2023 - Performance Routine 10 Years of Crazy Legs

Ziehier, de performance van de 10 jaar Crazy Legs routine op live muziek van Jake Walker!
Een gloednieuwe soloroutine, gecreëerd door Kim en Bára, voor het 10jarig bestaan van Crazy Legs (2020).

Dansers: Els Houttequiet, Anja Debruyn, Laura De Coster, Bart Decoutere, Charlotte Desmet, Isabelle Finet, Ruth Dupré, Lise Van der Haegen, Leen De Rooms en Valérie Villers.
Video: For Dancers Only

Some extra info about the routine:
While working on this choreography we wanted to honour the roots of solo jazz and present some of the dances that create Crazy Legs Dance School's identity.

We included some of the traditional vocabulary and rhythms while keeping open space for improvisation and own interpretations of the rhythms. We took direct inspiration from the choreographic ideas of Norma Miller, Al Minns, Leon James and Frankie Manning.

The dance was created in cooperation with Wouter Van Den Broeck who made the arrangement of Harry ‘Sweets’ Edison's and Count Basie's tune Jive at Five.

Thanks to Wouter each chorus of the dance is reflected in the arrangement whether in dynamics or in incorporating the same rhythms as used in the choreography. The original sources that we worked with were the Count Basie big band version and the Jo Jones trio version. You can hear the reference to Jo Jones's memorable drums in the intro of the arrangement.