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Accent on the Offbeat

1995 57 minutes

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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.

Released

17th May 1995

31 years ago

Runtime

57 minutes

Finishes at 4:04am

Directed by

Deborah Dickson, Susan Froemke, Albert Maysles

No image available for Deborah DicksonNo image available for Susan FroemkeImage of Albert Maysles

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