Curated and Co-Produced by Fabian Bernal
Press Release
New York
Live Arts presents an outdoor site-specific performance Another Evening: Bellport by
the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company as part of the Dance for Sunset series at The Post-Morrow Foundation in Brookhaven, Long Island,
August 26 at 6pm. This special, one-time engagement will feature the Company
joined by live music in and around the Southern Nearshore Trap/Pot Waters,
including its lush surrounding of marshes, wooded areas, and nature walkways.
Curated and co-produced by artist, curator, and designer Fabian Bernal, the performance is free and
open to the public. Sponsored by Warner Bros. Discovery and Bloomingdale’s. The
work is not open for review.
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, Photo by Maria Baranova
WHO: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane CompanyWHAT: Another Evening: Bellport
- An outdoor site-specific performance part of Dance for
Sunset - Free and open to the public
WHEN: Saturday,
August 26th at 6pm
WHERE: The Post-Morrow
Foundation, 16 Bay Road, Brookhaven, Long Island
WHEN: Saturday, August 26th at 6pm
WHERE: The Post-Morrow Foundation, 16 Bay Road, Brookhaven, Long Island
ABOUT
BILL T. JONES/ARNIE
ZANE COMPANY
Over the past 40 years, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company has shaped the
evolution of contemporary dance through the creation and performance of over
140 works. Founded as a multicultural dance company in 1982, the company was
born of an 11-year artistic collaboration between Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane.
Today, the company is recognized as one of the most innovative and powerful
forces in the modern dance world. The company has performed its ever-enlarging
repertoire worldwide in over 200 cities in 40 countries on every major
continent. In 2011, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company merged with Dance
Theater Workshop to form New York Live Arts of which Bill T. Jones is the
Artistic Director and Janet Wong is the Associate Artistic Director.
The repertory of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company is widely varied in its
subject matter, visual imagery, and stylistic approach to movement, voice, and
stagecraft and includes musically driven works as well as works using a variety
of texts. Some of its most celebrated creations are evening-length works
including Last Supper
at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land (1990, Next Wave
Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music); Still/Here (1994, Biennale de la Danse
in Lyon, France); We
Set Out Early… Visibility Was Poor (1996, Hancher Auditorium,
Iowa City, IA); You
Walk? (2000, European Capital of Culture 2000,Bologna,
Italy); Blind Date (2006,
Peak Performances at Montclair State University); Chapel/Chapter (2006,
Harlem Stage Gatehouse); Fondly
Do We Hope… Fervently Do We Pray (2009, Ravinia Festival,
Highland Park, IL); Another
Evening: Venice/Arsenale(2010, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice,
Italy); Story/Time (2012,
Peak Performances); A
Rite (2013, Carolina Performing Arts at the University of
North Carolina-Chapel Hill); Deep
Blue Sea (2021, Park Avenue Armory).
FABIAN BERNAL
Fabian has been an artist and curator of public installations and performance
art for more than a decade. In 2008, as the founder of Meat Market Gallery, Fabian
made his debut at Performance Week D.C. with seventeen artists engaging in
site-specific performances and art installations. In 2013, in partnership with
Samuel Draxler, he conceived the New York Performance Artists Collective
(NYPAC), an organization dedicated to advancing the production, accessibility,
and scholarship of performance and intermedia art. In 2022, he launched “Dance
for Sunset” to bring performance art to Long Island. Today his passion for
curation harnesses the performance arts as a catalyst for building community.
He is also the owner of Good Morning Bellport, a floral and arts company
dedicated to building community.
NEW YORK LIVE ARTS
New York Live Arts is an internationally recognized destination for innovative
performance and humanities programming, offering audiences access to art and
ideas by creatives notable for their conceptual rigor, formal experimentation, and active engagement with the sociopolitical and cultural currents of our
times. Led by world-renowned artist Bill
T. Jones, New York Live Arts supports artists at all stages of
their careers through residencies, commissions, and artist services. It also
serves as the home base for the Bill
T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, which has been creating
groundbreaking work for over forty years. We at New York Live Arts acknowledge
and offer deep gratitude to Lenapehoking, where our theater sits-the land, and
waters of the Lenape homeland.
THE POST-MORROW
FOUNDATION was born out of Thomas and Elisabeth Morrow's
love of the rural countryside. They envisioned the creation of woodlands,
meadows, and streams as wildlife sanctuaries for all to enjoy. It was also
important to them to stem the tide of suburban encroachment in the Brookhaven
area. Since its establishment in 1969 the trustees of the foundation, along
with community support, have endeavored to fulfill their dreams. http://www.postmorrow.org/
NEW YORK LIVE ARTS
FUNDING
Support for New York Live Arts is provided by the Arnhold Foundation, Bloomberg
Philanthropies, Ed Bradley Family Foundation, The Brant Foundation, Inc.,
Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Dance/NYC, Ford Foundation,
Howard Gilman Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance,
Marta Heflin Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Alex Katz
Foundation, Lambent Foundation, Alice Lawrence Foundation, Samuel M. Levy
Family Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Mellon
Foundation, Muriel Pollia Foundation, National Performance Network, New England
Foundation for the Arts, NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund in the New
York Community Trust, The Poss Family Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund,
Jerome Robbins Foundation, The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, San
Francisco Foundation, The Semel Charitable Foundation, Scherman Foundation, The
Shubert Foundation, and Tides Foundation.
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