Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-man in The Waters

BILL T. JONES (Artistic Director/Co-Founder/Choreographer: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company; Artistic Director: New York Live Arts) was the Associate Artist of the 2020 Holland Festival and recipient of the 2014 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award; the 2013 National Medal of Arts; the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors; a 2010 Tony Award for Best Choreography of the critically acclaimed Fela!; a 2007 Tony Award, 2007 Obie Award, and 2006 Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Callaway Award for his choreography for Spring Awakening; the 2010 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award; 2007 USA Eileen Harris Norton Fellowship; 2006 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreography for The Seven; 2005 Wexner Prize; the 2005 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement; 2005 Harlem Renaissance Award; 2003 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize; and a 1994 MacArthur “Genius” Award. In 2010, 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 Jones “An Irreplaceable Dance Treasure.” Bill has been nominated for the 2022 Tony Awards for his work on Paradise Square. Jones choreographed and performed worldwide with his late partner, Arnie Zane, before forming the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in 1982. He has created more than 140 works for his company. Jones is Artistic Director of New York Live Arts, an organization that strives to create a robust framework in support of the nation’s dance and movement-based artists through new approaches to producing, presenting, and educating.

Rosalynde LeBlanc is a dancer, choreographer, Peabody Award winning producer, and educator. She has been actively performing for 30 years, beginning her performance career with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project. Recent leading roles for stage and screen include light and desire by Colleen Thomas, A Torch into Fog by Janessa Clark, Exploration of Feminine Range by Charissa Kroeger, and the KIARI album-release promo for the rapper Offset. She recently choreographed the multimedia, evening-length work Womanland as part of L.A. Dance Project’s LAUNCH L.A. 2025. Roz also produced and co-directed the Peabody award winning documentary Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters She is an honorary inductee in the Jesuit honor society, Alpha Sigma Nu and a recipient of the 2025 Exemplary Women in Dance in L.A. award. Roz is a professor at Loyola Marymount University and chaired the dance program from 2019-2025. She holds dance degrees from SUNY Purchase (BFA) and Hollins University (MFA). She is represented by Bloc L.A.