Bill T. Jones: The dancer, the singer, the cellist ... and a moment of creative magic
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Isadora Duncan --
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(Music) --
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crazy, long-legged woman
from San Francisco,
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got tired of this country,
and she wanted to get out.
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Isadora was famous
somewhere around 1908
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for putting up a blue curtain,
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and she would stand
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with her hands over her solar plexus
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and she would wait,
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and she would wait,
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and then, she would move.
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(Music)
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Josh and I and Somi call this piece
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"The Red Circle and the Blue Curtain."
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Red circle.
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Blue curtain.
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But,
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this is not the beginning
of the 20th century.
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This is a morning in Vancouver
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in 2015.
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(Music)
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(Singing)
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Come on, Josh!
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(Music)
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(Singing)
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Go!
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Are we there yet?
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I don't think so.
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Hey, yeah!
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(Music)
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What time is it?
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(Music)
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Where are we?
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Josh.
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Somi.
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Bill T.
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Josh.
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Somi.
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Bill T.
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(Applause)
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Yeah, yeah!
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