Bill T. Jones: Still/Here

Bill T. Jones: Still/Here

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 15, 1997

Runtime

0h 56m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

80%

Original Title

Bill T. Jones: Still/Here

Production Companies

David Grubin Productions, Public Affairs Television

Director

David Grubin

Description

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.