NY Community Trust, Mellon, Ford Among Supports of New York Live Arts 2017-2018 Season
New York Live Arts, under the artistic leadership of MacArthur Genius Award and National Medal of Arts awardee Artistic Director Bill T. Jones and Associate Artistic Director Janet Wong, announced the organization's 2017-2018 season today.
Framing the season by the urgency of Creating in Confusing Times, Artistic Director Bill T. Jones explains his vision behind the season's programs. "New York Live Arts is a cultural organization in the intersection between art and activism. We create a platform, one founded in empathy, with the goal of providing opportunities for artistic expression and a safe place for the exchange of ideas. We hope that by encouraging lively and sometimes difficult conversations and by supporting artists and their varied perspectives and practice, a nuanced and multi-dimensional view of our world will emerge," states Jones.
New York Live Arts will open its season with Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker's A Love Supreme, a quest for an order of happiness and an homage to John Coltrane's musical creed. The season continues with a roster of current and incoming Live Feed commissioned artists - Bebe Miller, Jack Ferver, Joanna Kotze, Kaneza Schaal, Kimberly Bartosik and Rashaad Newsome, to name a few. The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company returns to BAM's Next Wave with the acclaimed A Letter to My Nephew. . .