Bill T. Jones
Finding Fela
Finding Fela tells the story of Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s life, his music, his social and political importance. He created a new musical movement, Afrobeat, using that forum to express his revolutionary political opinions against the dictatorial Nigerian government of the 1970s and 1980s. His influence helped bring a change towards democracy in Nigeria and promoted Pan Africanist politics to the world. The power and potency of Fela’s message is completely current today and is expressed in the political movements of oppressed people, embracing Fela’s music and message in their struggle for freedom.
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En dokumentar som forteller om den nigerianske sangeren Fela Anikulapo Kuti, om hans musikk og hans sosiale og politiske betydning. Han var pioneren som skapte en ny musikkbevegelse - afrobeat - som han brukte for å uttrykke sine revolusjonære politiske meninger mot diktaturet i Nigeria på 1970- og 1980-tallet. Hans innflytelse hjalp til å skape en endring mot demokrati i hjemlandet.
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Story/Time
Director and choreographer Bill T. Jones – whose major honors include a MacArthur “Genius” Award, the Kennedy Center Honors and two Tony Awards for Best Choreography – returns to the stage at the center of a new work for his renowned company. Inspired by legendary artist and composer John Cage’s Indeterminacy, a performance of seventy one-minute stories interrupted by a chance musical score, Jones creates a collage of dance, music, and seventy of his own short stories, arranged anew for each performance by chance procedure. In Story/Time, Jones fuses the age-old art of storytelling with a vibrant landscape of contemporary movement and music. Similar to a busy streetscape or a crowded room, the experience challenges audience members to find meaning and connection in the sweep of randomized, disparate elements. Jones’ short stories are drawn from his own life and tales handed down through the generations of his family. In layering a traditional form against the avant-garde compositional concerns of the mid-century modernists, the tension between high and low art is called in to question. In his first project with the Company, composer, musician, and intermedia artist Ted Coffey, Ph.D. composes and performs a new acoustic and electronic score that draws upon chance procedure and interactive technologies. Long-time Company collaborators Robert Wierzel (lighting design), Bjorn Amelan (décor), and Liz Prince(costume design) create the stage environment. World Premiere in January 2012 at Peak Performances @ Montclair State (NJ). Co-commissioned by Peak Performances @ Montclair State (NJ) and the Walker Art Center. Developed in residence at Arizona State University Gammage Auditorium, Bard College, Alexander Kasser Theater at Montclair State University, University of Virginia, and the Walker Art Center.
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