Dance in Film · 2020
Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters (2020)
Rosalynde LeBlanc and Tom Hurwitz use one repertory work as an embodied history of the AIDS crisis, moving between the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company's 1989 creation and young dancers reconstructing its running, diving, lifting, and survival-driven ensemble language today.
Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters is a 2020 dance documentary centred on ballroom and social dance. For dancers, it's a chance to see the style performed on screen — the phrasing, partnering, and musicality that the same dances carry onto a real floor.
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Trailer
Official trailer.
The dance sequences in Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters
3 sequences — what is danced, by whom, and where to find it.
Jones asks the students to find the AIDS-era stakes
Contemporary danceDanced by Bill T. Jones; Loyola Marymount University student dancers · Choreography Bill T. Jones
He explains the fear, confusion, and grief of the AIDS crisis, then challenges the students to find an equivalent visceral connection in their own lives.
Jones’s intervention connects performance quality to lived emotional understanding and shows choreography being transmitted across generations.
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Jones recalls carrying Demian Acquavella onto the Joyce stage
Contemporary danceDanced by Bill T. Jones; Demian Acquavella · Choreography Bill T. Jones
Jones remembers carrying Acquavella, the titular D-Man, into the 1989 Joyce Theater premiere because his friend had to be part of it.
The recollection makes the premiere’s communal care inseparable from the physical act of getting the ailing dancer onto the stage.
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Young dancers reconstruct D-Man in the Waters
Contemporary danceDanced by Loyola Marymount University student dancers · Choreography Bill T. Jones
The students physically take on the work while discovering how fear, grief, anger, and hope were embedded in it.
The reconstruction makes choreography the vehicle for learning an AIDS-era history the young dancers did not live through.
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