OUR SEASON OF ANNIVERSARIES CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF LIVE ARTS AND 40 YEARS OF THE BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE COMPANY
JOMAMA JONES’S CELESTIAL HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR DEC 3, 2021 WELCOME! As we near the end of another tumultuous year, and approach the Winter Solstice, we gather to share space & time, together. STARSHINE PAST STARSHINE PRESENT STARSHINE TO BE featuring: Jomama Jones Josh Quat Helga Davis with Beth Golison Godiva (Avantae Gonzalez) VISIT: www.aten.life
Daniel Alexander Jones devised the ALTAREDSTATES initiative as a LiveFeed resident artist with New York Live Arts, commissioned by the Public Theater, in collaboration with artists Ebony Noelle Golden, Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Josh Quat, and Sangodare Wallace. During that time, the group outlined a multimedia project, Altar no. 5. As the pandemic hit and undid the best laid plans, Jones and Quat sequestered in Joshua Tree, CA and recorded the ATEN album. CalArts Center For New Performance came on board to cultivate the full expression of Jones’s meditation on the solar system, which involved the development of a digital site with designer Gregory Coats, a podcast series of Constellation Conversations with a range of artists and thinkers, and a series of 15 music videos created with directors Nico Savignano and Adelina Anthony. Tonight’s gathering marks the immanent completion of the release of these videos, and the upcoming vinyl release of the ATEN record. Daniel & Josh and the creative team offer our PROFOUND gratitude to the Live Arts family who have been so welcoming, supportive, and committed at every step to the ongoing life of this work. The ATEN project is supported by NEFA’s National Theatre Project.
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BIOGRAPHIES JOSH QUAT Josh Quat is a musician, songwriter, and producer with a diverse range and wide variety of influences. His upcoming EP These Little Dreams was entirely self-produced, featuring songs written and recorded in several cities throughout the US during the pandemic. Josh utilizes a DIY approach for his solo project, performing every instrument and tracking everywhere from small apartments, basements, studios, and even his car! He previously fronted Brooklynbased rock trio The Kristys, who released their self titled album back in 2016. Additionally, he is the primary musical collaborator of “soul sonic superstar” Jomama Jones. In 2019, he co-wrote/ produced the album Anew, and also contributed musically to the off-Broadway show Black Light. The upcoming album Aten, which he also produced, was released in September 2021. Stay tuned for more upcoming music releases and collaborations! www.joshquat.com DANIEL ALEXANDER JONES Daniel Alexander Jones exemplifies the artist-as-energy worker. His wildflower body
of original work includes plays, performance pieces, recorded music, concerts, music theatre events, essays, and long-form improvisations. He explores the esoteric and the everyday through his own distinctive dramaturgy. Jones’s critically-acclaimed pieces include Radiate (Soho Rep and National Tour; Black Light (Public Theater, Greenwich House Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Penumbra Theatre); Duat (Soho Rep); An Integrator’s Manual (La MaMa, etc. and Fusebox Festival). Jones has recorded six albums of original songs as his alter-ego, Jomama Jones. Daniel’s current project, www.aten.life, significantly expands his digital media presence. He has been a part of arts communities in New York City, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Austin, Boston, and Los Angeles, where he bases his practice. Jones directed world-premieres of new plays and performance pieces by E. Patrick Johnson, Erik Ehn, Renita Martin, and Shay Youngblood, among others. He is a company member of Penumbra Theatre Company in St. Paul; an associate company member of Pillsbury House Theatre in Minneapolis; an alumnus of New Dramatists, and was a company
member of Frontera@Hyde Park Theatre in Austin.
impact on contemporary theatre and performance.
