OUR SEASON OF ANNIVERSARIES CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF LIVE ARTS AND 40 YEARS OF THE BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE COMPANY
Bill Chats: Community Scholars MAY 4, 7PM Bill T. Jones joined by Aimee Meredith Cox*, Jasmine Johnson, Darnell L. Moore*, and Emil Wilbekin Bill Chats presents the first public gathering of the Community of Scholars. As the newest initiative in “Our Season of Anniversaries” - celebrating 10 years of Live Arts and 40 years of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company - the Community of Scholars is a rotating international cohort of scholars, artists, and thought leaders invited by Bill T. Jones to discuss the question: What does one need to know to be an informed global citizen…now? * New York Live Arts Board Member
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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.
Aimee Meredith Cox is jointly appointed in the departments of African American Studies and Anthropology at Yale. Cox earned her M.A. and PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and B.A. with honors in Anthropology from Vassar College. Aimee’s first monograph, Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship (Duke 2015), won the 2017 book award from the Society for the Anthropology of North America and a 2016 Victor Turner Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing. She is also the editor of the volume, Gender: Space (MacMillan, 2018). Aimee is a dancer and choreographer. She performed and toured internationally with Ailey II and the Dance Theatre of Harlem and has choreographed performances as interventions in public and private space in Newark, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn. Aimee is currently working on two books projects based on ethnographic research among Black communities in Cincinnati, Ohio; Jackson, Mississippi; Clarksburg, West Virginia; and Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn. This overall project is called “Living Past Slow Death.” Jasmine Elizabeth Johnson is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at Princeton University and an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at the University
whose work on marginal identity, of Pennsylvania. A Ford Foundation equity, and social justice has Diversity Pre and Post-Doctoral enabled him to be in community Fellow, she earned her Ph.D. in with those creating impact in the African Diaspora Studies at UC U.S. and abroad over the past Berkeley. Johnson has served as two decades. He is currently Vice a Scholar-in-Residence at the President of Inclusion Strategy Schomburg Center for Research in for Content and Marketing at Black Culture, a Ford Foundation Netflix and was the former Head Post-Doctoral Fellow in Africana of Strategy and Programs at Studies at Barnard College, a Breakthrough US, a global socially Newhouse Center for the innovative creative hub that uses Humanities Fellow at Wellesley media, art, and tech to shift gender College, and a Postdoctoral Fellow norms. In his recent past, he served in African American Studies as Editor-at-Large at CASSIUS (an at Northwestern University. In Urban One/iOne digital platform) 2016, Johnson was awarded the and a former Senior Editor and Michael L. Walzer ‘56 Award from Correspondent at Mic. In both Brandeis University for combining roles, his editorial content, both “superlative scholarship with video and textual, centered on inspired teaching.” Johnson’s issues of diverse identities, equity, work examines the politics of and social transformation. He black movement including dance, directed and hosted, for example, diasporic travel, and gentrification. CASSIUS’s content on manhood/ Interdisciplinary in nature, her masculinity as well as its 4-part scholarship and teaching are mini-doc series exploring Black situated at the intersection LGBTQIA+ life in Atlanta. He also of diaspora theory, dance and was the host of Mic’s digital series, performance studies, ethnography, The Movement, through