The Boston Globe, April 28th, 1991
After an hour of listening to Bill T. Jones' eloquence, you're almost ready to say forget Schwarzkopf. Let's elect this black, gay, HIV-positive choreographer president and give the country a real model of heroic optimism. "If I had a banner to wave, it would read `No to cynicism and alienation,' " says the dance maker whose words are often as powerful as his movement. "We marginalized people can't afford the luxury of cynicism. To survive, we have to believe and be connected." Jones' massive three-hour dance/theater piece, "Last Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin" is, literally, the work of a surviv...
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