Blog Prompt 6: Bill T. Jones, the National Imaginary, and Loss

By 9 pm on Friday October  15, please post a 600-word (min) response to the following prompt:

In "Death and the Nation's Subject," what does Sharon Holland argue with regards to the ways that blackness has been positioned in relation to the U.S. nation-state? How does the documentary A Good Man about Jones's recent work Fondly Do We Hope...Fervently Do We Pray engage with Holland's arguments? What processes is Jones negotiating here?
 
For your "outside visual cultural production": Find, link to, and explain 1 performance (video clips, photographs of performances, posters/programs for performances, etc.) that relate to Jones's Fondly Do We Hope...Fervently We Do Pray or Untitled  with regards to theme, form/medium, methods of circulation, means of production, or choreographer (For an example of how to do this, look at how Gere relates Jones's Untitled to Tracy Rhoades's Requiem). A "performance" in this case could be a live theater performance, a dance performance, a performance in a music video or film, a political performance (for example, at a national speech or an inauguration ceremony), etc.