which and black feminism. Her first book he covered the people working manuscript, Rhythm Nation: West to address social justice issues African Dance and the Politics across the country. The series was of Diaspora, is a transnational ethnography on the industry of West subsequently nominated for a Breakthrough Series: Short Form African Dance. Johnson serves on the founding board for the Collegium Award at the 2016 IFP Gotham Awards.In addition to the work he for African Diaspora Dance, and has contributed to public dialogue on the Dance Studies Association on race, he has been an advocate Board of Directors. She is also a for gender equity and sexual West African dance practitioner. diversity. He has served as the co-managing editor at The Feminist Darnell L. Moore is a media maker, educator, writer and thought leader Wire since 2010 and an editor of
empower Black gay/queer men. The Feminist Wire Books (a series There is no other organization of University of Arizona Press). globally that supports this He is also a writer-in-residence at community with the emphasis the Center on African American Religion, Sexual Politics and Social on wellness, empowerment, and amplification. He has appeared OnJustice at Columbia University and Air discussing pop culture, fashion/ was a 2019 Founding Fellow at the style, entertainment and current Annenberg Innovation Lab at the affairs on The Today Show, NBC UCLA. A prolific writer, Darnell Channel 4 News New York, E! VH-1, has been published in various MTV, BET, CNN, The Insider, Arise media outlets including the New 360, Revolt, and PBS. Wilbekin has York Times, Vanity Fair, MSNBC, an expertise in editorial creation, The Guardian, Quartz, Playboy, Huffington Post, EBONY, The Root, content curation and multimedia story telling (print, digital, social, The Advocate, OUT Magazine, video and live events) having Gawker, VICE, Guernica, Thought served as Chief Content Officer Catalog, Good Men Project and at Afropunk, Editor-at-Large others, as well as numerous at Essence, Managing Editor of academic journals including QED: Essence.com, Editor-in-Chief of A Journal in GLBTQ World Making, Giant and Giantmag.com, Style Women Studies Quarterly, Ada: Guru at Complex Media, VP of A Journal of Gender, New Media Brand Development at Marc Eckō & Technology, Transforming Enterprises, Editorial Director/ Anthropology, Black Theology: An International Journal, and Harvard Vice President of Vibe Ventures Journal of African American Policy, and Editor-in-Chief of Vibe among others. Darnell is the author Magazine. Under Wilbekin’s of the 2019 Lambda Literary Award leadership, Vibe won the National nominated memoir, No Ashes in the Magazine Award for General Excellence in 2002. Wilbekin Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free holds a B.S. in Mass Media Arts in America, which was listed as a 2018 NYT Notable Book and a 2018 from Hampton University, and an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia Barnes & Noble Discover Great University. He resides in New York New Writers pick. City. Social Handles: @emilwilbekin on Twitter and IG. Emil Wilbekin is the Founder of Native Son, a platform created to inspire and empower Black Gay Men. NATIVE SON is an intergenerational movement, community and platform created four years ago to inspire and
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: $500,000 and higher Anonymous Slobodan Randjelović & Jon Stryker $100,000-$499,999 Eleanor Friedman Ruth & Stephen Hendel Alex Katz Foundation Ellen M. Poss Jane Bovingdon Semel & Terry Semel / Semel Charitable Foundation $50,000 - $99,999 Anonymous Lorraine Gallard & Richard Levy Suzanne Karpas $25,000 - $49,999 Anonymous Patricia Blanchet / Ed Bradley Family Foundation David Dechman & Michel Mercure Zoe Eskin Adam Flatto Helen & Peter Haje Alexes Hazen James C. Hormel & Michael P. Nguyen in memory of Linda Grass Shapiro Charla Jones Amy Newman & Bud Shulman Barbara & Alan D. Marks Randy Polumbo / Plant Construction Matthew Putman Alanna Rutherford Starry Night Fund at The Chicago Community Foundation Diana Wege / Wege Foundation $10,000 - $24,999 Colleen Keegan Julie Orlando Andrea Rosen Ruby Shang Nina & Gabriel Stricker Leslie Weinberger
$5,000 - $9,999 Deborah Hellman & Derek Brown Paula Cooper & Jack Macrae Caroline & Paul Cronson Claire Danes & Hugh Dancy Anne Delaney Agnes Gund Bill T. Jones & Bjorn Amelan Jeffrey B. & Wendy Liszt Robert Longo Deborah Ronnen Melissa Schiff Soros Cindy Sherman Temple St. Clair & Paul Engler Kristalina & Jack Taylor Williams Family Foundation $1,000 - $4,999 Jody & John Arnhold | Arnhold Foundation Anonymous The Angelson Family Foundation Jonathan J. Cohen Charitable Fund Jeannie Colbert Kim Cullen Emily Dalton Joan Davidson Lil & Jim DeMarse Dobkin Family Foundation Margaret Doyle John Fitzgibbon Mimi Garrard Judith & Steven Gluckstern Michael & Deborah Goldberg Thomas & Barbara Gottschalk Jeanine Heriveaux Jenny Holzer Otho Kerr Spike Lee Nancy Meyer & Marc Weiss Susan Micari Meridee Moore & Kevin King Thomas Nichols & Daniel Chadburn Mark O’Donnell Deborah Pines Rita Salzman The Susan Stein Shiva Foundation Catharine R. Stimpson Megumi & Bruce Williams Timothy Wu & Eric Murphy
$500 - $999 Arthur Aviles Timothy Benning The Marshall Frankel Foundation Sharon Gerstel Tom Hennes Lauren Hutton Olivia Katz Kenneth Machlin Wayne Norbeck John Sansone Deborah Swiderski Gifts and commitments between 7/1/2020-6/30/2021 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 Mellon Foundation, National Performance Network, New England Foundation for the Arts, NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund in the New York Community Trust, Muriel Pollia Foundation, 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 Con Edison, 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.
STAFF & BOARD Artistic Leadership
Executive Leadership
Board of Directors
Bill T. Jones Artistic Director
Kim Cullen Executive Director & CEO
Stephen Hendel Co-Chair
Janet Wong Associate Artistic Director
Ali Burke Chief of Staff
Richard H. Levy Co-Chair
Programming, Producing & Engagement
Development
Helen Haje Vice Chair
Dave Archuletta Chief Development Officer
Slobodan RandjeloviĆ Vice Chair
Erin Baskin Institutional Giving Manager
Alan Marks Treasurer
Candystore Development Assistant
Alanna Rutherford Secretary
Kyle Maude Producing Director Hannah Emerson Producer Veronica Falborn Producer Production Hillery Makatura Director of Production Grady Shea Technical Director Chanel Pinnock Production Manager Megan Dechaine Production Stage Manager Creative Director Bjorn G. Amelan Community Engagement & Education Bianca Bailey Community Engagement & Education Manager Communications Tyler Ashley Director of Communications Hannah Seiden Communications Coordinator Liliana Dirks-Goodman Graphic Designer Pentagram Pro-Bono Branding
Finance Nupur Dey Director of Finance Manathus Dey Finance Associate
Bill T. Jones Artistic Director Ex-Officio Kim Cullen Chief Executive Officer Ex-Officio Bjorn Amelan Willard Ahdritz Sarah Arison
Operations
Aimee Meredith Cox
Gregory English Operations Manager
LaToya Ruby Frazier
Marcus Retegues Facilities Coordinator
Colleen Keegan
Aneudy Pilier Paulino Custodial Coordinator Adalid Nunez-Mendoza Custodial Assistant Human Resources ADP TotalSource Legal Services Lowenstein Sandler, PC Pro-Bono Counsel Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company Barrington Hinds, Dean Michael Husted, Jada Jenai, Shane Larson, s. Lumbert, Danielle Marshall, Nayaa Opong, Marie Paspe, Jacoby Pruitt, Huiwang Zhang
Charla Jones Darnell L. Moore Amy Newman Randy Polumbo Ellen M. Poss Matthew Putman Jane Bovingdon Semel Ruby Shang Catharine R. Stimpson Diana Wege Board Emeritus Derek Brown Terence Dougherty Eleanor Friedman Advisory Council Margaret Doyle, Chair Alberta Arthurs
Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist
Beverly D’Anne Lisa Frigand
Faye Driscoll
Jenette Kahn Susan Micari Alton Murray Lorraine Gallard Lois Greenfield Martha Sherman
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