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Accent on the Offbeat

0.0 57 mins Documentary   1995
Sony Pictures Releasing  
Director(s): Albert Maysles Deborah Dickson Susan Froemke

Release Date: 17 Wed, May 1995

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.

Casts of Accent on the Offbeat

Wynton Marsalis

as Self

Peter Martins

as Self

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