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When:
December 13, 2016 @ 7:30 pm
2016-12-13T19:30:00-01:00
2016-12-13T20:00:00-01:00
Cost:
Free
Scenes through the Cinema Lens Presents
Gravity Is No Limitation:
Great Jazz Dance on Film
Some of the best jazz dancing appeared in “race” films intended for black audiences in the 1930s and 1940s. We’ll watch the Nicholas Brothers, a young Sammy Davis Jr, and the amazing “Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers” in films you probably never knew existed. We’ll also watch a few choice moments from Hollywood films with Gene Kelley, Savion Glover, and the Condos Brothers.
“Scenes Through the Cinema Lens” is a film retrospective focusing on the performing arts curated by Krin Gabbard, professor of Jazz Studies at Columbia University. He is also the author of Better Git It in Your Soul: An Interpretive Biography of Charles Mingus and Hotter than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture.