Jazz at Wild Birds - Anniversary Concert Size:22" x 34" (Print) lined by lampposts and new

lined by lampposts and new trees

Anthony Ramos

What sets Dancewave's Pre-Professional Company apart is that it is an opportunity for high-school students to work with choreographers from the world's most renowned modern dance companies

This Drawing is Part of My Dancewave Series in which I attended rehearsal with Dancewave's DC1 Pre-Professional Company for six weeks and made a series of drawings and paintings of the process

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Jazz at Wild Birds - Anniversary Concert Size:22" x 34" (Print) lined by lampposts and newAbout the Work The thing that makes Jazz Jazz is the crazy improvisational risk that is at the heart of it. Typically, while theres a known rhythm, a shared melody, a few rifts agreed upon beforehand, theres a lot thats unknown and unpredictable. At times, everyone is improvising, and if theres bad juju, things can go horribly wrong. Add an audience, fuel them with alcohol, and you never know whats going to happen. This painting is a diptych, with two