MFA alumni and students selected as community performers in upcoming dance performance at Meany Hall
Members of the UW Bothell MFA community are excited to take part as community performers in Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company's What Problem?, forthcoming at Meany Hall March 24-26. Alum Emma Carson (MFA '16 ) and current first-year students Alexandria Simmons and Raelynne Woo will work with the company during spring break, culminating in three performances on the Seattle UW campus.
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.