World-renowned post-modern dance takes center stage today at the Wexner Center for the Arts.

New York’s prized Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company is celebrating its 20th anniversary season with a national tour and stops to perform three works at the Mershon Auditorium.

The program begins with “Blauvelt Mountain,” a work which combines music, text, video and autobiographical material with dance. The piece was collaboratively choreographed by Jones and Zane in 1980 and was first performed at the Dance Theater Workshop in New York City. This Jones-Zane collaboration brought the duo to the forefront in the dance world.

The piece reflects the beauty and athleticism found in much of Jones’ choreography.

Ayo Janeen Jackson has danced with Jones’ company since 1999 and has performed the piece previously with various casts.

“This time Malcolm Low and Wen-Chung Lin will be performing,” Jackson said. “Thank God because it’s a hard piece.”

The second work being performed is “Another Another History of Collage,” which is a redux of a previous Jones-Zane piece entitled “Another History of Collage,” created in 1988. The original version was the last contribution Zane made to the company prior to his death in 1988.

Jones assembled this collage of dance style from the various dance training and styles possessed by his company.

“People in the company have ballet training, jazz training, modern dance training and acrobatics,” said Catherine Cabeen, a company member for 16 years. “It’s a collage, but we’re definitely unified by Bill’s personal style.”

The show concludes with a full company performance of “Mercy 10 X 8 on a Circle.” Set to Glenn Gould performing Beethoven’s “32 Variation on an Original Theme in C Minor,” this new work uses pairings of different body types and sizes of dancers similar to “Blauvelt Mountain.”

The dance company is enjoying a hectic schedule, performing one to five nights at each location before traveling to the next.

“It’s been straining, but that’s the good news,” Cabeen said. “American dance companies struggle,so it’s really wonderful that we work as much as we do.”

Prior to the dance performance, Jones will discuss his 20-year career in a free lecture at the Wexner Center’s Film/Video Theater. Topics of discussion include the processes and ideas which inspire Jones and the company’s dancers, as well as a question and answer session toward the end of the lecture. “Bill T. Jones in Conversation” begins at 7 p.m.

The actual dance performance is recommended for mature audiences and begins at 8 p.m.

Tickets are available at Wexner’s ticket office/information desk and all Ticketmaster outlets. Additional information is available by visiting the Wexner Center Web site at www.wexarts.org.