Jones alumni are reuniting for dances at ICA

“Bill showed me how dance has the potential to be potently expressive, provocative, and evocative,’’ Latsky says, preparing to go over the sequence again. Along with five other prominent former members of the troupe - Lawrence Goldhuber, Arthur Aviles, Alexandra Beller, Sean Curran, and Andrea E. Woods - she will honor Jones’s legacy in “Summer Reunion’’ with work created for her own company.

Richard Colton, the director of Summer Stages Dance, came up with the idea for the extraordinary gathering. “We want to show audiences what happens in the creation of dance and how dance gets passed on,’’ he says. “That’s why we are looking at what it meant for these artists to work with Bill and Arnie, and how they mirror and modify that influence.’’ (In a post-performance dialogue, the choreographers will reflect on their experience with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Zane, who was Jones’s partner, died in 1988.)

Jones can’t be in Boston for the event, but he will certainly be there in spirit. All these men and women danced with his company at some point from its inception in 1983 into the early ’90s.

“I choose dancers by what my heart needed,’’ Jones says. “I wanted vivid people. I wanted to make them into changers who could lead. I didn’t want acolytes. I didn’t want to create a family; I’m too self-involved to be a dad. I wanted to build a community, with people who could transcend differences.’’

No one could mistake any of these choreographers for Jones imitators. Fiercely individualistic, each one has pursued a unique path since leaving his company.