A Good Man
Feb 09, 2012
(Gordon Quinn, Bob Hercules, 2011, USA, 86 min)
Northwest Premiere!
Special introduction by former Bill T. Jones dancer Catherine Cabeen
Commissioned by the Ravinia Festival, renowned choreographer Bill T. Jones sets out to create a contemporary dance piece in honor of Abraham Lincoln’s bicentennial. In a documentary that covers two years of artistic process, A Good Man portrays Jones grappling to express the legacies of Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War and slavery. In a film both personal and political, the viewer is privileged to watch Jones create movement out of the contradictions of a “post-race” society.
