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CHARLIE PARKER, jazz musician...
What is your favorite borough of New York City? -Leo Khokhlov, St. Petersburg, RussiaManhattan, because it was the glamour spot of my childhood. I grew up in Brooklyn, which is another great borough, but Manhattan [had] the jazz joints, most of the great movie houses and Central Park. The second I could move out of my parents' house, I moved to Manhattan and have lived here my whole life...
...showcased his considerable talent in a self-choreographed piece to Jeff Buckley’s “Hallelujah.” Kuperman successfully incorporated stunning jump sequences into the slower choreography and seamlessly moved to and from floor work in a way that the other slow jazz pieces could...
...highlights of the second act was an Irish dance number, “Ceili Reels,” in which women from both Mainly Jazz and TAPS collaborated. In beautiful and brightly colored traditional Irish dance costumes, choreographers Siobhan P. Connolly ’08, Whitney L. M. Kress ’08, Meaghan J. Beattie ’08, Driscoll, and Fitzgerald performed complex sequences of incredibly fast footwork while keeping their upper bodies still with seeming ease. At the end of the piece, the music cut out and the dancers closed with an amazingly unified and increasingly rapid...
...final performance of the evening, TAPS and Mainly Jazz came together for a classy and high-energy piece that McKenna choreographed to Cole Porter’s “Too Darn Hot.” The performance culminated in an effective series of poses synced with colored light cues, followed by a huge pyramid formation in which the dancers finished with a thrilling, Charleston-inspired sequence...