DANCE
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 & 23, 2018
3:00 PM

Skirball Center, NYU
566 LaGuardia Place, Greenwich Village, Manhattan

$35-$40

A 6-and-half-hour marathon dance-theater performance may not be for the faint of heart.  But this is a major event.  Bill T. Jones -- certainly one of the great artists of our time -- and his company have been performing parts of this trilogy around for the last few years, and now for the first time they present them all together (one a New York premiere).  Each part recounts an individual personal story:  two of Jones's relatives, one a fictional creation.  The two parts I've seen have been extremely moving.  This is the peak of American dance-theater, the movement intensifying the impact of the text, the text giving meaning and focus to the movement.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  There's a 90-minute dinner break.  That seems like a lot, but to be safe your best bet is to scoot over to the Mexican cafe Atla for a quickish bite (try not to drink too much mezcal:  you'll still have some dance-theater to watch!).  Afterwards, you can go to the Knickerbocker Bar & Grill if you want some heavier food (Old Skool division) (be sure to start with a slice of the caviar pie!).  Or -- and after all you'll have been through by then, you'll deserve this -- you can opt for Existing Conditions for unbelievably good cocktails (and good food, too).