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Transcript: Liane Hansen talks with dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones about his recently
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- Article date:
- January 21, 1996
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Liane Hansen talks with dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones about his
recently published autobiography. This often controversial artist
discusses the links between his art and his life.
LIANE HANSEN, Host: The basic facts about dancer and choreographer
Bill T. Jones are these - he is young, in his 40s, he is talented,
the recipient of a McArthur [sp] Genius Fellowship, he leads his
own dance company, he is African-American, he is gay, he is HIV-positive
and he has just written his autobiography.
Last Night on Earth, Jones says, is his attempt, in part, to answer
New Yorker magazine dance critic Arlene Kroche [sp]. Last year Kroche
wrote that she ...