Event

A GOOD MAN

Sunday, November 6 at 2pm
Members $9 / Public $13 Includes Reception

A Good Man follows acclaimed director/choreographer Bill T. Jones (Last Supper at
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Still/Here, FELA!) as he and his company create their most
ambitious work, an original dance-theater piece in honor of Abraham Lincoln's Bicentennial.
Through two tumultuous years, we witness raw moments of frustration as Jones struggles
to communicate his vision to his dancers and collaborators, as well as moments of great
exhilaration when movement transcends the limitation of words. Jones and his company
come face to face with America's unresolved contradictions about race, equality and the
legacy of our 16th President. Initially an indictment of The Great Emancipator, the work
evolves into a triumph of hope for our struggling democracy, with Jones revealing that
Lincoln was "the only white man I was allowed to love unconditionally." Following on
the heels of Jones's Tony Award for FELA! and 2010 Kennedy Center Honor, A Good
Man is a window into the creative process and, indeed, the creative crisis of one of our
nation's most enduring, provocative artists as he explores what it means to be a good
man, to be a free man, to be a citizen. (USA, 2011, 86 min.)