Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company – Fondly Do We Hope...Fervently Do We Pray January 15, 2010

Tony Award-winning choreographer Bill T. Jones' ambitious new dance-theater work challenges and celebrates the legacy of Abraham Lincoln. Fondly Do We Hope...Fervently Do We Pray is taken from Lincoln's second inaugural address and the performance will investigate a handful of key moments from his remarkable life, allowing song and memory to transport the audience to an emotional and intellectual place beyond the boundaries of space and time.

By envisioning an America that might have been had Lincoln completed the Reconstruction, Jones will expose the great distance between what is and what could have been.

This presentation of Fondly Do We Hope...Fervently Do We Pray is made possible by the MetLife Community Connections Fund of the National Dance Project, a program administered by the New England Foundfation for the Arts. Major support for the National Dance Project is also provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with additional support from the Ford Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

In Cooperation with the Ackland Art Museum presenting Jacob Lawrence and The Legend of John Brown, Jan. 16 - May 9, 2010.

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