American Dance Festival: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company

Continuous Replay reflects Arnie Zane’s interest in photography and film. Originally choreographed by Zane in 1977 as a solo titled Hand Dance and later revised as a group work by Bill T. Jones in 1991, Continuous Replay is based on 45 precise gestures accumulated in space and time, complicated by discrete movement events. A newly commissioned score for string octet by Jerome Begin, a former ADF musician, combines motifs from Beethoven’s first and last string quartets with recorded sounds to create a surprising soundscape.

Story/ is the latest result of the company’s continued investigation of using John Cage’s Indeterminacy as a choreographic tool. Following the model of the acclaimed Story/Time, the work employs a random menu of movement accompanied by Franz Schubert’s String Quartet No. 14 (Death and the Maiden) to craft a conversation between the music and the movement.