Accent on the Off Beat / Wynton Marsalis, Peter Martins, New York City Ballet, Albert Maysles

Description

Accent on the Offbeat is a cinema v+ªrit+ª 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.