"D-Man in the Waters" (1989), an often frantically busy exercise performed in Ms. Prince's olive-drab costuming to Mendelssohn's effervescent Octet for Strings in E-Flat Major, began life as a showcase honoring a company dancer then ravaged by AIDS. It remains a thin, derivative work that looks back here and there in its diving-to-the-stage energy to Paul Taylor's masterly, heart-pumping, Bach-inspired 1975 "Esplanade, " as well as to Mark Morris's evocative and momentous 1981 "Gloria" (to Vivaldi).
WSJ: The Only Good Part Is the Music | Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company | 'Play and Play: An Evening of movement and Music | Joyce Theater | By Robert Greskovic