Bill T. Jones
NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 14: Choreographer Bill T. Jones attends the 2011 Rolex Mentor & Protege Arts Initiative at the David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center on November 14, 2011 in New York City.
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'Fela!' explores the turbulent life of Nigerian musician and activist
Fela Kuti has long been an African icon, but icon status elsewhere has eluded the Nigerian musician and political activist, who died in 1997. In music circles today, he's remembered for the Afrobeat sound he helped create in the 1970s, but even many of h from Detroit Free Press Read more »
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The music, the message of ‘Fela!’ lives on worldwide, in Detroit
Rikki Stein, Fela Kuti’s longtime manager and friend — and the “self-appointed guardian” of the late Nigerian legend’s legacy — was surprised, and skeptical, when he was received a proposal for a stage musical based on Kuti’s life and music. “I went, ‘Eh from The Oakland Press Read more »
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He's still here: Bill T. Jones
It's no surprise that choreographer Bill T. Jones chose to develop and perform "Story/Time" at Walker Art Center. He clearly has an affinity for Minneapolis, raving about the latest restaurants he and his manager/life partner Bjorn Amelan have discovered from Minneapolis Star Tribune Read more »
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New York: Whoopi Goldberg, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Phylicia Rashad Among Contributors to The Muses Go to School Book
Whoopi Goldberg, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Bill T. Jones, Rosie Perez, and Phylicia Rashad are among the contributors featured in the new book, The Muses Go to School: Conversations About the Necessity of Arts in Education, which goes on sale across the c from TheaterMania.com Read more »
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Bill T. Jones Takes a Stroll with John Cage
Artists inevitably reveal themselves in their work, but some do it more overtly than others. Over the course of his career, Bill T. Jones has told us a lot about himself—not only in his choices of subject matter and his wonderfully poetic memoir Last Nig from ArtsJournal Read more »
