Movies Under the Stars: Jazz on a Summer’s Day
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Set at the Newport jazz festival in 1958, this documentary mixes images of water and the town with performers and audience. The film progresses from day to night and from improvisational music to Gospel. It’s a concert film that suggests peace and leisure, jazz at a particular time and place.
Know Before You Go:
The movie begins at dusk. You should come early to get a spot; bring a chair or blanket. All ages are welcome!
6/2/2016 0:00 8:30:00 PM 10:30:00 PM
(718) 393-7370
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Movies Under the Stars: Mad Hot Ballroom
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Every year, the New York Public School system sponsors a dance competition for youngsters in fifth grade; in this contest, boys and girls ages 10 and 11 learn traditional ballroom dancing styles such as the fox trot, the rumba, and the tango, and then pit their skills against other students from around the Big Apple. Mad Hot Ballroom is a documentary which offers an inside look at this event, as well as the teachers and students who take part, with a particular emphasis on three schools: P.S. 112, in a Bensonhurst neighborhood dominated by Italian and Asian families; P.S. 150, located in the wealthy and fashionable Tribeca district; and P.S. 115, a Washington Heights school where the vast majority of families live below the poverty line. Filmmaker Marilyn Agrelo follows the young dancers as they gain confidence and skill and grow into “little ladies and gentlemen,” as one teacher puts it, while also examining how cultural differences impact the competition for some students and how the boys and girls feel about the opposite sex as they begin to make friends with one another. Mad Hot Ballroom received a wildly enthusiastic world premiere at the 2005 Slamdance Film Festival.
Know Before You Go:
The movie begins at dusk. You should come early to get a spot; bring a chair or blanket. All ages are welcome!
5/26/2016 0:00 8:30:00 PM 10:30:00 PM
(718) 393-7370