Accent on the Offbeat

Accent on the Offbeat

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  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

May 17, 1995

Runtime

0h 57m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Accent on the Offbeat

Director

Albert Maysles

Description

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.