Bill T. Jones (Artistic Director/Co-Founder - Ann Arbor District Library

UMS University Musical Society
UMS Educational and Community Events
Through Tuesday, February 2, 2010
All UMS educational activities are free, open to the public, and take place in Ann Arbor unless
otherwise noted. For complete details and updates, please visit www.ums.org or contact the
UMS Education Department at 734.615.4077 or umsed@umich.edu.
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
The Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors
Series: Bill T. Jones
A Question of Strategy and Objectives in
Fondly Do We Hope, Fervently Do We Pray
Thursday, January 21, 5:10-7:00 prn
Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty Street
The Tony and MacArthur "Genius" Grant Award-
winning iconic American choreographer Bill T.
Jones is renowned for taking risks and making
bold statements in his distinguished dance pieces.
The fierce artistry we see on stage is rooted in
a research-intensive and highly collaborative
choreographic process. Bill T. Jones will share his
thoughts on how a work is made and the process
of understanding it.
Established with the generous support of
alumna Penny W. Stamps, the Distinguished
Visitors Program brings respected emerging and
established artists/designers from a broad spectrum
of media to the school to conduct a public lecture
and engage with students, faculty, and the larger
university and Ann Arbor communities.
A collaboration with the U-M Penny W. Stamps
Distinguished Lecture Series.
Arts of Citizenship Breakfast: Lincoln in
American Culture's Collective Memory
Friday, January 22, 9:00-10:30 am
U-M Museum of Art Commons, 525 S. State Street
In conjunction with the UMS presentation of
Fondly Do We Hope... Fervently Do We Pray, Arts of
Citizenship and UMS host a participatory discussion
on the role of the arts, culture, and politics in the
shaping of public memory of President Lincoln, the
Civil War, and the end of slavery, featuring faculty
members from the U-M Center for African
and African American Studies, the Program in
American Culture, the Department of History, and
the Department of Dance. Participating faculty
will include Kristin Mass, Assistant Professor of
American Culture and author of Carried to the
Wall: American Memory and The Vietnam Veterans
Memorial( 1998); Martha Jones, Associate Professor
of History and African-American Studies and
author of All Bound Up Together: The Woman
Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-
1900 (2007); Julie Ellison, Professor, Department of
English; and Robin Wilson, Associate Professor of
Dance, choreographer, and dance historian.
A collaboration with the U-M Ginsburg Center,
Arts of Citizenship, and UMMA.
Post-Performance Q&A
Friday, January 22, post-performance
Power Center
Following Friday's performance, members of the
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company will take
audience members' questions from the stage
about Fondly Do We Hope. ..Fervently Do We Pray.
Event ticket to Friday evening's performance is
required to attend.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Who is Bela Bartok?
Monday, January 25, 7:00-8:30 pm
Ann Arbor District Library Downtown Branch,
Multipurpose Room
This incarnation of the Who is...? Series will explore
Bartok's unique life story, including his work as an
ethnographer, his transition to American life, and
the formative importance of Bluebeard's Castle.
Musicologists Mark Clague and Michael Mauskapf
will discuss how, as one of the foremost composers
of the 20th century, Bartok was a complex figure
whose legacy is only now beginning to be
understood fully.
A collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library
and the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance.