Accent on the Offbeat

Accent on the Offbeat is a cinema vérité film about the creation and premiere of the ballet Jazz (Six Syncopated Movements), composed by trumpet virtuoso Wynton Marsalis and choreographed by Ballet Master in Chief Peter Martins of the New York City Ballet. A focus of the film is the remarkable contrast - in background, temperament, style and creative approach - between Martins and Marsalis as they unite the disparate worlds of ballet and jazz.

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

57 min

Actor:

Wynton Marsalis, Peter Martins

Quality:

HD

Director:

Albert Maysles, Deborah Dickson, Susan Froemke

Release:

1995

Country:

United States of America

IMDb:

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