Jones was honored with the PEN America Laura Pels Foundation Theatre Award in 2021. Daniel is a TED Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and the recipient of the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award, a Doris Duke Artist Award, an Alpert Award in the Arts, a USA Artist Fellowship, an Arts Matters grant, an inaugural Creative Capital Grant, a McKnight National Residency and Commission, a Howard Foundation Fellowship, a NEA/TCG Playwriting Residency, a Jerome Fellowship, and a Many Voices Playwriting Fellowship. Jones was the lead artist on five projects awarded support by the MAP Fund and is a NEFA National Theatre Project grantee. Daniel has been a Mellon Creative Research Fellow at the University of Washington, a Hume Fellow at Occidental College, a Fellow at the Hemispheric Institute at NYU, and has been in residence at a number of colleges and universities across the country including CalArts and UCLA’s Center for New Performance. Jones received a Bistro Award for Outstanding Performance Artistry for Jomama Jones, and a Franky Award from the Prelude Festival in recognition of long-term, extraordinary
Daniel Alexander Jones completed his undergraduate study at Vassar College in Africana Studies with a focus on literature and the arts under the guidance of Dr. Constance E. Berkley, and his graduate study at Brown University in Theatre where he worked with Rites and Reason Theatre and was mentored by Aishah Rahman. He is a widely respected, innovative educator who has taught across the United States and held faculty positions at Goddard College, The University of Texas at Austin, and most recently at Fordham University, where he is a Full Professor in the Department of Theatre and Visual Arts. He is a frequent essayist, with contributions published by Theater magazine and HowlRound. The Herb Alpert Foundation noted that Daniel Alexander Jones “creates multi-dimensional experiences where bodies, minds, emotions, voices, and spirits conjoin, shimmer, and heal.” www.danielalexanderjones.com HELGA DAVIS Helga Davis performed as a principle actor in the 25thanniversary international revival
of Robert Wilson and Philip Glass’s opera Einstein on the Beach. The New York Times described Davis’ performance as “Compelling.” Robert Wilson described Davis as “a united whole, with spellbinding inner power and strength.” David Keenan, of The Wire magazine, described Davis as “a powerful vocalist with an almost operatic range and all the bruised sensuality of Jeanne Lee.” Davis’ music career has included a stint in the rock band Women in Love, in the 1990s.More recently, Davis has starred in operas and theater pieces internationally, including Robert Wilson’s The Temptation of St. Anthony, libretto and score by Bernice Johnson Reagon; Octavia E. Butler’s Parable Of The Sower, Milton by Katie Pearl and Lisa Damour; The Blue Planet, a multimedia theater piece, by Peter Greenaway and Saskia Boddeke; and Soho Rep’s Jomama Jones, Radiate, which was included in The New Yorker theatre critic Hilton All’s top ten list.Among the many works that have been written for Davis are Faust’s Box, written and directed by Italian contemporary music composer Andrea Liberovici; Oceanic Verses by Paola Prestini,
with libretto by Donna DiNovelli; and Elsewhere by Missy Mazzoli and Maya Beiser. BETH GOLISON Beth writes musicals and films that dig at the pits in our stomachs, and explore stories of women negotiating the relationships between imagination, delusion, and emotion. Her work seeks to feel epic yet intimate, intensely personal and incredibly human. She makes work for an audience that craves big, complicated feelings, is excited to reckon with themselves, and is delighted to sit in the scary and the unknown. Past projects include Kate diRienzi’s original adaptation, (a new) blood wedding (composer), and ( ! ) a folk tale-sometimes sung-psychologically inspiredghost story (writer, director, composer). Beth is currently deep into development for her new adaptation, jane eyre: an autobiography, with director + collaborator Kate diRienzi. After Playwrights Downtown’s production of jane eyre: an autobiography was postponed due to COVID-19, Beth, Kate, and the production team created a
visual album (now available on YouTube!) to share some of the music of the show. Recently, Beth presented a concert version of her folk musical, ( ! ) as part of PRIDEFEST! at The Tank. She is also in postproduction for her original short film, Let’s Go Together, directed by Kate diRienzi. bethgolison.co/ AVANTAE GONZALEZ: instagram.com/godivaishere
COMING SOON! Spring 2022 season
OUR SEASON OF ANNIVERSARIES Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, photo by Maria Baranova
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 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, 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, Otter AI, 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
Development
Richard H. Levy Co-Chair
Dave Archuletta Chief Development Officer
Helen Haje Vice Chair
Kyle Maude Producing Director
Ali Burke Individual Giving & Special Events Manager
Slobodan RandjeloviĆ Vice Chair
Hannah Emerson Producer
Erin Baskin Institutional Giving Manager
Veronica Falborn Producer
Candystore Development Assistant
Production
Hans Rasch Institutional Giving Assistant
Hillery Makatura Director of Production
Finance
Bjorn Amelan
Carson Gross Lighting Manager
Nupur Dey Director of Finance
Sarah Arison
Chanel Pinnock Production Coordinator
Manathus Dey Finance Associate
LaToya Ruby Frazier
Creative Director
Operations
Bjorn G. Amelan
Gregory English Operations Manager
Community Engagement & Education
Aneudy Pilier Paulino Custodial Coordinator
Randy Polumbo
Bianca Bailey Community Engagement & Education Manager
Adalid Nunez-Mendoza Custodial Assistant
Matthew Putman
Programming, Producing & Engagement
Human Resources Communications Tyler Ashley Director of Communications Hannah Seiden Communications Coordinator Liliana Dirks-Goodman Graphic Designer Pentagram Pro-Bono Branding Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist
ADP TotalSource
Alan Marks Treasurer Alanna Rutherford Secretary Bill T. Jones Artistic Director Ex-Officio Kim Cullen Chief Executive Officer Ex-Officio
Aimee Meredith Cox Charla Jones Colleen Keegan Darnell L. Moore Amy Newman Ellen M. Poss Jane Bovingdon Semel Ruby Shang Catharine R. Stimpson Diana Wege
Legal Services
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Lowenstein Sandler, PC Pro-Bono Counsel
Derek Brown
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company
Eleanor Friedman
Barrington Hinds, Dean Michael Husted, Jada Jenai, Shane Larson, s. Lumbert, Danielle Marshall, Nayaa Opong, Marie Paspe, Jacoby Pruitt, Huiwang Zhang
Faye Driscoll
Terence Dougherty
Advisory Council Margaret Doyle, Chair Alberta Arthurs Beverly D’Anne Lisa Frigand
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Jenette Kahn Susan Micari Alton Murray Lorraine Gallard Lois Greenfield
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