Yale Dance Theater 2019: D-Man in the Waters

Yale Dance Theater is thrilled to announce our spring 2019 project undertaken in coordination with

the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, featuring a re-staging of Jones’s seminal work, D-Man in the

Waters (1989), set to Felix Mendelssohn’s Octet in E Flat Major.
 

Bill T Jones is an artistic powerhouse known for his provocative, political, heart-filled dances that

deploy formal postmodern experimentation to speak to urgent sociopolitical issues of our time.

Jones received an honorary degree from Yale in 2009 and will return again in February 2019 to

receive the James Robert Brudner Memorial Prize from LGBT Studies at Yale.
 

Marking resilience in the face of loss, D-Man in the Waters is one of the most significant works of art

to come out of the era of AIDS. Against this historical backdrop, the choreography is thrillingly

alive—offering a portrait of a community’s ability to survive. D-Man significantly raises the stakes of

the question: Why do we dance? Current and former members of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane

Company will lead the reconstruction at Yale.