How to Dance Like Animals
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For the majority of its early years jazz was connected to dance. In the 1930s, it was easy to find a ballroom filled with hundreds of dancers. In the 1940s, tap dancers took to the stage and the silver screen. Their shoes gave jazz a new kind of swing. Since then, jazz has been performed in tandem with nearly every kind of dance from ballet, to flamenco, to modern.
Composer Wynton Marsalis presents his new dance suite for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra entitled Spaces where each movement corresponds to a different animal — a chicken, a lion, a penguin and more. Wynton's describes his fascination with the animal kingdom, his process of writing, and how he draws on the spaces that all creatures inhabit. We also meet dancers Jared Grimes and Lil Buck as they embody the animals in their performances.
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