Curriculum IV: Spin and Spin! Turn! Turn! Turn!
About this Event
Free | September 10, 12, 13 at 7:30pm
Curriculum IV: Spin and Spin! Turn! Turn! Turn! responds to a performance commissioned by LMCC (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council) that was originally scheduled to premiere on September 12, 2001 on the plaza of the Twin Towers.
This new work, with original music from composer Samora Pinderhughes, commemorates the 25th anniversary of that suspended moment—and all that has unfolded since.
Jones, in collaboration with Pinderhughes, forges an intergenerational bridge as both artists search within themselves and their respective creative interests to meditate on loss and their distinct responses to the 25-year aftermath of 9/11 and other cataclysms spiralling into our era of loss of freedom, speech, movement, and justice.
Featuring performers from Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and live musicians, Spin and Spin! Turn! Turn! Turn! brings dance back to Lower Manhattan shaped by resilience and the passage of time.
Bill T. Jones’s Curriculum series originated in reference to a quote from Cameroonian historian and political theorist Achille Mbembe in a 2018 interview, in which he proposed an archive-expanding “planetary curriculum.” Taking inspiration from this idea, Jones has created three previous Curriculum works colliding formal exploration with urgent contemporary questions. The multi-work pursuit takes a protean approach to asking, as Jones describes, “What does a contemporary progressive person have to know to live and work efficiently and morally in the world today?”
Commissioned by LMCC’s 2026 River To River Festival and presented in partnership with New York Live Arts and Battery Park City Authority.
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