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Fooled you! Dancing with the Dead, a new documentary by the filmmaker Ward Serrill, is not actually about the wharf rats, spinners, and syncopated Deadheads who shook their bones to Jerry and the band over the years. Instead, it’s about Bill Porter, aka Red Pine, an American translator of traditional Chinese poetry and dharma, as well as a sometimes travel writer. The doc title describes the almost shamanic character of translation, as Porter explains it, a kind of haunted tango...