Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
Oct. 18-19, Zellerbach Hall

WHATEVER YOU MAY think about Bill T. Jones's choreography, you have to be in awe of his willingness to continuously reinvent himself. In the past 10 years, he has gone from creating huge theater works, in which he tried to engage the political through the personal, to intimate, quasi-confessional full-evening solo pieces such as The Breathing Show. Most recently he has become intrigued by working out close relationships between music and movement. While not exactly an original idea in dance, it will be interesting to see Jones's take on it – and the three composers he chose, all from the western European canon, certainly offer enough challenges. Friday's program includes Verbum, based on Beethoven's sublime String Quartet No. 135; World II (18 Movements to Kurtág), set to selections from two of modernist Györgi Kurtág's string quartets; and Black Suzanne, set to a Shostakovich octet. All three are Bay Area premieres. Saturday, Black Suzanne is replaced by the company's signature piece, D-Man in the Waters, choreographed for and dedicated to the memory of Demian Acquavella. All scores will be played live by the Orion String Quartet and other members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. 8 p.m., Zellerbach Hall, Bancroft at Telegraph, UC Berkeley, Berk. $24-$46. (510) 642-9988, www.calperfs.berkeley.edu. (Rita Felciano)