Co-Founder & Artistic Director
Bill T. Jones
Associate Artistic Director
Janet Wong
The Company
Barrington Hinds, Jada Jenai, Shane Larson, s. lumbert, Danielle Marshall, Marie Lloyd Paspe, Jacoby Pruitt, Nayaa Opong, Philip Strom, and Huiwang Zhang
Conceived and Directed by
Bill T. Jones
Choreography by
Bill T. Jones with Janet Wong and the Company
Lighting Design by
Robert Wierzel*
Video Design by
Janet Wong
Sound Design by
David van Tieghem*
Installation and Costume Design by
Liz Prince
Additional Soundscape Work by
Shane Larson
Scenic Installation by
Bill T Jones, Liz Prince, and Robert Wierzel
*Denotes Member of the United Scenic Arts Union (USA)
Text adapted from:
Louis Chude-Sokei The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics
Mark O’Connell ‘Uncanny Planet’ New York Review of Books
William Shakespeare The Tempest
The Bible Genesis 1:28-31
Musical excerpts from:
Jonathan King: Everyone’s Gone to the Moon
Bessie Jones: Oh Death
Morton Feldman: Only
Nina Simone: Human Touch
Daniel Decatur Emmett: Dixie
Daniel Bernard Roumain: Estella, J & M
Ivory Coast: Chant D'homme Accompagné D'Une Cloche (Funeral Chant)
Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers: Beulah Land
Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers: Buzzard Lope
Trevor Morris: Mano e Mano
Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold: Prelude
Programming & Production Staff
Kyle Maude, Producing Director
Hannah Emerson Jernigan, Producer
Serena Wong, Lighting Supervisor
Megan Dechaine, Production Stage Manager
Shay Watson, Sound Supervisor
Alexander Roberts, Technical Director
James Bennett, Audio/Video Manager
Curriculum II is commissioned and produced by New York Live Arts with commissioning support from PEAK Performances at Montclair State University in Montclair, NJ, and the American Dance Festival. Curriculum II premiered with PEAK Performances in June 2022. Created with support from the Made in Wickenburg Residency Program at the Del E. Webb Center for the Performing Arts in Wickenburg, Arizona with funding from the R.H. Johnson Foundation and The Welk Foundation.
The creation of new work by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company is made possible in part by the company’s Partners in Creation: Anonymous (2), Anne Delaney, Zoe Eskin, Eleanor Friedman, Ruth & Stephen Hendel, Suzanne Karpas, Ellen Poss, Jane Bovingdon Semel, in memory of Linda G. Shapiro, Slobodan Randjelović & Jon Stryker.
Support for New York Live Arts is provided by the Arnhold Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, 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, Alex Katz Foundation, Lambent Foundation, Alice Lawrence Foundation, Mellon Foundation, National Performance Network, New England Foundation for the Arts, One World Fund, The Poss Family Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, San Francisco Foundation, The Semel Charitable Foundation, Scherman Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Tides Foundation.
Public support for New York Live Arts is from Humanities New York, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with City Council Representative Erik Bottcher, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.