Dance Theater Merges With Bill T. Jones Troupe
(12-2-10) In an unusual move that may alter the contemporary dance landscape in New York, the boards of Dance Theater Workshop and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company voted unanimously Wednesday to merge their organizations, forming a combination producing and presenting entity to be called New York Live Arts.
The new nonprofit group, which will be housed in Dance Theater Workshop’s building on West 19th Street in Chelsea, will be led by three people: Mr. Jones, who will carry the title of executive artistic director; Carla Peterson, currently Dance Theater Workshop’s artistic director, who will keep that role; and Jean Davidson, the executive director of Mr. Jones’s company, who will become the chief executive and executive director. Dance Theater Workshop’s executive director, Andrea Sholler, will depart.