Memory Piece is a series of solo performances reflecting on influential moments and figures throughout the illustrious career of Bill T. Jones. Jones describes himself as someone who went in a different direction than Alvin Ailey. This iteration, Memory Piece: Mr. Ailey, Alvin… the un-Ailey?, will welcome audiences into a rare and intimate space built from words, movement, and music.  

The 7 pm performance will be followed by a conversation between Jones, artist Glenn Ligon, and Adrienne Edwards, Engell Speyer Family Senior Curator and Associate Director of Curatorial Programs and Curator of Edges of Ailey at the Whitney Museum of American Art.