Bill T. Jones
12th Wexner Prize
"Taking risks for art is what Bill T. Jones does best."—Washington Post
The 12th Wexner Prize will be awarded to leading American choreographer Bill T. Jones in the fall of 2005 as part of the Wexner Center's reopening following our renovation. One of America's preeminent dancemakers, he is internationally acclaimed as among the foremost artists of our time. Known for his wit, elegance, and magnetic presence, he infuses sociopolitical topics of universal import with an acutely personal and poetic dance vocabulary.
The awarding of the Wexner Prize to Jones continues a long-term relationship with the Wexner Center, which includes five prior performances in Mershon Auditorium by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, a Wexner Center Residency Award, and a past term on the Wexner Center's International Arts Advisory Council. The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company was here first in 1991 to perform Last Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin (The Promised Land). The company received the Wexner Center Residency Award in the 1994-95 season to complete the landmark work Still/Here during an intensive monthlong creative residency and then to perform it. Since then, the company has returned with We Set Out Early...Visibility Was Poor in 1998; the evening-length work You Walk? in 2001; and The Phantom Project—20th Anniversary Season in 2004.
