Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Company: Deep Blue Sea

DANCE
MONDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4 – 9, 2021
7:30 PM MONDAY – THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY

Wade Thompson Drill Hall, Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan

$40-$125
https://www.armoryonpark.org/programs_events/detail/deep_blue_sea

Thanks to the Quarantine, this spectacular Bill T. Jones piece has been a long time coming — and now it's here! The Drill Hall should be made even more overwhelming than its usual overwhelming self by a visual environment (we used to call them "sets") by Elizabeth Diller. The electronic soundscape and score (by Nick Hallett, Hprizm the High Priest of the Antipop Consortium, Rena Anakwe, and Holland Andrews, no less) uses texts by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Herman Melville. Like one of its sources, Moby Dick, this piece is (a) too long, (b) too sprawling, (c) too capacious, (d) too uneven, and (e) absolutely stunning. It virtually demands to be experienced.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I cannot tell you how much I'm looking forward to sitting at the bar of Donahue's Steak House again.