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Hallie Chametzky

Hallie Chametzky is a dance artist, writer, and archivist based in East Harlem, NYC.

Bill T. Jones Dancing Through Disease in Can You Bring It and Afterwardsness

By Hallie Chametzky

Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters is a new documentary about Bill T. Jones’s seminal, AIDS-era work. Afterwardsness, his newest production, reflects on the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing assaults on Black lives. Viewed together, they offer seemingly contradictory but ultimately profound lessons on dance’s role in moving through personal and societal grief.

Nayaa Opong in <em>Afterwardsness</em> at Park Avenue Armory’s Drill Hall, 2021. Photo: Stephanie Berger Photography/Park Avenue Armory.
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