Directors
Bob Hercules
Gordon Quinn
Producer
Joanna Rudnick
Executive Producers
Gordon Quinn
Susan Lacy
Executive Producer for ITVS
Sally Jo Fifer
Editor
David E. Simpson
Director of Photography
Keith Walker
Associate Producer
Rachel Pikelny
Camera
Gordon Quinn
Location Sound Recording
John Mathie
Daniel Brooks
Judy Karp
Additional Camera
Jim Morrissette
Mike Swanson
Dana Kupper
Additional Sound
Richard K. Pooler
Ben Clore
Zak Piper
David Schumacher
Assistant Editors
Nora Gully
Liz Kaar
Sharon Szalkowski
Technical Supervisor & Online Editor
Jim Morrissette
Audio Mix
Mark Bandy
Title & Graphics
Dizzy Giant, LLC
Kartemquin Films Executive Director
Justine Nagan
Production Support for Kartemquin Films
Yvonne Afable
Jacinta Banks
Jerry Blumenthal
Nora Gully
Tim Horsburgh
Liz Kaar
Jim Morrissette
Kelley Moseley
Elizabeth Neufeld
Zak Piper
Dinesh Sabu
Leslie Simmer
Production Manager for Media Process Group
Lisa Pooler
Bookkeeping
Yvonne Afable
Mia Capodilupo
Cate Ryan
Legal
Robert Labate
Jennifer Bjornberg
Peter Jaszi
Elisa Westapher
Transcription
Ethan Barnowsky
Holly Butz
Kate Donalek
John Kostka
Matt Lauterbach
Joe Riina-Ferrie
Rebecca Parrish
Robby Sexton
Emily Thomas
Jenny Wells
Adora Wilson-Eye
Funding for A GOOD MAN provided by
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Ravinia Fund for Artistic Initiatives
Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Leiden
Mrs. June Bild Pinsof and Mrs. Madeleine Pinsof Plonsker
National Endowment for the Arts
Sage Foundation
Funding for American Masters provided by
The National Endowment for the Arts
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Rosalind P. Walter
The Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation
Rolf and Elizabeth Rosenthal
Cheryl and Philip Milstein Family
Jack Rudin
The André and Elizabeth Kertész Foundation
Michael & Helen Schaffer Foundation
PBS
Produced with the cooperation of Ravinia Festival
Welz Kauffman, CEO & President
Fondly Do We Hope…Fervently Do We Pray
was commissioned and premiered by Ravinia
Special Thanks
Nick Pullia
Greg Walters
Pam Strobel
Russell Jenkins
Amy Schrage
Mike Robinson
Erik Soderstrom
George Darveris
George Sampson
Elizabeth Turner
Peter Kiernan
Karen Van Lengen
Desirèe Rogers
Norton Owen
Richard O’Connell
Claire Aguilar
Cheryl Hirasa
Mijoung Chang
N’Jeri Eaton
Jonathan Green
Rhodessa Jones
Dean Jeffrey
Thuy Lam
Clay Hapaz
Daryl Patterson
Victoria Michelotti
Ira Deutchman
Maria Finitzo
Julia Mayer
Stuart Flack
David Ravel
Isaac Hager
Matthew Savare, Esq.
David Saltiel, Esq.
New 42nd Street Studios
Bard College
University of Virginia
Interns/Production Assistants
Ethan Barnowsky
Jessy Bradish
Sarah Brafman
Holly Butz
Betsy Cass
Ranjani Chakraborty
Kate Donalek
Latoya Flowers
Michael Foley
Nick Fraccaro
Kevin Fullam
Lauren Goldenberg
Brett Hanover
Ian Robertson Kibbe
John Kostka
Matt Lauterbach
Lauren Makholm
Aaron McGrath
Eman Nader
Aubyn Niemi
Nick Nummerdor
Lesley Onstott
Rebecca Parrish
Allison Pichert
Joe Riina-Ferrie
Hannah Roodman
Dinesh Sabu
Robby Sexton
Ayesha Siddiqi
Philister Sidigu
Tristan Steinfeld
Emily Thomas
Lindsey Turner
Stanzi Vaubel
Aziza Ngozi Walker
Jenny Wells
Cassie Wierenga
Adora Wilson-Eye
Shuling Yong
Archival Photos
Arnie Zane
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
Paula Court
Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane, 1985 © The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, courtesy Art + Commerce. Used by permission.
Lois Greenfield Photography
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Archival Footage
American Dance Festival
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
Gary J. Kauffman, Aerial DP
NBC News Archives
VIEW Video
Archival Excerpts courtesy of Bel Air Media
Ionization
Chaconne
Archival Excerpts courtesy of New York Live Arts
Holzer Duet…Truisms
Another Evening: I Bow Down
Still/Here
Improvisation to Soldier’s Tale
We Set Out Early…Visibility Was Poor
Valley Cottage
Blauvelt Mountain
Blind Date
Monkey Run Road
Original Music for the Film & the Performance Composed & Arranged by
Jerome Begin, Christopher Antonio William Lancaster and George Lewis, Jr.
