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Alive and Kicking
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Alive and Kicking gives the audience an intimate, insider's view into the culture of the current swing dance world while shedding light on issues facing modern society.
Alive and Kicking gives the audience an intimate, insider's view into the culture of the current swing dance world while shedding light on issues facing modern society.
Actors:
Jean Veloz,
Sommer Gentry,
Meschiya Lake,
Evita Arce,
Norma Miller,
Michael Jagger,
Tami Stevens,
John Paul Helveston,
Frankie Manning,
Stephen Sayer,
Andrea Gordon,
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Jean Veloz
March 1, 1924 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Sommer Gentry
Meschiya Lake
Evita Arce
Norma Miller
2 December 1919, Harlem, New York City, New York, USA
Michael Jagger
Tami Stevens
John Paul Helveston
Frankie Manning
Stephen Sayer
Andrea Gordon
Genre:
Documentary, History, Music
Director:
Susan Glatzer
Susan Glatzer
Country:
United States, Sweden
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April 06, 2017
Glatzer captures the love and support of an intergenerational community, one in which nonagenarians cut the rug alongside up-and-comers.
September 12, 2017
After the credits roll at the end and the lights come up, you will be overcome by the feverish need to head to the nearest dance floor with a kicking and swinging band.
March 22, 2016
The music, the interviews, the interleavening of stock footage, the way the various modern narratives and backgrounding histories are fitted together: All of this works toward a successful expression of what means a thing because it does have that swing
April 12, 2017
Though it adheres to documentary convention by picking out a few competitive swing dancers and following them throughout the film, "Alive and Kicking" keeps dancing off into other areas, and we just hold its hand and follow.
April 06, 2017
Although it's been used repeatedly as a movie title, Alive and Kicking perfectly captures the joyous enthusiasm of Susan Glatzer's debut documentary, which presents swing dance as a vibrant, living art form.
April 06, 2017
Glatzer captures the visceral charge of moving wildly in tandem with another person, often in improvised bouts that forge strong bonds between partners, if only for a few minutes.
April 03, 2017
Though its cinematography is nothing to write home about, the action Alive and Kicking captures is so transfixing, one marvels that dancers can keep it up for five years, much less five decades.