Jazz Dance

Movie · 0h 22m

Starring Jimmy McPartland, Pee Wee Russell, Willie 'The Lion' Smith

Few films wield the awesome spiritual power of Jazz Dance, on which Leacock was one of two cameramen charting the slow, smoldering build of a Manhattan dance club from idle space to explosive, carnal bacchanal. Employing handheld cameras, limited light and sheer proximity, the film achieved an intimacy never before witnessed in a documentary.