In “Capturing Grace”, director David Iverson closely follows the lives of a unique dance company who call themselves the Brooklyn Parkinson’s Dance Group. Under the tutelage of the renowned Mark Morris Dance group, the diverse elderly use movement through dance to navigate living with a disease that has taken over their bodies.
It’s a quintessential “New York” documentary in many ways, one that relies heavily on the landscape, the soundscape, the colorful characters of the city to bring texture and variation to a relatively straightforward story. It’s these “characters” that add the majority of whatever charm the film has. One older couple in the group, Reggie and Bobbye Butts, form much…
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