“Annie Laurie” (Scottish Traditional)
“Weevily Wheat” (American Folk Song)
“Since I Laid My Burden Down” (American Spiritual)
“The Debates”
“Song of Solomon”
“Storming of Richmond”
“Mary Anne”
“Wailing”
“Bill’s Bio”
“The War”
“I Am Faithful”
Music Performed by
Jerome Begin, Christopher Antonio William Lancaster (band leader), George Lewis, Jr., and Clarissa Sinceno
Additional Music
John’s Book of Alleged Dances: “Judah to Ocean” by John Adams
Performed by Kronos Quartet
Courtesy of Nonesuch Records
By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing
Published by Boosey & Hawkes, An Imagem Company
This film would not have been possible without the support of the staff and performers of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.
BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE DANCE COMPANY, a program of New York Live Arts
Executive Artistic Director
Bill T. Jones
Chief Executive Officer
Jean Davidson
Associate Artistic Director
Janet Wong
Producing Director
Bob Bursey
Dancers
Asli Bulbul
Antonio Brown
Peter Chamberlin
Talli Jackson
Shayla-Vie Jenkins
LaMichael Leonard, Jr.
I-Ling Liu
Paul Matteson
Erick Montes
Jennifer Nugent
Actor
Jamyl Dobson
Musicians
Jerome Begin
Christopher Antonio William Lancaster (band leader)
George Lewis, Jr.
Clarissa Sinceno
Production Stage Manager
Kyle Maude
Lighting Supervisor
Laura Bickford
Technical Director
Eric Launer
Audio Engineer
Sam Crawford
Fondly Do We Hope… Fervently Do We Pray
(2009)
Conceived and Directed by Bill T. Jones
Choreographed by Bill T. Jones with Janet Wong and members of the Company
Decor by Bjorn Amelan
Lighting Design by Robert Wierzel
Video Design by Janet Wong
Costume Design by Liz Prince
Sound Design by Lindsay Jones
Script by Bill T. Jones with Janet Wong
Additional text by LaMichael Leonard, Jr., Peter Chamberlin and Michelle Elliott
With excerpts from:
First Inaugural Address and Address to Temperance Society, Abraham Lincoln;
House Divided Speech, Abraham Lincoln, from the Lincoln-Douglass debates;
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry and Poem of the Body, Walt Whitman;
Colonization, Frederick Douglass, from The North Star;
Declaration of Independence;
Book of Revelation, King James Version
Poem of the Body read by Jordan Taylor
Associate Set Design by Solomon Weisbard
Video Programming by Dallas Nichols and Micah Stieglitz
Fondly Do We Hope… Fervently Do We Pray is made possible with lead support from the Company’s commissioning program, “Partners in Creation,” which includes the following donors: the Argosy Foundation, Abigail Congdon & Joe Azrack, Anne Delaney, Eleanor Friedman, Barbara & Eric Dobkin, Sandra & Gerald Eskin, Ruth & Stephen Hendel, Ellen Poss, Jane Bovingdon Semel & Terry Semel, and Carol H. Tolan.
Co-commissioning support provided by Lincoln Center Festival and Indiana University Auditorium.
Development support provided by The Performing Arts Center Purchase College.
Major support for Fondly Do We Hope… Fervently Do We Pray was provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and by the MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. Additional support provided by the Doris Duke Fund for Dance of the National Dance Project, a program administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, The Ford Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and MetLife Foundation.
Music commissioning support provided by the O’Donnell Green Music and Dance Foundation.
The World Premiere of Fondly Do We Hope… Fervently Do We Pray was presented at Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Illinois on September 17, 2009 in honor of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth.
Lowenstein Sandler PC, Legal Counsel for Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
Rehearsed at the New 42nd Street Studios.
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company is presented by arrangement through IMG Artists.
The Company wishes to thank the TDF Costume Collection for their assistance in this production.
New York Live Arts, Inc.
New York Live Arts, Inc.
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
219 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011
(212) 691-6500 / Fax: (212) 633-1974
http://newyorklivearts.org/#/BTJAZDC
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company is presented by arrangement through IMG Artists
Carnegie Hall Tower, 152 W. 57th Street – 5th Floor, New York, NY 10019
(212) 994-3500 / Fax: (212) 994-3550
Email: artistsny@imgartists.com
European representation of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company by:
Gillian Newson Associates
Office + 44 20 7622 8549 Mobile + 44 7768 166381
Email: gillian@gilliannewson.co.uk
Series Theme Music Composed by
Thomas Wagner
Series Title Designed by
B. T. Whitehill
Music Services
Rosie Fishel
Emily Lee
Series Production Manager
Jane Buckwalter
Business Affairs
Odell Nails
Series Publicist
WNET’s Communications Group
Production Supervisor
Junko Tsunashima
Supervising Producer
Julie Sacks
Series Producer
Prudence Glass
Executive Producer
Susan Lacy
This program is produced by A GOOD MAN FILM LLC, Kartemquin Films,
THIRTEEN’s American Masters for WNET, and Media Process Group,
which are solely responsible for its contents.
A GOOD MAN is a co-production of A GOOD MAN FILM LLC, Kartemquin Films, the Independent Television Service (ITVS), THIRTEEN’s American Masters for WNET, Ravinia Festival and Media Process Group.
© 2011 A Good Man Film LLC and WNET
