Jacob Jonas The Company will close out its triumphant 2018–2019 season as the Wallis Company-in-Residence with two performances this weekend.
Daniel Ezralow will join company founder Jacob Jonas to dance in the world premiere of their new work viceversa. The evenings will end with a second world premiere: THERE’S BEEN A STUDY, choreographed by Jonas to an original score by vocalist and pianist Nicole Miglis—lead singer of Hundred Waters—which she will perform live.
Also on the bill: TO THE DOLLAR, Jonas‘ dance interpretation of Senator Elizabeth Warren‘s 2016 speech on income inequality:
“Today is Equal Pay Day. By the sound of it, one would think it is some sort of historic holiday commemorating the anniversary of a landmark day that our country guaranteed equal pay for women, but that is not what it is about—not even close. Because in the year 2016, at a time when we have self-driving cars and computers that fit on our wrists, women still make only 79 cents for every $1 a man makes, and we are still standing in the U.S. Congress debating whether a woman should get fired for asking what the guy down the hall makes for doing exactly the same job…
“Equal Pay Day isn’t a national day of celebration. It is a national day of embarrassment.”
Friday and Saturday, May 10 and 11, at 7:30 pm.
Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
9390 Santa Monica Boulevard, Beverly Hills.
Jacob Jonas The Company in performance at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, May 10, 2019, from top: Daniel Ezralow and Jacob Jonas, viceversa, Ezralow (left) and Jonas; Jacob Jonas, Crash, Jill Wilson and Nicolas Walton; Crash (from left), Lorrin Brubaker, Emma Rosenzweig-Bock, Danielle Coleman, Joy Isabella Brown, Wilson, Walton, and Mike Tyus; Jacob Jonas, To the Dollar, Brown (left) and Walton; To the Dollar, Rosenzweig-Bock (left) and Brubaker; Jacob Jonas, There’s Been a Study, Rosenzweig-Bock and Tyus; viceversa, Ezralow (left) and Jonas. Photographs by Matthew Brush.