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Choreographer Bill T. Jones Presents Analogy/Dora: Tramontane

WUNC | By Will Michaels,
Frank Stasio
Published July 10, 2015 at 12:28 PM EDT
Bill T. Jones (left) is an award-winning choreographer and just completed Analogy/Dora: Tramontane.
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Bill T. Jones (left) is an award-winning choreographer and just completed Analogy/Dora: Tramontane.

A conversation with choreographer Bill T. Jones and creative collaborator Bjorn Amelan

Award-winning choreographer Bill T. Jones' newest creation, Analogy/Dora: Tramontane, is based on interviews he conducted with his 95-year-old mother-in-law, Dora Amelan, a Jewish nurse who survived the Holocaust.

Jones' piece tells the story of Amelan's perseverance after her mother's death in Belgium and documents her work to help Jews at internment camps in France. 

Host Frank Stasio talks with Jones and his husband Bjorn Amelan, son of Dora Amelan and Jones' longtime creative collaborator, about the performance. 

Analogy/Dora: Tramontane is on stage tonight at 8 p.m. and tomorrow 7 p.m. at the Durham Performing Arts Center.

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Will Michaels
Will Michaels started his professional radio career at WUNC.
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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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