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The other day, I was lucky enough to be at an event to bring the arts back into schools and got to see an amazing collaboration between Yo-Yo Ma and a young dancer in LA, Lil Buck. Someone who knows Yo-Yo Ma had seen Lil Buck on YouTube and put them together. The dancing is Lil Buck's own creation and unlike anything I've seen. Hope you enjoy.
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Spike Jonze Presents: Lil Buck and Yo-Yo Ma!
The other day, I was lucky enough to be at an event to bring the arts back into schools and got to see an amazing collaboration between Yo-Yo Ma and a young dancer in LA, Lil Buck. Someone who knows Yo-Yo Ma had seen Lil Buck on YouTube and put them together. The dancing is Lil Buck's own creation and unlike anything I've seen. Hope you enjoy.
FILED UNDER: spike jonze , yo yo ma , lil buck , video
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This is absolutely wonderful! I'm so glad to have been introduced to Lil Buck (who at first I thought was Young Buck... *shakes head*). His dancing reminded me of ballet in a way but his style seemed to fit even better. Just seemed right, thank you for sharing this :)
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b-r-i-l-l-i-a-n-t collaboration.
If you feel it, you will feel it uplifting your spirit.
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If you feel it, you will feel it uplifting your spirit.
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To see the value of arts education, one need only listen to student reactions to this video. As this played in my classroom this morning students marveled at Lil Buck, exclaimed that his dancing was "sometimes ballet and sometimes hip-hop", pronounced that "his body is like spagetti", added "and the cello is the meatball!"
These are 8 and 9 year olds that are using metaphor spontaneously. Practicing analytical thinking as they categorize movement by its cultural background. Their wonder was not a departure from academic thinking, but an opportunity to use their academic thinking in the ways we do throughout our lives.
Waciuma Wanjohi
Grade 3
American School of Bombay
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These are 8 and 9 year olds that are using metaphor spontaneously. Practicing analytical thinking as they categorize movement by its cultural background. Their wonder was not a departure from academic thinking, but an opportunity to use their academic thinking in the ways we do throughout our lives.
Waciuma Wanjohi
Grade 3
American School of Bombay
http://waciuma.com
Memphis Jookin' is what this fusion of hip hop and ballet is called. It's performed just beautifully here.
Culture is in the eye and ear of the beholder. Absolutely brilliant collaboration by Mr. Jonze. Lil' Buck's feet must be attached backward or something. He is more graceful than some ballerina's with years of coaching and training. Awesome!
There is something wonderfully succinct about this piece. I found it incredibly moving.
It is a great representation of what can occur when the boundaries between genres are broken down with a simple and clear collaborative vision.
I also love the impact this piece had on the school children mentioned below by Waciuma Wanjohi. That is a wonderful description of young minds interacting with an art piece.
Thankyou for sharing this.
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It is a great representation of what can occur when the boundaries between genres are broken down with a simple and clear collaborative vision.
I also love the impact this piece had on the school children mentioned below by Waciuma Wanjohi. That is a wonderful description of young minds interacting with an art piece.
Thankyou for sharing this.
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Wow! Awesome! At 2:25, I yelled out "What!" after seeing that gravity defying, effortless and fluid like return to his feet! (Even the lady gasped!) His hand movements were also awesome in that, at times, I couldn't tell his left hand from his right. Beautiful combination of almost diametrically opposed music & dance.
Interesting to compare this with another interpretive dance @akadude (Chris Patras)links to on Twitter. Thanks for posting this. Still trying to decide what I think about the other one.
Love unexpected collaborations! Sharing this with my readers and asking them what other types of music they'd place with this.
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His feet & movements are so smooth, it looks like Lil Buck is floating.
What a load of crap. The affluent apoplogists look on as they grudgingly grant this denizen of the ghetto his 3:46 of fame.
Yo Yo Ma seems like a magnet for wonderful and sometime unusual artists. He has done some unexpected collaborations and they are always wonderful. If you enjoyed this, you'd be doing yourself a real service to search YouTube for an improvisation he did with Andrew Bird.
Very inspiring. Two very different modes of communication in art playing at the same moment in time. Beautiful. Spontaneous.
what i loved about this was seeing what appears to be this austere setting, the audience almost with their gloves on, and this lovely unexpected mix of artists. Lil Buck's sense of phrasing was top notch. His obvious strength and physical prowess in his dance vocabulary was stunning to watch, inspiring actually. The Juxtaposition of the STREET with the REFINED is what made the work so interesting, but it was definitely Lil Bucks sensitivity, phrasing and his own take on the dying swan theme that was capturing. Yo Yo Ma's generosity as an artist willing to try something new, never ceases to amaze. Lucky... the two of them.
Bravo. For a jaded old dancer, this was rejuvenating. Thank you.
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Bravo. For a jaded old dancer, this was rejuvenating. Thank you.
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What a wonderful outcome for these two men and for the arts. Synergy of cultures is what New Ballet Ensemble, the School and company where Charles learned of the Swan and where the Hip Hop Dying swan was developed, is all about. Charles unique gifts are not AS unique in Memphis where jookin' is embedded in the culture and talent is deep. What is rare is for a talent like Charles who comes from a disconnect to be connected to someone like Damian Woetzel and Yo Yo Ma. We are grateful to be the connector and hope that the many boys who study with us will have similar opportunities. Thank you for giving this effort a presence on such a platform as yours . . . Katie Smythe, Artistic Director, New Ballet Ensemble and School. The mission of NBE&S is to bring children together in a professional standard of training, regardless of the ability to pay.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4dsMqfvtFE Here is where the ballet jookin fusion began. Charles walked in the door a gifted jookin' artist. He studied ballet, Graham technique, flamenco . . . at NBE.
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WOW, what a wonderful combination and unexpected joy to watch, thank you!
Thanks for sharing this! I am happy it made it onto wimp.com so I could happen to see & enjoy it!
I was at a Yo-Yo Ma concert on the Green in New Haven CT and after the second song he looked at me dancing and said "people are asking "Is the dancer part of The Silk Road Ensemble?" "Well, he is now!" one of my prouder moments indeed! I could hardly believe my ears!
Breathtaking...the dancing in particular...the collaboration overall...thank you for making this available.
Lil Buck's style is incredible especially from a ballet perspective and the way he applies it toward this medium, and translating it through Yo Yo Ma is incredible. I did not know what to expect when first viewing this video, but I was truly impressed through the end.