jones choreographed and performed worldwide with his late partner, Arnie Zane, before forming the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company in 1982. He has created more than 140 works for his company. Mr. Jones is Artistic Director of New York Live Arts, an incubator for movement based artists at every level of their career.

Louis Chude-Sokei is a Professor of English and Director of the African American and Black Diaspora Studies Program at Boston University. Books includes the award-winning The Last Darky: Bert Williams, Black on Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora (2005), The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics (2015) and the acclaimed memoir, Floating in A Most Peculiar Way (2021). He is Editor in Chief of The Black Scholar, one of the oldest and leading journals of Black Studies and founder of the sonic art and archival project, Echolocution. Other projects include collaborations with German electronic musical icons, Mouse on Mars, and work as lead artist and curator for “Sometimes You Just Have to Give it Your Attention,” a sound art project in Nuremberg, Germany focused on Nazi Party historical sites for which for which he won the prestigious Kulturstiftun Des Bundes Award from the German Federal Cultural Foundation. Chude-Sokei was also a curator of Carnegie Hall’s 2022 Festival of Afrofuturism.

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LIVE ARTS CONTRIBUTORS

New York Live Arts is deeply grateful to all the individuals listed below for their vital gifts to New York Live Arts over the last year:

$1MM and higher

Slobodan Randjelović & Jon Stryker

$500,000-$999,999

Anonymous

$100,000-$499,999

Anonymous

Eleanor Friedman

Ruth & Stephen Hendel

Alex Katz Foundation

Ellen M. Poss

Jane Bovingdon Semel & Terry Semel | Semel Charitable Foundation

$50,000 - $99,999

Jody & John Arnhold | Arnhold Foundation

Lorraine Gallard & Richard Levy

Helen & Peter Haje

Suzanne Karpas Barbara & Alan D. Marks Matthew Putman

$25,000 - $49,999

Ylva Cavalli-Björkman & Willard Ahdritz

David Dechman & Michel Mercure

Zoe Eskin

Adam Flatto

Agnes Gund

Michael P.N.A. Hormel in memory of Linda Grass Shapiro Charla Jones

Colleen Keegan Darnell L. Moore

Amy Newman & Bud Shulman

Alanna Rutherford

Jennifer & Jonathan Soros

Starry Night Fund at The Chicago Community Foundation Diana Wege | Wege Foundation

$10,000 - $24,999

Caroline & Paul Cronson

Claire Danes & Hugh Dancy

Alexes Hazen

Julie Orlando

Andrea Rosen

Nina & Gabriel Stricker

Pat Stryker

$5,000 - $9,999

Patricia Blanchet | Ed Bradley Family Foundation

Paula Cooper & Jack Macrae

Joan Davidson

Anne Delaney

Laura & Richard Hunt

Glenn Ligon

Jeffrey B. & Wendy Liszt

Robert Longo

Margaret Morton Jeffrey Schneider

Melissa Schiff Soros

Cindy Sherman Catharine R. Stimpson

Kristalina & Jack Taylor Billie Tsien & Tod Williams Steve Wilson

$1,000 - $4,999

Derrick Adams Rosio Alvarez & Jennifer Brody

Anonymous

Alberta Arthurs

The Brant Foundation, Inc.

Jill Brienza

Catherine & Paul Buttenwieser

Reggie Browne Carmine Boccuzzi

Rose C. Cali in Memory of John J. Cali Jeannie Colbert

Joan Davidson

Lil & Jim DeMarse

Beth Rudin DeWoody

Dobkin Family Foundation

Margaret Doyle

Terence Dougherty & Pierre Duleyrie

Gina Duncan

Nancy & Stephen Gabriel Mimi Garrard

Michael & Deborah Goldberg

Thomas & Barbara Gottschalk

Deborah Hellman & Derek Brown

Tom Hennes

Jenny Holzer

Scott Hudziak

Joanie Johnson

Judy Johnson

The Joyce Theater Foundation Emil Kang Amir Karby

Hedy Klineman

Oscar Mack

Nancy Meyer & Marc Weiss

Susan Micari

Linda Murray

Wangechi Mutu

Samira Nasr

Richard Plepler

Randy Polumbo | Plant Construction

Margaret Selby

Jeffrey Seller

Céline Semaan & Colin Vernon

Caroline Shapiro & Peter Frey

Shinique Smith

Temple St. Clair & Paul Engler

The Susan Stein Shiva Foundation

Mickalene Thomas

Robyn Trani

JP Versace

James J. Williams, III

Jacqueline Woodson Timothy Wu & Eric Murphy

$500 - $999

Stewart Adelson

Mary Ann Ashley

Arthur Aviles

Carol Bryce-Buchanan John Fitzgibbon

William Floyd

Jeremy Henderson

Karen B. Hopkins

Brinton T. & Francis C. Parson, Jr Robert Ross

John Sansone

Ellynne Skove

Deborah Swiderski Wade Turnbull Gilbert Williams

Gifts and commitments between 7/1/2021-6/30/2022

Support for New York Live Arts is provided by the Arnhold Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Ed Bradley Family Foundation, The Brant Foundation, Inc., Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Dance/ NYC, Ford Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Marta Heflin Foundation, Alex Katz Foundation, Lambent Foundation, Alice Lawrence Foundation, Samuel M. Levy Family Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Performance Network, New England Foundation for the Arts, NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund in the New York Community Trust, One World Fund, The Poss Family Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Jerome Robbins Foundation, The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, San Francisco Foundation The Semel Charitable Foundation, Scherman Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Tides Foundation

Corporate support for New York Live Arts includes Google, Tito’s Handmade Vodka.

Public support for New York Live Arts is from Humanities New York, National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Correction, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Board of Directors

Stephen Hendel Co-Chair

Richard H. Levy Co-Chair

Helen Haje Vice Chair

Slobodan RandjeloviĆ Vice Chair

Alan Marks Treasurer Alanna Rutherford Secretary

Bill T. Jones

Artistic Director Ex-Officio

Kim Cullen

Chief Executive Officer Ex-Officio

Bjorn Amelan

Willard Ahdritz

Sarah Arison

Aimee Meredith Cox

LaToya Ruby Frazier

Charla Jones

Colleen Keegan Darnell L. Moore

Amy Newman Randy Polumbo Ellen M. Poss Matthew Putman

Jane Bovingdon Semel Ruby Shang Catharine R. Stimpson Diana Wege

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