Pbs Learning Media: Bodies Move

In this video [2:18] from the documentary American Masters: Bill T. Jones: A Good Man, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company has been commissioned by the Ravinia Festival in Chicago to create a dance performance celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. While Bill T. Jones decides that Paul, a dancer within the ensemble, will represent the "dancing" body of Lincoln, he also ponders an approach to the development of the performance piece as a non-narrative series of ideas.