Alive and Kicking
The action 'Alive and Kicking' captures is so transfixing, one marvels that dancers can keep it up for five years, much less five decades.
Alive and Kicking
Alive & 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. No matter what troubles they are facing in their lives, swing dancers are filled with joy, exhilaration, and even giddiness while they dance. Boiled down to its core, swing dancing is about the pursuit of happiness. Most people think of happiness as a passive emotion: if something good happens, I will be happy. But we all have the ability to feel joy despite the worst of circumstances once we realize that happiness exists inside of us.
Genre
Documentary,
Dance
Web Site
Runtime
89
Language
English
Director
Susan Glatzer
Awards:
Nominee, Grand Jury Award ~ Documentary Feature, South by Southwest
FEATURED REVIEW
Wayne Alan Brenner, Austin Chronicle
You know there’s been another resurgence, to put it mildly, in swing dancing, right? You know that the Lindy Hop – and all the regional and stylistic variations that manner of social hoofing generated – lives on, in spectacular kinesis all over the globe? If you didn’t know that, Susan Glatzer's ...
Played at
Fine Arts Theatre 4.07.17 - 4.20.17
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