Alvin Ailey was a visionary artist who found salvation through dance. Told in his own words and through the creation of a dance inspired by his life, this immersive portrait follows a man who, when confronted by a world that refused to embrace him, determined to build one that would.
A rural American town suffering economically from factory closures finds an unconventional route to recovery with the help of MASS MoCA.
Bill Moyers and filmmaker David Grubin give viewers a rare glimpse into dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones’s highly acclaimed dance Still/Here. At workshops around the country, people facing life-threatening illnesses are asked to remember the highs and lows of their lives, and even imagine their own deaths. They then transform their feelings into expressive movement, which Jones incorporates into the dance performed later in the program. For this documentary, Jones demonstrates the movements of his own life story: his first encounter with white people, confusion over his sexuality, his partner Arnie Zane’s untimely death from AIDS, and Jones’s own HIV-positive status.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Bill T. Jones (born February 15, 1952) is an American artistic director, choreographer and dancer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bill T. Jones licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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