Bill T. Jones is the artistic director/co-founder of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and founding artistic director of New York Live Arts. He is the recipient of the 2014 Doris Duke Award; the 2013 Presidential Medal of the Arts, the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors; Tony Awards for Best Choreography for FELA! and Spring Awakening; Obie Award and Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Callaway Award for his choreography for Spring Awakening; the 2010 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award; the 2007 USA Eileen Harris Norton Fellowship; the 2006 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreography for The Seven; the 2005 Wexner Prize; the 2005 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement; the 2005 Harlem Renaissance Award; the 2003 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize; and the 1994 MacArthur “Genius” Award. In 2010, Bill T. Jones was recognized as Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government, and in 2000, the Dance Heritage Coalition named Mr. Jones “An Irreplaceable Dance Treasure."
Bill T. Jones, Paradise Square
Bill T. Jones, Paradise Square
Bill T. Jones, Paradise Square
Bill T. Jones, Fela!
Bill T. Jones , Fela!
Bill T. Jones, Fela!
Bill T. Jones, Fela!
Bill T. Jones, Fela!
Bill T. Jones, Fela!
Bill T. Jones, Fela!
Bill T. Jones, Spring Awakening
Bill T. Jones, Spring Awakening
Bill T. Jones, Spring Awakening
Bill T. Jones, Spring Awakening
Bill T. Jones, Spring Awakening
Bill T. Jones, The Seven
Bill T. Jones has written 1 shows including Fela! (Bookwriter).
Bill T. Jones has been nominated for several prestigious awards throughout his career. Some of his nominations include Outstanding Choreography at the Drama Desk Awards and Outer Critics Circle Awards for "Paradise Square," Best Choreography at the Tony Awards for "Paradise Square," "Fela!," and "Spring Awakening," Best Theatre Choreographer at the Olivier Awards for "Fela!," Best Book of a Musical at the Tony Awards for "Fela!," Best Direction of a Musical at the Tony Awards for "Fela!," Outstanding Choreographer at The Lortels for "Fela!," "Spring Awakening," and "The Seven," Best Choreography at the BroadwayWorld Awards for "Spring Awakening," and Music for choreography at the Obie Awards for "Spring Awakening."
Bill T. Jones has won several awards for his choreography work, including Outstanding Choreography from the Outer Critics Circle Awards for Fela!, Best Choreography from the Tony Awards for Fela!, Outstanding Choreographer from The Lortels for Fela!, Best Choreography from the BroadwayWorld Awards for Spring Awakening, Music for Choreography from the Obie Awards for Spring Awakening, another Best Choreography award from the Tony Awards for Spring Awakening, and Outstanding Choreographer from The Lortels for The Seven.
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