Creating a Dance with Bill T. Jones

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Thom Powers
Documentary of the Week | Jul 16, 2021

"Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters" follows a group of young dancers as they stage a new production of a work that debuted in response to the AIDS epidemic. Filmmakers Rosalynde LeBlanc and Tom Hurwitz show how Jones' work, "D Man in the Waters," remains as powerful today as it was in 1989.

 

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