Review: Dance That Tries To Capture One Body, Two Selves

SIOBHAN BURKE, NY Times: Dance
Wed, 10/26/2016 - 2:19pm

This second part of Bill T. Jones’s “Analogy Trilogy” explores the dual lives of a nephew and his club-dancer alter ago, Pretty.

Topics: dance

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