Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company WORLD PREMIERE

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Friday, July 21 at 8PM
Saturday, July 22 at 8PM
The Center Theater

$45-55 Adult / $25 Student

MacArthur Genius Award and National Medal of Arts recipient Bill T. Jones returns with Associate Artistic Director Janet Wong and his company to present the World Premiere of Analogy/Ambros: The Emigrant, the final installment of the Analogy trilogy. As a co-commissioner of all three works, Dancers’ Workshop is honored that the company will premiere this evocative, meaningful work in Jackson Hole.

The narrative, based on Jones’ reaction to the central character in W.G. Sebald’s historical novel The Emigrants, follows Ambros Adelwarth, a German valet and manservant who serves as companion to a young, privileged and dissipated Jewish scion. Ambros’ story unfolds through his work experience in hotels, glamorous travels with his charge Cosmo through Europe and the Middle East on the eve of World War I, and life after Cosmo’s death. Ambros strives to suggest how a traumatic experience can go underground in the psyche of an individual and direct consciously and unconsciously the course of that individual’s life.

Composer Nick Hallett continues his exploration of music informed by the text as a soundscape that richly co-mingles various styles of music ranging from the haunting compositions of Schubert to popular music of the 1920’s and 30’s, the Rolling Stones, original R&B compositions, club music as well his own original creation. Hallett, pianist Emily Manzo and the ensemble will perform the music live.

Each work in Jones’ trilogy explores the human story through dance, theater and the spoken word, and while wildly different, all three ruminate on the nature of service, duty and the question of what is a life well-lived.