Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters is about how art lives on, but it is also about art how art passes on.
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Keep ReadingSundance reviews for Cusp ("bold and bracing portrait of youth"), Ailey ("a beautiful act of remembering"), and Sons of Monarchs ("a provocative experiment in metamorphosis").
Keep Reading"It felt like I was watching freedom on the stage—these beautiful diverse bodies in motion. It felt like an opening, like I was leaning in the whole evening and it just stayed
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