Bill T. Jones and Henry Louis Gates Jr. On Building Artistic Legacies

Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Bill T. Jones first met in 1994, when Gates, then early in his career as a professor at Harvard, was writing a profile on the dancer and choreographer, who was at the height of his career. Nearly 30 years later, the two have remained friends and continue to set—and then exceed—the pace within artistic and intellectual spaces. Jones and his partner in life and dance, Arnie Zane, began performing together in the early 1970s. In 1982, they founded the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, assembling a nontraditional group of dancers of all ethnicities, sizes, and… Read Full Article