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...about overpowering the opponent. “The techniques emphasize subtlety over brute force, which is great when you don’t have the physique of Xena,” Chin-Lee writes in an e-mail. The highly improvisational format of Aikido exhibitions is closer to a jazz concert than a self-defense class, requiring practitioners to constantly adapt to one another’s techniques. “The demonstration partners have no idea what the response will be so they really have to be on top of their game,” Chin-Lee says...
...everyone calls it the most fun part of the year. All of a sudden, you’re getting to learn what their style is, how they like to put pieces together,” Nationals routines pack the punch of three discrete styles—jazz, pom, and hip-hop—in under two minutes. Yet the judging rubrics don’t leave a lot of room for individual interpretation: movement must be hard-hitting and in unison all of the time. “Even jazz and hip-hop are reduced to such a tight-looking...
Miller continued to devote himself to sax throughout his early life, studying with various saxophonists and joining the Jazz Institute of New Jersey. A name more luxurious than accurate, the institute was comprised of a few students, some devoted teachers, and the basement of the Latino center at Rutgers. Despite its humble facilities, Miller learned the importance of improvisation as well as competition while ther. He also met his two best friends, who pushed him musically...
...ensure that he developed a set of skills other than music so that he’d be financially stable in the future. For him, that skill set was mathematical. His math concentration took up a lot of time, and Miller, feeling uninspired by Harvard’s jazz scene, took a break from his saxophone...
...It’s a phenomenon with Harvard jazz musicians; the music just dies with people here,” he says. “It might be something spiritual or the lack of time but it sucks...