Product Details

• Actors: Accent on the off Beat
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Kultur Video
• DVD Release Date: November 21, 2006
• Run Time: 57 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000JGWCZ6
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #90,102 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

A film by Deborah Dickson, Susan Froemke, Peter Gelb, Albert Maysles. Filmed by Albert Maysles

Accent on the Offbeat is a cinema vérité film about the creation and premiere of the ballet Jazz (Six Syncopated Movements), composed by trumpet virtuoso Wynton Marsalis and choreographed by Ballet Master in Chief Peter Martins of the New York City Ballet. A focus of the film is the remarkable contrast – in background, temperament, style and creative approach – between Martins and Marsalis as they unite the disparate worlds of ballet and jazz.

Accent on the Offbeat 56:43

Jazz (Six Syncopated Movements)
Jublio - the Scent of Democracy 4:32
Tick Tock – Night Fall on Toyland 4:18
Trail Of Tears – Across Death Ground 6:55
Express Crossing – Astride Iron Horses 5:07
"D" in the Key of "F" – Now The Blues 4:59
Ragtime – Syncopated with Style 4:56
Fiddle Bow Real 1:01

A film by Deborah Dickson, Susan Froemke, Peter Gelb, Albert Maysles
Producers: Susan Froemke, Peter Gelb
Filmed by Albert Maysles
Editor: Deborah Dickson
Music composed by Wynton Marsalis
Director of Ballet Sequence: Peter Martin

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A pleasant surprise!, November 5, 2007

By	Zehra T. Guvendiren "Tenay" (Woodstock, MD) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I purchased this product because I thought it would show a Jazz-Ballet show performed by the New York Ballet Company. To my pleasant surprise, it was almost nothing of the sort. Instead, it chronicled the creative process of the entire show, from concept to execution, and culminated in the final performance of a few, select pieces on opening night.

The documentary investigated the intricacies of the merging of two different worlds: the New Orleans Jazz scene with Classical Ballet choreography. It showed the story from both viewpoints... the attempts of each to understand the other and to try to communicate effectively in a common language, which does not yet exist. Mutual respect and admiration underlined each scene. Wonderful!