Bill T Jones StillHere (1997)

Bill Moyers and filmmaker David Grubin give viewers a rare glimpse into dancerchoreographer Bill T Joness highly acclaimed dance StillHere At workshops around the country people facing lifethreatening 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 Zanes untimely death from AIDS and Joness own HIVpositive status