Story/Time: The Life of an Idea (The Toni Morrison Lecture Series)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.41 (672 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691162700 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 104 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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It suspends time, allowing Jones' story and space to unfold."--Jennifer Day, Chicago Tribune"As a written document, this book is clearly organized, quickly read, and dense with musings that can be dissected by dancers and non-dancers alike. As a piece of art, it is both process and product in one. The experiment in creation, design and performance certainly poses many questions that, identifying as a dance artist, I found myself musing in the context of own work. The need is for a tradition, an intellectual home. It is the record of a needy, angry and confused man. This book, then, provides an ideal counterpoint. Jones, is an odd amalgam of texts. The engagement and participation of audience member might be enhanced if the bo
. Bill T. In 2014, President Barack Obama awarded Jones the National Medal of Arts, the country's highest honor for achievement in the arts. He is the recipient of many awards and honors, including Tony Awards for FELA! and Spring Awakening, a Kennedy Center Honor, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He is the artistic director, cofounder, and choreographer of the Bill T. Jone
In particular, Jones examines his ambivalent attraction to avant-garde modernism, which he finds liberating but also limiting in its disregard for audience response. As he strives to make his work more personal and broadly engaging, especially to an elusive African American audience, Jones--who is still drawn to the avant-garde--wrestles with questions of how an artist can remain true to himself while still caring about the popular reception of his work. Presenting personally revealing stories, richly illustrated with striking color photographs of the work's original stage production, and featuring a beautiful, large-format design, the book is a work of art in itself.Like the dance work, Story/Time the book is filled with telling vignettes--about Jones's childhood as part of a large,
New Life said A fascinating journey into the mind of an extraordinary talent. A fascinating journey into the mind of an extraordinary talent.. jjmmkk said the just so slightly distorted life of an idea. In explaining the origins of Story/Time Mr. Jones has much to say about the inspiration of John Cage and cites Cage's stories in Indeterminacy for the birth of his dance. While that may certainly be true, it is equally certainly a half truth. Mr. Jones writes,"Why not focus instead on Merce Cunningham, one of the choreographers I have learned the most from - a great master whose assimilation of Cage's ideas changed the landscape I was to walk into? Perhaps Merce is too close. His form, though much different from mine, is at once too familiar and too particular for my purposes in this book.I choose Cage because he as an icon he i