On November 20, 22 and 24, Bill T. Jones will present Walking the Line, a world premiere, at the Louvre in Paris. Commissioned by the Louvre as part of its newly created Frontières program, which this year is curated by the German painter Anselm Kiefer, Jones will be accompanied by the Tibetan singer Yungchen Lhamo and the French percussionist Florent Jodelet.
Walking the Line, a solo, was inspired by Jones’s desire as an African-American modern dance choreographer to be free to create without restraint, to take risks and criss-cross boundaries at will, and his desire to be accepted into the canon of Western art. The dance will take place in one of the most well-known, spectacular spaces in the Louvre: the long corridor between Michelangelo’s The Slaves and la Victoire de Samothrace (Winged Victory). The audience will be seated on the steps.
On November 23, Jones will speak in a public discussion with former Le Monde dance critic Dominique Frétard, at the Auditorium du Louvre.