WHAT PROBLEM?
Categories: Arts & Entertainment • Kid Friendly
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Saturday, Apr 2, 2022 7pm - 8:30pm
Location
ASU Gammage
1200 S Forest Ave
Details
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company’s latest work WHAT PROBLEM? provokes the tension between belonging to a community and feelings of isolation that many feel during these divisive political times. Adapted for proscenium stages from the massive work, Deep Blue Sea (2020), Jones conceived of this highly personal work in pursuit of the elusive “we” including a cast of local community members, a deconstructed text from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech and Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Jones and the company develop individual content with local community members in each of the touring locations making each performance specific to its host city.
The work examines the condition of loneliness in the individual experienced alone and within a community. It explores the need for community and the notion of collective redemption.
