Stop kicking yourself. So you couldn’t cough up the 30 bucks–including a five-dollar Ticketmaster service charge–to sit in the nosebleed section of the mezzanine and watch Bill T. Jones’s Still/Here, the latest controversial New York must-see to sweep through town. Don’t worry, Jones didn’t need you there–or any of us for that matter. The piece was commissioned by a dozen A-list cultural institutions, and Jones thinks we’re all idiots anyway.
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If you don’t believe me, just take a look at the program, a slickly designed 20-page Stagebill insert. Here the collaborators explain exactly what the piece means and how its many elements work together. We needn’t bother to actually watch it.
And from Vernon Reid, composer: “On the surface, Still/Here is about people with life-threatening illness. But these people are still alive, and it shows how selfless and courageous they’ve become.”
And from Bill Finizio, percussionist: “It is a privilege and an honor to be a part of this powerful project, which will deeply touch all those who experience it.”
